In March, this woman, her boyfriend, Jake, and her boyfriend’s 2-and-a-half-year-old son, Jack, moved into a new apartment.

At first, everything seemed relatively normal.

She is the type of person who can easily sense if a place is haunted the moment she walks into a building. When she first visited their apartment, she didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary.

A month after their move, she was unpacking the last of their belongings. The very last items that she had to unpack were her dreamcatchers. After she’d found a place for the dreamcatchers, ironically, Jack struggled with his sleep.

Every night from then on, it was a battle to get Jack to go to sleep. She and her boyfriend would stay in his room with him for sometimes up to three hours, reading as many as five books out loud to him, waiting for him to fall asleep. However, the second she and Jake thought Jack was asleep and would try to leave his room, he would yell in terror and point toward his closet.

“The vibe in the house changed. I no longer felt alone. I was seven months pregnant at this time, and the kids’ room felt ice cold even though the rest of the apartment was 78 degrees. You’d walk into that room, and all the hairs would immediately stand up on your arm. One day, I was putting Jack down for a nap, and he started his usual freakout. I asked him if he was scared, and he said yes. I asked him why, and he pointed behind me, and a sickening feeling came over me. For some reason, I asked, ‘Is there a man behind me?’ And through his tears, he nodded yes,” she said.

Horrified, she looked over her shoulder, but there wasn’t anyone behind her. But despite not being able to physically see anyone, she could feel some sort of “presence” in the room with her and Jack, and she wasn’t sure if it was an evil entity or not.

At last, she was able to comfort Jack enough to the point that he took his nap, and the rest of their day continued without any more strange occurrences.

The following week, she and Jake were at their apartment alone without Jack.

Sign up for Chip Chick’s newsletter and get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox.

“Jake was sitting on the left side of the couch while I was sitting on the right. We have three dogs and a cat. All the animals were sleeping at our feet in the living room with us when Jake and I heard a loud bang at the end of the hallway. We both looked in that direction and saw a step stool pick up two feet off the ground and then fly down the hallway and hit the linen closet door. All of my dogs were awake now with their hackles up, looking at the hallway. It unnerved Jake and I, but we brushed it off, still acknowledging how weird it was,” she explained.

By this point, she was eight months pregnant and, unfortunately, couldn’t sleep. She and Jake’s bedroom was right across from the Bathroom, and at night, she’d toss and turn. Then, each night, she began seeing a “shadow man” peek through from the hallway into the bedroom, staring at her. Every night, she saw this entity, and when she told Jake about it, he seemed freaked out but didn’t have much of an explanation for what it could be.

She and Jake were up late watching a movie in the living room one night, and she had to use the bathroom. She walked down the hallway to the bathroom without turning on the light or closing the bathroom door while Jake stayed in the living room. Then, she heard Jake leave the living room to walk down the hallway as she was walking out of the bathroom.

“I saw him pause and look into our bedroom before he turned to the bathroom and saw me and immediately fell back into the wall, and all the color drained from his body. I stepped toward him, and he stepped away from me. I asked him what was going on because he was scaring me. ‘You were in the room.’ I was confused since I hadn’t been in the room. ‘No. I saw you lying in bed. You were in the room.’ Now I can see the bed from the toilet, and I didn’t see anything in there,” she shared.

After the confusion, they went to bed, both wondering what was going on in their apartment.

The next day, she decided to sage the children’s room, and this seemed to help temporarily stop the strange paranormal activity. She noticed that the temperature in the children’s room rose to be just as warm as the rest of the apartment. Then, Jack became calmer, and he didn’t seem terrified of whatever he thought was in his closet anymore.

When all of the spooky situations were happening, her dogs would often obsessively bark at the walls. But now, the dogs seemed to relax. The strange shadowy figure was even absent at night from now on. Everything truly did seem to be back to normal.

One month ago, she had her son. When she left the hospital and returned to the apartment, she laid her son in his crib. He fell asleep quickly, but later on, she heard him crying. So, she went back into the children’s room to comfort him.

“As I started spinning the motor of his mobile, something blocked Jack’s spinning night light. The shadow man was in the doorway, so I fully turned around, and he was suddenly two feet away from me. He stretched his arms out toward me, so I snatched my son into my arms, and he immediately disappeared. I ran to the kitchen where Jake was and told him. ‘Was he wearing a top hat?’ he asked,” she continued.

Luckily, the figure she’d seen had never donned a top hat. Apparently, the legend of the “top hat man” is incredibly sinister, so she felt a sense of relief that even though the entity she’d seen was scary, he wasn’t wearing a top hat. She went on to explain to Jake what happened in the children’s room.

While discussing the paranormal activity in their apartment, Jake mentioned the situation where he’d thought he’d seen her lying on their bed when she’d really been in the bathroom. He said that he was convinced he’d seen a “carbon copy” of her, and he added that the carbon copy was even wearing the exact same clothes she had been wearing. The carbon copy looked so lifelike that, at the time, he hadn’t been able to tell which one was really her.

Then, she asked Jake if he’d ever seen shadow people in their apartment, and he confessed that he’d seen the top hat man on one occasion. Also, he shared that he’s seen the top hat man multiple times, dating back to his childhood. In his view, the shadow man is “attached to him.”

Now, she doesn’t know what to make of all this. She’s confused about why she and her boyfriend are having different experiences and why the shadow man looks different to both of them. She wondered if shadow people, ghosts, or other supernatural entities can “shapeshift” depending on who they are targeting.

Understandably, she’s frightened because the entity doesn’t feel safe, and it seems to have dark motives. She is concerned about what this spooky figure would do to the children.

Have you ever experienced anything like this?

You can read the original post on Reddit here.

If true crime defines your free time, this is for you: join Chip Chick’s True Crime Tribe

Before She Disappeared While Driving Home Alone To Colorado, She Called Her Dad To Say She Was Lost In A Rural Area In Texas

She Was The First Woman To Perform An Aerobatic Loop In A Plane

If You’re Looking To Sell Your Home, Improving Your Landscaping Can Boost The Value, And Here Are A Few Ideas For How To Make Your Yard Really Stand Out To Potential Buyers

She Got Drugged At A Bar, But Her Boyfriend Didn’t Want To Pay The $200 Cab Fee To Have Her Driven To The Hospital

There’s An Official Name For The Fear of Friday The 13th, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, And Here’s Why This Day Is Supposedly Unlucky

He Called His Teacher A Crybaby When She Started Sobbing After He And Some Friends Broke The Crayons She Paid For With Her Own Money

He’s Not Putting His Girlfriend’s Name On The Deed To His New $560,000 House, And She’s Willing To End Their Relationship Over It