I'm 27 now, but my strange encounter happened when i was in 7th grade, so it's been about 15 yrs give or take. One night when I went to bed I couldn't fall asleep. It was probably around 2am. I laid down in my bed started staring at the walls looking at the shadows in my room. Then I kinda saw what looked like a figure in the corner of my room. I thought nothing of it, but kept studying it. I then thought I saw it move. I was a little freaked, but figured it was the trees outside moving and i was just freaking myself out. Whatever. I then squinted my eyes continuing to stare at this figure thinking if it were a real figure i didn't want it to know i was staring at it. After a minute or so it walked out from the corner of my room. Eek! I was then in total freak out mode. My heart was beating a mile a minute, i couldn't look away, and didn't want to move because i didn't want to bring any attention to myself. What i remember most was that it was in perfect proportion to an average sized man. There were no details seen just a dark shadowy perfectly outlined figure. I had a metal stand in my bedroom with a fish tank on the top and a hampster cage on the bottom. The shadow walk across my room to the metal stand, knelt down, put it's hand on top of my hampster cage, was there for about 15 seconds in the same position, and literally vanished in thin air. I was obviously freaked out for the rest of the night. I eventually pulled the covers over my head and laid there frozen in fear until i eventually passed out. The next day i checked on my hampsters. They were both curled up as though they were asleep in the corner where they always slept. I went to wake them up, but found that they were both dead, and they both had a slit from there neck all the way down there stomach. The skin was kinda pulled back and you could see there insides, and there was no blood. The skin around there mouths was also kinda pulled back. Whatever this thing was killed my hampsters and i never saw this thing again. wtf! i would love your comment.