More and more people are reporting their experiences with these mysterious entities, be they ghosts, aliens, inter-dimensional beings or figments of an overactive imagination. Tabby recalls the time she was staying at her boyfriend’s house, in an undisclosed USA location, when alone upstairs in the bedroom a large black human shape leaped from one side of the room to the other. She reports: ‘I was sitting on the bed, facing one of the walls when suddenly an enormous dark shadow seemed to leap from one side of the room to the other, as if it was jumping from one wall to the next, and then “hit” the lamp, knocking it over with a loud crash. I screamed and my boyfriend came running upstairs asking me what I did. Of course, I indignantly told him it wasn’t me; it was the weird shadow-thing. He angrily told me to stop lying and I helped him clean up the broken light bulb.’ Typical of the reports are that of a family who recently moved in to their New Jersey home, from day one they saw the fleeting glimpses of the black human-like figures. None of the children liked the home, and the house had an oppressive feel as though they were constantly being watched. One witness reports on the Mothman.com list: ‘Has anyone else been seeing an unusual amount of shadow creatures? I don’t know what is going on in our neighbourhood, but we’re seeing lots of them, and we’re even seeing them in the daylight, which we haven’t before.’ (Source: Mothman.com – Stephen Wagner, September 2009).

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