In today’s world, anything and everything seems possible with AI in the mix. While tech lovers rave about its perks, let’s be honest, sometimes it’s too hard to tell what’s real and what’s completely made up. 

So, we did what any curious internet sleuth would do, we scoured the web for stories that defy logic. We’re talking about bizarre, unbelievable things people swear they saw. And guess what? Almost no one believed them. They were met with eye rolls, laughter, or just plain silence, even when they were dead serious.

Keep scrolling to explore a collection of “did-that-really-happen?” moments that people can’t forget. Whether you’re a skeptic or a believer, these stories will make you pause.

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#1

While at a stoplight on a mountain road in Pennsylvania, I saw two black bear cubs come out of the woods and roll down a hill into the street, and the mama black bear came down and chased them back up the hill with her paws. It happened MOM.

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#2

Was in my hometown visiting my mom. My brother came in too. One night, around 3 am we were chilling on the front porch looking out on the lake. We heard a commotion in a tree above us. Then a loud thud. Went to investigate. On the ground was some sort of snake wrapped around a squirrel, but the squirrel had seemingly bitten most of the snakes head off. The both seemed alive, but barely. We were staring dumbfounded when in a big whoosh some sort of owl came in and picked up the tangled mass and flew off. Even our mom doesn’t believe us.

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#3

Okay, this may get a little long, and it isn’t something a saw per se, but something I experienced.

In 2003, when I was 14 I started bussing tables for a local pizza place to save money for my first car. My grandpa decided he was going to sell his ’76 Camaro and I knew I had to have it. I mean, he used to pick me up from daycare in this thing – it had to stay in the family.

Anyway, I get enough money to buy the car from my grandpa, and my dad spends the money to ship it down from out of state (thanks again, dad). I love this thing more than life itself. It smells the way I remember, it struggles to start without giving it a little gas, but once you get her running, she rolls like a top. When I was around 17 I was driving home from my late shift at the pizza place and the headlights and console lights are more dim than normal. I thought it was odd, so I fidgeted with console light controls and the high-beam button on the floor – but nothing worked, so I figured I would talk to my dad about it in the morning.

Early the next morning the home phone rings, it is my grandma crying, telling us that grandpa is sick and the doctors don’t know if he will make it. We all head out and drive 17 hours straight to be with him. He starts getting a little better while we were there and comes through the worst of it, and doctors think he will have a few weeks. We decided to get back home for a bit and come back in a week or so.

The second night back in town I went to pick up my then-girlfriend – but when the night started getting dark I flipped on the headlights and everything was back to normal brightness. I can’t explain it, but I just felt at ease, I felt assurance that my grandpa was going to be okay.

Anyway, weeks go by, then months, then years… six wonderful long years go by, grandpa has been slowly declining lately and we had plans to come back up again. By this time, the Camaro was no longer my daily driver, but I wanted to take my fiancee for a ride in it, so we went to my parent’s house to take it out. I notice the dome light didn’t come on. We get a call later that day that my grandma passed away very unexpectedly. So we make the journey back up there immediately, completely heart-broken. When we get there, my grandpa isn’t very responsive, he is being kept alive by machines and there isn’t much brain activity. Extremely difficult to see your hero in such a state. My dad and I break the news to him that grandma passed away, instantly his face changes, his eyes swell up and a few tears gently fall down his face. He passed away that night.

Sorry for the wall of text, this kind of became therapeutic for me as I don’t talk about it much.

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#4

I saw an elderly man walking his dog at the park pick up a snake, call it a “bad boy” and then guide it back into its hole in the ground.

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#5

A black cougar/panther in upstate NY ran across the road in front of me in the dark. I thought it was a skinny black lab until I saw it’s tail was as long as it’s body.

Eastern Cougars have been “extinct” for 50 years or more.

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#6

Not saw, but heard. My girlfriend and I were staying in a remote Cabin on Vancouver island that sits on top of about a 200 foot cliff over the ocean. I woke up around 3am one night, hearing whales calling in the ocean, I woke my girlfriend and she heard them too! These really deep ominous moans coming for the water, it felt magical, and the calls continued for around 3 minutes! But anytime I’ve told the story people tell us that it would have been impossible. Please, somebody believe us… it was so cool..

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#7

A blue heron was flying with a snake hanging from its mouth. The snake was still wiggling and trying to break free. It finally was successful, but the heron caught it in its foot and somehow in mid-air threw it back up into its mouth.

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#8

I taught my cat that winking my left eye at her means “I love you.” She fully understands it and winks back, but no one believes me.

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#9

In the UK, a while ago we had builders repairing the fence in our garden and me being the curious kid decided so stay there all day and watch them. They were halfway through changing the fences out when I saw something crawl out of the whole. Got a closer look and I couldn’t believe it; it was a scorpion. I tried telling everyone what I saw but they didn’t believe me cos a scorpion in the UK just won’t happen. Years later I still remember this and no one believes me… guess I’ll bury this with me but was still a cool thing to see.

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#10

I was at an amusement park near Cincinnati, probably 20-ish years ago and I swear to God I saw a blue guy. Literally blue skin. Like a black person only blue.

[Turns out there really is a well-known family in Kentucky] with this condition. Still no one believes me.

