Ourworldis such a strange place, right? So many odd things happen to people every day, and we don’t have a way to explain them. And what’s probably even more frustrating is that often there’s not only no way to explain them but no way to prove that they even happened and it wasn’t just a figment of your imagination.So, today, let’s dive into a list of stories about things people experienced or saw but have no proof for. And let’s just say – these stories range from simply silly accidents to rather eerie stuff.More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
Ourworldis such a strange place, right? So many odd things happen to people every day, and we don’t have a way to explain them. And what’s probably even more frustrating is that often there’s not only no way to explain them but no way to prove that they even happened and it wasn’t just a figment of your imagination.
So, today, let’s dive into a list of stories about things people experienced or saw but have no proof for. And let’s just say – these stories range from simply silly accidents to rather eerie stuff.
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My husband died suddenly in 2016. I woke one night and he was sitting on the foot of our bed watching me. I wasn’t afraid and he looked peaceful. He faded after awhile and was gone. We had been together 46 years. Yes I believe in spirits and I think he was letting me know it was ok. Don’t care what naysayers claim.
A week after my dad died I saw him sitting in his chair in the day smiling at me. I was so happy to see him but I dont know if I hallucinated him due to emotional stress and grief or it was real. About 6 months later I felt his presence and asked him to turn on the light which it did straight away. Maybe there was a reason but it just felt so strange like he was there. Never been afraid of death since.
Since today’s topic is sightings with barely any proof, of course, we have to talk about UFOs.UFOsstands for unidentified flying objects. To say it in a little more complicated way, it’s any aerial object unidentifiable to the observer. There’s quite an extensive list of various UFO sightings. For example, this majestic Google Arts & Cultureslideshow.As one example, we can take a report from Sweden in 1946, when Gösta Karlsson reported seeing a flying saucer and its alien passengers land in the woods. Apparently, this sighting was so memorable forSwedenthat there’s now a concrete model of the spacecraft standing at the site.
Since today’s topic is sightings with barely any proof, of course, we have to talk about UFOs.
UFOsstands for unidentified flying objects. To say it in a little more complicated way, it’s any aerial object unidentifiable to the observer. There’s quite an extensive list of various UFO sightings. For example, this majestic Google Arts & Cultureslideshow.
As one example, we can take a report from Sweden in 1946, when Gösta Karlsson reported seeing a flying saucer and its alien passengers land in the woods. Apparently, this sighting was so memorable forSwedenthat there’s now a concrete model of the spacecraft standing at the site.
A jaguarundi in my small town in west(ish) Texas.I was maybe 11, and walking home from the park through a trail in the woods, and passed a little neighborhood pond. It was a drought year so there was like no water anywhere, but this pond was always full (probably a spring come to think of it). I came around a bend and startled this WEIRD tan cat having a drink. I thought it was a a mountain lion at first, but it was really small (think bobcat or maincoon) and had the silliest little ears and an extra long tail. I remember laughing about its weird little ears the whole way home.I told my mom I saw a mountain lion with teeny ears and she like scolded me for lying?? I was so pissed and just kind of ignored it until years later when I saw one at a zoo.IT WAS THE MYSTERY CAT. 100% a jaguarundi which I now know live in Texas. I wish my mom had asked more questions so we could have reported it to whatever wildlife experts would have wanted to know it’s there, since they haven’t been seen in Texas since 86 supposedly. The habitat makes sense too because it’s like the thorniest, scrubbiest, underbrush in the world. Someone had a cut a path to make it easier to walk to the park, but it was basically impenetrable juniper and mesquite on either side.
Whilst heading home on a late night flight working as cabin crew. I went in the flight deck because all the passengers were sleeping and we saw St Elmos fire on the nose of the aircraft. Captain said it was really rare because its usually associated with volcanic ash. One of the coolest things I’ve seen.
The sightings became more frequent and more popular after the development of rocketry afterWorld War II. The first famous UFO sighting happened back in 1947 when businessman Kenneth Arnold said he saw a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while he was flying in his small plane.The man said that the objects moved “like saucers skipping on water,” but later, the reportingnewspapermistakenly said the objects were saucer-shaped. This was how the term flying saucer was born.
The sightings became more frequent and more popular after the development of rocketry afterWorld War II. The first famous UFO sighting happened back in 1947 when businessman Kenneth Arnold said he saw a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while he was flying in his small plane.
The man said that the objects moved “like saucers skipping on water,” but later, the reportingnewspapermistakenly said the objects were saucer-shaped. This was how the term flying saucer was born.
Not long before an overseas flight I couldn’t find my passport anywhere. Usually kept it in a very small box with other important documents- birth certificate kids passport. Vaguely remembered my young son looking at my passport stamps months before- figured it was stashed behind a sofa or something so tore the whole house apart looking for it. Partner helped, he also checked the document box. It was just nowhere.Then I remembered the St Anthony prayer, (a story I’d read on reddit that people claimed worked when you’ve lost objects) so I said it aloud three times, st Anthony, st Anthony please come around my passport needs to be found. Went to sleep, prepared to try and get an emergency passport next morning.Well here’s the thing, I dreamt about the prayer, and the documents box, over and over all night. So when I woke up I went straight to the box (which you needed a chair to reach and was kept high enough my son couldn’t access) and there it was. My passport.Absolutely cannot explain this. There’s no logical explanation but when I’ve told someone before they said but it must have been in there. It 100 percent was not in the box. My partner was probably more freaked out than me. It was also sitting right where it should have been all along with the 10 or so other things in there. It definitely wouldn’t have been missed.Weirdest thing that has ever happened to me.
