For all of you who don’t know where Swartruggens mine is… Well, its in a quiet town in Rustenburg, here in South Africa in the North Western Province. Rustenburg is well known for the mine called Helim Mine which is a Diamond Mine. My dad used to work for Helim Mine so he got free housing on the mine itself.
One weekend my friend (Yolande) came from Oudshoorin to come visit for a week, as it was school holidays and we lived far from each other. She arrived on Thursday afternoon, and we went swimming at the Mines pool Club which was like 20 steps from the mine house. On Friday morning we went into town for a breakfast with my mom and dad, that’s when we met Uncle Danny there, now he is one of the big bosses on the mine. We over heard him tell my dad they are planning on demolishing a house behind the mountain on the mine which has been empty for five years. So the nosy little teenagers that we were… we wanted to know where this house is.
Now Uncle Danny has two sons (Johnny and Phillip) and they were the same age as us. After breakfast we went back to the Pool club for a swim, when we saw Johnny and Phillip at the pool, so we asked them what they knew of the house that their dad wanted to demolish… They just looked at each other in disbelief and told us that there are still some belongings in the house… Nobody wanted to take the items as they claimed there was something in that house. We asked them to tell us how to get there, which of course they refused, as they said it would be better if they came along to ensure we will be safe. So we agreed that later that same night we will meet them by the Pool Club.
At about 9 pm, my parents were fast asleep, and me and Yolande sneaked out of my bedroom window, and bailed to the pool club, where Johnny and Phillip where already waiting. So we walked, and walked, and walked, until eventually we came to a small Mine Mountain, we walked around it, and as it made a ditch or path we saw the house. It was a massive house. From the outside it looked like a two story house.
We went to the house, and saw the door was closed, so we still knocked… stupid, I know… but it was just in case there was somebody. Obviously, no one replied so we went right in. And to say the least, it was a beautiful house. But from the minute we walked in, we all had the intense feeling of being watched, all you can hear is your own heavy breathing. We decided to split, myself and Phillip, and Yolande and Johnny. We went up the stairs and they decided to check out the rest of the house.The second we went up the stairs, we heard music coming from where we were going. When we reached the last stair, the music stopped. So myself and Phillip went looking around in the bedrooms.
When we came to what seemed like the main bedroom, as I was about to turn around, well I kinda bumped into Phillip, that’s when he kissed me. As we were kissing something told me to open my eyes. As I did, I saw a dark figure stand right behind Phillip. I pulled away, not saying a word, I used my hands to lead Phillip to turn around slowly, as Phillip was turning around, this figure started moving backwards slowly, and as Phillip turned completely, it was gone, but we heard the footsteps go downstairs.
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hello there AJ!!!
I do not know too much about Shadow People, but have been seeing a lot of them lately. What Ama told me about them is that they are not human, and similar to an Elemental in nature, and about the only thing they do is “watch” us. CareTaker has a link here with info about in on here, but I am going to do a bit more research about it as well, as I “have” been seeing them, or my daughter has, as of late. I would be interested to learn more and know why they are hanging around me. Daemon? I don’t know. Your definition of one maybe. here is CareTaker’s link:
//www.trueghosttales.com/shadow-creatures.php
This is a link from a different site on Shadow people and provides some interesting information:
http://the-psychic-detective.com/Shadow-People.htm
Hope that helps!!! Be interested to see other’s responses as I want to learn more, too!!!
Oh and by the way, Thanks for posting this question!! As I said, i have been wanting to know more about them and if you hadn’t posted, I would have!!!
It is an interesting question and I am sure that many many people “out there” wonder about the same thing
And more:
Are Shadow Creatures Paranormal Entities?
Shadow Creature Stories
Thanks, CT for the links!!! Very interesting reads!!!
Hi guys,
Let me make a huge assumption and say they are not ghosts .. given I can see ghosts .. but we had one shadow ‘person’ in the house night before last, which Tom saw, but I can’t. He’s seen them ‘shadow’ their way across the ceiling of our room, me looking at the same location, but not seeing them. We also had a vortex on the ceiling later the same night when the shadow person was in the hall. I woke up yesterday feeling truly jetlagged .. so I have questions too. Was it a gate, was it a vaccum taking my energy and Tom’s (he also was very tired yesterday)? What the heck is going on?
Next .. demons .. not by their most obvious behaviours. Can demons look like shadows, yes, but .. I can always sense negative energy beings, even ones trying to hide. It’s part of my gift. And shadow folk .. I don’t ‘sense’ them at all. Another assumption on my part .. they are not negative beings, and by their behaviour .. they are only curious about us.
Multidimensional beings .. where is a scientist when we need one?
Elementals .. no, they are not. I can see them too.
What’s left? It’s a world puzzle. I wish we knew how to work it out.
The difference between a shadow person and a ghost .. they don’t take our energy, ghosts do, for the most part they don’t interact with people .. ghosts do. They mind their own business and get on with whatever they are doing .. so do ghosts if they are not aware of us in their surroundings??
Love & Peace
Ama
Hello Ama!!
I sent you a message about this yesterday. The day after you told me about your “Shadow People” visit, I had one in my house!!! What?! Are you sending them my way?!! LMAO!!! My daughter actually saw it. That’s why I was happy that AJ asked this question because I would like to know why they “hang around.” It seems that not much is known about them. There are accounts(if you check out the links here)of people being attacked by them. whether or not it is demons mimicking them is a question to ponder. There was, in one of the links, an article saying that there have been more instances of them, as of late.
I also felt very tired after the event I told you about, myself, Ama!!! I suffered BAD leg cramps and my sleep was continuously interrupted. I was dragging my butt!!! LOL!! We need to get to the bottom of this, somehow! :O
Thanks guys. Not sure I’m any the wiser but …Thanks guys! LOL!
Interesting that the vortex and shadow seems to be connected? Could be aliens studying us? (Once watched an episode of star trek – next generation, where aliens were studying the crew but were ‘out of real time’ by a few fractions of a second so no one could see them. Eventually, because the phychic lady had picked up on their presence, some smart-allic blocked the aliens ‘time-lapse’ machine and – hey-presto – they all jumped into the crews ‘real-time’. Phew! Hope that made sense.)
Maybe the shadows are something along those lines?? Hmmmm …
AJ
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None of us are all that much the wiser, LOL!!! I still have TONS of questions! Maybe if this question is out here long enough, someone will come up with a better understanding of who they are and what they want. Wish they would just stop “zapping” my energy!!! LMAO!!! Bad enough Ghosts do that without having shadow people coming in to do the same. At least the ghosts can be stopped.