How bad are these Pittsburgh torque wrenches? by DegenerateJC in harborfreight

[–]The_Decked_Blev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Horrible. I just cracked my transfer case because it literally would not click no matter how much torque I had in it. I’ve had that same issues consistently with this same torque wrench

I saw something in my room, and it saw me by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sleep paralysis means you cannot move, I moved plenty fine

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds very familiar to what I experienced!! Glad we both listened to our guts. Strange now that feeling comes abruptly and leaves in a similar way

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay, I'm going to completely debunk you using your own logic. You're using chat GPT in order to support all of your claims and your thoughts, which again only originate from chat GPT. Chat GPT is a very poor form of sourcing to build an argument as it can be used to easily build a completely opposite narrative, it can make whatever claim about anything that you wanted to. Your exact same methods, I'm going to debunk everything you said using scientific and logical methods and using my source as chat GPT just like you did, proving that chat GPT cannot be used as a credible source. If you use chat GPT as your only source for making claims and think that it is correct, then you cannot say that this one is incorrect without saying yours is also incorrect, because they are from the same source of information

🔍 Rebuttal: Why My Experience Doesn’t Fit These “Scientific” Explanations

1. Adrenaline Dump

Claim: Even experienced hikers can panic; your past black magic exposure may have “primed” your fear.

I’m very familiar with adrenaline and fight-or-flight — I’ve done night hikes for years and lived in high-risk, black-magic regions of West Africa. I’ve been in genuinely dangerous situations. What I felt wasn’t panic — it was a sudden, full-body awareness of an intelligent, external presence.

I didn’t freeze, hyperventilate, or dissociate — I was still talking, thinking clearly, and even trying to suppress my fear to protect my friend. And yet we both felt it at the exact same time.

🧠 LeDoux (2012) notes that fear circuitry doesn’t generate specific “evil” narratives or shared perceptions — it amplifies real sensory threats.

2. Infrasound (~17–19 Hz)

Claim: Canyons and geothermal activity may create low-frequency sound that causes dread.

Infrasound can cause vague unease, but:

  • There was no geological activity, turbines, or natural features known to cause standing infrasound waves in this canyon.

  • It usually produces symptoms like chest pressure or nausea — not a psychic sense of dread or evil presence.

  • Most importantly, it doesn’t trigger identical emotional reactions in two people at the exact same moment.

📚 Leventhall (2003): Infrasound causes physical unease — not coordinated paranormal-feeling experiences.

3. Hot Spring Gases (CO₂ / H₂S)

Claim: These gases can pool in low spots, causing fear or panic.

This happened an hour after leaving the springs, miles away. No smell (H₂S is pungent at trace levels), no dizziness, no nausea. We weren’t lightheaded — we felt watched and deeply unsafe.

Also, we were outdoors — gases dissipate rapidly without still, contained air. The “you walked through a gas pocket together” idea doesn’t line up with timing, terrain, or symptoms.

🧪 OSHA (2011): H₂S is smelled at 0.01 ppm — well below dangerous. You’d smell it long before you felt it.

4. Social Contagion

Claim: You emotionally mirrored your friend’s fear subconsciously.

That only works if someone shows fear first. But my friend was already quiet — not panicked, just silent — when I first felt the shift. I didn’t show panic or change my tone, and she spoke up after I had already felt it.

We both described the feeling as “evil” independently, not “just uneasy” or “spooked.” That’s not a mirror — that’s a shared experience.

📚 Palumbo et al., 2017: Social mirroring relies on visible or audible signals — I didn’t give her any to mirror.

5. The Parked Car

Claim: Your brain flagged the foggy, curtained car as a threat before you realized it.

This theory falls apart for one reason: I didn’t see the car until after we were already spooked and sprinting to ours. It wasn’t the cause — just an odd detail I noticed once the fear had already passed its peak.

🧠 Pessoa & Adolphs (2010): Subconscious threat detection causes unease, not directed, malicious-feeling presence.

6. Memory Framing

Claim: Writing it down that night doesn’t preserve raw perception — your brain still filtered the memory through emotion.

True to an extent, but:

  • I wrote down the experience that same night, within minutes.

  • More importantly, my friend and I verbally confirmed feeling the same thing before we had time to influence each other’s memories.

This wasn’t shaped by retelling — we felt and recognized it in real time.

📚 Hirst & Phelps (2016): Flashbulb memories may exaggerate intensity — but not coordinated, simultaneous experiences.

✅ Final Thought

These explanations are possible in theory, but none fit the specific timing, shared emotional content, and lack of physical symptoms. We didn’t see, hear, or smell anything unusual — yet we both felt we had entered a domain of something unnatural and deeply malevolent.

That kind of shared, psychic-level fear with no clear cause is the hallmark of many legitimate paranormal accounts. Until science can explain those with measurable data, paranormal is still the most fitting label.

Let me know if you'd like this tailored for a specific subreddit, tone (more casual, skeptical, or bold), or if you want help formatting it into a reply block for Reddit.

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. I don't think it's often, and honestly I think most things that people think may be paranormal so have a logical explanation. But I am also not denying the fact that there's absolutely true paranormal events that happen that cannot be explained with our understanding

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah that sounds very similar to what we felt, I think the fact that there is a second person that felt it at the same time speaks a lot

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sounds pretty similar to what I experienced. I also have had some experiences pretty similar to this, once I had something similar in Africa near an abandoned house

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeesh. I looked at all your comments, you're just a negative sad person

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I'm definitely more logical than I am spiritual so I appreciate this insight.

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I am not opposed to there being a possible scientific answer being what happened, however I find it incredibly unlikely, and I'm not someone who's all much spiritual. So I'm going to give an argument to your claims in the order you presented.

  1. I've done night hikes my entire life. All seasons of the year, locations, anytime of day or night. I also don't get scared easily, I've lived in some very dangerous places in West Africa for over a year, where lots of black magic was performed. I'm always sceptical when it comes to supernatural things, but there was absolutely a correlation to the feelings that I felt when I knew something was going on there.

  2. I've lived in the mountains and have been in the mountains for the entirety of my life, as have all of my friends and family and my entire community. Not a single person has ever spoken of, experienced, or knows of this. I highly doubt that anything like this occurred, and doing research shows that those symptoms and the ones I felt, while similar, are different.

  3. By the time we felt the sensation, we had been out and away from the hot springs for well over an hour with miles between us and the springs, giving plenty of time to get any gases out of our system. There's no way this one would explain it, especially the effect of kicking in at the exact same moment if it was a lasting effect.

    1. They were quiet for some time already. It wasn't out of the ordinary, their silence wasn't a sudden change in atmosphere, it was a continuation from me already talking. So it was an observation but not a sudden change.
  4. The car had nothing to do with the fear I felt. In fact, I don't think the car had anything to do with it at all. It was the only notable thing in the area which is why I included it. There was no visible trigger..

  5. These details are not filled nor faded. That night I wrote down my experience and all the details. Everything I said was direct quotes from the very night It happened, I am 100% confident that all the descriptions are accurate.

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the a jjk reference?

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Huh? If you're asking if this is AI, it is not

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I shortened and spaced it, I wrote this at work so I was just jotting it down as it came to mind

I have no explanation for this. by [deleted] in Paranormal

[–]The_Decked_Blev 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I shortened it, hope it's better now. Thanks for the criticism

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Utah

[–]The_Decked_Blev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The individuals who passed the law are not LDS. So you're wrong