These are stories about regular people encountering some truly bizarre sights. We’re talking about strangers doing the weirdest things you can imagine. Picture yourself in a crowd, when suddenly, out of nowhere, someone starts dancing like there’s no tomorrow. It’s like they’re in a completely different world, and everyone around is left stunned. Or imagine being at a park, and someone decides to sing a full-blown opera to a bunch of pigeons. Yeah, that kind of weirdness.
One time I was on my way to a house inspection and witnessed a man laughing and talking to his chained-up bicycle getting progressively angrier until he started screaming and fighting with said bicycle. It was my first introduction to weird city people.
I saw a man stop in the middle of a crosswalk, examine two leaves he was holding, throw one away with disgust, and eat the other leaf.
I was at SoupPlantation/Sweet Tomatoes (for those that don’t know, it’s a soup and salad buffet-style restaurant).
I saw an old man go to the drink station, where there were soda, coffee, lemonade, and milk dispensers. He starts washing his hands thoroughly with milk for about 5 mins. Everyone is staring, and he can give two f*cks.
Lady in the airport, nicely dressed. She vomited in the middle of a walkway and just … kept right on walking, perfectly composed, hardly even breaking her stride. As if throwing up on the floor of a crowded public space was just another task to tick off her list.
There is a coffee shop located In the building I work in. When it was time to close (midnight) I was told a guy was sleeping in the coffee shop. I woke him up and told him I was going to lock the doors and he had to leave. He stood up and opened a bottle of water and poured it on his jeans on his calf. I said, “What are you doing?” Meaning like hey you’re getting water all over the floor what the F and he just politely said “That’s how they work man” and then left. It still confused the heck out of me.
Just last week, I saw a man walking around my work with one shoe. I politely pointed out that he was missing a shoe and he, also very politely, apologized and proceeded to pull out his wallet and attempt to wear it as his other shoe.
A guy on the subway once took a handful of loose nuts out of his pocket and offered me some…I declined.
On the bus once, there was this guy who was shouting at his hand for going numb.
He then threatened his hand and told it that if it didn’t wake back up, he would smash a bottle of alcohol and stab it with the broken end.
I hope the hand filed a report against him.
At a concert, sitting behind an extremely sunburnt man. I watched him peel off a sheet of his burnt skin and then eat it as if it was a perfectly normal thing to do.
I remember seeing a kid in one of my classes in middle school do this with bubblegum. He would have a bag of Double Bubble brand gum, I think it was, each individually wrapped in a yellow and blue wrapper. And he would pop a piece in his mouth, chew for a minute, and then presumably swallow and get a new piece. He would go through a bag a day easily. I never saw him spit a single piece out. I wonder if he knew how to chew gum.
One time I was at Wal-Mart and this is by far the strangest thing I’ve seen at one.
I’m behind a lady at the checkout. The last item was one zucchini but with a big a** bite taken out of it.
Cashier: Did you….bite this zucchini?
Stranger: (with a dead serious look on her face) No
Cashier: …..well do you still want it?
Stranger: Yeah just put it in the bag!
From where I was, I could still see the glimmer of saliva from the bite. But even if she was telling the truth, why the heck would you buy a zucchini someone else bit into?!
I still think about it today.
Just yesterday, I saw a guy walking down the street, with a glass of beer. (Consumption of alcohol in public spaces is illegal here for the record.) Another stranger walking in the opposite direction approaches him, “Hey, give me your beer, here’s some cash, go buy me a beer and buy yourself one too.” The first stranger obliges, gives this man his beer, and goes off with the money to buy some beer. By the time he’s back, 2nd guy has finished the beer, 1st guy hands a glass to 2nd guy, and they both go their separate ways. Was pretty amusing.
Watched a guy on the sidewalk below the train platform bend down and casually put a pigeon in his pocket then walk away. Dinner is served I guess.
In my University dorm, one girl ate the same thing every meal.
She would eat sliced bread. Start at the middle and eat until the crust but do not eat it. So, she’d have an empty frame of intact bread crust.
