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Danger alerts don't always come in the form of big red flags, warning signs, or loud announcements. Sometimes it's a silent voice, an invisible friend, that serves as the messenger telling you to "Leave right now!"
Whether or not you listen, can be the difference between life and death, as many people have learned. They've been sharing the scariest times they trusted their gut and lived to tell the tale...
Bored Panda has put together a list of the most harrowing stories. From one person who narrowly escaped being hit by an 18-wheeler truck, to another who could have died at the hands of a crazed gunman, each of these netizens is bound by a common thread: Something they couldn't see saved them. And because they didn't question it, they miraculously got a second chance at life.
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#1
I was maybe 11 or 12 years old at an adoption fair. Prospective adoptive parents would come to meet and greet with potential kids. I was paired with a single man in his 50’s. He was my only taker. He was interested in adopting me. I immediately had a terrible feeling about him. My case manager was like “no, he’s cleared, we’ve done our research, he’s nothing to worry about. you should do a trial stay at his home. You’re getting older, it’s harder for older kids to get adopted be grateful”
I had zero autonomy over this and sure enough, tears and all they made me do a trial at his home over a weekend. I went to take a shower and he “mistakenly” walked in the room while I was naked, but he stood there for like 5 minutes just staring. He said nothing then left. I climbed right the f**k out the window and ran away. You can’t convince me he wasn’t going to a*****t me.
Vanessa Panerosa 4 months ago
I’m glad you lived to tell the tale and I hope you got the support you deserve.
Alexia 4 months ago (edited)
"Adoption fair" seems so... unsettling. In in my country, there is a complex computerized process to match a child with a potential adoptive family or parent. The system "pairs" you a child, you see their files and photo, and you decide if you go ahead with the next step (which is visiting the child). If not, the system will pair you with another child. But you don't just get to see tenths of children at the same time in order to pick one.
Angela C 4 months ago
There's nothing in the post to indicate when this happened. This could have been decades ago. Fully agree that it's unsettling and unsavory though regardless of when it happened
Load More Replies... Black Cat 4 months ago
Just because someone hasn't been arrested doesn't mean they're not a pedophile. This set up would be perfect for them. Hard to believe anyone would let a prepubescent girl go with a single man. I know there are some decent men out there, but this is just too risky.
Victorious Foxx 4 months ago
Doesn't say they were a boy or girl, just a picture plopped there. Either way, it's creepy af to let a kiddo go to the home of a single middle aged man
Load More Replies... Suzie 4 months ago
Today I learnt they have a fayre for poor children to be paraded to be chosen like cats in a cat shelter !! Wtf
Mario Clouâtre 2 months ago
Today you learnt you can publish any idiotic things on the net and people will react to it.
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qvjtfrzdxm 2 months ago
In my years in foster care I only met one male that wasn’t a di*k- pig. Men shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near vulnerable children.
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#2
We were in a bus accident, I was thrown out of the bus and hit my head. Everything went black and I was dizzy, and someone I was with grabbed me a pillow and helped me to lay down, which I did for a few minutes. Then I suddenly got really cold and something told me “go find your hoodie”. I had it with me when I was on the bus. I slowy stood up and could see a tiny bit again.
I stumbled over to the bus wreck looking for my hoodie and while stumbling over I heard a huge screech of brakes and people screaming. An 18 wheeler hadn’t seen our accident and Jack-knifed into our accident. Found the pillow I was laying on stuck under one of the 18 wheelers wheels. I fully believe I escaped death twice that day.
Etienne Brinkman 4 months ago (edited)
What is an 18-wheeler or jack-knifed? 2 alinea's and so many questions 😂
Apatheist Account2 4 months ago (edited)
18-wheeler is a large lorry with 18 wheels. Jack-knifed is when the front cab section goes at a different angle from the main cargo-carrying section (often right-angles). What's an "alinea"?
