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In this caller post, I wrote astir the wildest things radical person ever witnessed with their ain 2 eyes. In response, readers wrote successful with their ain stories, and wow, these tales conscionable got weirder and weirder. Here's what radical said:
1. "When I was a kid, I made a scruffy canine astatine Build-A-Bear with a dependable container successful its paw. I named him Rags. A decennary later, I got a Cocker Spaniel who looked precisely similar that artifact and inherited the name. He became my acquainted — the benignant of companion that changes your life. I kept that stuffed carnal connected my bed, and told Rags much than once: 'When you die, travel backmost to maine successful this.' Then came the time I had to enactment him down. It was abrupt and suffocating. A time later, I was sobbing connected my bed, clutching that past plush to my chest. In my grief, I pressed the paw. That’s erstwhile I heard it. A garbled noise. Faint. Impossible. The dependable box. Those batteries had been dormant for implicit 20 years, but the muffled bark was unmistakable."
2. "This was years ago. I lived alone, and I was sitting successful a chair, speechmaking Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. If you’re not familiar, it’s a classical haunted location story. The archetypal night, weird but arguably explainable worldly happens. The 2nd night, it’s decidedly supernatural, and the 3rd nighttime is erstwhile each hellhole breaks loose. On the 3rd night, determination is an arc of panic gathering successful the location until I scope the climax of the book, astatine which point, the near lens of my glasses shattered."
3. "When I was a teenager, I babysat 2 small girls, who were my neighbors. We were sitting talking astatine their meal barroom erstwhile suddenly, we heard a tapping sound connected the room model to our left. Two of america saw astir 8 glowing orangish balls floating successful mid air, taking turns lightly tapping connected the glass. I called my dada to travel implicit and ran extracurricular reasoning it was immoderate benignant of prank. There was thing there. I, and 1 of the girls, volition ever retrieve that time and volition ever wonderment what they were. I volition everlastingly person a representation of it successful my mind."
4. "My SIL passed from an 'environmental illness.' She passed successful New Zealand, wherever she and my member had a 2nd location and an herb business. Her assemblage was flown backmost to the States, and a ceremonial took place, which I did not attend. The time aft the funeral, I woke up aboriginal with a vivid imagination of her astatine the viewing successful a yellowish dress, lace-up footwear boots, and her long, golden-brown hair, present shoulder-length. There was a array afloat of assorted herbs, bundled. I was told each of this was precise. I bash person clairvoyant dreams, but this 1 truly deed the mark."
—Anonymous
5. "When I was successful Hawaii, I met a antheral who was helping my member set his scuba mask. I looked astatine him and heard him speaking, and I said, 'You look conscionable similar that feline Phil, who is the big of the Amazing Race.' He smiled astatine maine and said, 'I americium him.' So I said, 'No, really, you look conscionable similar him, and I americium a large fan.' Guess what? It truly was him, and I met his wife, his daughter, his brother, and his sister-in-law, too."
6. "As a carpenter, I utilized to 'walk steel' with the ironworkers, and things happened that you neither effort to explicate nor speech about. Early 1 morning, I saw an ironworker locomotion disconnected the extremity of a beam and fall. Unless helium smashed into a girder, helium would person fallen 32 stories down. Later that morning, the aforesaid antheral was backmost working! His foreman told maine that arsenic his unit watched, the antheral had fallen down a shaft, past mid-air, helium had turned astir 180 degrees successful 'free-fall,' wherever helium took a measurement onto a six-inch-wide beam, 1 communicative down. By the laws of physics, this is arsenic intolerable arsenic walking disconnected the borderline of your beforehand structure extortion and landing unhurt, connected a azygous beforehand structure stair."
—Anonymous
7. "I kid you not, I person déjà vu similar each day. I instantly know, like, 'Oh, I dreamt that past night.' Normally, it’s a bid of thought, and sometimes, it’s pictures oregon answers. Sometimes it's cool, different times, it freaks maine out."
8. "My girl had a cat. One night, I went to furniture facing distant from the edge. As I laic down, I felt the feline leap up and thin against me, arsenic cats do. Then I remembered helium had been deed by a car that time erstwhile helium escaped the house. It was a existent value connected my back. As soon arsenic I remembered, the value disappeared."
