If you need another example slightly different.
When I was in my twenties I used to live on a farm in Albany. We just rented the farmhouse and the rest was pine plantation. I loved fishing and often rode a few kms to the beach to catch my dinner.
One night riding back home I felt as if someone was watching me and the hairs on my neck really stood up. Very creepy and I couldn't ride fast enough in the pitch black. I could not shake the feeling all the way home.
When I got back to the house I discussed the event with my girlfriend and we got talking about ghosts.
Me being twenty and macho, never afraid of anything, said confidently to my girlfriend "you should never be afraid of ghosts". At that split second of finishing the sentence the light above where I was sitting became extremely dimn while the rest of the lights stayed bright and then returned to the same brightness.
Most people wouldnt believe what I have written here but I can tell you it was very real at the time and it was extremely hard to get to sleep that night. Often in that house we would feel that someone was there or felt like we were being watched.
Believe what you will but I think it is because we cannot explain somethings in life people write it off as someone who's a bit cuckoo as it is hard to digest that we may not understand things fully and that our control of this world is not what it seems.
I think science is fantastic but I think we attach ourselves to it as it makes us feel comfortable. In the world of science everything has order and an explanation. If we can't work it out then we will have a theory for it. We will harness and understand everything and our world will be safe and controllable. It's a natural psychological disposition to us as humans to make things that way in varying degrees.