Posts Tagged ‘Ghost Hunters’
Jan 31 2011  |
By David Briggs
Tags: Baylor Religion Survey, beliefs, Bible, Ghost Hunters, ghosts, mediums, Paranormal, Paranormal Activity 2, Paranormal State, Psychic investigators, psychics, Shirley MacLaine, UFOs
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Don’t call them oddballs. More than two-thirds of Americans have paranormal beliefs, and the interest in otherworldly possibilities beyond the realm of traditional religions is only expected to increase, sociologists Christopher Bader and F. Carson Mencken of Baylor University and Joseph Baker of East Tennessee State University report in their new book “Paranormal America.” “What we can say with certainty is that we live in a paranormal America.”
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