December 3, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, host Bennett Tanton delves into the phenomenon of shadow people, exploring their cultural significance, the neuroscience behind human perception, and the implications of these encounters. The conversation is structured into five main sections, each addressing different aspects of shadow people, from the science of vision to global reports and the nature of observation. Tanton encourages listeners to reconsider their understanding of reality and the unseen entities that may inhabit it.
Research
Stanford research confirms sleep paralysis sufferers often report a “felt presence” in the room:
https://med.stanford.edu/ism/2018/october/sleep-paralysis.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335030/
https://thehatmanproject.com
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Research
Stanford research confirms sleep paralysis sufferers often report a “felt presence” in the room:
https://med.stanford.edu/ism/2018/october/sleep-paralysis.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335030/
https://thehatmanproject.com
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio, and then the
static this ain't no beat sound story, So as prophetic
encrypt the signals from the shadows of the party, we
did where the trot got secret snow parted microphone alchemists
scriptures with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in the
midst We dropped fass like plagues revelations in the catus,
(00:23):
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
watchman's blade forth whattsund while your whole system faid blood
moons that for love echoes in the pond sas frosten
through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream, We
ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code the dreams,
so with you throw them in better guards of mind.
(00:43):
Is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design of the
shi yeah yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast Sad.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You ever ketch something move in the corner of your eye,
snap your head toward it, and there's nothing there. Not
a curtain, no, not a pet, not a car outside,
just that heavy feeling that something was standing there watching
(01:22):
you until you look directly at it. Hey, everybody, Welcome
back to Broadcasting Seeds. I am your host, Bennett Tanton,
and tonight we are going to talk about the thing
most people laugh off to stay sane. Shadow people. Not
(01:44):
as a cheap horror trope, not as a sleep paralysis meme.
We're going to treat them like a serious data point
in a very broken reality. Because here's the question that
has people gnawing that it's been gnawing at me. What
if shadow people are not ghosts in the classical sense.
(02:09):
What if they're not demons in the movie sense. What
if what people keep seeing in the corner of their
vision is actually a glitch in how the human brain
renders reality. Think about it. Your eyes do not feed
your brain a live stream. The brain takes fragmented light,
(02:34):
electrical noise, and delayed input and then builds a believable
world on top of it. It fills in the blind spots,
It edits out details it thinks are unimportant. It delays
what you see so your consciousness can stitch it all
(02:57):
together into a smooth video, which means you and I
are always a little bit behind what is really happening. Now,
imagine something that is not behind, something that moves faster
than that delay, something that just lives just a fraction
(03:22):
of a second outside the neat little timeline that your
brain irons out. Okay, maybe that is why you only
catch them in the periphery. Maybe that is why the
moment you lock you lock on with full conscious attention,
(03:45):
they just vanish. Not because they disappeared, but because your
brain just overwrote them with something safer for your protection
or soul, we are told, here's the part that adds
even more weight. People have described these things across cultures
(04:09):
and across centuries. Featureless silhouettes at the foot of the bed,
a tall man with the hat standing in a doorway
at three am, thin ink black figures watching from the hallway,
from the closet, from the edge of the road at night.
(04:30):
The report spike with sleep paralysis, high stress, a cult experimentation,
weird electromagnetic environments, and during times when people feel like
they are under spiritual attack. This is an odd pattern
for something we are supposed to dismiss as a trick
(04:52):
of the eyes. So in this episode we are going
to pull on that thread a little, not to scare
you for fun, but to ask some hard questions about
what it means if even five percent of those encounters
are exactly what they feel like, not dreams, not hallucinations,
(05:13):
and not your imagination, but encounters with something that should
not be visible in our world at all. Here's how
we are going to break this down tonight. In section one,
we will dig into the vision matrix matrix itself, how
your brain really constructs reality and where the natural blind
(05:38):
spots and glitches live. We're going we're not going to
textbook on this. We are going to stay in normal
language and talk about what it means for that feeling
that you are not alone in the room. In section two,
we will walk through real world reports of shadow people
(05:59):
and their cousins from different cultures the hat Man gin
described as living shadows, night watchers, bedroom sentinels, hallway figures.
