r/Weird

I work in a restaurant, an older gentleman came in who had been coming multiple times a month for over 50 years. He was a very nice guy and got his usual order, when we brought it out we noticed he was drawing which was a first but oh well didn’t think much of it. After he left and we were cleaning this is what we found. Never saw the guy again after this, just plain weird.

The part in red is the business name did not want to include that.

I saw a post from earlier of a sketch that someone found and it reminded me of this.

We wonder about him from time to time and hope he found his peace.

Found this when I was at AAC Dallas in 2019. It still cracks me up. Let the thoughts roll

We bought a new container of grapes and found this lol

I thrifted this handmade mouse/rat years ago, and was contemplating getting rid of her because she’s heavy and takes up a lot of space. I knew that she was made with a plastic bottle and decided to just take that part out instead of donating her again. I thought she was full of beans, but turns out she’s full of sand and a ton of tiny blue rocks.

Masuda-no-iwafun, translated literally as the Rockship of Masuda, is a bizarre monolith of unknown origin or purpose located in the Nara prefecture of Japan.

It is regarded as a technical marvel for its age, but nobody knows why the monolith was made.

It was carved out of difficult to carve granite, with intentional lattice chiseling on the sides, an oddly flattened top and two cube-like depressions carved into the top, with ridge lines carved parallel to the cubes.

It measures 36 feet in length, 26 feet wide, 15 feet high, weighing approximately 800 tons. The cube-like pits chiseled into it are 5.25 by 5.25 across and 3.9 feet deep.

There are several theories as to why the monolith was created.

Some believe it was created for astrological observation, with proponents of this theory saying that the two large holes may have supported vertical pillars with a crossbeam used as a sighting device for the observation of celestial positions. The ridges also perfectly align with the mountains in the area and with the sunset around the beginning of the spring doyo period, a seasonal marker in the old calendar.

The area is peppered with burial grounds and so some believe that the monolith was meant to become a grave for someone of importance, but the monolith does not contain a grave and no remains have been found nearby.

Locals claim that the monolith is a Buddhist shrine, and the area is full of early buddhist temples, shrines ritual sites and religious monuments. Another similar theory suggests that the monolith was the pedestal for a massive buddhist monument connected to the Masuda Pond with an inscription that may have been written by the famous Buddhist monk Kōbō Daishi.

None of these theories have been able to explain the origin of the Rockship of Masuda, and the massive monolith remains a mystery.

Jacks pepperoni pizza. Been in the freezer about a month. I know condensation can build up if it thaws in the package a time or two but it’s stayed frozen. Interesting for sure

The idea that people randomly find staircases deep in forests with no buildings or ruins around them just feels so wrong.

There’s something about stairs that are supposed to lead somewhere… but don’t.

I don’t even believe in anything paranormal, but this concept genuinely creeps me out.