The Hat Man: Guardian Angel or Devil?
Who is the Hat Man? A guardian angel or the devil in disguise?
According to numerous reports, heâs a mysterious spirit entity who often visits people in their bedrooms at night. Sometimes he terrifies them. Other times he leaves them with a sense of peace and calm.
What does he look like? Heâs a black, shadowy apparition, darkly cloaked, wearing a wide-rimmed black hat resembling a fedora.
What does the Hat Man want? To some heâs the devil in disguise, a grim reaper of sorts, and a harvester of souls.
Some believe he preys on fear, striking you when your defenses are low and youâre down and out.
Many people report seeing him in their waking lives. Some even claim heâs trashed their houses and tried to strangle them to death in the middle of the night.
According to Heidi Hollis, author of The Hat Man, The True Story of Evil Encounters, heâs not only real, but he is the devil. She writes, âVictims worldwide have reported seeing this man peering into their homes, their bedrooms, their baby cribs, their cars and evenâtheir souls.â
Some have been able to defeat him by calling out the name of Jesus, or having their homes blessed, while others, according to reports, just beat the crap out of him. Some simply order him out of their homes.
But others claim the Hat Man is a guardian angel, whose purpose is to protect them from harm.
The Hat Man is often seen with his band of followers, the Shadow People.
Where did the Hat Man come from? Where did the Shadow People come from?
According to Wikipedia, shadowy entities are âthe perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure, particularly as interpreted by believers in the paranormal or supernatural as the presence of a spirit of other entity.â
Some researchers claim shadowy entities date as far back as 300 AD. Wikipedia says, âA number of religions, legends, and belief systems describe shadowy spiritual beings or supernatural entities such as shades of the underworld, and various shadowy creatures have long been a staple of folklore and ghost stories.â
There are other theories about the origins of the Hat Man and the Shadow People.
A neurological theory: Shadow People and Hat Man images occur during sleep paralysis, a mysterious sleeping disorder occurring in that transitional stage between waking and falling asleep during which a person becomes completely immobilized and often sees frightening images. According to the neurological theory, these shadowy entities are merely the manifestation of a sleeping disorder and by extension nothing more than a product of the subconscious mind.
A religious theory: Shadow People are the evil minions of the devil, sent to snatch our souls and drag us down into the bowels of hell.
Another religious theory: Shadow People are guardian angels, sent from heaven to protect our souls and shield us from evil.
The scientific theory: Some physicists believe that unexplained forces are causing other dimensions to merge with ours. This merging of different dimensions would explain why we can only see the Shadow People and the Hat Man as shadowy figures who have the ability to transcend our laws of gravity, float through walls, fly, and change shapes at random.
According to this theory, the Hat Man and the Shadow People are the extra-dimensional inhabitants of another universe or another dimension. Thatâs why they can disappear and reappear in the drop of a hat. Or maybe in the drop of the Hat Man.
Regardless of what theory you subscribe to, one thing is certain. The Hat Man and the Shadow people drive terror and fear into the hearts of some, and peace and joy into the hearts of others.
Doing research recently on my soon-to-be-released supernatural thriller, The Dark Menace, I posted a blog asking people to tell me their experiences with the Hat Man and the Shadow People.
Needless to say, I received a lot of responsesâsome terrifying, others heartwarming. Here are some excerpts:
 1.)   Rather frightening:
When I was around four, I think at the time my parents were going through a divorce. I was sleeping on my momâs bed one night and had to go to the bathroom, so I got up and went to use the bathroom and she was still sleeping. I came back and fell back to sleep. I woke up to a pitch black shadow of a man staring at me at the edge of the bed. It felt like an eternity, he was staring. My whole body was frozen with fear. He started growing in height, almost reaching the ceiling. At this point I turned my body and fell back to sleep. The next night I woke up and felt the urge to walk to the living room. I walked to the living room to see a shadow man at my front door. My dad was sleeping on the couch. I tried waking him up. I tried pushing at him, and to no avail. He wasnât waking up. I walked back to my momâs room to sleep, hoping it would go away. I looked back to see the shadow person staring at my dad.
 2.)   On a more positive note:
The Hat Man visits me nearly every week in lucid dreaming. And I have only good experiences with him. We just talk normally and I often ask him questions. For example, I ask how he comes to my dreams, who he is, and so on. Once he showed me his tarot cards. That was funny. I always try to look in his face, and he looks like an Arabian type of man. But I want to mention, that heâs not the only Hat Man. He has a brother, too. They are very different.
 3.)   Somewhere in that mysterious twilight zone between black and white:
Hey, I have seen the Hat Man. He was on the left side of my bed but when I awoke and saw him. I did feel an intense sense of fear. I began to think that fear was created by myself over time. I was sleeping next to my partner and we were going through a troubling time, when I saw the Hat Man I saw it wasnât me he had interest in but my partner. Itâs very strange because I couldnât see his eyes but I knew he was looking at him. He was there until I managed to panic and turned on the light. I have never seen him again but on occasion I think about him and wonder if he will reappear and why he did. I was scared at first but now I feel he is of some good. I am unsure. This was in maybe 2011. I was sexually attacked by a man that year. I put him behind bars for seven years but I felt strong, like I knew I could do it, but then suffered a year with anxiety and depression. Did he cause this? Or was it a warning? I am unsure. I am mentioning this due to other related aftermaths.
 4.)   Now thatâs downright chilling:
Heâs from the Void/VALE of DARKNESS. I saw the hooded man/grim reaper. I saw two of them when I was 6 years old and I was shaking and heard whispers and voices and I had a severe high fever. I was hallucinating with nightmares and night terrors. This happened back in 2004 and after that the next day I was blacking out in the morning. I had to go to the doctor. I almost died in that experience.
 5.)   And on the flipside:
Iâve seen the Hat Man four times in my life. The first time I was about 6 years old, and the sighting snapped me awake from a dead sleep. The next two visits followed that night closely (maybe within 4-7 days apart from the first visit). Seeing him the first time, the tall, dark shadow figure, wearing a fancy top hat, absolutely petrified me. The next two times he woke me from a dead sleep, dressed the same (trench coat, top hat, beard, kind features) and wasnât in shadow form. I wasnât afraid of him at all, and actually rather drawn to him. I felt like he was an old friend in this form. I wonât go into much detail but these two accounts are drilled into my memory as something spiritual and friendly. Now, the fourth time I saw him was a few days ago (some 30 years later), back in shadow form, just watching me sleep. I wasnât afraid and felt oddly comforted. My research the past few days has been really surprising because Iâm not finding any other stories of people with good experiences with the Hat Man. Surely, I canât be the only one?
 No, youâre not. Researching the strange Hat Man phenomenon for The Dark Menace, two things became abundantly clear. Some view him as evil, others as good.
I certainly donât have all the answers, but have you ever thought about this: Maybe it depends on your perspective. Are you glass half full? Or glass half empty?
In The Dark Menace, I take a deep dive into these questions and many more. The culmination of over six months of research, this supernatural thriller endeavors to find answers to a strange and mysterious real-life phenomenon that has haunted and terrorized thousands of people around the world for centuries.
The Dark Menace short synopsis:
Mysterious and terrifying attacks by the Shadow People and the Hat Man lead a nightmare-plagued man to suspect an enigmatic doctor has accidentally opened a portal to Hell.
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