convince a skeptic

i'm a skeptic, but a very open skeptic. i love listening to people's theories and beliefs in the paranormal, and definitely about people's spirituality and its importance to them.

convince the skeptics of something, anything. tell us your ghost stories, your strange sightings, your spells that worked, your conspiracy theories, anything. maybe you'll make a believer of somebody, or swap some stories with somebody who already is. 

keep it right and polite, too, everybody. what somebody believes in doesn't have to match what you believe in. that's the whole point of this forum.

I've always been open-minded about the paranormal because of something that happened when I was a kid.

Several times, I'd wake up in the middle of the night and see an older woman standing at the end of my bed. She never spoke, never moved toward me, and honestly, she never felt mean or threatening. If anything, she had a really calm, peaceful presence. It scared me because I was a kid and didn't understand what I was seeing, but I never got the feeling she wanted to hurt me.

I have no idea what it was. Maybe there's a completely normal explanation, maybe there isn't. I'm not going to say it was definitely a ghost, but it happened more than once, and it's one of those experiences that's stayed with me my whole life.

That alone is enough to keep me from saying the paranormal is impossible. 👻

I'm reasonably convinced my husband, son, and I live in a haunted house. We've both seen the same tall, thin figure with hollow eyes and razor sharp teeth at the foot of our bed, had our Xbox and CD player turn on randomly in the middle of the night, heard footsteps and disembodied growls in our kitchen, I had a music box on my side of the bed start playing while we were talking late one night, a turkey I was going to cook one Thanksgiving flew out of the freezer and the door shut behind it. There's more, these are just the most unusual things we've experienced. 

Just a few nights ago we were going through the house with the EMF meter, trying to see what we could find. As we get into our bedroom there was a huge spike in activity and the word " Satan" flashed across the screen. My husband and I kind of looked at each other like " Should we stop messing around with this?" I truly don't know what to make of that. I've noticed most of the weird things happen in the kitchen or our bedroom.