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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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How about hospitals? People die there every day. If ghosts exist, that’s the place where you should find them. Like, not just a few either. Nearly all of them. Can you think of another place that faces so much death that they had to build specific facilities for it.
Ask anyone who works in a hospital and they'll tell you it's haunted. Especially if it's old.
You hear a lot about haunted morgues, but that's of course just people projecting their icky feelings toward death: The vast majority of people don't die in the morgue. Similarly, the vast majority of people are long dead and partly preserved before they're in a graveyard. Kinda'... proves it's all BS projection.
Pretty sure the woman was some sort of "alive" in The Autopsy of Jane Doe. :)
Anyone who likes horror should give that movie a shot.
https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=17580012
What about all the other haunted locations where only one person died? The number of corpses doesn’t seem to correlate with ghosts very well. Also, if a single dead guy is enough to make a place haunted, nearly every house should be haunted after a few centuries have passed. Guess what, there are cities where people have lived well over a thousand years. Aren’t Luxor, Beijing or Delhi super haunted by now?
Yea, there's little correlation anywhere with anything except people hearing spooky stories or assuming spooky things. Or the rare case where there is loud sub-audible noise or EMF that makes people feel uneasy, and make up the rest.
The human mind is a pattern-seeking engine. Even when real patterns aren’t there, imaginary ones will be detected instead. Just look at the clouds for a while, and you’ll see what I mean. This applies to images, sounds, events, just about anything really.
Yea well some people imagine the patterns themselves, too. A shocking number of people have a tenuous grasp on reality as best.