Yesterday I was walking towards helgen from Ivarstead through the cayon I was in this sharp turn so I had not much view before or behind me. Music starts playing and I am thinking aha a dragon, so I look around in the sky and see nothing. I turn around and walk towards the end of the turn when suddenly i walk right in to a dragon who is walking quickly at me and biting and spitting his fire. I had a good scare there looking right in the face of this huge dragon!. I was not expecting the dragon to come running at me on the ground as they usually always do some flight attack firsts.

I was walking down a cobbled road heading to Solitude when the Headless Horseman galloped past me.

I think this one tops all:

I was travelling east on the road by Honningbrew Meadery (south of Whiterun) with Lydia when suddenly a dragon attacks, "this is gonna be good" I tell myself.
But somehow Lydia disappears, but comes back to join the fight along with the two Whiterun guards who normally patrol the road. Then, some random woman whose identity escapes me, shows up and starts stabbing away at the dragon with her puny iron dagger. The fight turns chaotic and during the confusion, a mudcrab whom I hadn't noticed gets killed....and then a sabre cat and two more guards appear.
After the sabre cat and dragon are dead, I can't seem to find the woman, I don't know if she just wandered off after the fight was over or if the dragon tossed her body far away.

To recap: one big clusterf**k involving me, Lydia, some random woman, four Whiterun guards, a dragon, a mudcrab and a sabre cat...

This is my favorite, just beacuse of the shear joy I got for the loot. I killed a Dragon and then right behind the dragon was a Krosis killed him then right behond Krosis was a Dragon with a pretty good chest next to it. Also, I killed the Krosis for my class (archery, stealth, and pickpocket plus 20%) which made me happy.

i was going through the mountains on route to a companions quest when a happen on a guy sitting by the road. i asked him if he was ok and he said that he had survived a bandit attack and if i would escourt him to his camp just over the next hill. i said sure as i readied my sword and shield (thinking this was an obvious trap) as we rounded a corner he yelled NOW! and 4 other bandits jumped out (my instincts serve me well). unfortunately one had flanked behind me while i was focusing on 2 of them and trying not to fall off the cliff. he stuck a 2h claymore in my scull and my warrior went ragdolling off the edge. i laughed because now they wouldnt get any of my good loot

Epic naked man challenging me to a magic duel. I laughed at first thinking he's just a noob naked man wannabe mage but after he kicked my [censored].... -_-

On the way to do the The Blessing of Nature quest

I came across 3 hunters (2 women 1 man) just in their underwear relaxing and chilling in a hot spring. looked well cool.

I was approaching a tree camp as I come over the hill overlooking it, i see a giant mid battle with a dragon. I let the giant take pretty much all it health and finished it off with my bow. I go to loot the dragon with the giant still in close proximity and then he starts charging me. I go to back away, get caught on something and get finished off by a giant foot to my face. Was awesome though watching the giant dragon battle. I hope I see a dragon swoop down and snatch and throw someone in front of me, that sounds awesome

At the start when you nearly get your head chopped off i was heading to the keep, stopped and took a look around and saw just that....A dragon picked some guy off the wall and took him up in the air and hurled him for miles.

The random person who says he's picking flowers for that cook guy was funny.

It sort of falls in the random encounter category and sort of doesn't.
Bare with me.
I traveled to Meridia's statue because I realized (2nd play-trough) that I hadn't gotten to the wordwall yet.
Low and behold: A dragon attacks..
After dodging its fiery breath and shooting arrows at it, it suddenly loses interest and starts to burn up wild life and hovers mainly over the main road near the statue.
So since I want that soul to unlock the word I go dragon hunting.
Now here is where it gets interesting:
On the road there is the (RE) crashed carriage and the three or so dead npc's. A second dragon (apparently killed by wild-life) lies dead next to it. (a lovely unintended touch)
As I walk towards the dragon who is still allive, I see the the farmer couple you meet sometimes.. running like hell. Behind them is a man with binds (a prisoner) Also running wildly towards Sollitude. I don't see any Thalmor or Emperials so go on my way and continue my slaying of the still but barely alive Dragon. Dragon dead.. Suddenly three Thalmor guys (at least 4 minutes have passed and I did weaken the dragon with arrows) walk by running swords raised in the direction the prisoner went.. uuh guys.. he is looooooong gone and probably getting a much needed bottle of mead in Sollitude.

not an event but... i just saw three hunters just wearing underwear.and somehow three of them fit on one bed. i killed them

you saw that too? i guess it is an encounter hunter origies.

I found a skeletal hand holding an elven sword aloft from a pond. I presume some poor watery tart waited around too long. XD

This Random Wood elf was offering me Skooma....I forced him to give me the skooma and ran off...

Being chased by wolves up in the mountains. I was coming up on a cliff and I quickly equipped 'become Ethereal' activated it and jumped off. then I looked up and saw the wolves staring after me. I then ran away giggling.

