You never know what tomorrow might bring. It might start like a perfectly ordinary day but then you go out for a hike and get lost in the wilderness. Or get back to your apartment building and take the elevator to your floor just for it to start falling.
Of course, it's very improbable that you'll end up in a similar situation. But if, God forbid, you do, internet personality Adorian Deck, aka The Facts Guy, wants you to be prepared. So he is working on an interesting video series where he shares information on how to identify and escape emergencies.
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Meet Adorian Deck, aka The Facts Guy, who has over 3 million followers on TikTok
@adoriandeckOne of his most successful video series is dedicated to explaining how to survive potentially fatal situations
@adoriandeck The tornado one is absolutely terrifying… 😩 #lifehacks #facts #earth #lifesaving #savealife #mystery ♬ Spooky, quiet, scary atmosphere piano songs - Skittlegirl Sound
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If a service dog ever approaches you without its owner, follow them and do it quickly because you could be saving someone else's life.
If you think your home is haunted and you've been seeing or hearing a presence, get a carbon monoxide detector, there's a chance you could be hallucinating and this could be lethal
I wonder how many people on those ghost story shows that swear their house was haunted had a slow carbon monoxide leak
Many. Imagine that all houses were heated in the past with wood or coal and their chimney were not always clean.
Load More Replies...Clairvoyance and carbon monoxide poisoning have similar effects.
Have your house inspected for insects and other animals residing in the spaces between your house’s inner and outer walls, your attic and/or basement, and all chimneys, including the ones you didn’t know were there because they were bricked up long ago. Their movements may explain those sounds you hear when it’s quiet at night. Additionally, be aware of the weather. I remember, one night at the end of summer when cooler weather was expected in the next 24-48 hours, seeing what looked like two ghosts floating across the roof of our porch. They weren’t ghosts, but were just weird pillow-sized low-lying patches of fog floating by, that were caused by the combination of humidity and cooling temperatures. Before you take umbrage, I really believe I’m the possibility of ghosts, and would love nothing more than to see one (well, one of the harmless ones). But I prefer not to jump to conclusions, so seek logical and non-supernatural explanations first. If I find one, then it’s not a ghost.
It’s always important to have smoke detectors in your home, as well as a carbon monoxide detector in your home.
hmmm I lived in a haunted flat (my belief) & we experienced activity for years. Not just hallucinating. We saw things move on their own. You can’t explain it all away by carbon monoxide. Plus multiple people witnessing the same phenomenon.
Sometimes air or water running through pipes can cause all kinds of spooky noises. Couple that with carbon monoxide & you've got every horror movie ever.
I was poisoned by carbon monoxide and it was not pretty. My eyes developed cataracts after exposure that I had to have removed 10 years later.
...or it could be a ghost. Not saying that getting the detector is a bad idea, but ghosts do exist...
I’ve taken a firm stand against ghosts for a long time, and yet I had three incidences that couldn’t have been anything else; the creepiest was when I was at work and a gust of wind (what?…I was inside a movie theater) blew past my ear and whispered “Mary Rose”. Scared the crap out of me!
Load More Replies...Tell that to the mysterious pictures showing up in my phone! I can't send them because they aren't in my camera roll. It's a red room with a care bear and a pride flag, both of which I don't have, and a big black streak going down the middle
I lived in a haunted house with my then wife and daughter. It was an older style home with louver windows all around so no gas could build up. It had a shotgun hallway from the front door to the back. Anyway soon after moving in strange things happened, not everyday but often. Like lights would turn on or off, windows would open or close. And in the old style outside toilet the pull chain would catch behind the water tap handle while we were in there. One night my wife woke me up and as we lay there we could hear foot steps coming up the hallway, I sprung out of the bed and turned on the light, every window and door were closed, there was nobody there. We told the neighbors and they confirmed the ghost of the old Scottish man who built the house was still there in spirit.
Never saw a ghost, but I had a basketball dribbling itself rather rhythmically. I had left it sitting on the ground less than 5 minutes before, then walked out to the kitchen. Heard it, and went to check. And sure enough, it was bouncing, though it trailed off when I went into the room. Could this also be a hallucination? Oh, and FYI, my mom and ours cats also heard it. Dad was deployed, so he wasn't even in the same country.
Stress can do s**t like this too. Check for the CO leak first, then evaluate if maybe you need to see someone.
If you are ever trapped in a car, the headrest pole is made of material that is designed to smash car windows.
When crying for help, try and call some specific people like "hey, you in the red shirt, help, I'm being mugged!" A lot of people will ignore a help call so if you call someone specifically they'll look at you. If people are really ignoring your help call you can just try and yell "fire!" because people are going to come running to see stuff burning.
