I went to a party at a friend’s house (I had never been to his house before, we were just friends from college) and a bunch of people are in his hot tub. It was dark out. I decided to get in, and assumed the deck his hot tub was sitting on continued on behind the hot tub. It did not, and there was a roughly 6 foot drop on the back side. I walk over to get in, step off the deck accidentally, do a complete front flip and land on my feet. They all yell “Are you ok?” and then I get back on the deck completely unscathed.
No one that wasn’t there ever believes this story.
That’s a crazy story. I whish you good fortune in the future too.
“Alien sighting”
Was watching a plane go along the night sky, blinking away as they do. Then it stopped moving but kept blinking for about 5 seconds. Then shot straight down to the horizon leaving a little trail of light behind like a comet or something.
Some star wars hyperspace bollocks or something
Aircraft turned away from you while climbing away, making it appear stationary. Kick on some afterburners, and it’ll take off like a bat out of hell in front of a 200’ flame.
A girl sexually assaulted me in middle school.
It is absolutely insane that people believe any woman about any sexual assault, but a man being sexually assaulted? That’s not a real thing!
To be clear, I’m not saying “believe women” is incorrect. I’m saying that disregarding any male focused SA while believing all female focused is a very troubling double standard in my eyes.
Back when I was in high school, a student a couple years before me bit off a bite of an apple and pretended that it was a grenade and threw it, but the apple hit an alarm bell, and then the fire alarm went off and the school had to be evacuated which resulting in them sending two firetrucks to clear the school. I don’t know if it was a coordinated move where he would throw it and his friend manually set off the alarm, or if the apple hitting the alarm bell damaged the alarm somehow which triggered the fire alarm to go off.
I know, it doesn’t sound believable to me either, but I’ll never forget it because I saw it lol
Also I was sitting eating lunch with one of my friends in high school, and someone randomly walked by and threw a piece of bread at me. None of us even knew that person or ever saw them before, but we referred to that event as “drive by bread”. There was also “drive by rat” but that’s a story for another day lmao
It’s already another day now. Tell us the “drive by rat” story.
Now that it’s my birthday, I’ll tell the “drive by rat” story. I was eating lunch with my friends (there’s a pattern here) and we saw a giant rat run by while we were eating. A couple days later, we noticed a pest control vehicle while we were in class. There were always rumours that the school had rats, but that basically confirmed it for us.
There was also a student and his girlfriend who pushed another student through a glass window and I got to see them being taken away in handcuffs also during lunch.
I also made a time capsule with one of my friends during chemistry class because there was a broken desk where the wooden top of the desk would come off, so we wrote on some papers (I think we wrote something like “yeah yeah yeah GSL” etc because we were very into StarCraft at the time lol) and pushed them into the desk legs. I wonder if they are still there or if anyone found them lol
Apparently I have a lot of stories from when I was in high school. lol
Thanks for keeping your promise! Wow, you saw a lot of stuff just by having lunch with your friends!
Trigger warning: violence nsfw
spoiler
When I was in college, I met a preppy cute and slightly nerdy man who told me he was a multi-millionaire and wanted to be with me. He ended up being a drug dealer who lied about a lot of things, including his supposed wealth. I didn’t suspect he could be a compulsive liar when I first met him since he was a fellow UC Berkeley student who grew up in the Bay Area and went to a Catholic high school in the South Bay.
He eventually confessed to me he wasn’t wealthy, but I was still attracted to him. Later we talked about dating seriously, he claimed he was single, and we ended up hooking up again. I later found out he had a boyfriend and was lying compulsively again. After bad mouthing him to various people about his compulsive lies, he apologized and then invited me to go to a rave and to use ecstasy.
When we were back at my off-campus place, while I was peaking on ecstacy, he assaulted me, grabbing my erection with both hands and sort of crushing down as hard as possible on my shaft for about one to two seconds. I could barely talk at the time because I was peaking on ecstacy. It was an extremely fast and saddistic attack. I didn’t scream and was primarily confused and scared as he did it with the water from the shower falling down on us, so high I could barely think.
When he let go, I got out of the shower really quickly and ran behind a fouton. After this, he got out of the shower and dressed. I asked him, “What was that?” which were the only words I could articulate while peaking on ecstacy and he replied “What was what?” as though he hadn’t been attacking me. He then said he had to go and left. My injuries did not seem horrific immediately after this, and I didn’t go to the police or ER immediately after, but they got much worse over time and I saw multiple urologists. I had vein damage and other damage in my shaft and haven’t had a boyfriend in the many many years since then, and had three prior to that attack.
