More black eyed people encounters!
My husband, and our two-year-old son and I went to a used bookstore about two hours from our house in Tucson, Arizona this last Saturday (04/23/2011.) I followed my son as we walked back into the children’s area.
He rounded the corner to the aisle with the books. I saw a girl stand, not moving, a little ways down the aisle staring in our direction. Then my husband walked up to us. As he came closer, she did as well, following behind him.
My son ran off toward a table and my husband followed. The girl walked up and got right next to me within inches, almost touching. I started to feel extremely uneasy and moved away to where my husband and son stood at the table. They were both looking down at a Mickey Mouse doll which I tried to talk to my son about.
As I was looking down, I saw movement coming up behind me out of the corner of my eye. It was the girl. I noticed her clothing looked from about the 1960s and she looked very out of place. She was also overdressed with multiple coats on in a normal temperature environment.
She walked in a circling pattern, with her head down in a predatory way, the way a panther stalks its prey. As I stared at her while, she walked slowly. I distinctly remember she did not make a sound when she moved. Which now I am thinking was odd, because she had a lot of clothing on and a bag with her.
Her eyes were all black, no whites of her eyes, no pupils. She stared coldly, devoid of emotion, and you could feel the evil radiating off of her. I remember as I made eye contact with her, I had the very distinct feeling that she was not human. I had a feeling that she was something evil in a human shell.
I felt the most amount of terror and most threatened I have ever felt. I also felt like I was the food at the bottom of the food chain and I was her next meal. I definitely had a fight-or-flight response after I was able to pull my eyes away from hers. I remember thinking I had to get away and I had to protect my family.
I tugged on my husband’s shirt and grabbed my son and started to pull them away. My husband asked why; I said we need to just go. I remember thinking it was very important that she didn’t know we were leaving because we were afraid of her. We went to the other side of the store (if we were smart we would have left immediately).
My husband walked off to electronics and my son and I stood in front of a bookshelf full of board games. There was an aisle right behind us for magazines. Then I heard a man that was leaning down toward my son say in a very low tone, “I see you… she can’t hear you, but I can.”
I didn’t turn around; I was too scared. I grabbed my son and dashed away. I now believe he was one of the black-eyed people too and they were there together. I went to the car with my son and just felt this heaviness of evil that almost felt like it had stuck to me until I went to bed that night.
Black-Eyed People – Hybrids, demons, aliens or what?
CREEPY, UNNERVING, threatening, sinister… even inhuman. These are words that people have used to describe children, adolescents and adults they have encountered who share an odd trait in common: unnaturally black eyes. Black-eyed people. Black-eyed kids. Who are they?
Granted, many people have dark eyes. Although black is not a natural eye coloration, there are many people with very dark brown or dark blue eyes that, under the right lighting conditions, can look black or nearly black. But in some cases, the black-eyed people are seen in excellent lighting conditions – bright daylight, for example. Also, some of these reports say that these are not just incidents of dark irises; their entire eye appears black, with little or no white showing.
Now all this could be chalked up to the perception of the viewer. But what is disturbing, in many cases, is the peculiar attitudes and behavior exhibited by some of these black-eyed people. Also, those who encounter them often are overcome with a profound sense of dread – as if these beings are to be avoided at all cost.
Paranoia? A psychological reaction to the eyes? Let’s look at some cases.
At the rest stop
Chris and her husband were traveling on I-75 in Michigan when they made a routine stop at a rest area. Coming out of the women’s room, Chris came face to face with a thin, dark-haired woman with black eyes staring directly at her.
“I instantly felt a terrible sense of dread, as though there was something deeply unnatural about her,” Chris says. “The eyes … were completely black. I saw no color whatsoever, and no pupils. I felt an extremely strong need to get away from her as quickly as possible, as there was something quietly threatening about her. Her stare was devoid of any emotion other than something very cold and disconnected.”
We see dark-eyed people all the time, but Chris feels that there was something really strange about this particular woman. “My instant and unwavering feeling during this whole experience was that she was not human,” she says. “There also was something almost predatory about her, as though she was homing in on prey while she stood there so still. I also had a strange sense of her feeling superior or stronger in some way. It seemed important, for some unknown reason, for me to act unaffected by her while in her presence. I felt a huge sense of relief as I got back into the car and left.”
Superior. Predatory. There are a couple of more words we can add to how people describe these beings. But is it merely a psychological reaction to seeing an unusual looking, yet entirely normal, person?
At the apartment building
Tee is a 47-year-old apartment manager in Portland, Oregon, who after 20 years on the job is used to meeting people of every age, color, race and description, but you’d have a hard time convincing her that the young man who came to her door one day was normal.
“He was young boy of about 17 or 18, approximately,” Tee says. “He asked me about an open apartment for rent. I remember feeling very scared and shaken by his appearance. He did not look weird by his dress or such. It was his eyes. I remember feeling the hair on my neck stand up, and I was shaking just from looking in his eyes.”
Like Chris, Tee also felt that deep sense of malevolence. “I could not look him straight in the eyes,” she says. “I felt like I was about to die. Now, some people may think that I was just over-reacting or something, but the eyes were completely black – like there was no real pupil. He spoke normally to me, but I had to just shut the door in his face and get as far from him as I could. I felt like I was in extreme danger.”
