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This 4 page paper discusses aspects of the paranormal, and paranormal investigations. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the work of paranormal investigators, and in particular, the "Blue Lady" that is said to haunt the Moss Beach Distillery. Discussion What is paranormal? As noted, the word means beyond
the normal, something not easily explained by current theories. How does paranormal activity happen? A better question might be, what do people normally report as paranormal activity. The answer here
appears to be apparitions, voices, shadows-any phenomena that they cannot explain. Does this activity actually exist? Yes, it seems that there is sufficient evidence of such activity to regard it
as fact. One group in Oklahoma takes a very practical approach to the subject: they "look for evidence and happenings they cannot explain and ... [present] it to the people
being haunted so they can make up their own minds" (Hale 36). This is the same technique used by the investigators on the popular TV program "Ghost Hunters." Does life
after death exist? This is impossible to answer with any degree of certainty. But in the opposing Viewpoints series, specifically the volume dealing with life after death, Joe Nickell argues
that apparitions are figments of the imagination and that death is final (Nickell). He says flatly: "There is no credible scientific evidence that the dead return to haunt the place
of their death. Some hauntings are merely the witnesses imaginations or daydreams" (Nickell). The Moss Beach Distillery is a restaurant located in Moss Beach, California; the nearest large city
is San Francisco. The building that is known today as the Moss Beach Distillery Restaurant was built in 1927 by Frank Torres, who opened it as a speakeasy; it was
known as "Franks Place" ("Moss Beach Distillery"). It became a hangout for local politicians and silent film stars ("Moss Beach Distillery"). "Rum-runners shipped alcohol from Canada to the San Mateo
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