Shadow Dog

I just recently heard you on the Coast to Coast show, and thought I'd share my personal experience with you, as well as theory I have on them.

I've worked for the same company, Schwan's Food, for just over five years now. I'm one of the warehouse crew that loads the trucks. I had been working there for about a year, and at that time we were still working nights, from 9pm until anywhere around 3-5am. The drivers were usually back at the depot and gone by at least 10pm, so the only people remaining at the depot was the warehouse crew, which only consisted of three people including me.

It was probably around 11 or so this one night, and I was by myself outside. I had just taken some trash out to the dumpsters at the back of the lot, about 100 feet or so away. The whole time I was out there I had this creepy sensation that something just wasn't sitting right. I was walking back towards the truck bays, and I was probably about 20 feet away, when I looked up and saw a shadow man. As soon as I saw him he disappeared between two trucks parked in the bay. He was almost taller than the trucks themselves, which would make him between six to seven feet tall. He wasn't really bulky, but thinner, very thin actually, and I remember feeling like he was surprised I saw him, which didn't make him very happy.

I kind of just stood there for a minute trying to figure out what I had just seen. We had problems with people in the neighborhood stealing, so that had crossed my mind, but this thing was too tall, not to mention it didn't have a face.

About thirty minutes later, I was loading some product on one of the trucks by myself. Now I have this tick where, if I see/sense any kind of movement in my peripheral vision, I have this overwhelming urge to look and find out what it is. So, as I'm loading a couple of products in a door near the front of the truck (the trucks are backed into the bays) I saw something move to my left near the rear of the truck. My head automatically snapped to the left without thinking and I saw what
appeared to be a shadow dog.

Now this dog was different from the man I saw, in that it didn't immediately run away. In fact it appeared to have been watching me, while the man was simply moving around. I remember the shape of the shadow reminded me of a bulldog, and I didn't feel threatened at all, like I had previously. Again, the dog seemed
surprised that I could see him, and vanished after a few seconds.

Now up to now, I had never heard of shadow people, but I had read about other assorted paranormal subjects. So I was pretty freaked out, and didn't quite know what to think.

A few days later, we had gotten off early, and I decided to wash some clothes at the laundry mat in my apartment complex, which was probably about a two minute walk. It was somewhere between 2-3am and I can't remember if I had just put clothes in the wash, or if I was on my second trip and had put clothes in the dryer. I also don't remember if the moon was out, but there were lights around the complex that lit up the parking lot and the sidewalks.

As I was walking away from the laundry mat, I walked across the parking lot towards the pool. I noticed the shadow of a bird on the concrete, but it had a strange appearance/motion to it. I immediately looked up, but there was nothing there. The nearest tree was about 15 to 20 feet away, so I was pretty sure it hadn't had a chance to land anywhere. Again, I started getting that creepy feeling where the hair on your neck stands up.  

I kept walking forward between a couple of cars and for whatever reason looked to my right, and there I saw that same shadow dog. He stood there longer this time, and didn't seem surprised that I could see him. He had his head kind of cocked to the side and I kept getting this weird feeling from him that’s hard to put into words, it was as if he was saying farewell, like he felt he could leave and I'd be ok
on my own. Then he vanished, since then I've never seen another shadow person or animal.

Now, my theory after hearing you on C2C, is that these creatures have been here a long time. Perhaps before us even. I think that they're really just another entity like an animal, only they exist on a different frequency than our eyes can pick up. Every now and then, we're 'lucky' and either our eyes are actually able to 'catch' them, or they themselves temporarily phase into a frequency that we can see them, whether by their choice or not who knows.

But I think that perhaps they're not really evil or good, they're just there like a shark is in the ocean, or a wolf is in the woods. Some are curious about us, and
mimic us, or follow us, heck some may even like us, and choose to hang around. And there are probably others that simply don't like us, or prefer to have nothing to do with us. It’s just a possibility I thought of, and figured I'd share my story and perspective with you. I just wanted to add, that if you chose to use my story somewhere, that I'm fine with that. I wish you luck with your work.

~Josh W.