Describe unbelievably loony people you have met

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Probably my father. He has a fear of forests and has never stepped foot in one. He can handle lone trees, but not enough trees bundled together like in a forest. He blames this on "very strange things" he heard and saw coming from the forest behind the house he grew up in. The house was waaaay out in the country and I've seen it before, and there's no way I'd live their. He's told me about weird flashing lights of many different colors, as well as unhuman moaning and screaming coming out of those woods. He becomes visible distraught when he talks about it.

andromeda, my ex-husband also used to say that when he was a boy he heard strange sounds in a wood near his house; he and his friends used to mess around in a creek and they all heard it, and could never figure out what was making it.

He said it was like a "metallic screaming" -- the only thing I could guess was the area did have mountain lions/cougars, and I gather that they can make sounds like that.

I wonder if what your dad was hearing could have been mountain lions?

We have urban foxes here, and the screams they make sound like a human being murdered! They are seriously not animal-like but just like a woman or child screaming horribly.

I've encountered plenty oddish people over the years.

I knew a woman who scared me a bit. She had bright carrot red hair with accompanying freckles and was built like an army tank. She once cracked her wrist by slamming it into my wall whilst in a towering rage. She insisted on seeing woman doctors only. She could be pleasant but needed flares installed around her when in a temper mode.

I prefer plain good 'ol eccentricity, of which I can also cite many an example.

A woman who talked about how she had sold a house she inherited to a celebrity, but they had hacked her account and stolen her money. Now they were conspiring against her and the prime minister was in on it and wanted to kill her. Finally she didn't dare go home because they were waiting for her.
She also thought her neighbors were from another dimension and monitored her or her thoughts.
This woman also had a smile was just so wrong.
She was creepy and scary and when I saw her I made sure to not turn my back to her.


Another woman whose dog attacked mine. She refused to let me go into my own home with my dog so I could clean up his wound, and also grabbed my arm so it left a bruise. I still regret not turning the b**** in. This was in 2004.
A couple of years later or so her dog was taken from her due to her neglect of him. A little later she was on our door and demanded to get him back, as 'kids had told her they had seen a black dog on our veranda'. She stood outside and called on him. My father asked if she was dumb, thinking we had him when he didn't get along with our dog at all. I laughed at her through the door. Yeah, I can be vindictive. I have no regrets.
She had also pushed her way in to one of our neighbors with the same story and demanded to see their dog (who although black furred was another breed entirely).


A man I passed by in NYC who stood at a strange angle and took off his pants.


A dirty looking woman begging for money who shouted at a woman that she had yellow staphylococcus but she was sure she didn't give a hoot about that. She went away muttering to herself.


Another weirdo who muttered something and stroked my hair when I passed her by coming out from the subway station.


While waiting for the subway I saw and heard a man coming into the station area and babbling about how much he hated the west and how much he despised the emigrants who had gone to the US.
It's always very uncomfortable to be around people acting like that. I was relieved when he got on a subway and was gone.


A boy in my elementary school class. He stole, lied and always got in trouble. He once brought a knife to school and according to a teacher who questioned him, he had threatened a first grader with it. He refused to take up his books when our teacher told us to and she used a lot of time just to try to get him to do what he was supposed to do in class.
We were collectively fed up with him, and I was relieved when his family moved.


Of course, the looniest people I've ever come across were the complete and utter POS who did something completely inexcusable and thought I would have anything to do with them afterwards. Now, that's loony.


Oh, I forgot these: On the bus several years ago, there were only a few seats free. Unfortunately one of them were next to me, and that's where this young woman, probably in her 20's, sat down. She started singing a children's song and clapped her hands and giggled. Then her phone rang and she took it and said she'd be there in about half an hour. She hung up and started singing and clapping her hands again.

An old man with a prosthetic leg. He sat on the ground with his leg taken off lying next to him, and he shouted something in a language I don't know and spat after people.

Geez, I meet unbelievably loony people, practically daily!!

I was sitting in one of those bus-stop hutches, one time, and a woman walked-up, and I told her there was room for her, to sit-down----she said: "Oh, no, I don't sit in those things----I'm afraid of witches".

I'm always seeing people on the bus, who are either sucking their thumb (these are ADULTS), or they're carrying-on a conversation with somebody who isn't there.

I talked to this guy, at the bus stop, who said he was sure they implanted a chip in him, when he was in the hospital, so they could track him.

