Years ago, I was sleeping with my fiancé at his mother's house. I woke up in the middle of the night with the weirdest feeling that someone was watching me. I scan the room and notice someone standing at the foot of the bed, on my fiancé's side. The figure was pitch black and featureless. I'm terrified & I think, "oh, I must be dreaming." Then I look over at my fiancé and he's staring at it too. It was the most horrifying moment ever. Suddenly, my fiancé sits up really quickly and aggressively. In that moment, the thing disappeared. Afterward, I wanted to dig a hole in the mattress and sleep under him.
I found out later that pretty much everyone in his family has seen this thing and they call it "the shadow." It still makes my skin crawl thinking about it. That night was the most frightened I have ever been in my life.
