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Someone Asks People To Share The Creepiest Things They’ve Seen In Broad Daylight, And 30 Deliver
The darkness of the night covers the world in mystery, leaving us wary of the unknown. It's during these nocturnal hours that our imagination often runs wild, exploring tales of ghosts, monsters, and other (supernatural) dangers lurking in the shadows.
However, sunrays don't guarantee absolute safety, either. Recently, Reddit user Nightsreader made a post on the platform, asking everyone, "What's the creepiest thing you've seen in broad daylight?" and it went viral.
From scary individuals to unexplained phenomena, here are some of the most upvoted stories from the thread.
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#1
Not quite broad daylight but more like dusk.
I look out my front window and see a lump on my lawn that looks out of place.
I think... That really looks like a dude in a ghillie suit on my front lawn.
I keep staring at it and become more and more convinced it is a dude in a ghillie suit. And I start to freak out a bit and don't know what I am supposed to do in this situation... Like do I call the cops?
Then a bunch of neighborhood kids run up to the lump and the actual factual real dude in a ghillie suit gets up. It was an older kid or a dad or something playing hide and seek in a ghillie suit.
Ritzhoneey 1 year ago
I had a similar situation happen, out in my (now ex) boyfriends back yard when i noticed what looked like someone laying in the shadows of a bush in camouflaged clothing.. it was not wholesome.. turned out my ex got himself into some shady business and those were cops lurking in the bushes watching the house.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Kid's lucky you weren't some kind of 'sovereign citizen'/conspiracy nut/paranoid wack-job. He could have absorbed a couple of 'pre-emptive' rounds from a loony, convinced that 'the gubmint' was coming to get him.
rullyman 1 year ago
Super realistic camouflage that makes you look like a swamp thing
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Giraffy Window 1 year ago
SUPER cute! But... Like... Do that in your own yard? People are nuts! Ghillie dad could have gotten shot...
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Needto be careful, this is how fake sightings of Bigfoot gets started.
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#2
I watched a m**der of crows follow a Toyota Corolla into a mall parking lot. The car parked, and a greasy-looking middle-aged man got out. He bee-lined for the mall entrance without once making eye contact with the crows who were now following him. At the last second before entering the mall, he tossed a big handful of peanuts over his shoulder and the crows went wild. It seemed less like the man was controlling the crows, and more like the crows were controlling him.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Mr. Wonka is censored. Richard Parker is censored (if he hasn't eaten you by the time you're comfortable calling him by a nickname). The stopper on a wine bottle is censored. Half of a raccoon is censored (TBF, raccoons don't wear pants, as far as I know). The purposeful ending of a life is censored. A female dog is censored. I'm honestly surprised that "censor" isn't censored.
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FloralDangerNoodle 1 year ago
Ack, such b******t. This isn't creepy, it's AWESOME! Neither was 'controlling' the other - stupidest s**t I've ever heard. The man obviously feeds the crows, and they befriended each other. Simple as that. Source: I also have a murder of crows.
Flora Porter 1 year ago
Crows are clever. They remember people who feed them, bring along friends and family and even offer tokens in return. Plus all the carrion eaters do a great job of cleaning up roadkill.
glowworm2 1 year ago
They also remember people who harmed them and will let all their buddies know. From the description of this story, maybe this man ticked off the crows and has to appease them to go on with his life.
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#3
I work "security" at a hospital. I really just sit outside of the construction zone where they're doing remodeling and make sure homeless people and teenagers don't get in. But I'm also sat right outside the door they use to take the bodies out. There's just something eerie about how like.... discreet and impersonal it is? Not that I expect there to be some sort of fanfare when someone dies. But they're just wrapped in quilts or thick blankets, quietly loaded up into an unmarked van and...that's it. It's a major hospital so there's several bodies wheeled out every day. Worst is when you know it's a child but I thankfully don't see much of that. They tend to wait until the middle of the night so less people see so they don't upset people. Always just strikes this weird feeling in me when I see them.
Edit: I should also say that there *is* a bit of fanfare if they're an organ donor. The doctors and nurses will line up along the hall when they take them out and have just like, a little moment of silence. Like a way to express their thanks for this person inevitably helping someone else. Very bittersweet.
Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
Yeah, my sister died last summer. The organ donor group Aurora as well as hospital staff all showed to her small semd off in the hospital chapel. She wasn't able to actually donate because of her history but because we tried, they acted as if she did donate. It was very kind of them.
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TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
Become an organ donor today people! There's literally ZERO benefits for you to keep them to yourself after it's lights-out! You can save MULTIPLE lives after yours has ended!
Suby 1 year ago
At my local hospital in the US, they do a send-off for veterans when they wheel out the body. They call all available staff (and any patients who want to and are able) to stand in the hallway with the family, and everyone looks on silently (or salutes, if they're military) as the body, covered with an American flag, is wheeled down the hall to the elevators. I think it's a beautiful custom, and I wish they did something similar for all patients who die there.
Lucie Van Pelt 1 year ago
I worked at one of the North Carolina Veterans Homes, and we did that, too.
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Igor914624 1 year ago
I saw that on an episode of "The Rookie". It is definitely a very bittersweet moment. You feel sorry for the loss of life, but happy they chose to help others as their last act.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
When I was employed my office used to overlook the mortuary entrance, there would be bodies being delivered to the morgue and being collected by various undertakers etc. There was a covered area where the bodies were loaded/unloaded so all we saw was a queue of vehicles.
Al Padilla 1 year ago
Actually, the standard way hospitals transfer a deceased person from a hospital room to the morgue and/or hearse is with a "magic gurney" - It's a wheeled "bed" that looks just like the gurney used to transport patients from one place to another in the hospital. However, it would be "bad advertising" to wheel a corpse around. So, there's a false bottom into which the body is placed, then a sheet placed over as a cover. Usually, nobody's the wiser.
Sleepy Panda 1 year ago
My sister father in-law was an organ donor and received the guard of honour on his way to the operating theatre. He suffered a massive brain bleed a few days before Christmas last year and the family were very comforted to know that he was immediately saving 3 lives with his organs but also helping many more with all of the tissue donation. Please consider becoming an organ donor.
#4
I was 12 and walking to my grandparents house carrying my pet to drop it off before going on vacation. (My grandparents house was 2 doors down from my own) while I was walking, a random car pulled up next to me and the man rolled down his window. he said, “do you have a dog? I just saw a dog walking down the street and it might be yours. you wanna come try and pick it up with me?” I was 12, but not an idiot. I’m a woman, my mother taught me better than that. I stayed far away from the car, said no, he insisted I stay, but I fled, and quickly walked to my grandparents house. I told my family the story, they called the police, and little 12 year old me had to talk to the police over the phone on my way to the airport. I described him, his car, everything i could remember. turns out, the man was wanted for burglary and attempted kidnapping. I count myself lucky. the creepy thing is, this happened basically right outside my home, in my “safe” neighborhood, when “coincidentally” no one else was around. Never saw him again.
