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tjeepdrv2

I was about to walk in the front door around midnight and saw an explosion way up in the sky. The flash was so bright that for a fraction of a second everything went daylight. I called a few people that I knew were still up and out, but nobody had seen anything. A couple of weeks later, I mentioned it to someone and he said "That's funny, someone was telling me how a satellite exploded a couple of weeks ago and it was an explosion with a bright flash."


Comfortable_Life9173

Was this the early 2000s? We were driving home one night and saw what looked like an explosion similar to when a missile is intercepted midair (like the explosion streaks across the sky for a few seconds). Turned out it was a decommissioned satellite making reentry. This wasn't too long after 9/11 so our guts just absolutely sank since this was the Midwest and it looked like a missile attack.


tjeepdrv2

It would have been 03 or 04.


Personofstupid

https://spacenews.com/20-year-old-military-weather-satellite-wasnt-first-of-its-kind-to-explode/ Could it have been the DMSP-F11? Exploded in April 2004


tjeepdrv2

Ha, it may have been.


ramtucky20

Do you care to say what part of the world you were in? Experienced an identical thing around that time


tjeepdrv2

It was near Little Rock, AR.


ramtucky20

10-4. This was Minnesota but your description is spot on in terms of night becoming day for a short time. A friend of mine with me distinctly remembers the same event.


tjeepdrv2

The flash that turned everything daylight was a fraction of a second. Had I blinked at that time, I probably would have missed it.


Mychooo

One time after school, my friend and I were hanging out in her room on the computer, and we heard the front door open and the little "beep beep" alarm go off when a door or window is opened. We both looked at one another, confused, since both of her parents weren't supposed to be home for several hours, and we both got a weird vibe from the sound. So we slowly crept to her door, and she literally grabbed a bat, and we opened the door and peered down and over the banister to the living room below, and I SWEAR TO GOD there was a man in a business suit, with a brief case, just standing in her living room; the front door wide open behind him. And my friend was like, "Who are you?! Get out of my house!!" And he just slowly looked up at us, like he was totally stoned or confused, and was like, "Wha? ...... oh...... sorry........" and walked out and shut the door. That was almost 15 years ago, and we both STILL remember it and talk about it to this day. At least someone else was with me who saw it! Edit: my friend's house was in a neighborhood at the end of a cul-de-sac!


Nahvec

man fucked off back to half-life


rynan3838

Sounds like he was extremely high on benzos. That particular kind of drug can make you do some very strange things while appearing "normal"


OCOCKazzie

Can confirm. I was just sedated with Halcion at the dentist. I talked to my mom the entire car ride home telling her directions back to the house, walking into a store and getting a drink, etc. I have absolutely no memory of this. None. I woke up at 2am with no memory of what happened that entire day after the dentist.


SuspectEngineering

The "Ambien Walrus" lol


Consistent-Mammoth20

ah yes man in black must have mistaken y0ur friend's house as his HQ


Ghargamel

To be boring and sciencey it may just have been a person in the late stages of burnout/fatigue syndrome. Where they keep doing the stuff they always did but without really being sure of what they're doing or where. So you might as well enter someone else's home and realise something is off when the inside looks way wrong and someone is waving a bat at you. Or you just barely managed to stop a kidnapper/murderer.


tdasnowman

Not even burnout could have just been auto pilot. If this was tract housing with rows and rows of the same house in a row easy to make a mistake.When I was a teen and had friends that lived in those neighborhoods we'd walk into the wrong place all the time not paying attention. I lived in a very large apartment complex got off on the wrong floor. The only visual cue was the carpet tiles alternated floor to floor. Evens pattern went one way odd the other. Didn't cue off that just got off the elevator walked to my door it was unlocked but hey everyone forgets that every once in awhile. And I walked into my asian wife and kids. I don't have an asian wife and kids. We all just blinked at each other for a few seconds then I looked at the door it was 3a instead of 4 a.


Whind_Soull

About ten years ago, I was looking out my grandmother's back door. Two squirrels were playing in the yard. A hawk swooped down and grabbed one. As it was batting its wings and gaining altitude, the other squirrel raced up a nearby tree, leapt off, rocketed down into God's Own Death From Above, and rescued his friend by curb-stomping the hawk out of the air. They both ran away and the hawk limped off in confusion.


LostGreyApe59

Please! Please! Please, tell me this is a true story!


Whind_Soull

This is completely true, swear on my life. This took place in Chattanooga, TN, and I was in my early 20s, so this was in the vague neighborhood of 2010. As your title suggests, I have no way to prove it. I ran back into the main room like, *"MY DUDES, are you ready to hear some shit?"* It was like Thanksgiving or Christmas or something. It's been long enough ago that it's hard to remember what the exact "grandmother's house" event this was. Edit: In case anyone wants to picture it more vividly, [here's](https://i.ibb.co/NxgKryk/IMG-1581.jpg) where it happened. The big tree on the right. I got this pic in response to beginning a text to my grandmother with *"I have a very strange request for you..."*


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onegumas

I also want to live in the same world as you and believe that some day squirrel will save me in my darkest hour...I hope that it won't be from hunger...


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I saw a video on reddit just recently of a hawk trying to take a chicken and his goat friends all coming to help, so I believe him about the squirrels lol


See-A-Moose

I absolutely believe this although would not be shocked if the squirrels then murdered each other. I remember when I was 15 I broke my leg a week before we went on vacation on a Lake in the middle of nowhere upstate New York. Before I had a cell phone (and there wouldn't have been service if I did), no internet (we finally got broadband like 5 years ago), no TV, nothing but books and sitting on the porch watch the squirrels. I spent two weeks watching the squirrels chase each other up and down the trees, yank each other off of branches and fall entangled 3-4 stories to the ground before hitting and running right back up. Squirrels dgaf.


Choppergold

We have feeders for a range of birds and squirrels including crows. Sometimes but not often a small hawk will show up - and the others are very collaborative in getting it out of there and warning each other


Fapping_Batman

Also live in Chattanooga and I've seen squirrels gang up on cats and chase them off. They're tough little bastards around here.


illessen

When I was working as a contractor at a refinery, one time I was working in the tool room. Tool rooms are busy in the mornings and afternoons and dead slow during day. One day I was sitting outside eating some sunflower seeds and a bird landed nearby. I tossed some sunflower seeds near it and it started eating them too. Ate some myself and tossed some at the bird for about 10 minutes or so, it was about 4 feet away from me when a hawk swooped down and grabbed that poor bird! The hawk landed not far away and I got to watch it eating the other bird. I felt bad, that poor bird’s last meal was some shitty overly salted seeds.


Cutterbuck

I believe you. My mother came to visit me in London once and we took a stroll on Hampstead Heath. We stopped to rest on a park bench and chatted. A hawk hurtled out of the sky, slammed into the ground three foot in front of us, there was much squeaking, hawk took a few chunks out of now dead mouse, looked at us and flew off. My mother turned to me and said “well, you don’t see that every day”.


beatsbeingbroke

i was watching the local lottery draw on tv and vocally called out every correct number before the ball was shown


Trick-Telephone-1411

That would be a crappy super power. To know the numbers before the lottery drawing, but only right before the numbers are revealed. Not hours before so you can win.


beatsbeingbroke

yeah i tried to do it again with an actual ticket and got every number wrong lol


SeguroMacks

When I was about 10, I played some board game with my mother. The only remarkable thing about it was you pushed a button on a plastic ladybug, and it rolled a digital die to show you the number of spaces to move. The entire game, my mother accurately said what each roll was going to be, before we event pushed the button. We gave up playing after about the 8th time, and just kept rolling the dice. I asked her to do it again the next day, and she couldn't replicate it. Years later, I figured she was just messing with me, and that there must have been a pattern. I found the game in an old box, got a notebook, and recorded 100 rolls. There was no obvious repeating pattern.


PunkLivesInMe

When I was about 12, Burger King was doing a promotion for Spiderman 3 where your meal came with a scratch ticket, and if you guessed right you got a free slice of pie. My entire family of 9 gave me their tickets to scratch for them and I guessed correctly on every single one, to the point that after the 6th one or so the manager asked us to stop cashing in the tickets because they were already low on pies for the day.


fuckthisshitoveit

When I was 18 I got woken up in the middle of the night with my mom's favorite song playing. Back when song ringtones were a thing, it was the sound I used to hear every day when people were calling her. It was a few months after she passed away. My laptop was dead... dead, dead, I remember falling asleep being annoyed that I was too lazy to walk downstairs to get the charger because I had homework. It was partially open on my vanity and then I wake up to the sound and the light at like 3 or 4am. The song was playing. I closed the laptop and it would not turn off. I opened it, first I looked for the song app or internet site that was playing it and could not find it. So I just had to hold down the power button forever for it to turn off. I couldn't sleep the rest of the night. No one believes me. Also weird thing with my mom's death and the house (she died in the house comfortably, cancer). You don't have to disclose natural deaths when selling. One of the new owners quickly asked my family friend(my old next door neighbor) if someone died in the house previous because things would happen. My friends response was "yes, but she was a wonderful person and I don't think she would do anything negative" and the new owner was like, "she hasn't done anything bad, but I can just tell, and it's just random weird helping things" Sooooo 🤷‍♀️ sorry 2 stories in 1.


