The field of parascience is generally defined by participants and members in the scientific community to embrace the study of the possible existence of psychic and extrasensory powers in people and the existence of life after death and physical manifestations of such metaphysical matters in the physical realm, such as in the form of ghosts. [...]

The concept of paranormal phenomena derives from the persistent controversy over beliefs that are widely held through the general population of a culture or within specific communities in that culture to be true and observable occurrences but cannot be verified through the scientific method or by comparison to the body of information already proven through [...]