--- title: Little Girl Sees Her Shadow for the First Time and Flips Out description: When this girl noticed a dark, girl-shaped monster following her everywhere she went, she tried frantically to escape. canonical: https://time.com/4032562/girl-discovers-shadow-escape/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-12T17:39:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:39.631Z og:title: Watch This Little Girl Try to Escape Her Shadow After Discovering It for the First Time og:description: Some things we learn the hard way og:url: https://time.com/4032562/girl-discovers-shadow-escape/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Little Girl Try to Escape Her Shadow After Discovering It for the First Time twitter:description: Some things we learn the hard way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Little Girl Try to Escape Her Shadow After Discovering It for the First Time  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Sep 12, 2015 5:39 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Sep 12, 2015 5:39 PM UTC A little girl discovered her shadow live on film, and it’s equal parts hilarious and adorable. The video shows the child noticing a dark, girl-shaped figure aping her every move, leaving her to do the only thing she could think of: Running away. But, shadows being what they are, she couldn’t escape, and subsequently launched into an epic, panicked meltdown. We can only hope that her terror gave way to a teaching moment, and that she’ll be giggling to shadow puppets in no time. Watch the video below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4032562/girl-discovers-shadow-escape/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4032562/girl-discovers-shadow-escape/"},"headline":"Watch This Little Girl Try to Escape Her Shadow After Discovering It for the First Time","datePublished":"2015-09-12T17:39:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:39.631Z","description":"Some things we learn the hard way","url":"https://time.com/4032562/girl-discovers-shadow-escape/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4032562/girl-discovers-shadow-escape/","name":"Watch This Little Girl Try to Escape Her Shadow After Discovering It for the First Time"}}]}] ```