People Share The Things They Swear They Saw But Have No Proof Of

“Pics, or it didn’t happen.” It’s a modern phrase that a friend may say after you tell them about a recent celebrity sighting or good hair day. Sometimes they’re just kidding, and totally believe that you saw Christian Bale at Starbucks… but other times the scenario is just too crazy for your friends and family to believe without any proof.

In an era where people regularly post their lunch location, salon visit, and anything else they think might be even slightly relevant on social media, it’s nearly impossible to let a cool thing happen without letting everybody know. Sunset pictures? Check. Saw a celebrity out and about? Selfie. New nails? Hand shot. But sometimes you forget to snap a picture when you see a potential alien crossing the street, or a bird decides to use you as a target. These are some of the craziest things that people swear to have seen, but have no proof of…

A Proper Goodbye

When I was 10, we had a 14-year-old German Shepherd who was getting very sick. I was home alone momentarily as my mom went to the neighbors to pick up a book or something. Our German Shepherd came over, convinced me to walk outside with him, and started licking my hands, looked at me, and ran away. He jumped the fence and never came back.

He was so loyal and good that to this day nobody believes me and truly thinks he was stolen because he would never leave on his own. I’m almost certain he did that because he didn’t want us to see him die, and he wanted to go to the massive forest area and do his thing. I miss you buddy and will never, ever forget you. Reddit user: 04NeverForget

Me vs. Seagull

I had just applied for a job on a major interstate route in the US, and I was leaving the lobby of the rest area building. When I pushed the door open and walked out, I saw a seagull take flight from the top of a lamp post on the far side of the parking lot, which was shaped like a rectangle, with the building at one of the skinny ends.

The only reason it caught my eye was because the parking lot was mostly empty, save for one or two cars besides mine, and it was like my pushing the door open also pushed a button to trigger the bird to take off – the timing was perfect. So I’m walking down the sidewalk, and I’m watching this seagull fly in my general direction following the edge of the lot.

Then it gets to the corner and turns so it’s going to fly directly over me. I think to myself “No way….” and sure enough, I see this seagull drop one in midair just before it gets to me. It’s flying a good 20 feet in the air, so I simply sidestep and watch as this giant blob of bird droppings goes on the ground perfectly, where I had been standing.

So this seagull saw me walk out the door, and instantly decided it was going to try to target me. Reddit user: [redacted]

Blink And You Miss It

I’ve had glasses since the third grade. My vision is just not very good at all – it never has been. One day I was playing tackle football with a few friends after school and I wasn’t wearing my glasses. When I tackled one of my friends, there was a really big collision… and something incredible happened. I still can’t explain it.

For a split second I regained full eyesight. No joke, it was no longer just shapes and blurry figures; I could see everything 100% clearly. It was like my eyesight had been literally knocked back into my body. But then I blinked and it was instantly gone again. Just like that. Easy come, easy go, I guess. Reddit user: klitchell

The Mummy Was Dustin Hoffman

Sometime in the early 2000s, my wife and I went to an Eminem concert at the House of Blues on Sunset in Los Angeles. The entire show, maybe 90 minutes, there was a guy dancing on stage in a full mummy suit and he was doing really awkward and funny dances that you wouldn’t expect from a background dancer at a rap concert – but hey he was in a mummy suit, so whatever.

The show ends and Eminem screams into the mic “Do y’all wanna know who the mummy is?” and the crowd cheers and he screams “Dustin Hoffman!” He pulls a zipper in the back of the costume and out comes an extremely sweaty 60-something year old Dustin Hoffman, and the crowd goes into a stunned silence for a few seconds, and then erupts in cheers.

My wife and I just kind of looked at each other in disbelief, and when I tell people they always say something like “Oh it must have just been someone they found that looked like him,” but that guy was Dustin Hoffman, and no, I have no proof. Reddit user: steelear

Homeless Prophet

My brother lost his wallet and was retracing his steps looking for it. A homeless man approached him at a coffee shop and said to him “Don’t worry. It’s in the bathroom sink. Your wallet is in your bathroom sink.” He looked in the coffee shop bathroom, but didn’t find it. Later that night, he found his wallet at home in the bathroom sink.

