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Only 30% of people on Earth get to live their lives without experiencing a traumatic event. This means that the majority of us go through distressing events, after which our brain and body never really recover.
People under this popular thread have shared many stories about the crazy situations they were lucky to survive, with some staring right into doom’s eyes. Scroll down to find them below, but be warned that they get pretty disturbing.
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#1
I went back into my burning house 3 times to get my animals. 3 times. My hair burnt from the radiant heat. My sweater melted. Not a burn on me, no lung issues, nothing… 3 times I went back inside and I got all my animals.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
Nah, just a normal pet owner ;) jk, OP *IS* a hero. I'd do the same for all of mine as well - I try not to think about fire, so to speak, but let's just say that all the cats' carriers are out in the open and easily accessible and not in a closet where I'd lose valuable seconds trying to wrangle them out.
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Gen X Feral 3 months ago
YESSSS🎉 Living legend pet parent! I'd throw myself on a landmine for my fluffy children 🥰
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#2
In Vegas on Fremont St by myself two guys started to corner me and I panicked and said "do I look like a woman scared to go back to prison again?" I've never been to prison. But they left me alone.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
I was told when I was younger (I’m 64 now) that, if you can be really convincing at it, acting like you’re totally bonkers and potentially dangerously insane when someone is behaving in a threatening manner toward you will generally scare them off. Looking way more dangerous than they are pretending to be scares them off, and they leave you alone. I’ve only had to use it a couple times, but d**n if it didn’t work!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
I was told the same thing when I was younger as well. I've never been in a situation similar to OP's, but if I ever find myself in that kind of situation, I plan on shrieking, howling, barking, lunging at them while snapping my teeth like a wolf, yodeling, and speaking in tongues XD Even if it doesn't work and I end up getting unalived, I can hopefully claw/scratch/bite them and get some DNA evidence so that they (hopefully) get caught and no one else gets unalived by them. I also always have my small pocketknife on me, and I'm quite skilled at flipping the blade open, so I can always try to defend myself that way, as well.
Load More Replies... Bambi 3 months ago
My grandmother told me back when I was around 12 that when she was about 19 she was walking back home in downtown Chicago and a guy was following her and he started yelling behind her what her name is and wait a minute I'm talking to you. She kept walking and took a shortcut through the alley ways to get home as normal. She got to a stop and said she felt she was being followed but wouldn't look back until she heard a clink she said or like something opening. Dude pulled out one those knives you flip to open. What she did next had me kind of laughing thinking she was joking or something. She started screaming really loud and instead of running to her house she ran past the dude in his direction screaming her head off and he didn't chase her or move. She actually ran to the police station a few blocks away and described the man and that he had a weapon. They eventually found him and it turns out he had a record and nearly k****d his own sister and had been bothering other women.
#3
I followed our dog to the river in the winter when I was about 5 and fell through the ice. The only reason I survived is because our dog belly crawled to the hole and I was able to grab his collar and eventually get out.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
I don't remember it myself, but I am told that when I was 2 or 3, I managed to wriggle out of my bedroom window (I had been down for a nap) and into my backyard. We had a pool. I did not know how to swim. I fell into the pool. No one knew I was in the backyard except for our Great Dane, Chashu (named for the dish char siu.) Apparently she gave one huge booming bark in the direction of the house that alerted my parents, and then leaped into the pool, picked me up in her mouth, and swam to the shallow end, pulling me out of the pool. I wasn't in the water long enough to start drowning or even get any water into my lungs, apparently. Chashu was the best girl. I still miss her. I remember other times, riding her around the backyard like a pony XD
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
When I was a toddler, my mother, my dog Heidi (St Bernard) and I were sitting on the front porch one day. Phone rings, my mother runs to answer it, telling Heidi to look after me. The phone was by a window and it only took a few seconds to get to it from the front porch, so she could look out and see me. But in the few seconds it took for her to get to the phone, I was down the front stairs and toddling toward the front gate which opened onto what was a pretty busy road. Here comes Heidi, running past me, and plopping all 150lbs of St Bernard sweetness down in front of that gate, to keep me from opening it. Out of the front door comes my terrified mother, who was incredibly relieved and grateful to Heidi for truly looking after me. BTW, my mother defrosted a steak for Heidi’s dinner that day, and told my father to STFU when all he got for dinner was tuna casserole.
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Uncle Panda 3 months ago
That's a great story if you only look at the second half. Who led the child out on the ice?
patricia patricia 3 months ago
Cats are more intelligent than humans to start with. They'd never walk on ice!
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I live in Ukraine.
#5
A random man pushed me over the side of a bridge when I was walking home at night. I was desperately grabbing for anything I could to not fall and ended up grabbing the back of his pants, we both went over the edge and dropped about 30 feet, I landed on top of him and his spine was crushed against a rock. I fractured my sternum and broke my arm.
Lisbeth Guz 3 months ago
I found the thread: he died instantly. The rock perforated his ribcage. He was a known p**o and had criminal records for sexual a*****t and violence. She was homeless and it was late at night so she was an easy target.
Shortstuff 3 months ago
One less piece of scum breathing the same air as us. So glad you survived!
#6
Missed the last bus late at night and started crying of fear. Went home by paying a huge taxi ride and crying even more because of the unexpected expense. Found out the next day that the bus flew off the bridge and into the river. There were no survivors.
Gen X Feral 3 months ago
HOLY SHITTT!!!! You must be living right, the gods are watching over you.
#7
Survived cancer twice.
Shortstuff 3 months ago (edited)
So did a friend of mine at ages 49 and 51...literally at deaths door. She has just turned 79. A friend of my mother's, aged 46 was given a year to live. She died aged 96.
