I just read this whole thread (and realized that I posted way back on page 4 or 5 or something, lol).

As I was reading the replies, a few things popped out at me. They are in no order and are likely unrelated.

Panthers: I have a beef with the MSM and panthers that goes back to 1989 or so, when there was a rash of panther sightings in the county where I lived - Cumberland County, NJ. There was definitely a panther on the loose as evidenced by a few footprints, a handful of witnesses and some missing chickens, and as documented by the local newspaper. At that time, the local news pointed out that the area was home to a panther statue erected by early Italian immigrants as well as a Panther Road because there were panthers there when the people arrived. Fast forward to 2009 or thereabouts ... my mom's friend saw a panther in the vicinity of Panther Road, took a so-so camera photo, and called the local news. Local news never elaborated on the Panther history. The story was picked up by the national news and our friend and her pic were teased across America for thinking there were panthers in South Jersey. What pisses me off is they wanted to ridicule rather than research. Had they research, they would have found a history of such sightings dating back well over a hundred years. They also would have realized that cougars/mountain lions are not typically black and these black panther sighting were unusual AND had a history in this area.

Mismatched head/body: I too saw (waited on in a restaurant, actually) a man whose head was so so small and it didn't seem to move with the rest of his body. I don't know if microcephalic people have normal intelligence but this guy was normal except it seemed he moved his head with his body and could not twist his neck. This made me think that if there was ever a person whose head was transplanted onto his body, I was waiting on him. lol.

A friend, not me: in 2000 my friend was doing laundry in his home one night and he was in a sore mood having just got dumped. He told me raised his head from what he was doing and saw a gold orb explode into thousands of gold droplets that trickled down to his hand and he felt them landing on his hand in an electrical way but with no shock. Normally I'd call that a change in blood pressure after changing positions but within a few days day he happened upon an irate man sswinging a baby by one arm in the middle of the road. My friend snuck up behing the guy and grabbed the baby with one hand and restrained the guy by the neck with the other until other people came to help. He was not a big guy at all but held the dude with one hand and the baby with the other. He saved that baby.

Me - dopplegangers: I was on vacation in Alaska with my former fiancee and it was the night we got engaged. We were drinking at some hot springs "resort" outside of Fairbanks with a guy named Mike - also my x-fiancee's name - who was a cable installer He was an AK local who lived a few hours away, orginally from Minnesota. We talked to dude for hours. I have a thing for faces and I remember this guy like it was yesterday (it was 2000). About two weeks after arriving home we switched from DSL to cable and SAME dude name Mike came and installed it - in Pennsylvania. Same face, glasses, round build, same name. There have been a few other of these guys in my travels but none I'm as sure of as Mike.

I used to walk to work down an alley between an abandoned (abandoned for worship anyway but still kept up) synagogue and a Mason Lodge. I always giggled at the capstone which dedicated the lodge on Oct 22, 1911 (beauce I have an 11 thing). It was a 1-car paved alley where one car would have to back out if another was coming. For days on end there was a green pickup blocking the with hard/loud music blarking from inside and tinted windows rolled up and a figure inside. The car had mason stickers on the back and a mason license plate. One day the window was rolled down and the guy inside was smoking and looked right at me and leered - he looked evil - he had bleach blonde hair and a real old face ... shortly thereafter the synagogue's fence was knocked down and the mason trucks were parked every day on their front lawn. Someone put a small banner up out front of the synagogue that said "Masons are Anti-Semitic" yet there the green pickup sat every day. Guy creeped me out.

Out that same mason lodge when walking out of work I thought for a few minuted I walked into either another time or a movie set. I came upon a "parade" going about 5mph that included noting but road equipment (steamrollers to be exact - at least i think - big tractor things which big rollers for asphalt). People on both sides of the busy road stood transfixed and the workers on the steamrollers seemed out of time (they were dressed really plain - no Steelers caps (I was in WV) or college sweats or Carrhart insignias) and not one looked around they all stared ahead. I actually looked around for movie cameras because it just seemed so so spooky.

I saw what I though was a helicopter but then I noticed it had no tail and made no noise. It didn't last long before it went behind the treeline. I also saw some sient jet-like things at tree level but I know those were military so i assume the copter thing was too.

The guy on the motorcycle doing a wheelie dressed as death: thats a Grateful Dead fan. There's an album cover like that.

I don't "see" too much supernatural weirdness (I see a whole lot of other weirdness). My weirdness comes in the form of saying a phrase - an unusual one - and then that phrase is repeated in the radio within 10 seconds. Or I call out a longshot - seeing an old friend at a bar or who will win the game or whatever - and it happens. I think of a friend and she calls.

I wish I saw more weirdness. I know it's there. The synchronicities in print and thought are good, but I'd love to see a leprechaun or fairy or whatever ...

I want to see the stick tree people!!! I've always suspected that they are there!!! :-)

What a great thread.

Sorry so long - I got carried away!