We will look at patterns, common details, and what start
to emerge when you line them up side by side.
(06:23):
In section three, we will go into the deep end,
spiritual warfare, altered states, military and high strangeness locations, and
possibly what we call shadow entities are not the glitch
at all. Maybe we are the glitch. Maybe we are
(06:43):
the ones wandering through a space that belongs to something else,
and every now and then the system misfires and we
see each other as always. The point of broadcasting season
is not to tell you what to think. It is
to hand you the shovel and say, here is where
to start digging. If this kind of conversation lights you up,
(07:09):
helps you feel less crazy about the world things, the
weird things you have experienced, or just gives you a
fresh angle on the unseen, please take a second and like, share,
and review the podcast. This is how the show grows,
how more people find it, and how we keep building
a community of people who are not afraid of the
(07:31):
questions everyone else avoids. All right, get comfortable, dim the
lights if you want to make this extra weird, and
maybe pay attention to that corner of the room you
usually ignore. Section one, the vision matrix, living one frame behind.
(08:04):
All right, let's feel back the curtain on the very
thing we trust most, our eyes. We like to think
that seeing is believing. We tell kids that if they
didn't see it with their own eyes, it didn't happen.
But the truth is your eyes are not giving you reality.
(08:27):
They're giving you a rendering interpretation that your brain thinks
you can handle. Science tells us. That visual information hits
the retina, travels the optic nerve, gets processed in multiple
layers of the brain, and eventually forms what we call
a picture. But here's the kicker. Your brain is always
(08:50):
about one hundred milliseconds behind the real world. That's a
tenth of a second, not long enough to notice when
life is calm, but long enough to completely miss something fast, subtle,
(09:11):
or not meant for you. Now, that delay creates a
small but powerful problem. You are navigating a world that
your brain already edited by the time you see it.
Your consciousness is like the world's worst football announcer calling
to play after the touchdown already happened. So what does
(09:33):
the brain do to keep us safe? Andsane? Frankly, it lies.
It fills in gaps, literally hallucinating part of your visual
field so you don't see the horror of a giant
blind spot where your optic nerve meets your retina. It's
(09:53):
smooths motion, so reality doesn't jitter like a bad security
camera feed deletes anything it deems irrelevant to survival. A
shadow flicker in your peripheral vision not helpful, so it's
gone a shape darker than darkness itself that shouldn't exist,
(10:19):
probably ignored unless you're vulnerable or your defenses are down.
Because the brain's number one job is to show you
the truth, it's to keep the truth from overwhelming you.
Because the brain's number one job is not to show
(10:39):
you the truth, it's to keep the truth from overwhelming you.
There's also the concept of binocular rivalry. When each I
see something different, the brain doesn't show both. It picks
one and censors the other. Think about it that your
(11:01):
brain literally chooses what version of reality you get. And
then there's predictive coding. The brain can constantly tries to
guess what's coming next. It Sometimes, if something appears that
(11:21):
doesn't match the prediction, like a human shaped void, the
brain panics and scrambles to force it into a category.
That's where things go wrong. You might glimpse a figure
standing in the doorway, no face, no texture, no detail,
and your brain can't categorize it as a person or
(11:45):
an animal or a lamp. It doesn't match any stored template.
So instead of showing you the anomaly, the brain attempts
to erase or rewrite it. Too slow he saw it,
and that's when you snap your head and nothing's there.
(12:05):
Some reachers say, some researchers say all of this is true,
that beings don't exist. It says it's truth. Something is there,
and the brain is desperately trying to protect the illusion
of a clean, normal world. Something that moves before the
brain can edit, something that exists in the margin between frames,
(12:32):
something the rendered and the rendering engine wasn't designed to display. Okay, now,
if that all science sounds like sci fi, stick around,
because the next segment we're going to lay the science
down next to centuries of eyewitness accounts, and you'll see
(12:52):
that people separated by oceans and belief systems are describing
the same thing, a presence that watches, that stands, that
observes just outside the spotlight of human perception. And if
the whole world is seeing the same figure in the
(13:12):
same shadows, maybe the shadows aren't empty after all. Section two,
the global shadow watchers. Where science leaves gaps, stories fill them.
