50 True Stories That Sound So Bizarre That Nobody Believes These People

When I was about 4 years old, I saw a flash of color outside through our TV room window. Got up to investigate and hand to G-d, there was a small toucan hopping around our backyard. I still remember just how dark its black feathers were and how bright yellow its beak was. Ran to go tell my mom, by the time I got her and went back to the window, it was gone. I grew up in South Jersey.

At the time no one believed me.

Driving across a mountain range between NV and CA, a huge wolf ran out into the high way in front of my car, turned and looked at me and ran into the forest. I have always loved wolves and couldnt believe my eyes as I had always been told there weren't any in that part of CA anymore...within 2 years I read an article saying they had reasons to believe there were some that had be hiding out and another year after that they had been tracked down.

Used to live in a house built in 1802. It wasn’t long before we noticed things moving around on their own, disappearing and reappearing in odd places. One day I put the kids on the bus as usual in the morning, tidied up the living room, locked the doors and went upstairs to have a shower. When I got back downstairs and walked past the living room I got stopped in my tracks.

In the middle of the floor was all our couch and chair pillows, stacked in a neat pile and on top was the tv remote that had been missing for three weeks.

I’m actually afraid to write this due to the circumstances surrounding the aftermath of it but here it goes anyways…

Colorado, circa 2015, we are camping in the rocky mountain national forest. It’s off season for campers and tourists so we’re the only ones there. Pitch black save for our little fire. We are staring up at the night sky, slightly cloudy. When all the sudden there is a bright glow directly above us. This bright glow begins to move, side to side, up and down. And then suddenly splits into three separate white glowing orbs that start to move in the sky opposite of one another. It’s difficult to tell the size of something when it’s up in the sky but these were high enough to be disappearing above cloud coverage and coming back down again. So safe to say, pretty high up there.

Of course, I pull out my phone and start recording. We are all freaking out. This lasts for 2-3 minutes before all three of these things shoots directly upwards and disappear. We keep watching for at least another 30 minutes to an hour to see if these things come back, they don’t.

Fast forward the next morning. After getting basically no sleep for obvious reasons. And like the good millennial that I am, I post this video to social media publicly. Within 24 hours it’s gone viral. We have people calling us liars, accusing us of staging this, we also have people claiming to have seen these exact orbs themselves in colorado and other places. Well, not long after, I get a private message from the facebook page of a well known “ufo hunter” TV show. They are asking for my email and requesting the video to be sent through it. Asking me to sign a release so they can use it. I’m thinking, cool. We might be on TV…..

Before I can get into my email to send or sign anything, all the sudden my phone completely reboots itself. Like, out of nowhere it’s restarting, It’s an android so it’s taking forever to boot up and the little android icon is popping up and when it comes back on again EVERYTHING is gone, EVERYTHING. My phone was completely reset. I thankfully had a gmail cloud backup that regularly updated once a day, so i’m not worried too badly. I finally get into everything and i’m seeing all my photos and videos and everything from the days before the encounter, and the days after.

The video is completely missing. All the sudden my husband is like “check your facebook. I went to comment on the video and it’s giving me an error” SO I get logged back into my facebook AND THE VIDEO IS COMPLETELY MISSING from my profile. At this point I can’t even click on the old notifications to try to get back to it. It’s displaying that broken link/ something went wrong message.

I have told this story personally to friends and other family members over the years but the only people who believe me are my husband and brother, who were there witnessing the events with me, and the people who saw the video on social media….

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

I haven't told many people this because I think I'll sound completely insane but here it goes:

So my ex girlfriend and I used to like to go for late night walks in our neighborhood during the summer. This particular story happened during the summer of 2010 (I can no longer remember the specific date) and we left our house at around 3:00 am. Judging by how long we walked and where we were I'd say this particular event happened around 3:30 am.

So my ex and I have a different recollection of how it started. I remember seeing it first and pointing it out to her but she remembers seeing it first and pointing it out to me. I remember walking over there out of curiosity and bringing her along and she remembers walking over there out of concern and bringing me along. I think what actually happened is probably a mix of both, anyway...

