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.
Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". The
Medium Eva Carrière photographed in 1912 with a light appearing between her hands
Séance conducted by John Beattie, Bristol, England, 1872
Colin Evans, who claimed spirits lifted him into the air, was exposed as a fraud.
A photograph of the medium Linda Gazzera with a doll as fake ectoplasm