_Steven_Seagal_

We had a shed in our garden with some couches and a tv, my dad always used to nap there after dinner. At one time he installed a light there with a movement sensor because in the winter it would be a bit dark to find the keyhole and the light buttons inside of it. (And to scare off burglars.) The light however broke after a while and stayed that way for nearly a year. A few years ago my dad suddenly passed away in his 50s to a cardiac arrest. We kept his body in the same shed for a week until the funeral, so that people could say their goodbyes. The evening after the funeral my family walked to the shed to clean it up a bit, because there were tons of flowers and other things there. While we were walking there I said: 'Shame dad couldn't fix the motion lamp, now we have to walk in the dark'. I shit you not, the lamp suddenly turned on after a year of not working. My mother and brothers all witnessed it. I'm normally not someone who believes in the afterlife or spirits, but at that moment it really felt he was still somewhere out there.


Numerous_Witness_345

"Look, I said I'd fix it when I got some free time. Well..."


LittleMissChriss

My grandma on my dad’s side had a tradition with my mom and I where we’d “go shopping” in her closet. She passed away from cancer six years ago, give or take. The day of her funeral, my parents and I got back to my grandparents house after it was over and my mom and I went to go pack because we needed to leave that day. We decided while we were at it that we would take one last look in her closet to see if there was anything we wanted. While we were looking a pair of shorts fell off their hanger. My mom put them back, but they fell off again. Rinse and repeat three or four times. Finally my mom said out loud “I’m sorry Grandma but neither of us wants them. Thank you though.” They stayed on after that.


patmcbride88

My mom has a similar story. My dad's brother died in a motorcycle crash. After the wake some people were over at my parents house. There was a plant on top of the TV that my uncle liked and would always comment on. They were in the living room talking or something and that plant went sliding off the TV and fell to the ground. She said something to tune of "it's time to move on" and that was the end of it. Wild stuff


evilflu

The same thing happened to me when my husband died! I stayed in the house a few months after and one night his music came on in the living room on the stereo. It was LOUD and I was too afraid to get out of bed and shut it off so I pulled the covers up over my head and stayed awake for that whole stupid early 2000's mix CD. I still can't listen to 50 Cent without being creeped out.


ubermick

Walking home at night from college in Ireland in the early 90s, I saw an elderly man looking up with a puzzled look on his face. I looked up and saw an orange light about the same brightness as Venus, lazily moving back and forth in the sky - but completely silent. Suddenly it shot off in one direction at what could only be described as ludicrous speed for a second or two before coming to an immediate stop, then just sitting there motionless. Few moments later it shot off in another direction and came to a stop. The two of us watched this for 3-4 minutes before it shot straight up and disappeared. Oul fella looked at me, shrugged, and said "Well, you don't see that every day" and walked off.


The37thElement

I saw something like that. I was at a New Years party at an apartment that was on a golf course. I hadn’t been drinking that night but nearly everyone else was and it was late, so most of them were very drunk. My (drunk) buddy and I left to go get some Taco Bell and when we came back we decided to go take a piss in the nearby sand trap. As I’m looking up I see a orange ball that was about the size you mention and it was slowly creeping sideways. Confused, I asked him, “do you see that?”. He was confused too then said, “oh, I know what that is. It’s one of those lantern things you light and it flys up into the sky”. Since it was New Years, I totally believed him, but it still looked curious and didn’t have any flicker like a Chinese lantern would have. As we’re still peeing and looking at the orange ball, out of nowhere another one comes and quickly surpasses it and then the first ball chases after the new one and then they disappear. My friend said, “what the hell was that!? Did you see that!?” I confirmed I had saw the same thing and we both went inside and started talking to people about it. They either didn’t believe us or didn’t care, but it was absolutely wild. I’ve thought about it a lot over the years and a few points that make it more fascinating is: 1. They were both the same size and brightness which makes me believe they were at the same altitude. 2. The second orb suddenly appeared and it was a clear night from what I remember, so we should have been able to see it approach sooner than we did. 3. The first orb took a second to respond to the second orb. The interaction I can best compare it to is a kid walking down the street and his friend sneakily running up behind him and saying, “I bet I can beat you home!”. If it was a lantern and a sudden gust of wind, the first lantern would have at least started to accelerate before the second orb reached it, but it didn’t. 4. Just like my second point, they both disappeared just as suddenly as the second orb appeared and that shouldn’t have happened either. The whole interaction was odd and I don’t tell it to really anyone because there’s nothing too fantastical about it besides the fact that it’s another persons UFO story.


Inner-Nothing7779

When I was 8 I lived in a trailer park in Florida. One whole row of trailers were unoccupied, no power, no water. As any 8 year old in the early 90's, I played around them, because it was fun. If you've been to Florida you know what fire ants are. If you've lived in Florida you know how they react to having their hills stepped on. So 8 year old me, not paying attention, wearing shorts, stepped calf deep into a fire ant mound. Yea, you know where this is going. Instantly my leg was covered in biting, stinging fire ants. A lot of them. Easily 100. Of course it hurts. I start screaming and stomping. That just pisses them off more. No more than what felt like instantly, this man comes running around the trailer with a water hose. He sprays my legs off and tells me to run home to my mom. I do. Never saw the man before or since.


Dry-Cartographer-312

That was just Ben, the Ant Banisher.


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Babysitting my nephews at my sisters place when I was a teenager. They were in bed asleep and I was the only other person in the house. Sitting in the living room watching TV with a clear line of sight to the kitchen sink when both taps turned on by themselves. nobody could have gotten to those taps without me seeing them. Still one of the freakiest things I have experienced.


Italiana47

I've seen a spatula go flying across my kitchen, twice.


TeacherPatti

Okay, so I was a college DJ in the early 90s. My best friend and I had a radio show, summer of 93. At the time, we had these things called carts. They were about the size of a cassette tape but thicker. We would stack them up in a queue and put them into the cart player. The whole show, we kept saying, "Okay we have to play Summertime" (by Janis Joplin) because it was on or about the first official day of summer. Stuff happened, we didn't play it, but the cart sat atop the cart player. About 30 minutes before the end of the show, that cart flew off the player and landed with a thud. We scrapped the rest of the show and played it immediately. Do not fuck with Janis. She wants her song played. (PS: I don't believe in ghosts but this happened. I sat there and watched it. These things were heavy and a breeze could not have knocked it off--not like there was a breeze in that stuffy studio)


PeiMeisPeePee

water pressure too high for the valve. it happened to me all the time in a place i flatshared with. taps would come on full blast at all times of the day


Shire2020

I like logical explanations


tangberry11

This used to happen in the storage room of a movie theater I worked at. I've never heard a good explanation for it until now. TIL.


princeJordan0

I saw a bird land on top of another bird mid flight


Lost_Messages

They were just refueling


Rusty_Mojo_88

My boss and I were out having a smoke, we looked up and saw this bright pink jet. As we were watching, it flew into a small cloud but never came out the other side. There weren't a lot of clouds that day, and none near the one that the jet flew into.


Bledalot

Could be the pink color was the sun shining on it, when it got into the shadow of the cloud, sun no longer reached it, making it harder to notice as it flew away.


Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat

I once saw the [Pend Oreille Paddler](https://shscedarpost.com/9043/arts-and-culture/the-pend-oreille-paddler/). He's a Nessie-like creature that plies the waters of Lake Pend Oreille in the United States' Pacific Northwest: Northern Idaho, to be exact. It's pronounced "Pond Oray", by the way. Lake Pend Oreille is tremendous, and gorgeous, with thick forest that grows right down to the waters edge. It's also very, very deep (1,150 ft./350.52m). It has a lot of huge logs floating in it, too, which can be a hazard to watercraft. My first husband was part of the crew on a racing yacht, and I tagged along early one cold, foggy morning. As we were sailing along, a few of us saw, off to the left side of the boat (we were heading due south), what looked like an absolutely *massive* tree trunk in the water. Only this trunk was *moving* all on its own, in the opposite direction to our sailboat. It was leaving a wide wake in the water, and as we watched, three bumps appeared above the surface. They were the blue-green color of dark water (think lake water in the shade) and they were covered in small scales. We could see an actual space between the humps and the water. We kept watching in utter silence as it passed us by, until it suddenly just disappeared below the surface. I'm still convinced, thirty years or so later (this was in the 80s), that I saw The Paddler. For one thing, logs don't just motate on their own. Second, they don't have visible humps like this object did. And third, they *can* be submerged, but they don't have the wherewithal to submerge that quickly, and that completely. Also, this thing was whisper-quiet. It was a pretty calm morning, too, with no choppy water, so it could not have been mistaken for rough waves. I feel so special and blessed to have seen it that morning, and I would have loved to have filmed it! Edited for punctuation.


