Well it seems that most of the paranormal communities around the web have quietened down recently, and those that are active seem to be due to their own team members keep the ship afloat.
So what’s happening?
Perhaps the Most Haunted Fad is now over, and people are seeing the light again rather than orbs, or perhaps they’re just board with it all, maybe there is only so much patients one person can have whilst waiting in those dark locations for something spectacular and hair-raising to happen.
I suppose the first sign of things slowing down where around the beginning of 2007, now it’s normal for on-line activity in the paranormal to have it’s up’s and downs in regards to popularity but certainly in the last 5 years or so since the first Most Haunted, this has to be an all time low.
Is this a bad thing?
I certainly don’t think so, perhaps now we’re starting to whiteness a new revolution or rebirth, something that many may have long forgotten, hmm what’s that word again? Ohhhh yeah ‘Normality’.
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a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; “the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution”
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
The old timers of the paranormal, I’m sure you’ll remember the days gone by where you used to get contacted by locations having alleged paranormal activity, and they’d ask ‘How much do you charge?’, more often than not your reply would be something like ‘oh charge, erm…. we don’t do that, but a nice cuppa and perhaps a donation to our travel costs would be good’. When you contacted a location and it was free, then more than likely you’d have made a donation to them, especially if they had staff there too for the night.
Now you don’t get contacted, you have to contact them and are often faced with ridiculous charges.
Will this be the end of commercial paranormal groups?
Personally I don’t think it will be, there are still people out there willing to pay large sums of money to spend a night in alleged paranormal locations, and I’m sure the commercial paranormal companies are still thriving. Although saying that have you actually seen how many of them are out there now.
I’m sure there are a lot of established groups out there that pre-date Most Haunted, are hoping for the collapse of such companies, many believe they are the main cause for locations either closing their doors or charging extortionate prices, well that and of course Most Haunted which some people refer to as Most Taunted, or Most Farted, thanks to http://www.popnoodles.com/mostfarted/ If you’ve not watched the Most Farted clips then I’d urge you to pop over there and do so, personally I find them hilarious.
Did you know some of the commercial paranormal groups out there, now have contracts with many locations that prevent all other groups including none profit groups from accessing the location.
Provoking thoughts
I know the thoughts and opinions of various groups and individuals out there with regards to the television programs such as Most Haunted, Ghost Towns, etc. They feel that this type of media does indeed get people interested in the paranormal and opens it up, but it doesn’t provoke thought, criticism or logical thinking (at least most of the time), when most people get involved with the paranormal they expect it be a thrill seeking night like what these shows portray it to be, however the reality is far from this, investigations tend to be monotonous, with most using their digital camera’s and catching the ‘DORBs’ or ‘ABPORBS’ (Dust Orbs and Airborne particle orbs), many believe there are no possible scientific explanations or non that are credible as shows like Most Haunted have in the past suggested, and because it’s on TV they often see this as fact.
The problem as I see it is that most people are either total believers wanting to prove everything or total sceptics wanting to disprove everything, which often leads to heated debates from both sides of the fence that often results in abuse being thrown about.
A belief gives people hope, it warms their hearts, and comforts them in believing their loved ones are still around, and that everything they do in life will mean something once they pass over themselves. I have no problem with belief of any kind albeit religious or spiritual, but it does dishearten me when people have blind faith, you know what I mean, having a belief or faith were they actually know nothing or very little about it.
Personally I’ve had experiences which could be deemed as paranormal, but only because there was no visible and logical explanation, however this doesn’t mean it’s actually something supernatural, it could just mean I either didn’t look hard enough or further research would be needed. This is of course based on the definition of paranormal being unexplainable by modern science.
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Phenomena which seem to defy the known laws of science.
library.thinkquest.org/C0120993/glossaryfull.html
The word paranormal comes from the words “para†meaning beyond, and normal. So the term paranormal really means something that is beyond the normal scope of science or being beyond a scientific explanation.
knorton13.tripod.com/id33.html
Beyond normal experience.
www.thepeacefulplanet.com/glossary.html
I bet some maybe wondering why I’m writing about provoking thought when this article is about how quiet the paranormal is, well if people don’t question themselves, and try to improve what they are doing both with knowledge and experience, they will eventually bore of it all.
I could go on about why the paranormal is so quiet all day, but I won’t. So in summary the paranormal does seem to be getting rather quiet, there could be many causes for this, people getting on with their life’s, they could just be bored with it all, or perhaps they are just fed up with all the bickering that happens.
Are the ghosts back in the closet? I don’t know, maybe we’re waiting for a new birth of life, the next generation, or things may get back to normal, you know the way it used to be, before all the glamour and lights it’s attracted.
You never know if this continues the interest of ghosts and paranormal investigations may become a ghost itself. Hmm I wonder who would investigate that?
Ghosts-UK
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