Saw The Strangest Thing

[quote]florin wrote:
Some really wild speculation:

Paranormal [/quote]

HOLY SHIT!

My friends dad told me this story a few years ago, and everytime I think about it, I get the chills for a minute or so. I believe him, since we’re very close and isnt one to lie.

He was a kid who grew up a few towns over, and one rainy day after school, he walked into his house. His parents were at work, and his brothers had gone to work for his dad. He was home alone.

After a few hours, it started to get dark, and the rain started to come down heavy and winds were developing, so he went around his house closing all the windows and doors. The last door he closed was his front door, which after he had closed and locked: he saw the chain slide lock sliding back and forth in its track really fast. He screamed, ran into the kitchen, called his father and then ran to his fathers store which had been in town.

His dad then went with him and his brothers back to the house to look around- nothing.
That night, when he was on the verge of sleep, he felt something on his legs. He screamed, and his dad came running in asking what was the matter. He told them he felt pressure on his calf, like someone was grabbing them and holding them to the bed. Dad felt around: nothing.
The next night, he slept in the same room as his brother. No incident.

The night after that, he slept alone again. Same thing happened, he felt something ‘grab’ his leg. His dad rushed in feeling around, and nothing.

He slept with his brother for the next three nights. Nothing.

Except, after that, they were traveling to paris for vacation. He packed all of his clothes in his suitcase, which he left on the bed. When his dad went in to carry it downstairs, he complained it was extremeley heavy and asked him what the hell was in it. They thought nothing of it, other than just heavy clothes.

They got to france, checked in the hotel, heavy luggage and all. They stayed their week, then left. The night they checked out, another man checked into that room. The man committed suicide that same night in that hotel room.

Hes never had any problems with the lock or leg grabbings since.

EDIT: My friends dad called today. I probably see/speak to him two or three times a year. Freaked me out.

[quote]florin wrote:
Well, there were some reports of strange loud noises rattling windows and steel doors all over the country:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/23/weird_booms_across_t.html

http://wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051221/NEWS/51221005&SearchID=73242551666788

And overseas:

Some explanations within reason:

http://wect.com/Global/story.asp?s=4485926

Some speculation on same subject:

http://www.fas.org/irp/mystery/aurora.htm
http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/aurora.asp

Some really wild speculation:

Paranormal [/quote]

florin, interesting post.

"The Sounds of Hell?

And speaking of weird underground sounds… have scientists actually recorded the sounds of people suffering in Hell? This sound file comes from Art Bell’s Web site which was submitted by one of his listeners in response to following story, allegedly quoting a scientist as excerpted from Ammenusastia, a Finnish newspaper. It seems the researchers had drilled a nine-mile-deep hole and were astonished at what they heard down there:

“As a communist I don’t believe in heaven or the Bible, but as a scientist I now believe in hell,” said Dr. Azzacove. “Needless to say we were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of hell!” Dr. Azzacove continued, “…the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment. But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans!”

[quote]bullpup wrote:
If kind of freaked my dad out so he moved the chair to the other side of the porch thinking it was the wind. The following day the chair was back by the front door when we woke up.

Bullpup[/quote]

This was a real asshole thing to do and I deeply regret it. My aunt is HIGHLY addicted to ghosts and trolls and fortune tellers and all that shit. She bought a little lawn gnome and claimed that ever since she bought it she was getting bad feeling and omens and bad things were happening. Not really bad things just bad luck. Well her and her sister one day took a drive and threw the gnome out of her moving car about 25 miles from her house. I hear that she did this a few days later from my uncle. He was fairly precise about the location she pitched it.

My brother and I retrieved it, smeared fake blood over it’s eyes and put it on top of her hood that night. My uncle said she was absolutely hysterical the next morning. Not like when you tell a kid no Toys-R-Us but hysterical like when you tell a mother her only child just died. We felt so bad we confessed and my aunt and uncle still hate us and refuse to talk to us. That was almost 2 years ago. Anyway someone could’ve been screwing with your dad.