Load More Replies... Lissy 3 months ago
I took my dog for a walk to a beautiful forest at the outskirts of our town early morning last week. We hike there often and it is a lovely trail. While letting the dog out of the car, I was hit by an eerie, urgent sensation of impending danger. I have not found out what exactly it was, but we left instantly. Better safe than sorry - trust your instinct (your guardian angel)
#3
Oooo i got a good one, it wasnt me but an ex partner, I was visiting her and her family for the holidays and we decided one night to go out dancing. We got all dressed up and I was real excited to go to the club with her. We get to the parking garage and maybe 10 steps out of the car she stops me and says “i have a bad feeling about going to the club, would you hate me or be mad if we just went back home?” I said “absolutely not, id rather us be home and you be wrong than be out and you be right. The next day we found out there was a shooting at the club and a couple was killed. I hugged her and thanked her for saving our lives… trust your gut!
Luke Branwen 4 months ago
That wasn't even "gut feeling", that was a straight-up warning from above
RS 4 months ago
Ok but 99% of the time anxious people get bad feelings and nothing happens. I can't trust my gut.
MadMonkey 4 months ago
Your experiences may vary, but I am an incredibly anxious person and I always trust my gut. It may be confirmation bias on my part but my gut has gotten me out of several potentially very dangerous situations. For me, my gut feelings have nothing to do with my anxiety.
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Auldcelt 4 months ago
I was about 10 or 11 and had walked up to the school bus stop that was on a highway and dropped off my books for a place in line, it was the only way to get a seat near the driver. I then ran home to grab some snacks. Heading back up the street a number of moms came running to me crying and asking where I had been. Apparently an 18 wheeler crashed at the bus stop crushing my books. They thought I had been hurt because they couldn’t find me. Mom came home from work & took me to the YMCA so I could swim all day. The next day I went to a different bus stop away from the highway.
Teresa Spanics 4 months ago
Good to hear that you both decided to act on that "bad feeling"! As someone with a sixth sense, I always say to trust in it whenever it goes off even if the danger is not visible at the time!
#4
Two off the top of my head. My husband and I had taken the skytrain into downtown Vancouver in 2011 to watch game 7 and when he said we NEEDED to leave before the 3rd period, we left. People started texting me to see where we were and I had no idea what was going on. By the time we got home, the rioting was in full swing and the skytrain was shut down. When I asked my husband why he knew we needed to leave, he basically said there was bad vibes
The other time was in Nov 2020. My husband basically begged me to take the earliest ferry back from Van Island so we could leave the lower mainland asap and drive home. I listened, and we got home safely, with a couple detours due to rising water. If I hadn't listened, we would have been stuck there for another 2 weeks, as it rained so hard that day, it flooded highways and washed out bridges. Again, I asked my husband how he knew we need to go NOW and he said he just wanted to go home
AtMostAFabulist 4 months ago
I reas that too fast and thought it said marrying a psychedelic.
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S R Godwin 4 months ago
I get that - my family take me seriously nowadays because I have been proved right on more than one occasion. Mum-Power.
Margaret Wartime 4 months ago
I was also accidentally in the 2011 Stanley Cup riots! I had just moved to downtown Vancouver a couple weeks previous. I’d never seen anything like it. We stayed and watched until it started getting violent and people were lighting things on fire. When we tried to leave we ended up in a cloud of tear gas. Way later that night we walked through the crews cleaning up. There was debris and broken glass absolutely everywhere. I also specifically remember the bottom half of a mannequin in a tree lol - the cleanup crew wouldn’t let me friend take it and she really wanted it for some reason. Also we met Ian Hanomansing (CBC reporter) and he was pretty nice but a lot shorter than I thought he’d be.
#5
My sister went to a school that was an hour away and had to be up at 5 every morning. This happened around 2009. We were 12 & 16 years old, woke up one morning, getting dressed and heard a baby crying outside. This is Minnesota so it’s VERY dark and VERY cold in the winter at 5 am. We knew it was some bs - cops came - found tracks in the snow to our door. Someone had been playing a tape trying to lure us outside and I never slept well in that house again knowing someone tried that
#6
I was 10. Seeing a movie with a friend and in the middle of the movie a man sat next to me. He starts touching me. I didn’t know what was happening. I jumped up from the chair told my friend I needed to use the bathroom, and ran to the back of the movie theater, but I didn’t go to the bathroom. Hid in the empty back row of the theater. The guy walks out a minute or so later. The doors to the theater had pothole type windows and I looked out and the guy was standing outside the womens bathroom.
