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    we could come up with to explain life’s mysteries. One subject of interest that we are all still stumped on are things classified as paranormal. Paranormal activity is a very debatable topic, with some saying ghosts and poltergeists are as real as you and me, while others try to explain the weird happenings as something natural. Even if one believes in the paranormal or not, the subject is, to say the least, very interesting. All over the world, there are claims of supernatural things going on; there

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    Home Along A Busy Road

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    What appears to be just another white two story home along a busy road, is a lot more than it looks. If you slow down and take a closer look, you notice a public parking lot as well as an “open” sign in the window. This is not a residence but Wilmington 's Oddity / Antique store. On the corner of Marsh and Sherwood Roads, this house is coated in wonderful shade of mature trees that line the streets as well as the whole neighborhood. Upon closer examination, you notice this is the obscure but well

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    A person can easily say that mediumship is foolishness (I guess that sort of gives away my position on the matter). It is my policy to report on my personal experiences in the "It's what you actually saw, not what you think you saw" manner. (Please note this remark is directed towards events that occur in the physical environment such as shadow people or hauntings). I'm not certain if I have always stuck to this policy in my past writings. With the supernatural, as with any topic whether it be politics

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    People claim to have had paranormal encounters while wearing Dr. Michael Persingers God Helmet. Given that the helmet exposes a weak magnetic field beside ones temporal lobes, this is very much possible. Persinger believed that electromagnetic changes in earths crust during earthquakes might cause unusual atmospheric phenomena. Considering that earthquakes do generate weak magnetic fields, he thought that individuals may experience paranormal phenomena in result. Creating the helmet, he put his experiment

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    Essay about If I See A Ghost Are My Senses

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    IF I SEE A GHOST ARE MY SENSES TO BLAME? To complement the full apprehension of the terms which will be used throughout this argument, a number of meanings taken from The Lexicon Webster Dictionary is provided: GHOST The soul or spirit of a dead person. A disembodied spirit. HALLUCINATION (psy) an apparent perception, as by sight or hearing, for which there is no real external cause, as distinguished from illusion ILLUSION A false impression or belief. False perception or conception of some object

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    that humans are curious of. There have been countless amounts of evidence gathered by paranormal investigators or ghost hunters. From videos of moving objects, recordings of voices from spirits through EVP, and even pictures of ghosts themselves. All of which the world sees as undeniable or fraudulent evidence based on one’s own self-belief. However, with numerous accounts of documentation from not only paranormal investigators, but actual people from across the world, it’s almost impossible to not

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    Research Issues in Parapsychology Essay

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    apparitions to the forefront of popular consciousness. Seances became popular parlor activities, and a lucky few made a decent living from the paranormal fancies of the Victorian Age. As these pursuits gained notoriety for their entertainment value, however, science sought to find fact behind them. It was around this time that the study of the paranormal began to emerge. This originally consisted of debunking the popular mystics of the day. Harry Houdini popularized this as he traveled the country

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    The Psychic Medium

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    paper, I will discuss that of the psychic medium. The term psychic medium refers to a person thought to have the ability to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension through extra sensory perception or paranormal powers. While a medium will always be psychic, a psychic is not always a medium. The main objective of a mediums work is to prove survival of the human personality or spirit after death and to help the bereaved come to terms with their loss. The

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    Life Reflection Paper

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    navigate the internet. At first I thought I would struggle because English isn’t my strong suit. One of the highlights of this course was creating a blog. I truly have never read one, not alone create one. It made me realize how interested I was in paranormal activities. When completing the weekly blog, I could wait to the last minute because it took no time for my thoughts and ideas

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    Astral Projection Essay

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    travel through the spirit realm and see horrible yet amazing things such as the creatures and the environment there. But, how do we know that the idea to travel through the spirit realm is true and realistic? It was such a heated debate between paranormals when this idea came out. The truth? You can still reach the spirit world. In addition, you probably need to do some hard practices to learn to enter the spirit realm, but that doesn’t make it impossible. The ritual to do that have been commonly

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