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<p>There are two types of people in this world: those who believe in ghosts and those who don&#39;t. The skeptics and the true believers, if you will.</p><p>Whether you&#39;re a skeptic or a believer, chances are you feel very strongly about your stance. People who believe in ghosts are <em>certain</em> they saw what they saw and it was <em>real.</em> Folks who don&#39;t believe in ghosts are sure people are <em>just seeing things</em> and that all paranormal activity <em>must have an explanation</em>.</p><p>The figure you saw in your peripherals could have just been your mind playing tricks on you. The lights turning on and off can be explained by an electrical error. And your keys not being in the place you left them could be you not being able to remember moving them because you&#39;re so, so tired. Right?</p><p>But sometimes a skeptic can become a believer, and this happens when they experience something they cannot explain. These stories are often chilling, sometimes moving, and usually at least a little spooky. And lucky for us, reddit user <a href="https://twitter.com/standup/status/1154422000531791873" target="_blank">Musician_Moneyless </a> asked, &quot;People who used to not believe in ghosts but do now, what changed your mind?&quot; And the internet delivered. Here are 13 goose-bump-inducing answers.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1. The Haunted Pool (Oldmaneok)</h2><blockquote> <p>Worked at a public pool, I would work alone after hours cleaning the building and the pool. One night around 2 a.m. I&#39;m cleaning the change rooms. The pool has been closed for 4 hours at this time.</p> <p>I hear the sound of a child&#39;s laughter and bare feet running across the pool deck. I go out and scan the area; there&#39;s nobody in sight. The doors are all closed and locked, there is nowhere a kid could be hiding. No wet foot prints on the pool deck. I re-check the doors and the security monitors. I am the only person in the building.</p> <p>It was unsettling.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. The Soaring Angel (longfacepug)</h2><blockquote> <p>My girlfriends grandfathers ashes were on a little shelf in the living room, right next to a very solid/heavy angel statue. Well one weekend she and I are fooling around on the living room couch and out of the corner of my eye, I see the angel statue fly off the wall, accompanied with a deep grunt.</p> <p>Now when I say this thing FLEW off the wall, I&rsquo;m talking 7-8 feet of air before landing on the hard wood and leaving a dent where the wing hit. Even if this thing had fell off the wall, it would&rsquo;ve dropped straight down, not soared with force.</p> <p>Well we both stood there in shock, and I whispered if she had heard the grunt as well, to which she agreed. So we both booked it for the day.</p> <p>Well that night at dinner we told her parents what happened (leaving out the naughty bit) and Megan&rsquo;s younger sister burst into tears saying she had seen a dark figure at the foot of her bed the last couples nights but didn&rsquo;t want anyone to think she was crazy (Grandfather that died had mental health issues that caused a lot of pain.)</p> <p>Welp after that day I was a believer.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. The Grumpy Grandma (Chango_D)</h2><blockquote> <p>A while after my grandma died my mom and I were looking at a photo of her we had on a shelf. She was never a nice person. Till the moment she died she refused any help from anyone, but was quick to steal and lie. My grandma also didn&#39;t like my mom. Anyways, I mention how in the photo she&#39;s not smiling and how she never really smiled in life. My mom agrees with me and then the glass cracked straight across my grandma&#39;s lips in the photo. My mom took the picture down the next day.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. The Ghost in All White (stickytuna)</h2><blockquote> <p>In 2011 I was studying abroad in Morocco. We were staying in a riad in the madina of Marrakech with tall, ornate windows. I had one roommate who was already asleep this night. I thought I saw her sitting up in the bed next to me wearing all white. Suddenly I saw a white, hazy thing vaguely shaped like a person floating above me next to the big windows. I was so scared I went in the bathroom, turned the light on and stayed in the bathtub all night. My roommate didn&rsquo;t see anything.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. The Ghost Whisperer (scrodytheroadie)</h2><blockquote> <p>My wife and I swear that our daughter used to talk to ghosts when she was a toddler. She was an only child at the time. First instance I remember, was her telling me that she was talking to Nana. That&#39;s what I called my grandmother, who passed about 15 years before my daughter was born. My daughter was young and so I hadn&#39;t even talked about Nana to her, so I showed her a picture and asked who she spoke to. There were four women (three of which I didn&#39;t even know), but without hesitation she pointed to my Nana. Ok, no biggie.</p> <p>Some months later, my wife and I are trying for baby #2. After my wife gets pregnant, my daughter is sitting next to her on the couch and puts her head on her belly and says, &quot;mommy, there&#39;s a baby in there&quot;. Ok, maybe that&#39;s coincidence. She overheard us saying something. A few weeks later, my wife miscarries. Maybe my daughter picked up on our sadness, who knows, but she again puts her head on her stomach and says, &quot;mommy, there&#39;s no baby in there anymore.&quot;</p> <p>Then, several months and one more (very early) miscarriage later, my daughter tells us, &quot;I was talking to my brother last night and he said that my sister is coming to live with me soon.