The Black Stick Man Phenomenon
March 27, 2012 47 Comments
by Tony Harrington
In the world of the paranormal, there is seldom anything new to write home about. Ghosts are ghosts after all, the tried and true staple of an investigator’s diet.
Rarely do we see an emergence of a new phenomenon. We might see an older type of entity experience resurgence in popularity due to a high-profile expose on shows like “Ghost Hunters” or “Destination Truth”, but that is not the same as a true emergence of a previously undocumented event.
That theory was flipped on its ear in 2009 when website http://www.Listverse.com featured “Black Stick Men” as one of their top 10 most bizarre modern paranormal phenomena.
The list; which included Black Eyed Kids, Dog-Head Man, and other cryptids immediately caught fire due to the inclusion of the Black Stick Men. As it turns out, there was something to be said of the recent phenomenon.
The black stick men are just that…walking stick figures, the kind you would draw as a child, or as an adult if you lacked any ability to draw whatsoever. The male gender is usually attached to the figures, though to be honest, they seem rather gender-neutral.
The figures have been described as unusually tall, black in appearance, lacking any facial or bodily features and very lean. Their appearances have been documented on message forums and websites since 2008 and unlike shadow people as a whole, do not coincide with a mention on Ghost Hunters or other paranormal program. Accounts of encountering the figures just started creeping up.
Could they be part of a viral marketing campaign, in similar fashion to an alien being caught on a game camera in Louisiana turned out to be viral marketing for the film Super-8 or could they be some part of a collective of urban legends?
The complete lack of photographic or video evidence quickly discounts the fact that these stories are part of a marketing campaign of any sort. They also do not appear to be centralized to one location such as the mysterious www.thisman.org website which seemed to be more of a performance art piece rather than a fully-realized otherworldly phenomenon.
Also, there is no “A friend of a friend” accounts to tie these encounters to an urban legend. The details involved in the accounts are scant at best, mostly fleeting glimpses. So, unlike true urban legends, there is no moral or sense of irony.
The details, of what little there are, about these creatures/apparitions seem to be consistent from story to story. The appearance usually takes place along a deserted road, or in an alley way, away from bright lights and prying eyes. The person encountering the stick men more times than not report being tired. The figures move smoothly as if gliding, they do not make any sound although the air around them is reportedly charged with static.
The actual stick men themselves seem indifferent to us unless provoked or if they realize they have been spotted. Then they will flee quickly or in some rare instances will approach quickly in a frightening display of aggravation. However, there have been no reported incidents of anyone being touched or harmed by the mysterious beings.
The only indications of their intent have been reports of vague feelings of malevolence, though some feel this has to do with the disturbances in the atmospheric/barometric pressures that often accompany a sighting.
Are they paranormal? Who is to say? Most of the accounts are not associated with a known haunted spot and most sightings are not tied to any other ghostly phenomenon. They are simply things that exist outside of our realm of the normal. So in that sense, yes, they are paranormal…but not necessarily ghosts of any type.
The Black Stick Man phenomenon is fairly new, not enough research/evidence has been conducted on just what or who they are and why they are visiting us. They could be ghosts, yet they could be alien as well if you are inclined to believe that we are not alone in this world.
Either way, to those who have seen these things, they are very real and are among us. As to where they go and what they do once out of our line of sight can only be speculated.
Have you encountered one of these mysterious beings? If so, please share your story with us in the comments below.
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When I was about 12 my brother and his friend were forced to take me with them to a movie. On the way back it was dark and something was coming across thwarting road. My brother had to stop the car so we wouldn’t hit it. It was a stickman and it looked right at us as it crossed the road. It wasn’t black. It was actual wood, about 1 by 2 inches. Not branches, like sawed wood that you would build something with. I’ve been telling this story ever since. Of course people don’t believe me. They believe I say something. I know what I saw. I wasn’t the only one who saw it. Also we were talking about it about 12 yrs. later and my oldest brother movie
People tend to find things they can not comprehend suspect. Because they can not imagine such a thing existing, then obviously what you experienced did not happen or it was just your imagination. That is the mentality we deal with day in and day out. It is good to hear from someone who had a legitimate experience with a stick-man.
If I had seen it, that would have been the exact moment I cried like a school-girl!
