Science, technology, and logical reasoning have built the world we know today. But for all the questions they’ve answered, there are still plenty of mysteries that remain unsolved—and some of them have been witnessed by perfectly ordinary people.
When a Reddit user asked others to share something they’ve seen with their own eyes but simply cannot make sense of, the responses were nothing short of fascinating. We’ve gathered some of the best ones below. Read through them and see if you can come up with an explanation—because so far, no one else has.
#1

I'm a veterinarian who helps people say goodbye to their pets at home.
The first thing I do for a pet is make them comfortable by giving an injection beneath the skin of a delightful cocktail of medications.
This relaxes and sedates until they are unconscious, with the end state being anesthesia. I test the pet's reflexes to ensure they are absent before moving on to the second, and final, injection.
I was helping a German Shepherd who was very serious about his job, which was his family. He stumbled to his feet when I arrived because he had to inspect me. Sweet old man.
When it was time, I gave him the first sedating, anesthetizing medication, waited a sufficient amount of time for it to take effect, and noted a lack of reflexes. I got into position to proceed to the final step.
Just then, the doorbell rang, and that Good Boy lifted his head, said WOOF WOOF WOOF and laid it back down. 😳 That had never happened to me before in all the years I've done this. None of us were prepared, and the family jumped like they'd been shocked.
What I can't explain is that immediately after he woofed at the doorbell he was anesthetized. No reflexes, no indication he could feel anything at all.
This is why I tell people that they may be able to hear you as they pass. That dog's pride was watching over his family. It was so fundamentally important that it overcame unconsciousness.
I have helped thousands of families and pets, and it's only happened once.
The first thing I do for a pet is make them comfortable by giving an injection beneath the skin of a delightful cocktail of medications.
This relaxes and sedates until they are unconscious, with the end state being anesthesia. I test the pet's reflexes to ensure they are absent before moving on to the second, and final, injection.
I was helping a German Shepherd who was very serious about his job, which was his family. He stumbled to his feet when I arrived because he had to inspect me. Sweet old man.
When it was time, I gave him the first sedating, anesthetizing medication, waited a sufficient amount of time for it to take effect, and noted a lack of reflexes. I got into position to proceed to the final step.
Just then, the doorbell rang, and that Good Boy lifted his head, said WOOF WOOF WOOF and laid it back down. 😳 That had never happened to me before in all the years I've done this. None of us were prepared, and the family jumped like they'd been shocked.
What I can't explain is that immediately after he woofed at the doorbell he was anesthetized. No reflexes, no indication he could feel anything at all.
This is why I tell people that they may be able to hear you as they pass. That dog's pride was watching over his family. It was so fundamentally important that it overcame unconsciousness.
I have helped thousands of families and pets, and it's only happened once.
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115points
#2

This is something I heard with my own ears, but I think it still fits the spirit of this post.
I live about an hour away from my immediate family. A couple of years ago, I clearly and loudly heard my mom call my name in the middle of the night. The following morning, I learned that she had a stroke. When I went to visit her in the hospital, I was so distressed that I had already forgotten about hearing her voice the night before. Completely unprompted, my mom told me that she had loudly and clearly heard me call out to her in the middle of the night. Very strange, but kind of heart warming.
If anyone is curious, she had to do physical therapy for a while, but ultimately made a full recovery!
I live about an hour away from my immediate family. A couple of years ago, I clearly and loudly heard my mom call my name in the middle of the night. The following morning, I learned that she had a stroke. When I went to visit her in the hospital, I was so distressed that I had already forgotten about hearing her voice the night before. Completely unprompted, my mom told me that she had loudly and clearly heard me call out to her in the middle of the night. Very strange, but kind of heart warming.
If anyone is curious, she had to do physical therapy for a while, but ultimately made a full recovery!
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68points
#3

In my neighborhood there is a stray cat that hangs out with a huge possum. I see them regularly just walking around together. No one else has seen this duo. I’m starting to wonder if it’s a reoccurring hallucination at this point.
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68points
#4