SweetCheesySpaghetti 1 year ago
I was in Canada on a school trip, and i got lost moving from one bar to another. I stopped at a McDonalds to catch my bearings. Three men tried to convince me to go with them in their private plane to Jamaica. Two friends happened to see me through the window when they walked by (they had been looking for me) and stopped who knows what from happening. I think about this so often, even 23 years later.
vanessa alley 1 year ago
The same thing happened to me in Montreal. I went in '94 or '95 and I was 15 years old. My friends and I rented a bus and signed up for some tour guide for the hotel and to take us to the best bars (the ones that let under 18 year olds in with no questions). I always thought of myself as careful and street smart but I found myself drunk and in the backseat of some guys car traveling out of the city. He had another guy in the passenger seat and I had my friend Tara next to me. At first it didn't even dawn on me that we were not in Montreal anymore. I was focused on smoking weed. But as soon as I noticed there were no more street lights, I flipped out. I told them that I had a thousand dollars in my hotel room and they decided to take me to get it. As soon as we pulled out front of the hotel, my friend and I jumped out and ran into the lobby and had the receptionist hide us. I didn't call the cops because I wasn't sure if the 2 men did anything wrong. Hindsight is everything
Load More Replies... LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
When I was about 13 or 14, three men in a van pulled over when I walking home from the store one day and commented that I had "cute feet" 🤢 and did I want a ride. Thankfully I was walking against the flow of traffic and they totally creeped me out so I just ran and they had to drive away because of the cars behind them. So close...
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Had a guy pull over to ask for directions when I was about 10, my cousin was with me he said he couldn't hear to come closer. I didn't get any be wary of strangers teaching. Looong time ago. My cousin was going to go closer but I stopped her. I told him I had no idea where he was going. We were just across the street from my aunt's house. Definitely still teach your kids about safety.
Janet Graham 1 year ago
Good! The 'looking for a lost pet' scenario is one I used when teaching my kids about avoiding creeps.
#5
Went to eat at a restaurant, the hostess (elderly lady) sat us at our table, said "enjoy your meal" and proceeded to drop dead right there.
Flora Porter 1 year ago
Hopefully it was a family restaurant and she was feeling involved and useful. There are worse ways to go.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
Those Michelin starred chefs do come up with amazing ways of serving your meal.
Mel Colley 1 year ago
This is very sad, an elderly lady working a stressful job like waitressing cause she couldn't afford not to.
#6
I saw a man speeding around a busy grocery store parking lot, windows rolled down, screaming at the woman who was in the passenger seat. He kept speeding up, braking, and was screaming at her the whole time.
I called the cops and watched her do a rolling jump out of the lifted truck right when the cops pulled in to the parking lot.
Jcusack 1 year ago
How big of a parking lot was that? and how close were those cops!?
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Lo Kindred 1 year ago
I saw something similar on the way home from work one night. Dude was driving erratically (speeding up quickly and then slowing back down to a crawl) and he looked like he was punching something on the passenger side. I stay behind him and called the police. We went through several towns, so I was switched over to each town when we went through. I made it to my turn off, and there was a cop waiting there at the light for him. I went on home. The next day I see on my local PD Facebook page that this dude was arrested and then tried to bribe the police with a "briefcase" of money. Turns out he was a big name in the car sales industry and had a previous record for child molestation. This arrest revoked his bond. I had to testify at his trail https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bellaire/crime-courts/article/Man-with-numerous-felonies-in-Harris-County-9107658.php
Gamin Coda 1 year ago
My ex did that s**t. She was nuts. Tried to drive me and our daughter into a building at high speed. I had to rip the handbrake and stopped like 2 inches before we hit.
Pam Ives 1 year ago
I was waiting for my bf outside a big box store. It specialized in hardware so he was in there for about an hour. While I was waiting, a car pulled through the parking lot every few minutes, like he was looking for something/someone. His vibe was super sketchy and the look on his face was sheer hostility. The creepy topper was he was a dead ringer for Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker.
#7
A guy drove up next to me as I was taking a walk around my neighborhood and asked for directions. The road he named was the next road down, and I told him so. What made it creepy was that the next words out of his mouth were a request to get in his truck and guide him. I was a 15 year old, but I'm a stick of a person even now. I knew if this guy decided to stop and grab me I had no chance of getting away, so I did what anyone would probably do: I told him no and, because I was on a section of sidewalk directly behind my house, cut through the backyard and booked it inside. I locked every door I could and called my dad to find out if he was working out that day, and ask him to skip if he could. My poor father came home and immediately showed me where the emergency release is in his trunk, and how to find the button to turn off brake lights. I'd heard the "don't go into a stranger's car" line so often growing up I honestly thought it was another myth to scare kids into not wandering around. It's up there with a bear encounter as one of the scariest things I've experienced.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Parents should be teaching boys no means no and many others.
Load More Replies... Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
I severely sprained my ankle on my way to a friend's house in middle school. No phones back then so I got up and was limping wretchedly along the sidewalk, sobbing because in my young mind, I still had to go visit my friend. A man stops beside me in his car and was probably just genuinely concerned about the limping, bawling child. But his car was pointed away from the direction I was walking, so when he asked if he could help get me somewhere I continued to bawl, while politely telling him "No thank you, I'm ok". I don't believe now I was in any danger from that particular person that day, but back then I was SO proud of myself; by the time I made it the final block and got sat down by my friend's mom, my then grapefruit-sized ankle felt like an earned "battle wound". I beat stranger danger that day and quietly considered myself "street smart" for the next few years for it lol
Ritchat 1 year ago
When I was around 7 years old, I was on my way home from school when a car with 1-2 young men (maybe teenagers) pulled up next to me. The driver said "Hey, we have chocolate in here! Get in the car if you want some!" Of course I didn't. I just said "No, thanks, bye" and ran as fast as I could 2 streets down until I got home safe. They seemed friendly and were laughing like it was a big joke to them. But I still wonder what would have happened if my mom hadn't taught me not to talk to, take anything from or get onto strangers cars. Scary as f.
Nadine 1 year ago
My father said he was driving down a rural road for work when he saw a teenager boy walking and crying. My father kept offering him a ride and could never understand why the kid wouldn't let him help!
Crybabyartist 1 year ago
Well of course it was most likely Giraffy Window on his way to his middle school friends house.
Load More Replies... Janet Graham 1 year ago
That is something everyone should know. Especially kids who might 'accidentally' get stuck in a trunk.
#8
The creepiest thing for me was when I was out surfing in northern California. It's really cold dark water and I was out by myself. I was sitting there waiting for a wave and my leash felt like it was caught up which it does sometimes. I like to fix it before a wave comes so there's no hindrance when I go to stand up. Well I pull at it a little and it feels like seaweed or somethings on it. I turn towards the back of my board and there is something on it, a harbor seal whos sitting on the back of my board laying on my leash. Scared the f**k out of me but me screaming scared the f**k out of him and it went back into the water and I paddled in. I know it's not the creepiest thing in this thread but it definitely scared me pretty good.
Barong 1 year ago
I was surfing in Morro Bay CA, by the warm water outflow from the power plant. It attracts a lot of sea life and sharks have been spotted in the past. Anyway we are surfing on long boards. While waiting for a set, all of a sudden I feel this massive Thump under the board. Then AGAIN. I pull all my limbs up on top of the board and am genuinely… “concerned”. Then a third BUMP and up pops a seal. I swear it was laughing at me.
