The keyword for my project is “paranormal,” with a focus on the prefix “para-,” and the transformative connotations that it brings to the study of rhetoric and disability. Paranormal Rhetorics: Disability Magic and Crip Glamour argues for reconceptualizing the norm—the dominant cultural model for bodies and minds based on ability—by investigating a neglected history and current practice of rhetoric steeped in the paranormal. I investigate historical and contemporary discourses of the paranormal, including phantoms, astrology, hauntings, mysticism and goddesses, arguing that they are valuable to study from the perspective of disability and disabled people because they uncover critical interventions in high-stakes situations, often of life or death. In the struggle for disability justice—efforts to secure healthcare, access education, resist re-institutionalization, protest autistic erasure and end violence against disabled people of color—a focus on paranormal rhetorics reveals crucial strategies for resistance and progress. I explore the paranormal discourses and phenomena described by significant figures in the global humanities, including Greek philosophers Gorgias, Plato and Aristotle, Italian Renaissance humanists Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, nineteenth-century philosopher William James and his trans-Atlantic Society for Psychical Research, twentieth-century rhetoricians Kenneth Burke and Susanne Langer, and transnational critical race feminists Audre Lorde and Gloria Anzaldúa. I pair new readings of paranormal phenomena described by these figures with contemporary writing by disabled people who conjure ghosts, materialize phantoms, cast spells, read tarot and practice astrology and mystic ritual to resist ableism and strengthen disability culture.