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It was still sort of a moment of initial shock, there was an eerie quiet. And there wasn't like a ton of equipment down there. There weren't cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them. – Yoni Brook	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I sort of found myself – this was maybe an hour after the collapse – just there, kind of alone, seemingly alone, it was just like everybody was in shock around it. There were a few firefighters, there were a few rescue people, but it was mostly very quiet and eerie for the first two hours. – Yoni Brook	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Everything shut down when we found her, we all lined up. And you could hear a pin drop on a construction site, which is just eerie, and amazing and beautiful all in one. – Battalion Chief Notte	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was eerie, like quiet, still, it was almost out of a horror movie. – Nicholas Balboa	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It got really quiet at some point, almost like there was no one downtown, it was kind of eerie. – Hanan Vazanio	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Well, what's happening in the 1930s is happening in western China today. There are eerie, eerie similarities between the two, and hosting the Olympic Games — as the Germans were able to do in 1936 — gave great credibility to that regime, we ought not to permit that to happen. The International Olympic Committee has a responsibility to make sure that host for these games deserve it. – Mike Pompeo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's unusual and eerie and scary, but ultimately beautiful. – Markus Buehler	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It feels eerie, apocalyptic and frightening, i've lived in Bay Area since 1988 and never experienced such doom coming from the sky. – Michelle McKeown of Oakland	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It looks fake, it looks unreal, it's dark on the inside of my house. It can be a little eerie, a little frightening. – Ed Mis	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them. – Martin Garside	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Some of the fans were cheering when it happened, and I think the Raptors players understood how serious it was and they sort of quieted the crowd, there was just a couple minutes there where it all seemed so eerie and strange, and it took maybe a little bit for both teams to collect themselves. – The Warriors	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's a lot of dimension to it, and actually it was while the devastation of Malibu was happening, and it was a really weird learning experience for me because I was so far from home and the show is already really dark, and it's already kind of eerie when you're there the whole time, but I learned a lot about Miley Cyrus, and I think I was able to use that and put that into it. – Miley Cyrus	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It’s almost like all of the physical sensations that I’ve been mirroring just kind of go away, like having been in a room where there’s an air conditioner running in the background and then it just stops. And there’s this eerie silence. – Joel Salinas	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
That was the goal, if you could get on the ‘ Tonight Show, ’ that was the standard. So The Tonight Show felt like a great validation … I had played The Tonight Show in my mind so many times, so when I finally got The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show felt surprisingly comfortable. And then when we recreated the set for The Tonight Show, it was eerie … Because I knew what it felt like to sit on that couch. It was electrifying. If you’re a young comedian, but someone has never heard of you, if you’ve done the' Tonight Show, ’ then people think you must be good. That was the only currency people understood. Certainly my parents did. For them, The Tonight Show was like, ‘ All right, he spent all those years staying up late in clubs and making $ 7 a week, but now he must be OK because he was on' The Tonight Show. ’ There was no other show that had that stamp of approval. – Paul Reiser today .	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I've seen some horrible accidents, people that have no clue about mines are getting blown up by them. It's an eerie thing to witness but it gives us a sense of duty to clear areas. – Omar Salih	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A man came out of a building to our left walking backwards, it was eerie and looked suspicious. I yelled at him and he turned around immediately and then started walking towards us. He looked like a young man with a beard, wearing man-jams and dark clothing. He didn't appear to be himself that day ... most likely drugged. – Army Capt. Florent Groberg	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It felt cold, rather empty and eerie – not so much a creepy eerie but a more interesting one, i knew Mike Tyson had once just hung out here and now I stood staring down everything that had been left behind. – Photographer Johnny Joo	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
She just let out a hysterical scream. It was eerie, she was screaming about her kids: `My kids! The kids!,' grabbing her hair and trying to pull her hair out. The cops then ushered her down the road into a police cruiser. – Neighbor Moe Assiff	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's eerie, it's unusual or just kind of spooky that this would happen in this area, but we don't know the facts yet. – Peter Goelz	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The town felt eerie. – Demetrius Freeman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It promoted this perfect couple and a perfect world, when it really wasn't perfect, the town felt eerie. – Demetrius Freeman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. – Douglas Hostadter	added by anonymous 13 years ago

It was still sort of a moment of initial shock, there was an eerie quiet. And there wasn't like a ton of equipment down there. There weren't cranes doing any work yet. It was just individual firefighters and groups of firefighters trying to make sense of a little bit of the futility of what was in front of them.