I saw a penguin In California (few hours from SF). I was walking around in the middle of the day with a friend, and we see it near the beach. Poor thing shaking and just standing there. I called animal control and they didn’t believe me. They kept saying “are you sure it’s a penguin??” and “is this some kind of prank??” After a few mins on the phone with them I was like “yeah I’m standing f*****g 5 feet away from it, it’s definitely a penguin.”.
The coolest shooting star ever. It lasted a very long time, like a solid 8-10 seconds. It looked like it was “spraying” sparkles out behind it, and the trail changed colors a few times, from red, to green, to purple, etc.Seen dozens of shooting stars. Never seen one remotely like that.
The last project compiled reports of more than 12,000 sightings and classified them into several categories.
And while the stories in this list aren’t just UFO sightings, they’re still something unbelievable that happened to people, and they’re fascinating to read about. So, let’s dig into these stories andupvotethe ones you think are the most unexpected!
Ball lighting, watched it for a solid minute then it disappeared. It fascinated me out so much I didn’t even think about grabbing my phone.
I saw a lady i worked with sneak into the walk-in cooler where i worked, so i opened the door for fun…and I’ll never forget this…. she had just went to take a bite of a hard boiled egg, but when she saw me she pushed the whole egg into her mouth and swallowed it WHOLE. Then she said hi and acted like nothing happened. I still can hardly believe it.
I witnessed a squirrel actually tipping up a (presumably “empty”) discarded can of 7up, using its 2 front paws, like it was drinking it. This was on the front lawn of my kids' HS shortly after lunch. It happened. Really!
My brother didn’t “accidentally” turn off the NES when I was about to beat his high score on Tetris.
I saw a naked dude in the forest while I was in the train with my buddy. He did not believe me but I’m 100% sure.
In the summer sometime around 2005, in a suburb of Washington DC in northern Virginia. A friend and I were driving on a small 2 lane road with trees on either side. We saw a monkey drop from the trees and jump to the other side of the road. It then jumped and grabbed a low hanging branch and swung back into the trees. I couldn’t f*****g believe it and my friend was as equally shocked.
Driving down the road at 1ish am at night middle of the road see a whiteish greyish figure jump down from gum tree branch way high up 10-12 meters no way a normal person could do that and then it ran across the road and disappeared. Freaking yowies they are real.
I was about 7 or 8, and with one of my friends. We were both looking at the sky together one night, and the two of us swear over our lives we saw a shadow of Santa’s sleigh and reindeer on the moon. Absolutely nobody believes us when we tell the story, even the people who were there as well.
While walking through the parking lot from my office to my car one Summer afternoon, I had this sudden vision that I was looking down from a height of several hundred yards over the parking lot and looking around the area from above. I could see myself walking toward my car, I saw cars driving down the surrounding roads, and I could see people walking through the parking lots of surrounding businesses and stores. Then the vision went away as I continued to walk to my car. It kinda shook me, so I looked around and saw the same people and cars I saw from above (that I could see within my field of view.) This has happened twice in two different locations.
I saw a man in a chicken costume on the London Underground get on the train, do a backflip just to the casually walk out of the train again at the same stop like nothing happened.
A ghost. I was in middle school. We were pulling stuff out of an abandoned auditorium the school used as a storage shed. She was standing in front of the stage. She was clearly Native American. Young. Maybe in her twenties. She was clear as day standing 10 feet in front of me and PISSED. She opened her mouth as if to scream but nothing came out. She came walking towards us with this horrible grimace and limp, as if she were dragging her leg. We booked it. There were three of us who saw her, but no one believed us. I got detention for spreading rumors. They’ve torn the building down now.
I’m pretty sure i rang up John C. Reilly at my old bookstore job once. this was in illinois and he was buying a few CDs. he was wearing sunglasses the whole time and was definitely being low key. i didn’t wanna just straight up ask him if he was JCR but i wanted to say something cus i really like him! so i was like, “hey, has anyone ever told you you look like someone famous?” and he was quickly like, nope!! and went on his way. i’m POSITIVE it was him but none of my other coworkers even noticed him so no one believed me 😢.
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When I was a kid I went outside to call my brother home. He was already running like mad across the road towards home and above him was a circular display of lights. They disappeared quickly.I don’t believe in Aliens and UFOs and all that s**t but it definitely happened and I can’t explain it.
I saw a rare mongolian wolf while i was on a trek and no one f*****g believed me not even the guides. i was coming over a hill and it was right in front of me then ran off. still pissed that no one believed me :(.
