A guy on a bicycle holding an umbrella with one hand, eating a burrito with the other — during a thunderstorm.
I’ve never seen confidence like that before or since
I was driving across state lines to a legal weed store and I had to go a highway route I never take (irrelevant info lol)
But on the highway I saw a dog that had been hit by a car trying to move around on it’s stumps/broken back legs. It was super fucked up man. I had to call family just to get it off my chest kinda. I called 911 and they knew before i even said anything what I was calling about
My best friend and I frequently encounter weird shit. Something in the world happens when we’re together.
We were at a stop light once, and some candy red convertible (I assume it was a fancy car by the way it looked, but I don’t know anything about cares except get gas and oil changes). Anyway, this fancy looking midlife crisis pulls up. Light turns green. Convertible turns right, but the drivers front tire goes straight, rolls straight through the intersection, and falls over on the corner of the side walk.
Another time, we’re driving down the largest road in the city (four lanes each way), and in the right lane a car is driving maybe 20 mph, the hood is open and straight up, almost laying against the wind shield, and the drivers entire head is out the window, looking forward, ostensibly to operate the vehicle safely.
A jock at my highschool called out to a big group of his friends and then as they all turned to look he accidentally slipped on a banana peel and jerked back and forth so hard trying to balance himself that he landed in a squat and his backpack flew up over his head and smacked him in the face. Happened almost 21 years ago and I still laugh.
A graffiti on a library bathroom stall when I was an innocent in my early teens, a crude drawing of oral sex. It became an intrusive thought. Mission accomplished, you filthy bastard, your art lives on.
Compared to that, the dead body on the sidewalk this past winter has no staying power.
I was at a doctor’s surgery, and a guy went up to the counter & asked how long and he couldn’t wait any more as he was hurting too much. The receptionist very condescendingly told him to sit down and wait his turn. He turned to obey, then collapsed, dead. The first time I’d ever seen anyone die. They tried to revive him. But I felt certain that” no, he’s gone”. It really seemed like it was just a body now. She didn’t even seem remorseful, just seemed annoyed.
I’m a pretty meek law abiding type, but I have since learnt to speak up when it’s important.
Not all the time, but just about any time I see a parent with their kid in a restroom, I remember this time when I was around 10 at a baseball stadium and in the restroom there was guy with his kid in a stall. He kept the door open for all to see. He was standing outside the stall, coaching his son, who must’ve been around 6-8, to keep trying. He’d made the kid strip fully naked and straddle the toilet, facing the wall, while he was taking a shit.
The whole scene just really felt bizarre to me, and it has stuck with me since. More than 30 years.
The most stunningly attractive older couple I saw at the movies years ago. They were both probably in their late 50’s and they were both the most beautiful people I had ever seen. They were definitely made for each other.
I once saw a crow in the parking lot carefully stacking cigarette butts in a pile. I don’t know why, but now every time I see a crow, I think you’re cleaning up too, or was it that one hard worker?
my middle school boyfriend showed me a “live leak” video or something of that nature. it was a person inserting themselves into a living chicken. I still have nightmares of it like 10 years later
A man dressed in a full length leather jacket with sunglasses on just standing outside the cinema, looking out over the car park shouting “SMOKING ACES inhales cig SMOKING AAACEEES inhales cig” over and over again.
He was alone. No idea who this was directed to but it was a vibe ig.
Another one is when an elderly lady at the bus stop pulled out a bell pepper from her handbag, SLAMMED it on the ground, hissed “666!!!!”, spat on it and just walked off.
I see a trench coat? SMOKING ACES
I go to the local cinema? SMOKING ACES
I see someone taking a dramatic pull off a cigarette? SMOKING ACES
I see a bell pepper? 666!!!
I saw a seagull mug a man for his bag of chips. It landed on his forearm and pecked the back of his hand until he dropped the bag. The seagull then jumped down, picked up the entire bag with its beck, and flew off.
I was 6 and at a park with my parents, shortly after moving to a city. A big burly motorcycle guy (leather, big beard, tattoos, the works- mind you I was 6 and from a small town) figured the guy was going to murder us. He sat down and put some seeds in his hand and a bird landed in his hand and ate.
