Did that just happen?

When I was 18 or so I woke up because I heard something thumping downstairs, and when I went down I found a barn owl clinging to the drapes in the living room. It wasn't stuck, it was just hanging out. I folded up a quilt and very carefully picked the owl up, carried it outside, and released it. Watching that bird fly away was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

Several years before that I was walking out to feed the horses and saw a chicken snake laying across the road, which doesn't sound so strange, but... When I say it was laying across the road, I mean the snake was laying all the away across a single lane track, with at least a foot on either side. I tried to grab it, but it slithered away under the tack room. Near as I could tell from guesstimating, it was at least seven feet long.

James
 
While watching the local bunnies eating from our grandparents beach house, we spotted a bobcat in a shallow ditch. By the time we saw him and realized what he was, he sprang out and nabbed a bunny and trotted off into the hillside. It was like something strait out of National Geographic or something.
 
"I have had a bobcat stalk my turkey decoy and right before it pounced I let out a bit of a shout and watched it jump out of its pants an run like hell."

The weirdest part of that story is that the bobcat was wearing pants!! :D
 
The rabbit one is great, no way I can compete with that.

I used to work in a building in the country about 1.5 miles from a big lake. One day I noticed something that looked like a rat moving along the wall. I went over to get a better look and found it was a baby muskrat, maybe 5 inches long.

Last year I was camping in the Bighorn Mtns and had just fired up the stove. As I stood up from lighting it I noticed a muley doe and two fawns about 40ft away walking into the campground (I was the only one using it). As they got closer the doe spotted me and came towards my camp while the fawns moved off to a grassy area. She walked up until she was about 4ft away and kept looking at me, if I'd have had food in my hands I could have fed her. Once she figured out I didn't have any she wandered off. I have no doubt people in the campground had been feeding her all summer and that's why she came looking for a handout.

This one is more of a 'did he really say that?'. I was at Camp Pendleton and my BEQ was right on the edge of the area, facing out to scrub brush. A new Doc had been assigned to my Plt from elsewhere, he and I were on the catwalk and I was filling him in on where things were, what there was to do, etc. I was leaning against the railing so my back was to the brush. All of a sudden he says "Oh cool, somebody's puppy. I didn't know you could keep them in your room". I turn around and there's a coyote about 20ft from the building stalking what I assume was a field mouse. When I told him it was a coyote you should have seen the look on his face. :eek:
 
The first spring my wife and I were in our house I wake up one morning and she tells me that something is in the walls and the cats are going nuts at the spot. She goes to the store and I cut a hole in the wall to see what it is. Staring back at me were 2 beady little eyes and bam a bird flies out of the wall, scares the hell out of me and starts flying into the picture windows. It lands on our couch and I scoop it up in a little net, the thing was extremely calm. I take it outside untangle it and it flies away happy as can be chirping away. Never saw a way it got in so I thought it was a fluke.

2 weeks later the same sound is coming from the walls. Cut another hole in the wall next to the one I just fixed and same thing, two eyes staring at me. I reached in and grabbed the bird this time and put it out the window, but kept hearing the sound. Looked in again and 2 more eyes looking at me, grabbed that one and put it out the window. Low and behold I hear the same sound, grab a light and look in, 4 or 5 baby birds in there huddling together among a bunch of feathers and bones. I pull the babies out, put them in a box and put them outside next to the window I had just put the 2 adults out of. Took the shop vac and got rid of the bird grave yard.

I ended up finding where they got in. An old exhaust vent outside in the eave of the house had a broken spring on the latch and they found a nice place to nest. The nest got too big and the pipes separated in the attic and they fell down in between the walls.
 
Several years ago while visiting my inlaws I was walking on a dirt road in a very rural area. The road wound through a boggy pasture. About twenty yards ahead of me a house cat broke from the high grass, ran a few yards down the road, dived off toward the watery ditch by the road and came up with a sizable frog in its mouth. It ran down the road to about thirty yards ahead of me with the frog and once again left the road into the high grass and brush in the pasture. I walked on for a minute or two, then caught movement in the corner of my eye, turned to see a large gray fox trotting across the pasture with the cat in its mouth.
 
Shooting dove over a stock tank several years ago- one fell several feet from the bank. A big bass caught that dove before it hit the water.
 
Years ago i spent a couple of summer weeks at boy scout camp. It worked out that i had to myself a 2 man tent (wood platform, 2 bunks). One night Im in my sleeping bag and the camp cat climbs up on my bag. Its real dark and I reach down to pet the cat and it feels a little different - the hair is a little longer, a little fuller, and a little coarser. Not being all that sure of what was what, and not wishing to find out, i pull the sleeping bag up a little farther over my head and go back to sleep. The next day I asked around and by all reports, the camp cat was in a different tent, all night.
 
Don't be afraid to tell us if you saw a bigfoot!



