whats the strangest thing youve ever seen - /out/

Anonymous06/28/26, 21:45No.2873231What's the strangest thing you've ever seen outdoors?

What are the weirdest things you've ever seen?

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Anon06/28/26, 22:04No.2873232

I once saw a black person hiking deep in the backcountry.

Anon06/28/26, 22:08No.2873233

I once spotted two squirrels having sex

Anon06/28/26, 22:11No.2873234

Lightning flashes without sound on a still night.

Anon06/28/26, 23:21No.2873236

A whole ass naked person running through the woods barefoot full sprint. Making guttural noises with an eviscerated squirrel in his hands. Always chalked it up to drugs or mental illness

Anon06/29/26, 00:25No.2873239

A baby snake.

Anon06/29/26, 06:41No.2873272

Just spoopy fog moving in really fast on an otherwise clear day. But that's just mountains for you. Haven't seen anything inexplicable yet.

Anon06/30/26, 19:48No.2873397

Albino deer. That patch of forest was incredibly pristine, looked like elves would live in a place like that. Wanted to camp there, but I was overcome with a creepy feeling about the place once sunlight started to go. Felt like I had to get out of there immediately, so I packed up in a rush to get out of there and stayed at a nearby clearing instead.

Anon07/02/26, 03:39No.2873513

Two male roadrunners having a dance battle in front of a hen.Also a ton of Apache ghosts/land spirits having a party in the Superstition Mountains.

Anon07/02/26, 21:27No.2873567

A perfect round circle with no trees or weeds about 20 yards across in the middle of a dense forest. There was also no sound while you were within the circle but step back into the forest you could hear wind and birds.

Anon07/03/26, 00:07No.2873580

One time in the middle of the woods on some mountain in arizona i saw a group of people wearing like medieval gypsy style clothing sleeping on an ornate rug on the forest floor

Anon07/03/26, 03:02No.2873596

Rain on a cloudless day. My grandfather told me that means the devil is beating his wife. I miss him dearly

Anon07/04/26, 02:06No.2873679

I came across what I can only describe as an 'LED' butterfly. It was a butterfly bright as the daytime LED lights on modern cars. Flew infront of me in slow-mo from left to right, then disappeared into the tree line.

Anon07/05/26, 20:39No.2873895

I was sitting on a hill facing south overlooking a bay in western Ireland. I noticed a sudden light across the bay and stared across it, I then saw a white orb rise from the horizon across the bay and rise in a 90 degree arc. Once it reached its apex, it shot straight up into the sky at an impossible speed. Then 2 seconds later I saw another light follow the exact same pattern; rise at a 90 degree arc and shoot off into the atmosphere impossibly fast.

Anon07/05/26, 20:58No.2873896

There's an outdoor park I used to live beside that is right outside my little city that is great for lots of walking trails, and I especially liked going there on rainy days since hardly anyone would be out walking the trails. So rainy day when I was 19 I walked to the trails to enjoy some time in nature. On this particular trail I was on had a left hand bend that would eventually lead to a sort of fork in the trail and had a bench right beside the fork. When the bench came in to view I noticed a kid who looked to be around the age of 14 sitting on the bench with his pants around his legs jerkin' it in the rain. We briefly locked eyes as he attempted to cover up what he was doing. So I just turned around and went back that way I came so I could go down a different trail.I wish I had "Weirder" experiences while outdoors, but this is still plenty weird. Also it's a fun story to tell

Anon07/06/26, 02:33No.2873912

Idk if this counts but I know of someone who ran into a "worker" on a trail. Hi vis vest inconspicuous and all that so they think nothing of it. They keep going along the trail and realize this person seems to be trailing behind them just behind bends. As they start to look at the guy stuff starts to not line up. No tools, a bit rough looking, and the vest has different colors then the normal epa people who are out there occasionally. Long story short the guy starts running at them but fucks off when they start shouting and getting closer to the parking lot. They never find the guy and it turns out the police had a bunch of open cases of a similar MO. I think a lot about what the end goal of this "worker" was and if they are still out there.

