OLDER REPORTS
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The WEIRD SCIENCE database of
MISC. UNEXPLAINED EVENTS

is this strange?i can sleep for exactly how long i want,and wake up when required at any time of the day or night.litrally if iwant to sleep for 20 mins or 20 hours i can, virtually instantly.i have allways been able to do this. damian williamson <hamster_feeder a yahoo com> london, england - Sunday, August 18, 2002 at 06:26:48 (PDT)

Every a.m at 8:48 we hear and feel a shaking of our house and windows. Its almost like a sonic boom,but longer and of a different intensity. I seem to remember reading about this phenomena on the South Shore near Boston, can anyone verify? Pail Frongillo. [ Sounds like the unexplained explosions called "barsial guns", "fog guns", "mistpouffers" discussed by Charles Fort. These are like thunder, but with no lightning or storm involved, and supposedly they always happen over water.] paul frongillo <pwaf a msn com> carver, ma USA - Sunday, August 11, 2002 at 20:25:27 (PDT)

I'm 55 years old and have experienced this only about 3 times. I'm in a full tub of water and want to turn on the faucet to bring in more hot water. When I touch the faucet, I have what feels like an electrical charge in my hand, also when I touch the water, I feel the same sensation. I put my foot to the water and faucet, but do not feel the same electrical charge I felt when I touched it with my hands...Please can someone tell me what is happening? Thanks! Susan Fenner <SusanFenner a msn com> Nazareth, pa USA - Saturday, August 03, 2002 at 17:31:15 (PDT)

I've seen weird white feathers and white lint come up out of my skin. I have seen this for a number of years and doctors don't have any ideal what this is. This is a weird Phenomena Report. These feathers look like long bird feathers that just come up out of my skin mgord Lansing, MI USA - Tuesday, July 09, 2002 at 22:06:37 (PDT)

I was jogging last winter through some woods on a service road that runs beneath some powerlines. There was no wind, but the temperature was quite cold, about 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes it is crazy to go jogging in cold weather like that but I was training for our intercollegiate track team. I paused for a moment and observed a strange phenomenon. The powerlines began emitting a relatively loud whining/vibrating sound, although they did not appear to be moving and there was no wind. It was not an electric sound such as arcing; it was a musical, metallic type of singing. Additionally, the sound was emanating from what seemed to be one point on the powerlines, and not from the entire line. Also, this point from which the sound came moved. It slowly drifted along the powerlines, such that when I stood still I could hear the source of the sound moving away from me. When I ran I could catch up to it again. Eventually I left the road. I have not since observed this phenomenon again. I haven't spoken to anyone about it because I never thought it was really weird, but thought it might make an interesting anecdote here. Luke Colorado Springs, CO USA - Thursday, July 04, 2002 at 22:39:45 (PDT)

This happened to me when I was about 8 years old, being that young (to some people) discredits this event but it happened. It was about 10:30 or so at night and I was in my room in my bed. I was looking out my window and i saw a shadow of a perfect cirle. I thought it was something under the streetlight, but it was perfectly still and slowly faded away as I watched it. I rushed to my window and looked up and found nothing! This was very strange, if anyone has any insight email me... Justin Neal <EndIessConfusi0n a aol com> Greenville, SC USA - Monday, June 24, 2002 at 19:39:21 (PDT)

About a year ago my brother and I had a pet mouse named Spyrow. Now Spyrow was and escape artist and had escaped about 3 times ushully ending on top of her cage or not very far from. One morning though I woke up and said good morning to Spy who was in her cage and went down to breakfast. Later after my dad had droped my mom off at work he was vacumeing out the car when he called to me. I went out side and to my astonishment there was Spy sitting on the drivers seat. My brother swears he dident put her there as a prank and I beleave him. But tell me how could a little mouse get out of her cage, out of my bed room which is te attic of a 3 story victorian, and then get into the car? Angel <cookiecat24 a yahoo> Providence, RI USA - Tuesday, June 18, 2002 at 06:50:27 (PDT)

This is a small strange one. It happened around 3 years ago, i was asleep in bed, probably around 2am and i wake up to absolutely blaring music coming from the computer room in my house. Both me and my dad were waking up to this at about the same time, i ran in and noticed my CD player was running and literely shaking the walls. Well now heres the wierd part. While i WAS listening to that cd earlier, my setup was an old cd reciever connected to a seperate stereo system. I was always very careful about turning off my stuff before going to bed so as to avoid an electrical overload. Not only would the cd reciever have to be turned on (mechanical switch no less) but the stereo system would need to be turned on as well (another mechanical switch) and im fairly positive i wasnt listening to that stereo at anything near that volume earlier in the day. Enos Shenk Fort Wayne, IN USA - Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 08:42:43 (PDT)

I was at the movie theater, Buying tickets. I had a twenty doller bill in my hand. I sat it Down on the counter, and the moment it left my hand, it flew acooss the table and went went strait to the ticket woman's hand. She just put it in the register as if nothing strange had happened. Danie Andrew <d_motz a hotmail com> Hagerstown, MD USA - Monday, May 27, 2002 at 12:49:47 (PDT)

