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The Paranormal
I know this subject has been done to death at times on AB but I would be interested to hear...
1) If you are a believer (maybe had some unexplained experience) what would convince you that there is a rational explanation?
2) if you are an unbeliever, what would convince you that paranormal events happen that our current understanding can't explain?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I know you asked that of Naomi, Curly fries, but if I can also answer. My family home is extremely old. My mother (and v reluctantly my father) and my siblings and I are convinced of some form of presence which can be slightly mischievous but not malevolent.
On the other hand, at my father's family home there is something really unpleasant.
V old property (main part is 16thc) built on the site of an earlier property (internally there is a saxon stone arch).
Doors slamming violently; stuff flying across a room and smashing; feeling you were being watched and then hearing a swish followed by footsteps and a strong smell of perfume; and just having the feeling you did not want to hang around. It just felt sinister.
30 odd years ago, I met some descendants of the family who lived there before my family did who were over from Oz. They had their ancestor's diary and he had reported some strange stuff in the 1800s.
When I was a teenager I worked in a betting shop. In the days before the running of the Grand National, word got round the area that a group of local lads had conjured up the winner using an Ouija Board.
There was a fair bit of money backed on it , but it was an also ran.
The next Sunday in the local church the priest gave a long sermon on the dangers of meddling with dark forces.
He, at least, seemed to believe in them.
I did my training at the Middlesex Hospital London. There were many instances of a nurse dressed in grey uniform who comforted patients with a cup of tea before they passed. One night I went to get a cup of tea for a patient. When I came back she said thank you but the other nurse brought me one. There was a cup of tea on her table and I was the only nurse on duty. The patient died the next day