Blame it on the end-of-the-year doomsday predictions, which came to naught, but the mood was set. We were happy to snuggle up with two books on paranormal activities albeit with different perspectives. Paranormality: Why We Believe The Impossible by Richard Wiseman is a scientific take on what happens during seemingly paranormal events like out-of-body experiences, planchettes, automatic writing and the like. The second set in our neighbouring state is Jessica Faleiro’s Afterlife: Ghost Stories from Goa, a fictional, researched account of ghostly tales.