Paranormal stuff

[6-eyed]

Science cannot explain everything. For much of my life I’ve been dismissive of paranormal stories others would share with me. Their experiences of hauntings and bizarre inexplainable phenomena were never believable to me. Of course I had to experience it myself before opening my mind to such possibilities.

I worked in security during design school. An easy job where I worked graveyard shifts looking after a construction site of new apartments. I’d be alone on the property, but would hear voices and murmurs in the hallway corridors of the construction site. I told myself they were all auditory hallucinations. But after many more shifts working there, more weird shit kept occurring. One night a radio left behind by one of the work crew suddenly turned on full blast to Mexican mariachi music. I yelled whoever is there needs to leave right now, and approached where the sound was coming from. Once I turned the corner and saw the radio right in front of me, it clicked off.

I will never forget the night when walking the row of apartment hallways, when all the doors on the west wall simultaneously slammed shut. I got the fuck out of there and wouldn’t go back in that unfinished building at night ever again.

My co workers who also worked this site on different days than I did shared similar stories. One actually saw several flashes of light emitting from an upstairs room. Some were convinced the place was being built on an Indian burial ground. Others just thought I and the others were crazy and never saw or heard anything weird.

Anyone else have paranormal, bizarre stories?

[Din Djarin]

It's like with UFOs, I don't dismiss that people observed/experienced something bizarre and unexplainable, I just think its in almost all instances the unexplainable and unknown aspect that makes people dub it paranormal. Unclear = people gonna try to make sense of it themselves.

Kinda with the complex global situations and people concluding there's got to be a secret elite behind it orchestrating it all :P

[6-eyed]

It's like with UFOs, I don't dismiss that people observed/experienced something bizarre and unexplainable, I just think its in almost all instances the unexplainable and unknown aspect that makes people dub it paranormal. Unclear = people gonna try to make sense of it themselves.

Kinda with the complex global situations and people concluding there's got to be a secret elite behind it orchestrating it all :P

I haven’t yet concluded what caused my paranormal events. Yet I do have some speculations.

My first time I ever saw a remote control helicopter drone, I was convinced I was seeing a UFO. It was flying around the late night sky, and had a blinking blue light.

[Audiogen]

I think paranormal stuff is mostly explained due to our "faulty" sensorium, our mind's tendency to seek agency in the environment, and our susceptibility to myth. Pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing faces or attributing meaningful expressions to inanimate objects or places they shouldn't be is along these lines, probably the most notable example is where we attribute forms and faces to clouds. We don't have very adept night vision, so at night, our other senses become heightened and are prone to misattributing sounds, shadows, etc. as having agency. It's so common, that it's become one of the main tropes in horror films.

The paranormal myth when I was a teen was that there was this long 2 lane road that was in some secluded area and in the middle of it was a slaughterhouse where the legend was some serial killer used to take people to and chop them up. When you got in front of the slaughterhouse you were supposed to switch to Neutral and your car supposedly started driving itself. I went with someone else to see what it was about, I was a passenger, the car seemed like it started moving but after a few seconds it was a bust. Gangs reportedly came out to that area as well, so it's not something we sat there all night trying to verify.

I've seen some inexplicable stuff on psychedelics but I'm assuming to attempt to bolster the case, we're limiting this to sober experiences.

[neonspectraltoast]

It's like with UFOs, I don't dismiss that people observed/experienced something bizarre and unexplainable, I just think its in almost all instances the unexplainable and unknown aspect that makes people dub it paranormal. Unclear = people gonna try to make sense of it themselves.

Kinda with the complex global situations and people concluding there's got to be a secret elite behind it orchestrating it all :P

Kinda redundant to say, "Oh, the paranormal's just...what we don't understand!" Oh, THAT'S what it is? derp

Dismissing the paranormal as that which we don't understand...okay.

*eyeroll*

But yeah. It's all real. Except maybe Nessie, not too sure on that one yet. Fuckin' off.

[neonspectraltoast]

What would you have them be dubbed as?

Science?

[Din Djarin]

Unexplainable or unknown events, so yes, technically defining them rationally or going by the scientific method, which from my POV does not exclude anything.
Science is not anti spritual or anti paranormal or incompatible with those fields

[neonspectraltoast]

Science is also not guaranteed to be able to explain everything, which should be obvious by the very meager amount of things science has been able to explain.

