What is the weirdest thing you've ever seen?

I don't count ghosts as being anything weird so I would have to say a strange creature my husband and I saw.

He had been in law enforcement his whole life and just didn't believe in paranormal things and used to make fun of the paranormal experiences that I had over the years.

We lived about five miles up a mountain with a narrow and windy road with no shoulder in places. One night we were going into town and when we came out of a long curve this creature came up the embankment on the passenger side, saw us, and leaned back to avoid being hit.

It was about 6 to 7 feet tall, tan colored fur, had hooves on the two hind feet it was standing on, a body structure of a horse (but standing on two feet straight up like a man), had the head of a wolf or dog. The weirdest thing though was that it had strange arms that it was flailing around that looked more like thick tentacles and appeared to have more than two of them. How many I couldn't tell since it was whipping them around back and forth.

When we first came out of the curve my husband started braking when we were still a ways from it so we got a fairly good look. When we passed it I could see how huge it was since I was on the passenger side. I was only about 6 inches from the thing because of the narrow road. Luckily, it was winter and I had the window up.

My husband turned around at the first road and we went back. The thing was gone. My husband was really shook up. I told him we should report it but he didn't want to and said that they would never believe him. He passed away about five years later but would bring it up to me often. It stayed on his mind and really bothered him. He never really got over it.

I told him not to worry because it was just something coming from another dimension. That seemed to bother him more.

Can you recall the approximate year you saw this thing?
No missing time?

Can you recall the approximate year you saw this thing?
No missing time?


It was around 1995 or maybe 1996. Whoa. Funny you asked about missing time because there was possibly. We were picking up my daughter at her part-time job and she got off at 9:30 p.m.

We had left house a little after 9 pm. We were really late picking her up. I think by an hour. We thought that I had just misread the clock before we left home. My husband thought that when I looked at time at home that it was really 10 instead of 9 when I said we had to go pick our daughter up. But I'm a worrywart and can't understand how I could do that. I'd notice it was 8 or 8:30 on the nights we would pick her up and I'd start getting ready and would watch the clock.

Luckily her work ( a pizza parlor) stayed open late so she could wait inside.

This missing time thing relates to aliens? At least I've read that. Is that why you are asking? In that same house we lived in then, about ten years later, I had a strange experience maybe alien related. One night I woke up and thought it was daylight. It was midnight. I looked outside and it was almost like daylight - no moon. I felt very odd and subdued and just went back to bed with the covers over my head. The next day a neighbor about 2 miles down the mountain said that she was coming home at midnight from her night job as a security guard and swore that a huge alien ship was over the whole mountain and was lighting up outside as if it was daylight.

Have you ever heard of a creature or alien that looks like that?

I've searched the net for years now looking for a sighting by others but haven't even come close.

Can you recall the approximate year you saw this thing?
No missing time?


It was around 1995 or maybe 1996. Whoa. Funny you asked about missing time because there was possibly. We were picking up my daughter at her part-time job and she got off at 9:30 p.m.

We had left house a little after 9 pm. We were really late picking her up. I think by an hour. We thought that I had just misread the clock before we left home. My husband thought that when I looked at time at home that it was really 10 instead of 9 when I said we had to go pick our daughter up. But I'm a worrywart and can't understand how I could do that. I'd notice it was 8 or 8:30 on the nights we would pick her up and I'd start getting ready and would watch the clock.

Luckily her work ( a pizza parlor) stayed open late so she could wait inside.

This missing time thing relates to aliens? At least I've read that. Is that why you are asking? In that same house we lived in then, about ten years later, I had a strange experience maybe alien related. One night I woke up and thought it was daylight. It was midnight. I looked outside and it was almost like daylight - no moon. I felt very odd and subdued and just went back to bed with the covers over my head. The next day a neighbor about 2 miles down the mountain said that she was coming home at midnight from her night job as a security guard and swore that a huge alien ship was over the whole mountain and was lighting up outside as if it was daylight.

Have you ever heard of a creature or alien that looks like that?

I've searched the net for years now looking for a sighting by others but haven't even come close.

I'm glad I asked you that question, too, and glad you saw post and responded. Never have heard of an "alien" described like what you saw. I tend to think it was as you say, from another dimension. In the literature, missing time is often experienced when encountering seemingly extra-dimensional entities...read John Keel, Jacque Vallee regarding that.

The "Jersey Devil" has been described quite similiarly to what you saw, only winged and non-tentacled.

Very very interesting sighting, AC...can you give a general idea of the region without compromising your privacy?

Like my husband I guess I never really got over it either. I think I just accepted it better than he did.

Thanks, again.

The summer after high school, I had a job driving trucks at night, back and forth between Clearwater and Ft. Myers, Florida. The road between Sarasota and Ft. Myers back then was pretty much completely desolate country, just endless marshland interspersed with open cattle pastures.

So, I am just cruising down the highway, 67 mph, because the truck had a governor on it and that's as fast as it would go.
It's about 2 am and the road is mostly empty, save the occasional truck going the opposite direction, and 1 set of tail lights I can see at least a mile ahead of me.

