It feels that in the past five to ten years the public awareness of anything paranormal has been on the rise. Is this on purpose? Some would say so. It seems that alien abduction stories, alien craft, unknown cryptids, and stories of unexplainable phenomena are being talked about all the time.
The media is fueling the movement with TV specials from technology of the ancients to investigations into UFOs. Books come out all year long about different areas of the paranormal. Someone who may not believe in ghosts, may believe in the possibility of time travel or in aliens. Yet, the majority of modern science continues to deny anything is going on.
The paranormal has been in the public consciousness long enough that even their own sciences have sprung up like ufology. "Crytpozoology" took on new meaning with legends of Bigfoot and the Chupacabra, where once it may simply have referred to finding an unknown species of tiger or fish. Perhaps, also, some scientists may know their on a paranormal path of discovery until they get there. Investigations into ancient civilizations definitely stand to turn a few heads as they find more, and more than once in recent memory, has "history will need to be rewritten" been uttered when referring to their discoveries.
Something that may be "outside the box" even for dedicated paranormal investigators would be to share information with people of other specialties. Perhaps we have all the pieces already to the whole picture, but without the long studied knowledge of paranormal experts working with others in other subject areas we won't be able to step back and see what all of our sightings and experiences are trying to tell us. Maybe modern science should be catching up to them instead. 
