Redditors have recently been discussing moments when they narrowly escaped danger by trusting their intuition, so we’ve gathered some of their most unsettling stories below. Reading through these experiences might give you chills, knowing how terribly wrong things could have gone, but they’re also important reminders to always listen to your instincts! And keep reading to find a conversation with Intuitive Advisor Lynn A. Robinson, M.Ed.
#1
My buddy’s sister moved away from home, and within the first week of her living in her own home a man comes up to her door and asks her if he can “use her phone in her house because he is lost”. She didn’t buy it, felt uncomfortable and said no. Few hours pass, she walks outside to multiple police cars, ambulances and fire trucks. Turns out the guy went next door and m******d her 2 neighbors who let him in.
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#2
I was a young, naive freshman in college and had basically no experience talking to boys. This guy had sat next to me for My whole 2 hour psych lecture and casually talked to me the whole time. Just little comments about the lecture, showing me things on his laptop. Innocent stuff. When lecture ended and we got outside it was POURING. Like, to this day I’ve seen rain like that maybe twice in my life. Rain that would physically HURT to walk in. He offered me a ride and I said yes, but as he was pulling the car up I thought to myself “don’t get in” and took off running to my dorm. Saw him on the news a few months later for raping two women.
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#3
When I was in college, I lived in a sketchy part of Chicago (Humboldt Park/Logan Square before gentrification).
I liked to take late night strolls, even when I was living in that neighborhood as a 20-year-old woman. Yeah, I know. Pretty dumb of me.
One night, I was feeling stressed out so I embarked on one of my late night strolls.
I was walking along a somewhat busy road. Cars were zooming past me. Pretty normal. I wasn't paying much attention because I was too wrapped up in whatever was stressing me out that night. Suddenly, a chill shot up my spine. Hyperviligance washed over me and I became more alert than I had ever been. Something was wrong. Someone was watching me.
I quickly spotted a car. It was driving in the opposite direction, a little slower than usual. It was too dark for me to see anyone inside the car, and the car was pretty unassuming. But I still knew something was off. They were watching me. I just knew.
The car drove past me and then made a u-turn. Now it was right behind me, creeping along the curb.
Luckily, there was a Walgreens a few blocks ahead. I started walking faster, and the car eventually sped past me and disappeared into a corner. I somehow knew I wasn't safe yet, so I still sprinted to Walgreens.
I told the security guard what happened, and we both went outside. The car was parked up the street, about 50-100 feet away. The security guard was a big guy who looked intimidating. He marched toward the car, and the car immediately backed up, made a u-turn, and then booked it out of there. The security guard called the cops, and they drove me home.
I never took a late night stroll again.
My gut made me more alert, but it was really the security guard who saved my life. I'm positive that if he wasn't there that night, something bad would've happened to me. I wish I could find that security guard to thank him.
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To learn more about this topic, we got in touch with Lynn A. Robinson, M.Ed. Lynn is an intuitive advisor and author of Divine Intuition: Your Inner Guide to Purpose, Peace, and Prosperity, and she was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda about why it's important to listen to your gut.
"Trusting your instincts is so important because it’s like having an inner GPS—you might not know why something feels right (or wrong), but deep down, you do," the expert shared. "It’s your built-in wisdom, guiding you toward choices that truly fit (and keep you safe!)"
#4
I don't know if it was a gut feeling so much as good timing but as a kid me and my brother shared bunk beds, I had the bottom bunk. Every night I would get up to get myself a drink and go back to bed. I was maybe 6 when one night I get up to get my feckin juice and I barely had stepped out of our bedroom when there was a loud cracking sound. This woke my parents and the three of us rushed back to find that the wood supporting the top bunk matress had split and was now stabbing jaggedly into my mattress and pillow. A few seconds earlier or a minute later I would've been asleep there.
Also my brother didn't wake up the whole time, despite his bed giving out under him and dropping him several feet 🤷♀️.
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#5
Relaying a friends story:
He was living in London and about to catch his usual bus when he felt like a cigarette. Just as he lit up he could see his bus pull around the bend. He considered throwing out his Ciggy but thought, bugger it, I really want my smoke, next bus was six minutes away. So he didn't board his bus and watched it drive a bit down the road when suddenly he was knocked to the ground by a powerful unseen force. His bus was the victim of a terrorist bombing and exploded just after the stop.
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#6
Almost 8 months pregnant, normal, complication free pregnancy. Walking through the grocery store i had a twinge of a headache. Told my husband we needed to go home.
At home i took a shower and relaxed a bit, but got an urgent "impending doom" feeling. Still just a tiny headache, not even enough for a tylenol. Packed my toddlers diaper bag and requested we go to urgent care.
The whole ride there i felt fine, wondering what i was even going to tell them at check in. But that "you're not okay" feeling was still looming.
We pulled in, i carried my sleeping two year old inside and basically said, "Im pregnant and something isnt right."
My blood pressure was 256/148. I had a seizure 7 minutes after getting in the room. If i had told my husband to drive past and go to the ER, we would have been stuck in traffic, as a truck had rolled over. If i hadnt left the grocery store or my house when i did, theres a chance i wouldnt have made it.
We got a ride to the hospital when i was stable, i was induced at 35ish weeks, and my son was born perfectly fine, albeit small. I stayed on blood pressure meds for 8 days before it went back to normal.
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We also asked Lynn if she had ever been in a situation where listening to her intuition saved her. "A few years ago, some friends invited me on a ski trip. I really wanted to go, but I couldn’t shake this nagging feeling that I should say no," she shared. "In the end, I declined—and I’m so glad I did. On their way to the ski resort, they were in a serious car accident, and two of them had to be taken to the hospital."
#7
Three years ago I was planning a major fundraising event. I was working ridiculous hours trying to make sure everything was going to run smoothly. I had worst case scenarios planned out like a crazy person. One day I was climbing the stairs after getting home rather late when I became unnaturally short of breath. As I sat on my bed my breathing returned to normal. My face became hot with what I can only assume is what's considered a hot-flash in older women. I started to tingle with fear. I don't know how to explain it exactly. It was like I could feel electricity in the air warning me something was wrong.
I immediately packed my laptop, paperwork, extra clothing, toothbrush, and so on, and I slowly walked down the stairs to my car driving myself to the ER. As soon as I got through the doors I collapsed, unable to breathe. I don't recall everything that happened right after, but what I do recall was being in the hospital for 8 days because both of my lungs were littered with blood clots. I had gotten a blood clot in my lower left calf from sitting & working too many hours on the event. It broke loose and spread throughout my lungs (the Doctor said it looked like my lungs were filled with popcorn). Had I not driven myself to the hospital when I did, the nurse said I would have died. I will NEVER ignore shortness of breath again, and I WILL trust myself when I KNOW something is wrong.
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#8
Not really a life saving moment but avoiding a visit to the hospital. I was staying the night at my grandmas house and I had to get up to use the restroom. I was walking in the dark and I stopped. I had this bad feeling so I switched on the light. Right in my path way a couple feet away was a baby scorpion. I had a huge chance of getting stung.
