
For now however it is not and we have to rely on one “not scientifically explainable” event to help explain another “not scientifically explainable” event. So a valid argument could be made that the paranormal investigations of today could be the science of tomorrow. We have all this data gathered, we believe…oh, wait, hypothesize that this data is from the souls of people that have died in a previous time and hope we can concretely prove it later. That has a familiar ring to what paranormal investigators are doing. So basically, astrologers know something is holding our universe together so they “made up” an energy force hoping to prove it concretely later. According to Merriam-Webster it is “nonluminous matter not yet directly detected by astronomers that is hypothesized to exist to account for various observed gravitational effect”. Scientist seem to do it a lot, just look at “dark matter” for example. How can you have a haunting when the definition itself is based on something that has not been proven to even exist? Come to find out, it is not that hard. There is no definitive proof that ghost exist. A pretty rock solid definition except for one glaring word…ghost. So it is feasible that the strange orbs we photo, the mists we catch and the shadows we see are just that, paranormal until science can explain one day what is happening and have nothing to do with a haunting at all. The aurora borealis, Old Faithful at Yellowstone or even a solar eclipse all had to have been at one time “not scientifically explainable”. If you think about it, there are a lot of things going on in this world that the first time someone saw it could have been labeled paranormal. The word paranormal came about around 1920.

This at least puts on the right path to help answer the question. A quick look up defines haunted as “to visit or inhabit as a ghost” and paranormal as “not scientifically explainable”. Let’s turn to Merriam-Webster (at least the. So when is paranormal activity a contributing factor to a haunting? First off we need a basis for what we are trying to say here. You could have paranormal activity but not have a haunting. It seems that in the paranormal world, these two terms are almost interchangeable but the reality is they are not. We hear this a lot as paranormal investigators and maybe we have even said it ourselves, “Based on the paranormal activity, this place is haunted”. Howard Storm paranormal ghost and hauntings He was soon returned to his body and, likely, spent the rest of his life as a religious fanatic. He opened his eyes and was saved from his terrible vision. Storm screamed out and heard his own voice reply “pray to God.” He didn’t know how, so he recited things that he had heard on TV. The spirits laughed and told him to keep up, but when he got deeper into the spirit world they turned and decided to eat his flesh.

He followed, and the hospital got smaller and smaller in the background. He then saw some spirits, beckoning down the hall. He would talk to people and they would walk right through him, as if he wasn’t there. He left his body and walked around the hospital, but no one could see nor hear him. When he was 38, he suffered a perforated stomach and was admitted to the hospital. Howard Storm spent most of his life as an atheist, not believing that there was any higher power pulling the strings.