A few days later, he saw the same homeless man on the street and thanked him for his help, as he was still really tripped out by his accuracy. But the guy became really irritated and told my brother that he had never seen him before. It could have been a lucky guess, but I think Magical Bum makes for a better story. Reddit user: mgncapri

Black Dog

I went and got the mail from the previous day at like 7 in the morning. No one was around, but then I saw this massive black dog walking around my neighbor’s Ford Windstar. By massive, I mean the dog’s head went to the windows and when his head was at the back bumper, his hind legs were still at the driver’s door.

No, I didn’t take a picture, and admittedly I was still pretty sleepy at the time… but I know what I saw. It looked like the black dog that Sirius Black morphs into in Harry Potter, or some type of giant wolf. But it was honestly pretty terrifying and I got a bad feeling about it instantly, so I ran back inside before it could eat me. Reddit user: [redacted]

Catch And Release

My great uncle told me a story about being on an aircraft carrier back in the 70s. Apparently there are lots of decks below the main flight deck that have huge openings looking out onto the water. My great uncle was standing near one, talking to one of his shipmates, when the guy just suddenly shoots his arm out and grabs a seagull in midflight.

The seagull was just coasting alongside the ship, and my great uncle was quite taken aback when his shipmate grabbed it out of nowhere. The dude just got a big grin and looked so proud of himself, but then let it go and said “I always wondered if somebody could do that.” I mean that doesn’t sound safe or sanitary, but good for him. Reddit user: marleythebeagle

Milk Carton Mirage

When I was about 10 or 11 they started putting missing children on milk cartons, and every morning for a while I was looking at this boy’s face on the side of the milk carton while I ate my cereal. Obviously this was a very long time ago, but what happened next I remember like it was yesterday, and I think about it often.

One day a car went down my street while I was playing outside, and there was a boy in the back seat with his face up close to the window, looking out. I’m 99% sure it was the boy from the milk carton. I told my parents but they didn’t believe me. Maybe it was my imagination, but I doubt it, and I just hope he ended up getting home safe. Reddit user: fafa_flunky

Cuttlefish Whisperer

I was at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. I walked up to the cuttlefish tank and for some reason all 20 or so of the cuttlefish rushed over to me. It was a big tank, maybe 10 feet long. I walked the length of it, and they followed me. I walked back, and they followed. A few other people saw and tried it themselves.

But alas, the cuttlefish only had eyes for me. My best guess as to the cause was that the guy who feeds them is my doppelganger, but I’ve also heard other possible scenarios. Maybe they were just attracted to the color of my shirt because it matched those of the employees, or there’s always the possibility that I’m just a fish whisperer. Reddit user: Drumlin

Light Show

Ball lightning. It was right after a thunderstorm passed by. I could see floating orbs in the sky. There were a couple of cars parked by an open field and people were watching this happen, so I parked and got out to join them. We all sort of just looked on in silence until they winked out one by one. There were at least ten of them and they seemed to fly together in patterns.

Sometimes they were fast; other times they slowed down or reversed direction. They seemed small, but I could tell this wasn’t because they were far up in the sky. If I were to guess, I’d say they were about the size of a basketball, maybe a little larger. The whole thing only lasted thirty minutes. We then all got in our cars and left.

I tried taking pictures but it was dark and the lights were too faint to make out. I suppose I should have recorded a video instead. I noticed someone was recording them at the scene so I had hoped I’d see it online at some point. But it’s been two years now so I guess not. Reddit user: vadavim

Snow Chameleon

A chameleon escaped from a bag when my friend was giving it to me and it leapt into a big pile of snow. I looked around for it for a long time, but I couldn’t find it so I finally gave up. Several weeks later the snow all melted and I was out there and found the lizard partially frozen to the ground.

