Paranormal

a.k.a WOO

There is some division within the sasquatch community as to whether sasquatches represent typical flesh and blood animals on the one hand, or some sort of paranormal entity or being on the other hand. Because of this division, many parties are resentful of the fact that the whole subject of sasquatch is normally classified or categorized as "paranormal," especially when it comes to books, libraries and other media organization schemes.

Paranormal is an umbrella term used to describe a wide variety of reported anomalous phenomena that are beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.[1] The term is usually used to describe subjects studied under parapsychology, which deals with psychic reported phenomena like telepathy, extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, and post-mortem survival studies like reincarnation, ghosts, and hauntings. However, as a broader category, the paranormal sometimes describes subjects outside the scope of parapsychology, including anomalous aspects of UFOs, some creatures that fall under the scope of cryptozoology (like sasquatch), purported phenomena surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, and many other non-psychical subjects.[2] Some people think there is connection between sasquatches and UFOs, and may even speculate that the sasquatch might be some sort of alien being, interdimensional time traveler, or shape shifter.

1. 'Paranormal.' In 'The American Heritage® Dictionary', accessed November 24, 2007 2. What is PSI? What Isn't?, Parapsychological Association, accessed August 01, 2006