The Top Hat Spectre?

Question

Do you know about the Top Hat Man/Top Hat Spectre and have you seen him? If you don't what I'm talking about, here are two of many accounts:

http://paranormal.about.com/library/blstory_august04_29.htm

http://paranormal.about.com/library/blstory_may07_06.htm

Some people think he is Baron Samedi but I don't know.

Answer 1

Sounds like you are imagining Baron Samedi.

I read your stories.  They have the flavor of urban legend.

Answer 2

This apparition sometimes appears with a cane, in the form of a giant peanut.

Answer 3

It sounds like a variation on shadow men which could be related to sleeping problems or high stress creating a vivid hallucination of a black figure standing in front of someone, very similar to the visual experience of sleep paralysis.

First of all, assuming ghosts are real,  they are definitly not dead people. So far I have not found a single account of a haunting by a dead person that is anything other then speculation. No evidence, real or imagined, links any haunting case to someone who is deceased.

Second of all, why would this top hat man be all over the country? Wouldnt he be in one area? Usually legends like this inhabit a single town, not a whole country. New England and Oaklahoma are 1,600 miles away, I know my parents live in OK and I live in NE.

Evem Mothman and the Bunny Man come from small hick towns and only get spotted in those towns.

Answer 4

The ghosts I've seen are usually shapes without human form. A clear image is great, but the first account didn't say there was anything ghostly about the encounter, just odd clothes. Most of my encounters are odd lights and noises, nothing I can pin down to: ' oh, that's Joe blow, he died here ten years ago'. Still wondering.

Answer 5

The Scream?