Mark 1 year ago
It's so you don't lose your board if you fall off. You'd clip on for most sailing as well
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#9
I was in a parking structure walking to my car and I noticed someone following me ( I assumed we parked near each other) when I turned around to look he ducked behind a car so alarm bells rang, he kept creeping from behind cars so I turned all the way around and i watched him slide under a car maybe 4 away, then creepily crawl towards me under all the cars. This whole time he was bug eyed staring at me. I yeeeeted out there and informed the parking attendant at the gate.
Paul C. 1 year ago
Got followed into a multi story carpark, late in the evening, up to where my car was. It was the only one at the far end and this guy started moving quicker. Now I'm a hefty six foot guy but I was panicking. Got to the boot of the car and pulled out the extra large tyre wrench I had recently purchased. Spun round and shady looking geezer veered off down the fire escape. Leg was still shaking when I was using the clutch!
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Not that it was the point of the post but whomever came up with “yeet/yeeted”should be yeeted into the sun
Shark Lady 1 year ago
Neither of those is allowed in the UK so I always carry a can of hairspray and a can of deodorant. It's in my bag purely for safety but the police have no way of proving that!
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#10
Driving down a small rural road in the middle of nowhere Arizona, probably just a few miles north of the border. Passed a man walking, clearly Mexican and clearly had just come a long way. He shouted “agua” as we passed so we pulled about 200ft in front of him, dropped off the only carton of water we had, and kept driving. As we got back on the road and looked behind us a whole family was with the man now running towards the water. I guess they were walking in the brush next to the road.
Maybe not creepy but I think about it a lot. Im from Appalachia so all the signs in the southwest saying not to pull over to assist people on the road made sense to me back then. I hope they got where they were headed
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
My Dad was driving home from the next city over one night and saw a young woman on the side of the highway. Normally he's a very helpful person, and will go out of his way to make sure people are ok, but that night he got a feeling that stopped him from stopping. Two days later the news was about a man and a woman on that highway... I was young so I genuinely don't remember if the driver was severely assaulted or outright murdered before they robbed him and took his car... Anyway, that ended up not being my dad that night.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
My boyfriend saw a guy in Mackay running down the highway at 5am naked and what he thought was sweating a lot ( it was dark and he was dark black skin and it was blood not sweat). He was gonna stop, but assumed he was just drunk and being an idiot. So he came home, found out the naked guy was running from another man stabbing the s**t out of him and police said he would of been stabbed too if he stopped, he feels so bad cos the man died etc but I told him I’m rather he’s home in one piece. And the the guy who got stabbed to death was baaaaaad person, like really bad and there was a reason he was naked running down the street being chased by another very angry man.
Ritchat 1 year ago
My mom stopped at a red light once and an old lady just casually opened the passenger's seat door and got in. "I don't want to take the bus. You will drive me to place XY now." She refused to get out of the car. My mom had remove her with force. Until this day, she never drives anywhere without locking the doors.
Catlady6000 1 year ago
People have friends and relatives all over. My ex's grands lived miles from any humans. West Texas, also near the border. We drove 16 hours from Tennesse
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#11
Back in my military days I was walking to base one day and saw a lady run out into the four lane rush hour traffic. By the time I got to where she was, she'd been hit by at least four cars at speed. The part I saw was just both arms and part of the torso connecting them. Nothing above or below. Police ruled it s***ide. I've saw plenty of s**t in my ten years of service, but that one stuck.
Xenon 1 year ago
People who use others to commit suicide are just so wrong, they leave the innocent parties with guilt and PTSD for life.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
Throwing yourself in front of a train. I read an interview with a train driver who had this happen to him more than once (I seem to remember it was eight times). It must be very traumatizing for traindrivers when this happens to them.
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Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
I like to pose a different situation. A would be suicide jumper was standing on the edge of a bridge. He had been there for quite some time (~ 1/2 hours), contemplating before making the final jump. Traffic had built-up on both sides of the road because of it. A man suddenly came out from one of the stuck cars. He walked towards him; shook his hand and then pushed him off the bridge. This case happened in China about 20 years ago. He was later arrested. But to his defence, he said he helped many other motorists from getting late to work that day.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
I have a friend who was a locomotive engineer/driver and he told me it's the worst thing you can imagine, to have someone look up at you, then jump in front of the train.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Anytime someone commits suicide they leave every one else in a very dark place.
#12
Living in Kenya with my wife, there was a nurse single mom who lived next to our apartment who we was casually friendly with us. One day during her work shift the 10 yo boy who was kind of short stacked two glass top end tables on top of each other to climb and reach the top of the closet. He climbed on top and the glass gave out completely slicing his calf from bottom to top. It was literally just hanging by a small flap of muscle. Just flapping Somehow the boy gathered himself and hobbled over to our front door and knocked and rang, meanwhile coating the entire hallway in about a quarter inch of blood. That's when I open the door to see what I quickly thought was a dying boy in front of me with a severed artery. I grabbed him into my arms and called the house girl and wife for a scarf and I immediately began triage and applying a tournament. In a Western country this is where you call 911 or an ambulance. In Kenya we fortunately knew a local taxi driver who had a station wagon. My wife managed to call the mom as we drove and her work hospital was the closest to us so she met us there. I was in the back of the station wagon holding the tourniquet and praying he didn't die on me. The look on the face of the mom when we go there... All's well though. The boy had emergency surgery to repair his muscle and only had a slight limp as a result in a few months.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
When I was little, my parents had to take me to the ED, for what, I don't remember. However, my parents never forgot it. As they got out of our car, another car came screaming into the parking lot and slammed to a stop near them. Out came a person, carrying what looked like a bundle of seriously bloody towels, followed by the driver, who was in such a state, my parents thought she was injured. The inside of the car looked like a horror movie- completely bathed in blood. Turns out, the person carrying the bloody bundle of towels was the father, carrying his tiny child, who had gone through plate glass. My parents never did find out if the little one made it or not and they mentioned it every once in a while for decades, wondering still about the outcome.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
What is plate glass and in what scenario would a tiny child „go through plate glass“?
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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
In countries like India (and I imagine Kenya) labor is extremely cheap, so nearly everyone can afford house staff. At least the middle class can. This does not mean they are rich.
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Phil Green 1 year ago
Applying a "tournament"? BoredPanda asterisks the word "murder" but doesn't spot spelling errors.
Five Years 1 year ago
A friend of mine got off shift at a bar, climbed on a new, hot rod Harley cranked it on but couldn't release the throttle and drove it right through a huge plate glass window. The EMT's gloves were all cut up when they tried to fix him up. Blood everywhere. He bled out.Scary because he was a well known screw anything that moved, back in the HIV days.
JB 1 year ago
OP doesn’t say the boy *had* a severed artery; they say they thought he was dying with a severed artery.
Load More Replies... Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
Omg. Some people just have to point out mistakes. It clearly is spelled correctly later in the post. Autocorrect gets your sometimes. Get over it.
