Curiosity is a great trait for humans to have. It’s led to countless discoveries and advancements, and without it, we would know very little about this crazy world that we call home. But unfortunately, asking questions doesn’t always lead to answers. In fact, sometimes our wondering can lead to even more questions.Below, you’ll find some stories of creepy and mysterious experiences people havesharedon Reddit that they’ve never been able to explain. From strangers suddenly vanishing to seeing things that were never to be found again, we hope you enjoy scrolling through this inexplicable list, pandas. Keep reading to also find a conversation with the hosts of theAll Things – Unexplainedpodcast, and be sure to upvote the stories that you find particularly bizarre!This post may includeaffiliate links.
Curiosity is a great trait for humans to have. It’s led to countless discoveries and advancements, and without it, we would know very little about this crazy world that we call home. But unfortunately, asking questions doesn’t always lead to answers. In fact, sometimes our wondering can lead to even more questions.
Below, you’ll find some stories of creepy and mysterious experiences people havesharedon Reddit that they’ve never been able to explain. From strangers suddenly vanishing to seeing things that were never to be found again, we hope you enjoy scrolling through this inexplicable list, pandas. Keep reading to also find a conversation with the hosts of theAll Things – Unexplainedpodcast, and be sure to upvote the stories that you find particularly bizarre!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
To gain more insight into the world of the bizarre and mysterious, we reached out to the hosts ofAll Things – Unexplained.All Things – Unexplainedis a top-25, People’s Choice Award-nominated podcast that explores mysterious topics from Bigfoot to UFOs to astrophysics and everything in between. And lucky for us, the show’s hosts, CJ Dearinger, Smitty Neaves, and Dr. Mounce, were kind enough to have a chat withBored Panda.First, we wanted to know how the hosts became interested in unexplainable phenomena. “I grew up without knowledge of the paranormal, cryptid, or unexplainable world. I lived a relatively sheltered life where most of what I concerned myself with revolved around the tiny world I inhabited,” CJ shared. “It wasn’t until I met my co-host for theAll Things - Unexplainedpodcast, Dr. Tim Mounce, that I learned many people believed in what I always considered lore.”
To gain more insight into the world of the bizarre and mysterious, we reached out to the hosts ofAll Things – Unexplained.All Things – Unexplainedis a top-25, People’s Choice Award-nominated podcast that explores mysterious topics from Bigfoot to UFOs to astrophysics and everything in between. And lucky for us, the show’s hosts, CJ Dearinger, Smitty Neaves, and Dr. Mounce, were kind enough to have a chat withBored Panda.
First, we wanted to know how the hosts became interested in unexplainable phenomena. “I grew up without knowledge of the paranormal, cryptid, or unexplainable world. I lived a relatively sheltered life where most of what I concerned myself with revolved around the tiny world I inhabited,” CJ shared. “It wasn’t until I met my co-host for theAll Things - Unexplainedpodcast, Dr. Tim Mounce, that I learned many people believed in what I always considered lore.”
CJ says she was then brought onto the podcast as the resident skeptic. “It was supposed to be my job to question everything and trust nothing,” she explained. “After our first interview with a gentleman who had a UFO experience in Mississippi back in the 70s, something inside me shifted that could never be reset.”“This man believed every word of what he said, and even more shocking was that I believed him, too,” CJ continued. “Since then, I have opened my mind to the limitless possibilities in this universe and had life-changing conversations with firsthand experiencers and some of the greatest minds in science. The blindfold has been taken off my eyes, and I now experience the universe in all its glory.”
CJ says she was then brought onto the podcast as the resident skeptic. “It was supposed to be my job to question everything and trust nothing,” she explained. “After our first interview with a gentleman who had a UFO experience in Mississippi back in the 70s, something inside me shifted that could never be reset.”
“This man believed every word of what he said, and even more shocking was that I believed him, too,” CJ continued. “Since then, I have opened my mind to the limitless possibilities in this universe and had life-changing conversations with firsthand experiencers and some of the greatest minds in science. The blindfold has been taken off my eyes, and I now experience the universe in all its glory.”
I was living in my last apartment back in the 90s.I walked down the hall, turned to go to the bathroom, and got hit in the back with a penny.Nobody else was in the apartment.
