ITT: Shit from your childhood that was retconned / doesn't exist anymore>Be me, ~8-9 years old>In garden with parents>GIANT fucking insect lands on my arm, the size of my entire forearm at the time>I scream cry etc, it flies off>Parents console me and say it is a "box fly", and that is is harmless>[time warp]>Randomly remember this as an adult and ask them about it, they have no ideaTo this day I have never seen an insect like it or anything on wtf a "box fly" is supposed to be. And no it wasn't a "botfly".Anyone else have stories like this? They really interest me. I have a few more but they aren't as weird as this one.
>>42158789This reminds me of something that happened during the 2017 solar eclipse in the US, literally during the eclipse. I was watching it in a friend's backyard with them and a giant (at least 3-4 inches long) orange insect with a huge stinger(?) started flying at me and trying to land on my back. I didn't actually get stung though and they got it off me somehow. They had no idea what it was and neither did I, and I feel like it was something weird since I don't remember any other insect encounters from that long ago
>>42158789>>42158818not to be an asshole but>be a child>be literally 1/2-1/4 your current adult size>wonder why kinda big insects seem like fuck off huge man eaters>"mmmh yes my reality changed I didn't just grow up"
>>42158833I am >>42158818 and I was not a child in 2017
>>42158833I know what you mean, but when I was thinking about it deeper it's still really weird to me. Even now it would still be far larger than any common insect I've known, like easily 5-10x larger. It also looked extremely strange and that's why I remember "box fly" - it was like rectangular when it's wings were curled up. Again you'd have to see my memories to fully know what I am talking about, it was super bizarre. Unlike anything I have seen since.Of course it could have just been a nightmare, overactive imagination, etc. But this is /x/.
>>42158844Can you try to draw a picture of one in paint?
>>42158789Before the internet everyone was wrong about shit all the time.
>>42158845I tried but made the worst drawing ever. Note I cannot usually even draw a stick figure, so this doesn't do it justice. When it was in the air, but was much less 'rectangular' but when it landed, it's wings and legs or whatever else sort of folded up.
>>42158874 (me)*Meant to say: When it was in the air, it was much less 'rectangular', but when it landed, it's wings and legs or whatever else sort of folded up.
>>42158874It’s not a mosquito hawk? Those things are insane looking.
>>42158879I guess it could have been what we have here, we call them crane flies. Still it's much different than what I remember. What I saw was very dark colored, maybe even black. And obviously way bigger. But ye the rational explanation could have been that it was a crane fly and my kid brain made up this horror scenario
I live in western europe and I swear I saw a MASSIVE crane fly when i was around 7-8 years old. I'm not sure about the exact scale but it would've been very close to what you're describing. Probably around 30cm including the legs. It was just resting on a wall.
>>42158889That said there’s tons of weird bugs. I saw a weird fly in my yard just the other day and it took me almost an hour to find it online because it doesn’t typically visit my area. Could have been some weird rare bug. It’s a shame actual bug experts or fanatics are so rare.
Timelines have to be interesting to God or they get merged with other timelines, most natural timelines that ended in nuclear war and desolation get merged into this one where things are interesting, so all kinds of random small differences are noticed by the merged
Round fabric softener bottles made out of blue plastic that were the same shape as bleach bottles
>>42158789most insects have already ascend
>>42158789>box flyI think you just have a bad memory and it was just a "final boss fly".
>>42158789I was eating cereal one time as a kid when 4 flies committed suicide by flying into the bowl.
i mustve been 3 or 4 but my grandpa opened the door to the detached garage and i swear to fucking God i saw a centipede the length of my body and about as thick as my torso scurry away in the back of the garage but my grandpa didnt believe me i can still see it in memory now it was fucking enormous
>>42158789Just from my experience of giant bug no one ever talks about:Was it a Dobson fly?
>>42158874Sure it wasn't a walking stick bug? They can get huge and come in different colors.
>>42159313I HAD A VERY SIMILAR THOUGHT RECENTLY "We're awake in the most interesting of timelines", i was going to make a thread, but i am not sure what this thought means though. Your post is really similar though!
>>42158874Was it a dragonfly?
Insects are crazy though. Prehistoric insects were like the air version of deep sea horror creatures.Then among all that crazy shit you have humans, who are totally different. Really weird.
I swear I remember seeing big dragonflies as a kid. Like bird sized ones.
>>42158789I remember seeing an ant the size of a phone when I was a little kid. Why do we all have these weird memories?
>>42158789Yeah I've got one for you. When I was 12 I pissed myself in class and ran to the toilet. I simply have no memory of what happened after, and nobody commented on it. Ran to the toilet then just... Nothing. Didn't happen.