Then she’d microwave lettuce and eat it.
I was on a first date with this guy and we went for a walk in a park. The path could easily fit three people wide, probably 4. He’s on the outside and I’m in the middle and there’s a lady further ahead, jogging toward us. We start to move over to make sure there’s plenty of room for her to jog by.
We start moving over more because she seems to be heading straight for us. As she passes, she swings out her elbow and clocks me in the ribs.
I turned to look at her, and she was giving me the dirtiest look. I have no idea who she was and my date had no clue either. I still wonder if he was telling the truth, but he seemed pretty genuinely concerned and bewildered.
When I was a kid I saw a guy in church lick the entire cover of his hymn book, bottom to top, in one long stroke. I was maybe 10 and he was easily 40. It still haunts me to this day.
He wasn’t looking at me. It wasn’t a perverted thing; I was behind and slightly to the side of him so he 10/10 didn’t know I was watching.
Also, fairly certain he wasn’t doing coke. I didn’t know him, but my parents did and I’m confident it wasn’t a drug thing…which makes it weirder, to be honest
I was hanging out in Washington square park by the fountain with my buddy. On hot summer days, people have their feet in the water and just relax. I sh*t you not, a guy comes up jogging, places his water bottle under the fountain and chugs it. Fills it again and jogs away. Me and buddy look at each other like “No Way Dude”!
Not my story, but one my dad told me. He goes to work very early in the morning, and one day he stopped in a WaWa to get some coffee. While he was pouring his coffee, he noticed a guy who had already put Coffee in the cup and was now standing in front of the cream dispenser, rotating his entire body like he was hula hooping to mix it together.
When I worked at PC World I had a customer come in and start browsing landline phones. She then got a call on her mobile phone so decided to take off her jacket and kick off her shoes, take off her socks and lay on the floor of the store whilst talking on her phone. After a while, she put the phone down but continued to lie on the floor looking at all the types of landline phones. I ask if she needs a hand and she says she needs help. So I sat down on the floor with her and kicked off my shoes as well and had a good old chat all about landline phones. She ended up buying one with an extended warranty so management didn’t care that I just sat on the floor with her
I worked at a radio station & was doing remote at a car dealership. A woman walked up to us wearing a shirt, an apron-type skirt (no back) and men’s boots…and nothing else. She had spray paint all around her mouth and kept asking to buy the ‘special car’. It freaked me out.
I was walking through the town I live in a few years ago, and some guy was walking just ahead of me looking like Hagrid from Harry Potter, in a long brown wool coat and long hair and beard, and he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a plant, with roots and everything, dropping soil everywhere. He looks down, repots the plant in his pocket, and reaches into the other side pocket for his wallet. Since then I’ve been totally in awe of him and I often wonder what he was growing in his coat.
I don’t know why but a lot of weird sh*t happens around me even though I try and stay away from trouble.
The most recent thing was me going out to eat some pho and the guy next to me casually eating noodles with his glasses instead of chopsticks or a fork. Part of me wanted to ask him if he wanted me to get him a pair of chopsticks from the front in case he had a bum knee or something but like I said, I’ve learned that when weird sh*t happens, to keep quiet and mind my own business.
I was once at a hotel in Greece. At the breakfast buffet one morning, I saw an incredibly overweight man enter, go to the continental section and take 12 bread rolls, 12 slices of ham and 12 slices of cheese.
He went and sat at a table, took a knife, and started cutting each roll open and buttering them. Then, one by one, he took a slice of ham and a slice of cheese, folded them up, and placed them inside the rolls. Each roll would then be wrapped up in a napkin and placed inside his bag.
Once he was finished, he went and got his breakfast.
An old guy on the bus talking on his phone and when he got off his phone it was a bar of soap. When he left the bus he said to the driver “Thank you, Captain”.
Once had a guy where I work frustrated about some sh*t I can’t remember, and came to customer service to complain.
After about 10 mins of back-and-forth arguing he pulled superglue out of his pocket, squeezed some onto the counter, and promptly head-butted the desk. Didn’t even pause his rage.