I asked my parents why he didn’t kill it. I learned a good lesson that day, don’t judge a book by its covers. Unfortunately the biker overheard and after a bit, ended up hugging me and I have never judged anyone before meeting them after that. I still remember him almost 30 years later. I hope he lived a good life.
Driving on the highway, in the pouring rain, I was cruising at about 75mph when I felt the need to move over to the right lane from the left and slow down. Just then the car about 5 ahead of me spun out and hit the dividing wall and shot backwards down the left lane where we would have been. I was able to swerve around just enough to avoid being hit. I always think about how close we were to getting pummeled.
10 miles into a hiking trail a dude comes by superfast on an electric unicycle dressed like a ninja. I tried to get a picture but he’s too fast. A few miles later here he comes the other way. AGAIN I can’t get a picture!
Was traveling along the south coast of Turkey years ago. Drove past a couple of police cars pulled along side of the road, with police standing over a body with a cloth over its head, and a pool of blood around its head.
I was 12 and struggling to pull my friend in a wheel chair up a short but steep hill next to a busy road. A man came up and pulled the wheel chair up the hill and away from the road. I don’t know where he came from or where he went afterward.
I was about to go under for a wisdom tooth surgery and just as I’m about to fall asleep I hear the surgeon say, “So how about that Machine Gun Kelly, what’s he all about?”
It wasn’t anything bad or serious, just funny to hear because up to that point he had been entirely professional, nothing but facts and medical talk 😂
Finding my then-spouse dead in bed. I don’t think about it all the time anymore, but it was years after it happened before I stopped. I could still close my eyes and picture it exactly the way it was.
I thought I found a dead body once. Car had been parked under the bridge by the running trail for three days but on day three the door was open and legs were sticking out. There was a dark spot right by the guys temple when the rest of his hair was blonde. After panicking, crying, walking in circles, running after other people on the trail to call 911 but then turning around to see if the guy was actually dead, he woke up and said “heeeyyy you’re the girl that’s always running in the red hoody. Do you happen to have a spare cigarette?” He actually seemed kind of nice but I got out of there because I didn’t know what he was into and he recognized my clothing which meant he was noticing me
I was stopped at a traffic light and looked to my right. There was a really attractive girl wearing a bikini with an open dress shirt over it, holding a suitcase on the curb. It was the middle of the day in the middle of the week in a small Missouri town. The lights changed and I went on, knowing that there was an interesting story that I wasn’t in a position to hear
A raccoon was crossing the road so I stopped my car. To the right, one at a time, her babies popped their little heads up over the crest of a small mound of grass to see if it was ok to cross yet. Shit was like a cartoon.
Once, I was sitting in my car in the Walmart parking lot while my ex husband ran in for just a couple things. Hot day, windows down. Glance up and car parked in front and one over from me is obviously shooting up some kind of drug. I ignored it till I hear the man screaming and shaking his girlfriend. “Help, help!” He starts getting out of the car and at the same moment, so do I and I begin to dial 911. She popped up. He got back in the car and peeled out as fast as he could.
Never do heroine. Never do fentanyl. I was in active addiction then and it still horrified me.
My mom was eating ramen noodles and sneezed!….it was so out of the blue and scared me and my cat…lol I had to bathe my cat (she sneezed onto my cat) and my dad made my mom vacuum bc there was so much noodle debris all over everything…I try to think of this as often as I can bc it makes me laugh every time!
A purple/indigo stop sign. No one believed me for awhile until it had been 8 years and I was still talking about it, our best guess is that someone took it down and spray painted it to fuck with people
35 years ago, I was a teenager hurrying home before my abusive dad could lose his shit. I had two minutes before I was late and I was almost home.
Off the side of the road, I saw a parked car, arms and legs flailing out of one of the windows. My stupid 16 year old brain didn’t even connect the creepy-factor dots. Yet it kept flashing into my brain over and over again.
Two days later, one of my best friends at school was crying. When I asked what was wrong, she said her older sister had been r#ped in the back of a car a few nights before. I could have stopped that. I could have said something to my crap-head of a dad when I got home.
He wouldn’t have believed me. But I could have tried.
I told my friend what I had witnessed. She sobbed and verified that the woman had, indeed, been her sister.
The scene will never leave my mind’s eye or my inner guilt. As someone who had been a victim of SA (not by my father), I always wished someone would save me. I missed the chance to save someone else. Shame is real and alive all these years later.
