I Saw Them

I just want to discuss a serious approach to the paranormal. The first point that I wish to stress is that by ‘serious’, I don’t mean humorless. I’m not interested in stripping all of the personality and character from this work — in fact, after a long investigation in uncomfortable conditions, it is precisely the human attributes that typically I value most — whether I’m successful or not!

Unfortunately, by ‘serious’, I have to align myself with the more humorless members of my chosen field when I make my next two points. Luckily, I’ve spent plenty of time with bankers and accountants lately (cheap shot. Honestly, one of the funniest guys I’ve ever known was a banker. Where have you gone, Adam Gagas?) taking care of both my taxes and my mortgage refinancing, neither of which I am well-suited to do myself.

For one thing, I resent that the word ‘paranormal’ is suddenly inextricable from a pair of movies (IMHO, the first was rather blah, and the second was derivative of blah, but I suppose that’s neither here nor there). I can’t wait until everyone has gone on to the next little mainstream-cult craze and let the term at least start to mean something again. I mean seriously, doing any kind of academic search for ‘paranormal’ is almost impossible right now with all of the near-spam media clutter…

For another thing, I’m a little bit happier every time I read that the mainstream interest in all things paranormal is on the decline. Oh, don’t get me wrong — if more interested, capable, and ‘serious’ people come to the field due to all of the recent hype, so much the better. But ‘mainstream paranormal’ seems to be reserved for young-adult melodramas and overwrought ‘reality’ shows, in both cases usually with a cast of ‘edgy’ young people. I don’t see this ultimately benefiting serious UFO research or cryptozoology…

Although moving companies are not exactly of the “paranormal”, Oasis Moving and Storage has great reviews which seems almost out of this world…