Darndest things you've seen......

[WILCO]

What are some of the darndest things you've seen?

Back in the summer of 1998, I was awakend one early morning by the sound of a thunderous roar traveling overhead. I mean it was loud and seemed to be shaking the house. The bedroom window was opened, so I stuck my head out to see what was going on. That's when I saw it. It was a giant fireball with a tumultuous tail behind it. At first I thought it was a flaming meteor, but then realized it was a rocket or missile, as it was steady, constant and heading southwest at great speed. Lasted but a moment, then all was eeerily quiet with crickets chirping and slight breeze blowing. Next day I asked my neighbors about it and they thought I was off my rocker. Never talked about it to anyone again.

[felix]

A Fuzzy, blue, sparkling fire ball dancing across the room between an open window and and open door. It's called ball lightening, I think. ... felix

[Bent Ramrod]

I was on the evening shift at GMC Truck & Coach in Pontiac Michigan back in the mid-Sixties during summers between college semesters. I came home one night on my motorcycle and saw what I guessed was some version of the Northern Lights. Only it was not winter and they were not the greenish curtain formations I normally saw in the northern sky. These were greenish lines that radiated in all directions from a point directly overhead down to the horizon. It was after 2 AM and nobody was awake, or would have appreciated being awakened. Nobody else saw it, that I could determine later.

Maybe it was an alien invasion. Things certainly haven't been the same since the Sixties.

[JeffinNZ]

A woman chaning a wheel on a car. ;-)

[cdet69]

A crow that was saying hello to me wile I was fishing. I thought it was one of my friends playing a joke at first. Wish I had some food to give it at the time.

[MT Gianni]

I was hunting waterfowl with a friend over Thanksgiving weekend about 1976-1977. We were on the reservation border when the sun came up. On the Reservation side of the border two teenaged Native Americans ran about 30 head of horses in to be watered. One was wearing a breechcloth and the other levis with no shirt on either one. Temps were around 18 F, I had on insulated coveralls. There was some fog and I easily thought we could have slipped back in time 100 years if it were not for the Levi's. They stayed 3 minutes or so and with a Hey-hey-hey went back into the fog. one of the eeriest things I have ever seen. They saw us and our decoy spread but didn't say a word.

[Trey45]

I once saw a picture of a kiwi wearing purple longjohns, hunting. Darndest thing I ever did see..

[WILCO]

I once saw a picture of a kiwi wearing purple longjohns, hunting. Darndest thing I ever did see..

I saw that once too! :lol:

[Az Rick]

I saw a chipmunk catch and kill a mouse, partially bury it, then go get the youngsters to show it to them. I had the feeling they were going to eat it but they got spooked and scurried off.

I saw a woodpecker kill a sparrow.


I was squirrel hunting on a bright still day, leaning against a giant oak tree. I heard some creaking up the hill behind me, wondering what could be making that kind of noise. I slowly turned around in time to see another giant oak fall for no apparent reason. It was a good 2 plus feet in diameter and maybe 35, 40ft. tall. I had to inspect more closely but could find no cause. I guess it just got tired of standing there.

[Artful]

I once saw a picture of a kiwi wearing purple longjohns, hunting. Darndest thing I ever did see..


I saw that once too! :lol:

ME TOO - I can't get the image to go away :roll:

[crabo]

Drunk or sober?

[geargnasher]

A small flat rate box full of .30 caliber loob grooves looks pretty odd.

Gear

[williamwaco]

A crow that was saying hello to me wile I was fishing. I thought it was one of my friends playing a joke at first. Wish I had some food to give it at the time.

When I was a kid, I went to a summer camp that had a pet talking crow. "His" name was Sam. He could say several phrases including his name. That was about 1950. When did you see yours? I always wondered what happened to Sam because he was completely free, just hung around for three years that I know of.


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[SciFiJim]

Once while in the Navy and entering port at San Diego we could still see San Clemente Island. It is seventy miles from San Diego and usually over the horizon. Due to weird optical lighting illusion, we could still see the whole island for visual reference.

[oldscool]

Was that pet a crow or a Myna bird?

[Echo]

I once saw a contrail in the SW sky over Tucson. Not like any contrail I ever saw before, or since. Whatever was forming it was traveling fairly fast, maybe airliner speed. The odd thing about it was that it blossemed to about 10-15 times the original diameter. Looked like a trumpet horn. My guess was that it was some sort of experimental thing involving external combustion, for whatever reason.

[JeffinNZ]

Yeah, those Kiwi's have NO shame...... ;-)

[Bret4207]

A really heavy, hairy chick NOT wearing spandex at Walmart!

[Hickory]

One time while on a trip, I stopped at an intersection of a 4 lane highway, no ramp or over pass. I looked left then right and left again. When I looked left the first time there was a car coming, when I looked left the second time it was upside-down and backwards about 4-5 feet off the road in a cloud of dust.
The car hit the road and skidded on the trunk in front of me. As it was slowing and was digging into the road the front of the car heaved up and stopped pointing straight up.
It remained in the position for 1 or 2 seconds and then came to rest on its wheels. I jumped out of my car to see if the driver was OK. Before I got half way to the car, the engine roared to life and away it went.

[Wayne Smith]

Years ago, before children, we were eating dinner in Pizza place. In walks a lovely young lady in the proverbial little black dress, the one all women are supposed to have. She walks behind the counter, grabs a ball of dough, puts it in the flour bin, and proceeds to kneed and roll out a pizza crust and makes a pizza - and not a speck of flour on that little black dress! I started watching her because she was pretty, I continued because I was amazed. I even pointed her out to my wife!

[Stephen Cohen]

A really heavy, hairy chick NOT wearing spandex at Walmart!

Oh my god I wonder if this is the same one my Army buddies put me in bed with when I drank too much scotch. Have you ever tried to buy a gallon of detol to bath in on a sunday morning.

[kbstenberg]

Mine was the last day of deer season many years ago. It was the start of sundown. The sun set was one of those beautiful kind that seemed to go on forever. In my mind I could hear mother nature telling me that. She would hold the sunset just the way it was for as long as I would stay there. Unfortunately I guess life must go on and the sunset faded into dark.
Or am I still sitting there watching, and everything since just a bad dream.

[slide]

When we were kids me and my buddies would lay on top on the storm cellars in the summer and look at the stars. One night we saw a formation of seven lights which were moving fast. Then they stopped and started.They didn't blink or make any sound that we could hear.By the time we went and got our parents they were gone. Later we heard the formation was seen in Texas by a state trooper. I will never forget what we saw.

[41 mag fan]

10 yrs old, was with my step father outside looking at the stars and the moon thru a telescope.
For some reason I looked out back around the house in the field, there was a 45 acre woods at the far end of it.
There was an orange glow going real slow over the woods. I asked Bob what it was...he had no idea either. It made no noise, I could of walked faster than it was going. It finally went out of site over a hill and we couldn't see it anymore...never heard anyone else seeing it.
It wasn't a helicopter or anything, for one we would of heard the rotors, but the glow was way to big. It was probably 100yrds or more from one end to the other.

Then when I was 16 and 17, I had a pink elephant run across the road in front of me during the day. Then I had an orangutang swinging thru the trees following us...wont ever say what I was doing to see them!!

[sundog]

Mid 60s I was home alone when a thunderstorm whipped up. I had the garage door open and it was raining and lightening. All of a sudden a bolt of lightening came down over the driveway and just hovered, forming a huge ball. When the lightening bolt stopped the ball hovered and then slammed down on the driveway showering sparks everywhere. Pretty cool thing to see.

