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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473144
09/20/25 05:22 PM
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Couple of years ago saw 3 stationary lights in the sky. Then each turned off like a light one at a time.

Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: BigBob] #8473147
09/20/25 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by BigBob
I wanna hear the lug nut story! LOL laugh

I had a tire shred on me on one of those middle of nowhere country roads..
I was loosening the lug nuts and I had one roll into the ditch right smack dab into a crawdad hole…
I went ahead and replaced the tire, then got a spade out of the truck and started digging up the crawdad hole to get the lugnut…
I found a lugnut alright, but it wasn’t mine,, it was huge,, like one off a heavy duty truck or a tractor…I never did find the original nut.


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473151
09/20/25 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by foxkidd44
Originally Posted by BigBob
I wanna hear the lug nut story! LOL laugh

I had a tire shred on me on one of those middle of nowhere country roads..
I was loosening the lug nuts and I had one roll into the ditch right smack dab into a crawdad hole…
I went ahead and replaced the tire, then got a spade out of the truck and started digging up the crawdad hole to get the lugnut…
I found a lugnut alright, but it wasn’t mine,, it was huge,, like one off a heavy duty truck or a tractor…I never did find the original nut.
That's just nuts.
smirk

Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: YamaCat] #8473200
09/20/25 08:41 PM
09/20/25 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by YamaCat
Originally Posted by Wild_Idaho
Camping in the middle of nowhere in the south-central Utah desert. Light way up in the sky moving slowly, much like a satellite and at the same distance. Came straight down incredibly fast and MUCH closer, maybe 500 or 1000 feet up, pretty close to over me. Stopped moving for 5 seconds or so, then shot straight back up to where it was up in space and continued it's slow path like a satellite. Something I will never forget.


What year ? Seen something similar back in early 1972 .


2004


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: Dan Barnhurst] #8473203
09/20/25 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Barnhurst
Here's another strange one. I was headed to Hole In The Rock, about 60 south of Escalante Utah. (This is where pioneers chopped, blasted and built a wagon trail down a steep sandstone crack into Glen Canyon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdtNfMaMOs&t=401s). About 50 miles into the 60 mile drive through the desert, the dirt road goes up over the top of a sandstone hill. I stopped to stretch and walked around on this sandstone hill. Not too far off was a round house-sized hole with vertical walls - probably 15 feet deep. Down in the hole was a tent and about a thirty year old man sitting on a lawn chair. There was no ladder and no way he could get out of that hole. And I hadn't seen a vehicle for 20-30 miles. I about scared the stuffing out of him when I called down to ask if he was okay. He said he was fine and had everything he needed! I asked how he got down there. He explained he had some friends put him down there because he was trying to get off drugs and they would come back for him. Talk about cold-turkey (and hot and dry turkey)!


That's one way to do it. As a recovering alcoholic, I can definitely relate. Sometimes you'll do just about anything for sobriety.

Last edited by Wild_Idaho; 09/20/25 08:44 PM.

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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473211
09/20/25 08:52 PM
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Back a good 15 years ago I lived just north of the snake river state forest, at that time I had three dogs a mutt, a female Gordon setter and a big old walker coon hound, one night I was up late, couldn’t sleep so was up late watching the tv and the dogs wanted to go out so I let them, about a half hour or later they stared raising a ruckes and almost ripped the door down trying to get in, when I opened the door all three of them almost knocked me down getting in the house, all scared half to death even Charlie my old hound who I didn’t think anything could scare but he was terrified, outside when I look there was a round object hanging over the forest, no noise just hanging there, looked about the size of a baseball at whatever distance it was, at first I thought it was maybe a chopper which we sometimes had come through but I couldn’t hear a thing, absolutely nothing, that’s when I realized there was nothing at all making a sound not even the mosquitos and they were really bad that year and never quite, anybody that lives where there’s a lot of the little blood suckers knows what I mean

The whole night was silent the mating frogs, the mosquitos everything, that glowing ball whatever it was hung there for a while maybe 4/5 minutes and then just vanished and after a few more the noise all started up again the frogs the mosquitos everything, don’t know what it was but it sure scared my dogs and just about everything else in the area

I later heard that there was a rash of lights seen over the towns of Grantsburg and Danbury Wisconsin, not all that far away this was way before drones were ever a thing, like I said I still don’t know what it was or ever seen anything like it since but it was definitely something strange



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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: SGT. C] #8473228
09/20/25 09:17 PM
09/20/25 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by SGT. C
My ex -wife. Or was that just pure evil I experienced?

