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Things That Go Bump in the Night Have you ever laid in bed and felt like something was watching you? Paranormal activity is a very controversial subject. Some people believe they have seen a ghost or felt something touch them. Some just think the whole idea of ghosts is far too exaggerated to be real. According to psychologydictionary.org the paranormal is “designating any phenomenon comprising the transfer of data or energy which can 't be described by present scientific insights” (“What”). For example, a couple of years ago I was in my house alone. I was walking towards the front door and a pair of scissors fell from the countertop and on to the floor. It scared me to death and it was like the scissors had been thrown. I do not know if it was a ghost that threw the scissors. I could not explain this phenomena, but I did not even try to explain it to any friends or family members because no one would believe me. I personally believe in the paranormal. The paranormal can only be believed once it has been experienced personally. Ghosts are possibly the most popular subject when it comes to the paranormal. Ghosts are said to be spirits of people who died in a certain place at a certain time. Often when someone sees a ghost they are dressed from the time era in which they passed away in. For example, at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, there was a man by the name of Norman Baker who opened the hotel as a cancer hospital. Baker had no medical training whatsoever. After many years of torturing patients and making their families pay massive amounts of money for the treatments, he was finally arrested for fraud. Baker had a full staff of nurses. The nurses took the bodies of the deceased down to the morgue. In the recent past the ghost of a nurse has been seen on the third floor of the hotel at around 2 a.m. most times. Many have said that she pushes a gurney with a body on it. The gurney’s wheels squeak as she goes down the hall. She

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