#8
When I was about three I got out of the house in our complex. This man came up to me and asked me if I wanted to go to Disneyland. I of COURSE said yes, as I went to get into his vehicle these three young (but older than me) girls grabbed me and started running with me. I still VIVIDLY remember it to this day.
Gen X Feral 3 months ago (edited)
A splatter horror movie slow death, that muthafucker 🤬
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#9
Three men followed my 4 yr old daughter and I around Walmart. Every corner I turned it was one of them pretending to be on their phones. I saw an older lady and told her to please go get security. They ended finding these guys car and it was full of ammo/guns, tape, rope, and children’s books.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
The part about the children's books just makes this ten times more disturbing.
#10
I was kidnapped when I was a child and I was found by the police in a different state.
#11
My parachute failed to open, in 10 second before landing my safety parachute opened. Broke my spine, legs and neck. Hospital for 8 months.
Tobias Reaper 3 months ago
Chuck Norris went sky diving and his parachute failed to open he took it back the next day for a refund
#12
I told my wife to calm down and act reasonable one time.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
And she let you live? Joking aside, the absolute WORST thing you can say to someone who is freaking out about something is to “calm down and act reasonable”. Just the “calm down” part is bad enough, but to add the “act reasonable” part is just OTT. It does not work, and only exacerbates the situation. Granted, freaking out is usually completely unwarranted, but sometimes it’s absolutely appropriate, believe it or not. It’s understandable to freak out when you see something dangerous, whether anyone else has seen it too or not. But when it comes to an overreaction, you must be understanding and not judgmental. Instead of patronizing them as if they’re a child having a tantrum, try finding out what they’re having such an extreme reaction to and why that triggers them, and just basically help talk them down from it by listening and being calm yourself. Sometimes there are legitimate triggers stemming from their past that can help the two of you figure out a solution to keep them from freaking out in the future.
AuspiciousTree283 3 months ago
I always wondered if there was a deeper issue going on if someone's wife was willing to explode on her husband.
#13
My friend invited me to see the batman movie one summer night in 2012 and my mom refused to let me go, teenage me was so upset that i couldn’t go. We were supposed to go to the Aurora theater. My mom saved us from seeing James Holmes face to face that night!
Chewie Baron 3 months ago
On a side note, I’ve watched a film on the screen shown in the picture. It’s the Odeon Cinema in Brighton.
#14
When I was younger I’d use walkie talkies to talk w my bff. A woman joined our “chat” and convinced us to meet at a local lake at night. We went there, we saw a few men w flashlights calling our names. We both got scared and went home. Never told our parents. Sorry mom and dad.
#15
Hurricane Katrina. Those documentaries are nowhere near as apocalyptic.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 months ago
Katrina was what made me lose whatever remaining respect I had for the USA (Not the everyday citizen of course, don't get me wrong) I just could not believe the lack or response, help, evacs etc. I absolutely lost it when we started hearing about elderly and/or immobile people left behind to drown (or starve, or die of thirst, or lack of medication etc etc etc) in nursing homes. And the countless animals ignored/trapped and left to suffer and die.
Reemerger 3 months ago
Made me wonder, too. These guys have all this military hardware, spend fortunes on fuel for trainings and exercises and wars halfway around the world. Then there is an emergency on their own soil and THIS is what they are actually capable of doing for their own citizens???
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I got hit by a car crossing the street, he was going about 55mph. Hit n run….I flew pretty far and was found hours later in bushes by pizza delivery people.
#17
So four months back I was in a car accident. MY WORK COLLEAGUE, yes you heard that right put something in my drink to do things with me that i wouldn’t agree with, I left and got into a accident. Something never made sense after the accident, there was stuff wrong with the car that we couldn’t explain. Turns out he messed with my car as well. So that if he couldn’t get his way with me, I would get in a tragic accident and no one will point fingers at him.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
I hope he's in prison receiving daily beatings and forced soap eating.
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7 week coma. Woke to paralysis, found out I was terminal if I didn't receive a transplant & unlike to receive one because of the damage my heart sustained. 7 months in the hospital in 2024. I swear, and angel was in my hospital room & told me it wasn't my time. Scared me but I had my transplant 7/31/24.
Reemerger 3 months ago
Here in Germany we are (and have been for quite a while) discussing reversing the organ donor scheme to a refusal model: instead of declaring yourself a donor you would have to actively declare that you are not a donor. I think this could do away with the yearlong suffering of people in need of a healthy organ. I've been carrying my donor card for over 20 years now and I reckon too many people are simply pushing off the decision to potentially donate. This reversal, as it is already practiced in other countries, is a good thing.
Okido 2 months ago (edited)
We have that in the Netherlands now. And I have my donor card since 1998.
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#19
84 hours labour, thought I was in the seventh circle of Hell.
Liz Rutherford 3 months ago
The opposite: my mom almost had my sister in the new car they bought 4 weeks before. She was in labor for a grand total of 22 minutes.
Learner Panda 3 months ago
Why was your labour allowed to go on for so long? Surely the infant would have been in distress after all that time.
#20
Well my country went though civil war as a kid I was there I can’t believe I’m alive sometimes. When I see the kids in Palestine it’s triggering cause that was once us. Most didn’t survive.
#21
I shouted back to my African mother.
Ol' Stevie 3 months ago
Undid one of the downvotes. In some African countries, notably Keenya and Nigeria, a thong is a type of whip used for corporal punishment. It's a 3' long cane with 2' leather strips on the end, but can also refer to just the leather strips, a cane, or anything else that Mama uses to encourage us to make better decisions.. The phrase "the thong of justice moves slowly" is a play on "the wheels of justice move slowly", and refers to how you might get away with something at the time but will eventually get found out and punished.
