Strange Things You Have Seen In Your Town or City.

Silvanus

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Was walking home through London late one night, probably about 1AM at the time this happened. Turned into a street and there were two guys talking in the middle of the pavement. As I approached, they stopped talking, both looked at me, and each stepped backwards, meaning the way through was between them. Kept looking at me as I passed them by. Was the creepiest way to let me pass possible.
 

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I live in a small town in Virginia and, oh, last summer or the one before; the town council was going back through centuries and decades old laws and weeding out ones no longer relevant to modern sanity. One came up regarding Tarot card readings and witchcraft, and the need for weird special permits they technically had to buy to practice it... in private business... even ones that were given freely in church-like spaces... For some reason this stuck in the craw of the local religious right community and they launched a major protest and had several speakers show up to try and keep the boot on the neck.

As conservative myself I found myself going up against these people who literally wanted to use the state to step on another religion...But of course its fine for their religion to practice freely. (The worst part of being republican is being "allied" with people who literally do more harm to the cause than anyone on the other side could) It caught local media and eventually D.C. media which showed up for the next meeting wherein it was thankfully repealed, with the one pocket catholic councilman dissenting. Arguments ranging from "it turns our kids gay" (The. absolute. fuck?) to just plain finding it goofy and "cared about only by a minority." Part of my speech was actually broadcast on the news, and I made the front page along with a few others which was a strange feeling. It was a bit reminiscent of Footloose all in all. Thankfully justice prevailed.
 

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Grew up in Dandenong (Australia) and as big of a shithole that it was, something was always happening. Too many of the stories outta there are violent/depressing but there's a funny one that sticks out.

Whole class was out on the footy field at school one day and a local crazy nicknamed "Miss Fucky" (no idea where the name came from) was walking her dog on school grounds. Our teacher had no idea who she was and went to inform her she wasn't allowed on the property only to be yelled at in her indecipherable form of english (think Boomhauer from King of the Hill) bent over to pick up her dog and promptly pissed herself then left. Frightened the shit out of the teacher but we couldn't stop laughing for like 10 minutes afterwards.
 

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Probably the most out of place thing I've ever seen in my home town would be a 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Fastback.

Now, to a US American, this probably sounds strange, but my home town is a small town in Denmark.
 

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Admittedly, this isn't as weird as some of the things mentioned already, but here goes: a few scenes of the movie Signs were filmed in my home town. Hell, I even saw Mel Gibson once? ...At least, I think it was him...
 

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Nope... Because I'm usually am that strange thing in question... except when I got a [random] high-five from a biker two days ago...

Other than that, while switching from one song to another, I overheard two homeless people discussing 90s politics...
 

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Nothing major comes to mind, but I may as well put my two cents.

There's this old burnt down garage on the side of town a few minutes away from my house. Inside this collapsed garage is a pick-up truck, and outside is this faded sky blue low rider car (I don't care about vehicles so I haven't the faintest on its actual model).
This car clearly hasn't been driven for a LONG time considering its wheels have completely melded with the asphalt.
Yet oddly enough even in the middle of winter, this car's paint still looks somewhat pristine. As if someone doesn't care enough for the car to fix it, but regularly cleans the car. Granted the car still has a SMALL amount of rust around its edges, but for something with completely brown, melted wheels, its body barely looks aged. I have never seen anyone walk near the car, but someone MUST be taking care of it.

On a less interesting note:
My college has a big bell that rings with the turn of each hour. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Suddenly since the start of this year, every day at 12 o' clock noon, it starts playing this weird tune instead of its usual bell-ringing. Since the area around campus is open, there is quite the echo. This echo makes it both creepier and made it harder to find where it was coming from. Originally I though it was just some strange food truck or event playing far away.
The melody itself is a bit haunting. Sounds vaguely like a wedding song yet without soul. No one talks about it, we all just go about our day as normal. Why the clock tower now does this still has not been explained.
 

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Well there's some dued who I occasionally see driving around in an old, Model T Era vehicle. That about one of the stranger things I can think of at the moment as nothing else stands out in my mind. Then again it doesn't help that I don't get out much.
 

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Well, since this is Pittsburgh, there are several anime conventions, among other conventions that come into town. This includes a furry convention, as well. Then, you have the zombie walks and parties during Halloween time, because we are the zombie capital. Naturally, the times that Weird Al has been here count too.
 

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Nothing springs to mind about Hull or Oxford - the usual. But the first night I spent in Bangalore was the weirdest sleepless night. First the dog packs start howling. Once it starts, it goes on for hours. Then, later, I heard some man outside yelling "Ai!" at a lamp post, again for hours. He would get drunk and do that every night. Just as I was about to sleep, a fucking air raid siren went off. It turns out the factory next-door signals each change in shift with a goddamn World War 2 klaxon, regardless of the time of day.
 

JemothSkarii

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Living near a rural city in Australia we occasionally got some local legends. There was one guy in particular who was nicknamed 'Colour Jesus' (I think, been a while). He was this guy who'd done drugs most of his life and believed he was Jesus. He would preach to people too. Anyways he was 'Colour Jesus' because he wore clothes all of the same colour. White was his 'normal' clothes, then there was yellow when he was happy, blue was sad.
Well, you wanted to keep away when he was wearing red.

He came up to me one day and started just talking to me about how if I believe my disability would get better and such. Seemed nice enough, but I wasn't quite sure what happened to him.
 

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Once during summertime as we drove down the main road of the nearest village (I live on the countryside) there was a fish jumping around on the road next to the gas station. Adding up, there was noone to be seeen around so I assume the fish just bought some groceries.
 

Blacklight28

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I was out for a walk one day when I saw a woman walking her boyfriend. He was on a lead with fluffy cat ears and a collar.
 

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So two years back I was on my senior trip to San Francisco. We were in a nice little group walking along the side walk with all the piers to this place to get tourist bus tickets or something like that and then this random guy starts walking next to me and begins rapping at me. I just kept walking and he kept rapping. The song was about trust and prison I think. Anyway this goes on for a minute or two until he stops waiting for me to comment on his rapping skills. I told him it was nice and walked away. He seemed not to impressed with my answer though. Not into rap by the way.