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#13
Shared a taxi with a couple coworkers coming back from a brunch event in Georgetown. The three of us got quiet when we saw a tall lanky guy. Grey skin and a way too small head. Before we could say anything the driver shouted yo yall seein' this too?!
Flora Porter 1 year ago
Poor guy. Imagine what it must be like living with a disfiguring condition. You wouldn't want to leave the house.
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Probably be posted on bored panda as something scary by 4 easily impressionable people
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MamaBear 1 year ago
Hubby and i driving near our low income neighborhood, fair number of drug addicted and homeless with mental health issues. Saw a man standing on the sidewalk with a contorted look on his face only be described as demonic. We both got quiet then, 'did you..?" "yeah". There are some very ill people desperately in need of help, some more than others.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Sad...guy probably had microcephaly and some kind of illness that affected his skin pigment
#14
We live in Florida and raise cattle. One day a calf died. No idea why. When we found it, it was laying along the fence that separates the pasture from some woods and a creek. It was a healthy calf, probably weighed 250-300 pounds. It had been fine the day before, but the vultures had been at it so we couldn't tell how it had died. We went back the next day to bury it, but it was gone. We could see where it had been dragged under the barbed wire fence and into the woods. We hopped the fence and followed the drag marks, thinking that maybe coyotes had been at it. However, the marks disappeared, then, maybe 20 feet away, the ground was disturbed where the calf had been put down and dragged a bit, then the drag marks disappeared. This went on for a ways, until we found the calf's skin. That was all that was left. Something carried an animal that weighed at least 200 pounds through the woods. We're not really trackers and the pine needles and leaves on the ground didn't leave any clear prints. Just the drag marks. We're a couple of hundred feet in the woods, looking down at this calf's skin on the ground. The hair on the back of my neck stood up and I got goose flesh. I was nearly overwhelmed by the need to get the hell out of there. We didn't run back, but we did walk really fast. Still don't know what took our calf. The next day something spooked the cows so that they nearly stampeded through our working pen, knocking down and trampling some of the panels. No idea.
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
Dude it's Florida. Could have been an alligator, a cougar, chupacabra, some mëth head on bath salts, literally anything because again, it's Florida.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
Yes, alligators often hunt in the middle of the woods and spit the skin out a couple of hundred feet away from a kill, rme.
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I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Free meat? Do it when shooting deer/boar. Possibly an opportunistic poacher or road kill enthusiast.
Greg Preservation 1 year ago
If I lived there, I'd have had a crew dig a deep ditch, but only in the mornings, with strict orders to clear out by 2:00, fill the ditch with accordian razor wire, then a mine field, and reinforce the fence. No point in taking chances.
#15
Was taking the subway one day, a lady was walking around chugging a massive bottle of hot sauce. Bloodshot eyes, tears streaming down her face. Of course she sat next to me on the two seat bench. At first she was complimenting my nails and then she just started staring at me, much too close for comfort. She still had tears down her face, still chugging the hot sauce. I made a comment asking if it was good or something. She acted like I was crazy for noticing it? This was at least two years ago and I still can’t get her face out of my mind. Hope she’s doing well.
#16
Got lost driving through Montana and wound up in the middle of nowhere. Saw a small town (maybe like 15 buildings total) and figured I'd ask for directions. As I got closer, I saw that it looked like it was abandoned - houses all dilapidated and in disrepair. But every house had a shiny new car in front of it. Not sure what it was about, but my gf and I both got real bad vibes from it and just drove right past.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Nobody in that town doing well. But, in the next town over, there's a car salesman. Wow, can that guy sell cars!
K Reed 1 year ago
You have a better imagination than me. I would have said film set scouting or real estate buyout.
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I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Or an overactive imagination, bless you Stephen King.
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Five Years 1 year ago
We like it that way and, by the way, Yellowstone has nothing to do with living here.
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#17
I don't know about creepy but for sure shady:
I was in an extremely uncrowded Chinese restaurant (it was just me and the staff, sit down place not a strip mall joint) when a very large, very well dressed man came in and went and sat at the bar. He ordered an orange juice and nothing else. The OJ never came but a minute later the bartender handed him a brown paper bag and he left.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Protection fee. "It's a nice place you have here, be a shame if something happened to it".
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Empty... well-staffed... sounds like the place is used for gambling at night.
Kyle S. 1 year ago
Business sounds like a front for some shady dealings. How was the food? I've been to a place like this before and when I ordered food, the staff had no idea what to do; so I left.
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
Clearly picking up bribe money. For "protection." Or payment to a loan shark.
#18
Driving down the 5 in California, I saw a car drift across the center divide (it's a massive highway in the middle of nowhere with a big grass divide maybe the equivalent of 3-4 lanes wide) and directly into a semi truck going the other way. I was probably 2-3 cars behind the drifting car. Neither vehicle had hardly any chance to brake, it happened over the course of maybe 2 seconds. It literally exploded into pulverized dust. No flames or fire, just a massive explosion of glass, metal, paint, and, presumably, the occupants. The semi shuddered horribly, but with its massive inertia, it seemed to lose very little forward momentum...
Happened so fast we were past it in seconds. The poor person must have fallen asleep at the wheel or something.
Jenny Kirby 1 year ago
This is in New South Wales Australia you can tell by the police cars and the rego plates
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I saw a funny accident in Perth once, going through the tunnel, there was 4 Lamborghinis driving in the right lane and i was in the middle lane next to them, I was watching them, cos they were stunning cars and then, the first one brakes and they have a pile up 😂 it’s pretty backed up traffic wise so we make it out of the tunnel together and they have another pile up pulling over into the emergency lane 😂 they ruined 4 cars. I didn’t stick around for police cos I would have been in trouble for a few things myself at that time of my life.
StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Don't they have central barriers in the USA? Admittedly, their motorway structures are massive in distance compared to ours (UK), but still, it would help prevent a large % of opposite vehicle collisions.
marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
In CA. the engineers have a guidelines that say if the median is X feet wide, then there doesn't have to be a solid barrier. A few lives is far cheaper than building the divider. Some areas get the dividers if there are enough deaths and enough people complain.
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pineapple87 1 year ago
Yep. Where I come from, head on collisions between a truck/semi and a car are almost always suicides. It's awful for the truck drivers who usually are physically unharmed, but may never be able to drive again because of the trauma.
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Max Fox 1 year ago
There are only flame and fire explosions in movies, not in real life. Gasoline needs to become vapor in order to ignite, and that cannot happen in the gas tank. The car can burn and with a pretty intense flame, but not the big explosion that you see on TV. The TV explosions are the result of explosives.
#19
It's not creepy but crazily confronting and scary; I saw a horse run over a guy.
Horse wasn't even going full pelt either, so it made me really aware just how strong and if they want to be, dangerous, horses are.
Guy had to go to the hospital but not sure what happened to him.
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Just like people, horses can remember people, and hold grudges. Just like people, horses can reach a point where they say, 'no more of your sh*t, thank you', and act accordingly. And, just like people, some horses are just a**holes.
horseloving panda 1 year ago
100%, I work to rehab rescue horses, and some are the sweetest, kindest animals ever. And then there was the one the sprayed me with the hose and then bit me
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Jane Alexander 1 year ago (edited)
They are the best! Sweet smelling gentle giants who are the best friends ever. If one could cross a motorcycle with a dog it would be a Horse.
