As the title says. Sometimes posts like this lead to a bunch of “paranormal” discussion—that’s ok but not a necessity. I’m relatively skeptical of that stuff myself, but they always make for good conversation and friendly debunking. This also includes very unlikely things. I’ll start:
When I was growing up (in the days before the communication revolution) my family took a trip to Chicago. During our five days there we somehow hailed the same cab driver three times, in three extremely different locations in the city. The second time all of us were shocked, and the third time we actually had him take a picture with us. I’m sure my folks have the old disposable Kodak photo buried somewhere in an album. Could he have been stalking us? I guess so. But he certainly didn’t seem like he was, and nothing bad happened. He seemed as surprised as we were. Definitely stochastic—but it’s funny how weird stochasticity can seem when it’s a little less random.
As a teenager/young adult I had a couple of instances where I spontaneously had flashes of imminent future events. Once I stopped my brother from mowing the lawn, since I suddenly saw him cutting of part of his foot.
Another strange thing which kept happening to me is some girls seemed to be able to inject themselves into my dreams, even when I had no interest in them.
I don’t know if this just some stuff which my subconcious picks up and sometimes pushes to me or if there is truly some weird deeper layer to our existence which we usually can’t access.
The most unexplainable thing was, in the house I grew up in there was closet in the basement that had a bad vibe about it. It was cramped and sort of angled strangely, and it felt weird in there - cold and unpleasant somehow. I had bad dreams about it.
But it was where my mom kept putting our old clothes and toys. One day after school I went downstairs to get one of my toys from the closet, quickly because I didn’t like being in there.
I grabbed the thing and shut the door tightly. Well as I was walking upstairs I heard a “click.” I looked into the room, the closet door was opening by itself only very slowly and deliberately, not like it was swinging open. There was no way it could have unlocked but, it did, and it was opening.
Just was a very weird feeling, I dropped my toy and I think I broke it as I ran up the stairs!
Super weird, thanks for sharing. One of the houses I grew up in had some weird stuff happen and bad vibes. As someone who is relatively skeptical as an adult I still can’t make heads or tails of it. Years later I found out the previous owner killed himself in the garage. Strange stuff.
I am skeptical also and not really a believer in supernatural stuff, but I do think are things in this universe maybe we humans really can’t control or understand, or even are meant to come up against. What a weird feeling to know someone killed themselves in your garage, though - that would be creepy!!
My father and maternal grand father both got colon cancer around the same time, both got treatment and went into remission.
Both went out of remission around the same time (well, dad came out of remission and grampa got leukemia from radiation therapy) they both died 2 months apart.
Lucky me has a risk of colon cancer from both sides. Yay.
The current recommendation for colon cancer screening in those with a family history is to start routine colonoscopies at the age 10 years younger than the family member who was diagnosed. So if your Dad was 55 when he was diagnosed, you should start getting regular colonoscopies and screening at 45 (which is around the recommended age these days anyways).
I remember learning to play pitch-and-putt (simplified golf) and when I finally got the swing right, there was a “thunk” sound twice or three times as my ball bounced from tree trunk to tree trunk. It was like some kind of nature-based pinball. I couldn’t believe it. When the disbelief passed later that day I couldn’t stop laughing.
Very early in the morning, while walking to the bus stop to school, I saw, on the side of the road, just walking there, a Lobster. I am sure of what I saw. I went down to it, looked at it, really got close. It was a friggin lobster, miles away from the ocean. Now, I do live in Florida, so we’re never really all THAT far from a beach, but I wasn’t exactly coastal. A pretty long and arduous journey for a little crustacean to make
They keep lobsters alive right before eating them right? Couldn’t it just have escaped from whatever cargo it was being transported in or some restaurant? Still unreal 😮
It really is the only conclusion I could come up with that made sense, but it was still just such a strange sight
Last summer, after driving for 6h back home from vacation with 1h more to go, suddenly, a koenigsegg jesko in full carbon appeard in the opposite lane. This 3 million car was just standing in traffic on a wednesday evening on the most random street. Still can‘t believe it to this day
This is like you’re walking your sheep to school and you see a damn Dragon straight up fly past you.
Pretty much, yes. And the dragon flies past you in 1 second and you start to disbelieve your own thoughts and memories :D
In 98, I worked at a small company. In 2003, I worked at a big company at a different city a few states away. I happened to be have a good view of people walking by from the parking lot to the front door from my desk. I recognized a coworker from 98 walk by. I ran out to say hi to make sure it was her. It was.
Other than both businesses being in the same broad category of software development, they had no other relation. And this was the one time she was walking by. It’s not like she was working there like I was. And I came by that job from a totally different path that had nothing to do with our old company. And she was not with that old company either and came to be where she was by another unique and totally circuitous route as I had.
I don’t know what the odds were of that chance meeting but it had to be less than 1 in a million. I mean, that one time she walked by I could have been in the bathroom or at lunch even.
I have no idea what year it happened, but my parents and I were driving from church (evening service) to a restaurant and a dark shadow appeared on the moon. This would have been late 80s / early 90s in the mountain west, USA, around 8PM. It kind of looked like it was cracking apart at the bottom. It stayed that way for a few minutes, so theoretically longer than something like a branch hanging over the road. It didn’t move at all. It was just there suddenly. Everyone in the car saw it, and the people we met at the restaurant saw it too. I’ve never seen anything like it since.
I’m guessing something in space cast a shadow on it? This was before phone cameras so no evidence exists other than a weird memory.
Twice on one road trip, in one day, we encountered, at seperate waterfalls, the ttp (taliban) shooting up stuff trying to scare people off.
TIL the Taliban like waterfalls
Half an hour they swam in knee high water fully clothed. I mean can’t judge em so did we
