A scientific-based website admits there are some phenomena that scientists can not explain how it happens. These phenomena are often studied by paranormal investigators looking for explanations.
The website, LiveScience.com, wrote a top 10 unexplained phenomena list which includes items that occur although they can not be proven by scientific methods. The lack of scientific proof has been the key factor that skeptics and scientists use as a reason for debunking paranormal investigations.
LiveScience.com included three areas of psychic arts on their list. Psychic powers and ESP according to the website are extremely popular in these times. They conclude that lab tests of psychic powers have been “negative or ambiguous”. The website does not include any documentation of the successful tests that have been proven in labs or the fact that government agencies including Homeland Security uses persons with psychic abilities.
Intuition is one of the areas of psychic arts included in the article. The article admits that all persons have experienced some sort of intuitive event. They refer to as “gut feeling” and incorrectly included incidents where fear and not intuition are controlling emotions. The example that was used in the article was the feeling that your plane was going down in turbulence. This is a fear-based emotion and has little to do with actual intuition. Intuition would be feeling that your plane was going to go down before you boarded it and then it did. One who truly listens to their intuition would not board the plane.
Déjà Vu was the third area of psychic arts or ESP that was included in the article. The mysterious feeling of “having seen” something before actually experiencing it is a feeling that is felt by people who do not even claim to have psychic abilities. The article suggests “that human psychology can offer more naturalistic explanations” although they list none. They conclude with an admission that the “cause and nature of the phenomenon itself remains a mystery”. Scientists agree that does occur, but can not explain why it happens.
Another area of humans that remain a mystery to science according to LiveScience.com is the mind’s influence on the body. They refer to it as the “mind/body connection”. There have been thousands of documented cases where a person has been able to “believe” that they will get better and do. The article refers this ability as the “placebo effect”. This is also called ‘faith healing’ by people who believe their religion and prayers can have a great influence on their physical health. There have been cases of terminally-ill patients fully recovering from their belief in their ability to beat the disease. Although the article on LiveScience.com does not include it, the reverse is also true. People can actually make themselves sick by believing they are suffering from an illness. Medical doctors call this phenomenon, “Hypochondria”.
LiveScience.com includes two areas of spirit world phenomena on the list. Near-Death Experiences (NDE) is the phenomenon of a person who has nearly died making contact with the spirit world. The article verifies that there have been stories of NDE’s, but states that “no one has returned with proof or verifiable information”. The writer is not clear about what would be considered as “proof or verifiable information” or how a person in spirit form would return with such evidence. The article states that skeptics explain such phenomenon as “predictable hallucinations of a traumatized brain”.
The writer does not dismiss one area of spirit phenomenon and that is ghosts. Spirits returning to the Earth plane has been documented since the ancient times of civilization. The article states that “sincere eyewitnesses continue to report seeing, photographing and even communicating ghosts”. Although it reports evidence of ghosts as being “elusive”, the article concludes the topic with the hint that paranormal investigators may provide the “final answer” in this area.
UFOs have to be on any list of paranormal phenomena and LiveScience.com does include them. The article states that most reports are not UFOs because they are identified by authorities. The writer questions the possibility that any alien spacecraft can make it from great distances in the universe to Earth. It does say that some UFO incidents “will always remain unexplained”. Many credible people have sighted UFOs which authorities have not been able to explain or identify.
Bigfoot is the only paranormal creature to make it on the list although the article makes a slight reference to the Loch Ness Monster. The writer questions how the remains of a Bigfoot creature has never been found, one has not died of natural causes or has not been “struck dead by a speeding car”. The article concludes that science can never prove the existence of Bigfoot or Loch Ness Monster and it is possible that they “lurk far from prying eyes”. The writer appears by the words chosen to be skeptical of the existence of such creatures. The theories of scientific proof in the article are flawed at best and can be easily discredited. There are several hundred new species found every year that was never known to have existed. Some species including a prehistoric fish are creatures that were believed to be extinct. The absence of bones does not provide scientific proof that a Bigfoot or lake monster has not died of “natural causes”.
One questionable inclusion on the list is entitled “mysterious disappearances”. The article states that people disappear for a variety of different reasons. Some of them remain a mystery to this day including Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa and Natalee Holloway. The writer states that “when missing persons are found, it is always through police work, confessions or accident and never by psychic detectives”. The comment made by the writer is false and even makes one question the writer’s credibility. Such conclusions and generalizations should never be made. There are many reports on television and that have been documented where authorities stated for the record that psychic investigators gave them information or actually located missing persons through paranormal means.
The final subject on the list is a strange phenomenon that is located in Taos, New Mexico. Residents and visitors to the small desert town have reported hearing a low-frequency hum known as the Taos Hum. The article states that only about two percent of the population can hear the noise. It states that the reasons could be an acoustical phenomenon, mass hysteria or even a “secret, sinister purpose”. No one has ever been able to locate the source of the hum and apparently seems to be located only in Taos. Whether the sound is the ancestors singing from the spirit world or something of this world, the hum is an interesting phenomenon.
The mysteries of the world will always be a topic of interest to groups on different ends of the spectrum. There will always be the investigators who believe that the world is more than it seems. These investigators believe that psychic events occur and paranormal creatures exist in our world or beyond. There will also always be the skeptics and some scientists who believe that they don’t. Everything in the world can not be explained by scientific proof. Some things have to be based in belief and theory.
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