Since we're there more paranormal stuff. { posted before }I believe the 99% of what people think of as paranormal activity (such as all the examples above) has an explanation rooted in the physical world, such as we understand it.
That is not to say I do not believe in the paranormal at all - I just don't think footsteps upstairs in the house when no one is there is it. Buildings carry noise, sounds travels and carries in extremely interesting ways, sometimes producing effects that, at first, seem impossible - I've lived in too many places where the footsteps of a human upstairs are barely audible but a mouse runs across a specific spot and suddenly it seems there's a herd of stampeding wildebeest up there.
Things that go bump in the night are just things, going bump... in the night. Ghosts have better things to do.
ghosts , mediums , the paranormal just in time for halloween
preface " I do not actually anticipate finding myself in existence after physical death....But is that the only honest way of looking at the survival evidence. No in all candor , there are three types of evidence which still remain essentially as they have remained through all psychical research , and which as far as i know , cannot be swept aside or weaken ".
Gardner Murphy " one of the eminent psychologists of our time "
Psychiatric Quarterly
This is very complicated stuff and i think Dr.Murphy was partially referring to the mediumship of Mrs.Leonard and the frederic myers tapes. I'll only give a brief description and facts just for halloween.
Mrs.Leonard is perhaps the most famous medium in history. She was investigated by the psychical society of harvard { the famous american think william james was a member } , maybe the psychical society of cambridge universtiy , a number of scientists and detectives. Dr.Murphy describes Mrs.Talbot's seance with mrs.leonard. Mrs.Talbot writes " Then feda { the aunt of mrs.leonard who took over her consciousness } gave a very correct description of my husband { sometimes the harvard chapter introduced subjects only hours before/subjects mrs.leonard had never meet } and a most extraordinary conversion followed. ..As time went on i was forced to belief this was my husband { who had passed away }"
What is interesting is mrs.leonard basically from what i can tell blew everybody away to the point some members of the harvard chapter started following her around day and night. They hired detectives to follow her and investigated her background. They all , as far as i know , came to the conclusion she was completely honest and only a hoax or very unusual scientific reasoning could explain her abilities. All these subjects and such took copious notes. Scientists tested her and this went for years and years.
Briefly frederic myers was a professor of classical languages at cambridge and a member of the psychical society at cambridge who said that after he died he would try to communicate with the living. A few years after he passed away various mediums throughout the world including mrs.leonard i think started receiving strange partial messages. When they were pieced together they were found to be messages from frederic myers. These messages lasted 30 years/50000 transcripts and are probably on file at cambridge universtiy. Some messages refer to material that in all probability was known to only one person in the world/frederic myers.
Myers SUPPOSELY communicates " I admit i have had bad , depressing , and painful hours after i left the earth but out of them blossomed a lovely life." Dr.Murphy studied some of the transcripts and wrote that they appear to be "autonomous ,self contained , completely and humanly purposive". Its strange mysterious stuff. Happy halloween.