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I can’t believe i’m not the only one who saw this. Last night I was trying to get some sleep in my room and I heard someone knocking on my window. I fearfully looked up and decided to open my door. That’s when I first saw these so called “stick mans” The ones I saw were tall and incredibly lanky. They walked slowly and they all had medium length tin strands of hair. First I thought I was just tired but when I got up out of fear to open my door I could feel this powerful feeling of pressure. I swear on my life it was one of the most terrifying/paranormal feelings I’ve ever encountered. I’m so happy I’m not crazy. thanks for sharing your story!
i seen a black stick man go passed the windowe and it moved its head side to side
then went dowen stairs but there was no dowen stairs
That’s exatly what I saw too. The entity I saw looked as if it was made out of newly sawed bright and clean wood. Head and hands were just black spheres. It looked exactly as if it was made of gaint match sticks with every feature and color. The entity I saw was wearing some sort of hat by the way which is very wierd in my opinion.
Approx 3 -5 years ago I was very I’ll with the When I was very ill with the flu. I saw a black stickman out of the corner of my eye in the passageway. Interestingly some days later I asked a clairvoyant if she knew anything about black stickman and she told me she had a friend ring her in the last few days and said look out for the black stick man. She was wondering what it was all about. I can’t recall whether she saw the figure. The figure I saw was very tall much taller than a human I guess approx 8-10 feet. It moved very fast in a gliding motion. I felt it was a good energy. Maybe a nature spirit. I did wonder if it had anything to do with Aboriginal Stick figures.
I have been thinking through time frame and it was more like 5-7 years ago not 3-5.
I have personally never seen one of these figures, and I am glad I haven’t. They sound downright creepy. I wish there was more information on them. they seem to be a relatively modern phenomenon which makes me wonder…are they truly new and why show up now or have they been around a long time and are just now showing themselves. Ah, sweet mysteries of the paranormal world. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
I cant believe I actually found sites about stickmen! My daughter who is 8 swears on her life that she sees stickmen and have been saying this for years now and ive been just a bit skeptical cause i didnt know really what to think because ive had my own paranormal experiences where i thought i was crazy. So i never really said anything to her, but when i finally looked it up i couldnt believe there are other ppl who have seen them! Then something clicked, this must be the same thing she was seeing when she was 1-3 years old, she could barely talk but she would be looking down the hallway or in a room and hug me with fright and say “Man, dark Man!”
Thank you for reading our blog and sharing your story.
One of the reasons we open comments up from our readers is so that people can share their experiences so that they don’t feel alone. It is a way for those who have experienced something unexplainable to reach out to others who have shared this experience.
While I personally have not seen a stick man, the number of people who have continues to grow. It is a relatively new phenomenon in the grand picture of the paranormal field, so the entities are either new or have just started showing themselves more frequently.
Hopefully other people who have experienced these manifestations are able to read your experiences and take some comfort in knowing that they are not alone.
Thank you again for sharing your story.
The Spirit Seekers
I’ve see stick men in the last year after a difficult move to another town. They come when something is going to happen to me that makes my life extremely difficult, like a fall and a long healing process, costly damage to apartment, robbery, stressful human interactions, etc. They are absolutely unforgettable and I am glad I am finding web sites about them. They come when you are very tired, worried and fretful and when it’s dark. Or when you are overconfident, like at dawn. I’ve always just woken up and am standing. They run up to you and tell you bad things are coming with no sympathy or hug – they just say it – but those things DO happen and in a way I am thankful for their frank warnings although I do not want to see them ever again. I call mine pipe cleaner men. They are just like any moving stick figures a child would draw but mine are a little fuzzy everywhere like black pipe cleaners, and their faces are oval with no hint of playfulness or friendliness. They seem to be fast moving harbingers of bad news but they are helpful. Mine have features but they are not exactly features like ours but they do have a mouth and piercing eyes with some color maybe, they seem to be male, no hair or ears, and their emotions seem strung out and a bit stressed and they move like they are in a hurry, quickly addressing you face to face and disappearing. I think they are creatures that are very upset about certain things and they know about the future and they must tell you. They do not stick around long, thank goodness. They do not sit down or stand at the end of the bed or just show up night after night, thank goodness. Each time I’ve seen them (3 times) it had been less than 10 seconds. I thought at first I was dreaming. My counselor says they are consistent with the stress I am under but I’ve been under lots of stress before and have never had such visitors. A friend of mine says they may be sent by loved ones who are very concerned about us.