In 1987, I went on a rafting trip with my sister (and several others) down the Rio Grande. Though the trip can be made in a day with a motorboat, we opted for the slower tour that lasted three days with campouts on the shore of the Rio Grande for the evening. On one place of the river, we camped out on an embankment. On our side was the embankment and a cliff and on the other side was a sheer c.1000 ft. cliff. We slept on the embankment that night with our feet toward the river. I had some difficulty sleeping but I was enjoying the clear night sky with the bright stars visible through the cliff opening. In addition to the stars that morning (it was about 1:00 a.m.) I also saw some lights on the cliff. Since I didn't have my glasses on I thought that the little sparklies that I was seeing on the cliff was the result of my fatigue or the result of rubbing my eyes the wrong way. To confirm this I put on my glasses to get a clearer view of the cliff on the other side. The lights came into focus. They were real and they were moving. I got goosebumps and, for a moment was frozen with fear. But, I unfroze myself a little bit, and, using as few muscles as possible as quickly as possible moved my left hand over to wake my sister and show her what I was seeing. She said she thought it was fireflies and tried to go back to sleep. I told her that fireflies don't live in the desert (which this part of the Rio Grande seemed like). (I'm no biologist, but I do believe that's true about fireflies.) Though I didn't believe my sister, her calmness brought me back to my senses and I did conclude that the lights were some kind of animal and my fear changed to interest. For the remainder of my waking hours I did observe the lights and tried to ascertain whether they exhibited behavior of crawling or flying. (It couldn't immediately be determined because the cliff was completely black against the night sky and the lights were only visible against the backdrop of the cliff.) I concluded that their speed of maneuver up and down the cliff and their apparent pulling away from it meant that these were flying creatures of some kind. Also, their "flying" behavior seemed to be that of probing the cliff, much like a fly or moth does when it runs up against a clear window, almost like it was looking for something. Has anyone else had the opportunity to spend the night on the Rio Grande and see such lights? Or in any desert between two cliffs and seen something similar? Tim <trferrerNoSpam a yahoo com> Arlington, TX USA - Friday, May 24, 2002 at 17:42:48 (PDT)

Regarding the internal human clock post. i set my alarm to go off at 4:10 AM cos i had to go to work, and i woke up at, no joke, 4:09AM.........just in time to get up and pick my phone up (which i was using as my alarm)and turn it off....weird hey also, when im listnin to a cd, i look over at the timer on the display, and 9 times out of 10, it says 1:11, its so weird...... Eric sydney, nsw australia - Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 04:57:24 (PDT)

About that French Horn post. It works with other instruments such as a trumpet. I think that if you play a note on the instrument that is equal to the monitor's video frequency, the video will start bouncing around. For instance, let's say your video frequency is set at 75 Hertz(fairly common). Now, if you play the musical note D2, that frequency is at 73.42 Hertz. This is when the video starts to visually oscillate and dance. It is a very unusual effect and really drives home matching resonance experimentation. This unplanned event happend to me several years ago when I was playing my trumpet in front of my computer monitor. It was like an acid trip(I assume it would be as I have never taken acid). Have a great day! Sciman [ This also happens if you blow your nose very hard while staring at your computer monitor or TV screen. - billb] Sciman <sciman a geocities com> Austin, TX USA - Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 23:18:24 (PDT)

OK, weird event number two of three. Unrelated to the first, except perhaps the deep state of relaxation that seemed to accompany the events. About 6 years ago. Winnipeg, Manitoba, working in a group home for youths. It had seen some bad times, I was sure, and there had always been fanciful speculation about what a house like that must have seen and, perhaps, display. But like I said, fanciful. Well, it was one of those long Friday nights in the winter. My weekend shift started Friday night and ran till Monday morning, so Friday nights could be long and somewhat lonely. The first night this happened I was leaning against my back window, looking out at the snow-covered railroad tracks. It was dark and quiet, when I heard the sharp crackly sounds of a radio voice from upstairs. The kids rooms were up there and like any kids, they'd try to stay up as long as possible, and would play their stereos and stay up and talk, etc, etc. Well, I was feeling a little playful and wanted to catch them at it, so I crept out to my door, turned the knob ever so slowly, and made my way silently upstairs. I listened at each bedroom but nothing, no noise. Shrugging, figuring they heard me, I headed to the office, got out my ring of keys, and unlocked the door. The hum of the computer and the smell of coffee greeted me as I entered, but I stopped short at the door. Something was bugging me, needling me. My gaze swung directly to the old AM radio that sat in the corner. I could hear nothing from it, but just the same I went over and took hold of the volume knob, turning it to the right. "Click." Off it went, and I didn't feel bothered anymore. It had been on, but the volume was all the way off. I couldn't hear a thing from within the room, but somehow I had heard something from a floor and a half away. Strange, I thought, but what to do? Nothing really, so I went about my work as usual. About ten days later, same event. I think it's one of the kids playing a stereo. I hear that crackly radio announcer voice and maybe some background music. Sneak out and up. Nothing. This time I go to the office and straight to the radio and turn it off. The third time, a few days after, I just go to the radio. Same thing. Fourth time wasn't for another couple of weeks after the third, and I thought I was wise to the whole thing (as wise as I could be without any kind of explanation). Again I hear the crackly radio voices above my head, go up to the office where I hear nothing, reach for the radio... and find that it *was* off. Up till then the whole thing just seemed a little weird, but that scared me. What was it I had been hearing? I have evidenced uncanny hearing that my friends have remarked about before, but, well, nothing like this. That was the second of three weird things I've experienced. The third is... too personal, but even stranger. R. <randal_on_the_road a hotmail com> Vancouver, BC Canada - Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:58:46 (PDT)