When I was at chess tournaments as a kid, I would always hang out with this one kid. My dad was friends with his dad.All was good, until one day.When we were walking out to the parking lot after a tournament, we were talking, and laughing. My family was to the left side of them, and him and his dad were to the right side of us (the distance was a couple meters from each other).I remember looking at them, looking the other way for a split second, and then looking back at them-just to see that they have vanished.It may sound weird, but they actually vanished. My family was flabbergasted. My dad even went up the stairs to quickly search the building for them. No sign at all. To this day, that mystery has become unexplained.I never saw them after that. There is evidence that they have existed though, as there is a picture of that same kid in the academy where I used to go as a kid.It creeps me out everytime.
Dr. Mounce shared that he had a slightly different experience, noting that because he was born on Halloween, his “interest in unexplainable (anomalous) phenomena probably began at birth!”
saw a friendly looking cat that I didn’t recognize coming up to me, like it was looking for attention, in the hallway of my house. Right when it got close, it disappeared. Years later, I got a kitten, which grew into a cat that reminded me of that cat
I once saw a clipboard fly off of the hook it hung on and land around 3 feet away. The room was totally still beforehand, no breeze or earthquake or anything. Just hanging up where it always was, then flung across the room for no reason at all.Most boring poltergeist ever.
Dr. Mounce also shared that one of the things he loved to do as a young teen was listen to the radio late at night. “I would scan the AM dial for whatever I could find. Often it was a hell and brimstone preacher or a Major League Baseball game, usually the Cardinals or the Braves,” he noted.
“In one of my favorite episodes, a man called in to the show as he was purportedly flying his airplane into the mysterious Area 51, where top-secret UFO reverse engineering was rumored to be taking place. Listening to the man talk about this situation live on the air for all the world to hear was more dramatic and tense than anything you could find on television or the movie theaters,” the host shared.
The family was on holiday at a resort in Vietnam. My sister and I took an elevator in the hotel, and it stopped and opened on the top floor, where nothing was built.There were just bricks lying about, a wheelbarrow, no fence or wall around the edge of the building, and a single small tree growing out of the ground in front of the elevator doors a few feet out.There was also thisimpenetrable fogfloating around, obscuring the sight of what would be the rest of the resort below, and it was quite windy. We both agreed it was weird and looked dangerous to be up here - we clearly weren’t meant to have access to the top floor since it wasn’t fully constructed.We went back down to the ground floor and noticed that it was a sunny and clear day. We wondered where that fog and wind went. So we decided to go back to the unfinished rooftop level to check again, but when we did, it was perfectly fine and fully built. We couldn’t explain it and couldn’t find that half-built top floor again afterward.
A snorkel mouth piece at the pool. No other parts , no one else around. The exact piece that my brother used to carry around when he was 2. What he was reaching for (we think) when he fell in and almost drowned. About 25 years later, he OD’d. And the morning we spread his ashes, later that day we went to my sister’s pool to get our minds off it. And we found that f*****g snorkel mouth piece. Miss you, Chicken.
Smitty shared that, growing up in North Mississippi, he heard many stories of ghosts, cryptids, and other paranormal experiences that piqued his curiosity. “One of the stories from my childhood that stands out in my mind (a story that both Dr. Mounce and I heard before we ever met) is the story of Possumhead Man,” he told Bored Panda.“With an abundance of opossums in the state, there was a rumor that a cryptid, known as Possumhead Man, roamed the woods with the head of a possum and the body of a man,” the host shared. “For the local kids, the story of Possumhead Man was both frightening and intriguing. This is why later in life I started to investigate not only Possumhead Man, but Bigfoot and other cryptids from around the world.”
Smitty shared that, growing up in North Mississippi, he heard many stories of ghosts, cryptids, and other paranormal experiences that piqued his curiosity. “One of the stories from my childhood that stands out in my mind (a story that both Dr. Mounce and I heard before we ever met) is the story of Possumhead Man,” he told Bored Panda.
“With an abundance of opossums in the state, there was a rumor that a cryptid, known as Possumhead Man, roamed the woods with the head of a possum and the body of a man,” the host shared. “For the local kids, the story of Possumhead Man was both frightening and intriguing. This is why later in life I started to investigate not only Possumhead Man, but Bigfoot and other cryptids from around the world.”
