Do you believe in angels/demons?

[bimmylee]

Let's be clear. Of course you cannot explicitly "prove" that these beings exist. That much is certain. Excluding certain texts, the only thing anyone has to go by is anecdotal evidence...


My university's campus is split up into two simple areas: "north campus" and "south campus". The entire south campus used to be an old nunnery, and there's even an ancient graveyard full of nuns right behind the dormitory. There's all sorts of underground tunnels and basement passageways connecting all of the south campus buildings. It's a creepy place to begin with. And that's in the daytime. My freshman year, two older friends of mine gave me a tour of the basement of these buildings (collectively known as "Seton") around 2 in the morning. They had told me all sorts of things that they had seen at Seton late at night, and I could feel that the presence of the basement was slightly...off. One of their particularly memorable encounters was with a being they called "Mr. Teeth", a tall, black shadowy figure with a distinct toothy grin. My friend Stephen said he had once been approached by Mr. Teeth; it just sort of floated out from around a corner and started moving towards him. As it moved closer and he got a better look at it, it cocked its head to the side and smiled real wide, showing rows of teeth. Stephen then bolted for the nearest door. While Stephen claims it was a ghost (which I don't believe in), I am certain that thing was a demon.


A friend of mine from church once told me about another incident. This friend is from out of town, so he's temporarily living with a married couple (also from our church) while he does an internship at our church. They live on the upper level of a two-decker, two-family apartment house. Late one night while sleeping, the husband and wife woke up to the sound of a loud, hellish shriek from below. Their dog was cowering underneath the bed, shaking violently; they had never seen their dog so scared. In the morning, they asked everyone (the friend staying with them as well as the neighbors living below them) and no one had heard anything. It was as if it had never happened... except for the behavior of the dog.