Watching Next Gen as a kid was terrifying

Geordi's studying a hologram of an old mission he was on (this episode is called "Identity Crisis" if anyone wants to know)

He notices an oddly placed shadow. He has the computer delete everyone in the scene one by one but the shadow is still there.

This is so freaky. A shadow without a person. He tells the computer to extrapolate the shadow's origin and...

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT I WAS 8 OR 9 AT THE TIME THIS MOMENT HAUNTED ME FOR YEARS.