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“Guy Behind Me Basically Evaporated”: 40 Times People’s Gut Instinct Saved Their Lives
When it comes to decisions, how often do you go by your gut feeling, Pandas? If you're more likely to trust your instincts rather than your head, you're not alone. 70% of Brits say that they always trust their intuition, and 35% even experience a physical "gut feeling." People trust their sixth sense when it comes to their romantic partners, their health, and even problems manifesting through dreams.
For some people, intuition can even save their lives. Don't believe me? Check out these answers Bored Panda found that people were sharing in the comments online. After a netizen prompted them by saying, "Tell me about a time you followed your gut instinct, and only realized later it protected you," folks came armed with the craziest stories. It seems that sometimes staying at home to bed rot can really save your life.
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#1
Not quite horror movie level...but I Was helping my 88yr old grandma with yard work and had my virtually mute dog with me. My back to the treeline. Was looking down pulling up weeds when my dog started growling real deeply. I look behind me and there's a 400 lbs black bear walking up on us looking right at me. It was less than 50ft away. I never heard it approach. It was silent. Didn't stop till I started yelling at it. If my dog wasn't there I don't know how close it would have gotten, or if it would have attacked me. Needless to say Carly Girl had my back. Shes been especially on guard since.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 month ago (edited)
Last summer I was in the backyard with my girl and her golden and a black bear literally hopped over her fence out of nowhere. Worth noting her dog will run in terror from deer, raccoons, and my cat... but for some reason it decided it should run towards the bear. Screamed at my girl to go inside and dragged that loveable idiot 90lb dog back inside by the collar as she resisted the whole way. Scared the absolute c**p out of me. Almost literally. I was within 10 feet of that bear and I never wanna be that close to a bear ever again.
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago (edited)
i love watching a dogs protective instincts take over. i was pressure washing my driveway once and my dogs were outside and were in a fenced off part of the yard. my boy is a pit/lab mix but is the biggest baby in the world. he has his own pajamas and blanket because he gets cold at night and wont sleep without his stuffed duckie. my neighbors german shepard came over to my yard while i was out front, he was just curious and friendly, and my fat lazy dog jumped the 5 foot fence and positioned himself in between me and the neighbors dog and put his hackles up and slowly walked at him while growling. the GSD took off like a bullet back to his house and my dog sat at the end of the driveway for the rest of the day. i have to wipe his paws off when he gets them dirty or he will pout in the corner, but he was more than ready to eviscerate that dog if it had come a single step closer. for about 10 seconds, my fat little baby boy was a wolf, and managed to intimidate a dog a foot taller and probably 30 pounds heavier, i love my little king so much for that. weve since formally introduced them on neutral ground and they are friends now.
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#2
when i was 10/11 i went to nyc with my mom who was chronically ill. late at night she sent me to the mcdonald’s in times square to get food (about 2 blocks from our hotel) and i went alone bc she was sick and couldn’t move. omw back i passed a homeless man and felt sorry for him so i gave him my chicken nuggets. kept walking and a stranger man grabbed me and started to drag me off and i was shouting but it was so loud nobody heard me? after a second the homeless man started beating the guy and i ran back to the hotel safe. i always think about what might’ve happened
Spittnimage 1 month ago
Good grief! What kind of mom sends their 10-year-old to Times Square alone late at night? Have food delivered!
#3
Not me, but my mom. I was feeling lethargic, dizzy, and not eating. She took me to a day clinic and they told me, it was dehydration. They sent me home that afternoon. My mom’s “gut instinct” told her to take me to the emergency room and I was diagnosed with AML Leukemia that evening. I’m 3 years into remission thanks to my Mommy!
Johnny Rodriguez 1 month ago
On a Monday went to the doctors office felt like a fever but with a badly pulled muscle in my left thigh. Doc said go ahead and take ibuprofen and try to rest, if not better by Friday come back in. By Tuesday night my wife was like "nope" this is not right we going back to the doctor. They sent me up to the ER, after taking some blood work they came RUNNING back into the room and shoved a consent for surgery form at me. Turned out I had necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating virus), 3 days and 7 surgery's later they got it all dug out and I got to keep my leg.... if we had waited another 24+ hours probably would have lost my leg and maybe died!
#4
My mom had gotten me this bed that had an area underneath that I could fit into, normally for clothes but I made a little “hangout” under it, one night when I was 13 my mom had left to go grocery shopping and I decided to go under it and read a book, ended up falling asleep and I woke up to my mom opening it and dragging me out screaming and crying. Someone had broken in and robbed us. If they had known I was there I don’t even wanna think about what they would have done to me
#5
my apartment complex had a 6 level fire down the hall from me. I ran in to get my cats. I ran past cops, up 5 flights, through ash floors, flooded hallways and my apartment full of smoke. I got my two babies. worth it but absolutely have some trauma from it.
#6
One night I was home alone and suddenly choked on nachos I made. Instead of doing what was logical I started panicking. As I started to black out I fell to the ground & my dogs thought I was playing so they jumped on my back with a toy and the pressure of them jumping on me caused me to throw up the nachos. They saved me without even realizing it.