To be rigorous, any scientific analysis should be taken with a grain of salt, but here we are.

You're not scientists.

[Meliai]

I'm really skeptical of this stuff

But less skeptical than I used to be. My friends and I used to camp at this old Revolutionary War battlefield a lot and I, despite being a skeptic, always had this weird sense the veil between the dead and the living was thinner there.
never saw anything weird though, except this one time I almost died there....I had a cold which worsened into a pretty severe case of asthmatic bronchitis in the cold, dry air and around the campfire. On the second night we decided to leave because I was having a lot of trouble breathing and needed medical attention. As we were walking back to the car I fainted and as I came back to and was getting up, I looked over my shoulder and saw this weird glowing light. It almost looked like fire, but fainter and more uniform than a fire would be. No one else saw it.

This could easily be attributed to my lacking oxygen and being disoriented. But, the place always gave me a weird vibe even before then. I never went camping there again

[neonspectraltoast]

Interesting.

[neonspectraltoast]

I, myself, am the paranormal.

[OP1]

I will never go camping on you again

[neonspectraltoast]

What's that mean? Millenial slang?

[OP1]

I think paranormal stuff is mostly explained due to our "faulty" sensorium, our mind's tendency to seek agency in the environment

I think people have a tendency to see what they want to see, or are conditioned to see. So one could see an ordinary event and interpret it as paranormal, but the opposite is also possible.

[Audiogen]

I think people have a tendency to see what they want to see, or are conditioned to see. So one could see an ordinary event and interpret it as paranormal, but the opposite is also possible.

How would we differentiate a supposed paranormal event interpreted as an ordinary event from schizophrenia or a hallucination?

Seems like it's possible only in that's unverifiable.

[onceburned]

who knows the power of the mind, the paranormal might be a construct of our own minds.

[Irminsul]

Actually I think in the case of UFOs and the abundance of differing diagrams of what people claim to see it's almost safe to say they didn't envision nor want to see any of it.

Some people even have to conduct deep hypnosis to remember what a UFO looked like.

That isn't the behaviour of someone wanting to see something.

Of course we all know by now that every UFO was in fact... You guessed... Swamp gas trapped in a thermal that reflected the light of venus.

[Irminsul]

I don't really count UFOs as paranormal because it's literally out of this world, so that's what it is to me.

[onceburned]

Actually I think in the case of UFOs and the abundance of differing diagrams of what people claim to see it's almost safe to say they didn't envision nor want to see any of it.

Some people even have to conduct deep hypnosis to remember what a UFO looked like.

That isn't the behaviour of someone wanting to see something.

Of course we all know by now that every UFO was in fact... You guessed... Swamp gas trapped in a thermal that reflected the light of venus.

could be someone lit a fart too....

[neonspectraltoast]

There's so much we can't see because we can't accept the reality of it. Real phenomenon. The natives couldn't see Cortez's ships.

And we can't see the craft in the air, encircling the planet. It's all real, from reptilians to Annunaki.

[Irminsul]

I have a recent paranormal story, now when my sister died after her funeral my family sent me the urn so I could do my own thing.

Now in my computer room on top of my book case behind me I have some bobble heads, Jay and Silent Bob, ICP and a couple other things. Jay and Silent Bob are plastic but ICP is like a clay or something they're quite heavy. To get their heads to move you need to physically touch them.

My sister bought me the ICP bobble heads when we were teens. We always liked Shaggy, this is the bobble head.

So none of my bobble heads ever bobble about at the top of my bookcase, but on the day the urn arrived wouldn't you believe it but shaggy started bobbing away. Just him.

Doubting myself I checked the windows and heater vents, the heat was off, the window closed, the heater if on would have been pushing air down on my as I sit under it on the computer.

I even rattled the bookshelf to see if I could make them move, maybe I'd accidentally bumped the bookshelf?

No. I could not find a reason as to why Shaggy was bobbling his head. And it was in perfect rhythm and it did not stop. In fact it did not stop all day. Just Shaggz headbanging away up there.

So I just sat back and smiled for a bit. Hey Trix, I read you loud and clear girl.