Kate Hackett
It has to be mildly frustrating to know, to know in your very bones, that you saw something out of the ordinary but you just can’t confirm it with tangible evidence.
That’s exactly the kind of story we have in spades today after u/LostGreyApe59 posted to Reddit’s AskReddit forum. They wondered, “What is something you SWEAR you saw, but have no proof of?” and the people of reddit delivered. Check out some of the replies:
1. Kaboom!
I was about to walk in the front door around midnight and saw an explosion way up in the sky. The flash was so bright that for a fraction of a second everything went daylight. I called a few people that I knew were still up and out, but nobody had seen anything. A couple of weeks later, I mentioned it to someone and he said “That’s funny, someone was telling me how a satellite exploded a couple of weeks ago and it was an explosion with a bright flash.”
2. A man there
One time after school, my friend and I were hanging out in her room on the computer, and we heard the front door open and the little “beep beep” alarm go off when a door or window is opened. We both looked at one another, confused, since both of her parents weren’t supposed to be home for several hours, and we both got a weird vibe from the sound.
So we slowly crept to her door, and she literally grabbed a bat, and we opened the door and peered down and over the banister to the living room below, and I SWEAR TO GOD there was a man in a business suit, with a brief case, just standing in her living room; the front door wide open behind him.
And my friend was like, “Who are you?! Get out of my house!!” And he just slowly looked up at us, like he was totally stoned or confused, and was like, “Wha? …… oh…… sorry……..” and walked out and shut the door. That was almost 15 years ago, and we both STILL remember it and talk about it to this day. At least someone else was with me who saw it!
3. Hawk
A hawk swooped down and grabbed one. As it was batting its wings and gaining altitude, the other squirrel raced up a nearby tree, leapt off, rocketed down into God’s Own Death From Above, and rescued his friend by curb-stomping the hawk out of the air.
4. I knew
I was watching the local lottery draw on tv and vocally called out every correct number before the ball was shown.
5. Mom’s Song
When I was 18 I got woken up in the middle of the night with my mom’s favorite song playing. Back when song ringtones were a thing, it was the sound I used to hear every day when people were calling her. It was a few months after she passed away. My laptop was dead… dead, dead, I remember falling asleep being annoyed that I was too lazy to walk downstairs to get the charger because I had homework. It was partially open on my vanity and then I wake up to the sound and the light at like 3 or 4am. The song was playing. I closed the laptop and it would not turn off. I opened it, first I looked for the song app or internet site that was playing it and could not find it. So I just had to hold down the power button forever for it to turn off. I couldn’t sleep the rest of the night. No one believes me.
6. Who was that
When I was 8 I lived in a trailer park in Florida. One whole row of trailers were unoccupied, no power, no water. As any 8 year old in the early 90’s, I played around them, because it was fun. If you’ve been to Florida you know what fire ants are. If you’ve lived in Florida you know how they react to having their hills stepped on. So 8 year old me, not paying attention, wearing shorts, stepped calf deep into a fire ant mound. Yea, you know where this is going. Instantly my leg was covered in biting, stinging fire ants. A lot of them. Easily 100. Of course it hurts. I start screaming and stomping. That just pisses them off more. No more than what felt like instantly, this man comes running around the trailer with a water hose. He sprays my legs off and tells me to run home to my mom. I do. Never saw the man before or since.
7. And then, gone
Walking home at night from college in Ireland in the early 90s, I saw an elderly man looking up with a puzzled look on his face. I looked up and saw an orange light about the same brightness as Venus, lazily moving back and forth in the sky – but completely silent. Suddenly it shot off in one direction at what could only be described as ludicrous speed for a second or two before coming to an immediate stop, then just sitting there motionless. Few moments later it shot off in another direction and came to a stop. The two of us watched this for 3-4 minutes before it shot straight up and disappeared. Oul fella looked at me, shrugged, and said “Well, you don’t see that every day” and walked off.
