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It's pretty great when something out of the ordinary happens to you. You can tell your friends about it, reminisce many years later, or even get your two seconds of fame online. What's not great is that people sometimes don't believe that this thing actually happened to you.

Well, this is the Internet, so even the most jaded crazy-story-havers can share their experiences. That's why when a netizen asked, "What is something you've done/seen/heard so bizarre that no matter how many times you tell it, nobody believes you?", over four thousand people came to reply. Do you have a relatively implausible story to share? Let us know in the comments!

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I saw a BMW use it’s turn signal.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I had a 3rd grade teacher who was awful to me, but absolutely adored my older brother and younger sister. My parents loved this lady but she was always mean to me for whatever reason. One day when we were doing multiplication tables I got a few answers wrong and she said to me 'that's okay, people still need their groceries bagged.' She said this to an 8 year old. To this day my parents nor my siblings believe me.

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Adrian
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a French teacher like that. Total witch. Her name was Wickins and we called her Wickeds. Of all my teachers she's the only one whose name I can easily remember.

Brian Droste
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I seemed to able to remember more bad things that happen in my life than good. I don't know if bad things happen in our lives make a bigger impression on our minds than good things. That is why we remember the bad things than the good things.

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Tempest
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a teacher like this in 5th grade. Her son, who was in the same grade, was actually my best friend at the time so their family and mine knew each other really well. But for whatever reason she hated me and would pick on me at school, accusing me of stuff I’ve never done and then reporting all this to my parents who simply took her word because she’s the adult. Once she told my parents that I called a classmate a certain slang/bad word making him upset. Problem is although I’ve heard this word at that age, I’ve never in my life used it because it was generally an ugly word and I’ve never had any situation to use it in, even up till now. It was a straight up lie and I think my parents didn’t believe her 100% that time because they didn’t berate me much about it. Another time most of my classmates and I were outside in the hallway trying to read a notice pasted outside our classroom (we weren’t allowed to loiter around). She came in and blasted just me off in front of the whole class.

Tiffany Marie
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7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe you were a "scapegoat?" Your siblings the golden ones and you the scapegoat. Happens a lot even in a professional setting. Not just at home. Just means your teacher was a narcissist. Narcissists have them all over. They need one to project (abuse) onto and the other to treat as their better extention of themselves (praise & adoration.)

Apachebathmat
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Miss spence!! She once said to me “you’re from nothing, you are nothing and you’ll amount to nothing” I was 12

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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A teacher told my youngest sister, "Why can't you be creative like your sisters?" Comparing someone to their siblings is quite hurtful.

Milady Blue
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My second grade teacher Mrs. Renner was a nasty piece of work, too. My Dad commented, after meeting her at a Parent Teacher conference, that she needed to sand the handle of her broomstick.

Michael Largey
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a teacher who taught me not to be anything like him as a teacher. And he taught me that well, if unintentionlly.

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Agfox
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7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was at High School in the late 1950's, the woodwork teacher would punch students in the kidneys if he didn't like the quality of their work. In case anyone wonders, Woodwork & Metalwork classes were for boys, the girls did Home Arts & Crafts. Edit to add: The metalwork teacher was the complete opposite, patient & helpful no matter how proficient or otherwise you were - I was hopeless in both classes

Cecil
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 7th grade in 1981, girls and boys all did a quarter of each of the 4 subjects in coed classes. I was a serious student and didn't goof off in class. I finished and turned in my little metalworking box with soldered corners on Tuesday, with my name written in thick shop pencil. The teacher returned my box on Wednesday with "C+" written next to my name. I was disappointed and resolved to take more time on the next project. I was sitting alone reading a book at my assigned table as the 3 boys I sat with were working in the shop. One came and sat down and saw my box. He gave me a sob story and pressured me to let him turn the box in as his own. I told him my name was on it, he showed me it was easily erased. I said other things including that I didn't get a good grade, etc., but eventually subcummed to his pressure. I didn't sleep that night as I worried that life as I knew it was going to be over the next day when I was busted. All my worries were for nought. Ricky got an A- and I learned a few things: cheating feels horrible and perhaps the world was still sexist after all (l'm female). 43 years later and I've never cheated again and things on the sexism front have gotten better every decade. It was amusing to be underestimated by my engineering classmates in college who'd be floored to learn I was the curve buster when a dude next to me would see my test score. Not as amusing to watch a male colleague get accolades for suggesting the same thing I'd been shot down for saying the previous week. Actually, since about 2000, the vast majority of my bosses and coworkers have shown no signs of being sexist. Becoming a manager I was glad to learn that salaries were 100% based on experience and performance.