We also asked the hosts about any unexplainable experiences they’ve had themselves. Dr. Mounce shared that when he was young, he developed a tremendous fear of public speaking. So when he ended up in a Public Speaking course his first semester of college and was required to give a demonstration speech, he decided to do it on something he was quite comfortable with: cleaning a catfish.“However, I knew there was no way I could stand up in front of a class of college students and my professor and do any demonstration, much less talk about it,” Dr. Mounce noted. “To say I was mortified is a major understatement. Out of sheer desperation, I told my mother about my speech and asked her to please say a prayer for me.”
We also asked the hosts about any unexplainable experiences they’ve had themselves. Dr. Mounce shared that when he was young, he developed a tremendous fear of public speaking. So when he ended up in a Public Speaking course his first semester of college and was required to give a demonstration speech, he decided to do it on something he was quite comfortable with: cleaning a catfish.
“However, I knew there was no way I could stand up in front of a class of college students and my professor and do any demonstration, much less talk about it,” Dr. Mounce noted. “To say I was mortified is a major understatement. Out of sheer desperation, I told my mother about my speech and asked her to please say a prayer for me.”
When I was about 13 or 14 years old myself and two friends found a house in the middle of the woods that just didn’t make sense. We were all neighbors, and along all three of our houses was a very large wooded area. It runs a few miles back and becomes a state forest. We had run around these woods plenty of times and even had areas we’d recognize as we went. This particular day we followed this ravine that was sometimes a stream, but was dry at this time. That part is important, because we followed that same ravine several times after that and never could find the house again.When I say the house didn’t make sense, I mean it. It was a white trailer. I’d say a double-wide. There was white underpinning along the bottom. It was a poor country area, so that’s not uncommon. But it was unusually clean. Like, brand new, perfectly white. But that’s still not the weird part.It didn’t have doors. Or windows. Or a driveway. We were in the middle of the woods. The entire walk through the woods is full of bushes, thorns, spiderwebs, bugs, vines, logs. Woods stuff. But this was a clearing of flat grass like someone mowed this area. We weren’t afraid or anything while we were there. There really wasn’t anything remarkable about it, and that’s honestly what makes it so weird to think about to this day. We just walked around it for a bit, said it was kinda weird, and we went back on our adventure. Eventually we all just went home.I’m still friends with both of the other kids. We’re in our 30s and I’m even going to a wedding for one of them this weekend. We’ve talked about it since, and the story still just doesn’t add up. My parents still live in that house, and we spent years after that day exploring the woods all the time. Never found it again.
“The day of my speech, I walked up in front of the class. My heart was beating so fast I could not speak,” Dr. Mounce continued. “It felt like it would explode through my chest. I was sweating, shaking, and my mouth wouldn’t open. My eyes closed at the front of the classroom. No doubt about it, I was doomed.”“Suddenly, something entered my body: a presence, a spirit. My pounding heart calmed down to an unnoticeable normal beat,” the host shared. “Fresh air filled my lungs. My body stopped shaking, and a breeze wafted across my sweaty skin. My eyes opened, and something happened. I do not recall anything I said or did the rest of that day, but I got an A on the speech. Unbeknownst to me, 40 miles away at the Ecru shirt factory, my mother and a group of co-workers had joined together in a prayer circle at the exact time of my speech. I fully believe their prayers lifted me up and allowed me to perform an impossible task that I never would have been able to do on my own.”
“The day of my speech, I walked up in front of the class. My heart was beating so fast I could not speak,” Dr. Mounce continued. “It felt like it would explode through my chest. I was sweating, shaking, and my mouth wouldn’t open. My eyes closed at the front of the classroom. No doubt about it, I was doomed.”
“Suddenly, something entered my body: a presence, a spirit. My pounding heart calmed down to an unnoticeable normal beat,” the host shared. “Fresh air filled my lungs. My body stopped shaking, and a breeze wafted across my sweaty skin. My eyes opened, and something happened. I do not recall anything I said or did the rest of that day, but I got an A on the speech. Unbeknownst to me, 40 miles away at the Ecru shirt factory, my mother and a group of co-workers had joined together in a prayer circle at the exact time of my speech. I fully believe their prayers lifted me up and allowed me to perform an impossible task that I never would have been able to do on my own.”
