What is the Paranormal and Paranormal Activity?
Paranormal means any incident or experience that is beyond human understanding (Britannica). However, there are some people in the world who do not believe in paranormal incidents, such as scientists and doctors.
If you are thinking that paranormal incidents mean only the sighting of ghosts, then this is not completely true.
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Paranormal means all those incidents that occur across the world due to supernatural or magical powers and cannot be explained by the laws of nature or scientific reasons.
All such incidents which are considered unusual or unnatural are called paranormal activities or types of paranormal activities, such as alien abductions and cryptozoological creatures.
Types of Paranormal Activities You Should Know About
There are many types of paranormal activities happening around the world. Here’s a quick look at them to help you stay alert and recognize them if they happen near you.
Remember, experiencing supernatural phenomena can be dangerous, so it’s best to avoid places where such events are often reported.
1) Ghosts and Apparitions
The most famous paranormal activity in the world involves ghosts, where people see various types of spirits and shadowy figures (Ghosts and Gravestones). If you see objects moving in a deserted place or hear strange whispering sounds, understand that you are about to encounter ghosts.
One important thing—when we are about to encounter a ghost, the temperature of that deserted place suddenly changes and starts getting colder. If you want to experience the terrifying paranormal activities called ghosts, you should visit a haunted house, cemetery, forest, or old building.
2) Poltergeist Activity
There are some paranormal activities caused by spirits with the intention of harming or harassing humans (Wikipedia). You can also call them ghostly activities.
Violent activities like knocking or slamming doors in haunted places are called poltergeist activities. Poltergeist activities are especially associated with teenagers or a specific person.
In simple words, a poltergeist is a supernatural phenomenon associated with noise and physical disturbances.
Electrical disturbances, loud noises, and the shaking or throwing of objects are common in types of paranormal activities like poltergeist activities. Poltergeist activities sometimes take an aggressive form, so do not try to confront such activities at all.
3) Haunted Places
There are some places in the world where scary spirits reside (National Geographic). You will often see paranormal activities in such places. These activities are deadly and very dangerous. Some places are also believed to be inhabited by cursed spirits.
If you go to haunted places, you may or may not experience supernatural phenomena, but you will definitely feel negative energy in the environment.
Hotels, mansions, hospitals, jails, and forests are often considered haunted hotspots due to tragic incidents that occurred there in the past.
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4) Apparitional Voices (EVP)
There are some paranormal activities which you cannot see, but they get recorded on electronic devices as shown in movies.
These voices of ghosts are known as Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) (Wikipedia). When ghost hunters are searching for a ghost or evil spirit, they use electronic devices like microphones or audio recorders to record the voices.
You will not usually hear the recorded voices because they are very strange and scary. Some people do not believe the recorded ghost voices are real and say they are caused by human or natural reasons.
If you are in a haunted location, you can listen to such supernatural phenomena by recording them in your microphone or audio recorder, but keep in mind that doing this can prove fatal.
5) Ouija Board or Spirit Communication
Whenever a person wants to contact a spirit or communicate with it, he uses a device called the Ouija Board (Britannica), which is a flat board on which words like “Yes” and “No,” alphabets, and numbers are written.
Did you know the Ouija Board also has a symbolic piece which is heart-shaped? This board is also known as the Talking Board or Witch Board.
If you want detailed information about the Ouija Board, you should watch the Hollywood film “Ouija” so that you know it is not a toy to play with but a dangerous board which can prove fatal.
If you do not have complete knowledge about the Ouija Board, do not try to communicate with spirits and ghosts using it. Ouija Board activities are one of the paranormal activities many consider part of unexplained mysteries.
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6) Possession
Have you ever seen a person who is possessed by ghosts? If yes, then let me tell you that this is also a type of paranormal activity (Britannica). In this, a ghost or an evil spirit controls a human body with its demonic powers. There are many people in the world whose bodies have been possessed by evil spirits.
Such spirits keep troubling the person mentally and physically until he dies. The voice and movement of the person whose body is under the control of spirits change completely.
Many times, a lot of changes are seen in the strength and behavior of that person. In simple words, ghosts and spirits mean the effect of negative energy on a person which is associated with an evil spirit or ghosts.
Unusual incidents start happening in the house of a person who is possessed by a ghost, such as lights going off or flickering repeatedly. Psychiatric doctors in the world do not believe that ghosts are real; rather, they believe that the affected person has a mental illness.This is another form of supernatural phenomena.
7) Cryptids and Strange Creatures
You must have seen strange creatures in many Hollywood films—creatures whose existence remains a rumour or controversy. The incidents caused by such creatures are also counted as paranormal activities (National Geographic).
Cryptozoology is the study of such strange creatures, whose existence has become a mystery in the world. No one knows whether such strange creatures really exist on Earth.
Scientists around the world have differing opinions. Some believe these creatures are imaginary and shown in stories or films to entertain people, while others believe that such mysterious creatures do exist and should be discovered and studied.
Many people in the world have also claimed to have seen such strange creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Mothman, and Chupacabra.These types of paranormal activities fall under unexplained mysteries.
8) Time Slips and Dimensional Crossing
You must have seen many videos on the internet where people seem to disappear while walking. Is this true? I don’t know. But if it really happens, such incidents would be considered paranormal activity (Britannica).
Have you heard of someone traveling through time to another dimension for a short while and then coming back? It sounds imaginary, but some people claim they have gone to the past or future through time travel an experience known as a time slip.
Dimensional crossing refers to moving from one dimension to another, leaving your real world and entering another where the rules and laws of nature are completely different.
Science considers these ideas imaginary, but no one has been able to determine whether they are true or false.These unexplained mysteries are among the most fascinating types of paranormal activities in the world.