I've witnessed three things in my life for which I have no adequate explanation. The first occurred about 8 years ago with a friend on the outskirts of Winnipeg, Manitoba. We had gone out to see northern lights where they wouldn't be so obscured by city lights, and parked by the highway and just stood around in the darkness for a bit. The lights of houses can also be quite nice at night on the prairies, and there was one of those flashing white towers a little distance away -- with the four white tower lights, blinking. We had been talking in low tones... very relaxed and it was very quiet, when all of a sudden I realize that I've been standing there for a *long* time and neither of us has been saying a word. Well, we're good friends, so silence is not really an issue, but to lose track of time like that... That's when I noticed what a bizarre sight it was before me. My mouth felt dry and it was a little hard to talk, but I forced myself to say, "WHY is everything... flashing?" My friend visibly shook and stared with shock, and then looked at me. ALL of the lights on the landscape were pulsing, rhythmically. I was hit with a very bad feeling and then suddenly a truck raced around the corner and we were hit with light and noise. A few moments later things were back to normal but we were too startled to stay there, got in the car, and got out of there. Talking about it later, our best guess was that we had entered some deep state of relaxation, possibly aided by the rhythmic flashing of the tower, where... is this possible?... we could see the light as it was -- oscillating. Except that lights oscillate so quickly you don't normally perceive it. I find it interesting that we both experienced the same thing. Does this make any sense? R. <randal_on_the_road a hotmail com> Vancouver, BC Canada - Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 16:37:45 (PDT)

I was editing an 8mm video I made of my Spring Break in Daytona the other day. I tried to get the video to play on the television but the was just darkness. I then realized I had the recorder on the record setting and not play so it was showing everything in the livingroom on televion. I picked up the camera and the viewfinder swept past the television and I noticed an unusual burst of light when that happened. So I pointed it directly at the T.V. Was I saw was very strange. I realized I was taking a picture of a picure of a picture on into infinty. There was a ball of light pulsating at the center of the T.V. I then began to play around with this. I zoomed in on the television and there were all these strange multicolored lights and formations flying at the camera at high speeds. I played aroud with it for around an hour I thought I saw human figures, but they go by so fast you ccant tell what they are. So I recorded some of this and to my amazement when I paused the taped footage at the right moment you can see thin humanoid creatures with 2 legs 2 arms 5 fingers large heads with beady eyes. I was realy freaked out I woke up my roommate and he could not explain it either. If anyone has herd of this phenominon please let me know. M P < Belleview, FL USA - Monday, April 29, 2002 at 11:25:30 (PDT)

I really don't know if you would consider this an odd coincidence, so here goes. Sometime in January of 2000, my girlfriend (now fiance) told me that whenever she looked at the digital alarm clock in her room, it said it was 12:34. Not that it was busted and only said 12:34 (besides, we've gone through 3 clocks and it happens on all of them), but that by coincidence, she only ever happened to glance at the clock when it was 34 min. past midnight. This happened for a couple of weeks, and it even happened to me a few times. Then it waned and it left our minds. However, it started happening again to me again in December 2001, and it still happens to this day. It's not an everynight occurence, but every three days or so i'll absently look at the alarm clock to see what time it is and notice that it's 12:34. I've considered the obvious answer - that I only notice it because I've noted it mentally as odd. But I can count on one hand the times a day I use that clock to check the time, I much prefer the one in the living room or kitchen (out of convienence). I also do not "force" myself to check that clock at about that time, counting down to see what I wish to see. Lastly, it is not a habit or routine to necessarily be in the bedroom at that time (as I usually go to bed after 1:30). Any opinions, ideas, hypothesis, or it just has happened to you too? It's really creepy, and I would just like some feedback. Bob Lusian <lyffyr a yahoo com> Winona, MN USA - Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 22:56:10 (PDT)

My Brush with the bermuda triangle. I was on a 50 foot trawler on my way from Cat Kay (~20 mi South of Bimini... my memory fails me...) back to miami. it was pretty much a straight shot, 8 hours roughly west. we had just cleared the reef on to the north and west side of the island (a tricky manuver) and I took control up on the flybridge and pointed the bow west and were looking forward to an hour of calm before we hit the gulf stream. Suddenly , the navigation equipment was beeping , and it indicated "rudder alarm: helm failure" it does happen sometimes, when where "where you are" and "where you should be" confuze the gadgets. as standard procedure, i took all speed off, and put the computer-driven gps-aided auto-piolt gadgets offline. i figured we had hit the gulf streem and it had suddenly swept us suoth a bit. i set cruise speed again and we were off i manually steered a course of about 280 (WNW) and proceeded to reset all the nav gadgetry. in the gorner of my eye i caught something an the computer screen chart that was bizarre. it showed that within the last 5 minuets we had travled 20 miles north to a point 2 miles due northwest of bimini and and 20 miles back in an apex (v shaped) course and returned about a mile further along our course than where we should be. i looked around visually and found i was where i should be and everything was normal , and set the autopilot we were off. the rest of the trip was uneventful, and i brushed it aside as an insturment fluke. once we got to into miami, i showed the computer logged course to an older and wiser friend. "that is crazy,- absolutely not possible! you do not travel 40 miles in 5 minuets at 8 knots. if you really did this, you might arrive here at midnight!" he looked me in the eye and started a fit of terrified, morbid laughter - as if i had just swallowed a sword. he then whispered "you are a very lucky man, the bermuda triangle is usually not so nice" - NOTE: see for yourself! plot my descriptions onto a nautical chart of the area. this happened in the late 1990's, so my memory may not be exact but darn close. J. Evans J. Evans Manistee, Mi USA - Tuesday, April 09, 2002 at 18:22:47 (PDT)