I really hope I’m not stepping into a nice, storytelling goo of terrific imagination: simplicity with curiosity. But in any case, I wanted to express the need for characteristic information.. people need to add their specific environments, what kind of home is it, what kind of geography surrounds them (mountains, plains, city, etc), and even more specifically what kind of Governing system surrounds them (Southern States, Industrial areas, Commercial districts, nearby Military/Intelligence installations, etc.). These characteristics are absolutely essential at developing a database that puts these phenomenon into definable trends. Until this is met I can only continuing reading for the sake of personal enjoyment as these are mind-bobblingly terrific stories.. I prefer non-fiction as it is more exciting because of the truth behind it.. so I can see why, with fiction, it would be terrific to add the artificial aspect of reality. But even without individual credibility, if individuals report characteristics we can start gathering data. We are an information society now, we know how to manage this stuff. “Investigation” requires data… and data comes from source. If the sources are unreliable then the lack of data should not be trusted.
P.S. has anyone ever watched the movie: Ink (2009) ?
Ben:
I am aware you wrote this almost 3 months ago, and I apologize for just now seeing it. Our blog gets hundreds of readers a day and in filtering out the ridiculous amount of spam I get in addition to real responses, I somehow overlooked approving your comment.
I am truly sorry for this as your reply is truly sound and the call for more information is truly needed, lest we are just left with speculation.
Could there be similarities that we are overlooking? Perhaps, and it is imperative that we do our due diligence when reporting phenomenon. That is a truly valid point.
As for “INK”, I have not yet seen it, it is on Netflix streaming and I pass it over every time Netflix suggests it. If it is worth it, I will check it out.
Thank you for contributing to the blog and again I apologize for the long delay in approving your comment.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
Editor/Contributor of The Spirit Seekers blog
As soon as I heard about these stickmen, I instantly thought about that short story by Shaun Tan called ‘Stick Figures’ about strange wooden stick figures who are constantly found around a town and how the locals interact with them, in the book Tales From Outer Suburbia (by Shaun Tan, obviously). Ironic, huh?
I was 5 or so, you ever open your eyes after you’ve been asleep and the room is so dark, that it’s oppresive, and not like dark at all?
That’s when I saw the Stickmen, (or that’s the only way I can describe them) and it scared me up big time,
They were not black, as I wouldn’t have been able to see. They were 2 dimensional, I recall seeing 4 or 6 in the room, but it wasn’t like I was looking in the room, my room was never that dark. Hovering they were, not touching the ground, glowing, but not bright, like a very dark red,
Maybe it was just my mind adding visions and depth where none existed, or some kind of manifestation of illness.
I think that the reason I was scared was because as a five year old little tough guy, I new that this was not a natural thing. This did not fit into my understanding of the world, I got out of bed, shut my eyes as I could not see, and blindly ran for the door, with this awful sick feeling in my stomach.
Of course I had to have the door ajar with the light on after that.
Even now, nearly 40 years later I still remember it very vividly, and I have no appetite to ever see anything like it again.
I was searching for something about stickmen because my 14 yr old nephew was just telling my husband that he had seen one of these at his mother’s funeral at the cemetery. He said it had a white face with eyes and red lips. The arms were long like tentacles. He showed my husband a picture on his phone. I’m assuming one he found online. My sister died from her battle with cancer over a year ago. I know that my nephew had also seen and spoken to the spirit of his older sister. My sister had a mis carriage about 2 yrs. Before she had my nephew.He said the stickman made him feel uncomfortable.
My little sister keeps waking up screaming and pointing to nothing. She describes them as lanky black stick figures that scream in agony as if they were dying or dead. I believe her as I’ve heard the screams as well, but have not been able to see them. She says that after they scream for around 12 seconds, they speak normally in a deep voice. Most recently she says that one of them asked her to “End the pain and bring him to life” It’s odd because nobody believes her or say that it’s a dream. She’s seen a hypnotist who’s “looked into her mind” and saw them as well, he told us that it wasn’t a dream and that she had seen them for real. Our family see’s things like this quite often, my brother spotted a horse headed man, I have seen and communicated with multiple ghosts, thinking they were real people I talked to them, later to learn they were either dead or just not there. Does it mean anything to be able to see these things?