8. Ghosts?
Babysitting my nephews at my sisters place when I was a teenager. They were in bed asleep and I was the only other person in the house. Sitting in the living room watching TV with a clear line of sight to the kitchen sink when both taps turned on by themselves. nobody could have gotten to those taps without me seeing them. Still one of the freakiest things I have experienced.
9. More ghosts?!
I’ve seen a spatula go flying across my kitchen, twice.
10. Janis-Ghosts?
Okay, so I was a college DJ in the early 90s. My best friend and I had a radio show, summer of 93. At the time, we had these things called carts. They were about the size of a cassette tape but thicker. We would stack them up in a queue and put them into the cart player. The whole show, we kept saying, “Okay we have to play Summertime” (by Janis Joplin) because it was on or about the first official day of summer. Stuff happened, we didn’t play it, but the cart sat atop the cart player. About 30 minutes before the end of the show, that cart flew off the player and landed with a thud. We scrapped the rest of the show and played it immediately. Do not fuck with Janis. She wants her song played.
11. Incredible
I saw a bird land on top of another bird mid flight
12. Jet
My boss and I were out having a smoke, we looked up and saw this bright pink jet. As we were watching, it flew into a small cloud but never came out the other side. There weren’t a lot of clouds that day, and none near the one that the jet flew into.
13. Snake
I was on a houseboat with my family in the Thousand Islands (St Lawrence River in Canada). We’d docked on one of the tiny islands for the night. A branch cracks loudly over the boat, and a snake that (to me at that age) looked to be the size of the snake in the film Anaconda fell from a tree and landed across the boat. It splashed down into the water and swam away.
14. Looks the same
Growing up, my brother’s and I used to have this running joke about how the neighbor’s kids never grow up. I’m now in my late 30’s and when I went to visit my parents recently, I caught a glimpse of the neighbors outside. Their whole family still looks the same, including the kids who are still kids. I wish I had photos of them from the past to do a past and present comparison.
15. Blue meteor
it was the middle of summer. was at a friend’s house. we were drinking. playing loud music. shootin’ the shit. i’m sitting there, looking up at the sky. i see this flash of blue. aquamarine/cyan, but a little bit richer. i tell my brother and our friend to look up so they can see. but they brush it off. i keep staring. a couple seconds go by. and then i see the meteor itself race across the sky.
16. Random guy
Random man in a bunny suit in my backyard. Called my wife and she saw it too. Called my in-laws downstairs (they were staying over for the weekend) and they thought we were crazy when we said this man jumped over the fence like a fuckin deer
17. Farewell
My great grandfather died when I was 8, and I remember being sat in my room on the floor, as I remember being sat in silent contemplation (as I know now, I didn’t know grief felt like loss, like a part was missing now) and I felt a strong squeeze on my shoulder. Like a grandfather’s squeeze, comforting but not capable of hurting me. My family to this day say my child brain was trying to rationalise my grief but I still hold to this as one final farewell.
18. Gun
While I was driving out for work, I could’ve sworn I saw a metallic blue shotgun by the side of the road, but when I went back to take it to the police station, it was gone.
19. Girl in a dress
I swear I’m not insane, but I was walking home from high school 9 years ago and I saw something that I absolutely can’t understand that freaked me out badly. I was coming to a crosswalk and across the 2 lane street I saw a distinctive looking girl maybe a little older than me wearing a white dress, and she had a cocker spaniel puppy on a leash that was just sitting on the sidewalk. I looked away while I was watching for traffic and crossed over to her side, and when I looked up I kind of jumped because the girl in the white dress was now maybe in her late 60s and her dog was a very old, graying cocker spaniel.
20. The movie
I was almost in a movie, I met a producer because he was in my beach town scouting for teenagers that look scrappy and he saw me on my bike cut up from the skatepark. I went through a whole audition process and got the part but backed out due to scheduling conflicts with school and hockey. I was supposed to be in a sequel to a movie about a kid that moves to a new school and there’s an underground fight club. I was shown the trailer on youtube in 2010 and watched it so many times. THE TRAILER FOR THE FIRST MOVIE IS GONE it’s so frustrating and i have no evidence of the movie whatsoever