I glance at the passenger side mirror, and something else catches my eye outside the window. The window is down, so it's not a reflection. It's a pair of cat like eyes looking at me. What the hell? I'm doing 67 mph, nearly 8 feet above the ground in that truck cab, and a dark humanoid shape with eyes that reflect like a cat's is running along side my truck and just staring at me through the open window.

Eyes back to the road, I push harder on the gas pedal, but the truck won't go any faster. I look over again, and it's still right beside me, and turns it's head to look at me as I look at it. This went on for about a mile. I wasn't afraid, didn't feel threatened, just kinda stunned and trying to process what I was seeing. It finally seemed to just turn away and run off into the darkness away from the highway.

I drove that same route 5 nights a week the rest of the summer and never saw it again.

The summer after high school, I had a job driving trucks at night, back and forth between Clearwater and Ft. Myers, Florida. The road between Sarasota and Ft. Myers back then was pretty much completely desolate country, just endless marshland interspersed with open cattle pastures.

So, I am just cruising down the highway, 67 mph, because the truck had a governor on it and that's as fast as it would go.
It's about 2 am and the road is mostly empty, save the occasional truck going the opposite direction, and 1 set of tail lights I can see at least a mile ahead of me.

I glance at the passenger side mirror, and something else catches my eye outside the window. The window is down, so it's not a reflection. It's a pair of cat like eyes looking at me. What the hell? I'm doing 67 mph, nearly 8 feet above the ground in that truck cab, and a dark humanoid shape with eyes that reflect like a cat's is running along side my truck and just staring at me through the open window.

Eyes back to the road, I push harder on the gas pedal, but the truck won't go any faster. I look over again, and it's still right beside me, and turns it's head to look at me as I look at it. This went on for about a mile. I wasn't afraid, didn't feel threatened, just kinda stunned and trying to process what I was seeing. It finally seemed to just turn away and run off into the darkness away from the highway.

I drove that same route 5 nights a week the rest of the summer and never saw it again.

ET, how did you manage to drive that road again?! Amazing story, wow!

ET, how did you manage to drive that road again?! Amazing story, wow!

Honestly, I was hoping to see it again! I had another 3 hours of driving that night, and it was all I could think about. I decided that it must have been trying to communicate with me, and was unable, so it gave up and left me alone. I felt like I'd missed something important.

Like my husband I guess I never really got over it either. I think I just accepted it better than he did.

Thanks, again.

When I read your initial posting, I wondered about the missing time aspect, especially as you wrote how you rode by like 6 inches from this Thing (and you wrote like it'd been no big deal). I wondered if the remembrance of riding by it so relatively casually hadn't been a "cover-memory" hiding the fact of missing time.

People generally freak when they encounter something so odd. Do you recall freaking, or is your memory exactly as you related in your post? I've had some experiences, my memory of which made sense to me until my cousin brought up in conversation on the matter how very illogical and unlikely my responses had been given the purported situation.

If you've got time and interest, you might find a parallel in response to what you encountered in the case of Betty and Barney Hill..."Incident at Exeter" and "The Interuppted Journey"...they had missing time while on a trip, and the story of how they'd blanked it out yet it kept bothering Barney is quite fascinating and might resonate with you regarding your experience.

Truly, thanks for sharing!

ET, how did you manage to drive that road again?! Amazing story, wow!

Honestly, I was hoping to see it again! I had another 3 hours of driving that night, and it was all I could think about. I decided that it must have been trying to communicate with me, and was unable, so it gave up and left me alone. I felt like I'd missed something important.

My cousin drives for a living, and he saw two "stick-men" walking across a road, here in Colorado. I'm trying to contact him and get him on this thread to share the story...your post ET reminded me of his story as you both were driving trucks.

What is that?
It seemed blah-ordinary when it was pointed out on that hot Florida day...
it's a UFO -huh it is, a UFO~

It was a small to medium (compact car sized) boomerang like object rotating on a steady course and stable speed (like a man could run with) just above the height and right in the middle between the High-Voltage power lines -going toward NAS Pensacola.

What is that?
It seemed blah-ordinary when it was pointed out on that hot Florida day...
it's a UFO -huh it is, a UFO~

It was a small to medium (compact car sized) boomerang like object rotating on a steady course and stable speed (like a man could run with) just above the height and right in the middle between the High-Voltage power lines -going toward NAS Pensacola.



My friend used to always tell a story about jumping on a trampoline when he was young, and seeing a large boomerang silently rotating above the power lines behind their house (Midland TX).. Sounds similar to this.. I havent thought about that in years, till I read your post !!

Weirdest thing I've ever seen are the Marfa light in marfa texas.. Strange lights that float, disappear, merge with each other when it gets dark.. They're viewable year round in the same place.. Take a camping trip out there and see.. They are pretty cool.. No one knows what the hell they are..

A giant flying ameoba over my house.(hope I spelled that right...:)