Once my husband and I were traveling in the Pacific Northwest and stopped at the Oregon Vortex. The vortex is a sphere of force that also bends and refracts light and so during your stay, the tour guides demonstrate the phenomenon with a series of unexplainable parlor tricks. Very fun and very cool. They say that the Native American Indians and early settlers alike avoided the vortex as a place of strong magic since horses completely and utterly refuse to enter the vortex. My husband, a scientist and zoologist, thought the visit interesting but a little hokey – at least up until we noticed the popcorn.
Someone had spilled a whole box of popcorn on the ground
inside the vortex. The vortex is located within a heavily wooded and forested
area. And there the popcorn sat on the ground undisturbed – not a chipmunk or
squirrel or bird anywhere, no chickadee, starling or robin partaking in all
that popcorn. If you recall the story of Hansel and Gretel and the breadcrumbs,
this fact is more than a tad unusual. Then, as we looked up and around – there were
no animals anywhere. The forest was completely silent.
My husband simply said, “This is incorrect. Time to go.” So we left and left quickly. Just too spooky for us.
Have you ever experienced something strange that seemed to define explanation? I hope you’ll share it your experience or thoughts of strange experiences with me and our fellow readers.
I love talking about strange and spooky experiences around this time of year! I would have left pretty quickly if I had found myself in your situation as well. A personal experience I've had happened just last semester when I was a junior in college. I go to Saint Vincent College, one of the most haunted campuses in PA, and of course a popular pastime here is taking midnight walks. My friend Dean and I were walking through some of the fields further out on campus and we heard a hiss from our left. We jumped back, but as we looked for the source of the sound we found nothing. We linked arms and continued to walk forward. Suddenly on our right we saw a shadow of a man on a bench. When we looked closely we saw two figures a man and woman who were two of our friends on campus. We bid them goodnight and continued walking. However, upon returning to our dorm room who would happen to walk out of the building but the pair of our friends we had just left on the bench minutes ago. We asked them if they had run back to scare us, but they replied they had been at mass all night and had spent the last 15 minutes in the lobby of our dorm speaking with a group of friends. A group of friends who confirmed this fact. Who did we see that night? They looked just like our friends and replied to us. This is one of the spookiest experiences that I've ever had, and I still can't explain what happened that night in the dark.
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