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#9
I was at a bonfire and had planned to get a ride home with one of my friends. I got really anxious right before we left and ended up staying at the bonfire. On his way home, my friend had hit a light pole and it ended up falling and crushing the passenger seat, right where I would have been sitting. He was completely fine, just a few scratches and bruises but I definitely would have been severely injured if not killed.
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So how can we get better at listening to our gut if we've gotten used to ignoring it? "Intuition is like a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets," Lynn says. "It can show up in all kinds of ways: a sudden ‘aha,’ a quiet inner voice, a nudge to speak up or take action, a gut feeling, or even a message in a dream. Try practicing with small decisions throughout your day by simply pausing and asking yourself, ‘What’s my intuition telling me?'"
#10
I was off work the day of the Boston Bombing and wanted to go shopping. I had an errand to run in Cambridge across the river but I wanted to go to a store right where the bomb ended up going off. I was just about to go there when something in me told me I should do my errand first.
Lo and behold as I cross the river, I get a flurry of texts from people asking if I'm ok.
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#11
When I was a student, I was living alone at the ground floor in a small building, my upstairs neighbor was a psychotic guy who started to have a crush on me. A few times, I woke up in the middle of the night, with him screaming my name and banging on the wall. I was so scared... I could feel the guy was really dangerous so in 24h i decided i couldn't stay in this place and move to some friend's house (while I was trying to do my relocation) - 2 months after this, he k**l a girl (my age, really lookalike) with a gun.
I can't stop the feeling that it was supposed to be me... But in the other hand, I'm so glad I took this decision that quickly. I knew by the look in his eye that the guy was really dangerous!!
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#12
I was driving my family in our suv and was stopped at a light to make a left turn. I get the green arrow and start to hit the gas when I hear my husband scream “STOP!” I slam on the breaks and a giant pickup truck runs the red from our left and screeches to a stop 30 yards past the intersection. I definitely would’ve been killed and my entire family injured.
So we all take a deep breath and I tell my husband I hadn’t seen the truck so it’s a good thing he did. He says he didn’t see the truck.
Then why did you yell “STOP!” I ask him. He says he didn’t yell stop. The kids say no one yelled anything.
To this day I swear I heard an audible voice telling me to stop. But no one else did.
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Finally, Lynn added that one of the best ways to tap into your intuition is by asking it questions. "Try asking, ‘What’s my right next step in life?’ or ‘What do I need to know about this situation—or this person?’ The answers might not come right away. They often show up when you’re least expecting them—while walking the dog, riding the bus, or even in the shower!"
And if you'd like to get even better at trusting your gut, be sure to visit Lynn's website for more info!
#13
Not me but my mom.
We were at our school track and my mom was walking but my sister and I were playing. We were in middle school so we weren’t that young but we still weren’t paying too much attention.
My mom noticed a man watching us and following us whenever we would move around so she decided to take us home and reported it to the police. He matched the description exactly of a known and wanted kidnapper.
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#14
When I woke up and felt the need to go to the ER even though I couldn't explain what was wrong. When we got there the cauterization from my tonsillectomy ruptured and I lost 1/6th of my blood in about 20 minutes.
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#15
This happened to my grandma who lives in South Africa. She had a gardener that she got a really strange vibe from I don’t know what it was about him, something just seemed off. That day my grandma let him go. She found out a week later that he had robbed and m******d another old lady who lives a few streets away.
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#16
I was volunteering at an annual fair at my school and I was helping with the balloon popping game (the one where you get darts and throw them at balloons to pop) When I was blowing up some balloons something told me to move position. Not even 5 seconds later a dart went flying right where I was standing. While I admit I wouldn't of died it did save me from a lot of pain. This happened twice.
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#17
Not MY gut feeling but my Gran told me this-
My Grandparents live in fairly rural area, more so back in the day. When my mum was about 3 she was in a pram and my Gran was pushing her along the side of the road towards town. My mum had been wriggling about and wanting to walk for ages and eventually she made so much fuss my Gran stopped to let her out. So mum had her hands on the pram and was helping to push it when a tractor pulling a trailer passed them on the hill heading up back towards the farm. Granny suddenly had the urge to grip my mum's shoulders really tight and when she turned round the trailer had come loose from the tractor and was rolling back down the hill gathering such a speed it ripped the pram right out of their hands and off the road.
So I guess my Gran's tiny action saved 6 lives- hers, mum's, my auntie who wasn't born at this point, mine, my brother's and my cousin's.
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#18
Went on a date with someone from Tinder.. The whole time he’s talking about himself, it’s nothing but the worst of the worst stories, about him being a*****e to his multiple exes but blaming them, telling me how his daughter hates him, and other horrible stuff that I can’t even bring myself to say.
While he’s talking I’m pretty much having a panic attack, the voice in my head is saying “calming GTFO!” So I say I have to go to family dinner, he’s making every excuse to keep me and for me to go home with him so I just get in my car and go.. we’re at a Starbucks outside.. he follows me! So I call my mom, she tells me to go over and that she’s calling the cops.
Luckily she lives in a gated community where a guard is at the booth so he can’t follow me in. He turns around and speeds off. The cops get there I give them all the information I have on this guy, he went in to details about his life and I told the cops everything.. turns out this guy kidnapped and brutally r***d a girl and was on the run and was stupid enough to tell me his real name when we met in person. It was a long summer of multiple court dates just to end in him getting a b******t sentence.
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#19
As a teenager in Ireland, one day I got this over whelming feeling to stay at home from school.
Good thing I did cos my friends called me later that night to say a girl who was bullying me, brought her j****e friend onto the school campus. Hid in the toilets for most of the day, waiting to beat the s**t out of me.
My friends weirdly overhead the plan while they were using the toilets at morning break. This was the time before mobile phones were used, so they each called me later that night.
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#20
I was working and had a terrible urge to go home. I am not one to ever call off or leave in the middle of a shift. I ended up saying I had a headache and my manager let me leave early.
Just a few short hours later I found out my managers ex husband came into the store and shot her dead.
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#21
When I was in college one day my friends and I went to the mall, when we were leaving it was already late at night. My friends houses were just a few blocks away from the mall but mine was pretty far away so I told them I'll take a taxi. I was waiting on the sidewalk and since it was late at night there weren't many people outside. When a taxi was coming I put my hand out to signal that I need a ride. When it stopped my hand was reaching for the taxi door handle but then all of a sudden this strong gut feeling came over me and it kept repeating in my mind "Do not go in".
It was so strong that I chose to trust it instead of ignoring it so I opened the door of the taxi and said "Never mind sir" and got a good look at the man's face. The man insisted for me to come in but I just closed the door on him and walked away. There was another taxi coming and that's the one I took but in a glimpse of an eye I saw the other taxi driver opening his door. He closed it again when the other taxi was approaching me and he drove off and I got onto the taxi that stopped in front of me.
