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This was brought up on another thread and Luna suggested this topic should have it's own thread.

In my family the women (Mom, 2 aunts and my grandmother) have all seen seen and heard things but my uncle and I never have and Ive heard of this from other people and in movies as well. So I guess the question is does anyone else ever heard of this or have a similar thing with women in their family and any research to show one way or another?

This should be a good topic that will last a while.

[Chupa]

The Rooster?!, on Jul 11 2007, 07:31 AM, said:

This should be a good topic that will last a while.

well, i've never really thought of that issue before, but must say i'm curious what the others say...

In my family there was only my grandpa (whom i didn't have a chance to know, unfortunately), who had some amazing abilities,
including seeing things and even foretelling future (uhm one of his stories is soooo amazing and hell yeah, i'll have to share it with you some day!)

My mum (his daughter) was the one who believed his stories most and she was always very interested in paranormal and unknown,
(which in consequence became my interest as well), but she never told me about any strange experience she sustained. I think there was no such incident.

i was seeing lots of weird things when i was a child, still remember a few of them 'cause i was always very afraid of what i've just seen, but then it just gone away when i became a teenager. shame...

i don't really think women are more sensitive to paranormal (look at the number of men on this forum ), but it's only my lack of evidence in this matter,
sooo i'm waiting what do everyone else think

[Greygoat]

My Dad has had some odd experiences, but I don't know of any stories being told by female relatives.

[Chupa]

Greygoat, on Jul 11 2007, 09:04 AM, said:

My Dad has had some odd experiences, but I don't know of any stories being told by female relatives.

see?

[Luna]

Greygoat, on Jul 11 2007, 07:04 PM, said:

My Dad has had some odd experiences, but I don't know of any stories being told by female relatives.

I've had a run-in with a shadow person, and though it effected me first, the (male) person I was with at the time did eventually see it as well.

My great-uncle opened the door to a coat closet in the living room and a raven flew out of it. That same day my great-grandfather came home from fishing, took 2 steps into the kitchen and dropped dead of a heart attack.

I (female) can see colorless auras, but I'm not psychic.

I've been close to two people (males) who have had seperate experiences with demonic possesion.

I've had an odd experience with cats.

All and all, I'd say that I've found it to be fairly even as far as paranormal experiences and gender goes. But I'm only using my own personal experiences as an example. As a whole, it's hard to say.

[Chupa]

Luna, on Jul 11 2007, 09:23 AM, said:

I (female) can see colorless auras, but I'm not psychic.

how wonderful Luna, i can see them as well, but in color, and ohhhh i love this ability! maybe we should start a new topic and share our experiences?

[Chupa]

oops there is one already

[Luna]

iwona, on Jul 11 2007, 07:56 PM, said:

oops there is one already

No problem iwona, I'll meetcha over in the other thread, can't wait to hear about your experiences with it!

[SammyTerry]

Hmmm....are women more in touch with the paranormal than men?
It certainly would seem that way, but i doubt that's truly the case.
As mentioned elsewhere, women are just more open with their feelings...
While the average male may not wish to expose such things paranormal..
for fear of ridicule from their male peers, but if asked by another guy...
Example: I recently asked a fellow employee if he has ever experienced
anything strange or paranormal..? He was hesitate at first...
saying..."well i'v never told many about this ...but...
and continued to tell me his stories..and then I, mine.
He almost seemed relieved....

Well there's my thoughts on this subject...not sure if it answers anything or not....

[Rosemary]

Luna, on Jul 11 2007, 05:23 AM, said:

I've had a run-in with a shadow person, and though it effected me first, the (male) person I was with at the time did eventually see it as well.

My great-uncle opened the door to a coat closet in the living room and a raven flew out of it. That same day my great-grandfather came home from fishing, took 2 steps into the kitchen and dropped dead of a heart attack.

I (female) can see colorless auras, but I'm not psychic.

I've been close to two people (males) who have had seperate experiences with demonic possesion.

I've had an odd experience with cats.

All and all, I'd say that I've found it to be fairly even as far as paranormal experiences and gender goes. But I'm only using my own personal experiences as an example. As a whole, it's hard to say.

Our family has always believed a bird in the house signifies death.
Several years ago I opened the basement and a black bird flew up the stairs and we never have been able to figure out how that bird got into the house since I could find no openings to the outside.
A relative living with me at the time later killed a man and is now in Prison and so I guess you could say the Bird could have signified death and a person who lived in the home at the time was connected to the death.
I believe from now on I personally will be a believer.