I also saw the meteor that hit Long Island Sound in the mid 60s. It was late afternoon and I just happened to be looking in the right direction. We lived on a hill over looking the Sound and could see Bridgeport, CT, on clear days. Anyway, that meteor created quite a stir. At first I thought maybe it was a plane going down. Early news reports were a plane going down, until it was determined exactly what it was. Quite a search went on for pieces of it.

[Sasquatch-1]

Once saw a deer walk right out on the pistol range I use to belong to. Now that in itself is not strange, but all of the six guys on the firing line made their weapons safe and set them down without being told. Not ONE try to shoot it. Now that's strange.

[KCSO]

Saw the last B36 come over our house headed for the last landing at Offut.

[blackthorn]

On 9/11 I was in my office in Richmond B.C. and we were watching those tragic events on TV. My window faced the airport and I watched as two fighter jets from the U.S. forced (escorted) a large airliner down until it was on the ground at our airport. We found out later it was a Chinese airliner that claimed to have had comunication problems. I remember thinking I hope they don't have to shoot it out of the air!

[cdet69]

I saw the crow about two years ago. He was with several other crows but the only one interested in people. Wish i had a video of it. People still do not believe me.

[Mumblypeg]

One winter night, my wife and I were headed home on a country road nearby. It had snowed a day or so before and was still overcast. The road had been scraped and patches of black asfalt showed through the snow. That, with the darkness and snow everything was just black and white. Suddenly I saw a pair of eyes in the roadway. As I was already going slow, I slowed even more, trying to make out what belonged to the "Eyes" It looked like cow eyes so I just stopped and tried to make out which way it was headed in order to pass around one end or the other. Now folks, if you think a cow can't hide in the road, I'm here to tell you defferent. The cow was a Holsteen. As you know, they are black and white. With the darkness and the snow, I couldn't tell which end was which. It was a strange trick on the eyes! After a short while I was able to make the cow out and drove around her. Had it not been for the eyes I would have never seen her untill I hit her.

[Bullet Caster]

One evening when we still lived in Georgia, I was out at dusk and saw an old basket ball hoop nailed to a tree melt and run down the tree. I first thought it was a squirrel that had bitten through a power line nearby. I went inside and checked the old fusebox and to my surprise, no fuse.

We lived next to Fort Gillium and they (the army) was supposed to be working on a new weapon at that Ft. My wife will witness what was left of the basketball goal, a hard metallic substance that dried onto the bark of the tree. We never did find out what really happened, but that basketball goal was certainly melted. Twlight zone??? BC

[fatnhappy]

the birth of my son

[x101airborne]

When I was a child, my dad would wake us up on Saturday nites to watch WWF wresteling. Hulk Hogan and such....... One nite I woke up to a light that lit up the entire house from the outside. And I mean like a welding arc bright. My dad was pressed up agianst a window on the East side of the house like a crack addict. After a while it went away without a sound. We talk about it about once every 10 years, but that is it. Even dad says he doesn't know what it was and he was a small craft pilot. Cesnas and small helo's. There is more to life than us.

[MtGun44]

I drove a wide-front axle WD-45 Allis Chalmers a couple of summers for a feedlot operation
down in N. Fla. muckland. It had a halftrack conversion with a hinged idler between the
wheels and the track was U cross section steel cross tracks attached to heavy rubber
belting on the ends, running over the top of the normal main rear tractor tires.

One of the other tractor boys grabbed "my" halftrack after lunch and headed towards the
gate with a lot of hand throttle set, threw out the hand clutch and stomped the brakes so
he could quickly open the gate before I came over and hassled him. The brake linkage
fouled the handclutch linkage and kicked it back engaged, in 1st gear. It hit the gate, a
chainlink design with a welded pipe frame attached to a huge telephone pole hinge post.
It poked the nose through the pipe gate frame, which hooked around the front, behind the
side mounted headlight. This forced the tractor to follow the arc of the gate, kinda dragging
the nose sideways. There was an 18" oak located just right so that the front axle neatly
hooked right behind it, then the idler of the right halftrack hit the tree, and the U-channel
steel cleats dug in nicely, starting the tractor flipping over backwards. The driver was tossed
off and the nose up rotation stopped when the axle hit the backside of the tree, acting like
a lineman's belt - tire on the end keeping it in place. Now, with the high power setting,
it lifted itself up off the ground climbing hard until at about 4 ft off the ground, the carb
apparently starved for fuel and she stalled and hung there.

All 6 or 7 of us at lunch were full in view of this show and once it was clear that the driver
was sprawled out OK, we started laughing our heads off. The foreman came over and
was trying his very best to look mad, as the radiator fluid drained down from the tractor
hanging in a tree, wrapped in a chainlink gate. He couldn't hold it long and had to bust
out laughing, too.

I went up and carefully popped the gear lever into neutral, and she slumped down the
tree until the backs of the main rears were on the ground. We had to get another WD-45
to pull the nose sideways off of the tree after cutting away the pipe gate frame with a
cutting torch. New radiator, pound out the grill and she was fine, if a bit wrinkled.

Never since saw a tractor climb a tree.

Bill

[williamwaco]

Was that pet a crow or a Myna bird?

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[midnight]

The birth of my first son. At about 1 am my wife and I are in an upstairs bedroom/labor room in an old house that served as a 12 bed hospital. As I was cleaning my wife up a bit I saw my son's head begin to appear & yelled downstairs for the one Nurse. She came up and we carried my wife accros the hall to the bedroom/delivery room & put her on the table & in the stirrups. The Dr. who lived a few blocks away left his coat at the bottom of the stairs, his shirt at the top of the stairs, sat down at the end of the table in his undershirt and delivered my son as I looked on holding some kind of mask on my wife's face. The Dr. said "hold this on her face, I've got better things to do". Prenatal care, hospital, plus $75 to the Dr. Total $134.50. My son is 46yrs now and none the worse for it.

Bob

[Dark Helmet]

+1 on the birth of my son
+1+ on #2 son, the wife thought she was gonna have another c-section. Nope. Hehe.

[archmaker]

Went walking one night without a flashlight in Oklahoma, was about 25 and about 1/2 mile from the house I saw this black blob approach me. Didn't look like a dog (too low to the ground) but I would say about the size of racoon or beaver. Well it stopped about 10 yds away. I walked toward it but never go any closer, I walked away it followed. I ran at it for a few steps, still could not get a good view of it, so I went around it, and it went its way. Still no idea what it was.

[reloader28]

One of the darndest things I've seen happened about 7 or 10 years ago.

We were going home from work one night in the fall and it was getting dark already.
Going by a field, out jumped a deer and ran right smack into the door of the pickup.
After a few choice words from Dad, we turned around to go back and make sure it was off the road.

After about 10 cars went by we finally got turned around and sure enough, it was laying on the center line. This is after 10 other cars went by. As we pulled to a stop beside it, the sucker came to, jumped up and WHAM, right into the same door again.

Dad was NOT a happy camper and said many more sailor words. The deer was unhurt (I have no idea how) and ran back across the road, jumped the fence and back to the field he came from. The truck body was even straight. I dont know if the deer has ever left that field since.

We laughed till we hurt over that one. Most people dont believe us when we tell that story.

[Trey45]

When I lived in Eighty-Four Pennsylvania I had a deer run into the front right fender of my 77 Maverick, roll across the hood like TJ Hooker, hit the road on the other side of the car and slide sideways, looked at me like it was my fault then turn tail and run into the field. It was just getting dark, snowing hard and I was on my way to night service at church. I got out of the car to look at the hood and fender to see what kind of damage it did. I still to this day have no idea how I did it, but I locked the door somehow when I got out & closed it, so there I was wearing church clothes, at night in the snow on a desolte road, with the engine running. This was way before cell phones. One broken window later and I'm back in the car, driving back home. It's a good thing I did drive back home, that snow storm didn't let up any, it got worse.

