The Hat Man: Documented Cases of Pure Evil

I'm all for a bit of a filmmaker 'mischief', crikey I grew up with the "Blair Witch Project" (!) but 20 seconds in... the title comes up "none of which were paid actors", emphasis on 'paid' I'd wager. (Hopefully!) a harmless but ultimately dull re-tread of the whole faux documentary genre....

My mother told me about him when she was 13 on her bike in Miami. She looked across the street no one was there and the black brim hat, black jacket and black eyes watching but the head didn't turn. She was pushed off her bike and looked up and they were gone. Prior to this she went to an underground cult that summoned 3 demons. She befriended a Puerto Rican girl. I saw the same figure in a polaroid my friends took ten years ago. Black brimmed hat but the eyes were glowing. I have experienced paranormal things my whole life. My mother is sick now but I believe its from things she did in the past. Let's just say there are things that go bump in the night.

For a "Documentary" it's definitely one sided. There isn't more than a couple of minutes given to the argument of sleep paralysis and hallucinations.

The audio is absolutely terrible. Constantly needed to adjust the volume throughout. Also, have my eyes really failed me at 35? The subtitles were minuscule!

I think the sickly icing on the cake was the last woman describing her experiences. Just really forced.

Give this a huge miss and watch 'The Nightmare'

A better choice for looking into "Shadow People" or "Hat Men"

-1 Star for near the end the woman who basically described a scene straight from the Twilight Zone episode 'The Hitchhiker'...

It says it's a documentary but it just seemed contrived to me. It didn't seem very real.

I didn't find a lot of the photo evidence very convincing.

-1 Star for Failing to convince me.

I was born in 1975. Long before IMDB, Youtube, Facebook, the internet, or cable television. I've been seeing this thing since I was a child. It would on rare occasion come to me in the middle of the night and stand in my bedroom doorway. It was a darker than the darkness figure of what looked like a huge man in a trenchcoat or cloak with a hood or hat.

I was always scared damn near to death from it's presence. But on the rare occasion that I would see it, it would always just stand there in my doorway. I would literally be paralyzed with fear. I couldn't move, speak and it would feel like I couldn't breathe and felt like it was going to kill me or waiting for me to die.

When I got my first apartment it moved with me. I'd wake up, paralyzed it be standing there in the doorway. There was nothing I could do, but seeing it was terrifying.

It still comes but I choose not to look. I rearranged my bedroom so I can't see the door from my bed. But I can still feel it when it's there, I still wake up paralyzed and afraid, still helpless to do anything about it.

I don't know what it wants or what it means. It never occured to me that someone else might have seen that thing. I never talked about it until social media. I watched this religious fantasy series on Netflix and a lady had one come to her in the night on the show and I was flabergasted because I didn't know it was an actually phenomenon people all over the world have experienced and there was a name for it. I started googling what I'd see and then all this information came back and I was just blown away. Then I found this documentary and some of the images from other people's account of seeing the same phenomenon.

They call it the "Hat Man" I've researched it further it's actually called a Jinn from ancient times. It always appears in my doorway and it just stands there. It's huge, it fills the doorway it's a dark sillhouette of a man with what sort of looks like a trench coat or cloak and something resembling the shape of a hat. But it looks like something in the darkness that's darker than darkness in the form of a man. I've never seen it waking up during the day always in the middle of the night.