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Yuguo Zhang

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Can you tell me a supernatural thing that ever happened to you or you have observed in real life?

I believe everybody has experienced something he or she still can't figure out what happened or science somehow cannot explain it so far. Here is mine: One day while I was working on something my desk, and suddenly I dropped my pen into the gap between the desk and the wall, but I didn't hear anything indicating the pen hit the ground. I then moved the desk and tried to recover my pen, but it turned out there was nothing there. I dug every inch down the floor in my study room, but I still couldn't find it.(The pen was my one of my birthday gifts, so it actually meant a lot to me.) After about six months, I think, when I swept the floor in the kitchen, I found my pen again, under the refrigerator... I still wonder today how in the world my pen just appeared in the kitchen after having disappeared for six months. It seemed like the pen traversed through some other spaces and ended up in the kitchen...

So share your story with us! Including prophetic dreams, etc.

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    Henk Mulder 10+

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    Aug 7 2012: A while ago whilst backpacking around the world, I was a few days in Bangkok. One afternoon I was pushing my way through a crowd in a very busy shopping street when I bumped into this woman, causing her to lose balance. I apologized and as I did so, we looked at each other and time froze. She was the sister of one of my best friends from my little home town in the Netherlands. 12'000 miles from home, in a city of millions and the only person I bumped into that day.

    Supernatural? I don't know, but the odds were pretty low!

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      Aug 7 2012: Henk,

      Just how old were you just then? I have had some similar experiences around the age of 24. The question may seem irrelevant but when I look back at the chapters and turning points of my life, I see that I have met some people just at the right moment that seemed to be destined. As your experience tells of a meeting that is statistically quite slim, I to have had more than a few of these "coincidences" while traveling in Germany and Norway. .... stories that still give me goosebumps even though I have told them many times before. The chances seem to be far greater than a million to one...
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        Henk Mulder 10+

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        Aug 7 2012: Hi Daniel, I was 25 at the time. There were I deed more such unlikely meetings. I don't know if it was age related but always assumed that it had something to do with fulfilling g needs. At that time I needed relationships (though nothing came of meeting my friend's sister :)

        At other times I needed jobs or money and that always seemed work out quite unexpectedly at a point of desperation. I've got so used to this that I rely on such coincidence as a matter of course...

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