I worked at a pet store. I closed one night and part of the duties were to close all the lids on the fish tanks (no way for anything to get out. I opened the next morning and found 6 fish dead on the floor, on their bellies, an inch apart, perfectly in line.Wasnt the only thing weird that happened there…
when i was 22 and my gf was 18 we were driving on a rainy night after dark and saw a young lady on the side of the road. as we drove past my gf asked me to stop and see if she needed a ride so i did.when she climbed in she was a little old lady.we drove her to her destination and after dropping her off and driving in silence for a bit my gf looks at me and goes, “Did you see a pretty young girl when we passed her the first time?“i said yes that i had thought she was 18ish and was definitely not a wrinkley old lady.we both saw the woman in both forms. f**king shapeshifter!
Smitty also shared that he grew up down the road from a genuine haunted house that some of his friends lived in. “When they were doing the dirt-work to pour the foundation of their house, they unearthed a young male Native American skeleton whose ankle had been badly damaged, or he had been born with a deformity,” he explained.“The house, which was built in the 1950s began to experience strange happenings such as paintings being removed from the wall and laid on the opposite side of the room during the night, pots and pans banging, rocking chairs rocking without anyone in them, doors being opened without anyone claiming to have done it, and the sound of the young Native American, who they dubbed Slough Foot, dragging his damaged foot across their hardwood floors,” the host continued. “Luckily for the family, Slough Foot was not a malevolent entity, just a mischievous one.”
Smitty also shared that he grew up down the road from a genuine haunted house that some of his friends lived in. “When they were doing the dirt-work to pour the foundation of their house, they unearthed a young male Native American skeleton whose ankle had been badly damaged, or he had been born with a deformity,” he explained.
“The house, which was built in the 1950s began to experience strange happenings such as paintings being removed from the wall and laid on the opposite side of the room during the night, pots and pans banging, rocking chairs rocking without anyone in them, doors being opened without anyone claiming to have done it, and the sound of the young Native American, who they dubbed Slough Foot, dragging his damaged foot across their hardwood floors,” the host continued. “Luckily for the family, Slough Foot was not a malevolent entity, just a mischievous one.”
My sister and I both saw the same (or similar) floating white figure out of the same window of the house 6 months apart without having discussed it till about 8 years after each witnessing it. Our eldest sister claimed to have seen the same thing in front of our house after we both came clean to her. There was about a year long period when I would hear a phantom calling my name to the front yard but there was no one or nothing out there when I’d look outside.
We were also curious about the hosts’ favorite stories that they’ve ever discussed onAll Things - Unexplained. “The legendarySkinwalker Ranchis one of the most significant locations we have discussed,” CJ shared. “While there are endless fascinating stories that we have heard, the anomalies of Skinwalker Ranch were a turning point for me.”
Had (apparently) a sleep hallucination (different from a night terror) and saw a black ichor monster with a crown made of flesh. It ran at me all herky jerky when it noticed I was awake. I screamed and put the blanket over my head. My mom woke up and ran into the room. It was gone.Looked as real as real life, just a few feet from me. It was seamless with real life.20 years later and haven’t experienced anything like that before or after.Mom later said she saw a moving shadow in the room before she turned on the light.
Dr. Mounce says that one of his favorite guest stories that they’ve featured came directly from one of the most famous UFO abductees in history–Travis Walton. He noted that there are two things he finds particularly interesting about Travis’ story. “First, it’s how the movieFire in the Skysensationalized his experience on the ship into an incredibly frightening scene more akin to a horror movie than what Travis described to us,” the host explained. “Fire in the Skyportrayed the abduction as a very malevolent event, with abductors who were to be feared. Travis said he believed his incident outside the craft was an accident, and the aliens brought him on board to help. They had no cruel intentions whatsoever.”
This goes along with other stories but it’s the one that stuck out -When I was probably 11, I was at home with my mom and dad. The way our house was set up, the office opened into the living room from a very wide door, and the kitchen was next to the living room, fairly open concept. I was in the office on my computer, my dad was on the couch watching tv, we were probably 10 feet apart at most within view of one another. It was like 7 at night and was pretty much totally dark out.What we saw I can only describe as the most intense camera flash you could imagine. Think about how lightning lights up the dark sky so much it looks like daylight for a second, it was that but indoors. It wasn’t lighting outside, sky was clear and somehow you could just tell it originated inside.Dad and I looked at each other. We both saw the same thing, and we both sat there a little freaked out. We’ve talked about it dozens of times and our stories are still identical, but we can’t figure it out.Dad and I both saw it, one big flash, just as quick as a camera flash. Completely overtook both rooms.
