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Have You Ever Had Anything Happen To You You Can't Explain Rationally?
I had an English (((teacher))) who believed in ghosts. And a boss's boss who saw UFO (I personally heard him tell me and a table of people this story). I had a roommate whose mother's boyfriend was a commercial pilot and had seen a UFO but would not admit it publicly for obvious reasons.
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Used to know a nutter who was paranoid about being abducted by aliens. This guy had his windows sealed up with foil, because he said that's how they teleport in and out. His demeanor was quite schizophrenic.
Me and another prankster decided to make a fake crop circle behind his house, it was just a circle with a ring around it, and we used our feet and some wood to press down the grass. A friend of mine was his neighbor, and he told him he saw a bright light in the field behind his house, and there was a crop circle. Would have loved to see the look on his face, but supposedly, he spaz'd out and ran in his house, and boarded himself in. I was maybe 21 or 22 at the time. We thought it was hilarious. I love trolling nutters. As far as UFO-aliens are concerned, I'd need to see hard evidence. A real one standing in front of me, a dead one that's more than a Hollywood prop, or technology that couldn't possibly be ours.
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the craziest things that ever happened to both sides of my family:
1) my maternal grandmother was bitten by rattlesnake on ear, goes into coma (6yo). (this is around SF, northern calif) doesn't come out. someone tells them about christian science. they pray, and she does comes out. that's illogic to me, but i wouldnt exist if she hadnt. i think the rattlesnake was in a bush, how it got to ear level. really the story should have been written down formally. you will notice there is IRrationality involved, but nothing supernatural. in my opinion. 2) father's side. my paternal grandfather and dad and two uncles were in a car coming home somewhere in back county (adair misso., where i am now), a black panther ran across the road in front of them. absolutely no mistaking what it was. four non-drunk Linders saw it. my grandfather was so disturbed by the sighting he wouldnt ever talk about it, it was so out of place. they never saw any reports about any cats missing from circuses or zoos. this was probably the 1950s. there ARE panthers roaming more places than you'd think, ive had multiple people tell me they've seen them or their tracks. and there are verified reports of them at different times in Missouri Conservationist. Last edited by Alex Linder; March 5th, 2019 at 03:17 PM. |
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This still annoys me and I've come up with no explanation.
In 1994 I had to go to Kansas City. I'd driven it enough time that the I70 route bored me, so I drive I36, to see some new country...it wasn't too much out of the way and I wasn't in a hurry. I had breakfast in Denver and got underway. In St Francis Nebraska I stopped for gas. It was a rental car and t took me about 20 minutes to figure out the gas flap and other stuff. I left St Francis about 11:40. And, yes I really did check the time...my wristwatch, the car clock, and the clock inside the service station. I wasn't hungry at all and figured I'd stop off in a few hours in some town and eat lunch. I drove about 15 minutes and immediately felt really hungry. I looked at the car clock. It was 3:45. I checked my wrist watch...3:45. I was completely stunned, but figured that I must have somehow gotten hypnotized and driven for 4 hours in a hypnotic state. I drove into a town, pulled into a small restaurant. I asked and then checked on the map. I was about 12 miles from St. Francis. I checked the gas and the tank was full. Even if I had driven slowly, the tank would be nearly empty. It had taken me 4 hours to drive 12 miles. I had a good memory of the drive...it seemed that I could remember pretty much the whole time, and I knew that I have driven 55 mph or so. I remembered passing a couple of work trucks. Did I have a stroke? I would have crashed. I had no symptoms of anything except I'd gone from full tummy to really hungry. Any theories? Mike
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Some people get ravenously hungry after a seizure. A couple of the kids I worked with had seizure disorders so I've read a bit on the different kinds. 25 yrs later tho so you prob don't have a ton to worry about even if so, but it's a thought.