[ghostlygoddess]

SammyTerry, on Jul 11 2007, 04:36 AM, said:

Hmmm....are women more in touch with the paranormal than men?
It certainly would seem that way, but i doubt that's truly the case.
As mentioned elsewhere, women are just more open with their feelings...
While the average male may not wish to expose such things paranormal..
for fear of ridicule from their male peers, but if asked by another guy...
Example: I recently asked a fellow employee if he has ever experienced
anything strange or paranormal..? He was hesitate at first...
saying..."well i'v never told many about this ...but...
and continued to tell me his stories..and then I, mine.
He almost seemed relieved....

Well there's my thoughts on this subject...not sure if it answers anything or not....

i agree with sammy, we as women have that "intuition" that men dont have, so i think it makes us easier and more open to these things, but i believe as some of our best psycics are males, that men can be just as open to the paranormal

[Lily of the Lake]

I'll repost the research I found here

I've noticed this, too.
I did a bit of research (Googling) and here is what I found:

One U.S.C. business site said:

"...We generally agree that women are more likely to consider how their actions affect others, thus making them more collegial than men in their work habits. And no one doubts that women are more in touch with their feelings, are better able to express them and, consequently, have better interpersonal skills. A woman prefers to share how she feels, while her mate would rather debate whether Barry Bonds' steroid-fueled records ought to have an asterisk after them..."

"...Brain biology points up another variation: Women's brains have a larger corpus callosum -- the connective tissue between the right and left sides of the brain -- whose job it is to transfer data back and forth. Consequently, women integrate incoming data faster than men do. Women's intuitive "sixth sense" about when the baby in the nursery is going to start squawking, or the boss is about to blow a gasket, or what someone else's response will be before it's stated probably has its origins not in the netherworld, but right there in the highly active corpus callosum of the female brain. What's more, males tend to have more concentrated activity on the left side of the brain (thus the term "left-brained") and less interaction between the right and left sides, while women have greater access to both sides..."

Another site The Guardian of UK said:

"Men guessed right on women's intuition


Tim Radford, science editor
Tuesday April 12, 2005
The Guardian

Women are not more intuitive than men: they just think they are. A national internet experiment involving more than 15,000 people has confirmed that women are no better than men at spotting which smile is a fake, which sincere.

Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, challenged Britons to log on to a website, (www.sciencefestival.co.uk), study a series of partly masked photographs, and decide which smiles were from the heart, which ones calculated.

Asked before the challenge, 77% of women classified themselves as "highly intuitive". Only 58% of men made the same claim. But performance did not match self-perception. Men spotted 72% of the genuine smiles, women 71%.

Feminine intuition failed even more signally when it came to reading men's faces. Men, it turned out, could correctly detect 76% of the fake female smiles.

Women spotted only 67% of the dissembled smirks by the opposite sex.

"These findings question the notion that women really are more intuitive than men. Some previous research has found evidence for female intuition, but perhaps over time men have become more in touch with their intuitive side," Prof Wiseman said.

The participants found it hardest to unmask fake smiles when the mouth was covered. "

Although the second doesn't go with paranormal It's all I found...
hope this helped

[cailleach13]

In my family, I am the strongest regarding this. However, my mother also has a bit where my sisters have none. But, my son has a strong "intuition". I'm the one out of 5 kids who has seen things, experienced things and predicted things that happened. In my cousin's family in No. Ireland, it's the same way. She has it and the others may have a little or nothing at all. Generally women are more intuned because many times they aren't afraid to "go with it" where sometime men say it's "crap"! They don't want to let their feelings/instincts show so I think if you don't use it or acknowlege it, like anything unused, it slips away!

[Zeus]

Women aren't more prone to seeing ghosts, from what i've seen they're just more paranoid about anything and give away the logical reasons for paranormal ones =)

how often do you find a woman that knows something a chemistry? not too often.

[Chupa]

GlamRockEliteSinger, on Aug 9 2007, 10:42 AM, said:

Women aren't more prone to seeing ghosts, they're just more paranoid about anything and give away the logical reasons for paranormal ones =)

how often do you find a woman that knows something a chemistry? not too often.

[Zeus]

iwona, on Aug 9 2007, 06:25 AM, said:

just being a realist iwona lol I say what I see

[Luna]

GlamRockEliteSinger, on Aug 9 2007, 10:49 PM, said:

just being a realist iwona lol I say what I see

"realist" wasn't the word I was thinking... but it was close

[Zeus]

Luna, on Aug 9 2007, 07:51 AM, said:

"realist" wasn't the word I was thinking... but it was close

funny how two women don't agree , I was expecting that and expecting more =D

[Chupa]

GlamRockEliteSinger, on Aug 9 2007, 12:54 PM, said:

funny how two women don't agree , I was expecting that and expecting more =D

sneaky b******!

[Zeus]

iwona, on Aug 9 2007, 08:07 AM, said:

sneaky b******!

lol man I hate talking a tiny bit bad about women even if I don't mean harm I get like mobbed lol



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