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Never Snarky
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can believe this. Had a HS geometry teacher tell me in front of the whole class that I was too stupid to take any advanced math classes. I got a 4.0 in college calculus.

Joanne Earle
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My geometry teacher snarked, 'what, are you stupid?' when I was at the board unable to start a proof. I hated her so much.

tracy black
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can totally believe this in 8th grade algebra made no sense to me still dont but my math teacher said to me in front of the class i hope you marry rich cause youre too stupid to do anything else i still hate that man

catzrule4life
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ms. Twitty once said to me,"You'll be working at McDonald's at this rate!" 3rd grade.

Hey!
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my brothers had Mrs. White for three awful years. The third year he was crying all the time.

Mike K
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in grade school, we had a thing where we all recorded our weight (this was the early 90's) and stepped on a scale in front of the class. My teacher then proceeded to make fun of my weight in front of the whole class (I was always kinda the fat kid).

Comfortably Numb
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

8th grade math teacher told me I needed to learn to eat less, because if I couldn't keep up I would never have enough money to afford food. Cue 25yrs of an eating disorder.

Mauve Mouse
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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t understand why you would become a teacher if you hate children, but I know some of them do.

lisa m
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter's grade 2 teacher told me literally that she would always be struggling in school and that she would probably be a cashier or a factory worker....not that's there's anything wrong with those jobs but my daughter graduated, went to college, traveled to now 50 countries and makes more money than hee father and me

Ambry Petersen
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a good reason I chose homeschool for my kids. (I had a bad experience in school myself).

Julian S.
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's me rule: if you currently need therapy, don't go into teaching, both for your sakes and the kids...

Peanut
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to Catholic school. My Freshman year, I was failing Algebra badly. My dad was dying, my textbook was literally falling apart, due to being the seventh child in my family who used it, and my family was everywhere, but at home. So there was no one to get me a new book or help me with my homework. B***h of a nun teaching the class asked if there were any questions. I raised my hand. She said, “Peanut, put your hand down you’re just stupid.”

Der Kommissar
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had a crazy old French substitute teacher named Mme. Prue. One girl was chewing gum in class and Prue called her a prostitute.

Samantha Angell
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Teacher did similarly to my brother, except we believed him because she wasn't even subtle when talking directly to my mom. Plenty of other students loved her, she just decided she didn't like my brother and actively bullied him in front of the other kids. Because of her, he was bullied relentlessly until he was expelled for fighting back and he had to change school districts, 7 yrs later. Ruined his formative years because she needed someone to take her hatred out on.

MacintoshID
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My 3rd grade teacher was that way to me many years ago. Small town so everyone knew each other and this teacher loved my older sisters and even worked with my younger sister, so no one believed me when I said that she hated me. All you have to do is look at my attendance record for that year and notice something was wrong, since before and after grades I hardly missed a day.

Tina Harnish
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grade 3 teacher was nasty to me. I had health problems and I don't know how it was explained to her nor how she told the class. But imagine walking into a new classroom with antipathy vibes from nearly all. This was my 5th elementary school. Was popular in all until... One kid was my friend but I'd met him about a year or so before I started in that school. Ugh.

Celtic Pirate Queen
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had Sister Cecilia Alice in 4th grade at St. Leo's (Tacoma, WA). She was an absolute child hater. The only reason she had joined the convent was because she was the eldest daughter in a very strict Irish Catholic family (her older brother was a priest). She was just about the cruelest woman I had ever met. Bear in mind this was back in the day when students still got spanked or their knuckles whacked with a ruler. She terrified all of us.

Thanos'Fingers
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My response would've been lucky for you we also need s****y teachers

WFH Forever
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My last name was quite unusual and it was obvious when I encountered a teacher who had one of my older siblings in their class. I was automatically treated like I was going to be a problem by those who taught my brother John and expected to get perfect scores on everything by those who taught my brother Steve

CSC
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe you. I had a guidance counselor like that. Way to try to bring a kid down. Thankfully, that didn't work on me.