The next day it went on the news that there was a r**ist playing a role of a taxi driver and was caught by the police yesterday because he decided to go out late at night in an attempt to catch his next victim. When it showed the picture of the man my heart dropped.
It was the same guy I saw as the taxi driver yesterday.
From that day on, I always trusted my gut.
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#22
Not me individually, but we were three couples traveling from TX to CO. One car and one Suburban. We'd swap out couples, women, men. We were up in the mountains and the weather was getting iffy pretty quick; overcast with mist in the upper elevations. One of the women was getting upset by the mile. The mountain road was a succession of curves. We had to leave one area to go to the next one and she cried and told her husband, something is wrong. We're not supposed to go up there. Stop, please turn around!
They had been married for decades and he later said, "I've learned to listen to her." So we did. It was several miles to the small town we just left. We got coffee at a drive in and after a while she calmed down. The server came by with coffee and asked which direction we were driving. She told us. "No, you won't. We just heard on the radio they had a big landslide on that road. The sheriff and state police have blocked it off. A couple cars slid down the hillside. No word on them yet."
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#23
I usually work late way out in the middle of nowhere, so I drive home on dirt roads late at night. I never see a soul on these roads. I also live in the praries, so I can see pretty far every direction.
There is a singular stop sign on my path home, and last night I was wondering whether or not I should stop because really, there is no point. You all know where this is going now, I reasoned with myself that if I don't stop now I'll make a habit of it and then that'll turn into a problem so I began to slow down.
As soon as I hit the stop sign a truck came barreling through the intersection. There is no such thing as blind corners out here but I still didn't see it coming. It was horrifying, I will never entertain ignoring traffic laws again holy fuck.
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#24
This was a few years back. I came out of a club in my home town after a heavy night of drinking. I was a student then, and out with a lot of university friends - friends that I lost during the night. I was alone.
I was going to get a taxi home, but thought I could do with some McDonalds first. (We have a big 24hr one in our town).
During my drunken walk towards the McDonalds I heard crying coming from one of the dark narrow alleyways we have in our town. I followed the the noise down the alleyway until I came across a woman with her face towards the wall. She had a hood covering her face and had no distinguishing features. At first glance I thought that maybe shed been r***d or mugged. Like why else would there be a woman crying in an alleyway?
Anyway. As I got closer to her in that poorly lit alleyway, i saw 2 giant industrial bins between her and myself. It wasn't until I got within a few feet of the bins that I stopped. It was like a giant shock went through my body. I dont know how to adequately explain it other than a primal instinct. Within 2 seconds of seeing them bins - that are large enough for people to hide behind, the dark lighting of the alley way, and the faceless woman crying I was 50% sure I was prey.
I felt an urge to run away. It was like something inhuman in me was telling me to turn and run my f*****g legs out of that dark place.
When I got to the light at the end of the alleyway I turned to see if anybody was chasing me. Nobody was. But nobody was crying also.
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#25
It was Christmas Day, I’m driving to my parents at 6am, it’s extremely dark out, when I see a horrible accident in front of me taking up the two right lanes. Both vehicles don’t have their hazard lights on. I pull in front of them, switch my hazard lights on, and get out of my car on the freeway hoping I can help them and make sure they’re okay. I’m walking toward the first driver 18/19 who has blood all over him, he asks me to help him talk to 911 because he spoke broken English. Then I go to the second driver 60s and see if he’s okay, who just blames me for the accident. I just responded I didn’t do it. The operator then tells me to get everyone on the side of the freeway, which is only 2-3 feet from the slowest lane.
Suddenly I have this gut feeling to look to my left and as I do, I see a SUV racing toward us and I suddenly realize he’s not going to stop and he’s about to hit the first vehicle. The rest happened within a few seconds. The only thing I can think of is get out of the way and the only way was to go backwards. At the time I didn’t know, but there was an overpass behind us. As I’m about to fully fall back, I bothered to look where I was falling and saw how far the drop was. I reasoned I was either going to get hit by the SUV or be crippled from the fall and get hit by a car below me. Fat nope from my part, I hurled myself back up and as I’m doing so, I watch the SUV hit my leg. The only thing I’m thinking is “relax relax relax”.
I came out with no injuries and the young man wasn’t hit. Unfortunately the older man next to me was hit and killed on impact. After hitting the man, the guy in the SUV (65+) hit my car and then swerved through all 5 lanes of traffic and crashed into the center divider. He stayed in his car for a while and when he tried to get out, he was frantic and tried to cross all 5 lanes while cars were going by. I screamed and told him please not to cross.
The guy that was hit was knocked like 100ft from where we were standing, past were my car was parked. His shoes, socks, money, everything was scattered across the freeway. The worse part of witnessing it was the skid marks of his blood on the freeway and his brain matter was in one little pile. All this was happening while I was still on the phone with 911. The operator asked me what happened, and asked me if I could drag his body off the freeway. I couldn’t do it, I was afraid someone else might not see the accident, hit my car, and then me.
It’s been over a year since the accident and the police report isn’t out yet. The guy in the SUV has insurance and a lawyer though. After the accident, a CHP told me that he’s seen accidents like this where the good samaritan was killed trying to help. Take away from this: do not get out of your vehicle on the freeway.
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#26
I was on my way to work once and as the light turned green and I was about to go through, felt something tell me to wait so I slowed a bit and I as did a car zoomed through the red light of that intersection. I'm sure if I just went through I would have been hit.
^ I'm sure a lot of people have stories like that, and it's always amazing/creepy to hear about such instances.
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#27
Was very ill, woke up to vomit and made it to the sink. Thought about rinsing it and go back to bed, but felt like I should turn the light on. Did, and it was full of blood. If I'd gone back to bed I would've bled to death in my sleep. I got a fun ride to the hospital at 2am. Luckily that bleed finally got me onto the transplant list. And 2 years later I got my nice pre owned piece of liver. September 30th will be my 8th liverversary! Yay!
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#28
Not my gut feeling, but my mom's. She wouldn't let me go out of town for a weekend with my best friend. We were supposed to go to an overnight picnic, where her older, responsible guy friend would "escort" us in his safe, new car. My mom categorically refused, and my teenage self became hysterical to the point of slamming doors and yelling profanities at her.
The next day I find out my best friend and another girl were decapitated in a car accident. The guy drove drunk waaaay too fast on a country road. The car hit the gravel on the side of the road, and the car flipped a few times before hitting a tree that ripped the car in half. My best friend's parents had to identify her remains through jewellery they found at the scene.
She was 17, I was 16. My mom saved my life that day. RIP Anna.
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#29
When my sister was just a few months old, my mom set her in her bassinet one night before going to bed. She was lying in bed trying to sleep, but couldn't shake this feeling that something was off. I remember my mom's description of the event was kind of haunting in a way. She walked into the totally silent living room, where my sister's bed was. It was December and we had a Christmas tree set up, and in the glow of the tree my mom looked in and saw my sister not breathing. If I remember correctly, she was basically choking on phlegm, turning blue.