[41 mag fan]

One evening when we still lived in Georgia, I was out at dusk and saw an old basket ball hoop nailed to a tree melt and run down the tree. I first thought it was a squirrel that had bitten through a power line nearby. I went inside and checked the old fusebox and to my surprise, no fuse.

We lived next to Fort Gillium and they (the army) was supposed to be working on a new weapon at that Ft. My wife will witness what was left of the basketball goal, a hard metallic substance that dried onto the bark of the tree. We never did find out what really happened, but that basketball goal was certainly melted. Twlight zone??? BC

You must of been buying off the same street corner I was back when I was 16 & 17. I seen many things melt and reform. Usually lasted for 6-10hrs at a time.

Normally what I bought did put me in the twilight zone! :kidding:

[dmize]

Was riding home with my Grandpa one night,we had slowed almost to a stop on the highway for the car in front of us to turn off,as we started accelerating a HUGE owl was flying right over the hood of the car,just appeared out of the darkness,took a massive dump on the hood and windshield banked to the left and was gone.
Had a friend that was a Missouri State Trooper his first duty station back in 69 was an area around Knobnoster Mo. He said not long after he started working he saw a bright light hovering,he called it in,dispatch called the Air Force,said they had nothing on radar but would "send someone to look" . My buddy said he saw the 2 F4's coming at full afterburner got within a 1/2 mile of the light and it took off,absolutely walked away from the "interceptors". He also said word "leaked" to local news and the paper made him look like an idiot. A local Sheriff told him one night that the lights are a common occurance around Whiteman,everyone knows about them but never says anything and the Air Force had chased a bunch of them and never got close to cacthing one.

[Mud Eagle]

I once saw a contrail in the SW sky over Tucson. Not like any contrail I ever saw before, or since. Whatever was forming it was traveling fairly fast, maybe airliner speed. The odd thing about it was that it blossemed to about 10-15 times the original diameter. Looked like a trumpet horn. My guess was that it was some sort of experimental thing involving external combustion, for whatever reason.

Google "donuts on a rope" for some more interesting reading about this.

Speculation is that it's a hypersonic, high-altitude experimental aircraft that's been flying around since the late 80s or early 90s.

[williamwaco]

The birth of my first son. At about 1 am my wife and I are in an upstairs bedroom/labor room in an old house that served as a 12 bed hospital. As I was cleaning my wife up a bit I saw my son's head begin to appear & yelled downstairs for the one Nurse. She came up and we carried my wife accros the hall to the bedroom/delivery room & put her on the table & in the stirrups. The Dr. who lived a few blocks away left his coat at the bottom of the stairs, his shirt at the top of the stairs, sat down at the end of the table in his undershirt and delivered my son as I looked on holding some kind of mask on my wife's face. The Dr. said "hold this on her face, I've got better things to do". Prenatal care, hospital, plus $75 to the Dr. Total $134.50. My son is 46yrs now and none the worse for it.

Bob


I wouldn't have thought of that for this thread but It would shock and amaze many of our members.

My first was born 40 years ago last month.
She cost a grand total of $7.00

(I had insurance.)


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[Jeffrey]

Back in the late 80's I was priveleged to shoot (practice) with the Rhode Island State Rifle team. Maybe the second time I was on the line, 12 or 15 guys blazing away with ARs, M1As, Garands, I see movement by the 100 yard berm. I think we were shooting at the 300 yard targets. The Range Master calls a Cease Fire. "We have some new guys with us today, I want nobody to shoot our range mascot." A woodchuck was grazing in front of the 100 yard berm. We went back to firing. The woodchuck stayed there, rifles thundering 100 yards away, bullets whizzing over its head. After practice the RM said the woodchuck had been coming around for a few years, sometimes with a friend, sometimes alone.

[Longwood]

I wouldn't have thought of that for this thread but It would shock and amaze many of our members.

My first was born 40 years ago last month.
She cost a grand total of $7.00

(I had insurance.)


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Union member?

[Longwood]

I saw a solid black Panther in the forest in southwest Oregon in about 1961.

About three years before we watched a meteor fly from over the hill on our right (North) all of the way across the night sky until it finally changed color a few times then broke up just before the hill to our south. I swear I could hear it. I was young and it scared me good because it kept getting brighter and brighter, and closer and closer.
I saw another one in 1994 in Southern California that almost went from horizon to horizon. It was in the daytime and few people saw it.

I saw nine big perfectly flat lights flying low and slowly, in close formation, over Huntington Beach California in 1970. I am/was, a licensed private pilot that spent four years in the Airforce and they sure were not the Goodyear blimp or any type of aircraft that I had/have ever seen.

I was riding my bike through the wide open desert valley in about 1975 and caught a glimpse of some movement on the ground next to me as I passed.
I turned around and went back in time to see a spot about five feet in diameter, of what was previously flat, valley desert floor, slowly disappear into a hole about 40 feet deep.

[TCLouis]

archmaker

Not all skunks have white. I have seen some here that were solid black and some with very little white.

You may well have been lucky that night!

[Longwood]

archmaker

Not all skunks have white. I have seen some here that were solid black and some with very little white.

You may well have been lucky that night!

Yep,,,
Plus,,,
Skunks are not very easily frightened and will walk right toward you.
I was half asleep on a cot on a beach on the Colorado River when I looked into a skunks face that was less than a foot from me.
I kept real still for a while.

Three of us saw a rattle snake in Meadview AZ that had no sign of rattles.
A few weeks later a neighbor killed one with no rattles that was over five miles from where we saw the other one so I doubt it was the same one.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I was just out of Navy boot camp in 1952 and stationed at the North Island Naval Air Station boat house in San Diego. I was standing a mid watch and guarding some boats in dry dock. I was walking thru a small grove of eucalyptus tress. At the time ufo mania was in full swing. I heard a loud swoosing sound overhead. I looked up and saw some large white objects just clearing the tops of the trees. I was really scared untill I realized it was a flight of Canadian Snow geese flying south for the winter. I had read about these geese but I had never seen one. To this day I can't figure out why they would have someone gaurd a few boats which were on racks waiting to have the barnacles scraped off their hulls. I suppose the watch was a leftover from WWII when they guarded everything in sight. The next Division Officer eliminated the watch.

[WILCO]

I rounded the the ailse at a local Walmart and saw some guy holding a pre-teen kid off the ground by his shirt collar. He was telling the kid to get into his "Happy Spot". The kid's head was backwards over his shoulder and his chest was drawn upwards as he defiantly said in a shrill voice "I don't want to go to my happy spot!"............

[Sasquatch-1]

I was riding my bike through the wide open desert valley in about 1975 and caught a glimpse of some movement on the ground next to me as I passed.
I turned around and went back in time to see a spot about five feet in diameter, of what was previously flat, valley desert floor, slowly disappear into a hole about 40 feet deep.

Sounds like "Invaders From Mars". They didn't insert the probe in the back of your neck, did they? :-D

[10-x]

Vander light in Vander N.C. , just east of Fayetteville. Old story of the train wreck with a conductor with a lantern looking for his head. 6 of us saw the light. Went back in the 90's, locals said the haint" is long gone due to development.

[gwpercle]

About 1969 a friend and I were still hunting for squirrels in east Louisiana.
We were in a large gully of old growth timber, the tree tops of those old hardwoods were 30 feet above our heads as we moved slowly along, stopping and keeping still for 45 min. at a time.
We were standing , watching ,and listening ( most times we located them by hearing them first) . When , faintly , at first we started hearing noises ...getting louder and louder....then we started seeing movement in the trees , coming from our right...it was squirrels, they were running , jumping and barking and chattering as they moved thru the tree tops and some were running on the ground...all moving fast to our left. I'm talking more squirrels than I could count...they were so many and all moving with determination in the same direction and the ones on the ground didn't pay any attention to us just scurried right past us...I don't think they knew we were standing there with guns.
It freaked me out I was afraid if they saw me they might attack , like in The Birds,
I just stood there spellbound, all the squirrels passed and thier noise faded away... we were left just standing there, my friend says, if we tell anybody what we just saw they not going to believe us . I said Henry I saw it and I don't believe it myself. I'm not sure what we saw it may have been some kind of migration, but if you don't believe this story I dont blame you.

