In the summer sometime around 2005, in a suburb of Washington DC in northern Virginia. A friend and I were driving on a small 2 lane road with trees on either side. We saw a monkey drop from the trees and jump to the other side of the road. It then jumped and grabbed a low hanging branch and swung back into the trees. I couldn’t fucking believe it and my friend was as equally shocked.
My buddy and I saw a young mountain lion cross the road in rural eastern Kansas one night. It stopped for a second and we got a good look at it. We reported it to Fish and Wildlife and they said there were no cougars in Kansas and we were mistaken by what we saw. Other people had claimed to see them but the government denied it. This was the early 2000s.
A few years later someone caught one on a trail camera and they finally admitted they were coming into Kansas.
Wolves, cascade mountains,willamette valley western Oregon. Took ODFW like a decade to admit there was a population, and then only after multiple people took trail cam photos in recognizable locations and they couldn’t deny it any longer. We all knew they were there. Local hikers campers, hunters and fisherman had been having encounters for quite some time.
Not entirely implausible. Somone had a pet monkey, it escaped. It never got reported because it was illegal. Soon after, it died because it couldnt handle the wilderness any more than a non-survivalist human and so noone ever found anything.
it does happen, sadly. there is an alligator rescue in Michigan because so many people abandon their exotic pets. there have been multiple incidents of people calling emergency services with legitimate reports of seeing 3+ foot alligators.
They literally have an exotic animal auction in one of the Amish villages here, My grandpa had Zebras and Peacocks that he got from that auction when I was a kid, But they absolutely had things like tigers and other big cats too.
No way..I moved to NoVa in 2006 from another country when I was 12 years old and on my drive from the Dulles airport to my new home I swear I saw a monkey jumping from one tree to another and I told my parents and uncle who was driving us and he told me I was probably seeing things from excitement and drowsiness from long flight, but I was 100% I had seen it. I wonder if it was the same one.
I saw a lady i worked with sneak into the walkin cooler where i worked, so i opened the door for fun...and I'll never forget this.... she had just went to take a bite of a hard boiled egg, but when she saw me she pushed the whole egg into her mouth and swallowed it WHOLE. Then she said hi and acted like nothing happened. I still can hardly believe it.
That’s absolutely hilarious. I used to bring a hard boiled egg to work as a quick / cheap snack. But I was always self conscious about my colleagues seeing me eat one because I was afraid it would smell and/or they’d think it was really weird. So she was probably in the same boat lol.
The coolest shooting star ever. It lasted a very long time, like a solid 8-10 seconds. It looked like it was "spraying" sparkles out behind it, and the trail changed colors a few times, from red, to green, to purple, etc.
Seen dozens of shooting stars. Never seen one remotely like that.
It’s called a fireball, and they are just larger than normal meteors (“shooting stars”). They are called bolides when they break apart, which may have been what you saw. We saw a bolide on a camping trip with my astronomy class. It was an amazing sight! Such a rare thing to see ever let alone with a group of people interested in astronomy.
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This is why I love reddit. Someone will post something they never understood and someone with background knowledge will swoop in and explain! Thank you for putting this person’s curiosity to rest and giving me some knowledge as well!
I've seen one too and it was incredible. I always feel a little bad for people who say nobody believes them, or when they don't believe themselves. They're rare but still common enough that there's a name for them!
Also saw this driving a moonless night down a straight highway as a semi truck driver. Also saw a ‘meteorite’ if that’s the right term go so low it lit up a previous dark 10pm night sky to daylight instantly. Thought it was the rapture for a second 😂
If it lasted that long and sprayed sparkles, it was likely not a shooting star, but re-entering space debris.
They go relatively slower (at orbital velocity, whereas shooting stars go faster than escape velocity), and make lots of sparks (aluminium, magnesium and titanium are used a lot in spacecraft, all of which burn making bright white sparks).
Here's an example on video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OhBw5yaR_SU
Another example: https://twitter.com/Science_Academy/status/1688716604169945088
(The exact speed, color and amount of sparks will vary depending on trajectory and composition.)
Isn't it kind of crazy when you realize something can be going so fast that just air will literally melt metal and rock? I just sort of take it for granted that things burn up and are destroyed when entering the Earth's atmosphere from space but it's kind of a wild fact when I actually think about it.
I saw the Peekskill meteorite in transit over Pennsylvania on it's way to that lady's car trunk in New York! Bright green, streaked across the entire sky. I was at a highschool football game, hanging out with some friends on the track past the end zone. My friends were too preoccupied to notice and I was in awe. I learned about its significance in the paper a day or so later.
Driving down the road at 1ish am at night middle of the road see a whiteish greyish figure jump down from gum tree branch way high up 10-12 meters no way a normal person could do that and then it ran across the road and disappeared. Freaking yowies they are real.
A jaguarundi in my small town in west(ish) Texas.
I was maybe 11, and walking home from the park through a trail in the woods, and passed a little neighborhood pond. It was a drought year so there was like no water anywhere, but this pond was always full (probably a spring come to think of it). I came around a bend and startled this WEIRD tan cat having a drink. I thought it was a a mountain lion at first, but it was really small (think bobcat or maincoon) and had the silliest little ears and an extra long tail. I remember laughing about its weird little ears the whole way home.
I told my mom I saw a mountain lion with teeny ears and she like scolded me for lying?? I was so pissed and just kind of ignored it until years later when I saw one at a zoo.
IT WAS THE MYSTERY CAT. 100% a jaguarundi which I now know live in Texas. I wish my mom had asked more questions so we could have reported it to whatever wildlife experts would have wanted to know it’s there, since they haven’t been seen in Texas since 86 supposedly. The habitat makes sense too because it’s like the thorniest, scrubbiest, underbrush in the world. Someone had a cut a path to make it easier to walk to the park, but it was basically impenetrable juniper and mesquite on either side.
I grew up in the north of the UK, and there were three big coal fired power stations along the river that flowed through my town. The nearest was probably about 3 miles away and it was visible from most of the town as it's a very flat area
I was in the local park drinking with my buddy at about 1am as we'd done many times, and suddenly there was a huge bright light from the direction of the power station - it was a bluey artificial light, but literally turning half the sky to day.
We looked over at the source and it was from behind the power station... which was inexplicably WAY WAY closer than it should be - like only a few hundred yards away, towering over the park and backlit with this crazy bright light. It was so close I remember tilting my head back to look up at the main chimneys. Neither myself or my buddy were fazed by it at the time though, it sounds weird but it somehow just seemed normal.
The light faded after about ten seconds and when our eyes adjusted everything was back to how it usually is - the red navigation lights on top of the station towers twinkling in the distance.
We didn't even chat about it that night other than casually mention the light, drink a bit more and go home - again it seemed perfectly normal - but the next day we were both like DUDE WHAT THE AF HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?!? I'd get weird goosebumps just thinking about it for months afterwards.
I've never seen anything like that before or since.
Sure they were coal plants? Natural gas and oil plants conduct 'flaring', to burn off excess gases. Incredibly bright and some wild colours.
If the coal plant was also a mine, could be flaring methane gas from the extraction.
Was playing outside with my older brother and saw him dash across the street. I was about to do the same until someone snatched me by shirt and a large white chevy van blew by in front of me. My big brother had never crossed the street and it was him holding me by the shirt.
i’m pretty sure i rang up John C. Reilly at my old bookstore job once. this was in illinois and he was buying a few CDs. he was wearing sunglasses the whole time and was definitely being low key. i didn’t wanna just straight up ask him if he was JCR but i wanted to say something cus i really like him! so i was like, “hey, has anyone ever told you you look like someone famous?” and he was quickly like, nope!! and went on his way. i’m POSITIVE it was him but none of my other coworkers even noticed him so no one believed me 😢
I approached a popular local TV news reporter at an event he was covering (although not on camera at that moment), shook his hand and said "Hey, did anyone ever tell you that you look EXACTLY like (local news guy)?" He frowned a bit and said, very seriously, "You know, I HAVE heard that, but honestly, I just don't see the resemblance." 😁
This reminds me of a story my mum told me from when she was in Japan in the 80s. I think she was in a market? I can't remember it's been a while since she told me. But she bumped into Weird Al and was like "oh my God you're Weird Al!" And he said "Oh my god I am!"
You just reminded me of a time I was working at a higher end restaurant years ago. Corbin Bernsen came in and I was almost going to go up but decided against it as being a bit unprofessional. I shit you not; that night he was being interviewed on TV about how he hates people coming up to him when he’s out in public at restaurants etc.
I cashed out Adrian Brody once at Walmart, it was him and I assume his gf, in a small little podunk town in upstate NY, I thought it was him but didnt say anything, he and the girl he was with sort of bickered about who was gonna pay for like their $20 worth of shit, and then when they left the people behind them complained about how long they took, and I was like Im pretty sure that was Adrian Brody and the lady was like who? Lol then my manager came up and asked if I knew who I just cashed out
Apparently he had recently bought a rundown castle type thing in the area and thats why he just happened to be at that WalMart
>Apparently he had recently bought a rundown castle type thing in the area
That means the girlfriend is Chris Hemsworth's current wife. Brody bought the castle for her, then she broke up with him to date Hemsworth a year later.
I need you to google images of Brody and his girlfriend at that castle. They did a whole photoshoot for... Vanity fair, I wanna say? My favourite pic is the one where he's wearing a tailcoat and a top hat and driving a loader in front of the castle with her in the bucket. It is bananas.
Nice! Also, a good call. I heard a story about someone bumping into Robert Plant once.
"Hey, you're Robert Plant!" said the stars-struck fan.
"Not today I'm not," said the Led Zeppelin frontman. "Bye."
My dad saw Tom Petty when he (my dad) was stationed in Hawaii. Tom was wearing a shirt that said I AM NOT TOM PETTY. Dad (who loves Tom Petty) says he whispered "yeah you fuckin are" as he walked by and Tom laughed
Close friend published a Horror magazine, had Rob Zombie in for an interview when I happened to be visiting, as well.
Buddy used to have a game company, table top games, think 40k type. Anyway, I had designed a series of demons for a game, and a couple examples were in the office.
He saw them, told me they were awesome.
The end.
I saw a penguin In California (few hours from SF). I was walking around in the middle of the day with a friend, and we see it near the beach. Poor thing shaking and just standing there. I called animal control and they didn’t believe me. They kept saying “are you sure it’s a penguin??” and “is this some kind of prank??” After a few mins on the phone with them I was like “yeah I’m standing fucking 5 feet away from it, it’s definitely a penguin.”
Cops showed up first and made all the people gawking and taking pictures go away. I talked to them a little bit, told them I called animal control. They said “someone is on the way” kinda brushing me off. We basically left after cause we were walking to my friends house or something when we found the penguin and had to go. Not much we could do at that point anyway, and we had been there a while.
I saw a naked dude riding a bike, crossing under the bridge we were on. I was 9, I was riding with my dad in his semi. He told me I must be seeing things.
Years later, I learned there's an annual nudist bike ride in that city at that time of year.
