don't know if this is the same thing or not, but i and several people i know have seen a creature similar too this. He is tall, and dressed similar to how the creatured discussed herein, but wrather than a cowboy hat, he is instead, wearing something like an old 20s 30s style dress hats like mobsters and rich guys wore during the time, but with a MUCH wider brim, kinda like they wore in the old spy vs. spy cartoons. he wears a trenchcoat and there isn't ANY color he is simply made of shadow, you can't tell where the trenchcoat ends the his shirt/skin begins. he hasn't attacked magickally, but he's been sited in California, texas, miami, ohio, and somewhere in england as well. he attacked someone i knew on a physical level while that person was in a Tai Chi class, 28 students, all beaten badly including the master, my friend attempted to cast a spell on the creature but somehow he lost control and knocked himself out, the spell got rid of the creature(or the creatured decided it was finished either way it left). Oh he's also been sited in northern missouri too, and the only thing i know is that he has a feeling of being old, well not old, more like ancient and powerful. assuming that he's as old as we guess(and we're underguessing if anything) then he probably isn't a ghost, because the style of clothes would have had to change, after all they didn't exactly dressed in 30's style clothes in Jericho at 3000 b.c.e. By the way, cainum, this is the same Ralakk from Trinity Towers forum.