[quote name='lokizz']
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people[/QUOTE]
Holy SHIT. You just reminded me about the scariest thing from my childhood!
I grew up in a rather strangely-designed house in North-Western Illinois (McHenry, specifically).
The first floor of the house was fairly normal, but upstairs was a different story. Taking the stairs upstairs would take you directly into my parents' bedroom, which you had to pass through to get to MY bedroom (yeah, THAT made moving out for college that much sweeter! :lol: ). My bedroom was fairly large and I had a big walk-in closet with no door. Also, the entrance to the attic was in that closet. :shock:
I always had this recurring "dream" that the attic door would slowly open and this hulking black figure with red eyes would come down and stand over my bed and stare at me. If you've ever seen the movie Pumpkinhead, it looked A LOT like the monster in that movie. The scary thing? I didn't see Pumpkinhead until I was in COLLEGE. :shock: I'd always hide under the blankets until I passed out from fear/exhaustion and nothing was amiss when I woke up.
I also used to have a recurring dream about being eaten alive by a giant black horse with red eyes while I lived in that house. I'm still uneasy around horses to this day.
I had another scary experience while sleeping over at my buddy's house one night. His room and his brother's room were in the corner of the basement and I would always sleep on a couch in the "living room" area outside their rooms. So my friend's bro, my friend, and I all decide to go to sleep so they go in their respective rooms and I turn off the light and lie down on the couch. A few minutes later, the TV turns on and it's pure static. I figured I must've been lying on the remote so I rolled over to see the remote on the table next to me... So I grab it, turn off the TV, and try to go back to sleep. About 5-10 minutes later, it turns on again. So again I grab the remote and turn it off, and I was starting to get a bit weirded out at this point. I try to go back to sleep and all seems fine for another 10 mins or so. Then the TV turns on AGAIN! I'm pissed off and freaked out at this point so I grab the remote and jam on the power button but nothing happens. I press it a bunch more times and still, nothing happens. I turn over the remote and open the battery cover.
THERE WERE NO BATTERIES IN THE REMOTE.
I start yelling and freaking out and my friend wakes up and comes out of his room to see what the hell is going on. I tell him his TV is possessed and the remote was working with no batteries. He said, and I quote, "You're a

ing moron." and turned off the TV by pushing the power button on the TV itself. He then said "Now shut the hell up and go to sleep!" and went back in his room. So I try to go back to sleep and after about 20 minutes this time the TV turned on AGAIN but this time the sound was BLARING and I started SCREAMING. My friend came out and saw that the TV was on and I wasn't nuts and he suggested we just unplug the TV to stop it from turning on again.
He crouched down, looked behind the entertainment center, said "What....the.....

!?", and stands up. I look at him standing next to the blaring static-filled TV screen and ask what's going on and he says:
"The TV's not plugged in..." while holding the TV's power cord.
And at that moment the TV turned off.
:shock: