Bone circles

While on a trail ride (you ride your horse through the woods), my friend and I came across a bunch of animal bones arranged in circles like some sort of weird ritual. It definitely wasn’t anything that would have happened naturally. It was far away from any houses and in the middle of the woods – really creepy.

The bright light

When I was probably 15, I was spending a fall weekend at my best friend’s house. She lived on a dirt road off of a rural county road in the middle of nowhere. It was probably about 3 AM, and we were bored, so we took a walk.

This being the middle of nowhere, there was hardly any light pollution, and you could see thousands of stars in the sky. It was a clear, cool night, and we were just walking along, talking, our eyes totally adjusted to the dark.

All of a sudden, there was a blinding white flash; so bright, I couldn’t see anything but white for a split second. As suddenly as it started, it was over, and my friend and I were sitting in the middle of the road. We both must have dropped right where we stood. It was quiet again, and the sky was still clear. Sitting there in the road, totally stunned, we confirmed that we had both been blinded by a super-bright light for half-a-second, that had apparently knocked us over. There had been no cars, no accompanying sound, just a light so bright we couldn’t see anything else.

We got up, went back home and went to sleep. My friend and I drifted apart over the years, but ended up working in the same building years later, and we met up for coffee. She brought up the incident, and still remembers it the same way I do. We never figured out what happened.