Many of these strang happeings
and paranomal phenomena are now collectively
and conveniently referred to as 'Fortean'
phenomena (or 'Forteana'), whilst others
have developed into their own schools of
thought, for example, UFOs into ufology,
or the reports of unconfirmed animals classified
as cryptozoology. These new disciplines
per se are generally not recognized by most
scientists or academics.
Paranormal Anomalies jus
basically means that which does not fit
into our scope of nomal thinking. And is
something out of the ordinary. From supernatural
to out of place logical explanations. Simply
put a person, thing, or event that is not
normal or something that should not be there
or wittnesed.
When hunting for ghosts, Cryptids or UFO's
the term takes on a form of high strangeness
itself. Something that is irregular does
not follow the expected pattern of accepted
exisence. The term is used in many different
fields, with quite different meanings as
we know.
An Anomalous Ghost Photo
Just because you see something
in the end result of taking a photo of a
subject does not mean the photo or extra
something was not there when you took it.
What makes a ghost photo anmoulos is that
you did not realize a person or object was
there when the real picture in real time
was snapped. The result you would call is
a anomalous ghost photo.
Paranormal is an umbrella term used to
describe unusual phenomena or experiences
that lack an obvious scientific explanation.
In parapsychology, it is used to describe
the potentially psychic phenomena of telepathy,
extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis,
ghosts, and hauntings. The term is also
applied to UFOs, some creatures that fall
under the scope of cryptozoology, purported
phenomena surrounding the Bermuda Triangle,
and other non-psychical subjects. Stories
relating to paranormal phenomena are widespread
in popular culture and folklore, but some
organizations such as the United States
National Science Foundation have stated
that science does not support paranormal
beliefs.
Fortean Phenomena
Charles Hoy Fort (6 August
1874 – 3 May 1932) was a Dutch-American
writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.
Please also see Anomalous
Paranormal Phenomena Charles Fort "The
Father Of Fortean Science"
Jerome Clark writes that Fort was "essentially
a satirist hugely skeptical of human beings
– especially scientists – claims
to ultimate knowledge". Clark describes
Fort's writing style as a "distinctive
blend of mocking humor, penetrating insight,
and calculated outrageousness" .
Writer Colin Wilson describes Fort as "a
patron of cranks" and also argues that
running through Fort's work is "the
feeling that no matter how honest scientists
think they are, they are still influenced
by various unconscious assumptions that
prevent them from attaining true objectivity.
Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle
goes something like this: People with a
psychological need to believe in marvels
are no more prejudiced and gullible than
people with a psychological need not to
believe in marvels."
Charles
Hoy Fort
Fort's books sold well and remain in print.
Today, the terms "Fortean" and
"Forteana" are used to characterise
various anomalous phenomena. Examples of
the odd phenomena in Fort's books include
many of what are variously referred to as
occult, supernatural, and paranormal. Reported
events include teleportation (a term Fort
is generally credited with coining); poltergeist
events; falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic
materials of an amazing range; unaccountable
noises and explosions; spontaneous fires;
levitation; ball lightning (a term explicitly
used by Fort); unidentified flying objects;
unexplained disappearances; giant wheels
of light in the oceans; and animals found
outside their normal ranges (see phantom
cat). He offered many reports of Out-of-place
artifacts (OOPArts), strange items found
in unlikely locations. He also is perhaps
the first person to explain strange human
appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis
of alien abduction and was an early proponent
of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, specifically
suggesting that strange lights or object
sighted in the skies might be alien spacecraft.
Fort also wrote about the interconnectedness
of nature and synchronicity. His books seem
to center around the idea that everything
is connected and that strange coincidences
happen for a reason.
A well known Strange anomalous object is
the Ararat anomaly. The Ararat anomaly is
an object appearing on photographs of the
snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat,
Turkey, and advanced by some believers in
Biblical literalism as the remains of Noah's
Ark.
The Ararat anomaly Noah's
Ark
The anomaly is located on the northwest
corner of the Western Plateau of Mount Ararat
(approximately 39°42'10?N 44°16'30?E?
/ ?39.70278, 44.275Coordinates: 39°42'10?N
44°16'30?E? / ?39.70278, 44.275) at
about 15,500 ft (4,724 m), some 2.2 km (1.4
mi) west of the 16,854 ft (5,137 m) summit,
on the edge of what appears from the photographs
to be a steep downward slope. It was first
filmed during a U.S. Air Force aerial reconnaissance
mission in 1949 — the Ararat massif
sits on the former Turkish/Soviet border,
and was thus an area of military interest
— and was accordingly given a classification
of "secret" as were subsequent
photographs taken in 1956, 1973, 1976, 1990
and 1992, by aircraft and satellites. Six
frames from the 1949 footage were released
under the Freedom of Information Act to
Dr. Porcher Taylor, a professor at the University
of Richmond in Virginia, and a scholar at
the Washington-based Center for Strategic
and International Studies specializing in
satellite intelligence and diplomacy, in
1995.
A joint research project was later established
between Insight Magazine and Space Imaging
(now GeoEye), using the IKONOS satellite.
IKONOS, on its maiden voyage, captured the
anomaly on August 5 and September 13, 2000.
GeoEye has constructed a computerized video
of the imagery it captured of the anomaly.
The structure appears at approximately halfway
through the video. The Mount Ararat area
also has been imaged by France's SPOT satellite
in September 1989, Landsat in the 1970s
and NASA's Space shuttle in 1994, as well
as military satellite images captured by
the CIA's KH-9 (Keyhole 9) in 1973 and KH-11
(Keyhole 11) in 1976 and 1990–1992.
