If there was one thing the television series “The X Files” did, it was to popularize the concept of the paranormal among us all. Watching Scully and Mulder go about their business on the X Files made us all believers of “a truth” that was out there. No matter what skeptics say and how much they scoff at the idea that there could be happenings that do not fall within the realm of scientific explanations, there’s no doubt that the paranormal does exist and that people have been affected by it.
How else could we explain the presence of ghostly apparitions that seem to haunt houses and people? We could dismiss these claims as the rampant imagination of a paranoid mind, but when more than one person feels the spirit in the same house, there must be something more to it.
If we take a closer look at the religious festivals of certain cultures, we would see that people, under the influence of religious or paranormal effects (call it what you will), are able to perform feats that they could not even think of under normal circumstances. There have been instances of people possessing incredible strength and performing acts like putting their hands in fire and the like.
One thing that most people do associate with the paranormal is the existence of UFOs, disks in the sky that are unexplained and so thought to be from another universe or planet. Most X File plot lines had the theme of alien abduction as a recurrent thread; people would be abducted, the aliens would perform experiments on them, and then send them back to Earth with a mind that was never going to be the same.
The thing with the paranormal is that people do not believe you when you tell them of your experiences. They think you are either faking it for the attention, or that you are paranoid and letting your imagination run away with you. Some even attribute such imaginations to the influence of series like the X Files and Eureka and movies that also deal with the paranormal, like The Exorcist.
But no matter what the rest of the world believes, if you are subject to paranormal experiences, only you know that there is a truth to it. The truth is not out there, but inside you!