Thank you for visiting our blog and for commenting on the article.
You asked whether seeing things that don’t exist for others means anything specific.
Here at SPIRIT Seekers, we believe in psychic phenomenon, the evidence, though not specifically scientific, does point to the possibility that certain people are more in tune with the environment around them.
Let’s face it, NOBODY can prove the existence of ghosts and other paranormal creatures, but they cannot disprove it either.
With that said, if your family has a long history of communicating with the dead, then it is very real for you, but more importantly, it shouldn’t be your job to prove that ability to people. If you encounter people who do not believe that you can do what you say you can do, nothing you do can convince them.
Overall, being able to see and communicate with spirit beings simply means that your mind is not closed off to the things that we cannot see, and because your mind is open, sometimes, things unseen to others will present themselves to you. This can be scary for those just beginning to realize their abilities and at times it may seem difficult to rationalize what you are encountering.
If you feel a presence means you harm, sever communication with it, close your mind to it. If you feel they are benevolent, then communicate with them and perhaps help them move on or achieve whatever objective holds them here.
I hope that helps, let me know if you have any questions.
When I was around 6 or 7 years of age 1969 I had my Nan come visit us from England to Australia . I was sleeping in the spare room with my nan on the opposite side of the room , it was dark it was night time . Opposite me there was a single window , a very old and heavy window that worked on a heavy cord to lift it ,and then 2 stick figures i would say men lifted the window from the outside and crept into the bedroom making no sound at all ! I mean they lifted the window but there was no sound ! W ell i was terrified ! I could see that these figures were not human but resembled 2 very tall stick figure men ! They stood there for a few seconds and seemed to be talking to each other though they made no noise , my nan was fast asleep and she was snoring loudly , I called out to her Nan ! Nan! but she kept snoring , then the 2 stick men walked over to her slowly and peered over her ! Looking at her and talking to each other but making no sound ! I was so frightened I couldnt move and was praying they would not see me or hurt me , I was staring at them and then they walked past my nan then past me then opened that window again without making any noise and slowly climbed out the window one at a time and closed the window on the way out ! I would describe them as very tall between 6 and 7 feet , they were black , blacker than the room and night as there was no light , they both had black hats on . like a rounded shape , they had no faces , they made no noise , they moved slowly and strangly ! Till this day no one has believed me but now i have found this site I will show it to everyone ! I did not feel that they were evil or trying to hurt someone , more just like curious travellers that decided to climb into that room at night and have a look around ! This is the truth and I remember the experience as if it were yesterday . Nicola .
Nicola:
Thank you for sharing your story with us. This particular entry has garnered a lot of attention and a lot of comments.
It is continually in the top results for internet searches on the topic.
For the most part, as you can see, people who have encountered these entities all experienced similar things. And they have clearly been around a lot longer than we initially thought if your encounter dates back to the late sixties.
I imagine the experience was horrifying and unsettling to have stayed with you so long. I know it isn’t easy to talk about without thinking people are judging you, so that makes me appreciate you sharing the story all the more.
Thank you for stopping by and feel free to look around the site at some of the other blog entries.
Oh man, the entity I saw was wearing a hat too. I am getting chills down my spine. I was doubting myself for all these years and now I see that I am not the only one that saw this thing.
Thank you for your reply . Yes it is an experience I will never forget , I would also like to add that the home this happened in was quite isolated . We were living on Bulli Pass Thirroul a small suburb near Wollongong in N.S.W . It was very old and run down home , im guessing around 100yrs old, and the homes around us were also very old,the surrounding towns all very run down,not what it is today is now very established . Yes remote and rundown certainly not a lot of people lived there . Also the history of the area were coalminers . I dont no if this has any revelance but it gives you a picture of the surroundings of where this event happened .I would also like to add how strangely these Stick Men moved . They moved in a very slow fashion like slow motion and made not one sound ! Till this day i cannot fathom how they opened that window and closed it without any noise ! Very eerie ! Thanks again Nicola .
