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30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Jul 2011

I say to my wife the international space station is going over tonight, it's a clear sky, and we agree to pop out to the country where there is less light pollution and take the kids who were 12 and 8.

We park in a field gate and the youngest boy sees it first

We watch and it goes overhead... and then splits in two.

We watch it, I am thinking has it broken up or something?, the two parts slowly move apart.

We are puzzled, I drive home and thinking any disaster would be on the news, so I watch that.

Turns out, the final shuttle mission had just been completed and we had watched shuttle Atlantis depart the ISS for the final time.

plentyofeight , NASA Report

Final score:

249points

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Sergy Yeltsen 1 year ago

An awesome sight indeed. I am very envious of you, sir.

66points

StandUpForYourWights , Andrew Spencer Report

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness My friend and I have the same birthday. One day at work, (it was a Friday), we got on an elevator. There were three other guys on it. One says to the others “big day tomorrow”. I asked what the occasion was. The guy say, it’s our birthday tomorrow. All three of us. I said crazy man, but you know tomorrow is my birthday and my friends birthday as well. We all got our DL’s out and compared and yup, 5 semi random guys on an elevator all had the same birthday. I think the odds are (1/365)^4 or 1:17.8B if the fact that it was the next day isn’t significant.

Final score:

248points

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Mihai Mara 1 year ago

that's so random, strange and cool at the same time. I wonder if their birthdays were 9 months after Valentines or Christmas... If not then it's more fascinating. Also I wonder about the age difference between them.

52points

Bob King is well known in the astronomy society, and we were curious about what first ignited his passion. "Beauty ignited my passion for astronomy," Bob told Bored Panda. "I loved the clouds and stars starting at an early age. I also love hunting for things in the sky, everything from bright planets to distant quasars. Getting to know the inhabitants of our universe is very motivating."

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Back in the 1980s, I was on a plane and saw the space shuttle being carried piggyback on another plane.

klenow , Nasa Report

Final score:

211points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

Yes, the flight was overbooked!

68points

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I was swimming in the Pacific when four dolphins swam up to me, danced in circles, and swam between my legs. When they got close again I noticed one of the four looked more like a baby orca, that was a bright indigo color with a very tall dorsal fin. It barely looked real! I pet them all and they swam off to play in the waves.

It was the most magical moment of my life.

Emergent-Sea , TJ Fitzsimmons Report

Final score:

202points

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Passerby 1 year ago

Are you a disney princess? Or maybe you are actually half-sibling or a distant relative of Ariel.

74points

We also asked what the rarest event that he observed was, and Bob shared something we could only imagine: "the multiple impacts of a shattered comet into Jupiter's atmosphere through my telescope in July 1994. That's when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 — previously sundered to pieces by Jupiter's gravity — slammed into the planet's atmosphere one fragment after the other. The impacts created a series of dark blotches easily visible in a telescope at the time."

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I witnessed the effects of the coronal mass ejection in March 1989. I was driving home on the west end of Prince Edward Island Canada. There was plenty of snow on the ground still. I stopped at a stop sign on a slight rise of a hill and while stopped I noticed the snow was glittering in weird very vibrant colours. This slight rise was in an area with no trees in sight. I could see the horizon 360 degrees. From the north horizon I noticed a waterfall of colour flowing across the night sky from north to south. It flowed quickly like a fast flowing river and it encompassed the entire sky from horizon to horizon. It was absolutely astonishing. It lasted hours and I watched it for quite a few of them. Even with today's CGI I have not seen anything that compares to that night.

Ibmeister , ISS Report

Final score:

190points

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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

I would love to see that.

41points

rocket___goblin , Brocken Inaglory Report

The astronomer shared what impact this sight had on him, explaining that "watching this happen impressed on me the very real possibility of mass extinction, like what happened 65 million years ago when an asteroid impact here on Earth led to the demise of the dinosaurs. I felt witness to the catastrophic potential of nature."

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness remember in pirates of the Caribbean, they talk about "the green flash at dusk". yeah its a real meteorological phenomenon

saw it once while out to sea in the navy.

Final score:

176points

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Mihai Mara 1 year ago

Damn, I told Zeus to fix those dead pixels!

44points

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I saw a woman slip on a banana peel.

Mighty_Cunnus , Gerry Lauzon Report

Final score:

169points

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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 1 year ago

That actually happens in real life?!

