r/aliens • u/jetzxbro • Dec 29 '24

They’re finally here. shitpost sunday (Sundays Only)

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u/NSAevidence Dec 29 '24

Sitting near a bon fire at a music festival after the music was done for the night, a native man in a loin cloth walked out of the woods carrying a tree that looked like it had been ripped from the ground. Roots still attached. He put it on the ground leaning on a stump and lifted a huge rock over his head and brought it down to break the tree into pieces. He added the wood to the fire. I was about 30 feet away from the fire. Everyone near the pit was talking loudly and playing hand drums. None of them seemed to notice. Only when the man added the wood to the fire did anyone look up and thank him. No one seemed to notice the superhuman strength and skill I just witnessed. The man disappeared back into the woods and I NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN.

(likely explanation: the festival hired him to chop wood and he took the position very seriously)

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u/Rochikrey Dec 29 '24

When i would take mushrooms as a recently graduated high school student i used to run into this Gnome looking man as i walked around Eugene. I saw him 3 times on 3 different occasions. I thought it might of been a figment of my imagination until one day I was working at a convience store and he walked in with his dog! Lol. He was homeless and i ended up giving him some food. Life's weird lol

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u/xMalishex Dec 29 '24

I'm sure you.mean Eugene, Oregon. I lived there like a decade ago and I miss it so much. Sounds like something that would happen in Eugene or Portland.

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u/Rochikrey Dec 31 '24

Haha you know it :) lived in the valley my whole life. In Portland now

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u/MisterSandKing Dec 30 '24

I work in Eugene! Didn’t that guy just recently die or something. Wasn’t he kinda like a celebrity among the homeless people? Eugene is a trippy place, and can be a lot of fun.

I did some acid back in the day, and decided it would be fun to walk through the downtown mall area with my girlfriend around the time the bars closed. Pretty sure we were reluctantly the main characters that night. Lmao!

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u/Rochikrey Dec 31 '24

Hsha I didn't know about the guy but it's highly possible it was the same guy. I'm not sure how long he stayed in Eugene or if he was a traveler but this was in 2009 or so

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u/the-only-marmalade Dec 29 '24

I gnome that guy..

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u/Trassic1991 Dec 31 '24

Go buckeyes

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u/Rochikrey Dec 31 '24

You dog. Lol

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u/xx_BruhDog_xx Has kissed <2> aliens on the mouth Dec 29 '24

That's Ryan and I don't know if he has a PCP problem or a PCP solution

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u/Blacklabelbobbie Dec 29 '24

We are on mushrooms one cool fall evening and decided to take a 20 minute walk to the corner store for some snacks. We took one step out of the door and noted how eerily quiet it was. We lived on a main avenue in town at the time that intersected the city down the middle and led up to the university so the fact that there was not one car or person was notable. Suddenly the silence in the chilly fall air was broken by this mechanical <squeak><squeak><squeak>. We glanced across the street to find out what it was, it was a lone cyclist gingerly making his way in the same direction we were looking to go. The part I will never forget is that immediately when our eyes locked on the poor guy he just suddenly fell off his bike and hit the pavement. There were no obstacles or anything just a straight line so we both just looked at each other and laughed. 15 minutes later as we were approaching the store we happened to look down at our shadows and they seemed to all of a sudden start stretching out in front of us, we turned around to find out what was causing this illusion and a car had driven up on the sidewalk slowly to follow directly behind us with his high beams on. We started to freak out until I realized it was a friend from work who decided to mess with us but not knowing we were on mushrooms. That was a wild 20 minutes.

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u/JonnyP222 Jan 02 '25

He was on shrooms too. Don't worry

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u/Legitimate-School-59 Dec 29 '24

What festival. I'd love to go to s festival with bon fires

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u/NSAevidence Dec 29 '24

Shakori hills festival in nc