Load More Replies... Five Years 1 year ago
I was watching a video once where a guy was branding a horse in a steel pen. As soon as the hot iron hit the horse the horse's right leg pulled itself out of the cage and kicked back hitting the brander right in the chest. The force of it was so great the guy left the frame of the video in an instant. BOOM! He was in the next county.
#20
A man on the sidewalk looked around and then pulled down a ski mask and crept into a building as I drove past. In summer.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I saw something like this once while riding the bus. Guy got off, I watched him from the side of the bus as he slipped on a hockey mask and walked into a convenience store. I didn't hear anything about it on the news, which is the only positive thing I can say about it!
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
Depending on where you live, not every robbery makes the news. If you’re in an even decent sized city there would be no way they could possibly report on all the crime that happens in a day
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schovoo 1 year ago
The bus probably had a security camera and the police could have identified him or at least could have retraced where he got on the bus. I have difficulties understanding how any person can look the other way and not report what they have seen (from within the safety of a bus moving away from potential danger for that matter!). And then post about it like it's just some cool anecdote? That is so frustrating! I hope the whole story was made up. Admittedly, I also have been in a situaton where I could have gotten help and didn't, but I have ever since felt ashamed of it. I know that my moral compass failed me back then, but realizing that and feeling like c**p about it has indeed made me react differently since then. Don't look the other way. Any one of us can be next in needing assistance.
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Heather Menard 1 year ago
I saw this once called the cops. The guy was about to rob a BBQ place
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
Oh come on now, I'm sure it was just for fashion. Next you're going to be wondering why a kid wearing a hoodie in Florida would try to kill a self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman. (Ski masks actually did become a fashion thing in Boston in the 1990s... to be worn year round, not just in the Winter. Not sure if they were ever banned, but I remember the political debate over them. But yes, I'm being sarcastic about hoodie sweatshirts in Florida.)
#21
Popped into Asda to buy some lunch one day and there was a guy vomiting blood in the car park onto a car bonnet. He then proceeded to rub his face in it.
We locked eyes across the car park and he grinned this wide, knowing smile with blood in his teeth, on his face and in his hair. Didn't go back there for weeks. (Grimsby Asda, IYKYK)
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Sounds like the place to go if you're looking to get some instant PTSD O_O
CaptainDinosaur 1 year ago (edited)
Nope. That's how we lost Brendan Gleeson. Edit: Words hard
#22
I was at the gas station pumping gas and the guy on the other side of the pump gave me the creeps for no hood reason. Took me a few miles down the road to realize there was no steam coming from his breath. I’m not sure if that’s special but it was cold enough for me to have ice in my mustache that morning.
Flora Porter 1 year ago
Probably breathing gently through his nose. Much less visible that way.
#23
i was sitting outside, having coffee, journaling in an tucked away spot downtown, some junkie decided to join near me and proceeded to lift up his pant leg and itch what was essentially his bone, his leg was in total decay, most of his shin had been rotting away. i looked at him and asked if he wanted me to call an ambulance or get him some care, he met my eyes kinda groaned and just stared and itched. i got freaked out and just left. i was like 15..i was a few blocks away from a hospital and clinics, so i figured he wasn’t too far from help if he chose it.
Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
If he was in the US, I’d understand not getting help, but if he was in a country with free healthcare, that would seriously freak me out
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
He could still be treated- I don't know of a public hospital that is allowed to turn away the addicted and unhoused. We have our issues, but we're not monsters.
Load More Replies... Giraffy Window 1 year ago
Untreated diabetes, or rotting injection site. When it gets that bad, a lot of people are too ashamed to seek help after letting it get so bad and/or causing themselves such harm.
Piper 1 year ago
Xylazine does this. It’s quick and it’s ugly. Can be injected with fentanyl. It’s terrible.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Damn, sounds like the beginning of a zombie movie. I hope that guy decided to go to the hospital...
Nanny to 3 rescue Greyhounds 1 year ago
It would have smelt disgusting. Rotting human flesh is the worst smell
#24
Dude walked through the lobby of the building where I was a teller on the first floor. He had a gun, a ski mask, and was wearing all black. He walked straight through the building and out to the parking lot when he proceeded to psych himself up. He was shaking his arms and jumping up and down, really giving himself a peptalk. And then he ran away. I called the police and they ramped up security. He robbed a restaurant down the street later that night and admitted to to the detectives about wanting to rob my bank.
Marla 1 year ago
The desperation of it since he doesn't sound like a hardened criminal
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#25
I was driving down a long road thru the woods and there was a guy standing on the side of the road holding an ax. No other car around and no houses around. Just the guy, standing there, with an ax. About an hour later I was driving back the other way on the same road. The guy was still there, still holding the ax.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
First the car salesman and now with the "chillaxin". You, my friend, are on a roll:) (You wouldn't happen to be a dad, would you)?
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#26
I was hanging out with a few friends in a parking lot after a car meet. Next thing I know is this guy is testing out his Honda hatch and sped across the parking lot to see how fast it would go. He didn't know there was a drop off at the end of the parking lot into a lake. All I remember was seeing the taillights fly in the sky and disappear into the darkness. Found out later the car flipped over upside down into the lake where he fell immediately unconscious after hitting his head on the windshield and steering wheel upon impact and sadly passed away. Days later we went back and found the steering wheel beside the water... Here's the video of some clips everyone put together from that night. We all were there trying to save him, I recall jumping in the water trying to get him out. I still remember feeling the door handle underwater ...
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
Traumatic memory is a tricky thing. This story takes two paths wherein Op and friends did not think to go get the driver ("Found out later the car flipped over upside down in the lake") And where OP is actively on scene trying to get the door open ("I still remember feeling the door handle underwater") In OP's defence, trauma can cause memory lapses powerful enough that OP could absolutely have been hauling on the car door without recognizing or remembering the car was upside down in that moment.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
It could also just be bad writing. Obviously at the time he wouldn't know that the guy hit his head on the steering wheel and was knocked out. That is something it's reasonable to find out later.
Load More Replies... Rae North 1 year ago
Why would they build high level car parks with no walls to prevent this from happening? Sounds like a lawsuit.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
It's a parking lot. You shouldn't be driving faster than like 5 miles an hour.
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#27
When I was in college, I think it must have been around 2008, I was driving to campus through a nice residential area, and there were two little girls in the middle of the road up ahead. I don't remember specific details of what they looked like, but I remember them creeping me out (maybe because of The Shining). One of them lifted up a dead squirrel by its tail, like...clearly for me, in the oncoming car, to see. I turned down a side street and just went around them.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
Bonus points if they were dressed like in the Shining lol but its still creepy.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
Thing is, she could have just been holding up the squirrel to show you why they were out in the street. They may have watched it get hit and ran out to try and help, only to see they were too late.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
We did that as a kids a lot, I’m still four foot 10 so I looked way younger, like 9-10 when I was 13. Good times scaring people
#28
I saw an old man die while eating in a restaurant in LAX while waiting for my flight. He was sitting alone at a table and just collapsed. EMTs came and did CPR, etc, to no avail and carted him off covered with a sheet. This was the middle of a weekday. People everywhere.