The black hat man/thing.
I saw it walking down my hallway. Black pants, black leather trench coat and a black wide brimmed hat. It turned around and looked at me
Turned the corner and went up the stairs.
I have never seen it again.But I think about it all of the time.
Two cats fucking in the middle of the street. Then, another male cat came and slapped the first one. He then mounted the female cat who not once batted an eye.
Driving home with my wife and kids from a family vacation, watched a tornado touch down in a rural field a few hundred meters away from us. It was a mixture of terror and fascination.
that video of the young man in 2001/2002 that got his head cut off on video. I didnt realize what I was watching until I locked up like a deer in headlights. the gurgling still haunts me…
A man inside an electrical substation was electrocuted right by my office. I was the first one to get to the building and was pulled back by a co-worker right before I could get to him. I was quietly hysterical. He was lying there with parts of his body on fire. Most of his clothing was shredded. He succumbed to his injuries about a week or so later. He had a young family, and it broke my heart.
The trailer for Quake 4. I’ve played gory games before like Mortal Kombat, and the trailer didn’t even show what was going on but heavily implied it. Add to that other things that are implied like body horror, loss of free will, etc. It truly disturbed me. I can even still recite some of the lines like 20 years later.
A movie depicting a vaginal birth. It was after I had already had a baby, and I was doubly glad that I had refused the doctors’ offer to let me watch in the mirror. It was disgusting!
Years ago, I was on a busy tube (London Underground) train. There was a woman standing, using her BlackBerry (I did say it was a while ago). She was standing in front of a guy sat reading a paperback book held in one hand. The train lurched and she dropped the phone. Without ever taking his eyes off the book, he caught the falling phone in the other hand and handed it back. Absolutely normal looking bloke but he had reactions like a cat.
In the very early 80’s as a child visiting London, I was at the top of a double decker. I was sitting a bit away from my family, looking at all the sights when I saw an enormous – I assume inflatable – watermelon being taken through central London on the back of a truck.
Xmas season, driving on highway at highway speeds, a small bundle falls out of the window from a car that’s one lane over and a few cars ahead. Hits the pavement and it’s just bright red. All in the span of like 5 seconds. I turn to my wife who saw it too and just say “it was probably something else”.
The first pair of boobs I saw was my friend’s mom’s boobs. She walked out of the bathroom after a shower but thought we were outside playing. We were outside, but I went inside to use the bathroom. She opened the door completely nude as I was walking up to the bathroom.
I’ve seen and forgotten many sets of boobs, but this set will forever be burned into my brain.
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Someone parallel park perfectly… in reverse… without looking back
A guy on a bicycle holding an umbrella with one hand, eating a burrito with the other — during a thunderstorm.
I’ve never seen confidence like that before or since
My dog locked eyes with me and closed the door with his paw
Someone eating spaghetti with their hands at a music festival
A goose chasing a grown man into a building.
The door didn’t even slow him down. The fear was real
I saw a comic book in which a young boy is talking to a mysterious man. Something like.
Boy: “I wonder what happens after we die.”
Man: “I couldn’t tell you.”
Boy: “Yeah, I suppose no one really knows.”
Man, walking off into the the night: “I didn’t say I didn’t know. I just said I couldn’t tell you.”
My friend dying from the drugs I gave him
A stranger handed me a potato at a concert and walked away silently
More, occasional thoughts about it.
I was driving across state lines to a legal weed store and I had to go a highway route I never take (irrelevant info lol)
But on the highway I saw a dog that had been hit by a car trying to move around on it’s stumps/broken back legs. It was super fucked up man. I had to call family just to get it off my chest kinda. I called 911 and they knew before i even said anything what I was calling about
A toddler yelled “DO NOT TOUCH ME, PEASANT” at her dad
Someone confidently walked into a glass door, then bowed
I once saw a guy high-five a squirrel.
Not sure if I imagined it, but it lives rent-free in my mind.
My best friend and I frequently encounter weird shit. Something in the world happens when we’re together.
We were at a stop light once, and some candy red convertible (I assume it was a fancy car by the way it looked, but I don’t know anything about cares except get gas and oil changes). Anyway, this fancy looking midlife crisis pulls up. Light turns green. Convertible turns right, but the drivers front tire goes straight, rolls straight through the intersection, and falls over on the corner of the side walk.
