An open record of things people cannot explain

January 4

What people could not explain on this date, in 8 different years.


9
accounts in the record happened on January 4, the earliest in 1995 and the most recent in 2020.

The accounts

2001-01-04

I am european and I enjoy hiking alone in the American National Parks (I've been in Yosemite, Death Valley, Arches, Canyon Lands, Mesa Verde, YellowStone...). I've already seen bears (black bears and a grizzly in YellowS…

1995-01-04

My incident occurred on the 4th of july in 1995 in the CVNRA in Boston Twp(?), Ohio. I was in the Army, home on leave at the time. Three of us(myself, cousin, and a friend) had just left the Independence fireworks and de…

screaming or howling · a dark figure

2016-01-04

On Monday, January 4, 2016, at 6 a.m., I was backcountry camping with a friend in the Sam Houston National Forest. We had made camp near an unnamed pond west of the Hiking Trail. The night was clear, 35 degrees, and perf…

knocking · wood knocking

2020-01-04

I was driving down Williard Rd around 5pm as i came around the last right hand corner looking toward the straight away to the junction with cook- underwood road. i saw a black object in the road....i thought its was a be…

1997-01-04

I was setting some coon traps on the edge of a powerline next to a wooded area after dark. I had some sardines or some kind of fish with me for bait. I was using fence staples to stake the traps to the roots of trees. I…

whooping calls · heavy footsteps · something walking upright

2011-01-04

I went for a hike at lunchtime in a newly made path that cuts through the Timber Ridge Forest Preserve. This path is surrounded by about 8 ponds. It has been very cold and snowy here in the teens and 20's for almost a mo…

footprints

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