Some other guy said that Jesus talked to him----and, he didn't say it in the "normal" way; like, when someone says "Jesus spoke to my heart, and told me everything was gonna be alright", or something like that----he talked, almost, as if Jesus would come to his house, or something, and discuss, like, current events with him.

A guy sat next to me, at the bus stop, and told me his toes followed him (as in, they went everywhere HE did)----he was really distraught, too; like, he was really worried / scared, and what was he gonna do.

I could go on and on----suffice it to say, I wish I didn't have to ride the bus!! LOL

Also, my uncle's a total nut-cake (I would bet, almost anything, he's an un-diagnosed Aspie). It's like trying to move a mountain, getting anything through, to him----and THEN, if you're lucky enough to accomplish it, he doesn't remember, and the next time you see him, you're having to have the EXACT same friggin' conversation with him.

I know maybe a couple of individuals (besides myself) who are eccentric, but not what I'd call loony. Most people I've met are pretty boring. Yawn.

The current pastor of my church, who became the parish priest in 2011. He is so insensitive!

{Examples: Back in 2013, my sister was sick, so I turned to him for guidance, but he said to me "Well...that's what your sister gets for not listening to God." In 2014, my mom was sick, so I tried again. He said the same thing, which was, "Well...that's what your mom gets for not listening to God." Even though my mom and my sister have both since fully recovered, I still, even now, want to punch my pastor in the face! However, I have no intentions on doing that because he is like a manipulative HS principal. }

I knew someone online who would go around insulting people and would see attacks and insults in posts that were not even there, she would randomly go off on people. She also had a wishy washy personality because you never knew what could set her off because one thing she is nice to you and civil and the next thing you know she is attacking you. She also thought everyone had an agenda like they were trying to manipulate her or had some hidden agenda in their posts and would attack them. If you didn't see things her way, she would insult you. She also would turn on you randomly believing you did something to her and she hated being ignored so she would start making posts that were obviously about someone on a forum to try and goad them or anyone on the forum. She also would accuse users of being someone else. After a while her drama got boring and people started to mess with her on I2 and some even would troll her by impersonating people like Temple Grandin and she would fall for it when she was questioning Grandin's diagnoses. Also we would spam in her threads ignoring her talking about other things and that totally pissed her off and she f****d off.

This person had so many problems it was either she was a professor troll or she was a schizophrenic or had NPD or BPD or Bipolar as been suggested by other users online. Luckily I have not seen her around in five years and I hope it stays that way. She was a professional victim it was like she had no awareness of her own behavior and how she treated others so it was always everyone's fault so she was not able to see she had provoked others to treat her the way they do or respond to her the way they do. So sad. Plus if she was having any problems, she could blame it on you thinking you were behind it and even if it was illogical, it didn't matter.


One time at one of the train stops, I was waiting to get on the train to go back home from work and there was this man walking around asking if anyone had a cell phone so he could call his girlfriend. I didn't have mine with me because I had forgot it at home, other people didn't have one either. He then started to rant about how everyone says they don't have a cell phone and then he sees them using it. He then says how one day the earth will blow up and he will be the only one alive. People just start to laugh and it was so funny because it was so ridiculous. He thought he could threaten us about our planet blowing up and him being alive all it did was it made him sound loony like he was crazy and not right in the head and not all there. Plus there was once another woman on the train who claimed cell phones and computers messed with her head and then she screamed on the train at everyone to turn off their computers.

I remember I was on the bus going to work when I worked in a different building back then. I was on the bus and there was this one woman talking to herself and she was ranting about how much she hated being black and how she wanted to be white since she was four years old. She then rants about how other black people discriminated against her for her being black. I thought that was very strange because why would people discriminate someone based on their skin color that is the same as theirs. But just by looking at how she was acting, I thought maybe because she is crazy, it's a no wonder other people "discriminate" against her because I wouldn't want to be around her either and I'm white. But seriously, if people are "discriminating" against her, then maybe she has more going on than just being black like how I figured I had more going on than just language when I was ten? But no she was too crazy to know she was nuts.


One time at a train stop after I got off work, I was waiting for the train and there was this middle ages woman sitting on the bench ranting about homosexuals and making homophobic comments. I forget what she said but I remember it was all homophobia she was expressing and it made me uncomfortable. Then I was so happy when my train came because I got to get away from her.

Myself and whatever description that comes with that.