Once he finally got prised off his eyebrows were still stuck to the desk. The cleaning lady had to come and scrape them off.
A guy in a bar asked if I wanted an oyster, and I said yes.
He then reached down to a backpack that was full of oysters on ice, shucked a few, and pulled out the hot sauce from a side pocket. We tapped our shells together and ate some oysters.
I used to take the light rail to work. One day I watched a homeless man waiting for a pigeon to meet up with him before he got onto the light rail to head downtown. The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke and just laughed at the absurdity but after it happened 2-3 times a week around the same time, I realized they were best friends.
I used to work the front desk at a big museum. We had three sets of double doors at the entrance and there were doorstops there to hold some of them open. One set of doorstops was wooden and on this particular day, they weren’t being used so they were just in the corner out of the way.
I watched a woman and her toddler grandson walk into the museum. She pointed down at the wooden doorstops, he picked them up, and they walked out. Not a word was spoken and as far as I know, they never came back. Just took the doorstops and left.
When I was a child I was with my grandma on the beach and a man who would have been in his 30s was looking under rocks for crabs.
Totally normal thing to do… He was dressed well and gave off no weird vibes.
He found a huge crab and with no hesitation picked it up from under the rock with one hand, unzipped his pants with the other and just dropped it into his underwear. He then let out a massive scream in agony and ran away down the beach.
A man sat on my front door step about a year ago and was banging his head against the door whilst scratching at the wood with his nails. I had no idea who he was or why he chose my door to have an episode at. He moaned occasionally. He stayed there for about two hours. I was understandably a little unnerved by his behaviour.
Then he got up and wandered off. Never saw him again.
I went to Italy this summer. When I was in Venice, there was a weird lady in the street that strangely looked a lot like the pigeon lady in Home Alone.
She then proceeded to grab a pigeon that was walking around and put its head in her mouth. She didn’t chew or anything she just left the pigeon in her mouth for about 15 seconds.
I was with my mom and we both looked at each other in disbelief. It was an unusual experience.
I was in a restaurant and this woman across the room was talking with a guy and swirling her glass of wine. Halfway through the conversation, she starts swirling the wine with her fist. I was like ‘Okay, a bit weird but alright’, but then she proceeds to put her ENTIRE fist in her mouth, whilst still having a conversation with the dude sitting next to her.
On my subway commute to work, I stood right by the doors because my exit was two stops away. The first stop came, the doors opened, and a man walked in, looked me in the eye, said, “My memory foam mattress remembers too much,” and continued into the train car without further explanation.
That was two years ago…and like his mattress, I still remember
I came back from a library all-nighter at uni, to find my neighbour in her pj’s starting a bbq at 6 am. She then proceeded to cook about 20 sausages. Was that odd I sort of stood blankly watching her do it, whilst wondering if I was sleep-deprived tripping or if this was actually real. Took a photo and went to sleep, was still equally bizarre once I had slept.
I was in a Radio Shack back around 2008, and this obese man with a button-up shirt was looking at cellphones, and while doing so he had one button on his shirt undone and had stuck his hand under his shirt and he was vigorously playing with his belly button in the middle of the store.
A few years ago, I came home from partying at about 3 am. Right as I was walking up to the front door of the house, I noticed some rustling noise coming from the bushes near the door. I figured it would be some animal, so I didn’t think anything of it until some older guy (I’d guess around 80 years old) stepped out of the bushes. He was holding a plastic bag and looked a little shocked to see me, or rather (I’m guessing) because I saw him. I just politely said hello, and he did the same, and I entered the building. He just kept standing there. I was a little confused but didn’t think of it any further.
Fast forward, to a couple of weeks ago. I was packing my car early on Saturday, around the same time that I saw him before. After the second trip to the car, I was just walking up to the front door again, when that same guy came out of the building with his plastic bag. Again, we exchanged a quick “hello” and I got back upstairs to my flat. He just kept standing in front of the door, looking at what I was doing. When I came back down with the third load, he was gone, but there was that same rustling noise again, coming from the bushes. I coughed, so he would notice that I’m there and the noise stopped immediately.
