Superstitions and the paranormal.....do you believe in them?

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All of us have irrational mindsets, however small it might be, lodged inside the brain. We are not even aware of it sometimes, like in our culture, if we step over someone's foot or step over any educational tool, we tend to rectify our mistake by doing a gesture of 'pranam' or bowing a little. Now the reason is said to be apologizing to the Goddess of wisdom and education, Saraswati....but it's superstition right? And half of the time I'm not even aware I do it. Paranormal experience doesn't always shout out "Ghosts". It might mean premonitions, or visions, or out-of-the-body projections.....something that has not been proven by any methods till date, but which people do believe. Especially those who claim to experience it, who claim they have seen God or Jesus Himself. The psychics and astrologers who say things that conform to our personalities usually have a few techniques u their sleeves. It is purely psychological phenomenon. One, if a person has seen something unearthly and unreal, they tend to believe it as long as they don't think rationally. Once they question their intuition, several questions are bound to crop up. "Have I really seen that?" or "I was probably stoned, and it affected my brain" or "I was dizzy and nearly out of commission at that time" are some explanations with which people tend to justify their doubts. However if you refute the claims by stating to the person flatly that it's a lot of BS, his resolution that he saw something might grow rigid and unshakable, so probably not the best method to approach them. Coming back to psychics, they make you feel at ease and say something very broad-based such as, "You have untapped potential, just waiting to be discovered" or "You've in the preceding years suffered tragic loss" or "You are an independent minded person". People want to believe that about them, but the truth is, it's applicable for almost everybody. There's a very rare chance it might not hit the mark. Then coming to the prediction part, they will say something either good or tragic. If good, people get confident and strive towards that good aim, achieving a self-fulfilling prophecy and attributing it to the psychic. On the other hand, if bad, then when? Where? What? Does the prediction have literal or a figurative meaning? So multiple factors like incident, time and place are unknown out here, and chances are people will link anything even remotely resembling that prediction, to the psychic powers. Sometimes it is not easy to know the truth behind all of this. Or find any explanation as to why some superstitions exist. "Because they do, and doing otherwise would bring harm." Even if there is no proof of this contrary. What are your opinions on this matter? Do you have such experiences, or believe in some? If so why? Future predictions are a load of right predictions, and people tend to only consider the ones that have matched, instead of the several others which didn't. Has this ever occurred to you before?