I suppose shadae is one way to call shadow creatures, a romantic name with occultish feel . . . they’re the things in the corner of your eye on a dark gloomy night . . . the ones that don’t go bump in the night as they have no real form or substance, they are an illusory wisp . . . some folks give them substance through belief and others dismiss them as a trick of the light . . . Shadow Creatures Weird Beings of the Paranormal Realm . . . I’ve known a few folks who see them naturally and head on in a fashion similar to the couple in the essay and I’ve had a few folks ask me to hypnotize them to be able to see them. I normally decline such requests, just as when folks ask me to hypnotize them to see ghosts like in the movies (such as A Stir of Echoes), I will send them on their way. Most folks who invite such "powers" do so out of curiousity but without thinking past what that simple curiousity brings with it. Some few folks have the fortitude for such things, for most of us, that way lies the path of being a character in an HP Lovecraft story and that almost never ends well.