I’ve seen him once again, since, doing the same thing. Obviously, I never asked him, but what would some 80-ish-year-old guy with a plastic bag do in the bushes in the middle of the night?! He obviously lives in my building, but I have never seen him during the daytime (it’s a big building with like ~30 flats, so it’s not that unusual), but I definitely thought that was weird!
In college, I was walking out of the commons and there was a girl in front of me. A feather blew by, just like a random bird feather, nothing too exotic. The girl looks at it and takes her backpack off. I just assume she is going to pick it up, nothing too weird there. But then she takes a stapler out of her backpack, picks up the feather, and staples it to the sleeve of her jacket. She then continues on like people have ever done that before.
This isn’t my story it’s my friend’s and it’s why he refuses to go to Denny’s anymore. He went to a Denny’s in Orlando one night after a party and some stranger probably 18-19 asked to sit with him. He said no but they proceeded to sit with him anyways and order a steak. After their food arrived he took his shirt off and ate the steak with his hands. My friend asked for his check and the guy was like “I’ll cover your check bro” so my friend starts to walk out only to get chased down by a steak boy who tells him he has no money and he has to pay for it and asks my friend to pay for his steak.
A few years ago I was visiting my old college campus for some paperwork and for some reason or another, I decided I have lunch in the university food court (not a bad thing). The seating area is along the edge of this big building and has big floor-to-ceiling glass windows, so you get a good view of everyone going past outside.
This day in particular it was raining really heavily, so there wasn’t much foot traffic (or people in the food court, for that matter). I see this one woman come by wearing a raincoat with an umbrella, but she stops at this giant mud puddle. She looks around to see if anyone is watching, but doesn’t spot me because the food court is on the second floor, then carefully takes off her shoes and starts splashing around in the mud puddle like a 5-year-old. She does this for about 30 seconds, then puts her shoes back on and continues on her way as if nothing happened.
This man came downstairs from his apartment over a shop with a box of macaroni and cheese. He then put the mac and cheese on top of a parking meter and proceeded to dance with it. After he was done with his dance, he kind of bowed to it and went back upstairs leaving it on the meter. An offering to the gods?
So I’m sitting on a bench at a metro station & eating candy. The dude walks up to me and asks if he can have some. Now I’m normally quite wary of strangers approaching me, but I hand him one piece and his face just lights up like a kid’s when opening Christmas presents!
He thanked me many times, told me to have a great night and walked away while still having the biggest grin on his face. We got on the same metro and when I got off after a few stations, he waved at me from the window, chewing on my candy and still gleaming with joy.
It was wholesome.
When I used to work at whole foods this woman came and got a box of food from our hot bar. She asked for a rubber band around the container which is normal so I wrapped one around. She said thank you and she proceeded to go to the next register which is empty because it was for where we put our schedule and things at. She took about 20 rubber bands and wrapped it around the container I thought it was overboard and so did my co-worker next to me. She didn’t stop there she took our tape dispenser and started wrapping it around the container at this point I was super confused and why you couldn’t see the container anymore. Note we were using packing tape because we were given the wrong shipment. I really wonder how she will get to her food.
At my previous apartment complex, there was this lady who would regularly walk around the complex, taking the same route every time. And I’m not talking like, “I’m just on my daily stroll” – she would walk the same route every day, multiple times a day, regardless of the weather. Every time I’d cross paths with her, she’d give me this horrible death glare.
But to top it off, she wore the same clothes every day – pajamas and a peacoat. I’m not sure she changed clothes because they started severely degrading. Her pajamas eventually had a big hole in the back, (after which I found out she didn’t wear underwear), yet she just kept walking! Every day! Without any butt covering!
I’m pretty sure there was some serious mental illness going on, but I still have so many questions about this, and wonder what happened to her.
Stopped at a McDonalds with the fam to have lunch. As we began to eat, we noticed a woman sitting alone a few tables away. She had with her a bag of apples. After several minutes I notice she was eating the entire apple, core and stem, everything. We watched as she ate at least six complete apples, with nothing to drink.
