Nope, can't say I did. But then in my case, my initial contacts with the paranormal were unsolicited. Experiences I didn't ask for, apart from being mostly agnostic at the time.
I consider myself not so much any kind of "believer" as such, but rather more of an eye witness to phenomena that existing science has no real answer to. Sense then I have tried to become much more aware of the real world I live in rather than what society dictates.
Yeah, this is pretty much how I see it.
Well, to a point. I keep thinking I should take some time to learn more about it... which I do for most subjects once I become aware of them and if they arent horribly boring (you wont find me trying to learn more about baseball, for instance, I can fall asleep just fine on my own thanks), but.... ehhhhh. What may or may not have been my "initial contact" was actually earlier this year and not exactly a fun time, which is putting it very mildly. So I havent looked into it more because frankly I dont deal with scary things too well. For various reasons I really SHOULD look into it more, but... yeah, havent.
Why does everything have to always be so freaking scary all the bloody time? Bah.