Laura Williams
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So sorry. Mean teachers should be publicly embarrassed. Stealing learning can be fun from kids. They need to bring back the stocks.

Androgyny Lunacy
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's up with a$$hole 3rd grade teachers?! My childhood best friend and I had a 3rd grade teacher that treated her like dirt too to the point that it ruined her desire to want to learn and she ended up dropping out in 10th grade. Some people aren't meant to be teachers.

Catpawsarethebest
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I beleive you❤️ Had something similar happen to me when I was in school! Cant understand why teachers would say these things!! Just not ok!!

MoMcB
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My eldest brother is basically a numbers genius. The rest of us ( my sister, my brother and I ) were a big disappointment to the teacher.

SkippityBoppityBoo
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My PE teacher absolutely hated me. Reported me for really trivial things. I once was going from one part of the school to another because I was coming down with tonsillitis and needed to see the nurse for paracetamol. She saw me going there, reported me for skipping classes to our Head of the school. I was almost suspended because of all the things she had said that I'd done, none of which I had actually done... Luckily my mother taught at the same school, in the Infant department, she got onto it straight away. The PE teacher was reprimanded and that was the last time she ever picked on me for anything.

Mandira Basu
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure why they do that... My Nursery teacher Mrs. Mall did that... she just did not like me!

detective miller's hat
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of my teachers in grade school were awful to me. Tiny Catholic school and I was the only "weird" kid in a class of 20 kids, the other kids and the teachers bullied me, it was awful. The first time I saw the movie Battle Royale I was like. ..... D@MN I wish they did that when I was in school. xD

Karen K
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a fifth grade teacher and an eighth grade language arts teacher who hated me. They went out of their way(s) to say humiliating things to me. I guess I was lucky. At least they were honest. I had another teacher who would write "no credit" on essay questions. I am very fortunate not to remember their names at all. Of course, by now, they are both probably dead, as I am old.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing When I was golfing one day a father and son was paired with another single and I. We go out and I learn that it is the son's birthday. Which is cool because it’s also my birthday and wifey gave me a day off from the baby so I figured I’d get a round in.


I asked him how old he was since we seem about the same age. Turns out we were born on the exact same day. Crazy right? Well turns out getting to know them a little more as the day goes on… they’re from New York. Well I was born in New York.


I ask for s**ts and giggles where. Long Island. ME TOO. Mercy hospital. Silence for a second or two. Are you F****n kidding? No.


Same day. Same year. Same hospital.

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Some of the entries and stories you'll read here are sardonic and humorous. But other people really shared some personal stories – some so crazy that their friends or loved ones refused to believe them. But if people don't believe you in real life, they're even less likely to believe you on the Internet, right?

Face-to-face interaction is different from communication online, and it impacts lying as well. Even in 2004, researchers studied the effect of technology on the ways we communicate and lie when socializing through different mediums. Interestingly, back then, they found that people lied most when talking on the phone and the least through email. Instant messaging and real-life conversations had similar rates of lying.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I didn't think it was that weird, but I went to a museum in London where they had a piano in the cafe area. A guy goes over to the piano, flexes his knuckles, and proceeds to play about half an hour of the most insanely elaborate pieces you've ever heard. Just absolutely knocks it out of the park. He finishes, stands up, takes a bow, and everyone in the cafe bursts into spontaneous applause. People are cheering. It turns out that he's a Russian concert pianist in town for a performance that weekend, and we all just got a preview of his show.

Everyone I've told about this finds it entirely unbelievable because everyone clapped. I just get the same old response referencing the meme, which I don't really get, because I'm pretty sure most people would applaud a concert pianist. Ah well.

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Lori Rommel
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have no problem believing you, since you're not claiming to be the one who received the applause! I'm pretty sure I'd applaud a concert pianist-level performance, no matter where it took place. I must admit, reading the words "Russian pianist" makes me think of that weird guy on Youtube who unnervingly maintains eye contact with the camera while he plays; it's kind of funny.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing 18or 19 years ago. Flat tire on way to mid term. No spare available. Professor was really understanding, let me make it up. Working poor, so I was just going from beater to beater for a bit.

Come finals, another flat tire. Had left early enough to get to campus that I wasn’t worried, called tow truck for assistance. 1 mile behind me, on highway, I start seeing smoke. Turns out the tow truck on its way to me caught fire mid trip.

Professor didn’t believe me, had to retake the course.

