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What constitutes a paranormal experience?
July 29, 2013
Lee Arnold
Sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn’t believe he’s seen a ghost. Nearly everyone I know has told me at least one story about a spooky event where they’ve seen something they cannot explain without resorting to the “G” word. That’s not to say I too haven’t had a few experiences I’ve found to be odd. I have. I’m just not willing to say without a doubt these events are of paranormal significance, but I’m also not able to entirely rule it out. What I am willing to do is consider your input, because if there is a blog audience online who is well-versed in the paranormal, it’s the Mysterious Universe audience. Here is one of my experiences that stand out as being odd.
A friend of mine had just recently gotten into actively looking into the paranormal, and he invited me to get involved with his adventures. I knew a little bit about ghosts at the time, but most of what I knew was slightly out-dated as it was information I picked up from books in the darkest corner of my local public library. These books were already old when I discovered the subject cards in the card catalog. And we’re talking about a real card catalog here, with paper and everything. We’re talking really old here.
To get caught up on things I picked up a book on Amazon called How to Hunt Ghosts: A Practical Guide by Joshua P. Warren. The book had been published just a few years before in 2003, and the content seemed to be well-researched and presented in a way that even I could understand it.
I studied up and soon after I went on my first ghost-hunting trip.
I was more of a tag-along than a real ghost hunter. I just wanted to get out of the house and do something different. My expectations of encountering a ghost were about as high as my expectations of seeing the lotto-ball machine spit out the numbers on my ticket in a multi-million-dollar lotto drawing.
The first trip out was uneventful.
We spent the night at one of those pay-at-the-door, “haunted” buildings of local historic significance, the former West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville. Since our visit, the prison has appeared on several of the ghost shows on television, but at the time of our visit the interest in ghosts and ghost hunting was just starting to creep into the mainstream.
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What constitutes a paranormal experience?
July 29, 2013
Lee Arnold
Sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn’t believe he’s seen a ghost. Nearly everyone I know has told me at least one story about a spooky event where they’ve seen something they cannot explain without resorting to the “G” word. That’s not to say I too haven’t had a few experiences I’ve found to be odd. I have. I’m just not willing to say without a doubt these events are of paranormal significance, but I’m also not able to entirely rule it out. What I am willing to do is consider your input, because if there is a blog audience online who is well-versed in the paranormal, it’s the Mysterious Universe audience. Here is one of my experiences that stand out as being odd.
A friend of mine had just recently gotten into actively looking into the paranormal, and he invited me to get involved with his adventures. I knew a little bit about ghosts at the time, but most of what I knew was slightly out-dated as it was information I picked up from books in the darkest corner of my local public library. These books were already old when I discovered the subject cards in the card catalog. And we’re talking about a real card catalog here, with paper and everything. We’re talking really old here.
To get caught up on things I picked up a book on Amazon called How to Hunt Ghosts: A Practical Guide by Joshua P. Warren. The book had been published just a few years before in 2003, and the content seemed to be well-researched and presented in a way that even I could understand it.
I studied up and soon after I went on my first ghost-hunting trip.
I was more of a tag-along than a real ghost hunter. I just wanted to get out of the house and do something different. My expectations of encountering a ghost were about as high as my expectations of seeing the lotto-ball machine spit out the numbers on my ticket in a multi-million-dollar lotto drawing.
The first trip out was uneventful.
We spent the night at one of those pay-at-the-door, “haunted” buildings of local historic significance, the former West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville. Since our visit, the prison has appeared on several of the ghost shows on television, but at the time of our visit the interest in ghosts and ghost hunting was just starting to creep into the mainstream.
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/07/what-constitutes-a-paranormal-experience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-constitutes-a-paranormal-experience