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    Paranormal activity has been speculated to have been around for centuries and will continue to be around. There may be not be any real proof of ghosts, but many people believe in them. Not everyone believes in paranormal activity, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something going on. About 47% of Americans believe in ghost and think they’re real. (huffpost) I’ve had personal experience with what I believe would be a ghost. The biggest reason why I think paranormal activity is real because of what

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    people are quick to jump to these assumptions that something is haunted or paranormal when it could be something as simple as an old broken down exhaust fan causing it. Carrie Poppy, in the TEDTalk titled “A Scientific Approach to the Paranormal”, talks about the quick judgements in determining the paranormal and how in her lifetime all of them have been debunked by science. She explains that assuming something is paranormal can actually be dangerous. She is the co-host of a popular podcast Oh No,

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    imagination or maybe it was actually something paranormal. The paranormal is believed to be a distorted image or phenomenon that is supposed to be beyond normal or scientific explanation; this superstition is believed to be popular in our culture. David Robson, the author of “Psychology: The Truth About the Paranormal” defines that the visions people may see are just an illusion of the minds. The article provides readers with the popular experiences of paranormal phenomenon and reasoning behind it and I

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    and our recent discussion, I decided to make one my extra’s on if there is science behind paranormal experiences? What are paranormal experiences? Well according to dictionary.com, these experiences are essentially strange things that occur with no scientific explanation to back them up. However, some may argue that there is logic and science behind individuals feeling like they are experiencing paranormal activity. Perception, this is the leading factor when it comes to people believing that they

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    English 102 30 April 2015 Paranormal Activity in Wisconsin Wisconsin is the home of many people, but it is also the home of many locations of paranormal activity. Paranormal sightings have been reported all over Wisconsin, ranging from haunted houses to paranormal creatures. These sightings have been reported in the northern part of Wisconsin and even the southern part. In this paper, three popular locations will be talking about, including their histories. What is the paranormal you say? Glenn G. Sparks

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    Paranormal Phenomena Paranormal phenomena indicates that ghost and demons truly exist in forms of orbs, cold spots, disembodied voices and growls, and physical attacks. Many of paranormal encounters happen when a person has died on or around the house, asylum, and prison, attachments on objects, and Ouija boards being used. At the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, people who have stayed there has experience growls from nothing being there, objects being thrown at them. Quartz, running water high

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    This essay will summarise and evaluate Tepani Riekki et al. journal article "Paranormal and Religious Believers Are More Prone to Illusory Face Perception than Skeptics and Non-believers" (2013). It considers the advantages of the innovative method used for conducting the research, the problem of the omission of participant cultural background and the importance of making a division between religions with human-like divinity and religions with non human-like ones. This essay concludes that although

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    Parapsychology is the study of psychic and paranormal phenomena, more commonly known as psi phenomena. These phenomena include psychokinesis, precognition, and extrasensory perception. Psychokinesis is defined as the power to move objects through psychic means. Precognition is the ability to foresee and predict the future. Extrasensory perception is the ability to sense things through the power of the mind, rather than through the five traditional physical senses. Some people believe in the reality

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    “But in the history of the United States there are several influential and persisting paranormal mysteries that have formed the haunted landscape of our shared country and cultural experience and have formed the basis of the themes and motifs examined in this work” (Fitch 8). In “Paranormal National” Marc E. Fitch, talks about the history of paranormal activities that occurred in the United States. Since the ancient times, people all around the world has seen ghosts or assumed haunted places dwells

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    I don’t really believe in the paranormal, but there was this one time I felt very ill at ease. It happened in September 2012 and my wife and I decided that we should go away for the weekend to see her family in Stoke. So we drove up from our house in Southampton at 5:00 in the afternoon and it was just my wife, our five-year old daughter and I. As we were on the motorway we got to see the beautiful English countryside, which amused my daughter as she was pointing at the livestock and saying, “Ha-ha

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