Paranormal pertains to extraterrestrial life and ESP.
Extrasensory perception , ESP or Esper , also called sixth sense , includes reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind . Parapsychology is the study of paranormal psychic phenomena , including ESP . The scientific community rejects ESP due to the absence of an evidence base , the lack of a theory which would explain ESP , and the lack of experimental techniques which can provide reliably positive results ; and considers ESP to be pseudoscience . Paranormal . The most notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to ghosts , extraterrestrial life , unidentified flying objects , psychic abilities or extrasensory perception , and cryptids .