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    Something Pulled The Boat Along

    Something Pulled The Boat Along

    [ranking: 1]
    "My dad and I are fishing off the Florida Keys. We have our anchor out and had been fishing for about an hour. 15 minutes later the boat gets bumped and we rock a little bit, my dad jokingly saying "Looks like jaws is after us better stay away from the edges." 10 seconds after him saying that the boat begins moving backwards: we are being towed by our anchor line that's in the water. Whatever has it is now dragging the boat backwards slowly getting faster and our boat is getting pulled under too. Next thing I hear is "No f*cking way" as my dad drops his pole runs from the front to the back grabs a knife and cuts the anchor line.
    "After that we decided that fishing was not in the cards that day."

    Strange Glow

    Strange Glow

    [ranking: 2]
    "RAN 2000ish, Indian Ocean on watch maybe 0200. Pitch black except for stars and quiet apart from the diesels. I notice a humming sound, sorta halfway between hearing it and feeling it. This goes on for a while, but all of a sudden it got a lot more intense and suddenly I notice a glow way under the water. I thought it was bioluminescence on a shark or whale or something but it kept floating up and suddenly just SHOT off maybe half a naut mile taking the hum with it in about 1 or 2 seconds. 
    "Nothing can move that quick underwater. I reported it and it was logged but nothing came off it.
    "Heard stories from shipmates about the same thing happening but the glow goes into the air, dunno about that but what I saw I have no explanation for."

    Knowing Some Large Predators Exist Out There

    Knowing Some Large Predators Exist Out There

    [ranking: 3]
    "I do a lot of night fishing off of South Carolina and Florida. I get a lot of fish that are bitten in half by sharks. Some of them had to have been very, very large. When you reel in a large sportfish's head like some kind of sequel to The Old Man and the Sea and realize the shark is close to half the size of your boat miles and while you're miles offshore, essentially in the middle of nowhere, you get more than a little freaked out."

    Peculiar Mommy

    Peculiar Mommy

    [ranking: 4]
    "I worked on a cruise ship for 7 months as a youth staff taking care of kids while the parents party it up. At certain parts of the day we close the playroom to the older kids and just let parents with their children that are under 2 come in. This woman comes to the gate with a double stroller with two of the ugliest looking babies I have ever seen in my life. She asks if she can come in with her babies. Of course, I oblige but something seems a little off. She takes the babies out of the stroller and puts them on the blanket that we have toys placed upon in the middle of the room. It is then that I realize what was so strange about these babies: They were dolls. This woman was taking pictures of them with the toys and pretending they were alive, names and all. I just looked over at my co-worker and she's giving me the same look of shock and horror that I had on my face.
    We had no clue what to do or say. News spread quickly to other crew member on the ship about her. Apparently she bought gold bracelets for them at the jewelery shop on board. That woman is by far the most amazing and strangest thing I have ever witnessed at sea."

    Three Stories of Monstrous Catfish

    Three Stories of Monstrous Catfish

    [ranking: 5]
    "Live by a dam on the Mississippi river in Iowa... The divers that have to go down and check the concrete always only go down once, after that there done. Just nope the f*ck out. One guy I know did 2 tours in Iraq he said it was nothing like that... Just freely be swimming along and all of a sudden 3 foot mouth of a cat fish just sitting there, waiting for something to swim by and into its hell hole. Water is always so murkey that you can't see from end to end of it. I remember when I was a kid, you could snag for carp down there. My dad hit a 7 foot cat that weighed in at around 85 lbs, but we couldn't keep them so we had to throw them back... 
    "Grandfather said similar things. He worked at a power plant right along the river and they had divers who would routinely need to go under and patch things up for the power plant under water. Said majority of them when down once and never again after seeing the size of some of the catfish below which they claimed could probably eat them.  
    "One of my art teachers in high school was also a diver and often did dives in one of the lakes in Arkansas. He regaled us with tales of catfish the size of small cars. He also had photos of the towns and settlements that got abandoned and flooded when they made the lake. Cool stuff."

    Possessions Following a Tsunami

    Possessions Following a Tsunami

    [ranking: 6]
    "I was en route to northern Japan after the terrible tsunami happened for disaster relief (Marines). Anyway, I had stepped outside to a catwalk for a smoke after not seeing the sun for a few days. Turns out that it was extremely foggy and snowing, which I had never thought about. The ship was basically reduced to a crawl, it was all very silent and quite peaceful. After chain smoking for 10-15 minutes I started to hear things hitting the ship. Had trouble seeing at first but once I saw the roof of a house and a crib float by, I realized where we were. Ran back to my living area to grab some friends. We all get back out there and silently observed people's lives floating by us.
    Not super crazy or bizarre, but it's something I'll never forget. Spent the next week and a half dealing with crazy weather shifts doing my part in the clean up effort."

