"Surely this is explained by..." bingo card

Every paranormal thread ever:

Bingo Card:

Guess how many times you'll see the middle square before you finish reading any Reddit-style paranormal thread.

Missing one: "Could you describe it in more detail?" which is code for "I'm about to explain why you're wrong." Also the killer move: "Citation needed" which ends 90% of paranormal discussions.

This is hilarious and also slightly too accurate. The ball lightning one gets pulled out at LEAST once per thread even though literally nobody has ever seen ball lightning in their actual life. It's the ultimate 'sounds scientific so nobody questions it' explanation.

"Sleep paralysis" is the ultimate catch-all. Someone describes an experience that doesn't fit sleep paralysis at all? Sleep paralysis. They were awake at the time? Still sleep paralysis. The skeptic card that never stops applying.

You've basically described every skeptic's flow chart. Don't get me wrong, some of these explanations are legitimate sometimes. But the automatic jump to the most mundane explanation regardless of the actual evidence is peak forum skepticism. Both extremes are annoying.

The real bingo is when the thread starts with "I experienced something genuinely frightening" and by page 3 the thread has pivoted to whether the person has sufficient epistemological grounding to claim knowledge. Which, fair point, but also maybe let people describe their experience first?