The Unknown

I stumbled across this article in Wikipedia today, and I realize how important ideas of the unknown and the supernatural are to me, even now. All of the stuff about multiple paranormal phenomena... It's silly, impossible to believe, right? But the notion that a small area of the American West might be a gateway to another world, well... I just feel like no matter how small the odds of its veracity, wouldn't even the slightest chance make it an issue of paramount importance? I mean, if by some chance there is a dimensional gateway of some kind (or even some kind of bizarre phenomenon which generates multiple hallucinations) then wouldn't pursuing such a possibility be the single most important endeavor in all of science?

So often we rely on the logical assumption that if the majority of the populace discards such notions as ludicrous, then they must necessarily be untrue. "If such a thing were possible," we say, "it would have been discovered already." But... Isn't there necessarily fault in that logic?

And anyway... I kind of feel like I'd need to investigate for myself to truly believe that there was no possibility of curious phenomena. I wish I could spend my life doing that-- investigating the ludicrously miniscule possibilities that there is more to existence than there appears.