As the title says. Sometimes posts like this lead to a bunch of “paranormal” discussion—that’s ok but not a necessity. I’m relatively skeptical of that stuff myself, but they always make for good conversation and friendly debunking. This also includes very unlikely things. I’ll start:

When I was growing up (in the days before the communication revolution) my family took a trip to Chicago. During our five days there we somehow hailed the same cab driver three times, in three extremely different locations in the city. The second time all of us were shocked, and the third time we actually had him take a picture with us. I’m sure my folks have the old disposable Kodak photo buried somewhere in an album. Could he have been stalking us? I guess so. But he certainly didn’t seem like he was, and nothing bad happened. He seemed as surprised as we were. Definitely stochastic—but it’s funny how weird stochasticity can seem when it’s a little less random.

  • CultHero@lemmy.world
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    My father and maternal grand father both got colon cancer around the same time, both got treatment and went into remission.

    Both went out of remission around the same time (well, dad came out of remission and grampa got leukemia from radiation therapy) they both died 2 months apart.

    Lucky me has a risk of colon cancer from both sides. Yay.

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      The current recommendation for colon cancer screening in those with a family history is to start routine colonoscopies at the age 10 years younger than the family member who was diagnosed. So if your Dad was 55 when he was diagnosed, you should start getting regular colonoscopies and screening at 45 (which is around the recommended age these days anyways).

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        Already have had 2 and due for my third. I’m 49 with a looooonnnggg history of bowel issues.

        Get those colonoscopies folks, you don’t want to die of embarrassment.

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    Twice on one road trip, in one day, we encountered, at seperate waterfalls, the ttp (taliban) shooting up stuff trying to scare people off.

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    In high school we were messing around on the computers, got to the login for admin, didn’t know the password so I mashed the keyboard a bit and hit enter. It worked.

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      All I can think is maybe the system was coded to accept any password if no password has been set, and they hadn’t bothered setting a password

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      Should’ve gotten picked up by a 3 letter agency then and there. You could’ve been the next super spy

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    I remember learning to play pitch-and-putt (simplified golf) and when I finally got the swing right, there was a “thunk” sound twice or three times as my ball bounced from tree trunk to tree trunk. It was like some kind of nature-based pinball. I couldn’t believe it. When the disbelief passed later that day I couldn’t stop laughing.

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    Very early in the morning, while walking to the bus stop to school, I saw, on the side of the road, just walking there, a Lobster. I am sure of what I saw. I went down to it, looked at it, really got close. It was a friggin lobster, miles away from the ocean. Now, I do live in Florida, so we’re never really all THAT far from a beach, but I wasn’t exactly coastal. A pretty long and arduous journey for a little crustacean to make

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      They keep lobsters alive right before eating them right? Couldn’t it just have escaped from whatever cargo it was being transported in or some restaurant? Still unreal 😮

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        It really is the only conclusion I could come up with that made sense, but it was still just such a strange sight

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    I have no idea what year it happened, but my parents and I were driving from church (evening service) to a restaurant and a dark shadow appeared on the moon. This would have been late 80s / early 90s in the mountain west, USA, around 8PM. It kind of looked like it was cracking apart at the bottom. It stayed that way for a few minutes, so theoretically longer than something like a branch hanging over the road. It didn’t move at all. It was just there suddenly. Everyone in the car saw it, and the people we met at the restaurant saw it too. I’ve never seen anything like it since.

    I’m guessing something in space cast a shadow on it? This was before phone cameras so no evidence exists other than a weird memory.

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    Last summer, after driving for 6h back home from vacation with 1h more to go, suddenly, a koenigsegg jesko in full carbon appeard in the opposite lane. This 3 million car was just standing in traffic on a wednesday evening on the most random street. Still can‘t believe it to this day

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      This is like you’re walking your sheep to school and you see a damn Dragon straight up fly past you.

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        Pretty much, yes. And the dragon flies past you in 1 second and you start to disbelieve your own thoughts and memories :D