When is a feeling more than a feeling?

**Skeptical**

I went to get my hair cut tonight and my barber told me a story about her brother that I thought was very interesting. Recently a teenage boy went missing here in the Cincinnati area. As so often happens in these times, hundred of volunteers turned out to search nearby wooded areas but they found no trace of the boy. My barber's brother (I'll call him Bob) had a funny feeling from the first time he'd heard about the case. Bob is an avid biker/hiker/outdoors guy and he thought that, somehow, the kid looked familiar.

Well, several days ago, Bob was out biking. He found himself drawn to a wooded area he'd ridden through many times before. It was on the edge of a forest that searchers had combed a few days before. Bob knew there was an old tree house off the main path in the woods and he had the feeling he needed to look there. He found the tree house, a fire pit and beer cans left by the local kids. For some reason, he felt compelled to keep walking up the path that lead deeper into the woods beyond the tree house. He hadn't gone too far when, to his horror, he saw a pair of feet barely sticking out onto the path ahead. Bob got only close enough to identify the boy's jeans, yellow shirt and backpack that had been described on the news. Bob had no cell phone with him so he pedaled all the way home and called police.

After leading investigators back to the site, he had to answer a lot of questions to clear himself from being considered a suspect. He was pestered by the local media for stories but turned them all down. Publicity was the last thing he wanted.

Bob makes no claims about being a psychic. He's just an ordinary guy who was bothered by a feeling. I don't know what to make of that. Was it just a good hunch on Bob's part because he was so familiar with the area - or did that feeling constitute something more? It may be that experience allows us to make very educated guesses that only seem to be psychic in nature. But sometimes I think we do get momentary glimpses into something bigger than ourselves. If that sounds a little too foofy for the hardcore skeptics, so be it. Whatever it is, it is a valuable commodity. In this case, it allowed a broken-hearted family to bring their son home one last time.

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**dr wu23** · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2254 Location: Indiana

I thought this was going to be a paranormal discussion of More Than A Feeling by the rock band Boston..?

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**Somerville Changeling** · Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 311 Location: Central Texas

**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3292

my cousin is a cop on the Hartford Police Dept.they encounter gut feelings all the time,I guess it cant be put in the supernatural catagory but ask any cop if he knows of a least one other cop that has gut feelings that are absolutely spooky.They dont bat an eye anymore when this particualr cop says hes just "got a feeling".