30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness

"Son, that thing is called a boat. Don't eat it as it contains these little parasites called humans. They can make you sick." Mom whale, probably.

My wife were on the Oregon coast looking out over a cliff, about a hundred feet or so over a crystal clear patch of the Pacific. (Safely behind railing.) Clear waters on the US west coast are rare enough, but then my wife spotted a humpback and her baby directly beneath us! They were visible for several minutes. One of the most magical moments of my life.

Excellent! That pretty much tops anything I could say. Thanks for the share.

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An awesome sight indeed. I am very envious of you, sir.

I saw the other thing, years ago. Shuttles were flying to "Mir" then. Mir overflew us, then about 20 minutes later, the shuttle, as it was chasing it down for a rendezvous.

When I lived in Santa Barbara, a couple of times the Shuttle came down for landing at Vandenburg AFB. The shockwave was like a single loud pulse of an earthquake. Shook the house. Rolled me, the wife and all three cats out of the bed.

When I lived on the east coast in the 80s, I would go down to Florida and watch the space shuttle launches. I saw five launches in total.

One night around the same year I took my dog out at 2 a.m. Looked up and saw two lights go across the sky. (We're in the southern hemisphere.) Found out from a friend that it was the ISS followed by Atlantis.

that's so random, strange and cool at the same time. I wonder if their birthdays were 9 months after Valentines or Christmas... If not then it's more fascinating. Also I wonder about the age difference between them.

It was a weird name match up for us. There was another family in a nearby city with the same last name, which is not a common one. The other man had the same first name as my FIL. My FIL always said that although they didn't know them, they were likely related somehow. This other person's wife had the exact same first name as my MIL. Her first name was common, but an unusual spelling. They had a son with the same first name as my husband. He married a woman with the same first name as me. None of us have/had unique first names, but it was still quite a coincidence.

My boss and I both got hired and started working at our company at the same time. Turns out we also have the same birthday. Really weird. She thought I was joking when I told her! I wonder what the odds are?

I did accountancy for a building maintenance company once, and 400+ out of 700 cleaning personnel had January 1st as their birthday. That's because the firm favored hiring refugees, mainly from war-torn Africa (because they were cheap and spoke and understood English). Most of these refugees didn't know their date of birth so the U.S. government routinely assigns them the 1/1 birthdate, with the birth year guessed based on appearance.

Husband and I got in an elevator at the horse race track, 2 other couples in there. Husband: Is there room for us? Other Woman: Only if your name is Starr!" H: That's lucky then. OW: 'Husband's name' Starr H: Yes. We didn't dare ask about the women's names.

Yes, the flight was overbooked!

I saw one of the flights in Colorado Springs in the early 80s. It was awesome. It was awesome

I was on the beach at Scheveningen when it did low fly past.

Well if it can carry that, I call bull poop on overweight baggage.

I saw that fly over near Amsterdam in '83.

Are you a disney princess? Or maybe you are actually half-sibling or a distant relative of Ariel.

Could you be more sPacific as to where this was

This sounds so beautiful

I'm waiting for someone to tell the same story, except with four sharks. I may have to wait a while.

Dolphins wanted to f u c k.

I would love to see that.

Solar jizz

I saw it too from much lower latitudes - my sister and cousins laid down on a dock and just watched it for hours. The closest thing I can compare it to would be the “visualizations” on older MP3 player software - bright green concentric circles pulsing outward at random intervals. So cool.

Damn, I told Zeus to fix those dead pixels!

I saw it once on a flight. I couldn't show it to anyone because it really was just a flash. "Oh! Did you see... Never mind. You didn't."

I saw it one time at sunrise in New Zealand

"And up is down"

My Dad and brother were both Alaska fishermen at one time and both had seen the green flash. I didn't really believe them until I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and googled it.

That actually happens in real life?!

I slipped on a banana skin when I was about 9, split my head open. The doctors and nurses at the hospital found it very funny!

I've never seen someone slip on a banana peel, but working in restaurants I have seen multiple people slip on lemon wedges

Was it an actual woman, or Rowan Atkinson in a wig?

I've seen this happen too.

That’s terrifying to think about actually

Gallatin River in Montana, USA? We had historic flooding in June and the Yellowstone River and others (including Gallatin) caused a lot of damage.

They need some of those white rocks.