Janet C 1 month ago
Probably not because we teach our girls to "be nice" and "not make waves" and "don't cause trouble". We NEED to teach our girls to make noise and get an adult involved.
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Lori Simpson 4 months ago
Go tell any adult female. Yell MOM or SIS at the first female you lay eyes on and run to them. We got you ❣️
Mel Colley 2 months ago
How old was your friend? You both sound pretty young to be at the movies by yourself.
#7
Driving through a tiny Texas town with my (now) ex — I’m white passing, he is not. Stopped at a diner around 8:30/9pm and one (of 2) servers made some racist comments but we ignore it while the other takes care of us. When we left, he told us FOUR times to be careful. It was raining, but not 4 warnings type of raining. We made the fastest stop for gas and got the h**l out.
PS the town to avoid is Aspermont. It’s in the middle of nowhere but is part of the drive from Denver to Austin, so just a warning for any POC, specifically black people, on that route
Apatheist Account2 4 months ago
It's the 21st century. This sort of nonsense should have ended decades ago.
Tabitha 4 months ago
It used to be considered socially unacceptable, and in some cases, criminal behavior, to menace someone for no reason but their skin color, their gender, or their orientation. But since TACO came on the scene, that horrible behavior has been unapologetically embraced and paraded in public like it’s high fashion. We used to be on a better track toward becoming a truly enlightened society. The past ten+ years have shut the lights and plunged us back into a new Dark Age.
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Lee Gilliland 4 months ago
There are still a good number of sundown towns, and not just for blacks. The Mormon villages on "the Strip", the part of Arizona north of the Grand Canyon, are also sundown tows and unknown white guys are harassed out of tow. Not the woman, though. I wonder why.
Microwaved Robot 4 months ago
There is an Avenue in a town in Florida that even most Black persons stay away from. Do believe there have been a few articles written "D" If you get stuck at a signal light no one makes eye contact and prays for a quick light change.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I don't think the server who said "be careful" was trying to "scare them away", I think he was trying to WARN OP and their ex to GTFO before a pack of racists in the town attacked them. BTW, saying the town is "only" 69% white doesn't mean that the other 31% isn't racist just because they're NOT white. I was adopted into a Hispanic family at birth (Mexican-American) and some of my older family members were every bit as racist against black people (and Asians, in some cases) as Ol' Bubba the Stereotypical Racist White Man. I had a cousin who was apparently excommunicated from my family in the late 1960s because she married a black man. White people aren't the only people who are racist against POC - even POC of one race/culture can be racist against POC of another race/culture, sadly.
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#8
It was a “we need to stop right now” feeling. We stayed at my in laws the night before and decided to leave early am. I famously do not really eat breakfast but this particular morning I was damn near begging my husband to stop for breakfast. I didn’t care where literally any place that sold food. Pulled into a bojangles about 5 miles from our apartment. Sat in the drive thru about ten minutes and headed home. We pulled into our complex a few minutes after 8 am to see police cars.
Because my neighbors argued with a man the night before and the man came back and shot up the quadplex 17 times. In broad daylight. At 8 am where I would’ve been sitting if we didn’t stop for food
Rose C. Walker 4 months ago
You're really lucky your husband agreed to stop just 5 miles from home! Most guys would say, we're almost home, we can just eat when we get home.
#9
My husband & I once stayed at a cabin in the woods. Came back from dinner & someone been in the cabin. The front door that was *locked* was now open, another door that was closed was open, things had been moved but not stolen — and only a few so it was like they’d tried to retrace steps but forgotten to reset small things, not like a thief had ransacked it. The vibes were MAJORLY off. We both just looked at each other & knew, so we packed & left immediately, driving through the night to get home.
It was the creepiest feeling. Really felt like we were being watched and they were going to come back when we were sleeping. The relief we felt when we were safely locked in the car and driving away was palpable.
Luke Branwen 4 months ago
The photo is like "When you order Timothy Chalamet and Sophie Turner from TEMU"
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
Laughed out loud at this, it was the first thought in my mind too.
