Do you like the paranormal?

This is my main takeaway from this too. But I've based my entire life and career around imagination, so I'm biased in its favour, and I'm really adamant about letting imagination be just that, not everything has to be contextualized into the real world.
Oh? Are you a writer or an artist or something?
...I think that it's there for everyone in its own way. I think music and art is the closest we'll ever get to a representation of magic in practicality (which doesn't involve ingesting stuff that alters your mind, stoners and shamans are cheaters!), because those are just emotions and impressions taken from your brain and manifested into the real world (just like a magic spell!), and it can have intensely deep effects on people just by them absorbing it, and I think that's really fucking cool.
I can't disagree here at all. If we're defining magic like that, there's plenty of magic to be experienced still. Various forms of media, jaw dropping locations, impressive feats of human engineering, ancient ruins, natural wonders (Yellowstone should be on everyone's bucket list), or my favorite, impact structures. Meteor (Barringer) Crater in Arizona is a place I've visited a few times and it always fills me with a really distinct, awesome feeling.

That's not even getting into one of my biggest interests, astronomy. The universe, hell even just our galaxy, is something so gigantic that it's hard to wrap your head around, but that's what makes it special. Photos are impressive enough. We got to truly see Pluto for the first time ever and that still gives me a wonderful, tingly feeling. Our generation was the first and that is truly special.

We also got to see the supermassive black hole in Messier 87, we're the first people to ever directly image a supermassive black hole. This is stuff that will actually be in history books, it's astounding. But even going beyond photos, who knows what's out there, waiting to be discovered? That thought legit fills me with more excitement than pretty much anything. x) I know many people don't like the idea that we're in a cold, uncaring universe, but I feel that makes us incredibly lucky. Even though I think our understanding of the universe will always be incredibly small, the fact that we've gotten to the point we are now is super impressive.

One last thing, I don't think aliens fit under the umbrella of paranormal, but I have little doubt they exist in some form. I don't think we've been visited or abducted or any of that stuff, nor do I think we ever will, but I do not believe humanity is special. Even if it's just some bacteria on some far off planet, there has to be something. Life is likely exceedingly rare, but in something as big as our universe, rare things happen all the time. I guess that's the closest thing I have to a faith haha. And it truly fills me with excitement and gets my imagination pumping like very few things do.
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.
Preach it, Velma! I wish I had more to add, but that was well put. ::yay
I think that if science evolves enough it would become indistinguable from actual magic.
This is also true. Our current technology alone would be enough to make someone from the middle ages have a heart attack (if our illnesses didn't get to them first, or vice versa), let alone what technology will look like in 300 years (not too positive we'll make it that long) to modern day people. That's why I find science so wonderful.
 
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.
 
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.. 😅
 
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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).
 
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.
 

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

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