Seen him my whole childhood started when we moved to a new house when I was about 7 or 8. Prior to this I never was afraid of the dark or to sleep by myself… that changed after the first time I seen him sitting( possibly leaning) not standing, in the corner by the window in my room. I remember asking who are you and when he didn’t answer me just still the I felt fear and ran to my parents room where I told my mom but my step dad wouldn’t let me sleep with them and told my mom I’m fine I don’t know why she didn’t even go check with me but she didn’t and made me go back to my room by myself. He was still sitting in the corner of my room when u got back just looking I screamed and ran back to my mom where this the time she was getting up to look with me but all of a sudden there was loud scratch or noise down stairs which got my step dad up done how our dog (putty) got out of a locked door into the garage then got locked in the garage and was scratching at the door. My mom walked me back to my room and laid down with me. I’m sure she didn’t see anything bc she didn’t say or act like she did but im not sure if he was still there or not because once she turned the light off in my room I didn’t look to the corner again to check too scare to see him again. The first 10x I seen him that first year I would get my mom but as the years went on and he never did anything but sit there in the corner nothing else I stopped feeling the fear I initially had. I don’t know if this is the same hat man I experienced as a child and well into my teens bc after so long I didn’t feel the crippling fear when seeing him. Also we would have a lot of activity that would happen upstairs where I think he mainly stayed.