[That's how Ford tends to read it. In a place like this where everyone is from somewhere different, questions about what's normal where someone's from have a pretty good chance of being genuine. One can never assume.]

A little of both. My world has plenty of non-human beings and anomalous events, but the vast majority of people are unaware of them or believe them to be nothing but fairy tales and conspiracy theories. I'm one of the few who treats the study of such things as a valid scientific field.