strangest thing you have ever seen

[Ammie]

optimus prime helmet and a weasel (my mistake a ferret) named lars.

You win. Ferrets are a billion times cooler than light sabers.

[Chantrea]

When I worked at a cattle barn one of the calves that was born had only one giant eye in the middle of its forehead and an almost full length extra leg and some other strange looking appendages (I'm thinking they were probably extra limbs as well, just not as well formed). It was born alive, when I let it suckle on my finger it felt like it may have had a cleft palate as well. It only lived for about 2 minutes, poor thing.

[swiftytheavenger]

I'm a Freemason.

strange stuff.

[Mr. E. Monkey]

was out on the porch smoking and counting planes in the night sky with my father-in-law one evening. saw what we took to be a falling star(it was moving a little fast to be a jet), until it made a PERFECT right angle to move along another trajectory.

I have seen something very similar once, years ago.

[dogbane]

In Fort Walton Beach, I saw a guy riding around a parking lot on a unicycle shouting, "Quaaludes! Acid! Weed! Quaaludes! Acid! Weed!"

[Giacomo]

I've been on South Street in Philly at night.

[avatar]

some friends and i were sitting on my deck drinking some beers (only our first, we weren't drunk...yet) when we see a bright red light streak across the sky and stop high above us. it was dusk, so it was dark enough and high enough that we couldn't make it out, but it then started to get smaller and smaller as if it was flying vertically. about 5 minutes later an apache flew through the area. there was also a strange-looking flare-like thing that fizzled after the apache left the area. It wasn't a flare, but i don't know how else to describe it. we joked about it being an alien ejector seat. weird, huh?

[xjuicex]

optimus prime helmet and a weasel (my mistake a ferret) named lars.

You win. Ferrets are a billion times cooler than light sabers.

Amen, will post pics of it soon. He's a backpack weasel(ahhhh! I mean Ferret) that doubles as a trouser ferret. He lives in my special forces bag that I take to school. He makes appearances in the middle of class all the time(Much to the administrations dismay).

[ironraven]

a falling star(it was moving a little fast to be a jet), until it made a PERFECT right angle to move along another trajectory.

I have seen something very similar once, years ago.

I've seen that as well. Not sure if something skipping off the atmosphere could do that.

But by far, the weirdest thing, is me voting for a communist. *laughs*

[Jeriah]

Saw a cessna flying in reverse one time. Just a freaky day, he had too much headwind and was actually travelling backwards for a few minutes.

-Hans

My Grandma has done that!

Seriously. She used to work for the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, or actually a nonprofit that works with them, and she's good friends with a bunch of the Rangers and stuff. One of them has a little plane they use to patrol for whatever, and he took her up in it, and showed her that trick. Got into a good enough headwind, had her look at the plane's shadow on a bush on the ground, and eased off the throttle until they started moving backwards for a couple seconds!

I see seagulls do it all the time, of course. But it sounds pretty freaky for a plane!

[PHMadness]

This is just so we can all relate stories about the weird, creepy, strange or just plain odd.

I found this forum on the intarwebs called Zombie Squad...........

[The Frank]

I've seen aurora borealis produce a column of red light that appeared to be right over my house as I went home.

[kiwilrdg]

Chemolumenescent plankton under the polar ice.

[thepaleman]

I saw a fucked up bigfoot-looking thing on a winter camping trip once last year. I don't know what the hell it was, it was definitely white, and looked like it was running on 2 legs, fast, and looked big. Michelle saw it too. We stepped out onto the trail as we were breaking camp and saw it haul ass down the trail, about 100 yards from us. We sort of incredulously looked at each other after it dissapeared, like "Uh, did that just happen?

Our friend Ollie was incredulous, but told us about an indian legend of something along the same lines that was supposed to inhabit the very region we were in.

I dunno. I'm not normally a bigfoot/chupucabra/yeti kind of guy. I have no idea how to explain what I saw. Weird.

Other weird things I've seen:
A traveling midget professional wrestling troupe.
A meth-head walking down the street buttfingering his tweaking girlfriend (who wasnt wearing pants) in broad daylight.

