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trackdaybruh t1_iw964yp wrote

Ah, that's totally a man who knew he was the only one in the shop and freaked out when he felt a tap in his back

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Solid_Snark t1_iw9xy5k wrote

Literally how 90% of “haunted” places stories begin: ”You don’t understand! I was alone, wrapping up the job when someone grabbed my shirt, I turned around and no one was there!”

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IFuckingHateAllergy t1_iwa6381 wrote

The remaining 10% is real.

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SamuraiSuplex t1_iwa8kzy wrote

The other 10% is someone pulling pranks. There are no real hauntings 😂

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nav17 t1_iwam7j1 wrote

That's exactly what a ghost would say!

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eGregiousLee t1_iwarg3q wrote

I feel like that’s the next Ghostbusters movie right there. Told from the ghosts’ point of view. Like Men In Black only instead of aliens hiding in plain sight it’s ghosts. They have a bureau that prevents humans from capturing them. Like spies.

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Gaothaire t1_iwasb5g wrote

If you went to a person living on the equator a couple centuries ago and told them that there was a land perpetually covered in snow and ice, they never would have believed it because it didn't exist in their experience. Just because your cultural framework is too rigid to allow for hauntings doesn't mean they don't exist.

Something as simple as Jungian psychotherapy allows you to interface with the ghosts of your ancestral trauma in a way Western reductionist materialists wouldn't believe, just because they never took the time to explore it, they prefer to let their mind be an unknowable black box.

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Febra0001 t1_iwatr3b wrote

“Cultural Framework” lmao

Remind me when science discovers ghosts. Until then, no thanks

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moonra_zk t1_iwavdff wrote

Keep that nonsense in that stoner philosophy sub, please.

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Affectionate-Pea282B t1_iwavgxd wrote

Seek help

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Gaothaire t1_iwccmig wrote

You don't believe in psychotherapy, so what healing modality would you suggest for help?

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Affectionate-Pea282B t1_iwccrku wrote

The fuck are you talking about you idiot

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Gaothaire t1_iwdfy04 wrote

Therapeutically, naming parts of your interior dialogue as a way to disidentify them from your Self is explicit praxis.

You told me to seek help, but clearly you don't believe in something so woo as therapy, so I'm asking what in your personal opinion would be a good path forward. Obviously, you live a largely unexamined life, so I don't expect you to have any useful input, but thought you might say something interesting. My mistake.

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Affectionate-Pea282B t1_iwdxvuj wrote

Where the fuck did you pull I “clearly don’t believe in therapy” out of? I have a therapist myself you fucking idiot

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Gaothaire t1_iwfluba wrote

Yeah, I don't think it's working, you seem really stressed. Maybe you should look into another healing modality, there's great work being done in somatics, using your body to release traumas and live a happier life

My initial comment pointed to therapy, and you told me to "seek help" (your words). If I'm seeking help for insights from psychotherapy, you obviously don't think those insights are valid. Or you're just too ignorant to understand what you're saying, which seems likely.

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rathat t1_iwato6s wrote

You’d be surprised how many people truly think they had an experience with a ghost. Like they never even considered any other explanation. I’d more more likely to believe some alien came down from space to fuck with me specifically before I’d believe it was a ghost.

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Zomburai t1_iwb3jw7 wrote

I had a coworker whose big proof the resort house she stayed in was haunted was that the towel she'd hung on the chair fell off.

Apparently ghosts were a simpler explanation than gravity

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BMonad t1_iwbz83z wrote

Also, what a lame ghost. It can interact with physical objects in this world, and all it chooses to do is knock a towel off a chair? Step your ghost game up.

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DamnAutocorrection t1_iwdi1iu wrote

So many people I know in real life who have paranormal experiences all occur when they were in bed getting ready to sleep.

I think 90% of ghost stories can be explained by sleep paralysis, shit feel incredibly real

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rathat t1_iwebszh wrote

YES! I’ve said it before on Reddit too, sleep paralysis is also the explanation for alien abduction stories. I have had sleep paralysis myself, and it’s exactly like people describe alien abductions. I know I used aliens coming to earth as an example of something more likely to happen than ghosts, but its second to ghosts lol, I love the idea of aliens, but it’s never really aliens.

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Rokketeer t1_iwagi1w wrote

The 10% is what matters so that the producers can say it’s based on a real story

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TravelinDan88 t1_iwd6fno wrote

People can form their own opinions of Ghost Adventures but there have been a few times that Zak, Aaron, or someone else on the crew gets the everloving shit scared out of them by dangling wires, automatic air fresheners, etc. It's hilarious.

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Apocrisiary t1_iw99bna wrote

Or, have workshop buddies that love pranks.

Source: worked with a bunch of them as an industrial tech. Worst one was coming in at 5:30 in tje morning, then getting hosed with the fire hose....I am NOT a morning person.

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BeckyDaTechie t1_iwfa740 wrote

My dad had a coworker-- 3 or 4 guys all shared the same office but had different departments-- who would walk in every morning an absolute ass to everyone else about being messy, loud, etc. while changing from his driving shoes to his safety boots. It wasn't anything disgusting, just maybe papers on their desks, snowy boots by the door, etc. The guy was just a neat freak and tried to make everyone else in the office the same way. (Yeah, 'cuz that's gonna work. It was damn steel mill.)

So one morning my father stuck a jelly filled doughnut in the toe of the guy's boot before he got into the office. Dude didn't even get a minute to complain, just sat down, grabbed that boot, jammed his foot (ha!) down inside and when jelly shot out of the boot and up his pants leg, he took off the boot and his socks, put his street shoes back on, turned around and went home.

Dude checked his boots before he put them on from then on.

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Apocrisiary t1_iwg9th9 wrote

Hahaha, oh yeah, some deserve it and a bit more malicious.

I was mad as all hell for like 10 min, as I mentioned, not a morning person. But once I got on some dry clothes, and a cup of coffee it was all good again and we laughed about it.

We had a boss that was a royal dick, once when he for the millionth time did something to piss us all of, we lifted his car on top of a shipping container. We had 90T forklifts, and only us on the floor had the license. No idea how he got it down, cuz we went home. But it was gone the next day and we never heard anything.

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tall__guy t1_iwaivet wrote

Looks like the tube started crawling up his back like a snake. Or an alien tentacle. Really can’t be too careful with those things…

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Vagicles t1_iwam69x wrote

RAT. This man thought a rat was running up his back.

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awoeoc t1_iwawchj wrote

Creepiest thing ever was I was once hiking solo uphill in the fall and I could hear footsteps behind me in the leaves. I turn back and nothing.

I keep walking for a bit and I hear it, it's following me, but nothing every time I turned around. I start speeding up, it's uphill so I can't really run but my heart was racing and I was terrified.

After a few more steps I realized as I stepped on fallen tree branches under the leaves, the other end of the branch behind me would "lift" so I'd hear the leaves behind me go up. It was me, it was my own footsteps.

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Lonelysock2 t1_iwayujh wrote

Yeah my friend heard noises while hiking in the woods. It was a bear, tracking them.

(But in Europe so I think they're less attacky?)

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hazeleyedwolff t1_iwbaq9j wrote

The European ones are less attacky b/c they don't have the right to bear arms.

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spider-bro t1_iwbrsu6 wrote

But if they somehow manage to get up on their hind legs, watch out!

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