# determining odds of an occurance

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**Created:** [January 16, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-odds-of-an-occurance/846495 "2020-01-16T04:39:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-odds-of-an-occurance/846495/22 "2020-01-17T16:51:09Z")

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> [@cmore](#):
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> Link to your story? It sounds interesting.

It’s a hijack and I’m not sure it’s proper to post it in GQ. Perhaps Spoiler tags will prevent rebuke.[SPOILER]

> [@What's the closest thing to a 'supernatural experience' you've had happen in your life?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-closest-thing-to-a-supernatural-experience-youve-had-happen-in-your-life/566500/23):
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> … Picnicking with wife and infant, I brought up the subject of my wife’s mother’s famous ghost and _immediately_ the largest wasp-hive in our orchard fell to the ground. (A once-per-year event or less.) We raced away from the wasps carrying our baby, did a few things and stood catching our breaths in wonderment. I said something like “Wow, as soon as I mentioned your mother’s ghost …” but before I could finish the sentence, the sky turned quite dark and a ferocious wind drove sand at us so hard we were immobilized protecting baby. The storm was quite unusual but not unprecedented. With hindsight, it was likely an early wind gust from that storm that brought the wasp-hive down. Still, that the timing of the two singular events coincided _exactly_ with my two mentions of the ghost seemed bizarre. (No one will live in the house where my mother-in-law died, and when unknowing outsiders were boarded there, they left after one night and made camp outside. The orchard with the wasp-hive is 4 miles from that house and also allegedly haunted.)

While searching for that, I found another coincidence I posted in MPSIMS.  
[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13660126&postcount=1[/SPOILER]](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13660126&postcount=1%5B/SPOILER%5D)

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