SUPERNATURAL
OCCURRENCES
What are supernatural forces?
Supernatural comes from the Latin word
supernaturalis, meaning beyond nature. The adjective
form of supernatural describes anything that
pertains to or is caused by something that can't be
explained by the laws of nature. Examples often
include characteristics of or relating to ghosts,
angels, gods, souls and spirits, non-material beings, or
anything else considered beyond nature like magic,
miracles, etc.
Plunging into case studies that deliberate on the
existence of supernatural
Meet the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren
● Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed to have investigated over 10,000 paranormal
cases.
● Before Hollywood turned their ghost stories into blockbuster films, Ed and
Lorraine Warren made a name for themselves by investigating paranormal
hauntings and happenings.
● In 1952, the married couple founded the New England Society for Psychic
Research and in the basement of their research center, they created their very
own Occult Museum which was horrifyingly adorned with satanic objects and
demonic artifacts.
● Lorraine said that ever since she was seven or eight-years-old she could see
auras around people. She was scared if she told her parents they’d think she
was crazy, so she kept her powers to herself. But when she met her husband
Ed Warren when she was 16, he knew there was something different about her.
Ed himself said he grew up in a haunted house and was a self-taught
demonologist as a result.
1. The Annabelle Doll Case
In a locked glass box in the Occult Museum, there’s a Raggedy Ann doll named
Annabelle with “do not touch” warning sign on it. The unsuspecting doll may not appear
menacing, but of all the items in the Occult Museum, “that doll is what I’d be most
frightened of,” said Tony Spera, the Warrens’ son-in-law. According to the Warrens’
report, a 28-year-old nurse who received the doll as a gift noticed that it started to
change positions. Then she and her roommate started finding parchment paper with
written messages saying things like, “Help me, help us.” As if that wasn’t strange
enough, the girls claimed that they didn’t even have parchment paper in their house.
Next, the doll started showing up in different rooms and leaking blood. Unsure of what
to do, the two women turned to a medium, who said the doll was being occupied by the
spirit of a young girl named Annabelle Higgins. That’s when Ed and Lorraine took an
interest in the case and contacted the women. After evaluating the doll, they “came to
the immediate conclusion that the doll itself was not in fact possessed but manipulated
by an inhuman presence.” The Warrens’ evaluation was that the spirit in the doll was
looking to possess a human host. So they took it, sprinkled holy water on it, and locked
it in the box.
REAL VS REEL FACE
The Annabelle doll placed in a glass case at the The
museum
Annabelle doll depicted in the blockbuster mo
2. The Warrens And The Amityville
Horror Case
In terms of paranormal investigations, the Amityville Horror case was Ed and Lorraine
Warren’s claim to fame. In November 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr., the eldest child of
the DeFeo family, murdered his entire family in their beds with a 0.35 caliber rifle. The
grisly case became infamous and the Amityville murders became the catalyst for the claim
that spirits haunted the Amityville house.
In 1976, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the Long Island house and quickly believed a
demonic spirit was residing there with them. George said he witnessed his wife
transforming into a 90-year-old woman and levitating above the bed. The family walked
around with a crucifix reciting the Lord’s Prayer but to no avail. One night, their final night
there, they heard banging “as loud as a marching band emanated throughout the house.”
After 28 days, they couldn’t take it anymore and fled the home.
Ed and Lorraine visited the home 20 days after the Lutz’s left. According to the Warrens, Ed
was physically pushed to the floor and Lorraine felt an overwhelming sense of a demonic
presence. Along with their research team, they claimed to capture a picture of a spirit in the
form of a little boy on the stairway.
The story became so high-profile, it launched its own conspiracy theories, books, and films,
Do supernatural forces really exist?
What are governed by the laws of science are called finite. Thus, what we mean by
the term supernatural should be infinite meaning it cannot be perceived by the five
senses and it cannot be approached by the understanding facilitated by science. In
other words, we can never define it to be something or the other and also we cannot
expect it to be limited by some conspicuous aspects. We need to therefore search
some other paradigms to approach the supernatural principle. Then follows whether
there is one or many supernatural phenomenon. When supernatural is far superior to
the natural and has to be something that has no beginning and no end, there cannot
be more than one supernatural since the very existence of the second supernatural
will negate the presence of the other supernatural. Thus, the supernatural that we are
talking about must be the origin of all that is natural; it should have no beginning and
end, it should not undergo any changes and provided all these descriptions apply to
the supernatural, then naturally we cannot perceive it through our five senses. The
implication is that it can never be explained though it certainly exists.
“We create stuff because we don’t like
believing that the universe is random”
● Religion and belief in the supernatural are two pieces of a puzzle that fit together.
The very concept of a religion is something that provides us with moral support
and protection from the different forms of negative externalities. While they go
hand in hand , it is close to impossible to do away with one.
● Even though we can explain the concept of supernatural by thinking rationally,
there have been many cases which have baffled science and which still doesn’t
have a rational solution to it, just like the “Conjuring” cases. So the question that
remains is whether “Supernatural” is just a figment of our imagination or is there
actually something to it?
CONCLUSION
● Monsters, Ghosts, supernatural beings are everywhere and we see a lot of people
believing that stuff. Even in the 21st century the belief in the supernatural is as
strong as ever.
● Brian Cronk , a psychologist studied this and he came to the conclusion that
people believe in all this this mainly because, ”many people just want to believe”.
That is one of the reasons , and another reason is because the human brain seeks
to find explanations for everything its eyes see and when the mind is at a loss , or
when it cant give an explanation to what has been observed, it comes up with
some pretty bizarre explanations.
● Since olden times, we have always wanted to believe in gods, ghosts , monsters
and other supernatural entities. The belief in a higher power or a higher being has
always helped us to move on with our daily life. To know that there exists
something bigger than us , to know that we can in the end be a part of something
bigger helps us to turn a blind eye towards the daily drag of dreary everyday life.
