Anyone believe in the supernatural?

[jayswin]

I don't, but something tonight creeped the hell out of me. I was driving towards woodbine when my buddy called and asked if I could come help out with his jam room in Mckenzie. So I took 37th street sw to 22x. After you turn right off 37th, to connect to the other part of 37th that leads to 22x, there's a dirt road that basically divides the indian reserve and those multimillion dollar mansions.

When I was younger me and friends of mine would often go down to the end of this road to smoke pot, and there was always graffiti from the natives, sometimes warning people to stay away, it was always kind of a creepy road to go down.

Anyways, tonight I got a strange feeling when I drove by this road, nothing too creepy, just a little "why did I get a chill just now" type of feeling.

Fast forward to 20 minutes ago and I saw this on Global news....

note: this is the city beat link, not the global story, but this is definitly that road, as they showed it on the news..

http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/citybea...050434_24286_0




fataing creepy man!

[J pold]

What's a jam room?

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by J pold

What's a jam room?

Either a pantry or a room for playing musical instruments in. Those are the two things that spring to mind for me, at least.


And yeah, that is crazy. (The story, not the existence of a Jam Room.)

[Jayems]

Originally Posted by J pold

What's a jam room?

I'd assume jam, like a band jam

[flip]

Interesting.

I remember reading in Maxim or something about a model who was supposed to be on a flight but right as she was boarding, she started hysterically crying, called her b/f told him that it just didn't feel right. He said "don't get on then", she didn't, kept having this weird feeling and crying.

Turned out the flight was TWA or whatever and it blew up or crashed. All passengers died. She basically said the same thing as you are saying.

I don't believe in the supernatural but liken it to animals smelling fear, humans may have an instinct or innate ability to sometimes sense when something feels wrong.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by J pold

What's a jam room?

A room in his house where musicians jam (play music), ie drums, guitars, amps etc.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by flip

I don't believe in the supernatural but liken it to animals smelling fear, humans may have an instinct or innate ability to sometimes sense when something feels wrong.

Yeah, it's probably something like that.

Also, the reason I added the part about smoking pot down that road and thinking it was creepy was to suggest that it may just be the fact that I've always thought it was a creepy road and don't drive by it that often, so maybe that's why I felt a chill as I drove by. BUt it's still f'n weird to see that on the news right after though.

[Phanuthier]

(In response to flip, RE: animals sensing fear)

Somewhat relevant and on-topic, I remember a research experiment being done that a certain type of fish is able to detect its surroundings via use of waves (EM waves and impedance matching, to be more specific). I vaguely remember a train of thought that it could extend to humans have a 6th sense of someone being around them without triggering any of the other senses; waking up when someone enters the room without making a noise, for instance.

The pre-cog of the flight, I dunno, but something to think about for this case.

[J pold]

And here I was thinking your friends were making batches of jam! A worthy cause to help a friend no doubt.

Anyway I'm actually reading a book that covered this type of topic recently. It basically explains how our intuition starts working at an unconscious level before we are even aware of it. It goes into some pretty scientific detail that I don't feel like typing it all out at the moment. But it basically explains this type of situation. Our somatic nervous system reads and reacts too situation before we even realize it. It's the reason we get those feelings that something isn't right, even tough it appears to be.

Anyway point is science has already bitched slapped this topic.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by J pold

And here I was thinking your friends were making batches of jam! A worthy cause to help a friend no doubt.

Anyway I'm actually reading a book that covered this type of topic recently. It basically explains how our intuition starts working at an unconscious level before we are even aware of it. It goes into some pretty scientific detail that I don't feel like typing it all out at the moment. But it basically explains this type of situation. Our somatic nervous system reads and reacts too situation before we even realize it. It's the reason we get those feelings that something isn't right, even tough it appears to be.

Anyway point is science has already bitched slapped this topic.

What book is that? My interest is piqued.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by flameswin

What book is that? My interest is piqued.

It's called

The Science of Happiness

By Stefan Klein

My mother recommended it for me after she read it. It's a international bestseller written in a bunch of languages and all that. I've only just started it but it's good so far.

[Russic]

Very interesting story, but I'm always the nay-sayer when anything cool like this happens. I get creepy feelings all the time but I discard them right away when nothing backs up the feeling.

[JohnnyB]

I wouldn't say I'm a believer in the supernatural, but it should not be surprising that there are many things happening which seem to defy explanation by our current knowledge base and scientific paradigm. I would expect they'll become explainable with time, so long as we're around long enough.

[Buzzard]

Wonder if Waylon had a creepy feeling when he gave his seat to the Big Bopper.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Russic

Very interesting story, but I'm always the nay-sayer when anything cool like this happens. I get creepy feelings all the time but I discard them right away when nothing backs up the feeling.

Yeah me too. This one was just weird because of the timing. There wasn't a whole lot of time between having that feeling and seeing it on the news. Itg just kind of creeped me out.

[metallicat]

So has CPS homicide paid you a visit yet flameswin??

[cKy]

Can you climb walls and shoot web along with your Spidey senses?

[ken0042]

Some good stories of the supernatural in this old thread: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=43045 - including one of my own on page 2.

[photon]

I remember reading about one story where researchers had set up a game that people would play, and over time the computer would change the rule set.

I can't recall all the details, but the finding was that people were able to subconsciously detect the change and intuit what the change was and alter their strategy BEFORE they were consciously aware they were doing so.

Interesting stuff.

For cases of stuff where people felt something, didn't get on a plane, etc, it's just examples of post hoc reasoning.

If you feel a chill and nothing happens, then you don't remember the chill, but if something does happen then you remember the chill.

Originally Posted by J pold

And here I was thinking your friends were making batches of jam! A worthy cause to help a friend no doubt.

Anyway I'm actually reading a book that covered this type of topic recently. It basically explains how our intuition starts working at an unconscious level before we are even aware of it. It goes into some pretty scientific detail that I don't feel like typing it all out at the moment. But it basically explains this type of situation. Our somatic nervous system reads and reacts too situation before we even realize it. It's the reason we get those feelings that something isn't right, even tough it appears to be.

Anyway point is science has already bitched slapped this topic.

[J pold]

Originally Posted by photon

I remember reading about one story where researchers had set up a game that people would play, and over time the computer would change the rule set.

I can't recall all the details, but the finding was that people were able to subconsciously detect the change and intuit what the change was and alter their strategy BEFORE they were consciously aware they were doing so.

Interesting stuff.

Yeah I'm pretty sure than same experiment was referenced in this book.