    The Mighty Sea

    The Mighty Sea

    [ranking: 7]
    "For me the memory that sticks with me was when I first realised just how powerful the sea is; I was working on a boat in Japan, on my way back into port after a 4 week swing just sat in my cabin one evening watching a film on my laptop when every now and again I noticed a bright flash from behind me.
    I turned around just in time to glance out of my porthole as a bolt of lightning light up the sea and capture a snapshot of an enormous wave just about to break over the side of the boat, which started getting tossed around like a toy (the boat's about 120m LOA). Certainly gave me the shivers anyway. ..."

    Alien Encounter

    Alien Encounter

    [ranking: 8]
    "My best friend and I left my home one evening to go to a park and I see a small fluorescent green two foot alienlike figure that walked like that old sasquatch video from the 70s walk along a long wall on the other side of the road we were on in my peripheral vision and I immediately froze in disbelief. I looked back and it completely vanished. 
    "I immediately looked at my friend and we both said 'did you see that?!'. We both yelled yes and ran to the other side of the road and found nothing. This was a long and tall wall. No way it was an animal. The lights were dim and the neighborhood was a very quiet one with no shops or anything so it couldn't have been anything commercial. The figure did not seem as though it was beemed onto the wall. There were no vehicles anywhere either. We spent the next five minutes searching and still found nothing.  
    "The weird thing is that this was a significant moment in my life. I mean, who comes across this, ever; however, 15 years later I asked my friend if he remembered that day and he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. 
    "I don't drink or do drugs or anything I mean, we both saw it. He confirmed at the time. It wasn't a dream either. I can't explain what the hell it was we saw that day."

    Giant Frog

    Giant Frog

    [ranking: 9]
    "My mother told me that her father claimed he had spent a night in a swamp with a friend, hunting for frogs, and ended up seeing something that looked like a giant frog. When they shined their light on it, it stood up and started walking towards them on both it's legs. They ran for their car and sped off. 
    "It was stranger still because it was the only weird story grandpa ever told. He was also a teetotaler, so unless he had some sort of hallucination, I have no idea what he thought he saw. The only other possibility is he decided he would bullsh*t everyone just because."

    A South Atlantic Fisherman's Tales

    A South Atlantic Fisherman's Tales

    [ranking: 10]
    "I do a lot of offshore fishing in the South Atlantic. Some cool and crazy things I've seen while boating: 
    "I got caught once in the annual migration of spinner sharks. Went right through a school that I would guess would be at least 10,000 or more sharks that just happened to be working on a very large bait school. You could count no less than 10 sharks breaching the surface about ever second. It was one of the scariest experiences yet one of the most amazing sights I've ever seen and there I ended up right in the middle of the madness. I literally had one shark land in the bow of the boat and another break the cowling on the outboard while several others bounced off the sides. Heres a video of what a single spinner looks like when breaching. 
    "Once I almost hit a dead body when returning from a trip at the end of the day. It was just turning dusk and I was coming in from about 15 miles offshore after a day of fishing. I was crusing around 25 knots when out of the corner of my eye I spotted something bright yellow just off the port side of the boat and almost made impact with it. I slowed down and turned the boat around in an attempt to find whatever it was I almost hit but was unsuccessful and it was getting late and the sun was almost down so I decided it would be best to just head back in. The next day a body in yellow waders washed up onshore about 25 miles to the North. I can't say for sure if it was the same yellow object I almost hit but I'd be willing to bet it was. 
    "Encountered a great white while surfacing from a dive in about 75' of water which was extremely unusual because great whites shouldn't be anywhere around the area of the Atlantic where I fish. This was confirmed a few days later by multiple other boats that spotted the same shark and eventually made the news. 
    "One time I saw an Otter dragging a leather back sea turtle to shore that it somehow managed to kill."

    Fata Morgana

    Fata Morgana

    [ranking: 11]
    "Fata Morgana. I'm Reddit illiterate and can't share the link that I want to, but it's a mirage where you see a ship upside down. It's creepy as f*ck, you'll see the ship sailing along, and then you see it upside down, floating above the ocean."

    Blast Off!

    Blast Off!

