What's the creepiest/weirdest thing you've ever seen?

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When I was a kid, I saw a guy jerking himself off in a car near the bus stop. Not sure why parents didn't call the police! Maybe they did and I can't remember.

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Creepiest. Driving past the scene of an accident which just occurred. Seeing two humans in the front seat catatonic. One wiping blood off their face casually and two big holes in the windshield where their heads clearly crashed through the glass. Cars passing by, honking and people annoyed at the traffic. My mom stopped the car and ran for help leaving all three kids to witness the horror from the van. Pre air bags in the 80s. I've always wondered if they survived.

Weirdest. A beggar in Sotheast Asia with some crazy face fungus/issue. I couldn't resist staring. Felt extremely guilty for gawking, so I awkwardly smiled and gave her some cash. Her face was covered in droopy skin lesions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In college I had to take a class during winter break, so it was one of those classes that was for like 4 hours a day for three weeks or so. It was small, maybe about 8 people in it, and was in a small room, similar to a conference room, and we all sat at one table. In this class there was a middle aged guy -- he seemed ancient to me at the time but he was probably in his 50s. He was kind of annoying -- he asked a lot of questions and talked a lot.

One day he didn't ask any questions, which I remember thinking was odd. He was also sweating, but I didn't think much of it. The class wrapped up and I got my things and left, but I noticed he stayed behind.

The next day our professor told us that he had suffered a stroke during class, and sat there immobilized until class was over and the professor realized he wasn't moving. He died that evening.

This still haunts me. I wish someone had noticed. I wish we had spoken up. I wonder if he suffered.

Once during class a classmate appeared to be laughing and leisurely walked out if the room. The instructor made a joke that he didn't realize he (the instructor) was so funny. But I totally remember thinking it didn't really seem like he was laughing, but huh, I guess if the instructor thinks he was, he was. Found out later he was having a heart attack. He wasn't laughing, he was (more like) convulsing.

I felt so bad and dumb for ignoring my gut. The guy was ok though, he returned to school some weeks later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One time a few years ago I was at the Mormon Temple in Kensington- I think we were there around Christmastime looking at the different trees and creches. A man came up to me and he looked like the kind of person who is mentally unstable and he told me, "Your light shines." Then he walked off.

Ha! I am mormon and I can pretty much guarantee that is a guy from Utah or Idaho and all he meant was that you seemed like a sweet lady and seeing you with your family brought him joy.

[Anonymous]

For 6 months or so there used to be this weird scratching sound that came from under our bed once or twice a week. I was the only one who heard it because when I'd wake up DH, it would stop. Eventually it stopped and I never did figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Creepiest: work in the ED. Usually when we get a call from an ambulance on the way, it isn't super detailed. This particular one was something like "two people impaled on stake, one dead" so we all figured it was two people separately impaled and one had passed in the ambulance or something. Nope. Two people impaled on same stake, person on top had died on impact, person underneath was conscious. It was all sorts of messed up.

Weirdest/spookiest: 2 things come to mind.

1. This happened when I was 10. Heard crash in parents' room. Ran in and saw my grandpa's photo had fallen next to the phone. Which was weird because it would have had to fall at an angle to be next to the phone. I a few min later we got the call that my grandpa had died.

2. When my grandma passed away (at home with us) the same picture of my grandpa fell shortly before she died

[Anonymous]

This thread is awesome.

[Anonymous]

Driving on beltway some years back. I was in the right center lane, and suddenly I had this strong urge to switch lanes.... Like listening to music and suddenly I thought to myself "I need to switch lanes," for no apparent reason. I remember even thinking to myself that there was no reason to switch lanes, but then I just did it. Seconds later a tractor trailer that had been adjacent to me started swerving and swerved into the lane I had just been in, slamming into a car right where I had been. It was surreal, as I saw this all through my rear view mirror, and it was like I was amidst all this traffic and then suddenly all the traffic behind me just stopped and I was nearly alone on the beltway with the accident and wall of traffic getting smaller and smaller in my rear view mirror.

Then out of nowhere, I thought to myself "thank you Grandpa." He passed when I was just 6 years old, but we were very close.

[Anonymous]

I guess the creepiest/weirdest thing I've heard rather than seen, happened a few years ago. I had just put my then 3 week old son down to nap in his crib and then left the room to fold some laundry. It was just us two at home and everything was quiet until I heard a voice clearly say "Look at the baby." I went in and to my horror he was choking violently on what I guess was spit up or vomit. Then it all got really weird as I heard the same voice say "Turn him over" and so I turned him over and all of this vomit started coming out of his mouth then. The voice then forcefully said "breathe baby!" and my son took a huge gasp of air and then started crying. He was absolutely fine after that. I was pretty shook up and the whole thing happened so fast. I've often wondered who it was that I heard and if they were any relation to me or just some random spirit that lived in our apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess the creepiest/weirdest thing I've heard rather than seen, happened a few years ago. I had just put my then 3 week old son down to nap in his crib and then left the room to fold some laundry. It was just us two at home and everything was quiet until I heard a voice clearly say "Look at the baby." I went in and to my horror he was choking violently on what I guess was spit up or vomit. Then it all got really weird as I heard the same voice say "Turn him over" and so I turned him over and all of this vomit started coming out of his mouth then. The voice then forcefully said "breathe baby!" and my son took a huge gasp of air and then started crying. He was absolutely fine after that. I was pretty shook up and the whole thing happened so fast. I've often wondered who it was that I heard and if they were any relation to me or just some random spirit that lived in our apartment.

You didn't have a video monitor, did you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Driving on beltway some years back. I was in the right center lane, and suddenly I had this strong urge to switch lanes.... Like listening to music and suddenly I thought to myself "I need to switch lanes," for no apparent reason. I remember even thinking to myself that there was no reason to switch lanes, but then I just did it. Seconds later a tractor trailer that had been adjacent to me started swerving and swerved into the lane I had just been in, slamming into a car right where I had been. It was surreal, as I saw this all through my rear view mirror, and it was like I was amidst all this traffic and then suddenly all the traffic behind me just stopped and I was nearly alone on the beltway with the accident and wall of traffic getting smaller and smaller in my rear view mirror.

Then out of nowhere, I thought to myself "thank you Grandpa." He passed when I was just 6 years old, but we were very close.

This is so sweet.

[Anonymous]

When I was 16 my friend hung herself. Her parents had an open casket and you could see the rope marks around her neck. Very upsetting.

[Anonymous]

When I was in high school my Dad died. I had a dream a week before he died and told him to go get his heart checked. A week later I was sleeping over at my friend's house when suddenly I sat up in bed. The phone rang, and for some reason I answered my friends home phone. My Mom said hello, and I said: "Dad's dead". He was.

[Anonymous]

^^ PP again, he died from a heart attack. He was young, 42.

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Anonymous wrote:For 6 months or so there used to be this weird scratching sound that came from under our bed once or twice a week. I was the only one who heard it because when I'd wake up DH, it would stop. Eventually it stopped and I never did figure it out.

That's gotta be rats, right? Or mice if you're lucky.