If you ever come face to face with a mountain lion, don't turn around, just walk backwards, they will be waiting for you to turn around before they attack you.
If you have a wound or bug bite and there's this kind of weird red line, that's blood poisoning.
If you witness an accident, never take off the person's helmet, you can make a spine or brain injury worse
If your house smells like fish for absolutely no reason there may be an electric fire
Keep a survival candle in your car when you're in cold areas because the heat from one candle can keep you from fatal freezing. And these candles can last up to 36 hours.
If a moose is in the middle of the road, it's better to just swerve and run into a ditch because hitting a moose is like hitting a brick wall.
Moose are at the height of your windscreen and you'll get crushed. All your car's crumple zones are in the wrong place for car vs moose
Use this helpful rhyme to remember what to do in the event of facing each kind of bear "If it's brown - lay down, if it's black - fight back, if it's white - goodnight"
If a tornado looks like it's not moving, it's because it's moving towards you.
Or away from you. But since you don't know, better run (or drive) away
The more colorful and vivid the animal the more likely it's poisonous.
They do this as a form of advertising that they are toxic. Other prey copy their designs to appear poisonous when they are not
If you are ever buried in rubble, yelling will just waste energy, try and grab something and tap it in intervals of three, rescuers will notice the pattern.
If somebody is ever trying to take you or points a gun at you to get you away in a public place, you just have to start screaming and fighting. Even if you're shot, medical attention can get to you relatively fast, but if they do end up taking you to a private place, your chances of being rescued are much lower
Never mix bleach and ammonia because the result is a poisonous gas that will take your life.
If lost in the woods, always follow the water downstream.
If you ever see square waves in the ocean get out immediately
Garage door springs can kill you if you try to take them off the wrong way. So best recommended to leave it to professionals.
a door company refused to even sell me a spring once for that reason. probably a really good idea not to let me have it.
If you've gone two and a half days without water and your only choice is either drink water that can't be sanitized or not drink water, drink the water. You're gonna pass away no matter what if you don't drink it. Most diseases you get from drinking bad water takes a couple of days to set in so you have some more time to get out.
If one is that dehydrated, the urge to drink probably drives over any rational thought. You'll most like drink anything but saltwater.
If someone tries to kidnap you, scratch your attacker because now their DNA will be in your fingernails
Milk from brown coconuts will dehydrate you, drink the green ones.
If you ever feel like someone is following your car, take four right turns. If they're still behind you, they're following you. You can also get off and on the freeway, but if this happens, just stay calm. Call the police and drive to a police station. Don't go home.
Do not slide into the pins at a bowling alley as a joke. The pin setting machine will crush you
If you have tightness in the middle of your chest that goes to your jaw and your shoulders or down your left arm, chew an aspirin and wash it down with water, then call emergency services. You are having a heart attack and this could save your life. Females will have pain in their upper back between the shoulder blades.
If you need to break into a car window aim for the edges and corners because it's weaker than the center.
If you are choking or having a heart attack, get out of your car. You can't signal anyone if you're unconscious in your car, but if you're draped over the hood that'll be sending a distress signal.
Indeed. My husband's friend lost his father who drove himself to the hospital and then died behind the wheel of his car in the car park (asthma attack).
If a power line falls next to you don't run or walk. Just put your feet together and bunny hop like this. That way the electricity can't go up one leg and down the other.
Mud all over will keep you from being eaten alive by insects
30 years ago, you had about 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today, you only have about three minutes because newer homes and furniture burn faster.
Sixty seconds if your neighbour and yourself live in side by side skinny modern houses. 🙄
If you wake up in the middle of the night to the smell of gas do not turn your light switch on it could blow up your whole house
If your drink randomly smells like cinnamon, don't drink it. People will use that to cover up the scent of poison
If you or someone else gets stabbed, do not pull the knife out. It acts as a plug for blood loss.
If you're ever trapped in a building on fire get to the ground because the most breathable air will always be at the lowest point
If you have to perform CPR follow the beat of Staying Alive by The Bee Gees.
Don't use the first part of Staying Alive, as Michael Scott did
Most drunk driving fatalities occur on Saturday mornings between 1 am and 3 am. Avoid the roads at this time if you can
My grandma always said, "nothing good happens outside your house after midnight". She was not wrong.
If you accidentally disturb a beehive, do not go underwater, they will just wait for you and sting you more. Run as far away as possible and they will eventually tire out
Do not run zigzag if an alligator is chasing you. It's a myth. They're not stupid and they run up to 35 miles per hour.
If your hair suddenly stands up like this, duck and cover, you're about to be struck by lightning
Too much cold snow in your stomach can cause you to pass away of hypothermia. If snow is all you have, melt the ice then drink it
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So this guy on Tiktok basically just took things we've known for a long time and videoed them like they're his own?