Still not as fucked up as an albino bigfoot though.

I have to ask if you where in Utah?.

I saw something on 2 legs and pale.at in Utah. Canyon lands to be exact. I told the others who I was camping with and strange freaky shit happened for the next few days at night.. I don't talk about it, in fact none of us ever talk about it. I'm not going to talk about it now but that's where "the pale man" name comes from. Turns out as well that there's local native american legends about the exact same thing.
It's been nearly 2 years and we all get spooked at anything that might even lead to the topic.

[Y.T.]

Driving through Nevada a year or two ago mid-summer, I'm looking out the window and after staring at a particular mountain in the distance for a bit I ask:
"um... honey?"
"yeah?"
"do you, uh, see that mountain moving toward us... really fast?"
(looks out)
"yeah"
"ok, so it's not just me then"

We had witnessed a freak mirage phenomenon that actually made it appear as though the small mountain was not only floating (like skimming) on the surface of the sand and moving along it, but also moving closer to us as we drove.

[Grace]

Uhh...let me see here. While being driven somewhere, I saw what appeared to be a silhouette of of a guy waving an erect wang around below an underpass. Didn't seem to notice the highway behind him. Very strange experience. Actually, on the same trip, I was walking through a shopping center area, and some guy driving past stuck his head out the window and screamed at me, "YEAH TEENAGERS RULE!"

[thepaleman]

Driving across Ohio in the middle of a snow storm a few years back had a spooky effect happen. It was late at night we're driving down a straight highway and the snow was blowing in exactly the same direction as we where driving, but faster. It was like the same effect when the millenium falcon whet into hyper space. Only in reverse.
It was impossible almost to drive because it looked like we where driving backwards. It was difficult to coordinate. Pulled over shortly after.

[Hanuman110]

Several years ago, while talking a walk during my lunch break, I witnessed a patchwork minivan(it had body panels from at least 4 different vans) cruising down the street with the side door opened, all the windows down, and blasting "Y'all gonna make me lose my mind" by DMX while 4 morbidly obese people sang along as loud as they could manage. It was so distracting I promptly walked into a parking meter while reaching for my cell phone to document the event.

Another day, also while walking during a lunch break, I actually slipped on a bannana peel. The slipping didnt cause me to fall but the absurdity of it almost did.

Needless to say, I used to look forward to taking walks on my lunch break. Something interesting almost always happened.

[KendoPt4]

Driving from Arizona to Colorado via New Mexico, at night. Not sure whether we were in AZ or NM but the scene was desert. We were driving through a broad valley with a large hill/mountain in the middle. Without any audible noise, we saw a large bright orange object drop down out of the cloud cover and disappear behind the mountain. It was bright enough to light up and side of the mountain as it fell and then as it disappeared on the far side the mountain was visible in stark profile, black against orange.

Everyone was asleep except me and the driver and we just sorta glanced at each other and mouthed "what the..."

Never found out what that was about. Wish I could remember the area and do a little digging on the web to see if anyone else saw it.

[TheMechanic]

While doing some primitive solo camping a couple years ago I was well off the beaten path in the woods. I had set up my hammock & tarp and crawled in to get some sleep.
After a while of absolute silence I hear this sound, the sound of something bounding through the woods. It sounded like a giant on a pogo stick, crash-crash-crash! Each time the sound many feet from the last. I heard 2 or 3 getting closer to my camp and it sounded like whatever it was was only a few feet from me. The noise came in from one side of the camp and circled around the other side of me.
I heard maybe 6 or 8 of the sounds. I know it must have been some kind of animal but I didn't hear it coming and almost as soon as I heard it it was gone. Nothing after that. I didn't hear it going off in the distance, it just stopped.
Creepy.

[ninja-elbow]

Anytime I was on liberty and in Sna Fancisco it was a weekend of weird sights. I also live in Portland, we keep it weird around here.

My short stint as a mall security guard I reported to a bloody McDonlads bag that had a "slug" trail of blood behind it outside the Marshall's. People were freaking out. Most of us were told to go inside the mall and check everywhere for wounded people. The fire department removed it and we heard nothing back from them. I was fired 2 weeks later ... so I heard nothing back.

