An open record of things people cannot explain

April 17

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.


18
accounts in the record happened on April 17, the earliest in 1979 and the most recent in 2024.

The accounts

2017-04-17

One night while fishing with 2 friends on a creek outside town, it was nearing 11:00 pm. pitch black night. Fish were biting decent. But to pass the boredom my one friend found 2 sticks laying on the bridge. In a humorou…

whooping calls · a beam of light

2018-04-17

On April 17, 2018 at 9:00 PM, a witness is taking a long-exposure photo of the sky pointed at the zenith between the Big Dipper and Leo when he notices a trail that he takes for an ordinary airplane trail. At the same mo…

a photograph or recording exists

1984-04-17

In the spring of 1984, I had been working with for the (undisclosed) in Arkadelphia, AR. That particular day we had to paint some boundry line around an area near Biern, AR, just southwest of Gurdon, AR. It was in the af…

a very tall figure

2016-04-17

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at around 9:12 PM, a couple is intrigued by the presence in the clear sky of a round and bright shape with a particular shimmering of several colors. The Moon is visible to the left of the point…

2002-04-17

Me and my family had moved to the Mongomery county area in October of 2001.In december I had noticed a old logging road leading into the Sam Houston National Forest from the sub-division which was still under development…

growling · a dark figure · the feeling of being watched

2005-04-17

While Turkey Hunting in the Ingersol (Colockum Wildlife Area in Central WA.)on 4-15-05 I came across some fecies with a diameter of about 2". Which at the time I thought to myself it must be a Huge Bear. The following da…

screaming or howling

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