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Speaker 4: You paid your pascal, do you have to be in everything.
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Speaker 1: Humans have always been attracted to rituals that summon the darkness.
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Bloody Mary appears in your bathroom mirror after saying her
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name three times.
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Speaker 2: Candy man works the same way.
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Speaker 1: Light as a feather, stiff as a board requires chanting
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to unlock levitation. In the elevator game, you press the
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buttons in a certain order. The last button is the
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fifth floor. When the door is open, a woman will enter.
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It's crucial that you don't look at her, speak to her,
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or even acknowledge her in any way. She is not human.
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Then you press the button for the first floor. If
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you did everything right, the elevator will actually go up,
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not down, and you'll enter a dimension called the Other World.
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All these rituals have tasks that have to be performed
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in a specific way, in a specific order. The Midnight
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game works the same way It began centuries ago as
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an ancient pagan ritual. It wasn't a game then, it
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was punishment or judgment. The person was placed in a
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dark room or cave with a single candle for light.
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The room was then sealed. The elders started knocking. They
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would knock exactly twenty two times why twenty two. Many
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cultures associate twenty two with mystical properties. Two times eleven
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a master number in numerology. The Hebrew alphabet has twenty
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two letters. The major arcana in Tarro contains twenty two cards.
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All symbolize a bridge between worlds the living and the dead,
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light and shadow. After the twenty second knock, the accused
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was left alone with whatever they'd summoned across that bridge.
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In the morning, the elders unsealed the chamber. Some people
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were dead, still open in fear. Survivors were in shock,
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unable to speak. Some people descended into madness, but all
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reported the same thing. A shadowy figure, not quite human,
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tortured them with fear and violence. This shadow entity became
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known as the Midnight Man. The ritual vanished from history
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until twenty ten. A post appeared on a paranormal message
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board with instructions on how to summon the midnight Man.
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The user found it in his grandfather's journal, written in
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faded ink pages stained with dried blood. The post quickly
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spread across websites and message boards. The instructions are simple,
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but you have to be precise. Total darkness, total silence, blood,
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on paper. Twenty two knocks, ending exactly at midnight and
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the darkness. You'll know if you followed the steps properly.
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The air turns cold, the darkness shifts in front of
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your eyes. The Midnight Man arrives and he's ready to play.
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Once you've performed the necessary steps in the right order
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at exactly the right time, you've summoned the Midnight Man.
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You challenge the shadow entity to play the Midnight Game,
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and he gladly accepts. To win the game, all you
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have to do is avoid the Midnight Man until three
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thirty three am and keep your candlelight. That won't be
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as easy as it sounds. The Midnight Man is going
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to do everything he can to leave you in complete darkness.
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Then you're in his world, the shadow world, where all
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your fears become real. Pay close attention to the temperature.
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If you feel cold or hear breathing, move and keep moving.
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The Midnight Man has found you. But no matter what,
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keep that candle burning. If it goes out, you have
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ten seconds to relight it. If you don't relight your
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candle in time, you have only one hope.
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Speaker 2: Salt.
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Speaker 1: Surround yourself with a circle of salt, sit and wait
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until three thirty three. If you leave the circle, you lose.
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If you turn on a light, you lose. Leave the house,
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fall asleep, use someone else's blood, you lose. The hallucinations
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come next. Now this is where the midnight Man shows
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his true power. He can read your thoughts. He can
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bring your most terrifying fears to the surface. Fear spiders.
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You'll be swarmed with stinging tarantulas. Fear drowning. The Midnight
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Man will hold you underwater, drowning you again and again
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and again. At sunrise, the midnight Man retreats to the shadows.
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If you're able to avoid him, you're safe. But if
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you didn't, the game continues. The hallucinations follow you into
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your dreams, turning every fear you have against you.
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Speaker 2: All you can do is go back.
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Speaker 1: To sleep and hope the Midnight Man has been satisfied
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or found another victim. That's for the Internet helped the
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ritual spread from forums, to message boards to social media.
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Eventually it landed in college dorms. The midnight Man had
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found a new hunting ground and thousands of students would
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be his new prey. Online forums are full of Midnight
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Game accounts at midnight man encounters real ones, people sharing
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what happened to them, what they saw, what they felt.
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One college student posted about her experience on Reddit. Her
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candle suddenly went out, the room went cold, ice cold.
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Then she saw him.
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Speaker 6: I decided to try the midnight game after reading about
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it online. My roommates were gone for the weekend, so
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I had the place to myself. Everything was going fine
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for the first hour. I kept moving through the house
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like the instruction said. Then around one thirty am, my
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candle suddenly went out. The temperature dropped instantly. I mean
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I could see my breath. I fumbled with my lyre
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and MAT's when I saw it, a pure black humanoid
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figure standing in the darkness, not just shadow dark, but
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like it was absorbing the light around it. I'd never
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moved so fast in my life.
