The Paranormal (Where is it now?)

by dhw, Friday, January 09, 2009, 10:12 (5580 days ago) @ John Clinch

John Clinch writes: None of BBella's "amazing experiences", or those of her family, require any supernatural entity or alien visitation to explain them. - Welcome back! You describe this as a "rather silly discussion on the paranormal", so it's a little surprising that you've chosen such a thread for your comeback. I hope that further discussion of it won't send you packing again, as you engendered some very interesting and lively exchanges on other subjects first time round. However, since you've focused on this one, presumably you're geared up for a response to the above claim. - I myself am particularly intrigued by those experiences that provide people with information they couldn't possibly have known beforehand. Perhaps we can take four instances: 
1) BBella's niece and her sister-in-law received a message that was to be relayed to a total stranger (the post of 21.12 at 23.39); it later turned out that the message came from the stranger's sister, who had died. 
2) BBella dreamed in advance of imminent deaths in the family (21.12 at 23.14). 
3) David Turell's wife has the ability to describe the location of lost objects. 
4) David in his latest post (8.1 at 17.50) refers to NDE patients reporting someone else's death. - A dictionary definition of "paranormal" is: "unable to be explained or understood in terms of scientific knowledge". I must confess to being mystified by these experiences, and so it would be very helpful to hear your scientific explanation of how this information is obtained.