Katy McMouse 1 year ago
There was a cashier at my grocery store who just finished ringing out one of her regulars. He took two steps and then hit the floor. He had a massive heart attack and pretty much died on the spot. The poor cashier went home and just couldn't return.
Sienna K. Ahlgren 1 year ago (edited)
Saw a person falling from the second story balcony (16-17ft), landing on his/her back and smacking his/her head on the concrete floor at Gatwick Airport a few years back. A person from duty free just started screaming and cpr started immediately. Quite fast there were screens put around him/her and after a while ambulance came and took him/her away. The screens were still up after they'd taken him/her away and cleaning staff walked by us to clean the site up with a bucket that said something like "biohazards". Couldn't really find any updates about their condition except for one article with barely any information. I hope they survived
Crybabyartist 1 year ago
Sphincters relax after death and release whatever they were holding back. Any biological fluids or matter would be considered a biohazard.
Load More Replies... Ronald 1 year ago
I was on a plane, Jan 2, 2005, NYC to Ft.Lauderdale. Two hours into the flight, an Elderly man slumped upon his wife. He had aisle seat. She screamed, Flight attendants grabbed the man and put him in the aisle. The revived him with CPR. WE had an emergency landing in Melbourne Fla. It felt that we hit the brakes and landed from 35,000 feet in five minutes. Upon Landing, EMTS took him and wife off.
Oddly Me 1 year ago
People can, and do die anywhere at any time. My ex's grandmother died while she was driving down a busy road. I used to work in a gambling establishment; a customer died sitting at a table looking quite natural. It took hours before someone realized he hadn't moved at all. So when security, and I showed up, he was cold, and rigor mortise had already set in.
#29
I was driving behind a pale blue, windowless van on a spring afternoon. A light turned red, and as I pulled up behind the van, the driver turned to look in his side mirror and I saw he was wearing a hockey goalie mask. Scared the bejeezus out of me
Haley Hansen 1 year ago
That 100% sounds like something my late grandfather (a hockey coach who drove a van) would've done
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Love how the 'journo" put a picture of a hockey goalie's helmet and face shield instead of a mask. Anyone can be a writer for Bored Panda! 🤣
#30
A homeless woman was sitting front of my business, half conscious began undressing herself. I saw she had scribbled both of her legs in ball point pen to look like pants. I had to tell her to leave because she was getting naked while children were present. She then got up and violently attacked me, shrieking for me to hit her. I was able to get her off of me, but she continued to have an absolute meltdown and began throwing anything she could get her hands on at me and running into traffic, nearly getting hit by passing cars. I called the police who showed up pretty quickly and arrested her. I have so many more stories of crazy homeless people that I've seen over the years, but she was definitely out there. Hopefully she's gotten some help...
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Trying to figure out what would happen if children saw a naked person.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Their parents would have to explain basic human anatomy to them.. "oh the horror" Plus what Angelshark said. And yea, I am a parent to an 11 yr old boy, who knows basic anatomy because I went over it with him with my books for college.
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Katy McMouse 1 year ago
I hate when people use "crazy" as an adjective for homeless people. It's so unfair and callous.
meow point1 1 year ago
But this woman wasn't just homeless; she was also naked, violent, and drawing on herself.
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Sierra Tide 1 year ago
Being homeless will drive you "crazy". There's such a gigantic lack of help available and callousness from social workers that you just start to lose your sanity little by little
#31
When I was 15 or 16, I was homeschooled and took my classes online, so I was home alone most days until people got back in the evenings. One morning I went on a run and I got this feeling like I was being watched when I got into our neighborhood, so I was a little on edge and went back into my house ASAP. A few hours later, after working on a paper, I went downstairs to get a snack and noticed that one of the bushes in the forest on the other side of our backyard fence (we lived in a rural town) suddenly shook around a lot. We had a lot of bobcats, coyotes, etc. in the area so I wrote it off as one of those at first, but when I got back upstairs, I looked down at the spot from my bedroom window and saw the top of a man's head. I almost again wrote it off as some sort of animal until I noticed some skin and what appeared to be a jacket collar, and I immediately freaked out and went to get the phone to call my mom. The creepy thing was that since I got back from my run, I went outside to use our hot tub and because we didn't have people directly behind our house I didn't close the blinds when I changed. Whoever the dude was, he was probably there watching the whole time and I was just really creeped out at the thought of that. My mom did some asking around and while no one else said they ever saw anyone creeping around the woods around that time, someone did say there was a strange man in the area who was sometimes seen talking to teenage boys coming home from school and would often make them feel uncomfortable (we lived near the high school). After this I always kept my blinds closed, rarely used the hot tub if there wasn't a neighbor outside, and looked over my shoulder a little more when I went on runs.
#32
When I was working at McDonalds in high school I was getting ready to pull in to the parking lot for my shift and there was a lot of snow on the ground. This older lady who’s probably late 60s early 70s gets out of her ford Taurus in a dress. She then proceeds to grab one of the door handles of McDonald’s hike up her dress and s**t right by the door. She pulled her underwear off and left them right there for back into her car and left. I was watching this all from my truck and was gagging. I proceed to walk in to clock in and my manager asks why I’m late. I told them what happened and to pull up the cameras. One of the managers threw up in the office and the other told me to grab a bucket and mop to clean it. It took three buckets of mop water and soap to clean it. Then I quit right after. All of this was at like 2pm on a Saturday.
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
WTH? If you're just going to quite anyway, why bother actually cleaning it up?
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Yeah that's weird. Assuming it's true, all I can imagine is that it grossed them out so much it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Load More Replies... Katy McMouse 1 year ago
I'd have looked into what constituted part of my job. That's considered a biological hazard and I'm pretty sure (at least now), that there are protocols for such a thing and you can't be forced to clean it up, unless you're specifically trained. I had a patient bleed all over our pharmacy counter and my pharmacist did the clean up and then explained why he wasn't allowed to ask me to do it.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
Not on part time pay, thank you. Find another ponzy or do it yourself. A hose started on low pressure, and a rubber suit and booties/boots would be the only way I'd go anywhere near that kind of task, and I doubt McDick's provides such equipment.
#33
Many years ago I saw a bush, behind another bush, while walking in my neighborhood. Except it wasn’t a bush, and it was peeking out from around a corner. It was moving. Then it was gone. It wasn’t unlike that scene in Halloween where Laurie sees Michael Meyers and he hides behind a bush and sneaks away. It was something my brain could not interpret but chose to see as a bush. I was around 11 or 12, middle of the day, wide awake, not under the influence of any drugs. It was weird and scary, and comes to me as deja vu sometimes.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
You'll find the ending of Shakespeare's "MacBeth" very interesting.
What do you think ?
