> At the same time, I am also dismayed at the block a lot of people have at any phenomena that doesn't seem to be physically-based.

For me it's a matter of the scientific method — if it doesn't hold up to appropriate scrutiny, as the metaphysical never does, I can not consider it any more than a curious misunderstanding.

In the case of Marc's story, I'm skeptical about whether the events happened as described before I even take other explanations for his knowledge of the language into account.