Not so much supernatural as coincidental...
Number one: sitting getting stoned in my front room quite a few years ago, in the days before DVD players; we had an old VCR that, when the tape had been paused for a while, would click off and the channel that the recorder was set to would then appear on the TV. This happened. I looked up. To see my Dad staring straight out at me from the screen. My Dad who lived 5,000 miles away in Cape Town and whom I hadn't seen in three years...

Turns out a friend of my parent's had been given a Video Camera as part of the BBC's 'Video Nation' project, and had decided to film her arrival in South Africa (where my parents were meeting her at the airport). They were only on screen for a few seconds, and if the video had not clicked off at that precise time, and on that precise channel, I would not have sat there for about seven hours going 'Whooooah...' to myself over and over again...

Number two: a friend of mine was at her friend's house (someone I have never met), consoling him after his Mum had died. He was going through some old photos and showed her one from a few year's previously, at a restaurant in Bath (where he's from) where his family had celebrated his Mum's birthday. My friend looked sympathetically at it for a few moments, before shrieking 'Fuck! I know them!' and pointed to me and my boyfriend, who were randomly sitting in the background enjoying a meal. I have only ever spent one day of my life in Bath, and this just happened to be a moment from this day. I really wanted to see it, but she said she 'didn't feel it was appropriate' to ask him for a picture of his dead Mum. Wus.
(MrsP, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 18:03, Reply)