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Do You Believe In Spirits?

Believing in the possibility.

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Do You Believe In Spirits?
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I have never experienced a supernatural event in my life. Every time there is a noise in the house or footsteps, there is always an explanation. I'll find the cats playing with something or find out my mom was awake. As a child, ghosts and demons -- creatures of the dark -- frightened me. They were as real as violent criminals in prison. The older I became, the more curious I was about the piece of the world I had never seen.

Many of my friends had claimed to see a ghost or feel the presence of a spirit. One claimed her house was haunted and her mother saw the spirit. I had lived in that house for three months before her. Although it was creepy and old, I still was never bothered. Another could hear the spirit humming behind a closed door. Her girlfriend at the time knew the song and hummed along with the spirit. I had never felt the room grow cold nor feel an eerie presence near me. It never became real.

A growing need to witness a supernatural event had lessened my fear of it happening. I became the leader in the dark, the basement buddy and the only one willing to sleep alone in a supposedly haunted house. Still no event had ever occurred without some explanation. Even calling out to the spirits for a sign was useless.

The questions arose as to my belief in spirits. They were no longer as real to me as the criminals were. Spirits and ghosts were the things that never showed their face. They felt made up, fake. Was I to believe in them like Santa knowing they were not real? Or to believe in them like God although I never saw them?

The answer to that question may never come. I know that I will never buy a house that is known to be haunted especially if it was like anything from the "Conjuring" movies. I will most likely never use a Ouija board although through science it was proven to not work. The whole idea behind calling out to spirits is something I wouldn't do. I'd rather not risk it.

This all sounds like I would believe in them. The issue is they don't seem real. It's a scenario where I'm sitting on the fence. I'm not sure if I do and I'm not sure if I don't. Maybe the answer lies in the possibility that they are.

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