This is my first time posting on reddit and I am also on mobile (heard it can cause some formatting issues?) so sorry if there are any problems but I was told to come here for advice. Some background to my families beliefs. I am spiritual, my mother is Christian orthodox, but a more spiritual denomination of it, and my father is absolutely atheist. The first encounter happend this time last year. I was home alone and sitting in my kitchen at the dining table. From where I was sitting in was able to see: the front door, into the living room, and the backdoor in the living room leading into the garden (just to give some context to the layout). I was eating my food and i looked up and saw a black shadowy figure standing inside the house by the backdoor. I was paralysed with a sense of impending doom. Every time I looked away it seemed to reach towards me so I was unable to move and unable to look away. One thing to note is that after about 5 minuites of me looking at it my cat started yowling at the front door to be let in, one thing about him is that he rarely meows, and on the rare occasion he does it is extremely quiet, this is the first time I had heard him meow like that. After a few more minutes I became hysterical and started screaming and crying. The entire thing lasted about 40 minutes until my mum came home and got me out of my hysterical state. Another thing to note is that when the front door opened and my mum came in i did not recognise it as her (nor as human) and I fell to the floor in fear. She cleansed the entire house and all of the doorways. I put this experience down to being a stress induced hallucination, as i was going through a very stressful time then, or due to the new hormonal medication I had been put on, hallucinations being a rare side effect of. This was until the second encounter, I have been away from home the past two days and when i got back today my dad tood me that he has seen a ghost and when he took a picture of it it dissapeared next time he looked. I was taken aback as he does not believe in the paranormal at all and does not joke about things like this. I asked to see the picture and in the picture I saw exactly what I had seen this time last year. I will attach the image that he took where you will see to the left of it the backdoor where the original instance occurred. I am very worried as my friend pointed out that it has moved from the back door to the living room window, and due to the layout of my house the next entrance/viewpoint is my glass front door. I suppose I am looking for an explanation? Or advice? I am very frightened and am not sure what to do. #DidThatHappen #Creepy