What finally convinced me was when a friend from out of town was visiting me, and we were downtown Fort Worth at the Water Gardens. As we were leaving and walking back to my car, a man approached us on a bicycle. He made a comment something like "I wish i had your camera" as I was carrying my Sony DSLR with me. He then proceeded into this diatribe about seeing demons underneath the overpass and asked me if i had seen them etc.. He said he never used to believe in them until he started smoking crack and meth.. At this point I was really wishing I had some kind of protection as I didn't know what this guy would do. Fortunately I simply said "I have to go now, good luck to you etc" and he took off in the other direction.
You just never know what you will come up against on a day to day basis.