I am 32 years old.

I was upstairs in my bedroom with the TV on and doing some laundry, when my boyfriend stopped by.  I yelled down to him that I was upstairs. I had just put all the laundry away and turned the TV off when he walked up. 

After a while of hanging out on the bed and mid-conversation, my attention was drawn to the bedroom doorway. At that same exact time, so did his. We immediately stopped talking. Dead silence. 

We are both staring at the doorway and I ask “are you seeing this?” He just responds “yes.” We never move an inch. Just frozen, startled.

There was a figure of a ‘man’ standing in our doorway. Tall, thin frame. No distinguishing facial features. Just this dark, dense matter of a body shape standing there. Staring at us, and us staring at it for what felt like forever.

Then it just slowly backed away from the doorway and out of sight. My boyfriend jumped from the bed, darted to the doorway and nothing was there. He went down the stairs into the rest of the house and nothing.

It was the first time in my life that someone else was with me and witnessed witnessed the Tall Man just as I did when I was 10 years old.

It was very unsettling, but also validating.