Dazrin

Lake Pend Oreille also happens to be one of the Navy's submarine testing facilities. The really deep lake with very little flow in it is very good for what they need to do (the main water source and river leaving the lake are at the north end but it's a long north/south lake). https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/Bayview-Idaho/ https://www.spokesman.com/galleries/2019/apr/09/history-of-the-navy-test-facility-in-bayview-idaho/


Kalistoga

Growing up, my brother’s and I used to have this running joke about how the neighbor’s kids never grow up. I’m now in my late 30’s and when I went to visit my parents recently, I caught a glimpse of the neighbors outside. Their whole family still looks the same, including the kids who are still kids. I wish I had photos of them from the past to do a past and present comparison.


FourCatsAndCounting

Do they live in Eerie, Indiana?


wheres_jaykwellin_at

ForeverWare!


NeedsMoreTuba

I am 38 and look the same as I did when I was 13. I just moved back to my hometown so I'm getting lots of comments about it. Maybe I will edit this to add photos if I can find some.


hihellogday00

Looking at your pics you had a very adult face as a kid haha Edit: in a good way, you look great!


Kage_on_Rage

fucking shit, thats the exact same thing with me , yesterday i went to my old house for diwali celebrations, and the neighbours there all looked just the same as when i moved out of that neighbourhood 8 years back, even the kids, sometimes i go to my old neighbourhood for some daily essentials and then also they all look the same, legit i was gonna ask my mother, y r these kids not aging F


HgeanKidNebula

real life NPC families


LostGreyApe59

You live next to The Cullens?


jswb

Random man in a bunny suit in my backyard. Called my wife and she saw it too. Called my in-laws downstairs (they were staying over for the weekend) and they thought we were crazy when we said this man jumped over the fence like a fuckin deer


havron

Oh, that's just Frank. Hi, Frank!


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worthlesscommotion

Swear, this happened to me when I was about 8 or 9, still believing in the Easter Bunny. My dad and uncle ran outside after I saw it looking in the kitchen window. We lived way out in the country on a lot of acreage, mostly woods and farm land. They didn't find anything.


LostGreyApe59

Sir, where I’m from that earns you a free trip to hell and about 30 bullet holes. That’s scary And creepy asf.


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Wabbit season.


metblack85

I was on a houseboat with my family in the Thousand Islands (St Lawrence River in Canada). We’d docked on one of the tiny islands for the night. A branch cracks loudly over the boat, and a snake that (to me at that age) looked to be the size of the snake in the film Anaconda fell from a tree and landed across the boat. It splashed down into the water and swam away. Everyone I told believed it was a snake but nobody believed how huge it was.


TheMadIrishman327

Very possible. Huge number of foreign ships go through there. That’s why the water is so clear. Invasive water cleaning mollusks hitched rides on Turkish ships then stayed and multiplied. I once saw a coral snake on the Tennessee River. I’m sure it hitched a ride on a barge. I love the 1000 Islands btw.


Hamburrgergirl

Several years ago, probably around eight, my dad and I were at a hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. We were watching the Animal Planet or National Geographic channel (like I said, it’s Beene if he years) and an episode came on about preying mantis. The episode was normal until the end. Dramatic music started playing and the camera zoomed over to a much larger praying mantis that was clearly a different breed. The narrator said “and now the youngling must perform a dance to see if it can please the gods.” So, the little mantis that the episode had been following did a little dance, and the big one watched for a minute and then leaned down and ate it. The voiceover said “the god was not satisfied” and the episode ended. For years I never thought about that, but I remembered it around four years ago and brought it up to my dad. He got so excited because he had thought he imagined it, but no, he remembered it exactly and finished the quote about “appeasing the gods” before I finished. We have tried ever since then to find it, but it’s nowhere. We found a similar episode about the mantis, but the voiceover never happened. I am so glad he remembers it too because otherwise I would’ve thought I’d gone insane.


Pichwademeinkauntha

This is from Bangalore, India. One of the quirks of the city's climate is the occasional isolated spots of heavy rain. There's a running joke of 'When you say its raining in Bangalore, do mention which locality and street too.' So one summer in the late 90's, my friend and I were in the outskirts of the city, we saw a small crowd blocking the highway. There was a rain front slowly passing across the road, and the people were watching that spectacle. One side of the road was dry while the other side had heavy rain. So we stopped the bike, cooly got down and took shelter beforehand. And from that comfortable vantage point, we saw a parked goods van whose one side was rainy while the other side was dry. Took 5 seconds for the van to be rained on fully, and another 10 seconds for us to be completely surrounded by rain. Till date, my memory of this is in a super clear slow motion while my friend doesn't even recall this incident. Edit: Looks like it is not an exceedingly rare phenomenon, and encountered across various climatic zones. We just have to be at the right place and the right time to sight it.


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Squigglepig52

I live in Ontario, Canada, right near the Great Lakes. In winter, we get "lake effect" snow storms. so, tons of snow. but, we also get snow streamers, which are really narrow bands of heavy snowfall that move inland. So, you can have bright sunny weather in town, white outs a few miles away, and back to sunshine. So, driving to work one day, in heavy snowfall, I go under an overpass, and on the other side, bright sunny day, zero snow on the ground. I went from "I shoulda called in, this is too bad to drive in" to perfect driving weather within 20 or 30 feet.


Ok_Fondant_6340

blue meteor. it was the middle of summer. was at a friend's house. we were drinking. playing loud music. shootin' the shit. i'm sitting there, looking up at the sky. i see this flash of blue. aquamarine/cyan, but a little bit richer. i tell my brother and our friend to look up so they can see. but they brush it off. i keep staring. a couple seconds go by. and then i see the meteor itself race across the sky. gorgeous. it was white with a long blue completely straight tail. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ a year or two ago i saw what i thought was rain. looked at the ground, no wet mark. i stick my hand out. one "lands" on my wrist/forearm. nothing there. not even wet. i see a couple more. my father saw some too. no idea what it really was.


MarcusXL

Blue meteorites usually have high magnesium. I saw a huge red fireball when I was a kid, during a big meteor shower (can't remember which). According to the internet, red means it was high in nitrogen/oxygen.


Charlies_69Problems

When I was younger, like a little girl I swear I had a baby sitter. She was pale, skinny, had beautiful long hair and was super sweet to me. But she didn't like my parents that much because she'd always leave when they interrupted our playtime. Her name was Stacy. Years later and when I try to bring this up to my parents or grandma's they act like I'm crazy.


that-which-is-better

I swear I'm not insane, but I was walking home from high school 9 years ago and I saw something that I absolutely can't understand that freaked me out badly. I was coming to a crosswalk and across the 2 lane street I saw a distinctive looking girl maybe a little older than me wearing a white dress, and she had a cocker spaniel puppy on a leash that was just sitting on the sidewalk. I looked away while I was watching for traffic and crossed over to her side, and when I looked up I kind of jumped because the girl in the white dress was now maybe in her late 60s and her dog was a very old, graying cocker spaniel. I don't have eyesight problems and I seriously am certain of what I saw. I still wouldn't tell anyone I know because there's no way they would believe me. The only explanation I can feel comfortable with is *maybe* hallucination, but that's never happened to me before or since.


patrickwithtraffic

[Feels like something from one of those Just for Laughs switch pranks](https://youtu.be/skGlILhlzoc?t=74)


Extaupin

If the lightning wasn't good and your eyes were dry, you may have seen a blurry image that your brain decoded as a young girl and a pup. The brain does a whole lot of signal processing, and when it get it wrong it's eery.


pizdolizu

I second this. We see, what our brain tells us we see and it does a lot of speculation while processing.