There have been a few weird, unexplainable things happen to me, but one that really sticks out is from when I as living in this small 1br apt. You know how when you live somewhere for a while, you basically have the place memorized and can walk around in the dark? Well, I had lived in this place for almost 5 years, and my routine before bed was basically turning lights off in the living room, going into the bathroom to brush my teeth, turn bathroom light off and walk across the hall and get into my bed, without turning the light on in my bedroom. I always did this. Well, one night , I walk into my bedroom and right as I’m about to climb into bed, “SPIDER” pops into my head, as if someone said it to me. I thought, “hmm, that’s weird”, but I turned around and turned on the light, pulled the comforter and sheet back , and there was this big spider in my bed. I got the chills wondering why the word “SPIDER” popped into my head like that. I didn’t have a spider problem in my apartment. I didn’t find spiders in my apt. all the time or anything. It was really weird.
I’m breaking the rules because I only heard this, but it’s spooky and true.My parents would leave for work an hour before my bus came, so I got an hour to watch cartoons. I loved it. One morning I heard the distinct click of the basement door closing (so I assumed someone got in a basement window and thought nobody was home).I screamed out “I haven’t seen you, please don’t hurt me! I’ll leave right now and I promise I won’t tell anyone” and ran out the front door with my backpack.We lived in a rural area and had a long driveway, but I heard plates and glasses shattering because it was May and the kitchen window was partly open. That was a long wait for my bus lol. I didn’t tell anyone, and when I got home…nothing was broken or missing.It had never occurred to me to be scared of being home alone in the morning, so there was no real reason I’d convince myself I heard something. But that basement door had a very loud click that echoed up the stairs. And it’s hard to mistake other sounds for glasses and plates being thrown on the ground.
“Believe it or not, our very first official interview has always been my favorite tale and most puzzling,” Smitty told Bored Panda. “The man we interviewed, who we only referred to as Mr. Billy, was a law enforcement officer who witnessed one of the most viewed UFO - UAP sightings in United States History.” If you’d like to listen to the episode, you can find itright here!
I was traveling with my family in the middle of nowhere, VA, and we stopped at a chain restaurant to eat. I went to the bathroom, and it was completely empty. I was washing my hands when the door opened. In the mirror was an odd-looking kid with almond-shaped eyes. He looked super young — maybe 5 years old. Nobody was with him. He came in and just stood and stared at me. I think I said something like, ‘Do you need help?’ and he turned toward the stalls and straight-up disappeared. I didn’t believe my eyes, and actually checked the stalls (all the doors were open), popped my head out the door, and even checked under the sink. Nobody was there. He couldn’t have ran back through the door that fast because 1. it did not open again, and 2. he didn’t go back that way anyway. I always wondered what it was. Ghost? Alien? Some sort of weird brain fart?
My older brother and I were probably 10 and 13 at the time this happened. We used to watch the history channel and saw the shows about UFOs and what not. People talking about seeing actual triangles just floating in the sky with no sound. My brother and I watched them just to poke fun at the witnesses because we thought it was so far fetched and ridiculous.One night, just after sun down, we were outside feeding our dogs. My brother looks up and notices something in the sky. I look up with him and I’ll be damned, a hovering triangular object, making no noise was hovering over our heads. What made it so eerie was that it was hovering not much higher than the tree tops but still, no noise. My brother shined the flashlight at it which scared me even more lol.We instantly ran inside and told our parents but of course they’re not going to believe the kids and honestly, I don’t blame them. Ever since that night, I’ve always looked up in the sky, hoping to see something like it again but I have yet to. I’ll never forget it.
As far as whether or not there will always be unexplainable phenomena, CJ says there will always be more questions. “As one phenomenon is explained, we will be left to ponder another,” she told Bored Panda. “The worlds of science and religion have worked endlessly to uncover where we came from and where we are going. Could UFOs be our answer to these questions, or would they simply open the door to new questions?““As a species, we don’t like loose ends. We want answers, and sometimes life feels like a page-turner that keeps ending with a cliffhanger,” CJ continued. “We must keep turning pages, and as we learn more, we realize there is always more to learn. The greatest benefit of being part of theAll Things - Unexplainedpodcast is that I get to continue searching for answers with the most fascinating people.”
As far as whether or not there will always be unexplainable phenomena, CJ says there will always be more questions. “As one phenomenon is explained, we will be left to ponder another,” she told Bored Panda. “The worlds of science and religion have worked endlessly to uncover where we came from and where we are going. Could UFOs be our answer to these questions, or would they simply open the door to new questions?”
