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Sorry, I find the story with the cottage quite easy to explain. Imagine two alternate universes: 1. A man misremembers seeing a lady in a cottage. It turns ou

Sorry, I find the story with the cottage quite easy to explain. Imagine two alternate universes: 1. A man misremembers seeing a lady in a cottage. It turns out, there never was a cottage at that place. The man forgets about it because it's not an interesting story. 2. A man misremembers seeing a lady in a cottage. It turns out, there was a cottage at that place that had been hit by a German bomb and destroyed, killing the lady who lived there. The man describes this in his book because it's an interesting story. There are a lot of people in the world, and because they are all humans, they all have faulty memories. The few faulty memories which happen to correlate with supernatural events get shared, and the rest are forgotten.

doodlebugging 3y ago
No need for apologies. I had read the article and remembered something from a book I read years earlier. I am not even sure that it comes from that book since it could also have come from Ernie Pyle's WWII book "Brave Men". The story itself is interesting when you consider that the author sees something completely ordinary and later finds out when they decide to return to the scene or when they mention it to locals that it couldn't have happened like that because the scene where they made their observation was destroyed before their visit. I think supernatural events are reported because they do not fit into a normal framework of natural experiences that ordinary people have every day. Whether they are memory malfunctions in the individual who reports them is obviously debatable since for some events there are multiple participants and observers. A case where everyone present has a brain fart at the same time and experiences the same unusual event as a result is definitely worth studying. I like the two universes breakdown that you have since it offers clear opportunities to explain what could've happened. None of us will know in the end and the only thing we have to go on, like so much of the historical record, is the author's account.

doodlebugging 3y ago

No need for apologies. I had read the article and remembered something from a book I read years earlier. I am not even sure that it comes from that book since it could also have come from Ernie Pyle's WWII book "Brave Men". The story itself is interesting when you consider that the author sees something completely ordinary and later finds out when they decide to return to the scene or when they mention it to locals that it couldn't have happened like that because the scene where they made their observation was destroyed before their visit. I think supernatural events are reported because they do not fit into a normal framework of natural experiences that ordinary people have every day. Whether they are memory malfunctions in the individual who reports them is obviously debatable since for some events there are multiple participants and observers. A case where everyone present has a brain fart at the same time and experiences the same unusual event as a result is definitely worth studying. I like the two universes breakdown that you have since it offers clear opportunities to explain what could've happened. None of us will know in the end and the only thing we have to go on, like so much of the historical record, is the author's account.