Anon07/06/26, 03:09No.2873913

Idk there’s so many different things. I saw some bitch pissing on the side on the road on a main road not to long ago. Her whole ass and coochie was out.

Anon07/06/26, 03:11No.2873914

Some guy took a nap on my couch and was ripping ass. It was like really really early in the morning. Super weird hahah

Anon07/08/26, 00:44No.2874047

I was hitchhiking through Oregon and I saw a horde of Hasid teenager and kids wandering around a rest stop adjacent to a wilderness area on 101.I didn't know we had jews.

Anon07/09/26, 04:30No.2874132

two bodies of water, barely separated by a few meters of sand. one was stinking filthy the other one perfectly clean mountain water. think it was these ones, i drank straight out of the clean one and pissed in the dirty one.

Anon07/09/26, 06:33No.2874138

tl;dr it's just me guysGame trails follow most roads, our do. I walk the trails hunched over swinging my arms. The whole time I'm doing this it's killing me I'm laughing so hard. I run into the forest and hide when they come back. "I saw it over there!!". Sometimes if I can find asomething I'll do a tree knock.

Anon07/09/26, 12:26No.2874147

the only strangest stuff experienced outdoors was this incident in some woods roughly two years ago... i don't go deep into the forest a lot, only sometimes with family or friends to walk and burn some calories or just kill time that day started normally with conversation and no health issues, (like bad sleep or poor diet)... so while they took a phone call, I stepped away to look around, going far enough that I couldn’t hear their voices anymore i was looking around when I heard from a distance this prolonged chant saying my name…in the first seconds I didn't even realize it was my name because I was distracted and thought it was some animal like a fox, deer or bird making sounds, but then when i reacted I knew it was my name being chanted in a human manner... it gave me this strong chill towards where it came from there was some fear but since I could still see the others it was 'okay'... I went back and asked if they had heard any animals or something (without saying my experience) and one said yes, that heard something but couldn't make it out later when I told my family my dad said those things are like hallucinations, pretty common when people go into the woods and aren’t used to being ALONE in nature... I trust that explanation because I don't believe in anything 'paranormal'... it took me a few weeks to really move past it though right now while telling it in this much detail i actually felt a bit of fear again.. I mean, my name isn't three, or four easy words an animal could just pronounce.. but it really was the weirdest thing that’s happened to me outdoors here in Estonia

Anon07/09/26, 16:37No.2874162

Full ass nude old guys on hike naked day, thought it was just a myth but nope people really do go out there balls swinging in the wind. The women had bras and panties on

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Anon07/09/26, 22:38No.2874190

phil

Anon07/09/26, 23:46No.2874197

someone cross post this to /x/. might get a lot of replies. and tell em /out/ sent you.

Anon07/10/26, 02:11No.2874212

flying aliens

Anon07/11/26, 13:05No.2874295

I saw a golden possum in a silver tree stump.

Anon07/11/26, 21:48No.2874323

I saw a naked woman in the stream posing and a man taking pictures of her.

Anon07/12/26, 00:14No.2874341

>Deer skeleton laid out on a dirty mattress >Squirrel king consisting of 4 squirrels >A hideously deformed woman,screaming gibberish at a dog >A huge pile of lacrosse sticks, ridiculously deep in the woods.

Anon07/12/26, 00:51No.2874344

I remember weird stuff from my childhood. When we were kids, my sister and me went to a camping trip with our mom. We got lost somehow and it was very scary. We wandered around in the dark forrest all night, but couldnt find our way back. The next day we were found and our mother was worried about our health. My sister was malnourishened. So we needed my doctor, but wow, I cannot believe my mom stooped so low... My mom called my doctor and said to him "What's the most accurate measurement for weighing?" The doctor said "An underwater weighing test" And just like that, my mom said "Yes. When can my son and my daughter can take it?" and the doc said "Today at 2pm."So, I didn't bother taking a shower and so did my sister too, so I had to get into a special swimming suit(tight pants...Ugh).My sister said "Can I pull my hair down to a ponytail?" The doctor said "No." So my sister with her long, blonde hair went underwater with 8 seconds and had she must enjoyed it..but I didn't.

