因为它对我来说太沉重了
because it was absolutely hulking over me.
这开启了我进入影子人这个话题的旅程
And this started my whole journey into the topic of shadow people.
我是一个不怕说出自己经历的人
I'm a person that's not afraid to say I've experienced something.
我想把它带到明处,让我们讨论下
I'm like, bring it out into the light, and let's talk about it.
从一开始起,当我终于在2001年出版这本书的时候
From the start, when I finally got the book published in 2001,
来自世界各地的成千上万的人
thousands of people from around the world,
从牧师到学校教师,都写信给我寻求帮助
from priests to schoolteachers, have written me seeking help.
所以我的目标是试图帮助人们
So my goal is to try to help people
让他们理解自己可以控制这些事情
to understand that you can keep these things at bay.
根据海蒂对人们所经历遭遇的收集和研究
NARRATOR: According to Heidi's research collecting and studying people's encounters,
这些黑暗的实体可以以各种形状和样子出现
these dark entities can appear as various shapes and figures.
我收到的经历经常涉及到一个人醒来
The experiences that I receive often involve a person waking up,
他们觉得房♥间里有东西
and they feel a presence is in the room.
如果他们发现
And if they spot it,
那东西离他们越来越近,把他们压住
the thing comes even closer and pins them down,
他们就会瘫痪
and they're paralyzed.
它们经常在夜间出现,因为你会放松警惕
They often come at nighttime because your guard is down,
所以他们会在你状态不佳的时候压制你
so they're taking advantage of you when you're not at your best.
所以,他们很狡猾,很有欺骗性
So, they're sneaky, they're deceptive,
它们会在人们的生活中唤起很多可怕的东西
and they evoke a lot of horrific things into people's lives.
黑暗的,人形的影子生物
NARRATOR: The dark, humanoid appearance of shadow beings
导致一些人认为他们是幽灵或鬼魂
has caused some to identify them as apparitions or ghosts.
但许多研究人员认为 影子人是一种非常不同类型的实体
But many researchers believe the shadow people are a much different type of entity.
鬼魂是具有某种有形形态的人类灵魂
A ghost is a human spirit that is taking some sort of corporeal form.
对于鬼魂,我们可以看到它的很多细节
With a ghost, we get a lot of detail in the apparition.
我们可以看到它的面部特征
We can see facial features.
我们可以看到衣服 我们可以看到头发的细节
We can see clothing. We can see details in the hair.
而对于影子实体,我们几乎什么也看不到
Where with shadow entities, we get almost nothing.
虽然许多心理学家继续把这种现象
NARRATOR: While many psychologists continue to
当作睡眠瘫痪的症状而不予理会
dismiss the phenomenon as a symptom of sleep paralysis,
研究人员指出,人们报告说
researchers point out that people
他们会在完全清醒的情况下遇到这种情况
have reported encounters that happened when they were wide awake.
以我个人与影子人接触的例子看
In my own personal experience with the shadow people,
我正准备睡觉,准备从床上坐起来
I was getting ready to go to sleep, sitting up in bed,
突然间,这个黑色的人形进入房♥间,穿过房♥间
and all of a sudden, this black humanoid figure enters into the room, walks across the room.
我跟着它,看着它,然后它就消失了
I follow it and watch it, and it just vanishes.
我没有感到任何恐惧
I didn't experience any fear.
我完全被我所看到的迷惑住了,我想“哇,那是什么?”
I was totally perplexed by what I've seen and thought, "Wow, what was that?"
信不信由你
HOLLIS: Believe it or not,
我所经历的第一次影子人经历
the first shadow people experience
是在光天化日之下看着它跟着我的另一个朋友
that I had was witnessing it following another friend of mine in broad daylight.
我看到了一个实体,一个巨大的黑色物体
And I saw this entity, this big, hulking black mass--
它看起来有点像一个人,它的头和肩膀直接相连
It kind of looks like a man with its head directly connected to its shoulders--
它从一棵树旁走到另一棵树旁,从一个灌木丛走到另一个灌木丛
Going tree to tree and bush to bush as we're walking along.
