As I was reading the comments left by a wide cross section of people, I observed a common phrase in 80% of the posts:

“I know you won’t believe me, but this really happened.”

“Don’t think I’m crazy but I saw a……….”

“My family thinks me insane for writing this but, I believe in……..”

“I’d forgotten about this, BUT when I was young I saw dead people, and please believe me when I say……”

Look this is the dillio:

Don’t preface your paranormal experience by apologizing or casting out the line that you look and act sane in every other aspect of your life, but somehow this isolated incident has you now labeled as “nuts”, and for people to please, PLEASE!  believe you.

Have some backbone.  Did something unexplainable happen to you?  Did you experience it with all your six senses?  What part of that do you deem unbelievable to others?  Ah, the giggle factor.  You want to be taken seriously.  Well put that ice cream sundae down my friend, I have a news flash for you:  If you want to be taken seriously do not apologize up front for any experience, paranormal or otherwise that you have endured, lived through, or have tried to understand the “why” of it.

To preface statements of life’s unknown happenings as a parallel experience of insanity or vivid imagination is equivalent to saying you question yourself.  If you question yourself then don’t talk about it.  If you know what you saw, felt and heard, then own it.  The experience belongs to YOU.  It’s part of your record; a journal of tiny fragments that contributes to your whole being.

Enlighten others by what you experience and look them in the eye when you say it.  Truth never flinches.