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James 11 months ago

You couldn’t have invited her in?

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While the exact definition of what each of us considers eerie differs, the underlying cause is more or less the same.

"[Creepy is] about the uncertainty of threat. You’re feeling uneasy because you think there might be something to worry about here, but the signals are not clear enough to warrant your doing some sort of desperate, life-saving kind of thing,” Frank McAndrew, professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois, United States, explained.

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It's me. 11 months ago

Not a coincidence. ❤️

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I'm.Just.A.Girl 11 months ago

I'm not crying, you're crying!!! My daughter's dog crossed the rainbow bridge 4 days ago. So this makes me so happy to see

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I'm.Just.A.Girl 11 months ago

My grandma's CB name was ladybug 🐞 and I find them everywhere in my mom's house. All year round. It gives me so much hope that our souls and love live on.

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Even the way our bodies respond to the triggers is similar.

In 2012, researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that when subjects felt creeped out, they felt colder and believed that the temperature in the room had actually dropped.

Chilling, indeed!

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Katie Everswick 11 months ago

That's absolutely incredible!!

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tom 11 months ago

spooky!

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kath morgan 11 months ago

You’d almost think they were related

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martymcmatrix 11 months ago

Dang...I am too stoned to comprehend this...🌫️ 🧖🏽 🌫️

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That physical response further heightens our senses.

"You don't know how to act but you’re really concerned about getting more information," McAndrew said.

"It kind of takes your attention and focuses it like a laser on this particular stimulus, whatever it is."

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Mimi La Souris 11 months ago

genetic transmission of friendship !? i like the idea :)

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Bernd Herbert 11 months ago

That's not a coincidence, that's genetics.

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I'm.Just.A.Girl 11 months ago

That gave me goosebumps! It's beautiful to know that he is there with you looking out for you! I love these stories because they remind me to have faith in things you can't see or touch but that you definitely feel 💕❤️

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Whitefox 11 months ago

My sister had never met our great grandfather. She told me about a very tall and thin man she saw stand over my nieces crib and whom my niece was smitten with. It absolutely floored my sis when I showed her a pic of Grandpa Otto. It was he who was visiting and entertaining my niece.

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Nonnie Bear 11 months ago

My kids used to laugh when they were little, and I would ask what was so funny. They would say, "Papa Max is so funny!" Papa Max is the name we gave my Dad so my kids would know him. He died 4yrs before my first born. All 3 of my children talked about him.

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Korean Boi 11 months ago

my blind a*s sitting here zooming in on the middle and right to read these

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Margaret Zahn 11 months ago

Not that different from Heidi Wyrick and Mr Gordy. It just means you had some abilities as a child.

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Chrissie Anit 11 months ago

You probably overheard your relatives talking about Grampy and misheard the name, but kept all the other details. Brains work in interesting ways!

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Janice Sanz 11 months ago

SO cool!

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Lene 11 months ago

This gives me hope that my kids' imaginary cousin is a real person. He sounds super fun and crazy in the fun and good way. 😊

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Rivers of Belief 11 months ago

And definitely not imaginary anymore

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tom 11 months ago

i love a happy ending!

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As we can see from the pictures, it can be a lot of things, situations, places and, of course, people.

"We're predisposed to see willful agents that mean us harm in situations that are ambiguous, but this was an adaptive thing to do,” McAndrew said.

Our ancestors saw saber-toothed tigers in every shadow and a slithering snake in the motion of the swaying grass because it was better to be safe than sorry.

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I'm.Just.A.Girl 11 months ago

That is like spooky amazing. Not exactly terrifying.. more like reassurance with goosebumps.

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I'm.Just.A.Girl 11 months ago

That's amazing. I love these stories so much, I choose to have faith in something much bigger than ourselves. It's beautiful!

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UnpopularPanda 11 months ago

Unreal

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Kimbowa 11 months ago

Your mother had foresight

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McAndrew pointed out that truly creepy things and situations are not attractive. At all.

"We don't enjoy real creepy situations, and we will avoid them like the plague," he said. "Like if there's a person who creeps you out, you'll cross the street to get away.”

What we do enjoy is playacting, in the same way we enjoy the thrill of watching a horror movie.

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Kimbowa 11 months ago

Wow. Go Cubbies!

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Katy McMouse 11 months ago

This one is a bit creepy with the image of the future girlfriend staring out of the window, like a ghost.

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Irish Lassie 11 months ago

It took a minute to understand what she saw…center left in picture #2 is almost a perfect shadow of the dad in his baseball hat

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UnpopularPanda 11 months ago

I got goosebumps

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McAndrew and other psychologists, anthropologists, and even author Stephen King agree that horror films are a safe place for us to explore our fears and rehearse what we would do if, say, zombies tore apart our town.