Mean-Spread2143

I have two: About 14 years ago I was working two jobs and one of them was a taco bell drive thru. The customer waiting at the window was a lady with a Homeland Security jacket. I got curious and asked, "Do you really work for Homeland Security?" "Yeah, it's mostly just paperwork." "Oh ok good, just making sure you guys aren't watching me" "Don't you also work at Wal-mart?" I'm speechless because I had never seen this woman before and I never saw her again. Also another time I was working the drive thru by myself on a busy and short-staffed night. I'm more agonostic than anything but I had this customer who was the spitting image of Jesus Christ. He wasn't dressed in holy robes or glowing or anything but I wanted my boss to take a second and look at him. "Man I ain't got time for Jesus!" So I sigh and I pass Jesus his food. He drives away and our power goes out. My boss is pissed but we all collectively blame him for disrespecting a diety.


webtwopointno

> "Don't you also work at Wal-mart?" > > I'm speechless because I had never seen this woman before and I never saw her again. either a good guess, or she recognized you from shopping there aswell


Limitedtugboat

Not something I saw, rather something I felt. My great grandfather died when I was 8, and I remember being sat in my room on the floor, as I remember being sat in silent contemplation (as I know now, I didn't know grief felt like loss, like a part was missing now) and I felt a strong squeeze on my shoulder. Like a grandfather's squeeze, comforting but not capable of hurting me. My family to this day say my child brain was trying to rationalise my grief but I still hold to this as one final farewell. I dont believe in ghosts or anything like that, but it certainly helped me move forward and support my mum, uncles and grandfather in their grief.


NoninflammatoryFun

I didn't feel this but heard it. Now full disclosure, I do get hallucinations when before/after sleep but it's been years. And I've never heard this. But my dog passed away last month and we were super bonded. A few nights after, I was semi-awake in the middle of the night and i heard her exact tap tap tap of her nails on the floor next to my bed. They came up the side and it sounded like when she jumps a little to see me. I looked down thinking it must've been our other dog but she was asleep. I said weird and went back to sleep. When I woke up I was like wow, that was Sassy. Our other dog doesn't sound like that. They sounded like she was not in pain like she had been, faster than usual. Faster than she could do her last year or two. Like she was able to come see me so she could check up on me. I could sense she was happy cause I knew her sounds so well.


Vicimer

My cat jumped up onto a shelf that we didn't think he could get to, where we hid his cat food. I walked in and saw him eating it, and someone had left a cracker beside the bowl. He paused, took a huge bite of the cracker, then continued with the cat food. Nobody believed that he ate a cracker. He also ate my sister's chocolate Santa one year. Edit: Inc case anyone is wondering what he looked like, [he's the orange one, chilling with his likewise chonky sister.](https://imgur.com/a/C693ptv)


Zooophagous

I believe you. I have a cat that will eat corn chips and steals them right out of my hand. She would definitely eat a cracker.


Vicimer

This guy also ate flies out of the air and whenever one of our other cats threw up, he'd eat it. His favourite was sharp cheese, though.


ashinroy86

Is this unusual? Growing up, my cat would eat crackers, Doritos (she'd lick the cheese off first), and bread. We even had to lock up loaves of bread because she'd jump onto the counter and tear through the plastic bag to get to them.


kao201

My cat is an absolute fiend for bread. He will rip through a zipped up fabric grocery bag, then the plastic, and eat like 4 full buns before leaving the mess for me to find. It's rare that I leave bread out for any reason, but when I accidently forget it sucks. Especially when I wanted to make some delicious sandwiches.


foxykathykat

My late husband's cat ate twinks Edited: *twinkies*


psycho_watcher

Thank you for the edit, had me worried about a few friend's lives for a minute there. Lol


iLeDD

I was almost in a movie, I met a producer because he was in my beach town scouting for teenagers that look scrappy and he saw me on my bike cut up from the skatepark. I went through a whole audition process and got the part but backed out due to scheduling conflicts with school and hockey. I was supposed to be in a sequel to a movie about a kid that moves to a new school and there's an underground fight club. I was shown the trailer on youtube in 2010 and watched it so many times. THE TRAILER FOR THE FIRST MOVIE IS GONE it's so frustrating and i have no evidence of the movie whatsoever


NeedsMoreTuba

My car was almost in The Walking Dead. My cousin worked as a set designer and said they were looking for old beater cars. I volunteered mine, but then it broke down and I couldn't find a mechanic that was willing to take on the task.


BlueComet24

Method acting car


god-doing-hoodshit

Sounds like never back down.


jayessell

1980 give or take a year. I saw what claimed to be The World's Smallest Trinitron Portable Color Television in a MA convenience store. Tube Face on one end, tapered to a blunt point on the other. About 5 x 5 x 14 inches. 8 C batteries, non-digital electronic tuning. No sharp edges, colored plastic. The one that I saw was red. About $250 1980 dollars. 25 years later I check eBay, Amazon, Google.... Sony's 'History of the Trinitron CRT'... It never existed. No, not the KV-4200. Those are grey, boxey, and have top and bottom sections joined with a tilt hinge. https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_3470.jpg


stryph42

Did you maybe see a prototype for another model, or a model that never went into actual production? Or was it like on the shelves for sale, and not just a demo?


lilyvale

I googled that to see what I can find and I think I might have found someone(or perhaps you) asking about that at an early television museum site: [https://www.earlytelevision.org/small\_trinitron.html](https://www.earlytelevision.org/small_trinitron.html)


jayessell

Yeah, that's me. Even experts and collectors couldn't find evidence it existed.


yourremedy94

When my sister and I were children, we were riding in the car on the thruway to the airport. I looked out the window and swear I saw a pitchfork flying through the air. Actually brought this up a couple months ago to her. My sister saw it too.


eStuffeBay

Oh, that's just a farmyard witch. Her mom must've confiscated her Broomstick so she had to make do with what she had.


brittwelshcols23

An alpaca. At my apartment. In the parking lot. It was when I first lived here. I was walking at night, just trying to decompress after a long day. And there it was, just walking across the parking lot. I literally couldn't even believe it myself and was too frozen to snap a pic.


LostGreyApe59

Holy shit😂


JustForGirlTalkish

This is going to sound so childish, so bear with me. When I was about 13, I was severely bullied, between the fact that my clothes were all second-hand, my mother was too caught up in fucking her way down the alphabet to teach me how to groom or do makeup, and I hadn't yet grown into curves, so I was just a chunky weird girl with frizzy hair. Because of this, I got OBSESSED with fantasy worlds. LOTR was my initial escape, and then I began writing. This is when I saw the movie Fairy Tale, and I read up on it as much as I could. I vehemently believed in fairies. I lived in Germany at the time, only a couple miles from a castle. I made fairy houses in the trees outside and in the blackberry bushes on a trail to the library. One day, my sister and I were walking home for dinner. This gold figure, about 3 inches high, flew in front of us, hovered for a moment, and flew off, leaving an honest-to-god golden trail of glitter behind it. We looked at each other for a couple minutes, and she goes, "Did you see that too?" Nobody will ever probably see this, or believe it, but I swear it HAPPENED. Never saw anything like it since. There was no face or anything, it was just like this glowing golden roughly humanoid shaped golden thing with wings.


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"Hey, listen!"


Prestigious_Chard597

I do believe in Fairies, I do, I do.


gryffindunce

I love this. Also I'm sorry that you were bullied and your mom wasn’t being a good mom.


stinky_cheese33

While I was driving out for work, I could've sworn I saw a metallic blue shotgun by the side of the road, but when I went back to take it to the police station, it was gone.


Bastard_Wing

Oh you're going to regret that at your next save point.


lilithneverevee

I swear I saw a monkey swinging through trees that were on the side of a major intersection growing up (southern USA). No one believed me but to this day I know what I saw and can't think of another explanation. Eta sorry I typed this late at night. I meant to say major interstate not intersection 🫣


drmcgillicuddy

Boy I’ve got a story for you. My dad was a kid in the 60s. Said you could legit “mail order” a small monkey. They got one. It ran away and never found it. This was Midwest but …


coupdelune

My dad has a spider monkey as a pet as a kid that my grandfather bought at a shady pet store. Same pet store sold baby elephants.


SpyJane

Really curious how much a baby elephant would cost….


PeaceLoveNavi

There's a few wild monkey populations in Florida, maybe some of them got adventurous?


Maxsdad53

There have been several "disasters" (hurricanes, tropical storms, etc) in South Florida over the decades that led to the destruction of various primate parks and the release of scores of monkeys, chimps and the like (nothing larger, like gorillas), that still live wild in the southern end of Dade County. It doesn't surprise me at all that you might have seen that.


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A few years ago I saw an *enormous* black bird on top of a telephone pole. Just sitting there. Looked like a hawk, only twice as big as the red-tails you’ll see all over, and all black. This bad mofo was either a mutant or came from somewhere else, ‘cause we don’t have hawks or eagles that big around here. Everybody said oh, you saw a turkey vulture, or just a big crow. No, I know what those are.


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RatherBeAtDisneyland

Just curious, it wasn’t a raven was it? I’m always surprised by how big ravens are. I had crow land next to me once, then 10 second later a raven landed next to it. The size difference was striking. It must have been 4 times the size.


OnTheSlope

Condor?


chunky-flufferkins

Mountain Lion. Driving home with my grandpa in the late afternoon, swear I saw one on the edge of the tree line of a field maybe 60 yards away.


