Peter Anderwood once suggested that 98 % of episodes reports likely have rational explanations, but it was more interested in 2 % that could be real (Anderwood, 1983). This is the feeling that ghost investigators often repeat, sometimes with contrast. 99 % can be explained, or maybe 80 %? Those who say such things often add that it is the smallest number that arouses their interest more, and that 1 % can be a paranormal in the first place … but do they miss the biggest picture? I think they can be for several reasons.
First, there is no way to know what is the percentage of supernatural phenomena that have a natural explanation and no. There is no quantitative data that would support such a claim in any of the two directions, so those who issue such data do so from a stories, which is good. As long as no one thinks otherwise.
Second, Karen Stollzo recently released a book entitled Do you believe that? It classifies written accounts from skeptics and rationalists from strange experiences that they have no explanation. I contributed to the story of the strange things I witnessed when I was working in a bakery store when I was a teenager. I still have any explanation for the things that occurred (and it was very strange and very frightening), will you fit her with 2 % of Andrew? Well, no. They will not do that, and this is where the reported phenomena are divided into two categories – they can be explained and can be explained – they begin to collapse.
Those things that people seemed to have no explanation do not automatically qualify as evidence of the cause of a paranormal. The Association of the Scientific Study of anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) will be called these phenomena xenonormal This means “natural foreigner”. Something likely to have a natural explanation that has not yet been discovered (Townsund, 2009), for example, when I investigated The ghost I did not know what was the natural explanation for the ghost image until I literally shocked the man who was mistaken in a ghost (he was wearing the same coat as it was in the form of ghost xenonormal. If you do not discover the reason, the image will not become evidence of something that is a paranormal just because no reason has been discovered. He would only stay without a solution.
If the researchers are not keen to stand on leaps of logic through the assumption that because they are not able to know the cause of the strange reported, this means that there is no rational reason and therefore the stranger is a paranormal. There is no supportive evidence for this claim other than “I could not find another reason”, and this is somewhat irrational. I hate breaking the news for you, but none of us has a tremendous knowledge of everything in our heads. That is why it is useful to work with other investigators and ask for their help and opinions, because their knowledge may interfere with you and vice versa!
Not only that, but by claiming that only 2 % of cases that are not resolved are the ones that are concerned with them, investigators reveal the vision of the tunnel. Each of the phenomena in which they work should be concerned with whether or not it is resolved. Every report that we work with as a great achievement tells us about how people interpret the world around them and this not only helps when we work in future situations, but it can also help us know more about the societies and cultures in which we live and work in. I find that the cases that I solve interesting are like those that I cannot imagine, and I cannot imagine this for any investigator who uses an appropriate achievement methodology.
I love a good puzzle like the next person, but as an investigator, I realize that I should be keen not to allow people to think about this because I cannot find an explanation for something, this means that it is likely to be something supernatural or evil. Sometimes it seems as if I was anxious when I explain that, but I want to make sure that people understand this because many people who present themselves as experts are happy to throw interesting statistics that can actually be misleading.
Reference
Townsund, M. (2009) XenonOrmal, ASSAP (online). Available http://www.ssap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/xenonOrmal.html (Reached on February 9, 2017)
Anderwood, P. (1983) There is no common task: the biography of ghost huntingGeorge G.HARAP & CO LTD, London
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