Nobody knows for sure who, or what The Shadow Man is, but it may be the ghost of a man who got convicted of stalking and kidnapping children.
He got caught at a home he had broken into a few days before and was being dragged off to the gallows after his trial when he overpowered the guards and ran into the woods. A huge search party organized, and the entire forest thoroughly searched, but they never found him. A few years later, children started going missing again, and some people thought it must be him.
They put their suspicions to rest, however, after one of the missing children came back. The five-year-old boy was questioned, and, during a police interview, he revealed a "shadow man with big red eyes and a funny hat captured him."
Since then, there have been many more reports of this "shadow man." The shadow is described as being a shadow of a tall man with and glowing red eyes. He can assume almost any form he chooses and slips through any door. He will plague children with nightmares about a strange man in a bowler's hat grabbing them and taking them away to an old hut. After a few days, he will creep into the child's room and stare down at them with his glowing red eyes until they wake up.
The child will then be petrified with fear, and that is when The Shadow Man will whisk them off, and the child will never be seen again. The scariest part is that he could be anywhere at any time, and you can never be sure if he is there, watching you.
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100 Urban Legends
Horrorurban legend [ˈərbən ˈlejənd] NOUN urban legends (plural noun) a humorous or horrific story or piece of information circulated as though true, especially one purporting to involve someone vaguely related or known to the teller.
