What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen for which you have no logical explanation? I'm pretty sure I saw a yeti/werewolf/Jersey Devil/cryptid when I was 9 or 10 years old. It loped past our garage window, which was a solid 6 feet off the ground. Broad daylight. Suburban NJ.

I was putting on my shoes, getting ready to catch the school bus. I saw this *bizarre* shaggy reddish-brown shape out of the corner of my eye, running with a VERY strange gait. So I ran to the other window--which was over my head--and saw it continue loping around the house.

I could only see the top of its head through that very high window. (Head? Don't even know if it was a head.) At first I thought it was an impossibly tall man. I had almost like a prey response--I froze where I was and stood there for a solid minute.

To this day I wonder what the hell it was. Our house backed on to these very creepy woods (all developed now, if Google Maps is right). Huge old trees. Very quiet. Wasn't the only weird thing I ever saw, but it was the weird-est.

The only other creature I've ever seen that moved like that is a bear. When they run, bears look almost like hunched-over humans running on all fours. It's uncanny. I've seen them in the wild several times in CO. But this was WAY too tall to be a bear.

Somebody downthread suggested a moose. It would be a great relief if it was a moose (apparently they do exist in NJ??), but I'd certainly never seen or heard of anybody else ever seeing one in that area.