Strange cryptid/UFO/Ghost encounters on the road?

[QU1DAM]

This is more of a cryptid story I suppose...

I was camping with 2 other dudes in the Arcata forest part, some time after rainbow nationals in Washington and right before Occupy Wall Street really took off in 2010.

It was just one other dude and I that night. We made food, smoked some tabac and ganja, no drinking, put out the cook fire. Suddenly we heard crunching of branches like something was beyond the mound we were camping behind. We listened closely, no movement but we saw these glowing green spheres, 3 of them, appear around us on the ground.

We heard the branches crunch again a couple times, and we’re talking about what was going on, kinda weirded out. The dude I was camping with was visibly afraid and began trembling, I swear he was about to hold onto me like a teddy bear!

I tried to soothe him, and turned on the flashlight towards the green spheres. It made them seem to go away, but when the light went out the spheres were right there again. I approached the spheres and tried to poke it with a stick but the stick just kinda passed through it like it wasn’t there at all.

We had no other choice to accept the presence of the strange spheres and whatever else was out there and try to rest. It was kind of a “one eye open” night but we were left alone, and utterly mystified.

 

[Dameon]

A while back, me and three friends were hopping the sunset line. We were outside of San Antonio at the catchout when it started pouring, and kept pouring. Eventually we found a house in a big field with a shack nearby. The house was really securely boarded up, but the shack was less so. We were desperate to get out of the rain after spending all night and all day getting rained on and soaked, so we were soon tucked into the shack, still wet but at least out of the rain and able to generate some communal warmth.

I wake up in the middle of the night and step out to take a leak. The rain has let up, it's a full moon. This shack and house are in the middle of a giant field, nothing nearby. It sounds like there's a loud fucking party going on in the securely boarded house, people laughing and glasses clinking and all the sounds of a decent but not crazy party. Plywood nailed shut over every opening, we'd checked all of it and it was tight, no way in without a crowbar. Fuck if I'm investigating, I go back to sleep.

In the morning, in retrospect, it seems pretty ridiculous, and I don't say a word about it. Except then one of my friends says that he woke up to the sounds of a party last night, and it turns out we all at some point woke up to the sounds of a party in that house separately.

There's scientific possibilities, there was a bar sort of nearby and it's possible it was just a weird audio thing where the sounds from the bar got specifically shot over to where we were, but it was just a little podunk town (those of you who've done the sunset route know it) and not even the weekend, so odd that the bar would be sounding that hopping in the wee hours of a weekday morning. I like to think there was a party of the damned or something crazy going on in that house, and it's probably a good thing we weren't able to get in there and wound up in the shack.

 

[Katbearfoot]

It's more common than you know. Don't rule anything out.

Have you ever as a kid... I'm saying... ten or so years old. Had a dream of being chased by something with a big head... through honey.?? I mean like your trying to run but the air around you is thick as sugar and molasses?

Or whatever.

Haha...

Haha, and when you was a kid did you had a dream that the whole world was covered in Saran Wrap? Like you kept running away all over the world, but couldn’t hide in any houses or anything cuz they was all plastic covered? And there was not really any trees or anything? Just plastic covered houses and streets? And then maybe there was some lady wearing red lipstick talking into a walkie talkie, and you couldn’t see her whole face, just her nose and mouth.. She wuz saying somefing into the walkie talkie, but then instead of a response those firework things, the black “snakes” kept coming out of the walkie talkie? Just the black snake thingies coming out of the speaker, without the fire. Like she was calling for help on the walkie talkie, but then you just get black firework snakes coming out? Like ashes or whatever they’re made of..


Yeah, me neither. Never had that dream before. Sounds terrifying tho.

 

[Katbearfoot]

The only spooky experience I’ve had was sleep paralysis and I wasn’t on the road. It was exactly like being visited by a spirit and/or a daemon or something. I’ll tell the story if anyone is interested.

 

[Katbearfoot]

A while back, me and three friends were hopping the sunset line. We were outside of San Antonio at the catchout when it started pouring, and kept pouring. Eventually we found a house in a big field with a shack nearby. The house was really securely boarded up, but the shack was less so. We were desperate to get out of the rain after spending all night and all day getting rained on and soaked, so we were soon tucked into the shack, still wet but at least out of the rain and able to generate some communal warmth.

I wake up in the middle of the night and step out to take a leak. The rain has let up, it's a full moon. This shack and house are in the middle of a giant field, nothing nearby. It sounds like there's a loud fucking party going on in the securely boarded house, people laughing and glasses clinking and all the sounds of a decent but not crazy party. Plywood nailed shut over every opening, we'd checked all of it and it was tight, no way in without a crowbar. Fuck if I'm investigating, I go back to sleep.