74points

Headless Roach 1 year ago

It's a broken measurement device. Yes, that happens.

24points

Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago

In the 1960s the old banana breed (Gros Michel) died out because of fungus, and was replaced by the current kind of banana (Cavendish) which BTW is also threatened by fungus (because all bananas are cloned). The Gros Michel banana was a lot sweeter and tastier, but its peel was also truly slippery. So, yes, before the sixties that did really happen.

14points

sturmwesen 1 year ago

My best friend did it this year. She could not believe it.

5points

Jade 1 year ago

Yes! banana peels are actually really slippery.

3points

Hugh Cookson 1 year ago

Not often - the original 1920's / 30's pre speech cinematic trope of someone slipping up on a banana peel was actually a direct replacement of someone slipping on horseshit (which there was lots and lots of in those days). So basically Banana peel = Horse s**t. Stupid huh !

1point

corgiobsessed00 1 year ago

i think there was a mythbusters episode

0points

Christine Jemison 1 year ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

0points

Agata Fronia 1 year ago

yeah, my dad broke his leg on a banana peel

0points

SerumSeven 1 year ago

I actually saw a banana slip on a woman peel, and I gotta tell ya...that's way worse.

8points

Somewhere warm 1 year ago

I slipped on a banana skin when I was about 9, split my head open. The doctors and nurses at the hospital found it very funny!

5points

BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago

My oldest slipped on a banana peel when she was 1.5 or 2 years old. I had no idea they were actually slippery and hadn't noticed she had tossed her peel. She was fine, my sides were not

4points

Jeff Gabrisl 1 year ago

I've never seen someone slip on a banana peel, but working in restaurants I have seen multiple people slip on lemon wedges

2points

BOTW PANDA 1 year ago

Was her name Rosalina?

1point

UpQuarkDownQuark 1 year ago

Was it an actual woman, or Rowan Atkinson in a wig?

1point

kathoco 1 year ago

Ooh, I slipped on a banana peel and fell down a couple of years ago. I wish I had a video of it. I didn't know what I had slipped on, and when I got up and saw the banana peel, I couldn't believe it. I thought it only happened in cartoons. Luckily, I wasn't hurt. I laughed about it to myself for the rest of the day.

1point

Fluffy mommy panda 1 year ago

I've seen this happen too.

1point

Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

Unfortunately, that is not extremely rare!

1point

Marilyn Kelly 1 year ago

I shouldn’t laugh,but I did!

0points

Chez2202 1 year ago

Nice. I’ve always wanted to witness this very thing. I’ve seen loads slip on ice but that’s just too normal.

0points

Slap Shot 1 year ago

Banana for scale. :)

0points

Hugh Cookson 1 year ago

One in a million event - see below

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Captain Panda 1 year ago

Smooshed banana peel for scale?

0points

Just Jeff 1 year ago

And you were instantly able to determine her size

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David Leick 1 year ago

Did it make that noise?

0points

Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

Isn't that a natural law? When a banana peel is laying around, somebody will slip on it. I have seen it countless times on TV in a documentary called "Tom&Jerry".

0points

Me 1 year ago

This made me laugh. Then, I felt bad. Hope she's ok.

0points

The shoebill 1 year ago

Common banana peel W.

0points

We also wanted to know if there was anything great that Bob didn't get to see, but wishes he could've. The astronomer shared with us that there were a couple of solar eclipses that he drove a thousand miles or more to see, but they were ruined because it was cloudy. Well, we can't really bargain with Mother Nature.

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Huge section of cliff falling into the Gallatin River. Easily the size of a football field came down all at once.

Hotspur2924 , Derek Harper Report

Final score:

156points

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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 1 year ago

That’s terrifying to think about actually

38points

But Bob said he's not too disappointed about those because there's always more to come. Although there were some once-in-a-lifetime events that he'll never have a chance to see, like "the monster Leonid meteor storm in 1966 (clouds!) and getting to see the magnificent comet Ikeya-Seki that same year. I was just getting into astronomy at the time and also very young, so I didn't have good knowledge and the tools and freedom to pursue the comet."

#10

Was camping in Algonquin Park up in Canada w/my ex who had camped there 9 years in a row. We are sitting by the fire and suddenly a HUGE grey wolf comes running silently between the fire and our tent - within five feet of us. We both just froze and I looked at him and said "was that...?" and he said "yup." The wolf paid zero attention to us and by the time my ex got up to get the camera, wolfie was long gone. it was quite humbling and amazing.

