Curious about the paranormal
Apr. 4th, 2026 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI have always been interested in the paranormal. There have been stories among family that touch on ghosts, telepathy, etc. that are difficult to explain, e.g., seeming rather more than just a person hallucinating a thing. Also, there are historic UFO sightings that include independent witnesses and various kinds of corroboration that are difficult to explain in terms of publicity-seeking liars.
I wouldn't say that I believe in anything concrete in that sphere, goodness knows there's enough of an assorted bag of inconsistency there. Even when there is consistency, one wonders how often it's because of the spread of memes, like when we all saw the striking grey alien staring at us from the cover of Communion in every bookstore. Still, some of it seems trickier to dismiss so it seems to warrant further attention.
For the older incidents, like around Ellsworth AFB, it's difficult to see what more we can discover now. For the newer, it may be rather easier to forge convincing evidence. Still, it would be interesting to collate and look closely at some of the best-evidenced most-inexplicable examples.
Unfortunately, popular treatments of such will tend to be less critical than they should be so as to sell more copies; perhaps Richard Hall's work is an exception. Wikipedia used to detail some interesting incidents but they were one of many regrettable casualties of deleting content on the basis of insignificance. If you want to know what Makka Pakka calls his trumpet, these days you will have to look elsewhere.
I wouldn't say that I believe in anything concrete in that sphere, goodness knows there's enough of an assorted bag of inconsistency there. Even when there is consistency, one wonders how often it's because of the spread of memes, like when we all saw the striking grey alien staring at us from the cover of Communion in every bookstore. Still, some of it seems trickier to dismiss so it seems to warrant further attention.
For the older incidents, like around Ellsworth AFB, it's difficult to see what more we can discover now. For the newer, it may be rather easier to forge convincing evidence. Still, it would be interesting to collate and look closely at some of the best-evidenced most-inexplicable examples.
Unfortunately, popular treatments of such will tend to be less critical than they should be so as to sell more copies; perhaps Richard Hall's work is an exception. Wikipedia used to detail some interesting incidents but they were one of many regrettable casualties of deleting content on the basis of insignificance. If you want to know what Makka Pakka calls his trumpet, these days you will have to look elsewhere.
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Date: 2026-04-05 01:08 pm (UTC)P.S. A few hours after writing, this news story from Las Vegas was posted to YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S-rihXOK00
P.P.S. A few hours after that, Australian news performs its own rehash of local news. Clearly, this topic is on a lot of minds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhAcIsKJcCQ