paranormal

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  1. adjective Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation: such paranormal phenomena as telepathy; a medium's paranormal powers.

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  • That she was experiencing something fairly common in the annals of the paranormal, a visitation from a recently deceased family member? —  Hooper, Kay - Whisper of Evil
  • And the book finds echoes in the present day, when interest in the paranormal is once again on the agenda for many, while cults and movements such as Scientology flourish by promising so much. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#4
  • He rarely gave much thought to anything paranormal, mystical, or spiritual. —  Omni: April 1994
  • "Believing in the paranormal is like believing in an object at the other side of a closed door that you cannot see," he insists. —  Signs of the Times
  • Massimo Polidoro is an investigator of the paranormal, author, lecturer, and co-founder and head of CICAP, the Italian skeptics group.
 

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