Another campfire story from Joshua Tree: Who are the shadow people?

Out here in the desert… the silence does something to you. It stretches. It lingers. And sometimes… it feels like something is stretching back. There are stories—quiet ones—that don’t always make it into the headlines. Stories about figures seen just out of the corner of your eye. Tall. Still. Watching. They don’t move like people. They don’t behave like animals. And yet… enough people have seen them to start asking the same question: Who—or what—are the shadow people? Some say they’re tied to sleep paralysis… the mind caught between waking and dreaming. Others believe they’re something else entirely—entities that exist just outside our perception… only slipping through under the right conditions. And in a place like Joshua Tree—where the nights are long, the air is still, and the line between reality and something else feels just a little thinner… you start to wonder. Because the desert doesn’t just hold stories. It keeps them.