&quot; Again, she&#39;s an only child and had no (living?) brother. We were still trying at this point, but had not taken any tests. We picked one up that night, and sure enough, pregnant. When time came to reveal the gender, I wasn&#39;t even interested. My daughter had already said it was a girl. Sure enough, I have two daughters.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. The Night Light (rperez746)</h2><blockquote> <p>So my grandma use to live with me. She was in the room next to mine and would get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom (which is in my room). There is drop from her room to mine so we put a night light outside the bathroom so she could see the way. It was like this for about 12 years. Only a few days after she had passed away I was in my bed with my cat and dog reading a book or something. I remember my cat and dog both waking up and looking to the night light. My cat got up and went to the light, pawing at it and making nosies. My dog just stayed still, not barking. I would grab him so he would calm down or go to sleep but he never took his eyes off that spot. That&#39;s when I saw what I can only say looked like light bend around the night light. I was positive it was my grandma coming back to use the bathroom and or check on me and the house. To this day (she died about five years ago), I still have that night light there and turn it on every night for her. I haven&#39;t seen her or experienced anything like it again but I&#39;m sure she&#39;s still around.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. The Reflection (lucozade6)</h2><blockquote> <p>I saw a reflection of myself at the end of a hallway in a friends apartment building, only he told me the day after there was never any mirror in the hallways .</p> </blockquote><h2>8. The Sweet Grandma (clipmen666)</h2><blockquote> <p>I was 8 when my grandma died, i was sad. So around 2 months passed and i was going at grandma&#39;s house where my granpa lives.</p> <p>So i wake up at 3am and hear footsteps from bedroom door, i froze, i saw my grandma walking up to me and she said &quot;hello little sweetie&quot; and walked away. It was not sleep paralysis because i could move my hands and feet.</p> <p>At morning i told to my grandpa about it and he said &quot;I&#39;ve seen grandma almost everynight, she likes to visit, so don&#39;t be scared next time when you visit&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>9. The Ghost of Dad (Ohsoeasy)</h2><blockquote> <p>I was visiting my mother after my dad died. She went shopping with her sister and left me alone.</p> <p>I heard my dad as plain as day up in his room. He got up from his computer chair walked over to the door and opened it. He walked down the stairs and stood on the last step for a few seconds before walking back up to his room and closing the door. I was probably five feet from him in the living room.</p> <p>I just froze. It scared the hell out of me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. The Shining (banwagl)</h2><blockquote> <p>I was staying in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO - the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining. Around 1am I heard what sounded like children running up and down the hallways interspersed with laughter. Opened the door to see what the hell was going on, and didn&rsquo;t see anything. Quick little buggers, I thought. Then the next morning when my SO and I took a tour of the building, the guide stopped directly in front of our room to tell us the story of young girls whose ghosts can be heard running up and down that same hallway.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. The Haunted House (RunBunns247)</h2><blockquote> <p>I was having a conversation with my mom when I was a teenager, mid sentence I felt a hand grab my arm and looked to see who it was. No one was there and my mom didn&#39;t see anyone. Apparently the same thing happened to my sister a few weeks before. Also all the random voices and bags falling off shelves and moving shadows in the periphery. I believe it was just the house that was &quot;haunted&quot;, but they weren&#39;t malicious so it was all good.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. Attack of the Silly Putty (Pyromaniac0398)</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was in 5th grade I was playing with silly putty in my room when my mom called me down for dinner. I had molded it into a ball and placed it down directly behind me (I&rsquo;m talkin as soft as can be here).</p> <p>When I stood up to go downstairs, I felt something hit me in the back of my head with some force. So I turn around and see my silly putty ball, not on the ground anymore, but bouncing on my windowsill until it eventually rolled back onto the floor. Needless to say I ran downstairs hysterically trying to tell my mom what had happened</p> </blockquote><h2>13. The Most Heartbreaking Ghost Story You Will Ever Read (Luftwaffe_Panda)</h2><blockquote> <p>I was one of the firefighters working on ground zero for 9/11. I lost two of my buddies, and it still haunts me to this day. As I was making my way through the rubble, I heard someone screaming. I bolted to wherever I heard the sound, and only found a twisted body on a rebar. The body was burnt and pale, and it looked like it had been there awhile. I watched a firefighter walk up the rubble towards me, and hug me. I was confused, but I understood why he wanted a hug. I hugged him back, and when I opened my eyes, there was no firefighter. I stood there, holding a helmet. I don&#39;t know how I got this helmet, but it was in my hands. The golden eagle on the front had been bronzed, and a hole through the side of the helmet, with dried blood around it. I was holding this helmet in tears, while in front of an impaled civilian. I did some research, and the firefighter that I hugged had apparently died three hours before I saw him. I still have that helmet, and I will never forget the hug the fallen firefighter gave me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

13 former skeptics share the stories that made them believe in ghosts.