Anon07/12/26, 09:00No.2874382

whatever the hell this thing was :[

Anon07/13/26, 01:08No.2874442

Last year I had a mountain lion walk into my camp and sit down. I didn’t notice it until it was sitting looking at me from about 10 ft away. Scared the holy shit out of me. I yelled at it, but it didn’t seem to mind at all. I started backing up and it would walk forward every time I did. Seriously thought I was going to have to fight this motherfucker. So I just charged it hoping I’d scare it away. It didn’t move. We just stared at each other, literally 5ft apart. I was contemplating my options totally at a loss for what to do when it just turned and walked off. Never had anything even remotely happen like that in my life, and I spend a lot of time outdoors. I’ve never even seen a mountain lion other than a quick glance while driving a few times. I just thought, WTF was that all about. Later at night was the craziest lightning storm I’ve ever been in too. I just sat in camp, drinking a beer getting soaked. Wild weekend!

Anon07/13/26, 19:26No.2874484

I was quail hunting alone long ago on some land my father owned. Wasn't having much luck when I topped a small hill and looked out across a small valley to another small hilltop. Walking in circles on the other hilltop about 200 yards away was a large coyote. I watched him walking in a small circle for a few minutes until he noticed me. As soon as he saw me, he took off running right at me down the small hill into the valley. I thought Oh shit. He was running at me and making this horrible high pitched growl. Wasn't much I could do but watch him running at me until he got about 30 yards from me and I raised my 12 gauge and sighted in on his face/chest. First couple of blasts only slowed him down with the birdshot until he was less than 10 yards from me and I blasted him in the head. He collapsed in front of me missing most of the top of his head. I left him there and ended my quail hunting for the day. Never knew what set him off. Never seen any pups or anything. I think he was walking in circles and had some kind of disease/parasite infection that made him attack me.

Anon07/13/26, 20:04No.2874486

Re posting a screenshot of my old post >inb4 sleep paralysis God I hope it was...

Anon07/17/26, 06:07No.2874826

Not a very exciting story but I figure it meets the thread criteria. When I was living in a cabin out in the ass end of nowhere it was late at night and I was going to sleep when suddenly I was jolted by an extremely loud screech/scream. It sounded like a halfway between screeching car tires and some kind of shrill shriek. I’m quite familiar with the area, and I can’t say I’d heard that animal noise before, nor did I ever hear it again. The direction it came from, well, all the roads are dirt/gravel. And car tires don’t screech on dirt. Nevermind that those roads back there had a lot of sharp turns, so nobody in their right mind would be doing something silly like that at that hour. Still don’t know what it was.

Anon07/17/26, 08:49No.2874833

I got attacked by a Western Capercaillie when I was snowshoeing in the forest in winter a few years back. Sadly my phone fucked up and crashed while I was filming him.Anyway, the bird started growling at me and for a split second I literally thought he was a wolf (there is a known wolfpack in that exact forest that has been killing lots of livestock). Then he did his whole shtick of walking towards me in a zigzag pattern, pausing every few seconds to scream at me before approaching again. I shouted at him to leave and even prodded him with my ski pole, but he wasn't interested. Since he just wouldn't leave me alone I ended up retreating ~300-400m through the woods until I reached the trail again. He kept watching me as I retreated, then he would fly back up to me and watch some more until I was further away. He stopped following me once I reached the trail. And no, I did not hurt him.These birds are known to do this and the videos of them are pretty hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-XTblDwe7c https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I9_wygdpSlU

