Have you ever encountered the paranormal?

These thoughts of mine are based on science, without taking religion into context.

Have you ever encountered the paranormal, the unexplained? Instances where you can’t explain what happened and you question your own sanity? Some people have and I’m not one of them. I think most of these so called encounters are due of the mental state of the person at that instance and what they see are hallucinations fabricated by their mental state.

Take for example people visit ‘haunted’ houses expecting to see something supernatural and they see what they want to. Go to the bathroom look at the mirror and say ‘Bloody Mary’ thirteen times and she’ll come and gauge your eyes out. These stories have become legends throughout the ages mostly inspired by brutal killings that had happened at specific locations. The victims become ghost’s and haunts the place for all eternity. Now this is one example of the paranormal, ghosts.

Now Jinn’s, which we have heard about from childhood, is something different. Jinn’s are entities that we can’t see. Not soul’s of the people that die. There are stories of people seeing them, and being possessed by them. And there are even stories of ‘Gavehi Kudhin’ that used to serve our families in old Maldivian Folklore. Now I’ve never encountered one or seen anything but I know there is something out there that we don’t know of.

Now I’m wondering if we know about such beings why we are not trying to communicate with them. Well sure there are ‘shamans’ that can supposedly communicate with them but why are the so called great minds of the world are looking for life on other planets where there might be entities that we can’t see on our own. Carbon based isn’t the only type of life form, there can be others. Maybe they don’t believe in the supernatural but if they really check it out who knows they might find out that these beings are the ones on ‘flying saucers’ playing paranoia with our heads.

This has gone a little off topic but I’d like to know if you have gone through any paranormal or supernatural encounters in your life time till now. Hope you guys are willing to share your stories although they might be a bit personal but I think this would be an interesting read to everyone that might open our eyes to the supernatural world.