Barbara Hill 3 weeks ago
Throw yourself over the back of a couch or chair. to force the food out.
#7
Arc flash. Guy behind me basically evaporated and I came out unscathed.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
This shít is no joke. My husband has to train on this every year, and he said the videos and stories the instructor shares are horrific.
Norm Gilmore 1 month ago
Yes. I used to be a faultman. Seeing people treating electricity as a joke just makes me pucker...
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TCW Sam Vimes 1 month ago
Never underestimate electricity. Not even the low voltage. Teach kids to never climb on trains. Air might be a bad conductor, but when the voltage is high enough that doesn't matter
Johnny Rodriguez 1 month ago
Yeah we got the scare the s**t out of you talk every year from the power company.... I worked loading roofing supplies onto roofs using a conveyer boom truck. They would bring in all the stories (and pictures) of bad things happening from contacting power lines.
Scott Rackley 1 month ago
My brother is a transmission lineman, well, foreman now. He has some stories, some he saw, some he saw the aftermath.
#8
I woke from a deep sleep to find a man standing at the end of my bed. My dog was in the bed with me and was going crazy. The man had broken into ny townhouse, stolen my purse, rummaged through my downstairs and I had slept through it all. My dog woke me up and scared him away. I called the police but they couldn't find him. We found out later he had been hiding in the model home next door. He came out out later that night and attacked the lady across the street from me. They found my purse in her bedroom. I've never been without a dog since then.
sturmwesen 1 month ago
I always hope Lou will go berserk in the right situation. so far it's only ghosts and the neighbours dog. I think he might either tuck tail or greet an intruder or mugger. so much for an "aggressive breed"mix
Riccola Tesla 1 month ago
all dogs have instincts to defend territory and their loved ones. if youre ever in a situation that warrants real protecting i would imagine lou would do what dogs have done for 10 thousand years and protect you with his life. of course not all are like that but if push comes to shove most of them are.
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Crazy catz 1 month ago
I have the sweetest most mild mannered golden retriever, an absolute angel with everyone and everything, I was out with him 1 night, a drunk man approached me demanding I gave him money, really aggressive, I swear my dog turned into kujo, so proud of him x
#9
something told me to teach my momma how to video call. we practiced and practiced and a week later, covid hit.
Kitty 🥀 1 month ago
Yeah, covid didn’t just “hit”. We knew it was spreading globally for days, weeks.
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I got thrown out of a car in i95 going 35-40mph. I was unconscious and woke up in the hospital. The car behind me was an off duty cop who saved my life, I didn’t have a single broken bone or anything. Idk what saved me but I have 7 years clean now
#11
Postpartum depression. My brain in the middle of the night told me to suffocate my new baby. I immediately removed myself from our home. My brain telling me to delete myself over and over again. I drove white knuckled to the hospital to beg them to put me in a padded room. The entire way my brain told me to floor it into a tree and end it all (hospital said it was JUST PPD and sent me home). Most terrifying time of my life. PPD is no joke
Lola Rocksmith 1 month ago
I hate when hospitals say stuff like, "it's JUST PPD," without offering any help. Not JUST something, it is something happening and causing distress, that should warrant concern, right?
JB 1 month ago
The intrusive thoughts are no joke, but if you know they are coming and you have support (partner+someone else to watch every now and again) you can plan for them. My brother and his wife had a rule my wife and I copied: if you say you're done, you're done and the other steps in. Could be after an hour, could be after two minutes, but if you say you're done, you're done.
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DC 1 month ago
Had my Dad accepted a hospital sending him home, he'd be dead already since 28 years. NEVER accept that if you're convinced something is wrong. Never! You may be at fault, but as you may also be right, being safe requires at least to check if there's more to it than the obvious.
Rebecca Jack 1 month ago
PPD is extremely serious and should not be dealt with in such a reductive manner. I hope you are doing well and feeling well now xxx.
Justme 1 month ago
Sometimes it takes using the right words with the right medical personnel. If you tell multiple staff members that you have a specific plan to harm yourself or others, that you intend to carry out if you are released, then you might be listened to. If not, drive to the next hospital and repeat.
#12
I was 18 and in a nightclub I had no business being in. A man kept buying me shots. Said he wanted to dance so I went with him to the dance floor. But we never made it. He pushed me out of a side door and drug me to his car. Opened the door and pushed me in. He was leaving the parking lot and my friends came to find me and brought the bouncers. Bouncers stood in front of his car while my friends got me out. I’m 52 now and often wonder if I would have survived
Capn Dad 1 month ago
Good old hugo the a**hole. Keep voting him down and the BP algorithm will kick him out.
David McDonald 1 week ago
So many complaining about the choice of words yet the story itself scares the Hell out of me, I hope those bouncers helped this man get up after he had fallen,....several times.