MY REPORT SEEMS TO BE A BIT DIFFERENT FROM ANY OF THE OTHER ONES I'VE READ.I WAS SMEELING SOME SUNTAN LOTION IN A DEPARTMENT STORE.YOU KNOW,HOW JUST APOEN IT AND SQUEEZE IT A LITTLE TO GET THE FRAGRANCE?WELL,I WAS DOING THAT,AND A LITTLE BIT OF IT POPPED OUT ONTO MY NOSE.AS THIS HAPPENED I SAW AN EXTREMELY BRIGHT FLASH AND RECIEVED SHOCK.IT AFFECTED MY VISION GREATLY WHILE I WAS IN THE STORE,SO MUCH THAT AFTER TRYING TO SHOP FOR A FEW MINUTES WE HAD TO LEAVE,AS I COULD NOT SEE WELL ENOUGH TO PUSH THE CART OR BARELY EVEN WELL ENOUGH TO WALK AROUND WITHOUT BUMPING INTO THINGS.ALL THE OVERHEAD LIGHTS WERE UNBEARABLY BRIGHT AND SPARKLY.THEY WERE GIVING OFF THOSE "STARBUST" EFFECTS,LIKE LIGHTS AT NIGHT IF YOU SQUINT AT THEM. I'VE HAD OTHER HTINGS HAPPEN.MOSTLY JUST ATTRIBUTED TO ALOT OF STATIC.I DON'T ACTUALLY CONSIDER MOST OF IT TO BE STRANGE;WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT ABILITIES.I'D LIKE TO LEARN ABOUT IT MORE AND LEARN HOW TO ENHANCE IT AND USE IT POSITIVELY INSTEAD OF IT JUST HAPPENING RANDOMLY. I DO BELIEVE THAT ELECTRICITY AND PSYCHIC ABILITY ARE RELATED.IN FACT ,I DON'T THINK ONE CAN EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER.I WOULD EXPOUND FURTHER BUT I GOTTA GO.I WELCOME E-MAILS. KRISTEN <AIRKRIS a AOL coM> COMSTOCK PARK , MI USA - Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:40:45 (PST)

One day my friend and I were driving down my street when his car blew a fuse. His car had a am/fm casette player (digital tuning)from the early 1980s. When we replaced the fuse, his radio would not display a frequency or change bands. What it did do, however, was play a series of beeps ad infinitum regardless of what you did to the tuning. We thought that it might be morse code, so we wrote down the pattern and it turns out his radio kept playing the letter "R" over and over. What's going on? Ryan <Rynage a yahoo com> Bend, OR USA - Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 16:50:00 (PST)

I'd like to report a phenomenon that used to happen to me regularly in the hopes that someone out there can explain what was happening. It happened several times between the ages of 12 and 20, and only at my parent?s house. It has not happened to me since I?ve moved out. In the middle of the night, I would wake up and see various colored lights, like a few strands of a dew-covered spider web that glow blue, red or green floating above me. Sometimes they were spherical (but not solid), and seemed to be very fragile. The lights were SO pretty, like looking at a Christmas tree with your eyes blurred. Generally, I would wake up and the instant I saw them, I reflexively threw my blanket over them and hopped out of bed before I barely knew what happened. Most times, I would quickly turn on the light and stand there with that adrenaline feeling for a few moments before I would pick up my blanket and inspect it, but no physical evidence ever remained. Because of this fact, I?m inclined to think that it was all in my head, but it just seemed so real. So if you know of anyone experiencing this (whether you believe it is a physical or mental phenomenon), please let me know. Peter B. <pbarney a yahoo com> Ohio USA - Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 12:44:41 (PST)

In the Christmas season of 1974 my two year old daughter, my ex-wife and I were at Ford City Mall in south suburban Chicago. We were watching a school group singing songs for the holidays. The mall had several rows of chairs set up for the shoppers to enjoy the show. I noticed my daughter not looking at the show, but she was staring at a little girl sitting about 5 (empty) chairs away. She seemed to be "locked" in a stare with the other girl. I looked at the girl and she was staring at my daughter in the same "locked" way. I noticed the other girl's eyes, they were not round but oval, like a cat or a reptile. I then looked at her father. He turned his head slowly and looked me in the eye and his eyes were just like hers! I was shocked at what I just saw and turned away for a few seconds. When I looked back, the two of them were gone. They were both dressed like everyone else there, nothing to make them stand out. I looked around the area to try to find them again, with no luck. I walked around the mall looking for them and have never seen anything like that again. I have talked to several eye doctors about these eyes. They have all told me that no one has eyes like that. I know what I saw and can't find an answer. Hopefully one of your readers has seen the same thing. Jim <luckyjrc a aol com> Orland Park, IL USA - Monday, January 21, 2002 at 06:11:47 (PST)

A few strange things happened within a week of each other. By far the most strangest was when me and a friend of mine were standing by the train tracks by my house. We saw lights in the distance that would appear and then disapear and they were constantly moving towards us. There was about five seperate lights that would turn on then off and move closer. Then in the same week a couple other weird things happened. We were sitting in my basement watching TV and all of the sudden the TV turned off, this happened a couple times but hasn't happened since. Also in my house we had a helium baloon and all of the sudden it jsut dropped about 3 feet and stayed there. I probably would never have thought anything of the those instance if it wasn't for the light thing but theres no way to explain those lights. bob <asidrain a hotmail com> USA - Tuesday, March 27, 2001 at 21:11:01 (PST)

One night at college, I was awakend by a faint repetitive tone coming from the living room of my apartment. It was the sound the answering maching makes when it is first plugged in, as if someone was plugging and unplugging the thing every 60 seconds or so. I thought perhaps there were power surges and got up to go check it out and unplug my computer. Well, then I notice the pulsing light coming from under the door :) Uh-huh. We've had a few unexplained things happen at the apartment, such as a light that neither my room mate or I admitted to turning on being on, the deadbolt locking with no one inside, etc; this one would take the cake, I thought. So I crept out through the door and peeked around the corner. Apparently, what had happened was this: I had a negative ion generator hanging up above my work desk that had somehow fallen (although it is light and was supported by copious duct tape.) It had come to land directly below my table lamp. The lamp would slowly grow brighter and brighter and then *Zap!* There was a discharge from the ion generator to the bulb, the room went dark, and the answering machine, plugged into the same outlet, would reset itself. Phenomenon apparently solved, but spooky. I couldn't duplicate it later either. Sam < iri di um bo y a h o t m a i l . co m (anti-spam)> OH USA - Saturday, June 30, 2001 at 07:00:12 (PDT)