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Nikole 4 months ago
Ha, they have episodes for any eventuality. Ever see the one where Wil Wheaton (my husband) played a psycho motel owner?
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#10
My band was hired by a very wealthy couple to play a 4th of July party at their personal residence (large main house, pool, guest house, golf course on site etc, it was a whole ordeal). Upon arrival at the house, the husband offered to give me and our sound tech’s girlfriend a tour of the house (some of the guys had been there before, so the fact that he only asked us two didn’t immediately alarm me). We eventually ended up in the basement walking through his wine cellar, when he started making comments about how the cellar is a great place to bring girls with no bra on because it stays so cool down there.
We had driven for 15 hours to play this gig, and for the sake of comfort, I was wearing an XXL tshirt and no bra. When he made that comment, a lightbulb went off in my head and I looked around the room to realize he was standing in front of the only door. The other girl in the room made eye contact with me and we kept as much distance between us and that man as we could My boyfriend at the time was the band’s frontman, and thankfully, he came downstairs looking for us, and we all went upstairs.
That man proceeded to sexually harass me for the remainder of our time there, making comments about how he noticed I was braless when I arrived, and how nice my breasts are etc in front of his wife, my boyfriend, the band, everyone. No one knew what to do because we knew he had guns and plenty of friends around if we decided to pick a fight.
We played our show and then left as soon we could. I spent the entire time hyper-aware of my own body and feeling unsafe in my own skin, because if he noticed my breasts in that large tshirt, it was clear there was nothing I could wear that would “hide” my body from him. I think about that moment in the cellar all the time, and how lucky we were that my former partner came downstairs when he did.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 months ago (edited)
you could have stayed out of sight. put on a bra and a sweatshirt. stood between two security guards. you could have protected yourself more. women need to know how to take care of themselves in this world where men are not held responsible for their actions. Even when an attack is reported they say a woman was attacked not a man attacked a woman. be safe out there.
#11
Last Halloween, I went to a house party with a friend. It was all fun until around 3 AM, when some guys showed up. The vibe was immediately off but no one seemed to notice. After a couple of minutes, I told my friend we should leave. She didn’t want to go at first, but I convinced her. The next day, we found out there was a shooting at the party right after we left.
Kitty 🥀 4 months ago
Mexico? Jamaica? Columbia? If you go by shootings by population ratio, there are a c**p ton of countries on the list before the U.S.
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j2tg92dgpq 4 months ago
Was at a party during high school years where some dude passed out drunk on the couch and some other guy shaved one of his eyebrows off, drunk dude woke up and saw what happened, went to his car for a baseball bat and beat the other guy to death in front of everybody.
John Bennett 3 months ago
I was supposed to go to a party called my friend to see if we were still going and he said he had a bad feeling and we shouldn't go, the next morning four of our friends were shot with a AK-47 and one of them died
#12
I was walking downtown late one night after work when a car going the opposite direction passes and a man shouts at me from the window of the car. There was a street light behind me, and he gets in the turn lane. I get the feeling like I need to find a place to hide but the sidewalk just goes under a bridge that’s still pretty visible to the street. I start walking faster, he passes me and pulls over in a parking lot right on the corner of the intersection in front of me. I turn before I hit that corner and he’s out on the street again. I feel pretty certain at this point he’s following me, so I call a friend of mine and start c*****g through streets tryna lose him. Lotta streets are one way so he can’t directly follow but he keeps passing me. I try to stay on streets with large groups of people and am running at one point tryna get to a bar I know with a back I can leave out of. He passes one more time before I’m in, waited him out for an hour just to be safe
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 4 months ago
Police don’t care about you, they wouldn’t bother.
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ILoveMySon 4 months ago (edited)
When I was 12, I was jogging in a suburban neighborhood at dusk. Two men started following me in a car. I ran through backyards hurdling fences until I got home. I should have called authorities when I got home.🤦♂️
Ginger ninja 4 months ago
Its not crying, its c u t t i n g through streets
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Seán Hannan 3 weeks ago
If I splurge on BP Premium can I get uncensored posts, so random words don't have a bunch of asterisks?