I saw the silhouette of what I thought was a little person, like a dwarf, standing by a large bush in someone's front yard. They were talking excitedly and laughing seemingly to themselves. Right away the whole thing had an uncanny feeling to it but I was just drawn to it and I had to go over there to get a closer look. Now my ex remembers seeing it and thinking it was a child in distress and going over to it out of concern.

Either way, it became aware that we were approaching it and it started going "ohhhh" "ohhhh" "ohhhh" and each time it said that it peeked at us by slightly turning its head. I can still hear it and see it to this day. It was so freaky. The hairs standing up on my arms right now just remembering it.

Ok so this next part is where I'm going to sound completely insane. My ex asked if it was ok and reached out for it and as she did it turned around sharply and whatever we were looking at, I swear to God, was not human. I don't know how to describe it because I've never seen anything like it again but it was like a hairy little troll, and it's face looked like a bats face. My ex always said it looked like the little Goblin men from the Harry Potter movies. I personally don't think so, but that's what she thinks. It was dark but there was enough light for both of us to see. It's possible one of us had a better angle than the other so that one of our descriptions is more accurate. Or like I was saying before, it's probably a mix of both. anyway...

When it turned around it made this high pitched screeching noise and I instinctively grabbed my ex to protect her. Within a few seconds it frantically stumbled into the forest and it was gone. My ex and I BOOKED IT home as fast as we could and just stayed in bed all night and morning freaked out before we could even talk about it.

The whole thing, from the time we first saw it, to it disappearing into the forest lasted probably 30 seconds. 30 seconds and it totally messed us up. It took a long time for us to even be able to walk over there again. Eventually we started spying on the person who's house it was in front of! Thinking they might have had something to do with it but we saw nothing. We went through so many theories as to what it possibly could have been that I feel like each one had it's own era: the dwarf with better than movie level prosthetics who for some reason was out in the middle of the night? (Just makes no sense...); an escaped government experiment that went wrong (the paranoia was overwhelming during that era); some cryptoid (yes I actually started reading crytozoology books during this era) etc.

We never got to the bottom of it and we never saw it again. To this day I have no idea what it was and I never tell anyone about it because I feel like people will think im completely insane. This is my first time ever posting about it in public.

You know I've replayed that memory so many times in my head that I actually think it's a detriment to it. Like I said my ex and I each have our own version of it thats slightly different. Its been 16 years since it happened and it gets fainter as the years go by. I've kind of made my peace that ill never know what it was. So it's just this totally bizarre thing that me and this woman who I don't even talk to anymore share. Just the two of us. No one else.

I was a part time nanny for some doctors just after university, and I lived in a cabin below their “manor house”, on a lake. One night I was walking home to my cabin from up on the street where I parked. I had to walk around to the back of their house and then down a lot of stairs to my cabin. As I came around the back side of their 3 story home, I saw a large brown weasel looking creature with huge eyes, crouched on the windowsill of the lowest floor, just staring in intently at the 5 girls (the 3 sisters had friends over) sitting on the couch all close together watching a movie. It was dusk, and the room was glowing. I startled the weasel creature and it made an extremely shriek “Eeeeeeeee!” sound, flew from the window sill across the path in front of me, (about 10-15 feet) and into the bushes, where it just vanished. The girls really did look adorable all snug together and happy. I saw something from another realm that night, watching them. It was much larger than any squirrel or weasel or marten or anything in our area. The size of a Lemur. Its eyes were enormous, it was brown, its crouch and gaze that of extreme intelligence and not like any animal I have ever seen.

Back around 2012 I would drive from Los Angeles to Chico about every week. I drove a newer 4 door Jeep Wrangler. I would start my drive around 2 am to get Chico around 10 am. After driving through the Grapevine on I-5 passing through I think the city is Lebec. After driving past the gas stations and restaurants located near the two off-ramps right after the Grapevine, a couple miles later my Jeep would lose power and slow down until I would have to pull over and stop on the side of the freeway. After stopping my vehicle, I would turn the key and my Jeep would restart and drive on just fine for the rest of the trip. But it would happen in the same exact place multiple times on different trips. I did this drive weekly for about 3-4 years. The area the car would stop was in the middle of nowhere in this farmland/agricultural area around 3-4 am. Nothing crazy ever happened but it always weirded me out how it would happen at the same place every time. No idea why!

