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strangely weird

eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly(adj)

suggesting the operation of supernatural influences

"an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley

preternatural, uncanny(adj)

surpassing the ordinary or normal

"Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will; "his uncanny sense of direction"

being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain

a number of uncanny parallels in the lives of the twins who had been separated at birth

being so extraordinary or abnormal as to suggest powers which violate the laws of nature

an uncanny gift for knowing when someone, no matter how distant, needed help

fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic

uncanny and unexpected shadows along the mountainsides

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