Lululoohoo 4 months ago
would have been perfectly acceptable too to go up to large groups of people on those streets & let them know what's going on.
#13
Booked an airbnb in Oregon last minute because we needed to wash our clothes after travelling for a month straight. Got to the area suddenly, I felt nauseous and my sister noticed how shady the area was, went inside, met the host (who lived upstairs with no separation) saw tons of saws, large barrells, and SUPER clean workspace in the garage. We RAN out of there. Always trust the gut - reported to airbnb and kept checking up, they removed him after some sketch reviews!!!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I guess OP and their sister thought that the AirBnB's host would k!ll whomever stayed there, saw their bodies to pieces, and stuff them into the barrels?
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Karen Bryan 4 months ago
I have never understood why anybody uses or trusts AirB&B. Go to a motel, for Heaven's sake!
Ellinor she/they/elle 4 months ago (edited)
A hyper-clean garage in a shady area, saws and big barrels = possible mùrder house. Look up Jeffrey Dahmer, he had barrels in his apartments with his one-night-stands inside.
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#14
I was at a football game in highschool it was my school vs my cousins school. The game was at her schools stadium which was a few streets over from her house. As we were getting ready to leave I felt butterflies in my stomach but ignored it and we continued walking once we got there one of my cousins and I went to my schools side while she and another of my cousins went to her schools side. At halftime I called her so I could switch sides and meet up with her but that butterfly feeling became Even more intense. Thats when I looked up and seen a large crowd that sat at the top of the stadium run from one side to another unbeknownst to me that was the first shooting.
I was still on the phone with my cousin as I walked into the concession part (I forgot what it’s called) when I started seeing it get overly crowded. Again that gut feeling hit me and this time I felt like my head was spinning and if I didn’t leave at that moment something bad was going to happen possibly to me. So I left And by the time I made it it to ihop I was getting back to back calls saying it had been a shooting and they had the football players including my boyfriend at the time laid out on the field.
4 people ended up being shot along with one of my cousins who had came at a later time than us and all I could think about was what if I’d ignored that feeling one more time
Multa Nocte 4 months ago
But EVERYONE needs a gun in case someone comes on a high school football field, for Christ's Sake.
zububonsai 4 months ago (edited)
Yup, I hereby offer some commata and punctuation marks we have in abundance in German to sprinkle them onto this word salad for better digestion: , , , , , : ! . . . .
Load More Replies... 🤣🤣🤣 (Me while reading bp) 4 months ago
It's so shocking to hear things like this happen on a regular basis
Kitty 🥀 4 months ago
I hate that the OP doesn’t say whether or not anyone survived being shot. I tried to click on the source link but it didn’t work. So, did her cousins and boyfriend all die, orrrrr??
Kitty 🥀 4 months ago
Edit: I got the source pulled up, but OP never responded to people asking if they survived. Makes me think it’s a made up story.
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#15
At a hotdog place in Chicago I felt something was off and left, my friend (who I tried to get to come leave with me) got stabbed not more than 5 minutes later.
Michelle C 4 months ago
I hope the friend survived and was able to make a police report that led to the perpetrator's arrest and appropriate charges!
#16
In the subway, late night, at the terminus waiting for the subway to start, and there's absolutely no one in the train or outside. I get inside a wagon and sit next to the door, just in case. A few minutes later, a man walks in through the last door in the opposite direction and sits, far, but facing me. I do a quick safety glance and notice he's staring at me. I don't want to make eye contact but I check again and he's very calm, hands together on his knees, eyes locked on me I pretend to go look outside for directions, walk towards the head of the train, wait a bit, then enter another wagon. Still no one anywhere. After a few minutes, the same man enters the wagon and sits, a few meters away, staring at me. There's something cold and methodical in his behavior. This time I stared back showing I clearly saw him, stood up and stomped my foot on the ground, turned to leave and he said "No, you don't leave, I'm the one who leaves". And he left.
Joanne Hudson 4 months ago (edited)
Direct eye contact. You will remember what he looks like and you aren't easily intimidated. Direct eye contact is threatening. I use it while walking alone, with a smile and Hi. I've never had a problem but don't know if I would have. Stomping helped.