In Arkansas on the shore of Boggy Creek, home of the Fouk Monster, there was a lot of rustling noise in a swampy area on the other side of the creek. A coyote ran out of the woods, jumped in the creek and swam across towards me. It climbed out of the creek, ran right past me, and kept going! I can only assume the Fouk Monster had frightened it.
FYI, there was a 70s horror movie about the Fouk Monster, The Legend of Boggy Creek.



he has made his appearance.

i believe as well.

ryan
 
WolfTracker said:
When the priest said: "I now pronounce you man and wife".
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And that was when the fight started!:D


I was Deer hunting in Western Oregon, glassing a large area. To my left was a tree line, and to my right I used a lagre black rock as a marker. After about an hour, the rock stood up and walked off. That was my one sighting of a black bear and until he moved I thought he was a rock.
 
siguy said:
oh and once i almost ran over a squirrel on my bicycle. topping a hill, so i was going slow, and the squirrel didn't seem to want to move until i swerved around it.
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Heck, once I did run over a squirrel with my bicycle. I was riding to school through a nearby park on the bike trail when a squirrel ran out, got half way across the trail and decided to run back, no run forward, no run back, no...THUMP! I ran right over him. :eek: If I had tried to do it I could not have done it in a million years. I thought he would run out of the way.
 
I came back to the house where I lived in the middle of a large city and there was a red headed woodpecker inside. Scared the heck out of me for a moment when it got startled as I walked into the room where it was. To this day I have no clue how he got in. I know the neighbors must have thought I had gone nuts because I had all the lights on with the windows and doors open while I was running around the house with a broom trying to shoo it out. :p
 
this dosent compete with the firey rabbit one but here it goes:
was doing a bit of knife and axe throwing and i stuck the axe, then stuck the knife in the axe handle. i bet i could not do that again.
 
The rabibit story is the best.

A couple of years ago I was hiking with my dad and brother and sister and I climbed a tree to see how far we were from a river or something. I was about 15 feet up and the branch I was standing on broke. I fell and did a complete front flip and seemingly gently landed on my feet. I had to stand there for a few mins trying to figure out what exactly happened.

Another time I was in a tree house and as I was trying to get down I slipped and fell about 20 feet only to land straight on my butt. My friend was on the ground about 5 feet from where I landed and she said I hit so hard I actually bounced. Immediately after I landed I got up to find I wasnt hurt at all. Not even a scratch. Not sure how I came out of that one uninjured.
 
not real crazy, but down right spectacular. fishing a hike in small lake maybe 100 yds across up on mt hood in oregon with a light fly rod. saw an osprey drop down and take about a 14" brook trout on a couple occasions. so makes you appreciate the wonders of nature...

Winston
 
Haha this thread is awesome! Ok, well one bright Saturday morning my brother and I were riding our dirtbikes in the back country. We had been riding for no more than an hour and were ripping through a rather woody area and out of nowhere this deer bolts out of the bush right in front of me. It scared the living hell out of me and let's just say I didn't stand a chance against the tree that happened to be in the wrong place at the right time. The deer didn't even have the decency to give me the 'deer in the headlights' look...
 
Once I was fishing a small man-made lake and there must have been an insect hatch going on. All at once small trout began popping up vertical out of the water for almost their full body lengths and sliding back in. It was happening everywhere (maybe dozens at a time) non-stop for what seemed like forever. It looked like a trout version of whack-a-mole. One of the strangest things I ever saw.
 
I got another. Got to try and compete with the rabbit story.

A friend and I went coon hunting one night. He took his male Black and Tan , I brought my female mutt because she was a good squirrel dog and I wanted to see how she would do. My friends dog forgot about coons and turned his attention to my dog. Hed hop on and hump. My dog would snarl, growl , and snap. This went on for quite some time. Finally my buddy had enough. He put on a brown jersey glove and grabbed hold of his dogs tallywhacker. The dog immidiately unloaded everywhere. I fell off a stump laughing at that. Shortly we got down to the business of coon hunting and ended up getting two. He left the glove behind.
 
I once caught a bat while fishing: I was casting out over the lake and I guess that it thought it was a bug and grabbed it. The thing stayed airborne for twenty or thirty seconds before crashing into the lake.

We were hiking back to camp after hunting deer all day, and it was dusk. A big owl, don't know what kind, swooped down and knocked the hat off of my dad's head. I think I pooped myself.

I was out mountain biking with my buddy, and we were shooting down hill on a single track trail. We came upon a red fox that was trotting along; he looked back and saw us, freaked out, and ran as fast as he could but never left the trail. We were right on his ass for a couple of hundred yards before he realized all he had to do was move off of the trail.

I was out hunting grouse with my buddy, and all of a sudden he starts jumping up and down and screaming profanities. He drops his shotgun and then drops his trousers and chonies around his knees. I am thinking "WTF"? He turns to face me with his unit in his hand, and I'm thinking "couldn't he do this at home with no one watching? Pervert!" Then I notice that he is fighting to pull a giant red ant out of the end of his urethra! I laid in the dirt and laughed my butt off!
 
^ouch. The weirdest thing I can remember is when I stepped on a squirrel. Must have been in ninja mode...
 
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