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I took 100 sleeping pills when I was 15, thank God my brother found me, he told my mother, they rushed me to albany medical center where they pumped my stomach and saved my life. I was out of it for 6 days and don't remember anything!
#23
I got pulled into a rip tide in Bolsa Chica beach when I was 12. I went with my friend and her family and she just laughed and watched me struggle to get back up.
patricia patricia 3 months ago
At twelve a person is old enough to realise somebody is in danger, unless they are an i******e like OP's friend.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
That's actually the beach in my city. We're a tourist town, but the ocean is srs bsns. If you grow up here, you learn quickly. Several people still die in HB's stretch of ocean every year, despite all the precautions/lifeguards/etc.
#24
My stepdad tried to sacrifice me, my mom and my siblings because he thought we were spawns of satan.
Chich the witch 3 months ago
There ain't no devil, there's just god when hes drunk
Load More Replies... Paula Smith 3 months ago
Sounds like the stepdad was severely mentally ill rather than evil. I’m glad the OP and her family survived.
#25
I worked in event security and forgot I had a shift one night and had to pretend to call in sick to save face. That shift was the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in 2017.
Panda On My Balcony 3 months ago (edited)
Yes, a terrorist explosion. 10 seconds with Google will tell you that.
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#26
Hit by a semi truck on the freeway. Cop said he’s never seen someone walk away from an accident like mine. I had bruises and scratches but I was ultimately fine. I definitely had my guardian angels with me that day!
#27
I went on a date with a guy from a University near me and he seemed completely normal. That same night he confessed to me that he had eaten pieces of his ex girlfriend and that’s why they broke up. He also told me he liked to eat people. I thought he was joking the whole time. The next day I went to the police and they told me he was wanted by the local police.
G A 3 months ago
Why couldn't they have found him when he registered for university?
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#28
In 2012 I was buried alive in a construction site, there was no cautionary tape no nothing, a wall of mud and clay collapsed on me and my friend. The only reason I survived was bc of the way my friend and I were positioned. Firefighters said it created an air pocket. I was 12 years old.
brittany 3 months ago
parents should have been watching their kids. no child needs be around a construction site even when its closed for the day
Dee Rutherford 3 months ago
Sometimes we can just sneak by. I know. I did it many times,and was lucky enough to come home safe.
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I was roofied at a club in Germany when I was 17 (I grew up overseas, this was in 1991). I woke up hiding under a sink in the kitchen of a restaurant the next morning. The only parts of the night I remember are running up a flight of stairs while trying to escape someone. I sat on the front steps of the restaurant crying, not knowing where I was or where my car was. Eventually, a taxi driver saw me, took pity on me and drove me around for free until I recognized something and helped me find my car. He scolded me in German the whole time about how I had bad friends because they left me.
Pittsburgh rare 3 months ago
And he was right. If you go out in a group, the group doesn't separate until making sure that's voluntary and everyone isn't intoxicated.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 months ago
Just confirms my mantra: There's no such thing as real friends.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
"The point is, Lister, friends are only friends when it suits them."
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Left without a scratch. I was the passenger sleeping and I woke up in the middle of the flips and I felt my soul leave my body and I thought I [was gone].
Anonymouse 3 months ago
makes me think about this one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/livin39-on-the-edge/
#31
I survived a direct hit from a tornado that completely destroyed the house with us in it. Not a scratch on any of us.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
I watched a tornado repeatedly strike an area where elderly relatives lived. Across the street and two house down, the house was reduced to match sticks. It was decades ago and I still can't really get my mind around the destruction of that moment.
#32
I was just around 1 to 2 years old, at the supermarket in the cart seat. My mom turned around to pick up some cereal and a lady picked me up trying to steal me, my mom quickly noticed, grabbed me and started screaming and hitting the lady.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
When I was 7 or so, I somehow managed to pull a display rack of kitchen knives and scissors off the shelf and on top of myself. In the aftermath, I was untouched and standing in a small circle of no-steel zone. I'm not sure who was more frightened, the hardware store owner or my dad. Until we got home, anyway.
#34
Food poisoning, literally bad chicken nearly took me out was in a coma, and had to learn to walk for 9 months.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
This almost happened to me when I was a kid - got salmonella from contaminated chicken. Thought it was just "food poisoning" and I just had diarrhea. Drank a lot of Pedialyte, the whole nine yards. But it wouldn't go away, I was sick for almost two weeks. My mom told me that I was just fine and didn't need to see a doctor. I remember sitting on the toilet (apologies for TMI) with diarrhea and I felt dizzy. I lowered my head, which caused me to look down at my feet, and they were turning purple. Looked at my hands, they were purple as well. Freaked out and ran to my dad, who took me to the hospital. Turns out that, not only was I severely dehydrated, but the bacteria had gotten into my bloodstream and I was a couple of hours from potentially developing sepsis and dying. I ended up okay, no long-term damage as they caught it just in time, but sometimes I think about my mom's refusal to take me to the doctor. If I'd run to her instead of my dad that night, I might have died.
Reemerger 3 months ago
Here assuming she got snubbed for mother of the year award this time around.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Dear god, when I ate that undercooked chicken kebab I just had horrible cramps and the runs for a few days. I had no idea it could be THAT serious! D:
#35
Got chased by a schizophrenic man with a knife for an hour because he had a vision that i spilt water on his head.
#36
Suffered a seizure and slipped into a coma and almost didn’t make it out..but I did…I had to learn to walk again but I’m here today!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
I can only assume that whatever BP staff member wrote this listicle read this person's comment and was like "omg! what an amazing achievement! let's use a photo of random people cheering and applauding and looking creepily happy, because OP certainly achieved an amazing thing!" ...it's *exceptionally* weird because one assumes that OP wasn't on a stage somewhere with a cheering audience watching them when they learned to walk again...
