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  • Once, back in high school, I had a printer cable coiled up and laying on my computer desk. I put my keys in the center of the coil, and for some reason a piece of paper over the top. (Random desk clutter.) When I went to grab them the next day, I lifted the paper, and they were gone. This was the inside of a coiled cable, a circular area maybe 4 inches in diameter, so it's not like I could just overlook them somehow. I figured that I must have moved them and forgotten about it, but when I searched again a few hours later, they were inside the coiled printer cable, under that sheet of paper. My family swore that they hadn't moved my keys, and really, how would they even have found them in such an odd spot in my room?

    • I grew up in a house where a lot of weird things happened, and this reminds me of the time my wallet and a few other important articles of mine went missing. My mom had laid them carefully on my bed at the time. She was the only one home. When I got home later, I wasn't able to find them. She helped me look everywhere, but they were just inexplicably gone. She was convinced I had moved them.

      Weeks later, I had lifted my mattress for whatever reason (bed was in the corner against the wall) and they were wayyyy in the back corner, lying between the box spring and the mattress, as carefully arranged as she had laid them out on my bed.

    • Physical reality seems to glitch sometimes.

      I have a wooden hand mirror that’s made with a thick circle of wood that surrounds two mirrors (regular and magnifying on either side).

      After several months in the humidity next to my shower, the seam in the wood came apart, leaving about a 2cm gap in the frame. I tried to fix it using a belt vice grip thing, but couldn’t get both mirrors to seat into their grooves so I could cinch the gap closed. No matter what I did, one mirror would unseat and be in the way. Cheap mirror, I gave up trying, and it’s been that way for more than a year.

      About a month ago I picked it up to use it and it’s fixed itself. The gap is totally gone, with the seam perfectly tight, like it had never broken in the first place. I stood looking at it saying ‘what the fuck?’ for several minutes. It makes no sense at all.

      e: it’s been in that same environment next to my shower this whole time, with no changes, so it’s not likely to be an environmental reason. So weird.

  • I have almost supernaturally good luck when it comes to getting tickets for things, but in no other area of life. This probably isn't the kind of thing you meant, and yet everything spooky I've eventually found a mundane explanation for. The ticket thing on the other hand? No idea.

  • I had' a dream a few years back that death (a dark cloud with skeleton head and a black hood) came down from a hill that I had to drive over to get to work. On my drive the next day I narrowly evaded a dude overtaking and driving on the wrong (my) lane at the top of the hill..

  • I can sometimes sense cops or deer when I'm driving.

    I'll be sitting at a red light for a while with nobody coming, I think to myself "yeah I can probably just run this, nobody's around. I won't in case a cop..." and then one will pass the light. It's happened multiple times to me.

    When I hit a deer with my car I was coming home from work at like 2am, I suddenly got a really strange urge that there was something up ahead and I dismissed it right before I plowed into it. I've gotten the same feeling a few times after that, and I'll always look to the sides of the road and see deer somewhere in the distance. Terrifies the shit outta me

    • I've come to learn your brain is really good at subconscious processing of things that don't quite make it to conscious awareness. Some part of your brain saw the cop and the deer and was trying to alert the rest of you.

      I had that happen once when I was out hiking alone doing geology research. I reached this area of the woods and was suddenly overwhelmed by this feeling of TIME TO LEAVE. I tried arguing with myself that there was still enough daylight to check out an outcrop I could see in the distance, but the feeling got so powerful, I finally gave in and called it quits for the day.

      I realized while walking out, that with all the little noises of the quail and other animals I'd been hearing all day, that spot in the woods had been silent. The next time I visited the area (and not alone this time), I found a cave right behind where I'd been standing, with fresh mountain lion tracks. Who knows, some part of me might have seen a mountain lion in that cave and was doing everything it could to tell me to get the fuck away!

  • when i had a macbook i found a random article in a weird browser window

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