Skeptics vs. Believers

There is a fine line when it comes to being a skeptic or a believer in the paranormal world. Unfortunately there are too many of the extremes of either one out there.

Hardcore Skeptics even faced with large amounts of undeniable evidence will flat out not believe what they are hearing, seeing or even feeling. They will always come out with the off the wall excuse to rationalize what has happened...."swamp gas that reflected off the surface of venus that collided with mars and bounced back to earth made me see that black shadow run past me".

Then there are the Hardcore believers who no matter how reasonable the explanation, it is always paranormal and a ghost, demon or orb hid their keys on them... when in fact it was probably their 3 year old son or daughter.

The fine line is a cross between the skeptic and the believer rolled into one package. These are the types of investigators that are needed. People who can decifer between logic and the unexplained, rule out the scientifically explainable vs. the paranormal phenomina. Many people claim to be apart of this category but in reality they are on one extreme or the other.

To have the best of both worlds you need to learn or already know when to say there is too much evidence pointing in one direction and either present it as confident evidence of a haunting or just the opposite, that too many variables could have made this happen and not present it as evidence no matter how cool it looked. Alot of people will pass up solid evidence cause they can't get past their own stubborn belief system and many other people claim too much to be paranormal because they are desperate for the cool factor.
What I can't fathom and maybe it's just me but if there are 3 different very explainable reasons why this bit of evidence can be naturally explained, why people still press the issue that it's "real" evidence. Why take the public humility? To be in this field you need to have the belief that there will be that day when you have such clear evidence that you can sit their and confidently present it to the public and say look at this, look at what I found and gosh darnit if it isn't the best evidence ever to prove the paranormal.

Well because of both extreme sides, evidence will forever be scrutinized by the masses. We could have already seen proof that ghosts and paranormal really do exist but because people take it to the extremes, we'll never know what is reality and what is not.

think about that when presenting your case to the world, can this possibly further hurt the field indirectly by putting something that could have been human tampered out there as evidence?


food for thought.