Hey, it’s Michelle, and it’s Halloween week, so tonight we’re talking about the most famous shadow in the paranormal world. The Hat Man. You may have heard that Aaron Rodgers saw him on an ayahuasca trip in Peru. He didn’t. It was a joke from a satirical website, and Snopes had to look into it. But that’s how it works with the Hat Man. The story spreads, and he feels a little more real each time. Now available as a video on Spotify and YouTube.
Lisa from Brisbane, Australia calls him the Tall Man. She was four years old when a very tall, thin figure in a hat appeared in her bedroom doorway, with no face. She whispered, "Please go away."
Marissa from Dallas was five when the shadows in her room took the shape of a tall man in a top hat with no features. He had to bend down to walk in, and she couldn’t make a sound. Five years later, in a new house, he came back. This time he leaned over her bed and touched her leg through the blanket. She’s been praying for twenty years that it was the last time.
Erica from San Diego woke on her mother’s couch to a tall, dark figure in a low, pointed hat standing at the end of the hallway. It darted down the hall, and she chased it. When she got there, it was gone. Her dog never barked.
Britney tells of a cowboy outside her childhood blanket fort. Was it the Hat Man in a different hat?
Brandy from Marysville, Ohio saw a man in a hat inside a smoky quartz crystal on a girls’ weekend in Yellow Springs. The next morning, a man in a long trench coat and a hat walked out of an antique store. She said, that’s him. He told her he was from everywhere, and he insisted on hugging her. She had nightmares for months, and she won’t say his name.
In between, I get into where the Hat Man came from, from an Arabic nightmare called al-jathoom to a 2001 radio broadcast, why skeptics blame sleep paralysis, why the internet may be making him more real, and what he could be if the skeptics are wrong.
Five real callers. Five true ghost stories. Happy Halloween.
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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.
Video Edited by Chelsi Johnston.
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