Anon07/18/26, 03:25No.2874909

I never greentext so bear with me >august 2025 >two week camping trip around the 4 corners states with my dog >picrel is her and Curacanti, highly recommend >today I'm driving through Dixie National Forest >pick spot around 100 yards off a dirt road that runs up and down one of the mountains >set up hammock, pitch tent, build fire >chill in the hammock for a while watching the sun set and playing fetch >fuck this is perfect >sun goes down, cook dinner for myself and her >the entire night she stands between my legs, hair on her scruff sticking straight up, head on a swivel, barking and howling and growling at the pitch dark >doesn't eat >not like her at all, so I'm alarmed >in 4 years she's never growled, rarely ever barks even when we've encountered coyotes. >goosebumps >keep pointing my flashlight at the bush looking for eyes or something >after 3 hours assure myself there's nothing out there, put out the fire, and sleep >she doesn't >wakes me up twice by nudging me and with the most ferocious barking I've ever heard. >peek my head out >see nothing >can't hear shit on account of the torrential downpour. >3rd time I step out to take a piss and still see nothing >decide to move us into capped truck bed anyway >lost count of how many times she woke me up, there's nothing there >next morning go to break down camp >take down one side of the hammock >take down the other >shit myself >full leg of an adult mule deer nestled in the dense branches next to the trunk >no decomp, a little blood on the trunk and ground, no other entrails, smells fresh, no insects >cut up to the hip joint, not a knife's work, but no other bite marks anywhere >dangling around the strap, on the side I was standing the night before >no way in hell I'd have missed it setting up >wtf I'd have been staring straight at it while watching the sunset >first thought is hunters, but rule them out because no tracks in the mud other than my camp sandalsat character limit

Anon07/19/26, 15:48No.2875043

One time I was smoking a joint on my own in a field, and I saw in the night sky a large dark triangular shape go through the sky. Stars were there before hand, then there was a triangle shape of nothingness and then stars again. Possibly a UFO or something who knows. Outside of that, there are heaps of doggers (public sex havers for non brits) here.

Anon07/19/26, 16:51No.2875050

I watched slugs mate. It's very strange.

Anon07/20/26, 00:12No.2875078

Don't know about strange but it was one of the cooler skies I remember seeing.

Anon07/20/26, 08:12No.2875117

Strangest thing was camping in the Richmond Ranges in the NZ South Island, only moonlight, dead quiet. I see a Massive pure white Barn Owl glide silently right over my head and across the valley. We don't have any Barn Owls.In Canterbury, in a tent, in bed, 3am, silent. 2ft away from my head a Possum screamed full volume. Scared the shit out of me until I realised what was going on. They're a real pain in the ass, I had one being nosey and pushing against the side of my tent so I punched it. It ran up the tree and started shitting on my tent so I yelled at it, it jumped trees across the stream and just laughed at me all night and I got no sleep.I was camping next to the same stream in the bushes and I saw a guy come down the stream on a dirt bike, he hit a rock and nearly fell off, got off his bike, walked over to the big rock and started pointing at it and cussing it out, kicked it, hurt his foot and left.In the middle of nowhere way up in the mountains with no tracks for miles, I saw something wedged in some boulders, a little container. I opened it and it just had a notepad and a pencil. It had peoples names written in it and some drawings. Really perplexed me but I decided it was a geocache thing and put it back.Found a crabs leg and a pile of sea shells way up in the highlands far from shore.Was driving up to a camp site on a remote station track around 11pm in the dark, came round a corner and a deer was stood in the middle of the road facing me, on two legs. I thought it was an alien.

Anon07/21/26, 20:51No.2875306

Was camping with a buddy of mine out somewhere we might not have been allowed to be camping at. Decided to fish in the morning for some food and the line just broke when casting twice in a row. Never had this happen before so we decided to just fuck off and hike back to the car. While we were leaving a bunch of cops were driving up towards the spot we chose so I think it was divine intervention

Anon07/22/26, 03:34No.2875366

I've had intense horny boiseggs with a naked Peruvian in the pitch black darkness at 2 am. We finished and went on to see a weird guy without light coming in our direction.At this point we only wondered proceding to the camp, over a bridge into the absolute middle of nowhere in a swamp. It started raining so I decided to stop then suddenly this guy came at us out of the darkness, I assumed defensive position mistaking him for a deer at first, then he backed off and we walked very fastly into the other direction towards the city.He has been definitely stalking us and possibly even observed the session from the darkness. We walked through the city for hours to return to our camp in the forest from the other side, being happy to not have went there right away and therefore not revealing it to the stalker.We saw him again the next day in afternoon in that forest park near Görlitz. He must be either horny or a homeless junkie. But at least not a serial killer. Always expect the unexpected.I've been in forests without light a lot but never encountered anyone like that before.

