My main reason for bringing this up is something that happened when my boys were very young and I was still with there mother. I live approx 50 miles from the coast of south-east England. it was a lovely warm night and we spontaneously took the kids and 3 dogs to the coast. there was an off sure oil rig with lights and arcades behind us so it was lightish. we had a st bernard, a shar-pei and a dachshund at the time. as we walked along the beech the sharpie had spotted something in the surf and went and grabbed it.this thing was a black and white bird about 16` tall that waddled. my shar-pei was hurting it and the dachshund was nearly drowning trying to get to it. I instinctually grabbed the shar-pei which made her let go. the bird didn't fly away but dived under the surf never to be seen again. now im pretty good on creature identity and where they live but it was at night so I can't say for sure but I know I walked around with my ex-saying "fucking hell a penguin on the beech in England" and "should I mention it" as I wondered about people believing me. can anyone on here think of a short black and white bird that stands upright, waddles and escapes under the sea apart from a penguin?

Ok, at the risk of getting drenched in ridicule (again):

a friend of mine had taken over the lease of a farmhouse, but he kept contact with the widow of the former caretaker, a woman in her 70s, who was still grieving the death of her husband & the fact that she'd had to let go of her home of 45 years - she just couldn't maintain the house & gardens anymore.

my friend still let her pick bunches of her beloved flowers, & when it came to slaughtering one or the other of the young roosters, she would do the deed. then one day he went into the barn & found her hanging from a rafter - she'd just had enough & too much loss to bear any longer.

a few weeks after this we were all sitting in the former pig sty, lovingly transformed by my friend into a spacious lounge, celebrating his 50th birthday. I was just looking towards the windows when I saw the yellow-golden shape of the old woman gliding past.

I do not believe in ghosts or anything supernatural, but I know what I see.

It was a hot day and i saw a man running down the street with nothing but sneakers on. In his defense it was hot that day!

In the 70's I ran into an argument between a former governor of Puerto Rico and a reporter. About 2 AM in front of the Disco San Juan San Juan, in old San Juan. Two days later it was in the news. I thought I had imagined an Hallucination because I was on LSD. Only witness and there were no smart cell phones. But to the few cats I told the story before it came out... and thought it was just a "trip" like me... I became "Da Legend". Life in a Colony in the 70's.

When I was small I thought I saw the Easter bunny and still remember how it felt so real--it's eyes glowing in the dark basement. But now that I think about it, it could have definitely been the cat we had .

Walking home late one night, I crested the top (or peak) of a bridge - what lay before me was a bunch of traffic barriers that each had independant flashing lights. They kept night time traffic from driving onto fresh concrete poured that day for a new sidewalk along the street I lived on.

So - remember, each barrier is on an independant "flicker" circuit, powered by those big 6 volt batteries. Get this - every single one of them flashed in sequence like an airport landing strip. There was maybe 2 dozen or 30 of these things.

What are the odds? I guess the same odds as flashing in any other pattern, but it was so ordered, that I took it as a sign of the supernatural (I was 19, and seeking...). Proof that we look for patterns to support our confirmation bias...

another weird thing. I was sitting at a breakfast diner in downtown Louisville KY.It is a very rare thing to see a Native American there. I glanced up and saw a man that looked like a photo from the 1800's Plains Indian. Of course he walked over and sat next to me and in a matter of minutes had opened his shirt to show me the recent wounds on his chest from being suspended in a traditional ceremony. THe name of it evades me right now but it is a major traditional ceremony for the Sioux . If you ever saw the movie A Man Called Horse they showed a part of it in that movie

I was living in New Hampshire and it was a very warm summer evening. I remember our lilac tree was in full bloom and the fragrance was very heavy in the air. It was too warm to sleep so I got up and went out to sit on the back porch. I love looking at the night sky and while I was “star gazing”, a triangle of lights just appeared out of nowhere up in the sky. Three very bright points of light in a triangle. It seemed to hover way up there and after a few minutes it just disappeared! I was in a kind of a trance I guess because I thought I had been on the porch for a few minutes but I had been out there for over an hour. The whole incident was very surreal.

Now every time I smell real lilacs I think about that and it happened in 1988!

Yes, I had an experience, well not just me, it was on a large crowd. And it is hard to believe yet true. At an underground London rave called. "A congress in the dialect of freedom" strange name for a rave eh, yet not really, it wasn't the usual rave. Lots of tech was turning up in raves using eletromagnetic fields. All the tech developed by the CIA in the MK ultra and Monarch programs in the US was being used as the new high but also to abuse people. hence the strange name for the rave. It was the first and last time I saw the tech used in such a blatant and open way. Imagine a room full of people all thinking something was in their head, was reading their thoughts. No one dare say a thing until their thoughts got displayed on a screen the size of a house for all to see. Everytime something new appeared someone in the crowd would start to shout out. Personally I was arguing with the voice in my head to show me evidence and not leave me trying to believe in a voice in my head. I got a tap on the shoulder by one of the people with me. When I looked up I saw SAVAGE EVIDENCE across the wall. This was around 2003 - 2004