Pferdchen 1 month ago
From Grammerly: "D**g is used in some American dialects as the past participle or past tense of the verb drag. It’s not one of those things where British English and American English differ—dragged is still the recognized past participle of the verb drag in the US. But, especially in some southern parts of the country, drag is sometimes treated as an irregular verb, and that’s where we get d**g."
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#13
I was kidnapped and carjacked when I was 6 months pregnant. Managed to fight off my attacker AND I kept my car.
WindySwede 1 month ago (edited)
I first read material, and was thinking you meant the car. 🤦♂️ at me.
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Farah (she/her) 1 month ago
Imagine your kid going "ugh shut up mum" and you going "no but listen! I kicked them in the balls and then hopped into my car"
#14
Fell of a boat at night in the pitch black. My friends were a good half mile away I could see them with their phone lights trying to find me and they couldn’t hear my screams. Suddenly something bumped into me it was a buoy I clinged onto till another boat spotted me hours later.
DeShotz 1 month ago
Comments correcting English grammar mistakes here on BP are pointless. Since BP lifts almost all of its content from other sites, the OP will never see your correction because they do not even know that it is here. Also, you should never assume that the OP is a native English speaker. Making corrections in the comments here makes you look obnoxiously pedantic.
Just me 1 week ago
Thank you, I can assure you there are a lot of people that do nok speak english as a first language in here, including myself. It doesn't mean we are really terrible at it, but it does means that misspelling occur. I would really like to se a native English speaking person, write as well in their second language as many non English people do English. I'm aware many learn Spanish in school but I'm pretty sure that unless you speak Spanish at home, have live in a Spanish speaking country or are bilingual, you don't do as well.
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How many languages do you speak fluently anne? I can make myself understood in broken terrible French but my mistakes would be much more frequent and much worse than that.
Ace 1 month ago (edited)
There are many verbs where American English sometimes uses a different form for irregular past tenses, like brung for brought, d**g for dragged, dove for dived. This isn't one of them (as far as I'm aware) but it's easy to see how a non-native speaker could be confused.
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London Paris 1 month ago
*clung I know, I know . . . .but if I was a cop doing the post event report, I'd insist on adding the correction.
#15
I was at a red light with my little brother who has an intellectual disability and is generally pretty quiet and reserved. Light turns green and I start to go. He grabs my arm looks at me and yells WOAH! Totally unusual for him. I stop and a car blows through the intersection. He wasn’t even looking that way. Idk how he knew.
#16
I drove myself to the ER while having a "widow maker" heart attack. almost didn't go at all.
Alexia 1 month ago
Reminds me of a friend's experience some years ago. He was alone at home and feeling ok, just a very mild nausea (the type that we usually ignore until it goes away). And yet something felt not right, so he took a taxi to the nearest hospital, walked in and collapsed in front of the ER unit. Turned out he had a serious heart attack with almost no symptoms. Spent several weeks in ICU and made a full recovery. His doctor told him "had you been anywhere else except the hospital when you collapsed, you wouldn't have survived." I asked him how he knew smth. was wrong: "There was this gut feeling that I just couldn't ignore."
Justme 1 month ago
My SO is a little overweight and is a smoker currently (but working on improving both) - we have ‘heart attack drills’ where I call and yell “HEART ATTACK, what do you do!?” They have to tell me what their next actions are: call 911 get their hands on their bottle of aspirin, and other actions depending on where they are at that moment (unlock front door, pull car over, etc). We do this randomly a couple times a year.
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
In terms of health and safety, yes that probably would've been the safest option. But in terms of practicality, many people hesitate to call an ambulance because of the high cost, especially if they aren't absolutely certain they're having an immediate life-threatening emergency.
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Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
Stupid. It might have k****d you and caused you to drive into someone and k**l them. Plus, EMTs can provide some treatment and transmit information to the hospital so they're ready for you when you arrive.
murmelinpaiva 1 month ago
That recently happened to a man I know. He actually coded after he arrived at the hospital. If you think you are having a heart attack, get someone else to drive you or call an ambulance.
#17
Got hit by a drunk driver on the freeway. Everyone in the drunk drivers car was airfted to the hospital. I walked out of my car with a scratch on my toe.
The Majestic Opossum 1 month ago
What kind of car was this person driving? I might need to get it 😂
Lola Rocksmith 1 month ago
The drunk driver must've been driving an older model. The OP's car probably crumpled and protected her, while the drunk's car was probably made of steel or something and so the passengers absorbed all the force.
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#18
Doctor mistreated an infection I had, and I went into septic shock. Was on life support for four days, and doctors advised my parents to have family come say goodbye. A doctor from another hospital who happened to know my dad was visiting a patient in the ICU with me, and asked my dad what he was doing there. My dad told him about me, and the doctor asked if he could see my chart. Told them to careflite me to the hospital he was out of, and had a team of doctors waiting for me when I got there. Woke up the next day, and spent about a month in a long term care facility.