About four years ago i woke up in bed one night at about 2:30 am to hear a clock chime 5 somewhere down stairs in the house. It was loud and the sound was definatley a clock , yet we do not have a clock capable of chiming in the house. I went downstairs to investigate the source of the chiming but could find nothing. If anybody else hase experienced this or think they can explain this please let me know. Chris Barnes < 7000895 a student.westherts.ac.uk> Hemel Hempstead, England - Tuesday, May 15, 2001 at 06:54:53 (PDT)

i don't think this is too "weird", but thought i would post it to get some answers. I was at the park tonight at around 10pm, walking along with my girlfriend. all of a sudden i touched her back, and she yelped in pain. At first i thought she had something, a stray cactus needle maybe, that landed on her back. or possibly on my hand. However, when she touched her back it did not hurt, and when i touched my arm with the hand i touched her, i felt no pain either. I proceeded to try to touch her in other places, arms etc. she felt the same pain. When she felt me she said it felt like an electrical current was going through my arms, numbing her fingers. We finally deduced that it was electrical. We were under some pretty heavy duty power lines, and once we moved away, i wouldn't send her an electric charge when i touched her, and she wouldn't feel one when she touched me. So am i an "electric human"? Or is it solely related to being under these powerlines? or a combo of both? Not too weird, but it freaked me out! jonah < jdiggityd a hotmail com> tempe, az USA - Wednesday, June 13, 2001 at 23:33:55 (PDT)

This happened during the day on my way to Concodia University. I was just walking along the sidewalk and contemplating the nature of reality. I said to myself "Give me a sign if it's possible to control reality." Just then I heard a sound of something striking the ground ahead of me. There, five feet away lay a pack of cards. I picked it up. It was a pack with Air France written on it, and french symbols ex. R for Roi or king. The pictures were beautiful and the deck was full. I didn't see it land so I can't claim that it fell (from where? The sky?) Or did someone in a passing car throw out the pack? In my younger days, extreme sadness would cause the lights to turn off, and electric watches would shut down within a few days. Leyland Burgess < ianrinehart a lycos com> montreal, canada - Wednesday, June 06, 2001 at 20:44:07 (PDT)

Now enter, the Twilight Zone.... Roughly 6 years ago, while driving through the southern states of Virginia and North Carolina, I experienced some very unusual incidents which I have yet to comprehend. While driving at night through a very dense fog in the more mountainous regions of the trip, I observed random brilliant flashes of light being projected from the sky onto the roadway in front of the vehicle. I was moving along at about 60 mph, and the forward visibility was probably less than 10 yards. The light was as bright as daylight in contrast to the occasional glimmer of light detected from oncoming traffic. The light source was definitely not lightning - it was far too bright, blue, and long lasting to be lighting. One of the "flashes" lasted for a count of 200 (I began counting as a way to gauge the duration) and others would last only to a count of 50 or less. There appeared to be no pattern to the flashing, and absolutely no thunder was heard. Now here's where this all gets a bit more interesting. I was getting fatigued by the fog and I was very curious about the unexplained light, so I exited the highway and came upon an all night diner. I walked into the diner and sat down. When the waitress came by the table, she asked me if I had gotten the sunburn on vacation. I looked at her oddly and immediately went into the restroom and looked at my face in the mirror. My face was BRIGHT red (I do not have high blood pressure), and when I touched my skin it felt as though I did have a sunburn. I splashed cold water onto my face and held some towels on my skin. My hands were also a bit burned and felt hot. I hadn't noticed this until it was brought to my attention by the waitress. The only "feeling" or sensation I had was that of fatigue, which I attribute to the needed attentiveness of driving in the mountains during a heavy fog. When I returned to my seat, I noticed two men seated across the diner who seemed to behave as though they had witnessed an accident. I listened to their conversation as much as possible from my location. They were discussing the flashes of light they had seen on the highway. This entire "light flash" ordeal had transpired over the course of a 4 hour period, roughly between 11 PM and 3 AM. I walked over to their table and introduced myself. I asked them if they had seen the light and we all laughed a bit at the seemingly silly event. One of them suggested lightning, the other believed it could have been "search lights" high in the mountains used by hotels and restaurants to draw in travelers. I suggested to them that it was probably a bizarre government experiment with radiation or weaponry - as I pointed out the redness on my hands and face. The younger of the two men began laughing, the elder sat upright and nodded affirmatively. He suggested we contact the airports and military to see if some sort of testing was being conducted. I returned to my table and ordered something to eat. I noticed that I was feeling weak and extremely tired. After I ate, I checked into a nearby motel where I slept for an entire 24 hour period. When I continued on my trip, I did not observe any more instances of the light flashes, the redness on my face and hands disappeared within days. I never felt nauseated and my hair did not fall out (except what is naturally falling out due to MPB.) Anyhow, if anyone would care to comment or suggest what may have occurred, I would appreciate it. I do not wish to be anally probed by aliens or kidnapped by Men in Black. Frank Thomas < ddoomed a yahoo com> Pataskala, Ohio USA - Saturday, May 26, 2001 at 23:15:16 (PDT)

