I'll relate an incident and you will get the idea of the topic.
I have been working a two hour shift at a food pantry on and off for about 15 years.. Over those years I've come to notice that the shift, 12-2 always went fast because there was so much to do and it was so fun.. Except for those last twenty minutes.. Yep. By 1:40, I was tired, most of the food had been put on the shelves and I was ready to go home.. except that the Clock always Seemed to STOP at 1:40.. Those last 20 minutes seemed to never end..
Well, today wasn't different. I made it a point to tell the new volunteer, Sara, to note that at 1:40 the clock on the wall would seem to stop. We looked at the clock, it was exactly 1:40 ...and went back to work.. About ten minutes later she came to me and said, "You were right.. The clocked STOPPED at 1:40" I looked at the clock and sure enough...the clock's battery had died at exactly 1:40.. We had a good laugh.. WHODDA GUESSED... Coincidence? We'll never know..
What is your "you won't believe this, but" story?
Edited by - TuneWeaver on 03/13/2025 07:35:23
Now that is spooky!
Mistake on the OP.... The clock stopped at 1:40, not 12:40 .. Sorry about that.
Lee, I believe you can always edit your OP. That would make a better story, and then you could just make one additional post - "Corrected."
Sara must have been spooked out by YOU!
Thank you for working at the food pantry…:-)
Thanks, Doug. I'd forgotten that I could always edit.
I'll try to be brief... 
Back in days long past - 4 of us high school friends had a habit of driving down into Mississippi on Friday nights. (I won't tell you why.)
On HWY 51 headed north, halfway back to Memphis - our discussion (for whatever reason) turned to UFO's - we went from semi-serious to kidding around. I casually mentioned "Yeah, look there's a couple up ahead" - pointing up the road. It sure looked like a pair of headlights in the opposite lane - until those headlights became airborne. The one on the right took off to our right headed east - at a rather "brisk" pace. The other was definitely above ground and slowly headed down the highway towards us.
When it got close to us - it stopped. We were kind of dumbfounded, we stopped and watched. It finally flew off to the east as well.
No distinct markings, no real defined shape. It looked mostly like a lighted object that had the color, glow, and appearance of a Mercury halide lamp. No sound.
What was it? A UFO - - definitely unidentifiable; definitely flying; definitely some kind of object.
The whole thing only lasted a few minutes, but at the time... there was no such thing as time. Strange thing... I still don't recall us really talking about it - except to say - "did you see that?"
Edited by - tonyelder on 03/13/2025 11:40:09
OK, I'm pretty sure that this odd story was told somewhere on the Hangout but it qualifies to be told again. As a young man I had a girlfriend who lived way out in the country..two lane paved roads with uncut, tall grass on each side. On evening I was driving along to visit her in my little red Volkswagen and without notice a skunk darted into my path and I ran over it...Well, exactly one week later I was driving along that same road and up ahead I could see the carcass of the roadkill skunk I had killed a week earlier.. Just as I got to it ANOTHER skunk darted out in front of me and I ran over it, not ten feet from the first one......What are the chances??
I moved my dryer to the utility room and did not have an outlet for it. I called an electrican and he gave me a price for the job.
The next day, 2 men came to do the job. They had to run wire from the north end of the house to the south end through a crawl space.
One crawled under the house on his hands and knees; it was hot summer . About the time he crawled out of sight he started screaming and did not stop until he crawled out of the hole backwards.
He said"There is a snake 6 ' long under there." I see rat snakes and king snakes often. I said ,What color and he said"black". I said"King snake ,he won't bother you. He is just looking for a cool spot and catching mice."
He called the boss and handed me the phone. The boss said that they would not go back under until I got an exterminator.I told him that the snake would not wait for an exterminator because all of that screaming had probably scare him into
the next county.
I thought for a minute and told the boss that I would run the wire ,if he would take $25 off of the charge. He agreed;I crawled in, ran the wire and wrote him a check minus $25.
I never did see that snake any more.
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