—Anonymous
9. "There are 2 weird things that I experienced arsenic a kid, a fewer years apart. We had a feline named Gertrude with a neurological upset that caused her to extremity implicit and marque large noises erstwhile she walked. We each fussed implicit her and loved her. One day, my older sister and I were successful the beforehand gait trying to get Gertrude successful the house. We lived connected a super-narrow hill, and our beforehand gait was astir 3 feet supra the roadworthy surface. This feline was driving up the thoroughfare excessively accelerated and with a ace large muffler. Gertrude got truthful frightened she virtually leaped from our chromatic wall, OVER THE CAR, and safely landed successful the gait crossed the street. If my sister hadn’t been with me, nary 1 would’ve believed it. For a little moment, Gertrude became Super Cat!"
10. "30 immoderate years ago, a person and I visited the Grand Canyon. It was an highly lukewarm day; astatine slightest 85 degrees. We decided to instrumentality a hike partway down the Bright Angel Trail. After an hr oregon so, we stopped to rest, and soon after, a pistillate walked by america heading down. She was wearing a fur coat, high-heeled shoes, and carrying a ample buying bag. She didn’t accidental thing arsenic she walked by. We some looked astatine each different and couldn’t judge what we’d conscionable seen. We ne'er saw her aft that and inactive speech astir the experience."
—Anonymous
11. "I saw a afloat grown antheral tailgating astatine a performance who was dressed successful suspenders, bouncing unsocial successful a blow-up bounce castle, portion playing the accordion."
12. "When I was astir 20, a person and I were connected our mode backmost from my boyfriend’s house. It was a fewer hours' drive, and it was acheronian outside. We were connected a engaged large road driving 70 mph erstwhile a tiny frisbee-sized globe of airy came from the right, circled 3 times astir the assemblage of an 18-wheeler coming towards us, and flew disconnected to the left. This happened successful conscionable a fewer seconds. I looked astatine my person and said, 'Did you see..?' She stopped maine mid-sentence and said, 'Yup.' I’ve ne'er seen thing similar that. It’s travel up successful speech a fewer times implicit the years. What tin determination that fast? It inactive puzzles maine 35 years later."
—Anonymous
13. "The time earlier the large Japan earthquake that caused the atomic reactor meltdown, I came location from enactment mid-afternoon precise tired. I took a three-hour nap, and erstwhile I woke up, I texted my person Debbie and told her, 'I had a unspeakable dream. There was an earthquake, and it was a BAD one.' It was similar I was there. I could consciousness the shaking arsenic it gradually worsened. I could spot books connected the shelves commencement sliding and falling, and perceive pots and pans rattling. That imagination REALLY shook maine up. The adjacent morning, I got up for enactment and turned connected the quality similar I ever do, and determination it was connected TV. The earthquake I had dreamed about. I was frozen with fearfulness and texted Debbie and told her, 'It happened, for real. The earthquake I dreamed about.' I was terrified, astir hysterical, and frozen successful fear. I’d successfully predicted earthquakes before, but never, ever similar this, and I ne'er privation to imagination of 1 ever again retired of fearfulness it mightiness hap for real."
14. "In the mid-80s, I was moving successful tech and ace stressed out. I took a agelong play and went down to sojourn my sister and her hubby successful Los Angeles. They took maine and immoderate friends to the beach, and everybody but maine smoked immoderate weed and fell dormant connected our formation towels. I was sitting, looking retired astatine the water, erstwhile I saw question successful the water. It came person to the shore, and I saw it was an carnal caput bobbing backmost and forth. It was a giraffe! I honestly thought I was losing my mind. I didn’t adjacent fume weed similar the others. I watched the giraffe’s assemblage assistance retired of the surf, supported by a diver successful a wetsuit. He told maine years agone that a large tempest destroyed an old-style carousel connected the beach, and he’d recovered this giraffe that had been washed retired to sea. I can’t adjacent archer you however relieved I was to perceive that!”
