The word "paranormal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to phenomena, events, or experiences that seemingly defy scientific explanation. For example: "I had a paranormal experience last night while walking home from the library."
It has the same paranormal trio co-habiting and attempting to live normal lives.
PK then sets about exposing a Hindu "godman", a term for a particularly charismatic guru who may claim to have paranormal powers.
Numerous investigators have experienced paranormal activity in the building.
Women are much more likely to believe in ghosts than men, and to report that they have personally experienced a ghost (in line with most other paranormal phenomena), but there are no clear trends relating to age.
Paranormal romance author Amanda Hocking is one of the most successful self-published authors out there, selling more than 1m copies of her titles before signing a reported $2m deal with St Martin's Press, while crime novelist John Locke recently became the first self-published author to sell a million ebooks on Amazon.
Election night on television is always a weird mixture of horror and tedium, like a Paranormal Activity marathon, or a nine-hour real-time BBC4 documentary set in an abattoir.
The competition brief was: "Create paranormal images".
Those who thrive are poached: Amanda Hocking's self-published paranormal fiction yielded a $2.1m contract last year with Macmillan, a big publisher.Readers are buying a greater variety of books than ever, with weekly sales of 220,000 different ones in Britain alone, according to Nielsen BookScan.
The puzzle is not that some people give credence to paranormal phenomena, but that they manage to believe that these phenomena are both physical and not physical at the same time.
Still, should Mr Matthews tire of military history, the blogoshere (hat tips Left Foot Forward and Jon Worth) has already unearthed another string to his bow, namely a gig lecturing on ghosts, poltergeists and his experiences of the paranormal at an online outfit, the International Metaphysical University.
Although small films can do astonishingly well (the latest is "Paranormal Activity", a cheap thriller that has sold more than $100m-worth 100m-worthtickets in America alofe), they do not do so at all dependably.
