There is, of course, a reasonable explanation. But it requires placing faith in something beyond the three pound piece of meat behind the eyes of rationalists, and many rationalists have an irrational faith *only* in the three pound piece of meat behind their eyes. Why that is, I venture to guess almost none of them have ever given ten seconds thought to. Theirs is a pure faith untrammeled by skepticism about their own meat machine.
Meanwhile, Tales of the Unexplained happen.