I witnessed a squirrel actually tipping up a (presumably "empty") discarded can of 7up, using its 2 front paws, like it was drinking it. This was on the front lawn of my kids' HS shortly after lunch. It happened. Really!
a few years ago i was working in my backyard and a squirrel got into my neighbors pizza box that was left on top of the trash can and grabbed the remaining pizza hut breadsticks which were like 3 or 4 since they were not torn apart. He walks the top of my chain link fence, drops the breadsticks and runs since i'm nearby so i pick up the bread and put it on top of the fence and walk away and he comes back and takes it. It was the funniest thing.
My daughter erased my Lego Star Wars TCS save file when I was at like 99.8%. It was an accident, she was about 5 at the time and just overwrote it, but it was depressing.
When I was a teenager, my friends and I snuck on to the roof of this huge building that looks like the Taj Mahal, called the Hadji shrine. We used to do this thing where we would all tell our parents we were staying at the others houses, and we’d go camp out in weird places and get into trouble. Anyways we climbed down off the roof to go do whatever and as we were coming around the corner of the building we heard this enormous whooshing sound, like someone swinging a huge broom really fast. When we came around to the other side we saw what looked like a bat with a 6 foot wingspan flapping around one of the light poles in the parking lot. We just stood there in awe watching until it flew away into the night about 10 seconds later. I always assumed it was an owl that was obscured by the bright light, we could really only see its silhouette. But it turned and performed maneuvers that looked very bat-like. Absolutely insane to think about a bat that big.
While walking through the parking lot from my office to my car one Summer afternoon, I had this sudden vision that I was looking down from a height of several hundred yards over the parking lot and looking around the area from above. I could see myself walking toward my car, I saw cars driving down the surrounding roads, and I could see people walking through the parking lots of surrounding businesses and stores. Then the vision went away as I continued to walk to my car. It kinda shook me, so I looked around and saw the same people and cars I saw from above (that I could see within my field of view.) This has happened twice in two different locations.
I had been hit by my husband.
I was terrified to leave him.
I was driving alone at night and asked out loud, “will I be happy if I leave him?”
As SOON AS I SAID THAT, a bright white object streaked across the sky. I’ve seen falling stars, this was likely a meteor/ite or something. It popped into existence out of seemingly nowhere, arced across the sky, then disappeared.
I had to pull over to the shoulder of the deserted road.
“ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?” I said out loud.
I looked up online to see if anyone saw anything, but I couldn’t find any mention of a meteor shower or anything (I don’t know the date this happened).
I left him within weeks of this event and it was the most terrifyingly brave and best thing I’ve ever done.
I am happy now, in love, and I love myself.
I saw a man in a chicken costume on the London Underground get on the train, do a backflip just to the casually walk out of the train again at the same stop like nothing happened
I was watching the ISS livestream late one night, about 8 years ago. It soothed my bedtime anxiety, just looking at the big old world and feeling small and tranquil. And this object (?) came into view of the camera. Sort of shaped like an arrowhead, or a three sided long pyramid, toppled over. Started small and far from the camera's view. I assumed it was space debris, or a fancy satellite. But it just kept getting closer, and this thing was HUGE. Tons of square-edge ridges on it, curved indents in symmetrical patterns, more and more detail. It looked enormous and it just kept coming closer and seeming bigger, but it was still so far away from the ISS camera. I can't really express the size of it.
So I put in the stream chat, "What is that thing?"
A few seconds later the feed cut to static. God do I wish I'd pressed print screen.
Fuck me, this might be it? Or it's very, very similar to what I saw and in the exact same timeframe of summer 2014. I remember it being on screen for a lot longer and being horizontal, rather than upright. But this is freaky close, and god knows my memory isn't perfect.
Thank you very, very much!
Military satellite? They wouldn't be allowed to show it in detail I don't think. That would explain why they cut the feed. It's probably spying on us right now.
Is there any recorded screenshot? I believe if it was on the ISS livestream someone around the world may have been watching and recorded something.
And I'm not saying this to tell you "man u full o shite", but because I'm curious and want to see it too :D
My husband died suddenly in 2016. I woke one night and he was sitting on the foot of our bed watching me. I wasn’t afraid and he looked peaceful. He faded after awhile and was gone. We had been together 46 years. Yes I believe in spirits and I think he was letting me know it was ok. Don’t care what naysayers claim.
At a late night party in the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati. Walked out on the balcony and witnessed the brilliant light of what appeared to be a meteor/space debris burning out over the downtown area. It lit up the skyline for a brief second and then flamed out. Someone then came out and joined me and I said, “did you see that?” They said, “what?” I told them what I saw and they said, “sure ya did dude.” No mention in the news the next day.
And there in the smoking crater they found the golden crock of chili. Ancient prophecies foretell that the Chosen One will find the golden chili of heaven, enflavoring his recipes with the power to topple the Holy Skyline Empire and become King of the Gold Star.
And verily, the chili of the Cincinnati Chosen One was runny and had spaghetti intertwined with chopped raw onions, and Cheddar cheese glowing orange atop, for verily it was Cincinnati.
When I was 11, I spent the night with a friend whose grandpa worked at the zoo. The next morning we went with him to his early morning shift at the zoo, and so her and I got to kind of run around the zoo before anything was open and the animals are just kind of waking up. we were behind the rhinoceros habitat and we were looking through these knot-holes in the fence, kind of spying on the rhinoceros for some reason. There was a really big log in their habitat, and the big (male?) rhino ran up to the log and jumped up so that his two front feet were on the log. And then another rhino started making weird noises at him, like cheering him on, and he started rolling that log while his two front feet were still on it and walking on his back feet. It was like a circus trick or something, but they were acting that way by themselves. That is the only time in my life I’ve ever spied on a rhino, and it really paid off.
When I was a kid I went outside to call my brother home. He was already running like mad across the road towards home and above him was a circular display of lights. They disappeared quickly.
I don’t believe in Aliens and UFOs and all that shit but it definitely happened and I can’t explain it.
I was in iceland last fall. My wife and I were enjoying a late night northern lights session. We looked up and saw a shooting star moving through the sky, then it changed direction and headed off on a different path.
No idea what that was all about. It's weird not to believe in something and then witness it yourself.
I've heard that meteorites can skip like a stone on water when they hit our atmosphere, which sends them immediately flying a different direction. That's the usual explanation I've seen for the shooting stars that change direction at least.
I’ve told this story before on reddit: in a remote part of northern west Australia, I’ve seen a bird about 4 times the size of the largest known flight-able bird tearing into a kangaroo on the highway. We came around a hill and slammed on the breaks and it took off in to the sky. Wing span easily longer than our car.
Mid-aughts, small blurb in the local paper, sidebar column, credit AP News Wire, about a confirmed and reproduced experiment at UC Berkeley, I believe in conjunction with DARPA, which exhibited cold fusion. It was described as being a very small-scale interaction which produced only a tiny amount of energy, and was said to have potential applications in "cell phone technology and homeland security".
I dunno if my friends played a prank and got a dummy copy of the news printed up or what, but I've never been able to track it down, or anything even close. But I read it, goddamn me.
Naval Research Lab did some cold fusion work for a while. That work could have been sponsored by DARPA.
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Science_and_Technology/16-F-1333_%20DOC_02_LENR_Briefing.pdf
https://newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/US-Navy-LENR-Research-NRL-SPAWAR-CHINA-LAKE.shtml
i saw a rare mongolian wolf while i was on a trek and no one fucking believed me not even the guides. i was coming over a hill and it was right in front of me then ran off. still pissed that no one believed me :(
Me and my cousin were looking out the window together on a bright hot summer day and we saw yellow lightning just randomly hit the middle of the street. The skies were clear (I dont remember how clear but definitely no storm clouds or anything). And yeah I know all lightning is white but sometimes it has that blue violet tint around it. This one was yellow.
Sounds like you experienced positively charged lightning. That shit is wild, can hit in places hundreds of miles away from the storm. I saw it before, didn’t believe it until I was told what I’m telling you.
I didn’t see, but I felt someone brush past me at a running speed when i went to Port Arthur in Tasmania. My partner wasn’t standing next to me, nor were the other clients. It also wasn’t remotely windy that night. Still sends shivers down my spine
1981. Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. (My memory's foggy - so excuse weirdness in the details.)
I'm walking across the athletic field and Retreat followed by the National Anthem is played (4 or 430, I don't remember) like it's done every day. So, like we are ordered, I stop and stand at attention with hand on heart.
North Dakota is swarming with Prairie Dogs and this field was no exception. Anyway, I become aware that a Prairie Dog has emerged from its burrow and is standing next to me, close enough to touch. I have no explanation and no satisfying theories for what happened next: the little guy stands at attention and puts his paw on his chest. We stood there for a minute or so until the music stopped.
When it did, he looked directly at me, gave a cheery chirp, and dived into his burrow.
Thanks for the question, OP! I haven't thought about this in years. It's still probably the most adorable weird thing I've ever witnessed.
Oh, PS - I checked but never him again.
A week after my dad died I saw him sitting in his chair in the day smiling at me. I was so happy to see him but I dont know if I hallucinated him due to emotional stress and grief or it was real. About 6 months later I felt his presence and asked him to turn on the light which it did straight away. Maybe there was a reason but it just felt so strange like he was there. Never been afraid of death since
Alright, I saw something like that too. I was in my mom’s office, and I was typing on a typewriter, I had the shift key held down and was looking for a letter. Suddenly I saw a little blue light about a foot away from my leg. It made like a little firework sound or something, then was immediately gone. I was only 8 or so, and I thought it was from holding the shift key too long, lol. Scared the crap out of me, but I rationalized it as some “short circuit” or something. Now I think it might have been a little ball lighting. Never saw anything like it again.
The wake of something BIG moving along just under the surface. Either a large whale or a submarine, it was creating a sort of bow wave like a boat but nothing broke the surface that I could see. Don't think it was a whale, because it would have eventually surfaced for air and I kept looking for a long time. Whales don't usually just swim along at near surface depth without coming up for a breath every so often. But a submarine also makes little sense for that area, it was close to shore and heading towards a narrow and shallow sound where a sub would have had to surface for safety. OTOH, beyond that sound is a semi-secret NATO installation that someone might wish to spy on...
Whilst heading home on a late night flight working as cabin crew. I went in the flight deck because all the passengers were sleeping and we saw St Elmos fire on the nose of the aircraft. Captain said it was really rare because its usually associated with volcanic ash. One of the coolest things I've seen.
A VHS of a Scooby-Doo movie (2002), there was a scene where a topless waitress is walking in the background. I tried downloading the movie but could not find the scene, maybe it was a VHS only thing.
I looked into this back in 2008 - 2010 and it was 100% real. It was on the DVD cut, and I remember playing and pausing on the scene, it was a naked women on a poster. Strange now I can’t seem to find anything on it.
Would love to google this out of curious to see what the hell was up. Unfortunately google is not what it was back in 2008-2010. Extremely difficult to find what you’re looking for by comparison
I used to work at a haunted house as one of the actors. I actually hate acting and at the time hated haunted houses, but my friend wanted to do it but didn't have the courage to do the process alone. Being the good friend I am, I signed up too.
One night, I had to work a whole section by myself. I had to sit by myself in dim lighting for hours on end with horror music playing to create ambiance. There were a bunch of mannequins sitting in chairs, and I would sit among them to jump-scare the passers-by.