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Not sure I believe this? Station guard to blow whistle and give the driver the heads up to leave? Where was that guard? You stayed in train instead of leaving station altogether?
Nina 4 months ago
A subway isn't a train. Leaving the station can lead to you being followed to a different location.
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#17
When my son was about 3 years old I drove him one night to see the Christmas tree outside a little church nearby. I’d never taken him there before but knew they’d do an amazing job with the lights each year. We pulled into the parking lot near an adjacent house and my son said “Ok mom but we need to leave right now because a very bad man is going to come out of that house in a minute.” I have no idea what vibe his little mind picked up on, but I didn’t question it for a second! Got the heck out!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I'm not sure a 3-year-old really said all that OP claims they said, but I do believe even children can get "gut feelings" and should be listened to, within reason.
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#18
A few years ago my friends and I were driving in Cherokee Park in Louisville KY, and pulled over in one of the parking lots to smoke. It was around midnight. An old man pulled up in the car next to us, we already thought he was a bit creepy.. then he picked up a curly haired almost clown like wig from his passenger seat and started to put it on… we had the car on and backing up before he even finished getting on his head.. we drove away so fast
#19
In 2023 me and my husband stayed in a hotel in front of the shore at Hollywood beach. We spent the whole morning/afternoon cycling the city and when we came Back to the hotel we should decide going to the beach or hotel’s swimming pool. I felt to my gut that we should definitly go to the pool and some minutes later we heard the shooting coming from the beach. The News reported later that 9 people were injured and the police were looking for the 3 gunmen.
I just can’t help myself by thinking about our famílias in Brazil receiving the terrible news if we decided to stay.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
Hollywood Beach in Florida, not Hollywood in California. It's just north of Miami.
Colleen Glim 4 months ago
Thank you for clarifying. I’ve been to Hollywood in California. It’s a bit away from the beach
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Went out with my bother and mom to a tavern for some burgers. As soon as I walked in the door I was like, ‘nah guys this is where trouble starts’ I got the same feeling from that place as I did right before shit went down when I was deployed overseas. Blood pumping in my ears, neck hair standing straight up, cold sweat. We left immediately and went somewhere else. A week later somebody got kicked out for being drunk so they got their AR and shot the place up.
Jane Hower 3 months ago
Air Rifle, very common. NOT AN ASSULT RIFLE!!! Get your terminoligy right before you speak out.
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Kim Steffen 4 months ago
If we're not supposed to drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?
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Jane Alexander 4 months ago
Big war type gun AR-15 Big ugly damned things nobody needs but the insecure 'have to have'.
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A friend and I were heading to find a geocache, which wasn't far from my grandma's. On the very street of my grandma's house, some old white dude in a white van, no windows into the back of it, slowed down, rolled his window down, and began talking to us. What made it worse is that he was asking us about chr*stian beliefs. He asked us if we were involved with chruch and what not, but what REALLY creeped me out, was that he specifically asked "are you sure you're going to heaven". My friend had his bike, one of us on each side, and I kept pressing back on the handlebars to make him step back, and this f****r had turned off his engine to keep speaking with us.
I'm not religious, for reasons like this and much more reasons. So as soon as this guy, in a white van with NO WINDOWS, began asking about ch*stian s**t, I knew I had to diffuse the situation and gtfo of there. Definitely should have reported to the police, or caught his license plate, but I (unfortunately) didn't.
David Morgan 4 months ago
To those in the comments below who are arguing that this is a relatively normal practice, and that vans with no rear windows are also relatively common - yes, that is fair. Equally, those actions and that type of vehicle are common to dangerous people with bad intentions. Waiting to find out which is which is VERY foolish. Also, if you DO have good intentions, maybe try not to share characteristics with serial killers and you might get much more positive results.
Erin Van Atten 4 months ago
If he was a cult person, he was still very dangerous. OP was smart to get away
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RM 4 months ago (edited)
Being tolerant of other people's beliefs goes both ways though - if I have to be respectful of a person's religious belief, then they have to respect my belief that it's all fiction and not try to inflict their religion onto me.