There are two types of people in this world: those who believe in ghosts and those who don&#39;t. The skeptics and the true believers, if you will.Whether you&#39;re a skeptic or a believer, chances are you feel very strongly about your stance. People who believe in ghosts are certain they saw what they saw and it was real. Folks who don&#39;t believe in ghosts are sure people are just seeing things and that all paranormal activity must have an explanation.The figure you saw in your peripherals could have just been your mind playing tricks on you. The lights turning on and off can be explained by an electrical error. And your keys not being in the place you left them could be you not being able to remember moving them because you&#39;re so, so tired. Right?But sometimes a skeptic can become a believer, and this happens when they experience something they cannot explain. These stories are often chilling, sometimes moving, and usually at least a little spooky. And lucky for us, reddit user Musician_Moneyless  asked, &quot;People who used to not believe in ghosts but do now, what changed your mind?&quot; And the internet delivered. Here are 13 goose-bump-inducing answers.1. The Haunted Pool (Oldmaneok) Worked at a public pool, I would work alone after hours cleaning the building and the pool. One night around 2 a.m. I&#39;m cleaning the change rooms. The pool has been closed for 4 hours at this time. I hear the sound of a child&#39;s laughter and bare feet running across the pool deck. I go out and scan the area; there&#39;s nobody in sight. The doors are all closed and locked, there is nowhere a kid could be hiding. No wet foot prints on the pool deck. I re-check the doors and the security monitors. I am the only person in the building. It was unsettling. 2. The Soaring Angel (longfacepug) My girlfriends grandfathers ashes were on a little shelf in the living room, right next to a very solid/heavy angel statue. Well one weekend she and I are fooling around on the living room couch and out of the corner of my eye, I see the angel statue fly off the wall, accompanied with a deep grunt. Now when I say this thing FLEW off the wall, I&rsquo;m talking 7-8 feet of air before landing on the hard wood and leaving a dent where the wing hit. Even if this thing had fell off the wall, it would&rsquo;ve dropped straight down, not soared with force. Well we both stood there in shock, and I whispered if she had heard the grunt as well, to which she agreed. So we both booked it for the day. Well that night at dinner we told her parents what happened (leaving out the naughty bit) and Megan&rsquo;s younger sister burst into tears saying she had seen a dark figure at the foot of her bed the last couples nights but didn&rsquo;t want anyone to think she was crazy (Grandfather that died had mental health issues that caused a lot of pain.) Welp after that day I was a believer. 3. The Grumpy Grandma (Chango_D) A while after my grandma died my mom and I were looking at a photo of her we had on a shelf. She was never a nice person. Till the moment she died she refused any help from anyone, but was quick to steal and lie. My grandma also didn&#39;t like my mom. Anyways, I mention how in the photo she&#39;s not smiling and how she never really smiled in life. My mom agrees with me and then the glass cracked straight across my grandma&#39;s lips in the photo. My mom took the picture down the next day. 4. The Ghost in All White (stickytuna) In 2011 I was studying abroad in Morocco. We were staying in a riad in the madina of Marrakech with tall, ornate windows. I had one roommate who was already asleep this night. I thought I saw her sitting up in the bed next to me wearing all white. Suddenly I saw a white, hazy thing vaguely shaped like a person floating above me next to the big windows. I was so scared I went in the bathroom, turned the light on and stayed in the bathtub all night. My roommate didn&rsquo;t see anything. 5. The Ghost Whisperer (scrodytheroadie) My wife and I swear that our daughter used to talk to ghosts when she was a toddler. She was an only child at the time. First instance I remember, was her telling me that she was talking to Nana. That&#39;s what I called my grandmother, who passed about 15 years before my daughter was born. My daughter was young and so I hadn&#39;t even talked about Nana to her, so I showed her a picture and asked who she spoke to. There were four women (three of which I didn&#39;t even know), but without hesitation she pointed to my Nana. Ok, no biggie. Some months later, my wife and I are trying for baby #2. After my wife gets pregnant, my daughter is sitting next to her on the couch and puts her head on her belly and says, &quot;mommy, there&#39;s a baby in there&quot;. Ok, maybe that&#39;s coincidence. She overheard us saying something. A few weeks later, my wife miscarries. Maybe my daughter picked up on our sadness, who knows, but she again puts her head on her stomach and says, &quot;mommy, there&#39;s no baby in there anymore.&quot; Then, several months and one more (very early) miscarriage later, my daughter tells us, &quot;I was talking to my brother last night and he said that my sister is coming to live with me soon.&quot; Again, she&#39;s an only child and had no (living?) brother. We were still trying at this point, but had not taken any tests. We picked one up that night, and sure enough, pregnant. When time came to reveal the gender, I wasn&#39;t even interested. My daughter had already said it was a girl. Sure enough, I have two daughters. 