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#37
I was sitting on a picnic table in an apartment park alone when I was 7 while my mom was cleaning our garage. 2 Hispanic men came out of of their car from the parking lot and walked towards me. They started talking to me and told me that they can take me to an amusement park. Me being in the spectrum and gullible, I fell for it and held their hand walking towards their car until my mom popped out of nowhere and stopped them, then took me back. I can't imagine the horrible things that would happen to me if my mom didn't stop them!
#38
My car rolled off the highway on black ice in Colorado 17 years ago. It rolled 4 times down the hill off the side of the road. I would have been gone if it the snow hadn't been so deep that it cushioned the car rolling.
Liz Rutherford 3 months ago
This is 25+ years ago. A co-worker of my dad hit black ice on her way to work. This was around 5am (still dark outside) and she was speeding. She was ejected and The car flipped 3x. The car landed on top of her, ki**ing her instantly. Cops said she would've survived if she was wearing a seat belt
Gadaffi Duck 3 months ago
My dad did similar on a Scottish motorway. There was an oil slick on the road and his back tyre caught it, he hit the central reservation, flipped in to the wrong side of the motorway and rolled 4x in to a ditch. He walked out with scratches despite the car being totalled and the boot (trunk) was somehow undamaged saving his £10k+ bagpipes. When police arrived he was panicking and searching for his wedding ring (can't wear it whilst playing as it interferes with a note on the changer) which was found embedded in the centre of the windscreen. God was on his side that day.
Ge Po 3 months ago
Snow over ice can be treacherous. I slipped and fell backwards, landing with my head on some stone ridge. But I wore a hooded coat and the ridge also was covered with snow, Saved Mt brain from bouncing around in my skull. Got back up and had a stiff neck the day after. Could have been much worse.
#39
Living in America. Literally. Just existing is crazy.
Cindy Brick 3 months ago
Yep, compared to Africa, the Ukraine, the MIddle East (if you're a girl)..it's just hellish.
Nikki Sevven 3 months ago
Comparing one horror to another changes absolutely nothing for the one experiencing the horror.
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 3 months ago
I had a full-blown nervous breakdown just watching what's been going on there from 9,437 miles away on the other side of a very large ocean. Actually being there would probably destroy me entirely. :(
#40
I was 19. My boyfriend and I were fighting. I left our apartment in the cold walking. I called a cousin to get me but she was two hours away. So I walked around the complex knocking on doors so I could wait until she arrived. One college age yt guy opened the door. I sat there with him, just the two of us in a dimly lit apart. He was nice and I was scared but I waited there. A few weeks later, same guy was being investigated for a girl’s disappearance. I can’t understand why he was so nice to me.
#41
150 yeah old oak tree dropped onto our bedroom during hurricane Helene. Entire house wad destroyed, the ceiling was inches away from crushing my children.
Serena Myers 3 months ago
In the UK, during the "just a bit windy" storm of 1987, a friend of mine was asleep with his wife, and he heard the phone ring, went downstairs to answer, his wife followed because she had also heard it and wanted some cocoa. Seconds later, a tree crashed through their roof and onto their bed. The phone lines had been down for at least an hour. Believe it, or not, it happened.
Paige Merlin 3 months ago
And I bet that man and wife still blame Michael Fish for no warning!
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Two days ago I got t-boned by a truck and got dragged 30 feet.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
God I'm glad I don't drive. This stuff is terrifying just to read about.
Linda Roy 3 months ago
Non driver here. Sometimes it's a pain in the b**t to go by someone else's schedule, tbh.
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Got caught in a rip tide when I was 8 and I felt the ocean pulling me in. Luckily my cousin yelled and my older cousin pulled me out.
#44
Rolled 5 times going over 90 in a Toyota camry, ejected from car out the window... not a single scratch on me.
#45
I had met people who I thought were my friends. One in particular more than the others. Looking back, I honestly felt like the friendship was taking off a little fast. They had started calling me family one month into knowing each other, but in my culture it’s common to treat people “at home”. They asked me questions that, at the time, I thought were normal. Questions like, Do you live alone. Do you have family in town. Are you close to family and friends? Then it turned into, “would you like to live elsewhere?”. I said no. That where I lived was my home and I plan to live there forever. It then turned into, “I left my vehicle in Oklahoma. Will you take me to get it”…..when I tell you guys that I had so much trust in this person, I was really gonna go with him to get said vehicle. 😅 . Then one night, October 5th of last year, exactly, it slipped. They had all been drinking and their plan slipped. That night they were planning to traffic me. It was my “going away party” as one of them had said. I remember putting two and two together and going pale. My heart dropping to my stomach and randomly having this intuition that that night was going to be my last night in town. I booked it through the front door. They looked for me for months. Had people showing up at my jobs. Had people sending me Fb messages. Text messages. Etc… it definitely changed the way I saw the world. I went to therapy after that and my therapist said that I had described perfectly the tactics of a human trafficker.
#46
I got leukemia, 2 infections, bone marrow transplant and got chronic disease in the same year.
#47
A 135lb American bulldog I was fostering attacked and mauled me.
#48
Woke up to the whole house burning down, all doors blocked off. So fun.
#49
I fell 70 ft off a cliff landing on a rock that saved me from falling 300 ft woke up 3 days later to my doctors saying I’m a miracle.
#50
I missed the “call out of work” window by 5 minutes. I ended up being at work for less than an hour, before having a rapidly lethal medical emergency. If I didn’t miss the “call out of work” window, I would have been at home, alone. Thankfully, I work in a hospital, and was tended too immediately.