#19
I was seconds away from burning alive when someone left a soda bottle of gasoline next to a bonfire. I had the sudden feeling I should move away from the fire and insisted my friends come with me. Big explosion
Colleen Glim 1 month ago
Who the hell leaves a soda bottle full of GASOLINE next to a bonfire in the first place?! And the Darwin Award goes to …
#20
I was sitting at a red light and seen my car get hit by an 18 wheeler, when the light turned green I sat there for about 5 seconds and sure enough an 18 wheeler blew through the red light and would have hit me if I went.
lwolf1952 1 month ago
If you are going to complain about all the grammar mistakes and misspellings on Bored Panda you are going to be very busy.
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When I was very young living in Texas, I was sitting on the curb in front of my house. A van pulled up and there was a man driving and a woman in passenger and she rolled down the windows asked if I was okay. I said yes. Then the side door opened and there was a man in the back acting like he was talking on the phone. She kept saying “your brothers on the phone he wants to talk to you”. I said no only because I was a very shy child, not because I understood they were trying to kidnap me. I walked inside my house and they drove off. I told my dad what had happened. He got a restraining order against his ex wife. It was her.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 month ago
Not trying to be rude here but maybe get a hobby anne. Not everyone catches autocorrects mistakes or has English as a first language.
#22
I left Utah working a seasonal job. I kept feeling the need to see a doctor URGENTLY. I got home & my iron was so low I needed an emergency blood transfusion. Life threatening low & I was pregnant btw.
#23
Me and my friend (both males) were walking my other friend (female) to her car after a night out through a poorly lit residential area and as we were walking I noticed someone was behind us so I told the to cross the street with me to see if he would follow and he did.. We then cross the street a second time to get to my friends car and all 3 of us stop and look at the guy he then stops and sees me and my other male friend arent leaving her alone so he turna and immediately walks down a dark alley way and hops a fence behind a house.. Im 100% certain he was waiting for her to be left alone by us
megabeth 1 month ago
Seriously, maybe someone will pay you to grade papers. Nobody cares!
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Trailer hitch malfunctioned and we swung off the road flipping multiple times. My dads airbag didn’t deploy. He was driving. He didn't survive. My mom brother and I all walked away wo a scratch.
#25
I was hit with my 2 week old baby by a lady driving 3x the legal limit. my baby was born 2 weeks early. if I was still pregnant it would have taken us both. baby slept thru the entire accident. the lady didnt survive
#26
went "ghost hunting" in an abandoned house at 16. turns out there were squatters living there and when they heard us inside, ran outside, barred the doors and lit the house on fire. broke a window on the second floor and jumped into some bushes.
Hugo 1 month ago
So the squatters had to find somewhere else to live: not very clever, really.
Nina 1 month ago
Not to mention quite deadly to the people they trapped inside..
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Barbara Hill 3 weeks ago
A******s. I hope it was cold as hell; they burned their squat and couldn't find another one.
#27
Decided on a whim to drive home from college at around midnight. Didn’t tell a soul. It’s a 5+ hour drive. It was the 90’s so no cell phones-no open gas stations. Ran out of gas around 4 AM in nowhere South Georgia. A car with FIVE men pulled up. I willingly got in the car. They were kind and took me to get gas and helped me. But this could easily have been my demise and NO ONE would’ve ever known what happened to me.
#28
When I was in 6th grade I made a new friend and I noticed he was really sad all the time. So he invited me to his house after school one day to play video games. So I thought it was just me and him at his house but then his dad walked out of a home office. He was like really excited to meet me and told me his son had told him I play guitar really well. This man came over and sat right next to me on the couch and immediately started giving me a back massage. I had never met him before. I didn’t even know his name. He said that I should go in his office with him and play guitar for him. In that moment I felt something I had never experienced before I felt like a voice inside me or something say “get up go home immediately and never come here again” I instantly jumped up and said I have to go I forgot something and ran home and never talked to that friend again. Now as an adult I completely understand but at the time was just following that feeling to run.
#29
My mom and her bf got in a fight one night, he chopped the phone cord on the wall with an axe when she tried to call for help. We ended up running away and hiding in a dark barn while he looked for us. I’ll never forget seeing the flashlight move on the barn wall in front of us while my mom held her hand over my mouth
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
How awful. Sounds like living in a movie. Please get some help from a professional who can help you process this severely traumatic event.
#30
I was at a red light that turned green. My friend kept telling me its green and cars started honking at me, but something in my gut said to wait. About 5 seconds after the light turned green a semi came speeding through the intersection due to the brakes not working.
Upstaged75 1 month ago
LOL, I just wrote that on another post. I think they are!
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#31
I survived Hurricane Andrew. Imagine the movie scene in Poltergeist with everything being sucked into the TV but it’s multiple tornadoes ripping your house apart for hours.
TMTMTMTM 1 month ago (edited)
"Andrew spawned at least 28 tornadoes along the Gulf Coast, especially in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi." (from Wikipedia)
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Christopher Dean 1 month ago
Hurricanes spawn multiple tornadoes which cause significant ground damage...
#32
New Orleans during Katrina.