Sarge

😂😂😂Oh,boy!That one hit close to home!


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473230
09/20/25 09:22 PM
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Many years back me and my buddy mike were hog hunting down in south ga on some farmer’s land one night. Me and Mike went to one field while his friends Jody and can’t remember the other guy’s name went to another spot about a mile or so down the dirt road. The field had an oval shape and we parked mikes ford ranger on the side of the field. We turned the dogs loose and followed them. No hog activity so we walked around the perimeter of the field. When we were almost directly across the field from the truck I looked over and said “Mike look!” Clearly there was a figure like a man with a headlamp leaning down and looking through Mikes truck. Mikes truck door was open and the interior light was on. I saw Mike close the door before we walked away from the truck. The figure stepped back and looked up. The headlamp shined the treetops then poof the light and figure disappeared! Mike hit up Jody on the walkie and asked if they were at his pickup. No joking just tell the truth. They radioed back they were still at the field a mile away with no luck how about us? Me and Mike looked at each other and took off running towards the truck. The door was still open. Interior light still on but no new tracks in the sand and no one there. We were in the middle of nowhere and nearest house was several miles away.

Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473233
09/20/25 09:30 PM
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Strangest?

We're living through it. The insane left.


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473241
09/20/25 09:49 PM
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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: nightlife] #8473246
09/20/25 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by nightlife
Back a good 15 years ago I lived just north of the snake river state forest, at that time I had three dogs a mutt, a female Gordon setter and a big old walker coon hound, one night I was up late, couldn’t sleep so was up late watching the tv and the dogs wanted to go out so I let them, about a half hour or later they stared raising a ruckes and almost ripped the door down trying to get in, when I opened the door all three of them almost knocked me down getting in the house, all scared half to death even Charlie my old hound who I didn’t think anything could scare but he was terrified, outside when I look there was a round object hanging over the forest, no noise just hanging there, looked about the size of a baseball at whatever distance it was, at first I thought it was maybe a chopper which we sometimes had come through but I couldn’t hear a thing, absolutely nothing, that’s when I realized there was nothing at all making a sound not even the mosquitos and they were really bad that year and never quite, anybody that lives where there’s a lot of the little blood suckers knows what I mean

The whole night was silent the mating frogs, the mosquitos everything, that glowing ball whatever it was hung there for a while maybe 4/5 minutes and then just vanished and after a few more the noise all started up again the frogs the mosquitos everything, don’t know what it was but it sure scared my dogs and just about everything else in the area

I later heard that there was a rash of lights seen over the towns of Grantsburg and Danbury Wisconsin, not all that far away this was way before drones were ever a thing, like I said I still don’t know what it was or ever seen anything like it since but it was definitely something strange


That is eerie.


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473260
09/20/25 10:31 PM
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Had a horrific horse accident when I was 13 back in my hay burner days. Horse threw me off at 30mph into a stone post. We have those out here because there were no trees back in the day. Broke back, dislocated left hip and severe head trauma. I was out for a bit before I was able to start crawling towards the house. When I was out a voice told me “Don’t be afraid you will be here until you’re 50”. I’ve lived my life accordingly and turned 50 this year. Only my wife knows that story until now.


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: Pawnee] #8473265
09/20/25 10:41 PM
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Wow, this is a very interesting thread!


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473283
09/20/25 11:19 PM
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No ET stories of my own but this was odd. I had a coonhound that would always lose her collars. I put them on loose, as I was always afraid of her getting hung up and not being able to get out, so not surprising she would lose them. Anyways, one day she came home collarless. This wasn't the first time, so I happened to have a spare on hand. I put that one on her. About a week later, she lost it too. At that point, I said screw it (besides, I was out of spare collars) and left her without one on. Two days later she walks up to me wearing a collar. I immediately asked my husband if he had put a collar on her, and he said no, which I figured as I knew we didn't have any. My next thought was someone had tried to steal her and put a collar of their own on her, so I called her over for a closer look. Then I really got a shock. There was a name tag on the collar with my name and number on it! It was one of my collars. I had no idea what to think. I knew my husband didn't do it and there was no one else around that could have.

The mystery was solved a few weeks later. I was walking through a remote corner of our yard one day when something shiny caught my eye glinting in the sun. I walked closer and came to a hole in the ground.... about woodchuck size hole. About 6" down inside this hole, standing upright (picture a hung snare) was a dog collar. The sun was hitting the buckle just right to make it shine. Apparently, the other collar had been in a hole in just the same manner, and she stuck her uncollared head down that hole and pulled it back out with the collar on! What are the chances of that happening???