6. The Night Light (rperez746) So my grandma use to live with me. She was in the room next to mine and would get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom (which is in my room). There is drop from her room to mine so we put a night light outside the bathroom so she could see the way. It was like this for about 12 years. Only a few days after she had passed away I was in my bed with my cat and dog reading a book or something. I remember my cat and dog both waking up and looking to the night light. My cat got up and went to the light, pawing at it and making nosies. My dog just stayed still, not barking. I would grab him so he would calm down or go to sleep but he never took his eyes off that spot. That&#39;s when I saw what I can only say looked like light bend around the night light. I was positive it was my grandma coming back to use the bathroom and or check on me and the house. To this day (she died about five years ago), I still have that night light there and turn it on every night for her. I haven&#39;t seen her or experienced anything like it again but I&#39;m sure she&#39;s still around. 7. The Reflection (lucozade6) I saw a reflection of myself at the end of a hallway in a friends apartment building, only he told me the day after there was never any mirror in the hallways . 8. The Sweet Grandma (clipmen666) I was 8 when my grandma died, i was sad. So around 2 months passed and i was going at grandma&#39;s house where my granpa lives. So i wake up at 3am and hear footsteps from bedroom door, i froze, i saw my grandma walking up to me and she said &quot;hello little sweetie&quot; and walked away. It was not sleep paralysis because i could move my hands and feet. At morning i told to my grandpa about it and he said &quot;I&#39;ve seen grandma almost everynight, she likes to visit, so don&#39;t be scared next time when you visit&quot; 9. The Ghost of Dad (Ohsoeasy) I was visiting my mother after my dad died. She went shopping with her sister and left me alone. I heard my dad as plain as day up in his room. He got up from his computer chair walked over to the door and opened it. He walked down the stairs and stood on the last step for a few seconds before walking back up to his room and closing the door. I was probably five feet from him in the living room. I just froze. It scared the hell out of me. 10. The Shining (banwagl) I was staying in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO - the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining. Around 1am I heard what sounded like children running up and down the hallways interspersed with laughter. Opened the door to see what the hell was going on, and didn&rsquo;t see anything. Quick little buggers, I thought. Then the next morning when my SO and I took a tour of the building, the guide stopped directly in front of our room to tell us the story of young girls whose ghosts can be heard running up and down that same hallway. 11. The Haunted House (RunBunns247) I was having a conversation with my mom when I was a teenager, mid sentence I felt a hand grab my arm and looked to see who it was. No one was there and my mom didn&#39;t see anyone. Apparently the same thing happened to my sister a few weeks before. Also all the random voices and bags falling off shelves and moving shadows in the periphery. I believe it was just the house that was &quot;haunted&quot;, but they weren&#39;t malicious so it was all good. 12. Attack of the Silly Putty (Pyromaniac0398) When I was in 5th grade I was playing with silly putty in my room when my mom called me down for dinner. I had molded it into a ball and placed it down directly behind me (I&rsquo;m talkin as soft as can be here). When I stood up to go downstairs, I felt something hit me in the back of my head with some force. So I turn around and see my silly putty ball, not on the ground anymore, but bouncing on my windowsill until it eventually rolled back onto the floor. Needless to say I ran downstairs hysterically trying to tell my mom what had happened 13. The Most Heartbreaking Ghost Story You Will Ever Read (Luftwaffe_Panda) I was one of the firefighters working on ground zero for 9/11. I lost two of my buddies, and it still haunts me to this day. As I was making my way through the rubble, I heard someone screaming. I bolted to wherever I heard the sound, and only found a twisted body on a rebar. The body was burnt and pale, and it looked like it had been there awhile. I watched a firefighter walk up the rubble towards me, and hug me. I was confused, but I understood why he wanted a hug. I hugged him back, and when I opened my eyes, there was no firefighter. I stood there, holding a helmet. I don&#39;t know how I got this helmet, but it was in my hands. The golden eagle on the front had been bronzed, and a hole through the side of the helmet, with dried blood around it. I was holding this helmet in tears, while in front of an impaled civilian. I did some research, and the firefighter that I hugged had apparently died three hours before I saw him. I still have that helmet, and I will never forget the hug the fallen firefighter gave me. 

There are two types of people in this world: those who believe in ghosts and those who don&#39;t. The skeptics and the true believers, if you will.  Whether you&#39;re a skeptic or a believer, chances are you feel very strongly about your...