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
Preternatural
…culture and in any historical period. The journal covers "magics, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, prophecy, monstrophy, demonology, and folklore." Paranormal Supernatural…
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.