Strangest person you have ever encountered

[Just_me_Mike]

So, I am wondering in this mixture of a world we live in, who is the strangest person you have ever run into and why?

For me, it was on a cross country trip from DC to San Diego. I drove and stopped at what I thought would be unusual places. I entered Arkansas, and found a place called Hot Springs Arkansas, so I decided that would be the place for me.

It took a while to find the place, but I eventually entered the town, and found a park of sorts. When I arrived I noticed a large area of docs at the bottom of a hill and it was full of house boats. So I parked and walked around, but didn't see anyone there. I got on a few of the boats to look around, and still no one. The lake was very pretty though!

I got back into my car and drove further into the park. I then saw a large banner between two trees that read something about David Duke, and convention. As I passed it, I see lots of black Lincolns and people with walkie talkies. I decided I did not belong there, and turned around. However I had to use the bathroom REALLY REALLY bad, so I stopped at a bath house, and started to do my thing, when I heard someone chanting in the stall next to mine.

The chants were something about Satan, and what satan could do for him, and he began to pleasure himself! Really really loud, I am not sure he knew I was there, but anyway I slowly finished my business and exited quickly. My next stop was not until I got into Texas! That was probably the strangest encounter with another human I have had?

 

[conradxiong]

The chants were something about Satan, and what satan could do for him, and he began to pleasure himself! Really really loud, I am not sure he knew I was there, but anyway I slowly finished my business and exited quickly.

Hahaha, very awkward situation.

I've come across many strange people. Just last week I had a conversation with a homeless guy. He had just eaten a peyote cactus, was carrying a blow-up sex doll and had to go to court in the morning for DD. He was one of the most cheerful person I had ever met.

 

[Riverwolf]

I met a drunk, homeless Elvis about a year ago. ^_^

 

[Enoch07]

Hmmm dunno about strange but definitely fascinating. Was on my way to Munich to party at Oktoberfest a few years ago, and my train stopped in Nuremberg for about an hour. So my fiance and I explored the train station and stopped to eat at one of the delis there. While eating and just talking about everyday bull, this stranger started asking questions in German to my fiance. My German was still rusty at the time so I was clueless, then he turned to me and in an american english accent started asking me where I was from etc. So we started talking about this that and the other.

He had a very interesting story about his life. He was born in Germany to a jewish family in the 1930's. His father was a scientist (possibly a scientist that helped Einstein??) and they were taken from Germany (by the U.S Govt) during WW2, to live in the States. We just happen to meet him on his first trip back to his homeland which was very cool. Anyways...

He seemed like a nice enough fellow...older man of course. Only thing out of ordinary was that he was wearing a silver ring with a onyx stone on his wedding ring finger on his left hand. On the stone was carved and painted white pentacle (no white circle enveloping it and it was 5 pointed star that I have no doubt, definitely not a star of David). So I just assumed he was either pagan/wiccan/variant of, and did not think much about it at first.

But a few days later I remembered him saying that he was indeed jewish earlier in the conversation. So this has always puzzled me, and I suppose it is possible he could have converted at some point in his life. But I always hoped (and still do) to see him again to ask him more questions about him and his life.

 

[rojse]

I would mention several posters on RF, actually.

 

[Breathe]

Someone I was friends with some time ago.

He believed he was a wolf so he wore a dog collar confused, and was also a Pagan Wiccan Druid at the same time yet had hayfever (Edit: none of those are weird in themselves, but I just found it funny for someone who never left his bedroom and was allergic to pollen and grass to worship nature ), who believed he could summon thoughtforms with his mind, could talk to ghosts and the spirits of nature (ironic, since he almost never left his bedroom), dressed as a furry and played Furcadia to the point of sickness.

Yeah. He was very weird.

Edit: Oh, he believed he was allergic to silver too.

(By the way, I'm not making him up )

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Everyone seems pretty much equally normal to me.

 

[Perfect Circle]

I thought I saw Gary Busey at an airport once. That was weird enough...

 

[England my lionheart]

When i was rehearsing for a play we had a break,so i went to the Theatre bar for a Coke (honest) and there was this Guy,i had to double take because i recognised him from TV,his name was Emo a weird Comedian.
Anyway i introduced myself to him and asked are you doing a show here he started stroking some pictures on the wall he then paused and said "maybe" and then mumbled some weird stuff,i then asked him if it was ok to bring some of the other cast to meet him and he was ok with that but definately strange:run:

 

[Twilight Hue]

Ex-Special Forces guy who later on after leaving the service had turned openly transvestite. I would have affectionately called him Klinger or Lola had I the nerve but he might have killed me or should I say have definitely killed me.

He is truly a good guy who is extremely intelligent holding a PhD and works in a professional capacity, but it did take awhile at the time for me to initially adjust to it as I never had interacted with open transvestites before. What I viewed as strange was his past military profession contrasting (or conflicting) with his personal effeminate tendencies. I never asked why and honestly I probably never will.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

The more weird the person you are talking to seems ...
The more weird you will seem to them.

Every one seems normal to me.
So perhaps I am wrong.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

A friend of Sacred Silence's brother. I also use to work with him for awhile. And this dude is just straight up bizarre. Worse than that even. We was at work once, and this guy just started laughing, and would not stop. This went on for a few hours. One story SS's brother told us, was him, this guy, and some other guy were sleeping, and out of no where, this guy declares, "I like cheese," and said nothing more.

He is truly a good guy who is extremely intelligent holding a PhD and works in a professional capacity, but it did take awhile at the time for me to initially adjust to it as I never had interacted with open transvestites before. What I viewed as strange was his past military profession contrasting (or conflicting) with his personal effeminate tendencies. I never asked why and honestly I probably never will.