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#22
I was meeting an acquaintance of my new partner, this very small ex military man. I have a lot of tattoos and people often try to touch them without asking me first. When he reached out to touch me my entire stomach flipped over and I could feel such a dark presence from him. It was so terrifying. Even through he was half my size I instinctively stepped back away from him and told my partner later he scared the fuck out of me. I could tell he didn’t see women as human
Bartlet for world domination 4 months ago
If the story doesn't include the gut feeling turning out to be justified, it's just someone having a feeling.
Alexia 4 months ago
I'd rather not wait to see if it was justified. "Having a feeling" doesn't appear out of the blue; it means your subconscious picked that something is off, that your rational brain can't grasp.
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Awkward lady 4 months ago
Who touches people's tattoos without their permission? And why would you do that?!
Mabelbabel 4 months ago
Same sort of people who think its acceptable to touch pregnant people's bumps without asking. I've never been pregnant myself, but several of my girl friends have complained of total strangers asking them personal questions like due dates and baby gender while attempting to rub their bump. I've also got a friend who has 4c curly hair that she mostly wears natural. I've witnessed a few people trying to touch it in public to feel the texture-mostly older women, for some reason. There is a certain type of person who think that you take your body out in public, the public has a right to touch it and comment on it any way they want to.
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Katiekat 4 months ago
Barlet is JUST SO WRONG IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY. That totally discounts women's lived, actual experience, and trusting your gut is ALWAYS right every single time. WRONG WRONG WRONG!
Bartlet for world domination 4 months ago
I'm a woman myself, and I didn't say you shouldn't trust your gut, did I?
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Calane E. Vanya 4 months ago
trusting your gut is perfectly fine. I wouldn't say that she exaggerated. but that's not an interesting story.
#23
I was parked in a car with 3 friends in one friend's driveway in front of their apartment building. I locked the car doors because we were sitting a little longer than planned. Moments later a guy walked up to the car and tried to open the door. He's like "what y'all doing out here?" I calmly turned the car on and shifted into reverse while he was standing there. Drove around a few blocks and then dropped that friend off so we could leave.
LinkTheHylian 4 months ago
Sounds like OP and their friends were the sketchy-looking ones in this story.
Daniela Lavanza 4 months ago
Maybe but the fact that the guy tried to open the door immediatly, without even knocking at the window to tell them they shouldn't park there is weird. What would have he done if the door opened?
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#24
In a bar in Islington. Sensed something was going to kick off and started to leave. Huge gang fight started, I almost got accidentally bottled as riot police stormed in. Ended up being a witness as people died. I just *felt* uneasy all of a sudden.
Rebecca McManus 4 months ago
Islington isn't that bad, 30 years ago you might have been slapped by an aspiring yuppie but I believe it's settled down quite a lot since then
Jude Corrigan 4 months ago
That is the definition of a British understatement right there.
Load More Replies... Pedantic Panda 4 months ago
Riot police for a bar fight? I know it's Islington but that's a quick response.
#25
Literally saved my life. Spent the night at my boyfriend’s apartment while in college. Got up in the morning to drive back to campus to attend class. He begged me to stay a little longer. My gut feeling was literally screaming for me to leave. Voices telling me to leave. I listened and left despite my boyfriend asking me to please stay longer or skip class. Not even an hour later, he was robbed. He was shot. While I was in class, he called me from the hospital. I know that was divine protection.
BAN CAPITAL LETTERS 4 months ago
Maybe the boyfriend had a gut feeling too, and that unease was what made him want his partner to stay 😬
Chris Will 2 months ago
Ahhhhh... The lord works in completely awful ways. GOD'S SUPER COOL TO-DO LIST 1) Create a feeling in one of my humans which is 70% terror, 20% pleading and 10% disbelief and confusion. 2) Send some more of my more heavy handed creations to steal his stuff. (Note: Don't skimp on the firearms lol!!) 3) Give my guy a 60/40 chance of living/or not. Make sure he's drugged up, in pain and lonely/defeated enough to first-chance call the girl who left him. 4) Give the girlfriend the chutzpah to write a post. But not in a nice, concerned way. Make it more like it's a win for her... BUT mainly me, being the architect of the whole sitch. PLUS: it IS a weekday, and my workload has been bonkers! Ugh, I tell you, you have to find the laughs y'self.
