The purpose of this thread is to share your stories that were simply unexplainable or downright frighten you to the point that you weren't sure that it was your imagination or not. I encourage you to share your tales of the otherworldly or tales that otherwise belong to the board spectrum of the unexplainable. (I'll start this off.)
As I approached my twenty-fifth birthday, I was making plans to have a small barbecue an had brought some beer earlier that day. Needless to say the day went off without a hitch, friends and family stopped by for a bit, ending with what left of my circle of friends that remained. When night came, the circle dwindled down to just me and my best friend.
I usually don't like to start drinking until usually around after sunset and by the time that it had hit midnight, I already had taken down around seven bottles. My buddy brought himself his own brand of beer and was taking down his bottle(s) in intervals of thirty minutes. By the time that we finished all of the alcohol, it was already past one in the morning and we decide to relax in the cab of my Chevy listening to some Pink Floyd until it was time for us to turn in.
Come around two thirty in the morning, I was starting to get somewhat groggy and was thinking about heading inside. However, my buddy grabbed my shoulder and pulled out what suspiciously look like a joint. Sure enough it was and after exchanging another birthday greeting, I lit that bad boy up and starting a smoke sesh. When we both finish the sesh, it was about five till three in the morning and took a minute to gather the trash from our drinking; that way I could throw it away in the morning.
Once that was all done with, we were both about to exit the vehicle and head our separate ways; I was going inside and my buddy was going to walk a couple houses down to his place. Before I could even open the door, the area around us got bright and I mean really bright. So bright that everything within a quarter-mile was lit up to the point that it was daytime at three in the morning; the day sensors on the street lights picked up on this and every single street light was off for a short duration. This event immediately freak both of us out, so much that we were hesitant to step outside in fear that something might happen to us; like aliens an what-not. It also didn't help that around the same time that this event occurred, an officer in a sports-utility vehicle was passing down by my block on routine patrol. Once he saw what we had saw, he hit the breaks and stopped in the middle of the road for a brief moment to catch a glimpse of what just occurred. I guess he saw something that we didn't see and immediately sped off, which we took as a sign to 'gtfo' of there.
Long story short, we couldn't explain what we saw and we were certain that we were not the only witness to this otherworldly or otherwise possible celestial event. It could've been a number of things, the possibilities were so staggering that it was frightening. (I'll share some more stories, once the thread starts getting some replies.)