Leslie writes, "I've been checking out your website for several months now. Patti Starr recommended it to us after I wrote to her about a couple of photos we've taken with unusual things that showed up in them. Here is the story:

A few years go, we started having some strange things going on in our home-finding objects out of place, and so forth. Then my kids started noticing things flying across the room apparently on their own, or items falling from a table or some flat surface for no reason. They told me about it, and shortly afterward I happened to be in the room with one of them in time to see it for myself-a videotape sailed across the room when no one was there to throw it except my daughter, but it wasn't flying AWAY from her.

Anyway, at some point after that I was walking through the den when I happened to look up and see a shadow-form in the kitchen doorway, moving away from me. I was the only one awake in the house at the time, so it wasn't possible that someone was walking in such a manner as to cast a shadow there. This shadow was brownish in color, about 5 feet in height, with no distinguishable features. As for shape, it was smaller at the top (like a head) and widened about where one would expect shoulders to be. I thought maybe it was my imagination, so I didn't say a lot about it. I saw it again in the doorway of my bedroom some months later.

Then at Christmas in 2002, my aunt came to visit. One morning while she was here, she asked me if I had noticed anything strange going on in our house. She always stays up very late at night, so she was up after everyone else had gone to bed. She said she was playing with the dogs in our den in the middle of the night and was down on the floor when she heard the floor creak as though someone had stepped on it near the kitchen doorway. She looked up, and saw a shadow in the kitchen doorway. I asked if it was a brownish color, about 5 feet tall, at which she looked shocked and said "YES!" She said it appeared to be moving away from her into the kitchen, after which it disappeared.

My daughter heard all of this, and said she had seen the shadow several times. Her description matched mine and my aunt's. At some point afterward, my husband saw it. Usually we see it in the kitchen or the hallway near the bedrooms, although occasionally my daughter sees it in the dining room or living room. She said she has seen it seem to wave at her at least once.

Around Columbus Day, I came home from work to find my daughter cleaning up broken glass from a candlestick holder that normally stayed on the piano. I asked what happened, and she said she was walking into the living room, and saw the candlestick holder fly off the piano and break just before I got home. She felt the shadow had something to do with it. This was the first time an object was broken-usually the things that get tossed around are unbreakable and suffer no permanent damage. A week or so ago, something tossed a plastic collander across the kitchen. We weren't in the room, but we heard the noise when it hit the floor.

We don't have any photos or drawings of our shadow figure, but I showed the February photos from your site of the shadow in the sliding door and on the park bench to my daughter, and she said they look almost exactly like the figure she has seen. The head/shoulders parts of the figures in the photos look like what I have seen-it isn't a thick black shadow, but more like the shadow someone would cast from the light if there was someone there to cast a shadow. I didn't notice whether it had legs when I saw it because I was too shocked at seeing it to begin with to look for legs.

After we found out last year that our daughter had been seeing the shadow, we decided to go out to the cemetery to take some photos because she says she can see them there, too. We'd had no luck getting any photos of our shadow. The attached photo shows something strange that appeared in only one shot out of all the rolls of film we took at the cemetery that day. It was made in late July on a Saturday morning about 10 a.m., with no wind, fog or anything else. It was a 35mm camera. We shot 4 rolls of film, but only one came up with this reddish colored round shape. It shows up in the negative as well. I am sending it to get your opinion."

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