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    While family watches "The Birds" actual bird triggers potentially fatal gas leak

    While family watches "The Birds" actual bird triggers potentially fatal gas leak

    [ranking: 17]
    "Years ago, around Halloween, my family had gathered to watch scary movies. My mom loved these shows. My dad didn't care much for them, so he would get up every few minutes to work on some thing or other.
    We had started watching Hitchcock's The Birds, and it was getting late, probably close to midnight... and it was getting cold. Not just the late October chill of the foothills we lived it, the house was getting cold.
    At first my mom just asked my dad to turn up the thermostat, but after couple minutes of the furnace running and the house not warming up, he realized he'd need to go check the furnace.
    He grabbed a lighter and headed downstairs. A minute later, we hear him shout for us.
    'You have to come see this!' He says with something that sounds part excitement, part nervousness in his voice.
    We get down there to see him shining a flashlight into the furnace. Peering in, first we just noticed the pilot light was indeed out. Then we saw the reason. A dead bird. Something about the size of the palm of my hand, maybe a sparrow, had flown into the furnace from outside and put the flame out."

    Family moves into new house; toddler befriends ghost of man who had died there

    Family moves into new house; toddler befriends ghost of man who had died there

    [ranking: 3]
    "We moved into a new house a few months ago. As we were in the process of purchasing the house, the renter who was living in it died unexpectedly of natural causes in his mid-40s. He died right in the middle of the living room. Shortly after, we move into the house, and almost immediately our two-year-old daughter starts talking about the ghost that lives in our house. Now let's be real here - she is two and two-year-olds are VERY impressionable. Halloween had recently passed, and she had this Halloween-themed picture book that she loved to read, so it's entirely possible that all this talk of ghosts was just coming from looking through that book on a regular basis. Still, she was always telling me that the ghost was in her play house in the basement, or that the ghost was on the stairs, or that the ghost was standing in the corner. She never seemed to be afraid of the ghost, and considered him to be her friend, so I wasn't all that concerned even if there really was a ghost haunting our house. If he's a nice and helpful ghost, it could certainly be a lot worse. I would often tell the ghost that he was welcome to stay if he wanted to, but he was also welcome to go if that would make him happier. I was about 30/70 on the ghost being real and she could see and talk to him versus the ghost being just her imagination fueled by her Halloween book... until one day, when we were going out to the car to go to daycare in the morning. It was still dark out, and rainy. My daughter told me that the ghost was on the back deck, and then she told me that today was the ghost's birthday and she wanted to sing him Happy Birthday. Once again, I mostly disregarded what she was saying, as she is birthday obsessed and has in the past made us sing Happy Birthday to Mickey Mouse, a bowl of fruit snacks, and the bathroom. So we sang and wished the ghost a happy birthday and went on with our lives. Later that day, out of pure curiosity, I looked up the obituary of the man who had died in our house. And wouldn't you know it? It was his f*cking birthday."

    Insomnia saves man from home invasion

    Insomnia saves man from home invasion

    [ranking: 7]
    "Occasionally I get mild bouts of insomnia but nothing serious, usually just a delay in my bedtime of an extra two or three hours. One night I suddenly just can not sleep. Nothing will get me to relax and I eventually give up and just sit in the front room playing Heavy Rain all night as it had just come out a few days ago. The next day when I head off to work exhausted with zero hours of sleep I got a text from my roommate.
    'Dude the police are all over the apartment complex.'
    Apparently nine apartments including our downstairs neighbor were broken into last night WITH PEOPLE HOME SLEEPING. Some people even reported things being stolen from the rooms they were sleeping in.
    It hit me that had I not stayed up all night and left the light on in the front room I would have been robbed... or worse."

    Rat chews on boy's face while he sleeps

    Rat chews on boy's face while he sleeps

    [ranking: 12]
    "Woke up to a rat eating my cousins eyebrows, while sharing a a bed."

    Man becomes someone else for a day

    Man becomes someone else for a day

    [ranking: 11]
    "A few days ago, my iPhone would not accept my fingerprint for touch ID... any of my fingerprints.
    My dog stayed on the other side of the apartment from me, and wouldn't take any treats from me. I trained him not to take treats from anyone except me, to avoid poisoning or illness. But he wouldn't even take his favorite treats from me or cuddle with me. When I went to hug him, he hid in his kennel.
    My PIN didn't work for my debit card, so I wound up running it as credit. I use the same PIN for everything. 
    The only websites I could get into were Reddit, Gmail, and Amazon - pages where my password is stored. Any website where I had to enter username and password, it came back as incorrect. Thank God there's no password to wake my computer up, or I wouldn't have been able to do any work that day.
    The next day, everything was back to normal."

    Mentally ill man on shooting spree wreaks havoc in suburban Chicago

    Mentally ill man on shooting spree wreaks havoc in suburban Chicago

    [ranking: 10]
    "When I was in fifth grade some guy who was mentally ill had a meltdown somewhere in Chicago. Apparently he shot and killed some random guy and stole his car. He drove up I-94 towards my suburb, got off the highway, and drove straight into my neighborhood (it's very close to the exit) and just started shooting sporadically at people's houses. He somehow wound up in my backyard (which is full of trees) and was just shooting in every direction. I can still vividly remember break lights in the middle of the otherwise pitch-black woods and sparks from the gunfire going off in every direction. The cops showed up and shot him to death. Luckily no one was hurt, but my neighbors did find a bullet in the middle of their mattress. Fireworks are not so fun anymore."

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