Paranormal or Paranoid?

Nov 10, 2008 at 12:47 AM
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I don't get scared when watching scary movies. I find them funny. The Exorcist, Skeleton Key, Final Destination, Candyman, The Haunting, SAW, Pulse, The Hills Have Eyes... none of them scary. Yet, whenever I try to research something like encounters with the paranormal, I always get an eerie feeling. It's almost as if I'm doing something I shouldn't. To believe that there are haunted houses and that people out there really believe in witchcraft, I thought all of that was just in movies and books. Do things like these actually exist? Or are they just our imaginations getting the best of us?

I watched the movie Skeleton Key last night. It made witchcraft seem so real, like as if people are truly capable of doing this stuff. I asked my mom about it and she didn't hesitate in saying that she did believe it, as she once saw a woman change herself from being young, to old, and so forth, right before her eyes. My mom warned me not to get too interested in this subject, as she claims anything to do with astrology, fortune telling, and magic is from the devil.

But I want to know.

I'm not interested in learning how to do any of this stuff. I just want to know if it exists. Astral projection, hypnotism, witchcraft, voodoo, hoodoo, ghosts, demons, haunted houses, entities... are any of these real?

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Good question, Emy. I've never seen a ghost, nor do I especially want to. However, I don't rule most things out. There are some things I don't need to know, or want to know, honestly.

The Exorcist and The Omen scared me because they weren't really made as horror movies. The "monster" was the unseen evil force, not some bogeyman. I like my chances against most carbon-based life forms. The devil? A little more daunting.

Emy, why do we wonder about the same things?

I'd like to say that I don't believe in any of that stuff. That there's no chance that ghosts, magic, etc. exists. But really, we have no way of knowing.

I think that people believe in that stuff because they allow their mind to wander. Maybe they believe their imaginations. Or else they hallucinate. I don't know.

I won't believe it until I see it. And even if I did see it, I would probably think that my mind was playing tricks on me.