I peeled it off, put it in one of those little plastic tanks, and sat it by the radiator in my house. Within an hour or two the lizard was hopping around the cage like nothing ever happened. It even lived for several years after that, and was known to my friend and I as Jesus the resurrection lizard. Reddit user: enslavedbyvegetables

Vanishing Towel Holder

My bathroom had a towel holder thing, which was a bar fastened parallel to the wall. It had started coming out of one of the holders and one day I accidentally pulled too hard on it. It came flying off and landed with a clatter. I figured it was no big deal and I would just put it back on in a bit.

However, it definitely didn’t work out that way. I looked everywhere but I couldn’t find it. Mind you, this was a small bathroom, maybe fifteen feet by six feet in area and the counter and cabinets are seamlessly fastened to the wall. I checked in the bath, behind the toilet, under the towels – it was nowhere. To this day, I have absolutely no idea what happened to it. Reddit user: [redacted]

Animal Business Meeting

I was out for a walk late one night. This was in rural Illinois, and there was nobody else out. I noticed from a distance that there were these squirrels just standing in the middle of the road. I thought to myself that this was strange. When I got closer I noticed there were three squirrels standing around a cat that was lying down.

I thought for a minute the cat was dead, but when I got closer and walked past them, the squirrels and cat followed me with their eyes, none of them moving a muscle. It looked like they were trying to tell me, “Move it along, nothing to see here.” I still to this day I think of how bizarre that meeting of the animal kingdom was. Reddit user: wdnsho

A Plant Made Me Colorblind

As a child I touched some weird pest plant in our garden, and I think it stung me because it hurt significantly and I had some pretty traumatizing side effects. I saw everything in inverse colors for a short time, and then everything was back to normal. I was in such shock I couldn’t explain it to my mom. I just went to her crying.

I found out later that I had probably touched a Brugmansia. They are loaded with scopolamine and can cause you to see things that are not there. Inverse colors are a common hallucination from them. Brugmansia are a very common garden flower, despite the side effects they can produce, because only small children will be affected by contact alone. Watch out for these things, guys. Reddit user: Novacryy

Blue Mouse Group

When I was about 6, my entire family was helping to build my grandparents a new house. I was helping my dad move some really long 2x4s from the lumber pile when a mouse ran out from under the board I had moved (out in the middle of the woods, mice were no big deal to any of us.) I did a double take though because THE MOUSE WAS FREAKING BLUE.

I don’t mean the sun reflected off its fur and it had a blue sheen to it, I mean a brilliant, royal blue. He was running fast but I got my dad to notice it too and he agreed that the mouse really was royal freaking blue. We’ve told multiple people, my mom included, and no one believes us. But we know what we saw. Reddit user: Totally_Not_Anna

Sound Of Nightmares

When I was about 10 or 11 we were having a get together at grandma’s house for the holidays. All of us cousins played all day, and when night fell we played hide and seek. While the adults were talking up by the house, we stayed on the back of the property just having a good time. I was hiding in between a bush and the property fence when I heard the strangest sound.

It was almost a scream, both happy and miserable at the same time. I jumped up and kind of shouted. All my cousins heard it, and we all saw it, too. It was an animal on two legs, and it ran off with really jerky motions. Being the oldest by about three years, I calmed down the crying little ones and explained as best I could that it was just someone trying to scare us.

I’ve had nightmares about that sound; in my mind it seems a grotesque mimicry of our joyous screams and laughter as we played. None of my cousins today will admit to even remembering the incident, although the adults remember the commotion it caused. Reddit user: texasshorthorn

Ghostly Goodbye

When I was about 5, I woke up from my sleep and saw a man sitting on the stairs watching me. I wasn’t scared though. There was something tranquil about it. I just watched him and he watched me for what seemed like 10 minutes. Then all of a sudden he was gone. A few days later I found out my dad was killed in Europe.