In the morning, in retrospect, it seems pretty ridiculous, and I don't say a word about it. Except then one of my friends says that he woke up to the sounds of a party last night, and it turns out we all at some point woke up to the sounds of a party in that house separately.

There's scientific possibilities, there was a bar sort of nearby and it's possible it was just a weird audio thing where the sounds from the bar got specifically shot over to where we were, but it was just a little podunk town (those of you who've done the sunset route know it) and not even the weekend, so odd that the bar would be sounding that hopping in the wee hours of a weekday morning. I like to think there was a party of the damned or something crazy going on in that house, and it's probably a good thing we weren't able to get in there and wound up in the shack.

Cool story!

It sounds like a time slip! Or a time loop or something.. My friend was telling me about time slips cuz those stories give her the whammies. They’re pretty spooky indeed. Here’s a link to some, not saying they’re true, but it’s interesting reading: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/11/cases-of-time-slips/

 

[Katbearfoot]

This is more of a cryptid story I suppose...

I was camping with 2 other dudes in the Arcata forest part, some time after rainbow nationals in Washington and right before Occupy Wall Street really took off in 2010.

It was just one other dude and I that night. We made food, smoked some tabac and ganja, no drinking, put out the cook fire. Suddenly we heard crunching of branches like something was beyond the mound we were camping behind. We listened closely, no movement but we saw these glowing green spheres, 3 of them, appear around us on the ground.

We heard the branches crunch again a couple times, and we’re talking about what was going on, kinda weirded out. The dude I was camping with was visibly afraid and began trembling, I swear he was about to hold onto me like a teddy bear!

I tried to soothe him, and turned on the flashlight towards the green spheres. It made them seem to go away, but when the light went out the spheres were right there again. I approached the spheres and tried to poke it with a stick but the stick just kinda passed through it like it wasn’t there at all.

We had no other choice to accept the presence of the strange spheres and whatever else was out there and try to rest. It was kind of a “one eye open” night but we were left alone, and utterly mystified.

Super interesting story.. I told it to my dad and he said that it sounds like this atmospheric phenomenon called ‘foo fighters’ (no, not the band).. I did a little bit of research, but need to do more because it’s confusing.. there are other spherical phenomena that may or may not be related to foo fighters.. there is ball lightning (which I’m really confused about, because wouldn’t it be really hot and made of plasma and catch everything on fire?), also ‘earth lights’ aka ghost lights.. more research is needed, but you’re definitely not alone in seeing strange spherical glowing things. How curious!

 

[Deleted member 20683]

here's my ufo story

i was riding an IM across northern nevada in the middle of summer; i'd been on the train for at least a day coming from wyoming through UT overnight, just sitting in my underwear chugging water with no shade, so, kind of like a possibly trance-inducing experience, with all the noise, heat, light, everything...believe me i thought about it; i have got into some weird lucid daydreams in situations like that. but this was late at night and i was feeling semi normal again when i saw the light. it's not like i had been thinking about ufos or ever especially believed in them. but it was moving around the sky all crazy like it had no inertia, just a point of light, faint but clear in the great basin sky, flying back and forth and changing direction or stopping on a dime - just like you hear about in so many accounts. definitely not a spotlight, sky was totally clear. i remember just thinking "huh well whaddaya know i guess this is one of those things that people talk about when they talk about seeing a ufo, and i am in NV after all..." that was it, just watched it from the train for a while. the next morning i was in roseville. i have no particular idea what i think they are - if i were a bettin man i'd say, secret hi tech weapon system/physics experiment? as calvin & hobbes said "i think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." who knows.

i did have a sort of a ghost experience in the 9th ward after katrina, but i'm not certain it wasn't an overactive imagination thing, although it wasn't like how my imagination usually works. i remember "setting my intention" to be open to that sort of thing, which is not something i've ever done before or since but it just felt right then somehow, and i immediately felt like i was visited by & talking to an old african american woman who told me she'd passed away nearby because of the storm. felt very unusual and like it was too vivid for me to be just making it up, but i guess minds work like that sometimes, who knows...

someone told me a creepy story about seeing a 'skinwalker' on a bike tour somewhere in the southwestern desert a long time ago.....it's not really coming to me well enough to try to retell it. oh well. i used to be pretty skeptical about a lot of stuff before traveling but i've had some weird experiences of my own plus a lot of things i've heard from people who i don't think were crazy or fabulating. i reserve judgment as to what any of it actually means. there are more things in heaven and earth horatio, etc

 

[Odin]

as calvin & hobbes said "i think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." who knows.

awesome spot on.... thanks or sharing those tales... it makes me want to be in the middle o nowhere.