Rebecca O’Donnell 1 month ago (edited)
Going by Papa’s and Austzn’s responses I don’t think they were there to experience it firsthand. I went there right after to rescue pets left behind and help people who had needs that the city couldn’t offer, food, water, etc. No, there was not plenty of chances to make it out alive. You could go to the Superdome that had no toilet facilities, food or water and a good chance of being r a p e d. It was bedlam. If you could find one, you could get on a bus, maybe, but not with your pets. You had to leave them behind and they would run after the bus when it left. Have a lot of other stories. One being when you are wading in waist deep water and something is floating towards you, is it an uprooted tree, an old coffin liberated by the flood waters or an alligator. I hope this is enough information to explain what it was like to survive Katrina.
Papa 1 month ago
Thanks for the well thought out reply, including all the pertinent information.
Austzn 1 month ago
Have you seen any documentaries about that event? There was plenty to choose from in regards to making it out alive.
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Currently dealing with a neurological disorder/auto immune disorder at 24 that’s eating away at my muscles, nerves, tendons, etc. still in the process of getting diagnosed but I’m a fighter.
Rebecca Jack 1 month ago
From one fighter to another: you’ve got this. Squeeze every ounce of joy out of life and retain your humour and kindness. In the darkest of moments, you’ll rely on them. I wish you much strength and bloody mindedness. Lots of love xxx.
#34
two men tried to abduct my sister and I - we ran thru parking garages and climbed fences in heels downtown til we found a cop who we ran to out of breath and disoriented -he said "I don't see anyone chasing you"
#35
Had an ectopic pregnancy rupture(but didn’t know it yet. If you know you know, this is fatal. Waited until the next day in doubled over pain to see a doctor. They sent me on my way with antibiotics for what they thought was an infection. On the way out they said ‘hold on, our ultrasound tech JUST got here, go see her.’ She looked at my ultrasound horrified and I was having emergency surgery within the hour.
Elmo 1 month ago
@Anne how much of a narcissistic príck are you? You probably didn't have them, because it's a life-threatening emergency, and if you didn't go to ER for one, you'd be dead
tameson 1 month ago (edited)
Hum... So Anne might be a ghost? And comes here to haunt BP? Does anyone know how to exercise an online ghost?
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I was swimming at a beach with no life guards in Maui. I went out too far (im an excellent swimmer) I treaded water for like 45 minutes trying to get back to shore I had to use everything I had to get back
Barbara Hill 3 weeks ago
Life vest. many an excellent swimmer have lost their lives, with that thinking, they are an excellent swimmer so they can get out of any danger in the water.
#37
A man impersonating a police officer tried to get me in the back of his car
#38
Got lost on a mountain in Colorado snowmobiling in white out conditions with no cell reception
Nathan Hayden 1 month ago
To everyone downvoting annab, she isnt being snarky, shes probably asking for more information, which in all seriousness is dumb bc A. The guy posted this and B this isnt reddit she wont get a response
#39
Not THAT crazy but I was bitten by a baby copperhead snake which is poisonous and since it was a baby it gave me all its venom and so I had to be hospitalized for two days
Jess Barbosa 1 month ago
looks like Anne forgot a comma ...oh, wait, 3 commas. she "must be from texas"
Bartlet for world domination 1 month ago
Dove into a rabbit hole for this one; one redditor ate a copperhead ("It tastes just like frog legs and had the consistency of an overcooked scallop") and was still alive three years later. So they are indeed not poisonous.
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Scott Rackley 1 month ago (edited)
Where I live they are all over. One of the most dangerous snakes in Tennessee, not because of the potency of the venom (you will survive), but because they lay in leaf litter and freeze. Most bites are from stepping on them.
Lola Rocksmith 1 month ago
Common misconception, baby snakes actually can control how much venom they give, they just give more than an adult because they don't know how to "ration" it, with a lack of better word.
#40
My family moved out of town the last week of school in the sixth grade. I was sad to miss the end of year party so my mom offered to drive me all the way back. But I got sick that day and couldn’t go. A small passenger plane crashed into the backyard party.
#41
I had a gut instinct not to take a highway to my destination and to take the long way. I took the highway, got rear ended
Michael Danhauer 1 month ago
My best friend used to drive the same way to work every day. He is a creature of habit and loathes any changes to his familiar schedule. One day on a whim he decided to go a different, longer route. It was very unlike him to do so and he admits that he put no thought into why he did so. When he left for home after his shift on his usual route the highway was closed because that morning there was a 40+ car pile up on the road. He drove the alternate way overwhelmed with both disbelief and relief. When arrived home there was a message on his answering machine from his sister in which she begged him not to go into work that day because she had an extremely vivid dream that he died in a car crash. She is a very stable person who's not prone to hysteria. The whole thing had my friend in shock for a couple of days.
#42
Took birth control pills for 2 months. Couldn’t figure out why I was so winded, my lips kept turning blue and I could hardly move around. One week shy of getting on an airplane, I found out I had 4 blood clots in each lung.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 month ago
Is that a potential risk of birth control? The possible side effects i was aware are already bad enough Jesus.
Surralvampi 1 month ago
Yup. One of the many MANY side effects that can quite literally k**l you from taking birth control. The side effect list inside the box is mental.
