# What's the closest thing to a 'supernatural experience' you've had happen in your life? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-closest-thing-to-a-supernatural-experience-youve-had-happen-in-your-life/566500 "2011-01-05T17:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**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 6, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-closest-thing-to-a-supernatural-experience-youve-had-happen-in-your-life/566500/23 "2011-01-06T01:08:59Z")
Wow. Just _ **WOW!** _ I started clicking Multiquote before I realized there’d be so many amazing stories; might as well show some of them anyway: > [@tdn](#): > > … Two weeks later, I had a dream that the guy came back and robbed me again. That day, he came in and robbed me again. A week later, I dreamed that he came in to rob me a third time, but the police were waiting for him and arrested him. That day, I got a call from the police. They caught him robbing another bank. A week after that, I had a dream that several people came in to rob me. But they didn’t want to take any money, they just wanted to fondle it. That day, the bank auditors came in. > [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > … Right before the snap I said outloud, “Off the left upright.” I have no idea what compelled me to say that but a second later when the kick doinked off the left upright my roommates just about crapped. I just said, “told ya.” > [@UncleMoose](#): > > … As I walked into my house from my father’s wake, the clock started chiming… > [@PotLuck](#): > > … just as I’m about to say “and then the train hits me” he sharply yanks me backward as a car roars out of a dark laneway and screeches to a halt on the sidewalk … stopping right at my hip. > [@Paranormal experience](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paranormal-experience/501549/43): > > … as my eyes adjusted to the light, I saw that the books were coming off the shelf one by one, in order from left to right. It started on the top shelf, then moved to the second shelf, and then to the third… The next morning when I woke up I sat up and saw that indeed I had not been dreaming–the books were in a big, messy pile on the floor. I cannot think of one explanation for what happened. > > … I said out loud, “Where’s Hedy Lamarr’s obituary?” I was taken aback, surprised to hear myself say that; while I’m a fan of old movies, I rarely if ever have thought about Hedy Lamarr in my lifetime. Two days later, I heard on the news that Hedy had died that night–two nights after I asked that question. Weird. I tend to be skeptical about such things, but have formed a vague model where such events might be compatible with physics! (But any explanation would have to be posted in BBQ Pit. :smack: ) I’ve my own story that seems too amazing to be just coincidence though it may not astound as much as the above examples. Very briefly: 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.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-closest-thing-to-a-supernatural-experience-youve-had-happen-in-your-life/566500)._