The Paranormal

Background about Ed & April:

Ed and April McQueen join us today to do a deep dive into the world of the paranormal. Ed and April are founding members of Omega Paranormal KC, a Kansas City based group for paranormal enthusiasts where they facilitate investigations and conduct paranormal 101 classes to share their knowledge.

Paranormal – ​that which cannot be explained by science or reason and that seems to involve mysterious forces. Synonym – supernatural.

Metaphysical – an idea, doctrine, or posited reality outside of human sense perception.

Questions:

  • What sparked your interest in the paranormal and metaphysical? Did you have an experience?
  • Have you ever used a Ouija Board? If so, can you share what that experience was like? What are your thoughts about them?
  • Have either of you ever participated in a seance? What are your thoughts on seances?
  • What do you think Orbs are? We discussed how photo and video evidence of orbs can sometimes actually be light refraction or the camera picking up a speck of dust, but what are the real orbs that people have claimed to have seen?
  • Is there any truth to incantations? For example, when you watch the movie The Conjuring, which is based on the experiences that Ed and Lorraine Warren had with the paranormal experiences that the Parron Family were experiencing in 1971. They said that a witch that had lived in their house in the early 19th century had cursed the land prior to hanging herself from a tree in the backyard. To your knowledge, does stuff like this happen?
  • Have you heard of Ed and Lorraine Warren? What are your thoughts about them?
  • How does energy play into paranormal activity? We often hear reports of paranormal activity in the location of where something terrible happened; can traumatic energy result in the manifestation of something paranormal?
    • Lizzie Borden’s House in Massachusetts
    • The Ax Murder House in Villisca, Iowa (1912)
  • Do you know the difference between a typical “ghost” experience vs. seeing dark humanoid shadow or ink black shape?
  • What are your thoughts on how Hollywood and various television shows portray the paranormal? Paranormal Activity, The Conjuring, Ghost Hunters, etc.
  • What are some famous paranormal locations that you would like to one day visit?
  • Do some people have a natural connection to the unseen, similar to the way that animals seem to? Like they are able to see spirits, demons, etc. all the time and normal people don’t even notice them.
  • Can smudging with sage work? Can you describe the relationship between sage and paranormal entities? Can sage cleanse a space of an entity?
  • What are your thoughts on energy vampires, succubi and incubi?
  • Is there a connection between UFO’s and the paranormal?

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