Supernatural Paranormal Phenomenon

Mention any supernatural paranormal phenomenon and you're bound to get some sort of reaction from people. Thoughts of the supernatural frighten some and fascinate others. Still other people refuse to believe in anything they can't touch or see for themselves. To which group do you belong?

By definition, a supernatural paranormal phenomenon is an event that defies explanation in terms of the typical human experience. In other words, it is something that science can't explain; at least not yet.

Perhaps you've experienced a taste of the paranormal yourself. Have you ever thought you heard a voice, only to turn and find no one is there? Some people explain this away as an auditory hallucination, but what if it's contact from a world just beyond our usual reach? Maybe you once thought you saw something out of the corner of your eye, but the moment you focused on it, whatever it was simply vanished. Nearly all of us have had that feeling of being watched from time to time. There must be some reason for it, mustn't there?

As it may have already occurred to you, a supernatural paranormal experience generates far more questions than it could possibly answer.

There are myriad experiences that fall within the realm of the paranormal. Here are a few broad categories to give you an overview of just how much "supernatural" activity is reported around the globe.

Ghosts might be considered the grand-daddy of paranormal experiences. We all have some level of curiosity about what happens to our conscious being when we die. Is there really life after physical death? Are we still capable of communicating with the living? Some people believe so, and some desperately hope it's true. Wherever you stand on the topic, many people have reported seeing misty apparitions of human forms, some familiar and others unknown.

Although most people think of ghosts in human terms, there are other types of spirits that fall in this category, including evil spirits sometimes referred to as demons, and elemental spirits simply referred to as an "it".

Hauntings are paranormal experiences that are typically attached to a location. They can involve ghosts, but this isn't always the case.

Hauntings can be classed accordingly:

• Residual hauntings: This activity involves a scenario repeating itself over and over in a given location at a general time of day. Think of it as watching a supernatural re-run of a TV program and you have a general idea.
• Poltergiest activity: Poltergiests are a type of energy that attach to people, causing unusual mayhem and activity wherever an affected person goes. Objects moving by themselves, cupboard doors opening on their own and projectiles thrown by unseen forces all fall under the heading of poltergeist activity.
• Intelligent hauntings: This is the classic type of haunting where a spirit attempts to interact with living beings at a particular location.

Have we been visited by beings from another world? Does life exist beyond the earth's atmosphere? There's certainly a lot of anecdotal evidence to support the claims, as well as a large body of questionable physical evidence. Some people even claim the US government is keeping conclusive physical evidence under tight security since the infamous UFO crash decades ago in Roswell, New Mexico.

This fascinating branch of paranormal research is all about animals as yet identified and cataloged by conventional science.

They include the study of:

• Bigfoot/Yeti/Skunk Ape creatures
• The Lochness Monster
• Chupacabras

This category includes famous legendary creatures such as:

• Werewolves
• Vampires
• Zombies
• Green Man
• Mothman

Metaphysical phenomena include but are not limited to such concepts as:

• Reincarnation: The cyclic return of a single soul to new physical bodies
• Telepathy: The silent transmission of thoughts
• Telekinesis: The ability to move objects with the power of the mind
• Clairvoyance/ESP: The ability to perceive past and future events, as well as sense things beyond the scope of the general five senses
• Astrology: The study of how the planets and other astral bodies affect the human experience
• Chakras: Seven energy portals located at specific points of the body from the pelvis to the top of the head
• Auras: Colorful energy fields that envelop a person at any given moment

This is only a small sampling of things that can be considered part of a supernatural paranormal phenomenon. If nothing else, they represent how much we still have to learn about the world around us.

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