It’s difficult for me to climax during sex now and I have had panic attacks while hooking up with people since then, so with all the humiliation and depression and isolation, I have given up on romance and accepted being alone and unhappy, and even tried to commit suicide.
He wanted to work in tech and we both lived in the Bay Area and went to school at UC Berkeley, so if you work in tech, who knows, you may have met him. No one believes what he did to me, it feels like, and he always came across as polite, charming, and someone who could never hurt a fly. But sadly this is all true. When I met him, I felt like I had met Prince Charming. I sure was stupid.
I sometimes wonder if he had ever hurt or taken advantage of anyone else on ecstacy. I suspect he has not and he just had a particular hatred for me.
After I had stopped talking with him, he sent me a handwritten apology letter about a year after it happened saying he was sorry for lying to me and his behavior, but never admitting to the attack. I called him once about it (after the letter) and he said he didn’t remeber what happened after the rave but maybe whatever i am remembering is something i am misinterpreting because we were on ecstacy.
He also told mutual friends and aquaintances that we never had sex at all and had just been friends. I had received multiple Valentine’s Day cards from him and he had fucked me. He portrayed me as crazy while my mental health declined. Ultimately, people did not believe me.
This is gonna be absolutely crazy and coincidental since seemingly everyone here has a moose story, but my freshman year of highschool we had a bit of a lockdown because a moose wandered on campus. Our school was nowhere near a forest or any other area where it could have easily wandered over. Our school was pretty far in our pretty big city.
This is not me playing a bit because of all the moose comments. I thought it was a deer, until I asked my mom because I couldn’t remember whether I was right or not. I only remembered it wasn’t super serious, but we were told we couldn’t go outside because of it and I think we were also told to stay away from the windows as well, as a safety precaution.
I was in the middle of English in the morning when this was happening.
Edit:
I don’t remember how it got onto our campus and might look it up later. Might even leave another edit with how it got on campus.
…are moose dangerous? I am not well-versed on meese.
Moose are one of those rare animals that might kill you just because they feel like it and are jerks.
IDK how dangerous they are, but given the fact there was a large wild animal on campus, I’d definitely treat it like a dangerous threat considering it probably almost never happens.
Also, last thing I’d want as the principal is to have to explain to parents why their idiotic children went to take pictures with a moose and got hurt because of it.
Yes, if only cos of how big they are
Most of the deaths they cause are being hit by cars, but sometimes the males can get aggressive
Just stay away from them and you’re fine, but as rule don’t fuck with something as big as a moose
My school went on a soft lockdown and pulled people in gym class from the fields because a bear came on campus and was roaming in the parking lot.
Why are there no ghost stories in this thread… Im disappointed.
A few years ago I went out drinking with friends. We had a great time, and everything seemed completely normal. We eventually parted ways and I headed home, and somehow there was a creepy atmosphere in the air. I still don’t know what exactly it was. I looked through my apartment and didn’t see anything out of the ordinary, so I basically fell on my bed and passed out.
When I woke up the next morning, a shiver went down my spine as I noticed that during the night, a ghost took a shit in my pants.
Alright, I got one.
One night, I was sitting alone in the house playing video games in the middle of the night. There was nobody else in the house besides my cats, who usually spend the night lounging around. Well, out of nowhere, I hear the microwave go off, as if someone pressed three buttons and hit “start” in the same manner and rhythm that I usually do. I was in complete disbelief and walked out of my room. I could see the microwave working from where I was standing, so I walked up to it, goosebumps and all, and manually turned it off. This happened one other time on its own, and I have no idea what could’ve caused it.
I still shudder at the thought that it could’ve started a house fire without us knowing why or how.
I have one too that i cant explain.
I was at a friends house and we were watching tv, sitting completely still and being silent. Suddenly the lid of a metal cup (that was standing on a shelf above the TV) flied straight up, hit the ceiling with a loud bang, then came down again, and hit the floor in front of us. Naturally we were very spooked.
We were looking for some explanation but couldnt find any reason this would happen. It was alot of force coming from nowhere.
Made me open minded when it comes to these things.
Thermal expansion / contraction?
Best I can do is when I got off the train at 8:30 to arrive at work the 9:00. The walk from the train station to the office was 15 minutes, I arrived at 10:15. How the hell did that happen?
A clock was wrong. Or you’re bad at reading clocks? Or you’re asleep and this is all a dream?
daylight savings?
Because ghosts don’t exist.
Sure, but ghost stories are fun and it’s also fun trying to figure out what it could’ve really been.