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#43
My entire car drove over a live wire on the ground. I felt the current go through the car and all the tires went pop pop pop pop
AuspiciousTree283 1 month ago (edited)
Aren't tires terrible conductors of electricity, since they're made of rubber? Edit: thanks for the explanations, folks! I felt like I learned something new.
Who? Me? 1 month ago
Terrible, but not completely, so given enough power they will conduct. Air is terrible conductor too, but lightning finds a way anyways.
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#44
I cleaned 4 houses a day while thinking I had the flu (my kidneys were failing) the doctors saw me walk in the hospital and didn’t understand how I was even walking, they told me I was on my last hours
#46
Started getting anxious while driving and “heard” a thought saying there was a car coming in the wrong lane. Slowed and got over. Sure enough a mile up the road… a car entered the rest stop ramp the wrong way
#47
when i was in 4th grade i had been begging my mom to let me stay home alone for the first time, she finally said i could while she left for like 30 minutes to go pick up my brother. right before she left i had a super bad gut feeling and decided to go with her and when we came back our house had been robbed
#48
I got kidnapped by a taxi driver in Jamaica. He drove around for 8 hours picking up cousins and friends showing them what he got and planning what to do with me. I tricked them - told them I was meeting 14 other girls at the resort and if they dropped me I would let me party with ALL of us instead of just 1. They agreed and dropped me at the front door of my resort. Ran in and told the front desk not to let them in.
Senjo Krane 1 month ago
Sounds a bit suspect. What did they think she would do when they dropped at the front door?
#49
i was messing around with my parents riding the lawnmower when I hit a hole in the ground it launched me into our electric fence and the lawn mower kept driving over my legs. if my mother didn't take the blades off 2 days prior I would probably not be here.
Austzn 1 month ago
This is why modern ones have safety switches all over them. Where I work had a 100 year old John Deere in to be worked on and when I saw it I said, "This thing was built for 2 purposes: last a hundred years and k**l a person!"
S Bow 1 month ago
Reversed your down vote, can confirm this is true about a lot of old machinery. My brother and I completely rebuilt a 1956 Ferguson tractor, that thing has no safety devices of any kind. You have to be constantly vigilant and aware using that old machinery.
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago
Hugo, with all the ridiculous nitpicking you do, you have no right to talk.
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#50
Had sleep paralysis a week after moving into a new apartment in a new state alone. Dreamt there was a man in my apartment but couldn’t wake up and kept saying in my sleep Siri call Josh (my bf at the time) woke up to my dog going insane, Siri talking to me, and a light on that I didn’t leave on. Still unsure if it was a nightmare or someone really was in my apartment.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 month ago
Huh. I get sleep paralysis way to frequently and have since I was a kid and every single time it happens i can't make a sound above the slightest whisper no matter how hard I try to scream.
Surralvampi 1 month ago
I get this too. Less frequently these days. The last one, I actually managed to scream out loud. (Like you, I feel I am screaming and making noise but it is usually barely a squeak.) scared the absolutely cat flaps off my wife! (Cats flaps because I can’t swear…)
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was setting off fireworks this pazt 4th of July. I'd set off several already and had ran back to the same spot to watch. something told me to go another direction this time. the firework I'd just lit was faulty. one of the projectiles hit right where I would've been standing
#52
A bear chased me for like 35 seconds in Whistler, Canada.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 month ago
Is this Usain bolt? Either that bear charged from a long long ways off or op should be an Olympic sprinter.
#53
My car flipped 3 times with my baby in my belly , early in my pregnancy. she is 7 now.
Binny Tutera 1 month ago
Anne. You paid for “premium” and now you’re commenting like a jerk. 🙄
Blackmoon The Dragon 1 month ago
There's a difference here. Anne didn't pay for premium, Anna did. Two different people.
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#54
Got hit by a car going 55+ while on a bicycle. Flew 250 through the air…somehow the surgeon saved my left leg.
Who? Me? 1 month ago
The first rule of legs is that we don't talk about the right.
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I went to the bathroom after dinner. Taking my time and just dilly dallying. Not in a rush. When we left, we just nearly passed a drunk driving car accident. If we had left even 1 min earlier they probably would have hit us.
#56
had a gut feeling to book it into my house one night after feeling like I got followed while driving. I was right. they creeped along the front of house before hitting gas as soon as they passed neighbors house. cameras were installed after
GenuineJen 1 month ago
NEVER GO HOME if you feel like you're being followed! Go to a police station if possible.
Nora Miller 1 week ago
Yup, or a firehouse or a hospital, or any larger place that is open.
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Walking home from work, felt something seize my whole body keeping me frozen, not even a moment later a car crashed into the pole I was just about to walk in front of.
Senjo Krane 1 month ago
Stories like this is why I keep an open mind about this thing we call life.
#58
two different times I was supposed to go to a party both times I ended up going home or somewhere else. those same nights that I was supposed to be at those parties they got raided I would have been arrested..
