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It wasn't Santa Claus

A very good friend of mine told me of an incident that happened to his brother, Tim, and his wife. I can honestly believe this story,as my friend is not the type to ever make anything like this up, much less lie to me. Besides, he still had a hard time even relating it to me.Anyway, Tim and his wife were awaken in the night to see something climbing out of their fireplace. When it "unfolded " itself and stood upright it was around 6' tall and appeared somewhat birdlike with huge wings on its back. The couple was paralyzed with fear and couldn't speak. The thing grabbed Tim by the skin of his chest and dragged him across the room to the fireplace where it attempted to pull him, then suddenly dropped him and disappeared up the fireplace alone. The couple couldn't speak until the thing was gone. Tim consulted his priest and his doctor, as he had laccerations on his chest from the claws that grabbed him and floor burns on his knees from being dragged. This happened about ten years ago in Streator, Il.


I found this looking for an anser too a questen that has been in my head and will not come out!
something like this happed last night and it scared me and my friend to death! A strange little cat like creater at my friends house was seen a few days ago,it was seen onwely at night,it was seen ever nigth after that so we stoped going down to her bacemin.Well last nigth her brithday party was being trone in her basemint,it was a slomber party to!At about 10:00 a little black creater was seen the brithday girl went up to her bed room to sleep,that is how scared she had got,the rest of us staded in the basemint.When we all desided to go to bed,we heared a noise that made us stayed up to about 1:30 in the morning.when most of us fell asleep (only two people were up) we stared see and hearing things.When i fell asleep my friend waked me up and said that she had seen a strage black creater in the room,i told her to go back to sleep and that there was nothing there,i think i was wronge sweatdrop .One hour later i woke up to a clicking sound.Confused i looked around and nothing was there? i woke up my friend and tured on the light,but right before i tured on the ligth me and my friend had seen i strange little black creater.Now that was weird!Me and my friends have stared call this creater a
Shadow catfrom what we have seen it has no ears,its black,and it like candy.How we know it likes candy because we had left some candy and the next moring the candy was gone,ether the Shadow had eaten the candy or I'm going to kill one of my friends because that was my candy!Ok here is another story like what happed last night.

Experiences with "Shadows"

I found your website and read a few of the stories...
About two months ago, something... interesting...
started to happen in my house.
This started about November of 2000. At least, that's
when I first noticed it. Boy, was it a wake-up call
(no pun intended).
I'm a light sleeper, and the slightest noise or change
in air temperature can wake me up. I also tend to get
up at about 3am or 4am and do some work. I'm a web
developer, so I can do some projects on my computer at
home. To do that, I've got my computer and network
equipment in my bedroom. I leave it on all the time,
so there is always a hum from the fans and the
blinking green, red, blue, etc. lights from the
various equipment.
Anyway... One night, I really needed to get up early
to work on a project. I turned on my MP3 player on my
computer, got the volume just loud enough to get me to
get up and turn it off, and then set the stereo to
3am. I know this, because I had set the alarm time for
6am a few days before, and I had to change it back
that night. The function was set, and I turned around
to get into bed. I was about 11:45 or so...
The bed and computer desk are on the opposite sides of
th room, with the bed on the southern wall, the
computer and door on the northern wall, the windows
(with large wooden blinds I keep shut all the time) on
the eastern wall, and my closet door and bathroom door
on the western wall. I sleep with my feet towards the
computer.
The first incident went like this: At 2:58, I wake up.
I rarely beat the clock this early. What woke me up
was the sound of keystrokes on my computer. About four
or five rather loud clicks. I opened my eyes and
looked down to see a black shadow blocking out the
lights from my equipment, and then just dissolving
away.
Funny things is, I wasn't scared, just very angry. I
am not a horror fan, I don't enjoy slasher movies, and
I can't stand roller coasters. I don't really like
ghost stories, and just the thought of seeing a ghost
give me goosebumps. This thing just annoys me, but I'm
not frightened of it... Don't really know why.
I did the usual - I asked of my parents or
grandparents had been in my room the night before. No
one else had been there but me and my "shadow."
I've seen it a few other times
- While getting a drink from the kitchen, I saw a
shadow dart out of my room and down a fully-lit short
hall to the garage. All I saw was a three-foot tall
shape, a torso and two legs, but that was enough
- While working on a project late at night, I've
felt something watching, turned around, and saw a
shadow on the wall dissolve before my eyes. The light
from a lamp was shining on just that spot on the wall.
My younger brother, while back from college during the
holiday break, had something wake him up at 4am and
"scan" him. He said he felt a tingling sensation start
on the left side of his body, move slowly to his right
side, and back again. He looked up, and saw a shadow
blocking the lights from across the street just before
it dissolved. I had not told him anything about what I
had seen. He came to me and told me about it, ending
with "What the hell was that?" I think it annoyed both
of us, but neither of us were frightened of it.
It has make a few more appearances over the past two
months. I borrowed a digital camera from the office
and I just tried to take photos... the camera doesn't
want to work. I just tested it on Friday, and had
taken a few test photos at the office. If this is the
shadow's sense of humor, I'm not laughing