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Not to long ago, a girl named Sally, while exploring an old colonial schoolhouse, encountered a little boy in a colonial outfit. “Mommy, mommy, are you my mommy?” the little boy screamed. “No, but I can help you find your mommy!” Sally replied back. “I want my mommy NOW!” the little boy yelled as ran through Sally and disappeared. Does this sound like a story that you would tell around the campfire? People have always had a fascination with paranormal phenomena, such as ghosts, psychics, and near-death experiences. Numerous experiments have been conducted to disprove these events. To date, scientists have not been successful in this, even though they say that these encounters do not exist, and are just figments of our imaginations. But are you really dismiss seeing a glimpse of a ghost as a figment of your imagination? I believe in these events; they cannot occur by coincidence, hallucination, or quackery. A greater force, a force that we know exists, but cannot quite figure what it is, that controls them. That force has kept this argument going on for years. A recent Gallup survey states “93% of all Americans questioned say they believe in some form of paranormal phenomena.” This survey is a strong indicator that despite our society’s advanced medical and scienctific technology, people still believe things that defy explanation. The most common beliefs held by our society today are about ghosts. This area has proven most controversial, because experts believe that the claimed sightings exist only as hallucinations. Obviously, these experts do not know the real definition of a hallucination. A hallucination is defined as existing inside one’s mind. If these “ghosts” exist only as hallucinations, then why have so many different people sighted the same ghost at different times?
Approximate Word count = 1142
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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