#59
Felt uneasy while walking up 3 flights of stairs to my car, decided to book it and lock my car doors immediately. Thirty seconds later, I see a man clearing the stairs in a full run. Got out of there and called the mall's security desk.
#60
I either had the worst episode of sleep paralysis or was abducted by aliens out of my bedroom when I was 13
#61
My Heart was beating Over 200 BPM. About 2 More heart beats faster, I wouldve be gone. I had to go to the ER to fix it. Btw, this All happened because school was stressing me out.
Cheryl Ramsay 1 month ago
I would say Anne needs a job or at the very least, something else to occupy her time.
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 1 month ago
A person with excessive heartbeats or palpitations needs to be checked out medically, even if they believe it's "just" stress. Stress can exacerbate an existing medical condition.
daisy Clements 1 month ago
I think the reason Anne may be making these comments is because she likes the attention. Negative attention IS still attention.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
OK then, how about everyone stops voting for Anne either way (Hugo too). When they get no votes at all, maybe they'll go away. And no response to their comments, either. Anyone with me on this?
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I got caught in a whirlpool in a lake when my tube deflated while being pulled by a boat. It sucked me down so far I couldn’t see light and I didn’t know which way was up freaked out till I remembered my life jacket would float me to the top. Wear your protective gear people
Jedi Panda 1 month ago
Whirlpools aren't possible in lakes???? If i'm just stupid someone please educate me
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
Maybe if there was a bridge over the lake, there was an eddy near the bridge support?
#63
On a first date the guy drove me out to the Arizona desert instead of to the restaurant
Colleen Glim 1 month ago
First dates should always happen in a public place and you make your own arrangements to get there
Lousha 1 month ago
Don't know how this story ended. But I had a classmate when I went to uni who kept arranging dates with guys she met online in the most unsafe places. We kept telling her how unwise this was. One night she got a huge fright. Met this guy in the city center late in the evening, and he wanted to "show her something", so 5 minutes after meeting she popped into his car. When they left the city and ended up in the middle of nowhere in the dark, she was really afraid, but at that point there wasn't much she could do. There were multiple moments from then on when she thought that's it, this will be her last night on Earth. Like the guy just pulling over at the side of a dark forest - but in fact he just wanted to get out of his jacket because he was warm, but didn't want to be distracted while driving. Later he just casually said "go ahead and reach between your legs!" - it turned out he just wanted some romantic CDs from under her seat.
Lousha 1 month ago
And what he wanted to show her was just some lovely hillside place from where you can see a gazillion of stars. He was a completely normal, romantic dude who was just young and was absolutely clueless about the female experience, so he did not notice how creepy all of this seemed, because he just did not have a malicious bone in his body. Much later they actually married. But after this night this girl finally understood what COULD happen when you are too trusting.
Load More Replies... Analyn Lahr 1 month ago
And then what? You lived to tell the tale, obviously. But what happened exactly?
#64
We heard a strange sound in a parking garage, we got in the car and bailed. turns out the fire suppression system had failed and the garage flooded. could have caused huge problems automotively
#65
We stopped at the gas station for snacks, and coffee even though it was late and we just wanted to get home. If we had left 2 minutes easier we would’ve been involved in a 6 car, car accident
#66
When I was a teenager, my parents were going to go to a party. I insisted on staying home but my mom kept asking me to go...I usually would stay home but I decided to go with them. When we returned home, our house was broken into, our whole home turned upside down. Gives me chills what could have happened had I stayed home.
#67
Sailed across Lake Michigan after reading sailing for Dummies
Lola Rocksmith 1 month ago
I'm not American, is there a reason why this is bad? I started sailing when I was 12 in the ocean and it's not too hard to understand.
WindySwede 1 month ago
You've experience. They read a book and dont know anyting from irl?
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my father was visiting his client (medical doctor) when he had a stroke. Maybe a lucky coincidence, maybe something more.
#69
I was on the fast lane on the freeway, started to feel a little anxious bc traffic was going SO fast.. went w my gut and moved to the far right lane, seconds later there was a four car collision. My passenger said to me, how in the heel did u know tha was going to happen?!!!
#70
When I worked at subway a guy came in every week and ordered the same thing, I never noticed it was every time I was working. One day im at the front temping the meat when I felt like I HAD to go to the back. He came in and my coworker went up and the guy asked if I was there.
#71
I was having fun driving a Mazda miata too fast on a very windy road and decided I needed to slow down, a very short way down the road there was a truck hauling a horse trailer blocking both sides of the road and if I had still been driving so fast I wouldnt have been able to stop in time.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 month ago
True, but common sense isn’t that common these days…
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Floated through a infestation nest of bayou gators in pitch black on innertubes with phones wit no battery, no 911 nothing but my god
What do you think ?
