Former Ghost Deniers Are Sharing The Exact Moment They Became Believers, And I'm Sleeping With The Lights On Now

Recently, I asked erstwhile paranormal skeptics successful the BuzzFeed Community to archer maine astir a clip that turned them into shade believers. And let's conscionable say, I'm shaking successful my boots,

From spectral encounters to eerie coincidences, ya'll did not clasp back. These are immoderate of the standouts that near my jaw connected the floor:

1. "We moved into a location built successful 1907. All kinds of weird crap happened but the 1 that truly frightened maine was erstwhile my kid was astir two. He started crying successful our eating room, and our dogs started going nuts, and I didn't cognize why."

2. "I was ne'er definite if I believed successful the paranormal, but 1 time I walked into my eating country and the hamster's workout shot came flying toward maine similar it had been thrown."

"I had to duck to dodge it. Not lone was determination nary 1 other successful the room, but it came from a country of the country wherever a large array was, truthful nary 1 could person gotten into that corner."

—emmalouiseh4e6e87681

3. "I person ever been connected the obstruction astir the paranormal, particularly ghosts. However, I was flipping done an aged photograph medium precocious that unlocked immoderate memories. I came crossed 1 picture. I’m possibly 5 successful the image, and I’m sitting with my great-grandmother successful a three-season porch. Behind us, successful 1 of the windows, you tin intelligibly spot an outline of a antheral with a ample beard."

4. "I was moving astatine a rehab halfway successful a renovated simple school. It was displacement change, astir midnight. I started up the hallway to usage the copier astatine the administrative offices. Up up of maine were a treble acceptable of solid doors emblematic of the entranceway of aged schools. In the reflection down me, I saw a pistillate with brownish hairsbreadth and a small miss astir 4 oregon 5 years aged holding the woman's hand."

"At first, I thought idiosyncratic had fto her successful done the room door. As I turned around, I someway knew determination wouldn’t beryllium anyone there. The hallway was long, and determination would person been obscurity they could person gone successful an instant, and determination was thing down maine that would person thrown a mendacious representation successful the reflection. So, yeah, ghosts are real."

—truthmatters

5. "I was successful bed, and I felt thing drawback my ankles and resistance maine retired of the bed. Since then, I've slept successful the different country and garbage to slumber successful that aforesaid country again."

—stylishdog795

6. "When I was younger, astir 13 oregon 14, I stayed astatine my buddy's state location for his birthday. The canine kept scratching astatine the chamber doorway precocious astatine night..."

"When I opened the doorway to fto her in, she was 20 feet crossed the room, sleeping. I dilatory unopen the door, crawled into my sleeping bag, and stayed awake each night."

—lazytooth152

7. "Before my now-husband moved successful with me, helium lived successful an aged farmhouse that was built successful the precocious 1800s. Almost everyone successful our person radical had an acquisition astatine that farm. I was skeptical until 1 day, we were sitting extracurricular drinking java connected the structure astatine astir 10 successful the morning."

8. "The twelvemonth was 1998; I lived successful a ceramic flat connected Capitol Hill successful Seattle. The laundry country and retention country were downstairs successful the basement. I was loading up the washing instrumentality erstwhile I felt thing watching me, truthful I abruptly turned astir and saw a shadowy fig lasting adjacent the retention area."

"I asked it what it wanted, and it waved astatine maine to travel it, truthful I did. The retention units were made of wood and chickenhearted wire, which were precise simply made. The shadowy fig stopped successful beforehand of 1 of the retention units, and the fastener was unlocked, truthful I went in. It was filled with antique furnishings and boxes. The archetypal container I was drawn to said Native artifacts, I opened it and saw aged yellowed newspaper. I picked up an point and unwrapped it to find a quality skull. I astir sh*t my pants. I took the container upstairs to my roommates, and we unwrapped the remainder of the contents of the box, which had a astir implicit skeleton. I ended up calling a Native person of excavation who yet placed the bones successful a burial ground. I person galore different frightening stories of spirits and ghosts, and I person adjacent caught a fewer pictures of ghosts connected camera." 

—Mystic, 53, from Georgia 

9. Since my household and I moved to Australia backmost successful 2004, we person rented 8 homes and moved to 2 states due to the fact that of my occupation (we person since bought a location successful the authorities of Victoria). I was skeptical of thing related to the supernatural until an acquisition successful 1 of the rented homes wholly changed my mind."

10. "Oh my gosh, I was conscionable reasoning astir this, actually, due to the fact that things person gotten a small ~ spooky ~ astir my location these past fewer months. Last July, my grandma passed away. I inherited her jewelry box. I placed a ringing holder successful the signifier of a precocious bottommost connected apical of it. She besides happened to person talented this ringing show to me. Well...before my grandma passed, thing retired of the mean ever happened to this ringing display, but implicit the past fewer months..."

"...I always support the show facing guardant due to the fact that that way, you spot the rings, but each fewer weeks, I find it turned to look the wall. I cognize that I americium not doing it; my feline can't scope the country it's in, and nary 1 other successful my location touches my dresser. So, each I tin deliberation of is, 'Grandma? Girl...are you haunting me?' but also, 'Grandma, halt moving my stuff!'"

—Anonymous, 32, from Ontario 

11. "Years ago, I was astatine a cemetery with a friend. We were visiting her grandfather’s grave. It was a sunny day. We were walking and talking arsenic we made our mode implicit to wherever helium was buried. Out of nowhere, it felt similar idiosyncratic slammed into me. So overmuch so, I said 'I’m sorry' arsenic if I bumped into someone. Then it deed me, nary 1 was determination but my person and me. I’ll ne'er hide that. I was freaked out. It inactive gives maine chills to this day."

12. "I utilized to unrecorded successful this truly aged flat successful New Jersey. One clip successful that apartment, portion I was successful the surviving room, I specifically heard the crockery rack spell backmost and distant truly rapidly a fewer times. The adjacent day, the crockery rack was positioned disconnected the borderline of the antagonistic surface, halfway implicit the sink. I didn't permission it similar that."

"One time successful that apartment, I happened to spot a sparkling airy rising from the bathtub going toward the ceiling. Another time, I was lying successful my furniture during the day, and successful the corner, I saw that aforesaid benignant of sparkling light. It was sunny and agleam outside, but this airy could not beryllium outdone! Another time, I was lying connected the sofa furniture successful the surviving room. It was daytime. On my mattress, I specifically heard pounding adjacent me. There was thing to see! Foolish is the antheral who doesn't believe. I've had more, but I'm keeping it present for now. There is truthful overmuch much to what we see."

—Anonymous from New Jersey 

13. "I haven’t seen anything, but erstwhile I was a kid, Dips, 1 of my cats, passed distant aft being sick for a while. I was truly adjacent to him, and until we moved retired of that house, I would consciousness 1 of my cats rubbing against my limb nether the table, look down, and determination wouldn’t beryllium either of them there. I similar to deliberation Dips was watching implicit maine arsenic I grew up."

14. "I had ever been connected the obstruction astir ghosts. But 1 day, I was successful the ablution with my ex-boyfriend, holding him, erstwhile helium abruptly said, 'I conscionable got this ace weird flashback to my dada giving maine a bath arsenic a kid.' Literally retired of nowhere. Two days later, we recovered retired that was the nonstop infinitesimal his dada died unsocial successful his apartment. It was similar helium was saying goodbye to my ex."

So, person you had immoderate paranormal experiences that changed you from a skeptic to full-on believer? Let america cognize successful the comments below!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.