Yahoo Lifestyle "Nobody Believes Our Story": I Can't Wrap My Mind Around These 20 Unbelievable WTF Moments People Experienced And Will Never, Ever, Ever Forget
The world can be a very, very strange place, and there's no shortage of bizarre things to witness. Unfortunately, getting people to believe that your inexplicable event actually occurred is hard. So when redditor u/samulige asked the r/AskReddit community to share the wildest thing they witnessed that no one ever believes, people sure had some shocking stories to tell. Here's what they said.
1."An adult bull moose walked into the local grocery store in the middle of the day, headed to the produce section, and started eating fruit. Everyone outside my town doesn't believe it, but nobody within the town will ever forget."
2."In my city, we lift our hands at the pedestrian crossings, and the cars stop so we can cross. Most people respect it. One day, getting off the bus, I saw a dog stop and lift his paw at the crossing. I stopped to watch, believing it was a coincidence. Nope, the cars stopped for the dog, and he only crossed when it was completely safe. And yes, the dog was alone, no human beside him lifting their hand or anything. Most people don't believe me to this day. That dog must have been a once-in-a-generation genius, or he was taught by someone before living on the streets."
3."In middle school, walking home from a friend's house. I went to pet a dog that looked like a big golden lab, facing away from me. I got about three feet away, and it turned toward me. It was a mountain lion in the front yard of a Chicago suburban house in an unremarkable neighborhood, right near the sidewalk. I had nightmares for weeks. Finally, there was another sighting next town over, and it made the papers, and then all the stories came out about pets going missing, rabbit heads found in yards, and all the associated madness. My dad still thought I imagined it — I was a small kid, and it was a big lion."
4."When I went to visit my grandparents in Florida, I SWEAR I saw a woman who was riding a motorized couch on the sidewalk. Like, it had wheels and evidently some kind of engine that allowed it to roll around, and she was controlling it with a joystick. We were driving too fast for me to take any pictures before she was out of view."
5."I saw a giant meteor in the sky around 2007/2008. It was so big it lit up everything like it was daytime for a split second. It was much bigger than the moon in the sky. It slowed down and started stuttering like it had a low frame rate, and then it disappeared as fast as it appeared. Legit thought that was it for us."
6."A wild kangaroo in Denmark in winter. I got some blurry pictures; some believe me, and others give me: 'Oh, you saw Sasquatch' vibes."
7."I was walking to the shops, and as I came upon the cycle path that ran behind the house, I witnessed a whole family — two kids in full school uniform with blazers, a dad in a full business suit and briefcase, and a mother in her own professional business attire — all riding unicycles on their way to start their busy days. I stood there dumbfounded for a second before carrying on. Everyone rubbished my story, but it happened, man. It happened."
8."I tossed a treat to my parents' dog. It hit the dog's nose, then bounced straight up into the air. Then it hit the dog's nose and bounced up again. This happened three times before the dog caught it. The dog in question was a very lazy mastiff; it looked like something out of a cartoon. No one believes me."
9."This happened to my mom and me, but nobody believes our story. I was at the kitchen table studying when I was 16, and my mom was cooking dinner. A fly was buzzing around, and she swatted at it with a dishcloth, the same dishcloth that was on her shoulder being used as a hand-wiping rag while cooking. While waving the cloth around, she let go of it, and it flew somewhere behind her, and then it...was just gone. I mean, gone, gone."
"We both overturned that entire kitchen and even pulled out furniture (like the fridge), looking for it. Was there ever a rag? Was she just using her hand and not a rag to swat at the fly, and were we mistaken? It was so bizarre.
Years later, when the house was completely empty because we were moving out, we both went back in there and did one final look. No rag.
So I guess in some alternate dimension, some gnome was sitting around, and a portal opened to dump a wet cooking rag on it. What other explanation is there?"
10."I was climbing Mount Hood back in 2007 and was near the summit when a drone came buzzing up alongside the mountain and essentially crop-dusted the climbing route before going over the summit. It made a loop and then flew back down the south side of Hood. This was well before DJI/consumer drones took off and was clearly a military/experimental drone."
11."When I was about six, I was running down the stairs at school to be the first to leave the classroom at the end of the day. I pulled a 50p coin from my pocket but dropped it. It bounced down the stairs, and when it hit the floor at the bottom, it landed perfectly upright on its side. For non-English people, 50p coins are huge, thin, seven-sided coins, and this is just so impossibly unlikely to happen. I stood and stared in disbelief and tried to tell everyone that rushed past, but no one seemed to believe me or care. Eventually, I picked it up and went home with no one to share the moment with. One of the most exciting moments of my life."
