There is a phantom in the UK who is sometimes called "the Hat Man" on account of his distinctive hat. He is similar to the MIB s in that he dresses entirely in black, usually wearing a long black coat or cloak.
Unlike the MIB though, there is no question of him being a living creature. He is often seen by nurses in hospitals, usually hanging around the bed of someone who is about to die. He used to be mistaken for a doctor, as his attire resembles that of old fashioned doctors - but nobody sees where he comes from, and he has a habit of disappearing into thin air.
There are hardly any documented reports - just rumors and second hand tales, which is hardly surprising. you don't talk about such things if you want to keep your job, and nurses see and hear a lot of things that they never talk about openly.
I would have dismissed this as a modern urban legend if it were not for the fact that i have seen him myself. I was a young child, and very sick (close to death it turned out later), when i saw a tall thin man in a wide brimmed hat and wearing an Inverness coat ( a heavy caped overcoat), very similar to the one our regular family doctor wore, enter my bedroom with my mother. though i didn't recognize him, I assumed him to be a doctor.
But he then did something odd. he went to the foot of my bed, and seemed to be lifting it up, tilting the bed as i lay in it.. then he silently left.
when i questioned my mother about his strange actions, she told me the doctor hadn't arrived yet, and that apart from herself there had been nobody in the room. She said I had a very high fever and was probably delirious, so i dropped the whole thing.
But I still remember it to this day, and the man I saw seems very much like the stories I've heard of the Hat Man.
Has anybody else here seen him?