Have had a fair few things happen that are hard to explain but this one makes the best story.
Was 14 years old staying in one of the old grand hotels up in the Blue Mountains. Anyway my friends had been being annoying so went up to the roof on the third floor to chill as it had a fantastic view. Standing out on the roof and a man's voice says "Hello Kim.' so I think it is one of my friends, snap back "What do you want!" and turn around. Well standing there is a man in a grey period mourning suit, at which stage I ran, back through the door off roof, bolted it behind me and didn't stop till I was back downstairs.
Downstairs are my friends all dressed normally, I'm white and slightly shaky, so they asked what was wrong, I tell them and we go back up to see who I've just locked out on the roof. Get there, the door is still bolted but nobody is there. At this stage we go back back down and I have a double vodka, my first for the day.
Now I wasn't the first person that had experienced something odd in this building but I'd always thought it was BS until then.

In the early 1980s, I was driving on a narrow, winding country road, with a creek on one side and a rock cliff on the other side, near my farm in Rowan, CO, KY, when a pickup truck with monster wheels came barreling around the corner. The truck began weaving back and forth across the road as the driver lost control, then came right into my lane, taking up the entire road.

I found myself looking up into the grill of the truck, yelled "No you don't!" and knifed the wheel to the right. Since there was a ditch and cliff on that side I don't know what happened, but suddenly I was behind the truck, and stopped, in the middle of the road.

Two young men leaped out of the truck and running toward me, faces white, eyes bulging in disbelief. "Are you OK? What happened just now?" A woman ran out of a nearby farmhouse, face pale and incredulous. "What happened? What did I just see?"

I didn't know either, but I was alive, which was a good thing, so I drove off on my way. If I'd been thinking, I'd have asked them to describe what they saw happen, but they seemed pretty bewildered. It felt like I leaped straight through the truck.

A friend of mine who worked on a Native American Indian reservation near Durango, CO, said the same thing happened to her..a truck came out of nowhere on a desert road and instead of a head-on collision, she suddenly found herself beyond the truck, stopped in the middle of the road. My brother-in-law told a similar story when an 18-wheeler jack-knifed right in front of him and there was a massive pile-up of cars. But he said that suddenly he was parked on the side of the road, well off the highway, watching it all happen. Everyone can teleport, since we are just energy after all, but few can do it on purpose, so I'd say we did accidentally.

Maybe not super strange, but at work one day and there was a canal at he back, a few times a year there are dolphins in it. One day I thought I saw someone swimming yup and down. Later it seemed to be just a log, oh well. I was talking to one of the staff and he kept staring at the water. Turns out is was a very large seal, we don't get hem here, about 15 feet long. Sadly, we reported it and it was captured for removal, but it had a large stingray barb up through its jaw and into its eye socket. There was a lot of infection and it had to be euthanized.

When I was 5 my sister, brother and I were playing hide-n-seek. My sister and I hid in a passageway that we found that ran from our closet to our parent's closet. Naturally our brother could not find us. When we emerged he wanted to know where we hid, so we took him to show him. When we opened the door to the passageway there were pipes running through it instead of the passage. We never found it.

Twenty years later I was fortunate to take a tour of the house (a classmate's family bought it). I asked the mother about the passageway. She told me that she had heard about it, however they remodeled the house and never found it.

In this same house I remember vividly sitting on the stairs in front of our front door and watched the door unlock itself, open, close and lock itself back. Other strange things happened in this house (gas coming on by itself, lights turning off and on, etc). Supposedly it was haunted by a six year old girl.

North Dakota

I was at a blacksmiths forge in Southern Indiana . It was at the edge of a small town far off the highway. THe town was quite far from any other population center. We were messing around doing some wrought iron and looked up and saw an obvious foreigner coming out of the woods. He didnt speak English. Long story short he was from Mongolia and thought he could get work there as he had been a blacksmith there.

The' personally' bit made me think to share this - I was living in Ballintoy in a house halfway down a cliff all by itself which was above the carrick- a -rede rope bridge. At night it was really dark and we were in bed and my partner was telling me about the the Black Perceptory who were ultra strong Protestants who had massive drums - (our cottage was in a mixed area)- I woke up in the middle of the night to a huge booming and shook him awake and said 'the Black men are here.!'We didnt actually know what it was but woke in the morning and went for a walk and there were clothes abandoned everywhere at the lime kiln below - It had been a good clear site for a rave. (Apologies to Black Perceptory)

A friend and I saw odd, orangish bands of light in the sky in Southern Utah. If I had been alone, I'd have called a probable hallucination.

I've seen people post the same question over and over

Someone driving the wrong way on a one way street.

I'm loving all of your replies, just fantastic and not bullshit.

Well I had a funny run of luck for a while. Every time I went to the beach with a date we'd see dolphins close to the shore. went on for about two years. I never saw any when I went by myself. The last time it happened it was a whale shark swimming in just a few feet of water.