 

[Frypan Meatboots]

I am reading a book about cryptids/ufos/ghosts etc and I am curious, has anyone been on the road/traveling and seen anything strange or something you cannot explain?

I remember once I was up in the Organ mountains in New Mexico at night hiking around and I saw an old time lantern, flame and all, about 50-75 yards adjacent to me on the mountain swaying as it is was walking, as I called out, it kept walking, not closer nor farther from me, just walking. I started making my way towards it out of curiosity and about 15 yards away I shone my flashlight on it and it dissapeared, there was no vegetation to hide behind, no prints(this was on the side of a gravely outcrop on the mountain, should have been slide prints) and no general disturbance.

Anything strange ever happen to you as well?

No but I watch X Files on my phone every day because it's free. I love that show. Aliens fascinate me so much.

 

[QU1DAM]

I am pretty sure that soon I am going to kill myself soon by driving my van over a cliff, so I am going to leave these stories here as a final contribution to humanity.

1. My wife and I were camping in Santa Cruz CA, squatting in a park near a natural spring down the hill from UCSC, we were homeless doing (illegal) campfires for warmth food and hot water. It was a pretty cool camp we were tucked in perfectly under an oak tree nobody ever found us. It was nighttime, and I had been practicing wicca in a clearing near our camp during the previous nights. I was laying down in the tent and my wife went outside to go pee, when she gasped and shouted for me. I jumped up and went to her side, and there was this large orb rotating above the trees shining a bright white light on one side and bright blue on the other. It was drifting above the tree line, and as it went from one side to the other the blue / white would switch places. Then it stopepd in the middle of its path and descended to land, and while it was landing the Blue/White lights rapidly rotated like a strobe and its lights' beams were being split by the trees it was shining through. We both held onto each other and gasped as it landed, wondering what was about to happen? Were we about to meet ETs, or be abducted?

I wanted to go up to where it landed not to far on a trail to a clearing, but my wife thought it better not to who knows what was going on up there? I had shivers all over my spine and hair standing on end, when you see something that defies your rational mind and all you were ever taught about science you dont just look at it you Feel its presence.

The next morning we went to investigate the area and it was really creepy because there was someone else's camp, tent wide open, all the belongings strewn about as if there was a struggle. Things were left there sitting out that someone would not normally leave in a messy pile like that, such as a 9mm rifle? We had to think that the occupant of that tent must have beeen abducted....

2. My wife and I while camping at this same spot went to a Food Not Bombs one afternoon in Santa Cruz. We walked past the Zen Center to a large staircase but before we got to the stairs, we saw this dazzling sparkle in the sky. We both stopped to look at it as it seemed to hover miles high above Santa Cruz, rapidly rotating and changing metallic colors flashing. Another couple came up behind us and saw the same thing, we all stared at it until it rotated into a gold flash and disappeared. I felt mystified and wondering why there were so many UFOs visiting Santa Cruz.

3. We were renting a room at a house in Santa Cruz and there was tons of LSD in the fridge. The college kids who were there seemed more interested in playing FIFA and World of Warcraft so we took some doses and went for a bicycle ride along the coast for sunset. We sat ourselves down on a bench, it was just us looking at the water and shore giggling away. A truck pulled up into the parking spaces behind us, sat there for a little while, then left. Shortly after that, we saw this tremendously bright light along the northern horizon that increased in luminosity exponentially with such magnitude that we thought a nuclear bomb had gone off or something, we were frightened at its brilliance. Then the light flickered away and a waterborne craft slid through the water with ease to right in front of where we were sitting on the bench. It clearly resembled some kind of submarine, as the dark waves splashed across its hull it remained motionless. We looked at it closely and observed its exterior was glowing and there were kind of porthole windows along the top. We were puzzled as to why it stopped right where we were, and how did it make a light that was so bright it was as if the sun was rising. At first we thought it was the acid, but the unidentified submersible object looked and its baffling light looked as real as the truck that parked behind us moments before.

After we had a good long look at it, and supposedly it had a look at us, the submarine slipped through the water on a southward course along the shore.

During all these incidents, the camera on our droid had been malfunctioning.

I want to leave this here, because these were some of the most soul stirring moments in my life and they were special to me, and my wife is specifal to me too so when I am gone I want her to see these here so she knows I loved her and it did mean something, even though I was too weakk to keep going with this life.

Just keep praying, divine consciousness is listening

 

[Candice]

I went to Louisiana and went under a bridge to sleep and herd a voice with a French accent that said help help her nobody around