The world can be a wild and interesting place. Sometimes, strange and random things happen that you can't really find an explanation for, and these stories from members of the BuzzFeed Community show it. Here are some of the most bizarre, WTF stories that might either have you genuinely confused or chuckling under your breath:
1. "I used to go to school in this wealthy residential neighborhood in LA. Every day when we were driving to school, we'd see an older woman walking her pet around the neighborhood. Said pet happened to be a pig — it had a leash and everything. To get it to walk, she used a bag of popcorn and left a popcorn trail for the pig to follow and eat."
2. "My partner's mother pooped in our cat's litter box. She's usually very reasonable but refuses to say why she did it!"
3. "When I was a kid, my family went to this park near the ocean. There was a little food stand on the premises that had very limited indoor seating, along with a big sign near the door that said, 'BEWARE OF SEAGULLS.' Many people stayed indoors to avoid the aggressive seagulls; however, some families decided it was too crowded and tried their luck sitting outside instead. My family and I stood in line near an occupied outdoor table where a dad and little boy were eating lunch. The kid put his sandwich in his mouth, but suddenly, a seagull landed on the table. He grabbed the sandwich and yanked it out! The kid was crying, and I honestly think I would've been, too. I felt so bad for the kid, but I couldn't help but think it was hilarious that I literally just witnessed a seagull stealing food STRAIGHT FROM SOMEONE'S MOUTH."
4. "In 1985, I was 14 years old and at the airport in North Carolina, walking to where you meet incoming passengers. Suddenly, I saw a tall man in a hat approaching me. Without breaking stride, he held out his hand — closed with the backside up — and said, 'Hold these.' Instinctively, I reached out my hand. He dropped a handful of bullets in my palm and kept walking. Obviously, I should've reported that immediately, but I was so stunned (and maybe I felt complicit) that I didn't. Years later, I still wonder what that was all about."
—Anonymous
5. "I was driving down the highway at around midnight when suddenly I saw this dude with a whole, real-life, adult two-humped camel in the back of his pickup truck. I definitely had to do a double take."
6. "We stayed overnight in a supposedly haunted castle in Wales. After hanging the bath towel on the rack on the wall side of the bathtub, I closed the window and went to bed. When we woke in the morning, my wife complained about someone in the hall rattling keys in the middle of the night. I teasingly told her it was probably just a ghost with chains. I then noticed that the closed window was wide open, and the towel was on the opposite side of the tub from the towel rack. A one-night stay was enough."
—Anonymous
7. "It was the morning in 1998, and we had just had our expensive in-ground pool put in. I'd always look out my kitchen window to see if it was crystal clear so we could swim later in the day. That morning, I saw an object moving back and forth in the deep end. I couldn't figure out what it was, so I called my son, and we went down to investigate. When we went closer to the pool, we saw a huge skunk doing the backstroke."
8. "I was driving by a pond one time, and a man dressed like Jesus was casually standing in the middle of it."
9. "I was sitting at an intersection attempting to make a right turn when I got rear-ended (luckily, the car behind me was going pretty slow, but my car was still damaged). I couldn't find a place to pull over, but then the guy who hit me pulled up right alongside me and yelled, 'It's fine! It's fine!' What was weird, however, was that he was wearing a bright rainbow top hat that looked like it was from a crappy Halloween costume, plus a weird, steampunk-looking pair of goggles. He also had two pit bulls in the car with him, which were also wearing goggles! As soon as he was done yelling, he continued to hang behind me so I couldn't see his license plate. Unfortunately, that meant the accident was a hit and run, but it was still one of the oddest experiences of my life."
