Radditors, what's the creepiest or most mysterious thing you've seen, found or experienced?

In 2008 my husband and few of our friends were going kayaking..We got to the spot on the Potomac and start putting our kayaks in when a very well dressed older man maybe early 70s appeared out of no where or so it seemed. He was wearing a suit and a bowler hat I couldn't help but notice how shiny his shoes were.

He comes up to our group and ask us if we are headed to Maryland (we were in Virginia but you could see Maryland across the river if it's clear enough). We say NO we are not he says too bad he wanted a ride in one of our kayaks or he as he called them boats. He needed to go to Maryland to visit some people he had not seen in years. We apologize and go on our way.

As we start to paddle away this man walks into the water with his suit shoes and hat. He just keeps walking into the water. He never looked like he was swimming just walking. I see the top of his hat and he is gone. My friends paddle over to where he is and can't find him. A small boat even comes over because they saw this man walk into the water as well.

The people on the boat called various local agencies to report this man who possibly just drowned. Some game wardens who were in the area show up on a boat but they were just questioning us and called for a larger search.

We left and we never heard about the man again. I even called a few days later for an update but nobody ever got back to me.

I will never be able to explain that one but it doesn't seem to bother my husband or the others I was with as much as it does me. One of my friends think he must have got back to the shore before we saw him..My husband thinks maybe another boat picked him..I'm still not sure what happened.

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