‘What’s something you’ve seen once but you’ll never see again?’ – 21 never to be repeated visions

We become so familiar with the things happening around us in our day-to-day lives that we barely register them anymore, as anyone who has driven to work on autopilot with no memory of the journey can tell you. So when we see something truly extraordinary, we tend to remember it.

They’ve been chatting about witnessing incredible things on the AskUK subreddit after user DarthScabies posted this:

What’s something you’ve seen once but you’ll never see again? Yesterday I saw a squirrel slap a pigeon for stealing a nut from it. I’ll likely never see that happen again.

It truly sounds like a sight to behold, as do these other things people chimed in with…

1.

‘Halley’s Comet.’
–PaddyPaws2023

2.

‘Saw a wasp trapped in a spiders web. The pair ended up in an epic battle, the spider eating the wasp, the wasp stinging the spider. The wasp died first, but then it’s poison got the spider shortly after. Very nature does Shakespearean tragedy.’
–Captain7Caveman

3.

‘I saw a chicken crossing the A650 in Leeds. I always said that the traffic in Leeds was a joke.’
–whatmichaelsays

4.

‘I saw a 78-year-old man say “Have you ever seen a 78-year-old man do a backflip off a raft into the Nile?”, and then I saw a 78-year-old man do a backflip off a raft into the Nile.’
–JennyW93

5.

‘The view from the roof of 2 World Trade Centre, summer 2000.’
–Top-Bet1435

6.

‘That one time when me and my band played a gig at a small club… we were nearing the end of the set and the lights pointing at us shut off, leaving us in a complete darkness for a few seconds and the lights over the crowd turned on. Sooo we´ve seen the crowd like perfectly clear in that situation, not blinded by the lights over us and so on.

I remember looking straight to the bar, where this one guy was standing on the bar with his d*ck out, pissing on peoples backs (completely drunk of course). The second before the lights over the crowd went out again I saw a chair midair flying towards him! I will never forget that.’
–Hot-Pace-5745

7.

‘Concorde in flight.’
–rc_bris

8.

‘I saw the very last landing of the very last flight, where the last one was being positioned to Filton (it’s now in a museum there).’
–BigBlueMountainStar

9.

‘Queen Elizabeth II.’
–ace_rimmer1049

10.

‘I’ve seen ball lightning back home in Latvia around 2009ish. And sadly it’s only my word on it happening. I have no proof of it. Chaotic, horizontally moving lightning orb. I was walking to local village which had closest bus station, I just came out of woods part of my path, and saw one jumping to the right near apartment building, then suddenly swap directions to left, did few chaotic jumps and disappeared in more woods on my left and then I heard quite loud popping /soft thunder sound. I remember it being my chest high from ground, maybe 30-50cm large.

Not many people believe me, because they are super rare, but I know what I saw, because for next week or so, I was deeply searching what the hell it was.’
–Rasty_lv

11.

‘Total solar eclipse in the UK. Saw the one in 1999, the next one is due in 2090. It’s possible I live to 98 but whether I’ll be able to see and enjoy it is another story.’
–No-Locksmith6662

12.

‘A man, reading a book while walking, with two cats on a lead.’
–Wonderful-Cow-9664