An open record of things people cannot explain

August 17

What people could not explain on this date, in 22 different years. Try your birthday: almost every date in the year holds something somebody wrote down.


29
accounts in the record happened on August 17, the earliest in 1972 and the most recent in 2022.

The accounts

1978-08-17

In 1977 my husband and I bought a small hobby farm in Taylor County, Kentucky.....just outside the town of Campbellsville. Our farm was surrounded by neighboring farms, but no one lived on the land bordering ours, the ow…

screaming or howling

1979-08-17

It was summer, late 70's, I was about 12. I lived a block West from railroad tracks, which ran North/South, and about 1/2 mile North of my home was the edge of a wooded bottomland which is referred to as Middle Fork, whi…

the feeling of being watched

1985-08-17

We backed pack into the Uintah's two years in a row - this was our second year. I have never shared my experience with anyone. I was afraid people would think I'm crazy. My personal experience happened about 1985-1986. W…

screaming or howling · heavy footsteps · moving in formation

1980-08-17

On August 17, 1980 at 1:30 in the morning, two witnesses are driving on national road 1. Arriving at Cap Houssaye, they see for a few seconds three motionless human shapes on a mound overlooking the sea about fifteen met…

blue light

1984-08-17

On the afternoon of August 17, 1984, about 3 or 4 pm, my (now ex)wife and I were leisurely riding our Vespa motor scooter in the woods on Fairview Mtn. Road, near Yachats on the Central Oregon Coast. We had been coasting…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

2011-08-17

On Wed. 8/17/11 my family went camping in Okanogan County, Washington near the town of Conconully, WA. We arrived around 4:00 p.m. at the Salmon Meadows campsite. We checked out serveral sites and picked the one nearest…

screaming or howling · animals reacting · waking to something in the room

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