Hi everybody, Dylan here.

So this episode is a follow up to one we did a few back called Encounters with the Unknown.

And on that episode, members of the Atlas Obscura team told stories of times when they just

had a interesting, maybe hard to explain experience, although in fact most of them were pretty

explainable.

But we asked you about your Encounters with the Unknown and boy did you all deliver.

There was very large Zeppelin-like craft that was moving slowly over us above the trees.

And when those lights appeared, the music stopped, the lights went out, but the lights went

out not even in just in our apartment, but everywhere that we could see there were no

more lights.

Even the car lights that we saw driving went off.

I didn't see a head or a face, but I saw it just man.

Okay, I want to be clear before we get into this.

We are a science and fact-based group over here.

And all the things you just heard almost definitely have an explanation, but that's not

the point of these episodes.

The point is that when you have that moment, even if you're just seeing a line of satellites

in the sky or an old bedsheet blowing in the wind, those moments capture something emotionally.

That sense of terrifying possibility, the dark side of wonder, the uncanny.

Today we've picked just two stories we wanted to share with you in full.

Because both of them started with something that seemed unexplainable.

One was a black and white rainbow, and the other was a whole garden full of trees and

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