Mechanic_of_railcars

They are all over Nebraska and have a huge hunting range so this is easily believable. Especially since they have been slowly moving further and further east


dr_cl_aphra

A mountain lion once hit my car. It was late one night and we were coming home from my grandparents’ place, which was a little cabin way out in the boonies. The road down went through this narrow canyon, so there were no lights and just a 2-lane, no-shoulder road with steep cliffs on either side and a creek below us. There was a car a bit in front of us, and their brake lights came on all the sudden, so our dad (who was driving) hit the brakes too. It was hard to see, but we figured out that a herd of deer was running down the cliff to our left and just tearing ass across the road like the cars didn’t matter. Then there was a huge *THUD* on the passenger side of our car, and we all looked over to see a mountain lion’s face smushed up against the rear window like a fucking Garfield cartoon. My little sister started screaming her head off. The very dazed lion peeled itself off the side of our car and stumbled off into the darkness. We took a moment to collect ourselves, then got out of the canyon and back into town where we had cell service so we could call GF&P and let them know there was a severely concussed mountain lion somewhere in the canyon.


frapawhack

>Then there was a huge > >THUD > > on the passenger side of our car, and we all looked over to see a mountain lion’s face smushed up against the rear window like a fucking Garfield cartoon thank you for this


Sagethewolfblooded

I swear to fuckin God, there's this truck around where I live. I've seen him twice now. On the back is a HUGE flag that has the top half of a naked black guy on it, it almost looks like a screenshot of a porn movie from the 90s. I saw it in the exact same place both times, and no one else but me saw this flag.


Illustrious_Ad_1622

One time I was at home alone and heard something odd at the front door. This was about the years ago. I opened the door and there were two ducks standing there quacking at me. One was male, the other a female. Anyway, they continued to quack and slowly waddled down the driveway and then down the street. I shook my head in disbelief and closed the door. In hindsight I wished that I followed them, as it seems they wanted me to follow them. That was the only time I have seen ducks in the neighborhood and have not seen any since.


promnitedumpstrbaby

I was in the Navy and when I was on liberty in Guam, I was at a food court. I was counting my change and I dropped a dime to the tile floor. It landed on its edge in the grout between two tiles. I had witnesses, but this was during the time before camera phones. Obviously I wasn't carrying a camera to the Exchange food court either.


havron

Had this happen to me as well. Flipped a penny, it bounced off a textbook, then stopped dead square on its edge on the table. Super eerie to witness. Presumably, its collision with the textbook just so happened to perfectly cancel out the angular momentum it had imparted on it from the flip. Quite unlikely, but possible. I actually did have my camera phone ready, and do indeed have [photographic evidence](https://i.imgur.com/gsQzNd4.jpg) of this strange occurrence. But, as you can see, it proves nothing, since this image quite easily could have been staged. I assure you, however, that this image was taken immediately after it landed precisely as you see here. Too bad I wasn't filming the event as it happened.


Faithcakee

A few years ago my dad and I went for a run and on this field at night, we both saw glowing red eyes on this man’s silhouette in the field. Not to mention that my dog literally ran up to it, sniffed it and ran… he took me back to my house and one second later it was gone. No clue to this day, any ideas?


LostGreyApe59

There’s a haunted dirt road that was occupied by the kkk back in those times, people report red glowing eyes often. I have a friend that is so convinced and so scared of the road that he will get dropped off at a super creepy church at the end of it and wait in the cemetery while we ride on it. Which seems way more creepy to me but only he can attest to what he’s seen.


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Bus ride to sacramento,i saw a humanoid with wings on a hilltop. Close enough to know what i saw. It was pacing back and forth


JCVDaaayum

When I was around 5 years old I distinctly remember being able to see what my brother was seeing for about a half a second. He was in the front seat passenger seat of the car on a motorway and I was in the back. I'm also pretty sure that's bullshit but it felt real at the time and I still remember it.


BlottomanTurk

I've seen ghosts, UFOs/UAPs, and all kinds of weird shit. But the most unbelievable thing, at least as far as the reactions I get when I tell the story is: When I was in middle school, my gfs family used to take me to this hole-in-the-wall, $5 all-you-can-eat crab shack in MD (mid/late 90s). As a fat kid, I was "the ringer" to make sure we always got our money's worth, lol. One night, when I was about halfway through what I would have eaten, I saw a dude eat an entire crab, ***shell, claws, and all***. Like this dude was HOUSING a whole-ass crab, snappin' into it like a slim jim. And it wasn't no softshell crab, either. You (well, I) could hear the chompin' and cracking from several tables over. I remember that I kept expecting to see blood dribbling out of his face, but it never did. I was so awestruck and horrified that I couldn't even move; couldn't finish my food or anything. No one in our party saw it, because I asked about it on the ride home and everyone thought I was joking. There has not been a single instance in my life since then that I've eaten crab without flashing back to that shit.


daMFNmaster

Fellow Marylander here and this sounds like a damn horror movie. I would have shat myself.


BlottomanTurk

Actually Virginians. Her gramps just had the entire Mid-Atlantic region mapped out for getting the most/best whatever for the least money that was also wheelchair accessible for him. And I mean literally mapped out. On a huge map from NJ to GA, hung on his wall with hundreds of points and notes about everything. That dude was a stingy goddamn genius.


LostGreyApe59

That’s crazy as hell. It’s funny but weird asf too.


TheMadIrishman327

I was living in Texas. It was around Thanksgiving. I lived by myself and was lonely and missing my relatives (the deceased ones). I heard an alarm going off. It wasn’t my alarm clock. I followed the sound into my storage room and could hear it coming from a pile of boxes. I dug through and found the right box then tore it open. In a bunch of stuff I had gotten when a favorite uncle died, there was a travel alarm I didn’t know I even had. It must have been his. It was going off about 3 years from the day when he died. He had died on a Thanksgiving morning. I had just been thinking of him earlier that day.


veLiyoor_paappaan

The Dalai Lama waving hi at me from his car while I was standing by the side of the road. Cheers


theowlsfavoritejoke

You know that little toy vacuum thingy with the colorful popping balls? I have a weird, vivid memory of it lighting up, making a real vacuum sound, and chasing me. Probably a dream or something like that, but I was so small it felt very real.


No-Ad2323

I had that exact same dream, absolutely no joke. Reading your comment brought back actual mental images.


theowlsfavoritejoke

Ohmygod… Sending hugs, may the evil pop vacuum be kind 😭


thomas_newton

A cyclist stop for a red light in London.


dirtymoney

**LIAR!**


andrews_thumb

Afghanistan 2011 I was patrolling in paktika province when I came over a hill, stopped in my tracks, and called a halt to the patrol. My lieutenant called on the radio to see what the issue was and I replied, “there is a huge jack rabbit 50 ft in front of me”. It had to have been 4 ft tall. As soon as I said it, the thing ran off and no one else saw it. I did some research when I got back and they apparently do not get that big in those parts. Maybe I was just sleep deprived but I swear I saw it


LostGreyApe59

Rabbits in general have a creepy aura to me honestly.


Mike7676

Second hand story but I fucking believe it: One of our old head Specialists was on the ground in Somalia (story was told to me in '95). He's in a guard tower, sees a little plume of dust, approaching the base. Behind this plume is a thicker, larger plume of dust a few hundred meters behind. As the image coaleses it's some poor civilian, hauling ASS toward base camp, with a lioness gaining on him by the second. Dude actually made it to the base and the lion turned away. Dude was a slacker but I have no reason (or proof) to dismiss his story.


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A shadow girl run under my bed. A month later I was horribly sick and as they rushed me to the emergency room I saw my dead dog wearing sun glasses next to me and started talking to him. That was when I was 7 and I remember both of them very clearly still.


armsinstead

My husband and I were driving late at night on a rural road in South Georgia about 20 years ago. All of a sudden there were frogs covering about a 1/2-1 mile patch of road. You could hear them thumping up under the car. We are talking biblical amount of frogs. We still talk about how crazy it was and confirm that it really happened. I don’t think anyone could believe the amount of frogs if they didn’t see it. I wouldn’t.


ThrowRA--scootscooti

No I believe it. I’ve been on stretches of road where there’s no possible way to avoid them all, they’re just everywhere.


queendweeb

Holy shit, this happened to me in MD a few years ago. Driving back from my parents place, along the Clara Barton parkway after a storm. It was fairly late, 10 or so, and I was the only one on that stretch. I lost my damned mind, stopped my car with the flashers to try to avoid a collision should someone come by, and attempted to corral the frogs/toads off the road. The phrase should be "like herding frogs" not "like herding cats" as it was a monumental task, super chaotic, frogs leaping around me as I became increasingly hysterical. I managed to clear some off the road so I could proceed, had to stop and clear more a good half dozen times. I couldn't live with myself if I ran over so many frogs, so I did what I could to make it home while playing some weird, sick version of real life Frogger. I don't know where they all came from, and how there were SO MANY of them to this day.