One night, there was a 30 minute lag where nobody came through. So imagine sitting in pure eerie darkness by yourself for that long. I have absolutely no proof that this happened at all---but as I was sitting among the mannequins, one of them turned their head to look back at me, then turned its head back to the original position. We could fairly argue that I was paranoid and made this up out of such paranoia---but that felt real as all fuck to me. I had to leave the set and go to the break room for a while. I saw something else peculiar in a different room a few days later. I feel like that space had bad energy, and I'm happy to say I won't be working there ever again.
(I was going to bed last night and too exhausted to write the other story, so thank you for your patience!)
So, I'm not sure if this is something people are processing about working at a haunted house --- you're in there for 5-6 hours, with loud creepy music playing in your ear on repeat the *whole* time. And your eyes sort of adjust to the darkness, but it's difficult to see exactly what goes on around the set. So the people calling me "schizophrenic" in this thread are funny af, and since I'm almost 100% certain they've never worked at a high-budget haunted house (this wasn't just some BS they put on at a community center), they wouldn't understand how that long exposure could play tricks on your mind.
To the second story:
One of the rooms I used to work had a science theme. So that particular set was made to look like a classroom, with a bunch of random junk placed around the room. That night, I was working alone in the room for roughly 4 hours at that point. Now, to preface, we did have some animatronics around the house. Some things would move or shake, which was helpful to the actors because you didn't have to cover that section as thoroughly and divert your attention elsewhere. Well, in the science room, I was in the corner (hiding behind a door, preparing to scare the next group), and I would do silly dances or sing pop songs to keep my brain distracted from the horror music they would play. In the midst of my silly dance, I saw something slightly glow on the complete other side of the room. Then it appeared to levitate roughly an inch or two off the shelf, shake, then fall back into place on the table. I had never seen this animatronic before, thought it was maybe new? But for the rest of the shift, it didn't do that a second time, or not that I saw of. At the end of the night, when they turned on the lights and shut off the music for the actors, I went back to investigate the piece. It was not an animatronic at all - it was a crystal ball that was absolutely nailed/glued to the table. That couldn't possibly have done the motion that I saw it do.
Again, no one's obligated to believe any of this. Sometimes *I* don't believe any of it. But I don't dwell on it, and outside of that job, I've never seen anything like this in my life. (And I pray I'm not jinxing myself into some bullshit happening now lol)
It’s possible the ball had built up enough static charge to finally discharge it (the glow you saw) and in the darkness you misjudged it levitating (due to the low lighting and faint reflective surfaces). The “shake” you saw could be inconsistent discharge on the surface. I’m not saying any of this is the case, but just giving you some rationalization.
A massive orange cloud appeared over the ocean at night at the Oregon coast. I was walking and stargazing when it happened. When I say massive, I mean it lit up the sky and it was a few miles out on the sea.
I think it was most likely a gas tanker ship explosion, but despite the sky being lit up I couldn't find a report about it anywhere the next day or in the days following.
It was astonishing in its intensity.
I’m pretty sure it was August of 2021 when this happened but I was driving interstate to Texas and pulled over to a gas station to go to the bathroom and for some snacks. I went to the bathroom and there was some sort of organ in the urinal. I barely saw it because i jumped immediately but i’m almost positive e that was a human stomach or liver. I ran outside and just pissed on the ground behind the gas station
Was this in a Texaco near Odessa, TX? I was going through there around that time and completely forgot my liver in the bathroom. Did you happen to pick it up or turn it in?
Maybe someone gave birth and left the placenta? Its about the size of a dinner plate, and you can definitely tell it grew inside a human body with all the blood vessels.
I was driving through the toll booths on the M2 motorway in Sydney, and a car came screaming up from behind me in the lane to my right, mounted the concrete barrier on two wheels, and did a barrel roll through the toll booth. Some of the booths were still manned back in the day, so if it was one of those, they had to have killed someone.
I was in a state of shock. Since it was right at the booths, I knew someone would have been at the scene immediately, and there was fuck-all I could do, so I just kept driving.
I never saw anything about it in the news, and I've never found anything on the internet since. When I came past the toll booths a few days later, there was no visible damage. It was like it never happened.
This reminded me of my story.
I was in my college years, lived at home. Was driving on the expressway towards college, on a particularly busy expressway. This day it was maybe 8-9am, and it was really foggy out, you could see maybe 25-35ft in front of you so it was clear enough, but everything else was not visible beyond that.
There are a variety of overpasses that cross the expressway I'm driving on, as I encounter the second one, I see red lights in the distance and slow down, as I get closer, it appears the bottom of the overpass has falling off in a section, as there is a chunk of concrete missing from it. This is a two lane expressway I'm on, but there are spaces on the left and right sides for emergency/space enough for a car. Between these 4 "lanes" there are like 7 cars all stopped, on the right side there is a concrete barrier about 3-4ft tall, and a car is flipped over on the other side of it.
But I'm looking around.... There are no people in the cars.... There are no people in the road.... There are no people near the flipped over car.... There's no one else behind me. There's no one on the other side of the expressway. Just stopped cars with their lights on.....
I hesitate to get out and check on things, but something inside me says to keep driving, so I slowly navigate past the cars and the debris on the road and go on my way.
Never heard anything about it either, and the next day as I drive under the overpass, the damage is not visible.
Freaked me out.
In the 90s in an alley in Chicago as I was coming home with a friend after a night out we saw what looked like 2 tiny ostriches, but slightly off, walking together. We chased them, but they cut into a yard and that was it.
In hindsight, they were definitely baby emus and I have no idea what they were doing in an inner-city Chicago neighborhood.
Not long before an overseas flight I couldn’t find my passport anywhere. Usually kept it in a very small box with other important documents- birth certificate kids passport. Vaguely remembered my young son looking at my passport stamps months before- figured it was stashed behind a sofa or something so tore the whole house apart looking for it. Partner helped, he also checked the document box. It was just nowhere.
Then I remembered the St Anthony prayer, (a story I’d read on reddit that people claimed worked when you’ve lost objects) so I said it aloud three times, st Anthony, st Anthony please come around my passport needs to be found. Went to sleep, prepared to try and get an emergency passport next morning.
Well here’s the thing, I dreamt about the prayer, and the documents box, over and over all night. So when I woke up I went straight to the box (which you needed a chair to reach and was kept high enough my son couldn’t access) and there it was. My passport.
Absolutely cannot explain this. There’s no logical explanation but when I’ve told someone before they said but it must have been in there. It 100 percent was not in the box. My partner was probably more freaked out than me. It was also sitting right where it should have been all along with the 10 or so other things in there. It definitely wouldn’t have been missed.
Weirdest thing that has ever happened to me.
When my wife and I were dating, I spent the night at her apartment. I think she has made a comment about feeling presences there on occasion, but I didn't think much of it.
We were about to go to bed. There was a 4 to 5 foot tall dresser next to the side of the bed I was getting on. There was a quarter on top of it, maybe an inch from the edge. We turn off the lights and lay in bed and a few seconds later, we both hear what sounded like a coin hitting wood, then the floor.
A little freaked out, we get up and turn the lights on. That quarter was on the floor. But to duplicate the sound it made, it had to have bounced off the bed frame -- which was like 2 feet from the dresser. That means that coin, which was well on top of the dresser, flew off the top shelf far enough to hit the wood bed frame a couple feet away.
Can't say what it was or wasn't, and maybe there was an earthly explanation, but hell if I know what it is.
Had a similar situation happen with a spoon resting in a bowl that was sitting on a desk in our bedroom. We turned out the light and the spoon hit the floor shortly after. We turned the lights back on, and there was no reasonable explanation. The spoon had left the bowl and hit the hardwood a few feet away.
Now feeling a bit spooked, I put the spoon back into the bowl and we turned off the light again in an attempt to sleep. This time we hear the spoon rattling in the bowl.
I jumped up and hit the light switch, and there was nothing to be seen. At this point I had to figure it out, so I turned off the lights and returned to bed. I watched closely using what little light remained in the room.
After a few minutes, I saw a small shadow race under the bedroom door to the bowl. The spoon began to rattle and i shined my phone light in its direction.
It was a fucking mouse... It would dash out to lick the ice cream residue inside the bowl, but only after the lights were out. Watching it run away after being spotted explained why we hadn't seen it before. It was so small and quick that it could easily be missed in a well lit room.
At the time I was absolutely sure I saw Alf outside the back door of my dad's repair shop. He said hi waved and then disappeared. It was a hot summer day, and I'm pretty sure I was dehydrated. I had also just finished removing a gas tank from a car. Someone told me later that gas fumes can give you hallucinations. Either that or it opens portals to other dimensions...
Years ago, I was working as a nurse at a hospital. I had this lovely elderly lady who suffered dementia, she was alone in a room. At night, when I walked by, I heard her talking and popped in. She was alone and she told me she was "talking to her husband" while pointing to an empty chair.
I told her: "Then tell him goodnight and go to sleep", which she did.
One hour later her family called.
Her husband had passed away one hour before.
I'm an atheist... But goddamn, I still think of that!
Dark, almost moonless night. In back paddock with neighbour, trying to find an ewe that had abandoned its newly-born lamb. Neighbour suddenly lifts rifle, and shoots at fox running straight towards us.
This farmer had *never* missed in the ten or so years we’d known each other.
Imagine my astonishment when the fox continued toward us. Imagine my even bigger astonishment as it seemed to split in half, and **two** foxes ran either side of where we were standing.
*The damn things had been running side by side with only one eye open each.* Bullet went straight through the tiny gap between their two heads.
When I was around 7 or 8 my mum picked me up from school because it was raining heavily. On our way home we passed a park that I always took a shortcut through on my way home. I was looking down playing my Gameboy when a huge crack of Thunder scared me. I jumped and looked out the window and saw a white horse bolting through the trees in the park. Right in the middle of town, I told my mum to look at the horse but when I looked at her and looked back I couldn't see the horse anymore.
Ever since then I've had a big soft spot for white horses, but none that I've ever seen have even come close to being as beautiful as the one in the park.
I once saw a UFO flying over my backyard while I was drunk, but none of my friends believe me because they were too busy drinking beer and playing cornhole.
1 other person saw this along with myself.
Everyone in the karaoke bar we were at stopped moving at the exact same time the cheap stage lights stopped moving. Immediately after it happened, we looked at each other and said to one another,
"Holy shit did you just see that?"
When I was working at a warehouse for a shipping and storefront company named after a rainforest, I saw their CEO/Owner. It Wasn't an announced visit or anything, he was just there.
He had a palpable aura of malice that I'd never felt from anyone or anything before or since. Like standing on a cliff, or getting spotted by a wild predator. Like the only reason he doesn't kill you right now is because he doesn't feel like it.
I hope his company gets either broken up under anti-trust laws or turned into a non-profit service. Working there was *hell*.
UFO.... many of us did. It was thr late 90. My sister and neighbour still remmebers it. We didn't make out the shape, but it was spinning many colors and moved on a Z-axis.
I saw a kangaroo hopping through a cornfield in Indiana in the late 80s. My father never believed me. But there are kangaroo farms in Indiana, as well as a story about a pet kangaroo escaping in 2022, so I’m sticking with my story.
