Orb-viously Not Paranormal: Debunking the Orb Myth

I receive a lot of questions via email pertaining to people sharing their paranormal experiences and looking for my interpretation on their situation. I would guesstimate that four out of 5 emails that I receive are related to orbs. I have discussed orbs in the past in various blog posts, but I thought that it would be beneficial to create a detailed blog entry on orbs that I can refer people to when they email me with photos and videos of orbs, believing that they may be paranormal in nature due to wide spread misinformation which is even propagated by many people involved with the paranormal community including but not limited to ghost hunters, paranormal investigators, paranormal enthusiasts, online video channels, theatrical movies, and televised paranormal programming.

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Posted on January 10, 2022 in Theories by Eric Extreme
Tags: availability cascade, frank's box, ghost box, ghost hunt, ghost hunter, ghost hunting, Observer Expectancy Effect, orb, paranormal investigation, paranormal investigator, spirit box

The Paranormal Makeover: Overcoming Paranormal Stereotypes – Part 2: Science Over Spooky

vercome stereotypes, an experience I had with paranormal television shows, and how to present your team on the internet in a professional way so that your team doesn’t get balled up and thrown into the box with paranormal stereotypes.

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Posted on December 27, 2021 in Investigation Techniques,Miscellaneous,Theories by Eric Extreme
Tags: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, apophenia, autokinesis, availability cascade, Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, Barnum Effect, blind spot, Butterfly Effect, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, chronostasis, claustrophobia, clustering illusion, cryptomensia, dark adaption, déjà vu, demon, dermo-optical perception, Doorway Effect, Dunning-Kruger Effect, electromagnetic radiation, frank's box, ghost box, ghost hunt, ghost hunter, ghost hunting, Hutchinson Effect, hypnagogic halluciantions, hypnopompic halluciations, ideomotor, Infinite Monkey Theorem, infrasound, ionospheric radio wave propagation, isochronic tones, jamais vu, Jürgenson Frequency, lucid dreaming, Mandela Effect, matrixing, meteorology, misophonia, musical ear syndrome, New House Effect, Observer Expectancy Effect, ovilus, palinopsia, paranormal activity, paranormal entities, paranormal investigation, parasomnia, pareidolia, peripheral drift illusion, piezoelectricity, postdiction, power of suggestion, presque vu, psychometry, quantum entanglement, Schumann Resonances, scopaesthesia, Semmelweis Reflex, Singapore Theory, sleep deprivation, sleep paralysis, sls camera, spirit box, stereotypes, stone tape theory, synchronicity, synesthesia, tachypsychia, television, Thatcher Effect, The Misinformation Effect, tinnitus, ultrasound

The Xenonormal Connection: Linking Natural Phenomena to Paranormal Activity

A month ago I posted a blog entry entitled “Misperceived As Paranormal Activity”. I thought that it would be beneficial to expand on that post and discuss more situations where activity can be misperceived as paranormal when it is xenonormal. Xenonormal means it’s normal in nature, but unfamiliar.

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The Paranormal Investigator’s Quest: A Search for Knowledge and Truth

In a recent post I discussed the dos and do nots for new investigators. During that post I mentioned about getting educated in as many subjects as possible. This post will briefly define some of those subjects that you may or may not hear about on television shows, and those that you most likely will not hear about on the television shows. It is beneficial for serious investigators to be familiar with these topics.

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Posted on October 25, 2021 in Equipment,Human Behavior,Investigation Techniques,Miscellaneous,Parapsychology,Theories by Eric Extreme
Tags: afterimage, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, apophenia, astral projection, auto-kinetic effect, autokinesis, availability cascade, Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, Barnum Effect, binaural beats, blind spot, Butterfly Effect, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, chronostasis, claustrophobia, cleansing, clustering illusion, construction, cryptomensia, dark adaption, déjà vu, dermo-optical perception, Doorway Effect, dopamine, Dunning-Kruger Effect, electromagnetic radiation, equipment, evp class system, gas, gravity, Hutchinson Effect, hypnagogic halluciantions, hypnopompic halluciations, ideomotor, Infinite Monkey Theorem, infrasound, instrumental transcommunication, isochronic tones, jamais vu, Jürgenson Frequency, kinesis, lucid dreaming, Mandela Effect, matrixing, meteorology, misophonia, musical ear syndrome, New House Effect, Observer Expectancy Effect, palinopsia, paranormal entities, parapsychology, parasomnia, pareidolia, peripheral drift illusion, photography, piezoelectricity, postdiction, power of suggestion, psychometry, quantum entanglement, Schumann Resonances, scopaesthesia, scrying, Semmelweis Reflex, Singapore Theory, sixth sense, sleep deprivation, sleep paralysis, stone tape theory, synchronicity, synesthesia, tachypsychia, Thatcher Effect, The Misinformation Effect, thought transference, tinnitus, types of haunts, ultrasound