Freaky Fall

 Below we see a fan I was using today. There seemed to be no possibility of it toppling, as it was supported by an extremely heavy base with the weight of marble, and also because I had used an extremely thick, strong and wide tape called Gorilla Tape (wider and thicker than duct tape) to secure the fan on both sides, affixing it to its base, making sure the heavy tape went several inches up the fan on both sides (6 inches on the right side), and about four inches down the base on both sides. 

I had run the fan for more than a half an hour, when I started to read some paper discussing the percentage of widows or widowers who report something like "contact with the dead" after the death of their spouse, which can take different forms such as an apparition sighting, the hearing of a voice, or a feeling of a sense of presence.  A few minutes later as I sat more than a meter away both units shown above mysteriously crashed to the ground, falling backward. Was there any causal connection between this mysterious event and what I was reading a few minutes earlier?  We cannot tell. 

Postscript: Today I went to get a thumb drive I keep in a suit pocket, to back up some files. In one of my suit pockets I found a "ghost detector" palm-sized unit I had bought years ago (basically a detector of magnetism at the milligauss level).  The detector was turned on, and its red light was flashing. The main oddity was that the device was turned on. It's a device I always leave off, to avoid draining its battery. This is one of countless cases I have seen in which lights or electrical devices seem to mysteriously turn on, as if some invisible hand was at work. In the past two days there were two spooky cases of misplaced objects, involving things (my wife's house keys and a remote control device I don't use) surprisingly found on floors where they do not belong.