But why?

[Cavallier]

Describe something that's happened to you for which you have no explanation.

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Example: I was walking down the street minding my own business when a man rode up on a bicycle and stopped in front on me. He was wearing only dress pants and a dress jacket with no shirt and no shoes. He asked me my name. I told him. He smiled and handed me a bag of Halloween themed icing covered animal crackers. I thanked him for the crackers. He got back on his bike and rode away. The animal crackers tasted mediocre at best.

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[DesertSmeagle]

Interesting..Chances are he was a homeless schizophrenic that thought he was a philanthropist, giving you his dinner. I cant believe you ate them.
Hmm. One day i was at the salvation army and it must have been retard discount day. So this retard, probably in his mid 30s, walked over to me, because hed been staring at me for over 20 minutes, and he told me a beautiful story that change my life. He said that his 4th grade teachers name was Mr. Gotham, like Gotham city in batman. He went on for about 10 minutes, stressing to me how his teachers name was also the city of, probably, his favorite super heroes city..Then i nodded and smiled, and he walked away..I never saw him again, but i knew in my heart he would go on to change the lives of many people.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I get on the bus. This guy stares at me. I stare back. He continues to stare occasionally for long periods of time. I keep staring back. About 35+ minutes later near my house he pushes the stop button for my stop and gets off at the same time with me. Never saw him again...

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

My birth, this moment and everything in between.

 

[eccentriceclectic]

Once I saw the same African guy three times in one day.

 

[DesertSmeagle]

Oh shit! i just thought of something that scared the shit outa me, and is one of those strange coincidences that give me evidence of God....
Ok i was at this airshow once, and we were driving home. The traffic was terrible and people werewalking. So were almost out of the airport place and theres this guy hitchiking, and he looks sketchy as fuck. So of course i have my camera, so i take a picture of him while im in the car, and hes looking right at me. I think, haha im gonna take a picture of this guy and he cant do anything about it. So the guy gets upset, because after i take the picture, i look in the mirror and hes giving me the middle finger. So about 15 minutes later, we are sitting in heavey traffic at a stop light. And guess who gets out of the car in front of us? Ya the angry hitch hiker. I have no idea how it happened, but i ducked down so he couldnt see me. Fuckin crazy. I thought i was gona get shot.

 

[Melllvar]

I dropped an answering machine that was running on tape one time (this was like 10 years ago) and it started playing messages from years before that had been deleted and recorded over probably hundreds of times. I turned it off and back on and it went back to playing the messages currently on the tape. I've still never figured out how or why it did that, and nothing like it has ever happened again.

Current theory: it was haunted.

 

[nexion]

Oh shit! i just thought of something that scared the shit outa me, and is one of those strange coincidences that give me evidence of God....
Ok i was at this airshow once, and we were driving home. The traffic was terrible and people werewalking. So were almost out of the airport place and theres this guy hitchiking, and he looks sketchy as fuck. So of course i have my camera, so i take a picture of him while im in the car, and hes looking right at me. I think, haha im gonna take a picture of this guy and he cant do anything about it. So the guy gets upset, because after i take the picture, i look in the mirror and hes giving me the middle finger. So about 15 minutes later, we are sitting in heavey traffic at a stop light. And guess who gets out of the car in front of us? Ya the angry hitch hiker. I have no idea how it happened, but i ducked down so he couldnt see me. Fuckin crazy. I thought i was gona get shot.

Must have picture.

Dammit, I wish I had random, unexplainable events. My life is so mundane.

 

[warryer]

Back in February my debit card had expired. It would be another few days before I could go get my new one from my parents' place. I was running low on food and money to buy some with.

I was walking back home from my evening class and the roads were bad (snow slush etc). I get to my street and some lady sees me and starts yelling "hey!" I ignore her and she starts following me yelling "hey you, I need some help." So I turn around and ask her what she needs. She tells me her car is stuck and she needs help pushing it out. So I ask her where it is. It just so happens that her car is stuck right in front of my house.