[GRUMPA]

During the summer of 91 I got a sand rail and living in Phoenix a person really doesn't have to go far to use one of them. The whole family would get everything together and we would devote an entire day just exploring the Bradshaw's (N. of Phoenix) and visit old ghost towns and mines and scurry up some wildlife and so on.

Anyway we happened across a natural spring oh say 20' in diameter and I would back up the sand rail to the spring and let the boys jump off into the water which was a good 15'-20' deep. This particular summer was kinda on the wet side, and water in the deserts of AZ are not really rare but just scarce. The local Cacti known as Saguaros just suck up as much water as they can and expand a bit when they do that. Anyway here we are nice picturesque afternoon the boys jumping off the sand rail into the water and all of a sudden I heard 2 real loud cracks and then a really pronounced thud. What had happened was the cactus sucked up so much water that the arms of the cactus (2 of them) where rolling down the mountain towards us. I yelled to the boys to get out and run behind those big boulders just 10' away and stay there and move right now. Those 2 arms that broke off rolled down the mountain side and lost alot of momentum by the time it hit the side of the sand rail. Lucky for us sand rails are light because it got moved only about 1' with no damage to us or the machine. Thank goodness because we were a good 20mi from anyone or anything for that matter and cell phones I think weren't even all that popular at the time, even if we had one I don't think it would have worked but we all got out OK.

[Longwood]

Sounds like "Invaders From Mars". They didn't insert the probe in the back of your neck, did they? :-D

Tremors?
We looked around for very large worm scat but found none.:kidding:

[DCM]

A naked woman riding a cigar.

Yeah I saw that Kiwi with purple longjohns thing too, just glad it wasn't in person.

[Ole]

Milk truck tried to take a left turn too fast. Talk about a stinky mess! My dept was called to help suck the milk out of the hotel's (pictured) retention area.

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These pictures are from a couple years ago. Same thing happened AGAIN a couple months ago. I guess you really can't cry over spilled milk. :bigsmyl2:

[Ole]

Couple more pics of the aftermath. Looks expensive!

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[bearcove]

Camped in northern BC with my dog. Fishing was good. Feed the dog and had 2 ravens hanging out to watch. Dog ate most of the food and laid down on the old rug in front of the tent. Raven came down to eat some dog food, Dog barked and chased it up in tree.

Next few days dog would see ravens and bark at them. Ravens started barking back. Pissed off the dog.

After about a week, fed the dog and one of the ravens lit in a tree about 50 yards away. Raven started barking at the dog. Pissed off dog ran over, and barked back. they did that for a while. The other raven was eating the dog's food.

Fed all three of them for a week then left to go north. Left Raven a pile of dog food to pay for the entertainment. Never laughed so much in one week.

[rockrat]

Was way North of Las Vegas late one evening and looked up and saw a contrail from an aircraft. Nothing like a contrail I had ever seen. Looked like cotton balls were glued to a string at regular intervals. The A/C was moving, about 3X the speed of a commercial airliner. Figured it might be a Blackbird, except for the contrail. Then it took a left turn.

At the speed it was going, I figured it would take a bit of territory to turn, but this thing made a 180 degree turn in under 15 seconds(maybe more like 10) and didn't take much area to do the turn.
I am a pilot too, and I have never forgotten what I saw. Back 20 ish years ago.

[MT Gianni]

When I lived in Eighty-Four Pennsylvania I had a deer run into the front right fender of my 77 Maverick, roll across the hood like TJ Hooker, hit the road on the other side of the car and slide sideways, looked at me like it was my fault then turn tail and run into the field. It was just getting dark, snowing hard and I was on my way to night service at church. I got out of the car to look at the hood and fender to see what kind of damage it did. I still to this day have no idea how I did it, but I locked the door somehow when I got out & closed it, so there I was wearing church clothes, at night in the snow on a desolte road, with the engine running. This was way before cell phones. One broken window later and I'm back in the car, driving back home. It's a good thing I did drive back home, that snow storm didn't let up any, it got worse.

Reminds me of a night we were headed to a social situation @ my wifes work after a heavy rain. She was driving as she drives that road much faster than I do. I spotted two young bucks coming out of the field on her left, I said "Deer" and she looked at me and said "what". She hit the second buck as his hooves were skidding on the wet road, knocked his feet our from under him, rolled him across the hood of the car leaving a few hairs in the hood/frame seam. As we stopped, he never even slowed down as he cleared the fence and went on his way.

[waksupi]

Artesians. I seen 'em. Drinking Coors.

[firefly1957]

Last winter in a fresh snow I had deer tracked bucking in the yard and hitting garden fence were there was a set of hind cat tracks next to the deer tracks then deer ran across driveway and dumped the cat when it landed . These tracks were to small for a bobcat more normal house cat . I back tracked and found a bout 60 yds. in the wood were the cat had ran and leaped on the deer from the ground. Last Friday June 8th I was walking the new dog down the road and a deer was acting odd about 300 yds down the road it was facing away with it's tail up, then would do a dance and run towards me and Wally (dog) . as we approached each other I could see a smaller animal low to the ground a butterscotch colored cat was attacking the deer! At about 100 yards the deer started running flat out my way and Wally started for her The cat ran upon seeing the dog (30 lb corgi who like cats) the deer went off the road just before Wally got to her (doe) and Wally broke off the chase.

As far as I know this cat belongs to people a mile and a half south of me have yo ever heard of a cat attacking a adult deer? The cat was also making some strange screams as it attacked I do not know how to describe them they did not sound like anything I have heard from a cat before.

[Longwood]

Last winter in a fresh snow I had deer tracked bucking in the yard and hitting garden fence were there was a set of hind cat tracks next to the deer tracks then deer ran across driveway and dumped the cat when it landed . These tracks were to small for a bobcat more normal house cat . I back tracked and found a bout 60 yds. in the wood were the cat had ran and leaped on the deer from the ground. Last Friday June 8th I was walking the new dog down the road and a deer was acting odd about 300 yds down the road it was facing away with it's tail up, then would do a dance and run towards me and Wally (dog) . as we approached each other I could see a smaller animal low to the ground a butterscotch colored cat was attacking the deer! At about 100 yards the deer started running flat out my way and Wally started for her The cat ran upon seeing the dog (30 lb corgi who like cats) the deer went off the road just before Wally got to her (doe) and Wally broke off the chase.

As far as I know this cat belongs to people a mile and a half south of me have yo ever heard of a cat attacking a adult deer? The cat was also making some strange screams as it attacked I do not know how to describe them they did not sound like anything I have heard from a cat before.

You should report it.
The cat may be rabid.

[ElDorado]

I said "Deer" and she looked at me and said "what".

Now that's funny!

[David2011]

About 20 years ago on a vacation we were driving between Pecos, Texas and Carlsbad, NM on a moonless night. I saw a green glow ahead and above the road a little. Unsure of what I was seeing I slowed down. As the headlights illuminated it we saw a huge black bull standing in the middle of the road and I realized the green glow was its retinas. The S-10 pickup we were driving wouldn't have been much of a match for that bull had we hit it at highway speed.

