Its the first story on this podcast, pretty interesting.
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These stories are really cool. And the funny thing is they still manage to creep me out, even though I know from the outset that they have a normal explanation!
Another, not too creepy one from me - Occasionally I’ll notice something moving in my peripheral vision - even if I’m alone in a room with no moving objects. Look straight at the area, nothing. Turn back to what I’m doing, I see movement again. But it’s just a strand of hair blocking a portion of my peripheral vision, which moves against the background as I breathe and whatnot, and because I’m not looking directly at it, my brain doesn’t process the perspective properly and “sees” stuff moving several feet away.
And of course, one of the greatest stories like this: Vic Tandy getting “haunted”
Yeah, apparently the kids these days are smoking them at parties.
I was 18 and working at Boy Scout Camp. It was about 11:00 PM and we were by the lake, walking back to our cabin for the night. We were looking out at the stars and I noticed a particularly bright star. My astronomy knowledge wasn’t that good so I asked my friend what star he thought it was. He said he thought it was the planet Venus. Then just as soon as he was getting ready to explain in further detail, the star just extinguished itself!!! :eek: It just went out completely. Both my friend and I started to freak out… and I mean really freak out. We thought we just experienced a UFO.
Looking back on it, it was one of three things: A satellite, the top of a radio tower, or an airplane. I think it was most likely an airplane, but I guess I will never know for sure, but I am sure it was not a flying saucer.
At age 17 heading down the highway with a car full of other teenagers on our way to some early morning bass fishing. We turned on the radio and the most eerie, otherworldly sounds we have ever heard started coming over the radio. We were all goosebumps as it lasted several minutes as we listened for alien commands or … something.
Announcer came on and said it was an orchestra tuning up.
I went outside one night to walk my dog, glanced up, and happened to notice the sky was glowing neon green and orange. And throbbing, and sort of melting. My thoughts went something like “Godalienswarghostshallucinationangelsbrainaneurysmuniverseexploding? Godhallucinationuniverseexploding? Universeexploding? …? …?!? Oh, northern lights!” I had *heard *of the aurora borealis, and knew that it was very occasionally visible in Michigan, but I had always envisioned something more like a sunset, or the glow of a distant city, something barely visible along the horizon. This was the entire freaking night sky. I briefly considered running around knocking on neighbors’ doors to let them know what they were missing, but finally, I just laid down on the lawn and watched until it disappeared.
I think this might be better explained by minor hallucinations caused by caffeine. I get these when I drink too many Cokes. It’s usually just little spots or flashes in my peripheral vision, but it sounds a lot like what you’re experiencing too.
I was driving down a curvy residential road at dusk one night just after the rain had stopped. Through some trees, I see two glowing, light-blue humanoid figures standing in someone’s front lawn. My thoughts? Ohmygod aliens, obviously. But then as I continue to drive, the figures levitate over to the drive way, and then into the road. Now I start to freak out and I get ready to swerve, hit the breaks, whatever. Oh SHIT I’m gonna hit the aliens I’m gonna start an intergalactic war and it’s gonna be my fault and I’m too young to be so vilified and why me, anyway?
And then they just drove right by me. They were the reflection on the wet pavement of some SUV’s blue headlights. :smack: But hey, at least I didn’t start an intergalactic war!
Also, one time I was walking around a neighborhood with some friends and there was a rock floating in midair. It didn’t take me long to see that it was hanging from a tree branch by a thin wire, but for some reason it was incredibly freaky.
You forgot to mention how they would have all died if they hadn’t happened to mention it to their home renovator buddy.
:eek::eek:
Well it was dangerous, but certainly not paranormal.
I once saw a missile launch and thought it was a UFO. Granted, it was an unidentified flying object to me, until I heard a news story about it on the radio.
I work at a museum exhibit that many say is haunted. The layout of the exhibit is maze-like and confusing, and the lighting is such that it wreaks havoc on your peripheral vision. I’ve had many an instance where I’ve seen something odd, thought “what’s that??” and spun around only to find that it was the light reflecting off a case, or some such thing.
The peripheral-vision thing plays havoc with me often. There is a spot on my wall in my home office that was patched by the previous owner and is just a little off. Quite often I am sitting working and think that I see something moving out of the corner of my eye, only to find it is just that damn spot again.
I’ve seen lights up in the sky at night before which I’d thought were very strange and could be UFOs. Nothing close up, but I’d just see something amid the stars that seemed to be flickering red/blue/green light. Upon a little research, it seems such lights were just Venus, I think, which can give the optical illusion of flashing lights at times.