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Some of us believe in supernatural phenomena, others do not, and there is a category of people who can be called inveterate skeptics and who spend their whole lives exposing irrational miracles. However, they sometimes have to deal with something inexplicable, not common sense. A similar case has occurred in life. Dr. Michael Shermer.
Shermer is the founder and publisher of Skeptic magazine. Also he is the executive director of the Society of Skeptics, as well as leads a column in the popular science journal Scientific American.
Recently, Michael Shermer got married. Among the things of his bride, delivered to the USA from Germany, there was a transistor radio 1978 release. This device once belonged to the grandfather. a girl who passed away when her granddaughter was sixteen years old. The receiver has long ceased to work and as a relic just lay in a table in the bedroom of the newlyweds.
After the marriage, the couple retired to the back of the house … and unexpectedly heard music coming from the bedroom. it played in the desk drawer old receiver! Hearing a beautiful song about love, Mrs. Shermer realized that a loving grandfather is so wonderful manner congratulated her on a happy day.
But the question is: who turned on the old, and even broken, a radio receiver? .. Be that as it may, the newlyweds will not turn it off became, and all night they sounded music. And the next morning the transistor was silent, and it was no longer possible to turn it on.
This case changed Dr. Shermer’s views on the paranormal phenomena. In his column, he wrote: “Being a skeptic is much easier, than try to know what is not yet known. Do not close the doors for perception, if something amazing knocks on them and mysterious. ”
By the way, according to statistics, ardent skeptics most often fall into such a “paranormal trap” in which he found himself Dr. Shermer, built to herself by her wrong attitude towards to this world of which we know so little more. Confirmation there are numerous paranormal cases that are simply inexplicable simple human minds that are collected in documentary project “Hello from the other world.”
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