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The Four Biggest Threats To The Paranormal Field

Today I will discuss the four biggest threats to the paranormal field and how together they have caused a situation where outsiders laugh at those of us in the field and that integrity has for all intents and purposes been severely damaged due to a lack of self-education and people focusing more on chasing either personal notoriety or social media likes on the internet.

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Posted on December 12, 2022 in Human Behavior,Investigation Techniques by Eric Extreme
Tags: ghost hunter, ghost hunting, paranormal investigation, paranormal investigator, pareidolia, Semmelweis Reflex

Paranormal Stereotypes Part 2

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

Semmelweis Reflex’s Effects On Paranormal Investigations

Also known as the “Semmelweis Effect”, the Semmelweis Reflex is a behavioral tendency for a person to hold on to their preexisting beliefs about a subject and to summarily reject new knowledge or evidence that contradicts the person’s preexisting belief even if said knowledge or evidence is strong or unequivocal.

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Posted on November 11, 2021 in Human Behavior,Investigation Techniques by Eric Extreme
Tags: Semmelweis Reflex

Misperceived As Paranormal Activity Part 2

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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Subjects For Investigators To Research

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

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The Four Biggest Threats To The Paranormal Field

Paranormal Stereotypes Part 2

Semmelweis Reflex’s Effects On Paranormal Investigations

Misperceived As Paranormal Activity Part 2

Subjects For Investigators To Research

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