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Enlarged and lightened version of original photo

Original Photo – Property of Shawn Gagnon

Enlarged and lightened version of original photo

Original Photo – Property of Shawn Gagnon
The setting for this spirit removal is a condo on the north side of Edmonton, Alberta. A young mom and her kids had moved in. They were only in the condo for 3 days before they left. (The location of the condo, the owner and the tenants will not be identified for privacy sake).


Upstairs To The Bedrooms
First morning in their new home, they woke up and discovered there were cupboards open with flour, sugar and salt all over the kitchen floor.
Second night, the mom woke up and had one of her shoes planted on her chest with no rational explanation of how it got there.
Third and last night, the mother woke up again with the disturbing surprise of having another shoe placed on to her forehead. This frightened her and she decided to leave immediately with her belongings and children and alerted the condo owner she was not returning. We were told this happened in the middle of the night.
The condo owner contacted us to come in and find out what was doing all of these disturbing activities.
I went upstairs to the main bedroom, which the mother had. A little shocked to find the mom had left her shoes behind in the closet. She didn’t want them because she thought they were ‘possessed’.

Nice Shoes!
I began to go into my spirit rescue meditation and the first ethereal being I saw was an angel who was to be my aide*.
Then I saw the spirit of a pilot with goggles and leather flight jacket and cap circa pre-war, 1930’s. He was looking at me in a confused way and I managed to talk him into crossing over to the other side which he decided to do. The pilot was not the spirit committing the incidents that were happening. I don’t know why he was there. Honestly.
The next spirit was an aboriginal male warrior/hunter. He was very unhappy I was there and that I had managed to ferret him out. He glared at me the whole time. I couldn’t pick up what he was so angry about, but I knew he did not require being sent to the light. He quickly left. Then the spirits of 2 twin boys peeked around a door.

The two male child spirits were half unclothed, had shaved heads and had dark circles under their eyes. They were extremely thin and sickly looking. They said something strange to me: “their parents had made them like that”. I was also being conveyed a message that they were orphans from the Romania Ceausescu regime. They died from being malnourished. The boys were also mentally impaired because of birth factors.
The twins were the ones that had created the chaos in the kitchen and the placing of shoes in the bedroom. They said that the woman was a good mother and they wanted her to make them a pancake breakfast like she had made her kids so they tried to get her the ingredients to help her. It didn’t work and just created a terrible mess. As far as the shoe incidents, that was about them leaving her gifts because she loved her shoes and they wanted her to know they liked her and that was the only way they could think to show her. So they put the shoes on her because they thought it would make her happy. They just wanted her to love them.
Something initially thought to be frightening to a person turns out to be a gift of love from some spirits. The twins were truly heart breaking. Luckily I had help from the other side and a higher form spirit came out from the light and took the twins into the light*. This happens quite often with children and animals that these angelic beings come to help them.
The last spirit that appeared was a young woman, maybe 19 or 20 years of age. She sat down cross-legged in from of me and told me she had been a drug addict. She had long straight brown hair and was very ‘twitchy’. She said she wanted to talk to me about what happened to her, but I said to her it was time to go into the light. She seemed to go willingly.
I wish I could have told the tenant with the children who fled the condo in the night, what really had happened with the kitchen chaos and the shoes – that it wasn’t malicious or “demonic”. It was all because of wanting the love they never had when they were alive.
He was still there when I lifted my head back out from under. I put my head back under and said to myself that he needed to leave and if there was a higher power, please help it to be gone. Then I came out from under the covers a second time, and he was gone.
I experienced him one other time when I was 17. I think I was trying to determine what he was doing in the corner of my room, waiting and not saying anything. I had seen other figures that were not physical in the past, but they never made me uneasy as much as this one did.

I was going through a shaky adolescence, living without my parents (who were divorced) and my sister, and residing with my grandparents. I wasn’t doing well in high school and my grandfather was not a pleasant man to be around. Somehow I believe that this shadow person was a result of the combination of my depression, teenage angst and uncontrolled psychic abilities. Not saying I manifested him myself, but I gave off some kind of energy that attracted him to me.

This is one of those experiences that is very clear in your head that you never forget. I almost felt he was there to “snatch my soul”, which I now know he couldn’t have done.
After being on countless paranormal and unexplained phenomena blog/web sites, Hat Man is a prevalent being that you spot in many recounted stories from people.
I know if I saw “Hat Man” spirit now, I wouldn’t have any fear of him and would try to find out if he was earthbound or some kind of spiritual phenomena that just forever walks on the earth that doesn’t belong anywhere.
Here are some links to stories that cover the Hat Man phenomena:
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/12/beware-of-the-hat-man/
I’m interested in hearing about anyone else having a Hat Man encounter. Please send us your story!