From what my mother told me today it looks like one of my cousins is off the deep end. She got really angry recently because there was a sort of annual event that takes place where my parents live, and no one remembered to remind her of it, so she went and posted all kinds of nasty things about our family on Facebook. She also has three kids and is expecting a fourth one, and she's not even married.

My cousin is about ten years younger than me, I still remember when she was an innocent little girl. How did she get so messed up?

My friend from school. She was totally eccentric. Made comments out of the place not fitting to a situation, giggled unexpectedly and irritated our severe teacher with her chill personality to no end. One time our boss at job asked me if she got high. The thing is, most of the time she appeared drugged while actually being sober.

Also one old lady who lived in the house next to my grandma's. If she spied me or my cousin outside of the house she would just stare at us and not move at all for a long time, she didn't speak much, to us never. Just a really creepy staring.

I used to attend some kind of mental health classes, where I met a very peculiar man. Apparently, he believes in the ancient Egyptian religion, but insists that the "gods" were just deities (which is the same damn thing) and that there is only one "God." He claims that Egyptians were monotheistic long before the Hebrews were. He had schizotypal personality disorder.

2 people come to mind. i will talk about one of them in this post.

1: Mrs Gates.

she was an extremely rich old woman. her husband, mr gates, was a retired lawyer who was worth about $8 million, but she was worth about $70 million from a large inheritance from her very rich first husband.
she was very fit for her age (and so was he) and they were both about 75 years old and lived on a 1500 acre block of land near our block of land (which was 400 acres) and were friends of my parents.
she was insanely miserly and hated, yet she was actually a very nice woman underneath which it seems only i could see (i was about 12).

one day, we were visiting mr gates, and she came home in her mercedes from shopping at the local store, and, as usual, got out her calculator and calculated the value of her goods against the receipt, and she was stunned to find that she was "ripped off" about $2. she said "good lord! that ruddy b***h has short changed me!!"
she raced out to her car and got in and tore up her long driveway, and we could see the road running down the side of the property and she must have been doing 90mph. she drove the 10 miles back to the shop, and the next day, we went to that shop and were told about the scene she made the day before when she returned. she was apparently hysterical and she threatened to report them to the fair trading commission and also started insulting the state of the floor in their shop telling them it was a "disgrace".
she told one shop assistant who tried to talk to her "i don't want to talk to you, you tarted up tramp, i want to see the manager ! !"
everyone thought she was supreme b***h (including my mother).

she insulted her husband calling him for example "moses's corpse" and he insulted her for example by saying once when she was trying some perfume, "good god woman. perfume on you smells like drain cleaner tipped on the floor of an abbatoir"
they were amusing.
once, she won a piano in some local raffle, and when the fellows came out to deliver it (i was there), she demanded that they refrain from using a trolley, and she told them to remove their shoes before carrying it inside. then she bossily guided them to where to place the piano, and when they put it down in the wrong place she said "for god's sake! how the hell do you think i'm going to be able to play it there?!? i'm not the blasted hunchback of notre damme (sp?)". i laughed my head off but the workmen looked like they wanted to punch her. then one asked if he could have a glass of water and she said "there is a tap in the garden up next to the fence. but make sure you turn it off when you're finished. i don't wan't another blasted water bill like the last one".

on the other hand, she donated money for all sorts of good causes (especially animals).
once, we lost our little black poodle out the window of the car when we were going to the farm (she ran off into the bush the stupid little thing), and we looked for ages, and then we had to go, so we were resigned to having lost her.
mrs gates however really made a campaign out of it. she spent thousands of dollars in all the newspapers from sydney to brisbane advertising a reward for her return. we got the dog back.

even though she and her husband used to brutally insult each other, i could see they actually liked it and it kept both their minds sharp thinking of better insults for each other all the time.

My oldest aunt is someone you might consider nutty. Though she acts normal she has her bad sides. My mother told me a story about how her oldest sister is still mad at her for something she (my mom) did when she was 25. They were on the phone and my mom asked her how her son was doing and my aunt said he was doing wonderful. My mom said "Oh that's great" and she moved onto the next topic. That upset my aunt because my mom didn't make a big deal about it because my mom didn't realize how bad her nephew's condition was because no one ever told her. My mom was out in Montana with my father and my grandpa didn't want to tell her to worry her. My mom has tried to explain this to my aunt twice and she never wanted to hear it so my mom has given up.

