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AlanS17:
Along with MustardTent's wierd-but-not-scary story...

While I was in college, I had an apartment by myself. I didn't have any roommates, and nobody had a spare key (except for the apartment manager, of course).

Anyways, someone had given me a cheesy gift of a battery-operated frog. It had a switch underneath with just two settings - on and off. When it was on, it would hop and around for a while, stick out its tongue, make a sound, and repeat the process.

Anyways, I got home one day to hear this sort of mechanical grinding sound coming from my bedroom. The frog was on my desk laying on its back in the "on" position. To my knowledge, I never left the thing on its back. And I definitely know I didn't turn the thing on. To top it all off, I always left it on the dresser, and this time it was on the desk.

Like I said... not scary, but wierd.

AtomSmasher:
Heres an odd story that just happened last week, although you could just say it was a coincidence.

My cousin is a firefighter and has been fighting the large fire here in southern California.  One day out of the blue my Aunt gets this weird feeling that my cousin (her son) is in danger and she needs to pray for him and get other people to pray for him (regardless of your thoughts on prayer, the point is she felt he was in immediate danger even though he'd already been fighting the fire for several days).  She called my mom and my mom called me.  About an hour later we see on the news that several firefighters had just died in the fire, which is obviously what we were dreading to see.  Later that night we got a call from my cousin.  He said that he was okay, but earlier that day he was heading to the same location where the firefighters had died (before they had died), but he had to stop and get gas on the way there.  That couple of minutes delay was just enough to keep him from harms way and dieing with the other firefighters.

I'm not going to try and argue that prayer had anything to do with him being saved, but you have to admit that its odd how my Aunt suddenly had this feeling that he was in danger, but his stopping for gas at that moment saved his life.

johnm160:
On a couple of occasions I have gotten the feeling that I am not alone even when I am the only one in the house. Usually this feeling is accompanied by some form of movement or sound that I cannot explain....each time it has been different but for example, I remember one night I was up late surfing the net....nothing new.... the wife was sound asleep as was my daughter. I had a night light in the hallway outside my bedroom door, while sitting at the computer I could see out the door of the spare bedroom when all of a sudden there was a shadow like someone just walked past the nightlight. I figured my wife got up to use the bathroom but the light never went on. I got up passing my daughters room...she is still in bed....looked in the bathroom....no one there...turned and went to my room and my wife was still sleeping.......no pets in the house at the time so there was no one that could have passed between the light and me casuing that shadow!! The hair on the back of my neck were standing straight up at the point.....I searched the rest of the house and found nothing out of the ordinary. This happed several times over a period of a few months then stopped. I am getting goose bumps now just thinking about it.

saint:
True story, and one I've rationalized as having a science-based rationale behind it, but stilll?

We were moving to another state. Wife was already in the other state starting her new job with our daughter, I stayed behind a couple of days to close up the house and pack us up and move. 

It's late at night, dark, I'm alone in the house in the kitchen. Kitchen has a cutout window looking into the living room.

There is not a single thing on in the house as I'm getting ready for bed. Suddenly, I hear clearly and audibly "I wish you'd turn this thing up so you could hear me." (it may have said "on" instead of "up). Male voice, quite distinct, not garbled at all, sounded like it was coming through an electronic medium (i.e. it was "radio" quality maybe, but somewhat better). Not one of those "did I just heard something?" bits of random noise, but a clearly spoken sentence.

Spooked the crap out of me. I mean, "holy cow what if there really is something out there but it's in HERE with me?" type of spooked. Cranked on every light in the house, searched every room with something in my hand like a broom handle.  Nada.

Everything was off, no one in the house, locked up tight, nothing electronic on other than fridge.

Now, in the living room was our stereo system. It was plugged in, but still off. My guess was that some freak of electronics, copper wiring, antenna action, whatever, picked up a random CB burst and played it on the speakers of the stereo system. Sort of like people who hear radios playing on their fillings under the right circumstances. I'm positive it was some random electronic freak occurance like that.

Damned if it didn't spook the crap out of me though. Think I slept with the lights on that night.

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Other weird thing that happened to me happened when I was a teenager. Woke up out of a sound sleep, had that presence of mind that told me I was clearly awake in my bed. Couldn't move. Not a muscle, not an eyelid, 100% completely paralyzed. Scared the crap out of me. Then I felt a presence in the room. I thought it was my mom, and I thought "she'll figure out there's something wrong with me and get me help!" Still scared, but had that feeling my mom would help me. I felt the presence sit on my bed -- don't know if I really felt the bed move, but I felt the presence sit next to me on the bed. Suddenly my whole body jerked, my eyes popped open, and.... I'm all alone in my room with the door closed.

Presumably one of those lucid waking dreams, but damned if I wasn't convinced I was awake already and again, scared the crud out of me.

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I remain a skeptic, but I do get that shiver up my spine every now and then...

johnm160:

--- Quote from: saint on November 01, 2006, 11:14:16 pm ---True story, and one I've rationalized as having a science-based rationale behind it, but stilll?

 I'm positive it was some random electronic freak occurance like that.


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Hey, if that's what helps you sleep at night......... :P

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