In 2006, on the day I moved into a new apartment in an inner-city suburb of an Australian city, I saw a black stick figure. He was 7 to 8 feet tall, and as soon as I entered the loungeroom and saw him, he looked across the room at me, seemed startled, ran around quickly and then ran out of the room, After that encounter, I saw him 6 or 7 times and sometimes I would encounter him walking quickly in the opposite direction in the corridor of my apartment. The sightings occurred either at night or the late afternoon/early evening and I was never under the influence of any substance (being a non-drinker and non-drug taker). He instantly seemed male to me though I cannot say why. I did not sense that he was malevolent, on the contrary he seemed a bit frightened to see me. He had no facial features, was black, had an oval for a head and thick-ish sticks for limbs. My partner, with whom I lived at the time, never saw the stick man. I was 40 years old when I saw him and those sightings were the only inexplicable experiences I have had. Those experiences changed the way in which I see the world. Today, I know that the universe is much stranger than I could ever imagine. Thank you everyone for your posts. While I have no doubt that what I saw was real, it’s so great to discover that others have also seen stick men.
Lauren, thank you for sharing your experience with us. This article is quickly becoming our most commented upon proving that this fairly recent type of paranormal encounter is far more common than expected.
I saw a stickman only once. It was as you stated late afternoon/early evening. It was in the hallway of my apartment. I saw it through the hole on the door. Its body looked as if it was made of large matchsticks, head and hands were black spheres with no features and weirdest of all was that it was wearing some sort of old fashioned hat.
My senior year of high school, I went for a run at around 5:00. Of course everything was dark and there wasnt much people up at the time. As I was running past my old elementary school I saw this black figure walking on the street across from me. It was this tall creature, moved kind of slow, lanky, but it also looked as if it had horns on its head and it was walking on all fours (so it wasn’t really a black stickman, but it was similar to one). I slowed down to a stop and just stared at it. It was just walking, until I saw it stop and its head slowly turn towards me like it was contemplating on coming to me. I got scared and just sprinted away. Have never seen it since. Even to this day, I have no idea what it was. I’ve mentioned it to other people, and nobody else has ever encountered something like it before.
Sammy,
Thank you for visiting our site and for sharing your story. Your experience validates what many people encounter with regard to the black stick man phenomenon.
While I have never personally seen one of these creatures, the rate at which people report experiencing their presence seems to steadily increase as this modern paranormal phenomenon becomes more widely accepted.
Thank you again for sharing your story, hopefully others will come forward and share their experiences as well.
Omg. I seen on of these black Stick men when I was ut 28 18 so 11 yrs ago I was driving in the car with my mom and it was walking in and out if trees and through an empty parking lot it looked just like described here. It frighten me . My mother wanted to follow it I didnt ..how weird i
I am on this webpage because I just had this experience not more than 45 minutes ago, and I came here while researching “black figure sightings” at the urging of my dad and brother who listen to coast to coast radio with George Nory. I live in a small town in northern Minnesota, and I was just out walking my dog Wilson at about 9:15pm. Our normal walking route is right on the edge of town and we normally walk over Long’s bridge over the river, then turn around and head back toward home. To get to the bridge we take a right turn at a “T” intersection with rural mailboxes on the far side of the road, and some street lights behind us. Anyway, as we were approaching the intersection a tall figure walked very quickly across the intersection that appeared to be dressed entirely in black and wearing what looked in silhouette like a cowboy type duster coat. With the street lights behind me I should have been able to make out some details on the person’s face, but it was like he was in silhouette and there was absolutely no detail at all. He (I say “he” because the figure seemed to be male) seemed to have an easy stride, but was moving unnaturally quickly as he made his way toward the bridge. At this point Wilson seemed to take no notice of the figure at all…until we crossed the street to the mailboxes where he habitually stops to pee. Suddenly Wilson started to get very agitated and clingy. And as I looked up the figure had reached the bridge and it seemed to turn and “look” at us, but I can’t be entirely sure. I was only aware at how incredibly fast the figure had actually reached the bridge, and that it had stopped on the bridge. The figure was dimly silhouetted from the house lights and few street lights on the far side of the river. I was also now keenly aware that it was “aware” of us, and furthermore that it had made absolutely NO SOUND! As we had approached the intersection we were perhaps no more than 30 feet from the figure at the closest point. Being that it is a relatively quiet night (with an unseasonably late, light snow flurries falling) and that this is a quiet area I should have heard footsteps at least on the wet pavement. I would also mention that until the figure reached the bridge it never turned to look in our direction. In rural Minnesota people greet or at least acknowledge each other on the street when they encounter each other walking. At this point I was telling myself that this was all just my imagination, yet as I was trying to walk toward the bridge and the figure now standing still in the middle of it all I had were alarm bells going off in my head! Now I need to mention that I am a college instructor and I teach defensive tactics (fighting techniques) to criminal justice students and that I have been training in martial arts for the past 36 years. I don’t consider myself a coward or overly superstitious, however my training has taught me that if something “feels” wrong it IS. So trusting my alarm bells I heeled Wilson and turned 180 degrees and started walking the other direction. I swear I could feel the weight of the this figure’s stare on my back as we walked away so intensely that I couldn’t help but look over my should 7 or 8 times making sure that this fast moving figure wasn’t moving up behind us quickly and quietly! However it did not follow us, and the last couple times I looked over my shoulder I could no longer make out anything on the bridge at all. I have to admit that I am still a bit uneasy about this situation, and I’m not really certain what I just saw and encountered….but I do NOT like it. I thought I’d share this experience after reading a few of the others above.