I JUST FOUND YOUR GREAT SITE...THANKS! I WAS ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, AS MECHANICAL ENGINEER STUDENT IN 1965. SOMEHOW THE UNIVERSITY TALKED AUTHORITIES INTO LETTING US INSTALL A SMALL ATOMIC REACTOR FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES. FINALLY, OUR CLASS GOT ITS CHANCE TO GATHER AROUND THE REACTOR, WHICH WAS SITTING ON A 6 INCH RAISED CONCRETE PAD, BUT UNATTACHED TO IT. AS THE OPERATOR RAISED THE CONTROL RODS AND THE REACTOR HEATED UP TO NEAR RED LINE OPERATION, SEVERAL STUDENTS LEANED AGAINST THE REACTOR, STRUGGLING TO SEE THE CONTROL PANEL. THEN IT HAPPENED: THE SUPER HEAVY REACTOR SLID AN INCH OR SO OVER THE PAD, STRAINING ATTACHED PIPES. EVERYONE TO SEE THE CONTROL PANEL. THEN IT HAPPENED: THE SUPER HEAVY REACTOR SLID AN INCH OR SO OVER THE PAD, STRAINING ATTACHED PIPES. EVERYONE WAS WITNESS TO THIS LEVITATION AND WE DISCUSSED IT FOR MANY WEEKS. DOUG WALLER USA - Thursday, September 07, 2000 at 23:11:52 (PDT)

I was in my garden with my wife when small objects fell from the sky, these objects, looked like baked beans in size and colour, but where hard like a nut. The weather was overcast and thunder was rumbling in the distance. The objects fell at a rate of about one per minute. I walked a 100 or so yards from my house and found the same baked bean like objects on the pavement. P.S. I am not a nutter. Neil < neil.donna a ntlworld com> Harlow, UK, UK - Sunday, July 08, 2001 at 14:53:03 (PDT)

While camping at Paint Creek campground (also a spot where a lot of logging goes on). This is located below Greeneville Tn and above and to the east of Newport, TN. We gathered up firewood and brought back to camp to split . . . some of the split wood (also had an abnormal looking center core) glowed in the dark. I'd like to think this was a fungus or something, but spots in the wood along the outter core, just beneath the bark actually glowed in the dark like those old necklaces you could get at the fair. We brought some of the wood home with us to find out about it and IT NEVER HAS GLOWED AGAIN. Now we really do think we are crazy. Has anyone ever reported this? Can you give me some possibilities as to what it was . . . any help will be welco me. Thanks [I've seen this too. It's the underground "roots" or mycelium of honey mushrooms. When growing, they glow bright sky blue.] Melissa Hill < kppmelissa a aol com> Knoxville, TN USA - Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 10:21:51 (PDT)

Many years ago while driving taxi I picked up a lady at an intersection in Toronto and asked where she would like to go. We drove off and as we got closer to the destination I asked her if the corner would be all right. She didn't answer so I asked again and when she still didn't answer I turned around to find she was gone. I saw her get and and shut the door, and we hadn't stopped for any intersections or lights along the way, but she somehow was gone. I told the story to the next two customers that got in but then realizing I sounded like a nutcase I didn't tell too many other people for quite a while. It is equally strange that three times that night as I was driving along alone I heard a loud snapping sound from the back seat that sounded like a cap gun going off. One of the weirder incidents that I recall from an often eventful and interesting pasttime. John Hanney < info a bikeyard com> Toronto, Canada - Friday, July 13, 2001 at 00:11:42 (PDT)

This happened way back when I was in high school. A bunch of us planned to drive to southern ohio t visit a friend's parents. We were to leave early, figuring it would take 4 to 5 hours to drive from Lake Erie area to Athens, and we were to be met at 2 pm by the friend's folks. As it usually goes with groups, especially groups of teenagers, we were running late. I know it was after 10 am when we finally headed for the freeway, may have been close to 10:30. We had a normal drive. I had an older car, one that belonged to the literal little old lady. It had higher mileage, but had never gone over 60 in its life, and wasn't about to do much more than that when I owned her. So speeding didn't factor into the weirdness. We got to Athens and it was very empty. No one one was on the "main drag", maybe 2 cars parked there. We knew we were in for it, it seemed like late afternoon, and the folks we were meeting had no way of knowing we were late, and we didn't know if they would wait, and had no clue as to where to go from downtown athens. I parked just up the street from the theatre. There were 5 of us in the car, we got out and looked around - into a really large crowd of college age kids, a busy street with lots of traffic, and cars parked all over. That wasn't the end of the weirdness. We went into a store that catered to "cool" college kids - lots of pro-dope stuff, smoke weed and make hammocks with hemp place. The kid at the counter told us it was just about noon, and pointed us to a pay phone. We figured he was stoned, and called the folks we were to meet. The friend's mom told us it was just past noon, how did we manage to wake up early enough to drive all that way and get there ahead of schedule ?? We checked the time in a few other placecs, and got weirded out. The matter of the empty street suddenly filling up in the space of time it took to open a car door and step out also weirded us out. We weren't on drugs - none of us had the money, nor the desire to spend time in a jail in southern ohio. All 5 of us experienced the same thing. Now, I can drive from Cleveland to Columbus in about 2 hours, if I speed. But we went from Cleveland to Athens in under 2 hours. When we got back we verified the time we left - it was after 10, maybe 10:30, when we pulled out of the last person's drive and headed out. We rarely spoke about it - it was too weird. But it has stuck in my head ever since. I don't claim time travel, but maybe space-bending happened ?? Or unbending ?? Whatever it was, the drive it self was normal, no oddness there, no lost time, no "missed" landscape, no feeling of being speeded up. This trip made me believe in the possibility of all sorts of reality bending happenings. Also made it hard for me to sleep for awhile. M < irelandmari a yahoo com> Oh USA - Thursday, April 12, 2001 at 18:52:31 (PDT)

