Do you believe in anything that's paranormal?

Sea Monsters? Ghosts? ESP? Aliens visiting the Earth? Big Foot? Real world Magic? Anything at all. What do you believe is real?

Provide sufficient evidence, and I’ll consider believing it.

Nope.

No.

I’ve experienced odd things, very odd things, but I’m a fan of the scientific method, so I’m prone to chalk those experiences up to cool incidence. Still I wonder… :slight_smile:

Man, I’m trying to think of the best way to answer this. Yes, I believe in paranormal things, but it’s hard for me to say what specifically I believe in. Essentially, I think there are lots of things that haven’t yet been proven by science, and that are true even without hard evidence to back them up. So I absolutely think it’s possible, and even reasonable to believe, that some unexplained phenomena is actually aliens or spirits or some undiscovered species of animal, as opposed to the more mundane explanations of things like old houses settling or, I don’t know, magnets or something.

I think that in this age of science, we try very hard to fit any unexplained phenomena into our existing scientific knowledge of the world, and that by doing so, we sometimes arrive at the wrong explanation because what’s really happening is something that hasn’t yet been discovered and affirmed by science.

For what it’s worth believing things currently called paranormal are just things Science hasn’t yet explained counts for the purposes of my question as believing in them. The choice is between believing there is something there vs. it being just mistakes and hoaxes.

Sea monsters are perfectly well established and verified by mainstream science. If you don’t consider great white sharks or giant squids sea monsters, then I don’t know what the word means to you.

Similarly, sasquatches, although not scientifically verified and unlikely to exist, wouldn’t be at all paranormal if they did. There’s nothing in any of the laws of science that says that large bipedal mammals can’t exist in the Pacific Northwest.

Of course not.

No, of course not.

In almost every instance of the “unexplained”, they turn out to be a hoax, prank, debunked, a misunderstanding/ignorance of natural phenomena, or otherwise a mundane explanation for an anomaly.

In most cases, it’s not even all that hard even to interpret the phenomenon as completely mundane, such as “orbs” in photography or crop circles.

Aliens visiting Earth also would not be paranormal, if they were here.

God, however, fits the definition.

It’s scientific fact that they do exist.

Believing in something does not require any evidence. Accepting something as true or fact does require evidence. I think a lot of people these days cant (or wont) understand the difference. For example, I would like to believe there are sasquatch living in the woods somewhere, but there is no hard evidence, so I cannot accept that they exist.

I do not accept any of the things the OP listed as real, and I will throw-in Haunted Houses (being that it’s Halloween today) to the list. Yes, if offered to stay a night in a supposed haunted house, I would gladly do so (altho, I am sure I would be pranked).

With the evidence as persented, not at all.

No. I’m no fun at parties, either.

No.
If it exists than its by definition not paranormal…its ‘normal’

by extension, If its paranormal…it doesn’t exist

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No.

However I don’t consider extraterrestrial life to be paranormal. I don’t believe Earth has ever been visited by aliens but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that billions of miles away are other lifeforms.

200 years ago human flight would have been paranormal activity. Or time dilation. Many things exist but we just aren’t aware of them yet.

The definition of “paranormal” is not “normal things we haven’t figured out yet”.