Are the eyes really black? Or are the pupils open so wide that they obliterate the irises and make the eyes appear black? In darkness, the pupils open very wide (or dilate) to allow as much light in as possible. But the boy that Tee met was standing in the daylight. Some drugs can also dilate the pupils. According to WrongDiagnosis.com, other causes of pupil dilation can include: emotion, medication, eyedrops and brain injuries. Is it possible that the boy inquiring about an apartment just used eyedrops… or drugs?
Of course any of those causes are possible. Again, however, those who encounter the black-eyed people cannot shake the menace they instantly feel from them. It’s as if it’s not just their eyes that are dark, but that their whole beings – their souls – are enveloped in darkness.
In the coffee shop
Missy will never forget the black aura of the stranger at Starbucks. It was a cold November day when she stopped at the coffee shop for a hot tea. She ordered her drink and was reorganizing her purse when she felt someone staring at her.
“I turned around to give ‘whatever’ to the perv that I assumed was watching me, and the smart aleck remark died in my mouth as I caught sight of him,” Missy remembers. “I did not see anything unusual in his manner of dress. It was the eyes and the aura coming off of him that scared me. The eyes, blacker than black, no white at all, wall-to-wall black, and I just felt a darkness around him, an evil. As I looked in his eyes, I somehow knew that was not a human soul occupying that body… and I felt that he knew that I knew that he was not human.”
Not human. The phrase comes up again and again out of these encounters. It’s not just a fear or uneasiness they get from someone who appears might be violent or crazy or just plain creepy. We have all come across people like that. But to have the profound sense that someone is not human, that’s something entirely different.
Knocking at the door
Adele was at home when she had her experience with the beings. More unnerving, perhaps, they were small children. “I was sitting in my bedroom reading a book,” Adele says, “when at about 11:00 p.m. I heard a knocking… a slow, constant one. I got up out of bed to see what it was. I looked out of the window and to my surprise saw two children. I opened the window and asked them what they wanted at this time of night. They replied by saying simply, ‘Let us in.’ I said no and asked what for. ‘We want to use your bathroom.’
“I was quite shocked that children of about 10 years old wanted to use a stranger’s bathroom at this time of night. I told them no, closed the window, but looked at them through the glass. I glanced at their eyes… and I have never ever seen eyes like them. They were black, completely black. I got the feeling of evil and unhappiness. It surrounded me. It was horrible.”
Rational explanation… or paranormal?
So what’s the explanation?
In his article, Black Eyed Kids: A Profile, Barry Napier of UFODigest, writes: “The black eyes … could be nothing more than contact lenses. (Solid black contacts are available.) The most likely scenario is that the few convincing reports were the results of overactive imaginations, and that the string of reports that followed were nothing more than copycat falsified stories used for attention or fun.”
But, Napier admits, “most accounts seem to be passionate, and people that have encountered the [black-eyed kids] seem to be genuinely frightened even after the encounter.”
Those who see the paranormal in these encounters speculate that the people who have met them face to face are not wrong – the black-eyed people are not human. It’s suggested that they are either extraterrestrial, interdimensional or demonic. Or some combination thereof.
I have never encountered such a black-eyed person, so it’s difficult to pass judgment on the subject or render any conclusions. I’ll only say that it’s an interesting phenomenon that seems to be growing and that should be scrutinized carefully and documented as best as possible.
There may be rational explanations for these encounters, or it may be, as Missy says, that “we are not alone in this world. We share our world with others, non-human.”
Demons, angels or something more?
There’s something more than just odd about these black-eyed people. Those who have encountered them sense an air of evil, of malevolence. Doubters say they are just posers with black-tinted contact lenses, but people who have met them face-to-face say that their strangeness goes much deeper. The feeling is of darkness, demonic… not human. Never let them in your house if they come knocking. Here are some true stories.
Below is a collection of links about these mysterious black eyed individuals.
Black-Eyed Man in Kansas Walmart
Here is yet another sighting of a black-eyed person in a Walmart; this one walked funny, too.
Black-Eyed Knocker
A creepy black-eyed woman asks to be let in.
Freaky Black-Eyed Man
Another black-eyed man seen in Wal-Mart.
The Marine and the Black-Eyed Kids
A marine’s instincts go on the alert in an encounter with black-eyed children.
Black-Eyed Man at Walmart
A creepy black-eyed man is spotted in line at Walmart.
Black-Eyed Businessman
After a woman pays for gas, she encounters a man in a business suit, but with no eyes!
Black-Eyed Couple
Two friends encounter a young couple that seem “zoned out” and with totally black eyes.
Black-Eyed Shopper
Another black-eyed person is spotted at Walmart, this one a young woman.
Black-Eyed Man vs. Angel
Is there a war going on that we don’t know about? This takes place in Indianapolis.
Black-Eyed Man in Car
A girl, eating cookies in her car, is stared at by a strange man with eyes cold and black.
Black-Eyed Man in the Elevator
A banker encounters a man with pitch-black eyes who was going “nowhere.”
Black-Eyed Waitress
A customer is unnerved by a black-eyed waitress in a coffee shop.
Black-Eyed Woman
She was encountered in a woman’s restroom at a highway rest stop.
Black-Eyed Thing
KJ is confronted by a tall black-eyed thing in his own living room.
More Black-Eyed Kids
At 11 at night, two black-eyed children knock on Adele’s door and ask to come in.









