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I recently turned 29 and live in central Arkansas currently. I've lived many places, but few have been as beautiful as Arkansas. I am married to a wonderful man who also is intrigued by the paranormal. I also have a son that I adore even though at times he makes me wonder if I was ever that hard to handle for my parents.

I became interested in the paranormal when I was quite young, but I didn't know that was what it was called then. At the time, I knew there was something beyond what most people believed because of personal experiences. I have always been the person who researches something if she doesn't know much about it and my approach to the paranormal was and is no different. Though there were not many books out back then that approached the subject from a scientific stance, I still devoured the information esoteric books contained.

My grandfather was a very religious man even though his religion was not the typical religion. He had been raised on a reservation by very traditional parents, but had been sent away to a government boarding school when he was young. For those of you that do not know much about the federal schooling practices for Native Americans, it really was overly harsh and aimed directly at obliterating the Native's traditional cultures. Though my grandfather was a Christian, he rarely went to church. His beliefs were a blend of traditional Native and Christian European.

His approach to religion greatly influenced me. I believe in God, yes. But, I also believe that there are powers/deities/personalities. To put it more scientifically, nature is based on duality. When there's positive, there's negative. Most people have never seen an atom, but we all believe they're real right?

Do I believe in the paranormal? Yes and no. I believe that we do not know everything, and I do believe that people experience something that we as a civilization still cannot properly explain. The "paranormal". I do believe eventually we as a civilization will be able to understand and explain these things though. It will just take a lot of hard work and thinking beyond the box we currently have built.

I know this blog will not be the defining moment when the paranormal simply becomes normal. Nor do I think the paranormal will be even remotely understood in my lifetime. This blog is simply the result of me being asked by others who are interested in the field what is the truth as far as I can discover regarding certain well known unexplained situations.