Whats something your parents did when you were a kid that you didn't realize was weird until you grew up?

My mom always told me that my half sister's dad was kind of crazy. It wasn't until recently that I started really thinking about some of the things he did that and things that I experienced while I was around him.

We moved out to the boonies in Texas and he had told me that there were indians living there at one time and that I could find arrow heads and stuff. Totally possible. However we had a creek that ran really dry at one point in our land where I just happen to find a rock with two arrows drawn on them pointing horizontally opposite of each other. I showed him and he took it from me and told me to leave it alone but kept it himself. I don't know what he ever did with it.

Same land again. He was mowing some built up brush with a brush hog on the edge of the pasture while I was riding my bike around. He out of nowhere started yelling at me to "come here!". So I road my bike over to the tractor and he tells me that two mouintain lions had just walked across the clearing into the woods. I never saw them at all.

When him and mom were about to break up he told me that he tapped the phones and found out that she was cheating on him and tried to turn me against her which consequentially changed the direction of my life in a lot of ways.

On New Years 2000, he said that we were not going to do anything but stay at home and pray.

He told me that him and my mom were going to heaven and then asked if I was.

Note: This all happened when I was pretty damn young.

I don't know if any of it is that weird but looking back at it, it makes me wonder if he had some weird ulterior motive. I mean, he has 3 daughters and none of them talk to him.

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