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A thread for stories where you thought you experienced something weird or ghostly or odd, but then realised it was after all something mundane that you had temporarily misperceived. (Such stories often crop up in passing on other threads, but there seems to be no thread dedicated to them - if there is, I'm sure the Mods will do the necessary!)
I'll start the ball rolling with this little one (literally):
Running a bath the other day, I was startled to see a tiny pink worm wiggling about in the tub.
Where had it come from? How could it live in such hot water? I was able to discount the idea that it had come from my body (Eeeww! :shock: ), as I hadn't got into the bath yet!
But closer examination revealed it to be a small red carpet fibre (probably from the bath mat) which was tumbling in the turbulent water, giving the impression that it was alive and wiggling.
Drat! I thought I'd discovered a new extremophile!
I'll start the ball rolling with this little one (literally):
Running a bath the other day, I was startled to see a tiny pink worm wiggling about in the tub.
Where had it come from? How could it live in such hot water? I was able to discount the idea that it had come from my body (Eeeww! :shock: ), as I hadn't got into the bath yet!
But closer examination revealed it to be a small red carpet fibre (probably from the bath mat) which was tumbling in the turbulent water, giving the impression that it was alive and wiggling.
Drat! I thought I'd discovered a new extremophile!