Another time, we’re driving down the largest road in the city (four lanes each way), and in the right lane a car is driving maybe 20 mph, the hood is open and straight up, almost laying against the wind shield, and the drivers entire head is out the window, looking forward, ostensibly to operate the vehicle safely.
Early internet gore videos. Group of teens stabbing a homeless man to death.
The banana show in Okinawa
A jock at my highschool called out to a big group of his friends and then as they all turned to look he accidentally slipped on a banana peel and jerked back and forth so hard trying to balance himself that he landed in a squat and his backpack flew up over his head and smacked him in the face. Happened almost 21 years ago and I still laugh.
A graffiti on a library bathroom stall when I was an innocent in my early teens, a crude drawing of oral sex. It became an intrusive thought. Mission accomplished, you filthy bastard, your art lives on.
Compared to that, the dead body on the sidewalk this past winter has no staying power.
Going to the post office for a stamp and coming out with a pot noodle.
Rainbow Clouds
Was one of the most awesome views in my life, while on a flight
Tought it was a window reflection at first, then I realized it was a rare event
Not as often as time has passed but the images are burning into my brain.
Both were so unexpected that I don’t think I’ll ever forget them. But they don’t stab my brain as hard with each year that passes.
Tigers, lions, and bears being shot wholesale by sobbing state troopers on the side of the road, in Ohio. Look up The Zanesville Massacre.
I was at a doctor’s surgery, and a guy went up to the counter & asked how long and he couldn’t wait any more as he was hurting too much. The receptionist very condescendingly told him to sit down and wait his turn. He turned to obey, then collapsed, dead. The first time I’d ever seen anyone die. They tried to revive him. But I felt certain that” no, he’s gone”. It really seemed like it was just a body now. She didn’t even seem remorseful, just seemed annoyed.
I’m a pretty meek law abiding type, but I have since learnt to speak up when it’s important.
A child begger being roughed up by his handler for not getting enough money. (Northern Macedonia)
Not all the time, but just about any time I see a parent with their kid in a restroom, I remember this time when I was around 10 at a baseball stadium and in the restroom there was guy with his kid in a stall. He kept the door open for all to see. He was standing outside the stall, coaching his son, who must’ve been around 6-8, to keep trying. He’d made the kid strip fully naked and straddle the toilet, facing the wall, while he was taking a shit.
The whole scene just really felt bizarre to me, and it has stuck with me since. More than 30 years.
A boob. It was magnificent
The most stunningly attractive older couple I saw at the movies years ago. They were both probably in their late 50’s and they were both the most beautiful people I had ever seen. They were definitely made for each other.
I once saw a crow in the parking lot carefully stacking cigarette butts in a pile. I don’t know why, but now every time I see a crow, I think you’re cleaning up too, or was it that one hard worker?
my middle school boyfriend showed me a “live leak” video or something of that nature. it was a person inserting themselves into a living chicken. I still have nightmares of it like 10 years later
A goose just chilling right outside of the building where I work. It wasn’t even doing doing anything, it was just chilling a bit by the door.
I saw a blind guy once buying a camera
Someone sweeping their roof. I get it, twigs and such, but I’d never seen it before and I haven’t since.
Homeless person shitting on a wall
A man dressed in a full length leather jacket with sunglasses on just standing outside the cinema, looking out over the car park shouting “SMOKING ACES inhales cig SMOKING AAACEEES inhales cig” over and over again.
He was alone. No idea who this was directed to but it was a vibe ig.
Another one is when an elderly lady at the bus stop pulled out a bell pepper from her handbag, SLAMMED it on the ground, hissed “666!!!!”, spat on it and just walked off.
I see a trench coat? SMOKING ACES
I go to the local cinema? SMOKING ACES
I see someone taking a dramatic pull off a cigarette? SMOKING ACES
I see a bell pepper? 666!!!
I saw a seagull mug a man for his bag of chips. It landed on his forearm and pecked the back of his hand until he dropped the bag. The seagull then jumped down, picked up the entire bag with its beck, and flew off.
That fading light at night sky for a long time ago. Still wonder if it’s a falling star or an alien in some kind of a ship.
I was 6 and at a park with my parents, shortly after moving to a city. A big burly motorcycle guy (leather, big beard, tattoos, the works- mind you I was 6 and from a small town) figured the guy was going to murder us. He sat down and put some seeds in his hand and a bird landed in his hand and ate.