So I go inside my house to put my bag down. I grab my roomate and we both go outside to push her car out. She gets out her purse and hands me $5 and says "Go by yourself some hamburgers at McDonald's or something."

 

[snafupants]

Back in February my debit card had expired. It would be another few days before I could go get my new one from my parents' place. I was running low on food and money to buy some with.

I was walking back home from my evening class and the roads were bad (snow slush etc). I get to my street and some lady sees me and starts yelling "hey!" I ignore her and she starts following me yelling "hey you, I need some help." So I turn around and ask her what she needs. She tells me her car is stuck and she needs help pushing it out. So I ask her where it is. It just so happens that her car is stuck right in front of my house.

So I go inside my house to put my bag down. I grab my roomate and we both go outside to push her car out. She gets out her purse and hands me $5 and says "Go by yourself some hamburgers at McDonald's or something."

her mind was no doubt ravaged by dementia

 

[Chimera]

Recently my sister and I were driving back from some store and we were coming up to an intersection where the light had just turned yellow. I nudged my sister and told her she could make it, so she sped up and we cleared the intersection as the light turned red.

Not even a second later, this huge tree by the road fell right where we would have been stopped, had we waited for the light. The tree looked fine from the outside, but it was completely rotted black wood inside; there was no way you could have figured it was gonna fall any time soon.

*shivers*
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[IfloatTHRUlife]

Wow chimera, something kind of similar happened to me not long ago, i wasn't in a car, i was standing in my yard, but anyway, a huge tree branch fell while i was standing talking to my mom. If i had taken the time to look up and see what the cracking noise was, i wouldnt have had time to get out of the way.

Which is hardly on topic since its not weird or unexplainable, but it would have definately sucked.

 

[Dormouse]

Here's something a little strange. I was in a hotel room recently and a friend of mine was out on the balcony. At least I think she was. Now that I think about it I don't remember her going out there. <Yes, I'm saying that to freak myself/others out.

Point is, I was in bed, facing the opposite wall with the covers over my head. Nearly asleep, until I hear her get up and walk towards the door, which apparently she didn't see, because I heard her banging into the glass pane again and again and again. This went on for a while, I can't say how long because the rhythm put me to sleep pretty quickly.

So yeah. My best guess is she had dozed off and was sleep walking, since she didn't remember it the next day. Or I could have been dreaming, but I'm quite certain I wasn't.

 

[Mello]

I don't actually like cake very much.

 

[nexion]

I don't actually like cake very much.

Dolphin does not approve.

 

[Anthile]

Recently my sister and I were driving back from some store and we were coming up to an intersection where the light had just turned yellow. I nudged my sister and told her she could make it, so she sped up and we cleared the intersection as the light turned red.

Not even a second later, this huge tree by the road fell right where we would have been stopped, had we waited for the light. The tree looked fine from the outside, but it was completely rotted black wood inside; there was no way you could have figured it was gonna fall any time soon.

*shivers*
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You know, when I was a kid I wondered all the time how traffic lights work and how they 'know' when to show which color. I figured there was a small bunker under every traffic light, with people watching the streets with cameras and press the colored buttons whenever they feel like it.

 

[snafupants]

You know, when I was a kid I wondered all the time how traffic lights work and how they 'know' when to show which color. I figured there was a small bunker under every traffic light, with people watching the streets with cameras and press the colored buttons whenever they feel like it.

Italian Job?

 

[nexion]

You know, when I was a kid I wondered all the time how traffic lights work and how they 'know' when to show which color. I figured there was a small bunker under every traffic light, with people watching the streets with cameras and press the colored buttons whenever they feel like it.

There is an electromagnetic strip under the light (not a weight checker, as some people believe). If there is no one at the light or there is heavy traffic the light goes in a cycle.

But I assume you already knew this.

 

[merzbau]

i was hunting for an apartment for 12 months, and i found one exactly 1 day after i got notified that i had to vacate my house at the time.

i met a friend of mine on a train on the way to a gig that he was also going to, and we randomly bumped into each other on 4 separate occasions in the next few days, in a record store, at a cafe (with his girlfriend), walking in the city...

i hated onions when i was a kid, and now i love them.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

i hated onions when i was a kid, and now i love them.

