An open record of things people cannot explain

May 16

What people could not explain on this date, in 18 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


19
accounts in the record happened on May 16, the earliest in 1970 and the most recent in 2023.

The accounts

1970-05-16

From the late 60's to about 1990, my Dad took us camping many weekends in the summer to the John H Kerr Reservoir (hereafter know localy as Buggs Island Lake)wich stradles the Virginia, North Carolina border, along the s…

2006-05-16

It was the summer of 1983 or 84 and I was working for a company during the summer months trying to pay my way through college. I worked 58 hours a week so I had little time to do anything else besides work. I had purchas…

growling · animals reacting

2013-05-16

May 16, 2013: I live on the border of Highland City and Bartow. Our neighborhood borders a series of orange, grapefruit and tangerine groves that are all adjacent to landfill and mining property. Around 7:30 pm my daught…

footprints

1980-05-16

When I was a young boy, my father would take me backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains every summer. When I was 10 years old, my father decided I was strong enough for a long excursion in the wilderness, and we set o…

the same thing seen again on another occasion · more than one witness

1993-05-16

In GEIPAN publications (www.geipan.fr), there are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined, with the sole aim of being more relevant in the conclusions. Thanks to new technical mean…

1984-05-16

I was just talking to a friend and he told me of this sight. I was 15 and coming back from fishing. The sun was up but was on its way down. Fishing season had opened about a month before and my rotwieler and I were walki…

a very tall figure

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