Paranormal activity finds mainstream acceptance - CNN.com

Paranormal activity finds mainstream acceptance - CNN.com: "(CNN) -- For Peaches Veatch, it started early, after watching an episode of the TV series 'That's Incredible!' as a child. 'They had an episode on Toys 'R' Us being haunted and Sylvia Brown the psychic did a seance.'

Veatch, having also learned of her family's interest in the paranormal, began recording 'ghostly' sounds by age 9. 'I had some experiences when I was a kid that were very interesting,' she said.
By 2000, she had heard of formalized paranormal investigation groups and looked for one to join, finally finding her home in the California Paranormal Private Investigations in 2007.

The group, founded in 2006, is one of many such groups around the world (though Veatch estimated the number of 'serious' groups only in the dozens). 'Paranormal Activity' may have brought in mass audiences to theaters -- for two years in a row -- but stories of ghosts and those who investigate them are becoming more socially acceptable in the real world."