And the wild thing is the stories match every continent,
(13:34):
every era, every belief system. People see the same things.
Dark silhouettes shaped like humans but missing every human detail,
with no eyes, no mouth, no clothes, just avoid standing
where matter should be Let's start with the most infinitous one,
(13:57):
the hat man, A tall, broad shouldered figured wearing what
looks like a trench coat and a wide brimmed hat.
People report feeling paralyzed, this crushing sense of dread, the
hat man leaning in close like he's inspecting them. This
(14:19):
isn't a handful of cases. Thousands of reports from the
US to the Pilpy to the Philippines, all describing nearly
identical encounters. A nonprofit called the hat Man Project has
catalog many of them, and that's at the Hatmanproject dot com.
I'll put that in the show notes. Why would hallucinations
(14:43):
all wear the same hat? Then we move on to
the Gin in the Middle East. The Quran speaks of
beings made from smokeless fire, creatures that can shift between
worlds and remain unseen unless they choose to reveal themselves.
(15:05):
Many modern encounters describe the Gin not as fiery beings,
but shadowy forms. Locals will tell you these entities aren't passive.
They observe, they test, and they sometimes they even attack.
The night marchers and watchers. Indigenous cultures worldwide talk about
(15:31):
shadow guardians. The Choctaw Eight talked about a tall shadow
that stalks those with fear, the Hawaiian night marchers, dark warriors,
scene in formation, the cree shadow, people, spirits who hover
near the sick, or a spiritually wounded. These stories existed
(15:55):
long before science gave us excuses like sleep paralysis, something
of which bedroom invaders. Millions of people across the globe,
especially during sleep paralysis, reports seeing a shadow at the
foot of the bed, a figure stepping onto their chest,
(16:21):
something whispering just outside comprehension. Sleep paralysis is a real
neurological event, yes, But does that automatically make everything seen
during it imaginary? Or is the paralysis the vulnerable moment
when the filter drops and you see, finally see what's
(16:47):
been standing there the whole time. Stanford research confirms sleep
paralysis sufferers often report a felt presence in the room.
Where does a felt presence come from? If nothing is there?
(17:07):
The pattern emerges. Put all these accounts side by side,
and you get a consistent picture. They watch, They prefer
the edges of vision, They vanish when directly confronted. They
appear more during stress trauma, sleep issues, or spiritual warfare.
(17:30):
It's almost like they need your mind distracted, so they
can slip through unnoticed. People describe them like predators studying
prey our researchers, or researchers studying subjects. Because here's a
detail rarely talked about publicly. A huge number of shadow
(17:53):
people's sightings happen near military bases, UFO hotspots, sit with
high EMF exposure, hospitals, prisons, battlegrounds, areas with deep occult history.
That's not random noise, that's a map. And if these
(18:16):
things go where fear, death and secrets gather done, what
exactly are they feeding on or protecting or preparing for?
Section three? Glitch in the veil? Who is watching the watchers?
(18:42):
All right? Deep breath, Because of the first two segments
were us circling the perimeter. This is where we step
inside the house. There's a theory in neuroscience that our
brain acts like a security filter, blocking information from conscious
(19:03):
from your conscious mind, they say it can't handle without breaking.
That includes entities outside the visible spectrum, dimensions not aligned
with our century range, energies, or beings moving faster than
(19:25):
our perception. Lag research and and for sound frequencies below
human hearing show that it can induce fear, dread, and
the sensation of a presence. Electromagnetic exposure near military testing
ranges have caused people to report shadow figures and watchers
(19:48):
long before TikTok made a trendy. Scientists say it's hallucination.
But what if those environments simply peel back to filter.
What if the glitch isn't happening to them? What if
the glitch is happening to us? The Fourth Watch theory.
