Saturday, November 17, 2007

Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena!!!

1.Ghosts

From the Shakespeare play "MacBeth" to the NBC show "Medium" spirits of the dead have long made an appearance in our culture and folklore. Many people have reported seeing apparitions of both shadowy strangers and departed loved ones. Though definitive proof for the existence of ghosts remains elusive,eyewitnesses continue to report seeing, photografing, and even communicating with ghosts. Ghost investigators hope to one day prove that the dead can contact the living, providing a final answer to the mystery.

2.Mysterious Disappearances



People disappear for various reasons. Most are runaways, some succumb to accident, a few are abducted or killed, but most are eventually found. Not so with the truly mysterious disappearances. From the crew of the Marie Celeste to Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Erhart, and Natalee Holloway, some people seem to have vanished without a trace. When missing persons are found, it is always through police work, confession, or accident never by 'psychic detectives'). But when the evidence is lacking and leads are lost, even police and forenzic science can't always solve the crime.

3.Intuition


Whether we call it gut feelings, a 'sixts sense,' or something else, we have all experienced intuition at one time or another. Of course, gut feelings are often wrong (how many times during aircraft turbulence have you been sure your plane was going down?), but they do seem to be right much of the time. Psychologists note that people pick up information about the world around us, leading us to seemingly sense or know information without knowing exactly why or why we know it. But cases of intuition are difficult to prove or study, and psychology may only be part of the answer

4.Bigfoot


For decades, large, hairy, manlike beasts called Bigfoot have occasionally been reported by eyewitnesses across America. Despite the thousands of Bigfoot that must exist for a breeding population, not a single body has been found. Not one has been killed by a hunter, struck dead by a speeding car, or even died of natural causes. In the absence of hard evidence like teeth or bones, support comes down to eyewitness sightings and photos and films Since it is logically impossible to prove a universal negative, science will never be able to prove that creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch nes monster do not exist, and it is possible that these mysterious beasts lurk far from prying eyes.

5.The Taos Hum


Some residents and visitors in the small city of Taos, New Mexico, have for years been annoyed and puzzled by a mysterious and faint low-frequency hum in the desert air. Oddly, only about 2 percent of Taos residents report hearing the sound. Some believe it is caused by unusual acoustics; others suspect mass hysteria or some secret, sinister purpose. Whether described as a whir, hum, or buzz and whether psyhological,natural or supernatural no one has yet been able to locate the sound's origin.

6.The Body/Mind Connection


Medical science is only beginning to understand the ways in which the mind influences the body. The placebo efect, for example, demonstrates that people can at times cause a relief in medical symptoms or suffering by believing the cures to be effective - whether they actually are or not. Using processes only poorly understood, the body's ability to heal itself is far more amazing than anything modern medicine could create

7.Psychic powers and ESP


Psychic powers and extra-sensory perception[ Esp] rank among the top ten unexplained phenomena if for no other reason than that belief in them is so widespread. Many people believe that intuition (see #3) is a form of psychic power, a way of accessing arcane or special knowledge about the world or the future. Researchers have tested people who claim to have psychic, though the results under controlled scientific conditions have so far been negative or ambiguous. Some have argued that psychic powers cannot be tested, or for some reason diminish in the presence of skeptics or scientists. If this is true, science will never be able to prove or disprove the existence of psychic powers.

8.Near-Death Experiences and Life After Death


People who were once near death have sometimes reported various experience (such as going into a tunnel and emerging in a light, being reunited with loved ones, a sense of peace, etc.) that may suggest an existence beyond the grave. While such experiences are profound, no one has returned with proof or verifiable information from "beyond the grave." Skeptics suggest that the experiences are explainable as natural and predictable hallucinations of a traumatized brain,yet there is no way to know with certainty what causes near-death experiences, or if they truly are visions of "the other side."

9.UFOs


ere is no doubt tha UFOs exist - many people see things in the skies that they cannot identify, ranging from aircraft to meteors Whether or not any of those objects and lights are alien spacecraft is another matter entirely; given the fantastic distances and effort involved in just getting to Earth from across the universe such a scenario seems unlikely. Still, while careful investigation has revealed known causes for most sighting reports, some Ufo Incidents will always remain unexplained.

10.Deja vu



Deja vu is a French phrase meaning 'already seen,' referring to the distinct, puzzling, and mysterious feeling of having experienced a specific set of circumstances before. A woman might walk into a building, for example, in a foreign country she'd never visited, and sense that the setting is eerily and intimately familiar. Some attribute deja vu to psychic experiences or unbidden glimpses of previous lives. As with intuition (see #3), research into ,human psyhology can offer more naturalistic explanations, but ultimately the cause and nature of the phenomenon itself remains a mystery.

1 comments:

allenupl said...

Regarding verifiability of near-death experiences (NDEs), some of them include a phenomenon of out-of-body experiences where the experiencers reports seeing their dead or comatose body as well as what doctors, nurses and others nearby are doing. Over the past few decades, quite a few of these accounts have been verified as accurate. For the best summary of the research in this area, you can obtain a DVD by Dr. Jan Holden from the University of North Texas on the website of the International Association for Near-Death Studies at http://www.iands.org/shoppingcart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=48_49&products_id=688. This is a presentation from a 2006 conference on NDEs at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

The most credible source for research and information about NDEs is the website of the International Association for Near-Death Studies at www.iands.org. In particular, you might want to check under the Research tab for published papers outlining new findings from the most current research, particularly the two written by Dr. Peter Fenwick and Dr. Pim Van Lommel.

I am a member of the above association because I am interested in the topic. To join is very inexpensive, and they keep you up-to-date with the latest NDE research along with e-mails of experiencer accounts every month.
Allen