When I was around 7 or 8 my mum picked me up from school because it was raining heavily. On our way home we passed a park that I always took a shortcut through on my way home. I was looking down playing my Gameboy when a huge crack of Thunder scared me. I jumped and looked out the window and saw a white horse bolting through the trees in the park. Right in the middle of town, I told my mum to look at the horse but when I looked at her and looked back I couldn’t see the horse anymore.Ever since then I’ve had a big soft spot for white horses, but none that I’ve ever seen have even come close to being as beautiful as the one in the park.
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I’ve told this story before on reddit: in a remote part of northern west Australia, I’ve seen a bird about 4 times the size of the largest known flight-able bird tearing into a kangaroo on the highway. We came around a hill and slammed on the breaks and it took off in to the sky. Wing span easily longer than our car.
When my wife and I were dating, I spent the night at her apartment. I think she has made a comment about feeling presences there on occasion, but I didn’t think much of it.We were about to go to bed. There was a 4 to 5 foot tall dresser next to the side of the bed I was getting on. There was a quarter on top of it, maybe an inch from the edge. We turn off the lights and lay in bed and a few seconds later, we both hear what sounded like a coin hitting wood, then the floor.A little freaked out, we get up and turn the lights on. That quarter was on the floor. But to duplicate the sound it made, it had to have bounced off the bed frame – which was like 2 feet from the dresser. That means that coin, which was well on top of the dresser, flew off the top shelf far enough to hit the wood bed frame a couple feet away.Can’t say what it was or wasn’t, and maybe there was an earthly explanation, but hell if I know what it is.
I was driving through the toll booths on the M2 motorway in Sydney, and a car came screaming up from behind me in the lane to my right, mounted the concrete barrier on two wheels, and did a barrel roll through the toll booth. Some of the booths were still manned back in the day, so if it was one of those, they had to have killed someone.I was in a state of shock. Since it was right at the booths, I knew someone would have been at the scene immediately, and there was f**k-all I could do, so I just kept driving.I never saw anything about it in the news, and I’ve never found anything on the internet since. When I came past the toll booths a few days later, there was no visible damage. It was like it never happened.
I was watching the ISS livestream late one night, about 8 years ago. It soothed my bedtime anxiety, just looking at the big old world and feeling small and tranquil. And this object (?) came into view of the camera. Sort of shaped like an arrowhead, or a three sided long pyramid, toppled over. Started small and far from the camera’s view. I assumed it was space debris, or a fancy satellite. But it just kept getting closer, and this thing was HUGE. Tons of square-edge ridges on it, curved indents in symmetrical patterns, more and more detail. It looked enormous and it just kept coming closer and seeming bigger, but it was still so far away from the ISS camera. I can’t really express the size of it.So I put in the stream chat, “What is that thing?“A few seconds later the feed cut to static. God do I wish I’d pressed print screen.
A massive orange cloud appeared over the ocean at night at the Oregon coast. I was walking and stargazing when it happened. When I say massive, I mean it lit up the sky and it was a few miles out on the sea.I think it was most likely a gas tanker ship explosion, but despite the sky being lit up I couldn’t find a report about it anywhere the next day or in the days following.It was astonishing in its intensity.
I didn’t see, but I felt someone brush past me at a running speed when i went to Port Arthur in Tasmania. My partner wasn’t standing next to me, nor were the other clients. It also wasn’t remotely windy that night. Still sends shivers down my spine.
I’m pretty sure it was August of 2021 when this happened but I was driving interstate to Texas and pulled over to a gas station to go to the bathroom and for some snacks. I went to the bathroom and there was some sort of organ in the urinal. I barely saw it because i jumped immediately but i’m almost positive e that was a human stomach or liver. I ran outside and just pissed on the ground behind the gas station.
Mild as hell but a friend & I were on a smoke ride. Absolutely clear night, we’re driving listening to Nas & as soon as Nas said “enter the fog, dog -” we drove right the f**k through a car length patch of fog.
UFO…. many of us did. It was thr late 90. My sister and neighbour still remmebers it. We didn’t make out the shape, but it was spinning many colors and moved on a Z-axis.
The wake of something BIG moving along just under the surface. Either a large whale or a submarine, it was creating a sort of bow wave like a boat but nothing broke the surface that I could see. Don’t think it was a whale, because it would have eventually surfaced for air and I kept looking for a long time. Whales don’t usually just swim along at near surface depth without coming up for a breath every so often. But a submarine also makes little sense for that area, it was close to shore and heading towards a narrow and shallow sound where a sub would have had to surface for safety. OTOH, beyond that sound is a semi-secret NATO installation that someone might wish to spy on…
At around 1am around 1998 I saw a large (15M-ish [50ft]) soundless circular aircraft hovering still and shining a large spotlight on the grain silos next to my house. It looked like a top hat. It was just a bit higher than the equipment so it was very visible. The window in my room was in full view of the entire thing only a very small parking lot away in a rural area. It hovered there for a short time and flew away very quickly with no noise.Sometime later, within the same week, I saw silhouettes of very lanky and very tall (2.5-3M [8-10ft]) bipedal things walking around that same structure at around the same time. No ship that time I could see. They had long arms, legs and torso, and a normal sized looking head. I could only see their silhouettes and there was more than 1.That’s it. Nothing remarkable after that.
A tarantula larger than a foot.
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