I live in Canada and my parents were separated. There are pictures of me with my dad when I was just born, but he left shortly after that. To this day, that is the only memory that I have of my dad. A ghost watching over me. I don’t believe in ghosts but I know what I saw. I’ve never told anyone before except my mom. Reddit user: [redacted]

Did He Just Say That?

My friend and I were watching basketball in the early days of Charles Barkley working as a commentator. He was apologizing for calling a team “midgets” and saying that he now knew it was offensive. But as they were going to commercial, we both heard him say over a hot mic, “Besides, they shouldn’t hate me, they should hate God.” We were speechless.

My friend and I were amazed and kept talking about it, as we were convinced he would be fired. But not only did we never hear about it again, the rest of our friends watching the same show claim they never heard it, and the clip doesn’t even exist online anywhere. It’s as though we had a shared delusion. Reddit user: phdcandidate

Peace Out, Kangaroo

I found a kangaroo in my house… and I don’t live anywhere near Australia. There was something stuck in the garage crashing all over the place. When we first heard the noises, we were really concerned that somebody had broken in and was trying to rob us, but that wasn’t exactly the case. I opened the garage door and saw a kangaroo.

A fully grown, energetic kangaroo was just bouncing around the garage like it owned the place. I was at a bit of a loss about what to do next when it suddenly came through the opposite door and ran/jumped across the field. I live in a rural town in Maine, and to this day I truly have no clue how a kangaroo got into my house. Reddit user: nocsha

Buffalo Road Kill

My mom, dad and I were driving through rural Alabama late one night over 10 years ago, headed to see family for Christmas. We were in a Ford Explorer. Mom was driving and dad and I were sleeping. I woke up for a moment in the backseat just in time to see what looked like a buffalo lying dead in the road.

Then the Explorer went up and over the dead buffalo and it scraped the undercarriage of the car. I asked my mom in my sleepy daze “Was that a buffalo?” To which she replied “I don’t know… I closed my eyes.” We haven’t really talked about it much since, but looking back it was actually a pretty terrifying thing to experience. Reddit user: 1234sc7

Monkey Business

Years ago I worked at a shoe store in our local mall around Christmas time. I was ringing someone up on the register that was holding a tightly swaddled baby. Right as the transaction was finishing up she turned slightly and I saw that the “baby” was actually a tiny monkey. What does one say in this situation? My brain was already locked in to the baby.

Do I tell her she has an adorable baby? I almost did, but I was too distracted by THE MONKEY that she was disguising as a baby. Then she, and the monkey, left my life forever. My dad came into the store not ten minutes later; I told him about the monkey and he didn’t believe me. Ten minutes after he left he came back with his jaw on the floor.

He had seen her in the food court feeding the monkey cheese fries, and had it sitting in a high chair and everything. He apologized to me. Reddit user: thegeocash

Hey, Puddin’

I’m in line at a cafeteria. The guy in front of me is holding a pudding cup. Someone walking by stumbles and falls into pudding-cup guy, knocking his pudding cup out of his hand. While everyone is looking at the stumbling guy, the pudding cup goes a good two feet straight up in the air. Pudding-cup guy is totally focused.

As the name suggests, he wasn’t about to let some stumbling fool ruin his chance for a tasty treat, and wanted to save his pudding cup. It was like a choreographed dance… because at the last second he turns and catches the pudding cup behind his back. He looks at me, smiles, and that was that. No one else saw it. Reddit user: shardcommondale

Hungry Like The Wolf

In 1994, on a farm in the southern Midwestern US, five-year-old me had this huge yellow lab, the sweetest dog in the world, which one day suddenly lost her mind barking and ran outside. Being 5, I followed her and watched her run out into the cow pasture (where the cows were suspiciously nowhere in sight) and go toe-to-toe with a gigantic grey wolf.

