Do you believe in nermals?  I did, when I was a kid.  And I guess I still do…. now that I’m all grown up.

You see, when I was little, I had the clear understanding that one nermal was okay….  safe.  But if you had two nermals….  it surely signified a ghost was present.

Yes, the pair of nermal.   When I first heard the word, I asked my older sister Ju, to clarify.  And she said it meant there was a ghost.  (The “Theory of the One Nermal”  came solely from my adept conclusions.)

At any rate, Halloween is just around the corner.  And the talk of The Paranormal has surfaced in my life about a half a dozen times over the past couple of days.

It started when someone wrote a message to one of the Community Board of Trustees on which I serve.  They wanted to know if there were any Paranormal Groups in Preble County.   That question seemed to be the first of many that have occurred the past week.

Then, to top it off, a truck shows up in our driveway with a big old “Paranormal Society of Dayton” logo on its side.  Albeit, it was someone doing some work here, and the paranormal thing was a sidebar.   But nonetheless.

Even my Mom has been in on the scope and breadth of this thing.  After her 91st birthday party, she told me she was happy both her parents were able to attend the party.  I simply agreed, but added… “It didn’t seem like either one of them ate very much.”

So yes.  Since I was a kid, I have been aware of paranormal activity.
You see.  We lived in a house where, on occasion, “unexplainable things”  would happen.   You could never quite account for it.   Yet, on the other hand…. we never had any physical proof left behind.

I do, wholly believe in the transference of energy.  I think it is far greater than what we humans can perceive.  Well.  Most of us.

So yes, I happen to think that there are “life forces” around us all the time.  Call them ghosts, spirits, angels, beings, entities.  It doesn’t matter really.  I speculate they are all related.   Like family.  And they have big otherworldly reunions.  With hot dogs, and potato salad, and coleslaw.  (Okay, I’m way off topic and just jerking you around now.)

Back to the supernatural.   I am serious about that.

Ghosts can show up anywhere… I think.  In your home, at a courthouse, in a Best-Buy parking lot.  So EVEN if you don’t believe…. at least be kind…… if you suspect a ghost might be around.  It is just good form.  Trust me.

Oh.  And one more thing.  Never…. ever…. “goose” a ghost.  Your are liable to get a handful of sheet.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.  –Marcus Aurelius