我当时简直疯了
And I was just beside myself.
我们一路走来,我们一直看到这个东西
The whole way that we go, we see this thing.
我真的认为,我目睹了一件疯狂的事,就是这样
I really thought, you know, I just witnessed one crazy thing, and that was it.
我相信我自己,我知道我经历了什么
I trust myself, and I know what it is I experienced,
我知道发生了什么
and I know what was going on.
如果所谓的影子人不仅仅是
NARRATOR: If the so-called shadow people are not merely
心灵的诡计,而是非常真实的
a trick of the mind but very real
还有可能是危险的实体
and possibly dangerous entities,
那它们到底是什么?
what exactly are they?
也许通过研究几千年前的类似记录
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining similar accounts
可以找到进一步的线索
that were recorded thousands of years ago.
俄克拉何马州 乔克托族
NARRATOR: Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma.
这片将近700万英亩的土地
This nearly seven-million-acre territory
是居住在北美4000多年的原住民的家园
is home to Native people who have occupied North America for more than 4,000 years.
乔克托人继续延续着他们祖先几百年的传统直到今天
The Choctaw continue to carry on the centuries-old traditions of their ancestors to this day.
有一个故事持续在人们的脑海中浮现,“那鲁沙•奇托”
And one story that continues to loom large is that of the Nalusa Chito,
乔克托人将其描述为影子生物
which the Choctaw describe as a shadow being.
这个那鲁沙•奇托是个恶魔
This Nalusa Chito is a demonic entity.
乔克托人相信,如果你有不好的想法
And the Choctaw believe that if you're having bad thoughts,
就会吸引那鲁沙•奇托到你身边
that this will attract the Nalusa Chito to you.
扬:那鲁沙•奇托会爬进你的身体,吃掉你的灵魂
YOUNG: The Nalusa Chito would get you by creeping inside you and eating your soul.
乔克托人非常害怕这种生物
The Choctaw were so afraid of this creature,
他们不愿说出它的名字
they would not say the name.
许多人会离开家园,抛弃棚屋和其他东西
And many people would move along and abandon huts and things
因为他们对这个影子人感到非常恐惧
because of the fear of this shadow figure.
伯恩斯:我们在其他印第安人的故事中看到过影子人
BIRNES: We see the shadow people in the stories of other Native American people.
在印第安人保留地
On Native American reservations,
特别是新墨西哥州达尔塞的基卡里拉·阿巴切保留地
particularly the Jicarilla Apache reservation in Dulce, New Mexico,
他们谈论影子人,就好像影子人是他们的固定伙伴
they talk about the shadow people as if they are their regular companions.
传说是这样的
The legend is this.
如果一个影子人,其实是真正的灵魂,当它看见你
If a shadow person, who's really a spirit, sees you
如果那个影子人依附在你身上
and that shadow people attaches itself to you,
那它将伴随你的余生
it will be with you for the rest of your life.
这些美洲土著部落的传统起源于几个世纪以前
NARRATOR: The traditions of these Native American tribes originated centuries ago.
正如古代宇航员理论家指出的那样
And as ancient astronaut theorists point out,
关于影子实体的描述可以在世界各地的古代文化传说中找到
accounts of shadowy entities can be found in the legends of ancient cultures all around the world.
虽然现代也有影子人的故事
While there are stories of shadow people in modern times,
但我发现有趣的是
what I find interesting is
在古代文献中也提到了影子人
there are also references to what seem to be shadow people in ancient texts,
坦白地说,这些都是非常奇怪的描述
and frankly, they're very strange accounts.
影子生物可以追溯到远古时代
Shadow beings go far back into antiquity,
可以追溯到古苏美尔时期
all the way back to the time of ancient Sumer,
在他们的文化中,你会看到阿鲁的描述
where, in that culture, you see accounts of Alû,
这是一种古达
which is a type of udug,
在他们的文化中,这是一种恶魔
which, in their culture, was a type of demon.