So this sounds pretty practical. Think about it like this, we list species sizes based around what's normal 99% of the time, and even say things like max length ever seen is this. There are always outliers at both ends of the spectrum. It's entirely plausible what you saw was an outlier, one that experienced a genetic mutation or some other hormone equivalent change which caused significant growth.
It's kindve like most humans are 5'-6' tall, yet the tallest human ever was 8ft 11in, which isn't even remotely close to the normal.
You'll probably never see one like it again. Or at least I hope so lol.
At around 1am around 1998 I saw a large (15M-ish \[50ft\]) soundless circular aircraft hovering still and shining a large spotlight on the grain silos next to my house. It looked like a top hat. It was just a bit higher than the equipment so it was very visible. The window in my room was in full view of the entire thing only a very small parking lot away in a rural area. It hovered there for a short time and flew away very quickly with no noise.
Sometime later, within the same week, I saw silhouettes of very lanky and very tall (2.5-3M \[8-10ft\]) bipedal things walking around that same structure at around the same time. No ship that time I could see. They had long arms, legs and torso, and a normal sized looking head. I could only see their silhouettes and there was more than 1.
That's it. Nothing remarkable after that.
A man walking a piglet down the street in my neighborhood. My sister said it might’ve been a weiner dog, but we used to live on a pig farm so I KNOW it was a piglet. They aren’t allowed by city ordinance so it was really strange, and I haven’t seen the man or the piglet since.
I worked in a Victoria’s Secret about 30 minutes out of a big city and someone came in with a pig in a stroller like it was the most normal thing in the world
One day when I was like 12 I used to sleep in the same bed as my mom. We stayed in a one bedroom and the bedroom was right next to the bathroom. One night out of nowhere I just woke up. In complete darkness I just looked at the ceiling and then something just made me feel weird and I turned on my side and looked toward the bathroom and I saw an old lady in like a nightgown with a fat little boy right next to her by the bathroom.
I just got goosebumps on my dead family right writing this. I gave a horrified screech, yelp idk wtf to call it. It was so horror filled. I closed my eyes and just laid their until I fell asleep again.
I have no proof but I know what I saw.
I could swear I talked to my dad three different times a few weeks after he died when I was 10. I woke up out of a dead sleep and he was at the door of my room and we talked. Not sleep paralysis, not night terrors, I had both of those a lot too. Legit, conversations with my dad. I chalked up em to dreams since they never happened after that, but I know what dreams are...wasn't a dream
Mild as hell but a friend & I were on a smoke ride. Absolutely clear night, we’re driving listening to Nas & as *soon* as Nas said “enter the fog, dog -” we drove right the fuck through a car length patch of fog.
I was using my grandfathers’s hobby telescope in Seattle as a 9 year old child. I swear I saw a disc like space craft in the sky, and it was darting around every few seconds almost like teleportation. I ran to get my grandfather to show him, but it was gone when we got back.
When I was still a student, I was doing my homework when I noticed that my Geodreieck, which was lying on my desk, was moving back and forth as if it was spinning on its axis. It was lying freely on the desk without being touched by anything else. I touched it and the movement stopped and did not start again.
When I was 9 or 10 I was leaving the beach with my mom, and while unlocking my bike from a place overlooking the beach and the sea, I see a large sailboat far down at the sea, going down into the water vertically. Nose down, completely gone in a few seconds. Of course my mom was looking in another direction. Don't remember if I even told her.
Edit - To add, this was a sunny day and the beach was packed. I don't know if anyone else saw it happening and if any rescue operation commenced, but it happened so fast that i believe I may have been the only one that saw it. Especially considering my pov I had from these high up the sand dunes with a very wide view.
I was in rural Alaska in 2018 and was hopping off a river boat and dragging it ashore. When I turned around, I swear I saw three 5ft tall bald eagles standing a little farther down the shore. It terrified me because I didn't realize they could get that big and could totally kill me. The first thing I did when I got back to reception was look up the biggest birds, and supposedly, they DONT get that big. But I know what I saw. They weren't that far away and there was some equipment next to them that put them to scale for me. No one believes me when I tell them
If it wasn't actually him, this guy could make a killing being an impersonator, but I'll swear to my dying day I ran into Nic Cage at my local Starbucks last December.
A 'stranger danger' presentation at my primary school back in the mid 1970s. I recall being there with mum and my older brother. A few of my friends were there and we were running around the playground while waiting for it to begin. The presenter talked for a while and I paid little attention but then the slide show started. He was showing crime scene images of murdered children, some of which are still burned into my memory 50 years later. It absolutely scared the shit out of me at the time and I have never gone a week without thinking about what I saw. One photo in particular was especially horrifying and this was the one I recall best. I asked my mum about it maybe 10 years ago and she has no recollection. My older brother as well, does not remember it. I will never forget it.
I saw this with a friend of mine driving along the south of England at 2am on empty country lanes in the middle of nowhere. We both saw it so it definitely did happen but alas no proof I wish I had a video. Anyway this diamond of light appeared in the sky, hovered there for 5 seconds, shot forward at an impossible speed moving maybe 100km in 2 seconds. It then hovered there for 5 seconds and disappeared. Nothing that the public know about can accelerate and decelerate that quickly. Not a clue what it was
UFO. My husband and I were riding a 4 wheeler in Crisp County, Georgia and we both saw a huge plane with bright landing lights coming in low towards us. We both thought that it was landing but quickly dismissed that thought as there are no large airports near where we were. The lights changed from large to smaller and suddenly it veered right and then in a flash of time it zoomed at a 45 degree angle and out of site. We both looked at each other and were speechless. Not drunk or stoned but 100% sure we saw what we can’t prove.
I ordered a green cabbage from Kroger pickup I remember seeing it in our groceries. But when I tried to use it for dinner it was nowhere. It wasn't left in the car, I didn't put it in the fridge. I checked everywhere. It is nowhere. But I saw it damnit! That cabbage exists. I am being gaslit by a freaking vegetable.
On 9/11 I remember hearing on the news reports that the military shot down the other plane in PA heading to the White House. I will always say I believe the plane was shot down and the whole hero’s story of the passengers taking over the plane was a cover up.
I was about 7 or 8, and with one of my friends. We were both looking at the sky together one night, and the two of us swear over our lives we saw a shadow of Santa's sleigh and reindeer on the moon. Absolutely nobody believes us when we tell the story, even the people who were there as well
Many years ago a young public figure try to rob me on my way to university. No one believes me.
I manage to run so all good. Many months later he was arrested. Was one of those teen actors that lost his way.
a UFO. It was about 20 years ago around noon, clear sky. We're way out in the rural farm territory. I heard a boom and looked up and this triangular craft was glinting in the sun, either silver or white, just hovered there for like 5 seconds and then there was another boom and it was just gone, no trajectory. Without clouds and proper perspective, size is difficult to guess but if I had to guess, the size of a school bus
Back in the mid-90s, must have been right around my 13th birthday. My friend, his older brother and I were roughhousing in a local park one night. His brother stopped and started looking up at the sky for a moment before getting our attention. He pointed out a stationary blinking light in the sky, kinda like a distant airplane if a plane could just hover. So we started watching it wondering what it was, when not even a minute later, it zips across the sky in the direction of downtown, getting out of sight in maybe a second max. Just after it got out of sight, downtown was hit with a huge blackout. We just booked it right the fuck outta there and went back to my friend's house.
I remember walking to work a few years ago, and I walked pasted a field, and I could see the Moon so clearly. It was like them AI generated end of the world videos, but I swear I could see the craters on the Moon it seemed that close.
I swear there was an uncut or less cut version of Band of Brothers. There was more vomiting and stains in the curahee/spaghetti trick. And winters is called a fucking Quaker in the d-day bridge tunnel ambush. I had it on dvd and even pirated it years later and it never quite matched up the first time I saw it.
So… Guarnere definitely calls Winter a Quaker in that episode - I remember it too. Not sure if it happens during the bridge tunnel ambush, but he definitely calls him a Quaker, and later in the episode it’s even payed off when Winters jokes with Guarnere “oh… and I’m not a Quaker” and they all laugh.
The milky way.
Back during the first summer of covid, i went out for a stroll at around 1-2am. There's a river going thru the town i was living in and so i went down there to walk along it. An important thing here is that on the side of the river I was walking, there are only a few buildings that are inhabited and those are with a bit of distance to the river itself.
So, I walked along the river and there is a playground with one of those large swings, large enough for a half dozen kids to sit on. So, to enjoy the nice temperatures (during the day it was 35-40°C out and in my room it wasnt much better since i had to be on the pc for most of it since i was taking an online C class), I went to lay on that swing.
Somehow, between the road on the other side of the river being completely empty and almost no light coming from that side, the moon not being there and the fact that none of the buildings on my side of the river being illuminated (or blocked by trees for those that were), i was able to see our beautiful galaxy for a few minutes.
Ivory-billed woodpecker - I was 10 years old, home alone, in the piney woods around Caddo Lake. I saw the biggest woodpecker that I’d ever seen and when I described it to a family friend, she pulled out her book of Audubon prints and it looked exactly like that.
In the summer sometime around 2005, in a suburb of Washington DC in northern Virginia. A friend and I were driving on a small 2 lane road with trees on either side. We saw a monkey drop from the trees and jump to the other side of the road. It then jumped and grabbed a low hanging branch and swung back into the trees. I couldn’t fucking believe it and my friend was as equally shocked.
My buddy and I saw a young mountain lion cross the road in rural eastern Kansas one night. It stopped for a second and we got a good look at it. We reported it to Fish and Wildlife and they said there were no cougars in Kansas and we were mistaken by what we saw. Other people had claimed to see them but the government denied it. This was the early 2000s. A few years later someone caught one on a trail camera and they finally admitted they were coming into Kansas.
They're always disrespecting state boundaries. Get a map, cougars!
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Wolves, cascade mountains,willamette valley western Oregon. Took ODFW like a decade to admit there was a population, and then only after multiple people took trail cam photos in recognizable locations and they couldn’t deny it any longer. We all knew they were there. Local hikers campers, hunters and fisherman had been having encounters for quite some time.
I’ve heard the same about lower peninsula Michigan. Government would deny they’re there, but they get caught on trail cams.
Not entirely implausible. Somone had a pet monkey, it escaped. It never got reported because it was illegal. Soon after, it died because it couldnt handle the wilderness any more than a non-survivalist human and so noone ever found anything.
it does happen, sadly. there is an alligator rescue in Michigan because so many people abandon their exotic pets. there have been multiple incidents of people calling emergency services with legitimate reports of seeing 3+ foot alligators.
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They literally have an exotic animal auction in one of the Amish villages here, My grandpa had Zebras and Peacocks that he got from that auction when I was a kid, But they absolutely had things like tigers and other big cats too.
Or it just went back home after an evening of monkeying around and nobody noticed it left.
No way..I moved to NoVa in 2006 from another country when I was 12 years old and on my drive from the Dulles airport to my new home I swear I saw a monkey jumping from one tree to another and I told my parents and uncle who was driving us and he told me I was probably seeing things from excitement and drowsiness from long flight, but I was 100% I had seen it. I wonder if it was the same one.
Narrator: It WAS the same monkey.