“As a species, we don’t like loose ends. We want answers, and sometimes life feels like a page-turner that keeps ending with a cliffhanger,” CJ continued. “We must keep turning pages, and as we learn more, we realize there is always more to learn. The greatest benefit of being part of theAll Things - Unexplainedpodcast is that I get to continue searching for answers with the most fascinating people.”
“I do not believe that there is an explanation for everything nor will there ever be,” Smitty shared. “If the world is spinning, there will be unexplained phenomena. And if Dr. Mounce, CJ, and myself are alive, we will continue to investigate the unexplainable. So, we hope all of you stay happy, stay strange, and listen toAll Things - Unexplained!”
On a super dark road in farmland with corn on both sides a weird human shaped thing with wings was crouched in the road and it did a weird jump and took off flying above the corn. Everyone in the car screamed like lunatics. We were on the way to a party and everyone there thought we were messing with them but we were legitimately terrified. It was big, like the size of an average man. This was over ten years ago and we still randomly message each other about it.Edit: I just did some googling and it appears people have reported seeing the same think even hunched over at first like I saw in PA and NJ so I guess maybe we have something unexplainable going on or at least we did. All the websites I found had this info put out around the same time I saw it years ago.
“However, mysterious events are not limited to ranches in rural Utah or the puzzling quantum realm,” the host pointed out. “There are spooky, paranormal events that are experienced around the globe, and conceivably, around the universe. It is only with open minds and open hearts– and generous portions of observation, data collection, and analysis– that we will give ourselves a chance to arrive at the crossroads of the unexplained.”
I’ve had a towel fly off a shelf at a hotel I frequented. It happened on two separate occasions. Both times, I was in the middle of a shower, and suddenly, the towel that was sitting perfectly still on a shelf flew out about a foot away. No one else was with me in the room, and both the bathroom and room were locked. Still have no logical explanation for it.
This was about 8-10 years ago. I was on my way to work for an early morning shift. To get to work I had to drive down this long dark road which the speed limit was about 80km. Now on this road there is a stretch for about 2 minutes where there is pure darkness except for your headlights. While driving I looked up and saw an orb of light directly above my car which was travelling a bit quicker than me. Never seen anything like it, the light followed me for as long as 30 seconds than shot to the side into the bushland. I was intrigued and wanted to follow it but there was no road that lead towards it. It slowly disappeared into the trees. I’ve never told anyone except for my girlfriend this story as I don’t know what to make of it.
“These stories paint a broader picture of the paranormal— one that transcends the boundaries of skepticism and belief,” Dr. Mounce says. “It is through these unexplained tales that we gain a renewed appreciation for the complexities of human experience and the mysteries that continue to beckon us beyond the boundaries of our understanding.”“As we continue to ponder the dark mysterious realms of our planet and the vast uncharted territories of the cosmos, let us not forget the people who have these experiences, because their lives have been changed forever,” the host continued. “Their whispers of truth contribute to the timeless saga of humanity’s quest for meaning in the face of the unknown, and next time, the encounter of high strangeness could arrive for you.”If you’d like to delve deeper into the world of mysterious and fascinating stories, be sure to check outAll Things - Unexplained!
“These stories paint a broader picture of the paranormal— one that transcends the boundaries of skepticism and belief,” Dr. Mounce says. “It is through these unexplained tales that we gain a renewed appreciation for the complexities of human experience and the mysteries that continue to beckon us beyond the boundaries of our understanding.”
“As we continue to ponder the dark mysterious realms of our planet and the vast uncharted territories of the cosmos, let us not forget the people who have these experiences, because their lives have been changed forever,” the host continued. “Their whispers of truth contribute to the timeless saga of humanity’s quest for meaning in the face of the unknown, and next time, the encounter of high strangeness could arrive for you.”
If you’d like to delve deeper into the world of mysterious and fascinating stories, be sure to check outAll Things - Unexplained!
On a road trip, I saw a pale dot in the sky. It looked like it split into pieces suddenly and disappeared.
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Once my uncle actually paid for a dinner instead of just letting my dad pay it. The entire family was in shock.
