The craziest/funniest bug you seen in Skyrim

[Stalydan]

Personal favourite to happen to me was what I like to call Ground Bear. It was a bear that me, Lydia and my horse had the misfortune to meet whilst traveling to the next arrow on the map. It looked like its arms and legs were sinking into the ground but I just put that down to the fact I was fighting it on a hill. As I killed it, it slumped down and melted into the ground before I could loot it xD

At first, I was like "Nuuuuu, my pelt!" but then I just started laughing because the bear had just fell into the ground xD

I did once have a horse fall out of nowhere but I have a feeling it was either a dragon or a giant did that because they were both pretty close by. It was still funny though because it was just a sudden thud sound after a weird blur, turn to the right and just saw a dead horse.

 

[hashtag]

Only glitch I had was at the beginning of the game when you're climbing the tower and Alduin destroys a chunk of it and is supposed to blow fire. However, the event didn't trigger and I could go right up to him and shake my ass without him blowing fire anywhere near me.

 

[R3VOLU7ION]

For me, a section of a river just disappeared. I walked through it. It was pretty weird.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

There was a glitch I'd get before the game crashed, before I found a way to fix it.

Random things would turn to purple plastic. Trees, bushes, and even the dragon as it attacked Helgen which made it look like some kind of nightmare Barney. I'm so sorry for all those Barney jokes! PLEASEDON'TKILLME!!!

 

[Trig0n]

Once there was a bandit hovering way up in the sky to the point where he was just a speck on the horizon more or less.

Unfortunately he was a really good shot and it took me ten minutes to kill him with shouts since I'm a pretty terrible shot. In third person though I had a good dozen arrows lodged in my teeth.

 

[Snotnarok]

I thought this was crazy...but

It got crazier.

I have no idea what causes it, when you talk to 1 all their mouths move, and he's unkillable...rather they're unkillable.

 

[.No.]

While doing a quest for the Dark Brotherhood, I killed an old lady who was sleeping. She fell through the bed. Oh, and I can't complete any quest that needs me to tell my companion Illia to go home. Other then that, it's only crashed around three times in around one hundred twenty hours. Which is apparently amazing considering I have the PS3 version.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

A dragon doing a barrel roll in between two houses and then sinking into the ground and to then emerge on top of the house.

 

[vrbtny]

I thought this was crazy...but

It got crazier.

I have no idea what causes it, when you talk to 1 all their mouths move, and he's unkillable...rather they're unkillable.

That was epic. Reminds me of Zero Punctuation's review of Oblivion. About two identical dudes, talking about a shop owned by a identical dude.

Creepy, there is a cloning facility in Skyrim.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

I was figghting Alduin and he was sitting on the sky, not flying, sitting, mid air. He wouldn't move, Dragonrend didn't do anything to him, and yeah, couldn't complete the fight.

This also happened to me when I had to reload one of my saves in the middle of the fight. Kept using Dragonrend against him, it would have the visual effect playing as if he was hit by it... But he just remained stuck in that one spot, even after Dragonrend wore off.
Had to reload to a save which was before the fight started.

On my first character, while travelling along a road, I've been attacked by an invisible Khajiit. It wasn't named "bandit" or "assassin" or anything, just... "Khajiit".
As s/he was invisible, I just had to wait until it started attacking Lydia instead of me, then I'd attack wherever Lydia was fighting back.
It's happened twice so far on that first character. Hasn't happened yet on my second character, but I'm just waiting for it to happen soon. ;>_>

Oh, and in one of the crypts, the Draugr kept running to the door. After all the Draugr had been killed, there were at least 3 stuck halfway through the door.
Whether I opened the door or closed it, they couldn't get free, despite all efforts to epileptic-fit-breakdance their way out of it.

Other than that, haven't really had many "funny" bugs, unfortunately. Then again, I only got it at Christmas, so I've still got a lot of stuff to do, and a lot of time left for one of Bethesda's trademark bugs to occur.