I also saw the bioluminescent algae in Northern Cali; it was so cool, i could see all the fish and other sea life darting around under the water leaving trails and we ran on the wet sand, making glowing footprints. Pretty magical, wish it was with someone other than the d******d i was with lol

kassy1469 Report

Final score:

156points

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Angela B 1 year ago

Upvoted for the last sentence alone.

88points

#11

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I saw Niagara Falls mostly frozen over in Feb 2015! It was eerily quiet.

MeowP1ka , ~Sage~ Report

Final score:

151points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

How cold was it then?

19points

#12

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness My grandfather took me to the hockey game where Buffalo Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk had his carotid artery cut and his jugular vein partially sliced by an errant hockey skate. He was bleeding out on the ice in front of our eyes. The Sabres trainer, who had been a US Army combat medic in Viet Nam, knew to reach in the wound and pinch off the artery to save his life.

Tsujimoto3 , Claude Brochu Report

Final score:

150points

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

I've seen footage - it's nasty. And I remember reading a quote from him where he said his main thought at the time was "oh god don't let my mother see this"

80points

And, of course, we've hooked you up with an event you should be looking forward to. And it's happening very soon! The astronomer shared that on Dec. 7, something called an occultation will happen — the full moon will cover up the planet Mars. "I can't wait to see the brilliant planet right alongside the moon, watch it disappear and then return to view on the other side of the moon an hour later," shared Bob.

#13

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Ball of lightning, God that s**t is bizarre. I was 14 and I just saw it going down some train tracks. After it disappeared there was this loud boom and I'm not sure if it exploded or made contact with something or someone

anon , Joe Thomissen Report

Final score:

143points

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Elita One 1 year ago

We call them Min Min Lights in Australia, my parents have seen them a couple of times, very strange.

30points

#14

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I saw a wheel come loose off a van as it attempted a right hand turn. The wheel rolled through traffic into the open bay of a tire store across the street. One in a million odds. I was on a train and nobody else in the train car saw it happen.

dipper1985 , Dunk Report

Final score:

122points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

The wheel knew its real home!

43points

#15

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I saw a grizzly bear and a wolf feed on the same bison carcass at the same time in Yellowstone.

bacon-enthusiasm , Joe Thomissen Report

Final score:

122points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

Sharing is caring!

41points

#16

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Fire rainbows are pretty rare, mostly just drenching a corner of a cloud in colors. One day at an airshow, my Dad and I as well as about 50 other people witnessed the most extravagant color show I've ever seen.

Fire rainbows were in half the sky it was the most beautiful natural event I've ever seen.

Voidmaster05 , Colin Campbell Report

Final score:

121points

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Mihai Mara 1 year ago

that's awesome! I wish I would see one in real life, too

18points

#17

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness In 1974 I was living in Delray Beach and I was hanging out at the back door looking out talking to my sister who lived in Illinois. All the sudden there was a huge ball of Fire in the Sky and I told her I thought an airplane head just exploded over the West Palm Beach airport. Later watching the news I learned that it was a meteor that had fallen into Lake Okeechobee.

anon , Oksana Shchegolkova Report

Final score:

108points

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

Quick, fish it out of there and use it to forge the mighty Sword of Destiny!

38points

#18

1996 Maldives

I am sat in the bar, alone drinking a cocktail and enjoying the view over the flat calm lagoon.

The bar juts out into the lagoon, so it it surrounded by water apart from a little bit joining it to the island.

Suddenly a small fish jumps out of the water. Then it jumps again but higher, and then a 3rd time a little higher still.

It takes the 4th jump at about 90 degrees to the other three... and then a f**k off big fish with teeth and everything jumps out of the water and catches it in the air.

Then the lagoon went back to flat calm.

plentyofeight Report

Final score:

107points

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Hotdogking 1 year ago

There’s always a bigger fish

36points

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#19

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Flying to Reno back in the 90's. There was this awesome comet that turned out to have a bigger display than people predicted (I forget which comet it was, winter of 96 or 97).

anyway - looked out the window. Clear sky, full moon lighting up the mountains, and this big a*s comet hanging below the moon. It was awesome.