现在,阿鲁,以他在人们眼中的形象显现
Now, Alû, in the way that he would appear to people,
它很像我们今天的影子实体,他的本性非常黑暗
it was very much like our shadow entities of today where he was very dark in nature.
他没有五官,没有眼睛,没有鼻子,没有嘴巴
He had no facial features, no eyes, no nose, no mouth,
晚上他会在人们的周围徘徊
and he would hover over people at night.
杨:当然,在圣经中有很多关于魔鬼的描述
YOUNG: Of course, there are many accounts of demons in the scriptures,
基♥督♥教圣经,犹太法典
the Christian Bible, the Talmud.
在犹太人的传说中,有死亡影子的故事
In Jewish lore, there is the shadow of death or the death shadow.
有一种观点认为,会有邪恶的灵魂伤害你
There is this idea that there are malevolent spirits that could harm you.
通常伊♥斯♥兰♥教中与影子人相对应的实体被称为精灵
NARRATOR: Commonly compared with the shadow people is an entity known in Islam as the djinn,
一种超自然生物,通常是隐形的,有变形的能力
supernatural creatures that are often invisible and have the ability to shape-shift.
精灵起源于一个阿♥拉♥伯语词根
The derivation of djinn comes from an Arabic, uh, root,
J-N-N,字面意思是隐藏或掩饰
J-N-N, which literally means to hide or to conceal.
精灵是用无烟的火创造出来的
The djinn are created of smokeless fire.
我们的英语单词“genie”,
Our English word "genie,"
就是住在灯里的神话精灵
you know, the mythical spirit that lives inside of a lamp,
它来自于“灯神”这个词
comes from the word "djinn."
里克塞克:精灵被认为本质上更狡猾
RICKSECKER: The djinn are considered more trickster in nature.
他们有一些有趣的能力
They have some interesting abilities,
比如他们可以立即从一个地方传送到另一个地方
such as they can instantly transport from one place to another.
它们在自然界中也显得非常黑暗和朦胧
They also seem to appear very dark and shadowy in nature,
当他们进入房♥间时,他们是一个巨大的,若隐若现的角色
that they were these big, looming type of characters when they enter the room.
作为一个穆♥斯♥林♥,我相信精灵是真实存在的
As a Muslim, you know, I believe the djinn to be real.
精灵可以是天使般的
Djinn can be angelic.
也可以是恶魔般的
They can be demonic.
所以,这个想法就是你必须小心对待它们
And so, this idea is that you have to be careful with them
因为他们是强有力的人物
because they are these powerful figures.
他们确实是超自然的人物
They are these literally supernatural figures.
因此,在整个穆♥斯♥林♥世界
And so, across the Muslim world,
尤其是在北非这样的地方
in the present day, particularly in places like North Africa,
你可以戴护身符
you may wear an amulet.
你可以带护身符来避开精灵
You may have things to ward off the djinn.
你可以做一些事来保护自己不受精灵的伤害
You may have, you know, certain things that you do to protect you from the djinn,
因为这个想法是,那个精灵
because the idea is that the djinn,
当他们处于恶魔状态时
when they're in their demonic capacity,
会做一些对人类有害或折磨人类的事情
will do things that can be harmful or tormenting to human beings.
让我觉得有趣的是,你有来自世界各地的各种文化
What I find fascinating is that you have a myriad of cultures from all over the world
他们对这些影子实体
that have very, very similar beliefs
有着非常非常相似的理念
about these shadow entities.
现在,人们可能以不同的名字称呼他们
Now, they may call it something different,
但在土耳其,有一种叫卡拉巴桑的黑色压力怪
but you see in Turkey the Karabasan, the dark presser,
是一种和斐济的特沃罗·卡纳
as a very, very similar entity
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