You get it! I do most of that too!

They really freak me out in a delicious way...

Sums it up beautifully. I follow the Weekly World News method with people's superstitious stories:

“If someone calls me up and says their toaster is talking to them, I don’t refer them to professional help, I say, ‘Put the toaster on the phone’.”

I have a coworker who thinks his beloved grandma sent him a cat to comfort him the day after she died. He thinks her spirit is in the cat. I love it, though I disagree and he knows that. He always tells me how the cat's doing.