(20:13):
Between three am and six am, what scripture calls the
Fourth Watch activities ramp up paranoia, night terrors, dark encounters,
shadow figures inching closer. Jesus walked on water in the
Fourth Watch. Demons recognized him in the law in the dark,
(20:34):
long before the Disciples did. Demons recognized him in the dark,
long before the Disciples did not. Metaphorically, Historically, when spiritual
warfare spikes, so do the shadows. The observer effect quantum
physics tells us the act of observation changes reality. So
(21:01):
what happens when they observe us? Many witnesses described the
same reaction. The moment I noticed that it noticed me
noticing it. That's not a hallucination, that's an interaction. Predators watch,
scientists watch wardens watch, So which one are we dealing with?
(21:26):
Whistleblowers and battlefield sidings. Here's where it gets uncomfortable. Soldiers
deployed in conflict zones, Afghanistani rock even stateside training have
come forward saying they saw black silhouettes moving between tents,
shadow figures pacing the perimeter, entities standing motionless on ridgelines
(21:52):
at dusk. Classified incidents logs refer to them as dark watchers.
Par are anomalies, non human silhouettes. These are hardened warriors,
not jumpy tourists. Shadow sightings increase in places where death lingers, hospitals,
(22:14):
war zones, old ritual grounds, suicide locations, like they're attracted
to something. Energy suffering souls data about us. Frankly, we
don't know, but they're not random. Here's the hypothesis. Shadow
(22:38):
people aren't ghosts that show up after someone dies. They
show up before someone breaks. They appear when your fear
cracks a doorway, your brains filter fails, the veil thins
under pressure, not to comfort, not to warn, to observe
(23:01):
the moment a human soul reaches it's a most vulnerable state,
like they're running tests on the system, which raises the
final question, are we the dominant species or are we
just the most confident one? Because while we're mapping, we're
(23:22):
mapped perfectly to this physical plane, shadow people seem mapped
to the next layer down, just out of sight. The
glitch isn't the darkness. The glitch is the brief moment
when our eyes reveal what the darkness is hiding. And
maybe those moments are increasing outro when the shadow, when
(23:55):
the shadows notice you back so here we are took
a hard look at our own biology and learned we
don't see the world as it is. We see the
world as our brain allows. We followed the trail of
eyewitness accounts across centuries and found the same beings staring
(24:16):
back at us from every culture, and we stared into
the possibility that these things aren't glitches at all, that
maybe we are. Maybe humans are the anomaly, wandering through
a system built for something older, something hidden, something comfortable
(24:37):
in the darkness. And maybe those shadow forms that flicker
just out of sight aren't strangers. Maybe they've been here
the whole time, watching, studying, waiting for the moment we
finally see them. So tonight, when you turn off the lights,
(24:57):
when the house settles. When you're I start to relax
into the darkness, and you get that sudden electric feeling
that you are not alone. Maybe you don't brush it off,
maybe don't rationalize it away. Maybe the darkness isn't empty,
(25:19):
maybe it's crowded. And the real fear isn't that something
is standing there, It's that it has always been standing
there and you finally caught it in mid frame. If
this episode gave you something to think about, if it
made you feel a little less crazy about the weird
(25:41):
moments you've experienced, please take a quick second to like, share,
and follow, and leave a review for Broadcasting Seeds. That's
how this community grows, That's how we reach more people
who are walking, who are waking up to the unseen
side of our world. Thank you for being here with
(26:02):
me in the dark. Until next time, Stay curious, stay vigilant,
and pay attention to the shadows. They might be paying
attention and seize to you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Before you even know you're there, Like the dogs thinking about.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You while you sleep.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I blink in the room, bells, the corners be arranged.
The eyes of our mind.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
That is what it can explain, and silhouettes shinking with
the flicker of breath, stepping through the threshoulder side, and.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Death can't image.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
The boy just stands still, like a hunger that waits
for the moment you chill, shadow stretch along when.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You look away.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
They move with intention, They study their prayer. Are they go?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Are we the glitch? Are we real.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Or just a twitch?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
One frame behind.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
They live in the delay, watching from the dog like
breader a place.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
One frame behind.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
They slip through the seas, checking every few you buried
in your dream.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Spring's a bad translator, missing what is real, fears a
batter instrument, shopping like Steve stuck in the blind spot,
faceless flood where they're already in the room, already there,
sinking to the flicker of the nervous bread every hard day,
lot attempts in death. They leaning close, wind defenses, drowned.