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Several Things, and it Used to Make Me a Belieber in Jeboo
One in particular thing that I used to think was God telling me something:
When I was little, maybe three or so, I had this strong urge, like something telling me but not audible, to go behind the giant TV and look out the window. NOW. I didn't do it at first cuz it was hard to shimmy back there and I didn't know why I should, but I kept having the 'idea' that I was supposed to, so I finally did. I saw a long cloth blowing in the yard up the road and got a scared feeling and went and got my mom to look at it. I didn't know why it made me feel scared but it did. She thought I was being a weird lil child but looked, and had a hard time getting back there but did it because I insisted over n' over. Then she saw it and looked for a while, it looked like just something laying in the yard blowing, so she told me to go play. Later we found out it was our neighbor, Nina Lampkin, who had some sort of medical event and had fallen--what I'd seen was some part of her clothing, the rest of her was obscured by the flower bed. My mom was real upset by not realizing it was something, but she was rescued anyway later and was okay. I had only met her a few times and I remember she didn't talk to me in that stupid baby-talk way that adults talk to small children, she had me sit down and join the grown folks. I liked her. I don't know if she was telepathically 'calling for help' and my young brain picked it up or what. Another similar thing, long time later: I was about 19, and I was working a job at a YMCA where I was the front desk clerk. I was on the evening shift and two guys who came in there to play racquetball had called to see if the court was free, and asked me who was working there that night. I said, 'just me' and later realized this was probably why he called. They stayed hanging around me and the desk til near closing time, and one of them started talking beyond inappropriately toward me, asked me what I think about the Hooters up the road. 'I don't think about the Hooters up the road' I said. I looked uncomfortable and then he said, 'Relax, it's not like I asked you if you've ever had sex'. At that point I stopped talking to them and told them we were closing in an hour. He took his racquet and mock hit me with it, pulling it back just as I flinched and laughing at my getting scared. Both completely crazy. They wouldn't leave even when I ignored them and tried to look busy. The other one went off down the hallway where the gym and ball courts were and started looking all around like he was trying to see if anyone was there, by then literally everyone had left. I had no cell phone back then and wanted to stay closer to the front door rather than run off and be followed further away from the front. The way the desk was situated there was nowhere to go that they weren't able to intercept. I was finally flat out scared of both of them but as soon as he started scaring me with his conversation and I thought I might be in trouble I thought, 'I wish to god someone would come in here, mom, dad, anyone' and not 10 minutes later my mother and father both come through the front door. I'd never been so happy to see parents coming at me in my life and the two creeps were real quick to go all of a sudden. My mom told me they'd been on the way to go eat and she had all of a sudden a real bad feeling about me and told my dad to turn the car around and go see. I dunno if they picked up my 'help me' signal or what. Terrible things happen to good people and even children so I'm not so arrogant that I think it was god personally saving me cuz I'm so wonderful, but I don't know if it's a telepathic ability we have that we don't tap into very often or what. I had a dream one time as well that I can't explain. In the dream I see a very specific set of buildings that I'd not seen before and in the dream I feel like they are in a bad place that needs to be avoided. The next day we go to see where they'd put my grandma, an assisted living facility. On the way there I see this set of buildings. I'd never been to the place in my life. I said, 'OMG, I dreamed this. This place is bad' and we take her out that very day. There is a slight possibility I'd seen something somewhere related to the town and the name of the town conjured up the image in the dream---but I don't think I'd ever seen it before anywhere and I for sure had never been there. Just odd, can't explain.
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It seems quite likely to me that a man who required twenty minutes to find his gas flap would need about four hours to drive 12 miles and would have a an extreme case of the munchies by the end of his trip. |
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I removed a wild bird from my neighbor's house with my bare hands when I was 12. Not supernatural or anything but a bit wierd.
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most snakes can't strike such a distance here is a person's natural reaction when they see rattle snake, get down on their knees and crawl under the bush for a closer look |
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I almost stepped on a rattlesnake coming out of a pit toilet in a Calif national park. I didnt even know snakes used pit toilets. Turns out that's why they're called pit vipers. |
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Personally, I think it was a very, very miniscule envenomation and your grandmother had a good set of genetics which kept her from the worst after effects of a small envenomation. I think your panther was possibly an escaped animal from an owner or zoo that went out of business and just turned the animal loose. Silver Springs, Florida, is the oldest commercial tourist site in the state of Florida. There are non-native monkeys populating the area: Quote:
I've been to Silver Springs many, many times and have seen the monkeys. They are pointed out by the tour guides.
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Mark Twain had a neat book about "Christian Science:"
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3187/3187-h/3187-h.htm It is hilarious!!!!!! But, if "Christian Science" and Mary Baker Eddy's crowd isn't one's liking, for a gift of any amount to Johnnie the Ha-gee, you can get a Pissreal key chain, imported directly from jewrusaslum.
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Twain has the white mentality. Christian Science is a classic NE Waspism, altho what is actually interesting about it is that it is legitimately nondogmatic. Christian Scientists are generally fairly well off economically and generally cheerful. They are not fanatic. I cannot think of another example of an -ism generated by NE wasps that isn't 100% intolerant, crazy and forced on any animal the WASP can get in his net. Last edited by Alex Linder; March 10th, 2019 at 09:48 AM. |
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Most christian scientists do go to doctors. In my experience, CS is one of those ideas better carried out on one's children than oneself.
Ibuprofen for me Standing portal at the door of thought for thee As for the rattlesnake, most people are bitten on ankles or lower legs; being bitten on ear, that's closer to heart, and being that young, she's extremely lucky she didnt die, so I would guess she didnt get a huge amount. Also, earlobe is pretty dang small, maybe she got one fang. Who knows. |
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Having the actual book by Twain, I'm sure, was not cheap. Back in the 1960s was when I heard of Twain's book from a social studies teacher in high school. It had to be in restricted areas of libraries, such as in "rare books" areas with special permission to access it. The primary reason was that there was a very coordinated effort by members of the sect to buy or otherwise gain every copy and destroy it. I know this happened from first hand accounts from my family, as well as from what my old teacher said. Kudos to you, Alex, for getting this rare book.
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