I asked my parents why he didn’t kill it. I learned a good lesson that day, don’t judge a book by its covers. Unfortunately the biker overheard and after a bit, ended up hugging me and I have never judged anyone before meeting them after that. I still remember him almost 30 years later. I hope he lived a good life.
Driving on the highway, in the pouring rain, I was cruising at about 75mph when I felt the need to move over to the right lane from the left and slow down. Just then the car about 5 ahead of me spun out and hit the dividing wall and shot backwards down the left lane where we would have been. I was able to swerve around just enough to avoid being hit. I always think about how close we were to getting pummeled.
10 miles into a hiking trail a dude comes by superfast on an electric unicycle dressed like a ninja. I tried to get a picture but he’s too fast. A few miles later here he comes the other way. AGAIN I can’t get a picture!
Was traveling along the south coast of Turkey years ago. Drove past a couple of police cars pulled along side of the road, with police standing over a body with a cloth over its head, and a pool of blood around its head.
I was 12 and struggling to pull my friend in a wheel chair up a short but steep hill next to a busy road. A man came up and pulled the wheel chair up the hill and away from the road. I don’t know where he came from or where he went afterward.
It’s been 50 years and I think of this often.
I was about to go under for a wisdom tooth surgery and just as I’m about to fall asleep I hear the surgeon say, “So how about that Machine Gun Kelly, what’s he all about?”
It wasn’t anything bad or serious, just funny to hear because up to that point he had been entirely professional, nothing but facts and medical talk 😂
Finding my then-spouse dead in bed. I don’t think about it all the time anymore, but it was years after it happened before I stopped. I could still close my eyes and picture it exactly the way it was.
A wildfire started by lightning in the night on the mountainside across the valley from my house. Most primal feeling ever
The ending of Megan Is Missing… 😱
A father running around looking frantically for his elementary-aged son, who had been swimming in a moving river…. But then he was just… gone.
For as long as I live, I will never forget the absolute fear and panic in his face and him yelling his son’s name louder and louder and more scared.
30 seconds later the kid popped out of a port-o-potty and his father collapsed in relief and hugging him.
I never want to live in that 30 seconds again. Please folks — don’t fuck with water safety. It’s no joke.
I thought I found a dead body once. Car had been parked under the bridge by the running trail for three days but on day three the door was open and legs were sticking out. There was a dark spot right by the guys temple when the rest of his hair was blonde. After panicking, crying, walking in circles, running after other people on the trail to call 911 but then turning around to see if the guy was actually dead, he woke up and said “heeeyyy you’re the girl that’s always running in the red hoody. Do you happen to have a spare cigarette?” He actually seemed kind of nice but I got out of there because I didn’t know what he was into and he recognized my clothing which meant he was noticing me
I was stopped at a traffic light and looked to my right. There was a really attractive girl wearing a bikini with an open dress shirt over it, holding a suitcase on the curb. It was the middle of the day in the middle of the week in a small Missouri town. The lights changed and I went on, knowing that there was an interesting story that I wasn’t in a position to hear
A raccoon was crossing the road so I stopped my car. To the right, one at a time, her babies popped their little heads up over the crest of a small mound of grass to see if it was ok to cross yet. Shit was like a cartoon.
A groundhog get hit by a car.
Sorry it’s not anything whimsical
But a mother in tears as we start CPR on her infant daughter
Once, I was sitting in my car in the Walmart parking lot while my ex husband ran in for just a couple things. Hot day, windows down. Glance up and car parked in front and one over from me is obviously shooting up some kind of drug. I ignored it till I hear the man screaming and shaking his girlfriend. “Help, help!” He starts getting out of the car and at the same moment, so do I and I begin to dial 911. She popped up. He got back in the car and peeled out as fast as he could.
Never do heroine. Never do fentanyl. I was in active addiction then and it still horrified me.
I once witnessed first hand one of those late 90s Sony camcorders with night vision that could “see” through clothing.
A dog getting hit by a car and then limping off to the side of the road to die. Felt so helpless in that moment.
