An open record of things people cannot explain

May 17

What people could not explain on this date, in 14 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


19
accounts in the record happened on May 17, the earliest in 1967 and the most recent in 2024.

The accounts

1986-05-17

In May of 1986, three friends and me went canoeing in the Boundary Water's Canoe Area Wilderness in Northeastern MN (St. Louis County). We had originally planned on doing a loop trip; beginning and ending at Moose River…

screaming or howling · growling · footprints

1967-05-17

Hi! My name is Gabe. This is the first formal report I have ever made on this. It's a good one.I remember it as clearly as if it just happened. It happened in 1967. That's a while ago but it left an unremovable memory on…

screaming or howling · animals reacting

2015-05-17

On May 17, 2015 at around 11:16 PM, a witness observing the night sky is intrigued by the appearance of a succession of bright points (the witness counted up to 8) which gradually form a large V. The whole thing flies si…

moving in formation

2000-05-17

My summer ecology class was hiking to Middle Fork Lake. As with most classes, some students walked faster than others. I was with the stragglers, a few of whom were suffering from the cold and thin air. The trail had onl…

something walking upright · footprints

2009-05-17

I was hiking by myself on the Florida Trail near Florahome. I walked south from the Trailhead near Coral Farms about 7:00. It had rained the day before amd the red clay/sand jeep road had no animal or human prints. All w…

2022-05-17

Town of Erwin New York State when I was hunting spring turkeys. I was sitting at the base of a tree location at the top of a ridge line that connected to another ridge. I was calling gobbler turkeys that were on their ro…

heavy footsteps · a very tall figure · something walking upright

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