Could be a ghost, poltergeist, cryptid, UFO, raining frogs, time slip, premonition, anything you are comfortable sharing.
I was working a pub late one night. Around 11pm or so I was down in the cellar getting all the empty kegs ready to be picked up. I put down a keg and as I turned to grab the next one I saw like a black cloud/shadow/ misty thing rush at me.
At first I didn’t think anything of it and kept going. After a minute or so I thought about it and if freaked me out so I legged it back up to the bar haha.
Another one I saw when I was a kid. We were at my cousins place playing inside. We had a family friend there as well who was out in the backyard by herself. As we were playing we heard her come running into the house and straight into the bedroom.
We heard her ripping toys out of this big chest and launching them all over the room. We asked her what she was doing because she was making a mess and aunty is going to kill her. She looked up and said the little boy she was paying with ran and hid in the chest.
Now normally we wouldn’t have believed her but the is mentally slow and didn’t know how to lie or make up stories like that. My cousin who’s house it was would always tell us weird stuff happened in that house but we never believed her.
Not saying I saw anything or that ghost are real or anything. Just weird things I have experienced.
Nothing major, but I have two stories that have stuck with me. I’m not superstitious or anything, and obviously these are just coincidences, but it’s interesting how the human mind loves finding connections between things even when there aren’t any.
One morning in 2020, during the covid lockdowns, I woke up to the sound of a small bird pecking at my bedroom window. It was really going at it and wouldn’t fly away even after opening the blinds. For some reason, I wanted to take a picture of it, and just as I grabbed my phone, it rang and I got the news that my grandmother had passed away during the night. Right then, I noticed the bird flying away. My partner at the time insisted it was my grandma saying her final goodbyes. While I don’t believe that, the memory of that moment has stuck with me, and it still makes my eyes water a bit.
The second incident also involves a bird, funnily enough. A friend and I were driving to a national park for an overnight hiking trip when we accidentally drove over something on a small forest road. I didn’t see it, but my friend said it looked like a small bird. I wanted to stop and check, but my friend, who was driving, just kept going. I jokingly said something like "Now we have bad karma, and the whole trip will get ruined somehow.” And would you know it, that very same day an unexpected heatwave hit the area, making the entire hike pretty miserable. This has become a running joke between us, every time we go hiking, we joke about how everything will go fine, as long as we can get there without running over anything on the way.
Was visiting Boston with an old friend and we walked past the Granary Burying Ground (a cemetery where many prominent American Revolutionary war figures are buried). As we’re walking by I see a young girl in Colonial style dress walk out of one of the buildings carrying an armload of flowers and she starts placing one on each grave. I turned to my friend and asked her when they started doing reenactment stuff at this site, and she was like “What are you talking about?” I go to point to the girl and she’s gone, no flowers on any of the graves at all. This happened in broad daylight.
One of my kids once emptied the dishwasher without bitching about it. I have no fucking clue what was going on there.
I have deja-vues surprisingly often. Every once in a while, I’m talking to somebody about a certain topic, or doing a specific thing in a specific location, and I get this memory that I’ve seen this exact thing happen in a dream some time ago. The weird thing about that is that I usually forget my dreams right after waking up. I know I have vivid dreams, but their contents is usually gone from my mind within seconds of waking up. It’s probably just my brain doing things. But some irrational part of me believes that I have some weak form of cassandras curse, where I am allowed to see the future, but not allowed to remember it.
I am a paramedic and have seen a fair share of trauma. But around 15 years ago I saw someone take a fall that by all accounts and all probability should have killed said person. And I mean I literally saw that guy faceplant 15 meters directly onto the pavement, hitting the pavement with his skull first.
And I don’t mean something like “in a rush of Adrenaline he walked it off for two minutes and then died”. Nope. We took him in as a full trauma call. Besides the laceration on the forehead there was zero injury. The hospital did a full body CT scan, did MRIs of the most endangered areas. Nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing.
I have no idea, to this day, how that happened.
Just to make it clear, I am by no means calling you a liar and I don’t mean to be rude, I would just like to ask some questions that you don’t need to answer if you dont want to. Just ignore my reply if that’s the case.
Are you sure you’ve seen them fall yourself?
Was the first impact really only their head/face (no hands bracing for impact)?
How old was the person and how much did they weigh roughly?
Edit: The only explanation I could come up with myself is that the spine as well as the skull was taken to it’s absolute limits absorbing the impact and some very lucky genetics. They must have landed in the most “optimal” position, too.
Yeah, saw the fall myself in full length. So did around 12 firies and my partner. (We were called for a person planning to jump, he jumped just when we left the truck) I see if I can find a news article of it - we made the news with it back then. Patient was fairly skinny and fairly young. But with that height that normally wouldn’t matter. Neither would bracing hands or anything make a difference.
And your doubt is very much indicated - I wouldn’t believe that storx myself if someone told me about it. That’s why I don’t repeat it in a non-anonymous context anymore…bad for my professional credibility. Even if you discount the whole bone situation the impact normay would have at least caused a intracerebral/subarachnoid haemorrhage…or ruptured the fucking aorta. Etc. Etc. I have no idea where the kinetic energy went. It has to go somewhere.
They jumped at the ground and missed.