John,
Thank you for sharing your story with us here. The rate at which this article has grown in comments leads me to believe that sightings of this type are reaching pandemic levels.
Stick Men are being reported all over the United States, and as previous comments indicate, the phenomenon has been experienced globally.
Your story confirms many of the details others report including the manner and speed at which these things move, their featureless faces, their uncanny speed and long gait.
Did you get any sense from this thing that it may have been ghostly or alien?
Thank you again for replying and of course for stopping by our blog.
I really didn’t feel that this was a ghost, it sure seemed real enough. As for it feeling “alien”, well not in the traditional Hollywood “little green men” sense of the word. It did however feel other worldly. Having had a couple days now to process this situation, it seems like it initially ignored me until it realized that I had seen it- almost as if it was used to being unseen moving through the world. I would add that once it did become aware of me, it was definitely malevolent and I did not like it’s attention focused on me! I had a flashlight in my jacket pocket at the time, and in hindsight I really wish I would have had the presence of mind to shine a light on this being.
Thank you for the follow up and the additional details. My apologies for taking do long to reply, work has been busy and the last thing I gave been doing is working on the blog.
I wonder how similar your experience is to others who gave experienced the stick man phenomenon.
I have had a very close encounter with what you call a stick man, it was on a deserted road, but it was in my passenger seat of my car, it put it’s hand on my arm it is cold and feels like petrified wood,it hurts but I don’t think it is intentional, there were several things that happened before this, and it did not want to leave me alone, the sence I get it it is alien or interdimensional, almost lost. Please contact me on artatafrica@gmail.com, this is not the only entity I have seen, there is also another one that disturbs me, i cannot see it but it feels like a spider and it hurts me around my lower back…..please help PS I live in cape town
This is Taryn again, I have looked into what everyone else calls a stick man and what I saw was very different, firstly it wasn’t wearing clothes, was pitch black and not as thin as the pictures I have seen of the stick man, rather slender humanoid and very tall, what could this be?
Hey Taryn:
I have not had a lot of time to look at the blog or the responses in the past few weeks, I am just now getting around to reviewing the responses.
Your addition to the comments is intriguing, and I am not quite sure what it is you have experienced/encountered. It seems to share a similar design to what others are calling the Stick Man, but your encounter varies. Is it possible more than one type exists? I suppose anything is possible, or perhaps you are simply encountering something that completely different and not yet documented.
Because this may very well be the case, I will be happy to leave your encounter listed here so that others can stumble across it and add their experiences if they indeed have a similar encounter. It is always nice to know that we are not alone in our experiences no matter what they be.
I know this post is old – I moved to a little town called Altamonte Springs, FL in 2007. From my bedroom, on the 3rd floor, was a bay window I could look out of, past the parking lot and into the street. One day, simply looking out the window I see an incredibly tall solid black flat figure walking along the street. Other passerbyers didn’t seem to notice them. They had an odd walk, kinda laid back, but just kept walking. I stared at it, surely I was just not seeing clearly, I grabbed my binoculars – I didn’t know what to think – in the binoculars I saw the same thing – a very very tall flat black creature just walking along, no features, just flat black. I watched him until he was passed out of my view. I can’t explain what it was.
