Why I Think Shadow People are Real
Part II — Celebrity Endorsements
Despite his corny stage name and generally clean-cut appearance, Orson Bean led an interesting and sometimes experimental life. This left him many stories to tell, and he loved telling stories about himself. Anyone who has seen “Tattletales” is aware of this.
I’m going to paraphrase a story he told on a talk show in the mid-90s, during the Dr. Quinn phase of his career. I don’t remember who’s talk show it was — there were so many of them at the time.
It’s a serious story, but he told it in a humorous manner. He described it as a ghost story, but no, what he saw was a shadow person. I have searched for a clip of this story on YouTube, but cannot find it.
The story comes from Bean’s time living in Australia with his then-wife Carolyn Maxwell. They had just bought a house, and had been living in it for about two weeks.
One night, he and his wife were getting ready for bed. She was in the bathroom, he was lying on the bed absentmindedly watching television. While lying there he became aware of a dark transparent figure walking across the room. It went out the bedroom door and continued down the hall.
At that moment his wife came out of the bathroom and saw on the bed, staring out the door with a look of disbelief on his face. She asked, “have you seen it, too?”
Apparently she had seen this figure walking through the house a few times in the past two weeks, but dismissed it as just her imagination.
He concluded the story by saying they packed their bags that night, left the house and never went back.