Military service is common for MtF trans. The extreme masculinity of the military is an action made in denial, and an attempt to rid the female side. I myself was going to serve as a Navy SEAL, and later then just the Navy, but wasn't able to. I did wrestle on the indy circuits though, and did alot of weight training. All for the same reasons of being in denial, and trying the get rid of any thoughts of being transsexual.

 

[idea]

I've toured this site.
YouTube - Jim Bishop Castle Builder
It's a cool castle - fire breathing dragon and everything!
don't go if you are afraid of heights though!


I did meet this guy at a book signing.
Aron Ralston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
yes, he still had one hand to sign with . I wanted him to write words of advice to my mother about hiking solo... he declined, he still hikes solo, and encourages others to do so...

After five days of trying to lift and break the boulder, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston prepared to cut off his already-dead arm by levering it against a chockstone, which snapped the radius and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons. Although he never named the make of the tool other than to say it was not Leatherman, he did describe it as "what you'd get if you bought a $15 flashlight and got a free multi-use tool".[1] After freeing himself, he was still eight miles from his stick shift truck, and he had no cellular phone. He had to rappel down a 65-foot sheer wall, then hike out of the canyon in the hot midday sun. While hiking out, he encountered a family of three on vacation from the Netherlands, who gave him water, two Oreo cookies, and all the food that they had. They then alerted the authorities. He was ultimately rescued by a helicopter search team. His arm was retrieved by park authorities and removed from under the boulder. It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to the boulder and left the ashes there.

 

[Caladan]

But a few days later I remembered him saying that he was indeed jewish earlier in the conversation. So this has always puzzled me, and I suppose it is possible he could have converted at some point in his life. But I always hoped (and still do) to see him again to ask him more questions about him and his life.

I'm Jewish, and for a while I used to wear a pentagram star ring as well. you might not know this, but some refer to it as the Seal of Solomon. I'm not saying that was the reason he wore it, but there it is.
and just for further general knowledge, Jews have been using the pentagram thousands of years ago.

 

[Enoch07]

I'm Jewish, and for a while I used to wear a pentagram star as well. you might not know this, but some refer to it as the Seal of Solomon. I'm not saying that was the reason he wore it, but there it is.
and just for further general knowledge, Jews have been using the pentagram thousands of years ago.

Ahh cool. I did not know that. Thanks for letting me know. Old wise King Solomon pretty neat.

 

[Caladan]

So, I am wondering in this mixture of a world we live in, who is the strangest person you have ever run into and why?

There were quite a few I suppose, I also guess that not all of them were necessarily 'weird', but some of the scenarios were fascinating.

for example, at a certain point during my service I was stationed on the crossing with Gaza. one night a guy and his friend were crossing the 'border passage', and I'm not sure why but we began talking. he was an Algerian Muslim, and Im an Israeli soldier in uniforms. we talked about religion into the night, about very esoteric aspects of religion, into Islam and the Qur'an, the prophets of Israel, Mt Sinai. etc.

another interesting night was when I first arrived to England on a ferry from France, it was too late to find a place to sleep, so I went to crush in a train station. I met 3 Iranian refugees there, we ended up passing the night talking and smoking my small hookah into the night, we had a great talk till morning, they had a pretty rough journey to get all the way to England, and they had no money on them to reach London, so obviously I paid for their train ride, and they returned the money to the last pound in London. they had some interesting stories, about what made them leave Iran, and I guess some of us are lucky in many ways.

Another strange encounter was in an ancient castle in Scotland. I ran into a skinhead and his friend there, he had some nice Nazi SS tats from here and there, we talked, and ended up sharing a joint, pretty bizarre situation, but not completely off the charts with me

 

[Just_me_Mike]

There were quite a few I suppose, I also guess that not all of them were necessarily 'weird', but some of the scenarios were fascinating.

for example, at a certain point during my service I was stationed on the crossing with Gaza. one night a guy and his friend were crossing the 'border passage', and I'm not sure why but we began talking. he was an Algerian Muslim, and Im an Israeli soldier in uniforms. we talked about religion into the night, about very esoteric aspects of religion, into Islam and the Qur'an, the prophets of Israel, Mt Sinai. etc.

another interesting night was when I first arrived to England on a ferry from France, it was too late to find a place to sleep, so I went to crush in a train station. I met 3 Iranian refugees there, we ended up passing the night talking and smoking my small hookah into the night, we had a great talk till morning, they had a pretty rough journey to get all the way to England, and they had no money on them to reach London, so obviously I paid for their train ride, and they returned the money to the last pound in London. they had some interesting stories, about what made them leave Iran, and I guess some of us are lucky in many ways.

Another strange encounter was in an ancient castle in Scotland. I ran into a skinhead and his friend there, he had some nice Nazi SS tats from here and there, we talked, and ended up sharing a joint, pretty bizarre situation, but not completely off the charts with me

All great stories! If I ever make it to Israel, hope we can share a spliff and wonder about the world.

 

[Caladan]

All great stories! If I ever make it to Israel, hope we can share a spliff and wonder about the world.

Inshalla

 

[Autodidact]

Well, there was a guy at my undergraduate uni that everyone called "The Mad Hawaiian," who had a theory that wearing warm clothes in winter somehow impaired the body's ability to keep itself warm, so always wore shorts and sandals, through the winter, in Michigan.

 

[Just_me_Mike]

Well, there was a guy at my undergraduate uni that everyone called "The Mad Hawaiian," who had a theory that wearing warm clothes in winter somehow impaired the body's ability to keep itself warm, so always wore shorts and sandals, through the winter, in Michigan.

It is funny I do similar things. I wear more clothes than normal in the summer, and less in the winter. Never figured ot why, but do it each year