[Doc Faustus]

As I haven't witnessed alien abduction, I'm unsure of its validity. Life after death seems to me like a natural function of the system, life on other planets may or may not be. The experience of seeing ghosts is based on emotional and spiritual connections to events past and people's sensations. Aliens would be a tangible phenomenon with roots outside the Earth. I don't think I could know it without seeing it. As I have seen ghosts, I believe in them. Ghosts sightings do not frequently appear as artifacts of hypnosis either and several reputable figures have had ghostly encounters or believed in ghosts. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did. Who's more rational than the guy who created Sherlock Holmes? Victor Hugo did as well, as did Goethe and William Blake. I haven't seen people whose genius indicates they must possess clear enough minds to write some of literature's greatest works standing up for ufology. This doesn't mean I couldn't believe in it or if an accquaintance of mine who I trusted told me they had seen an alien, seemed serious about it and did not discover it along with mysterious ritual satanic abuse under hypnosis, I wouldn't believe them. I would ask to recount their story, look into folklore, accounts of all kinds of phenomena and local legends to see if something else could account for it. I do believe in cryptids and various freaks of nature because of the general oddness of some of the animal kingdom and of the animals we have discovered over time. But one thing to rationally think about regarding paranormal phenomena could be mass hysteria since it's experienced similarly in various places under various conditions. Psychological disorders tend to manifest usually under the same occasions for the same types of mind, which for some witnessing ghosts is not always the open mind that wishes there were ghosts. I've been around people who did not believe or want to believe and came to believe through observation and feeling. That's all I'll say on the subject. Skeptics have a right to their beliefs as do I, but I think skeptics should stop telling people that they're clearly schizophrenic or regressive.