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June 24 2025 - Strange Phenomenon

Prompt: Strange Phenomenon. What is a strange phenomenon to you? Is it strange because we humans still don't understand it or do you believe there is something mystical or magical behind it?

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A strange phenomenon is anything that is hard or difficult to explain. It's often linked to nature. With the advancement of science these are definitely dwindling away as we continue to learn more about the world around us - which is a little sad as it's nice to have a little "magic" or "unknown" in the world sometimes. It's why I like reading about superstitions as well.

I am a sucker for the supernatural and magic. I will happily suspend belief to lean into the mystical. I love the lore and the stories - the histories of those stories. They tell us so much about our past and our evolution.

I understand that there is a logical explanation for most things - it's one of the reasons I'm not religious. But I do like to jump in with two feet when it comes to things like the pyramids and Stone Henge - well any henge really. I love that these massive monolithic structures were build when the technology seemingly wasn't available AND that the stones and material used were often only found hundreds of miles away... Yes, it could be physis (yawn) OR it could be magic and aliens!!!

I also find it fascinating, the level of precision that these structures had with the stars and nature - I refuse to believe there is nothing mystical involved, purely because that would be boring as all hell!!

I have googled (because google is my friend) phenomena that can't be explained, and the result were very surprising. Apparently, we still don't know why we yawn... there is also a mushroom that only grows in Texas and Japan (weird), Saturn has a hexagonal shape at its North Pole, and we don't anything about Dark Matter other than it exists - if that doesn't scream, aliens I don't know what does....

One of my absolute favourite mysteries is the Bermuda Triangle - why are all those planes and ships disappearing without a trace.... it's spooky.