Paranormal events are purported or imagined phenomena described in popular culture, folklore, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being
Charles Fort, 1920. Fort is perhaps the most widely known collector of paranormal stories.
James Randi was a well-known investigator of paranormal claims.
Chris French, founder of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit.
Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are purportedly haunted by ghosts. The practice has been heavily criticized for its dismissal of the scientific method. No scientific study
Paranormal
…understanding. Notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to extrasensory perceptions (for example, telepathy), and the pseudosciences of ghost hunting, cryptozoology, and ufology. Proposals regarding the paranormal are different from scientific hypotheses, or speculations extrapolated from scientific…
Price's "ghost hunting kit" included reflex and cinematograph cameras, tools for sealing doors and windows, apparatus for secret electrical controls, steel tape, drawing instruments, a bottle of mercury and powdered graphite for developing fingerprints.
Ed (right) and Lorraine (left) Warren in 1978
The colored LEDs of a Safe Range EMF meter
An Ovilus device, which plays recorded words from a pre-programmed dictionary in response to electromagnetic field variations. It is branded as "For Entertainment Purposes Only".