My grandpa was a hobby vegetable gardener/light homesteader. He [passed away] in January a number of years ago. That spring, other family members were talking about if we should garden again without him there. Out of nowhere, a packet of seed peas fell onto the kitchen table. I thought they slipped off a ceiling fan blade, but why the hell would they have been there? None of us could explain it, but we decided we better keep a garden going.
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63points
#5

I once saw a man in a full tuxedo riding a unicycle through a McDonald's drive thru at 3am carrying a single red balloon and to this day I don't know if I was witnessing a tragedy or a triumph.
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54points
#6

My mom mentioned that she’d never traveled internationally. I reminded her that the trip we took to Canada counts. She insisted we’d never been to Canada. I was confused and said, “Yes we did. When I was little we went with Uncle.” I reminded her how we drove through Michigan and there was a bridge she was terrified of. She cut the conversation off and so did I. Later, she asked me in an agitated way how I knew about the trip. I told her I was old enough to remember! She tells me that’s simply not possible, because she was pregnant with me during thats trip, but I was not born. That was the one and only time she went to Canada with my uncle. There were no pictures, nothing - but I described to her what she wore, what type of bridge it was, what the truck looked like.
49points
#7

When I was little, I attended my great-grandma's funeral. It was an open casket, and I remember leaving the viewing and going to the banquet; I looked back to the casket and saw her turn her head, smile, and shush me before going back to her position.
Crazyblondie11:
I was told this is a common occurrence. It’s the same when you go to the chapel of rest to view the deceased. I was expecting them to sit up and say ‘I’m not really deceased!’ It’s basically your brain tricking you to cope with trauma or something like that. Still bloody freaky though!
Crazyblondie11:
I was told this is a common occurrence. It’s the same when you go to the chapel of rest to view the deceased. I was expecting them to sit up and say ‘I’m not really deceased!’ It’s basically your brain tricking you to cope with trauma or something like that. Still bloody freaky though!
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42points
#8

I saw my grandfather waving at me from a café, only to find out later that day he had actually passed away the day before in another country.
35points
#9

At the end of a huge storm in central TX, one final crack of lightning hit and for just a moment, the whole sky lit up green. And not just a little green. It was the same shade they dye the river in Chicago on St Patrick’s day. I’ve never found anyone or any book that can explain how it happened
ETA: I’m not talking about standard green thunderheads. I’ve lived in tornado alley plenty long enough to understand those lol. I mean GREEN LIGHTNING turning THE SKY green.
ETA: I’m not talking about standard green thunderheads. I’ve lived in tornado alley plenty long enough to understand those lol. I mean GREEN LIGHTNING turning THE SKY green.
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34points
#10

Used my keys to open my apartment door, went inside, placed the keys on the table, locked the door, turned around and my keys weren’t there. I checked the outside of the lock thinking maybe I left them in. Nope.
They just vanished. We eventually moved and I never actually found the keys. It’s still baffling.
They just vanished. We eventually moved and I never actually found the keys. It’s still baffling.
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33points
#11

I'll preface this by saying this is actually my old school friend's story but it fits the criteria so I thought I would share it.
One time my friend was returning home from school and as she came up the driveway, she noticed her mother smiling rather oddly from the living room window. She said this *person* had the same clothing as her mother and even had the exact same hair piece she wore as she has alopecia. It was a full length window and her mother was standing in front of the curtains but in an unnaturally hunched way (and definitely not her mother's posture and mannerisms)
My friend was confused as her mother was usually working at the hospital as an orderly (across the road from their house) and she *definitely* wasn't the type to stand strangely in the window and smile in such an unnerving and mechanical way.
My friend said she felt her stomach literally drop like she knew whoever this person or thing was standing in her house wasn't human. And definitely not her mother.
My friend bolted across the road and when she found her mother in one of the wards cleaning she became hysterical knowing with certainty that what she'd seen with her own eyes was someone or something sinister.
One time my friend was returning home from school and as she came up the driveway, she noticed her mother smiling rather oddly from the living room window. She said this *person* had the same clothing as her mother and even had the exact same hair piece she wore as she has alopecia. It was a full length window and her mother was standing in front of the curtains but in an unnaturally hunched way (and definitely not her mother's posture and mannerisms)
My friend was confused as her mother was usually working at the hospital as an orderly (across the road from their house) and she *definitely* wasn't the type to stand strangely in the window and smile in such an unnerving and mechanical way.
My friend said she felt her stomach literally drop like she knew whoever this person or thing was standing in her house wasn't human. And definitely not her mother.
My friend bolted across the road and when she found her mother in one of the wards cleaning she became hysterical knowing with certainty that what she'd seen with her own eyes was someone or something sinister.
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31points
#12