Serena Myers 3 months ago
"A call out of work typically refers to the act of notifying your employer about your absence due to various reasons such as illness, personal emergencies, or other valid reasons. Here are some key points to consider:" Apparently.
Lily bloom 3 months ago
They were sleeping on site between shifts and when they were no call/no show someone went to wake them up and found them unresponsive but being in hospital allowed for immediate intervention as opposed to them being in the same distress at home with no one to find them in time. Sorry for that ridiculously long run-on sentence but I think it made sense
#51
I had a car accident back in 2017. A big tree stopped the car just seconds before we would’ve fallen onto a moving train.
Lily bloom 3 months ago
Car accident culminated in the vehicle coming to rest with the assistance of local flora had it not grown strong in place their vehicle may have further tumbled upon a moving locomotive incurring more severe results had not that mighty twig impeded the decent
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Me and my sister got kidnapped in Pakistan when I was 3 years old, they kept us for a few hours, think they wanted some ransom money, luckily my sister had a gold earring and gave them that and they let us go.
#53
Was lost in hurricane Katrina around the age of two and was found in Mississippi being cared for by a sharrif and his wife . They saw me on the front cover of peoples magazine and managed to get in contact with my mom to get me.
#54
Not as bad as others but I dated this guy once, i broke up with him because he gave me the creeps after a while of being together, I lived alone at the time, I was eating supper in my living room watching a movie then I heard a loud bang but I thought it was my neighbors upstairs because they have kids, turns out I didn't lock my bedroom window and I was on the first floor, the guy I broke up with broke into my apartment and attacked me from behind, he tried to gouge my eyes out and he even bit my nose, I fought back and managed to calm him down, i asked if I can use the washroom and wash my face he said yeah, then I texted a friend and told them to send police and 4 police cars showed up and arrested him, my life flashed before my eyes it was the scariest thing I ever been through, ( and yes my nose is still intact).
Chocolate llama 3 months ago
The attacker would have heard her making the call
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All I did was sleep and not eat. got down to 100 pounds. my family witnessed this and thought nothing was wrong. my grandma told my mom i was pregnant. went to the doctor for a pregnancy test and found out i had a little amount white blood cells and my Vitamin levels were at a 8 . suppose to been at a 32 minimum 💀. Thanks granny!
#56
For no reason I felt the need to brake while approaching a green light. the car in front of me proceeded as usual. out of the blue, a car blew their red light crossing the intersection at 65 and obliterated the car in front of me. the woman did survive. I was the one who called her the ambulance. ill never know what made me slow down.
TCW Sam Vimes 3 months ago
Always trust your gut. Our subconscious processes much more than we think
#57
I was driving in the rain and flipped my car, rolled it into a drainage ditch. Not sure how I didn't drown.
#58
was riding my motorbike one day when I hit a patch of black ice or something, lost control and skidded down the road for probably 30 feet. This was a mountain road too, i was stopped by a guard rail and if o went any further I would've fallen 200 feet.
#59
I was 14 and was living in Lynnwood Washington. I walked home alone from school and I cut through the forest that was behind my apartment complex. I stopped off in this little spot that was surrounded with black berry vines and there was always bunnies in there. I walked in and knelt down to pet the bunnies and then I heard some twigs snapping. I looked up and there was a man standing in the opening to the only exit. I stood up slowly and said hey what’s up. He didn’t say one word. The only thing separating us was this big rock almost the size of a boulder. I took a few steps to one side and he didn’t say too. Then I took a few steps to the other side and he didn’t say too the same. I realized he was mirroring my movements. He started to walk around the rock and I ran through the black berry vines. I was Able to make it out with lot of scratches. I was picking thorns out of my skin for weeks. I don’t know what he was planning to do but I just could feel he was gonna hurt me. Was never so glad I was on track and cross country teams as a kid. Still haunts me to this day.
patricia patricia 3 months ago
I think she meant to write "he did the same, too"
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I went to a club one night and Brody Jenner and his friends were there so I walked over and they let me dance with them. Apparently someone put something in my drink and I was out of it and my friend told me that 2 of his people took my body to the bathroom but the security saw them and went in the bathroom and got me before they did whatever they were planning.
#61
I got pulled into a rip tide when I was around 9 or 10, and got pulled out farther than anyone was swimming. I was swallowing water and was getting super tired and kept getting pulled out farther and farther. I was screaming for help and waving my hand and finally a lifeguard swam out and picked me up.
#62
When me and my group of friends were 9 this one dude came up to us and asked os where to go to vote bcs he doesn’t know where is that(which is weird bcs only ppl that live in the city can vote)and me and my other friend went with him bcs it was 6-7 mins away.Then my mom suddenly appears and like asks where we going so we tell we are showing him where to vote(and she already knew what was going on) so she explained to him and gave us a lecture.After lecture she hurried up so she can go after him to see if he is going to vote,and he wasnt.He got in one van.
#63
Took an Uber home with some friends back in 2016. We all got our except for one of my friends who could unbuckle the seat belt. We tried to get my friend who was extremely intoxicated out of the back seat, but her belt wouldn't unlock. Guy said to leave her and he would take care of it and was trying to drive away with her in the car. I hopped in the car, grabbed my pocket knife and cut the seatbelt. Dude lost his mind until I started to call the cops then he took off.
#64
Nothing like a horror movie or anything, but I used to work on a Submarine and we had fires and flodding while underwater.