Recently in my neighborhood I saw a group of these older black guys surrounding something and shining a light on it and clapping. It was pretty late at night so I got a little closer and saw it was one of the wild chickens I’d seen before. They were clapping for a random hen dancing around.
I saw it the next day so they didn’t end up eating it either.
I went to a buffet last week and saw someone fill up a whole plate with different kinds of sushis. He then proceeds to mix them all together with his bare hands and eats them with a fork and spoon after. He was Mexican and ate alone.
I was waiting outside a police station in some small town in the south of France with my friend while one of my other mates reported his passport stolen inside, I was standing by the entrance to the car park right by the button that lifts the barrier. A lady driving a VW microbus pulled up a bit too far from the button and rather than ask me to push it she got out making eye contact the whole time and pushed the button, got back in and drove into the car park all the time not a word was spoken.
I thought it was a bit weird, but it got weirder when a few minutes later she came out of the car park with sunglasses and a white stick pretending to be blind. Me and my friend looked at each other and cracked up, I should probably have mentioned it to the police but I didn’t, I still remember the distrustful look she gave me as she pressed that button.
Worked at a gas station for a while on the night shift in a decent-sized town. A lady comes in one night, without browsing, immediately approaches the counter and starts telling me about her no-good ex-husband. Already a great start. After I finally end the conversation in an awkward manner she finally starts to shop. She yells across the store to ask if she can preview a couple of magazines before deciding to buy one. I tell her yes, because I really don’t care, and I’m busy cleaning and whatnot anyway. About 10 minutes go by and I’d forgotten about her while doing whatever I was doing at the time. I look up and she’s gone. I can’t see her anywhere but I didn’t hear the door ding when she left so I get up and look around. The lady had decided to sit down in the middle of the aisle to read and happened to fall asleep sitting pretzel style while face down in the magazine. I was about 17 at the time, and I’m a smaller female. I kind of assumed she was on drugs and didn’t want to wake her up and have her be aggressive towards me… so I just went back to doing my things. She woke up about half an hour later, proceeded to buy like… 12 Starbucks coffees and bring them to the counter 3 at a time. I finally cash her out and she exits the store. I go to clean the bathroom since she finally left and I don’t have to worry about her. When I come back I look out the window and see that she fell asleep in her running vehicle. She sleeps out there for about an hour and then comes back in to buy something else, and tells me she never left because she was cleaning her van out. She never bought a magazine.
I was at a stoplight, and I glanced over to the car next to me just in time to see a fairly attractive woman reach down into her center console and pull out an extra-large can of whipped cream. She tilted her head back and filled her face with whipped cream, popped the cap back on the can, and then had it back in the center console just in time for the light to turn green.
Wheelchair dude. He was a really big guy, obese, and in a wheelchair. He would bring in food from the grocery store. Usually a quart of ice cream, or a bag of salad and dressing. I would watch him consume the entire quart of ice cream in a matter of minutes. As for the salad, he would pour dressing into it and eat it straight out of the bag. When he was done, he’d drink the rest of the dressing. I still don’t know if he actually purchased any of the items he’d bring in.
A man walked into the bookstore I work at wearing a large, bulging coat. It was lumpy and almost seemed to be moving. He wandered the store for about 10 minutes, then came up to the register empty-handed. He then asked, “Did you notice anything?” I just said “Uuhhh… I mean it looks like there’s an animal in your coat.” He grinned, pulled down the zipper, and revealed not one, but THREE tiny dogs in his coat. I asked him why, and he said it made traveling with the dogs easier but wanted to know if others could tell. I still think about where he possibly wanted to sneak those dogs into.
I was in line at the bank, a woman starts queuing behind me when I turned around and saw a dishevelled woman carrying a well-worn-out Johnny Depp autobiography. She was talking about the tattoo on her arm which was Johnny Depp as captain jack sparrow. When I say talking I mean she was talking to it as if he was real and there.
Hearing her say to her arm “When we get home we can have a cup of tea and some cake” was weird.