 

[Snotnarok]

I thought this was crazy...but

It got crazier.

I have no idea what causes it, when you talk to 1 all their mouths move, and he's unkillable...rather they're unkillable.

That was epic. Reminds me of Zero Punctuation's review of Oblivion. About two identical dudes, talking about a shop owned by a identical dude.

Creepy, there is a cloning facility in Skyrim.

At first I thought it was twins...then I looked closer...then I knew something was wrong. I dunno what to do if there's more of them later or whatever. I mean there's probably a way to console kill someone but will that break him? Or will I just keep playing till whiterim is populated by Louis?

 

[GoldenFish]

The worst I got is that a couple of times after jumping and landing the falling animation won't stop so I'll be floating around the room flapping my arms like wings.

 

[Vrex360]

I remember I was in Falkhearth (I think that's what it was called) and suddenly and out of nowhere a triple dragon attack took place, meaning that three blood dragons descended on the town at the same time.
But that's not the glitchy bit, the glitchy part came when one of the dragons fell to the ground and died even though neither I nor anyone else had done it any physical harm. I then absorbed its soul. Then it got even wierder because the now dead-from-what-must-have-been-natural-causes dragon's skeleton reanimated itself and flew back into the air. So while there were two orginary dragons flying around, there was also a dead dragon flying around too.
And it was still blowing fire at me and still a massive risk to my safety but there was no way to kill it. I just had to wait for it to finally remember that it was dead.

 

[Skillswords]

there was this one time, on the dark brotherhood quest where you should get shadowmere, he didn't come up from the river, he just fell from the sky onto the river. disappeared, and came up from the river, disappeared, repeat.

oh rather, my summon Lucien ability that lasts until eternity,

or my personal favorite, watching a giant send a dragon back into the sky, falling in front of me in the middle of nowhere

 

[Fishehh]

Craziest for me... Probably when a Mammoth spawned in that Orphanage where you:

Spoiler: Guild Story Spoiler

Have to kill that Woman for the Dark Brotherhood

Yeah.. it just kinda glitched out and sank into the floor. Wish I had Fraps running, woulda have been a neat video.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

I thought this was crazy...but

Spoiler

"The best thing about being me is there so many of me."

Found one that made me rage quit. The last companion mission (Glory of the Dead) won't activate. None of the characters seem to notice the

Spoiler

Dead Harbinger of the Companions

either.

 

[Kimarous]

I've been really boring glitch-wise. The "craziest" I've ever had was odd cross-hatched shadows. Beyond that, I've had the Forsworn Conspiracy guards trying to arrest me every time I bother reentering the Talos Shrine (despite completing that quest and nobody shutting up about it) and the sadly common instance of one of my hands freezing up for a moment... as in "won't cast spell or attack until I sheath and redraw."

I don't even get the giant glitch. I've tried; it isn't working on my playthrough. :'(

 

[Maximum_Power_Cheese_Supreme]

I've had items in my inventory become stolen even though I don't know how I could've possibly 'stolen' them in the first place. Namely an Ancient Nord Axe, and an Ancient Nord Sword.

I like saying "Ancient Nord Sword"

 

[Extragorey]

Just outside of Whiterun, a random NPC stands in the same place 24/7. Behind him, facing in the opposite direction, is an exact clone of himself half-submerged in the ground. And when I talk to one of them, their mouths move simultaneously. Quite creepy.
He's been there every time I pass through, and no amount of resurrecting/moveto commands can get rid of the submerged clone.

I thought this was crazy...but

Spoiler

That's the very same guy. I guess I can be thankful I've only got two.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

Beyond that, I've had the Forsworn Conspiracy guards trying to arrest me every time I bother reentering the Talos Shrine (despite completing that quest and nobody shutting up about it)

Found a fix for that one mate. When you get locked up kill everyone in the mine and the Jarl will pardon you. Afterwards the guards leave you alone. Now help me fix glory of the dead. It's the only trophy I can't get because the quest won't activate