It was about 15 years ago, in autumn. September. Nights were dark already, I could see the stars. I was about 10 years old, maybe 11. I was on my back, looking at the starrs, on the lawn. Suddenly I saw a moving star. It was a bright spot on the sky, just like every other star on the sky. That evening was very clear, no clouds at all. That dot of light seemed to be moving very randomly, but doing loops and like moving around other stars! It never crossed another star, it just went around. I witnessed this several times, and still don't know what it was. It cannot be a satellite, since satellites move straight forward... This light just... flew around randomly. The city is called Vilppula, in central Finland. If anyone knows what this was, please mail me. Emmi < bbw_emily a yahoo com> Finland - Thursday, May 24, 2001 at 00:03:22 (PDT)

Being a big fan of the Discovery Channel and TLC, I have watched countless videos on strange things that people have seen in the sky. One of the common videos that seems to be a part of all of these shows is a shot of a black sky (no points of references)with a little point of light that zings from place to place at an incredible speed. I've always thought that these vidoes looked incredibly fake. Ironicly, my experience deals with this very thing. My friends and I were at camp and we had just jumped into the lake after having a long hot sauna. We spent several minutes staring up at the stars and we were totally amazed to watch this single point of light that was leaping from place to place. It would rest in one position for a few seconds, then jump to another location. It's movement was sort of like a fire fly. We must have watched it for 15 minutes or so. It looked just like a shooting star that didn't burn out. Truly one of the strangest experiences I have ever been witness to. There were four of us there at the time and we all saw the same thing. The sky was unusual too; it was sort of cloudy but there was a lot of light from the moon and stars. Has any one else seen anything like this? Write to me if you have an idea as to what we were looking at. Tom Mathews <tnuge a hotmail com> Canada - Friday, December 03, 1999 at 15:59:18 (PST)

When I fly I always try to get a window seat (not over the wing) because I love to watch the ground from 11 km high. Last May I was flying north from San Francisco and had the misfortune to find that my window seat was over the wing. This was because the plane had rear engines (B-727, -not many left anymore) and the wing was further back on the fuselage than usual. The time was about 1 pm (13.00 hr) so the sun was darn near on the meridian, but it was to the rear of the plane and we can guess from the latitude and time of year that it was about 26 degrees south of the local zenith. I noticed a narrow white stripe (almost a pinstripe) running down the wing about 1/4 of the way back from the leading edge. Its brightness was emphasized by the circumstance that immediately to the front of it was a dark stripe equally narrow. This stripe pair drifted about slightly as the plane rocked. It was apparent that the dark stripe was an area where the sunlight was absent and the bright stripe was where the sunlight was concentrated. I presume this was because of some prismatic or refractive effect that caused the light hiting the wing within a certain narrow angle was being bent creating a line of deficit and a corresponding line of concentration. The air flowing over a wing has layers of different density and these are curved so one might anticipate that some broad lens effect could be created, but I am unable to configure any flow pattern that would create the narrow band of light deflection that I was seeing. I also noticed that a slightly fainter but similar stripe also ran down the wing about 2/3 of the way to the rear. This stripe ran right to the tip of the wing. The leading edge stripe was stronger but only ran to about half way along the wing then faded out. Anyone out there who can explain this effect for me? Does it occur in other situations (besides 800 Km/hr at 11 Km high?) j. Fell < jfell a macn.bc.ca> Vancouver Id, BC Canada - Monday, July 09, 2001 at 02:36:03 (PDT)

This is a story about lights, not in the sky or far away but almost close enough to reach out and touch. One evening I walked out of the sliding glass door on my second story porch. I shut the door and turned around to take in the view and fresh air, basically just stepping outside for a bit. I immediately see lights about 8-10 in front of me at roughly eye-level. They were bright and defined but not solid or connected to anything. They were arranged in three points, if you connected the points you would have drawn an equilateral triangle with sides of about one foot. Each cluster or point of light contained a red bar, a yellow bar and a green barI stared at it for about two seconds debating with myself if it was actually there and then it began to sweep from side to side, no more than a foot or two in either direction. It made three slow and smooth motions back and forth and then just disappeared. After that I cursed for awhile in disbelief and then opened the glass door and asked if anyone inside happened to look out and see what just happened. Of course they didn't. I can't even begin to speculate about what took place, but those are the facts. Jason <taojones10 a hotmail com> Greenwood, SC USA - Sunday, February 11, 2001 at 23:12:02 (PST)

I just have a question about an occurrance that has never been sufficiently explained to me. It is a rather common event that happens when you look at your shadow on water. For some reason light rays appear in the water and seem to be emanating from behind whomever it is that is looking at their shadow on the water. For example, if I look at my shadow, the light source seems to be originating from behind my head, from another person's view it seems to be coming from behind their head. Why is this? If anyone can give me a reasonable explanation I would greatly appreciate it. Kathryn Evans <kathryn a bohemianstyle com> Sherman Oaks, CA USA - Thursday, January 18, 2001 at 15:37:56 (PST)

A most unusual thing occurred during my adolescence while living at the family home on No. 88th. St. I am the youngest of four children. After my three siblings were married and moved out, I was the only occupant on the 2nd. floor, containing two small bedrooms. I was awakened in the early morning hours by a radio in the next room at nearly full volume and became quite alarmed as one would expect. The "broadcast" was a stream of numbers announced by a male voice. It stopped abruptly. I summoned the courage to investigate only to find the radio, the only object in the room, unplugged from the wall, containing no batteries and the on/off switch in the "off" position. I am still perplexed to this day and often wonder the significance of the "broadcast". Dave Hicks <escarpmentwebtvnet> Milwakee, WI USA - Tuesday, January 16, 2001 at 14:59:27 (PST)

Several times I have seen what looked like a small trail of fire appear a few feet off the ground and ahead of me, then "burn out".. I cannot think of a logical explanation for this phenomena.. if you can or have had this kind of experience let me know .. Fascinated <erysian a hotmail com> Phoenix, AZ USA - Tuesday, November 07, 2000 at 09:56:46 (PST)