12."When I was 8 years old, living in rural Illinois, I witnessed a UFO/UAP hovering over a cornfield about 300 yards away from me as I was headed home for dinner. The sun was just beginning to go down. I can't say how long I watched it before it shot straight up and disappeared, but I caught hell for being late for dinner. When I tried to explain what I'd seen, I was ridiculed and sent to my room without dinner for lying. I never said much about it to anyone until recently."
13."In the 2000s, in France, I left my work in an industrial part of a town which is the arrival city of the Tour de France. A car from Lance Armstrong's US Postal Service team stopped by the trash, dumped a plastic bag in it, and left as fast as they came. A few years later, we learned about all the doping stuff. I always wondered if I should have looked at what they threw out."
14."My best friend and I both saw the outline of a man in my window in bed one night, except he had claws and wings. We both thought we were imagining it until we offhandedly mentioned it to each other the next morning, but everyone thinks we're lying."
15."When I was a kid, I had a favorite stuffed frog. I slept with it every night. My cousin liked it too, so his mom got him one. One day, after he had stayed the night, I noticed I had two stuffed frogs and assumed my cousin left his stuffed frog at my house. When I brought it back to him, he showed me that he still had his frog. My frog had a crack down the center of his left eye. Upon inspection of the mysterious third frog, it had the exact same crack down its left eye. When I compared my frog and my cousin's, they had minor differences: The tag was in a slightly different spot, some seams were sown a bit off, and the casting lines on the eyes were different. My frog and the mystery third frog were exactly the same, though. I could only assume it was somehow duplicated."
"The stuffed frog was not the only time this happened, either. I ended up with two right shoes and a left shoe from the same pair of shoes.
We had an old promotional glass from the Batman movie. I found it behind the couch one day and went to put it back where it belonged, but it was already there. My mom lost a pair of earrings. They had been missing for almost 10 years when both of us found the pair of earrings on the same day. Now she has two sets.
What weirds me out the most is that nobody in my family seems to notice or care, even when I bring it up. The most I can get out of them is, 'Yeah, that's kind of weird, I guess.'"
16."I owned a historic house that was built in the 1700s. It was formerly owned by a well-known politician who used it as a country cottage. My bedroom was directly over the large reception room. On more than one occasion, I woke up to hearing jazz music, people laughing, and glasses clinking. It could not have been neighbors since I didn't have any. I don't believe in anything supernatural, but it just seems hard to explain it away."
17."I was walking behind someone outside of a gas station, and they became pitch black and disappeared in broad daylight. I was three steps behind this guy, too. There's no mistaking what I witnessed."
18."When I was in middle school, at a sleepover, my friend and I were talking about our favorite foods. He said his favorite was 'meatball marinana' and I said it's 'marinara.' So we made a bet (it was raining outside) that if lightning struck the place where I pointed within a minute, I would be right. He said that it was too long, so we changed it to 10 seconds. As soon as I said one, it struck exactly in that place. We were so hyped we almost woke the other people up, but no one believed us."
19."I breathed underwater once. I realized it was happening and did my best to check it was really happening because I knew it shouldn't be. Eventually, I realized I'd been at the bottom of the pool for a long time and surfaced to tell my mother and ask for an explanation. But she was reading a book and thought I was just making up nonsense. So logically, I put my face in the water and tried to do it again. I started crying because now I had stinging water up my nose and was apparently failing at understanding reality. About 20 years later, my older stepson came home and told me how he'd found himself breathing at the bottom of the pool at the park and only surfaced when he realized he might be worrying the lifeguard. I told him, 'Yeah, I did that once, too; reality isn't as solid as it looks. Just be careful with that, please.' He was maybe 17 years old at the time."
20."In my old job in a restaurant, there was an apartment above. We used to use the electric oven there for extra space when we had a lot going on. It was said the building was haunted; it was a huge four-story place. I was struggling with something out of the oven and had my hands full, so I knocked the light off with my elbow. The door that leads out of the apartment was open the whole time, so I knocked the hall light off with my elbows, then went out and about to put the tray down so I could close the door. As I was putting it down, the door closed. Not slammed but just closed. I was worried shitless, I just said 'thanks' like an idiot. I don't believe in ghosts, but that day was strange."
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