    [ranking: 12]
    "I was fishing in 17 foot Mohawk canoe off the main bridge in Titusville, FL. About 2000, my kids were small. It's teeming with fish in that area and I headed for a trough that NASA cut out to build the fuel railroad system out to the launch area. It holds black drum as well as other tasties.  
    "I have a trolling motor on the side of the canoe and I head for my spot down the south shore. Over to my left, just as I arrive at the south end of the trough, I see a pod of manatee in the water about 75 yards away. I have a little camera stowed away and I decide to get some up close pics for the kids.  
    "I turn west into the middle of the lagoon area and head over shallow water and grass beds with my trolling motor turned to 5, top speed. I notice it appears VERY shallow immediately ahead of me and I cut the motor quickly to 0.  
    "That's the last thing I remember before the loudest noise, that came from all around me. Water exploded. Around and under my 75lb canoe with 150lb me in the back.  
    "The front of my canoe went up at over a 45% angle and the rear of my canoe, with me in it, came off the surface of the water some amount such that my battery came off the floor. In the front of my canoe, all my tackle and such was launched into the air. I remember seeing a single large pinfish (not mine but one belonging in the water) arcing over the whole mess as I gripped the gunnels. 
    "It's not obvious what happened to me for a minute. I was so afraid and so vulnerable and unsure if it would happen again.  
    "I reattached things back at my trolling motor (wires had come loose, I think) and went to the shoreline (where the railroad passed) and got out and tried to piece my equipment back together and my experience.  
    "The pod of roughly 21 manatees (number from ranger) had come into the lagoon area recently and as it turns out, they have a similar danger signal to beavers--they slap the surface of the water. When that many do it, and it's in 2 feet of water, and they are really frightened by my entry into the area, it can almost violate the laws of bowel physics.  
    "Trust me I know."

    Bad Reputations

    Bad Reputations

    [ranking: 13]
    "I remember reading an article in Harper's magazine a while back, like 15 years ago, and the author said that he had worked on a fishing boat near Chesapeake Bay if I recall correctly. He said that fishermen pull up all kinds of weird creatures in their nets but no one ever talks about it because of the bad reputation they will get.
    The creatures then just get thrown back in the ocean."

    The Non-Sound Of Wind

    The Non-Sound Of Wind

    [ranking: 14]
    "Most amazing is the non-sound of wind.
    "When you're on shore, wind rustles through the trees, moves wind chimes, makes birds chirp, etc. Way off shore none of those sounds exist. It's very eerie to feel the wind but have it make no noise. Just a force that moves across your skin and then gently leaves without a sound."

    Stories from Mum's Partner

    Stories from Mum's Partner

    [ranking: 15]
    "Mum's partner is fisherman. 
    "A couple of things that came to mind: 
    "The incredible amount of Great White shark encounters they have out at sea - obviously attracted by the bait or something. Stories of being circled and harassed by sharks for sometimes up to days, in at least one or two occasions resulting in them having to go back in. 
    "Freak waves. Sadly, the amounts of fisherman killed by freak waves is too high. Imagine Mother Nature just unleashing a huge wave out of nowhere that obliterates a fishing boat, killing those on board. He's participated in many searches for bodies and those of lost fisherman at sea - including hauling numerous bodies on board and liaising with police in the searches. 
    "My favourite though, was something he actually saw on land while out at sea. On an incredibly remote and rugged part of Tasmania's West Coast the crew noticed what appeared to be a dog on the beach. As they got closer they noticed it was sniffing around in some seaweed and walking a bit differently to a dog. As they continued to get closer they also noticed something else - it had what appeared to be the outline of stripes along its back half. Yes, still to this day they believe they saw an "extinct" Tasmanian Tiger (or Thylacine). Regular sightings are still reported in Tasmania and many local fisherman have also reported seeing them in that particular area."

    A Massive Surprise

    A Massive Surprise

    [ranking: 16]
    "I almost hit a sea turtle the size of a mattress off the coast of Washington. It suddenly appeared and I threw the engine in reverse and swerved hard to port throwing passengers off their seats.
    I looked out the starboard window as I went by and seen two eyes staring at me on a head the size of a basketball."

    Green Lights In The Sky

    Green Lights In The Sky

    [ranking: 17]
    "I was a Navy Sailor who went out to sea many times for weeks at a time. One of my jobs was being a lookout to spot boats, planes, things in the water or air pretty much and report it back to the ship. My Lookout rotation could have me standing watch during the day or night sometimes both and it was during the nights where I was pretty afraid especially if you were at the back of the ship alone. For anyone who hasn't been out in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night should realize you see many more lights in the sky than you would ever in a city. And on Navy ships they like to have very little lights on at night so standing watch around 1am feels very alien sometimes. And during the nights without a bright moon to help with your vision, you may as well be on a different planet. There was this one time I saw bright green color moving in the water slowly and I didn't know what it was. My mind told me maybe it's a USO or something else. Eventually I was told it was just plankton but it sure looked freaky to someone who wasn't aware of the glowing plankton produces. Another time me and another guy were standing watch together and I decided just to look up during 2am and see what things I would come across the midnight sky. I would see meteors streak across the sky but a couple of times there were bright lights moving slowly way out there.
    Perhaps a satellite, maybe who knows. But I stared for a good 20 minutes in the sky and encountered approximately 15 of those slow moving lights in different areas of the sky perhaps many millions of miles apart. Either way those were the few times I saw for myself how vast space really is and that there was so much unknowns out there that humans have yet to discover or explain."

