Do you like the paranormal?

[Taukyrie]

One of my favorite manga series is Gegege no Kitaro and one of my favorite anime series is Mononoke. I love paranormal media.

I also love listening to videos about folklore tbh.

 

[Tonberry]

One last thing, I don't think aliens fit under the umbrella of paranormal, but I have little doubt they exist in some form.

Hard agree.
I kinda like to think that humanity is special still, though, but that's a topic for another day!

Oh? Are you a writer or an artist or something?

I'm an illustrator at heart but I dabble in every creative medium. I don't work with art because I want to (I do but read on), but because I need to, so to speak. It's like an instinct, and I believe imagination is probably the greatest strength humans have (Because it's not just found in art, it's part of everything we create). Not to sound zealous or anything eheheh.. ?

 

[homesforgnomes]

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

Do you find paranormal things like ghosts and such interesting? Do you believe in paranormal things?

Only when they are nice to me. Otherwise i like cookies.

 

[Tonberry]

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Based and Gnomepilled.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I liked the concept of Mothman.

But why North American folklore criptides does not exist as much? Unless it's native American (like ThunderBirds) or from Europe (like the Rugaru being based on the Werewolf).

 

[What's His Face]

Am I fascinated by the paranormal? Absolutely. I'm subscribed to a few YouTube channels dedicated to thrill-seekers chasing the paranormal. I'm also keenly aware that most of these are complete BS - not that it's staged (though in several cases I can't help but wonder), but that the collected evidence could easily be summed-up as "coincidence." I've lived in haunted houses (though I was too young to recall, the stories my divorced parents told were identical to a 'T'...and they never agreed on anything) and have otherwise experienced a few things that I have attempted to explain but came up lacking.

I've also been interested in UFO's since I was a little kid - from their depictions in certain paintings from hundreds of years ago and some interesting angelic descriptions in The Holy Bible to the Foo Fighters of World War II. There's the whole "skyquake" phenomenon that took off late last year which I've yet to find an explanation for (which I do NOT believe is paranormal). Oh, and Bigfoot/cryptids - those have always fascinated me.

One thing is for certain: I never want science to explain everything away. Mystery is one of the greatest spices for life, after all.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Only when they are nice to me. Otherwise i like cookies.

I see.

 

[miguk miguk]

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Shadow people are literally meth heads' hallucinations. If people weren't using drugs that cause the same neurological damage as sleep deprivation, they wouldn't be seeing that stuff. As for gnomes, tons of cultures have weird rituals that they did just to make themselves feel comfortable. It doesn't provide scientific proof that what they felt happened actually did. And no cryptid photographer ever seems to have a good camera, just the kind that blurs out bad special effects.

I liked the concept of Mothman.

But why North American folklore criptides does not exist as much? Unless it's native American (like ThunderBirds) or from Europe (like the Rugaru being based on the Werewolf).

Mothman was a sandhill crane. Even the early reports of it first claimed it was a bird before they switched it to something more fantastical. It only got turned into a legend because a bridge collapsed in an area that doesn't get enough infrastructural funding right after the sightings.

 

[kuroninneko]

With the right mindset there is still tons of magic. Many of it could be explained in scientific terms we can understand but that does not make it any less magical. For example, just one person alone has 1000s of psychological and biological processes that provide aid for us even if we put zero conscious effort into them. Do they work from within? Or maybe we get signals from an outside source? Possibly both?

You can even say that an individual has enough cells with fancy scientific names to create its own universe. We still do not fully understand how it all works and it may be beyond our human comprehension but yet it works automatically on a subconscious level. Even if we did fully understand how it works it is still magical that either something had enough insight to create us this way or we were smart enough as a species to evolve into this.

 

[Ian Naxieas]

I liked the concept of Mothman.

ChapStick.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

SCP fondation is a nice twist on cryptids.

Urban legends are also interesting to hear about.

 

[kanesha]

We have full computers in our pockets that can communicate with anyone around the world instantly. We have gaming devices that can hold thousands of games at once from across gaming history. A full library of books, music, and movies can be digitized and pocketed. And we can flash freeze fish so they can be eaten raw without dying. We don't have magic, but I'd say we're close enough.

Sometimes when I take off my sweater in the dark it sparks an I can see the sparks! Very magical.

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Also a spinning wheel can't tilt and stays up until it stops! Who's holding it up?!!

 

[mana]

Paranormal stuff are interesting. Have I experienced one? Yes. A number of times actually in the house I grew up in. The most memorable one is this weird "force" that opens the door for me. What happens is whenever I reach to the doorknob to open it, the doorknob itself rotates and the door opens for me. There's no way that this doorknob would rotate by itself other than the handle being twisted. The only person who believed me was my aunt who saw it happening.

 

[cjl8336]

I would listen to Art Bell on AM radio on Saturday nights
There was a Richard Gere movie about the mothman

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Art Bell on AM radio on Saturday nights

I do know of it since a friend of mine mentioned it to me in 2012 but I haven't really listened to it much.

There was a Richard Gere movie about the mothman

The Mothman Prophecies? I saw that movie a few several years ago.

 

[Cuestionador]

Yeah, I do.

Actually, the very first website I had ever visited was all about that. And I often watched Infinito Paranormal, a defunct TV channel about the subject.

Your post reminded me of this video:

The paranormal it's a great theme and fuel for artistic creation: myths like ghosts, vampires and so on carries a powerful iconography. When i was very young, i found a part of a tree with a strange shape, a mix of a pumpkin and a skull, looked evil as hell, but i bring it to my home and was a night without sleeping, with horrible nightmares. My father found that thing and throw into the trash, and the nightmares stop. Maybe it was suggestion, but it was disturbing to me.

 

[Antilocal123]

Yeah, I saw the ghost of Nelson Mandela yesterday at RGT.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Yes and yes. Though I do admit that ghosts kinda freak me out.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Paranormal likes me.

 

[Lokgamer]

If we talk about "like", yes, I do. I like everything related to horror. Now then if we talk about "believe", then I don't.

 

[solnK!]

I like it, but I do believe that science can explain anything.

 

[Lokgamer]

I like it, but I do believe that science can explain anything.

Exactly

 

[thecrow2313]

Ghosts are very much real, I had my fair share of stuff moving or flying across the room or doors slamming shut, voices speaking, etc. It makes your skin crawl. I've been to extremely haunted places in some instances I've heard faint screams or seen dark shadows.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

If we talk about "like", yes, I do. I like everything related to horror. Now then if we talk about "believe", then I don't.

This is the best way to see this imo.

I like it, but I do believe that science can explain anything.

It will probably turn political to claim that because some people just hate how some believes that science could rationalise everything (either from some heavily religious people or just because they think that all scientists are behind one big conspiracy or something like that).