(January 8, 2013 at 11:16 am)paulpablo Wrote: Have you ever seen something that you couldnt explain, or witnessed something in anyway which you couldnt explain?
I did once see a strange flying glowing orange object outside my work but that could have been anything.
The one thing that i can say i have seen which i still cant explain is this.
One day i was running with my friend down a road, we heard the sound of aproaching water noise, when i spoke about it to my friend later we both said we thought it was the same thing, a truck driving down the road and the sound was its wheels along a wet road. So we didnt even turn around but then we saw a line of rain go past us, this was what was creating the aproaching noise, it then showered over our heads, go past us so that it wasnt showering over us anymore and carry on down the road. then it came back and went up the road where we had just been.
I dont know if this is a very good description but just imagine a columb of rain like in the cartoons how you see a somone whos depressed and a rain cloud follows them.
-- 1 1-------------00------------
---------------------------1 00 1--------------------
------------------------------00---------------------1 1------------------
imagine if me and my friend are the two 00s and the rain is inbetween the two 1s this is basically the progression it made. then it reversed back over us and left
Some people say it was just a narrow raincloud but ive never witnessed anything like this before or since, and it seemed so specific, i was in school at the time and when i tryed to describe it to my other friends they just thought i was a bit of a weirdo and when i told my dad he said it might have been wetness coming off a plane or something as one theory but i doubt that.
Id like to add i dont believe in paranormal things but id like to hear if any other people have seen weird stuff or if you have an explanation to what i witnessed
Argggggg. Yea and so what? I hate questions like this. It really is fodder for woo mongers.
When you or anyone sees something you don't understand or can't explain, that is all it means. It does not constitute the conspiracy Area 51 or flying saucer or little green men guff. All it means is that you saw something that freaked you out.
That really is no different than when people say to me at work "you read my mind", not understanding that I simply have my eyes open and am just more aware of what is going on. They never take into account the other times where I don't anticipate or get it wrong.
It is merely the same flaw of gap filling and selection bias and sample rate errors.
It is perfectly ok to say "I don't know", but it is not ok to start a thread like this without some sort of rational explanation as to why we as a species "freak out" when "mysterious" things happen.
So again, yea, I've had "weird" things I've seen that cause me to say "WTF" but all that means is that I reacted to a very natural event with a very natural flawed human perception.
What is not happening in any of these cases is all the woo crap you see on cable TV. The only right and rational thing one can say in cases like this is "I don't know", but we don't have to fill in those gaps with si fi or wooish garbage.