This is the story I share when people wonder why I always give people the benefit of the doubt.

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SaMoPlaya
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes smart phones invaluable. Now you could take a pic. And guilt him by showing it after he calls you a liar.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing Anything I do.


I'm incredibly clumsy/oafish. To the point where a former classmate of mine would tell me, "If it was anyone else. I would not believe them in the slightest, but I just know this actually happened, because it's you."

He's one of the few who believes my next level stupidity.


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For reference:
I once spend 2 minutes on the phone talking to myself. Because in the time span of less than a minute I had forgotten I tried finding my mobile, used the landline to call myself, found my phone, saw I had a missed call. Called back to the caller (it said 'mom' as I was at home) and spend a good 2 minutes frustrated, because my mom wouldn't pick up the phone and annoyed the landline started ringing. Instead of making the connection I picked up the landline and switched between putting my mobile and the land line to my ear, frustrated that neither my mom nor the other person was replying to me...
I learned I am in fact a very patient person, but also incredibly blunt. I'm still recovering.

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David M. Markowitz revisited this study recently in 2021. With many more ways of digital communication at people's disposal nowadays, it's certainly interesting to see if the patterns have changed. Interestingly, the researchers found that people still lied the most through "synchronous media" – the phone and video chat.

When people interacted face-to-face, it was considerably high, too. Communication using the slower and non-recorded media had the lowest rates of the participants lying. Such forms of communication include texting, email, and social media.

All in all, the tendencies remained similar. People still say they lie more when having a real-life conversation and that they lie the least when their communication is recorded (e.g., email, text messaging.)

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I once got myself handcuffed to my motorbike by an angry hawk.....it's unbelievable how strong the grip on raptors is until they have their talons sunk into your hand meats and there's no one around for miles so you just have to stand there like the dumba*s you are, wailing into the wind until the pissed off upside down bird takes pity on you and lets you go.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing When I was around 8 I was sleeping on the couch and I awoke to two men breaking into our duplex house, all I could see was the shape of their bodies and one of them holding a small flashlight. I was so terrified I couldn’t move or speak, I honestly don’t think they seen me or knew I was on the couch. After they left I ran into the room of my foster parents and woke them up, they didn’t even get up, just told me to go back to bed because they didn’t believe me…well they woke up to a bunch of stuff gone and then they blamed me because I didn’t get them when the men were in the house so they called my case worker and gave me back to state, had to move to a new home after that where it was in my file that I was know to “steal” (never have) so every home I lived in after that had everything locked up.

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Content Wombat
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so sad. I'm so sorry that you had to go through all this. I hope that you're doing better now x

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing When I was maybe 6 or 7 years old I went to work with my dad one summer day. There was an older man in the lobby area of the office waiting for an appointment. He started talking to me and asked what my favorite candy was. I told him it was this white nougat candy that had these little jelly bits in it. I don’t even know what is was called and it’s not a very common candy. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the exact candy I described. It seemed like magic. I took the candy but was afraid to eat it and a bit ashamed I accepted candy from a stranger. I gave it to my dad and was going to tell him what happened but he opened and ate the candy. I never told him but watched him closely that day in case it was poisoned or magic. He’s still alive so I guess the candy was fine.

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But there are a few things to keep in mind when talking about this research. We have to consider the type of interactions that happen in different media. Email, for example, is most often reserved for work correspondence. Naturally, people have more incentive to be truthful and transparent here.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing When I was a 8 or 9 I was working my paper route when a wolf ran out of someone’s house and started coming towards me when the owner screamed at it and it turned around. I’d never seen a wolf in real life before but I also had never seen a dog that size that also looks like a wolf. I hauled a*s home and told my parents which were like “suuuuuure”. A couple weeks later it was in the news that those neighbors had been illegally keeping a couple half wolf bred dogs.

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LakotaWolf (she/her)
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wolves (and high-content wolfdogs) are VERY distinct. They NEVER "just look like big dogs", not even "big huskies" or other wolfish-looking breeds. I got to meet human-raised wolves IRL at a sanctuary when I was a teenager. They are GIGANTIC. I had a 90-lb German Shepherd in the late 90s/early 2000s, and she was a big girl, but she still didn't hold a candle to an actual wolf. You KNOW when you've seen a wolf XD

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I once saw a shirtless, black man in cargo shorts riding upon a horse when crossing the highway somewhere along the Texas-Oklahoma border. He also had a bluetooth speaker blasting Tupac songs when he rode across the highway. This was in August 2018. I think about it sometimes.

