[TalnSG]

As a very young child my oh-so very-British nanny taught me something when it came to the questions of paranormal and other matters of belief, rather than fact which I still consider my standard.

"You do not need to believe, but do not be so arrogant as to disbelieve what you do not understand."

Its a fine line between the connotations of "not believing" and "disbelieving"; sort of admitting a possibility, though not convinced, versus denying the existence.

Ghosts and the paranormal - I would say that while extremely skeptical, I have some belief in what I have personally experienced and no one has been able to explain. Two of my cousins and I learned 20 years after the fact that we had simulataneous experienced the same "visitation". We each thought the others were asleep when startled my our grandmother's appearance in the bedroom on the night of her burial. And there have been a few other unexplained things I generally consider paranormal .... until proven otherwise.