My middle school best friend lived in a house in the countryside, and one weekend I slept over, and we woke up and made some breakfast. I poured a glass of orange juice, and my friend hopped in the shower. I turned around and poured some cereal, cut some fruit, and after a few minutes, I turned around, and my glass of orange juice was on the floor. Upright, not spilled. The bathroom was past the kitchen, and my friend never left it. So weird, but boring.
My mom died of cancer two years ago, i was with her on her deathbed for her final week as she was in and out of consciousness. I had to give her morphine. She stopped talking a couple days before she died but at some point in the ordeal she became totally lucid and started talking about our old neighbor who died back in the late 90s. I grew up in somewhat rural Ohio, the guy she was talking about was this classic old guy who would drive around to the neighbors in his old Ford tractor, talk loud, drink whiskey and chew tobacco. She told me He was in the room bothering her. I started recording what she was saying and started asking her questions. This was the last time i talked to her.A week later before the funeral i was trying to sort some of my files on my computer and get my s**t in order to give a speech. I had the files of recordings from that week but i somehow deleted them and somehow also deleted them from the recycle bin! I have no idea how it happened and i sort of flipped out because it was our last conversation. If you know me im very meticulous / organized with my stuff and never lose files or anything really.Im not really religious but my mom was. It was like i recorded something I wasn’t supposed to have, something from the spirit realm. It was trippy, even as i write this it freaks me out. I wonder if anyone else had a similar experience?
It was around 2AM. I was in the kitchen cooking instant noodles. Right next to the stove is the kitchen sink.I shift over to the sink, turn on the faucet, and start washing a bowl with soap and water. I wipe the bowl down and take one step over back to the stove to monitor the noodles. They’re almost finished.But I notice something weird.In my peripheral vision, I can still see the sink on my right side. I notice a grayish/beige colored shape protruding out from the sink drain.The first thought I had was, “This must be a bubble forming,” since I was just using soap to wash my bowl.So, with my eyes kept on the stovetop with noodles, I take a wide step with my right leg and lean over to pop the bubble with my right hand. So, I tap it.But it doesn’t burst. In fact, it’s not even a bubble. It’s solid.For some reason, in my shock, I turn away from the noodles and begin using more force with my right hand to push down on this… thing. It was resistant, but after about 2 seconds of me forcefully pushing, I stopped, and it began retracting back down into the drain.Til this day, I have no idea what I was fighting with in my kitchen sink drain.This is my best description:- What I encountered seemed like a small portion of a larger thing- It was slimy and fleshy, it’s what I imagine an eel to feel like- the part that protruded was sort of snake head shaped, as in… the part i was touching to push down was slightly larger than the rest of it, it tapered down to a slimmer shape- it was relatively strong- it is somehow in a sewage system
So NOW I can explain this but for the longest time I just accepted it as an odd memory…I have this really strong memory of back when I was a young kid of looking out the rear side window of my family’s car and seeing two moons in the sky above the coniferous treetops…Just sitting there and glowing next to each other. Both REALLY bright and two separate spheres. I remember that we were driving up to Vermont at the time so the sky was really dark.For the longest time I just thought of this as a weirdly strong memory but didn’t really understand it.Then I went back and looked up when the Hale Bopp comet was in the sky. It was absolutely that. I then realized that I had a really cool memory of a stunning view of a full moon and the Hale Bopp comet in the sky together.It was such a fantastic sight that it stuck with me as a strong memory for years without understanding it. Very cool.
My friends and i flashed a powerful light across a river and saw what appeared to be a absolutely massive boar. It then stood up on its hind legs and it simply did not compute. Immediate fear everyone ran. I was a kid but I have a very good memory and several friends that are positive they saw it as well. Idk
Two things:A tropical storm came through and broke a light pole. I saw the light pole literally snapped in two. Later on, the utilities company came and fixed it…but it’s the original light pole. Same vines covering it, same faded “no trespassing” sign, everything. Still haven’t figured it out.The other one happened not long ago. There was, what looked like, a nasty fire coming from a subdivision up the street from the McDonald’s I was at. It had to have been something serious because 8 fire trucks responded. I was curious about it so I went to see what was on fire the next day…no sign of anything that could possibly have been on fire. No damaged buildings, no burned grass, no burned spot from a car, nothing. Still haven’t figured it out.
From 91 to about 94, I could be in some random part of town, or another city completely, and I could point out a street light, any street light and say ‘that one is going to go out’ and boom!! the light would go out. 100% of the time, I said that light will go out, went out.