[quote]E-man wrote:
This was a real asshole thing to do and I deeply regret it. My aunt is HIGHLY addicted to ghosts and trolls and fortune tellers and all that shit. She bought a little lawn gnome and claimed that ever since she bought it she was getting bad feeling and omens and bad things were happening. Not really bad things just bad luck. Well her and her sister one day took a drive and threw the gnome out of her moving car about 25 miles from her house. I hear that she did this a few days later from my uncle. He was fairly precise about the location she pitched it.

My brother and I retrieved it, smeared fake blood over it’s eyes and put it on top of her hood that night. My uncle said she was absolutely hysterical the next morning. Not like when you tell a kid no Toys-R-Us but hysterical like when you tell a mother her only child just died. We felt so bad we confessed and my aunt and uncle still hate us and refuse to talk to us. That was almost 2 years ago. Anyway someone could’ve been screwing with your dad.

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I’ve heard some fucked up shit on this site, but I’m pretty sure this takes the cake.

Something is not right in this gym :

http://www.davesdaily.com/videoclips/366-freaky-commercial.htm

[quote]ZEB wrote:
florin wrote:
Some really wild speculation:

florin, interesting post.

And speaking of weird underground sounds… have scientists actually recorded the sounds of people suffering in Hell?[/quote]

Actually, that last one, according to snopes.com is an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm

Legend: Scientists drilling in Siberia went too far and ended up punching a hole through to Hell, where the screams of the damned drifted up to them.

Status: False.

Example: [Brunvand, 1993]

Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep (about 9 miles) when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. A Mr. Azzacov (identified as the project's manager) was quoted as saying they decided that the center of the earth was hollow.

Supposedly, the geologists measured temperatures of over 2,000 degrees in the deep hole. They lowered super sensitive microphones to the bottom of the well, and to their astonishment they heard the sounds of thousands, perhaps millions, of suffering souls screaming.

Origins: This
legend is quite popular among Christian groups as it “proves” Hell (and therefore God) exists. Popular endings to the story have it that the scientists ran screaming from the site, or that since the discovery conversions to Christianity are occurring at an unprecedented rate.

If there is a Hell under Siberia, scientists have yet to discover it. What we have here is an enthralling legend that’s been spun off an actual event.

In 1984, an article about an experimental well in Russia’s Kola Peninsula appeared in Scientific American. The Kola well reached 12 kilometers into the ground, where scientists encountered rare rock formations, flows of gas and water, and temperatures up to 180?. (That’s 180?, folks, not the 2,000? usually reported in any “Scientists Discover Hell!” screed. It was hot, but it wasn’t hellishly so.)

Those who did the actual drilling of this very real well did not break through to a hollow centre, and certainly no piteous screams of the damned were heard. That part ? all of it ? was pure embellishment added after this real event was turned into a legend. (Yes, we know that any number of web sites offer audio clips purporting to be the screams of the damned as recorded in the Well to Hell, and all of them sound like they could be the noise from a typical bar on a busy Friday evening.)

The report on the digging of that well and the difficulties encountered during the project were collided with someone’s vision of what should have been found down there. A little exaggerating about depth and temperature, some fabrication about hollow centres and screams, and all of a sudden there was this great story to throw back at those who claim there is no God.

Though it’s impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a “Scientists Discover Hell” story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal.

In the spring of 1990, the legend as we now know it appeared in both Praise The Lord (February) and Midnight Cry (April). Debunkings of it showed up in Christianity Today (July) and Biblical Archaeology Review (November). Even so, the Weekly World News ran the story in 1992, this time setting it in Alaska and claiming thirteen oil rig workers were killed when the Devil came roaring up out of the ground.

You can’t beat that for embellishment.

Barbara “just a spoonful of auger helps the ‘men has sinned’ go down” Mikkelson

Last updated: 31 December 1998

[quote]E-man wrote:
This was a real asshole thing to do and I deeply regret it. My aunt is HIGHLY addicted to ghosts and trolls and fortune tellers and all that shit. She bought a little lawn gnome and claimed that ever since she bought it she was getting bad feeling and omens and bad things were happening. Not really bad things just bad luck. Well her and her sister one day took a drive and threw the gnome out of her moving car about 25 miles from her house. I hear that she did this a few days later from my uncle. He was fairly precise about the location she pitched it.

