What's the strangest natural phenomenon you have witnessed?

Question

Transgeni - I believe you! This question was prompted by my witnessing a shower of very small shrimp like creatures about 5 years ago (I live in Australia)

Sheike....for real?!?

Answer 1

me a water spout, it appeared on a fine day so thats what made it even weirder, of course there is always those things you see out of the corner of your eye then turn and there is nothing there, that can be freaky.

having said that I am pretty comfortable with it be cause I am almost 100% sure I know "who" they are, my grandfather (dads side) and my grandmother (mums side) just making sure that i am ok...

Answer 2

My best friends house was haunted. A little old lady died in her brothers room, a little boy died in the livingroom/kitchen. There was someone else... Anyway, one night my friend and I were in the livingroom watching a movie. We were there alone. She lives on top of a garage behind the main house where the landlord lives. I hard a tap on the window in front of us. I also saw a shadow of a tree branch, and there were NO trees even close to the window! It was so scary. Her dog started crying and ran into the kitchen. He was under the table licking the air. It was the weirdest thing I ever saw. The dog came into the room with us and sat there and stared into the kitchen. His head moved like he was watching someone walk around the room. We found some old newspapers about her house and the people that died. At night while we slept we would hear an old lady moaning and the closet opens by itself- the closet usually takes a very hard pull to get open.

Answer 3

St. Elmo's Fire--the thing static electricity does sometimes to tall, slender objects like trees and poles during nasty storms.

Kicker is, I saw it *indoors*. O_O

A few years ago I was living in an apartment in a house that was basically a converted attic. The house was really old, and though it got its water through the in-town water company like all the other places in the neighborhood, it still had a *pressure pipe* running from roof to basement, a left over from the days when it needed to go on well water. This pipe ran directly through the middle of my apartment, from ceiling (where it came in through the roof, or a rooftop vent) to floor.

I should have known something was up the *last* time a storm went through the neighborhood and my *alarm clock* randomly went off, alarm and radio at the same time, and would *not* shut off.....and kept going for an hour after I unplugged the thing from the wall. I should have known...that was two weeks or so before the big thunderstorn hit though.

That night, I woke up to a *hum*, which became this sizzling, crackling noise. I roll over in my bed--keep in mind my bed then had a metal frame--and staring me right in the face, at some 3 in the morning, was that pipe, just a few feet away (small apartment), *glowing* in bluish, purply, and pink colors, in a vaguely spark-like manner.

It looked like that damn pipe was trying to impersonate a *lightsaber*. And succeeding.

And the thing was way too close for comfort, given the metal frame of the bed that was right underneath me....so I did the only sensible thing I could do....

I rolled over and *willed* my eyes to stay shut and *willed* myself to go the *hell back to sleep*.

Thank goodness I was able to arrange to get out of there a few months later. ^_^

Hope this helps...take care and have fun!

Answer 4

I was driving my 64' Dodge Pick-up down the road and started to slow down upon approaching an intersection. I had noticed an elderly lady wanting to cross the street, and began to stop.

She waved me on as if I was an intrusion along her path so I sped up out of respect and kept going. As I was mid-way down the block I looked in my center rear view mirror to see if she was crossing the street. As I got further down the road and as I was watching her cross the street from my rear view mirror I saw the strangest thing ever.

As she was walking across the street she did what looked like, jump several feet in the air and did a back flip landing on her back on the ground.

I was on my way to a meeting and immeditatly thought, Oh my God! someone shot her or something! I then looked more and saw that many people were running to her aid and by this time I was more than 2 blocks away so I kept going.

The thought of her just shooting way up in the air and do what looked like a total summersalt like 8 feet off the ground just stayed in my head all the way to my destination.

As I got out of my truck I looked behind it and noticed that I was dragging what looked to be about 400 feet of rope.

I then realized what must have happened. As the littlie old lady was walking across the street she must have stepped on the rope and it caught on her or something as it was moving at probably 30mph down the street with me towing it.

You could think of how I felt then. I drove back to find no one left at the scene.

That was the most extreme natural phenomenon that I can remember.

Answer 5

We actually witnessed "ball lightning."

We were sitting on the front porch, on the porch swing, watching an approaching thunderstorm front across a big open farm field.

Suddenly, to our right, shooting straight down the gravel driveway went this bright flash. In just a fraction of a second, it shot across the road and grounded onto a telephone poll.

The ground in that area was fairly sandy, which usually has little "ground potential," and the lightning (it was NOT a "bolt;" it seemed more like a comet than a "bolt") grounded itself into the pole.

We were totally freaked, and looked at one another with that,"did you just see what I did" expression.

We both saw it.

Answer 6

I am going to assume a tornado would be a natural phenomenon and that is my answer. There is nothing more beautiful and more deadly at the same time. You become almost mesmerized by it's splendor so much so that you forget how dangerous it is.

Answer 7

The Southern Lights - Aurora Australis.

They are beautiful and somewhat rare to witness.

Answer 8

Raining very little frogs by millions.
I have seen that twice in my life.
It is really hard to believe but is true.
I live in Argentina.

Answer 9

i once saw a "reversed" skunk... white with a black stripe.
many times i've also been impressed by opossums playing dead in the middle of a road. they really can be convincing, being all flattened out and so on.

Answer 10

The birth of a child, through the agoney and pain of the mother