My friends and I were out getting some dinner when a lady at a table next to us picked up a dipping cup of honey mustard sauce, stuck a straw in it and started drinking it like the world’s worst juice box.
I once got on a bus and this lady came in with no shoes on. She brought a little purse and her phone with her. I thought it was pretty weird to go out of the house without any shoes on, not even a slipper, but I shrug it off since there could be any other reason that I didn’t know. Maybe she’s going to pick up her shoes? I don’t know.
But I saw her again and again, and she was still not wearing shoes. She never brought a bigger bag to carry her shoes with. She doesn’t look homeless at all, she looks like a well-put woman, but she just never wears shoes.
I work at a grocery store. One morning, I go in alongside this man who seems to be walking strangely. I clock in and head to the back to grab an apron, and all of a sudden the guy busts through the employee door, and with a sort of speech impediment says “Where’s dah bathroom? I gotta go really bad!” Here, he had started… leaking… about the same time he passed into the employee section.
And no, it wasn’t a number 1.
He proceeds to shop for another hour as if nothing happened.
I took my friend recently to NYC, he’s never been. As soon as I step outside of Penn Train Station I see a woman babbling and talking hysterically outside. We start heading in a direction but decide to turn back because we were going the wrong way.
On our way back we see the woman again next to a food cart now with her pants down, and red undies midway lying on the ground screaming. People standing there realize she’s giving birth on the sidewalk!! The food cart guy is still making his food and there’s an ambulance just 1 block away dealing with another thing! I was like welcome to NYC bro!
I was checking out in Publix with my roommate and only had like three items. An older man (early 60s) gets in line behind me and puts his three items (1/4 watermelon, bottle of shampoo, and milk) on the belt, all pressing up right against my items. I was talking with the cashier and didn’t notice as it was happening. I saw it a couple of seconds later, and politely shifted his items back about 6 inches and put a divider between them as I continued the conversation. A minute later, I see his items sliding into the bagging area with mine and had to stop the cashier and tell him they weren’t mine. He replied, “Oh, I’m sorry. There wasn’t a divider so I just assumed…”
Y’all, this old dude had removed the divider and pushed his groceries back up with mine so I’d be the one buying them. I turned and stared right at him in disbelief but he was determined to not make eye contact. I finished up and left, never getting a glance from the man.
What I can’t figure out is, what was his end game? If I hadn’t noticed, I’d have bought his things and then walked out with them in my cart. In no way could that have played out as me accidentally paying for his things and him leaving with them for free.
Freaking weirdo.
Once I was ridding the subway a guy walks in, and immediately starts taking off his coat, and changed from shoes to sneakers and by now everybody was like “ok is the guy late for the gym or something”
The subway starts moving and the guy, facing the door and with a look as if he was being a victim of an exorcism, starts jogging in the same place and with the same initial pace as the subway and then as the subway accelerated, the dude did the same until he was now running for his life… But in the same place!
Then as the subway was approaching the next station he started to slow down, put his jacket on and walked out.
About 2 weeks ago, my gf and I were sitting at a McDonald’s waiting for friends, and an older man came to sit with us. He had a strange accent, almost like a lisp or how someone would talk without teeth, and no one could really understand him other than me.
Anyways, after talking for a while about hockey, Donald Trump, and some run-down, crappy-run retirement homes in Montreal, he picked up a Crayola crayon off the table we were at and ate it.
One time my friend and I were sitting in the parking lot of a liquor store waiting for my brother to come outside. I looked over to the car to my left and saw a man holding a baby doll. I thought it was funny and told my friend to look. Then the man rolled down his window, put the doll in the window, and rolled it up so it would crunch the baby’s face in the window. We were so confused and in shock that we started laughing hysterically. The man then rolled down the window and held the doll, and just stared at it for a few minutes. After staring at it for a long time, he kissed the baby and threw it in the back seat. I was so creeped out that I had to look away, but my friend glared at him hoping that he would notice, and realize that we saw the whole thing. Still have absolutely no idea what that man was doing.