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A. HAM
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My small town has a group of four young black men (high school age) who ride their horses to the local shops. It’s the coolest thing! Our town even put in “horse parking” just for them.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I was in a waffle house in High Point North Carolina once at like 2:30 am with my friend, slightly buzzed our selves but not drunk by any means....this was like 1998.

A man walks in. Very drunk. He was probably in his early 40s.

He doesn't say a word. He just walks over to the jukebox, puts in some coins and plays "flowers on the wall" by the Statler brothers.

As the song started he stood on top of a table and sang every single line, quite well actually.....

When the song ended he dismounted the table and walked off into the night.

The only reason I know this absolutely happened is because my friend remembers it too.

It was honestly a spellbinding experience.

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Multa Nocte
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smokin' cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, now don't tell me I've nothin' to do.

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We're generally less likely to believe people nowadays, especially on social media. At least, that's what most of us think, right? Markowitz also writes that the common misconception that people lie on the Internet like there's no tomorrow is simply not true. There is no sufficient data to support that claim, he says

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing Some time ago as a young cashier, a mentally ill woman threw a candy bar at me, called me a werewolf, then sprinted out of the store.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I saw a horse kick a tree, fart on a dog afterwards and then run away. It gets me everytime i think about it.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I caught a hummingbird with my bare hands as it was flying by. I didn’t even think about it. It just happened. I took a look at it after realizing what I’d just done, then let it go. I’m glad I didn’t hurt it with my knee jerk reaction, but it was pretty cool. It seemed very confused, but not scared.

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Helena
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did by a hummingbird feeder with my finger out until one landed there. I just really really wanted to know what it would feel like to have hummingbird sit on s finger.

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However, a study in 2016 explored the stereotype that "everyone lies on the internet." They found that people lie on social media in order to present themselves better. "They wanted to be cooler. They wanted to be more beautiful. They wanted to be sexier," one of the authors, Professor Michelle Drouin, told CBC.

"They wanted to give an appearance of a life that was better than the life that they were leading." However, many people also lie just because that's the standard – "everyone on the internet lies."

#16

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing A woman disappeared in a single bathroom at a cafe I worked at. I’m not saying I believe in paranormal, I’m just saying what the f**k happened to that lady.

We were completely dead, outside was a snowstorm, not a single soul in the cafe besides my co-worker and I. I had a broken foot and was sitting on a stool at the register. One woman walks in, says she has to use the bathroom before she orders. We both watch her go into the bathroom. The only exit from the building requires that she walk directly in front of me to leave, so I would definitely see her if she left. I didn’t move from my spot the entire time, as I had a broken foot. No other customers came in during this whole thing. We start to wonder what’s taking her so long after a half hour or so, the bathroom is still shut and locked and the light still on. After 45 minutes, my co-worker knocks to check on her, no answer. After an hour, we decide to unlock the door ourselves because we are thinking the worst happened. When we opened the door, she just wasn’t there. There is no feasible way she could have left the building without me seeing her. The vent in the bathroom was far too small for any human to fit in. So where did she go? And it’s not just me hallucinating, my co-worker witnessed it all too. Still creeps me out to think about.

Edit: adding that I have not told this story on any podcasts, and the story is my own, not a copy. the bathroom did not have a drop ceiling. There was no back door that she could have gone through. The cafe was so small you couldn’t possibly miss a person walking through it to leave. Even if they did, the only door she could have gone out of had a loud bell that sounded any time the door opened. Even if this woman crawled on the floor past the counter, I would have seen her, I could see the floor from my spot. The bathroom door was very close and very visible from where I was sitting, there’s no way she opened it without me noticing. There wasn’t even any music playing in the cafe, no tv’s, nothing. I do not believe in ghosts, or any of that s**t, but this one will forever freak me out because I just don’t know how she managed to leave. Even the door was still locked when we finally went to open it. We had to manually unlock the door from our side.

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Lexekon
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact you needed to unlock the door, clearly indicates someone had locked it.

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#17

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I ate so many carrots at my grandma's house I turned bright orange. No one believes me.

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A. HAM
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is absolutely a thing! I’ve personally seen it happen twice.

