Post by puzzled on Jan 4, 2012 11:34:51 GMT -5
I am looking for some information that can explain something that I witnessed a year ago.
I was walking on a winter's day beside a canal, and heard a rustling of leaves behind me, thinking it was someone driving a mobilty cart I stepped to the side and looked behind me to see what it was.
This is what I saw.
A double row of leaves, maybe 2 to 3 inchs, perhaps two leaves side by side, connected together forming a line, maybe 15 feet long that was making it's way along the paved pathway.
I stood still, and watched as the line passed beside me, move about ten feet in front of me, then left the path crossed over the rocks along the shore and continued in a straight unbroken line out onto the ice.
The line then journeyed along the ice to a central point where it commenced to swirl in a counter clockwise direction, picking up snow and debris and swirling straight up into the sky and them like a funnel cloud it passed acroos the waterway and I lost sight of it behing tall trees.
All the while I watched this, I didn't move, just stood there in awe.
At no time did any of the leaves in my vicinity or near the line of leaves ever move or get caught up with the moving line of leaves.In fact there was no wind movement at all.
It was as if a double row of leaves were glued or magnetized and moved in a straight line, over the smooth paved walkway, then over the rough stoned embankment and onto the snow covered waterway.At no time did any of the leaves in the line breakaway or separate from the line.
They stayed in a perfectly ordered way.
I should note that when the swirling began, what I believe to be garbage of some sort, was picked up in the vortex and I could see it ascend into the sky.
It may have been a paper plate or some kind of fast food container because at first it looked like styrofoam, but then the sun reflected off the underside and it shone like a mirror.
This was the only debris that I saw rise into the sky, the leaves did not as far as I could tell, rise into the sky.
I wish I 'd had the nerve to venture out onto the ice to where the swirl was but I didn't trust the thickness.
I was not alone in this.
A woman and her dog were at the other end of path and they stood there transfixed as the leaves snaked across the ice and then swirled and disappered.
When it was over I approached her, she said"did you see that?"
I said yes, and told her about the line of leaves and how they went past me and out onto the ice.That she didn't see.
We both shook our heads and said no one will believe us.
And no one that I have related this to will believe it.
That's why I would like some answers.
Was this a seldom seen act of nature or is it well documented.
I've heard of wind sprites,but what I can't put my head around was the uninterupted line of leaves, no periferal wind noise or sense of wind movement as the leaves pased beside my leg.
I often wonder what prevented me from sticking my foot out to try and stop the leaves, as you do when you are young and try to stop a rush of water along the street .
I was walking on a winter's day beside a canal, and heard a rustling of leaves behind me, thinking it was someone driving a mobilty cart I stepped to the side and looked behind me to see what it was.
This is what I saw.
A double row of leaves, maybe 2 to 3 inchs, perhaps two leaves side by side, connected together forming a line, maybe 15 feet long that was making it's way along the paved pathway.
I stood still, and watched as the line passed beside me, move about ten feet in front of me, then left the path crossed over the rocks along the shore and continued in a straight unbroken line out onto the ice.
The line then journeyed along the ice to a central point where it commenced to swirl in a counter clockwise direction, picking up snow and debris and swirling straight up into the sky and them like a funnel cloud it passed acroos the waterway and I lost sight of it behing tall trees.
All the while I watched this, I didn't move, just stood there in awe.
At no time did any of the leaves in my vicinity or near the line of leaves ever move or get caught up with the moving line of leaves.In fact there was no wind movement at all.
It was as if a double row of leaves were glued or magnetized and moved in a straight line, over the smooth paved walkway, then over the rough stoned embankment and onto the snow covered waterway.At no time did any of the leaves in the line breakaway or separate from the line.
They stayed in a perfectly ordered way.
I should note that when the swirling began, what I believe to be garbage of some sort, was picked up in the vortex and I could see it ascend into the sky.
It may have been a paper plate or some kind of fast food container because at first it looked like styrofoam, but then the sun reflected off the underside and it shone like a mirror.
This was the only debris that I saw rise into the sky, the leaves did not as far as I could tell, rise into the sky.
I wish I 'd had the nerve to venture out onto the ice to where the swirl was but I didn't trust the thickness.
I was not alone in this.
A woman and her dog were at the other end of path and they stood there transfixed as the leaves snaked across the ice and then swirled and disappered.
When it was over I approached her, she said"did you see that?"
I said yes, and told her about the line of leaves and how they went past me and out onto the ice.That she didn't see.
We both shook our heads and said no one will believe us.
And no one that I have related this to will believe it.
That's why I would like some answers.
Was this a seldom seen act of nature or is it well documented.
I've heard of wind sprites,but what I can't put my head around was the uninterupted line of leaves, no periferal wind noise or sense of wind movement as the leaves pased beside my leg.
I often wonder what prevented me from sticking my foot out to try and stop the leaves, as you do when you are young and try to stop a rush of water along the street .