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Although I rather strongly lean toward the most likely explanation of shadow people being psychological or neurological in nature, it's also true that I had a weird personal experience of this type.
When I was a child, my bedroom looked out into a short hallway. I would frequently (about twice a week), see a shadow person. It was pretty comparable to the ones that you here nowadays. The only thing that set it apart was that it wasn't rare, and the "person" plainly wore a black flowing cape and a hat somewhat similar to the ones worn by the Three Musketeers.
This continued until we moved out of that house, and I never had a similar experience again. A few years ago, I was telling the story at a new friend's house, and she went pale, visibly shaken. It turns out that she experience the exact same thing, right down to the hat and regularity of its appearance, when she was a child, too. She thought that I had somehow learned of her experience and was intentionally trying to freak her out.
As a child for a while we lived at my grandmothers house along with a few other family members. In that house there was a darkness, often in the shape of a person, that I and others would see cross the hall from the kitchen or in other places in the house.
Other times people in the house would wake up with it standing next to the bed. I tend to rule sleep paralysis out because none of us who woke up were kept from moving. Within a second or two of sitting up it would disappear. Not the most pleasent of experiences.
The reason I think shadow people are just another aspect of the ghost phenomenon is that small appliances in the kitchen would go on by themselves. Mind you the blender, popcorn maker, and such were NEVER left plugged in. Something to do with a paranoid belief on my grandmothers part that if you left the toaster oven plugged in overnight it would catch fire and we would all die.
Anyway on two different occasions I was in the kitchen when an unplugged in blender went on all by itself and stayed that way for almost two whole minutes. I can tell you there is no feeling quite like holding the plug for a blender in your hand, the blender on puree and you keep hitting the off button. Fear and giddiness and foolishness. Why should the off button shut off something that doesnt have the juice to be on in the first place?
This also happened to most everyone else in the house as well. Thankfully it all stopped once we moved out.
I just did varied searches on some several engines, concerning "three levels of reality". Feedback was in the millions, and the few that I read were essentially incomprehensible to me. So, I'll just tell you what I think.
Actual reality has AT LEAST three levels. First, the Physical Reality that we all agree upon. And it does seem to be a social agreement. Second, the Mental Reality which is peculiar to each individual. Third, the Quantum Level. For all that I (or anyone else) know, there may be other "levels" beneath/beyond/beside these three.
Not to be overly verbose, I will simply state that the Quantum Level, IMO, has the potential for inhabitants/inhabitance. Depending upon their interest or lack thereof in us and our physical reality, these could be "Evil", "Angelic", or mere ghosts, as we would call them. I would suppose that in truth these "levels" of existence are in fact phase changes of an underlying ... reality. I don't really know what I'm talking about. Just guesses, here.
All must understand that my thoughts on these matters are but vague, inchoate musings. When I read the works of other, more intelligent and philosophical thinkers, I must admit that I rarely understand them to any appreciable degree.
Consequently, these "Shadow People", etc., may in fact be real, in a manner I myself cannot understand. The danger here is that such thinking can lead to the basest superstition. Yet, there may in fact BE malevolent, and helpful, beings, as well as "lost souls" - individuations which are unsure of their present position in the space/time continuum.
Combine the above with the UFO/UAP/Abduction phenomena, as well as the observable universe, and we have an existence which is truly beyond MY comprehension. For those who have THE ANSWER ... yeah, sure, man.
You now have permission to laugh. ;-}
Oh, BTW: check this out. http://www.tcrnews2.com/Physics.html
"What can physics tell us about the nature of reality and of God? What is the relationship between physics and God? What are the limits of particle physics, which claims to be an ultimate explanation of things? How do we arrive at an authentic ultimate explanation of things? In this article, we will look at the structure of matter at its deepest known levels, according to the latest findings of particle physicists. It will be demonstrated that there is more to know about reality than what particle physicists are attempting to understand."... Article continues.
Although somewhat stiff reading, it is written in a manner so that the likes of myself has, at least, the potential to understand most of it.
I rather suspect there may be no complete answers in our lifetimes.