OT/MISC What was THE most unusual thing that ever happened to you?

[Countrymouse]

I went down to the Mississippi spillway in southern wisconsin to go fishing. There were about 6-7 other people along the shoreline fishing too. It was probably about 11:30 pm. The spillway was on the non-channel side of the river so there was a bunch of small islands in the backwaters. All was very quiet until a guy yelled “what the hell is that”. We all looked where he was looking and a round white light was above us by a few hundred feet but maybe 200-300 feet away too. It sat there for a period of time. We all started grouping together speculating what it was. I thought it was a helicopter with a light and it was an optical allusion on distance. Then after about 3-4 minutes it started coming down lower. It went over the island directly across from us and went into the tree line. It lite up the island like a prison yard. A few seconds later all the deer, raccoons and other animals were jumping in the water and swimming away from the island. We were all dumbfounded. There was no noise. Dead silence. Nobody even spoke a word. All you could hear was the animals making noise in the water and the spillway. Then all of a sudden the light went straight up in the sky until it looked like one of the stars and disappeared.

That was the day I changed my opinion about spirits, angels and UFOs since that is the only three things I could relate to what I saw.

That sounds identical to the weird lights that appeared over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem a few years back.

They were seen--and video-d--from several different angles in at least three different locations.

 

[Countrymouse]

OUIJA means “yes yes”. Once in French and once in German.

and most don't realize what they're saying "yes" TO, when they open that portal............

 

[Countrymouse]

Is that even a word?

I think that would be BRUTE (Brut is an aftershave brand) and MAD.

My parents used to talk about stepping on a "staub" and hurting one's foot, but I think they meant "stob":

stob /stŏb/

noun​

1. A short straight piece of wood, such as a stake.
2. A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
3. A short straight stick of wood.

There is also a German word, "Staub," but it means dust.

 

[Countrymouse]

In the '70s when my son was 7 or 8 he woke up one morning quite upset due to a dream he had just before waking up. As he told me his dream I realized that it was the same dream I had had just prior to waking up. Our dreams were about a school bus upside down in a water filled ditch and the bus had frightened children inside, some of whom drowned in the water.

Later that night on the evening news was a story from the other side of the country (we were on the west coast) the news story was exactly what we had dreamed.

This son also dreamed about the planes and the World Trade Center towers of 9/11 the night before it happened.

wow.

Let us know if you or he have any more such dreams!

 

[Milkweed Host]

Finally, about 1am they put her in ER room. About 3am, they diagnosed "transient global amnesia". Rare, "shouldn't" recur.
Brought on by too much physical activity-too hard of a workout

That's a term I have seen in years. I know someone who's had TGA four times. The last time
was twenty years ago after receiving a prolonged stream of pepper spray in the face.
I suspect that TGA is brought on by high blood pressure along with weak blood vessels in the brain.

The medical field knows very little about TGA. It's a term they use when they run out of ideas.