On the trail of the supernatural

See, you'd think that, but the more I study into the love of Supernatural it seems that belief and reading go hand in hand. Don't forget the biggest boom in popularity came hand in hand with the biggest boom in Spiritualism this country had ever seen (all encouraged by our mourning Queen of the time).


I would like to point out that I have reasonable belief in what could be called supernatural phenomena, and even on elements I am skeptical of I am willing to see the evidence and accept it if I feel so inclined. I have a fairly scientific mind, not Physical or Chemistry minded or the like but rather logical, and if I had poor critical faculties I would not have got close to as far as I am now.

Although I should point out, most people equate the supernatural as being of a ghostly visitation, and most of what people call ghosts fits into the theories of Human Perception in Accordance with Pets, I would claim.

Perception is key here. As is fortmaps post.

See the human brain. Amazing piece of technology. Look at everything its capable of. And yet, when the comes to the world around us, we are dead to so much of it. It has been scientifically proven that dogs can see several thousand different shades of colour more than our eye can detect, and following their reactions and triggers suggests they are more equipped for more than that. They can hear what we can't. They can often sense things before we can. And you just watch their gaze sometimes, I'd wager they can see things we can't. I'm not talking big weird scary phantoms and other Gods here, let's be reasonable. But other colours or shadows or something like that is fairly plausable. And we can't see that, because our eye cannot focus on it. Think of it as the difference between normal and HD TV if you like, with the dogs having HD and we humans having to relie with good old analogue receptors.

Now, every so often you will see something just of reach. In the corner of the eye. You spin round, you try to see it. Its not there. Nothing. The room grows colder (Not a sign of phantasmagoria, i'm afraid, but when a person gets a fright their hairs stand on end and it emits a draft). Ghost, surely? No, for what the person saw was merely an attempted glimpse of this other colour/shadow etc. And because our eye can't see it, its not there. That's what ghosts are. A sensory illusion brought about by a shared eyesight unable to recieve the complete picture.

Even the skeptic believe, deep down. Its trigger stimuli. Thats where the excitement comes from.

Doesn't sound as glamorous, does it?