David

[edler7]

My neighbor had a magpie they had found as a young bird, they took it home and raised it. They had taught it how to talk. It would say probably a dozen different phrases- which was pretty amazing. What was really strange was it would say the phrase it learned in the voice of the person that taught it...so it had 5 different voices.

I can remember working in the yard and hearing one of the neighbors say something, only to look over and see nobody but TerryBird on the porch. The bird would sit on the porch and talk to himself in 2 or 3 different voices.

[firefly1957]

Long wood if it is the same cat that was out this winter I doubt it and since it had the sense to run from a 30 lb. dog I would not think it is rabid. If I see it in the yard it very well may receive the cure for what ails it but it is safe on the road as long as it is out of pistol range! I suppose I could walk with a rifle then use tire tracks top cover up bullet holes, Naw I could do that I think it is a pet? Might ask the owners if they are out when I go by they also have a bunch of dogs.

[firefly1957]

elder7 in 1977 when I hired into GM I was filling in across from a newer guy who would talk to himself in different voices when I talked to him he would get mad and say he did not say anything. I talked to the boss about it and he said as long as he kept squeezing good rivets he could care less if he was green and had antennas. He disappeared a week later (worked two weeks) he was committed to the mental hospital on the north side of Pontiac and was working in the yard when he went to the National Guard armory were GM was hiring and got hired. Now they say that multiple personalities is a fraud but this guy spoke in different voices including female and carried on a animated complete conversation??? (he used a relatives phone number to get called into work)

[Longwood]

My neighbor had a magpie they had found as a young bird, they took it home and raised it. They had taught it how to talk. It would say probably a dozen different phrases- which was pretty amazing. What was really strange was it would say the phrase it learned in the voice of the person that taught it...so it had 5 different voices.

I can remember working in the yard and hearing one of the neighbors say something, only to look over and see nobody but TerryBird on the porch. The bird would sit on the porch and talk to himself in 2 or 3 different voices.

I was at a house once that had a Myna bird that could not only say sentences, it could do the bell on the microwave, the garbage disposal and the long, tone changing sqeeeeeeak of the paper boy's bicycle coaster brake, perfectly, right down to the groan at the end.

[Longwood]

elder7 in 1977 when I hired into GM I was filling in across from a newer guy who would talk to himself in different voices when I talked to him he would get mad and say he did not say anything. I talked to the boss about it and he said as long as he kept squeezing good rivets he could care less if he was green and had antennas. He disappeared a week later (worked two weeks) he was committed to the mental hospital on the north side of Pontiac and was working in the yard when he went to the National Guard armory were GM was hiring and got hired. Now they say that multiple personalities is a fraud but this guy spoke in different voices including female and carried on a animated complete conversation??? (he used a relatives phone number to get called into work)

We have a resident similar to that.
He is amusing to watch talking to the invisible, to us, people sitting across from him in the restaurants.
He even gets up and walks over and shakes his finger at them now and then.

[waksupi]

Last winter in a fresh snow I had deer tracked bucking in the yard and hitting garden fence were there was a set of hind cat tracks next to the deer tracks then deer ran across driveway and dumped the cat when it landed . These tracks were to small for a bobcat more normal house cat . I back tracked and found a bout 60 yds. in the wood were the cat had ran and leaped on the deer from the ground. Last Friday June 8th I was walking the new dog down the road and a deer was acting odd about 300 yds down the road it was facing away with it's tail up, then would do a dance and run towards me and Wally (dog) . as we approached each other I could see a smaller animal low to the ground a butterscotch colored cat was attacking the deer! At about 100 yards the deer started running flat out my way and Wally started for her The cat ran upon seeing the dog (30 lb corgi who like cats) the deer went off the road just before Wally got to her (doe) and Wally broke off the chase.

As far as I know this cat belongs to people a mile and a half south of me have yo ever heard of a cat attacking a adult deer? The cat was also making some strange screams as it attacked I do not know how to describe them they did not sound like anything I have heard from a cat before.

Are you sure it wasn't a fawn screaming? I've killed cats on my place this time of year that were after the fawns. And yes, a cat can kill one.

[MBTcustom]

I have seen three black panthers here in Arkansas. I saw a bobcat who's back would be level with a four wheeler rack. I have seen fossils of anchient creatures right here in Arkansas.
However, these all pale in comparison to the most awesome natural sight I have ever whitnessed. I dont remember the exact year, it was the late 90's early 2000's. I went down to Poison Springs WMA to hunt. I was all alone. Back then I packed light, just threw the necessaries in the back of the truck and slept in the cab. Well, I was in the cab of my truck, sawing logs and I was awakened by what sounded like every coyote in the forest going nuts! I opened my eyes and it was like bright daylight outside. I looked at the clock on the dash-board and it said something like 1:00 AM. I got out of the truck and looked up to see where all this eary blu light was coming from. It was the most amazing meteor shower I have ever seen! I stood there looking up at thousands probably millions of meteors lighting up the sky like the biggest fireworks display you ever saw in your life. They were everywhere, and the coyotes kept yipping and howling like to beat Christmas. I remember the most amazing one though, looked like a cluster of meteors that came strait down very slowly. They were so bright, it was blinding. I tell you folks, I braced for the impact, and fully expected to here about how Kentucky bought the farm when I got home later that week. That cluster of meteors left a trail behind them, and after the light went away, I could see the jet streams of our atmosphere turn the trail into a big orange "S" shape in the sky.
I finally got so tired of looking up, that I decided to go back to the truck and get some sleep, but the show kept going for hours.
Coolest and strangest thing I have ever seen.

[OneSkinnyMass]

back in colorado springs around 1990 or so I helped my buddy and his girlfriend move. we worked till late at night and they insisted I stay the night. Yes we had been drinking beer and partying a bit but not going overboard. well I crashed in a small bedroom and left the door open about half way and could see the couch and coffee table with my head on the pillow. fell asleep about one and woke up an hour or so later and saw a small boy, maybe 8 years old standing at the door looking at me. well they dont have any kids so I propped myself up on 1 arm and looked a little closer and noticed I could see the couch thru the kid. the light wall and the dark couch and even the wood floor showed thru him. yeah I froze for a second and he turned and walked away out of view. I got up, got dressed and woke my friends, told them the story. well they weren't buying it so I drove home. They lived there for the next few years until I moved back to Ca and they never saw anything out of the norm.
Did I see a ghost, I'm not sure what I saw but it was something. I've told this to family and a few close friends and even now while I typed this I got cold chills up and down my entire body just like always. so whatever it was, it was the dangedist thing I ever saw

Skinny

[reloader28]

We've had a couple cats that attack critters.
Our Siamese tom attacked an antelope buck in our yard. My family, brother and a friend watched that out the window as he chased it around for 10 minutes. The buck finally left the property. We were to busy laughing to get pictures.

When we first got married, we had a cat that would jump out of the brush at the cows around the house.

[Hurricane]

On a nice day about 90 miles south of Houston on a 2 lane highway I had a good day of animal watching. Going by a lake, my daughter and I saw a 6 or 7 foot alligator sunning on a large log in the lake close to shore. To top that we saw a deer that was acting strange in a wooded pasture next to the highway. She kept hunching up her back and looked uncomfortable. We slowed down to watch her and just before we passed her the doe gave birth to a fawn. We turned around to watch some more and on the second pass the spotted fawn was just standing up for the first time. I will probably never see that in the wild again.

[x101airborne]

We have a resident similar to that.
He is amusing to watch talking to the invisible, to us, people sitting across from him in the restaurants.
He even gets up and walks over and shakes his finger at them now and then.

I have been spotted!!
Wait... Does this qualify me for internet celebrety status?

[WILCO]

fell asleep about one and woke up an hour or so later and saw a small boy, maybe 8 years old standing at the door looking at me.I propped myself up on 1 arm and looked a little closer and noticed I could see the couch thru the kid. the light wall and the dark couch and even the wood floor showed thru him.