(28:04):
You send them rising when you're lying down. If we
see them, do they.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
See a small.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
If we wake up? What's behind the door? Unframed?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Be they live in delay, watch him from the dark
like breasators of l one frameblind, ugly chain of rain, shot.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Hold in the corner, all whispering your name, not hallucination,
not imagination, perception corruption, your vision malfunction, But just the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The filter break.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Who lives in the few consciousness, man one frame behind.
They wait, and then they feed on the man.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
The moment you face.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Frame where dog watchers are. They notice you two, and you.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Notice that don't face the dark alone, faces your first
(29:59):
sh at
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio, and then the
static this ain't no beat sound story, So as prophetic
encrypt the signals from the shadows of the party, we
did where the trot got secret snow parted microphone alchemists
scriptures with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in the
midst We dropped fass like plagues revelations in the catus,
(00:23):
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
watchman's blade forth whattsund while your whole system faid blood
moons that for love echoes in the pond sas frosten
through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream, We
ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code the dreams,
so with you throw them in better guards of mind.
(00:43):
Is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design of the
shi yeah yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast Sad.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You ever ketch something move in the corner of your eye,
snap your head toward it, and there's nothing there. Not
a curtain, no, not a pet, not a car outside,
just that heavy feeling that something was standing there watching
(01:22):
you until you look directly at it. Hey, everybody, Welcome
back to Broadcasting Seeds. I am your host, Bennett Tanton,
and tonight we are going to talk about the thing
most people laugh off to stay sane. Shadow people. Not
(01:44):
as a cheap horror trope, not as a sleep paralysis meme.
We're going to treat them like a serious data point
in a very broken reality. Because here's the question that
has people gnawing that it's been gnawing at me. What
if shadow people are not ghosts in the classical sense.
(02:09):
What if they're not demons in the movie sense. What
if what people keep seeing in the corner of their
vision is actually a glitch in how the human brain
renders reality. Think about it. Your eyes do not feed
your brain a live stream. The brain takes fragmented light,
(02:34):
electrical noise, and delayed input and then builds a believable
world on top of it. It fills in the blind spots,
It edits out details it thinks are unimportant. It delays
what you see so your consciousness can stitch it all
(02:57):
together into a smooth video, which means you and I
are always a little bit behind what is really happening. Now,
imagine something that is not behind, something that moves faster
than that delay, something that just lives just a fraction
(03:22):
of a second outside the neat little timeline that your
brain irons out. Okay, maybe that is why you only
catch them in the periphery. Maybe that is why the
moment you lock you lock on with full conscious attention,
(03:45):
they just vanish. Not because they disappeared, but because your
brain just overwrote them with something safer for your protection
or soul, we are told, here's the part that adds
even more weight. People have described these things across cultures
(04:09):
and across centuries. Featureless silhouettes at the foot of the bed,
a tall man with the hat standing in a doorway
at three am, thin ink black figures watching from the hallway,
from the closet, from the edge of the road at night.
(04:30):
The report spike with sleep paralysis, high stress, a cult experimentation,
weird electromagnetic environments, and during times when people feel like
they are under spiritual attack. This is an odd pattern
for something we are supposed to dismiss as a trick
(04:52):
of the eyes. So in this episode we are going
to pull on that thread a little, not to scare
you for fun, but to ask some hard questions about
what it means if even five percent of those encounters
are exactly what they feel like, not dreams, not hallucinations,
(05:13):
and not your imagination, but encounters with something that should
not be visible in our world at all. Here's how
we are going to break this down tonight. In section one,
we will dig into the vision matrix matrix itself, how
your brain really constructs reality and where the natural blind
(05:38):
spots and glitches live. We're going we're not going to
textbook on this. We are going to stay in normal
language and talk about what it means for that feeling
that you are not alone in the room. In section two,
we will walk through real world reports of shadow people
(05:59):
and their cousins from different cultures the hat Man gin
described as living shadows, night watchers, bedroom sentinels, hallway figures.
We will look at patterns, common details, and what start
to emerge when you line them up side by side.