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“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I was in elementary school and a circus was in the city. And they thought it would be cool to bring the elephant to our schoolyard - it was awesome, even though we were only allowed to watch it from inside the classroom as it walked around with its tamer.


My parents told me I was talkin sh*t and they will be very angry if I dont stop to talk about it. There was an elephant at our school and I couldnt tell them made me sad. 

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#19

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing My hometown has a very unique looking bar. The signage and style are very iconic to the bar. The bar is also definitely not a chain as my family knows the owner well and he's run the place for the past 35 odd years. Imagine our surprise when on a trip in Thailand to find the exact same bar down to the unique way they spell the name of the place and all the signage. My family tells the guy back home about the place and he cannot believe an exact replica of his original concept bar exists.

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#20

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I was walking to Target with my sister on my birthday, December 7, and told her about how bummed out I was that every year for the last three years, some random old guy (never the same one) would start a rant about how “kids these days don’t know about Pearl Harbor and have no respect…” Some would put a fun twist on it, like, “Do you know what day it is?!”

She was laughing. There was no way, and I just shrugged it off. These guys would be old guys on the way to Veteran centers, but clearly not that old. I’d be riding the bus, and usually, coming home from college classes, so maybe, I made an easy target for them in a convenient, captive audience on public transport. I have an extra bonus of being part Japanese, but my sister is blonde. So, fun times.

Later, we were in line at the store, and a bored old guy leans over and asks, “Do you kids know what day it is?”

My sister burst out laughing to his astonishment, and I quietly answered, “It’s Pearl Harbor Day, sir…”.

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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine is day before Pearl Harbor, my daughter is 9/11 and my brother is moon landing day.

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#21

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing So I play discgolf. Much like ball golf, getting a hole in one is incredibly difficult

I played a practice round alone where I proceeded to throw three different discs back to back on the same hole and aced each throw consecutively

It will never happen again and no one saw it.

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Anne Jones
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first time I ever picked up a dart to play I scored a bullseye. Never done it since.

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#22

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing Was working register one evening at a s****y little grocery store when this little lady walked in, asked for a pack of kools, and as she's reaching for her money, 3 of her teeth just fell out and on to the counter.


I remember the noise they made when they hit the counter to this day. She didn't give a damn, just grabbed them, got her change back, and walked off.


Nobody ever believes me when I tell this story, I was in such shock that I barely believe it myself. She didn't give a s**t!

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#23

...human, or at least I thought it was, walking normally down the street. Stops in front of ~3 meters wall, looks left and right, and then from place (without any speed) jumps over it like it is a 50cm fence... Ofcourse I never said to anyone what I have seen because I am really not a fan of little white rooms...

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#24

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing My ex, who stole tens of thousands of dollars from me, secretly believed she was a witch. Like a "I can make things happen" sort of witch. I began to figure it out and called her out. She vehemently denied it.


Then I caught her on IG paying a "witch doctor" from Haiti to cast a love spell on me (with my money). The dude sent her a damn video of some voodoo BS (candles and c**p on a beat-up table in some hovel) to "prove" he had done it.


She eventually left after a lot of drama and I found her stupid little witchcraft garbage hidden all over the house: rocks and random things in various pockets of my clothing; string hidden in the pocket of my favorite jeans; little candles hidden away; feathers jammed into things; stuff places over doorways and windows; two dead frozen rabbits buried in the freezer (I had naively assumed she got rid of them); two dead ducklings hidden in a closet.


She had problems.

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PattyK
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How did you ever hook up with her in the first place? People with this kind of “problems” aren’t usually secretive about it.

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#25

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I once saw a woman walk by with a ferret on a leash, somehow no one believes me.

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Adrian
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw this once. A guy in a store with a ferret on his shoulder. Some places they are illegal but otherwise not that unusual.

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#26

When I was about 9 years old I was selling those stupid world famous chocolate bars to raise money for a field trip in school. Me and a classmate decided to team up and hit a specific neighborhood together. We were knocking on some old man's door, we could very clearly see him laying in his recliner chair watching TV with his eyes open, just completely ignoring us. We pounded on the door for a good 3 minutes, and this man didn't even flinch. We even yelled through his window that we could see him and called him an a*****e. Later that evening, the friend I was with called me and told me to turn on the local news. Someone had come to check on their elderly father and found him deceased in his reclining chair in his living room. The news station showed the house, and it was definitely the front door we had been knocking on..