I was mowing the patch of grass between the sidewalk and curb. Made one pass, turned around to pull the mower behind me and walked smack into a fortyish caucasian male who was balding, thin, wearing rimmed glasses with a canary yellow polo shirt. He passed right through me. Took my breath with him.

[WILCO]

A naked woman riding a cigar.

[smilie=l:

[firefly1957]

waksupi I am sure the sounds were from the cat it is possible the doe was leading the cat away from a fawn but the doe was being attacked not the cat?

[williamwaco]

Union member?


Never!

Them's fighting words.


.

[Thumbcocker]

Thought I caught a glimpse of a tipsy artesian wearing purple long johns once, but I couldn't be sure. They're quiiiick.

[cephas53]

After 37 years my wife still manages a what the heck moment. Had small chipmunk invasion in our attic one year, and one of her ideas was to place those commercial glue pads around. This pad was about 5" wide and 5" long and worked to capture a chippy.
I was not home and at this point she wanted to quickly dispose of the critter. She decided that running over it with her car would be the cleanest method of disposal. Seeing that glue pad stuck to the tire , in fact the whole incident, was pretty strange. Imagine I'll be bringing it up a time or two again as we age.

[firefly1957]

I use those glue traps for bats that get in attic I put them in a charcoal starter with some sticks and light it everything including bat burns up clean. I have discovered it is best to set the trap were the bats travel with some line tied to it to make it easy to retrieve and the bat/mouse can not get leverage to get off. I spread a little chalk dust to find were the bat was traveling.

[Yellowhouse]

Saw a cottontail evidently defending her young (although I didn't find them) by attacking a 3.5 ft long bullsnake. Dang near tore the snakes head off by kicking its head and raking those hind claws in.

[fatelk]

I was at a friend's house with the family a year or two ago, and we all watched out the window as their young chocolate lab chased a small bird around the yard. The bird flew over to the garage and smack into the window. It fluttered back across the yard in what looked like a stunned stupor, bobbing around and flying a foot or two off the ground. The dog chased it, biting at it.

Suddenly the bird disappeared. The dog looked around for a few seconds, totally confused. Then he opened his mouth and the bird flew out and flew away!

I know we could have made a bunch of money on "Funniest Videos" or something if we'd have had a video camera. One of the funniest things I ever saw. The poor dog just stood there looking around, completely bewildered as to what just happened.

[jblee10]

I was once driving about 60 mph in the dark. A deer ran out in front of the car, jumped into the air and I drove under it without touching it at all.
Another time I saw a bobcat that was also as tall as the rack on a quad. It was a different color then the other bobcats in the area. I've always wondered if it were a crossbreed.
I rounded a corner once and saw what I thought was a squirrel running right down the center of the road. As I drove closer I could see that it was a bobcat kitten. I drove past it and it continued running down the line.
I looked up one day and could see an American Eagle circling on air currents like a Vulture. As I watched it took a dive at about a 35 degree angle, achieving amazing speed. It's dive must have lasted over 30 seconds, carrying it far enough away I could barely see it any longer. Then it stopped diving and started circling and rising again. What a way to travel.

A friend was napping and awoke with a post-it note on his chest put there by his renter (that was funny in itself) The note said the toilet was clogged. As he plunged the toilet, a beak appeared in the bottom of the bowl. He reached in and pulled out a live Starling. He was going to wring it's neck, but his wife convinced him to release it. It flew away. I guess that bird deserved to live after what it had been through.

[WRideout]

In about 1977. I was visiting my wife's relatives in Tacoma, WA. We took a driving tour that included Whidbey Island. We were all out for a walk on a trail, and came to an overlook where we could see a Navy jet fighter in the distance. While we watched, it suddenly turned into a ball of fire, and plunged to the ground, literally crashing and burning. We saw on the news later that the crew had all bailed out, and were OK.

Wayne

[x101airborne]

I remembered another.....

A friend of mine and I were blowing off some 12 oz steam shooting 22 rifles at one of our ponds. Since one of our hands were often full, we were shooting rifles one handed. He made an excellent shot at about 40 yards flipping a red eared slider on his back with one shot. Later, a cormorant, wich we have a predation license for, landed on one of our fisheries ponds. I shot at it one handed at about 50 yards and the bullet hit about 6 feet low and a foot to the right. The bullet riccocheted off the water and hit it in the neck just under the head. Thank goodness I had a witness.

[bradh]

One day in Wisconsin it was so cold I saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets!

[Plate plinker]

Should have taken a photo, so you could show the rest how to do that too.

[Trey45]

One day in Wisconsin it was so cold I saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets!

Pictures or it didn't happen.

[gandydancer]

Sammy's quarter.Fall 1957 I'm 17 years old working in a gas station on the US & Canadian border between Calais Maine & ST Stephan NB. Sammy works for the power company in Bangor Maine and lives in St Stephen NB with wife and kids and only comes home on the week ends. its a Wednesday night late around 11:30 pm. I see Sammy walking towards Canada he see's me in the garage window and stops in. ask me to loan him a quarter for a pack of camel's the cost is .35 cents from machine. I tell him all I have is .75 cents total to eat with. He says he is going back to Bangor Thursday and will be home Friday night and pay me back and buy me a hot dog to boot. I give Sammy the loan and ask what he is doing home on a week night? he says he felt he had to go home did not know why? Sammy is killed Friday morning. hit a power line with a chain saw. I remember thinking damn he was only 24 years old. I did not go to the funeral. Sammy was buried in Calais. Sunday my buddy and I"mousy"go snow shoe hunting. in late afternoon we are coming out of the woods from the back way through the grave yard and there in front of me is Sammy's grave. and on top of the fresh pile of dirt is a brand new 1957 .25 cent piece. I still have that quarter 55 years later. GD

[square butte]

I put a quarter on the gravestone of my great, great, great , great, great Grandfather about 4 times a year. Usually when I come back - it is gone. Would that be you? Sorry - I just couldn't resist

[gandydancer]

I put a quarter on the gravestone of my great, great, great , great, great Grandfather about 4 times a year. Usually when I come back - it is gone. Would that be you? Sorry - I just couldn't resist
I'm not saying. just keep the money coming my C.Sharps is all most paid for. :bigsmyl2: GD

[WILCO]

One night many moons ago, I came home and parked my car in the garage. The back porch light was on when I pulled in. I get out of the car and notice the light is out. Work my way up the porch in the dark and fumble with the lightswitch. The bulb suddenly explodes and glass flies everywhere. Never seen that before or since. Just figures.

[ElDorado]

In a warehouse where I used to work, one of the women in the office kept seeing a mouse running around. They put one of those sticky traps against the wall where he would run, but he would avoid the trap.

She thought the trap could use some bait, so she dropped a Milk Dud in the middle of the glue. Sure enough, the next day there was the mouse, still alive, stuck to the glue with the Milk Dud next to him. I was elected to dispose of the trap, so I took it outside and threw it in one of those old galvanized steel trash cans and put the lid on it. The trash can had just been emptied, so the trap was the only thing in it.

The next day I checked the can to see if the mouse had died. The trap was still there, but the mouse was gone! He was nowhere inside that can and I can’t figure out how he got out. But the strangest part is – the Milk Dud was gone, too. He took that with him, wherever he went. I guess he got one over on us. I was actually happy that he got away.

Behold the lowly and meek mouse, survivor and trickster.

[higgins]

Just the other day I saw a guy at the range with an AK47 knockoff who was taking careful aim at a target more than ten yards away. To boot, the target was not something laying on the ground so he could see the dirt fly when he shot. Strangest of all was his rate of fire-the rifle was not smoking when he finished a string.

