Perry and the Cards

Let us imagine a boy living in the windy city of Chicago. Imagine that one day something astonishing happens.  A gust of wind comes in through an open window, affecting some playing cards that Perry keeps on a table near the window, so that most of the deck of cards forms mysteriously into a house of cards.  Perry would surely marvel at this wonder. The first time it happened, he would probably think to himself: that is so unlikely it will never ever happen again.

But let us imagine that just such a marvel were to happen over and over again, occurring hundreds of times.  Suppose that on some days after seeing the house of cards form from the wind blast, Perry knocked down the house of cards with his hands, only to see the house of cards form again from the very next wind gust. Suppose that on some days Perry saw many consecutive wind gusts form many different houses of cards from the deck of playing cards on Perry's table. Suppose also that Perry saw something this astonishing on many different days. How would that affect Perry's thinking about the nature of reality?

I do not know of any such Perry, and I have never witnessed anything strange involving wind gusts and playing cards. But the series of 500+ authentic photos here show observations of phenomena that seem as astonishing and improbable and naturally inexplicable as the events I have imagined occurring to Perry (keep pressing "Older Posts" at the bottom right to see the whole series).