I was staying the night over my best friend's house during the fall of my childhood. Must've been around 7 years old or so when this happened. We had been up late into the evening/night playing video games with a family friend of his, taking turns since the game we were playing only allowed for up to two players at once for split screen. For some context: He lived near a bunch of apple orchards and farmland, on a back road that was only a two minute drive away from a major highway. It was pretty common for people to peel off the main road and get into car accidents on his street. Reckless driving, drunk drivers, people not being careful on curvy back roads in the middle of winter, etc. Had to deal with plenty of power outages at his house regularly thanks to some people taking out power lines every now and then. Anyways, my best friend and his family friend are playing together and I'm sitting over near his bedroom window which faces the road. I'm glancing back and forth between the game they're playing and the orchard trees outside.

That's when I saw her. A pale-skinned woman with long almost pitch black like hair draped over her face, wearing what looked to be some kind of white night gown standing between the trees. I remember being firmly fixated on her, because it looked almost as if she was glowing and she wasn't moving at all. I turned back to point her out to my buddies, but they were too busy playing the game to pay any attention. When I turned back, I saw some light coming up the road to her right. About a minute later, a truck drove by and as it passed by her she disappeared. A little after that, my friends asked me what I was talking about and then just wrote it off as my eyes playing tricks on me. To this day however, I believe that what I saw was a Woman in White. A spirit that, to my knowledge, is uniquely known for causing car accidents.

FIFA 2006 on my PS2. I wanted to have fun drawing out the countries and put them by groups like it’s actually done in the World Cup draw. I wrote all 32 teams in separate papers, rolled them up, and put them in a jar. I assumed I could draw them out and manually plug them into the group in my fifa game. I drew out countries and would place them in their respective 4 teams per group on the floor. When it came to manually setting it up on fifa I couldn’t. To my surprise, “Shuffle” all 32 teams was my only option. I was frustrated more than anything because I just wasted my time doing all this. Whatever. I press “shuffle” and……. WUUUT IN THE WOOOOORLD?????? Every single country I drew was in the exact group in my fifa game as I physically had them on my floor. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I kept looking at the groups on my floor and back at the tv. I thought someone was playing a prank on me. But who would? It’s just 15 yr old me in the room on a Saturday afternoon. I still think about this and can’t understand what is the likelyhood of this even happening.

Saw a ufo but not all grainy and at night. It was clear as day just hovering there and it was huge! It couldn’t have been a plane or a blimp. It looked like the ones in Independence Day (the original) and it was about a half mile away in the sky and not moving.

I was at my first sleepover. My friend and I were asleep upstairs when I heard a noise and woke her up. The room was a bonus space overlooking the living room to the kitchen where the glass back door was. We could see a figure behind the curtain at the door and the door was shaking like someone was trying to get in.

We panicked on what to do next. It stopped. We froze. When we looked down the stairs, a large figure with chains around his ankles walked across the bottom, leaving marks on the carpet.

We decided to run to her parent’s room, absolutely panicked. Her dad got up and went to sleep upstairs and we got in bed with her mom. They never did believe us. I remember it to this day, 26 years later.

When I was a young teenager, 14 or 15, I hit a hole in one on a par 4. It was a short par 4, only about 300 yards and I had never come close to driving that green before. Luckily I have a witness, but no one believes me when I tell that story.

I think i saw a chupacabra in Brooklyn.

I was working as an emt on the night shift and got called waaay out of our area (we were out of station 31, fort green) and got a call to the middle of east NY / Brownsvill) for an unconscious male, asleep on the sidewalk.

Obviously it’s a homeless dude sleeping on the street but you don’t know that until you get there.

Free throw Of a call but it took a while to get there.

On arrival,’we don’t see our patient so we ask for a call back from dispatch for a better location.

While my partner smoked a cigarettes I saw a TALL wolf like creature emerge from a sewer grate, shake itself off, and descend down a different sewer grate over the course of ten seconds or so.

Its knees bent the wrong way and it was way too skinny to be a wolf or coyote.

It was just one weirdo looking at another weirdo, Briefly exchanging a knowing look, appreciating each other before returning to our normal duties.