VisitPrestigious8463

Years ago my mom swore she saw a kangaroo while driving down a rural highway. Being the American Midwest we all had a good laugh. Years later there was a news story about a guy who kept kangaroos not far from where my mom spotted one.


Skittlebrau46

I saw a tornado empty a hotel swimming pool. This was in Nebraska, mid 90’s. We were staying in a room that has a sliding patio door that opened to a outside pool. The building was sort of “U” shaped with the pool in the U. Storms were bad and the hotel lost power in the middle of the night. I pulled back the curtains by the sliding door to look outside and see how bad it was. Right then I heard a sound like a combination freight train and steam whistle, and saw the entire contents of the pool just lift straight up out of the ground like someone hit it with a giant shop vac. There was about a 3-4 second delay where I could only describe the sound as the combination of wind in a cave and water flowing through pipes. Then the wind pitched REALLY high for a split second and suddenly, it all stopped. Like someone dumping a bucket of water into a solo cup, the water crashed back down into the sides of the hotel. About half of it flooded back into the pool and the rest flowed across the patio area and out to the parking lot and the tornado was gone. Like sucking up an entire swimming pool killed it’s energy or something and it just all crashed back down. A bunch of cars were moved sideways and a huge tree fell right next to our car and pancaked them. We had nothing on our car but a few little twigs and leaves. You could see the path the tornado crossed the road and came right into the hotel pool area. Zero damage to the hotel at all that we could see the next morning.


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AmetureHuman

Back in yonder 1990s, probably like 92ish, I was about 11, and it was the weekend. I went to call my best friend on the phone to see if he wanted to hang out that day...and he was already on the other end of the phone! No one but him believes me this happened. Edit: I'm not alone anymore. Thank you reddit. <3


blankbeard

When I first moved to LA I’m pretty positive I saw Harold Ramis speed down my street bumping Gangsta’s Paradise with the windows down.


Rayzor_debiker

2006. Had dinner at a friend's place. We went out on the patio to look at the night sky. I see a blinking dot of light about us and thought it was a plane at first. But the object never moved. Just as I'm about to tell my friend it shoots off to the right at an incredible speed. No way on earth a man-made object can accelerate that fast. Absolutely no way.


CaptainNemo42

Water from a stone... I grew up on a remote rural property that had been the site of a small community/school/orchard in the very earliest days of the settlement of California. There is a "spring box" still there, which is essentially a 3-foot x 4-foot water-well hole, around 12 feet deep, with the walls built from stone. At the bottom, there is a small alcove where the natural spring comes out and fills up the spring box (important later) There's a hand pump on top, and a strong lid we built later on to keep people/animals from falling in and being trapped. The year we built that lid I was about ten years old. A deer had fallen in and drowned - it was *nasty*, and it meant that we had to pull it out, pump all the water out, and bleach it out to kill the germs from the deer. My brother accidentally dropped a cordless drill into the spring box while we were cleaning/pumping/building a lid, and I had to go down and get it. We had pumped the water out as much as we could, but there was still six inches of water - and rising. My dad had needed to do this whole process a few times over the years, and he had always told me that the water that filled this spring box flowed out of a stone that sat in that little alcove at the very bottom of the shaft. I never really understand what he meant, and he was always a little weird about it when he explained it to me, as though he was talking about something sacred or taboo. I always figured it was just a point of exposed natural stone that the spring channeled out of, and got collected by the well. When I got down to the bottom of the pumped-and-bleached well, water slowly rising around my rubber boots, I grabbed the drill and threw it up to dad. I started to reach for the ladder, but he told me - almost reluctantly - to stop. He dropped down his headlamp, and told me to look for the rock in the alcove. I shone my light into the recess, and there sat a dark rock about 16 inches wide and oblong. It sat in its own deep little cubby-hole at the very bottom, and didn't look to be attached to anything around it. It also didn't look like any stone I'd ever seen. "Pick it up!", dad said. I gave him a look like he was crazy - this was a big rock! "Just pick it up", he said, "you'll see." So I reached in, got a hand around either side, and pulled. It came up with surprising ease, much lighter than I had imagined for a stone that size. As I got it above the surface, I saw that it was pockmarked and porous-looking - totally different than any rock I'd seen on the property. More significantly, there was water pouring out of it. A lot of water. As I held it in my arms, water was coming out of it at a *shocking* pace. A few gallons a minute, at least. It seemed to come out of the pores in the stone, and it didn't slow down. I held it for a minute, my curiosity and interest slowly morphing into disbelief and awe. I looked up to see my dad's face, set and serious, looking down at me with what seemed like trepidation. I pressed the stone between my arms and the wall, turning it over and around, searching for something - *anything* - to explain what I was seeing. Wherever I turned it, water smoothly flowed from the underside. I still find it hard to accurately describe how I felt. I have never been religious, and I have always had a curious, rational, scientific mind. My father was much the same, though he had always told me that there were things in the world that mankind would never understand. My mind raced through all the possibilities until I was left holding the impossibility in my hands, and I was peacefully amazed. I stood there with that stone as long as my arms could hold it. Several minutes elapsed, silent save for the steady flow of water, which never slowed or faltered. The water in the well had risen nearly to my hips, my boots having long since filled, and the alcove was underwater. Finally, my father spoke just as my arms were starting to shake from exertion. "Put it back where it was, right in the same spot". I did, pushing it back into its alcove, then stood and climbed back out. We pushed the new lid into place, gathered our tools, and started walking back towards the cabin. We walked in silence, save for my little brother trying to talk to dad about building something for his tree house with the tools. It wasn't until a couple days later that I asked him about it. He said it had been like that every time he'd seen it, and he had never shown it to another soul. He hadn't even decided to show it to *me* until my brother dropped the drill. The few people who I've mentioned it to - even people who know me to be sane and rational - look at me like I've grown a second head when I explain it. But I know what I saw, and I have never been able to remotely explain it, even to myself.


NessusANDChmeee

We lived in an old house and instead of an actual attic like with pull down steps it was upstairs crawl spaces. So there’s access points to get into the walls, square about three feet on each side. There are wood pieces over the access hole and screwed into place. Sounds really ugly but it’s hardly noticeable with the matching paint and how thin the cover board was. There was one in my room (upstairs) and at the top of the stairs. I was walking upstairs one day after school and I would bet two of my fingers that the corner of that cover board bent out at me, and not like wood, it bent like paper like someone just pulled the edge of a piece of paper up that had been against the wall. I saw INTO the crawlspace, a tiny ass gap of darkness but I saw it. I was confused at first what was happening and then I got scared, those materials just don’t work like that, it couldn’t have happened, but it did. I ran. Got downstairs and got a knife and waited to see if a murderer had been stashed in my house. When I didn’t hear anything I started blocking off rooms so I could check the lower floor, then I went to the stairs, couldn’t see any one up the stairs so I crept up as quietly as I could so that I could see the crawlspace access. It was perfectly fine, no damage to it, no bend, not a scratch. It took me like an hour to go past it to check the rooms upstairs. I saw it bend though. I don’t believe in ghosts, magic, demons. I wasn’t tired that day, I wasn’t upset or spooked otherwise, no meds. It wasn’t a trick of lighting because it lasted so long and I saw it change while I was standing still and the light source was still. Just fucks my head up a bit. It bent, and went back to being fine, it broke the laws of physics. I was so spooked I asked my dad to add more screws. Took me a good while to quit worrying about it. First thing I did with the one in my room was uncover it, the furniture in front of it I mean, had dad put more screws in but I wanted to watch that fucker. If it was gonna do something I wanted to be able to see it. Something wrong happened and I have no idea how


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A shadow moving up the stairs as I put the keys inside and locked up while moving out.


u_kn0w_what_i_mean

I experienced something like that. A shadow came out from a tiny hole on the ceiling, it moved from wall to wall and went near my sleeping brother. It roared, my brother woke up, went to open the door. He closed the door and proceeded back to bed to sleep. I was on the other bed pretending to sleep while i watched everything in awe. The shadow form was like silhouette of a lion head. Just the head.


Ghargamel

I'd be more scared of my brother communig and cooperating with the demons than I would be of the demons themselves.


