Black Stick Men
The world of the paranormal sometimes seems unending. Supernatural beings spring from folklore and urban legends and chance encounters on dark roads at night. Sometimes, these stories seem so real they can be unnerving. The stories that people tell of encounters with black eyed children, ghosts, demons and shadow men are chilling and make you reluctant to wander alone at night. Other times, the stories of paranormal beings just leave you scratching your head.
I feel this way about black stick men. I keep an open mind, but the stories I've heard of these paranormal entities leave me wondering. Black stick men are a relatively new phenomena. According to witnesses, these men are unnaturally tall and so thin that they are two dimensional. They look like stick figures drawn by a small child in kindergarten class. They have no facial features and are a blank slate. They are said to watch people. They don't move fast or attack their victim, but instead slowly follow behind them from a distance. Those who have seen them describe feeling overwhelmed by fear and indicate that ignoring the creatures seems to be the fastest way to get them to leave you alone. One gentleman described seeing one of these stick men on a walk at night. He glimpsed the stick man with the light of a flashlight. He didn't describe any fear or action on the part of the figure. He only described it as there, watching him. This tends to be the standard description of these phantom creatures. They watch and they wait and what their purpose could be is as mysterious as the creatures themselves.
There are many theories as to what these stick men are. Some say they are ghosts or demons and others say they are alien visitors sent to observe us. I'm not sure what they could be, but this is one paranormal creature I tend to think might exist more firmly in the mind of the observer than in the real world. Of course, I am often wrong.
I feel this way about black stick men. I keep an open mind, but the stories I've heard of these paranormal entities leave me wondering. Black stick men are a relatively new phenomena. According to witnesses, these men are unnaturally tall and so thin that they are two dimensional. They look like stick figures drawn by a small child in kindergarten class. They have no facial features and are a blank slate. They are said to watch people. They don't move fast or attack their victim, but instead slowly follow behind them from a distance. Those who have seen them describe feeling overwhelmed by fear and indicate that ignoring the creatures seems to be the fastest way to get them to leave you alone. One gentleman described seeing one of these stick men on a walk at night. He glimpsed the stick man with the light of a flashlight. He didn't describe any fear or action on the part of the figure. He only described it as there, watching him. This tends to be the standard description of these phantom creatures. They watch and they wait and what their purpose could be is as mysterious as the creatures themselves.
There are many theories as to what these stick men are. Some say they are ghosts or demons and others say they are alien visitors sent to observe us. I'm not sure what they could be, but this is one paranormal creature I tend to think might exist more firmly in the mind of the observer than in the real world. Of course, I am often wrong.
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The above link might point you at some credible info Jess!..Some in the community of paranormal research swear by it as it's scientifically based. Then again some say it's a front for disinformation by the "Man"..Always worth a visit though.
Cheers!
I'm not sure what kind of traffic signs you guys have in America, but I can't help thinking of some of the crossing signs we have (in Australia) with black stick men on a yellow background, and wondering if they wouldn't come to life if enough alcohol was involved.
I'm not familiar with the idea of black stick men. It seems that people often explain the unexplainable with alien theories. This one doesn't sound so believable to me either, but then a lot of things sound crazy if you haven't witnessed them!
Justine's Halloween: Your right, there are a lot of paranormal things that seem mad, until they are staring at you from across the street.
Palemother: I would love it if the stickmen were the pranksters of the paranormal world. They're just here to make all the ghost hunters, and ghost story followers and such look silly.