Real life paranormal experiences

[Magical Realist]

The following are compelling and credible accounts by people of their encounters with ghosts. Hopefully they will open up your mind to what is possible in this reality. You don't have to explain these incidents. You have only to freely acknowledge they happen and that people around the world have experienced them and continue to experience them. Who knows, maybe one day you may have your own experience if you're lucky.

1. Various experiences

2. The terror of a supernatural presence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1fe-9W...ex=10&t=0s

3. Ghost experiences of Melissa McCarthy and Ellen

4. Haunted office experiences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14sNdXq4...Fq&index=1

5. Shadow creatures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNW5RiNf...s&index=13

6. The rocking chair

 

[sweetpea]

The following are compelling and credible accounts by people of their encounters with ghosts.

Well, the first and last videos are ''compelling and credible'' because of the background music and spooky sounds. The middle video doesn't have these, so that one is not ''compelling and credible''.

 

[Magical Realist]

Can you explain why
Well, the first and last videos are ''compelling and credible'' because of the background music and spooky sounds. the middle video dosn't have these, so that one is not ''compelling and credible''.

Yeah...music really makes accounts "credible".

 

[sweetpea]

Yeah...music really makes accounts "credible".

All aboard MR's merry- go-round.

 

[Magical Realist]

Compelling AND musical!

 

[Kittamaru]

You don't have to explain these incidents.

Anti-science at its purest...

Who knows, maybe one day you may have your own experience if you're lucky.

I've had my own experiences; some I could explain, others I am at a loss for and readily admit it. That does not mean I jump to the nuttiest conclusion possible at every shadow.

 

[Magical Realist]

I've had my own experiences; some I could explain, others I am at a loss for and readily admit it.

As is consistent with this thread, if you don't mind could you share those experiences you could not explain?

 

[Kittamaru]

As is consistent with this thread, if you don't mind could you share those experiences you could not explain?

They've been shared before, in other posts - to be frank, I don't feel it's worth my time or effort to attempt to rehash them yet again from old memories.

 

[Magical Realist]

They've been shared before, in other posts - to be frank, I don't feel it's worth my time or effort to attempt to rehash them yet again from old memories.

So you admit there are things that can happen that cannot be explained? What distinguishes this from the paranormal?

 

[Kittamaru]

So you admit there are things that can happen that cannot be explained? What distinguishes this from the paranormal?

Simple - claiming something unexplained as paranormal is attempting to assign a very specific label to an unknown event; it is no more a true statement of fact than a Nigerian Prince that claims to have a hundred million dollars to transfer to your bank account, if only you would send him a check for ten grand to pay the taxes on it. Is it possible that he will follow through? Sure, but not probable.

Something unexplained is, quite simply, something we cannot explain yet. At one time, the movements of the stars and planets was unexplained, and so it was said to be "The Gods". At one time, bacteria and other pathogens were unknown, so sickness was "explained" as an imbalance in the humors of the body, resulting in bloodletting and drilling holes in peoples skulls. Certainly one would not call these well founded nor scientifically accurate explanations, given what we know now.

 

[Magical Realist]

So would you disagree with the following definition:

"paranormal (adj)----Denoting events or phenomena such as telekinesis or clairvoyance that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding."

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/paranormal

 

[Kittamaru]

So would you disagree with the following definition:

"paranormal (adj)----Denoting events or phenomena such as telekinesis or clairvoyance that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding."

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/paranormal

I do not disagree with the definition, I disagree with the application.

To further define the word:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paranormal
and
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/paranormal

paranormal
[par-uh-nawr-muh l]
adjective
1.of or relating to the claimed occurrence of an event or perception without scientific explanation, as psychokinesis, extrasensory perception, or other purportedly supernatural phenomena.

Origin of paranormal
First recorded in 1915-20; para-1 + normal

see also:

British Dictionary definitions for paranormal
paranormal

adjective
1.beyond normal explanation

noun
2.the paranormal, paranormal happenings generally

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

To take the root - para + normal.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/para-

para-
Word Origin
1.a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, most often attached to verbs and verbal derivatives, with the meanings “at or to one side of, beside, side by side” (parabola; paragraph; parallel; paralysis), “beyond, past, by” (paradox; paragogue); by extension from these senses, this prefix came to designate objects or activities auxiliary to or derivative of that denoted by the base word (parody; paronomasia), and hence abnormal or defective (paranoia), a sense now common in modern scientific coinages (parageusia; paralexia). As an English prefix, para-1, may have any of these senses; it is also productive in the naming of occupational roles considered ancillary or subsidiary to roles requiring more training, or of a higher status, on such models as paramedical, and paraprofessional: paralegal; paralibrarian; parapolice .

The prefix para-, in this usage, would denote beyond or outside the realm of the the adjective, -normal:

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/normal

normal
adjective
1.conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
2.serving to establish a standard.

Origin of normal:
1520-30; < Latinnormālis made according to a carpenter's square, equivalent to norm(a) (see norm) + -ālis-al1

Latin word normālis - perpendicular, square, or with right angles, as a carpenter's square

Thus, para-normal, in a quite literal sense, simply means "outside normal". In a contemporary sense, as is used today, it refers to something that we cannot currently explain.

Ultimately, a "claimed occurrence of an event or perception without scientific explanation" does not require it to be anything "from the beyond", "extra-terrestrial", or otherwise non-mundane - it simply means we haven't the data to explain it; as such, attempts to label it as something else are simple speculation, and significant evidence would be required as a proof-positive for such a claim.

 

[Michael 345]

Denoting events or phenomena such as telekinesis or clairvoyance that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding

Because they are not Science?

 

[Magical Realist]

"British Prime Minister Winston Churchill loved to retire late, take a long, hot bath while drinking a Scotch, and smoke a cigar and relax. On this occasion, he climbed out of the bath and naked, but for his cigar, walked into the adjoining bedroom. He was startled to see Lincoln standing by the fireplace in the room, leaning on the mantle. Churchill, always quick on the uptake, simply took his cigar out of his mouth, tapped the ash off the end of his cigar and said "Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me at a disadvantage." Lincoln smiled softly, as if laughing and disappeared. Churchill smiled in embarrassment."---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln's_ghost

 

[Musika]

I wonder, when the time comes around, what antics Donald Trump's ghost will get up to.

 

[James R]

With no attempt at analysis, this is just spam from Magical Realist.

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