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SaMoPlaya
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you call him an a*****e? I hope you didn't make enough for the field trip, A*****e.

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#27

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I once saw a panther in an area of the country where they should not be. I mean.... Panthers don't observe state lines. They don't have maps.

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Pyla
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They used to have a wide geographic range, so there may be hidden populations

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#28

Not me personally, but I arrived soon enough to see the aftermath. My dad was walking to work, about 5 in the morning, and a piece of glass about the size of a shop window fell out of the sky and smashed right next to him, showering him in broken glass. He wasn't injured, luckily, but extremely shook up. We never worked out where the hell it came from.

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#29

I used to work in security at a local casino. One day the supervisor calls me to coat check and when I get there he has this look on his face. "We have a bird."

I look up at the rafters in coat check and he says, "No... back here."

We go behind the counter and some woman who came into the casino coat checked a live pigeon in a bag. And the coat check attendant not only accepted it... but also agreed to feed it.

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Leigh
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had a pigeon show up at our house with a band on its leg after a big storm. Really friendly, must have been a pet. Rested a week and them we assume it flew home.

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#31

While bowling, I didn't release the ball when I was supposed to. The arc continued over my head like a softball pitch.

The ball landed perfectly in the lane's ball return.

Wow that sounded made up even to me.....

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#32

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing Saw a guy at a full moon party in thailand f*****g a tree.

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Pyla
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, gives a whole new meaning to having a wöõdy, doesn’t it?

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#33

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I caught a state record fish about 10 years back. I was with a group of 3 other people. We all had calibrated scales and weighed the fish on all 3 and it beat the record by 3 oz.

They weren't ready to leave yet (to go to the official scale) so I set it on the beach and we did some last casts and cleanup. Anyways, a bear ended up taking the fish (as evidenced bear tracks where the fish was and the fish being gone) while we were just around the bend for bout 10 minutes.

Nobody besides those people that were with me believes me that I could be in the state record book but lost the fish after I caught it.



TLDR: I caught a state record fish and then lost it.

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#34

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I worked with a guy who hand wrote a note to himself in which he misspelled his own name.

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#35

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I’m an anesthesiologist and actually had a malignant hyperthermia case.

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Diolla
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7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I looked up malignant hyperthermia. "Malignant hyperthermia is a severe reaction to certain d***s used for anesthesia. This severe reaction typically includes a dangerously high body temperature, rigid muscles or spasms, a rapid heart rate, and other symptoms. Without prompt treatment, the complications caused by malignant hyperthermia can be fatal. In most cases, the gene that puts you at risk of malignant hyperthermia is inherited, though sometimes it's the result of a random genetic change. Genetic testing can reveal whether you have an affected gene. This genetic disorder is called malignant hyperthermia susceptibility (MHS)."

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#36

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I had genital surgery in a hostel dorm in Vietnam.

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Solidhog
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like a section from the show top gear! "Some say he had genital surgery in a hostel in Vietnam but others call him the Stig!"

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#37

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I was in year 2 (so like 7 years old) and asked my teacher to go to the toilet. All was well. I walk along into one of the stools and look into the toilet to see a pure white log of s**t. As soon as I see it the stench brutally attacks my nostrils as my eyes tear up and I back out of the stall coughing uncontrollably from the smell. I left without doing my business and no one to this day believes me.

It was not toilet paper wrapped around a poo, it was more like someone spray painted a piece of c**p, it was one solid log.

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karen snyder
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

White stool can be the result of liver disease, hepatitis or a complete lack of bile in the intestines. This pooper was very sick and needs medical attention. (And to learn how to flush the toilet.)

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#38

I kicked a guy out of a bar, he ran into the middle of a super busy street, turned towards our staff, and slapped both his hands as hard as he could on the asphalt five or six times like Donkey Kong.

His palms must have looked like ground beef the next morning.

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Justin Rogers
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry. I'm sober almost 10 years now. I no longer do stupid random shite like that anymore

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#39

Talked to the cops on an 1/8 shrooms and convinced them everything was OK even though we were having a bad trip. Also, I'm a 6'3 black man. The only reason anyone believes me is that there were 3 witnesses (my friends whos futures I saved).

