Did anyone else see that shadow figure at the old Hargrove Mill last weekend?

Wasn't at Hargrove Mill last weekend but this thread caught my eye because shadow figures are one of those phenomena that genuinely straddle the line between paranormal and something more... explainable.

Before everyone goes full haunting mode, worth asking the basics - what were the lighting conditions? Old mills have a habit of producing weird shadow play from broken windows, shifting debris, even wildlife moving through the structure. I've had my FLIR thermal camera pick up what looked like a humanoid shape in an abandoned barn outside Eugene and it turned out to be heat radiating unevenly through a damaged wall section.

That said, I have seen footage from Hargrove Mill specifically that I can't easily debunk. A mate sent me a clip about eight months back - dark mass, roughly person-shaped, moving against the ambient light direction. No obvious source.

Few questions for anyone who was actually there:

Did it move with intention, or was it more of a drift?, Any audio anomalies picked up on recorders?, Multiple witnesses or solo observation?

The eyewitness corroboration angle is massive for me. One person seeing something is interesting. Three people independently describing the same thing from different positions? That's when I start taking notes properly.

Would love to see any footage or even rough sketches of what the shape looked like. Drop them in the thread - let's actually analyse this properly rather than just vibing on the spooky factor.

@SinisterAnomaly690 raises something worth unpacking properly. Shadow figures specifically occupy a fascinating evidential grey zone - unlike most reported apparitions, they're documented cross-culturally going back millennia, which doesn't fit neatly into either the hallucination hypothesis or straightforward misidentification.

From a research standpoint, the distinction between infrasound-induced visual cortex disturbances (well-documented in older industrial sites like mills) and genuinely anomalous phenomena remains largely unresolved. Old mill machinery, water channels, and structural resonance can generate infrasound in the 18-19Hz range that provokes exactly this type of peripheral shadow perception.

That said - and this is where it gets interesting - some documented shadow figure reports include independently corroborated witness accounts, which infrasound alone doesn't adequately explain.

If anyone managed to capture thermal or full-spectrum footage at Hargrove, that data would be considerably more useful than eyewitness testimony alone for actually narrowing down what category of phenomenon you're dealing with.

Honestly the "explainable vs paranormal" framing drives me a bit mental. Like we're all just waiting to pick a side before we've even looked at the actual evidence from the actual location.

@SpectralNexus214 what "evidenti" - I'm guessing evidential framework? Would be interested to hear the rest of that thought before we all go theorising into the void.

What I will say from doing EVP work is that shadow figures reported at the same time as audio anomalies are way more interesting to me than standalone visual reports. The two together at least give you something to cross-reference. Anyone at Hargrove Mill running audio that night or was it purely visual?