A Finnish anthropologist studying paranormal experiences found out the hard way that the country's academic world may not be ready for such research.
Dr. Marja-Liisa Honkasalo spent four years collecting stories of what she calls the 'uncanny' from everyday residents of Finland.
She described these events as instances where people hear voices or have visions as well as sensing an unseen presence and psi phenomena like precognition and telepathy.
Alongside a team of folkorists, psychiatrists, and historians among other experts, Honkasalo received more than 200 letters from people in the country who had experienced such 'uncanny' events.
Rather than try and determine what had happened to these experiencers, the team's goal was focused more on a cultural level with a focus on developing a better understanding of how these events impacted lives.
The group was also interested in finding out why mainstream science in Finland does not pay more attention to paranormal phenomena in general, which later proved to be cruelly ironic for Honkasalo.
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