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
Our childhood dog once tried to pull me off the sidewalk into the street rather than walk past a man standing at the end of his driveway. She shook and cried, and cringed the whole time, with her tail so tucked it pressed to her belly. She'd never behaved that way before, and never did again. We took a different street home. ++At 16 I took a transit bus to my older sister's house in a different province. Time to go home, and a man got on the bus and asked if he could sit in the seat next to me. We had a brief conversation where I stupidly answered some questions before becoming increasingly uncomfortable. I hugged my bag to me and pretended to sleep for the next hour. At our first rest stop I beelined it inside and sat in the waiting area, while the man did not. A few minutes later he's at the big front window with another man who'd not been on the bus, and he pointed right at me. I scurried and hid in the washroom, and then went to the front desk, where they checked CV. An employee escorted me to my next bus, then waited to ensure neither men got on that bus with me. Smelling whatever cigarette brand he used still causes me nausea.
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
My first dog I had as an adult was my baby. I had him before my son, before my husband, before it was anything but me & him in a shítty one-bedroom apartment. We had a bond like no other. One night, about 5 or so years after I got him, after I'd moved in with my husband, I put him on a leash, & we walked to the convenience store a block away from our apartment, just me & him. I was standing outside the store, making small talk with some neighbor, when another guy went to walk past us, heading into the store. Now, Goblin was usually a pretty friendly little guy, & even when he wasn't interested in a person, he just stayed by my side, quiet and uninvolved. But when this random guy walked up, Gobs just went absolutely nuts. I mean barking, growling, snarling, snapping, lunging at the end of his leash. I held him, ofc, apologizing & reining him in. The guy just laughed it off & went on by, but I was baffled. The neighbor I was talking to just shrugged and said "Sometimes dogs know something we don't." /1
Load More Replies... Mike Crow 1 year ago
There was this barber that was a friend of my dad’s and had cut my hair since I was a kid. When I was in the Canadian Air Cadets he used to tell me stories when he was in the military when he cut my hair. Years later I had just joined the navy and was visiting my parents and I needed a haircut so my dad got me an appointment with my old barber. It was about closing time and he was acting odd. He was nervous and when I mentioned to him that it was funny him cutting my hair now in the navy and back then when I was an air cadet. His reply was “oh you were in air cadets?” Just as I was leaving two big serious guys arrived and he was like “hello my friends, come in.” When I left he locked the door and pulled the blinds. I still wonder what he got mixed up into.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
When I was training to become an EMT, we got a call to an accident where a guy had been riding a motorcycle and hit a metal fence. Upon arrival, we parked about 20 feet from the guy. I stepped out of the ambulance and immediately tripped over the guy's leg.
John Nelson 1 year ago
When I was a kid, my grandmother warned me to never step blindly into a clearing in the woods, among a lot of other things I just considered superstitions. One day I came across a small clearing in the woods, one that I had passed through any number of times before, but this time was different. I stopped and looked, and it just looked different. Hard to explain, but the light in the clearing just didn't look right, like it had an odd golden hue to it. As I cautiously approached it, everything went silent. No birds, no air movement, or the other sounds of the woods. Everything was dead still. I stood at the edge of it for a while, but nothing changed, just the eerie stillness. I backed away, and headed home, saying nothing about it. The next time I went that way, the clearing was normal, and I never saw that phenomenon again. To this day, I never step blindly into a clearing.....
Captain Flapjack 1 year ago (edited)
I picked up a hitchhiker, this skinny guy in a McDonald's uniform. He asked for a ride to the police station. Normal small talk. When we arrived he got out and said he was going to turn himself in now. I will never again.
Ron 1 year ago
I was around 15-16, small for my age, and walking to a friend's house. It's a busy road so I'm keeping an eye out for anyone I might know driving by so I can catch a ride. Old man stops and asks if I'm looking for a ride. Only had to go about a mile, so I said sure and got in. He starts telling me how it's dangerous to accept rides from strangers, so I pull out the switchblade type knife I carried, and said I'm not too worried. His eyes got wide and he quickly asked me again where I was going and seemed like he couldn't wait to drop me off now! 😂
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
My husband is a small guy, about 4'11" tall. He's been small all his life, which served him well as a jockey, but also made him a target, at various times. Anyway, when he was about 16 or 17 (but probably looked younger due to his size), back in the 70s, he used to hitchhike all the time. It was very common, back then. He told me how once, some guy picked him up. Once they were moving, they small talk for a few minutes. And then suddenly, this middle-aged man reaches over, puts his hand on my teenaged husband's leg, and makes a very explicit, suggestive comment about how he appreciated the fit of my husband's pants. My husband, who was small but dead fit (he was already riding horses at the time), and full of the confidence that only comes with youth and naivety, immediately demanded that the guy stop and let him "the fúck out" of that car! Fortunately, the man did. My husband was very lucky. Looking back now, as an adult, he realizes that!
Load More Replies... Kay Sohn 1 year ago (edited)
Back in the 80s I was with friends in Germany driving on the Autobahn, which had no speed. We took an exit to another freeway and right there...an accident had just occurred. No ambulance or police yet. Here's the thing...we drove by, saw a severed arm, a severed leg further ahead, pieces of twisted metal, none any large than 2' x 5'. WTF????? For a quarter mile, the pieces were strewn along the highway. Where TF were the engines of the cars? Made zero sense. All I could think of is that each car was going like 200 mph and they hit head on and the impact was like an explosion.
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
Not something I saw, something that happened to me, in a crowded pool, around a ton of people I knew well. When I was a kid, my mom worked at the YMCA, so we had passed to the pool, and were always there. We knew almost everyone there, and even those we didn't, we were friendly with. One day, I couldn't have been more than 10 or 12, and I was always small for my age, I was swimming while my mom worked. We knew the pool attendants and all the workers, and most of the people in the crowded pool. Being a friendly kid, I asked a random guy to play tag. I tagged him, and then he swam after me. But when he caught me, he didn't just tag me. He hugged me, and held me to him for a minute, against his wet, shirtless body, smiling at me. It felt so wrong, and so creepy, that as soon as he released me, I immediately got out of the pool, saying I had to tell my mom something. I went straight to her and told her what had happened. She came out to the pool with me, but the guy was gone. After a few minutes, I got back in, with her standing guard. Next thing I know, we look over, and the guy is standing there at the big window /1
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
separating the pool from the lobby, still smiling at me. He even waved! I was even more creeped out! I think my mom went out there after him, but he took off. The creepiest thing about it? About 3 or so weeks later, the Y got a bulletin about sex offenders in the area (they got these regularly because of the number of kids they served, so they could BOLO and not let these people in)...and that guy's face was on it!!! Still skeeves me out to this day!!! /2/End
Load More Replies... Danish Susanne 1 year ago
I was in the bus on my way home when I noticed a man muttering a few seats away. I didn't listen at first but then I clearly heard him saying something about killing policemen. That made me listen and I noticed him holding onto a bag, that might contain a weapon (I live in Denmark where you cannot legally go around armed) and I felt creeped out. It sounded like he was going for a particular police station or policeman, so as soon as he got up I called the police to tell them to be alert. Either the man had just been daydreaming, or he was apprehended, because there was no news about attacks on policemen, so I relaxed after a couple of days.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
Our childhood dog once tried to pull me off the sidewalk into the street rather than walk past a man standing at the end of his driveway. She shook and cried, and cringed the whole time, with her tail so tucked it pressed to her belly. She'd never behaved that way before, and never did again. We took a different street home. ++At 16 I took a transit bus to my older sister's house in a different province. Time to go home, and a man got on the bus and asked if he could sit in the seat next to me. We had a brief conversation where I stupidly answered some questions before becoming increasingly uncomfortable. I hugged my bag to me and pretended to sleep for the next hour. At our first rest stop I beelined it inside and sat in the waiting area, while the man did not. A few minutes later he's at the big front window with another man who'd not been on the bus, and he pointed right at me. I scurried and hid in the washroom, and then went to the front desk, where they checked CV. An employee escorted me to my next bus, then waited to ensure neither men got on that bus with me. Smelling whatever cigarette brand he used still causes me nausea.