[Longwood]

Just the other day I saw a guy at the range with an AK47 knockoff who was taking careful aim at a target more than ten yards away. To boot, the target was not something laying on the ground so he could see the dirt fly when he shot. Strangest of all was his rate of fire-the rifle was not smoking when he finished a string.

Ya know,,,
This thread was looking good until the liars started in.

[DLCTEX]

My buddies and I were coon hunting one night about 1960. There was a sudden hiss and bright green light that lit the sky to the horizons. News the next day said a meteor had hit near Austin. Tx.
About 20 years ago I was spotlighting hogs with friends near Abilene, Tx when we spotted a porcupine about 50 yds. out in a field. I ran out with a 22 pistol and popped him with a shot in the back. A shower of quills went 3 ft in the air and covered the ground around him. I asked the guys in the truck, "did you see that? Yes, what was it? Quills". I shot him again and got another shower of quills. I had heard they could shoot their quills, and also that it was an old wives tale. That settled it for me.

[MT Gianni]

Odd sights this week were a baby Killdeer that was all fuzzy. You could tell it's colors but it had no permanent feathers yet. It was on a run for the high grass. Number two was a baby porcupine. It was waddling off in the back woods no larger than the palm of my hand and coal black.

[Marvin S]

A snake crawling on a iced over creek in the middle of winter.

[merlin101]

A few years ago I was East bound on I 80 in PA when I saw something in the road ahead of me. It turned out to be a large buck, problem was he was running towards me! I slowed and changed lanes and just before I got to him he turned to his left went off the road flopped down on his belly and with his head down SLID UNDER THE FENCE! He jumped up and was gone, all that in about 5 seconds.

[rexherring]

Several years ago we were watching storm clouds and saw four funnel clouds come out of the same cloud at the same time. Looked kind of like a cows udder. None touched ground.

[MBTcustom]

I was driving out to my favorite shooting place one fall. The dirt road I was on was lined on both sides with 4 tightly strung lines of barb-wire with about 12" in between each line. Nothing special, just a cheap way to keep the cows in.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something running across the field to my left. It was a beautiful 8 point buck. He was running at breakneck speed across the pasture directly perpendicular to the road I was driving on. I slowed down a little and decided to amuse myself by what happened when he hit the barbwire. I figured I would see him slow down, asses the situation and then jump over the fence. To my utter astonishment, I saw the deer dive headfirst through the barbwire fence!!!!! His rear right leg got hung for just a split second, but he shook his foot ever so daintily and got free. Another bound brought him to the wire fence on the right side of the road. One graceful lunge and he cleared that fence from above, and continued his run across the field to my right.
I just couldn't believe my eyes when he went through that barbwire, rack first and never even slowed his roll. I've seen high dive jumpers hit the water with more hesitation than that deer had for that fence.

[waksupi]

That reminds me of seeing a moose trotting across a field, and coming to a fence. He didn't even slow down. The wire stretched, staples came out of the posts fifty yards on each side of him. He stumbled one step when some wires snapped, and kept up his pace on across the road.

[WILCO]

Watched a woman drive her SUV with two small dogs in her lap as they hung out the window...

[bbs70]

Saw a young girl driving her car down the road, without a cell phone stuck to her ear.

[Roosters]

Have read every page of this and believe every one of the posts except this

Saw a young girl driving her car down the road, without a cell phone stuck to her ear.:shock: Sorry bbs70

[Silver Eagle]

The only reason it was not in her ear is because it was in her lap. Either texting or looking for the next number to dial!

Silver Eagle

[BD]

About 2005 or so I was in northern Quebec hunting the Caribou migration. I had set up on the southern shore of a fairly large frozen lake looking across a logical choke point where I'd be certain of a steady stream of animals to choose from. As the herd started appearing in bunches from the north end of the lake I saw a small black speck come out from the woods on the eastern shore and take up a position about 200 yards out onto the ice maybe a half mile north of where I was hunkered down. This little black dot managed to entirely hold up the flow of the Caribou until there where about 500 animals backed up to the north of it, then they started flowing around the obstruction to the west. This messed up my hunt plan, and made me so curious that I worked my way up the shore until I could get a good look at the little critter with the big attitude. It was a fisher cat, probably no more than five pounds, standing up on it's hind legs and breaking the course of a migration of nearly a million animals. I probably saw 5,000 to 6,000 Caribou that day and every one of them went well out of their way to go wide around that fisher.
BD

[WILCO]

big bump back to the top! :)

[Baja_Traveler]

In the 70's I was hanging out at a friends house when all of a sudden we heard a huge BAM on the roof and the bushes rustling in the back yard. Went out to investigate and found a fighter pilot's helmet sitting in the middle of the lawn. Since there was no head still in it, we assumed that someone had put it outside the aircraft where it got stuck on something until it fell off. He never did contact Miramar NAS (the likely culprit) and kept the helmet as a souvenir.

Then there was the time I was at home and heard a huge crash outside on the street - went out and saw the Sparkletts Water delivery truck on the corner and the whole street covered in a mountain of glass. He took the turn too fast and the whole side of 5 gallon bottles was ejected on to the street.

Same exact location a few years later I hear what sounds like someone throwing a metal trash can down the street. I go out and see some guy rolling his VW bug back over onto its wheels, jump in and take off...

[10-x]

1974, while at Ft Bragg, buddy on the pistol team's cousin said lets go see the Vander Light. When to Vander and saw the light, ghost I guess. Watched it from a 1/4 mile away until it was 50' away. Scared the mess out of my wife and my buddies wife, I was amazed, 2 years back from Vietnam so no big deal. BTW, no booze was involved.(~:

[hardware]

Back in about '92 or so, I was watching TV entirely later than I should have at my age at the time, and the light in the kitchen turns off. Mind you, it was one of those old silent switches with the mercury vial, no springs or the like. The switch had been up, on... I looked after and the switch was down, off... but I'd just been in there. It turned off while I was looking at the very wall it was in. No idea how. My dad, who you know as Bad Water Bill may remember shooing me off to bed after, but probably not. Left an impression on me though.

Other one was just neat. Maybe five years after the previous, due to a series of circumstances involving a pilot at a small private airfield getting such a kick out of my little PVC flight setup which my father had made me and that I used to pretend I was flying around with while we were going places, I was up in a glider, on the fellow's dollar, for my Eagle Flight. Then an F117 flies by, slows up, wags his wings in the unmistakable wave, and slowly flies off. Thick, highish (to a kid) overcast day, so I got a good, long look without any glare. Pity I didn't have a camera.

[DCM]

Welcome to castboolits Hardware!

A while back a turkey decided to fly through a friends THICK picture window and was found DOA on the kitchen floor at least 12' into the house.
literally scared the poop out of their dog that used to like to nap near the picture window.

[Bad Water Bill]

Welcome to my second home HARDWARE(SON OF MINE) I hope you have as many years of pleasure here as I have had.

[Parson]

The mind can sure play tricks when something is totally out of its element. Was hunting buffalo in Central Africa. We had been tracking them for about three hours, finally got one, quartered it and the Africans started back for camp (no professional hunter or guide, we were on our own) no idea exactly where we were but the odometer said we were 22 miles off the road. We hear this strange sound heading toward us getting louder and louder, with one 375 and one 12 ga at the ready we were scared. An elephant, lion or whatever was no problem but this was something we could not identify, we had never heard anything like this in the wild. All of a sudden an African ridding a moped comes into the clearing. My brain and eyes could not agree on what we were seeing it was so out of place. Seemed to take several minutes before I calmed down and could admit what I was looking at

[Bad Water Bill]

The first time I went archery hunting by myself I found a trail leading deep into the woods. I found a nice campsite and pitched the tent,had supper and went to sleep. At some time in the dark of night I woke up to the sound of something scraping the side of the tent. I spent the rest of the night waiting with a Colt SSA 45 in my hand waiting for a black bear to say HELLO.