Dania611:
Thank you for stopping by. Yes, the post is old, but it still remains the most popular post on the entire site.
I never imagined how many people would have experiences to share when I wrote it. Considering that I have only heard of the phenomenon but never experienced it myself.
I am glad that I have not encountered one of these things, they sound terrifying to witness, though they seem rather benevolent, or not interested in us at the very least.
Thank you for sharing your encounter, I still have no idea what these things could be, they seem to be a fairly modern phenomenon. Maybe one day we will be able to figure out why they are here, but more importantly, just what they are.
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Hi, im from Germany and i came accross this website while beeing boored at work and finding strange youtube videos (as ususal) and there was a reply of one single person in the comment section that immediately reminded me on my childhood experience with this, indeed quite astonishing paranormal phenomenon called “The Black Stick Men”. The video i was watching was about random “paranormal” creatues, and the comment post mentionened a part in the video where 3 pictures have been taken at night on a regular street where a very tall stickman like creature was walking along the street and immediately climbing up a 9 floors high building.
And now i came accross this website and i want to share my experience with the Black Stickman:
I can still remember really precicely, while i was a child probbably about 7 years old (and im 24 now) about my first and so far only sighting of this strange creature at where i as living with my family years ago:
Me and my family, we lived in an old military home complex from the US-Army wich back then and now has ben transformed into normal homes with appartmends for rent. So there where quite a lot of other familys and kids back in the day and a loot of traffic from people walking around with there kids and stuff.
One day, i was outside playing with some kids on the block, but it was at DAYTIME. We played hide and seek and random stuff. After we sort of seperated and stopped to play i went inside. Shortly after i was going outside again and i felt like i wanted to go to the big deep-level garage where the people can park there cars from the block we where living at. The garage was relly long probably about 500m more or less as i remember and even at daytime pretty dark.
So i was running at the garage entrance where the cars usually drive in and out. The garage had about 4 entrances about the same size and at the far end, only an exit for pedestrians. (there is a small metal door, it leeds into the garage with a few steps). When i entered the entrance for the cars (wich was number 3, so about in the center of the garage complex) i looked arround, but even there i was feeling kind of frightened and bad beeing there for myself. When i was seeing that nobody was nearby, i started to shout into the garage for fun, hearing my own echo, echoing along the garage walls -> All of a sudden, as i was looking to the right of me, THERE i saw it:
I immediately felt a chilling and cold air sorrounding me, the fear was building up immense in me as i stared at the black stickman on the far end of the garage. The metal door was opened before, you coud see the sunlight shining in, but the stickman was, without making ANY SOUND at ALL! Walking slowly down the few stairs and for some reason, it immediately stopped! And looked at me! I felt like it was staring at me the whole time! I coud feel the presence immense and the feelings in me where telling me to leave this place, NOW!
While i was frozen in place because of the immense fear i felt, i coud see it was completely BLACK with NO Facial details. It just looked like a Black Stickman without any clothes on, really slim in shape with long arms and legs, standing in place looking at me while holding the stairway grasp with its left arm. Arround it the air seemed like moving arround, the same effekt you have when the sun is really burning the ground and you can see the air kind of moving, the same effekt sorrounded the Black Stickman.
THEN all of a sudden, the Stickman turned arround, and ran out of the door incredibly fast as if it was literally trying to flee from me! As if i wasnt supposed to see him there…. i was running out the same way i came and tried to look at the end of the garage to see it somwhere runing away….but there was nothing there…nothing as if it just completely disapeared after it left the garage thru the door that leads outside…i was so afraid of it that i was running back at home.
I did not came back outside this day and i was afraid of telling my family or any one because i thought no one woud believe my story.
All in all an interesting, but really frightening experience with this phenomenon..i had never seen it again since then but i can remember it that well because it feared me so much!!
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your story with us. It goes to show that this type of phenomena is occurring globally.
I am sure the experience was indeed very frightening! Having never personally experienced seeing one of these things, I rely on readers just like you to share their stories.
Sorry that it took a few days to get this approved, I have been very busy with work. Thank you again for sharing your encounter with the Black Stick Man!
I have encountered this entity when I was a kid.