Seen a doll move like someone was playing with it
I swear that somehow i can get a few glimpeses of the future in my dreams, about a few seconds at least.I notice sometimes that i got a few moments of dejavu, and of the few dreams i ever remember, sometimes one of those dreams pops up with a scary accuracy.I realised this when i dreamed of an electric stair from a place that felt familiar, and suddenly noticed a woman with short black hair.Then i go for a visit at one of the local malls with my mom, and notice it the familiar scenery. And there was the woman, same outfit, same hair, same scenery.Now im scared to death, because the last dream i had was of 2 guys breaking and entering in my home from the frer than usual too, like around 30 seconds instead of around 3 or 6. All i knew was that i maded it clear that i was watching them and knew they were unarmed, but the oldest one appeared to be angry and was trying to circle around the house. Last i remember was screaming at my brother to go and get the baseball bats.I haven´t gotten any dreams like these since, and its actually scaring me. The rest were the usual just sleep until you wake up, fever dreams from being sick and uncomfortable, or something random but clearly not realistic that i can´t remember at all.
I grew up on a 700 acre farm. What wasn’t pasture was thick woods. About a 10 minute walk from the house was this tree. You would always feel weird around it. On edge. Prickly. It was old and gnarled. But what was super weird was nothing grew… and I mean nothing… not grass, not even weeds.. in what a college class later described as an almost indescribably perfect circle with a 72 foot diameter around its trunk. It was just dusty dead earth in an otherwise lush forest.
I’ve told this story very few times, because it’s just so ridiculous.But when I was around 5, I was playing with my moms green plastic watering can in the driveway (open area, nothing else around). I was just swinging it around and tossing it into the air, when I decided to throw it at the gravel driveway. I swung it down, heard the bang as it hit the ground, saw gravel scatter, then the watering can disappeared. A few days later, my mom asked me where it went, I replied honestly “I have no clue.” Never saw it again.
My friends and I saw some interesting lights in the sky one night on my moms deck (we live in the DC suburbs) so we were scoping it out with binoculars and a cheap telescope I had from when I was a kid. We were yelling at the sky, taunting it to come abduct us and being idiots, when all of a sudden, a black helicopter flys in our vicinity at what seemed like no more than 50-100 feet above my moms house. It hovered and shined a few various lights down, it had green and red lights underneath, stayed for about a minute observing us, then took off.I don’t think the initial lights were anything more than satellites even though they moved erratically enough to catch our attention. But our county has thousands of police officers. They wouldn’t have sent a normal police chopper for some rowdy kids being somewhat loud in our backyard. The suddenness that the helicopter arrived and how low it got was unbelievable and stunned us for hours after.We suspected some kind of 3 letter agency was coming to document our acknowledgment of whatever we saw in the sky and either scare us or record us. For reference, we live in NRO/CIA’s backyard.Wild experience that left us wondering what the hell had happened.
A meteor shower, but ten of thousands of meteors. The whole sky went completely bright. It lasted a solid 10 minutes.I was sure civilization had ended.Location: middle of the Atlantic ⛵⛵
I posted something a long time ago, but I went from driving on one highway to another highway in pouring rain. Still headed in the right direction, and about 10 miles in total displacement. But I consciously chose one and was on it until I saw road signs telling me I was one the other.I just went numb. No loss of time or any other abnormality. If I didn’t have to actually make a distinct effort to choose the route I wanted, I can see how it might have been a simple mistake. But I was on the road I chose (geography etc) until I wasn’t. Like something picked me up and put me down instantaneously and I didn’t notice until how long?
I witnessed my brother get run over at our homestead, my dad was in a rush to get to the hospital that I was at. I was in said hospital in a coma.
I went to put a quarter in my pocket but accidentally dropped it, on a tile floor.It just… never hit the ground. Never heard it land.I checked everywhere. I checked my pockets. I checked the hem of my pants. I checked the ground. I checked again. It truly disappeared.
My mom passed away in 2020. Last week my sister’s car received a notification for a messages from “Grandma’s Cell”. She said she tried to read it on the cars screen but it just cleared the notification. She said nothing showed up on her phone either. My sister just got this car within the last few months. My mom’s cell phone number has definitely been recycled. I don’t like s**t that I can’t explain. It happened a few times, and the last time she was able to get my niece to record it on her phone. She sent it to me and I can’t stop thinking about it.
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