"Weird deformed humans?"  Chester's salt and pepper beard trembled at something behind his eyes.  "Do-do you think those things naturally looked like humans, or were they taking the shape of human beings like how shadows take the shape of whatever that's between them and the light?"

Jim tilted his head in confusion.  That was a strangely poetic description.  "uh maybe.  That could be it.  We saw some shadow tanks when we were just leaving so I think the shadow analogy works better.  Why?"  Jim's own eyes narrowed.

Chester looked around.  He took a deep breath and swiveled around on the balls of his feet.  He pulled the blinds down in a desperate yank and then turned back to his guest.  "I've been seeing things lurking around from time to time.  At first I figured they were just dark type pokemon Inobody saw before, but there was something about them. I can't explain it.  They would appear every once in a while, nothing too weird and then a few days ago I've been starting to hear screams."  He swallowed hard.  "These weren't the startled kind of screams you get sometimes, or even the back off kind of warning screams, but the last breath you get to exhale before something awful kind of screams."