supernatural occurrences

Unexplained mystical happenings

Supernatural occurrences are events that seem to defy natural laws or scientific explanation—ghostly apparitions, unexplained healings, objects moving on their own, prophetic dreams.

The term carries no commitment to whether such events actually happen; it describes how they're categorized if they do: The house had a history of supernatural occurrences.

Compare with paranormal, which often emphasizes phenomena studied pseudoscientifically.

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poltergeists · curses · prophecies · clairvoyance · divine visions · banshee · near death experience · out of body experience · stigmata · dowsing · reincarnation · astral projection · Loch Ness Monster · remote viewing · apparitions · shadow figures · mothman · sacred relics

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causal framework

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Occurrences without human cause

natural processes · natural causes · laws of physics · cause and effect · scientific data

epistemological status

supernatural occurrencescontrolled experiments

Tests isolating single variables

ordinariness

supernatural occurrencesdaily life

Regular everyday activities

business as usual · ordinary life

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