| It feels that in the past five to ten years the public | | | | once it may simply have referred to finding an |
| awareness of anything paranormal has been on the | | | | unknown species of tiger or fish. Perhaps, also, some |
| rise. Is this on purpose? Some would say so. It seems | | | | scientists may know their on a paranormal path of |
| that alien abduction stories, alien craft, unknown | | | | discovery until they get there. Investigations into ancient |
| cryptids, and stories of unexplainable phenomena are | | | | civilizations definitely stand to turn a few heads as |
| being talked about all the time. | | | | they find more, and more than once in recent memory, |
| The media is fueling the movement with TV specials | | | | has "history will need to be rewritten" been uttered |
| from technology of the ancients to investigations into | | | | when referring to their discoveries. |
| UFOs. Books come out all year long about different | | | | Something that may be "outside the box" even for |
| areas of the paranormal. Someone who may not | | | | dedicated paranormal investigators would be to share |
| believe in ghosts, may believe in the possibility of time | | | | information with people of other specialties. Perhaps |
| travel or in aliens. Yet, the majority of modern science | | | | we have all the pieces already to the whole picture, |
| continues to deny anything is going on. | | | | but without the long studied knowledge of paranormal |
| The paranormal has been in the public consciousness | | | | experts working with others in other subject areas we |
| long enough that even their own sciences have sprung | | | | won't be able to step back and see what all of our |
| up like ufology. "Crytpozoology" took on new meaning | | | | sightings and experiences are trying to tell us. Maybe |
| with legends of Bigfoot and the Chupacabra, where | | | | modern science should be catching up to them instead. |