As Halloween draws near, TIME100 Next Gala 2023 honorees answer the age-old question: "Do you believe in ghosts?"
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00:00 Do you believe in ghosts?
00:02 No. I do not. I'm like, I would like to, but I just don't. Sorry.
00:09 I believe in ghosts a lot, yes.
00:12 Why a lot?
00:13 I am Filipino, so there is this thing where they call ghosts "mumu" and it's ingrained in my culture,
00:19 but also I believe in ghosts because I've also had a ghost experience.
00:23 What was your ghost experience?
00:25 I was at a family reunion in Pennsylvania a really long time ago and I'm also half white
00:31 and they basically have kind of a plantation house and I saw a ghost in the middle of the night
00:38 when I was seven years old and I'll definitely never forget it.
00:41 Yeah, it was crazy, but I do not.
00:44 Who was the ghost?
00:45 It was a really old white man, actually. It was so scary.
00:49 Oh my god!
00:50 I do believe in ghosts, but it's a very recent indoctrination.
00:55 I started believing in ghosts like a year and a half ago at the ripe age of 25.
01:00 There was just a ghost downstairs. There was a ghost downstairs.
01:03 He was talking to me and I kept responding and he kept responding and then I was like,
01:07 "Oh, it's my brother," and then I looked and my brother wasn't there.
01:09 It was just some guy downstairs or it was like a home invader that was like really chill.
01:14 So what were you talking to this ghost about and whose ghost was it?
01:17 I was like, "What are you doing down there?" He was like, "Oh."
01:20 I'm like, "Is that you down there, Richard?" He's like, "No."
01:23 I'm like, "Who is it?" He's like, "I don't know."
01:25 Like, give me a full on-- I mean, it might have just been a drunk person that stumbled into my house,
01:29 but I like to think it was a spooky ghost.
01:32 No. I do believe in spirits, though.
01:35 What's the difference?
01:37 Ghosts are dead people that didn't go to anywhere.
01:43 Spirits are not people. They are forces.
01:48 Obviously, I believe in ghosts. I'm haunted every day.
01:52 I do. I totally do.
01:54 I have a 1920s cottage and I'd be silly to say that there isn't some energy around there
01:59 and I'm down with it as long as it's Casper.
02:02 Not really.
02:04 Coming from Thailand is a bit strange, but I have never seen one or never felt one, so.
02:11 I believe in ghosts. I lost my father at the age of two.
02:14 I always feel like my father is always there during the toughest time.
02:19 You can just feel the energy.
02:21 I do feel like someone is looking right above me, guiding me and ordering my steps.
02:26 So, yes, I believe in ghosts.
02:29 I don't believe in the Halloween ghost concept of a spooky thing,
02:34 but I do believe spirit is around us from the people we love and the people in our lives.
02:39 When I moved into my first apartment, at the same time every night I would get a knock at 3.32 a.m. in my apartment.
02:48 It was the wildest thing. Every single night. 3.32 every morning in my first apartment.
02:55 It never ended.
02:58 It never ended. I never figured out who it was, but I felt something.
03:03 I felt something every night 3.32 a.m.
03:06 I believe in ghosts, some type of spirit.
03:09 Ooh, yeah, something's out there.