Maybe these TikToks are too?

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Korean Boi 11 months ago

all of these posts are making me trippy as f**k. like how? lol

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Ingeborg Børch 11 months ago

❤️

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This house is back in my family after over 100 years.

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Papa 11 months ago

Earlier this year my wife and I went to an event celebrating the purchase of a house and property by a charity that is near and dear to her heart. When we got there I recognized the house. I helped build it 30+ years ago.

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Weirdo with Internet 11 months ago

Such cuties!

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Boo-Urns 11 months ago

Wut? This makes no sense as written.

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martymcmatrix 11 months ago

C'mon...🙄

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Bernd Herbert 11 months ago

That is also not a coincidence at all!

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pep Ito 11 months ago

It is called genetics

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tom 11 months ago

yeah me too, I went to a black tie function and you wouldn't believe it but, every guy was wearing a tux (insert cheeky sarcasm here)

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Maxigrod 11 months ago

Do people don't know about genetics? Yeah, you look slightly similar to a member of your family, who would have thought!

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Ginger Ghost 11 months ago

but I look just like our postman, that's not genetics

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Ash 11 months ago

Don't you know about human feelings? They don't always correspond with the facts the human knows, but they are nonetheless intense and precious to them. .... TL;DR chill dude

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Wednesday Addams 11 months ago

Yeah but some of those are so far down the line that it is creepy

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Robert T 11 months ago

One mildly interesting story of coincidence in my family. My parents lived in a very small village quite some distance from where they were both born. When visiting the church, we noticed a sign showing the names of the previous vicars, and one of them was almost the same as our family name, with one letter different. Some years later a relative did some research on our family tree and I followed it up with a bit more detail. Turns out the vicar was in fact my great-great-great-great-grand-father (b. 1781). He married into a farming family, and several generations farmed somewhat nearer to where my parents were born, and those farms still exist along with headstones in the local churchyard.

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ConstantlyJon 11 months ago

I want it to be my job to randomly text people "I love you" or "I miss you" or "I'm proud of you" from dead people's numbers. Is that a job someone can have? Seems like it'd be helpful to people.

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neytjie 11 months ago

Maybe not. What if you are finally dealing with the loss of a loved one and get that message? Would rly f with your emotional well-being

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Tamra 11 months ago

I, personally, don't believe that the spirits of loved ones watch over us or communicate with us, but many do, and if I'm being honest, I sometimes wish that I did. I imagine those beliefs bring people comfort, but I just don't have them. I honestly don't know if that makes me better off, or worse. But I don't suppose it matters much.

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censorshipsucks 11 months ago

yeah I feel sad for some of these people because they will spend the rest of their lives waiting for their phone or tshirt or bottle cap to send them another random message from their dearly departed. Really sad.

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Lost Penny 11 months ago

My cousin & I. We hadn't seen each other in a long time, and the only coincidence we were aware of was that our kids were born on the same date (Jan 23) 12 years apart. Then we finally got together & started talking just to find out: My first car was a white Ford Focus that I later traded in for a golden Toyota Corolla; Her first car was a white Ford Focus that she later traded in for a golden Toyota Corolla. I had a German Shepherd named Vincent; She had a GS named Vincent. I moved into my house in May 2004; She moved into her apartment in May 2004. There were more 'coincidences' that I will not delve into. I do not have an explanation for that 🤷‍♂️

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Ace 11 months ago

I find it quite disturbing how many of these seem to actually believe that there's something more than coincidence at play. Nom that butterfly/deer is not the spirit of your departed loved one.

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Shannimal 11 months ago

It helps people cope and brings them happiness. Nothing wrong with that.

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Bernd Herbert 11 months ago

I agree. I failed to see the "eerie coincidence" here. Most of those are not even coincidental, but merely genetics or a simple pattern recognition we humans are so good at. And the probability of many of those is not even clear, because you don't don't know how many similar stories were untold because they didn't have a recognizable end. (example: How many kids got a Cubs Teddy-Bear and didn't become a Player? And this one especially might even be simple work and determination of that guy, who really wanted to become a player because of his late father)

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LuckyL 11 months ago

But do you KNOW for sure? And isn't it nice to find some comfort in a thought like this? I don't really believe in heaven, but I like the thought, that my dad is watching over me.

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A B C the Third 11 months ago

WHY, for fùck's sake, is there a tikfuck video trying to open at the very start of the page? I've neve noticed that before, but what the eff, BP?

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Bernd Herbert 11 months ago

I'm going to use tikfuck from on too! Thanks for that one!

