Here's what the Pokedex has to say about this particular nightmare:
Sometimes, on a dark night, your shadow thrown by a streetlight will suddenly and startlingly overtake you. It is actually a Gengar running past you, pretending to be your shadow. To steal the life of its target, it slips into the prey's shadow and silently waits for an opportunity. On the night of the full moon, if shadows move on their own and laugh, it must be Gengar's doing.
I'm really not sure that there's anything I need to explain here about why this is a little creepy -- and let's be honest, the idea of catching ghosts that want to steal your life while pretending to be your shadow and making them fight dinosaurs made of trees in revenge is also what makes Pokemon pretty awesome -- but there's also an added element that makes him even weirder. A lot of fans like to think that Gengar is the actual shadow of the much nicer Clefairy (which is all about the full moon, you do not even know) that has come to life with a hunger for souls.
It's not anywhere close to being the official word -- and believe me, Pokemon fans have some really weird ideas about stuff -- but considering that his name comes from "Doppelganger," it does make a lot of sense. Relatively speaking, I mean.
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