smeghead wrote:
...I saw a 6"x6" square of white on the baseboard (the reason I know it was 6" was that was how tall the baseboard was). This perfect shadow appeared. It was just a shadow of a man. It had on a night cap, the ones that look like a Santa Clause hat, with ball and all. He also was wearing a nightgown. He would search in what I figured was a closet. His hands would disappear as he reached up then he would leave, come back and keep getting things out of his closet (all this is conjecture on the closet thing) This went on for 5 minutes or so. Then I coughed! He 'looked' my way, turned around, ran off AND the white light disappeared and flicked off like an old TV used to do when you turned it off!...
This one is strange it doesn't follow any of the normal "Paranormal" cliche's.
A few questions, you say it was 6"x6", is it possible you were only seeing the 6" tall portion of a larger projection? Since the baseboard was only 6" would you have seen it if it had extended past that?
Just to verify, you don't have any siblings who may have been playing a trick on you, do you?
It almost sounds like the projection or reflection of a TV image. Except for the interactive aspect of it.
It has some likeness of a doorway from how you describe it, except most "doorways" are not really something you can visually see, but rather simply represent a path of entry from one existence to another.
The description vaugely resembles an Irish myth of an earth spirit named Cluricaune.
See below:
Cluricaune:
Origin: Ireland, element of earth
Appearance: Very well groomed little guy, about 18” tall, usually carrying a stein or a beer mug. He wears a red coat, blue stockings, a red night cap and silver buckled shoes, all neatly pressed and clean.
Gender: Male
Personality: Always intoxicated, therefore usually jolly unless he finds a members of the household drinking in the wine-cellar. Then he gets frightening.
Relations: The Monaciello of Italy, who also guards wine cellars.
Human Interaction: The Cluricaune will protect a wine cellar, but will also take some of the wine for himself. They also follow a household to another home if a household moves.
I think it's very curious too, I've never heard of this kind of thing before. It's funny how people see stuff in different ways, which is what I find so interesting about these discussions. I went to a 'dream interpretation' workshop and it was really interesting how different people dream in different ways. One person in her dreams always flies out of the window and travels around in her own body, looking down and can guide herself to different places. Another guy only has dreams involving 2 things - either a picture of a map (always out of focus) or faces of people he's never met. All these things come to him as pictures, he's never in the dream itself. My friend has predictive dreams. She has dreamed big world events before they happen. I usually dream about climbing along a narrow ledge and feeling as if I'm going to fall. Either that, or I'm somewhere where I suddenly relise I'm only in my underwear LOL! 
