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Supernatural VS Paranormal
Jheel Parmar
English 1101
11 November 2013

Supernatural and Paranormal Every day we wake up and go on with our regular life without knowing that we are surrounded by things that might exist, or maybe they aren't meant to be spoken of; supernatural and paranormal is two of them. It's been misjudged by many that supernatural and paranormal activities are the same thing, but they are not the same. Paranormal and supernatural in general are meant to be different. Confidently they are phenomena that occur beyond natural explanation, but they have there differences which lay in various fields of unnatural activities. Its even mistaken by the largest social networking in the world that supernatural and paranormal are synonym of each other. When the word supernatural is googled, its synonym is paranormal, which is a totally different word. They do have things in common like they both are beyond nature's explanation but that doesn't have to be an reason for it to be an synonym. Supernatural, the word itself states what lies within. It defines beyond what is natural, unexplainable by natural law or phenomena (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100323100559AARMzr7). Many often think about Sam and Dean Winchester, when the word supernatural crosses our mind. They are brothers, fictional characters from a TV show called supernatural. They Hunt ghosts, kill demons and other supernatural 'creatures' they find across the country. Supernatural can be define as more of a ghost thing, which is practically odd in real life, because surely its not an everyday thing when people say, " I hunt a ghost down. Ahh . . . He was a one tough mother".
There are lots of unknown, yet existing creatures out there that are being faced everyday by people: balaur, cyclopes, cambion, demon, devil, doppelganger, dragon, griffin, gargoyle, ghost, ghoul, hippogriff, incubus, jinn, leprechaun, mermaid, merman, manticore, mummy, nephilim, pegasus, puca, raven mocker, rakshasha,

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