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There are those who believe -- and they're actually physicists -- that multiple realities exist side by side. A particular timeline might split apart _ and merge again._
And there are even those who believe that people can drift back and forth between very similar timelines. For example, you put a TV remote in a drawer, go back later and don't find it there because you're now in a timeline where you put it _somewhere else._ Then eventually you drift back to your original timeline (or to a one that's very similar) and the remote is back where you put it. Meanwhile, some other "you" was drifting around in your timeline also trying to find the remote, because on his timeline he _didn't_ put the damn thing in a drawer. Occasionally you'll even hear of a person being seen, and even talked to, in two different places at the same time.
Anyway, it's as fun an explanation as ghosts, and even spookier in its way. As to why it should happen more often to you than others, maybe you live at some sort of weak point in the fabric of reality (I can't believe I actually wrote that). But I think it might happen to everyone -- ever drive down a street for the 1000th time and notice a gas station that you'd swear was never there before? A full-grown tree in somebody's yard that you'd swear wasn't there yesterday. I was once driving down an empty boulevard early one Christmas morning and had a taxicab appear alongside me out of nowhere. As far as I could tell, there was nowhere he could have turned on. Sure, maybe I wasn't paying attention, but... who know?
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