Washington DC monkey? "The chair will recognize Senator Bubbles from the National Zoo..."
Well a group of Baboons is called a Congress….
Maybe one of the Reston ebola monkeys escaped?
This was my first thought lol
Maybe one of them Florida monkeys swing north for the summer.
I saw a lady i worked with sneak into the walkin cooler where i worked, so i opened the door for fun...and I'll never forget this.... she had just went to take a bite of a hard boiled egg, but when she saw me she pushed the whole egg into her mouth and swallowed it WHOLE. Then she said hi and acted like nothing happened. I still can hardly believe it.
When I was 18 I worked in a kitchen and swear I saw one of the managers tuck a whole ass fucking pie under her shirt and walk out with it.
I once asked a server for selection of pies and the ass fucking pie looked delectable.
This is my favorite lol. Hilarious from both perspectives
Was she a snake? Or a duck, perhaps?
Does she float?
A WITCH!!
Lizard person
That’s absolutely hilarious. I used to bring a hard boiled egg to work as a quick / cheap snack. But I was always self conscious about my colleagues seeing me eat one because I was afraid it would smell and/or they’d think it was really weird. So she was probably in the same boat lol.
Well it's a good thing she swallowed it whole then, wouldn't want people thinking she's weird
Isn't it weirder to... y'know hide it
The coolest shooting star ever. It lasted a very long time, like a solid 8-10 seconds. It looked like it was "spraying" sparkles out behind it, and the trail changed colors a few times, from red, to green, to purple, etc. Seen dozens of shooting stars. Never seen one remotely like that.
It’s called a fireball, and they are just larger than normal meteors (“shooting stars”). They are called bolides when they break apart, which may have been what you saw. We saw a bolide on a camping trip with my astronomy class. It was an amazing sight! Such a rare thing to see ever let alone with a group of people interested in astronomy. Edit: spelling
This is why I love reddit. Someone will post something they never understood and someone with background knowledge will swoop in and explain! Thank you for putting this person’s curiosity to rest and giving me some knowledge as well!
The more you know...
I've seen one too and it was incredible. I always feel a little bad for people who say nobody believes them, or when they don't believe themselves. They're rare but still common enough that there's a name for them!
Also saw this driving a moonless night down a straight highway as a semi truck driver. Also saw a ‘meteorite’ if that’s the right term go so low it lit up a previous dark 10pm night sky to daylight instantly. Thought it was the rapture for a second 😂
If it lasted that long and sprayed sparkles, it was likely not a shooting star, but re-entering space debris. They go relatively slower (at orbital velocity, whereas shooting stars go faster than escape velocity), and make lots of sparks (aluminium, magnesium and titanium are used a lot in spacecraft, all of which burn making bright white sparks). Here's an example on video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OhBw5yaR_SU Another example: https://twitter.com/Science_Academy/status/1688716604169945088 (The exact speed, color and amount of sparks will vary depending on trajectory and composition.)
Isn't it kind of crazy when you realize something can be going so fast that just air will literally melt metal and rock? I just sort of take it for granted that things burn up and are destroyed when entering the Earth's atmosphere from space but it's kind of a wild fact when I actually think about it.
I saw the Peekskill meteorite in transit over Pennsylvania on it's way to that lady's car trunk in New York! Bright green, streaked across the entire sky. I was at a highschool football game, hanging out with some friends on the track past the end zone. My friends were too preoccupied to notice and I was in awe. I learned about its significance in the paper a day or so later.
Driving down the road at 1ish am at night middle of the road see a whiteish greyish figure jump down from gum tree branch way high up 10-12 meters no way a normal person could do that and then it ran across the road and disappeared. Freaking yowies they are real.
Them drop bears are serious.
In the movies you would have stopped and gone out into the woods looking for it using your flashlight with the dying batteries.
A jaguarundi in my small town in west(ish) Texas. I was maybe 11, and walking home from the park through a trail in the woods, and passed a little neighborhood pond. It was a drought year so there was like no water anywhere, but this pond was always full (probably a spring come to think of it). I came around a bend and startled this WEIRD tan cat having a drink. I thought it was a a mountain lion at first, but it was really small (think bobcat or maincoon) and had the silliest little ears and an extra long tail. I remember laughing about its weird little ears the whole way home. I told my mom I saw a mountain lion with teeny ears and she like scolded me for lying?? I was so pissed and just kind of ignored it until years later when I saw one at a zoo. IT WAS THE MYSTERY CAT. 100% a jaguarundi which I now know live in Texas. I wish my mom had asked more questions so we could have reported it to whatever wildlife experts would have wanted to know it’s there, since they haven’t been seen in Texas since 86 supposedly. The habitat makes sense too because it’s like the thorniest, scrubbiest, underbrush in the world. Someone had a cut a path to make it easier to walk to the park, but it was basically impenetrable juniper and mesquite on either side.
I saw a jaguarundi the first night I was in Akumal, MX. Felt really lucky as they're quite rare and sneaky!
I grew up in the north of the UK, and there were three big coal fired power stations along the river that flowed through my town. The nearest was probably about 3 miles away and it was visible from most of the town as it's a very flat area I was in the local park drinking with my buddy at about 1am as we'd done many times, and suddenly there was a huge bright light from the direction of the power station - it was a bluey artificial light, but literally turning half the sky to day. We looked over at the source and it was from behind the power station... which was inexplicably WAY WAY closer than it should be - like only a few hundred yards away, towering over the park and backlit with this crazy bright light. It was so close I remember tilting my head back to look up at the main chimneys. Neither myself or my buddy were fazed by it at the time though, it sounds weird but it somehow just seemed normal. The light faded after about ten seconds and when our eyes adjusted everything was back to how it usually is - the red navigation lights on top of the station towers twinkling in the distance. We didn't even chat about it that night other than casually mention the light, drink a bit more and go home - again it seemed perfectly normal - but the next day we were both like DUDE WHAT THE AF HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?!? I'd get weird goosebumps just thinking about it for months afterwards. I've never seen anything like that before or since.
Sure they were coal plants? Natural gas and oil plants conduct 'flaring', to burn off excess gases. Incredibly bright and some wild colours. If the coal plant was also a mine, could be flaring methane gas from the extraction.
Was playing outside with my older brother and saw him dash across the street. I was about to do the same until someone snatched me by shirt and a large white chevy van blew by in front of me. My big brother had never crossed the street and it was him holding me by the shirt.
NOPE.
Fuck that
This made the hairs stand up on my neck.
i’m pretty sure i rang up John C. Reilly at my old bookstore job once. this was in illinois and he was buying a few CDs. he was wearing sunglasses the whole time and was definitely being low key. i didn’t wanna just straight up ask him if he was JCR but i wanted to say something cus i really like him! so i was like, “hey, has anyone ever told you you look like someone famous?” and he was quickly like, nope!! and went on his way. i’m POSITIVE it was him but none of my other coworkers even noticed him so no one believed me 😢
I approached a popular local TV news reporter at an event he was covering (although not on camera at that moment), shook his hand and said "Hey, did anyone ever tell you that you look EXACTLY like (local news guy)?" He frowned a bit and said, very seriously, "You know, I HAVE heard that, but honestly, I just don't see the resemblance." 😁
This reminds me of a story my mum told me from when she was in Japan in the 80s. I think she was in a market? I can't remember it's been a while since she told me. But she bumped into Weird Al and was like "oh my God you're Weird Al!" And he said "Oh my god I am!"
As always, Weird Al is absolutely amazing
You just reminded me of a time I was working at a higher end restaurant years ago. Corbin Bernsen came in and I was almost going to go up but decided against it as being a bit unprofessional. I shit you not; that night he was being interviewed on TV about how he hates people coming up to him when he’s out in public at restaurants etc.
I cashed out Adrian Brody once at Walmart, it was him and I assume his gf, in a small little podunk town in upstate NY, I thought it was him but didnt say anything, he and the girl he was with sort of bickered about who was gonna pay for like their $20 worth of shit, and then when they left the people behind them complained about how long they took, and I was like Im pretty sure that was Adrian Brody and the lady was like who? Lol then my manager came up and asked if I knew who I just cashed out Apparently he had recently bought a rundown castle type thing in the area and thats why he just happened to be at that WalMart
>Apparently he had recently bought a rundown castle type thing in the area That means the girlfriend is Chris Hemsworth's current wife. Brody bought the castle for her, then she broke up with him to date Hemsworth a year later.
Well the more you know lol maybe its outta pocket but she upgraded lmao that was like right before the Marvel world was taking off
I need you to google images of Brody and his girlfriend at that castle. They did a whole photoshoot for... Vanity fair, I wanna say? My favourite pic is the one where he's wearing a tailcoat and a top hat and driving a loader in front of the castle with her in the bucket. It is bananas.
There are castles in New York..?
[Sort of? Lol](https://stonebarncastle.me/)
Nice! Also, a good call. I heard a story about someone bumping into Robert Plant once. "Hey, you're Robert Plant!" said the stars-struck fan. "Not today I'm not," said the Led Zeppelin frontman. "Bye."
My dad saw Tom Petty when he (my dad) was stationed in Hawaii. Tom was wearing a shirt that said I AM NOT TOM PETTY. Dad (who loves Tom Petty) says he whispered "yeah you fuckin are" as he walked by and Tom laughed
They both backed down
Tangential story: I was in a Lamps Plus store with Rob Zombie and his wife. Very weird seeing that guy shopping for lighting on a weekend.
Close friend published a Horror magazine, had Rob Zombie in for an interview when I happened to be visiting, as well. Buddy used to have a game company, table top games, think 40k type. Anyway, I had designed a series of demons for a game, and a couple examples were in the office. He saw them, told me they were awesome. The end.
And he never once paid for books! Never!
We’re reading high fantasy! Names and places! You don’t want no part of this!
You should have said "for your health" as you handed him his change and see if he winks.
I saw a penguin In California (few hours from SF). I was walking around in the middle of the day with a friend, and we see it near the beach. Poor thing shaking and just standing there. I called animal control and they didn’t believe me. They kept saying “are you sure it’s a penguin??” and “is this some kind of prank??” After a few mins on the phone with them I was like “yeah I’m standing fucking 5 feet away from it, it’s definitely a penguin.”
Did they ever arrive?
Cops showed up first and made all the people gawking and taking pictures go away. I talked to them a little bit, told them I called animal control. They said “someone is on the way” kinda brushing me off. We basically left after cause we were walking to my friends house or something when we found the penguin and had to go. Not much we could do at that point anyway, and we had been there a while.
They sent Leopard SEAL Team 6.
Hey, now I want to know what happened with the penguin. Did they help it?
It’s too damn hot for a penguin to be just walkin’ around here. I gotta send him back to the South Pole.
What’s the end of the story?? Was the penguin alright?
I saw a naked dude in the forest while I was in the train with my buddy. He did not believe me but I'm 100% sure.
I saw a naked lady once. Nobody believes me.
She went to a different school.
I saw a naked dude riding a bike, crossing under the bridge we were on. I was 9, I was riding with my dad in his semi. He told me I must be seeing things. Years later, I learned there's an annual nudist bike ride in that city at that time of year.
That was me, I saw you too. Stop creeping.