#65
I had Covid when no one knew what to do or what it was. I was on a ventilator for a week and could not breathe on my own. they told my mom to prepare herself and call my family. She prayed all night and the next day I was fine.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
I hate when someone is in a hospital, receiving medical care, and when they survive something bad, some people attribute it to "God" and not, you know, science, medicine, medical care, and a little bit of chance.
BrownEyedGrrl 3 months ago
Same. A friend posted that her cancer is in remission & "God is good." 🙄😒
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My iron deficiency got so bad, i passed out driving going 45+ an hour, car flipped 6, i climbed out the car and slipped onto glass (cut up my entire right side, got in the ambulance my heart rate was 65 yet I was still fully alert, God tho.
WalterWhiteSavannah 3 months ago
I mean this is obviously bad but a 65bpm is a healthy resting heart rate....
patricia patricia 3 months ago
But she wasn't resting, she'd just had an accident, so her heart should have been beating much faster.
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I've come within metres of potentially fatal car collisions on two separate occasions. First time was a stolen car speeding down a road I was walking on, I had headphones on and If was just 30 seconds late, I would have been hit at about 30 miles p/hour.
Second time was similar, except the driver was intoxicated and the car crashed into a lamp post a few feet behind where I had just walked. Could've been sandwiched.
#68
I was six or seven, the kind of kid who liked walking just a little ahead of my mom to feel independent. Our street was busy, cars rushing by constantly. One day, a black car pulled up on the sidewalk, the wheel almost on the curb. The passenger door opened, but the windows were so dark I couldn’t see inside — just a pair of black shoes.
My mom grabbed my shoulder from behind, pulling me close, and the car immediately drove off. I didn’t understand why at the time, but looking back, if she hadn’t been there… I’d be on the news. Likely a missing child. Ever since that happened to me I’ve always understood my parents worry.
I never saw that car again.
#69
Bad reaction from some meds, woke up from a nightmare still thinking I was in the nightmare, got in my car, police chase 70-90mph, crashed into trees feet away from gas pumps & totaled car. Just a tiny scratch on my clavicle from seatbelt.
#70
was walking home from school when I started getting an odd vibe I kept turning around and I kept seeing this van and it would drive and then park and then keep driving and then park once I was around the corner about three houses from my house the van picked up speed and pulled directly into the dirt next to me and a guy and a woman got out of the van and proceeded to run at me and I just dropped everything of mine and I just ran.
#71
When I was 5 years old, my younger brother and I were playing behind my grandparents' house. There was a big log and in front of it, a few meters in the ground, there was a stake stuck in it, which for some reason was pointed upwards. We jumped off that log, fooled around and sang songs and were careful not to jump on that stake because it was very sharp. At one point, when it was my turn to jump, my brother pushed me from behind and I fell directly on that stake. The stake pierced my skull and when I got up from the stake, blood started pouring out of the wound and I ran and cried, calling for my grandmother. My parents were not there at the time and my grandmother called my parents who arrived quickly. I still remember that feeling when I was removing my head from the stake. The last thing I remember before I found myself in the hospital was my grandmother washing the blood from my wound and pressing it so that no more blood would come out, there was a lot of blood that day. In the hospital they stitched up the wound that was at the beginning of my right eyebrow, the wound was deep and large, and if I had fallen a little lower, a couple of centimeters, the stake would have pierced my eye and I would have probably been gone on the spot. That was 15 years ago. glad I'm here now tho.
Petra brown 3 months ago
NEVER pull anything like that out! All you accomplish is heighten the possibility to bleed out on the spot. Call 911 and let them handle it.
#72
My uncle broke his neck tap dancing once.
#73
I was walking home along a long path at night, my [phone ran out of battery] and a man started chasing me all the way home I had to run through a forest and it felt like my legs disappeared.
#74
Got stuck outside in a microburst and my dad grabbed me and a tree and we held on with our lives. parts of trees flew past us and once the wind died down we started running towards shelter and on the way i remember seeing a tire on fire that's spinning in circles from the wind. i was 10... scariest thing i've experienced.
#75
A taxi driver asked me to get down from his taxi 🚕 cos he wants to pick another passenger that will pay more, 10 mins after the same taxi was crushed by a trailer 🥺🥺
#76
I took a nap on one Sunday afternoon and woke up with blazing fire everywhere. I still don't know how i managed to get out, I lost everything but I'm alive with no burns. God is good.
WalterWhiteSavannah 3 months ago
I always find it funny god is good when something awful happens and a person survives. If I believed in God I'd say he's good when I have an uneventful day...
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
God's the one who allowed the fire to happen in the first place and made you lose everything. If God is in control of everything and allowed your survival, then He's the one who caused the fire, too. You can't pick and choose.
Feral Raccoon 3 months ago
Who are you to argue with someone else’s belief system. Would it pain you so to just keep that to yourself?
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#77
My friends and I were staying in an Airbnb in Maryland a couple years ago. The house was older and more run down than it looked in pictures but we decided to stick it out. One night around midnight, I smelled gas in the basement where my room was. We quickly vacated and contacted the host. He said it had never happened before and he’d send the gas company to check it out. Hours later when the gas guy arrived, he looked straight in our bloodshot eyes and told us there was no gas leak. We still weren’t going to stay in that house so we moved down the row to another one owned by the same host for that night, locking the door to the gas house. Next morning two of my friends went to check and found the door unlocked and the house aired out. When we asked the host if he’d been in the house he said “it was probably one of you who left the door unlocked, you’re going to be fine.” 😳 We couldn’t find another Airbnb to stay in long term so we had to move back into the gas house. But things kept happening. One day we came home to find the door leading to the garage (which we had been told not to go into) standing open. Another time there were footsteps heard upstairs when no one was up there and the sound of a window opening and shutting. There was a lot more, but needless to say, we didn’t stay there much longer. My friend’s sister who was in the marine corpse later told us that causing a gas leak is a typical tactic for tr*ffickers to see how quickly they can flood the house with sleeping gas. Oh and one of our group contacted the gas company the host said was associated and they had no record of anyone going anywhere that night. Fun times.
