As a weird gift for myself, and others who read the forums:
What's the absolute weirdest thing you have ever seen, inside, outside, relavant to, not relevant to, or around loose ideas within this concept? Like what was the most dumbfoundingly oddest thing you have ever witnessed, read, heard, or perceived in life?
Inside this fetish for me, was the time I found a .onion site on the clear wed with free downloads of inflation paycomics that both pissed me off and impressed me, causing me to ponder how the fuck I even got to both the thirty third page of google at 3am, how the site was on google, and how I even viewed it. To this day I still don't know.
Outside this fetish? In my hometown, there was this BATSHIT CRAZY dude with a hell of a lot saved up from his teaching career. This mofo bought this piece of land, AND a decomissioned police station on it, and just horded a shit ton of old stuff in it. Every so often, walking with dad to a convenience store that was a good mile away, we'd walk past it, and this building was wall to wall filled on the first floor, at least if judging by windows, and, according to the people who knew about it, still retained a lot of it's old furniture, a few papers that weren't important, and might've had it's large antannae tower still functioning.
This dude didn't effing care at all, he just went in the front door some days and never left. His son, a near CLONE of him, mows the lawn, and sometimes you see the two talking. Apparently, he's known by a lot of antique salespeople around town, because of his talkative nature, and his fucking eyes.
You ever seen a eagle's eye? Like how intense it is? It's yellow, but imagine it being white, like bright white, veinless white, the only contrast being the near black brown eyes. Every time I saw him, he'd remind me of an owl on meth, and he talked a mile a minute, about practically every thing you brought up. I love Godzilla, but few people in my town do to my extent, so I thought bringing it up would somehow tie up his mind and end the conversation, making him go to the tables and look at the items.
I was so very, very wrong.
I finished the word, and the dude almost explodes from how much he has to say: "OHHHH THAT MOVIE IS AMAZING, IT'S SO DEEP AND MEANINGFUL, AND..." I agreed, but he went on to tell me everything I knew, and then some very polarizing things about Japanese people that I still cannot fucking understand he retained, neither being a veteran, nor alive in world war two.
Seeing him from a distance was a spectacle though, cause he "walked with a purpose" and practically never blinked those intense eyes, locking onto what he wanted, and then just straight up talking it off of you.
THANK GOD he never went to hastings during the day, I'd have about shit myself out of fear.
There's your little gift tales for the year, they may be funny, weird, or just interesting reads. I got a lot of em, so maybe this could be a new tradition. IDK.
(on a tangent, he once told me [after unfortunately making eye contact with me] that he used to have his students dress up in old style clothing and take pictures with an 1800s style camera. Loved his historical enthusiasm, but his detailings on students looks he had 30+ years prior concerns me.)
Right so, Weirdest thing I've seen involving this fetish? The staggering amount of unironic Family Guy inflation artwork. Like, It's honestly kinda depressing knowing that somewhere out there, Lois Griffin is somebody's waifu.
Weirdest thing I've seen not involving this fetish? Shit bois, buckle the fuck up. (Apologies in advance for formatting issues, typing this via phone lmao)
So actually earlier this year, My best friend (who shall be called Zed) and I went on a road trip because a mutual friend of ours was participating in a lil' local Smash Bros 4 tournament and we wanted to be there as moral support. Along the way, The GPS app we were using took us down some weird ass roads, And as such, We saw some weird fucking shit. Highlights were this small town that looked like it had been literally frozen in time and was right next to a fucking massive lake that looked like it had genuinely engulfed a whole town (there were phone poles and trees randomly jutting out of the water, along with some roofs), A motel we stayed at having a crapload of busted up mannequins in the alley our room overlooked, And a dude driving his car while making toast.
But, All of those incidents, While certainly perplexing in their own right, Can even fucking compare to what I'm about to tell you.
So, We had stopped because Zed had to take a leak. At that moment we were pretty much totally isolated, With us having been on a long, Winding forest road for a solid hour at that point. Zed had hopped out of the car and scurried off into the forest to do his thing, Leaving me alone in the car. Now, It's important to note that because we were literally in the middle of fucking nowhere, I had no phone signal and couldn't waste time on my phone until he got back, So I was taking in the lovely forest scenery that I had decided I hated about three miles back. Now Zed is a man who likes to take his time with things, So I was waiting on him for a little while. I was completely alone, Inside of a car in relative silence, Parked on the side of the road. It was weirdly windless that day, Not much ambient forest noise due to that. Just me.
And that's when I saw it.
There was this thing moving through the woods. I know that's really vague, But I simply can't put any labels on it. It was just this... thing that was casually walking on the other side of the road. I wasn't able to get that good of a look at it, But it was really tall, And really pale, And looked kinda humanoid, But it didn't have any arms I could see. Just sort of a bipedal thing with really long legs. It didn't even do anything, Just sorta walked past. But for some reason, Seeing it filled me with almost petrifying dread. I know this sounds like something from a horror movie, But this shit happened to me. I don't know what the fuck I saw, But whatever it was, It's out there somewhere in Oregon. I've tried rationalizing this as 'it was just a hiker', or 'lmao just a weird bear or something', But both of those have arms. I simply cannot explain what I saw that day.
But anyway the rest of the trip was great! Our buddy won third place in the tourney and we were all very proud of her.
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