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Watched phenomenon on tv last night and I have to ask if anyone has ever actually seen anything truly inexplicable. I'm not talking pranks, tricks, hoaxes, or urban legends, I'm talking true x-files type stuff. I've never seen anything like that and tend to be a little sceptical. Not that it can't happen, but that it happens when people say it does. Most times I believe it's just someone trying to get some attention.

That depends on what you consider "phenomenal".

That depends on what you consider "phenomenal".
I think the thread explains itself.

There is no such thing as something inexplicable. There is always an explenation. Even when you get to X-files type stuff they always had explenations for them there too. It just so happens that sometimes the explenation ruins some beliefs you held that turn out to be incorrect.

I think the thread explains itself.


Well..then to be blunt, yes.

Ive seen some things, and experienced others, that were truly unexplainable.

I think about 97% of the crap you hear about events like these are utter crap, and more suitable for bedtime stories, or campfires.
However, the other 3%, bears merit, and is worth trying to understand.

I had a science teacher once, who was a former monk.
He would go to a parishoners home when they would report strange goings-on.
He has told me some of the stories of the things he has seen, and I can tell you one thing I believe to be fact.

I do not believe he lied to me once.

Do these kinds of things happen?

Yes.

Do they happen with the frequency some say?

Doubtful.

All sorts of unexplained stuff happens all the time. Just
because we don't have an explanation for it I refuse
to consider it impossible or super natural.

I have the ability to spin a pair of sunglasses in the air by a flick of the wrist, and the ability to moon people on the street via my window. I am special. Oh wait, a stroke.... *collapse*

*sighs* c'mon someone can do better than that, can't they? Someone had to have atleast seen a ghost or alien or someone move something with their mind, right? I guess the government got all those people. :D

Once I was waiting outside next to the car, my father was taking his time as usual. I looed up into the sky and saw a black patch with no stars (it was night) even though there were no clous. Looking closer at this triangular patch I noticed that there were lights flashing in each of the corners. Not very bright, but I could clearly see that they were flashing in a pattern. It seemed like the first light would flash every second and a half, the second every two and a third and the fourth three and a quarter (these are probably not the exact intervals/times, but they serve to give you an appropiate idea). I couldn't hear/feel anything out of the ordinary. It seemed (although this could be totally wrong) to be as high in the sky as three and a half power polls end to end and was motionless.

Friends and family have told me of strange things in the night sky, or ghosts or whatever. But you want first hand accounts. so here goes.

I had a terrible car accident. while in ICU, I saw my dead grandfather and he said I could follow him if I wished, i was welcomed. I told him I couldn't because my mother would be very upset and alone and she needed me too much. to which he just smiled and faded. when I opened my eyes, there was a lot of movement around me, and my mother was there. I had a pulmonary embolysim (sp?) It seems I had unplugged all the monitioring equipment, including the oxygen monitor and oxigen mask, and sent people into a panic...

My best friend went in to have a kidney transplant. the surgery wouldn't be done before midnight, so instead of waiting by the phone for some news, I just went to bed. I woke up with a start, my heart hurting for some reason. Just thought I was having a panic attack from too much stress, calmed down and went back to sleep. a few hours later, her bf called and said the transplant had gone well, but that she had gone into cardiac arrest... they were able to bring her back. she went into arrest at the same time I woke up.

These are my stories, I have a few more. It doesn't matter if people believe in this stuff. doesn't matter if I believe in it, really. All I know is that I learn more about myself through these experiences. That's all that truly matters.

Depends on what you are willing to believe and what you are willing to discard.

Take Crowley for instance. He was a charlatan in the highest degree, he did what he did for the sake of molding his own reputation in the minds of people and he did so damn well. However, he did not believe he was a fraud, he genuinely and completely believed in what he was dealing and some of his craft goes a good bit beyond skeptical denial.

There is a lot of weird shit in this world, most people will never see any of it and thusly will feel comfortably denying it. However, many people have gone looking for the afore mentioned weird shit, and will tell you absolute certainty that they found it.

My aunt had ben in a near fatal car wreck and she was paralyzed from the neck down, then one day, after someone had prayed for her...she got up and walked...it's documented, her physician had never seen anything like it, her spinal cord was severely messed up.....and then it was completely better all of a sudden, i tthink that would count as supernatural....

My parents tell me of when I was a small child.

We used to live in a very old victorian semi-detatched house at the end of a small estate of terraced houses. Anyhow, I came into their room one morning and asked about the lady that would come and sit on the end of my bed and talk to me at night. They asked me if I meant my grandmother and apparently I said, no the other old lady.

I wouldn't think it strange and just put it down to me being young and having a good imagination except for the fact that I remember every room in that house, apart from the one this apparently happened in. We owned the house till I was about 7 years old, so I remember it quite well, but I can't remember it for the life of me.

Other weird things have happened. When my parents were courting, my father bought my mother a gold pendant with Mary etched onto it. Shortly after she lost it. 15 years later, I beleive I was about 7 at the time again, I found a bit of jewelry in the middle of the carpet in my room and gave it to her. Again, wouldn't be too interesting but that my grandmother (who's house we were in at the time) had died about 3 days before. Coincydink? Maybe, but it was smack bang in the middle of the room.

There've been other things I've apparently said in the past that were more than a little weird, including mentioning being a collier in liverpool when I was about 3 years old. I didn't know what a collier was when I was 3 years old, but I pointed to a street said I used to live there and started describing my life. I actually vaguely remember doing that...