I hear from a lot of people over email about their experiences, and some of them post comments when it's relevant to our discussion on a given investigation, but really we haven't had a completely open forum for discussing personal experiences and I wanted to add that into the site.

Now, by personal experiences I do mean things that happened to you that you think might be paranormal, but I also mean things that happened to you that seemed paranormal at first, but later turned out to be something completely normal. I've put in a new Forums section to the site specifically for these types of discussions.

A word of warning: If you're posting about something you feel was a spiritual or ghostly encounter, be prepared for people to offer alternative (normal) explanations and don't get defensive or offended if you find their explanations inadequate — they weren't there so it may be impossible for anyone else to fully grasp your experience in exact terms. They're just trying their best to be helpful.

To the skeptics: Keep the conversation respectful, like we always do.

I've also added in some forums for various shows I occasionally (yeah… right) watch so if you've been wanted to engage in more free-form discussion on those shows or have been chomping at the bit because I haven't written about your favorite episode, that's the place to be.

- L