(06:23):
In section three, we will go into the deep end,
spiritual warfare, altered states, military and high strangeness locations, and
possibly what we call shadow entities are not the glitch
at all. Maybe we are the glitch. Maybe we are
(06:43):
the ones wandering through a space that belongs to something else,
and every now and then the system misfires and we
see each other as always. The point of broadcasting season
is not to tell you what to think. It is
to hand you the shovel and say, here is where
to start digging. If this kind of conversation lights you up,
(07:09):
helps you feel less crazy about the world things, the
weird things you have experienced, or just gives you a
fresh angle on the unseen, please take a second and like, share,
and review the podcast. This is how the show grows,
how more people find it, and how we keep building
a community of people who are not afraid of the
(07:31):
questions everyone else avoids. All right, get comfortable, dim the
lights if you want to make this extra weird, and
maybe pay attention to that corner of the room you
usually ignore. Section one, the vision matrix, living one frame behind.
(08:04):
All right, let's feel back the curtain on the very
thing we trust most, our eyes. We like to think
that seeing is believing. We tell kids that if they
didn't see it with their own eyes, it didn't happen.
But the truth is your eyes are not giving you reality.
(08:27):
They're giving you a rendering interpretation that your brain thinks
you can handle. Science tells us. That visual information hits
the retina, travels the optic nerve, gets processed in multiple
layers of the brain, and eventually forms what we call
a picture. But here's the kicker. Your brain is always
(08:50):
about one hundred milliseconds behind the real world. That's a
tenth of a second, not long enough to notice when
life is calm, but long enough to completely miss something fast, subtle,
(09:11):
or not meant for you. Now, that delay creates a
small but powerful problem. You are navigating a world that
your brain already edited by the time you see it.
Your consciousness is like the world's worst football announcer calling
to play after the touchdown already happened. So what does
(09:33):
the brain do to keep us safe? Andsane? Frankly, it lies.
It fills in gaps, literally hallucinating part of your visual
field so you don't see the horror of a giant
blind spot where your optic nerve meets your retina. It's
(09:53):
smooths motion, so reality doesn't jitter like a bad security
camera feed deletes anything it deems irrelevant to survival. A
shadow flicker in your peripheral vision not helpful, so it's
gone a shape darker than darkness itself that shouldn't exist,
(10:19):
probably ignored unless you're vulnerable or your defenses are down.
Because the brain's number one job is to show you
the truth, it's to keep the truth from overwhelming you.
Because the brain's number one job is not to show
(10:39):
you the truth, it's to keep the truth from overwhelming you.
There's also the concept of binocular rivalry. When each I
see something different, the brain doesn't show both. It picks
one and censors the other. Think about it that your
(11:01):
brain literally chooses what version of reality you get. And
then there's predictive coding. The brain can constantly tries to
guess what's coming next. It Sometimes, if something appears that
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doesn't match the prediction, like a human shaped void, the
brain panics and scrambles to force it into a category.
That's where things go wrong. You might glimpse a figure
standing in the doorway, no face, no texture, no detail,
and your brain can't categorize it as a person or
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an animal or a lamp. It doesn't match any stored template.
So instead of showing you the anomaly, the brain attempts
to erase or rewrite it. Too slow he saw it,
and that's when you snap your head and nothing's there.
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Some reachers say, some researchers say all of this is true,
that beings don't exist. It says it's truth. Something is there,
and the brain is desperately trying to protect the illusion
of a clean, normal world. Something that moves before the
brain can edit, something that exists in the margin between frames,
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something the rendered and the rendering engine wasn't designed to display. Okay, now,
if that all science sounds like sci fi, stick around,
because the next segment we're going to lay the science
down next to centuries of eyewitness accounts, and you'll see
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that people separated by oceans and belief systems are describing
the same thing, a presence that watches, that stands, that
observes just outside the spotlight of human perception. And if
the whole world is seeing the same figure in the
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same shadows, maybe the shadows aren't empty after all. Section two,
the global shadow watchers. Where science leaves gaps, stories fill them.
And the wild thing is the stories match every continent,
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every era, every belief system. People see the same things.