This is my husband’s story but I think about it often. When he was a child he and his mom were walking inside their house in a small country town outside of San Antonio, Texas. They both happened to look up at a bright light in the sky. After a couple of seconds the light split into 3 different lights which then took off separately at insane, lightning fast speed. They were very scared the rest of the night.

We were watching an unsolved mysteries episode about UFOs and they were discussing a ufo that split into multiple lights. He casually blurts out “I’ve seen that” like he hadn’t thought about it in a while. He called his mom, who is a VERY practical and religious woman, and asked her about that night. She said something along the lines of “Son, I try not to think about that night. I will never forget it.”

I want to see a UFO damnit!

On the night of June 10th, 2010, I was in my bed in the camper my family was camping in at Albert Pike camp ground and was watching the lightning while trying to fall asleep. Before I fell asleep I swear to everything that I saw a skull face materialize in the sky looking at me. That night at about 2:30 am my dad woke us all up cause the camper was filling with water and the river was beating against it violently. We all almost drowned, but managed to escape the water and make it to some nearby cabins on a tall hill, but 20 people lost their lives. Was a horrific night. I was only 14. Nobody believes me when I tell them what I saw.

When I was walking home late one night, I got chased by something.


From afar, I thought it was a dog or a cat but as I got closer, something felt off. I hesitated but persists and told myself it's a cat. As I'm walking, I noticed it's also walking towards me. I stopped, it also stopped. I took two steps, it took two steps. If I took four, it took four. At this point, I'm freaking out, unsure of what to do cause I'm literally the only one in the streets. Without thinking, my body moved and I made a quick left. I ran so fast to my left that I jumped over a fence and into someone's backyard. I hid in the bushes until I heard it ran fast passed me. I stayed in the bushes for a while.


Till this day, idk how my body knew that it had to jump over a 6ft fence (I'm only 4'11) and that there was a bush behind it. It was so dark, barely any streetlights but for some reason, my body reacted quickly on its own as if it knew it was there. by the time I came to, I was in the bushes for probably 6-7 minutes. I still dont know what it was but all I know is that every time I think of that particular night, every single hair on my body stands up.

I was about 9 years old. My mom, dad, little brother and I lived in this 3 bdr trailer just outside city limits of Hobbs NM. My mom and dad stayed on one end of the trailer that had a bathroom connected. On the opposite end was my bedroom and just outside my door was a bathroom and down a hallway was my little brother's room. My dad liked to go missing for days to party and we all sort of knew he wasn't going to be home that night. I couldn't tell you what time it was but I couldn't sleep and sort of tossed and turned a lot. Then I turned towards my window and seen a really tall figure standing between my bed and a closet on the opposite end of the room. Even though there was a window my room was pretty dark. The tall figure had a sort of grayness to it in the dark room. If anyone has ever lived in a trailer you know that walking around in one isn't quiet. Nobody could have walked in my room without me hearing them walk down the hall. Plus my mom is a tiny woman. This thing almost reached the ceiling. I was so terrified that I couldn't move and just closed my eyes. I thought that was a bad idea because I wouldn't see if they tried to grab me or something so I opened my eyes and it was still there. I closed my eyes again. I was afraid to scream, move or anything. I just would squint my eyes open every once in awhile only to see it still standing there. This went on for what seemed like an hour. Then the phone rang. I opened my eyes and it was gone. I sort of had a mini panic attack until my mom turned on lights in the house to come wake me and my brother up to get dressed because my dad had been arrested and wanted my mom to bail him out. I don't know what was standing there and I've tried explaining it away my whole life but nothing makes sense.

I threw an unlit cigarette to my friend who asked me for a cigarette, he was about 12 feet away from me, I was in my living room, he was in the dining room, I threw it pretty carelessly and it went into an open bottle of tequila that was sitting on my dining room table. I wouldn’t be able to do it again if I spent the rest of my life trying.

Once in uni, my roommate needed to leave our room to fill her water bottle and come back, and she couldn’t find her id to do so so she had to borrow mine. my friend left with her and about 10 minutes later she came back in, thanked me, and gave me my id back which i promptly tucked under my leg (i could feel it there as i was sitting on it). 2 minutes later she comes into our room, hands me my id and thanks me for using it. i could feel my id under my leg as she was doing so. then when i reached for it, it wasn’t there. i’m convinced i switched realities or something.