Exploding Crane Wheels Overhead Traveling cranes are quite common in steel mills which is where I work. They travel on wheels similar to the wheels on railroad cars except they are smaller and have a retaining rim on both sides instead of one on the inner as a railcar wheel. These are stored in an inside area close to the control house where I was working. Suddenly a heard a large bang on the door like someone was trying to get in. I tried to open the door but found it blocked by a 300 pound piece of crane wheel. There were people running around yelling..Evidently a crane wheel that had been stored there for some time had exploded spontaneously showering the area with 100 to 300 pound pieces of metal. No one was hurt. there were pieces weighing 100 pounds plus as for as 200 feet away. Needless to say no one had a reasonable explanation,being in the metals industry it is known that castings can split apart during cooling but this wheel had been there for over 6 months. As a response we never store crane wheels in an occupied building. John P.Franks <jpfranks a home com> Valparaiso, Indiana USA - Saturday, November 04, 2000 at 08:43:44 (PST)

When I was younger, it was really late and I was about to go to bed when I saw some square green lights on the floor of the living room. I could only see them when I didn't look directly at them; if I did, they disapeared. I could not find a source of them. I wrote it off as exhaution at the time, but now I'm not so sure. Charlie S. <mathomhouse a skybest com> Myrtle, VT USA - Friday, November 03, 2000 at 20:04:32 (PST)

A really really quick trip through NY state. Summer of 1989. I was driving down from Montreal (QC, Canada) to The Great Chazy Marina (closed up now, the 'Great' part is a joke) in Chazy NY (upstate, really close to Canada). I did not take the usual route but a shortcut that the skipper had shown me a few weeks earlier. I was to pick up the skipper and his friends at the marina, they were coming back from Atlantic City, through the intracoastal waterways. So I was driving through the fields of northern NY state, just a couple of kilometers south of US customs. The whole trip from the border to the marina is about 20-25 minutes, a bit faster if you take the shortcut. I just entered a field I knew from two weeks before to be the right one for the shortcut. But I did not remember much else, I just figured that I was going south, it seemed to be the right way, and how can you get lost in country roads in upstate NY ? Being of the male gender, I did not stop to ask around :-) A bit passed that field on a secondary road I saw the sign for Cooperstown. Where the baseball hall of fame is. Now, I knew Cooperstown was in NY state, but if it had been that close to the border why don't baseball fans in Montreal go there more often ? Anyway I entered Cooperstown and the town seemed dead. There were some cars parked here and there, but all shops were closed. There was not a soul to be seen. I drove a little further in town and lo and behold there was the Baseball Hall Of Fame, looking like a small white stucco chapel with wide front steps and "Baseball Hall of Fame" inscribed in an arch above the doors. Well, ok, I told myself, this must be it, and maybe there's a big party and everybody is out of town. No big deal. I kept driving on that same road, telling myself that I would hit Lake Camplain, and drive north if I was lost. But no, after a few minutes I saw the road that I knew led directly to the marina, and found my friends who were just arriving (great timing !). I told the skipper about the BHoF, and he started laughing and said there was no way I could have seen the BHoF because Cooperstown was 300 miles south...I checked the map and he was right... What the hell happened here ? My timing was on the nose, I arrived at the exact time I had planned, and went into a 600 miles loop around NY state in a few minutes ??? Louis Vezina <louisv a videotron.ca> Canada - Thursday, August 24, 2000 at 09:39:14 (PDT)

about five years ago I was with a friend in Menomonie Wisc. We took an exit off the freeway and up ahead we saw a very bright light in the sky. We turned north, the light was to our west. We drove north for quite a while and after a long drive we came to a sign saying south Menomonie 1 mile ahead. It was impossible because we headed north after exiting Menomonie and it was an extremely dark evening. We saw nothing we could recognize the whole time and in order to come in from the south of town we would have had to cross a very lit up freeway. Several hours were lost that evening and I know something really strange happened. jan anderson <jlaloulou a aol com> st paul, mn USA - Saturday, February 26, 2000 at 23:25:51 (PST)

Several years ago, I experienced a strange light phenomenon while driving on an interstate a couple of miles from my home. The weather was good for a change - it was daytime and sunny, and the road surface was clear and dry. I happened to glance at my rear-view mirror and noticed that the road surface seen in the mirror was considerably darker than the road that I was seeing before me, almost as though it was wet with rain. For the next two miles until reaching my exit I kept checking the rear-view mirror and comparing the very much darker road behind me with the lighter one in front, all the while racking my brain for any reasonable explanation. I had traveled that highway countless times before in all kinds of light and weather and had never seen anything like it. It seemed almost as though there were a tint in the rear window that darkened the view, but my car had a tint in the FRONT windshield and none in the rear! How, then, could this be happening? I have no idea what caused this weird lighting effect, and still cannot even come up with any kind of theory to explain it. I have driven that same stretch many times since then in weather and light conditions similar to that strange day, but have never seen that dark-light effect again. I am still puzzled. If anyone else has experienced anything similar, please e-mail me! Pat <PL799EZ a aol com> Port Crane, NY USA - Thursday, January 11, 2001 at 19:41:53 (PST)

We live in a place which often has low flying aircraft, euro jets practicing. Yesterday we were inside when, we assume, one passed very low and broke the sound barrier. The strange part was that outside the window, within a little courtyard, we saw a bright white explosion. From a ball appr. 18 ins. wide which was about 3ft from the ground. As the ball exploded the room shook and the electrics went out for about a second. We have experienced the sound barrier boom & the way it can shake windows but this was way beyond that. Has anyone else heard of this? It was not a bomb + we know of no weapons that would cause this. Mary <Mary a burninglight.co.uk> Holy Island, UK - Wednesday, January 10, 2001 at 02:05:09 (PST)