@futurebird

I saw ball lightning as a kid. One of the freakiest things I've ever seen. I believe it has magnetic properties so it doesn't just go in a straight line, which is even weirder.

@TheEffekt

How close did you get to see it?

@futurebird

Pretty close. I remember a really nasty storm. I think in the Towson, MD area. I don't remember many details because I was pretty young, but it looked like it rolled along the street about 100' away. I don't remember the part where it showed up or disappeared.

@TheEffekt @futurebird
Whoa, that's cool.

Yeah, I don't want something like this anywhere near me, thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bBNeyrMOJE

@futurebird I have seen it. West texas prairie during a particularly nasty dust storm (haboob). A tornadic thunderstorm was on its heels. Plenty of static electricity about. It bounced around the living room of the trailer we lived in at the time. Blue. About 5" in diameter. Wildest thing I have ever seen.

@ColesStreetPothole @TheEffekt

That is horrifying.

@futurebird @TheEffekt Okay, just finding out now that the video is an animation. (FAKE.)

Still, no thanks.

@futurebird my Maternal Grandmother saw one come into their house in The Boundary, NC.
Seems to be a regular thing in The Great Smokey Mountains

@ColesStreetPothole @TheEffekt

History channel was never great.

@MedeaVanamonde @futurebird An elderly lady in NC told me about a time when her house had one of those old style telephones with a separate ear horn on a cord, and mouth horn attached to the box on the wall. Lightning struck the line and shot directly out the mouth horn and across the kitchen, hitting the stove. It missed the people by inches; the spot where it hit the iron stove welded it shut.

@TheJen @futurebird My grandmother told us about ball lightning bouncing around in the very same room we were sitting in when she told us, pointing to all the places it bounced. That was in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Intriguing and terrifying at the same time. But I've never seen it myself.

@futurebird It's wild that there have been so many sightings and yet we've only gotten like... one plausible video recording. Understandable (it's rare, unpredictable, and ephemeral!) but frustrating.

I'm *dying* to know what causes it.

@futurebird if ball lightning not friend then why friend shaped? 🥺

@Catfish_Man
Brother, respectfully, how have you survived for multiple decades?