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Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:30 PM Mar 2016

Strange things that have happened to you. Worth discussing?

In 1973, I was driving through Nebraska, there was a strange storm up ahead, and I could see a whole lot of trucks getting off of the interstate..so, I decided to stay and keep driving east. About 20 minutes later, my car got struck by lightening, a bolt hit one side of the hood and jumped across to the other side and was grounded. I can still see it today in my mind. I got off at the next exit and had a nice piece of pie with a cup of coffee..

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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
1. Last week a flock of pigeons flew right next to me for a mile on the freeway
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:51 PM
Mar 2016

I was driving along at a good 75 miles an hour which isn't odd on I-80 going from the maze towards the Berkeley exit driving by the SF Bay. What was odd was that my car was the only one for quite a distance in front and behind me. The flock came from the Bay and I thought it was simply crossing the freeway to get to the marsh on the other side. But instead they flew parallel to me over the lane next to mine. They were at eye level and flew with me for almost a mile.

It was so cool! I've never seen anything like it. And now I know they can fly 75 miles an hour too.

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
2. Driving home from the Atlanta Airport to the north Georgia mountains
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:58 PM
Mar 2016

My sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and I drove underneath a double rainbow for about 50 miles. There had been a storm earlier in the afternoon. We couldn't believe it lasted so long.

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
3. Looking at rainbows, an incredible treat in my opinion...
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 06:12 PM
Mar 2016

I once got a picture of a double rainbow against a beautiful row of trees. Behind that row, was a forest and the double rainbow was lit up so beautiful. To see something like that is wonderful. We are both lucky..

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
4. I have one very strange incident, and the very few times I've related this story out loud
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 06:18 PM
Mar 2016

I've been looked at like I just fell out of a tree.

Thanksgiving day, 4 years ago, my brother passed. In those days I still smoked cigarettes, outside, not in the house.

So very early the next morning, well before daybreak, I'm out in the driveway watching the sky facing to the west, as was my habit at the time. Cuppa coffee, a smoke and watch the sky. Naturally I was thinking about my brother.

I noticed a star sized light quickly moving east from the west, as does the space station, which I'd seen many times, flying over. But this time the light, as it got to about a 10:00 position distinctly seemed to be not only moving from the west, but also coming at me as though descending toward me. As I watched this in amazement for what had to be a couple of brief seconds, I blinked. When I refocused the light was in the same area of sky, only now was moving to the south. In the literal blink of an eye.

And no, it wasn't a jet. No blinking lights and it was moving much faster than jets appear to, as anyone who has seen the ISS go over will know. But the ISS isn't under propulsion, and even if it were, nothing man made can make an instant 90 degree turn.

As if that isn't strange enough, the part that gets me viewed with the "skunk eye" is that in the perhaps 15 seconds I watched this light, I had an overwhelming feeling that it all had something to do with my brother. I still hold that feeling.

Four and a half years later, I still think of that often, and am still both amazed and sort of freaked.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
5. Sitting out in the desert one late afternoon, had two rattlesnakes come up where I was sitting
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 06:55 PM
Mar 2016

stop about 5 feet away, watch me for about five minutes without coiling up and then turn and go on their way.
They were pretty good sized Mohave rattlers.

trof

(54,255 posts)
6. I was in my early 20s.
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 07:00 PM
Mar 2016

On a suburban street, doing about 30mph in a '58 Chevy, I hit a pothole and my front left hubcap came off.
I could see it rolling along parallel to me.
I sped up and pulled a bit ahead of it.
I opened my door, slowed, the hubcap caught up with me, and I reached down and grabbed it with my left hand.

God I wish I had a video of this, because no one would believe it.
I got a slight cut on my thumb from the flange on the hubcap.

UTUSN

(70,496 posts)
7. Obviously, this campaign. But skipping past several life-thread-hanging moments, ... n/t
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 10:04 PM
Mar 2016

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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
8. This happened to me back in the 80s...
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 01:03 AM
Mar 2016

...I was staying at a friend's home in western CT, and one cool, very clear night I was on top of a hill with some binoculars, stargazing...I saw two helicopters approaching, very close together. As they passed over me, I noticed that they were flying parallel to each other, and their blades were moving in unison like they were a pair of eggbeaters. I've never seen, or heard, of helicopters being able to do that...I guess Uncle Sam has some weird stuff up his sleeve...Area 51, anybody?

pfitz59

(10,196 posts)
9. I was swarmed by flying spiders
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 04:47 AM
Mar 2016

One warm spring day went on a little trip with some friends up Redwood Creek in Humboldt County California. After hiking a bit we decided to lie down in the grass beside the stream and let the sun's rays wash over us. Shortly thereafter I began to notice tiny spiders on silken parachutes floating along the breeze. Some landed on us and proceeded to crawl about. It was surreal. Strange still given that we were all tripping balls on psilocybin. There were many more amazing events that day, but the spiders were most memorable.

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