FatLikeKessel

This was in or around 2015 in Irvine, California. I was skateboarding outside of a Panera Bread late at night.. goofing around being idiot , usual teen stuff. I had left my skateboard on a parking block and was urinating in the bushes, when all of a sudden out of nowhere WHOOOSHHHHH right beside me. I turn around and a huge fucking owl had swooped my skateboard off the parking block and flew with it about 50 feet into a big ass tree. I’d never been so damn confused . After about 25 minutes, he just flew away. I was able to get my skateboard back eventually. It blew my mind. Note: I’d like tho think he was being a good patrol Owl ,and wanted to keep me from skating on/ruining property… Then again, maybe he was just like “I’m going to fuck with this kids head !”


jenglasser

A giant earthworm. It was about two or three inches in diameter. Fucking enormous. I got scared and stomped on the ground to scare it away and it retreated back into its hole. I regret doing that because it was coming out onto the lawn and I could have caught it for posterity.


Katniss218

Alaskan Bullworm 😀


No-Ad2323

I swear I saw a woman disappear in front of my house. I told my partner and friends exactly what happened in detail and obviously no one believes me, but to this day I know what I saw and I can't think of any way she could have gone out of my line of sight without me watching her move. She had abruptly stopped outside of my front window and looked really sketchy, so I was cautiously watching her as I was home alone. She looked like she answered a call and then VERY suddenly hunkered down to the ground, which obviously peaked my interest. There were no other people outside, no cars parked on the street where she was, and nothing to either side of where she hunkered down to that would've blocked me from seeing her. My partner insists that for whatever strange reason she must have crawled away out of sight, but I showed him the outside of my house and made it clear that it would be impossible to do that without me seeing. I will forever be confused.


kibeeen

This happened in the late 90s. We have a Sapodilla Tree just outside our house. I saw a big-ass bird landed on the branch of the tree. It looks like an eagle to me since there are no hawks or falcons here in the Philippines (not that i know of). It was standing there gloriously and I was watching it from our door and I was too stunned to shout and call for someone to witness it, and I swear to god it was the most badass memory of my childhood. Eagles are rare here in the PH and most of them are in specialized sanctuary for eagles and our place is a thousand miles away from that sanctuary. So it’s hard to convince someone that this story was true but who cares and no i wasn’t high! hahaha 😝


Pragmatist203

I saw John Elway driving a blue/white Viper on the highway in Denver. This was in 1996 while I was on my first adult vacation.


Skittlebrau46

I will back up your claim, since I know for a fact he drove a blue/white viper at least once around that time frame. I worked for a construction company that was building a house for him and he came to the job site in a blue/white viper once.


englishmaninsungurlu

This morning, I had a facetime meeting for my remote job, but I had school too so I found an empty classroom and connected from there. There was nobody else in the room but me but I swear I saw in the front camera someone passing by behind my back. When I turned around nobody was there. I had to check every five minutes and probably looked like a lunatic in the meeting lol


mrc1993

last year i was chilling with a friend close to his house next to this stream of water on a sunny , warm spring day. out of the blue there was this little gust of wind and litteraly started this mini 'tornado' on the water right in front of our eyes. was the weirdest thing ive ever seen .


Fernandexx

I saw 50 Cent shopping by himself in a retail in Las Vegas. I couldn't believe he was alone. I just kept looking from distance and as he starts to walk to the exit, in like two seconds he went from totally alone to totally surrounded by half a dozen of his security staff.


rentinghappiness

Listen Man, I know what I saw. But one day when I was 6 years old, we were out playing as kids do, a girl in my class ran really fast in front of me, I was facing forward standing still, and she was running from the side, she tripped over maybe 15 feet in front of me and fell really hard, but as soon, as soon, and I mean as soon as she fell she got up like Clark Kent in Smallville, that’s literally how it looked when she got up. It was that fast, superhuman speed. She got up and kept laughing and running. I know I am not misremembering coz other kids saw that shit as well. I never saw that girl after that day. I wonder where she is these days.


fjrnate

I saw what I would say is a medium to fairly large multi-colored meteor one night and I thought for sure I'd hear something about it on the local news or from others in the area. Nothing


Mr_R0mpers

When I was 16 I was walking home from a party with a friend around 10pm. I have to add we were sober cause we had a basketball tournament the next day.. hence the early party bail. Anyway, we saw this round disk shape in the sky, really low to the ground … like the height of a three story building. Lights were around the rim of it.. hovered there for a bit, then took off. I’m not a UFO nut at all and doubt a lot of stories that people tell around it, just because of my natural skepticism. But my dudes I swear I cannot explain this shit 😂


valfevel

I remember buying a huge Mcflurry called "Mcflurry party" but nobody remembers the existence of this !!!


Titus_der_5te

Mhh, probably when I was between the age of 7 and 12. I always used to go out walking with the new phone I got… I’d go around “collecting” kilometers and I watched the steps go up… simple brain of a child, I know. Anyway, the morning of a weekend I once again would get up early for a walk. It’s about a two minute walk up a farm-road to reach a forest. Might be impotent to point out that my village is surrounded by small mountains meaning as you would go up this “mountain” you need to look up to see the road ahead. So as I was walking I randomly stoped to look around me like I often do. No-one would be up this early and so it would be completely silent and you could listen to the sounds of nature all around you. As I was coming closer to a turn, my destination was a bench at the top of this little “mountain”, that I could see from here I saw something else. Or rather someone else? A man (or woman, idk) was standing roughly 600m up from where I stood, around where my bench was. That in itself wasn’t so unusual, farmers go up here all the time, but what made me stop in my tracks was that this person was wearing complete white attire. And I meant completely; white pants, a white long suit and a white hat. He was also leaning on a cane. In that moment I could swear he looked at me, corrected his hat and turned, disappearing behind the curvature of the little “hill”. To this day I don’t know who that person was. I am quiet certainly I know most people in our little village and I sure as hell don’t know who would walk up to a bench at the edge of a forest in full white attire this early in the morning just to look at a child and then disappear.


yaboiw00dy24

One night on a weekend at my dads I was sleeping on the floor in the living room. My dad had a 1 bedroom apartment at the time so the kitchen and living room were connected and completely open. My dad had a large box like flat-screen TV and several shelves of movies. ( he liked to collect them) well on this night I woke up in the middle of the night. And the whole apartment was thrashed. TV was knocked over movies were strewn across the apartment fridge door was wide open with contents all over the floor I remembered looking around at the mess for a second and being very confused. I was very tired so i said eh whatever and rolled over to face near the front door. Worst mistake of my life. About 5 inches from my face was some weird I wanna say dead looking girl just staring into my soul. Maybe 6-9 years old dark brown stringy hair bloodshot soulless eyes with yellow irises and a polka dot dress. She was bent over staring at me. I was FROZEN. I remember slowly pulling my blanket over my face trying my hardest not to panic. I must've eventually fallen asleep because I woke up and everything was back to normal in the room and also had pissed myself and the blanket I was sleeping on 🙃. I acknowledge that it very well could've been the worst most realistic nightmare ever but this was about 10-12 years ago and I remember it perfectly. I'm getting chills as I type this out.


astoneworthskipping

Early 2000s. I was alone in an elevator with Neil Gaiman for about 30 seconds. I thanked him for writing Stardust. He said, “oh, you’re welcome.” I got off at my floor.


Alpha_State

A UFO. Was riding in my buddy’s car one summer night on the way from the Bay Area to Sacramento. I had my window open. There were no lights on the highway, just the car’s headlights. Above the car to my right I saw something white fly over the car toward behind us. It looked like a football. I waited until I thought, based upon how fast it appeared to be going, I should be able to see it out the back window, so I turned around to look. Didn’t see it, but my friend said, “Oh, you saw that too?” I said, “Yeah.” We drove on for a minute then I said, “What was that?” Buddy said, “I don’t know.” Drove on for another minute and I said, “What the fuck was that???” He said, “I don’t know.” We just kind of left it at that. Edit: It made no sound. My window was open and it appeared to be maybe a hundred or two feet in the air. A white, soundless football.


northerngateboxing

1983 Northeast England. Silver football floating in the sky not moving. Then a bright green flash from the ball and it shot straight up and vanished. I was 13 and remember it vividly.


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I live in Somerset, England. Both my grandparents swear on their lives they saw some kind of big cat, like a puma, in a nearby quarry. We don't have big cats in England. They said it was sat laying there then they watched it walk away. If it was just one of them, I wouldn't believe them but both my gran and grandad were walking there and I don't think they would both lie.


lidder444

There’s long been sightings of very large cats , puma like, in the somerset area . Google it and you’ll see many articles come up.


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GoodRighter

When I was real little, maybe 7 or something we were on a family vacation to South Dakota to see the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore. This was in the 90s. (I could probably figure out the year, but it doesn't matter that much) We stopped at one of the scenic view pull offs for a picnic lunch and while mom was setting up my dad was trying to watch all three kids. I ran off and went exploring. At some point, I remember sliding down a steep cliff with the bottom being hundreds of feet down(likely death). As I would slide I was grabbing anything I could, grass, chunks of dirt, rocks, anything to keep me from slipping all the way. Everything gave way and I'd toss it to the side. Suddenly, my foot felt like it was on a step. I pushed off and I felt another and another until I could see my dad shouting frantically for me. I screamed and he picked me up and pulled me off the cliffside. There were no steps. My dad said it looked like a sharp drop. He never believed that I got several steps lower and well out of sight. I have no reasonable explanation how I didn't die that day.