Squigglepig52 , Luciferusz Report

Final score:

104points

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JustinTime 1 year ago

Hale-Bopp

51points

AnnualDocument7890 , Derek Suarez Report

#20

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Northern lights near my house. It usually doesn't happen that far south.

Final score:

99points

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BatPhace 1 year ago

I took them for granted as a kid growing up in Alaska, I miss them now that I live in the desert southwest 💙💚🌌

40points

#21

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I saw someone take off their cap and stamp on it like they do in cartoons

SmoulderingTamale , Jimmy Jimmy Report

Final score:

92points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

And then they say you don't learn anything from cartoons!

38points

Portmanteaunioconte Report

#22

My older cousin was teaching me and my younger cousin how to play poker. My younger cousin had four out of five cards for a royal straight flush. My older cousin told him not to draw more cards because the chances of getting a royal straight flush was pretty much impossible and was imploring him not to do it. My younger cousin did it anyways and got a f*****g royal straight flush!

We all lost our minds and laugh about it 15 years later as adults.

Final score:

88points

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Jon Steensen 1 year ago

well if you already have four of the cards, your odds are not longer that bad. You basically just need one specific card out of the 47 remaining cards, so the odds are easy to calculate at 1/47 equaling roughly 2 pct. That is so high that it is bound to happen from time to time for someone.

16points

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#23

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Actually saw a tree fall in the forest onto the trail ahead of us as we were hiking in a national park.

traveler45246 , Michael Walsh Report

Final score:

87points

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robbyt34 1 year ago

Did it make a noise? :-)

117points

#24

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness Saw two turtle doves fly into each other head on.

Boesman1 , Felipe López Report

Final score:

85points

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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 1 year ago

How about a partridge in a pear tree? Ever seen one?

32points

#25

Well, several years ago there were some solar flares hitting earth. I live in southern Maine. It was dark,and my husband drove up and told me to go outside. We lay in the grass and watched a tremendously beautiful light show in the sky. It was like being on acid, which we were not. The sky was just split into beautiful patterns in pink. I have seen the aurora borealis, and this was it on steroids. Absolutely stunning. Wish we had videoed it, but cellphones did not have good cameras. Our neighbor was outside as well.

seeclick8 Report

Final score:

83points

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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 1 year ago

What if you actually were on acid?

13points

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30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Got To Witness I saw a fish fall out of the sky during a particularly rainy day. Hit the ground and got swept into the gutter.

chdeal713 , Richard Hurd Report

Final score:

80points

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Mohsie Supposie 1 year ago

Took me a while to figure out the picture!

22points

#27

Halley's comet in 1986. Lots of people saw it.. But it is still rare. 11 year old me took a tent and camped out by a local dam with friends. Clear night and got a great look at it.

railwayed Report

Final score:

80points

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KombatBunni 1 year ago

I saw that with my Grandpa. I was allowed to stay up past my bedtime and camp out in the pitch black back yard on lawn chairs with my grandad and his binoculars.

26points

#28

Saw a manta ray leap out of the water and over a family playing in the water just off the coast of South Carolina. It didn’t make a sound or as much as a splash. I was pretty young but remember it as clear as yesterday. One of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed. Also quite amazing how big those things are.

StupidOldAndFat Report

Final score:

77points

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Couldnt_find_a_decent_name 1 year ago

Imagine being the people it jumped over though

22points

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#29

On vacation with my parents in 1969 we saw the water flow at the American side of Niagara Falls stopped. Bone dry.and with boulders bigger than houses.

methothick Report

Final score:

75points

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OnAFreakingRollercoaster 1 year ago

I see Niagara falls i upvote 👍

10points

#30

Red lightning, it's rare to see from the ground since it usually goes up from the top of the storm and even then it only makes up 1/100 bolts.

greenmachine11235 Report

Final score:

68points

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Sergy Yeltsen 1 year ago

Red sprites? That would be a sight to remember. Congratulations to you.

17points

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I saw someone drive off with the nozzle from the gas pump. It triggered the fire suppression system and everything looked like the Stay Puft Marshmallow man exploded.

PresidentGSO Report

Final score:

26points

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Florence O'Grady 1 year ago

Wish there was a picture.

6points

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#32

In South Africa thunder storms are quite common, but they were always the usual sheet or fork lightning, nothing special.