I dropped a glass on the tile floor. I heard it shatter. I braced for the mess. There was no glass. Not a single shard. It just vanished.
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30points
#13

More heard with my own ears, but I had a stereo setup in my first apartment and at like 2 in the morning the speakers erupted at full volume with the sound of a woman screaming desperately. It was bone-chilling and my heart stopped, it just kept going. I was on the phone with a buddy and he's like "what the hell is that!?" while I stumble to the OFF button. It won't work, so I run outside.
It just keeps blaring this top-volume, bloodcurdling female scream for like 20 seconds before I run back in and unplug the system. Never happened again. Best I can figure it was picking up CB signals from the close by highway or something, but somehow that's less settling.
It just keeps blaring this top-volume, bloodcurdling female scream for like 20 seconds before I run back in and unplug the system. Never happened again. Best I can figure it was picking up CB signals from the close by highway or something, but somehow that's less settling.
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29points
#14

Shooting star made a U-turn. All in one moment either science broke, I saw aliens, or China been getting WILD.
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29points
#15

Working at a bar at the time and we were all chatting when a Martini glass just flew out of the rack across the bar to the floor where it shattered. The glass rack next to the bartender was one of those hanging ones but wasn't full at the time. It was caught on camera as well. No one touched the glass it just yeeted itself off the rack.
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27points
#16

A shadow of a man crawling on the wall just after my chandelier blew in half. It all happened in split second.
27points
#17

I saw something that can be explained now but surprised me at the time. Saw an older man with entirely blue skin. I could tell he wasn’t in makeup. Found out afterwards it is a condition called Argyria.
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27points
#18

Back in the early 2000’s I had just moved to Pennsylvania. I came home from work one night, turned on the T.V., and watched an entire movie called “The Day After Tomorrow”. About a week later, the movie I had watched at home by myself that night, was announced to be just now coming out in theaters. I still to this day have no idea how that happened.
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26points
#19

I was driving through the windy, densely wooded, single-lane back roads late one evening. A HUGE buck appears right in front of me as I turn the bend, it’s so big it takes up the entirety of the lane and looked to be 10 feet tall. I slam on my brakes and instinctively close my eyes and brace for impact, but there was no impact, even though there’s absolutely no way I could have avoided it. I looked in my review mirror and the buck is looking at me, twitches his ears as if he’s annoyed, and causally walks into the woods as if nothing happened. It’s as if I phased right through him.
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25points
#20

I was living in Madison WI and for some reason I had this urge to go for a walk around 8ish at night. I'm walking around the neighborhood but being mindful of how nice the sky looked that night.such a beautiful clear night and the temperature was just perfect. Then I saw two streaks of red light in the sky, like when the Enterprise goes into warp speed and leaves a trail. They were perfectly symmetrical and created two perfect red trail lines in the sky flying away from the direction I was walking. It took me by surprise because they looked like two solid lasers that slowly disappeared. Suddenly, out of nowhere two fighter jets blasted through the sky in the direction of the lights followed by two Blackhawks going in the same direction. I paused wondering what the hell I just saw. I watched for a bit but ended up heading home after a while when everything seemed to settle down again. To this day I have no idea what I saw.
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