Dark silhouettes shaped like humans but missing every human detail,
with no eyes, no mouth, no clothes, just avoid standing
where matter should be Let's start with the most infinitous one,
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the hat man, A tall, broad shouldered figured wearing what
looks like a trench coat and a wide brimmed hat.
People report feeling paralyzed, this crushing sense of dread, the
hat man leaning in close like he's inspecting them. This
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isn't a handful of cases. Thousands of reports from the
US to the Pilpy to the Philippines, all describing nearly
identical encounters. A nonprofit called the hat Man Project has
catalog many of them, and that's at the Hatmanproject dot com.
I'll put that in the show notes. Why would hallucinations
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all wear the same hat? Then we move on to
the Gin in the Middle East. The Quran speaks of
beings made from smokeless fire, creatures that can shift between
worlds and remain unseen unless they choose to reveal themselves.
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Many modern encounters describe the Gin not as fiery beings,
but shadowy forms. Locals will tell you these entities aren't passive.
They observe, they test, and they sometimes they even attack.
The night marchers and watchers. Indigenous cultures worldwide talk about
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shadow guardians. The Choctaw Eight talked about a tall shadow
that stalks those with fear, the Hawaiian night marchers, dark warriors,
scene in formation, the cree shadow, people, spirits who hover
near the sick, or a spiritually wounded. These stories existed
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long before science gave us excuses like sleep paralysis, something
of which bedroom invaders. Millions of people across the globe,
especially during sleep paralysis, reports seeing a shadow at the
foot of the bed, a figure stepping onto their chest,
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something whispering just outside comprehension. Sleep paralysis is a real
neurological event, yes, But does that automatically make everything seen
during it imaginary? Or is the paralysis the vulnerable moment
when the filter drops and you see, finally see what's
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been standing there the whole time. Stanford research confirms sleep
paralysis sufferers often report a felt presence in the room.
Where does a felt presence come from? If nothing is there?
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The pattern emerges. Put all these accounts side by side,
and you get a consistent picture. They watch, They prefer
the edges of vision, They vanish when directly confronted. They
appear more during stress trauma, sleep issues, or spiritual warfare.
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It's almost like they need your mind distracted, so they
can slip through unnoticed. People describe them like predators studying
prey our researchers, or researchers studying subjects. Because here's a
detail rarely talked about publicly. A huge number of shadow
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people's sightings happen near military bases, UFO hotspots, sit with
high EMF exposure, hospitals, prisons, battlegrounds, areas with deep occult history.
That's not random noise, that's a map. And if these
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things go where fear, death and secrets gather done, what
exactly are they feeding on or protecting or preparing for?
Section three? Glitch in the veil? Who is watching the watchers?
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All right? Deep breath, Because of the first two segments
were us circling the perimeter. This is where we step
inside the house. There's a theory in neuroscience that our
brain acts like a security filter, blocking information from conscious
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from your conscious mind, they say it can't handle without breaking.
That includes entities outside the visible spectrum, dimensions not aligned
with our century range, energies, or beings moving faster than
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our perception. Lag research and and for sound frequencies below
human hearing show that it can induce fear, dread, and
the sensation of a presence. Electromagnetic exposure near military testing
ranges have caused people to report shadow figures and watchers
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long before TikTok made a trendy. Scientists say it's hallucination.
But what if those environments simply peel back to filter.
What if the glitch isn't happening to them? What if
the glitch is happening to us? The Fourth Watch theory.
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Between three am and six am, what scripture calls the
Fourth Watch activities ramp up paranoia, night terrors, dark encounters,
shadow figures inching closer. Jesus walked on water in the
Fourth Watch. Demons recognized him in the law in the dark,
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long before the Disciples did. Demons recognized him in the dark,
long before the Disciples did not. Metaphorically, Historically, when spiritual
warfare spikes, so do the shadows. The observer effect quantum
physics tells us the act of observation changes reality. So
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what happens when they observe us? Many witnesses described the
same reaction. The moment I noticed that it noticed me
noticing it. That's not a hallucination, that's an interaction. Predators watch,
scientists watch wardens watch, So which one are we dealing with?
