Actually, I never did see the stringy stuff but the first two pics look a lot like what it was doing before the cold crash. I passed it off as some secondary activity.
Thanks guys! It is bottled.
I gave it a taste... not too shabby!
Maybe the pics didn't do it justice. Nothing I have seen before. The surface of the beer looked good. This bubble seemed to be encapsulated by a film though... covered in white specks. It popped and I moved on.