Any weird/strange things happened in your life?

[balloonshark]

Visited some relatives in Kentucky, late one night I saw several, small white lights circling right outside the window, lights were about the size of a half dollar and rotated counter clockwise in about a 2 or 3 ft circle.

When I was about 21 some friends and I were parked at a civil war battlefield on top of a mountain here in WV. We were directly across a dirt road where people were buried. All of the sudden we saw these glowing orbs the size of golf balls in front of the car. They definitely weren't fireflies. Needless to say we were a bit spooked and quickly drove off the mountain.

On the same mountain me and three friends were setting on the tailgate of my truck. We were overlooking a store, talking, looking at the stars and watching aircraft. On the far horizon I was following the lights on an aircraft going one direction when it suddenly reversed directions. I turned to my friends and said "did you see that"?. And one of them looked at me with wide eyes in disbelief and said "yes".

 

[Sheep221]

I had computer that turned itself on randomly during the night, never during the day. There was no Wake on Lan enabled and it turned on even with UTP cable being disconnected. Also no waking/updating software that might cause this was running. It went on like this for 3 months, then once stopped without any reason.

 

[Tweak155]

The laments of a 49%er....nothing weird here.

Yeah if we had like a GPS unit or something sitting in there, maybe it would have been what they were looking for. But we still had change, some pill cases (f they were looking for anything like that) and some other odds an ends that someone just rifling through someone else's stuff might take, but it was all there.

I plan on talking to my neighbors when I get home today. If anyone else was hit, we'll know for sure what happened.

Now my wife is of course freaking out, as though it is something to react to and start building an underground bunker.

 

[highland145]

Yeah if we had like a GPS unit or something sitting in there, maybe it would have been what they were looking for. But we still had change, some pill cases (f they were looking for anything like that) and some other odds an ends that someone just rifling through someone else's stuff might take, but it was all there.

I plan on talking to my neighbors when I get home today. If anyone else was hit, we'll know for sure what happened.

Now my wife is of course freaking out, as though it is something to react to and start building an underground bunker.

Gremlins, I say.

There are a few that sleepwalk in my family. I've been known to do some weird crap. My bro is the worst though. He dreamt the house was on fire, tore a 3'x section of the sheet rock out before he woke up. Another time he thought someone was trying to break in. He woke up outside, naked, with a knife. No wonder he's twice divorced.

Read somewhere (could be completely wrong) that the brain has a mechanism that "disengages" the body when you're asleep so you don't act out your dreams. Ours is broken. If I ever decide to kill someone....:sneaky:

 

[SlitheryDee]

I had computer that turned itself on randomly during the night, never during the day. There was no Wake on Lan enabled and it turned on even with UTP cable being disconnected. Also no waking/updating software that might cause this was running. It went on like this for 3 months, then once stopped without any reason.

I have a computer here at work that did that for a while. I assumed it was some kind of motherboard glitch or something else I did wrong while assembling it. Thing is it would sleep properly, but when it was shut completely down it would randomly turn itself on. I ended up just leaving it on all the time and letting it go to sleep instead of shutting it down completely. Then one day windows performed a pretty big update of some sort. The update seemed to uninstall or otherwise bork every usb device connected to the computer besides the keyboard, and in addition to that fixed the computer's habit of self-starting. Perhaps something of that sort happened to your computer as well, except without screwing anything up?

 

[Tweak155]

Gremlins, I say.

There are a few that sleepwalk in my family. I've been known to do some weird crap. My bro is the worst though. He dreamt the house was on fire, tore a 3'x section of the sheet rock out before he woke up. Another time he thought someone was trying to break in. He woke up outside, naked, with a knife. No wonder he's twice divorced.

Read somewhere (could be completely wrong) that the brain has a mechanism that "disengages" the body when you're asleep so you don't act out your dreams. Ours is broken. If I ever decide to kill someone....:sneaky:

My sister used to sleep walk fairly often and I remember one time she came down to the kitchen, pulled the silverware drawer completely out of the cabinet, let it fall and hit the ground... and then proceeded to the back door and pounded on it yelling "LET ME OUT". Was kinda scary.

My dad just shook her and woke her up.

 

[Guurn]

An odd occurrence from when I was 16. My friends and I had decided to take a canoe trip from the BWCA into the Quetico national forest, 7 days with just the 4 of us and one of my friends older brother and his girlfriend. It was a miserable first couple of days, pouring rain, cold and tough canoeing. We were all newbies which didn't help and largely because of that everything we owned got soaked.

We had only brought a few books of matches along, no lighter. After day two all of our matches we either wet or gone. This included the waterproof ones I had stashed in the seats of my canoe. That evening we had some tough decisions to make. Either we had to turn back in the morning since we had no way of getting warm and no way of cooking or we could go one more day and hope for something to happen. We decided to push on since we would make or final camp site. If things looked terrible we could push super hard and make it home faster than we got there. BTW yes, we did ask people on the trail for matches but everyone had lighters. We saw very few people on the way.

The day rose to sunshine for the first time, lifting our spirits. We paddled for 4 hours or so and arrived at the campsite. Then the really odd thing happened. It was a large area, open other than a large boulder in the middle. We walked up to find 200 wooden matches on the rock, dry and ready to use. It quite literally saved the trip. The rest of the week was beautiful weather and good times, thanks to that unexpected finding.

 

[alkemyst]

When I was 11 or 12, I used to shoot my Crosman 760 pellet gun at pretty much anything with a heartbeat. One day I was out in a field with my gun pumped & ready and a bird (a starling) flew past, left to right, about 50 feet out and 20 or 30 feet in the air. I lead him, fired and saw him almost stop in midair among a spray of feathers. He fluttered down into a nearby crabapple tree on the edge of the field.

The tree was only about 15 ft tall and the bird only 12 ft or so up in the tree. I pumped the gun, loaded a pellet and fired another round into his body. I could see and almost feel the impact. But he didn't budge. I shot him again. And again. And again. Probably another six or seven shots at point blank range. As I was chambering another round he flew off, never to be seen again.

Hope you seek help one day.