Eponastill
Justified & Ancient
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Ok, this didn't happen to me, it happened recently to my long-standing good friend, who told me about it last night. His parents live in an old farmhouse (and have numerous weird tales about it, mostly about seeing figures and hearing things). Things can be a bit fraught in the family at the best of times. One day the extended family were round for dinner. During the conversation, a back-handed insult was aimed at someone who wasn't there, but who was actually an in-law of one of those present, and he rightly took exception to it. The atmosphere became super strained and no-one spoke for 10 minutes, apparently. Then (so he said) an expensive decorative plate which had forever lived on a wooden dresser (I think he said dresser... I mean you'd imagine it was propped up so it could be seen), fell on the floor and broke. The implication was that it had no real way or reason for doing so, and that with our previous knowledge of the weirdness of the house, the incident was in response to the appalling atmosphere and was just another mad thing that happened there. I wish I'd quizzed him on whether anyone actually saw it fall (or leap) but I was loathe to spoil the anecdote by quizzing him mercilessly (what kind of fortean am I? rubbish).
I personally might like to interpret it as a sort of spontaneous PK moment triggered by the mental anxiety in the room (I'm quite taken by accounts of poltergeists and not giving them an 'entity' explanation). But maybe his slant would have been more from the 'this house is haunted' angle. Or the sensible rationalist would go for coincidence, of course. If the plate had fallen down when people were just watching the tv, perhaps no-one would have thought quite so much of it (even though it had just as little reason for moving).
Anyway, thought you might like that. I can't think of a similar example that's happened to me though. Perhaps you have your own.
I personally might like to interpret it as a sort of spontaneous PK moment triggered by the mental anxiety in the room (I'm quite taken by accounts of poltergeists and not giving them an 'entity' explanation). But maybe his slant would have been more from the 'this house is haunted' angle. Or the sensible rationalist would go for coincidence, of course. If the plate had fallen down when people were just watching the tv, perhaps no-one would have thought quite so much of it (even though it had just as little reason for moving).
Anyway, thought you might like that. I can't think of a similar example that's happened to me though. Perhaps you have your own.