The Defense Intelligence Agency, while
not ruling out a man-made structure, believes
the anomaly shows "linear facades in
the glacial ice underlying more recently
accumulated ice and snow" The Ararat
anomaly is sometimes confused with the Durupinar
site, a feature 18 miles from the mountain
that is claimed to be Noah's Ark by the
adventurer Ron Wyatt and David Fasold.
Durupinar site of Noah's
Ark
The Durupinar site is a large aggregate
structure in the Tendürek mountains
of eastern Turkey. The site is two miles
(3 km) north of the Iranian border, ten
miles (16 km) southeast of Dogubeyazit,
in the Agri Province, and eighteen miles
(29 km) south of the Greater Mount Ararat
summit, at an elevation of 6,449 ft (1,966
m) ~ 6,575 ft (2,004 m) above sea level.
The size and shape of the structure has
led to its promotion by some believers as
the original Noah's Ark. To the scholarly
community, and even most creationists, this
is merely an interesting natural formation.
The site is near several currently unnamed
peaks, one of which is claimed as Mount
Judi, the mountain named in the Qur'an as
the final resting place of Noah's Ark. A
different mountain, on the Turkish/Iraqi
border, is more usually associated with
the Qur'anic ark story.
Human Anomaly - Space
Anomaly - UFO Anomaly
- Animal Anomaly or all deviation from the
common rule : irregularity something anomalous
something different, abnormal, peculiar,
or not easily classified. Approaching paranormal
phenomena from a anomalous research perspective
is often difficult because even when the
phenomena are seen as real, they may be
difficult to explain using existing rules
or theory. By definition, paranormal phenomena
exist outside of conventional norms. Despite
this challenge, studies on the paranormal
are periodically conducted by researchers
all from various disciplines.
Some researchers study just the beliefs
in paranormal phenomena regardless of whether
the phenomena are considered to objectively
exist. This section deals with various approaches
to the paranormal: anecdotal, experimental,
and participant-observer approaches, the
debunking approach and the Survey approach.
Although this is not intended
to be a complete list, the following subjects
are widely considered to be paranormal:
Selected varieties of Alternative medicine
Apparitions
Applied kinesiology
Astrology
Aura reading
Clairaudience
Clairvoyance
Mediumship/Channelling"
Crop circles
Dowsing
Electronic voice phenomena (EVP)
Extra-sensory perception (ESP)
Faith healing
Ghosts
Levitation
Numerology
Palmistry
Phrenology
Precognition
Prophecy
Psychic surgery
Psychokinesis (PK)
Psychometry
Pyramid power
Reality shifts
Religious visions
Remote viewing
Shadow people
Spontaneous human combustion
Spirit photography
Telepathy
Therapeutic touch
Time slips
UFOs
Violations of Newton's laws of motion (perpetual
motion devices)
Anomalous Phenomena
Can this strange happening or any Anomalous
phenomena actually occur to you? Have you
seen a ghost, a UFO or Big Foot? Are your
psychic and pick up strange thoughts and
images? Certainly this strange anomalous
phenomenathat happens to many around the
world cannot happen to you?
Many individuals have strange things or
wittness weird goings on and or afraid to
come forward. the fear of being labled a
quack a freak or just not nomal frightens
people more then what they certainly experienced.
While parapsychologists look for quantitative
evidence of the paranormal in laboratories,
a great number of people immerse themselves
in qualitative research through participant-observer
approaches to the paranormal.
Ever watched a horse run...
Anomalous isn't it?
Participant-observer methodologies have
overlaps with other essentially qualitative
approaches as well, including phenomenological
research that seeks largely to describe
subjects as they are experienced, rather
than to explain them.
One such survey of the beliefs of the general
United States population regarding paranormal
topics was conducted by the Gallup Organization
in 2005. The survey found that 73 percent
of those polled believed in at least one
of the ten paranormal items presented in
the survey. The ten items included in the
survey were: Extrasensory perception (41%
held this belief), haunted houses (37%),
ghosts (32%), telepathy (31%), clairvoyance
(26%), astrology (25%), communication with
the dead (21%), witches (21%), reincarnation
(20%), and channeling spiritual entities
(9%). These items were selected as they
"require the belief that humans have
more than the 'normal' five senses."
Only one percent of respondents believed
in all ten items. Or atleast thats all that
would admit to it for fear of ridicule.
Another survey conducted in 2006 by researchers
from Australia's Monash University sought
to determine what types of phenomena people
claim to have experienced and the effects
these experiences have had on their lives.
The study was conducted as an online survey
with over 2,000 respondents from around
the world participating. The results revealed
that around 70% of the respondents believe
to have had an unexplained paranormal event
that changed their life, mostly in a positive
way. About 70% also claimed to have seen,
heard, or been touched by an animal or person
that they knew was not there; 80% have reported
having a premonition, and almost 50% stated
they recalled a previous life.
Mcabe is the president of one of the largest
paranormal group in California, Haunted
& Paranormal Investigations International
(H.P.I. International). Recently Mccabe
as been asked to participate on an upcomomg
episode of Showtime's Penn & Teller:
"Bullshit'. Showtime Producers have
as of October 2008 invited McCabe to investigate
the year of the end of the world 2012!
Maccabe also hosted an episode of a new
paranormal series called "Conversations
with a Serial Killer" out of the UK,
airing in late 2008. She and fellow paranormal
investigator and Celebrities Psychic, Nancy
Bradley, also have another TV show together
called "Ghost Girls".
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