That area at that time was definitely not a wolf country. Coyote sure, but there is no way it was a coyote. This thing towered over my lab, and I’d seen enough coyotes before to know that this thing was not one of them. My lab barked her head off right in his face, and after about a minute he tilted his head and then just turned around and disappeared into the woods.

We found all the cows at the opposite end of the pasture circled around the two calves we had. They were never that terrified of coyotes, and they had no fear of domestic dogs. I will go to my grave saying it was a wolf I saw, but of course nobody believes me. Reddit user: WolfGirl94

I Saved My Soda

About a year ago at Wendy’s, I tipped my tray too far in one direction and my soda fell off the end and did a full flip as it fell towards the ground. I reached down and caught it upright just before it hit the ground. I immediately looked up to see if any other customers saw it. Everyone was just looking at their phones, food, or the people they were with.

You know, this generation is so focused on themselves and all that. I was just about to get legitimately upset that no one saw it, when this little old lady in the back of the dining area stood up and shouted “I saw it! I saw that! Good job!” I love that she was in the moment paying attention to my showmanship and not a phone. That was a good day. Reddit user: demedus

Dog Man

I was in Michigan. Everyone was asleep, my campsite was the only one with a fire lit, and my dad’s girlfriend and I were awake. All of a sudden I hear this terrible scream with an almost cackle-like quality to it. Then there was a rustling on the other side of a fence. We had a clear line of sight between the campsite and the fence, and then we saw it.

This weird cougar/dog/human-looking thing climbed over the fence with its knees and arms bent at odd angles (almost 90°), then it was over the fence. It stood up on two legs and ran to the left into the campgrounds. It was terrifying. No one has ever believed me, but my dad’s now ex-girlfriend still remembers and believes me. Reddit user: ViolentGrace

Crow Court

I saw a bunch of crows, probably more than 20, gather around in a circle. I was obviously pretty confused, and took a closer look to see 3 other crows in the middle of the circle, all on their backs. Some crows from the circle would hop in and try to peck at the 3 crows, while they cawed and tried to defend themselves with their feet.

I know crows are smart and all, but I didn’t expect this level of social behavior. It went on for a while before a kid ran in and scattered them all. It was like the middle 3 crows were on trial and surrounded by the jury, or maybe they were sick and it was a healing circle or something. It is sometimes pretty surreal to see the things animals do. Reddit user: poopellar

Ghost Sighting

One day I’m on my way home – it was around 3pm. I’m crossing the street in front of our local grocery store and there’s this guy on the other side of the street. His hair is a mess, standing on end. His clothes are all over the place, not ripped, but disarranged. Like he walked out of a bomb blast, but he was cleaner.

He’s looking around silently, clearly confused. Homeless people were really uncommon in my area then and tended to be couch-surfers rather than street-sleepers. He looked too well-dressed to be a street-sleeper, plus he didn’t seem to have a clue where he was, and he turned left and wandered off before I crossed the road. It was weird, but I forgot about it for a couple hours.

That night, the local news comes on. That afternoon a school teacher a couple of towns away had drowned. They flashed his picture up. It was the dude I saw. I’d swear to it. Reddit user: vrosej10

No Baggage Here

I was at the airport and saw a businessman with a carry-on wheel bag get off the escalator. He turned the corner, and broke into a rapid sprint carrying the bag by its small strap handle on top. He swung the bag forward and let go of the strap handle. While it was in mid-air he grabbed the currently un-extended extending handle.

He pressed the button and on the back swing he extended the handle, landed the bag on its wheels and continued sprinting, all without breaking stride. It was definitely one of the most graceful things I’ve ever seen somebody do, especially at the airport where everybody is all frazzled anyway. I still wonder why he was in such a hurry. Reddit user: WildxYak

Shooting Satellite

I was out, stargazing by myself. I remember a thunderstorm was off in the distance, and it was a moonless night so there was quite a show. I noticed a satellite hauling its way across the sky… then it turned 90 degrees. Not gradually, it turned on a dime. It did it 3 more times before dashing completely across the horizon in about 6 seconds.