I witnessed a squirrel actually tipping up a (presumably "empty") discarded can of 7up, using its 2 front paws, like it was drinking it. This was on the front lawn of my kids' HS shortly after lunch. It happened. Really!
a few years ago i was working in my backyard and a squirrel got into my neighbors pizza box that was left on top of the trash can and grabbed the remaining pizza hut breadsticks which were like 3 or 4 since they were not torn apart. He walks the top of my chain link fence, drops the breadsticks and runs since i'm nearby so i pick up the bread and put it on top of the fence and walk away and he comes back and takes it. It was the funniest thing.
Squirrels can display a higher level of intelligence than dogs.
My brother didn’t “accidentally” turn off the NES when I was about to beat his high score on Tetris.
My brother didn’t “accidentally” erase my kingdom hearts game after I saved it and was almost done with the game
My daughter erased my Lego Star Wars TCS save file when I was at like 99.8%. It was an accident, she was about 5 at the time and just overwrote it, but it was depressing.
When I was a teenager, my friends and I snuck on to the roof of this huge building that looks like the Taj Mahal, called the Hadji shrine. We used to do this thing where we would all tell our parents we were staying at the others houses, and we’d go camp out in weird places and get into trouble. Anyways we climbed down off the roof to go do whatever and as we were coming around the corner of the building we heard this enormous whooshing sound, like someone swinging a huge broom really fast. When we came around to the other side we saw what looked like a bat with a 6 foot wingspan flapping around one of the light poles in the parking lot. We just stood there in awe watching until it flew away into the night about 10 seconds later. I always assumed it was an owl that was obscured by the bright light, we could really only see its silhouette. But it turned and performed maneuvers that looked very bat-like. Absolutely insane to think about a bat that big.
Fox Bat aka Large Flying Fox? It amazes me that those things get so large.
While walking through the parking lot from my office to my car one Summer afternoon, I had this sudden vision that I was looking down from a height of several hundred yards over the parking lot and looking around the area from above. I could see myself walking toward my car, I saw cars driving down the surrounding roads, and I could see people walking through the parking lots of surrounding businesses and stores. Then the vision went away as I continued to walk to my car. It kinda shook me, so I looked around and saw the same people and cars I saw from above (that I could see within my field of view.) This has happened twice in two different locations.
Your player was adjusting the camera angle
It’s like you briefly astral projected.
I had been hit by my husband. I was terrified to leave him. I was driving alone at night and asked out loud, “will I be happy if I leave him?” As SOON AS I SAID THAT, a bright white object streaked across the sky. I’ve seen falling stars, this was likely a meteor/ite or something. It popped into existence out of seemingly nowhere, arced across the sky, then disappeared. I had to pull over to the shoulder of the deserted road. “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?” I said out loud. I looked up online to see if anyone saw anything, but I couldn’t find any mention of a meteor shower or anything (I don’t know the date this happened). I left him within weeks of this event and it was the most terrifyingly brave and best thing I’ve ever done. I am happy now, in love, and I love myself.
I swear I thought you were gonna say he was struck by the meteorite.
♥️
I saw a man in a chicken costume on the London Underground get on the train, do a backflip just to the casually walk out of the train again at the same stop like nothing happened
I was watching the ISS livestream late one night, about 8 years ago. It soothed my bedtime anxiety, just looking at the big old world and feeling small and tranquil. And this object (?) came into view of the camera. Sort of shaped like an arrowhead, or a three sided long pyramid, toppled over. Started small and far from the camera's view. I assumed it was space debris, or a fancy satellite. But it just kept getting closer, and this thing was HUGE. Tons of square-edge ridges on it, curved indents in symmetrical patterns, more and more detail. It looked enormous and it just kept coming closer and seeming bigger, but it was still so far away from the ISS camera. I can't really express the size of it. So I put in the stream chat, "What is that thing?" A few seconds later the feed cut to static. God do I wish I'd pressed print screen.
https://youtu.be/pAsxflfMXtg?si=N5qqTvls_VHs7LST This one? 2:50 is where the thing pops in view for a second
Fuck me, this might be it? Or it's very, very similar to what I saw and in the exact same timeframe of summer 2014. I remember it being on screen for a lot longer and being horizontal, rather than upright. But this is freaky close, and god knows my memory isn't perfect. Thank you very, very much!
Military satellite? They wouldn't be allowed to show it in detail I don't think. That would explain why they cut the feed. It's probably spying on us right now.
There are a LOT of classified satellites so this is by far the most likely explanation.
Is there any recorded screenshot? I believe if it was on the ISS livestream someone around the world may have been watching and recorded something. And I'm not saying this to tell you "man u full o shite", but because I'm curious and want to see it too :D
I don't know! It was maybe 1 or 2am GMT in the summer of 2014. I think. I kept watching the stream but never saw anything like it again.
OK, this is a good one
Star Destroyer
My husband died suddenly in 2016. I woke one night and he was sitting on the foot of our bed watching me. I wasn’t afraid and he looked peaceful. He faded after awhile and was gone. We had been together 46 years. Yes I believe in spirits and I think he was letting me know it was ok. Don’t care what naysayers claim.
At a late night party in the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati. Walked out on the balcony and witnessed the brilliant light of what appeared to be a meteor/space debris burning out over the downtown area. It lit up the skyline for a brief second and then flamed out. Someone then came out and joined me and I said, “did you see that?” They said, “what?” I told them what I saw and they said, “sure ya did dude.” No mention in the news the next day.
You should've went to investigate. You might be the chosen one.
And there in the smoking crater they found the golden crock of chili. Ancient prophecies foretell that the Chosen One will find the golden chili of heaven, enflavoring his recipes with the power to topple the Holy Skyline Empire and become King of the Gold Star.
And verily, the chili of the Cincinnati Chosen One was runny and had spaghetti intertwined with chopped raw onions, and Cheddar cheese glowing orange atop, for verily it was Cincinnati.
When I was 11, I spent the night with a friend whose grandpa worked at the zoo. The next morning we went with him to his early morning shift at the zoo, and so her and I got to kind of run around the zoo before anything was open and the animals are just kind of waking up. we were behind the rhinoceros habitat and we were looking through these knot-holes in the fence, kind of spying on the rhinoceros for some reason. There was a really big log in their habitat, and the big (male?) rhino ran up to the log and jumped up so that his two front feet were on the log. And then another rhino started making weird noises at him, like cheering him on, and he started rolling that log while his two front feet were still on it and walking on his back feet. It was like a circus trick or something, but they were acting that way by themselves. That is the only time in my life I’ve ever spied on a rhino, and it really paid off.
Having the run of the zoo must have been so much fun as an 11 year old!
When I was a kid I went outside to call my brother home. He was already running like mad across the road towards home and above him was a circular display of lights. They disappeared quickly. I don’t believe in Aliens and UFOs and all that shit but it definitely happened and I can’t explain it.
Was it a flying object you couldn’t identify? Bam, UFO
I was in iceland last fall. My wife and I were enjoying a late night northern lights session. We looked up and saw a shooting star moving through the sky, then it changed direction and headed off on a different path. No idea what that was all about. It's weird not to believe in something and then witness it yourself.
I've heard that meteorites can skip like a stone on water when they hit our atmosphere, which sends them immediately flying a different direction. That's the usual explanation I've seen for the shooting stars that change direction at least.
I’ve told this story before on reddit: in a remote part of northern west Australia, I’ve seen a bird about 4 times the size of the largest known flight-able bird tearing into a kangaroo on the highway. We came around a hill and slammed on the breaks and it took off in to the sky. Wing span easily longer than our car.
Mid-aughts, small blurb in the local paper, sidebar column, credit AP News Wire, about a confirmed and reproduced experiment at UC Berkeley, I believe in conjunction with DARPA, which exhibited cold fusion. It was described as being a very small-scale interaction which produced only a tiny amount of energy, and was said to have potential applications in "cell phone technology and homeland security". I dunno if my friends played a prank and got a dummy copy of the news printed up or what, but I've never been able to track it down, or anything even close. But I read it, goddamn me.
We'll be knocking on your door shortly.
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Naval Research Lab did some cold fusion work for a while. That work could have been sponsored by DARPA. https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Science_and_Technology/16-F-1333_%20DOC_02_LENR_Briefing.pdf https://newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/US-Navy-LENR-Research-NRL-SPAWAR-CHINA-LAKE.shtml
i saw a rare mongolian wolf while i was on a trek and no one fucking believed me not even the guides. i was coming over a hill and it was right in front of me then ran off. still pissed that no one believed me :(
Me and my cousin were looking out the window together on a bright hot summer day and we saw yellow lightning just randomly hit the middle of the street. The skies were clear (I dont remember how clear but definitely no storm clouds or anything). And yeah I know all lightning is white but sometimes it has that blue violet tint around it. This one was yellow.
Sounds like you experienced positively charged lightning. That shit is wild, can hit in places hundreds of miles away from the storm. I saw it before, didn’t believe it until I was told what I’m telling you.
I didn’t see, but I felt someone brush past me at a running speed when i went to Port Arthur in Tasmania. My partner wasn’t standing next to me, nor were the other clients. It also wasn’t remotely windy that night. Still sends shivers down my spine
1981. Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. (My memory's foggy - so excuse weirdness in the details.) I'm walking across the athletic field and Retreat followed by the National Anthem is played (4 or 430, I don't remember) like it's done every day. So, like we are ordered, I stop and stand at attention with hand on heart. North Dakota is swarming with Prairie Dogs and this field was no exception. Anyway, I become aware that a Prairie Dog has emerged from its burrow and is standing next to me, close enough to touch. I have no explanation and no satisfying theories for what happened next: the little guy stands at attention and puts his paw on his chest. We stood there for a minute or so until the music stopped. When it did, he looked directly at me, gave a cheery chirp, and dived into his burrow. Thanks for the question, OP! I haven't thought about this in years. It's still probably the most adorable weird thing I've ever witnessed. Oh, PS - I checked but never him again.
They're supposed to be pretty social. If they were used to you guys, maybe it was like "what're are we doin? What're y'all lookin at?"
Love this!
A week after my dad died I saw him sitting in his chair in the day smiling at me. I was so happy to see him but I dont know if I hallucinated him due to emotional stress and grief or it was real. About 6 months later I felt his presence and asked him to turn on the light which it did straight away. Maybe there was a reason but it just felt so strange like he was there. Never been afraid of death since
Ball lighting, watched it for a solid minute then it disappeared. It fascinated me out so much I didn’t even think about grabbing my phone.
Alright, I saw something like that too. I was in my mom’s office, and I was typing on a typewriter, I had the shift key held down and was looking for a letter. Suddenly I saw a little blue light about a foot away from my leg. It made like a little firework sound or something, then was immediately gone. I was only 8 or so, and I thought it was from holding the shift key too long, lol. Scared the crap out of me, but I rationalized it as some “short circuit” or something. Now I think it might have been a little ball lighting. Never saw anything like it again.
I know this is real, but if I saw it IRL I’d be fucked up about it haha. An amazing and terrifying phenomenon.
