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Do you believe in any ‘supernatural’ stuff like ghosts or psionic powers?
What are the most convincing things you’ve seen/read one way or another?
No.
The closest I've come to the supernatural was a single unexplainable experience that I had with another atheist-skeptic at 3am that we both vividly remember. Incredibly fast and close lights with no attached sound passing by us on a lonely highway.
Beyond that, there's been nothing even remotely convincing beyond science being unable to figure out the source of everything. Perhaps a bit unlike nara, I'm comfortable with giving the mathematicians/physicists/astronomers one freebie. I think it's very possible there is no source of everything, it just is.
I've had unnerving instances of intuition, déjà vu, etc. but it happens rarely enough that it seems like a combination of random chance and my sensory data hopping into a "memory" space of my brain.
Same here with late-night encounter. Years back, I was walking along a country road at night with my mother - it had no lighting - and as we passed one particular place where there was a fence/gate in the wall, I had a feeling there was something behind it, something that it would be better not to encounter.
Very odd, I said nothing, and when we walked back on the return trip I waited to see if I would feel the same when passing that spot. No, but my mother later asked me "Did you think there was someone or something behind that gate?" because she had felt the same.
What was it? No idea, except maybe ancestral instincts kicking in about being out at night when predators might be lying in wait. I've never had an experience like it before or since, and I never had any feeling about that particular place prior. There weren't any ghost stories or other folk tales associated with it, so I wasn't primed to feel 'haunted'.
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