The Vengeful Djinn: Unveiling the Hidden Agenda of Genies (25 page)

The man said the shadow man never physically harmed him,
but the psychological and emotional terror took a heavy toll on
him.

Sometimes people feel paralyzed in bed. They manage to pull the
covers up over their heads or they squeeze their eyes shut. When
they look again, the shadow person usually has vanished. When the
are seen disappearing, it is like smoke or mist. Prayer sometimes
sends them away. Sometimes they linger, much to the victim's terror.

There are, of course, variations to these details. Some shadow
people are much shorter, three to five feet in height. Sometimes they have facial details, usually red eyes, though we've received a
few cases of white or blue eyes. Sometimes the shadow person acts
aggressively toward the person, grabbing, sitting on, choking, or
breathing on him or her (experiencers have the intuitive feeling
that the shadow person's breath is toxic). Said one man:

The suffocation felt as if I were pinned down. I couldn't move.
I had the physical sense of weight on my chest. My shoulders
were pinned down. It felt as if "it" was holding a pillow over
my face, preventing me from breathing. Getting it off and being able to take a breath was both physical and spiritual. I was
pinned down like from a wrestling move with physical weight
on top of me. I tried pushing, rolling, and thrashing about. I
thought someone had broken into the apartment and was attacking me. As well as trying to fight it off me, I was praying
for my life. I didn't have the strength to get it off. Suddenly,
the weight lifted off me and I was able to see my attacker, the
shadow image. It was so real, that I checked all doors and windows after the attack to see how anyone could have gotten into
the apartment. Everything was locked from the inside.

The following was reported to us from a man who once worked
a midnight shift and slept during the day. He awakened to find
himself under terrifying assault:

At the foot of my bed was a shadow figure. This figure, as best
as I can describe it-and I will never forget it-had the shape
of a man. It was tall, as tall or taller than I am, over six feet tall.
There were no details of features that can be described, clothing, facial features, etc. The color was the most unique detail. It
would require you to experience it to understand. It is best described as blacker than black without really having a true color.
It was more like a void of all color, with maybe a hint of a bright
blue around the outline, similar to the color of an electric arc. Any of that blue I saw was only present as it faded or more accurately, receded from site.

The event happened in the early afternoon. It started as a
physical, and I believe, spiritual attack. The presence was trying to suffocate me. I remember trying to fight it off physically.
Whatever it was, was well beyond my strength. At the time, I
was twenty-two years old and in good physical shape. The fight
lasted probably only a few seconds, but it seemed like an eternity to me. I fought it off with every ounce of strength I could
muster, and prayer as well. It was one of the few times I was seriously afraid for my life. Whether it just let go or I managed to
fight it off is still a mystery to me. I don't want a rematch.

Shadow people experiences happen to people of either sex and
every age. We have found a fairly even distribution of them through
age and gender. Most experiences occur at night, when most people are sleeping. But many occur during the day, including times
when people are awake and at home or at work. Some people have
only one or two terrifying, unforgettable encounters, and others are
visited by shadow people repeatedly. Some shadow people seem to
"shadow" entire families, plaguing them wherever they live through
generations.

We have found a significant overlap of shadow people and ET
encounter/abduction experiences-people who seem prone to
both. The victims never know when either type of entities will
come-or why.

While most shadow people encounters happen in bedrooms and
homes, some take place in haunted locations with a high intensity
of activity. Rosemary has observed shadow people in her investigations of diverse places. Some have a distinct human shape, while
others are more like blobs or pillars of black, and even clouds of
swirling black that look like ink or liquid smoke.

Who are the shadow people and what do they want? No one
really knows-but we have some ideas. They seem to be intensely
interested in observing us. And they are not a new phenomenon.
Old Native American lore speaks of "watchers" with this appearance who live in remote areas. Similar accounts of "dark ghosts"
and "phantom hooded monks" going back to the Middle Ages are
strikingly similar to modern-day accounts of shadow people.

