What is the most puzzling,and unexplained thing,having to do with the paranormal to you?

Question

What just seems too incredible?

Answer 1

That so many people believe in it.

EDIT: Now you've gone and done it, Zachary. You crossed Savage so he used his many different Yahoo accounts to give you a load of thumbs-down!  That'll teach ya!

Answer 2

How so many people buy in to so much nonsense.It's mind numbing the silliness so many of us believe.The pride they take in their boundless gullibility.Absolutely incredible in 2007.



Edit.For blank savage.Why do we do it?It's simple.We can't stand by and let you people own this forum.People need to know the truth.The silliness needs to be exposed.You want only agreement go somewhere else!!

Answer 3

Well, I was just browsing the Science & Math category and here was this question right next to all other other questions on math and science, so I guess I'll respond to this request for my opinion, since I was asked.

The most puzzling thing to me about the paranormal is that the more fantastic the idea, the less evidence people seem to need to believe in it! It runs counter to the methods of rational inquiry where silly, unlikely explanations would tend to require more and better evidence. Why do paranormal fans tend to be like this?

My take on it is that paranormal belief is really a kind of religious belief, and people of religion have little use for evidence. They already know what they believe.

That's my take on it this question appearing in the Science & Math category where I normally spend my time.

Answer 4

Personally I do not find a single thing about the paranormal puzzling. But what i do find strange is how some people who do not believe in the paranormal waste so much of their time hanging around those that do, expressing their opinion of how stupid it all is. Yeah we get the point that they do not believe and how they feel about it, but instead of making it known that your opinion is so important, they should not forget that others have just as much right to have their own.

They can say everyday they have made it their quest in life to expose those who exploit others. They are not going to make a difference in a question and answers forum.

The truth is no one is asking for them to believe, no one is asking for their opinion.

Puzzling at what drives a person to go to a section and express an opposing opinion they know that no one there wants to hear. For example I feel television rots the mind but i do not go to the television section of a forum and express this to people who talk about the latest programming.

yes I know this is an open forum and i realize that its been placed as a sub-category within science and mathematics, but there are also other sub-categories where their opinion may help someone, instead of insulting and giving sarcastic remarks, that help no one.

edit for zachary9351 : thanks you just proved my point

Answer 5

That anyone believes it in the first place.

Answer 6

maybe not incredible, but... I have heard what I believed was a ghost walking in the room above me. thing is there wasn't a room above me. I was in a very old house that was converted to a duplex apartment building. I was on the top floor. thought it was maybe people walking on the roof, doing repairs, but when I went out to look, there was no one up there.

Another time, when I was a teenager, a friend and I were using a Ouija board and we were alone in the house. I swear we heard something, and looked over towards the door (we thought my dad was home) and the door k**b turned and the door opened. seriously - we both saw it. I called out for dad, nothing. looked and looked and no one was home.

Freaked us out big time!!

Answer 7

The Bermuda triangle.

Answer 8

That Bush was reelected, spooky.

Answer 9

there is a god

Answer 10

My piano plays it's self.

Books sometimes fall off thing for no apparent reason.

And my phone will go on and off. Anytime, whenever.

Oh and the fact that humans still don't beleive in aliens, even though people have come back with scars, implants and can remember what they(E.T's) look like.

Answer 11

Why we still question the existence of the paranormal.

Answer 12

Come to my house... I am a ghost.

Answer 13

That skeptics keep saying "No proof" when there's literally hundreds of documented experiments showing proof for it.

But ad-homs aside, I would say that any Creationist religion is too incredible for me.

Answer 14

Shadow men.

There are attempted explanations, but they don't really fit the actual phenomena. People who see shadow men and are sure they saw something paranormal usually see them straight on, not in periferal vision. Also, it is sometimes in broad daylight, for as much a minute, depending on if they seem aware that you are watching them or not.

The periferal vision, and shadows playing tricks, cars headlights passing by, just dont explain them.

I would accept an explanation that fit, such as some kind of common hallucination. But so far, I have not seen a fitting explanation for shadow men.

Answer 15

I've had a couple. The most weird thing,no they were quite equal, but what I was going to tell you was the Flying Sauser. It was there,I know it was! I wasn't the only one who saw it! My Brother and Sisters and myself saw it while playing Horses out in the back yard. Maybe 1963 ,well around that year. I won't go into great detail of the days events, but what we saw was quite unnerving. I was just thinking about it this evening. It was up in the sky,above our heads, just sitting there! It was real---- so real,and there it was hovering above our heads . It stayed there along time to. Five to seven minutes ,I guess. Long enough to get a very detailed look at . And with both of my sisters, and my brother being in different areas of the yard, we each saw a different angle of it, with different views of the details. Crissy and me saw it first,and I think it saw us. Well it would have had to, it flew over to us and stopped( hovered) right above our heads. It wasn't to far away either. Then Patty and Ronnie heard it and came running out to see what it was. Patty was in a different area, Ronnie was in another area  yet. It bothers me, I can see it just like it was today. I see every detail,and was just absolutley blown away at what I was looking at. Those things wern't supposed to be real, but there it was! I really think it was going to capture Crissy and me until, Patty and Ronnie came running up. I think they must have got scared, thought ---I don't know what they thought but they took off faster than the speed of light. It still is so puzzleing. It really was there, but sometime I think, Did we really see , what we saw? Was it truley what I thought it was? Or was it a dream? A dream each one of us had of the exact same thing? I dunn-no. Bye

Answer 16

i was travellin somewhere on a bus .The bus stopped at the bus stop i was looking outside through the window and then i saw a glowing woman standing in someone garden near a tree .i thought it was normal but it wasnt she just disappeared in a split second i felt spooked up for ages afterwards.i find the paranormal world quite interesting.

Answer 17

That sometimes psychics can sense what many can't or refuse to. I have the ability but still suprise myself at times.

Answer 18

my family and the three dogs were in the car coming back from the river when we realized we were going the wrong way so we saw a cemetary that we thought we could turn around in, but the split second we drove in the dogs jumped up and howled and started whiningand going crazy and whenever we passed a large headstone they would crouch down then start crying a gain and as soon as we left, they stopped shaking