Odd, I loved tomatoes as a kid, and now I hate them.

 

[pjoa09]

my bathroom light only seems to turn on properly at day time.

 

[Cavallier]

I think this relates:

Spoiler

YouTube - It *could* just be coincidence

 

[merzbau]

i remember another odd incident. i was going through the local crime book store, and there's this old gent, scruffy, mid 50s, bald on top with sort of bushy looking hair sprouting out the sides of his head, and thick, horn rimmed glasses. i'm walking along casually, looking at the shelves, and he's scrabbling through things erratically... he notices me, then he starts mumbling to himself, loud enough for me to hear him.
"mumble... no, got the.. another one, mumble..." then he started berating imaginary people for "taking my books..." this didn't bother me, until he started mumbling "i'll kill someone.." silence "..i'll commit murder."
it's difficult to describe the tone of voice he used, or the chilling effect this gave. things were running through my head; was it his idea of a joke..? or a threat? are there people out there who actually do things like this, and mean it? are there actually crazy people who want to meet like-minded people, and was he acting like this as some kind of signal..?
this guy clearly looked and acted psychotic. it profoundly discomforted me, and i felt much better after walking around the other side of the shelves. i also overheard bits of his short, rambling conversation with the lady behind the counter, where he babbled that his collection of books was "best in the world" and he'd "never sell them off".. and how he wasn't "fucking" paying eighty dollars for a book.. the lady serving acted as if he was a harmless loony.
maybe he was. but i was checking behind me as i walked to the train station.

 

[Minuend]

Slightly irrelevant.

Spoiler

The other day I read about this guy who walked out and killed somebody because "he felt like it". He had no motive, he just chose some random guy*. I've listened to bits of an interview with him, and he doesn't sound "crazy". When the interviewer asked him what game he was playing before he went outside (he was playing and chatting on msn), he explained it had nothing to do with games in a very "rational" manner. He was calm and seemed quite normal. He said he had always been bad with emotions. He didn't feel guilty (he did however feel the situation to be unreal when in it).

I could actually relate somewhat to this chap. I've done bad things and I haven't felt guilty about them after. I don't find it impossible that I could be that guy under certain circumstances. (I'm talking 30 years into the future where my life just got more and more messed up.....or so).

I mean, I'm not trying to act tough or brag or anything by writing this. I just found it very fascinating that he had no motive, no depression, no hatred, apparently no mental disorder, nothing. One of my biggest fears that actually feels real, is to loose my mind in some way. Attacking people or start hallucinating, stuff like that.

Moral of the story is, if someone mumbles about killing people in the local book store; RUN

*When I say random, I mean that the killer had nothing against the bloke. But he did choose that particular person because he knew him, and the killer then assumed he would be able to get closer more easily.

 

[Anthile]

Okay, this is really weird. The day before yesterday I dreamed about Crystal Pepsi. I don't remember too much of that dream, only that I was in something like a gas station and I was about to buy a drink. I go to the fridge and from all the sodas in there, I pick Crystal Pepsi. That in itself but I never had a Crystal Pepsi in my life. It never made it across the big pond. It's out of production since the early 90s. The only reason I actually are aware of the existence of Crystal Pepsi is because I watched a "review" of it as part of Brad Jones' (aka Cinema Snob) show where he reviews exotic, rare or discontinued beverages - but that was weeks ago. When I woke up and checked my RSS feeds, I saw that he re-visited Crystal Pepsi because he got another bottle of it. There is absolutely no way I could have known this.
After that I was like

I guess prophetic dreams are not what they are used to be.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

I just discovered that my sibling, a very conservative Christian who is married with a child, regularly makes out with her best friend and her husband is cool with it. This coming from the girl, who if she had been Catholic instead of Protestant, would have certainly become a nun.

I couldn't even bring myself to remark on the hypocrisy.

 

[Thaklaar]

Well, if you read the bible carefully, there's no clear proscription against lesbianism. Sounds like they found them a loophole.