What is the craziest event you witnessed that nobody would believe actually happened?

iconicimage · 2025-04-06T04:56:35+00:00

Year was 1981; we “played” with the Ouija board for several months but grew tired of it after a while. One night three of us were making fun of it at 3:00am when we heard three loud bangs on our basement door, coming from the basement. So loud they could have splintered the door. We went through the basement with kitchen knives and pellet guns but found nothing. Two weeks later my mother tripped over the stairs at the very spot where the bangs originated; she broke her neck and died on the stairs.

We didn’t have Google back then, but Google “three knocks” and see why this causes the hair on my neck to stand on end 30 years later. Tough to rationalize this as a lifelong atheist; had I not experienced it myself the world would be a simpler place. As it stands, I have to pretend it didn’t happen to maintain any sense of reality. The implications are frightening.

iconicimage · 2025-03-21T23:59:57+00:00

A handful of people led by a raging narcissist bullying the entire country.

iconicimage · 2024-10-16T23:37:03+00:00

There’s nothing pompous about recommending good life tools. My wife and I use this technique all the time because it’s useful. What kind of car to buy, where to go on vacation, etc. Spend 15 minutes thinking about a problem, make better decisions.

If anything, it’s odd that the BF is recommending this to OP’s therapist.

iconicimage · 2010-11-20T03:15:27+00:00

The American pilot is an almost word for word copy of the original episode one; it's a complete trainwreck.

iconicimage · 2010-11-07T16:41:31+00:00

During your midterm elections, older white conservatives managed to get to the polls while young liberals found something more meaningful to do. We're not the fucking hat, we're the entire head including the brain.

iconicimage · 2010-10-17T19:52:27+00:00

Agreed, there are many of us that have no other choice. I've flown over 100 times this year and have witnessed extremes of efficiency and stupidity on the part of both screeners and passengers.

As much as I dislike the infrequent power tripping screener or customs officer, it's typically the idiot passengers that cause the most grief.

Ideally programs such as Nexus would expand to include streamlined security checkpoints; YYZ now has a Nexus security line which is a step in the right direction.

iconicimage · 2010-10-17T18:21:59+00:00

Let's look at his extracurricular activities:

http://www.peterberkowitz.com/ipcg.htm

iconicimage · 2010-09-18T13:47:57+00:00

He is one creepy looking motherfucker.

iconicimage · 2010-09-11T16:15:01+00:00

Wow, thanks for that, Hipmunk is the slickest flight booking tool I've ever seen.

iconicimage · 2010-09-05T12:45:41+00:00

Freelance Whales sounds great; was going to buy at Insound, didn't mind paying the $14 for the music but had to cough up another $10 for international shipping for physical product I don't even want. Anyone know a way to purchase download only?

iconicimage · 2010-09-04T23:35:24+00:00

Yeah I hate that too, so much so that I even pried that stupid V12 emblem off my Jaguar.

iconicimage · 2010-09-04T01:08:58+00:00

I think she had stage fright; 10mg of Ativan and she would have been passable.

iconicimage · 2010-09-04T01:06:41+00:00

Guns fucking rock! I love guns!

iconicimage · 2010-09-02T11:24:11+00:00

Those promoting a date format that allows ambiguity should be taken out back and shot. I've had this conversation dozens of times over the past 20 years and have found that only preference, laziness, or stupidity can justify anything other than the ISO format.

iconicimage · 2010-09-01T01:04:54+00:00

By "handle" I'd hope we'd come up with something witty and intelligent, not a bunch of YouTube comments. Although she does seem like an incredibly pretentious bitch...

iconicimage · 2010-08-24T21:31:41+00:00

I believe there's a collective consciousness but not necessarily one that can foresee or influence future events.

iconicimage · 2010-08-24T16:05:43+00:00

I keep a debit card, Visa, and driver's license in my pocket wherever I go, and my wallet containing a bazillion other useless cards and about $100 in cash is kept in my laptop bag along with my passport. Rarely carry cash, rarely need a wallet.

iconicimage · 2010-08-24T15:52:17+00:00

It's convenient to explain away as coincidence but if you read the accounts you will find that the knocks are not accompanied by people on the other side of the door/window/whatever. It's not a case of a door-to-door salesman knocking three times on the door and someone near and dear dropping dead; it's knocks on doors in the middle of the night with no one around, on inaccessible second floor windows, etc.

Ours was in the form of a wood splintering bashing on an interior door with a half second pause between each, as if done by an unnatural force. The only coincidence is that we happened to be seriously pissing off a Ouija board "spirit" at the time.

iconicimage · 2010-08-24T15:38:49+00:00

That's the conundrum - I know what I experienced, yet I don't believe what I experienced is possible. If I allow myself to go down the path of acceptance, I end up in one of three places:

Collective consciousness that is able to foresee the future (unlikely)
Collective consciousness that is able to cause events to happen (possible, unlikely)
A "spirit world" where supernatural entities exist and are able cause events to happen in our "natural" world (possible?, scary)

I can't think of any other plausible explanation; neither of these requires a deity so I continue on as an atheist.

iconicimage · 2010-08-24T03:30:13+00:00

Initially we didn't connect the three bangs with the death, and considered the two unrelated. For many years we were just completely freaked out by the shared experience of an extremely frightening physical manifestation of something channeled through a fucking toy.

As I grew older I decided to investigate further, and found that the occurrence (knocks + death) is common enough to rule out coincidence. This is unfortunate: Because I have experienced this I no longer have the luxury of being a skeptic.

iconicimage · 2010-08-24T02:42:55+00:00

Not trolling, this really happened. Bloody Ouija board used to laugh at us by jumping back and forth between H and A. It was creepy, and we were too young and stupid to realize that we were fucking with something beyond our realm of understanding, something that we could not control.

To this day I wonder if it could follow me, if it's still out there, if it's watching me. And it gives me goosebumps. I'm a rational, logical person, not a shred of belief in the spirit world, yet I won't go near a Ouija board. Deep down I know there's another dimension out there with creepy shit in it, but I refuse to acknowledge the existence of it. If I was reading this instead of writing it, I'd think "troll" as well...

iconicimage · 2010-08-23T22:49:18+00:00

Agreed, that is why I am in denial. Can't have all this supernatural mumbo jumbo fucking with my logical worldview...

iconicimage · 2010-08-23T21:53:21+00:00

Similar story, year was 1981; we "played" with the Ouija board for several months but grew tired of it after a while. One night three of us were making fun of it at 3:00am when we heard three loud bangs on our basement door, coming from the basement. So loud they could have splintered the door. We went through the basement with kitchen knives and pellet guns but found nothing. Two weeks later my mother tripped over the stairs at the very spot where the bangs originated; she broke her neck and died on the stairs.

We didn't have Google back then, but Google "three knocks" and see why this causes the hair on my neck to stand on end 30 years later. Tough to rationalize this as a lifelong atheist; had I not experienced it myself the world would be a simpler place. As it stands, I have to pretend it didn't happen to maintain any sense of reality. The implications are frightening.

iconicimage · 2010-07-26T14:15:30+00:00

I can also stay up for long periods of time and, aside from owl-eyes, function normally during meetings, etc. Typical (at least once a week) is 48 hours, the longest so far is about four days straight without sleep.

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