There was another story my mom told me about her sister. One of my other aunts had been working in her yard and then she was visiting their oldest sister. My aunt's back had been sore from all the bending an crouching so she was scratching her back and my aunt misread it as my aunt being a snob. She told her "You think you are so great just because tour boyfriend is rich" and my aunt tried to explain to her how she had been working in the yard all day so her back was stiff and sore but my oldest aunt wouldn't have it and still yelled at her.

My mom told me another story how she and my dad were going to Mexico to meet up with her and her husband and this was for December of 1994. But that year my great grandma had died so my grandma wasn't taking it well. It was her mother that died. My grandfather didn't feel comfortable driving 500 miles out to watch us kids so my mom called her sister to tell her but my oldest aunt kept telling my mother to just wait and see and it might all work out. December gets closer and closer and my grandfather still isn't sure about coming out so my mom calls her sister again to tell her about possibly cancelling going down there with them. My aunt still wouldn't have it. Then that month comes and my grandfather didn't want to come out because my grandma wasn't doing well. So my mom calls her sister again and tells her she and her husband wouldn't be able to come so my aunt was like "Just leave the kids with neighbors" and my mom didn't want to do that because this was the holiday season and my mom didn't want to just dump us on a family making it more work for them because of parties and shopping and all. So my aunt throws a hissy fit going "fine, then we won't invite you with us on a trip ever again." I assume my aunt is someone who would have left her kids with neighbors during the holiday season while going on a trip with her husband and because my mom wouldn't do that, she thought my mom was bailing out and using us as an excuse to not go. Not everyone feels comfortable leaving their kids with someone for a week especially if it's a holiday because they don't want to put the burden on them.


I have heard of many other crazy stories about my aunt and I realized she was a narcissist (not to be confused with NPD) and I also hear she is Bipolar and also has Munchausen because she will exaggerate any medical problems or sicknesses and claim to have cancer or other things and she was convinced she had Multiple scoliosis but it kept being ruled out and no matter how many times she would get tested for it, the results kept coming back as negative. But instead of being happy with the results, she is still convinced she has it so she keeps trying to get diagnosed with it. I also hear she was told she had Munchausen but got mad about it. My mom didn't really know the details so she figures maybe a doctor told her that and my aunt didn't like that result. But her daughter in law who is also a nurse thinks she has it, my mom thinks so too and she is also a nurse. I figured she did also and I also thought she was a hypochondriac because she will exaggerate whenever something is wrong with her like it could be a cold or some itch and she will think it's something more. She even believes she cured herself from cancer and cured her husband from it too. She has also had food allergies that would come and then disappeared. When my mom was sick with cancer, my aunt got upset when she found out their parents had driven all the way out to Montana to help my mom out and my father and my aunt was all of a sudden "sick" and also needed them.

The ironic thing about her is she believes she can cure herself of anything and can cure other people but yet won't take her own advice. She doesn't think she has a problem and any problems she thinks she has don't even exist so she thinks she has cured herself of those.

My mom says she had always been this way even as a child but had gotten worse. It just amazes me how my grandparents never took her to a doctor but according to my mother my aunt was very manipulative so she has them fooled. She made the whole family dysfunctional because it was full of lies and deceit and parents being manipulated by their child so they always believed her over their other kids so my mom has gotten in trouble a lot by her sister and then her other sister was mean to her because their oldest sister was mean to her and my mom decided to break that cycle by being nice to her younger siblings because she had realized none of that was normal so she didn't take it out on them like her other sister did with her. I am surprised my mom survived that chaos and madness and dysfunction and didn't get messed up herself nor did it make her an abuser herself as a child nor make her dysfunctional because of all that stress and chaos. My grandparents were elderly before realizing their oldest child is mentally ill.

Also I heard the story from my mother about how my aunt almost ruined my wedding. Luckily this happened after the reception and the vows. We were at the house my parents had rented and my husband and I had already left after we had opened our gifts. My aunt and everyone else were playing cards and my uncle's girlfriend thought it would be funny to poke my aunt's back playfully and my aunt went off on her about it and started accusing her of some crazy stuff. My brother's wanted to leave because they didn't want to be around her and see this but my mom had to talk them into staying for just for until the next day so they could have breakfast with us and see us leave for our honeymoon so they stayed and my husband and I came for breakfast and we ate and then we left and my brothers left right after we left. They didn't want to be there and see that madness again from my aunt. Everyone in the house was upset and my uncle's girlfriend was very upset and never got over it according to my mother.

The times I have seen my aunt, I have only witnessed one episode and that was the day before my 17th birthday. The rest, she was always normal and never noticed her go off on anyone and she has never done it to me.