If seen in a darkened room, the shadow person can still be seen with its dense blackness.

A shadow person can be clearly seen in dimly light rooms. Shadow people are often seen in the peripheral vision, appearing as dark silhouettes. Many people believe the shadow person has a menacing energy. Some shadow figures are wisps of movement, a transparent shadow, or a three-dimensional dense form. People report a malevolent presence when a dark shadow figure skirts around a room. A shadow person doesn't have any distinguishable features. Unlike a real shadow, the shadow person is much blacker/darker and is believed to be a humanoid figure of some type of otherworldly being or spirit.

The presence is truly like a person's detached shadow that moves about a haunted place. Shadow people are one of the scariest types of paranormal activity, second only to an apparition.