Paranormal City

Mark Ryan (Born December 13th, 1997) aka Paranormal City, is a teenage internet celebrity, from Ireland, known for his EDM / Acoustic Pop Music. Since his musical début in 2012, he's garnered millions of hits on his social media platforms, along with hundreds and thousands of followers. He also runs a successful YouTube channel. Being a very prolific songwriter, he has produced and composed for many home artists and indie film scores.

Mark's influences include Owl City, Passion Pit, Daniel Johnston, Moby, Benn Jordan, Marina and The Diamonds, William Orbit, Radiohead, Jake Bugg and Nirvana.

His releases in 2015, the 'HeForShe' EP and the 'Samsara' EP, both garnered him the number one spot on the Irish iTunes Electronic chart on their release. In November 2015, Mark embarked on a tour across the UK and Ireland, playing acoustic shows in promotion for the Samsara and HeForShe EPs. As well as earlier radio tours, in promotion of his music across Ireland, in live acoustic sessions allowing tracks to get much airplay. Radio play includes tracks being played on BBC Radio and alternative air ways in the UK.

Mark is seen playing acoustic shows with his guitar in gigs, parades and festivals all over Ireland and UK festivals. He is also booked to play some festivals across Ireland and the USA this spring and into summer 2016. He's also going on a promotional radio tour on the East and South coast this year in late March 2016 for more music, set to be released in July 2016.

I hope I can still see the Paranormal City show... Yay! I got the tickets!

Paranormal City by teamhappy August 15, 2016

Hard Problem of Paranormality

Similar to supernaturality, but focused on the persistent, anecdotal reports of phenomena (ESP, psychokinesis, hauntings) that defy conventional explanation but consistently fail to manifest reliably under controlled conditions. The "hard problem" is the elusiveness: the phenomena appear tied to subjective states, belief, or ambiguous settings, evaporating under the harsh, skeptical light of a lab. This makes it impossible to determine if we're studying fragile real effects or the psychology of perception and error.

*Example: "The psychic was 80% accurate in cozy readings, but scored exactly chance in the double-blind lab test. The hard problem of paranormality: does the lab's sterile skepticism somehow 'turn off' the ability, or does the cozy setting simply create an illusion of accuracy through cold reading and confirmation bias? The effect is married to the ambiguity."*

Hard Problem of Paranormality by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026