Paranormal experiences

[boobles]

LocoCoco said:

Front bottom said:

boobles said:

Disastrous said:

I didn't say 'thread over' so much as 'ghosts didn't light up your hob'.

Of course I'm not religious!

I was going to say thank god for that but I wouldn't want to be ridiculed
Wasn't my hob by the way so please keep up at the back

I take it you turned all the burners off yourself, which indicates there was no fault with the hob?

Was there a pet in the house? Cats and dogs have been known to switch appliances on by themselves.

Yes I switched it off & no pets.. This style of gas cooker meant that all rings had to be turned on individually by switching the gas on, followed by pressing the button for each ring.

Edited by boobles on Thursday 13th July 13:20

Edited by boobles on Thursday 13th July 13:29

[Rawwr]

XCP said:

would have been more impressive if the burners were on, but the gas was turned off.

Would've been more impressive if the burners were on and it was a washing machine.

[Hainey]

LocoCoco said:

Front bottom said:

boobles said:

Disastrous said:

I didn't say 'thread over' so much as 'ghosts didn't light up your hob'.

Of course I'm not religious!

I was going to say thank god for that but I wouldn't want to be ridiculed
Wasn't my hob by the way so please keep up at the back

I take it you turned all the burners off yourself, which indicates there was no fault with the hob?

Was there a pet in the house? Cats and dogs have been known to switch appliances on by themselves.

You mean my dog could make me a cuppa but it's been holding out on me?

Little furry sod!

[MJ85]

Bought a 400 year old house in December last year. Interesting goings on from the master bedroom only.

Wife said loud noises from built in wardrobe. I ran upstairs, opened it, nothing.

Wife woke me up because the bed was vibrating whilst we were in it (ssshhhh, no jokes!)

I woke my wife up because the bed was vibrating whilst we were in it.

A very odd feeling, lasted for at least 30 seconds. Heating fully off, no pipes etc. I'm still not sure what it could be. My dad has stayed recently and kept the light on at night for hours - he's over 60 FFS! I just try to not overthink things! Seems to be working. The house was used for the births of many locals in the village, so plenty of deaths, no doubt.

[drainbrain]

Isn't it a bit unreasonable to expect the genuinely paranormal to conform to the terms of empirical explanation/verification?

[southendpier]

Friends of ours used to light all gas rings to quickly heat their kitchen rather than turning the heating on in the whole house.

Never turn on the grill though. So by science if the rings AND grill are on its them ghosts for sure.

[Front bottom]

drainbrain said:

Isn't it a bit unreasonable to expect the genuinely paranormal to conform to the terms of empirical explanation/verification?

Absolutely.

[smn159]

Front bottom said:

drainbrain said:

Isn't it a bit unreasonable to expect the genuinely paranormal to conform to the terms of empirical explanation/verification?

Absolutely.

So something which you assert can interact with physical objects in the here and now is somehow not subject to empirical verification?

Sounds convenient

[4x4Tyke]

drainbrain said:

Isn't it a bit unreasonable to expect the genuinely paranormal to conform to the terms of empirical explanation/verification?

No, but that does nicely highlight the difference between believers and sceptics.

[drainbrain]

Well, with the 'available tools' it's hard enough to explain/prove 'consciousness' itself, never mind try to explain/prove an extraordinary form of it (which is what a paranormal experience is).

[4x4Tyke]

drainbrain said:

Well, with the 'available tools' it's hard enough to explain/prove 'consciousness' itself, never mind try to explain/prove an extraordinary form of it (which is what a paranormal experience is).

That is quite different from "unreasonable to expect ..."

[boobles]

southendpier said:

Friends of ours used to light all gas rings to quickly heat their kitchen rather than turning the heating on in the whole house.

Never turn on the grill though. So by science if the rings AND grill are on its them ghosts for sure.

Very kind owners of the house to do that for me considering it was in the middle of summer & they were out all day..

[boobles]

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Or a very clever pet as previously mentioned.

[Billsnemesis]

drainbrain said:

Isn't it reasonable to expect the genuinely paranormal to conform to the known laws of the universe?

EFA

And to highlight the inherent contradiction in the original question - which sounded rather like the description of religion as searching a dark room for a black cat that isn't there and shouting "I found it!"

[drainbrain]

Billsnemesis said:

drainbrain said:

Isn't it reasonable to expect the genuinely paranormal to conform to the known laws of the universe, like normal things do?

EFA

Erm, no. It's not even logical that they should.

[rovermorris999]

How about a few more entertaining stories?

[Efbe]

smn159 said:

Front bottom said:

drainbrain said:

Isn't it a bit unreasonable to expect the genuinely paranormal to conform to the terms of empirical explanation/verification?

Absolutely.

So something which you assert can interact with physical objects in the here and now is somehow not subject to empirical verification?

Sounds convenient

given that our current laws of physics do not conform to this empirical explanation/verification you are talking of, why should anything else?

[deckster]

Efbe said:

given that our current laws of physics do not conform to this empirical explanation/verification you are talking of, why should anything else?

In what way does me picking up a glass not conform to Newtonian mechanics?

[KungFuPanda]

smn159 said:

A black tube like thing has appeared in my kitchen. I didn't put it there so that's a mystery straight away. Anyway, I can speak to it and it answer me - plus it seems to have some sort of ghostly control over the lights and the radio,

Open your minds, sheeple!

Pffft, mine orders me bog roll.

[southendpier]

boobles said:

southendpier said:

Friends of ours used to light all gas rings to quickly heat their kitchen rather than turning the heating on in the whole house.

Never turn on the grill though. So by science if the rings AND grill are on its them ghosts for sure.

Very kind owners of the house to do that for me considering it was in the middle of summer & they were out all day..

OK, now I'm convinced it was a ghost. Who communicates through the power of gas to tradesmen.

Weird eh? What happened next?