Most unique, amazing, odd thing ever witnessed!

swarmee · #1 01-30-2022, 04:38 PM

I watched the Challenger explode from the playground of my elementary school in DeLeon Springs, FL. Back then it was common for us to go out and watch launches. Not after that one (which just commemorated 35 years a few days ago).

BobC · #2 01-30-2022, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by swarmee

I watched the Challenger explode from the playground of my elementary school in DeLeon Springs, FL. Back then it was common for us to go out and watch launches. Not after that one (which just commemorated 35 years a few days ago).

Oh wow! I remember being in a bar/restaurant with some people from work and seeing it on TV. That was surreal, can't imagine what that must have looked/felt like in person.

bnorth · #3 01-30-2022, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by swarmee

I watched the Challenger explode from the playground of my elementary school in DeLeon Springs, FL. Back then it was common for us to go out and watch launches. Not after that one (which just commemorated 35 years a few days ago).

I watched the Challenger explosion as a junior in HS. After the fact they put a lot of TVs in our lunch room and everyone was excused from class to go watch it.

I was building a new school building at the edge of town when the Payne Stewart plane flew over us fairly low. It crashed about 70 miles north of us.

I was flying from MSP to AMS. Half way over the northern Atlantic the inside of the plane went black and everything stopped working. You could have heard a pin hit the carpet. Luckily the plane itself stayed flying but the inside electronics never worked correctly on the remaining 4 hours of the flight. That was scary AF.

sthoemke · #4 01-30-2022, 07:52 PM

I saw earthquake lights shortly (maybe a minute) before the 1989 Loma Prieta (World Series) earthquake. Then I saw earthquake lights again (at night) during 2014 Napa earthquake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

Carter08 · #5 01-31-2022, 06:31 PM

To the original OP I also saw the Lincoln assassination video and man was that something else. Couldn�t believe it. Sadly I have never seen anything as crazy as what you saw.

BobC · #6 01-31-2022, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Carter08

To the original OP I also saw the Lincoln assassination video and man was that something else. Couldn�t believe it. Sadly I have never seen anything as crazy as what you saw.

Yes, that video was unreal.

As for my unique experience, I can still remember seeing that guy hitting the car. Being on the far side of the overpass, there's no way he could have seen the car to time his jump to hit it. The odds for what I saw happen are beyond my comprehension. And don't feel sad about not ever seeing something like that. Seeing freak accidents and people getting hurt and dying is not something I would wish on anyone.

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