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Whistleblowers and battlefield sidings. Here's where it gets uncomfortable. Soldiers
deployed in conflict zones, Afghanistani rock even stateside training have
come forward saying they saw black silhouettes moving between tents,
shadow figures pacing the perimeter, entities standing motionless on ridgelines
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at dusk. Classified incidents logs refer to them as dark watchers.
Par are anomalies, non human silhouettes. These are hardened warriors,
not jumpy tourists. Shadow sightings increase in places where death lingers, hospitals,
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war zones, old ritual grounds, suicide locations, like they're attracted
to something. Energy suffering souls data about us. Frankly, we
don't know, but they're not random. Here's the hypothesis. Shadow
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people aren't ghosts that show up after someone dies. They
show up before someone breaks. They appear when your fear
cracks a doorway, your brains filter fails, the veil thins
under pressure, not to comfort, not to warn, to observe
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the moment a human soul reaches it's a most vulnerable state,
like they're running tests on the system, which raises the
final question, are we the dominant species or are we
just the most confident one? Because while we're mapping, we're
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mapped perfectly to this physical plane, shadow people seem mapped
to the next layer down, just out of sight. The
glitch isn't the darkness. The glitch is the brief moment
when our eyes reveal what the darkness is hiding. And
maybe those moments are increasing outro when the shadow, when
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the shadows notice you back so here we are took
a hard look at our own biology and learned we
don't see the world as it is. We see the
world as our brain allows. We followed the trail of
eyewitness accounts across centuries and found the same beings staring
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back at us from every culture, and we stared into
the possibility that these things aren't glitches at all, that
maybe we are. Maybe humans are the anomaly, wandering through
a system built for something older, something hidden, something comfortable
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in the darkness. And maybe those shadow forms that flicker
just out of sight aren't strangers. Maybe they've been here
the whole time, watching, studying, waiting for the moment we
finally see them. So tonight, when you turn off the lights,
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when the house settles. When you're I start to relax
into the darkness, and you get that sudden electric feeling
that you are not alone. Maybe you don't brush it off,
maybe don't rationalize it away. Maybe the darkness isn't empty,
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maybe it's crowded. And the real fear isn't that something
is standing there, It's that it has always been standing
there and you finally caught it in mid frame. If
this episode gave you something to think about, if it
made you feel a little less crazy about the weird
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moments you've experienced, please take a quick second to like, share,
and follow, and leave a review for Broadcasting Seeds. That's
how this community grows, That's how we reach more people
who are walking, who are waking up to the unseen
side of our world. Thank you for being here with
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me in the dark. Until next time, Stay curious, stay vigilant,
and pay attention to the shadows. They might be paying
attention and seize to you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Before you even know you're there, Like the dogs thinking about.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You while you sleep.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I blink in the room, bells, the corners be arranged.
The eyes of our mind.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
That is what it can explain, and silhouettes shinking with
the flicker of breath, stepping through the threshoulder side, and.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Death can't image.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
The boy just stands still, like a hunger that waits
for the moment you chill, shadow stretch along when.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You look away.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
They move with intention, They study their prayer. Are they go?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Are we the glitch? Are we real.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Or just a twitch?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
One frame behind.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
They live in the delay, watching from the dog like
breader a place.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
One frame behind.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
They slip through the seas, checking every few you buried
in your dream.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Spring's a bad translator, missing what is real, fears a
batter instrument, shopping like Steve stuck in the blind spot,
faceless flood where they're already in the room, already there,
sinking to the flicker of the nervous bread every hard day,
lot attempts in death. They leaning close, wind defenses, drowned.
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You send them rising when you're lying down. If we
see them, do they.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
See a small.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
If we wake up? What's behind the door? Unframed?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Be they live in delay, watch him from the dark
like breasators of l one frameblind, ugly chain of rain, shot.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Hold in the corner, all whispering your name, not hallucination,
not imagination, perception corruption, your vision malfunction, But just the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The filter break.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Who lives in the few consciousness, man one frame behind.
They wait, and then they feed on the man.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
The moment you face.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Frame where dog watchers are. They notice you two, and you.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Notice that don't face the dark alone, faces your first
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