I remember my first flying lesson
Thanks for your answer. No need to look up any evidence for me, I genuinely believe you. Also I am just some random dumbass on the internet. I thought maybe you were misremembering details, because it was so long ago, but if so many people saw it there’s no doubt about it.
No worries, mate. No hard feelings. As I said - and this is what bothers me. I have no logical explanation and I am really a die hard evidence based medicine practitioner. That’s why it bothers me so much.
I believe I have been subjected to some form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum, but the way I remember it is substantially higher pitch than what is described in the article.
Leaving a house party with my mate once early morning. Walking up a hill outside and he’s on the phone to my cousin. He paused, sniffed, and went ‘are you eating bacon?!’
My cousin was in fact eating bacon.
Idk what would even prompt him to ask such a question it’s like he was connected to that bacon on a quantum level.
Recently lost my childhood cat and I am sure that he found a way to say goodbye. I knew that his health was bad for a long time and actually thought that my mother already took him to the vet, because we talked about the date and time and everything. Sadly I was not able to say my final goodbye, as I already had plans to travel to my grandma, who is also healthwise in a bad shape. Was not sure how long she would be around, so I priorized her. A sunny morning came along, 600km away from home and my childhood cat and I decided to go for a walk in the forest. Upon entering I was LOUDLY greeted by a black cat, looking similar to my childhood cat. You see, this is unusual. Went for so many walks there already and no cat ever greeted me. Normally people there do not let them outside because of foxes and a notoroiusly bad road with speedy drivers. But this cat obviously belonged to one of the houses bordering the forest. She was im dire need of love and I gave all the scritches I had. After a few minutes it had enough and playfully wandered off into the forest, looking back one more time. I had the feeling that there were adventures waiting for this cat, but it was nevertheless thankful for my love. Phoned my mom later that day, she told me the vet appointment got postponed to this exact morning. :(
Many years ago, I had a dream where I was in a church, talking to my ex, who was wearing a wedding dress. It was just a chat about why things didn’t work out, how it was a horrible break up but we both accepted we were young and stupid and we wished the best for each other’s future - it was a very calm and positive dream. We hadn’t spoken in 5 or so years and were in no way connected on any social media platform or had any friends in common at this point.
A couple of weeks later after the dream she emailed my old email out of the blue saying she’d found some pictures of my dog from when we were together. I thanked her and asked how life was going. Shed moved to America and had got married recently. I congratulated her and wished her the best, but never stayed in touch after then.
I’m sure there is a grounded explanation to it, but I also like to think that there could be something more universal/spiritual to it.
Literally last weekend I was camping and everyone in our camp saw dozens of starlike dots in the sky moving faster than planes, slower than shooting stars, and were way higher elevation than planes.
The dots would move in different directions, some followed each other.
I would say they were satellites, but they changed speed, and some even stopped and then moved again.
Shit was weird man
Likely that it was a starlink constellation
They basically look like a string of lights following each other while deploying
Not sure about the slowing down, though
A droplet of rain once passed through a completely closed car window and hit me on the cheek.
I’ve heard it said that’s technically possible since most matter is really still mostly empty space, but what are the odds truly?
That’s just ghost piss
I’ve had this happen too.
Yes but actually i’d sound like a lunatic
I saw “Bigfoot” once about 20 years ago when I lived in the southern interior of British Columbia. My friend and I were walking along a dirt road that ran through a large field near the edge of a forest, roughly around the size of a football field. The area was mostly level with little foliage, and he was probably 50 feet away from us so we got a pretty good look at him - at least 7 feet tall, covered in dark fur. He was almost exactly like I had seen in illustrations.
He was walking perpendicular to us through the field and seemed to slow down, while we came to a stop as all three noticed each other at the same time. He probably only watched us for a few seconds, then snapped into a run and disappeared into the forest almost instantly. The speed that he moved at was insane, and on top of that as soon as he crossed the treeline, there was no sound of rustling branches or anything you would expect from a human running through the forest, he was completely silent.
My friend and I wordlessly watched the spot where he disappeared for maybe half a minute before turning to each other and bursting out, “what the fuck was that!?”. We were more than a little stunned, “did we really just see fucking Bigfoot?”.
We told a few of our friends, and some had similar experiences or had friends or relatives share stories with them. The area is known for a high amount of sightings, and a few people we told were completely unphased, as if it was totally normal.
I definitely kept more of an eye out after our encounter, but unfortunately I never saw him again.
Are you sure it wasn’t a bear that learned to walk on its hind legs?
- I know enough about bears that while one could stand on it’s hind legs, they aren’t bipedal and could not possibly run like that, much less with the speed the creature I saw moved.
- We saw this thing clearly, it was exactly like what has classically been described as “bigfoot”. Tall, large, furry, like a humanoid ape. I saw it’s face.
There was a famous bear who walked upright on the island due to injury if you’re referencing that yeah.
When me and my sister were 6 and 4 our dad came in to our room to tell us a bedtime story. He lied down with us on the bed and started telling the story.
It was just before Christmas and because our flat was small we had the Christmas tree with lights on in our room by the door, and we were on the other side of the room on the bed by the window, ca. 3 m away
Once he was done withe the story suddenly in the same moment the Christmas light turned off. That was in Poland in the 80’s so no home automation or anything.
He told us the Jesus baby turned it off because it was sleeping time. Even as a 6years old I was suspicious about that answer because it was a one time thing. But I never figured out how he did it.