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473289
09/20/25 11:36 PM
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…. I actually read all that … it was a cool story


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Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473297
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Walking back to the farmhouse one night from bow hunting I saw a series of 3 colored lights in the sky. I thought nothing of it until those lights shot across the sky and then stopped in a new place at what was surely 100s if not thousands of miles away. Way too fast for a plane and seemingly at a an altitiude higher than your typical plane. I got to the house and broke out a set of binoculars to look at the lights. They never moved again. Called my uncle and said I could be crazy but look out your window and see if you can see the 3 lights I was looking at. He did and said he could see them, said he had never seen lights like that before. Never saw them again after that night.

Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473298
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Had a friend catch a stripe bass through the eye of a hook that was in the basses mouth from a break off someone else's line.
Caught three crappie and a catfish in one cast once. All in someone's lost fish basket.
Saw a laborer almost get peed on by his crackhead girlfriend when he broke it off with her. Pulled up the skirt, grabbed herself, and let the urine fly. Now this was in broad daylight across from the county courthouse an the old state capital building in downtown Little Rock. Work in a shop now don't see nowhere near the interesting things like on a construction site.

Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: foxkidd44] #8473329
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It was the 2nd day of Wisconsin duck season in 2002.
2 buddies, my nephew and myself were going out at about 04:30.
It's a 1/4 mile walk back to the sloughs we are hunting.
Very dark night when I hear what sounds like someone welding and looking up I see something that resembles a comet.
Except this at around 20-25K feet, jet liner altitude and very bright.
It's moving north to south at about the same speed as a jet leaving a vapor trail.
Didn't say anything until we were done setting up the decoys.
This is where it gets weird, I asked if anyone else saw this..
My nephew said yes that was odd, the 2 buddies are looking at us like we have 3 heads.
They were dead serious that they had no idea what we were talking about.

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Was fishing with my Brother in Law and he caught a dogfish, bowfin or whatever you call em, and he didn’t want to haul the ugly thing into the boat so he asked to borrow my mouth spreader for pike. He gets his hook out then the fish shakes its head and swims off with my spreader prompting me to call him some nasty names. A short time later the darn thing surfaced swam right to him, he reached down grabbed me spreader and handed it back with his own set of expletives.

Re: Strangest thing you’ve ever experienced ?? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #8473408
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Originally Posted by Wild_Idaho
Originally Posted by nightlife
Back a good 15 years ago I lived just north of the snake river state forest, at that time I had three dogs a mutt, a female Gordon setter and a big old walker coon hound, one night I was up late, couldn’t sleep so was up late watching the tv and the dogs wanted to go out so I let them, about a half hour or later they stared raising a ruckes and almost ripped the door down trying to get in, when I opened the door all three of them almost knocked me down getting in the house, all scared half to death even Charlie my old hound who I didn’t think anything could scare but he was terrified, outside when I look there was a round object hanging over the forest, no noise just hanging there, looked about the size of a baseball at whatever distance it was, at first I thought it was maybe a chopper which we sometimes had come through but I couldn’t hear a thing, absolutely nothing, that’s when I realized there was nothing at all making a sound not even the mosquitos and they were really bad that year and never quite, anybody that lives where there’s a lot of the little blood suckers knows what I mean

The whole night was silent the mating frogs, the mosquitos everything, that glowing ball whatever it was hung there for a while maybe 4/5 minutes and then just vanished and after a few more the noise all started up again the frogs the mosquitos everything, don’t know what it was but it sure scared my dogs and just about everything else in the area

I later heard that there was a rash of lights seen over the towns of Grantsburg and Danbury Wisconsin, not all that far away this was way before drones were ever a thing, like I said I still don’t know what it was or ever seen anything like it since but it was definitely something strange


That is eerie.


Ya the funny thing is that I didn’t get spooked till later when what went on really hit me at the time I was just shocked that Charlie my hound was scared, I once had to hole him back when he wanted to go after a pack of wolves when they came out at us when we were camping up north, but this scared him

To this day I would really like to know just what was going on or hear a good explanation that makes sense, most just tell me it was probably just a chopper that was to far away for me to hear but the dogs still could but those came over regularly and even when they passed literally overhead never even got them to do more then glance at them, that mutt was scared of her own shadow and would even go out without me or one of the other dogs but Charlie this scared him, up to them I though he would charge the devil himself given the chance just for the thrill of the fight

Dang it’s been to many years and I still miss him, was the smartest dog I ever meet or heard of



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