To arrive at our conclusion that the djinn are behind at least
some shadow people experiences, we went through a process of
elimination, analyzing the phenomenon from different perspectives. We considered ghosts, poltergeists, incubi/succubi, nightmare
hags, demons, Men in Black, extraterrestrials, ultraterrestrials, and
thought forms as possible sources. None of these are a good fit, although shadow people have characteristics of nearly all of them.
They haunt places and appear and disappear like ghosts. Animals
are aware of them and do not like them. Their appearances are
sometimes accompanied by poltergeist effects. They act in a malevolent way, and their malevolence, combined with their dark appearance, convinces people they are dealing with demons. However, prayer and invoking the names of God and religious figures do
not always work against them. They come at night like ETs, materializing through walls and rendering people paralyzed in their beds
in fear. They resemble the dark-suited, hostile Men in Black who
harass ET/UFO experiencers. They can sexually attack people like
incubi and succubi however, this is rarely reported. They do not
abduct people like the gray ETs-that we know of. Some shadow
people experiencers feel the entities want to kidnap them. We don't
know if this takes place, for the people we have interviewed say
they have used considerable will power and energy to prevent their
kidnapping. Shadow people also seem to be ultraterrestrials, in that
they originate from another dimension and bend the physical rules
of ours by materializing and dematerializing at will.

In our initial report analysis, we leaned toward extraterrestrial
and ultraterrestrial explanations. We wondered if the shadow
people were a little-known type of entity or race with a particular
agenda concerning human beings and earth. We were intrigued
by the overlap of ET and shadow people experiencers, and by the
similarities in their behaviors.

The deeper we went, however, the more evidence pointed to
djinn. It seemed unlikely to us that the form of the shadow people
is natural to them; rather, it is probably a disguise. The coat or
cloak may conceal another shape. Experiencers often wonder, why
the hat? The hat is usually out of style, like the mid-twentiethcentury Dragnet or Dick Tracy hat, or the stovepipe hats popular
in the nineteenth century. Sometimes the hat is large and floppy.
We believe the hat conceals something about the entity's head-or
perhaps it hides equipment. Some experiencers volunteer that they
have the "feeling" that the true form of the shadow people is so
hideous that humans would not be able to stand it. Another explanation may be simply the djinn's Trickster nature, the taking on of
a form that makes no logical sense.

Other types of entities sometimes visit shadow people experiencers as well, though not necessarily at the same time. These are
often small creatures-another favored form of djinn. The following is one such case, reported by a woman who started having experiences when she visited a friend. The shadow person followed
her to her own home and began appearing there. Then it was replaced by a creature:

I awoke at approximately 3:30 in the morning. The room was
completely dark. Across the room, to the left end of my bed, at the
foot, in the corner, I saw what appeared to be a man dressed in a
black trench coat and a fedora hat pulled down on his forehead. It
had no facial features, or any arms, or legs, but somehow I knew it
was male. There was a red glow like that of a cigarette near where his mouth should have been. He just stood there, staring. I felt
as if I couldn't move; sleep paralysis, I think, is the name for it.
I told my friend the next day and she reported she had never had
any sightings at her house before. I visited her a month later and
again awoke at approximately the same time of night. When I
woke I purposefully didn't open my eyes. I knew he was there
and this time I was afraid. I turned over to my right and quickly
turned on the bedside lamp. There was nothing in the corner
when I looked back.

A month later, in my own house, 250 miles away, I awoke to
find him leaning in the corner of my room. Again, at the foot of
my bed on the left. The same night my fourteen-year-old son,
whose room is next to mine, reported seeing the man standing
in his doorway. Interestingly enough, the shadow man hasn't
been back to my house. Instead, I've been visited by a cat-sized
gargoyle that sits on top of my dresser.

