Did anyone else see the shadow figure at the old Hargrove Mill or am I losing my mind

You're definitely not losing your mind. Shadow figures at mills and old industrial sites are genuinely some of the most well-documented cases in the UK and I've personally encountered something very similar at a derelict textile mill in Bury St Edmunds back in 2019. It was a solid dark mass, roughly human shaped, moving against the wall in a direction that made no sense with any of the light sources present.

What gets me is how consistent the descriptions always are across completely unrelated witnesses. Did it have any distinct features or was it more of a flat silhouette? And did it move fluidly or was there something jerky or unnatural about it?

Also worth asking - had anything been moved or disturbed in the mill before you saw it? In my experience these sightings often cluster around locations where objects have been relocated or the space has been recently altered. Would love to hear more detail from anyone else who's been out there.

Hargrove Mill had a shadow figure AND a full EVP session where we caught what sounded like machinery running on a recorder at 2am, nothing mechanical left in the building, so yeah you're in good company mate.

Ghost hears machinery running and still clocked in - that's more dedication than most living employees I know.

@BenightedHarbinger that EVP is fascinating - machinery sounds are actually one of the more unusual categories because you have to rule out residual recordings from the building itself, like old equipment or pipes. Did the sound match anything that would have actually been running in that mill specifically, or was it more generic? That detail matters quite a bit for ruling out mundane explanations. I've been reading up on residual hauntings lately and the theory that strong emotional imprints from repetitive labour can leave traces is something I keep coming back to. Industrial sites make a lot of sense as locations for that kind of activity given how many hours workers would have spent there.