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I wouldn't describe the weird thing I've seen in the exact same way, but I understand the feeling of seeing something you can't explain as a skeptic and being s

I wouldn't describe the weird thing I've seen in the exact same way, but I understand the feeling of seeing something you can't explain as a skeptic and being shaken by it. I'd have happily just doubted my sanity altogether and left it at that if my husband hadn't been right there seeing the same thing and reacting the same way.

ChrisGranger 7y ago
Mind telling us about the weird thing you and your husband saw?
- sudosteph 7y ago
  I'm hesitant to post it because I know how people judge this stuff, but I'll share anyhow since the other commenter did. My husband was driving on a remote part of i-10 in Mississippi very late at night, and were the only ones on the road for a long time and it was pitch black - no overhead lights at all, no cars in either direction. We were traveling in the right lane when we both saw a car's tail lights ahead of us, starting to merge into our lane (it appeared to be driving forward, but slower than we were). I'm kinda a side seat driver subconsciously, so I did a little lean away from it, and my husband put his blinker on and got left to avoid an accident. We figured it had been stopped on the side for some reason, and was just merging back in. But as we drove past it, we realized we couldn't see the rest of the car. There was no reflection of our head lights against the body, no headlights or any light at all in our rear view mirror. There was no sound as we passed it. It just wasn't there. We even slowed down in the left lane for a bit, thinking it could catch up, but we didn't see any other cars until we exited to Biloxi. And besides, there was no way anyone could drive on that road with no headlights on a night like that. I made note of the mile marker from where it happened (near Vancleave fwiw) and looked it up on google maps later. There wasn't a good margin or side road or something that would have made sense for someone to stop at. We've driven across the country 4 times now, but nothing like that had happened before or since. I don't know whether to call it a ghost car, a multi-verse artifact, a shared delusion or what. But whatever it was, it was hard to reckon with.
  - ChrisGranger 7y ago
    I'm extremely skeptical of the concept of a shared delusion (although shared misinterpretation of an optical illusion of some sort is a possibility), so I think it's more likely that you both did see something. What it was is the question. Thanks for sharing that. I wonder if anyone else has seen that in the area as well. I'm not sure how one would find out. Besides looking it up on Google Maps, did you check Street View too? I was thinking it might have been the red reflectors some people around my neighborhood have to mark the edges of their driveway entrance. They're on a scrawny metal pole and about taillight-height, and could be mistaken for a car's rear end from a distance, I guess, if there were a pair of them, and they caught the headlights just right. If an area is rural, no streetlights, I could definitely see someone having those. Again, thanks for sharing.

ChrisGranger 7y ago

Mind telling us about the weird thing you and your husband saw?

sudosteph 7y ago
I'm hesitant to post it because I know how people judge this stuff, but I'll share anyhow since the other commenter did. My husband was driving on a remote part of i-10 in Mississippi very late at night, and were the only ones on the road for a long time and it was pitch black - no overhead lights at all, no cars in either direction. We were traveling in the right lane when we both saw a car's tail lights ahead of us, starting to merge into our lane (it appeared to be driving forward, but slower than we were). I'm kinda a side seat driver subconsciously, so I did a little lean away from it, and my husband put his blinker on and got left to avoid an accident. We figured it had been stopped on the side for some reason, and was just merging back in. But as we drove past it, we realized we couldn't see the rest of the car. There was no reflection of our head lights against the body, no headlights or any light at all in our rear view mirror. There was no sound as we passed it. It just wasn't there. We even slowed down in the left lane for a bit, thinking it could catch up, but we didn't see any other cars until we exited to Biloxi. And besides, there was no way anyone could drive on that road with no headlights on a night like that. I made note of the mile marker from where it happened (near Vancleave fwiw) and looked it up on google maps later. There wasn't a good margin or side road or something that would have made sense for someone to stop at. We've driven across the country 4 times now, but nothing like that had happened before or since. I don't know whether to call it a ghost car, a multi-verse artifact, a shared delusion or what. But whatever it was, it was hard to reckon with.
- ChrisGranger 7y ago
  I'm extremely skeptical of the concept of a shared delusion (although shared misinterpretation of an optical illusion of some sort is a possibility), so I think it's more likely that you both did see something. What it was is the question. Thanks for sharing that. I wonder if anyone else has seen that in the area as well. I'm not sure how one would find out. Besides looking it up on Google Maps, did you check Street View too? I was thinking it might have been the red reflectors some people around my neighborhood have to mark the edges of their driveway entrance. They're on a scrawny metal pole and about taillight-height, and could be mistaken for a car's rear end from a distance, I guess, if there were a pair of them, and they caught the headlights just right. If an area is rural, no streetlights, I could definitely see someone having those. Again, thanks for sharing.