>>42158789Literally remember a wimpy's burger down the road in my small coastal town, went there to play arcade games with my friends.One friend was named Arrol teminkian like the name Errol with an A was georgian, parents .They never remebered him said I had a friend instead called Eira a girl who was dominican instead friends with me and my sister.M8 people don't swap genders that's trooning they do to 2010 kids.This was literally the year streetfighter 2 and Ye fighting kungfu from data east dropped in 1991 and I was 5 ffs.
>>42158789>>42158844>>42158874>>42158889So it was kinda like a crane fly but much bigger and with a mantis head? How did it fly? Like the average insect or dud it kinda bob up and down?>>42158818Was it a cowkiller/velvet ant(wasp)? Sounds somewhat similar.>>42161505I remember seeing a caterpillar that reminded me of a clown. Not that big like maybe an inch to and inch and a half. But it definitely vibe like a clown, even had a little red 'nose'. I do not think it had a humanoid head, but it was still rather weird. I was in the single digits at the time. I looked it up, and no real caterpillar looked like it, closest I could find was picrel, but the head was much less cartoony and it was mostly black and white.I also remember seeing a daddy long legs/harvestman in the single digits that looked kinda off, like the body had like kinda blue large eyes or something. Kinda scared me desu, and I was never one to be scared of creepy crawlies.
>>42158833except he didn't really grow up as he hasn't even thought maybe his parents are not all knowing authority figures and most likely just made something up to stop him from crying
>>42161642Possible, but I assume if this were the case the parents would have been more freaked out.
>>42161632>So it was kinda like a crane fly but much bigger and with a mantis head? How did it fly? Like the average insect or dud it kinda bob up and down?I didn't get a good look at it when flying. It was very fast though>except he didn't really grow up as he hasn't even thought maybe his parents are not all knowing authority figures and most likely just made something up to stop him from cryingThis is really stupid logic. Are you trying to say some sort of giant insect really did land on me and they were like "wtf quick make something up"? Or that it's like some other trauma and somehow they could use that to divert? Makes zero sense to me
>>42161716>>42160551
>>42160551Size-wise this would match perfectly to what I saw! The wings also look a lot like what I remember. The body / 'torso' from that perspective matches what I saw. Large, elongated, and vaguely rectangular.Although I remember it's head being flat/no extruding bits apart from possibly antennae - no mandibles. And it was very dark colored, or black.
>>42161732>>42160551I found an image of one that is even closer to what I remember. Apparently a species from Asia? I am in ausfailia
>>42161739The females of the species also lack the extended mandibles.
>>42161748Holy shit then it might be a female version of that pic then. Can't say I've seen one since. So this random rare as fuck (to my experience) insect just trolled me as a kid lol
>>42158833You're not allowed in the clubhouse anymore.
>>42161739https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonflyapparently before they went to Asia they were in the US, I sure as hell fucking hope they are no longer in the US cause I aint trying to fuck with this shit.
>>42161632>Was it a cowkiller/velvet ant(wasp)?It does look kind of a similar orange color, but I am in WA. Wikipedia says that isn't their range, but maybe it was.
Its not really related to OP, but I recall last year I saw what I believe to be a new or unknown subspecies of the American Carrion Beetle, because every pic I found seem to have the spot on their back that is more of a messy ink spot, while those I found had this distinct and surreal looking eye on their thorax, with a clear white and black contrast. Pic related, the whole reason I even saw them while walking in the underbrush was because their image outright triggered a reflex from me, because I was really confused as to why there were a bunch of eyes all of a sudden.
>>42158874Dobson fly?
>>42162482Very spooky looking> the whole reason I even saw them while walking in the underbrush was because their image outright triggered a reflex from meMaybe even an adaptation to make animals not step on them? If you see eyes peeking out of the ground, you'd be freaked out (whether as a human or a dog / whatever else)
There's been times I met up with people that I thought were dead. Probably just a misunderstanding, it's not like I was at their funeral or anything.>>42161512Could it be that you thought she was a boy because of the way she dressed at the time?
>>42158789The symbols for astrological signs are different now. I know because I found an old frisbee I had from my teenage years when I was in a different timeline, and all the symbols are different.
>>42160438When im pissed off and heating up a pan too cook dinner sometimes god will spite me by having a gnat commit sepaku by diving directly into the hot pan.
>>42158789I nevermore saw any fireflies
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>>42158789probably a horsefly? I remember a similar experience actually.
>>42158789actually shit no the size doesn't match at all, I do remember 'box fly' being a type of fly that looked like a horsefly. I'm guessing you're thinking of another flying insect that isn't a fly but is commonly mistaken for a fly? I'd guess a very large dragonfly. I remember seeing a huge purple dragon fly, maybe 6-8 inches that followed me around the garden for a good 10 minutes. Looking now at photos, they don't seem that big, but I (Even at 8) remember that modest garden to be fucking huge. Idk man
Sometimes I have the feeling that I wake up in a different reality, not enough to be whole different world but small changes that seems off.Something like, in the infinite amount of realities many of them are practically the same but with some changes that make me think I'm not in the same world I used to be.
