There was a post on one of my Facebook groups that is pretty much talks and discussions about things in our general area..
The question asked what was the strangest thing that you ever had happen in your life?
Mine , without a doubt was the lug nut incident…
I’ll never understand that craziness.

I kinda figured this might make an interesting thread here,,, what is the strangest thing you guys ever had,,

...my sisters are pretty strange

You crack me up kiddo!!!

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.

Wow that's weird.
Reminds me of a time I saw a bunch of lights, like satellites, but moving faster and they were closer to earth. They kept turning off and back on, and one did a 180 loop-de-loop and went back the way it came.

Another strange thing was once my mom and I stayed up late at night and watched dozens of shooting stars. That was cool. We tried looking it up the next day, to see what it was, like if it was a meteor shower or something but there was nothing about it online

First day working in the brewery 5 man crew flipping a coin and the two odd men went home

Some strange things happen in the sky, that's for sure. Same with the ocean, from what I hear.

Hope you enjoyed those tasty mushrooms you had with your super that night.

I wanna hear the lug nut story! LOL

The lights in the sky stories spurred me to share this one. Probably around 2002 or so, got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. Bedroom window on the second floor kind of had a lacey curtain on it, so light could easily pass through it. There's a cow pasture about 200 yards from the house with a small tree line that runs along with the fence line. I noticed something bright through the curtain, and there was a large cone shaped light with an even brighter beam of light within the duller cone. This was just on the other side of the trees, on the pasture side of the fence. It was there for maybe 5 seconds and then just disappeared in a snap. It wasn't moving.. just stationary. Didn't notice anything above that the light could be coming from. This is in a time well before large recreational drones. There was no mutilated cattle in the pasture (sarcasm), and I don't really believe in extra terrestrials. There's nothing of interest out where I live in a cow pasture, but if I was going to pin the most logical explanation on what it was, I guess I would say a helicopter shining down into a random cow pasture in a very low residential area in the middle of the night for some unknown reason..

My ex -wife. Or was that just pure evil I experienced?

Sarge

What year ? Seen something similar back in early 1972 .

Threw a live minnow out on a hook one time and when I reeled in I had a leech and a swivel.? Mysteries of the creek.

I was fishing with a spinner in a small lake. It was shallow close to shore and I sometimes bumped bottom at the end of my retrieve. One cast it bumped bottom and when I got it in it had a small unused zip tie on one of the trebles. I thought - what are the odds of that hook hitting that tiny hole in the end of the zip tie. About 5 minutes later, I caught one the same way! And if that's not crazy enough - I caught another on the very next cast!! If Utah had a lottery I would have bought a bunch of tickets when I got home that day. Strange.

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)!

"I about scared the stuffing out of him when I called down to ask if he was okay."

Holy cow, that was you??

Hearing what sounded like someone falling up a set of stairs instead of down.

I was fishing at a favorite spot for cat, when I reeled in to check my bait I snagged a coil spring type rod holder, I had lost there about a year before!

Late 70's, i was just a young fella. Walking up the homeplace driveway on a super dark night when i heard, more like felt a low hum/buzzing sound. I stopped and looked towards the streetlights which was the only lighting at the time. Most of the older style lights were directed downward but some light went upwards also. I could feel it getting louder and then just a foot or so above the first streetlight came what looked like an upside down bowl with more of a point on the bottom.
It appeared to be spinning, like watching a vinyl record going around only this didn't sway at all like it was on rails. The part i saw was car sized but i couldn't see what was on top. It moved out of the light and i didn't see it again until it went over the next streetlight. After that, i still heard it but it moved on, no lights, no other signs but the sounds. Have never seen anything like it before or since that night.