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. 

i was at a sleepover at my friends house with 1 of our other friends and we were in the basement playing a board game then we saw something go into the guest room (the one we were all going to sleep in ;-;) we thought it was just my friends dog but when we went into the room a creepy ass doll was laying on the ground T-T she later gave the doll to the neighbours kid so it’s their problem now </3

I'm a skeptic myself, and this experience didn't fully convince me, but it's certainly interesting.

I used to see angel numbers all the time, but for the past few months it was rare that I had seen any. A few months ago, I had been waiting for months with so much anxiety to find out if I got into paramedic school, and I was supposed to find out that week. One morning on my way in to work, I saw 111. I thought hmm that's interesting, I haven't seen an angel number in a while. Moved on with my day and didn't think much of it. Later that morning, I looked up at the clock and it was 11:11. I usually don't make an 11:11 wish, but I was so desperate that I thought If it's the right time, I wish that I'll get into paramedic school this week. Again, didn't think much of it and moved on with my day. That afternoon, I sat down at my desk and flipped my phone over to see that it was 1:11. I opened my phone and there it was, the email I had been waiting for. I got into paramedic school!

I had to look it up, but 111 and 1111 represent new beginnings.

Very profound experience for me, not gonna lie!