I almost shot myself in the knee with an arrow. I was at an archery taster session and the arrow bounced off a wooden block on the edge of the target. Arrow came flying back at me and cut a few threads on the knee pad of my trousers as it brushed my leg.
Were you almost an adventurer too?
This never gets old.
When I was on a plane 15years ago I saw a giant ball of fire (or light) floating within 25-50m of me. Just outside my window. It stayed mostly stationary for several seconds while I stared at it. To this day I don’t have a clue what I saw; a will-o-wisp; ball lighting; a ufo; maybe an asteroid and I’m delusional about the amount of time it hung I’m the sky next to me. I tried to wake my sister up to show her but it disappeared as I did, decending. Idk if she ever believes me when I tell her about it every year. I really wished I asked the flight attendant if I could speak to the pilots about what I saw. Still bothers me to this day. I’ve been on the lookout ever since, hoping to the phenomenon again
I got a moose one hunting season and decided to butcher it myself. Finished skinning the thing (took hours) and it just disappeared, no clue where it ended up.
RFK Jr’s car.
Omg I like how everyone is just doing collaborative fiction writing on here, like SCP: Lemmy Edition or something.
Back when I was 17, I had a neighbor pull a gun right to my forehead. I shoved him away and said, in essence, “yeah, fuck you with your BB gun, I have some shopping to do”. He shot another neighbor in the gut not long after. I avoided death by dumbfounding him in a way that sound like it comes right out a daydreaming teenage fantasy.
I woke up one morning and found a skinned moose in my yard.
Much better than waking up naked next to it. Not that I’d know what that’s like. Nope.
Was driving down the road with my wife and came to a stop light. We both witnessed a lone potato rolling down the street through the intersection at a pretty good clip. We both looked at each other, making sure we were seeing what we were seeing and busted out laughing.
I have absolutely no clue where it came from, and to this day remains one of the most random things I’ve seen and NOONE ever believes me when I mention it.
The fact that you stopped first makes it hilarious, i think. The thought of it made me laugh out loud.
Pulling up to a stoplight and then seeing a potato when and where you’d expect traffic is way funnier than just seeing a potato unexpectedly.
I’m not sure who believes and who doesn’t, but I’ve been in more than 30 car collisions. I’m not sure exactly how many because I’ve lost track.
One was an offset head-on collision. I think the other driver fell asleep. He claimed I came into his lane and hit him, but the impact shattered the windshield washer fluid in my car, and destroyed the front-right tire. The impact left a puddle of fluid in the middle of my lane, and the rim of the front right wheel left grooves in the street leading from where my car stopped back to the point of impact.
I was sideswiped three times. All three were hit and runs. One of them was caught on my dash cam and I got my deductible back. The other two got away.
All the rest were rear-end collisions. It happened so many times that I started to think I must be doing something wrong, but I couldn’t figure out what. Around that time I happened to look in the rear view mirror just before the impact to see the driver looking down at something on the passenger seat beside him.
Since then, I’ve understandably become very aware of what the drivers behind me are doing.
The last two times:
In late 2021 I was approaching an intersection and had a green light, but on the other side of the intersection was a school bus letting out kids. I stopped, and the jeep behind me hit me at full speed. My truck was totaled. I was knocked very briefly unconscious, but I was able to control the truck as I was pushed through the intersection and stopped.
Ironically, I had been thinking about trading in my truck for a new model. That day, on the drive home before the collision, I decided I wanted to keep it.
At the time, getting a replacement took months. I was getting to and from work driving the Civic that we bought for the kids to use. Two months after the truck was totaled I was in slow, stop-and-go traffic. Every time I had to stop, the car behind me would pull all the way up to within inches of my bumper. I wanted to scream at him. Of course, the person behind him hit him, and pushed him into me.
Luckily, that time it was slow, low speed impact. Easy damage to fix.
For the love of all that’s holy, follow at a safe distance! Three seconds minimum between you and the car in front of you. And when you stop, stop far enough back to see where the tires on the car in front of you touch the street.
If you want to slipstream (aka, drafting), become a race car driver.
I once got assaulted by three guys. I got pushed on the ground by surprise and instinct kicked in and I fought back. Kicked one guy in the ground so hard he had to get surgery and got one testicle removed, broke the other guy’s nose and the last one had a fractured skull.
They pushed assault charges on me and I got cleared because because they found CCTV footage of me going full Chuck Norris on these guys. The footage showed them teaming on me for no reason and I discovered one of them pulled out a knife.
I have a brown belt in classic jiu jitsu but it was the few months of Krav Maga that saved me.