I love the way they've replaced the word "die" in all of these with "pass away" instead as if it isn't exactly the same thing
Some people(like me) get triggered panic attacks about death from certain words associated to death. And trust me, panic attacks are not fun.
Load More Replies...There are lots if posts like this on BP but this was the most useful I ever read here
Gen X here... I grew up on TV, and got the misconception that quicksand was a mortal threat that I needed to be aware of. Decades later, and I have never encountered quicksand, nor has anyone that I know. This current generation will get their own misconceptions from these stupid tiktok people.
As a millennial I feel the exact same way about quicksand haha I was so sure I was going to encounter it at least once
Load More Replies...Most of these are obvious as f**k... I need the more obscure survival tips no one taught me as a kid, like don't try and wake up Auntie Sandra after she's had a couple of drinks and fallen asleep in the plant pot.
A lot of these are about what to do when kidnapped or abducted, but the likelihood of this happening to anyone that isn't involved in crime already, and isn't a child with an estranged parent, is so vanishingly small it's not worth thinking about. All articles like this do is scare people into thinking that life is much more dangerous than it is and people more violent than they actually are. It makes everyone's lives a little bit worse for no gain. (and before anyone kicks off, I didn't say *no one* ever gets abducted, I said the risk is incredibly small).
Facts guy seems like ‘state the obvious guy’ or ‘nick other peoples work guy’
Lots of triggered people in the comments assuming because you know a thing everyone does. Clearly ya'll never watched Benny Hill. Foolish hairless apes.
Just a question for the Pandas out there; since a lot of this advice involves kidnapping, robbery, plain old abduction, guns, knives, etc., how many of you out there have been subjected to this level of implied or actual violence?
I've come in contact with that even less than I have gotten caught in a natural disaster!
Load More Replies...His name sounds like the name a very posh person would give to their patio area.
If you really want to know how to survive in the wilderness, watch Man Vs Wild.
Did everyone not learn most this stuff in elementary school? Surprised they didn't mention not sticking your hand in the garbage disposal.
I am most thankful that "Adorian" which certainly sounds like an alias to me, didn't feel the need to put his face on every. single. one. of. these. posts.
Nearly all of this is stuff I read a hundred times. I should get used to just not click on something that says " tik tok user tells how..."
So this guy on Tiktok basically just took things we've known for a long time and videoed them like they're his own?
I love the way they've replaced the word "die" in all of these with "pass away" instead as if it isn't exactly the same thing
Some people(like me) get triggered panic attacks about death from certain words associated to death. And trust me, panic attacks are not fun.
Load More Replies...There are lots if posts like this on BP but this was the most useful I ever read here
Gen X here... I grew up on TV, and got the misconception that quicksand was a mortal threat that I needed to be aware of. Decades later, and I have never encountered quicksand, nor has anyone that I know. This current generation will get their own misconceptions from these stupid tiktok people.
As a millennial I feel the exact same way about quicksand haha I was so sure I was going to encounter it at least once
Load More Replies...Most of these are obvious as f**k... I need the more obscure survival tips no one taught me as a kid, like don't try and wake up Auntie Sandra after she's had a couple of drinks and fallen asleep in the plant pot.
A lot of these are about what to do when kidnapped or abducted, but the likelihood of this happening to anyone that isn't involved in crime already, and isn't a child with an estranged parent, is so vanishingly small it's not worth thinking about. All articles like this do is scare people into thinking that life is much more dangerous than it is and people more violent than they actually are. It makes everyone's lives a little bit worse for no gain. (and before anyone kicks off, I didn't say *no one* ever gets abducted, I said the risk is incredibly small).
Facts guy seems like ‘state the obvious guy’ or ‘nick other peoples work guy’
Lots of triggered people in the comments assuming because you know a thing everyone does. Clearly ya'll never watched Benny Hill. Foolish hairless apes.
Just a question for the Pandas out there; since a lot of this advice involves kidnapping, robbery, plain old abduction, guns, knives, etc., how many of you out there have been subjected to this level of implied or actual violence?
I've come in contact with that even less than I have gotten caught in a natural disaster!
Load More Replies...His name sounds like the name a very posh person would give to their patio area.
If you really want to know how to survive in the wilderness, watch Man Vs Wild.
Did everyone not learn most this stuff in elementary school? Surprised they didn't mention not sticking your hand in the garbage disposal.
I am most thankful that "Adorian" which certainly sounds like an alias to me, didn't feel the need to put his face on every. single. one. of. these. posts.
Nearly all of this is stuff I read a hundred times. I should get used to just not click on something that says " tik tok user tells how..."