What is retrocognition?

Question: What is retrocognition?

"I was wondering if I could have some information on retrocognition," asks Casey D.

Answer: Also known as "postcognition," retrocognition literally translated from its Latin roots means "backward knowing." In the context of the paranormal, it is the ability to psychically pick up information about a place's or person's past. We have all seen psychics on TV shows who go into a location that they allegedly know nothing about and can sense and articulate information about that place. Most often, they seem to be able to do this in locations where there has been a death, trauma, or significant event.

It's very difficult to prove or disprove the claims for these psychic abilities. The psychic could have researched the location beforehand, for example, or otherwise been provided with information. If retrocognition is real, however, how might it work? It might work in the way that residual ghost phenomena works: the event is imprinted on the environment in some holographically psychic way that we do not yet understand. Everything, after all, is made up of energy, and the energy of the traumatic or oft-repeated events remain recorded in the environment in which they originally occurred. The psychic is able to "tune in" to the specific frequency of this residual energy and "see" it or experience it. Let me stress that this is just a possibility or theory for which we have no concrete proof.