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Mochi
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He is a tall black man who takes to the cops while tripping out on shrooms, and managed to convince them that everything was okay

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#40

Our local mall is falling apart. People have just started walking dogs in there and no one gives a c**p. I made a joke about it to my wife and said, "what's next, people taking their cats to the mall?" And sure enough, there was some teenager with her cat on a leash walking right by us. I swear that really happened.

EDIT: My wife reminded me, I almost forgot. When we went back with the kids, my toddler stepped in dog p**s. They weren't even cleaning the floors anymore!

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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My older cat is harness-trained and loves going on walks XD I wouldn't walk her in a mall, but she DOES love her walkies! She even sniffs bushes and fire hydrants like a dog would XD kohl_walki...675c86.jpg kohl_walkies-660a61c675c86.jpg

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#41

I have a UFO story and nobody believes me. Even the friend I was with doesn't really believe me. He missed it because he wouldn't get up. I don't even bother telling the story anymore. There's no point in it.


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Okay, I see your comments. I don't know where else to put this so I'll type it here.

I was camping with my best friend. It was a weekend trip in early spring a few years ago and the camp site was actually on one of his family members properties that sort of overlooked a lake in upstate New York. This was a somewhat small lake - too small for sailing - and was surrounded by undeveloped land. Where we camped, we had sort of a downward view of the lake and the land beyond it. Our campsite was next to a berm surrounding very large stone with a small clearing next to the treeline. We had our tent under the canopy of the treeline.

We went to bed well after dark. I had the tent flap unzipped so that I could lay there looking out but, had the screen panel on the tent door zipped up because bugs. I could see the far side of the lake, maybe a little bit of the water, from where I was laying. But mostly I could see the night sky. I saw a round light that was maybe about the same size as a dime if I held a dime out at arms length. It was a pale off-white or cream color and it was surrounded by a haze that was an off-white to extremely light blue color that surrounded the round light like a very rudimentary cartoon flame might surround something. It was almost like a haze. It flew from the left of where I was camped to a point over the far side of the lake where it stopped and hovered.

At that point I tried waking my friend up to look at the light. I pleaded with him. He didn't want to wake up and kept telling me to go to sleep. Then the object flew off to the right out of sight.

I was extremely excited by all this. By the point it flew off out of sight, I was sitting up and shoving my friend to wake up. He rolled over to at least face the tent door and threw an arm over me and told me to get some sleep. He never lifted his head up.

And then the object, whatever it was, came shooting back into my line of sight from some point off to my right, heading away from me at a really fast speed and gaining altitude. But when it came back into view, it didn't look like a sphere. If you can hold a coin on its edge at arms length you would see a circle, which is how it looked when I first saw it as it flew over the lake. If you were to hold a coin at arms length and tip the top edge towards you like 45 degrees, that's what it looked like as it shot off into the sky. It moved at blistering speed as it shot off. I had a clear line of sight of the sky it flew off into. And it gained altitude until it disappeared from sight far off in the distance.


I got really scared then. I made my friend wake up and stay awake with me. I did eventually fall asleep but that was the weirdest thing I ever saw.

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Dan Flo
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate that this subject have been ridiculed to the point that people are afraid to tell what they have seen for the fear of being laughed at. My wife once saw a bright dot stationary over some trees in the distance while driving. She first thought it was just a bit weird since cell phone tower lights here are usually red - then it became even weirder as the light suddenly took off in a straight line into the sky and dissapeared. Cell phone tower lights usually so not do that either..

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#42

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing Big square object in the sky that stayed there for nearly ten minutes, before vanishing in a heartbeat. It just was "poof* and gone.

Unfortunately the camera's back then were not as good as the modern day devices.

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#43

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing One time i skipped classes in high school back in 2003, I saw John Leguizamo shopping in downtown Monterrey, Mexico.

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#44

“No One To This Day Believes Me”: 30 Bizarre Things People Swear To Seeing I seen a hungover dad in the summer end a rabbit's life by throwing a flip flop like a ninja star at it, it broke the rabbits neck…..one in a million.

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#45

My dog will s**t where I work, but will not at home when I leave her there no one believes me when I say she doesn’t s**t in the house.

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karen snyder
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When your dog has s**t at your work, more than once, no one wants to hear, "sHe DoEsn'T Do tHAt aT HoMe..." Just say sorry, clean it up, and maybe don't bring your dog to work anymore.

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