At work one day, my coworker, my boss, and I witnessed a cup suddenly slide off a completely flat table, as if pushed. Nobody was anywhere near the cup, and we checked the surface thoroughly for moisture or anything else that could have caused that movement. We couldn’t come up with any explanation for it at all.

My older sister had a similar experience, also with coworker witnesses.

I consider myself somewhat of a skeptic, but I’m glad I got to experience something unexplainable firsthand and with other observers. Reminds me that there’s still plenty of stuff we goofy hairless apes don’t have all figured out.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeM
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    17 days ago

    Was this at a restaurant? Idk why it’s a thing, but it seems like half the servers I know will have stories about certain restaurants being haunted AF.

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    17 days ago

    I can do this with a straw and a downturned cup. The cup holds the pressure and then acts like a hover-car if I get air under it in just the right way. Did you check the air-vents above the cup to see if the AC had just turned on?

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      17 days ago

      The only vent is across the room from where the cup moved. However, the bottom of that cup is a raised base that is basically its own downturned cup. I suppose a pressure differential may have formed!