I don't belive in ghosts or any of that... I'm quite open-minded and very keen to experience something that would prove my cynicism wrong, but nothing out-of-the-ordinary has ever happened to me, or presented itself as anything that seemed unusual to me.
Re. ghostly crying babies - ever heard foxes howling at night? They sound
exactly like wailing infants. We've had them screeching their heads off in our back garden and sniffing at the back door, and they go silent and flee as soon as they see a light in the window or hear any noise from the house.
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Way to many unexplained things have happened over the centuries to simply say paranormal things do not occur--can they be explained scientifically? Perhaps...but until such time they fall under the realm of the paranormal, and saying so doesn't make one an irrational kook just as my being agnostic doesn't make me anti-God... it's just what it is
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"Paranormal" until proven otherwise? That sounds like deliberate ignorance to me.
If we don't know what something is, we should take the blow to our pride and admit that we don't understand what's happening; we should not make up elaborate fairy-tales to explain it.
And just because something we can't explain has happened for a long time doesn't mean it's paranormal or supernatural. Think. For thousands of years, people used to think the Sun was a living god who, every day, would rise from his bed, walk across the sky, then go to sleep again (or lose a battle with a god of the darkness, then defeat him a few hours later). This legend was the same or very similar in cultures across the world. Then as we became better at observing our surroundings, we discovered that good ol' Sol is actually just an inanimate ball of burning gas. Slightly anticlimactic after all the legends written about it and religions worshipping it as a living entity. According to you, as I understand what you posted, the Sun and its daily rhythm should've been classified as paranormal until we figured out what it really was.
Odd sensations, rattling beds, disembodied footsteps, etc. are no less real or natural than the Sun. We may not know what they are yet, but why should we make up stories to explain them?
Ghost of a soldier who died in the Civil War. Ghost of a child murdered by her mother. Ghost of a priest who starved in his church. Ghost of a man buried beneath this house. Ghost of my grannie, who didn't even live here. Ghost of my pet hamster. Really, they identified themselves as such?
. Spooky still...but cool.
