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Synchronicity
Very rarely does anything that deviates far from random chance ever happen repeatedly and observably. Of course the human mind notices patterns even when they aren't there, so strange happenings are typically just observations of the outcome of a metaphorical roll of the dice. When two things coincide by chance, we're likely to assume that they're correlated with no evidence other than the correlation, no matter how much logic tells us that it isn't the case.
Even keeping all of this in mind, it's hard to not feel creeped out by some things. I have been reading through paranoia threads and ghost stories, and suddenly my cat meowed and was staring intently down the hall. I'm a skeptical, level-headed person when it comes to the paranormal, and I'm sure he does this all the time when I'm not reading ghost stories, but I can't help looking over my shoulder every few seconds.
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