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>what are the odds?
summoning a maths anon to calculate the odds

>>5752
genuinely curious if someone can calculate the odds for me (i am math retarded), for more info it was a deck of 69 mixed cards (of course it has to be that number what a cosmic joke), 3 of which were blank. and they were all shuffled by being spread around on the floor and the cards were plucked randomly from the mess, not rounded up and picked in order.

>>5752
>>5753
The probability that the first flipped card is blank is 3/69. The next one would be 2/68, and then the last one would be 1/67. Multiplying those together we get 0.000019, so a 0.0019% percent or 1 out of 524 chance of that happening. I think that's equivalent to calling 15 or 16 coin flips in a row. Spooky stuff nona.

I can't really think of any unexplained experiences I've had. It makes me feel boring because I've loved reading and listening to ghost stories since I was young. But it's probably for the best since I can get really affected by horror movies to the point where I'll be unable to sleep because of a noise I heard in the hall, or I'll start imagining seeing people in the corner of my eye while I live alone. I can't imagine how I'd cope with something truly unexplainable. I guess the most otherworldly thing I've experienced is sleep paralysis accompanied by visions of shadow people. It happened first when I was quite young, but also again recently. The shadow people just stand and watch me, which is freaky, but I've heard of people experiencing visions of them walking through walls or pushing down hard on their chest while they're in bed.

>>5754
bless your math skills nona
That is an even lower chance than I thought it would be, that just makes the whole thing weirder.

I'm the same with horror movies/scary stories- I'll listen to true crime for a day while working and feel eyes on the back of my head all night.

Sleep paralysis is a valid experience, I find it very strange that it tends to be similar for different people. I've had several sleep paralysis episodes, memorable few include one where I was being spooned by a scaly creature and another where my eyes were closed but someone was revving a chainsaw in my ear. The spooning one was nice though tbh. Also had the ol shadow person in the corner of the room one like you. I totally get how the people of olde used to think it was alien abduction.

I took a railroad spike from the woods when I was a kid growing up in Washington. It sounds ridiculous, but I will swear it was haunted. My Dad took me out into the mountains one day. It was really damp, and everything was covered in moss and fog. We were climbing over fallen trees when we crossed by an old track of rail running through the forest. I didn't know where it went or where it came from. In the Pacific Northwest, it's just common to find these long abandoned pieces of evidence that people were here at some time. I rooted around a bit on the tracks until I found this spike of iron that was lying on the ground. I grabbed it, showed it to my Dad, and we decided to keep it.

It started the night we got back. I had it in my room, was lying in bed, and it started to stink. My entire room started to smell like rotted flesh, and it wouldn't go away. First it was my room, then my house, then everywhere. Everything smelled like something had died and been left in the Sun for a week. After the smell, I started to get this feeling like I was about to die whenever I was near that spike. I couldn't sleep without getting these nightmares of dying. I even started to get sleep paralysis where I would wake up with this figure at the foot of my bed. It would stare at me for hours.

I kept the spike for a week before walking down to the river near our house and tossing it in the water. The smell and nightmares went away after that. I spent years afterwards sleeping under my blankets because of that thing I saw in my sleep.

From a young age I would wake up to cuts and scratches on my body, arms and legs mostly. The first and only time was on my tummy and was nearly enough to break blood. My school was worried I was being abused at home but it wasn't like that. The cut was from my chest to my belly button, but always after when the same scenarios would happen. Being cut on the arm, I wouldn't care. Usually I would be awake and watch these cuts form which is even weirder and doesn't make sense. I had someone tell me demons do these kinds of things to terrify, and break us down mentally, and in turn physically

>>9091
That is really scary… if you're still around did you ever research the area you found the spike in at all?

>>9522
do they still happen? have you tried any way to figure it out? like a seance or scrying or oujia?

>>9091
Those fish are getting so fucked up right now.

>>9528
what anime is that?

>>9529
It's the first Devilman OVA (The Birth)