It's late and I only read the first three pages, but I wanted to comment. I have had paranormal activity throughout my life. My earliest memories were out of body travel, validated by my parents (4 years old). I have seen so many spirits, and been able to validate them for others. Heard spirits too. Even had a poltergeist on two occasions. Everyone is different and has different gifts. If we didn't have or know about the olympics, most people would never know a human could run 100M in 9 seconds because 99.9% of us cannot. A small few can. A small few can see, hear, and be given information from the "spirit world". Perfecting that gift is difficult, for many reasons. Sometimes it seems more a curse.
Answering the OP's question, I will give an example. A couple of year ago I was online in a role playing game a friend asked me to join. It's not my thing but I was there killing time until my wife came home. It was late. Some girl did something in the game and I thanked her, we started talking. I asked her why she was up so late (4am her time) and she said she was having a hard time sleeping as her mother recently died. She said they were very close. I excused myself to go get a drink and on my way to the kitchen a woman's voice called out twice, loudly and clearly "Shirly!" I live way out in the country, my closest neighbors a football field away. This came from inside my home and I knew what it was as it has happened many times.
I went back and asked the girl if the name meant anything to her and she said yes, it is my grandmother's name and she is still with us. Her mother had died on her way to see her. I told her I would do some EVP for her. I went to the room where I do that and tried to focus. I was being shown an angry elephant and couldn't shake it. I never think of elephants, and this certainly wasn't the time. I mentioned it to the girl and she said she loved elephants and that she had recently had one tattooed on the back of her neck, her mother was very angry about it. That's how it works sometimes, you have to be open to it and recognize it for what it is. If it were easy, we wouldn't be having these discussions. There were a few more things but you get the idea.
Chief, I think you were talking about children being psychic. William Wordsworth discusses this in his poem "Ode to Intimations of Immortality", where he calls it a "life star". The poem is about reincarnation. Check it out, I think you will like it. Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man" is pretty good too.
OK, everyone who thinks this is impossible BS because they have never experienced it, go ahead and bash....
PS I think I know where Stacy Peterson is, if anyone can help on that front.
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