# The most puzzling thing that I have ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2003, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742 "2003-07-02T09:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/1 "2003-07-02T09:41:21Z")
Those of you who know me know that I live in a house that is near the water, but at least 200 yards away from it. I am up on a bluff away from direct river access. Earlier tonight, I had a fire in my fire pit. I came home and went to sleep. I woke up with the irrational certanty that my fire was burning the woods down. I had to go and see. My fire was nothing but coals, but before I got there I stumbled across a dead fish. WTF? Where did the fish come from? It was in the middle of a field, and when I say that I mean it. There was NOTHING around. I am baffeled. A fish? It’s just not possible! I tossed the fish into the woods for wild animals to dispose of, but the whole thing makes me wonder. How did a FISH, of all things, get into the middle of my meadow??? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/2 "2003-07-02T09:49:52Z")
Could it have been dropped by a fish-eating bird? ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/3 "2003-07-02T10:00:21Z")
Maybe it was the fish from the Far Side ‘How Evolution began’ cartoon. Maybe he got lost. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/4 "2003-07-02T10:16:29Z")
A mini tornado whisked it up and dropped it? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/5 "2003-07-02T10:35:08Z")
Gotta be left over from some sort of predator. Maybe it was dead, washed up and a cash or fox picked it up. ---
**Author:** ![brainfizz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@brainfizz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainfizz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/6 "2003-07-02T10:35:24Z")
Does a bear drop fish in the woods? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/7 "2003-07-02T10:39:44Z")
Why do you have a fire pit across a field from your house? ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/8 "2003-07-02T11:04:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \* > \*\*Why do you have a fire pit across a field from your house? \*\* To burn the bodies. Duh! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/9 "2003-07-02T11:47:13Z")
In that case, mysterious fish should be the least of your problems. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/10 "2003-07-02T12:22:02Z")
Have you pissed off anyone named “Vito” recently? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/11 "2003-07-02T12:49:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Early Out \* > \*\*Have you pissed off anyone named “Vito” recently? \*\* Have you pissed off any _otters_ named Guido, **Weirddave**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Copper\_moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@Copper\_moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Copper_moon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/12 "2003-07-02T14:37:28Z")
I live on a lake and we find the remains of some pretty large fish (usually catfish) quite a ways away from the water. We have even bigger birds that carry them away like cranes, blue heron, seagulls and pelicans (I’m about 200 miles away from the ocean). Anyway these fish can be completely intact or skeletized or anywhere in between. But how surreal can you get, tripping over a fish while walking through a meadow in the middle of the night? Now if you had tripped over a chupacabras . . . now that would have been something. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/13 "2003-07-02T14:44:27Z")
Your story sounds fishy. You’re not throwing us a red herring are you? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/14 "2003-07-02T14:49:06Z")
I’d scale back on the coffee, if I were you. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/15 "2003-07-02T15:08:26Z")
Frankenfish Returns… 😉 I’d agree that it was probably dropped by a bird. Possibly the bird didn’t retrieve the fish because the fire may have still been burning. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/16 "2003-07-02T15:10:00Z")
some fish “walk”: [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0702\_020702\_snakehead.html](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0702_020702_snakehead.html) There are various other species. I once saw 5 or six catfish looking creatures cross our office parkinglot (switching ponds, I guess.). This was in FL ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/17 "2003-07-02T15:12:15Z")
Makes sense to me. Squanto ---
**Author:** ![universe.zip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@universe.zip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/universe.zip)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/18 "2003-07-02T15:12:56Z")
Why didn´t you put it in the fire and have yourself a nice midnight snack? ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/19 "2003-07-02T15:27:43Z")
Did the fish have on ruby red slippers by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742/20 "2003-07-02T15:30:17Z")
(was that slippers, or flippers, **Salem**?) 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-puzzling-thing-that-i-have-ever-seen/185742.md?page=2)