The one time there were these strange looking storm clouds very high up above us (much higher than regular storm/thunder clouds) and the lightning was these slow moving bolts (think of a short laser beam of lightning) shooting between these clouds.

It was the wackiest thing I ever saw…

Final score:

24points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)

Our storms don't really mess around. This was the other day. That's hail on the ground and the air is not transparent as usual due to how dense the rainfall was. 2022-12-02...185e42.jpg

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Ban-One 1 year ago

Was behind a BMW once. Used its blinker (turn signal) correctly. One of the rarest occurrences to witness.

22points

Chris Jones 1 year ago

Sorry, I think you're making that one up. Or you were on drugs or something... that's never happened.

13points

UpQuarkDownQuark 1 year ago

I saw an Audi do that once, but they just bumped the lever on accident.

2points

Sian Edwards 1 year ago

Are you sure it was a BMW?🤣

2points

SarahBee 1 year ago

Not me, but my mother. The night of July 18, 1969, Edward Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick, a small island attached to Martha's Vineyard. A woman named Mary Jo Kopechne was in the car, and drowned. This became huge national news. My mother had a store in Edgartown (the town across from Chappequidick). She saw Ted Kennedy walking down the street "as if he didn't have a care in the world." She also "swooned" over how handsome he was. She would have been opening the store at around 9:45am. Ted Kennedy reported the accident to police at 10am. I've always felt like she witnessed a piece of history, and was probably one of the few to do so. https://www.history.com/news/ted-kennedy-chappaquiddick-incident-what-really-happened-facts

8points

Memere 1 year ago (edited)

I remember when that happened. And when the facts finally came out, it turned out he probably could have saved Mary Jo if he had gone to the first house he came to & called for help. There were some nasty people in that family, starting with Joe Kennedy.

3points

The Starsong Princess 1 year ago

I saw a black and white cat run in front of my car, seemingly panicked. It was followed by a skunk kind of sauntering along. I realized it was a Looney Tunes Pepe LePew cartoon come to life.

5points

Elin Calliel 1 year ago

Durban, South Africa a few months ago one night in October, a fierce, strong wind suddenly started blowing and the air that was blowing was hot, like standing near a furnace hot. Not warm, but really hot. And it got hotter. This lasted just under an hour and every one was freaked out and frightened. There was strange lightening as well. It was a super rare meteorological, atmospheric event known as a Heat Burst.

4points

Bex 1 year ago

On an airplane at dusk one time I saw lightening go from one cloud down to the cloud below it. Coolest thing ever.

3points

Rocco MZ 1 year ago

Was working a catering gig on a boat in Casco Bay off the Coast of Maine. This must have been 1999 or 2000. I was told to stick close to the VP of the company hosting the event to make sure he had food, drinks, whatever. He was super cool. He told me they spent 10K on fire works and just as they were about to go off, something malfunctioned and they all shot into the water. He turned to his colleague and said, "Well we just saved 10K because I'm canceling that check." A few minutes later we noticed something odd in the sky. Out of the blue, the Northern Lights appeared. They weren't as colorful as they are way up north, but they were a sight to be seen. It was so quiet on the bay as everyone was mesmerized. Had the fireworks show been successful we would have never seen the Northern Lights. I still here and have never seen them again.

3points

LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago

Summer 2003, the Okanagan Park Mountain Fire. I saw the lightning strike that started it. And watched for a week across the lake at a campground as the fire grew. Even took the boat to the other side one day to see it up close.

2points

Seabeast 1 year ago

I was on a ski lift years ago when I saw someone wipe out on a nearby slope and fly through the air in spread-eagle position with his skis and poles flying out sideways from him. It looked just like a cartoon.

2points

Talitha Jansen 1 year ago

I was actually in the tunnel in Paris when Diana lost her life in the accident. We didn't know at the time, we were mostly complaining about being stuck in traffic, and even when seeing the wreck we didn't know the importance.

1point

Andy C 1 year ago

As a teen I was at summer camp and we took a trip to hike the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan. Our first day we hiked up to the top of a gorge and a huge storm set in. We watched as a funnel cloud kept trying to touch down on the next peak over while we hurriedly tried to set up our tents in high winds. The next morning I get up early for some reason and see the wall of fog advancing down the gorge. It literally filled the entire valley right to the brim. I climbed down just a bit of the side (it was crazy steep) and just watched it come towards me until I was completely engulfed. Then I climbed back up into clear air and some of the group saw me walk out of the pool of mist. We watched the now cloud filled gorge that looked like a dry ice cauldron with tendrils reaching out and evaporating while we made breakfast and broke camp. As I was telling everybody about the wall of fog and how cool it was one counselor decided to be the d**k and said “well thanks for waking US up to see it!”.