—Anonymous
15. "In the mid-80s, astatine a deli connected the backside of a portion promenade successful California, I was 1 of 2 customers with 1 idiosyncratic astatine the currency register. Suddenly, a ample antheral appeared successful the deli's doorway and, successful a booming voice, announced that helium would beryllium walking a tiger past the place, and that we were to basal inactive and marque nary noise. Then helium vanished. I looked astatine the different people; they looked astatine me, startled and puzzled. Before I could comprehend what helium had said, helium walked by the deli with a precise ample tiger connected a precise short, precise heavy leather leash. The tiger was overmuch longer than the width of the doorway frame. Primal fearfulness is real. People person asked maine wherever the tiger was going and wherefore helium was there. I person nary idea, and was not astir to spell find out."
16. "I was expecting my nephew to fto maine cognize erstwhile I could prime him up astatine the airport. I fell dormant and was woken up by idiosyncratic saying, 'Aunt Sharon, it's David from Omaha, Nebraska. I wanted to archer you, I emotion you, and I’m sorry.' The telephone rang, and it was my begetter successful Iowa. He said, 'I person bittersweet news. We conscionable mislaid David. A weapon misfired, and he’s gone!' David blew maine a kiss, and said, 'I emotion you, Auntie,' and disappeared."
—Anonymous
17. "My parents' location is built connected apical of a favored cemetery. Every truthful often, astatine night, you tin consciousness a feline leap up connected the bed, crook around, and prevarication down. My parents don't person cats. Also, their canine volition nudge toys toward thing and cock his caput similar 'Why won't you play?'"
18. "I flew 3 1000 miles to beryllium with my ma erstwhile I recovered retired she was adjacent to death. I got to her bedside 20 minutes aft she had passed away. The adjacent night, I dreamt she was crossing a six-lane road successful the dark. My 2 older sisters had already crossed the thoroughfare and did not hold for her. I was moving down her to drawback up to marque definite she made it crossed okay, but by the clip I caught up to her, she had already gotten crossed each six lanes by herself. I said, 'Mom, wherefore didn’t you hold for maine to assistance you cross?' She said, 'It’s okay, honey, I made it safely to the different broadside by myself.'"
19. "I person been an progressive climber (rock, ice, alpine, etc.) for 55 years. When I was doing a beauteous autumn stone climbing way successful Leavenworth, Washington, my uncle, who had been my mentor for hunting, fishing, and enactment ethic, had passed distant a mates of days prior, astir 1,500 miles eastbound of wherever I was at. I arrived astatine a beauteous mounting that faced east, giving a magnificent presumption of the canyon. Right there, sitting connected a boulder, was my uncle dressed successful his fishing/hunting attire, taking successful the view. I spoke to him, and helium looked successful my direction, smiled, and said nothing. I had to absorption connected belaying, truthful it was backmost to business. My climbing spouse asked maine who I was talking to. I told him, and we finished the ascent and rappelled off. He didn’t telephone maine to spell climbing for astir 8 months. Haha."
—Anonymous
20. "I moved to Southern California for college. I commuted to school, and postulation was often a mess. One day, postulation had wholly stopped — a hippo chopped crossed the lanes successful beforehand of my car. Animals were occasionally escaping from the adjacent chaotic carnal park. The parkland was yet closed down."
21. "When I was a kid, I had a fearfulness of sleeping successful my country alone, truthful I utilized to slumber connected the apical bunk of my brother's bunk furniture successful his room. One night, arsenic I was sleeping, I kept proceeding thuds against the partition from outside, which I genuinely believed was a tennis shot being thrown against the wall. My brother's chamber was connected the backmost broadside of the house, and the backyard was connected the different side. When I looked retired the window, I saw a man. He was bald and was conscionable sitting successful 1 of the chairs against the house. The happening that stood retired to maine was that helium had rings embedded successful his bicep, nether his skin. I tin virtually inactive spot it to this day, 25-plus years later. It frightened the crap retired of me, truthful I ran into my parents' room, woke them up, and told them what I saw, but erstwhile they got up to look retired the window, determination was nary 1 there..."
22. And lastly, "My ma and I ever exchanged cards with butterflies and purple Iris flowers. After she passed, I asked her for a sign. The adjacent day, implicit a 100 butterflies landed successful my backyard, 5 antithetic species, and a purple Iris bloomed wherever they landed. The butterflies stayed for a mates of months and lone flew distant aft I stopped grieving."
What bash you deliberation of these phenomena? Have you ever witnessed thing retired of the ordinary? Let america cognize successful the comments! Or, if you similar to enactment anonymous, you tin capable retired the signifier below!
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