Maybe, show me a fashionable ghost, I might believe in it.

I mean, I believe in God, but He’s not supernatural but outside of spacetime itself so it doesn’t apply. Things like ghosts, for example, would have to coexist with us for us to notice them. And nothing truly “supernatural” has ever happened to me (I have deja vus often but if it’s just an illusion, so be it, and if they aren’t they’re part of reality just not easy/impossible to reproduce, so where’s the “supernatural” part of it?), so I don’t concern myself with it at all. And I’m not superstitious so that takes away rituals and lucky charms from the equation as well. 🤷

On the fence. I have had things happen to me that I can’t explain but I’m leaning towards no, at least for ghosts and other such paranormals.

Aliens have gotta be out there though.

No.

yes: human consciousness, personhood, sapience, whatever we call it. I think people are a little bit special.

Tim Minchin summed it up wonderfully for me.

Because throughout history
Every mystery
Ever solved has turned out to be
Not magic

Not really. Granted though the human mind is limited so likely things go through my mind. Luck or something but in the long more critical thinking form of my existence no.

I grew up listening to Art Bell and still have my tinfoil hat. I believe that there are things in this universe that we don’t remotely even begin to understand. All manner of things and legends could be true at least in part.

But I’ve also grown up enough and seen enough to realize that 99% of so called supernatural or otherworldly things are either jokes, pranks, or misunderstandings of known natural phenomena. I’d hazard a guess that at least 2/3rds of the rest also have quite mundane explanations.

As for the rest, I am grateful that there are still things in this world that we still don’t understand. It makes things interesting.

I believe that our understanding of "natural is imperfect and immature, thus there are an enormous number of things and phenomena that don’t yet fit into our understanding of natural, thus are supernatural. At least until we learn and adapt our understanding of natural.

I don’t have any spiritual beliefs but ghosts would be awesome if they were real. They could help us write history books and scare our enemies.

I work in 911 dispatch, and it absolutely feels like on and around a full moon our calls get weirder

We’re not necessarily getting more or more serious calls than average, so it’s kind of hard to point to any measurable statistic that would back up that assertion, and it’s not just people with psych issues calling and ranting at us, so you can’t even just go by mentions of callers “rambling” or “not making sense” in the notes of our calls, a lot of them are just bizarre situations that seem really unlikely or convoluted.

I’m kind of loath to label it as supernatural though. I feel like if there is actually a correlation and not just confirmation bias on my part, it probably has some reasonable scientific explanation.

Yes. Stuff like lucky outfits for interviews, choosing lucky days when I can’t make up my mind on when to schedule an appointment, and various other little rituals based in anecdote rather than written evidence. Perhaps a particularly satisfying story or two about why the world is the way it is in the absence of a more naturalistic explanation.

But not the ghost haunting, UFO, or skinwalker kind of stuff. Won’t believe it until I see it myself. Makes finding a good horror podcast a bit more challenging for me.

No. I believe there are unexplained, and probably unexplainable things, but they all exist as part of the natural universe.

i ain’t afraid a no ghost

I believe in aliens if that counts.