The majority of things that happen in life can be easily explained by logic or some area of science, whether it's economics, sociology, psychology, or whatever else. Yet, from time to time, some people experience things that have origins that aren't so solvable. So, they get stuck in people's memories for a long time, usually due to how odd or even spooky they are.
These stories are today's focus. So, let's take a trip. Just beware: some of them are rather creepy!
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I heard a voice, not with my ears but also not in my head, that said, "you don't have to go home". This was as I was walking home, and for some reason, it just woke something in me. I turned around and walked away. Slept on the streets for a couple of weeks before being taken into foster care. That is how I left my abusive family. I just decided in that moment to not go home, and that was that.
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As we can see in this list, many people have experienced mysterious and unexplainable events that stuck with them.
To talk about seemingly unexplainable things, Bored Panda reached out to philosophy writer Jonny Thomson. He said that, in a way, he had experienced some unexplainable and overwhelming stuff himself, for example, brought by, for example, love for his children: "There are times when I feel I love them with such intensity that the word love feels inadequate and the feeling spills into the religious. It feels overwhelming at times."
Classical music also brings this kind of feeling for Jonny: "I grew up near Canterbury and would sometimes sit to listen to choirs sing there. I would often cry and never know why. Inexplicable feelings pulled by inexplicable forces."
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Yet, sometimes even the most seemingly inexplicable things can be logically reasoned. Let's take a story about flickering lights from this list (that kind of reminds us of Stranger Things) -- maybe it can be written off as some electrical fault.
Jonny reiterated our idea that some things can be explained by something like a disease, electricity, or something similar, even if explaining it this way can seem kind of dull.
As an example, let's take the eerie feeling that someone is following you -- apparently, it can be caused by certain forms of epilepsy. Or seeing invisibly moving things can be a sign of a certain region of a person's brain being damaged.
Then, some out-of-body experiences, a sensation of a person's consciousness leaving their body, can also be explained medically. Experts say that things like stress, trauma, conditions like epilepsy, migraines, or even cardiac arrest can be a reason for that.
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But sometimes, the logical stuff isn’t the answer that is satisfying enough. Our interviewee Jonny revealed that for the topic of unexplainable phenomena, he likes to look at theological work despite not being especially religious himself. For instance, Rudolf Otto's "The Idea of the Holy," talks about numinous experiences. "It is a kind of 'overpoweringness.' It's the feeling of being swept away by intense, unswimmable currents, but not necessarily in panic. It's tremendous—a mysterious kind of power that both repels in its intensity and attracts in its appeal."
Yet, instead of religiousness, Jonny assigns it all to something more similar to aesthetic experiences and moments of profound love: "That mixture of fear and attraction is, for me, at the heart of the mystery."
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When faced with the unknown, some others go for paranormal explanations. Typically, these experiences are attributed to something magical, folkloric, or simply supernatural. Since most of the time, these explanations don't normally take scientific steps, paranormality is dubbed as a pseudoscience. Yet, it doesn’t stop people from believing and using it to justify seemingly unexplainable things.
The most commonly discussed paranormal phenomena are ghosts and the big question, "Are they real?"
Basically, ghosts are believed to be inhabitants of the netherworld that visit our world from time to time in a variety of forms, depending on the witness. The belief about ghosts and the things they cause on earth is so common that in many societies, funerals are held for the deceased just so they won't come back in this form and haunt the living.
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When I was 10 years old I didn't want to go to school one day. I faked a stomachache so my Grandmother would let me stay home. Ive always been a bad liar, so my Gma tried to call my bluff. She told me if I was too sick for school then she would be scheduling me a Drs Appointment. 3 hours later I was rushed into emergency surgery. My fake illness was actually appendicitis and It was so inflamed that if I hadn't come in that day my appendix would have ruptured potentially [ending] me. I felt 100% fine that day. Faking sick saved my life...
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But are ghosts actually a real thing that causes all this seemingly weird stuff? Well, sadly (or not so sadly, depending on how you perceive the ghostly presences), science doesn’t really support their existence.
There's a machine called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was built to help scientists answer fundamental open questions of physics. It has already helped them to learn about particle decay, find hints of new particles, and even reexamine the current knowledge about the Big Bang. Physicist Brian Cox believes that the LHC can help dismiss the existence of the paranormal, as even it seemingly can't find any tangible evidence for them being real.
This, in a way, proves that those who claim to see ghosts only do so because they've led themselves to believe they have. Basically, if you think paranormal activity is real, you are more inclined to believe you have witnessed it rather than look for a logical and common-sense explanation for it.
Well, that means that we need to find another explanation for the mysterious stuff on this list, as, apparently, ghosts weren’t responsible for them. Maybe sometime in the future, another kind of research will come and disprove the one we discussed. Only time will tell.
Have you ever experienced something mysterious and unexplainable? Share it with us in the comments, and upvote the experiences you find the most interesting!
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