**What paranormal/odd events have you experienced that have a logical explanation? How have you debunked it?
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- The woman we bought this house from is adamant it’s haunted by a little girl. Once, in the middle of the night, I got up to use the bathroom and saw a little girl standing in the hallway.
Debunk: I was primed to see something because the previous owner laid down the groundwork; it was 2am, I was half asleep, and my brain was a little wonky; the backyard security floodlight hit one of the trees and created a shadow that my sleepy self interpreted as a human figure (Pareidolia).
- Early one morning there were sharp, loud knocks inside the walls of the house. This went on for about 15 minutes. Several hours later my mom called to tell us the terrible news: my little brother had died in the early morning.
**Debunk:**trapped raccoons, squirrels or other small animals; underground vibrations created by nearby “mountain removal” mining; primed for experience: I come from a Scots-Irish background and have heard numerous stories about a knocking banshee as a sign someone is going to die.
- I had a few seizures in 2012. The day after the seizures I saw a very tall, very wide black mass that walked a loop from the dining room, up the stairs, and back down. I wasn’t at all frightened; rather, the black mass was comforting and the experience felt religious. The mass walked around for a few hours.
Debunk: I was in a postctal state that caused hallucinations (a well-known “after shock” of seizures, especially in frontal lobe epilepsy). But damn, this was a powerful experience.