The incident took place when I was about the age of 8 or 9 (I am 28 now). It was a nice and sunny afternoon and I was at home with my mom. She was in the livingroom watching TV and I was in my study room playing games on my PC (I can even remember the game I was playing. It was Robocop 3 for DOS if anyone wonders). I thought I should call my friend from school and tell him to come over so we can play some two player games together. He was living just on the next street and said he will be coming shortly. I resumed playing the game and after a while I noticed that he was late than usual but I didn’t worry much about it at that moment. After a while I heard the apartment door being opened and then closed. I thought that should be my friend and got to the door to check. I looked through the door hole and I still can’t explain what I saw infront of our neighbour’s door. I know this is going to sound very wierd but there was a stick figure man standing there in the apartment’s hallway. Very humanlike in general features expect it looked like it was made of very large matchsticks. The color and texture were also the same with a matchstick. There were pitch black big spheres where the hands and head supposed to be. Those looked like the tip of a matchstick too. The figure was wearing a hat which I believe was yellowish but I can’t really remember the exact color. I remember seeing some sort of black stripe across the hat’s top half. And there was a black net hanging from all sides of the hat that covered the figure’s spherical head. The position of the joints were like you would expect to see in a person and for a very brief moment I saw it moving its arms to a different position. Another wierd thing was that the apartment’s lights were switched on which at that time there were no motion sensors that turns the lights on. So someone must have switched them. By that time I was more than freaked out and rushed to the living room shouting that there’s something in front of our neighbour’s door. We opened the door and checked the apartment but there was nothing there and my mom said that I might have imagened things or just got blurry vision while looking through the lens in the door hole. I don’t have further memory of that particular day and I don’t even remember whether my friend evetually came or not which is wierd in my opinion. So that’s about it.
TheodenN,
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your story with us. It is yet another entry in a long line of responses that provides some validity to the existence of these creatures.
The responses to this article have fascinated me in how similar everyone’s experiences are. For random people spread across the globe to search something like this only to find our site and see that their experiences are mirrored by those sometimes countries apart is intriguing.
Perhaps a bigger study is in order, there has to be some logical explanation for the sightings.
Thank you again for sharing your amazing story regarding your encounter with one of these “things”. And thank you for stopping by our site!
I want to give some more details about the place I saw the stick figure.
I am from the western coast of Turkey and I am living in the city of Izmir. It’s just across the Greece and the city is at the shores of the Aegian sea. The region we were living is a quite peaceful and nice place, where mostly good people are living. It’s very close to the sea shore (about 3-5 minutes of walk). I believe I saw the figure at about 4′o clock in the afternoon and the sun was starting to come down but it was still pretty light outside. The weather was clear, warm and sunny (as it usually is in Aegian shores) and I believe it was spring (possibly April). We were living in an apartment flat on the second floor. The apartment itself was not very new but I can’t say it was an old building. I saw the stick figure standing in the hallway of the apartment in front of our neighbours door. As I stated before I was about 8 or 9 years old, I am not really sure about my exact age but I was going to elementary school. There are no millitary/goverment buildings around our building or around our region. That’s all the details I can think of at the moment.
I am also really suprised by the similarities of these encounters around the world.
From what I have read, the sightings seem to concentrate at late afternoons and nights, mostly kids around the ages of 6-10 see them and these figures are mostly seen indoors. I don’t think this is a new phenomenon, it’s just that the people aren’t talking about it. My encounter took place almost 10 years ago. I think the reason we didn’t hear many stickman reports is the fact that the phenomenon itself sounds absurdly unreal and ridicilous even to the person who witnessed it (even I can’t believe what I saw was real). So people like me prefer to keep these bizzare sounding stories to themselves and try to discard them as if it never happened. For long years the only people I talked about my encounter was my family. I have an open-minded family and they believe that I really saw something. My elder brother is also curious about these paranormal entities but he never witnessed anything paranormal to this day.
I am really very curious about what lies beyond our perception of reality that surrounds us. I feel like there’s MUCH more to the universe than we know. Simply mind boggling.
Thanks for making this blog about this phenomenon!
You are most welcome. I am glad people are comfortable enough to share their experiences with us.
Thank you again for your very detailed encounter. I appreciate your time and candor.
“My encounter took place almost 10 years ago. ”
That’s was a wrong statement it should have been 20 years ago. I am 28 years old now.
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