We've all of done Paranormal Activity... I Gurantee it!

If the word paranormal popped into your head, most likely scenes from horror movies come along with  it. And probably even haunted houses, ghosts, communicating with the dead and maybe even witches. In other words the list that Gallup surveyed. And your thought would be very much like most of our culture being that paranormal is defined as being demonic.

Anette Hill defines paranormal as “…a proposition that has not been empirically attested to the satisfaction of the scientific establishment but is generated within the non scientific community  and extensively endorsed by the people who might normally be excepted of their society to be capable of rationale thought and reality testing.”

Dictionary. com defines it similarly as well,“of or pertaining to the claimed occurrence of an event 

or perception without scientific explanation, as psychokinesis, extrasensory perception, or other 

purportedly supernatural phenomena.”

It is interesting to think that even though we relate paranormal as bad, evil and demonic, really it is anything that is falls under things that science cannot explain, so things like horoscopes, reincarnation, belief in aliens, folkloric creatures like big foot, and even religion

We can find paranormal scenes in the recognizable movie Matilda. (Sorry for the bad voice over work. It was either bad video or bad audio; take your pick.)  Don't have to watch the full scene you can just start at the time 2:50.

We can see the paranormal of "magic powers" in the film that Matilda possesses.

And one more clip for the holiday spirit where we find paranormal in the cultural famous story  A Christmas Carol.

Now I quickly want to look at the paranormal activity of superstitions. Do you believe or not believe? 

We have superstitions all over in culture. This is kind of a longer video, but worth watching. Shows the history to some popular superstitions, a few of them I didn't even know about. 

  I know I have had my superstitions as an athlete and I think that comes along with the athlete culture because we seem to think that every great athlete has one or two. We kind of assume you can't be a great athlete without one. But outside of sports I don't consider myself superstitious, like I am sure many of you don't think you are either. But do you still tend to avoid superstitions? For example, avoid crossing the path of a black cat anyways, even though you tell yourself you aren't superstitious. So does that mean you are subconsciously superstitious?