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#11

I saw a shark yank a seagull down from a kelp bed. I was a child and laying in the cabin of a fishing charter, staring out the window. It was early, about 6am. Seagull floating, boat idling, and then the shark just came up and went snarf and birdy was gone.

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#12

I saw into the future several times in my dreams. Exact, precise events. I even proved it to one guy.

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#13

This is probably a pretty boring one but while I was snorkelling in Lanzarote with my family when I was eleven, I saw a cute brightly coloured fish. The water was crystal clear and as I swam up to it and reached out to touch it, I saw something like a tiny flicker of lightning shoot out of its mouth and hit my fingers. It felt like a static shock when it connected and I spluttered up out of the water and let out a yelp. My Dad asked what was wrong and when I explained, both parents looked at me like I was crazy. I don’t really know what kind of sea life can do that kind of thing and being so young at the time, I didn’t really bother looking it up. But it was always a weird memory that stuck with me – the time a fish electrocuted me. LOL.

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#14

I saw two birds in the forest fly towards each other. Both were little black birds. They flew in and stared at each other about a foot in between them. They’d stop. Then start jumping in front of each other with they’re eyes locked on taking turns. One would jump while staring at the other, after one was done the next jumped in the exact same manner. Still don’t know what they were doing. They flew off together in the trees. Never seen anything like it since.

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#15

I saw the DVD screensaver hit the corner of the TV screen perfectly. I was alone in the conference room though so no one else buys it.

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#16

I believe I have a soul friend at the zoo.
The first time I went to the zoo my mother jokingly said that the camel knew me because it followed me about his habitat. Being young, I just laughed. But now, every time I go back to the zoo, the camel continues to follow me and always seems as if he were waiting for me.

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#17

A 7′ long shark in the Puget Sound, right at the surface.

I was fishing with my siblings and my mom, and my brother was struggling to get a little dog fish in.

Well, I get this brick of a fish up, it’s running towards me, than running away … no one will look at my rod about to snap, because they’re busy with the dog fish.

Well, I get this sucker up to the surface, and it gets right up along the side of our boat, a Grady White 22 at the time, and it stretches from one end of the cockpit to the other, and then some.

It was at least 7 feet long, and as soon as someone freed up to come help me, it snapped the line and just coasted away underwater. Nobody saw it but me.

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#18

My dog yawned and uttered the phrase “you’re safe” once. Sox was a good pup.

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#19

A Pigeon with a polystyrene cup stuck on its head.

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#20

Not me, but my older brother.

When my older brother was around 4/5 in our old house he used to have nightmares. He woke up from one crying, with an old woman sat at the base of the bed.

The old woman apparently sung him lullabies and told him to go back to sleep incase his mum gets worried.

Morning comes and my older brother tells my mum about the old woman. She asked him to describe her, and he described in perfect detail the little old woman who lived, and died there. She was wearing the exact same clothes as the clothes she died in too.

My older brother had never met or seen this woman. She died a few years before his birth.

Edit to clarify; the house they were on the same street as mums old house. Hence how my mum knew the old woman who lived there.

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#21

Sometimes, I see movement from the corner of my eye, but everybody always tells me “there is nothing that could move, dont worry”. But I am convinced that the shadows start to move around me. Maybe I really am paranoid, but one time a few years ago while I was alone waiting for the train it looked like my shadow opened its eyes. I freaked out so heavily that I instantly took 3-4 steps back. Since then I have never sen it again, but i still sometimes feel the sensation of something moving in the corner of my eyes, especially when I’m alone.

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#22

I was in Italy last year, Lake Como to be exact. Sat on the shore, enjoying my ice cream whilst watching a family come in to dock with their dog on board. About 10m out, the dog jumps overboard with rope in mouth, swims the boat up to the dock, ties the rope and grabs a couple of life jackets from the jetty and hands them to the kids.

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#23

I saw the South Carolina Lizardman. Not the guy running around dressed up as him. But the real deal crypto-being.

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#24

My cat once meowed the Jaws theme while walking towards me.

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#25

Around 2 am one night when I still lived at home I got up to walk to the garage to get a soda. I sat out there for a moment just drinking my cold beverage when I swear I heard something moving in a box or something.

I got really freaked out and walked into the darkness ahead of me to see if I could figure out what it was. I swear on my mother’s life I heard what sounded like an old toy doll saying something like “I love you!” Or “howdy!” Or something to that effect. I turned around and ran as fast as I could back inside, and ever so faintly in the darkness as I turned around I thought I saw something standing there just looking at me.

Never happened again. I told my parents about it the next day and they just kinda laughed it off and said I was dreaming. I was 16 at the time so I knew what dreaming feels like, this happened in real life.

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#26

Not sure if this qualifies as my story does have another witness. My younger sister had one of those dolls whose eyes moved and it would talk, but only when you picked it and moved.

I was maybe 12 or 13, sitting in the kitchen with my mom when we hear talking coming from my sister’s bedroom. She was not home at the time. We both go back and open the door and this frickin doll is sitting there, eyes moving saying “I love you” and “Let’s play.”

That isn’t the odd part. I pick the doll up and there are no batteries in it. Tossed that possessed sucker right in the outside trash. My sister still asks about what happened to her doll.

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#27

A movie with Sinbad as a Genie called Shazaam. I still am 100% certain it existed. Will go down as the worlds largest cover up!

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