An open record of things people cannot explain

January 4

What people could not explain on this date, in 15 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


20
accounts in the record happened on January 4, the earliest in 1990 and the most recent in 2023.

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…

2015-01-04

On January 4, 2015 at 7:45 PM, a witness, a passenger on a scheduled flight, observed a luminous phenomenon moving on the ground at the same speed as the aircraft. Other passengers, when asked, observed the phenomenon. A…

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

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