The paranormal can be scary no matter your life experience. People’s belief systems have no bearing on whether a ghost will materialize; an alien spaceship will swoop down; a Bigfoot leaps out in front of a car - it can happen anytime, anywhere, if we believe they exist.
Most people agree that paranormal means ‘outside the range of normal experience or scientific explanation’. What they don’t agree on is its existence.
My paranormal group has been together for three years now, answering calls about paranormal happenings involving homes and ghostly happenings. We continue to field calls for those seeking help and in the meantime attend conferences and classes to learn more about the field. We, like anyone else participating in this line of ‘work’, will never know how it all manifests itself and why people seem to be engrossed by the subject - as attested by many television and radio programs on the air today. But we try to answer their questions, soften their fears and advise, while continually learning on the job.
Although our investigations have involved supposed hauntings and the like, my interest first started with UFOs. From there to Sasquatch, and eventually ghosts. They all intrigue me. And to my husband the naysayer, I compare it to the Beanie Baby craze 10 years ago - it’s about the hunt. Skepticism is my position on it all - let’s get all the facts and then draw conclusions. Certainly not the belligerent skeptic such as a Ranae Holland (Finding Bigfoot, Animal Planet), but open mind using psychological observational skills. My training as a journalist of over 25 years prompts me to question everything, looking for an appropriate explanation. That viewpoint also drives our mission as Paranormal Researchers and Investigators of Southern Minnesota (PRISM).
At least once a week we will share stories, interviews, viewpoints with you and hope you take them as what they are intended: to inform and raise questions. No, we don’t have all the answers, no one ever will. But was do want you to think about the information before you and form your own opinions as we do.
We hope you enjoy our blog. Please feel free to submit suggestions for stories, info or direction. Experience the paranormal and look at life as a Cabaret:
“Start by admitting
From cradle to tomb
Isn’t that long a stay.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Only a Cabaret, old chum,
And I love a Cabaret!”
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