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Speaker 2: That they can't alt with shaking hands.
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Speaker 6: Just under the ten second mark.
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Speaker 1: A guy from Portland played with three of his friends.
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They all heard voices, strange whispering in an ancient language.
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Speaker 3: About an hour in, my candle flickered. The air felt heavy,
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like right before a storm. We heard this whispering, not English,
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not any language. We recognized it seemed to come from
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everywhere and nowhere, and there were these layered voices, some fast,
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some slow, all overlapping.
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Speaker 1: Something a lot of the witnesses have in common. They
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regret playing the.
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Speaker 2: Game looking back.
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Speaker 4: I shouldn't have tried it alone.
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Speaker 7: I started in my bedroom, then moved downstairs to the
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living room. Around two am, the candle went out. I
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felt this intense cold wash over me. My fingers were
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so numb I could barely work the lighter. I kept trying,
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but it was definitely past the ten second mark. Then
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I saw a dark figure standing before me, not just
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the shadow, it had form. I completely forgot about the salt.
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I had horrible nightmares for weeks afterward. I couldn't sleep
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without the lights on. My parents didn't believe me, but
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they didn't see what I saw.
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Speaker 1: The midnight Man encounters aren't always the same. Some people
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hear whispers and languages they don't understand. Some report the
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room being so cold they could see their breath, have
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nightmares for weeks after. They're all a little different, but
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all the midnight Man encounters have one thing in common.
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They all see the same entity, a shadow, humanlike but
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extremely tall and thin. It moves unnaturally, but has its
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own will. Reports like this exist all over the world
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and always have ancient shadow beings in folklore, modern shadow
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people's sightings. The midnight Man isn't new. He's just one
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version of something older, something ancient, something that's been haunting
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and tormenting humans for a very long time. The midnight
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Man isn't unique. Cultures from all over the world have
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stories about shadow entities. In Newfoundland, the Old Hag sits
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on sleeper's chests. Chinese folklore speaks of Guyeshen ghost pressing
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on body, Japanese kanashibari bound by invisible forces. Germany has
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the shot investment shadow beings. Ancient Egypt's shadow people lived
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in the realm between life and death, again the bridge
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between two worlds. Scientists at the University of British Columbia
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studied sensory deprivation effects. They put subjects in dark, silent
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chambers and monitor their brain functions. After just forty five minutes,
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most people reported sensing a presence, seeing shadows move, but
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nothing was there or was it. Brain scan showed unusual
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activity in the parietal lobe that's the area that processes
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spatial awareness and perception the people were seeing something in
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the darkness, But if nothing was there, why did their
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brains think there was. We don't see well in the dark,
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but awareness heightens. You ever get the feeling you're being
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watched but nobody's there. Your brain might be detecting something
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your eyes can't. The three point thirty three end time
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appears in multiple cultures. The witching hour is traditionally three am,
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when the veil between worlds is thinnest. Paranormal investigators report
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increased activity between three and four am. Playing the midnight
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game has caused environmental changes that have been documented, temperature
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drops of fifteen to twenty degrees, electronic equipment fails, batteries
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drain suddenly. Now you might not believe in shadow people,
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but the US government does. The Department of Defense conducted
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classified research in the nineteen seventies to study supernatural phenomena
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and esp Project Stargate is the most famous. It's known
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for its work on remote viewing, and I've covered it
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many times, but there are references in Stargate to shadow
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entities and declassify files. The project was officially closed down officially, unofficially,
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I'm not so sure. Shadow people reports are consistent across
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continents and cultures throughout human history. First the feeling of
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being watched, then hunted. Finally, the figure appears three dimensional,
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not just a flat shadow. They have mass and consciousness
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and intent, and that intent is evil. Now I'm speaking
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from experience. I had a shadow person encounter when I
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was in my late thirties. It was the scariest thing
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I'd ever experienced before or since, and I tell the
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story in the Shadow Person episode link below. Not only
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did I see this entity, I was physically attacked by it.
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The Midnight Game is designed to attract these entities, and
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the Midnight Man is always there waiting between worlds, just
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on the other side of the door.
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Speaker 2: All you have to do is invite him in.
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Speaker 1: When I started on this episode, I thought the Midnight
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Game was just another urban legend like Bloody Mary or
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the Elevator Game, easy to debunk. Then I realized it's
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about a shadow entity, and I became afraid. I had
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a shadow person experience. And there are a few kinds
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of shadow beings that people report. The hat man, the
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cloaked figure, the child, the red eyed shadow, and the
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one that attacked me, the one we talked about from Newfoundland,
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that one's called the Hag.