4 Ancient Dragons attacking Solitude. There still there.
The odds of this happening should be less than me driving a Nissan Micra.
I hate Micras.

I have two.

First: I'm sneaking up on what turns out to be a witch on watch outside a cave. I'm in full stealth mode with my bow out and have just raised it to take a shot at her when she suddenly aggros and shoots an ice spike almost directly at me. It was such a surprise I actually jumped and was getting ready to move out of stealth mode and switch over to my sword when I realized what had happened: A rabbit had been hopping along beside me. She saw it and went sickhouse on it.

Second: I'm wandering around in the woods and notice an altar on a rise. I assume that there will be a necromancer around, so I go into stealth mode and creep up the hill. He spots me before I spot him and we duke it out. He's some kind of ice mage, so half the hill is coated with ice marks. I hear the sound of a chicken clucking just behind me and turn around. I see a chicken moving up the rise with a ghostly glow and mist coming off of it as though it had been hit by the ice. "Weird," I thought. I move on up the hill a few more steps before hearing a squawk followed by a whooshing sound. I look around again. No more chicken. I'm not sure what happened, but I think he may have exploded. Too funny.

I saw a dragon fight two giants as I stood next to one of the mammoths

Not a random encounter per say, but still pretty awesome.

I was about 50 meters from a cave I was supposed to enter. All of a sudden I hear battle music and notice a dragon above me. I got my bow ready and waited for him to attack, but he didn't. Just flew around over me. So I continued my travels. All of a sudden I see the dragon again, diving down behind a hill. I climbed the hill as fast as I could, because well, I wanted to see what the hell was going on. Man, what a fight. 4 bandits, 2 giants, a mammoh, and the dragon was duking it out. I started to laugh like a maniac. My girlfriend wondered what the hell was wrong with me. I showed her the fight and she started to laugh as well.

Anyway. It was pure chaos. The dragon was freezing everyone, the mammoth was fighting the bandits while the giants was going after the dragon. 2 bandits was crushed by the mammoth, and one giant pounded one of the bandit so he skyrockted up into the air. The final bandit tried to flee but got a deadly dose of cold from the dragon. Then the giants and the mammoth turned to the dragon and killed it in just a few seconds. I was thinking at the moment, do Skyrim really need me? Just recruit a few giants, they are excellent dragon killers. Then they all turned to me. The ground was shaking when they started to run at me. I panicked of course. But my trusty companion Sven did not fear. He rushed in, and well, got destroyed. I continued to run to a Whiterun outpost with a bloodraged mammoth and two giants after me. Hoping that they would be able to help me.

But when I got close to the outpost I noticed the guards was already involved in a fight. They had been attacked by bandits, and they didn't really notice me until it was too late for them all. All the bandits and guards was slain by the rampaging giants and mammoth. After the massacer I just kept running witout looking back, all the way to Whiterun. And here I am now. Wondering if it is safe to go out again

I was walking past windhelm when a dead horker fell out the sky and crashed into the middle of the road... I was sat looking up waitting to see if a bowl of petunia's was about to fall out the sky too... but alas it was probably a havok physics glitch rather than a hitchhikers guide reference

A Dragon attacked a Mammoth with a Fire breath attack. The Mamoth turned to the Dragon, Speared it once with it's tusks, and the Dragon (at full heath) died.


I need to get me a pet mammoth..

I have had two GREAT experiences so far...Last night while playing I was cutting a dragon down, and the sob took flight on me. I did take that shot in the dark as he was flying by, and I GOT him! Shot him right out of the sky! Was so great! The thing landed and slid for about a half mile! I was sitting there with my jaw open looking around for someone to say to "Did you see that sh*t?"

Also, randomly out walking around, I had an old lady walk up to me muttering "wabbajack...wabbajack... YOU...Will you hit me with the wabbajack?" I was like...well, um, sure! And I wabbajacked all over her forehead!! (bounty added btw)

I had a group of bandits come up to me in Imperial armor. They demanded I pay them or die. Of course, I chose to kill them all.

I had a mercenary in some shiney gold armor come up to my just outside of Whiterun. He told me there was trouble up ahead but refused to say any more. I tried to persuade him and failed the speech check. I reloaded my save thinking I'd pass him on the street; didn't realize at that point it was a random encounter.

Also outside of Whiterun I had a bunch of Orcs attack a guard outpost. Of course I assisted defeating the attackers but got no thanks from the guards.

That's actually a clever easter egg aimed at the legends surrounding King Arthur.
As you might be aware he held a famous sword: Excalibur. No said sword was given by Drum roll "The lady of the lake".. I am afraid she got the planets/dimensions mixed up or Tamriels Arthur simply didn't care about a weak ass Elven Sword..