Fortunately my mom is a lifeguard instructor, so she did back blows to clear my sister's airways a bit and got her to the hospital. I don't know what it was that my sister had exactly, but she was horribly congested and had a fever, and it set on very quickly. The doctors got her fixed up, and she's alive and well to this day, but it's horrible to think what might have happened if not for my mom's instincts that night.
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#30
15ish years ago. I'm 17. Suddenly and for no apparent reason I feel abject terror on a demolition site. Without warning I dive to my left and tackle my boss out of the way. I didn't see anything. I didn't hear anything. Not until the 3 ton wrecking ball landed exactly where we were just standing. I still have an open invitation to dinner with him and his family.
#31
Stopped just before leaving a mall on the way home from closing up shop to send a text to my long distance bf. It was the 5 minutes our schedules halfway lined up.
Old geezer --- were talking about the around before time was a concept kind of old--- came up and offered me a walk to my car. I had creepy feeling about him. I refused repeatedly but he kept getting between me and the door and the rest of the mall had gates up to prevent people from going all the way through.
So I calmly just kept denying until I came up with an excuse to dip into the restaurant next to the exit. It was closing up, but they handnt closed the side door yet. I waited to dip in until I saw someone at the host stand. I hurriedly explained the situation. He pretended to seat me. Old guy went away. Host walked me to my truck. I drove him back to the other entrance of the restaurant.
Got followed halfway home in my truck .Drove around until he turned off. Drove 20 more minutes.and then went home.
Guess who's face popped up on my fb feed the next week.
He was essentially ring leader of a human trafficking ring.
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#32
My roommate, I will call him Mike, had just acquired a new girlfriend, Mandy, and she initially struck me as a very disingenuous and shady person. Mike and I are in the military so we didn't have a whole lot of money to begin with, however, Mike decides to offer Mandy $3,000 simply because she asked him for it. What's worse is that Mike was going to take out a personal loan to give her this money. Mandy was always talking about herself and how she she needed money for this that and the other, and my bleeding heart roommate fell for every line that she gave him, so pretty much she was using him.
So my girlfriend Rachel, now wife, decides she wants to visit and Mike, Rachael, and I decide that we are going to go mudding in Mikes Jeep. We pick up Mandy along the way, which is in an extremely poor part of town, and we all head out to the woods. It was at this point that my spider senses started to tingle and what was particularly odd is that Mandy was demanding that we go to a particular spot deep in the woods that she knew of. This was about four to five miles inside some deep woods and was not along the usual beaten path. Rachel and I start getting this awful feeling and we knew something was wrong.
We suddenly come upon a group of about six well built tall guys and Mandy says "stop I know these guys!". Mandy hops out of the Jeep and hugs one of the guys a type of hug that is more than just friends, this is when a feeling of dread came over Rachel and myself. All six of the guys were looking at the Jeep and then looking at us with a look that only your enemy would give you. At this point I knew death was imminent. I reached up and locked the front passenger door and mine, Rachel locked hers and I started yelling at Mike "get the f*** out of here or we're going to die!!" Rachel was yelling at him also, so Mike caved in and hit the gas. We drive down the road for about a mile twisting and turning down several side roads, when our adrenaline subsided a bit we notice we had a flat back left tire. Turns out the tire had been slashed by one of those guys, That was the quickest I've ever changed a tire in my entire life.
Rachel and I knew that death was imminent if we didn't leave. It wasn't a suspicion, it wasn't a guess, it was a full knowing that we were going to die. Turns out Mandy was dating one of those guys and admitted that fact later to Mike.
#33
My dad’s story: My dad was probably in his twenties (he’s in his 50’s now), he was at the bar drinking with his friends and they were all getting ready to leave. But something told my dad stay for another drink, so he did. Well later that night traveling home he found out the bridge he usually crosses to get home collapsed around the same time he would’ve originally been crossing it.
#34
A gut feeling saved my life, but it wasn't my gut feeling. My mom knew something was wrong with me as a baby, even after the local doctors told her nothing was wrong when she took me 23 times. (deep South doctors)
She didn't relent, and trusted her gut, and drove hours away to an actual city in our state where they found my cancer. Too much later and I'd have been dead. My so thankful for my mother, but trusting her gut and sticking with it.
#35
I decided to call my mom. I didn't have any reason to and I knew that she was heading to work. So the chances of her answering her phone were slim, but I still wanted to call.
She was breathing really heavy and was just speechless. She said that if I didn't call her, she probably would have gotten into a really bad accident.
She said that she was driving on autopilot. And for some reason, despite there being a red light, she just kept going not really thinking. She slowed down because she noticed her phone ringing and by that time cars were honking at her because she was getting too far into the road.
#36
Ok, so I was a mechanic on the E-3 Awacs and I'm a big guy, 6'7" and some of the spaces we had to work in weren't very big. This one day we're changing out an APU accumulator, to save techno abble, it's what helps the plane power itself up, I don't remember exactly this was years ago.
We do everything by the book because this is an ESSENTIAL part to the plane. Gotta do it right. We tighten s**t down, check our work, and now we gotta turn it on. I'm laying right next to this thing that's nearly as big as I am in a space about the size of a big coffin.
I get this little voice in my head that says "move back" so I do, I scooch all the way back so I can still see the gauges and parts, but I'm out of the line of fire.
We start power, APU whines up like hydro does... BOOOOOM!!!
The accumulator exploded, the end cap shot off and sprays fluid at 2850 psi in a nice circular radius. Somehow I flip around and launch myself towards the door, and wind up on my sergeant. I'm ok, power gets shut off, and we have to clean up and do the job all over again.
Apparently the snap ring that kept the end cap on was defective or some s**t. Ah well, I'm not dead or wounded, so everything wound up Gucci.
#37
I was on a run in a city. I always ran on the same route and I knew the traffic lights well. I knew how long the lights would last and if there were no cars coming I knew when it was safe to go even if the walk sign wasn’t up.
On this particular intersection, there was one direction the cars would come from and you couldn’t see the cars until they were pretty close because there was a curve with some trees right before the light. One time I was on my run, and it was a great time to run across. I had plenty of time, the direction with the curve had a red light and would have a red light for a while, there were no cars coming and I was about to run across the road like I often did. But as I was taking my first step, a voice in my head said “NO” in a way that kind of startled me and I jumped back to the sidewalk. As I jumped back, a car came zooming around the bend and sped right through the red light and would have hit me right where I was going to be running.
The whole thing shook me up and the adrenaline from that made my run much faster. It also made me extra careful on my runs from then on!
#38
I’m a volunteer firefighter. We were at a house fire, had just evacuated the house of all personnel due to worsening conditions inside.
We were moving to a “surround and drown” defence.
I was at the front door with my partner manning the hose line.
I told her to “pack up” (put on our SCBA gear), despite almost everyone else not wearing theirs. In fact, I said “I don’t like the way this is going”, to her Something felt off to me.
She was still packing up when there was some kind of an explosion...likely smoke. Not really sure. Definitely wasn’t a backdraft though.
I remember hearing a distinct “Wooof!” noise and seeing a wall of orange coming at me, then looking up at the sky.