#78
I survived this car wreck. I’m broken but almost healed. Jesus said you have more work to do my child!
#79
Flipped my jetski with my friend, and it was pouring rain. I couldnt flip it back because I had my prosthetic leg in one hand. After like 45 mins of panicking and trying to flip it we FINALLY did.
#80
I was dragged out into the atlantic during Surf Lessons in France, could barely see the shore, tumbled numerous times in big waves until I lost consciousness. Somehow was pulled back to a sandbank from which I could swim back.
#81
Not a horror movie but when I was 12 I lived in such a strict household that I just wanted freedom so bad to the point I started adding and accepting requests on fb from random guys, let them pick me up late at night, I'd sneak out, meet up with them and not a single bad thing happened to me and I'd end up at these adults men houses and they'd have friends..Nothing bad happened, I was never even graped, wasn't kissed or even touched inappropriately..Just vibes and sheesha..I look back and think about how differently all those experiences could have been.
Farah (she/her) 3 months ago (edited)
Sheesha... You're an Arab Muslim, I'm guessing (A Sheesha is an Arabic way of saying a Hookah, which is basically flavoured tobacco through a tube. I recognized the word cuz I'm Arab)
#82
I had a dream one night. Off a red car parked directly infront of a building, I usually walk past the building coming home from school but the car is never there it was new. In the dream I had been snatched into that car by a man and he has taken my life. A few days later I was walking home from school. As I turned the corner to walk past that same building, that same red car that was parked in the exact same spot and was running was there. I remember how quickly my palms started to sweat and the hairs on my neck stood up. I turned around to walk away and I heard the car start moving so I ran into the closest building which was a grocery store and hid. I called my mom sobbing and she had picked me up. As we were pulling out a similar looking man had walked out of the store looking defeated. I’ve always trusted my dreams since then. And they’ve never led me wrong.
#83
During a car crash I flipped my car.. had on no seatbelt, so I flew out the car as it flipped. Flew in a ditch and hit my back in a tree😭 only fractured 3 bones down my spine thankfully! God was with me that day cuz it was crazy.
Petra brown 3 months ago
God should have prevented the crash in the first place but goes, eh, what can you do...
AtMostAFabulist 3 months ago
Or god should have made you put on a seat belt.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
My father fell off of a ladder while putting up Christmas lights on Thanksgiving Day in 2000. He survived when he shouldn't have - he had a badly fractured skull, had multiple subdural hematomas, and was in a coma so severe that he didn't even display any alpha brain waves on an EEG. His brain damage was catastrophic. He was in a coma for 6 months. He returned to minimal consciousness and lived another 21 years, completely bedridden, in diapers, feeding tube, needed 24/7 care. We took care of him at home. It's not always a "miracle" when someone survives something they should not have survived. Everyone, make sure your medical wishes are down on paper/legally recorded if you want a DNR or whatever your country's equivalent is, because sometimes family members are sh!ttily selfish and keep you alive in a state worse than death.
Multa Nocte 3 months ago
I am guessing that some of these stories are from creative writing classes, or perhaps some people are not very good at writing their experiences such that they sound credible.
G A 3 months ago
I say this, and very gullible people attack me viciously for questioning patent nonsense.
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blue_molly 3 months ago
Nearly fell off the roof of my childhood home when I was 7. Stepped onto a part of the roof that was wet and started to slide towards the edge, but froze instead of struggling - which meant I fortunately stopped about a foot from the edge. Definitely would either be dead or have life changing injuries if I'd fallen onto the concrete driveway below. Still gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.
Farah (she/her) 3 months ago
My dad's car crashed into a pole back in 2011 (I was months old then, so that tells you how old I am now :P) and his car flipped about 5-6 times and landed the right way up. Luckily a construction site was near him and they called for help. He was listening to a song by Baha' Sultan and he told me that song was so traumatic for him even tho he really liked it. Anyway, just a few weeks ago, my youngest sister found it on a show and decided to play it in the car. My dad was shocked and I recognized the song and asked if he wanted it off. My brave man had gotten over his trauma (I remember him telling me while he lay in his hospital bed "I'll never be able to hold Farah again" when I tell you I burst into tears when he said that, I hugged him and we went and got ice cream, heh)
brittany 3 months ago
was driving to school in the rain. the car slide, i lost control and crash over into an embankment. broke my leg. my mom went to the impound lot were they towed the car while insurance got figured out and walked around for an hour before she saw my car. she only recognized it from the decorative plate cover. told me later if she just saw the car like that without any other context, she'd have assumed the person in the car died. it was that bad
Serena Myers 3 months ago
Copy/paste from TikTok.Those folks are less imaginative and probably sillier than Reddit, but it would be a stiff competition.
Chewie Baron 3 months ago
I’ve lived under two dictators. First one was when I lived in Spain, briefly lived under Franco. Then we moved to the UK. A few layers later in 1979, Thatcher won the election.
highwaycrossingfrog 3 months ago
Good lord, Thatcher was probably the closest we came in England to a f*****t (which she was absolutely not), but she was very very far from a dictatorship
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Lil Nitemare 3 months ago
So I got a story. Last vape shop I worked at was made manager. It was this super cool old building that looked like it could be haunted. It wasn't. Got two employees, one of which used to train cadaver dogs, which is a story all of it's own and for another day... Unless you ask nicely (◠‿・)—☆ Anyway, life is good, we all get along, and then November first happens. Me being manager I'm there literally every day, all day, but now I feel kinda sick. Like I have no appetite, and if I try to eat I throw it up. My head starts hurting bad too. Not like a normal headache where one part of your head is just pounding, but more of this ache all over my head. I can't remember things all that well, like I would count change and could not for the life of me remember w*f came after 39. I would put everything I had into making vape juice for a customer, but when I handed the juice to them, couldn't remember what I made. We made our own juice btw. We were known for that....