During the night something pushed a pine tree limd just low enough to cause the scraping sound.

Yes I moved the tent first thing in the mourning. Scared, not so you would notice it MUCH.:bigsmyl2:

[jcobb651]

My dad died when I was 17. On my 18th birthday my mom handed me an envelope. It was labeled: To Gloria (my moms name), was sealed, yellowing, and appeared aged. It had some really funky decorations on the envelope that had been made with some magic markers. Now my moms birthday is 2 days after mine, and I guess the bewildered look on my face led to her explanation while smiling that when she and my dad were dating, 2 years before they got married, he gave this letter to her on her 18th birthday with explicit instructions not to open it, but to give it to her first born on his birthday. With tears flowing and hands shaking I opened the envelope to find a piece of folder over cardboard, with the same funky colorations and a crisp new one dollar bill inside. Written on the inside of the folded over cardboard was simply the phrase "something to remember me by". I still get chills thinking about that one.....and yes....I saved that package and fully intend to give it to my firstborn (who shares the name of my dad) on his 18th birthday.

[Junior1942]

Forty years or so ago I was deer hunting from an improvised ground blind which I do even today. Far off through the woods I heard a pack of hounds. They got closer, closer . . . closer. I got ready, ready . . . ready to shoot the buck they were chasing, I was sure. Suddenly a beautiful red fox appeared and was trotting in my direction. I kept one eye on him and the other eye on the woods where I knew a buck would soon appear. There was a giant, hollow, storm-topped oak between me and the fox. The fox headed straight to the oak and entered a hole at its base. Then it appeared high in the hollow end of the snag. Then it jumped from the hollow end of the snag down onto the log-like end of the top, which rested some six or eight feet above the ground and was held there by huge limbs.

It casually trotted down the length of the tree top, then jumped to the ground and ran away. In a minute, here came the pack of hounds, raising h-e-double L. To my dismay, no buck led the pack. The hounds went straight to the hollow at the base of the snag, where they began raising 2X-h-e-double-L. When I walked away a few minutes later, they were still at the base of the hollow snag and were still convinced it contained a fox. I suspect that wasn't the first time ol' Bre' Fox used that hollow snag.

[Janoosh]

I was high up in a treestand during hunting season, saw a deer trip and stumble over some old wire on top of a stone wall, it stopped, looked around and then walked off. I could swear it acted as if lt was embarrassed!

[Gator 45/70]

A black panther, Back in 63 when I was 8 yrs. old.
A older teen and I had been down in the Sabine river bottom close too a local place called Steamboat Bend squirrel hunting with a crack barrel .410

We were walking out following the trail along the Sabine on the Texas side when he tells me to look across the river at the black panther coming across the sand bar.

Sure enough a panther was coming to water so we laid down and watched the cat come all the way down the bank, Crouch down and started drinking water.

I asked if I could shoot it and he told me to aim over it's head by about 12 feet, So being a knuckle headed boy I did and popped off a shot at it.

I think 3 bb's made it across the river and man did that cat peel out !!

We watched it disappear over the sand bar. Walked back to the highway were my old dad was running a service station next to the highway. We walk in and tell our story to him and a couple of other old men sitting around.

I remember them telling me that some people have lived here all their life and only a few have seen the panther's and I'm lucky to have seen one and shot at it for being only 8 yrs. old.

This is the old highway running from Bon Weir Tx. to Merryville La.

[wallenba]

Four AM one fall morning I saw a bright, streaking glinting light trail move through the star field above me. I related what I saw to a friend of mine who was an amateur astronomer. He was quite excited to relate to me the phenomenon of Iridium flares. They can be predicted and observed http://www.satobs.org/iridium.html .
I also witnessed a bolide lighting up the late afternoon sky while living in the U.P. of Michigan in 1963 or 64. They said it was witnessed as far away as Pennsylvania and Minnesota.
Two other strange events involve birds. I once watched helplessly as a starling landed on sloped roof opposite my office window. It was trying to find refuge during an intense thunderstorm. The rain literally beat it to death.
The other was a seagull I noticed while sitting at a red light. It was perched, standing atop a telephone pole at the intersection. Suddenly it drooped it's head and fell to the sidewalk dead. I actually witnessed the poor creatures sudden death. That spooked me a bit.

[Marvin S]

Driving to work a couple months ago I saw a Canada goose perched on someones roof top.

[Circuit Rider]

The summer of '70 or '71 my girlfriend(at the time) and I were west of Stillwater, Okla. at Lake Carl Blackwell probably 1 am or so. Had a blanket spread out and were in the throes of passion. I always carried or had near, a 357 Ruger. We heard a noise in some bushes nearby and froze in place. Reached for my weapon and listened, then could see in the moonlight, a skunk saunter by not 20 feet from us. Needless to say the mood was ruined. CR

[TXGunNut]

About 23 years ago, around 10:PM one night, my wife and I saw a what looked like a meteor about to crash into Pusch Ridge of the Catalina Mountain northwest of Tucson. We were traveling north on old Hwy 89 just crossed the bridge over Canada Del Oro. The sky had this huge object coming at us with parts of it falling off behind it. As they fell off they lit up and became part of the tail. The object was headed SE and the news reported it was a old Russian satellite that fell out of orbit, crashing into Mexico. But it was so low and huge you could hear it's noise, and it looked like it was going to hit the mountain ridge. We ducked when it went over.

I believe I saw the same one but it probably wasn't. We were investigating a car burglary behind a bowling alley and even had a likely suspect when this thing came over. We heard it first, flames were yellow and blue. IIRC it was headed SW. News reports said later it was just a big Russian sattellite. I got fussed at for saying UFO on the police radio. Strictly speaking, I was right.

[WILCO]

Saw a heavyset man riding a small jap bike in the early a.m.
He was wearing a full face helmet, tee-shirt and jeans.
His tee shirt rolled up past his man boobies at 60 mph.
My eyes have been hurting since thursday......................... :shock:

[gandydancer]

back in 1971-2 I was a gas jockey at a small airport in Meriden Ct. the airport rental plane a Cessna 172 came in for refueling with 4 people on board. they got out and where walking behind me when we heard a metal on metal sound. turned around in time to see the 172 left straight up in the air and roll over on its back and fall to the ground in a loud crash. it was a warm and sunny day in July.

[MBTcustom]

OK, I'll play.
This is about the strangest thing I have seen (as a gunsmith):
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Please, remember that this was done by a member here.
It was a mistake, he was lucky, he knows he screwed up, and it could have been a lot worse.

Still, this is definitely the strangest thing I've seen on my bench since I started smithing.
When I sectioned the barrel, I was expecting to find 3 jacketed bullets. I didn't expect to find 9 more cast boolits stacked up behind them.
Darn good thing he didn't pull the trigger on lucky #13!

[Bad Water Bill]

I hope he visits OUR CHAPEL every day and says a thank you prayer.

He indeed had someone watching over him.

[MBTcustom]

Yes he does. I gotta say though, if you guys knew half the stuff I did in my teens when my brains were still underdeveloped, this wouldn't look so bad. Put it to ya this way: I had almost all of the abilities I have now but without the good common sense to temper it with.
I turned the end of a nice black powder pistol into an umbrella once.
Course, that led me to beg a favor from a real gunsmith and the rest is history.

[MtGun44]

12 shots. . . . . . . kinda slow on the uptake, it would seem. :bigsmyl2:

Bill

[starmac]

12 shots. . . . . . . kinda slow on the uptake, it would seem. :bigsmyl2:

Bill

YA Think... lol