It blew me out the door, off the stairs and onto the ground.
She had luckily stepped off the stairs to pack up, so she was fine too.
If I hadn’t if packed up when I did, I would’ve likely been dead...or horrifically injured.
It happened 4 years ago maybe. It’s still crazy to think about it.
#39
My friend needed a ride home. It was out of my way so I said no. A few minutes later, I chased him down and said yes. I don't know why I did it. I didn't feel guilty, I just felt like I should give him a ride after all for some reason. Fortunately he took me up on my offer.
Turns out the kids who offered him a ride after I turned him down got into a horrible accident on the way back. The girl was speeding and one of her tires blew out. The car was absolutely crushed. The kids had concussions and broken ribs. The EMTs said that the only reason they lived is because they were all short, under 5'9". My friend who would've been in that car is 6'1".
#40
Not me, but my dad was maybe 100 feet from being on the 35W Bridge in Minneapolis when it collapsed. He said he didn't know why, but his foot just gravitated to the brake pedal and he slowed way down, and sure enough right after that the bridge went.
The creepiest thing was watching security cam footage where we could see his car. It was surreal seeing how close my own dad was to death.
#41
I don’t remember this but is a story my father told me. I was an extremely social kid up until age 5 or 6. Never met a stranger and loved people. My favorite thing to do was go to the mall to say “hi” to literally everyone.
When I was around 4 years old we lived next to a retired couple. Their 30 something year old son came to live them and they wanted to introduce him to us. I was in the driveway with my parents when they took the opportunity to come do the introduction. According to my dad I yelped at the sight of their son and hid behind my dad. Since this was so unusual he let me hide and just said I was shy with strangers. They didn’t come back over and my parents stopped talking to them.
A few months later the neighbor’s son was arrested with terabytes of child p**n. He had just gotten out of jail after being convicted of child molestation. No telling what could have happened had my parents continued their friendship with our neighbors.
#42
My husband had a random back spasm that was unlike anything he ever felt. Said it wasn’t too painful but it was out of the ordinary and it felt off. Went in and discovered it was kidney cancer. Freaking healthy, buff a*s 32 year old with kidney cancer. We are so grateful he went in.
#43
Lived in Orlando for a few years. Christina Grimmie had just been shot the night before and my girlfriend wanted to go see a show downtown. We went to the show, but I had a horrible feeling afterwards. She wanted to go to Pulse after because it was on the way home, but her car was broken down that day and I had my father take us directly home because I didn’t feel comfortable staying out that night. The next morning we got texts asking if we were at Pulse because the club had been shot up. We were there the week before the m******e and had missed it by mere hours on our way home that night.
#44
My gut felt weird so I went to my doctor and ended up getting an ultrasound to check for possible gall stones. They found unrelated cancer instead. Gut feeling is probably why I’m alive right now.
#45
Not my life but my fathers. Was 12 years old, and he called to say "goodbye" and he would "see me and my sister when we were much older."
I ran over to the neighbour's house bawling not knowing what was going on but knowing *my father needs help NOW*.. My Uncle (a paramedic) managed to located my ODing father with his partner and pump his stomach while driving him to the hospital.
I've never really doubted my gut since, but was traumatic enough to always trust my gut whenever it kicked up.
God bless alcohol for being able to trudge through the darkest of memories and come out okay.
#46
I was digging for crystals on a mountain in Idaho. The dig site looked like a war zone and was very far up a windy old logging road. Holes had been dug everywhere and fallen and chopped pine trees scattered all over the hillside. I was just getting into rock hounding and had no experience or knowledge. Long story short, I end up digging a large hole under a huge pine tree and got underneath it’s roots in a huge hole. There were lots of amazing big crystals I was finding in this huge hole/cave . Dirt started falling a little from ceiling. I didn’t know what that meant. I decide in that exact moment I should look at this hole I’m in under this tree because I didn’t feel good about it. I walk four feet away from the hole and Instantly the 70 ft pine tree collapses into the six foot hole I was just in and comes crashing down to the mountain side floor. All my tools were buried under the root mass and were recovered years later. I’m just really glad I’m not a pancake.
#47
When I was in hs I used to go running at night in our neighborhood alone (I know, stupid). So I went out one night around 9:30pm and was on my usual route. I was running towards a cluster of trees and started to get a weird feeling. I can’t explain it, I just felt uneasy. As I began nearing the trees, I sped up and ran to the side about 7ft and I was running, saw a man hiding behind a tree with a dark hoodie on. He saw me see him and turned away and I booked it out of there so fast. Never in my life did I ever run again at night.
#48
It happened to my mom and my aunt they where traveling in Indonesia some time in the 80’s both had been seasoned travelers by that time and had travel all around Asia the Caribbean etc, my mom is not a super “safe” person and she is also not superstitious “religious” or “spiritual” person she is not afraid on getting on dinky stuff that looks like it might breakdown and had been backpacking for a while, they arrived late but their bus was still there full of people my mom took one look at the bus and said she got this sinking gut feeling (first and last time this has ever happened to her) she looked at my aunt and said I am not going on that bus, my aunt was pissed!
Tried to convincer her threatened to leave but my mom would not budge said she would wait for the next bus (literally like 2 hours) but she said she would rather sleep at the bus stop than get on. pissed my aunt gave up. They waited for the next buss and on their way up to the village saw the wreckage of the buss my mom refused to take she said that when they got to the town they found out the buss had flipped and there where no survivors she has no idea why or how she got this feeling and she has never felt it before but it really did saver her and my aunt that day.
#49
I was in a shared Uber with one other girl I don’t know, both in the back. We’re driving through the city and some guy off the street asks the Uber driver for a ride a few blocks away through his driver side window.
To my surprise, the Uber driver says yes! Like, WHAT?! This guy was not a paid pick-up, he was just some guy who asked a random stranger for a ride. Us and Uber driver were talking about some liberal topics, so maybe he thought we’d be cool about it? The guy hops in the front street, starts chatting it up with the Uber driver. We’re driving a couple blocks, and he keeps saying “Right over here, just a couple more minutes” and we’re getting farther and farther from the main drag.
I speak up and say “Sorry, where did you say you need to go again?” and he replies “Just around the corner,” and I say “If it’s just around the corner you can walk then, right?” and he starts getting snippy and ignores me and says to the driver “Come on, man - just a couple more blocks” and the Uber driver is like “Yeah, sure thing.”
I had to have a Karen moment and get loud and be like “No, stop the car. You are not paying for this ride, I am. You can walk from here. I’m uncomfortable, and you need to get out of the car NOW.” The guy looks at the driver like “What the f**k?” and the driver is like “Sorry, but she is paying and I need to respect that” and kicks him out.
Turns out there was a string of car jackings and robberies in that area that he was taking us. I’m guessing he was taking us to his buddy’s spot who were armed.
No f*****g way, dude. Uber driver got reported. Ladies, learn to not be polite.
