There are a few different theories that involve shadow people being travelers in some way, coming from another place or time.
According to a theory championed by astral travel lecturer Jerry Gross, all humans travel out of their bodies while they sleep, and thus the shadow beings are just manifestations of other people moving through your space while on their slumbering journeys.
This doesn’t explain the feelings of dread associated with them though, or what on Earth the Hat Man is.
Another popular theory is that people in the future have finally figured out how to travel through time, but they can only be perceived by us as shadows while they are in this state.
This theory seems to have a better explanation for why shadow people have appeared across the entirety of human existence.
As a tourist, you’d want to see everything. But again, this does not explain the bad feelings elicited from these shadows.
And while the thought that I am somehow important enough to the timeline for a time traveler to manifest and watch me sleep is flattering.
It somehow seems like an even sillier explanation for the Hat Man.
The last traveler theory is backed partially by mainstream science – it states that shadow beings aren’t really shadows at all.
They’re just people living in another dimension that is overlapping with our own, and thus appear indistinct at best.
Science is fairly well-convinced that there are other dimensions than the three we’re currently hanging out on, so what’s so far-fetched about there being inhabitants of these other dimensions?
Many psychics and other paranormal sensitives believe that this is a matter of vibration – that beings from other planets are thus because they vibrate at a different frequency, and thus interact badly with our own planet.
Scientists in the field of quantum physics are beginning to adopt a similar viewpoint, but we are still very far from being able to prove or disprove this.
Additionally, this theory also fails to explain the terrible fear that accompanies these beings when they manifest.