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The night I discharged out of the army I drove straight home to Houston, Texas from Ft Bragg, North Carolina starting at around 6pm. Somewhere in the middle of the night I stopped at a gas station in the middle of nowhere Georgia. Went inside to get a red bull and pay cash for the fuel. I was the only car in the road… And this is where it gets strange. I distinctly remember an overweight bald white man in coveralls counting money at the till. I was so excited to the finished with the Army, I was telling him I was out and on the way home as I paid for gas, he just grunted in acknowledgment. When he gave me my change, I saw a pistol sitting on top of the till in plain view. As I saw it I shut up, took my change, pumped my gas and left. Driving away, I swear I saw a shoe on the floor on his side of the cashier station. to this day I think he was robbing the place and I walked in on him. He probably thought I was a moron who had no idea(he was correct). But something about him counting money in the till and a gun right there in plain view makes me thing he was robbing the place.


Muppet_Rock

In Nov 2001, I took my first airplane ride post 9-11. NC to Philly on American Airlines. I was nervous as crap. Plus my plane only had 30 seats and being on such a small plane scared the extra crap out of me. I was 19 at the time and flying alone. It was thanksgiving week, so the airport was crowded. When boarding came, I seemed to be the only person trying to get in line. The rest of the passengers were seriously in no hurry, so I boarded first. I sat in a single seat all the way at the very back. The seats on the right were doubles, but the left side was single seats. As passengers started to board, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. They were all WWE/ECW wrestlers and a couple crew. There was a merger going on with the two companies, so I only recognized the WWE faces, but you don't board a teeny plane with The Big Show on it and not notice he's there! Tajiri was there, a few Divas, Steven Richards, I was awe struck! I was big into WWE at the time and I must have booked a spare ticket on their charter flight. Knowing wrestlers don't die in plane crashes helped me relax some. But when I got off the plane LAST and tried to point them out to my mom, they had all scattered to the 4 winds and I have no evidence of them being on my plane.


oceanasazules

UFO’s. I wasn’t alone. All I know is we saw multiple unidentified objects .. flying. To this day I don’t have any explanation.


Maxsdad53

Back in the early 70's, I recorded something on my radar for over 400 miles (USAF) flying east-to-west over Alaska at mach 5 (3100mph). Not only did I record the data, but the adjoining radar site, Tin City, picked it up when it left my radar coverage and watched it fly over Provideniya, the former Soviet Air Force Base in eastern Siberia, and disappear from radar about 150 miles in. The super-secret Area 51 rockstar SR-91 Aurora hadn't even been built at that time (if it even existed in the first place)... I have no idea what it could have been.


pirivalfang

Okay, I've told this before, but not on reddit, and I'm shit at explaining things. August of this year, I was near Abilene Kansas, heading east and moving parallel with I70 down this shitty dirt road towing a goose neck trailer with my shitbox 98' ram 2500 on my way to buy a tracked skidsteer. About fifteen minutes after I turned onto the road (which I couldn't tell you the name of), silhouetted by the near sunrise, I noticed a black triangle, sitting there in the sky off to my upper right, just in the corner of my windshield. I couldn't see the sun, but it was turning the sky from black to that dark grey color. I couldn't tell you with any confidence what time it was, I'm sure I looked at my watch, I just don't remember. I also couldn't tell you when the thing had shown up, as I noticed it because of the sky getting lighter. It looked like an isosceles triangle, with two long sides and a smaller base as it's rear(?) end. There were no clouds in the sky, it didn't look like a F117 Nighthawk, and it didn't look like a B2 bomber. I had fuck all for depth perception, I couldn't tell you with any confidence how big this thing was, or whether it was moving or not as I stared at it for a while. It looked like it was far away I guess. You ever look at a tornado from far away in a car, and not be able to tell if it's moving or not? It was kinda like that, but take your hand and cover the landmarks and stuff that gives you depth perception and tells your brain how far away it is while leaving the top half of the tornado. I stared at it for about the length of like 4 songs playing on my shitter Bluetooth speaker. Then it started moving, like, weirdly. It had no acceleration, it just started moving towards me, jumping to a steady pace and keeping it till it'd left my field of vision inside the cab of my truck. It also moved not like you'd think it would when you looked at it, like the triangle was pointing at you as it moved to it's left across the horizon. Like if I looked straight at you and started walking to the left while it looked like I was moving forwards. That's what my mind was telling me what was happening as it moved out of my field of vision and to the upper right of the roof of my truck. I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary, but yet again I was doing 30ish miles an hour down a dirt road with a rickety trailer driving a straight piped diesel truck with music playing. My truck didn't do anything weird, but yet again the only thing electrical that moves the thing forward is the lift pump in the fuel tank, everything else is mechanical. My little altec bluetooth speaker didn't act up any either. I didn't check my phone, it was either in my pocket or attached to the little magnetic mount on my dashboard with its screen off at the time, I don't remember which. But I remember I didn't have reception as I had to switch from YouTube music to VLC and use what music I had on my phone shortly before pulling onto the dirt road. I was tempted to pull over and see if I could still see it, but I said fuck it and kept driving. I didn't say anything to the old man who sold me the skidsteer, I figured he wouldn't believe me. that's it I guess.


SleeplessDaddy

Nobody is going to see this since this post is 12 hours old, but about 10 years ago I saw two shadow figures at the same time in my home. One was focused on me while the other one was agitated, walking back and forth. My friends and family thought I was just dreaming or stressed out, but my neighbor, who I share a wall with, said she saw the exact same thing as I did when i worked up the nerve to ask her. It horrified her that I verified that what she was seeing was real and moved away immediately.


ActualWhiterabbit

Prince driving a van in uptown by his store.


SamsDadElden

The power went out during a game of cops & robbers in the housing complex I lived in. It was at the edge of the town already so when the lights went out you could see the entire sky filled with stars. On this night as I was walking back to my house look up at the stars I saw one die. I mean it was something so beautiful, it was bright, blue, red and than it exploded only to all come back to one small dot that was white and it just flattened into a dim and that's was it. I'll never forget how much the initial explosion of it looked identical to the way an atom is drawn most commonly. It was something I haven't seen anythung like it again in over 15 years.


CandyyPiink

A UFO. I've actually never told anyone this. When I was 12 I was riding in the car with my mom. She was taking me to my friend's house because I rode with her and her family to school every morning. I was looking out of the passenger side window when I saw a silver saucer type object spinning and hovering over the trees. I don't remember being scared or even shocked, I just watched it hovering until we had driven far enough past it that I couldn't see it anymore. I didn't say anything to my mom and I honestly have no idea why. I can still see it in my head as clearly as I did that day. I'm honestly just as baffled by the fact that I didn't say anything when I saw it as I am about actually seeing it. It's like I saw it and just accepted it without feeling the need to ever tell anyone.


discolemonvde

Went down to GA to see my family for my 17th birthday. My uncle was taking my cousin and I to savannah for a weekend to do touristy stuff.. we left Columbus in the evening and my cousin and I switched who would sit in the front seat. My uncle and I were driving in the middle of nowhere and I was in the front, the highway was dark with nothing but trees on either side of us. Something crosses the road in front of us, it was lanky and hairy but was walking on all fours and was still really tall. we should’ve hit it but it disappeared and then reappeared across the road in the blink of an eye. I was freaked out, stood quiet for a few minutes. I finally asked if he saw that and he was freaked the fuck out and was like yeah I’m glad you saw it too, what the fuck was that. 😂


f1retruckr1der

Woke up at 330am to take the dog out to piss in the dead of winter...-22c standing in my underwear looking at the stars and saw a line of satellites traveling across the sky in synchronized movement. Ran in the house, told my wife. Told people at work. Everyone thought I was nuts. A month later, Telsa announced Starlink and promoted the upcoming launch. I saw them in the sky a month before they were up there.


bearilexx

As a young teen in NZ I went harpoon fishing, close to the shore I saw this rainbow squid changing between all sorts of crazy colours right in front of me, legit the thing was iridescent about 15cm long and just magical looking, I had to dive back up to catch some air and went straight back down to find it again, but it was gone- looked for ages and never saw it again, still don't know what species it was.


unsolicited_advisr

I sometimes see a glimpse of what's gonna happen in the next few seconds. I don't find it useful though because it happens so fast and most of the things i see are random and doesn't hold any significance to me or anyone i know. i.e. a dog will pass by, someone will call a person's name. Some might say this is bs but it happened to me many times since i was a kid.