Ok, I agree the TV shows who ALWAYS appear to find ghosts are faking it. Thats just for entertainment but it does make me jump.
I do believe in ghosts though. I think unless you've seen one yourself it is in fact VERY hard to believe in them.
I've told people what happened to me and I don't know if they all believe me but my family does.. ok here goes. This is a really long story, but i swear to you not a word of it is a lie.
I was living in my first house with my mum and brother. I was abouuuut 10 when something happened. I was just lying in bed and I always left my TV on cause I was just getting used to sleeping with the light off lol.
My mum would always come in when she went to bed and turn my TV off.
The nights she went out the TV would be left on.
One night she was out and I woke up in the night and saw my TV was off. I closed my eyes, then opened them again because it sounded like a poster had fallen off the wall. There was a figure standing near my bed, waring gardening stuff with whispy red hair. I made a noise but then it went away. I thought I was dreaming so in the morning I asked my mum if she'd turned off my TV. She said no, so I presumed it had gone off by itself.
A couple of nights later when she was out again the exact same thing happened, and when I saw the figure it was standing right next to me. I scrunched my eyes together and took a deep breath and when I opened them, he'd gone. I jumped out of bed and went downstairs and my mum had just got back. I slept in my mummys bed that night! haha.
Next week, my mum had turned my TV off cause she came in and woke me up by accident, then she went to bed. I woke up again because my TV had come on.. then the figure was leaning over me looking at me. I screamed and it went away. I ran into my mums room and I stayed there again.
My next door neighbour used to come over most says for a coffee, and when we were telling her she told us laughing, it might be her Uncle Fred. She asked what he looked like and the description I gave her matched a photo she had of her uncle.
Fred lived in the house years before we did, and had died in the room next to mine.
Jean our neighbour told us he loved being in the garden, and he had the exact same interests as me, and that if I had been alive before he died he would have loved me.
We think that he was coming to meet me or something, or watching me, cause I apparantly also had an imaginary friend I used to play in the garden with called Mr Fred when I was very young.
I never saw the figure again but I always got the feeling someone was there, or watching me. But I wasnt scared because if something bad was going to happen to me, it would have already happened.
Whether you believe me or not is up to you but that's my experience and that's why I believe in ghosts.
Sure I hear all the noises and stuff, but that's the best proof for me to say I believe!
Edit: And I dont think im special or anything lol
someone accused me of claiming to be psychic falsely. I do NOT think im psychic or in any way supernatural or that bullShiz. I just believe in it.