Seeing shadows in the corner of my eyes and hearing footsteps?

Question

Now, just before anything else, I do not beileve in the paranormal. For who knows what reason horror stories with it scares me but I do not beileve in it.

This has been going on for a year or two, where I will be walking to the bathroom or something and out of the corner of my eye I will see shadowy figures out of the corners of my eye... this combined with hearing human sounding footsteps on the ground floor late at night when I’m the only one awake and sometimes me seeing “darker” shadows in my room late at night has me quite concerned...

My sister is the only one who can hear the footsteps but my parents can’t and I’m the only one who sees shadows. The footsteps might be my cats, my family has 3, but any ideas of what the shadows are?
No one has lived in this house before my family and I don’t beileve in paranormal.... Am I going crazy?

Answer 1

Why do you only see those shadows in the corner of your eye? If they are really there, you could look directly at them and walk up to them and examine them. If you can't, then they are not real. They are just your imagination.

Answer 2

Ignore that stuff---It could be anything---our perheriphial vision sees movement---and autosuggestion fills in the blanks---A loose lock of hair, a moving shadow or curtain blown by a gust of wind can make you think something is there-----Accept things you ONLY SEE HEAD ON. ----Paranormal investigators call them COES (Corner Of Eye Sightings) and immediately dismiss such things.

Answer 3

"If you don't believe in the paranormal then why did you ask in the paranormal section," I never thought I would see that denialist demanding to know why others use this section? I think someone has a bit of a nerve asking you why "you" are in the paranormal section when you don't believe in paranormal. That same creep has not answered that question herself yet. What on earth is "she" here for?. When you can't see clearly in the dark what you are looking at, then pareidolia kicks in. Your mind hates random so tries to make the shapes into something familiar like a person. Same happens when you look at a cloud and see a horse.

Answer 4

Maybe, but you do sound superstitious, and this is biasing your analysis.

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You are imagining that they are "human-sounding footsteps", thus poisoning the well, while the explanation is banal. Houses make sounds because construction materials contract and expand at slightly different rates as temperatures change, and these noises are especially noticeable at night.

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Everyone has optical floaters, tiny bits of debris in the vitreous humor of the eye, that cause shadows in our optical fields. The brain normally just blocks them out so they aren't a distraction, but if you think about it you can see them.

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Nothing you've said sounds the least bit unusual, and certainly isn't paranormal.

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