Lil Nitemare 3 months ago
Couldn't stay awake either. So freaking tired! And because of my anxiety I would have these horrible panic attacks that literally felt like I was dying. Meanwhile, my employees were having their own problems. The cadaver dog trainer was sure her heart was acting up, and the guy I hired felt like he was coming down with depression. And all of us were just tired. Place seemed kinda haunted too, though I was sure it was just me because I just didn't believe in ghosts. So anyway, this had been going on for months and I was getting worse and worse. To the point that the headaches just weren't going away, I had lost over forty pounds and now I was hallucinating, and I just knew it had to do with my anxiety. Got to the point that I was so tired that I set down at my desk and decided that I was just gonna close my eyes for a minute. Business was slow and it would only be for fifteen minutes...
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
My father fell off of a ladder while putting up Christmas lights on Thanksgiving Day in 2000. He survived when he shouldn't have - he had a badly fractured skull, had multiple subdural hematomas, and was in a coma so severe that he didn't even display any alpha brain waves on an EEG. His brain damage was catastrophic. He was in a coma for 6 months. He returned to minimal consciousness and lived another 21 years, completely bedridden, in diapers, feeding tube, needed 24/7 care. We took care of him at home. It's not always a "miracle" when someone survives something they should not have survived. Everyone, make sure your medical wishes are down on paper/legally recorded if you want a DNR or whatever your country's equivalent is, because sometimes family members are sh!ttily selfish and keep you alive in a state worse than death.
Multa Nocte 3 months ago
I am guessing that some of these stories are from creative writing classes, or perhaps some people are not very good at writing their experiences such that they sound credible.
G A 3 months ago
I say this, and very gullible people attack me viciously for questioning patent nonsense.
Load More Replies... blue_molly 3 months ago
Nearly fell off the roof of my childhood home when I was 7. Stepped onto a part of the roof that was wet and started to slide towards the edge, but froze instead of struggling - which meant I fortunately stopped about a foot from the edge. Definitely would either be dead or have life changing injuries if I'd fallen onto the concrete driveway below. Still gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.
Farah (she/her) 3 months ago
My dad's car crashed into a pole back in 2011 (I was months old then, so that tells you how old I am now :P) and his car flipped about 5-6 times and landed the right way up. Luckily a construction site was near him and they called for help. He was listening to a song by Baha' Sultan and he told me that song was so traumatic for him even tho he really liked it. Anyway, just a few weeks ago, my youngest sister found it on a show and decided to play it in the car. My dad was shocked and I recognized the song and asked if he wanted it off. My brave man had gotten over his trauma (I remember him telling me while he lay in his hospital bed "I'll never be able to hold Farah again" when I tell you I burst into tears when he said that, I hugged him and we went and got ice cream, heh)
brittany 3 months ago
was driving to school in the rain. the car slide, i lost control and crash over into an embankment. broke my leg. my mom went to the impound lot were they towed the car while insurance got figured out and walked around for an hour before she saw my car. she only recognized it from the decorative plate cover. told me later if she just saw the car like that without any other context, she'd have assumed the person in the car died. it was that bad
Serena Myers 3 months ago
Copy/paste from TikTok.Those folks are less imaginative and probably sillier than Reddit, but it would be a stiff competition.
Chewie Baron 3 months ago
I’ve lived under two dictators. First one was when I lived in Spain, briefly lived under Franco. Then we moved to the UK. A few layers later in 1979, Thatcher won the election.
highwaycrossingfrog 3 months ago
Good lord, Thatcher was probably the closest we came in England to a f*****t (which she was absolutely not), but she was very very far from a dictatorship
Load More Replies... Lil Nitemare 3 months ago
So I got a story. Last vape shop I worked at was made manager. It was this super cool old building that looked like it could be haunted. It wasn't. Got two employees, one of which used to train cadaver dogs, which is a story all of it's own and for another day... Unless you ask nicely (◠‿・)—☆ Anyway, life is good, we all get along, and then November first happens. Me being manager I'm there literally every day, all day, but now I feel kinda sick. Like I have no appetite, and if I try to eat I throw it up. My head starts hurting bad too. Not like a normal headache where one part of your head is just pounding, but more of this ache all over my head. I can't remember things all that well, like I would count change and could not for the life of me remember w*f came after 39. I would put everything I had into making vape juice for a customer, but when I handed the juice to them, couldn't remember what I made. We made our own juice btw. We were known for that....
Lil Nitemare 3 months ago
Couldn't stay awake either. So freaking tired! And because of my anxiety I would have these horrible panic attacks that literally felt like I was dying. Meanwhile, my employees were having their own problems. The cadaver dog trainer was sure her heart was acting up, and the guy I hired felt like he was coming down with depression. And all of us were just tired. Place seemed kinda haunted too, though I was sure it was just me because I just didn't believe in ghosts. So anyway, this had been going on for months and I was getting worse and worse. To the point that the headaches just weren't going away, I had lost over forty pounds and now I was hallucinating, and I just knew it had to do with my anxiety. Got to the point that I was so tired that I set down at my desk and decided that I was just gonna close my eyes for a minute. Business was slow and it would only be for fifteen minutes...
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