My brother and I retrieved it, smeared fake blood over it’s eyes and put it on top of her hood that night. My uncle said she was absolutely hysterical the next morning. Not like when you tell a kid no Toys-R-Us but hysterical like when you tell a mother her only child just died. We felt so bad we confessed and my aunt and uncle still hate us and refuse to talk to us. That was almost 2 years ago. Anyway someone could’ve been screwing with your dad.

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That’s Classic, horrible, but classic!!!

anyways, I heard this story yesterday:

"…John Patton and his wife were missionaries to the New Hebrides Islands. One night, true to his threat, the chief and his men came with spears and torches to kill them and surrounded the little compound. The Pattons spent all night on their knees asking for God … to deliver them and asking for the salvation of this tribe.

With the coming of dawn, they witnessed the disbursement of the tribe. A year later, after having become a Christian, the chief told the Pattons what had happened that eventful night. He told of the host of “giants” whom they had seen protecting the commune, each one awesome, glowing with a strange light, and standing with swords drawn."

(copied from here: Private Site)

E-Man, I’m sure that you now realize what a horrible thing that was to do to your aunt. Obviously I don’t know your previous relationship with her, but I think maybe in time you should write her and your uncle and tell them how deeply you regret your actions, and that you hope they could at least speak to you again (even if they cannot bring themselves to forgive you just yet).

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I like to say that I don’t believe in ghosts, but whenever I read stories like 4est’s, I get a terrible case of the heebie-jeebies. I guess if I’m frightened of them, then I believe in them.

The story of ghosts and the supernatural has been around since the dawn of time, and there are so many people who believe in them that you can’t help but wonder if there’s a small grain of truth in there somewhere.

Don’t, by definition, UFOs exist?

If you don’t know what it is, its Unidentifided. If its in the air, its probibly Flying. And its also probibly an Object.
Hence Unidentified Flying Object , UFO.

florin:

Yea, like all the stories on this thread, while fun to read they are all explainable in some way.

I was in a hostel in the Magalies mountains (South Africa) for about 4 years. The hostel had a main building (where my room was situated), and lower down the mountain was outbuilding used as rooms by the older boys (where my brother stayed) - thus it was possible for me to look down on the oubuilding.

I was restless the one night, and joined my roommate sitting by the window - he said he’s been watching something/someone walking around the outbuilding. After watching for about 5 min, a dark figure (quite big) walked pass the outbuilding, reached out with it’s one arm, and pulled itself onto the roof of the outbuilding…It didn’t seem that spectacular, but the fact that this thing was big enough to touch the roof, and then pull itself up with one arm…

(And no, there are no gorillaz etc. in the Magalies mountains :-))

Not really the strangest thing I ever saw but what I felt and believed was there was real.

About a year ago I was having an awful time falling asleep every night. Well my wife was home sleeping and I could not fall asleep something was wrong. Then as I started to drift off to sleep I was watching a friend (police officer) respond to a call at a house with a dirt driveway. As he got out of his car to walk up to the house a face appeared in the window (like the Phantom of the Opera Mask) and my friend was hit by a car that backed out of the driveway. It did not kill him just injured him and put him in the ditch unable to walk. This is a man who is like Clint Eastwood very rugged and tough. But what I heard was him asking for help in this monotone, low volume whimper. Help me, please help me!

Well it gets worse! I know that I am sleeping (because my wife said I was) but I felt like I was completely awake. The face that I saw in the house then appeared from my closet attached to this man dressed in black. He said nothing just looked at me and my wife lying there in bed. Then he was gone, I woke up in a sweat so bad it went through the sheets almost as if I had wet the bed. I could not move I was completed paralyzed and I was crying for my wife to help me. I could not get any air and I felt something was wrong with my children. After checking on them together I went back to bed and finally drifted off to sleep.

Well, after about three nights of this type of torment, the man never said anything! I thought it was over. Then the next night my wife was working late and I had just went to bed. Again, I had just drifted off to sleep and felt that same piercing feeling like someone was watching me, when I tried to look I could not it was like someone was sitting on my back, I could not do a pushup or move, and I told my youngest son to get off of me. The feeling was then gone.