We have collected other stories of strange small creatures, including one that resembled a cross between a cat and a rabbit, and
a creature that seemed like a mole, with fleshy claw feet. We have
often seen and heard about what Rosemary calls "the little gray
scurrying things," cat-sized gray shapes with no definable heads
or tails and multiple legs and feet, which move rapidly along walls
and up and down stairs.

What Is the Shadow People's Agenda?

The shadow people seem interested in observing us and spying on
us. Why do they come when we are asleep? Perhaps we are vulnerable to having our minds and bodies probed. If the djinn are
intent on regaining their place in the physical world, it stands to
reason that they need information about physical bodies. Their
natural plasma state may not be well suited for long periods of
time in this dimension.

Like ET abductees, shadow people experiencers usually have no
idea why they are visited. Sometimes place seems to be a factor, for
people cease to have experiences when they leave or change residences. This would indicate that geophysical properties may be at
work creating portals between dimensions. In some cases, we have
found emotional turmoil to be a factor. Perhaps the energy generated by intense emotions attracts and "feeds" the entities. Fear may
feed them as well; hence their radiation of malevolence to get the
emotional response they desire. Also, the generation of fear may
protect their true identities and purpose. When we are afraid, we
simply want to escape-we do not want to ask questions or probe
too deeply. Fear is definitely a tactic we would expect from djinn.

Are the djinn working in cooperation with at least some of the
abducting ETs? Are they providing reconnaissance and monitoring-or even mind programming while we sleep? Or are the abducting ETs another form of djinn themselves, as we considered
in the previous chapter? Whatever their agendas, both the shadow
people and the abducting ETs seem to have hostile intentions towards human beings.

Remedies Against Shadow People

Almost everyone who writes to us asks how they can send shadow
people away or prevent them from returning. Even a single experience can leave deep psychic scars, and a fear and conviction that
"it" will come back, especially if the person thinks about "it." As
mentioned earlier, many people have found prayer to be effective. The most common remedy that works for the most people is
turning on lights. Some repeat experiencers have spent years sleeping with lights on just to keep the shadow people at bay. In fact,
electricity-and electromagnetism-may provide keys to defenses
against shadow people.

Electromagnetic Interference

The generation of electrical and electromagnetic fields of energy
may disrupt the ability of shadow people to maintain a form in
our reality. The operation of lights, televisions, radios, computers,
and even cell phones may break apart their shapeshifted "bodies."
Perhaps shadow people are trying to learn how to avoid or nullify
negative electrical and electromagnetic effects. They may be scanning our brains and nervous systems while we sleep to get information that will be of use to them.

Interestingly, we found a news item from October 14, 2001,
in which a leading psychical researcher in England opined that
the electromagnetic effects of increasing cell phone usage were depressing ghost activity:

LONDON (Reuters)-Mobile phones are killing off ghosts, an
expert who has spent years researching the occult has said. Tony
Cornell, of the Society for Psychical Research, told the Sunday
Express newspaper that reports of ghost sightings had started to
decline when mobile phones were introduced 15 years ago.

"Ghost sightings have remained consistent for centuries. Until three years ago we'd receive reports of two new ghosts every
week," said Cornell, of Cambridge in Eastern England.

"But with the introduction of mobile phones 15 years ago,
ghost sightings began to decline to the point where now we are
receiving none."

According to the paper, haunted tourist attractions in Britain
could be under threat if the number of cell phones continues to
grow from the present figure of 39 million.

Apparently, paranormal events, which some scientists put down
to unusual electrical activity, could be drowned out by the electronic noise produced by phone calls and text messages. Judging
from the reactive behavior of shadow people, they are affected in
the same way.

One of our cases provides supporting evidence for this possibility. The case involved a salvage company that operates out of a
large commercial building. The company salvages old computers
and components from cell phone towers. Shortly after the company landed a big contract from a major cell phone carrier, a tall
shadow man began showing up in the workplace. It stood by them
and watched them work as they stripped components. The shadow
man sometimes watched them work on computers, but it seemed
the most interested in the pieces of cell phone towers.