A lady at work with a headache repeatedly punching herself in the head instead of looking for Tylenol
My mom was eating ramen noodles and sneezed!….it was so out of the blue and scared me and my cat…lol I had to bathe my cat (she sneezed onto my cat) and my dad made my mom vacuum bc there was so much noodle debris all over everything…I try to think of this as often as I can bc it makes me laugh every time!
A purple/indigo stop sign. No one believed me for awhile until it had been 8 years and I was still talking about it, our best guess is that someone took it down and spray painted it to fuck with people
A ‘Donald Sutherland’O’Gram’ one year at Glastonbury Festival.
35 years ago, I was a teenager hurrying home before my abusive dad could lose his shit. I had two minutes before I was late and I was almost home.
Off the side of the road, I saw a parked car, arms and legs flailing out of one of the windows. My stupid 16 year old brain didn’t even connect the creepy-factor dots. Yet it kept flashing into my brain over and over again.
Two days later, one of my best friends at school was crying. When I asked what was wrong, she said her older sister had been r#ped in the back of a car a few nights before. I could have stopped that. I could have said something to my crap-head of a dad when I got home.
He wouldn’t have believed me. But I could have tried.
I told my friend what I had witnessed. She sobbed and verified that the woman had, indeed, been her sister.
The scene will never leave my mind’s eye or my inner guilt. As someone who had been a victim of SA (not by my father), I always wished someone would save me. I missed the chance to save someone else. Shame is real and alive all these years later.
A UFO, it’s worse when you didn’t record it.
The black hat man/thing.
I saw it walking down my hallway. Black pants, black leather trench coat and a black wide brimmed hat. It turned around and looked at me
Turned the corner and went up the stairs.
I have never seen it again.But I think about it all of the time.
Two cats fucking in the middle of the street. Then, another male cat came and slapped the first one. He then mounted the female cat who not once batted an eye.
Driving home with my wife and kids from a family vacation, watched a tornado touch down in a rural field a few hundred meters away from us. It was a mixture of terror and fascination.
that video of the young man in 2001/2002 that got his head cut off on video. I didnt realize what I was watching until I locked up like a deer in headlights. the gurgling still haunts me…
A little girl on a train sharing her candy with a stranger like they were old friends. Just pure kindness, no agenda. I still think about it.
A man inside an electrical substation was electrocuted right by my office. I was the first one to get to the building and was pulled back by a co-worker right before I could get to him. I was quietly hysterical. He was lying there with parts of his body on fire. Most of his clothing was shredded. He succumbed to his injuries about a week or so later. He had a young family, and it broke my heart.
The trailer for Quake 4. I’ve played gory games before like Mortal Kombat, and the trailer didn’t even show what was going on but heavily implied it. Add to that other things that are implied like body horror, loss of free will, etc. It truly disturbed me. I can even still recite some of the lines like 20 years later.
A movie depicting a vaginal birth. It was after I had already had a baby, and I was doubly glad that I had refused the doctors’ offer to let me watch in the mirror. It was disgusting!
Years ago, I was on a busy tube (London Underground) train. There was a woman standing, using her BlackBerry (I did say it was a while ago). She was standing in front of a guy sat reading a paperback book held in one hand. The train lurched and she dropped the phone. Without ever taking his eyes off the book, he caught the falling phone in the other hand and handed it back. Absolutely normal looking bloke but he had reactions like a cat.
In the very early 80’s as a child visiting London, I was at the top of a double decker. I was sitting a bit away from my family, looking at all the sights when I saw an enormous – I assume inflatable – watermelon being taken through central London on the back of a truck.
Not one of the sights I had expected to see.
I once saw a motorcycle towing a minivan. Honestly, it gives me hope and strength when things get tough.
Some threw me a finger today and I’ve been wondering why
Xmas season, driving on highway at highway speeds, a small bundle falls out of the window from a car that’s one lane over and a few cars ahead. Hits the pavement and it’s just bright red. All in the span of like 5 seconds. I turn to my wife who saw it too and just say “it was probably something else”.
The first pair of boobs I saw was my friend’s mom’s boobs. She walked out of the bathroom after a shower but thought we were outside playing. We were outside, but I went inside to use the bathroom. She opened the door completely nude as I was walking up to the bathroom.
I’ve seen and forgotten many sets of boobs, but this set will forever be burned into my brain.
Cracked up naked man outside of the art gallery tryna be peoples “muse”
One of my 1st girls privates