An open record of things people cannot explain

August 8

What people could not explain on this date, in 16 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


24
accounts in the record happened on August 8, the earliest in 1982 and the most recent in 2021.

The accounts

1990-08-08

I grew up in the outskirts of a small town of Wellsburg, in the northern part of West Virginia. In the northern panhandle, ever since I was little we would ride our dirt bikes in the old strip mine, that was called cente…

growling · heavy footsteps · something walking upright

2020-08-08

Several times a week I go fishing at the James Reed Memorial Wildlife Area just south of Lee's Summit, MO. It's about 900 acres plus 10 lakes to choose from for fishing and a area with walking trails. Each lake has a lev…

whooping calls · growling

2012-08-08

On August 8, 2012, a witness lying on a terrace was looking at the starry sky when he followed for 5 seconds the straight-line movement of an object he did not recognize. The object had the shape of a "weaver's shuttle,"…

2015-08-08

On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 2 a.m., a person from their home observes the silent passage of about fifty small milky-white discs (then pewter-gray) in the sky. The phenomenon is observed with the naked eye then with bi…

1982-08-08

My brothers and I were swimming in the creek across from my Mom and Dad's house when I was 11 or 12 years old. I am 40 now and I can still see it very vividly in my mind's eye. I had left my watch at the "Deep Part", whi…

a very tall figure · something walking upright · hair standing up

2004-08-08

IT WAS AROUND 9:30 PM ON 8/8/04. I HEARD MY MINIATURE HORSES MAKING A RUCKUS IN THE YARD. EARLIER THAT DAY I HAD CLOSED THE FRONT GATE SO THEY COULD GRAZE IN THE YARD. IT WAS RAINING FAIRLY HARD AT THE TIME AND MY OUTSID…

a very tall figure

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