Anon07/29/26, 07:53No.2876006

not really weird but this big grey kangaroo jumpscared me on a silent rainy hike

Anon07/31/26, 02:40No.2876207

Weirdest thing I've seen /out/ was the lady at a beach near me. This beach is 5km down a steep hill. She was overweight, had 3 kids with her, 2 dogs, a coffee in one hand and a beer in the other. One of her dogs (something small and yappy) was really interested in meeting my dachshund. The other (a golden) was acting very jealous.I did not stay long.

Anon08/01/26, 12:00No.2876361

I already told my only weird /out/ story here sometime last year, gf at the time heard a weird goblin type voice in the woods in Canada. Every time I think about it it gets me wound up, totally bizarre.

Anon08/02/26, 05:37No.2876433

In a river, on a rock, I saw a recently used dildo.

Anon08/04/26, 17:58No.2876673

I don't know what it's called, but some type of bullet sounding bug that just flapped its wings so hard, that it sounded like a bullet, landed in front of me, and just laid there menacingly. >pic related >mfw

Anon08/05/26, 01:02No.2876716

i was camping with some friends at this reservoir area when i was like 14 theres a old old road that goes through the area but its not maintained so you need a lifted 4x4 to get through one side, the other side was sometimes really bad too the place is completely packed with people now but back in the 90s basically no one went up there we were camping and some guy made it up there somehow in a really shitty old honda accord or something like that and he was freaking out the entire time just screaming his head off and he had a dog and I think he killed the dog while he was going crazy because of the soundsanother time i was at a swimming hole and that kids would go to a lot in the summer, we went down to it and there was this incredibly bad smell we were looking around on the rocks to see what it was and we found a black contractor bag that had washed down the river and got caught on the shore we took turns trying to dare each other into opening the bag until one kid grabbed it and yanked it and a giant pile of gore spilled out of it i tell myself it was a deer body but I dunno, I didn't get a really good look and it was pretty undiscernible exactly what was in there and kind of think sometimes it might have been a human body because it was fleshy more than furry

Anon08/05/26, 18:59No.2876790

>be 16 or 17 >there is a small park with maybe a half mile walking trail pretty much directly adjacent to my neighborhood >trail runs up one side of the creek and ends a little spot with benches >about 85% the way to the benches, there was a spot you could turn off to the right and walk out onto plastic docks over swampy area >just out for a walk being angsty teen, standing off on plastic docks and looking at the plants in the water while listening to iPod >see motion back toward main trail in peripheral vision so look over (obviously not weird to see others on such a short trail) >there is a girl/woman, couldn’t tell age, wrapped in a blanket walking slowly down main path toward the benches >immediately wtf internally because >A. It is something like 90 degrees out >B. She’s not simply wrapped for warmth. She’s wrapped fully head to toe with the blanket clutched at the chest and dragging behind her too as it was sort of “burrito’d” around her. Like she’d just rolled out of bed on a winter morning to answer the door >wonder if she needs help or something because this is very unusual in my suburb >return down plastic docks and head up main path, the last 15% so very short, to the benches >girl is nowhere >she couldn’t have walked into the water. The creek isn’t even all that deep >she didn’t go deeper into the woods because it was very thick and I couldn’t hear any woods-walking from that direction >look around some more, just nothing >turn around and leave to go home >before walking back to neighborhood, ask some old people sitting in the park if they’d seen the weird stuff >nope, nobody else seemed to see anything Really no climax there but nothing I’ve seen in deep /out/ has ever topped my experience a mile from my neighborhood lmao

Anon08/08/26, 21:57No.2877085

I was hiking along and this colored thing just stuck out off the trail about 20 feet, not even a popular trail. I walk over to it and it was this. At first I was "haha wtf?" then it was just early quiet so I took a pic and ran back to the parking lot. Haven't gone back since.

Anon08/08/26, 22:25No.2877090

Seven miles in, in the middle of the trail, sat a bear can without a lid with a child's sleeping bag stuffed inside.

