294 Scary Fishing Stories, Disturbing Things Seen in the Suburbs, and Creepy Dog Walking Encounters! Unexplained Encounters
There are three bridges that go over it. I-79 is one of the main highways in PA. These two bridges are floating bridges. The story goes that when they were building the interstate over the swamp they couldn’t find the bottom. They dropped cars, a railroad car, and a crane at full extension into the swamp.
The day he’ll never be able to explain happened 28 miles offshore Jacksonville. The crew yelled at it, and poked it with a gaff, and tried everything they knew, all to no avail. Then 15 minutes later, just as fast as they arrived, one lone bee rose from the swarm, and took off toward land. Then, en masse the whole swarm rose as one, and followed him toward land. I’m thinking wherever that swarm came from, they need a new navigator. I was anchored in Woods Hole fishing for stripers with a friend.
We already knew the not very charming Monkfish. But that’s nothing compared to his cousin the Dragon of the Abyss… If the dentist has work, so does the cosmetic surgeon. The male of the species has the peculiarity of dying to ensure reproduction. Just then my family got home and when I told them about what happened they seemed surprised, but I could kind of tell they were humoring me.
There was the Middle Ground Flag right where it should have been. A few more miles brought the Pablo Ground Flag into clear view. The captain and I looked at each other with the same “hair raised, little bit spooked” look in our eyes. We knew we couldn’t have been off course or we would have never found the Main 14. I couldn’t help but think there was absolutely no reason I would end up cleaning fish in the dark, a full 2 hours later than we should have been. I had promised my girlfriend I’d be at church on time that night, and that was now shot.
Not long after we had started running, the flag on “Main 14” reef was clearly visible. Thanking our lucky stars we put the baits out, started looking for the structure around the flag. We were late now, and I was hating every minute it was taking us to find the fish.
As I screamed, “Help there’s something in my sleeping bag! ” I was sure it was either a rattlesnake, or a stowaway rat. A fullgrown flying fish was obviously stunned when he “thumped” into my chest on landing. Once I shook him down into my sleeping bag, I’m not sure who was more scared. I was fishing the first beach at Sandy Hook in Jersey one late September. When I got to the parking lot and not another car in sight.
I set up, soaking clams on two rods before sun-up. As the pre-dawn light began to show over the horizon, a THICK bank of fog rolled in. Slack tide and zero wind…very peaceful but not expecting anything spectacular.
I was downstream on the opposite bank when I heard the first horn sound. I immediately began wading across the stream to get to safety, but the pool was already deeper than I expected. There’s a twist, the Creak is less of a scary campfire story and more of a creepy poem. For those story tellers who have flair for the dramatic, one thing you can do at the end is a big jump-stomp to scare everyone . The poem is all about simple sounds, and all the scary things they could be, perfect for entertaining your friends and family. About a half hour into watching my rod, I started to smell perfume around me.
Joey favorite person to fish with, his dad, has taught him many things over the years. He has also passed on stories about people Joey never had a chance to meet. Joey Plunkett and Bob Landberg went searching for walleyes in South Dakota, only to find that Joey’s personal best walleye was waiting in an unexpected spot on the way home.
The nets keep animals from moving freely, cause injuries, and keep mammals and birds from rising to the surface for air. Since hundreds of animals can be caught in a single net, you can see just how monumental this threat is. And ghost nets harm coral reefs too—breaking corals, exposing them to disease, and even blocking the reefs from needed sunlight. Ghost nets aren’t supernatural, but they are legitimately scary.
Lashell Middlebrook is a former American zookeeper and the current director emeritus of the Zoo and Aquarium. She is 37 years old.