It has never happened since this but I always feel like something is wrong. My house is not old and was lived in by a preacher before I moved in. It was just really creepy.

[quote]Praesul wrote:
Not really the strangest thing I ever saw but what I felt and believed was there was real.[/quote]

That’s a phenomenon called sleep paralysis.

When we fall asleep, our bodies disconnect from the brain, so that we won’t get hurt while responding to dream stimula. This is what happens when people sleep walk, their bodies had failed to disassociate.

What you experienced is pretty much the opposite - your body remained disassociated after the brain had woken up. So you were conscious, you could probably open your eyes, but were paralyzed through the rest of your body. As well, you were still in a bit of a sleep delerium, and brought things from the dream into your half-waking reality. You might even hear voices or sounds from within the dream, but they’ll sound as if in the head rather than in the ears.

It can be pretty creepy, I’m sure, if you don’t know ahead of time about sleep paralysis.

I’ve experienenced all these symptoms a few times in my life, with the same feeling a presence in the room, and the feeling of something climbing onto my back. In fact, that’s simply your own body coming back into usage as you complete the waking process. But it’s what sparked the stories of “night hags” in the olden days. And today, sleep paralysis is responsible for many alien visitation and abduction experiences.

Google “sleep paralysis” for more information.

The strangest thing I’ve seen is how the inside of some girl’s ass cracks are brown. What is that?

[quote]ZEB wrote:
Yea, like all the stories on this thread, while fun to read they are all explainable in some way.[/quote]

Well then… start explaining. Many of us have waited years for this moment.

Who’s to say “ghosts” or “sprits” are not just a part of science we don’t understand yet? Who’s to say that UFO’s are not life from other planets? Then the stories are explainable as actual events that occurred. Many people are bent on saying the unexplained either totally does not exist or that the unexplained is only explainable through PRESENT scientific knowledge.

These people won’t accept the explaination of, “We don’t know what it was, but it happened”.

I would love the chance to have some firsthand experiences with paranormal entities. Many people fear these things, simply because they don’t understand them. I can’t tell you how many old cindian cemetaries, old run down houses and rumored haunted houses I’ve been to trying to find some shit going down.

The only thing remotley weird that happened was hearing a dog bark very very close, seemed like only a few feet away, yet there was no dog to be seen. My friends all ran and though I was scared there might be a real dog going to jump out of the shadows and bite me, they all thought it was a ghost dog and was going to? haunt them?

I like watching ghost hunters, I believe it’s on discovery or TLC. Petty cool stuff they pick up too, nothing rock solid concrete, but compelling stuff none the less.

V

[quote]irweasel wrote:
It didn’t seem that spectacular, but the fact that this thing was big enough to touch the roof, and then pull itself up with one arm…

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That was me.

My dad died on 9/11, and two christmas’ ago, my mom was having a bad day. She said “Jim, please show me a sign that things will get better soon…” 5 seconds later a bulb ornament on the tree shattered.

I saw a man with full c cups…

and a vagina.

“He” is one of two documented cases of true hermaphrodism. He had a penis and a vagina, ovaries and testicles (confirmed by medical charts). He impregnated himself twice accidentally, and had to have abortions (doctors insisted).

The crazy part? He didn’t find out he had a vagina until his 30s. His father was disgusted by it, and insisted they put a skin graft over the vagina. He only found out after medical exams following septicemia, which was caused by his menstrual cycle being blocked. His mentrual cycle only began in his 30s, appearantly because he became less sensitive to the testosterone he had been taking his whole life; he thought he was taking it because of low sperm count.

He was genetically female, although he lived his whole life as a male (not knowing the truth). When he stopped taking T, he developed very large breasts, his voice softened, his hips became bigger, and his body hair fell off. I met him a few months after all of this happened.

[quote]k.elkouhen wrote:
Something is not right in this gym :

http://www.davesdaily.com/videoclips/366-freaky-commercial.htm[/quote]

The amount of curling going on?