Verena 1 month ago
Why do people on an international website like this throw a fit about perfect English? Do they realize that the chances are high that their ancestors most likely came from countries where English is not the local language? Didn't they "pay attention at 2nd grade" (to quote Oppossum) to get to know that there is a huge world out there, beyond their little cozy English speaking islands? How many languahes do they speak and write faultless? Are they expecting, when traveling, that foreigners speak a non-native language fluently and complain about the hardship they have to endure on Social Media (please do, at least it is a good laugh)? Or don't they dare to leave their country, scared to be laughed at?
megabeth 1 month ago
Even if they are native English speakers, this is BP. Some of the things corrected are people just writing the way they speak. Some people are just shooting something off on a cell on break or half asleep in bed.
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Angela B 1 month ago
Usually, I am tolerant and polite here on BP. Everyone should be allowed to express themselves. Today however, my patience has worn thin. Anne, you need to fork off. You are the worst kind of Troll, fishing for a reply due to your bitter and twisted peephole of a mind that needs any kind of response to feel validated. I vote you never return, and I also don't give a rats a*s if you reply. You s. Uck.
lauren 1 month ago (edited)
Was walking to the shop with a friend one day. We were about to cross the road when I thought that I heard the voice of a different friend shout my name urgently. I startled, grabbed my friends arm, and he stopped to look at me like he was thinking "what?!?!". A car flew around the corner, over the speed limit and on the wrong side of the road. It would have absolutely mown us down, had we crossed. The voice I heard was my imagination.
Robert Beveridge 1 month ago (edited)
May 20, 1992. (As good as I am with dates, I honestly wouldn't remember that one had I not written a poem about it the next day...) Suburbs of Philadelphia. Warrington, if you're from the area. Was driving south on 611 just below Bristol Rd. I was back there in April of '25 and it's unrecognizable now, but back then, once you got past Bristol, there was a blind curve. I was on it at ~3:30AM, following all the traffic laws yada yada yada. Rounded the curve and there was a garbage truck parked diagonally across both lanes. (I have since come to theorize it was getting ready to back into a driveway one could not easily see from the road thanks to heavy foliage.) Hit its front gill at 35mph on just the right angle that after the collision, said front grill was bent. Passenger side of my car was nearly obliterated. Car was a stick, and my hand was on the gearshift--I had to disentangle myself from the remnants of the windshield, which stopped its encroachment into the car maybe...
Robert Beveridge 1 month ago
...a quarter inch? In any case, I should not have walked away from the accident with my life intact, my right arm doubly so. The actual extent of my injuries: a few spots of bleeding where bits of safety glass had lodged themselves in my forehead. Fun stuff.
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Verena 1 month ago
Why do people on an international website like this throw a fit about perfect English? Do they realize that the chances are high that their ancestors most likely came from countries where English is not the local language? Didn't they "pay attention at 2nd grade" (to quote Oppossum) to get to know that there is a huge world out there, beyond their little cozy English speaking islands? How many languahes do they speak and write faultless? Are they expecting, when traveling, that foreigners speak a non-native language fluently and complain about the hardship they have to endure on Social Media (please do, at least it is a good laugh)? Or don't they dare to leave their country, scared to be laughed at?
megabeth 1 month ago
Even if they are native English speakers, this is BP. Some of the things corrected are people just writing the way they speak. Some people are just shooting something off on a cell on break or half asleep in bed.
Load More Replies... Angela B 1 month ago
Usually, I am tolerant and polite here on BP. Everyone should be allowed to express themselves. Today however, my patience has worn thin. Anne, you need to fork off. You are the worst kind of Troll, fishing for a reply due to your bitter and twisted peephole of a mind that needs any kind of response to feel validated. I vote you never return, and I also don't give a rats a*s if you reply. You s. Uck.
lauren 1 month ago (edited)
Was walking to the shop with a friend one day. We were about to cross the road when I thought that I heard the voice of a different friend shout my name urgently. I startled, grabbed my friends arm, and he stopped to look at me like he was thinking "what?!?!". A car flew around the corner, over the speed limit and on the wrong side of the road. It would have absolutely mown us down, had we crossed. The voice I heard was my imagination.
Robert Beveridge 1 month ago (edited)
May 20, 1992. (As good as I am with dates, I honestly wouldn't remember that one had I not written a poem about it the next day...) Suburbs of Philadelphia. Warrington, if you're from the area. Was driving south on 611 just below Bristol Rd. I was back there in April of '25 and it's unrecognizable now, but back then, once you got past Bristol, there was a blind curve. I was on it at ~3:30AM, following all the traffic laws yada yada yada. Rounded the curve and there was a garbage truck parked diagonally across both lanes. (I have since come to theorize it was getting ready to back into a driveway one could not easily see from the road thanks to heavy foliage.) Hit its front gill at 35mph on just the right angle that after the collision, said front grill was bent. Passenger side of my car was nearly obliterated. Car was a stick, and my hand was on the gearshift--I had to disentangle myself from the remnants of the windshield, which stopped its encroachment into the car maybe...
Robert Beveridge 1 month ago
...a quarter inch? In any case, I should not have walked away from the accident with my life intact, my right arm doubly so. The actual extent of my injuries: a few spots of bleeding where bits of safety glass had lodged themselves in my forehead. Fun stuff.
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