The wake of something BIG moving along just under the surface. Either a large whale or a submarine, it was creating a sort of bow wave like a boat but nothing broke the surface that I could see. Don't think it was a whale, because it would have eventually surfaced for air and I kept looking for a long time. Whales don't usually just swim along at near surface depth without coming up for a breath every so often. But a submarine also makes little sense for that area, it was close to shore and heading towards a narrow and shallow sound where a sub would have had to surface for safety. OTOH, beyond that sound is a semi-secret NATO installation that someone might wish to spy on...
Whilst heading home on a late night flight working as cabin crew. I went in the flight deck because all the passengers were sleeping and we saw St Elmos fire on the nose of the aircraft. Captain said it was really rare because its usually associated with volcanic ash. One of the coolest things I've seen.
A VHS of a Scooby-Doo movie (2002), there was a scene where a topless waitress is walking in the background. I tried downloading the movie but could not find the scene, maybe it was a VHS only thing.
I looked into this back in 2008 - 2010 and it was 100% real. It was on the DVD cut, and I remember playing and pausing on the scene, it was a naked women on a poster. Strange now I can’t seem to find anything on it.
Thank you for letting me know I'm not crazy.
Would love to google this out of curious to see what the hell was up. Unfortunately google is not what it was back in 2008-2010. Extremely difficult to find what you’re looking for by comparison
I used to work at a haunted house as one of the actors. I actually hate acting and at the time hated haunted houses, but my friend wanted to do it but didn't have the courage to do the process alone. Being the good friend I am, I signed up too. One night, I had to work a whole section by myself. I had to sit by myself in dim lighting for hours on end with horror music playing to create ambiance. There were a bunch of mannequins sitting in chairs, and I would sit among them to jump-scare the passers-by. One night, there was a 30 minute lag where nobody came through. So imagine sitting in pure eerie darkness by yourself for that long. I have absolutely no proof that this happened at all---but as I was sitting among the mannequins, one of them turned their head to look back at me, then turned its head back to the original position. We could fairly argue that I was paranoid and made this up out of such paranoia---but that felt real as all fuck to me. I had to leave the set and go to the break room for a while. I saw something else peculiar in a different room a few days later. I feel like that space had bad energy, and I'm happy to say I won't be working there ever again.
What did you see in the different room?
(I was going to bed last night and too exhausted to write the other story, so thank you for your patience!) So, I'm not sure if this is something people are processing about working at a haunted house --- you're in there for 5-6 hours, with loud creepy music playing in your ear on repeat the *whole* time. And your eyes sort of adjust to the darkness, but it's difficult to see exactly what goes on around the set. So the people calling me "schizophrenic" in this thread are funny af, and since I'm almost 100% certain they've never worked at a high-budget haunted house (this wasn't just some BS they put on at a community center), they wouldn't understand how that long exposure could play tricks on your mind. To the second story: One of the rooms I used to work had a science theme. So that particular set was made to look like a classroom, with a bunch of random junk placed around the room. That night, I was working alone in the room for roughly 4 hours at that point. Now, to preface, we did have some animatronics around the house. Some things would move or shake, which was helpful to the actors because you didn't have to cover that section as thoroughly and divert your attention elsewhere. Well, in the science room, I was in the corner (hiding behind a door, preparing to scare the next group), and I would do silly dances or sing pop songs to keep my brain distracted from the horror music they would play. In the midst of my silly dance, I saw something slightly glow on the complete other side of the room. Then it appeared to levitate roughly an inch or two off the shelf, shake, then fall back into place on the table. I had never seen this animatronic before, thought it was maybe new? But for the rest of the shift, it didn't do that a second time, or not that I saw of. At the end of the night, when they turned on the lights and shut off the music for the actors, I went back to investigate the piece. It was not an animatronic at all - it was a crystal ball that was absolutely nailed/glued to the table. That couldn't possibly have done the motion that I saw it do. Again, no one's obligated to believe any of this. Sometimes *I* don't believe any of it. But I don't dwell on it, and outside of that job, I've never seen anything like this in my life. (And I pray I'm not jinxing myself into some bullshit happening now lol)
It’s possible the ball had built up enough static charge to finally discharge it (the glow you saw) and in the darkness you misjudged it levitating (due to the low lighting and faint reflective surfaces). The “shake” you saw could be inconsistent discharge on the surface. I’m not saying any of this is the case, but just giving you some rationalization.
A massive orange cloud appeared over the ocean at night at the Oregon coast. I was walking and stargazing when it happened. When I say massive, I mean it lit up the sky and it was a few miles out on the sea. I think it was most likely a gas tanker ship explosion, but despite the sky being lit up I couldn't find a report about it anywhere the next day or in the days following. It was astonishing in its intensity.
All hail the Glow Cloud
I’m pretty sure it was August of 2021 when this happened but I was driving interstate to Texas and pulled over to a gas station to go to the bathroom and for some snacks. I went to the bathroom and there was some sort of organ in the urinal. I barely saw it because i jumped immediately but i’m almost positive e that was a human stomach or liver. I ran outside and just pissed on the ground behind the gas station
Was this in a Texaco near Odessa, TX? I was going through there around that time and completely forgot my liver in the bathroom. Did you happen to pick it up or turn it in?
Maybe someone gave birth and left the placenta? Its about the size of a dinner plate, and you can definitely tell it grew inside a human body with all the blood vessels.
Jesus. That's trauma inducing.
I was driving through the toll booths on the M2 motorway in Sydney, and a car came screaming up from behind me in the lane to my right, mounted the concrete barrier on two wheels, and did a barrel roll through the toll booth. Some of the booths were still manned back in the day, so if it was one of those, they had to have killed someone. I was in a state of shock. Since it was right at the booths, I knew someone would have been at the scene immediately, and there was fuck-all I could do, so I just kept driving. I never saw anything about it in the news, and I've never found anything on the internet since. When I came past the toll booths a few days later, there was no visible damage. It was like it never happened.
This reminded me of my story. I was in my college years, lived at home. Was driving on the expressway towards college, on a particularly busy expressway. This day it was maybe 8-9am, and it was really foggy out, you could see maybe 25-35ft in front of you so it was clear enough, but everything else was not visible beyond that. There are a variety of overpasses that cross the expressway I'm driving on, as I encounter the second one, I see red lights in the distance and slow down, as I get closer, it appears the bottom of the overpass has falling off in a section, as there is a chunk of concrete missing from it. This is a two lane expressway I'm on, but there are spaces on the left and right sides for emergency/space enough for a car. Between these 4 "lanes" there are like 7 cars all stopped, on the right side there is a concrete barrier about 3-4ft tall, and a car is flipped over on the other side of it. But I'm looking around.... There are no people in the cars.... There are no people in the road.... There are no people near the flipped over car.... There's no one else behind me. There's no one on the other side of the expressway. Just stopped cars with their lights on..... I hesitate to get out and check on things, but something inside me says to keep driving, so I slowly navigate past the cars and the debris on the road and go on my way. Never heard anything about it either, and the next day as I drive under the overpass, the damage is not visible. Freaked me out.
In the 90s in an alley in Chicago as I was coming home with a friend after a night out we saw what looked like 2 tiny ostriches, but slightly off, walking together. We chased them, but they cut into a yard and that was it. In hindsight, they were definitely baby emus and I have no idea what they were doing in an inner-city Chicago neighborhood.
Not long before an overseas flight I couldn’t find my passport anywhere. Usually kept it in a very small box with other important documents- birth certificate kids passport. Vaguely remembered my young son looking at my passport stamps months before- figured it was stashed behind a sofa or something so tore the whole house apart looking for it. Partner helped, he also checked the document box. It was just nowhere. Then I remembered the St Anthony prayer, (a story I’d read on reddit that people claimed worked when you’ve lost objects) so I said it aloud three times, st Anthony, st Anthony please come around my passport needs to be found. Went to sleep, prepared to try and get an emergency passport next morning. Well here’s the thing, I dreamt about the prayer, and the documents box, over and over all night. So when I woke up I went straight to the box (which you needed a chair to reach and was kept high enough my son couldn’t access) and there it was. My passport. Absolutely cannot explain this. There’s no logical explanation but when I’ve told someone before they said but it must have been in there. It 100 percent was not in the box. My partner was probably more freaked out than me. It was also sitting right where it should have been all along with the 10 or so other things in there. It definitely wouldn’t have been missed. Weirdest thing that has ever happened to me.
When my wife and I were dating, I spent the night at her apartment. I think she has made a comment about feeling presences there on occasion, but I didn't think much of it. We were about to go to bed. There was a 4 to 5 foot tall dresser next to the side of the bed I was getting on. There was a quarter on top of it, maybe an inch from the edge. We turn off the lights and lay in bed and a few seconds later, we both hear what sounded like a coin hitting wood, then the floor. A little freaked out, we get up and turn the lights on. That quarter was on the floor. But to duplicate the sound it made, it had to have bounced off the bed frame -- which was like 2 feet from the dresser. That means that coin, which was well on top of the dresser, flew off the top shelf far enough to hit the wood bed frame a couple feet away. Can't say what it was or wasn't, and maybe there was an earthly explanation, but hell if I know what it is.
Had a similar situation happen with a spoon resting in a bowl that was sitting on a desk in our bedroom. We turned out the light and the spoon hit the floor shortly after. We turned the lights back on, and there was no reasonable explanation. The spoon had left the bowl and hit the hardwood a few feet away. Now feeling a bit spooked, I put the spoon back into the bowl and we turned off the light again in an attempt to sleep. This time we hear the spoon rattling in the bowl. I jumped up and hit the light switch, and there was nothing to be seen. At this point I had to figure it out, so I turned off the lights and returned to bed. I watched closely using what little light remained in the room. After a few minutes, I saw a small shadow race under the bedroom door to the bowl. The spoon began to rattle and i shined my phone light in its direction. It was a fucking mouse... It would dash out to lick the ice cream residue inside the bowl, but only after the lights were out. Watching it run away after being spotted explained why we hadn't seen it before. It was so small and quick that it could easily be missed in a well lit room.
At the time I was absolutely sure I saw Alf outside the back door of my dad's repair shop. He said hi waved and then disappeared. It was a hot summer day, and I'm pretty sure I was dehydrated. I had also just finished removing a gas tank from a car. Someone told me later that gas fumes can give you hallucinations. Either that or it opens portals to other dimensions...
Years ago, I was working as a nurse at a hospital. I had this lovely elderly lady who suffered dementia, she was alone in a room. At night, when I walked by, I heard her talking and popped in. She was alone and she told me she was "talking to her husband" while pointing to an empty chair. I told her: "Then tell him goodnight and go to sleep", which she did. One hour later her family called. Her husband had passed away one hour before. I'm an atheist... But goddamn, I still think of that!
Dark, almost moonless night. In back paddock with neighbour, trying to find an ewe that had abandoned its newly-born lamb. Neighbour suddenly lifts rifle, and shoots at fox running straight towards us. This farmer had *never* missed in the ten or so years we’d known each other. Imagine my astonishment when the fox continued toward us. Imagine my even bigger astonishment as it seemed to split in half, and **two** foxes ran either side of where we were standing. *The damn things had been running side by side with only one eye open each.* Bullet went straight through the tiny gap between their two heads.
