While She Was At Sleep-Away Summer Camp, She Saw A Terrifying And Ghostly Cowboy
When this woman was in fifth grade, she was enrolled in the free lunch program for students whose families couldn’t afford school lunches.
As part of the program, students had the amazing opportunity to choose a summer camp to go to for one week.
Since she has always loved animals, she chose to attend a horse camp called Circle R Ranch, located in Minnesota.
During their stay, the kids were given one horse that they would be riding and caring for. Three or four days into the camp, a girl that she had developed a friendship with had a really sad day.
“Her horse had gotten something lodged in its hoof, and she was told she would have to be assigned a different horse,” she explained.
Of course, for an elementary school girl, this was devastating news, so she had been sobbing all day and was worried about her horse. She got really attached to it and didn’t want to be assigned a new one.”
Throughout the day, she tried to console her heartbroken friend, to no avail. Her friend ended up going to bed early because she was so emotionally exhausted.
At the camp, there were roughly 12 to 18 sets of bunk beds in the rooms, and the beds were almost all taken. She took a top bunk, and her friend was in a bottom bunk directly across from her.
At 10 p.m., it was lights out, and most of the girls seemed to fall asleep within an hour. However, she has always struggled with sleep, so she was the only one still awake.
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“I was tossing and turning in my bed,” she shared. “That’s when I glanced down at my friend, who had an all-black figure standing over her.”
“I remember seeing the outline of a cowboy-esque hat, a head with two small white circles for what I assume were eyes, and the rest was just straight black to the floor. Maybe the outline of a trench coat? He was just standing there, to her left, slightly arched, looking down at her.”
Immediately terrified, she pulled her sleeping bag up over her head even though it was stuffy and hot in the room.
She didn’t want to look at the strange figure again, and she was afraid that it would notice her or come over to her bed.
Under the sleeping bag, she cried as silently as she could while singing nursery rhymes to herself until she, at last, fell asleep.
“I told very few people, as most were skeptical or brushed it off as me just being a kid who had a wild imagination. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I found out who the hat man was, and in every picture I see, he completely resembles what I saw,” she said.
When she learned more about the hat man, she found out that, apparently, he wasn’t a bad or evil entity.
Since this discovery, she looks back on her potential encounter with the hat man happily and with fondness.
Now, she believes that the hat man was watching over her friend after she had an emotional day. At the time when she saw the hat man, she thought she must have been so scared because she just didn’t quite comprehend what she was seeing.
To date, this experience was the most intense paranormal encounter she’s ever had, and she still feels deep down that it wasn’t just a figment of her imagination.
Seeing the hat man was different than when she’d seen what she thought were ghosts or shadow people because those experiences could have had other explanations. The hat man was something that, she believes, can’t be explained away.
Have you ever had an experience like this?
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