History of Paranormal

History of Paranormal

People have always been both fascinated and afraid of the unknown. Paranormal stories date back to ancient times and found in many cultures. Whether we choose to believe or not in ghost there is no denying that we only have to look through the history to see a large range of paranormal encounters. The stories always involve the Paranormal occurrences; at times there are white apparitions, doomsayers, fortune tellers. These stories date as far back as the Hellenistic age and the Roman Empire.

The ancient Egyptians were so preoccupied with the prospect of an after life the their entire civilization was founded on the cult of the dead. Their custom of placing mummified corpses into sarcophagi of increasing refinement resulted from their belief that are three non-physical components within the human body the ka, ba and the akh which equate with the etheric, astral or dream body of the western esoteric tradition, the mind and the immortal soul.

The Chinese philosopher, Mo Tzu (470-391 BC), is quoted as having said:"The way to find out whether anything exists or not is to depend on the testimony of the ears and eyes of the multitude. If some have heard it or some have seen it then we have to say it exists. If no one has heard it and no one has seen it then we have to say it does not exist. So, then, why not go to some village or some district and inquire? If from antiquity to the present, and since the beginning of man, there are men who have seen the bodies of ghosts and spirits and heard their voices, how can we say that they do not exist ? If none have heard them and none have seen them, then how can we say they do? But those who deny the existence of the spirits say: "Many in the world have heard and seen something of ghosts and spirits. Since they vary in testimony, who are to be accepted as really having heard and seen them?"

A celebrated account of a haunted house, from the ancient classical world, is given by Pliny the Younger (c. (50 AD). Pliny describes, in a letter to a friend, how Athenodoros Cananite (c. 74 BC – 7 AD), a Stoic philosopher, decided to rent a large house in Athens, to investigate widespread rumors that it was haunted. Athenodoros staked out at the house that night, and, sure enough, a disheveled, aged spectre, bound at feet and hands with rattling chains, eventually appeared. The spirit then beckoned for Athenodoros to follow him; Athenodoros complied, but the ghost soon vanished. The philosopher marked the spot where the old man had disappeared, and, on the next day, advised the magistrates to dig there. The man's shackled bones were reportedly uncovered three years later. After a proper burial, the haunting's ceased.

The oldest recorded account of an encounter with a spirit in western mythology can be traced back to the appearance of the witch of endor in the Old Testament who was ordered by king Saul to summon the spirit of the prophet Samuel

The first poltergeist was recorded in 856 AD at a farmhouse on the banks of the River Rhine in Germany. The spirit tormented the family by throwing stones, banging on walls and making fires. Even when several priests armed with holy relics came to visit, it sent them packing with a hale of stones.

Sightings of spectral armies after key English Civil War battles were reported in contemporary sources, similar accounts also came from Gettysburg, The Somme and Gallipoli.

The last two hundred years has seen a huge increase of interest in science but also in the spirit world. It seems that no matter how much we progress, we have a natural interest in the paranormal.

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