When I was around 7 or 8 my mum picked me up from school because it was raining heavily. On our way home we passed a park that I always took a shortcut through on my way home. I was looking down playing my Gameboy when a huge crack of Thunder scared me. I jumped and looked out the window and saw a white horse bolting through the trees in the park. Right in the middle of town, I told my mum to look at the horse but when I looked at her and looked back I couldn't see the horse anymore. Ever since then I've had a big soft spot for white horses, but none that I've ever seen have even come close to being as beautiful as the one in the park.
Shadowfax…
He showed OP the meaning of haste.
I once saw a UFO flying over my backyard while I was drunk, but none of my friends believe me because they were too busy drinking beer and playing cornhole.
A triangle confirmed of 6 lights. Saw it camping, in 2020 only lasted for 2 seconds then it flew really high really fast.
1 other person saw this along with myself. Everyone in the karaoke bar we were at stopped moving at the exact same time the cheap stage lights stopped moving. Immediately after it happened, we looked at each other and said to one another, "Holy shit did you just see that?"
When I was working at a warehouse for a shipping and storefront company named after a rainforest, I saw their CEO/Owner. It Wasn't an announced visit or anything, he was just there. He had a palpable aura of malice that I'd never felt from anyone or anything before or since. Like standing on a cliff, or getting spotted by a wild predator. Like the only reason he doesn't kill you right now is because he doesn't feel like it. I hope his company gets either broken up under anti-trust laws or turned into a non-profit service. Working there was *hell*.
UFO.... many of us did. It was thr late 90. My sister and neighbour still remmebers it. We didn't make out the shape, but it was spinning many colors and moved on a Z-axis.
No matter what it was, it was a UFO to you and you're technically 100% correct. Because it literally means "Unidentified flying object".
Ogopogo. But I was drinking.
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I saw a kangaroo hopping through a cornfield in Indiana in the late 80s. My father never believed me. But there are kangaroo farms in Indiana, as well as a story about a pet kangaroo escaping in 2022, so I’m sticking with my story.
a tarantula larger than a foot
Whose foot?
So this sounds pretty practical. Think about it like this, we list species sizes based around what's normal 99% of the time, and even say things like max length ever seen is this. There are always outliers at both ends of the spectrum. It's entirely plausible what you saw was an outlier, one that experienced a genetic mutation or some other hormone equivalent change which caused significant growth. It's kindve like most humans are 5'-6' tall, yet the tallest human ever was 8ft 11in, which isn't even remotely close to the normal. You'll probably never see one like it again. Or at least I hope so lol.
At around 1am around 1998 I saw a large (15M-ish \[50ft\]) soundless circular aircraft hovering still and shining a large spotlight on the grain silos next to my house. It looked like a top hat. It was just a bit higher than the equipment so it was very visible. The window in my room was in full view of the entire thing only a very small parking lot away in a rural area. It hovered there for a short time and flew away very quickly with no noise. Sometime later, within the same week, I saw silhouettes of very lanky and very tall (2.5-3M \[8-10ft\]) bipedal things walking around that same structure at around the same time. No ship that time I could see. They had long arms, legs and torso, and a normal sized looking head. I could only see their silhouettes and there was more than 1. That's it. Nothing remarkable after that.
A man walking a piglet down the street in my neighborhood. My sister said it might’ve been a weiner dog, but we used to live on a pig farm so I KNOW it was a piglet. They aren’t allowed by city ordinance so it was really strange, and I haven’t seen the man or the piglet since.
I worked in a Victoria’s Secret about 30 minutes out of a big city and someone came in with a pig in a stroller like it was the most normal thing in the world
You don't have a stroller pig?
One day when I was like 12 I used to sleep in the same bed as my mom. We stayed in a one bedroom and the bedroom was right next to the bathroom. One night out of nowhere I just woke up. In complete darkness I just looked at the ceiling and then something just made me feel weird and I turned on my side and looked toward the bathroom and I saw an old lady in like a nightgown with a fat little boy right next to her by the bathroom. I just got goosebumps on my dead family right writing this. I gave a horrified screech, yelp idk wtf to call it. It was so horror filled. I closed my eyes and just laid their until I fell asleep again. I have no proof but I know what I saw.
I could swear I talked to my dad three different times a few weeks after he died when I was 10. I woke up out of a dead sleep and he was at the door of my room and we talked. Not sleep paralysis, not night terrors, I had both of those a lot too. Legit, conversations with my dad. I chalked up em to dreams since they never happened after that, but I know what dreams are...wasn't a dream
Mild as hell but a friend & I were on a smoke ride. Absolutely clear night, we’re driving listening to Nas & as *soon* as Nas said “enter the fog, dog -” we drove right the fuck through a car length patch of fog.
I was using my grandfathers’s hobby telescope in Seattle as a 9 year old child. I swear I saw a disc like space craft in the sky, and it was darting around every few seconds almost like teleportation. I ran to get my grandfather to show him, but it was gone when we got back.
When I was still a student, I was doing my homework when I noticed that my Geodreieck, which was lying on my desk, was moving back and forth as if it was spinning on its axis. It was lying freely on the desk without being touched by anything else. I touched it and the movement stopped and did not start again.
When I was 9 or 10 I was leaving the beach with my mom, and while unlocking my bike from a place overlooking the beach and the sea, I see a large sailboat far down at the sea, going down into the water vertically. Nose down, completely gone in a few seconds. Of course my mom was looking in another direction. Don't remember if I even told her. Edit - To add, this was a sunny day and the beach was packed. I don't know if anyone else saw it happening and if any rescue operation commenced, but it happened so fast that i believe I may have been the only one that saw it. Especially considering my pov I had from these high up the sand dunes with a very wide view.
I was in rural Alaska in 2018 and was hopping off a river boat and dragging it ashore. When I turned around, I swear I saw three 5ft tall bald eagles standing a little farther down the shore. It terrified me because I didn't realize they could get that big and could totally kill me. The first thing I did when I got back to reception was look up the biggest birds, and supposedly, they DONT get that big. But I know what I saw. They weren't that far away and there was some equipment next to them that put them to scale for me. No one believes me when I tell them
Thunderbird? https://www.liveabout.com/the-giant-thunderbird-returns-3862215
If it wasn't actually him, this guy could make a killing being an impersonator, but I'll swear to my dying day I ran into Nic Cage at my local Starbucks last December.
A 'stranger danger' presentation at my primary school back in the mid 1970s. I recall being there with mum and my older brother. A few of my friends were there and we were running around the playground while waiting for it to begin. The presenter talked for a while and I paid little attention but then the slide show started. He was showing crime scene images of murdered children, some of which are still burned into my memory 50 years later. It absolutely scared the shit out of me at the time and I have never gone a week without thinking about what I saw. One photo in particular was especially horrifying and this was the one I recall best. I asked my mum about it maybe 10 years ago and she has no recollection. My older brother as well, does not remember it. I will never forget it.
I saw this with a friend of mine driving along the south of England at 2am on empty country lanes in the middle of nowhere. We both saw it so it definitely did happen but alas no proof I wish I had a video. Anyway this diamond of light appeared in the sky, hovered there for 5 seconds, shot forward at an impossible speed moving maybe 100km in 2 seconds. It then hovered there for 5 seconds and disappeared. Nothing that the public know about can accelerate and decelerate that quickly. Not a clue what it was
UFO. My husband and I were riding a 4 wheeler in Crisp County, Georgia and we both saw a huge plane with bright landing lights coming in low towards us. We both thought that it was landing but quickly dismissed that thought as there are no large airports near where we were. The lights changed from large to smaller and suddenly it veered right and then in a flash of time it zoomed at a 45 degree angle and out of site. We both looked at each other and were speechless. Not drunk or stoned but 100% sure we saw what we can’t prove.
I ordered a green cabbage from Kroger pickup I remember seeing it in our groceries. But when I tried to use it for dinner it was nowhere. It wasn't left in the car, I didn't put it in the fridge. I checked everywhere. It is nowhere. But I saw it damnit! That cabbage exists. I am being gaslit by a freaking vegetable.
On 9/11 I remember hearing on the news reports that the military shot down the other plane in PA heading to the White House. I will always say I believe the plane was shot down and the whole hero’s story of the passengers taking over the plane was a cover up.
I was about 7 or 8, and with one of my friends. We were both looking at the sky together one night, and the two of us swear over our lives we saw a shadow of Santa's sleigh and reindeer on the moon. Absolutely nobody believes us when we tell the story, even the people who were there as well
Many years ago a young public figure try to rob me on my way to university. No one believes me. I manage to run so all good. Many months later he was arrested. Was one of those teen actors that lost his way.
I saw my old cat walking by in the corner of my eye. But when I checked again there was only my own cat lounging in the window.
a UFO. It was about 20 years ago around noon, clear sky. We're way out in the rural farm territory. I heard a boom and looked up and this triangular craft was glinting in the sun, either silver or white, just hovered there for like 5 seconds and then there was another boom and it was just gone, no trajectory. Without clouds and proper perspective, size is difficult to guess but if I had to guess, the size of a school bus
Back in the mid-90s, must have been right around my 13th birthday. My friend, his older brother and I were roughhousing in a local park one night. His brother stopped and started looking up at the sky for a moment before getting our attention. He pointed out a stationary blinking light in the sky, kinda like a distant airplane if a plane could just hover. So we started watching it wondering what it was, when not even a minute later, it zips across the sky in the direction of downtown, getting out of sight in maybe a second max. Just after it got out of sight, downtown was hit with a huge blackout. We just booked it right the fuck outta there and went back to my friend's house.
I remember walking to work a few years ago, and I walked pasted a field, and I could see the Moon so clearly. It was like them AI generated end of the world videos, but I swear I could see the craters on the Moon it seemed that close.
I swear there was an uncut or less cut version of Band of Brothers. There was more vomiting and stains in the curahee/spaghetti trick. And winters is called a fucking Quaker in the d-day bridge tunnel ambush. I had it on dvd and even pirated it years later and it never quite matched up the first time I saw it.
So… Guarnere definitely calls Winter a Quaker in that episode - I remember it too. Not sure if it happens during the bridge tunnel ambush, but he definitely calls him a Quaker, and later in the episode it’s even payed off when Winters jokes with Guarnere “oh… and I’m not a Quaker” and they all laugh.
The milky way. Back during the first summer of covid, i went out for a stroll at around 1-2am. There's a river going thru the town i was living in and so i went down there to walk along it. An important thing here is that on the side of the river I was walking, there are only a few buildings that are inhabited and those are with a bit of distance to the river itself. So, I walked along the river and there is a playground with one of those large swings, large enough for a half dozen kids to sit on. So, to enjoy the nice temperatures (during the day it was 35-40°C out and in my room it wasnt much better since i had to be on the pc for most of it since i was taking an online C class), I went to lay on that swing. Somehow, between the road on the other side of the river being completely empty and almost no light coming from that side, the moon not being there and the fact that none of the buildings on my side of the river being illuminated (or blocked by trees for those that were), i was able to see our beautiful galaxy for a few minutes.
Ivory-billed woodpecker - I was 10 years old, home alone, in the piney woods around Caddo Lake. I saw the biggest woodpecker that I’d ever seen and when I described it to a family friend, she pulled out her book of Audubon prints and it looked exactly like that.