Shadow people

I know it's probably just me, but recently I’ve been watching some ghost photos on some site, and I met a term „shadow people”. I started to read about it and I realized I met (maybe) something like that.
When I was a kid , we were playing hide and seek in the basement. It was my turn to seek, so I was there in this dark basement, the only light was coming from the stairs to the basement because we left the all doors opened. Suddenly I stopped, and look in front of me. And there it was, a huge shadow on the wall. At first I thought it’s mine but the I realized that it’s not possible because the light was from my right side so it’s natural that my shadow should be on the left side and not in front of me. I did not see its eyes because the shadow was black, I was looking at it for a few moments and I fled up the stairs. I was terrified with this encounter.
Then a few years later when I totally forgot about it, I saw it again. I don’t know if it was the same shadow or not but I saw it. I was going to my friend when I saw it on a wall. It was huge. There was no possibility for anything to create such a huge shadow because the light was very dispersed that there wasn’t even my shadow. I fled again. When I was coming back home there was nothing there on the wall.
I don’t know what it was, all I know is that was scary.
Here's the picture of the common reported shadow man. I saw the one on the right of the picture but it's eyes were not glowing. Cheers.





And here's the link if you want to read something about shadow people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people