10. "When I was in high school, we went to a chess tournament in Virginia. We were staying at a four-story hotel, and as we got our bags from the car, a friend pointed to the roof and said, 'Look at that!' On the roof was a man dressed in black, holding a katana, and perfectly silhouetted by the full moon. We laughed, saying he was probably some bored employee. But then, he did some kind of warrior shout, did some fancy swordplay with the katana, then ran and jumped headfirst off the roof! We were all freaking out. Right before he landed, he tucked and rolled. And if that wasn't weird enough, after a couple of rolls, he seemed to just...disappear. We all ran over to where he landed. The grass was pretty tall, and there was a line of smashed grass about 10 feet down the hill. But then it stopped, and we could find no footprints to show he had gone away. That night still mystifies me. If there hadn't been 12 of us who saw it, I'd be questioning my sanity."
—Kel, 48, North Carolina
11. "I was at a farmers market, and there was a man who had a stall that sold, as advertised, Jamaican jerk chicken. Well, a woman next to his stall started screaming at him and everyone nearby, 'This guy is a fraud, and so is his chicken! He's not Jamaican! He's Nigerian!'"
12. "One fall sunny morning in the 1990s, I was riding in my brother's truck on the freeway to Salt Lake City. We passed a sports car, and as I looked down at the driver, I couldn't believe what I was seeing: he was a young man, maybe in his 30s, alone in his car and wearing a plastic penis over his nose! He had both hands on the steering wheel and never looked up at me — he was just casually driving down the road with a penis hanging from his face. My brother and I laughed so hard as we passed him to get to our exit."
—Anonymous
13. "Years ago, after getting our 4-year-old son to bed, my wife and I watched the movie Backdraft about firefighting. During the movie's most intense scene, where the main characters are stuck in a blaze with no way out, we heard a siren going off. We looked around to find out where it was coming from — our basement. I went downstairs and saw our son's toy firefighter hat (which had a revolving light and siren) going off. Nobody was around, so we don't know how it got there."
14. "My husband and I visited a tiny brewery in Colorado on a road trip. A man sat down next to me wearing a full-length mink coat. He had long white hair and a white beard, wore sunglasses, and was covered in turquoise jewelry — every finger had a ring, silver bracelets, and a chunky necklace. He was way too interesting to ignore, so I complimented him on his beautiful jewelry. It turns out he was a turquoise dealer who traveled worldwide to collect, sell, and exchange authentic turquoise jewelry made by Native American artists! He showed me pictures of some of his collections in museums and photos of famous people wearing his jewelry, and he gave me a lesson on traditional turquoise designs. The guy was truly one of the most interesting people I'd ever met. I felt like I was in a Quentin Tarantino movie!"
—Quinn, Maine
15. "Back in 2018, my husband and I visited NYC since he's a Bronx native. While there, we often made time to visit friends in other boroughs. While visiting Queens, we witnessed an older portly gentleman leave his house, casually strolling to his car parked on the street. He was in no hurry AT ALL. Oddly, he only wore a fedora, glasses, a watch, socks, and shoes — and nothing else! It was as if he'd simply forgotten clothes!"
16. "I was sitting outside a changing room in a department store, waiting for my wife as she was trying on clothes. There was an old man sitting across from me, and without breaking eye contact, he lip-synced the entirety of Whitney Houston's 'Greatest Love of All' while winking and smiling at me."
17. Lastly: "I was skateboarding in Lincoln Park in Chicago on a nice, sunny Saturday afternoon. There were people out and about — a bunch of cyclists, some geese, people walking their dogs, the usual. Suddenly, I saw a parakeet just strutting along the trail, looking like it was supposed to be there and had somewhere to be. Like, it didn't look as if it had escaped from a cage in some kid's bedroom, but more as if it does this every third Saturday of the month or something. I picked up my board because I didn't wanna scare the bird, but I didn't see any sign of the owner. The parakeet seriously looked as if it just had parakeet errands to do. As if that wasn't weird enough, I saw an older woman walking a huge tortoise a few minutes later. But she and the tortoise didn't appear to be acquainted with the parakeet, so that mystery remains."
I honestly hope that one day I witness a parakeet doing parakeet errands. If you have a comically bizarre or inexplicable story, share it with us in the comments below! If you wish to submit anonymously, you can do so using this form.
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