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
My first dog I had as an adult was my baby. I had him before my son, before my husband, before it was anything but me & him in a shítty one-bedroom apartment. We had a bond like no other. One night, about 5 or so years after I got him, after I'd moved in with my husband, I put him on a leash, & we walked to the convenience store a block away from our apartment, just me & him. I was standing outside the store, making small talk with some neighbor, when another guy went to walk past us, heading into the store. Now, Goblin was usually a pretty friendly little guy, & even when he wasn't interested in a person, he just stayed by my side, quiet and uninvolved. But when this random guy walked up, Gobs just went absolutely nuts. I mean barking, growling, snarling, snapping, lunging at the end of his leash. I held him, ofc, apologizing & reining him in. The guy just laughed it off & went on by, but I was baffled. The neighbor I was talking to just shrugged and said "Sometimes dogs know something we don't." /1
Load More Replies... Mike Crow 1 year ago
There was this barber that was a friend of my dad’s and had cut my hair since I was a kid. When I was in the Canadian Air Cadets he used to tell me stories when he was in the military when he cut my hair. Years later I had just joined the navy and was visiting my parents and I needed a haircut so my dad got me an appointment with my old barber. It was about closing time and he was acting odd. He was nervous and when I mentioned to him that it was funny him cutting my hair now in the navy and back then when I was an air cadet. His reply was “oh you were in air cadets?” Just as I was leaving two big serious guys arrived and he was like “hello my friends, come in.” When I left he locked the door and pulled the blinds. I still wonder what he got mixed up into.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
When I was training to become an EMT, we got a call to an accident where a guy had been riding a motorcycle and hit a metal fence. Upon arrival, we parked about 20 feet from the guy. I stepped out of the ambulance and immediately tripped over the guy's leg.
John Nelson 1 year ago
When I was a kid, my grandmother warned me to never step blindly into a clearing in the woods, among a lot of other things I just considered superstitions. One day I came across a small clearing in the woods, one that I had passed through any number of times before, but this time was different. I stopped and looked, and it just looked different. Hard to explain, but the light in the clearing just didn't look right, like it had an odd golden hue to it. As I cautiously approached it, everything went silent. No birds, no air movement, or the other sounds of the woods. Everything was dead still. I stood at the edge of it for a while, but nothing changed, just the eerie stillness. I backed away, and headed home, saying nothing about it. The next time I went that way, the clearing was normal, and I never saw that phenomenon again. To this day, I never step blindly into a clearing.....
Captain Flapjack 1 year ago (edited)
I picked up a hitchhiker, this skinny guy in a McDonald's uniform. He asked for a ride to the police station. Normal small talk. When we arrived he got out and said he was going to turn himself in now. I will never again.
Ron 1 year ago
I was around 15-16, small for my age, and walking to a friend's house. It's a busy road so I'm keeping an eye out for anyone I might know driving by so I can catch a ride. Old man stops and asks if I'm looking for a ride. Only had to go about a mile, so I said sure and got in. He starts telling me how it's dangerous to accept rides from strangers, so I pull out the switchblade type knife I carried, and said I'm not too worried. His eyes got wide and he quickly asked me again where I was going and seemed like he couldn't wait to drop me off now! 😂
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
My husband is a small guy, about 4'11" tall. He's been small all his life, which served him well as a jockey, but also made him a target, at various times. Anyway, when he was about 16 or 17 (but probably looked younger due to his size), back in the 70s, he used to hitchhike all the time. It was very common, back then. He told me how once, some guy picked him up. Once they were moving, they small talk for a few minutes. And then suddenly, this middle-aged man reaches over, puts his hand on my teenaged husband's leg, and makes a very explicit, suggestive comment about how he appreciated the fit of my husband's pants. My husband, who was small but dead fit (he was already riding horses at the time), and full of the confidence that only comes with youth and naivety, immediately demanded that the guy stop and let him "the fúck out" of that car! Fortunately, the man did. My husband was very lucky. Looking back now, as an adult, he realizes that!
Load More Replies... Kay Sohn 1 year ago (edited)
Back in the 80s I was with friends in Germany driving on the Autobahn, which had no speed. We took an exit to another freeway and right there...an accident had just occurred. No ambulance or police yet. Here's the thing...we drove by, saw a severed arm, a severed leg further ahead, pieces of twisted metal, none any large than 2' x 5'. WTF????? For a quarter mile, the pieces were strewn along the highway. Where TF were the engines of the cars? Made zero sense. All I could think of is that each car was going like 200 mph and they hit head on and the impact was like an explosion.
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
Not something I saw, something that happened to me, in a crowded pool, around a ton of people I knew well. When I was a kid, my mom worked at the YMCA, so we had passed to the pool, and were always there. We knew almost everyone there, and even those we didn't, we were friendly with. One day, I couldn't have been more than 10 or 12, and I was always small for my age, I was swimming while my mom worked. We knew the pool attendants and all the workers, and most of the people in the crowded pool. Being a friendly kid, I asked a random guy to play tag. I tagged him, and then he swam after me. But when he caught me, he didn't just tag me. He hugged me, and held me to him for a minute, against his wet, shirtless body, smiling at me. It felt so wrong, and so creepy, that as soon as he released me, I immediately got out of the pool, saying I had to tell my mom something. I went straight to her and told her what had happened. She came out to the pool with me, but the guy was gone. After a few minutes, I got back in, with her standing guard. Next thing I know, we look over, and the guy is standing there at the big window /1
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
separating the pool from the lobby, still smiling at me. He even waved! I was even more creeped out! I think my mom went out there after him, but he took off. The creepiest thing about it? About 3 or so weeks later, the Y got a bulletin about sex offenders in the area (they got these regularly because of the number of kids they served, so they could BOLO and not let these people in)...and that guy's face was on it!!! Still skeeves me out to this day!!! /2/End
Load More Replies... Danish Susanne 1 year ago
I was in the bus on my way home when I noticed a man muttering a few seats away. I didn't listen at first but then I clearly heard him saying something about killing policemen. That made me listen and I noticed him holding onto a bag, that might contain a weapon (I live in Denmark where you cannot legally go around armed) and I felt creeped out. It sounded like he was going for a particular police station or policeman, so as soon as he got up I called the police to tell them to be alert. Either the man had just been daydreaming, or he was apprehended, because there was no news about attacks on policemen, so I relaxed after a couple of days.
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