I have no logical explanation for what I saw. I had been sober for about 7 years when I saw this, was completely focused on the show and “with it” mentally, and to my knowledge nothing manmade had that kind of maneuverability or sudden heat of speed. It is one of the things I will wonder about for the rest of my life. Reddit user: k0uch

Monkey At The Door

When I was about 7 or 8, I was at my grandmother’s house to spend the night, along with my brother and sister. It was a Friday night and we were watching old-school TGIF. There was a knock on the door and I jumped up to answer it. (My grandma was in her bedroom and didn’t hear it; I wasn’t supposed to answer the door by myself, but I really liked to do it.)

I opened the door and no one was there. I stepped out and looked to the left and right. To the right, beside the door, my grandma kept a small table. Sitting on that table was a mandrill – one of those primates like Rafiki from The Lion King. I don’t remember it moving, I just saw it sitting there staring at me. I freaked out and slammed the door.

My grandma came running out of her room and I told her there was a monkey outside. She ran out and my brother and sister ran to the door to see the monkey. I’ll never forget when I ran out and that table was empty. My grandma told me I shouldn’t tell tall tales and not to open the door when she wasn’t around.

That was over 20 years ago and my brother and sister still make fun of me for “seeing a monkey.” I’ve done Google searches about mandrills that escaped from the zoo in rural West Virginia, but no such luck. It is still so clear in my mind, and I am sure it was there, though. Reddit user: Brenvol

Journey Of The Shark Balloon

I don’t know how many people I have told this to but nobody believes me, and honestly I understand why. When I was around 8 years old I was on vacation in Europe. I was at the zoo with my cousin and she got me a helium shark balloon. When we were getting into the car I let go of the balloon for some reason and watched it float away into the sky.

Devastated, I tried to forget all about it. About two weeks later I continued my vacation and went to my mom’s village about 700km away. The first day in my mom’s family home we went for a walk around the property and in the corner of the field I saw it. My shark balloon had floated into my very own backyard to find me again. Reddit user: yourboyvlado

Science Guy

When I was 5 I really liked to mix various liquids – playing chemistry, I guess. My grandma let me play with all her bathroom stuff. I mixed her shampoos and creams and cleaning products, etc. I realize now this might have been dangerous if I had mixed ammonia and bleach, for example, but I was a kid and just liked to play with stuff.

I swear I created a white liquid that produced a single black bubble that would come to the surface and pop at regular intervals. It was like a witch’s brew or something – maybe I should have tried to chant over it or show a few of the adults. No one believes me, or maybe no one cares. I guess it’s not that cool. Reddit user: BingoChamp4

I See The Light

I watched a white light hover in the distance between two mountains; then it moved up, and then down. At that point I called my buddies outside to watch it. We witnessed it move side to side, then in a perfect clockwise circle, then anticlockwise. Next it started doing tight figure-8s one way, then back the other way. We watched it then move diagonally to the left and then back to centre, diagonally right and then back to centre.

During this we discussed the possibilities of what it could be: a helicopter, a skilled pilot, a series of spotlights? The speed at which it moved, the fact it didn’t waver even slightly, and that the motion was so fluid, left us without an explanation. As we discussed and watched the movements, the light moved even faster up, down and diagonally.

It sped off to the right at a speed we could barely focus on. It was now about three kilometers on the other side of the mountain, and then suddenly it took off straight up and out towards the stars until it was gone. Reddit user: builditup123

Sea Snake Encounter

When I was a kid and living in Egypt, I went scuba diving around the reefs in Alexandria, and I saw this really creepy yellowish brownish 2-foot-long serpent thing looking back at me. It didn’t swim towards me or anything; it was just staring at me with these super creepy eyes. I immediately got out of the water and swam to shore.

I looked it up later and it turns out that what I encountered was a Gunther’s sea snake, apparently one of the rarest sea snakes in the world. It’s also extremely venomous and can kill you with just a few bites, so I guess it’s a good thing I got out of the water. I don’t think they have venomous sea snakes where I live now though, luckily. Reddit user: [redacted]

Was It Aliens?

