My belief exactly! Death is not the end, but another beginning. Just as my Father reached out to me from another plain of existence, perhaps Shadow People are trying to do the same. For whatever reason, my Dad and I were allowed to connect years after his death. The Succubus did not try to harm me, but neither did she have my best interest in mind. Actually she was rather indifferent. I do not know if the Shadow People were once humans, or if they are even aware of our existence. I do know through research that there are different classes of hauntings. There are intelligent beings that try to communicate or interact with you. There are residual hauntings that seem to be playing out some kind of scene like a broken record whether you are present or not. Then there are non-human hauntings which some classify as demonic. The domonic are the ones that mean you harm. I do not know in which category the Shadow Beings belong since I have had no experiences with them. Maybe someone here can answer that question for me?