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.

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

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

see?

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.

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?

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!

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....

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.

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

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

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!

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.

just being a realist iwona lol I say what I see

"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

sneaky bastard!

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



>.<

haha, you're nuts, mate

Since 1966, the number of women receiving bachelor's degrees in science and engineering in the U.S. has increased almost every year, reaching 202,583 in 2001, approximately half of the total. The number awarded to men has not increased significantly since 1976. The proportion of women graduate students in science and engineering has risen since 1991, reaching 41% in 2001. Substantial differences between subjects are seen, however, with women accounting for almost three-quarters of those enrolled in psychology in 2001, but only 30% in computer science and 20% in engineering. Both the number and the proportion of doctoral degrees in science and engineering awarded to women have increased steadily since 1966, from 8% in 1966 to 37% in 2001. The number of doctoral degrees awarded to men peaked in 1996 and has since fallen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_science

thank you for support, Cheryl!
wisdom is not a matter of genre...it's a matter of one's will

I agree with you Iwona!

Absolutely!!

That takes either balls or stupidity to say and Im not sure which one it is as of yet.

I know plenty of men and women and some are more paranoid than the others but I wouldnt say women are more paranoid than men or vice versa.

In my experience with friends and family that have seen ghosts...all the people I know that have are women and none of the men have. This is why I posted this as a legit question.

Good job Cheryl!
I love the facts.

Sorry for my double post everyone.

Okay in my Bio-Medical (Chemistry, doctors, and that stuff) program at school, there were twice as many girls enrolled than males.
I'm sorry to burst your little "men are smarter" bubble,
but the only reason it's been like this for so long is that fact we didn't even get to vote until the 1920's in America anyway.
and there are still countries that opress their women.
We haven't had the opportunities to get educated until recently and the women in the past were getting rid of ideas their mother's gave them, It takes a while.
If you'd go to any chemistry class at least in my school you'd see a lot more girls than guys.

Yeah... like this girl right here my frizzle.
I totally rocked that class, so we just debunked you home fry.

Yep nice find cheryl indeed, but since when does a profession title say anything about a person? I've seen drug addicts that work as lawyers, but I'd like to see you try and do research who the world's best scientists are, who the world's best chefs are, who the world's best singers are, who the world's best programmers are, men or women? =) (no offense to anyone of course)

oh rooster it didn't take balls at all, unless it's hard for you to say what you think, and it was not stupidity either if it's what I've seen in my life, My short life some men and women might say what you asked might be stupid as many claim to know the answer right away.

Trust me I am more outspoken than people may think and have often been referred to as an a-hole but I try to chose my words wisely so I do not offend others. Especially on a message board where its not always easy to tell if someone is serious or just joking.

Why does it always have to come down to who is smarter?

I would much rather be educated on a subject or spend time analyzing something, especially of a paranormal nature than just saying.. "Yep, its a ghost", its just who I am

We're all humans, we all have brains, both sexes are capable of achieving great things as well as horrible things, both sexes have paranoid nutbags in varying degrees.

*Gives Ali a cookie*
Couldn't have said it better myself,
no really, I couldn't have...

you never could say it better, everyone says what you'd say, and everyone says it beautifully huh? lol.. Please start typing down your own opinions as well lily =)

and by the way, Alia, I believe in what you say, but from MY own experience (as I HAVE SAID in the first post I made) I see more women who are paranoid about the paranormal than guys, None of you should take offense at that, girls or guys, and as I said on my SECOND post, I type what I SEE, and rooster, I choose my words wisely, perhaps far more than you, hell you start using tiny big words such as "crap" , " turd " or "lame" often when you don't like something, so don't be a hypocrite, I got nothing against anyone here and I don't take anything personal since None of you even know my last name, I'm here to gain knowledge, so are you, at a certain level of respect, so are you, so let's say what we think , but with proof, be it personal experience, or specific facts, not just with insulting opinions =)

It's G-M people, debate, don't fight. (Except for Fordo and Goat who actually Enjoy doing it)

I'll tell you my opinion.
I think you're a rude chauvinist pig. (With all due merry-friggin-respect)
I agree with a lot of people because i'm this new thing called "open-minded"
I'm sorry that sometimes I agree with people and don't like to be repetitve.
Ali made a good point, I agreed.
I guess I won't be putting in my agreeing posts anymore cause it make you a bit uneasy.
Sorry in advance if this comes off as rather B****y
I haven't had that great of a day.

Hey Lily guess what?!?!?!?!?!

I Agree with you!

Wow...

lol ! If you had chosen your words wisely then why is that so many women were offended? Talk about hypocrite...

Now I was gonna stay out of this cause I had already said my peace on the previous page but since you see fit to drag my name into it then Im just gonna have to jump back in I guess. As far as "little big words"...well Im just trying to use words that you will understand. Im just trying to keep it simple for ya Glammy...kinda like " see dick run" and "see Jane run". I also used these words cause this is a board in which swearing isnt allowed even though there is a filter for them otherwise I could make my posts much more colorful for ya.

Maybe I'll try and spice it up with big words such as poop, pee, gosh darnit, dang nabbit and stuff like that.

Glammy:
I'm sorry for the name calling
It's just lately, you've been really, well I think rude to people.
You haven't let them express their opinions and you've been a bit condescending.
I really didn't appreciate your comment though.
That I just go around agreeing with everyone like some air head bimbo.
I have my own opinions.
I am a feminist vegetarian so the mix of the two threads have rubbed me the wrong way.
I tend to bite my tounge until I reach a 'breaking point' and I did tonight.
If you want me to remove that post or edit it, I will.
I just don't like to be insulted especially in a condescending manner.

Anyone who DID appreciate the comment... please raise your hand.

Lily, I think you're a very bright young woman, and I think alot of people's thoughts echo your opinions on this. Mine included.

My hand is raised with no apologies.
I only apologize when i am truly wrong.

Thank you Luna!
*hugs*

wow... this thread has been very "heated" for a while,
as for other threads.
...anyone else need a fan?

You can have mine Lily. Im as cool as the other side of the pillow.

Oh and Dani...I think you mean to keep your hand down if you agree with Lily.

Ah yes yes... of course of course...
In the fever of this thread i forget to read the quotations...
All Apologies for my mistake.
(See... told ya)

I actually meant to raise my hand in agreement with Lily's comment.

I gotcha Dani. Im sure we all know your heart was in the right place.

As for you Lily..."YOU GO GIRL!" *Snaps fingers* lol

haha!

*Gives the yet unheard of Zorro snap, in Z formation!!*

(For those of you who remember the "Men On Film" sketch on In Living Color)

OMG Luna!

That is exactly what I was thinking of too... hahaha

" Hated it!" lol

well guys, your insults towards me do get to me a little bit cause I once considered you a little bit more, I'm not saying you're less, I'm just saying, in NOT one single post have I insulted any of you, as I said, I only let out my own ideas, now I understand rosemary, now I like her more, I mean I respect you all but if it's about insults then I guess I shouldn't make part of these threads, have a nice day all of you =)

ps - Don't worry guys, I've gone through worse throughout my childhood, believe me, I still love ya'll, I promise, and please.. don't let posts get to you.. it's not what this is about..

Glam-Boy, you have insulted all of the women on this site in a generalized manner through what you have posted in this thread.
You may not have meant to do it, but you did, and we felt it, that is the reason behind the backlash.
No one wanted to insult you personally, but what you stated said more about yourself than i think you realize...