Anon08/09/26, 08:31No.2877113

>Solo road trip > pull off highway and drive a few miles into the SE Utah desert to find a place to tent camp for the night >Nobody around slightly breezy >Eat, get settled, lay down to sleep >Wind starts picking up >Goes on for what felt like hours as I lay there >Windier and windier and windier, louder and louder like I'm on the front of a storm or what felt like damn near a tornado >Tent shaking violently, wind so loud, I'm a lil scared >All of a sudden >Wind stops dead >Absolutely dead silent >Shocked, ears ringing, goosebumps all over >Petrified in my sleeping bag too scared to get up and look outside >Eventually calm down, exhaustion takes over and I fall asleep. Had to be there kinda thing, maybe gale force winds stopping immediately might be meteorologically possible, I have no idea but I haven't experienced that before and it was jarring, I think I pissed off some native spirits being on their land

Anon08/12/26, 01:28No.2877375

Ufo's and lights in the sky with weird flight patters, sharp J turns, things like that.

Anon08/15/26, 03:46No.2877643

I found some kind of cattle dog coyote hybrid about a day’s hike into the woods of New Hampshire last summer. She was skinny and thirsty so I fed her and gave her some water. She stayed by the fire through the night. For the next two days she stayed with me. When we got back to the car it took some coaxing but eventually she jumped in. Now she lives in my house and sleeps in my bed. GF doesn’t trust me alone anymore in the woods. She’s afraid I’ll bring more animals home so she comes with me now. I called the dog Wild Doggo for a few weeks until GF shortened it to Willie. She is by far the strangest (and best) dog I have ever met. If she’s not hungry she will put a couch pillow or an article of clothing over her food dish and save it for later. When she gets protective and aggressive she makes a snorting sound like a hog. She hunts and catches and eats squirrels in the back yard.

Anon08/21/26, 02:26No.2878095

Only thing that comes to mind (because recent) >0300, moonless night >Sailing through Hecate straight after a week of piss poor sleep >SC 27 so zero freeboard, kinda comfy desu >10-15kn winds so just cruising along, dead quite >Hear something splash right behind the boat, maybe 5 feet away and the weirdest snort/guttoral sound >Keeps happening every 5 minutes or so for like 8nmOf course now I know it was just a seal or something now but fuck at the time, after hearing nothing/no one for hours in the middle of night, middle of nowhere sitting right on the water it weirded me out

Anon09/07/26, 05:39No.2879560

Gravel lot on Rainier with like a burnt 50s car in the corner, no pic of that

Anon09/09/26, 06:50No.2879740

Nothing too exciting but I was hiking up a mountain and someone's dog came bounding down it, going straight through shrubs and shit like it was running for its life. Kept going and it suddenly got so quiet I could hear the leaves, the crackling sound dry leaves on the ground make when all the animal sounds that are usually always there aren't. Kept walking in the silence but never saw the dog's owner.

Anon09/09/26, 12:39No.2879754

They were like amoebas sliming around on the ground when I was younger, it looked just like something from out of pikmin. A translucent blob of jelly maybe the size of an eraser moving around, there might have been a couple of them. Nowhere near the ocean or any body of water, they were just sliding along our patio.

Anon09/09/26, 17:24No.2879773

Deep in a forest, I found a tortoise shell with a bullet hole, next to framed image of pic related, with broken glass.This happened in northern Europe, for whatever reason.

Anon09/14/26, 01:19No.2880192

When I was a kid I used to frequently explore the woods near our neighborhood. Sometimes with a friend, sometimes alone.One time I was my myself, went to a new place we'd never gone before because it was a tough climb up the steep. Made it over the hill and looked down the other side. And I swear, clear as day, down the hill I saw a clearing with stone ruins like something from ancient Greece.I rushed home for dinner, planning to bring my friend back later so we could explore the ruins together. When I did, there was nothing there.Spent the rest of the summer trying to find it again and never did. These days, with google maps, I can confirm there's nothing of the sort anywhere in that area. So maybe I hallucinated it?

Anon09/15/26, 15:25No.2880273

dudes having rough gay sexo.

Anon09/18/26, 19:27No.2880530

Last night.