paranormal meets farce

[jonronson]

It dawns on me that people who believe they've witnessed a great paranormal miracle might sometimes be genuinely mistaken - there might have been a funny, farcical misunderstanding afoot rather than fraud or lunacy.
I was wondering if any such farcical misunderstandings spring to mind...

And similarly, conspiracy nuts who think they're being followed, and they really ARE being followed, but it turns out to be the postman, or something. Has such a farce ever been reported?

 

[desertyeti]

In Chicago last year, there was some salt corrosion on a bridge that many believed was the Virgin Mary showing up for whatever reason she actually shows up. One of the students from the Earth Science class I taught at a Chicago university even went to photograph it because: "Things like that don't just happen."

 

[Miss Anthrope]

And similarly, conspiracy nuts who think they're being followed, and they really ARE being followed, but it turns out to be the postman, or something. Has such a farce ever been reported?

Well, once I got on the freeway and noticed a particular car behind me. The car followed me 40 miles, off the ramp, and into an apartment complex where I was visiting a friend. I was thoroughly terrified right up until that person took out a key and entered an apartment in one of the buildings. A complete coinky-dink.

If I were given to woo, I suppose I could have thought I was meant to meet that person. If I were a conspiracy nut, I would be sure I was being followed and the clever "agent" had a master key similar to a fireman's.

I just shrugged it off as weird and went on with my life.