#50
This is all a true story. I was outside beside some very tall trees. The wind suddenly picked up a bit, clouds came in and the sky started looking weird. I decided to go inside despite there not being any real reason to. There was almost a strange silence outside, almost like time itself was being messed with. No warnings of thunderstorms or anything. 3 minutes later it started to hail. Then as soon the hail started I got tornado warnings on my phone. I decided to go in the basement cause of the hail and something didn't feel right.
Not 2 minutes later the power went out. I went to check my phone and as I pulled out my phone another tornado alarm went off that told me to take shelter immediately. Not but a few seconds later I heard a very loud thump. I stayed out in the basement for a while till I thought it was safe. When it was I went back upstairs to see something horrifying. In the EXACT spot I was standing, to the very inch, a giant tree had been uprooted and fell.
There were several other trees down and big branches but not a single other uprooted tree. When I looked up there were several tall trees that had their limbs twisted around each other. I went to check the news and bingo, they confirmed a tornado had been seen in my area. Later on the news showed the tornado, not my incident, but close enough to where I was I could recognize the area. It wasn't a big one, only an f1, possibly an f2 at one point they said, and it wasn't on the ground for very long they believed, but it was strong enough to uproot an old very tall tree. I should also mention that my area does not get many tornadoes.
#51
On my very first day as a full fledged police officer, I was called to assist on a single car accident. It had been raining that day and a car had crashed and turned sideways on a highway off ramp, forcing the first officer to shut it down. He was afraid that cars were coming by too fast, and he asked me to shut down the closest lane. I parked my car in a lane on what was a perfectly straight stretch of highway. Eventually, fire and EMS arrived to tend to the people who had been in the car, and a tow truck arrived to clear the wreck.
There were five vehicles with flashing lights on this straight stretch of highway at night. I was also wearing a full length high visibility rain coat with reflectors on it. I felt pretty comfortable standing near the center lane and so I wasn't paying attention to oncoming traffic, but I suddenly got the feeling that I should stand closer to my unit. As soon as I moved a car barely avoided striking my police car, veered to where I had been standing, crossed over two lanes, struck a car, veered in the opposite direction, struck another car, spun out, and then came to a stop after striking a guard rail.
I ran down the highway to assist the driver, who had totaled her car and had broken both her legs. She said that she couldn't tell which lane was being blocked off. I'm almost 100% sure that she had been texting and driving.
Edit: grammar.
#52
It didn't exactly save my life, but I did avoid getting robbed. When I was in high school I was supposed to hang out with some friends after school. They were taking a long time to come out of class, and I just had this feeling that I should home. I tried to message them, but didn't get a reply so I went home. Later that day I heard from one of them that a group of guys came up to them as they exited the school and asked for their phones and money. Luckily they didn't get hurt since one of the guys had a knife. I felt bad for them, but I was glad that wasn't there because anything could have happened.
#53
A friend was having a party at a popular casino that has a resort. Myself and a few friends show up and we see a cop and an employee enter the elevator as we enter the other one next to it. As soon as I saw that, I had a bad feeling. We get to the same floor and try to find the room that the party is held in. We see the cop next to room, talking to the woman that filed the complaint, and just as a friend was about to knock on the door, I tell her out loud “nah that’s not the room, we’re on the wrong floor”.
The cop stopped us and asked what we were up to and we told him we were visiting a friend but got the rooms mixed up. He let us going and turns out the room that we were about to go into was the room my friends were having the party in. Lots of underage people drinking, weed, and a noise complaint. People with weed on them got a citation and they’re banned from going again. Dodged a bullet there.
#54
This is some straight up Final Destination s**t I swear.
I'm currently living in San Diego California and when it rains here people just forget how to drive safely and will go tearing down roads not thinking about the possibility of Hydroplaning .
Anyway it has been raining a lot since the new year, and my walk home from college is only about 10 mins so I take the chance to walk whenever possible. After my evening class the roads were still wet but it was a bit sunny and wasn't raining only the roads were wet. I was waiting to cross the road and soon enough it was my turn to cross, but as I went to move forward I just had something in my head tell me to wait a second, not a moment later a car comes speeding round the corner and loses control and spins out of control bashing into the side of another car.
If I hadn't waited a moment it's more than likely that car would have crashed into me like a bowling pin or worse crashed into me and crushed me between it and the other car.
I really hope I haven't cheated death because I don't want to die in some weird unexplained violent death.
#55
Several times I've hesitated entering an intersection to find that someone would run the red light at a speed that would put me in the hospital.
#56
When I was quite young (6 or so), I was mauled by a dog. I'm pretty sure that my split second decision to run one way rather than the other saved me. Short story is my mom asked me to help bathe dogs. I went to round them up and the first dog I encountered happened to have some trauma regarding being restrained. He quickly got scared and became aggressive. I had originally come out the back door and circled around to the side of the house, where I encountered said dog.
I had a choice between turning and running all the way to the back door away from the dog, or cutting across the carport (which meant cutting close to the dog) to the side door. I chose to cut to the side door. The dog pinned me against the side door and began to maul my face. Unfortunately for me, the side door was locked, so I beat on it until my brother answered and kicked the dog off. I had reconstructive surgery and was fine. I think however, that if I had tried to run to the back door, I would have been overtaken by the dog before I reached help. God knows what would have happened then. I likely would have been tackled by him in the back yard far enough away that it was possible no one would have heard me. I don't blame the dog, but I do occasionally wonder what might have happened that day if I had decided to take a different direction. RIP Stranger, I know it wasn't your fault.
#57
I grew up in a small farming community. Back then, when you were the only kid on the bus who lived down a stretch of road, the bus driver dumped you off on the corner of the street and you usually walked the half mile or so to your house.
I was in detention once, so I had to ride the elementary bus home after, and no young kids lived on my road, so I was dropped off. As I got off the bus, and it started driving away, another guy pulled up to turn right. He just stared at me with dead eyes and my adrenaline simply spiked. We had just plowed the field I was in, so it was fairly rough terrain, but I knew in my heart of hearts that he was coming back. So I sprinted. As I was about halfway through the field (running parallel to the road, I know now I should have run deep) I turned and saw him charging back up towards the road I was just dropped off on. He was moving.
Long story short I hit a corn field as he slammed on his brakes and got out of his car. By that time I was gone.
I heard him get back into his car and drive away, but I didn’t move from that field for a good 2 hours. I eventually trudged my way home.
#58
When I was about 5 years old, my mum used to drive us around in an old beat up car with no drivers license, (this was in the 90s, still very bad but the laws were more lax back then) anyways, every time she drove us somewhere i would sit in the middle seat at the back with no seat-belt.
Until one day, I suddenly got the urge to sit in the front passenger seat. My mum made me wear a seat-belt since I was at the front and it was about 10 minutes into the drive when my mum got blinded by a van drivers headlights and crashed us straight into a concrete bollard on the side of the street. Luckily no one was harmed, but it still gives me chills when i think about the fact that this was the only time I ever wore a seat-belt prior to the accident. I have always worn my seat-belt since and get so mad when my friends don't bother, seat belts save lives people!