I was walking home one night with my brother and a friend. All of a sudden, there was a streak across the sky, a distant boom, and the whole sky lit up fluorescent green. I brought it up with my brother a couple years ago and he doesn’t remember it. I haven’t spoken to my friend in years, and no one else noticed.

It was at about 9pm in a fairly rural area. Of course, my 8-year-old brain immediately assumed aliens. I reckon now that it could have been a meteorite or something burning up on entry, but not knowing for sure kills me. I just wish someone else saw it so that I could rule out that I was just hallucinating. Reddit user: [redacted]

It’s Time To Go

I was at my mom’s side when she passed away. I swear, seconds before she departed, I heard her and my grandmother (who had died in the 80s) behind me. Mom said “I really look awful,” and grandma said “It’s time to go.” I turned around but the sun was coming in through the window so it was a little bright. It was at that very moment that mom passed away.

And that’s not all. Just a few minutes before I heard my grandmother speaking, I had heard a man’s voice behind me as well. “We’re here to get you,” he said. I didn’t recognize the voice, but I assumed it was that of my grandfather. My mom’s father died the year before she and dad got married. I miss them all so much. Reddit user: discogeek

Cougar Town

I live in middle Tennessee. When I was ten – around 18 years ago now – one night in my backyard I used a flashlight because I heard a noise. At the back of our 1 acre was a field; our city was tiny back then and only had a couple thousand people. I swear I heard a lion-like grumble so I used my flashlight and pointed it in the darkness.

At that very second I saw two glowing eyes staring at me. They were high off the ground and it was just sitting upright, and I swear it was a mountain lion. I ran inside my house. No one would ever believe me. In the last 12 months it has finally been confirmed with video evidence that cougars live and breed in middle Tennessee.

I don’t care if they think it’s recent; I know for a fact that’s what that was, and this only confirms they’ve been here awhile. It’s weird to see one at the Nashville Zoo, and to know they’re in our woods. Reddit user: FirefighterJose

Close Call In Space

My memory of watching the Challenger explode is super vivid. I was in 5th grade, and our teacher had been following the story for weeks. I remember they brought all the students down into the cafeteria and set up the TV for us to watch. And as it exploded, and the announcer fumbled around trying to figure out what to say, I looked back to my teacher’s face, and she was just stricken with shock.

She had tears in her eyes, and at that moment I realized what happened, and that it could’ve been her on that shuttle, as she had applied to be the teacher on board. Supposedly this memory could never have happened because they didn’t broadcast it live. But I would swear upon anything that it was and I experienced it just as I said here. Reddit user: Lucky_leprechaun

I Saw… Something

I don’t believe in alien invaders. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there’s life on other planets, as it seems ridiculous that we’d be completely alone, but I’d imagine you couldn’t keep a visit from interplanetary species a secret. That said, I swear on everything that I saw a tall, thin, long-armed, long-legged thing walking in front of me one day.

There it was… strolling from one wheat field across the road, in front of my car and over into the other. I thought my eyes were just playing tricks on me so I didn’t say anything for a second, but then my friend in the seat next to me said “…wait… did you see something just now?”

No idea what it was, but I saw…. Something. Reddit user: [redacted]

Hollywood Comes To Williamsburg

I saw Jon Voight outside the Baskin-Robbins in Colonial Williamsburg in 2010 or 2011. I know it seems like the absolute last place you would expect to see this huge Hollywood actor, but I swear it was him… just standing there eating his ice cream like us. I told my friend, who was next to me, and she didn’t know who he was.

We were students at William and Mary at the time, so not used to seeing famous faces around town. He must have overheard me talking to her though because he came over and stood near me and said nothing, waiting for me to ask if it was him… but I chickened out. JON VOIGHT, if you see this, WAS IT YOU? Reddit user: juliefromva