Some are funny. Some are a little bit creepy. Others are sure to make you groan. True stories. In all, we had 30-plus entries in the Thanksgiving Day food disaster contest.

Here are some excerpts from other contestants. To read the entries, go to http://www.theworldlink.com.

“My husband and I decided to never, ever tell Rob. After all, he had already eaten the sandwich.”

— Elaine Miles, Coos Bay

“Needless to say, at exactly the same moment (midnight, I think) we were simultaneously awakened by the worst illness I believe I’ve ever had!”

— Denise Stuntzner-Gibson, Coos Bay

“There were cat footprints everywhere made of pumpkin pie. Oh, but where was the smell coming from?”

— Stephanie Higgins, Coos Bay

“As soon as the meal was over, we were notified by the other couple that they had some other plans and they had to rush off and that they would ‘take our turkey and go.’ They had house guests arriving and the turkey would come in handy. I was so stunned that all I could do was keep my mouth shut and wrap up the rest of the bird for them to transport home.”

— Joann Pearson, Bandon

“The guests started showing up. My boyfriend ran out with a trailer. I wasn’t sure what he was doing. When he showed back up, he had a Port-a-Potty on the back, in addition to gallons and gallons of water!”

— Lori Ellington, Coos Bay

“When invited to our house, the standing joke remains, ‘Who’s cooking, and do we have to wear hard hats?’”

— Ginny Noffsinger, North Bend

“That was when I learned the difference between our mothers. My mother froze cherries after pitting them and my dear mother-in-law pitted them before she used them.”

— Betty Gudmunson, Coos Bay

“After a little investigating it was determined that due to my being a clean freak and completely lining the oven with foil so it would not get dirty, prevented the oven from getting hot enough to cook the turkey.”

— Alta Anderson, Bandon

“I had everything else done, the mashed potatoes, green beans, pies, cranberry sauce. The table was set. That’s when I realized that I had cooked my turkey for three hours on preheat.”

— Robin Brown, no town listed

“In Denmark, eating turkey is about like eating duck here in the states. ... Instead, Karyn’s host mother had managed to find a farmer who had a turkey, which was beheaded and waiting in all its feathery glory on the back porch.”

— Liz Ekelund, North Bend

“As we looked in the kitchen, we witnessed the steaming hot turkey fall out of the roasting pan from the oven rack and roll across the floor and out the sliding glass door into the front yard.”

— Jodi Hill, Charleston

“I came into the kitchen only to find the whole breast was torn out of the turkey. I looked into the dining room and laying next to our new dining room table was our neighbor’s huge cat, stretched out on my new oval rug sound asleep.”

— Jane David, Reedsport