#59
I was driving up highway 100 in Minneapolis and going a bit fast. I suddenly had this feeling that I should slow down a bit. A few seconds later a wheel dropped right in front of my car and bounced over me. I'm fairly certain that, if I hadn't slowed down, it would have gone through my windshield. (it was going quite fast).
#60
I was in college and hanging at my buddy's place on the south side of campus. It was maybe 2 in the morning and I was heading home to the north side of campus. It was foggy as hell, maybe 50 ft of visibility, and dark. As I was walking, I saw four or five people walking in the middle of the street pass under a streetlight foming towards me. They were spread across the whole street. I turned around and walked back to my buddy's apartment and slept on a couch. Found out the next night that it was gang initiation season and there were several random beatings that night.
#61
I decided to waste time before heading home since i skipped out on work at the time and went to a plaza near where i used to work. i stopped at a couple stores before hitting a party city.
it was near halloween time so i wanted to see what they had out. but, mind you, the area i was in was completely unsafe. it was known for a bit of human trafficking activity. i’m a twenty year old female who is 5’0 and weighs about 110 lbs.
i’m quite small but i thought i’d be okay just checking the store out because the other two i went to we’re fine and i didn’t get any weird vibes from them. so i parked my car at the end of the parking lot in front of the store, closest to the road. it was all i could get.
i went in and just started to look around, there was a couple families so i felt fine. up until i went down an aisle near the front and saw a man on the phone who was looking very uninterested at the thing he was gazing at with another lady. he glanced at me and wouldn’t stop looking at me. he spoke spanish so i couldn’t make out what he was saying since my spanish is pretty limited despite living in arizona for so long.
i started to feel uneasy so i went toward the back into the next aisle, thinking my mind was just in overdrive since i was suppose to be at work and that’s where my parents thought i was. i finished looking down the aisle and once i got to the back, the same lady that was with the man was already standing back there.
as if she was waiting for me.
i smiled at her and nodded in my head, as i do in respect when i make eye contact with someone. i thought it would be a good way to show her that i’ve seen her face enough to know what she looks like. so i went back down the aisle again and saw the man standing to the side near the front. i noticed a lady finishing checking out and rushed over behind her.
the moment she walked out, i did too. and i hauled a*s to my car and quickly started to drive away towards the freeway.
i really felt uncomfortable and i thought maybe i was being overdramatic. but the only reason i knew about the activity there was because a couple weeks after the incident, there were reports of a few areas in phoenix regarding human trafficking and that area was one of them.
so, never again.
#62
Here's one.
The Wife had crashed her car. After a month she got an insurance payout, and after a brief search she found, about a hundred kilometres from our place, in Sydney, Australia.
I wasn't keen. The weather forecast was for storms, quite strong ones apparently. But she was insistent. Which is a tale for another day. So we drive down to Sydney. Now, the seller was a guy who'd just closed his car yard down and had just a few vehicles to sell, keeping them at home. Wife looked at the vehicle, liked it a lot, took it for a short drive, all good.
While that was going on, and the drawing up of paperwork, a few people were coming out and covering their cars with thick blankets; a severe storm warning with large hail had been issued. I thought I'd better move my car under a tree and hopefully avoid the worst of it, I love my car and didn't want it written off due to hail damage, as had happened to people I know. So I get to it just as the rain truly begins to bucket down, huge amounts. And then the wind starts thrashing the trees, really thrashing them. And I realiser the tree I'm parked under, which had multiple trunks (4 or 5) is rocking to and fro. And my gut instinct said "Hail or not, you can't stay here." So I rolled my car forward about four metres, and looked in my rear vision mirror... in time to see the tree crash on the road behind me. Close enough to put a large scratch near the petrol cap, but no onther damage. And in ten metres in front of me, I turned around to see an enormous tree had crashed right across the road, pulling down power lines. When I went back to pick up the Wife, the car salesman's garage had a tree go through it, crushing two of their cars, though not the one she was buying. We drove home (picking it up after the money was sorted in a few days), and on the way the suburbs were a mess - the damage was crazy. Turns out two supercells had met over the city and where we were was literally ground zero, could not have been in a worse place.
So in conclusion, I was very glad I listened to my gut. People who lived across the road and saw the tree fall were convinced I was under it and were about to call emergency services. I never win a lottery or a big prize, but I love my grandkids, the lights in my life, and sometimes I get lucky in other ways.
Below is a link to a local paper that reports just how big it was.
https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/three-possum-joey-triplets-found-battered-and-alon/3602547/.
#63
Driving down a three-lane highway at 70mph. In my lane ahead of me was a pick-up truck with various construction accoutrements in the back - tarps, ladders, buckets, etc.
Not sure why I changed lanes - because I really didn't need to - but a split second after I moved to the left, a step-ladder came flying out of the pickup bed.
Had I not moved that second before, I would taken that step-ladder through the windshield at 70mph.
#64
Was heading to my car in my buildings' parking garage, on my way to work. A van was parked next to my car and I could see a man inside. He motioned for me to come around to his door, pointing to something in his car to try to get me to come look. I had a bad feeling so I just shook my head and got in my car. I look over and he's getting out of the van - I quickly start driving off and notice there's a second man crouched behind a dumpster that was near the van. Not sure what I avoided but sure as s**t glad I did.
#65
Possibly.
When I was in college my boyfriend and I lived in an apartment. One day, when I was home alone, two guys knock on my door. I open up and they give me some story about donating to a charity. I was dumb and said ok sure let me get my purse. When I turn around they are inside the foyer blocking the front door. I instantly get nervous and start fumbling with my checks...to which they say they don’t take checks, just cash. Then, they ask if anyone else is there and I say yes my boyfriend is sleeping. I like to think I said that convincingly enough and I said, “let me go see if he has cash.” I went into my bedroom to see if I had a weapon JIC, but I heard the door close and they were gone.
#66
Not driving off immediately as the light turned green. Sure enough a second later two cars smashed into each other probably right where I would have been had I taken off when the light turned green. Scary seeing a head on collision happen literally less than 10 feet in front of you.
#67
Don't know if this is a gut feeling or I just got plain lucky. Used to live in a really sketchy part of town. I decided not to go to the gym this one evening because I was super tired that day. That same evening, around the same time that I would normally walk to the gym, there was a shooting in an intersection that was part of my usual route. 2 people died. I think to myself, had I decided to go to the gym that day, 3 people may have died. So I got really lucky ironically by skipping gym.
#68
I was in the woods looking for critters, and I found this big piece of plywood that would’ve been perfect for reptiles and amphibians to hide under.
So I go to lift it up, but I have this moment of “what if there’s something right where I’m gonna put my hands” so I grab a stick to lift it up and underneath was a copperhead. It wasn’t right where I was gonna grab so Not sure if it would’ve been able to bite me, but definitely a good cautionary tale.