– Yoni Brook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I sort of found myself – this was maybe an hour after the collapse – just there, kind of alone, seemingly alone, it was just like everybody was in shock around it. There were a few firefighters, there were a few rescue people, but it was mostly very quiet and eerie for the first two hours.

– Yoni Brook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everything shut down when we found her, we all lined up. And you could hear a pin drop on a construction site, which is just eerie, and amazing and beautiful all in one.

– Battalion Chief Notte

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was eerie, like quiet, still, it was almost out of a horror movie.

– Nicholas Balboa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It got really quiet at some point, almost like there was no one downtown, it was kind of eerie.

– Hanan Vazanio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Well, what's happening in the 1930s is happening in western China today. There are eerie, eerie similarities between the two, and hosting the Olympic Games — as the Germans were able to do in 1936 — gave great credibility to that regime, we ought not to permit that to happen. The International Olympic Committee has a responsibility to make sure that host for these games deserve it.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's unusual and eerie and scary, but ultimately beautiful.

– Markus Buehler

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It feels eerie, apocalyptic and frightening, i've lived in Bay Area since 1988 and never experienced such doom coming from the sky.

– Michelle McKeown of Oakland

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It looks fake, it looks unreal, it's dark on the inside of my house. It can be a little eerie, a little frightening.

– Ed Mis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

– Martin Garside

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Some of the fans were cheering when it happened, and I think the Raptors players understood how serious it was and they sort of quieted the crowd, there was just a couple minutes there where it all seemed so eerie and strange, and it took maybe a little bit for both teams to collect themselves.

– The Warriors

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's a lot of dimension to it, and actually it was while the devastation of Malibu was happening, and it was a really weird learning experience for me because I was so far from home and the show is already really dark, and it's already kind of eerie when you're there the whole time, but I learned a lot about Miley Cyrus, and I think I was able to use that and put that into it.

– Miley Cyrus

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It’s almost like all of the physical sensations that I’ve been mirroring just kind of go away, like having been in a room where there’s an air conditioner running in the background and then it just stops. And there’s this eerie silence.

– Joel Salinas

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

That was the goal, if you could get on the ‘ Tonight Show, ’ that was the standard. So The Tonight Show felt like a great validation … I had played The Tonight Show in my mind so many times, so when I finally got The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show felt surprisingly comfortable. And then when we recreated the set for The Tonight Show, it was eerie … Because I knew what it felt like to sit on that couch. It was electrifying. If you’re a young comedian, but someone has never heard of you, if you’ve done the' Tonight Show, ’ then people think you must be good. That was the only currency people understood. Certainly my parents did. For them, The Tonight Show was like, ‘ All right, he spent all those years staying up late in clubs and making $ 7 a week, but now he must be OK because he was on' The Tonight Show. ’ There was no other show that had that stamp of approval.

– Paul Reiser today .

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I've seen some horrible accidents, people that have no clue about mines are getting blown up by them. It's an eerie thing to witness but it gives us a sense of duty to clear areas.

– Omar Salih

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A man came out of a building to our left walking backwards, it was eerie and looked suspicious. I yelled at him and he turned around immediately and then started walking towards us. He looked like a young man with a beard, wearing man-jams and dark clothing. He didn't appear to be himself that day ... most likely drugged.

– Army Capt. Florent Groberg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It felt cold, rather empty and eerie – not so much a creepy eerie but a more interesting one, i knew Mike Tyson had once just hung out here and now I stood staring down everything that had been left behind.

– Photographer Johnny Joo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

She just let out a hysterical scream. It was eerie, she was screaming about her kids: `My kids! The kids!,' grabbing her hair and trying to pull her hair out. The cops then ushered her down the road into a police cruiser.

– Neighbor Moe Assiff

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's eerie, it's unusual or just kind of spooky that this would happen in this area, but we don't know the facts yet.

– Peter Goelz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The town felt eerie.

– Demetrius Freeman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It promoted this perfect couple and a perfect world, when it really wasn't perfect, the town felt eerie.

– Demetrius Freeman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

– Douglas Hostadter

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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