1point

Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago

I was standing at a bus stop near the cathedral in Denver, CO a couple days after a big snow storm. Everyone standing there heard a large crack and looked up. An icicle plummeted down and barely missed an old lady by inches. The icicle stuck into the dirt where a tree used to be without breaking. It was taller than the woman it missed and looked like something out of Bugs Bunny cartoon.

1point

Na Na 1 year ago

I saw the first tower go down in 9/11. I was standing on an elevated subway platform in Brooklyn. I remember watching it in my pajamas as once I woke up & saw the tv so I ran to the subway station behind my house as I knew there was a good view? I waved at the guy working in the glass booth & he nodded & I ducked under the turnstile. I was up there with some construction men watching it & a guy at the bottom by the stairs had his car door open with the radio news. Mostly it was really black smoke & then all of a sudden the smoke turned brown & will realized the building was gone.

1point

M Kawai 1 year ago

I saw the second plane hit the twin towers live as it happened on 9/11. I will never forget that and how I felt for the rest of my life.

1point

Sweet_Dee 1 year ago

1997 we saw the huge V shaped UFO over Phoenix, us. Were at my uncle's and my parents called us to the window. I've never seen that look of disbelief/wonder in my father's eyes since...

1point

Jackie Walters 1 year ago

I saw ball lightning on my grandparents farm in South Dakota. I also saw a moon bow on Christmas Eve. It was beautiful and I didn't know that could happen.

1point

similarly 1 year ago

Many many years ago, there was a volcanic eruption in Mexico. The ash cloud drifted into the Southern US. One night, not long after, it got cloudy, and there was a lot of lightning, but no rain. Just lightning. But it was all different colors, red, blue, green, yellow. Each time the lightning flashed, it was a different color. I can only assume the lightning was igniting minerals from the ash up in the clouds.

1point

Jade 1 year ago

I once saw the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. It is the only known place in the world where the earth's mantle is exposed.

1point

Paweł Duda 1 year ago

I saw an actual UFO in night sky. And i do not mean plane, or some weird looking secret planes. I mean UFO flying in 90 degree angles in less than 3 seconds. It spooked me the hell that night, i didnt came out past sundown for next few days.

1point

Michele Ottone 1 year ago

Nothing really special, but I was driving on a quiet country road, no traffic, no people around, it was just me in my old VW superbeetle and that pigeon, or crow, or whatever, that was flying as it was crossing the road 20 or 25 feet above me. Nothing really remarkable, but the fact that all of a sudden the bird just stopped flying and fell off onto my car. It must have been dead before hitting my VW in the intersection between the windshield and the A pillar. My beetle got no damage, except for a bloody stain. My pants got damaged.

0points

Mel The Axolotl 1 year ago

I think the coolest thing I've seen is a quintuple rainbow. Yep, 5 rainbows at once. They were full semi-circle ones too

0points

Emily 1 year ago

Saw a small squirrel viciously attack a finch. Wildly thrashing it up and down into the ground. Feathers flying. Killed the bird. It was a “TIL” moment for me.

0points

Jackie Lulu 1 year ago

Last summer I saw mammatus clouds after a storm in Minnesota. Wished I could have taken a picture.

0points

Unboundllama117 1 year ago

I saw a genshin impact player touch grass

0points

The Starsong Princess 1 year ago

I saw lightning hit the CN Tower in Toronto. I was driving into the city and there was a tremendous bang. The weirdest thing about it was my car radio spontaneously changed channels just as it hit.

0points

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Ban-One 1 year ago

Was behind a BMW once. Used its blinker (turn signal) correctly. One of the rarest occurrences to witness.

22points

Chris Jones 1 year ago

Sorry, I think you're making that one up. Or you were on drugs or something... that's never happened.

13points

UpQuarkDownQuark 1 year ago

I saw an Audi do that once, but they just bumped the lever on accident.

2points

Sian Edwards 1 year ago

Are you sure it was a BMW?🤣

2points

SarahBee 1 year ago

8points

Memere 1 year ago (edited)

3points