I do believe in ghosts. There is a school about 100 yards from my house. The school was built almost 75 years ago. I went to it when I was in Elementary School and was there for 5 years, never noticed a thing. Then one night last summer, my brother, my cousin and I went to the school. Honestly, I don't remember why we went there, but we got there and there was a really eerie feeling, so we looked in the windows for a bit to see how creepy the school got in the summer. We were looking for about 3-5 minutes when all of a sudden the shape of a body moved towards the window then disappeared. It freaked me out. I had never seen such a thing, so it spooked me for a while.
Then the next day my friend came over and was going to stay over for the night, so of course we brought him to the school that night to see if he saw anything similar to what we saw. At the time he was texting his mom, who knew what we were looking for, and recieved a text from her that said, "Beware of things that go bump in the night." At the time we just thought it of it as a joke. So some time went by and we hadn't seen anything, and we were about to head home when we saw something in one of the classrooms. There seemed to be a red light that was in the classroom, that could only be seen on an angle. It was kind of creepy, but then out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move in a part of the classroom. Apparently my friend saw it too, because we both jumped. We immediately grabbed our bikes and rode them back to my house, but when we returned to the house, the text my friend received had disappeared, which really creeped us out. His mom also never recalls sending the message.
So we went on google and searched the name of the school and found out that it used to be a church. There also used to be a man who lived behind the church. He was apparently crazy and had visited a nearby mental hospital multiple times. So I am thinking that this "ghost" is the same man who used to live on the same ground that the school is on now.
You can call this story fake if you want, I really don't care because I was truly there and I know what happened. I guess it takes something big to happen for someone to believe in something, so I thought I would share it on sythe.