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Speaker 2: I remember it vividly. I woke up in the middle
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of the night and then I saw.
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Speaker 1: Not a shadow, the Hag, a decrepit old woman, like
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a witch, at the foot of my bed, staring at me,
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smiling and not a warm smile, like a predator. Then
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she climbed in bed on top of me. And I
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don't want to get into it. You can watch the
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episode I tell the story there. So did this experience
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make me a believer?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: Then what happened? Well, first, let's sort out the Midnight game.
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The historical claims about ancient pagan punishment. There's no evidence
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for that, no anthropological records, no historical texts. The earliest
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mentions of the Midnight Man appear online around twenty ten,
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on creepypasta forums like four chan's Paranormal Board and read
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its No Sleep. The story did spread quickly. Urban legends
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used to take years to catch on. Now something like
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this can go viral in a couple of days. Within
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a few years, teens everywhere were attempting the ritual. Teenagers
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are often drawn to games that involve summoning evil. Adolescence
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is a time for pushing boundaries and taking risks. In
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the brain, the prefrontal cortex handles decision making, impulse control,
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and risk assessment. During adolescence, this part of the brain
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is still developing. Dump in a bunch of hormones on
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top of a still mushy brain, and you get thousands
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of teens knocking on doors at midnight trying to meet
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the midnight Man. Now after that, teens about their experiences online.
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They aren't known for their honesty, especially on the Internet.
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This creates a feedback loop of shared details explaining why
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accounts sound so similar.
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Speaker 2: But I wasn't a teenager when the hag attacked me.
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Speaker 1: Shadow people mostly come from adults, then the experiences are similar.
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So are shadow people real? Probably not, but our brains
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can make them feel real. Our brains evolved for one
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priority survival For millions of years. Humans weren't the apex predator.
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We were prey. Our ancestors who detected danger fastest lived longer.
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They passed those detection systems to us. Your brain has
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an alarm system called the amygdala. This small almond shaped
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region constantly scans for threats. When it finds something even suspicious,
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it triggers fear instantly, no waiting for your rational mind
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to catch up for your first questions later. This is
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the fight or flight response, and darkness changes everything. Your
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vision degrades, shapes, blur, details vanish. Our brain hates uncertainty,
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so it fills in the gaps with worst case scenarios,
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anything to get you moving. Your peripheral vision becomes more
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sensitive to movement. In low light, you catch flickers that
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aren't there. Your brain is trying to detect predators before
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they detect you. In darkness, your brain creates patterns from
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random stimuli.
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Speaker 2: This is paradolia.
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Speaker 1: A shadow becomes a figure, a coat becomes a person.
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Tell someone about the Midnight Man first, and their brain
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is actively looking out for it. This isn't weakness, it's
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your million year old survival system functioning exactly as designed.
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Another trick is the ideo motor effect. Your unconscious mind
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makes tiny muscle movements you don't notice. These micro movements
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happen when you expect something to happen when you expect
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something to move, Like on Luigi board, Nobody consciously pushes
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the planchet, but unconscious micromovements make it slide across the board.
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Everyone swears they didn't move it, and they're being honest.
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Their conscious minds didn't move it, their unconscious did. Most
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shadow person experiences happen when you're drifting off to sleep.
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While you dream, your motor functions get suppressed. This is
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sleep paralysis. If you're still awake when this happens, your
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brain panics. You can't move, it's dark, your amigdala fires up,
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and suddenly you're seeing an evil entity.
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Speaker 2: Get moving. A lot of this is connected to sleep. Fetamine.
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Speaker 1: Users report shadow figures after prolonged sleep deprivation. Said you
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don't see shadow dogs or shadow birds, you see shadow people.
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This chemical connection suggests our brains are hardwired to generate
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these specific forms, forms that we'd consider dangerous. Our brains
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evolved to keep us alive, not tell us the truth.
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The midnight Man feels real because your brain makes him real.
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Better to see a predator that isn't there than miss
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one that is. That's why real or not, you shouldn't
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play the midnight game. The entity might not be real,
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but the terror is, and true terror changes you like
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it changed me. These type of games prime your mind
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for fear. On an unconscious level. You have fears very
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deep down in your mind. You don't even know about
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childhood trauma, nightmares, painful, horrible experiences. Your brain tries to
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protect you by locking these memories away, but they're still
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there waiting, so be very careful when you start digging
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around your unconscious you might not like what you find.
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