#69
I have a severe peanut allergy. Went to a restaurant and asked if their food or sauce had peanuts. They said that there wasn’t any peanuts, so we ordered some of it for the day after for a gathering. I ate some of it and immediately felt bad, I thought that maybe the heat was getting to me, so I stopped eating and told my dad I wasn’t feeling too well. I didn’t think anything was too bad until a couple minutes later. Something just came out of nowhere and I told him I needed a hospital. One car ride later, I was breaking out into rashes and was throwing up. Got the treatment I needed, and I’m still here luckily. Ironically, I experienced this the day of teaching younger kids about severe food-related allergies.
#70
Arborist: On one jobsite I was looking at this tree and I just got a weird feeling. It was unusual though, there were no signs of rot, SGRs, weakness, root zone flooding, included bark etc. I just got this feeling like "This seems like a better job for the bucket." So, to the dismay of everyone I spent the time bringing around the bucket truck, setting up the outriggers etc.
Well I got up there, flopped the top and suddenly the entire tree basically disintegrated. Luckily there were no targets nearby but the tree just decided "if I'm going to go down, I'm going down in a blaze of glory" two ~8' sections just broke away at the bottom of my cut, seconds after the top swung down. Had I not decided to use the bucket I would have had a nice ~60' fall along with the sections that likely would have turned me into paste. Even after looking at the logs I couldn't really tell why they gave way, my best guess is some kind of cracks due to the extreme cold the week before.
#71
I don't really know how to put this, but I feel like our subconscious can register things that are about to happen to us before we consciously realize them. Like if your gut is telling you something is off, then it is completely valid to trust it, even if you have driven that way hundreds of times with no issues. So it was definitely a wise move to listen to your instincts.
A couple of years ago I was driving to go to party at a brewery for my friend's pre-wedding party. I was asked to go about an hour early to help her set some things up. One of my friends had called me last minute and asked me to bring her to work. I ignored the message while I was driving, but something in me told me to turn around and go get her, so I did. The brewery ended up burning down in that process.
Thankfully zero people were hurt during that ordeal, but it goes to show you that we tend to be able to sense some things before they actually manifest.
#72
Not my own but one time I scrolled through my fb feed and a suggested group had a post by a woman who was grieving the sudden loss of all her pet rats over two days. It had just been posted, halfway round the world- it was late night for them.
I felt the nagging in my brain and joined the group, waited for approval and finally was able to comment "hey if you don't have a carbon monoxide alarm, get fire fighters out immediately- do not go to bed!"
She thankfully saw that comment of mine right as she was about to go to bed- called the fire dept out and had an air quality test immediately. They might have all died in their sleep if not for my niggling feing.
#73
This is my mom’s story- my intuition is firmly broken.
Mom and dad were a poor couple starting out so mom would often drop the baby to grandma, drive dad lunch where ever he was working for the day and run whatever errands needed. On this occasion, she was driving my dad’s 2 workers home while he finished the job. They were all part of the same immigrant community and dad had just hired them based on word of mouth.
The commute took them on a long rural stretch of road. Mom suddenly has the thought, “I don’t know these men. The one seated behind me could incapacitate me. The passenger could take control of the wheel.”
She had no cell phone. There were no other cars. She started praying and speeding, pedal to the metal until she got on the highway. A few weeks later, they were arrested of r**ing another woman.
#74
Literally two days ago i went for a walk close to my neighborhood that I usually go on; i almost always go on the same path, and the one time I decide to take a different street off just a weird feeling, i avoid a shooting that happened within the same minutes timeframe on the normal street i go.
#75
When may favorite hot sauce gave me a stomachache, so I asked a friend who was a doctor, got scans done and it turned out I had stomach ulcers.
#76
It was early in the morning at the Haight in San Francisco, and my wife and I were window shopping as none of the stores were open yet. My wife was in a mini skirt. I had a bad feeling and looked to my right, there was 3 thugs that looked like they were looking for trouble headed our way. I told my wife to find a shop and get inside now. She asked me why, but she could tell by the look on my face that she needed to scoot. I maintained a distance between her and myself as she ducks in to a coffee shop. I go straight to the spot where the coffee is brewing. A second later, from the entry point, one of the punks shouts something about thinking I was safe is a mistake. They kept going, and everyone in the coffee shop was wondering what the heck was going on. Nobody said s**t to us, but that was the end of it.
#77
Not mine but my friend's, maybe.
We were f*****g around with black powder. I don't know where the f**k he got this black powder from but it was like wrapped up in some kind of tape log.
He bent it in half to sorta crack it open and was trying to light it off like just straight on the black powder with a lighter.
It was sorta just fizzling and not doing much. Well, he took the lighter to it again for a few seconds, backed off, then was going to go back at it again and I stuck my arm in front of him holding him back and just "...wait" then it went up in flames almost immediately after that.
He was like "whoa..."
Don't know how I knew. I just knew. We were like 14 yrs old.
#78
I'm not sure how much this applies, but I have a "gut feeling" to turn off my music and pay more attention to my surroundings when driving on icy/snowy roads.
Just last week I avoided getting rear ended by cars by going through red lights TWICE. I saw them coming in my rear-view mirror and knew they wouldn't be able to stop in time given the conditions.
I guess that my gut feeling is that other drivers are dumb.
#79
I once had to take a train from Paris to Germany early in the morning. As a Parisian, I know that quite a few places here can be sketchy, including the train station I was at. I was printing my train ticket at a machine in a desert floor at 7:00 AM, my phone in hand and a weird guy approached me, asking for what time it was. He reeked alcohol and seemed to be unstable and possibly on d***s. I put my phone on my other hand, further from him, and told him what time it was while scowling and not keeping my eyes off his.
He left, I quickly printed my ticket, went to the other floor. When I arrived to the escalator, I saw him trying to violently steal some guy’s bag off his shoulder while the poor dude was waiting for his croissant at the station’s bakery.
#80
I was like 13 , watching TV , pressure washer hissing in the kitchen 1 corner away from me, pressure washer stops hissing, finally some quiet to listen to the TV undisturbed, but its weird, I get up to go check, it didn't even occur to me that perhaps the gas has gone off and the thing stopped boiling, that would be relatively safe right? So I go take a look, just before rounding the corner I stop and start thinking what could I do to stay safe? What if j go grab my cardboard "riot shield" I built and use it to protect my self as I approach the pressure cooker? As I am thinking this the f*****g thing explodes and covers the kitchen in hot water, I would probably not have died cuz it was just the rapture disk exploded not the whole pot, but I would probably have had a s****y time with the "boiling water explosion" deal would have probably been unpleasant.
#81
Went to pick up my younger sister after school and felt something strange behind my back. As if theres something that told me to turn around and so I did and found a guy that was carrying a thick wood and was already swinging the wood towards me and my sister. I grabbed her by the hand and carried her away from that guy that was following us while laughing like crazy. We were running around the place and while running, I decided to guide him to the police and they arrested him. Turns out he's a homeless guy who went crazy after he lost his sister before. He went crazy and would roam around town sometimes naked and scaring kids. It also turns out it wasnt his first time doing this, he actually did this to someone else too and somehow got away with it.
