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.

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[–] CultHero 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] CultHero 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] someguy3 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] someguy3 11 points 10 months ago

Nope, other passwords didn't work. I hit the right password randomly. Unreal probability.

[–] Sekrayray 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Sekrayray 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

TIL the Taliban like waterfalls

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Half an hour they swam in knee high water fully clothed. I mean can't judge em so did we

[–] mysoulishome 5 points 10 months ago

They should stick to the rivers and lakes that they’re used to 🧐

[–] someguy3 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They stashed stuff behind the waterfall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Na that's where batman has his lair- and he doesn't like to share

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The most unexplainable thing was, in the house I grew up in there was closet in the basement that had a bad vibe about it. It was cramped and sort of angled strangely, and it felt weird in there - cold and unpleasant somehow. I had bad dreams about it.

But it was where my mom kept putting our old clothes and toys. One day after school I went downstairs to get one of my toys from the closet, quickly because I didn't like being in there.

I grabbed the thing and shut the door tightly. Well as I was walking upstairs I heard a "click." I looked into the room, the closet door was opening by itself only very slowly and deliberately, not like it was swinging open. There was no way it could have unlocked but, it did, and it was opening.

Just was a very weird feeling, I dropped my toy and I think I broke it as I ran up the stairs!

[–] blackbirdbiryani 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMHO, this happens often enough that I'm 99% certain it's caused by pressure changes. Unless you saw the actual door knobs moving...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I heard the knob moving, but didn't see it. It was not a door that would open on its own without some pressure, even when it wasn't totally closed. That was the weird part to me - because I know I did shut it firmly as I hated the space in there.

[–] Sekrayray 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Super weird, thanks for sharing. One of the houses I grew up in had some weird stuff happen and bad vibes. As someone who is relatively skeptical as an adult I still can’t make heads or tails of it. Years later I found out the previous owner killed himself in the garage. Strange stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I am skeptical also and not really a believer in supernatural stuff, but I do think are things in this universe maybe we humans really can't control or understand, or even are meant to come up against. What a weird feeling to know someone killed themselves in your garage, though - that would be creepy!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Darthjaffacake 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 😮

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] flubba86 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In 98, I worked at a small company. In 2003, I worked at a big company at a different city a few states away. I happened to be have a good view of people walking by from the parking lot to the front door from my desk. I recognized a coworker from 98 walk by. I ran out to say hi to make sure it was her. It was.

Other than both businesses being in the same broad category of software development, they had no other relation. And this was the one time she was walking by. It’s not like she was working there like I was. And I came by that job from a totally different path that had nothing to do with our old company. And she was not with that old company either and came to be where she was by another unique and totally circuitous route as I had.

I don’t know what the odds were of that chance meeting but it had to be less than 1 in a million. I mean, that one time she walked by I could have been in the bathroom or at lunch even.