Like Mechanic's story, my roommate was out camping by himself a few years ago. He got in his bivy for the night when "BONG!!!! BONG!!!!" he heard that for an hour straight. He was a good 12 miles from his truck and out alone with an axe and .22 pistol. He decided if it got too "Blair Witch" he'd just light the forest on fire ( kidding, of course).

My ship, the USS St. Louis got followed by 3 amber orbs off of Okinawa - the whole crew saw it.

Also on the St. Lou, off the coast of India after a storm, we saw dolphins, hammerheads, birds and some whales all fighting over the carcass of a killer whale. We were wondering why there was a killer whale in the Indian Ocean.

[Jeriah]

Anytime I was on liberty and in Sna Fancisco it was a weekend of weird sights. I also live in Portland, we keep it weird around here.

My short stint as a mall security guard I reported to a bloody McDonlads bag that had a "slug" trail of blood behind it outside the Marshall's. People were freaking out. Most of us were told to go inside the mall and check everywhere for wounded people. The fire department removed it and we heard nothing back from them. I was fired 2 weeks later ... so I heard nothing back.

Like Mechanic's story, my roommate was out camping by himself a few years ago. He got in his bivy for the night when "BONG!!!! BONG!!!!" he heard that for an hour straight. He was a good 12 miles from his truck and out alone with an axe and .22 pistol. He decided if it got too "Blair Witch" he'd just light the forest on fire ( kidding, of course).

My ship, the USS St. Louis got followed by 3 amber orbs off of Okinawa - the whole crew saw it.

Also on the St. Lou, off the coast of India after a storm, we saw dolphins, hammerheads, birds and some whales all fighting over the carcass of a killer whale. We were wondering why there was a killer whale in the Indian Ocean.

Maybe it was a pilot whale and the white spots were just eerily symmetrical piles of maggots. LOTS of maggots.

[Jhangles]

The strangest thing I've ever seen...

About 10 years ago, back in highschool, my girlfriend at the time and I were hanging out with a couple of my friends, who were tripping on acid. My girlfriend and I were completely sober and not on anything at all, especially since I was driving.

It was about 1am, and we all went to a 24hour diner called "Denny's" (pretty big chain, but probably not in all areas). After being there awhile and laughing at my stupid friends, we saw this REALLY old little lady (seriously looked like she was at least 105 years old). She had a walker with a couple of balloons on it, and she was s-l-o-w-l-y making her way to us from the front enterance.

About the time she was half way to us, my two tripping friends went completely silent, and had slight looks of terror on their faces. Without a word, she made her way to us with a huge smile on her face, then she gave each of my high friends a bright red balloon (the only two balloons on her walker). Still without making any noise, she slowly turned around and walked out.

They were totally freaking out after that since she had singled them out. My girlfriend and I thought it was pretty weird too.



There was another time I was with that same girl, and we decided to "park" in her car at a local park. We were just sitting there looking out the front window. There was a large grass hill in front of us. All of a sudden we saw a monkey run down the hill to our left and dissapear in some trees and bushes. It was one of those tiny monkeys you see in like an Indiana Jones movie (Raiders of the lost arc) that steal stuff and always seems to have a thief for an owner. Considering that this is in the Pacific Northwest, it was the last thing we ever expected to see. We decided to leave after that.

-Beau

[SpecialPatrolGroup]

Without a word, she made her way to us with a huge smile on her face, then she gave each of my high friends a bright red balloon (the only two balloons on her walker). Still without making any noise, she slowly turned around and walked out.

Nitrous?

RE, planes flying straight up, watch an ultralight take off into a headwind someday. They just go straight up.

My stories are pretty tame compared to you lot, but one strange thing I found while exploring a creepy old building was a teddy bear factory. Teddy bears look pretty odd when they are inside out and unstuffed. Later that night, myself and the crazy ex-Marine I was exploring the place with both got the shit scared out of us when we saw "a ghost". He instantly produced a pistol from somewhere and chambered up. I later learned there was a crew in the place some nights that probably had to do with what we saw, it was just creepy because it felt real cold when we saw that.