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BookFanatic 11 months ago

Meh. Most of these are stretching it a bit...but there were just enough goosebump-poppers to keep me reading. My only coincidental story is that my parents were in an antique mall on the other side of the state and bought the most horrible picture just for the frame. They got it home, Dad popped the frame, and the address of their house was written across the back of the picture. We reframed it and hung it in our dining room. Just in case.

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Legendbird 10 months ago

I was crying a little bit. Really sweet stories.

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brittany 11 months ago

i have a pic of me and my dad wearing the same white t-shirt, the same plaid jacket, and the same shade of blue jeans and black sneakers. we showed up for a surprise visit bc he was back early from a long haul (hes a truck driver) he didnt know we were coming and neither of us knew what the other was wearing. momma (step mom, but she momma to me) snapped a picture. theres no doubt we are dad and daughter. we have the same face shape, same smile, same hair color and eye color. i love that picture

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Pixie 11 months ago

*clapping and saying this very annoyed* GENTICS!

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Patti 11 months ago

Remarkable coincidences ? Or....

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 11 months ago

Managed to find a cookbook printed in the 1980s. One of the recipes was contributed by the friend's mom, she died in 2000. His copy of the cookbook got lost (or I think stolen by a family member). Made an awesome and sentimental Christmas present 🙂

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 11 months ago

My brother had intended to take Mom to the opening of the Lake Placid Olympics, but he passed a few years earlier. Mom and her cat were in the living room to watch the opening on TV, when the cat went to the door, hissing and spitting. She mildly freaked out during the entire opening, which was several hours. The minute the opening was over, the cat started acting normally again. Mom said my brother came to watch with her.

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Xenon 11 months ago

I'm convinced cats and other animals see more than we realize.

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Angie Falzarano 1 month ago

My bff and I only figured out sbout14 yrs ago (bffs since we were 15, so 50 yrs) that his aunts house that he spent all summers at was behind my house my house on the next block when we were around 8-9 till 13. We even went to the same candy store at the end of both blocks. And then my family moved to the town he lived in (we did know about this we didn't know about the other) and both ran for student council in junior high. We didn't met till high school. We've been crossing paths since we were 8. That's when you know a person is suppose to br part of your life. 50 yrs later and he's still my bff. He was even the gentleman of honor at my wedding.

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Quinn 11 months ago (edited)

For many of these, I think, people are not *finding* meaning in them so much as they are being reminded and reassured of meaning. It's serendipity; that is, not a *supernatural* coincidence, but the wonderful ability of human beings to spot a freak occurrence and to see very real meaning in it.

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Mimi M 11 months ago

This was really nice - thank you!

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Maxigrod 11 months ago

Do people don't know about genetics? Yeah, you look slightly similar to a member of your family, who would have thought!

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Ginger Ghost 11 months ago

but I look just like our postman, that's not genetics

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Ash 11 months ago

Don't you know about human feelings? They don't always correspond with the facts the human knows, but they are nonetheless intense and precious to them. .... TL;DR chill dude

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Wednesday Addams 11 months ago

Yeah but some of those are so far down the line that it is creepy

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Robert T 11 months ago

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ConstantlyJon 11 months ago

I want it to be my job to randomly text people "I love you" or "I miss you" or "I'm proud of you" from dead people's numbers. Is that a job someone can have? Seems like it'd be helpful to people.

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neytjie 11 months ago

Maybe not. What if you are finally dealing with the loss of a loved one and get that message? Would rly f with your emotional well-being

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Tamra 11 months ago

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Ace 11 months ago

I find it quite disturbing how many of these seem to actually believe that there's something more than coincidence at play. Nom that butterfly/deer is not the spirit of your departed loved one.

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Shannimal 11 months ago

It helps people cope and brings them happiness. Nothing wrong with that.

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Bernd Herbert 11 months ago

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LuckyL 11 months ago

But do you KNOW for sure? And isn't it nice to find some comfort in a thought like this? I don't really believe in heaven, but I like the thought, that my dad is watching over me.

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A B C the Third 11 months ago

WHY, for fùck's sake, is there a tikfuck video trying to open at the very start of the page? I've neve noticed that before, but what the eff, BP?

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Bernd Herbert 11 months ago

I'm going to use tikfuck from on too! Thanks for that one!

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BookFanatic 11 months ago

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Legendbird 10 months ago

I was crying a little bit. Really sweet stories.

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brittany 11 months ago

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Pixie 11 months ago

*clapping and saying this very annoyed* GENTICS!

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Patti 11 months ago

Remarkable coincidences ? Or....

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 11 months ago

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Xenon 11 months ago

I'm convinced cats and other animals see more than we realize.

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