    A Plane Crashes Out of Nowhere

    A Plane Crashes Out of Nowhere

    [ranking: 18]
    "Not amazing in a good way, but on the flight deck during flight ops, business as usual, launching planes and dodging jet blast. All the sudden the air boss calls out to get ready for emergency landing. In like 3.5 seconds the landing area was completely clear, before i could even realize what was said. Well, the jet didn't make it to landing. I watched a 60 million dollar f-18 just go into the ocean. The pilots ejected, and needed to get pulled out of the water of course. It all happened so fast I would almost swear that the helicopter pilots literally appeared out of thin air, spun that b*tch up and were hovering over the water with a rescue swimmer roping out in an instant. This all happened in what seemed like less than 5 minutes.
    I was in total shock and sick to my stomach because nobody immediately knew whether or not the pilots were okay. They were, both had quite a few broken bones. The same jet I watched take off minutes before was deep six'd."

    Nature's Grotesque Buffet

    Nature's Grotesque Buffet

    [ranking: 19]
    "I've seen a dolphin do the most elegant backflip you've ever seen. We caught a blue albatross as it went to dive for our gear. When we pulled the bird in to release it, it was so unbelievably calm, we held its wings open to take a picture. Massive birds those ones.
    At the back while working gear, all of a sudden we see this black blade-like looking thing climb its way out of the water. Once it reaches a height of roughly 6 feet, it comes slamming down into the water. It does this maybe 5 or 6 times. Hard to explain how bizarre it is seeing something like this until you've spent days/weeks/months staring off at water and seeing nothing. It was the tail of a thresher shark that was climbing out of the water and trying to concuss the squid-like looking gear.
    But honestly, one of the most amazing things is the bait ball. It's caused by weather phenomena actually. What happens is that herring and other feed fish predominantly survive in green, plankton filled water. Their predators hate it for the most part because the plankton clogs gills and so on. But what can happen is if blue and green water mix and due to temperature differences and a large amount of clear blue boils up from below, it can expose massive schools of feed fish. Well once this happens, the entire ocean kicks into gear. Tuna come over, dolphins come, sharks, seagulls and other birds - everybody's getting into it. Below, they create this tightening circle of doom where they travel around the ball, keeping the feed fish from escaping. Fins of all kinds breach the surface. And just when we think we've seen everything, a massive humpback whale crashes the party. It went directly through the center, destroying the ball, scattering the feed and all the predators."

    Bird Heaven

    Bird Heaven

    [ranking: 20]
    I was off the coast of somewhere for about 25 day on a cruiser. It was somewhere pacific but they wouldn't tell us, I guess it was China, not important.
    We were pretty delirious after being out a long time without port. It was about 0230 and we were cleaning stuff, bored. All of the sudden the ship starts jerking and making all sorts of noise, an alarm I have never heard comes on and people on the intercom say something to the effect of, "stay inside the ship." Naturally we didn't listen and went out back with our searchlights to see what happened.
    We open the door and the smell was like walking to a rotten tuna factory. (A factory that makes rotten tuna), you could literally taste the whale carcass. apparently the ships radar was inop or something and missed the giant whale we ran into. There were whale bits all behind us and the next morning it was bird heaven.

    A Living Log

    A Living Log

    [ranking: 21]
    "I was canoeing on the coast of Florida and my wife said 'Let's paddle up to that log.' We did. Right before we reached it the log snorted heavily and swam away. Scared the sh*t out of me.
    My wife laughed because she knew it was a manatee and knew what would happen. She grew up in Florida."

    Odd Meal

    Odd Meal

    [ranking: 22]
    "My friend went un-designated (no official job) for the navy and had to clean and sweep an entire deck. They didn't give him a dustpan and when he asked where the dirt should go they said to just make do.
    He picked it up and ate it. Not sure if that counts as what you're asking for."

    Glasgow Kiss

    Glasgow Kiss

    [ranking: 23]
    "When I was younger and on a family holiday in Gran Canaria, we went on a boat trip around the island. Seemed like a good way to waste the day in the sun.
    We were on a medium sized catamaran, and between the two hulls there was a kind of netting that people were sitting on. It was a pretty chill time and 12 year old me loved sitting on it and looking out at the sea.
    Then we hear the crew yell something; they'd spotted dolphins! Cool! So we get up, can see them jumping a bit off the distance in parallel to how we're traveling. Then we notice they're getting closer. And closer.
    I go back to the netting, thinking I'll be able to see one as it passes beneath the boat. I look down at just the wrong moment as this complete derp of a dolphin decide that was the perfect time to jump - when he was UNDERNEATH the boat - and headbutts me.
    He lands back in the water and the school moves on, but my day is ruined by a bloody nose and black eye from getting a Glasgow Kiss by f*cking Flipper."

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