#26
Sooo… this isn’t my story it belongs to one of my exs but.. he was shopping at one of our local grocery spots with a couple of friends back in my old hometown and saw this man pacing back and forth. He described him “in glasses dressed in all black attire” looking worried. He said he got this hair raising feeling that something was off so he told his friends it was time to go and they agreed. They where making the decision to head up to a mall we had out there and when they finally finished loading the groceries in completely they headed to the mall and got stopped at the entrance by police because the Walmart in the same parking area was being shot up…. As all of you may know or if you haven’t.. this was the Walmart shooting that ended fatally in El Paso tx… when my ex had turned on the tv low and behold it was the guy he had seen earlier.. what’s even crazier was my ex ended up getting arrested to serve out his warrant and was in the same unit as him all within the same month
charronne1 4 months ago
My husband and I, both Canadians, were in that very same Walmart the night before, traveling home from Dallas after an art exhibition. We decided not to overnight in their parking lot, as we often did when traveling, just felt this strong urge to get out of Texas! We’re very glad we did when we saw the news the next day
#27
I came home from work on a random Monday & my husband was off work & he suggested we take our 7 month old & our dog to the creek for the first time. We didn't make it the ten minute call before I had someone calling me saying our house was on fire.
#28
My husband and our friends were hanging out at a lake in Vermont late at night. When a random man parked about 100 yards away from us. Slowly and quietly walked up behind us and then just stood directly behind us before he started talking. I’m pretty sure if we didn’t get out of there when we did, we were all going to be unalived.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I agree, but when you have to start being pretty clever in order to post the word "múrdered" without it getting censored, it's sometimes easier to just type "unalived" XD
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Bill Swallow 4 months ago
In some of Larry Niven's science fiction stories, people have taken to using words like 'bleep' as profanity, mimicking real profanity getting 'bleeped out' on a soundtrack. The joke is that it has become so pervasive that the word 'bleep' had begun to be censored... How long until BP starts asterisking-out 'unalived'?
#29
When we were on a class trip in around 7th grade our accommodation was located on top of a hill. Down the hill was a little spot with 2 benches at a small non-paved pathway that led into a forest. We were 4 girls hanging around there, just talking while we had free time. For some reason I started feeling watched out of the forest, I was so uncomfortable. I got hyperaware of my surroundings and the feeling got worse and worse. I urged the other girls to go back and after some convincing, we did. Nothing happened, but this feeling was very scary. Everything inside me literally screamed at me to leave right away. Maybe it was just a feeling without any reason. But I'd rather listen to it once too many times than end up hurt.
There was no other single soul around us who could have helped.
#30
There was a meteor shower that was going to be viewable if we got just outside the city (Fresno, CA). I was with my gf and her two kids, and we drove.out to the foothills to see the shower. We found a spot, set up chairs and settled in to watch the show. I had closed my eyes and was listening to the white noise of bugs/wind/etc.Suddenly, something seemed off. The kids were still playing, my gf was texting on her phone. But the hair on my neck was up.
That's when I noticed - there was no more sound. Dead, empty silence. No wind, no crickets, no birds, no bugs. I calmly stood up, asked her to gather the kids, and slowly packed up the car. It took a couple of minutes for her to notice, but when she did, we bugged the fuck out. To this day it feels like we closed the door just moments before something could grab my leg.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
Yeah, well, Fresno :p It can be a pretty high-crime-rate city. However, if they were outside the city limits, it was probably a mountain lion, which are everywhere in Central and Southern California XD
SkyBlueandBlack 4 months ago
Fresneck. Could've been a coyote, too. Some of them are really bold.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
If the whole world around me suddenly went quiet, I would be very, very nervous.
Jacquie Carr 2 months ago
If nature goes quiet, there's a predator animal nearby; they don't go quiet for humans
#31
My date and I went to the movies in Atlanta/Atlantic Station in the middle of the afternoon on a week day. We go into the screen room and sit down. No one else is there. My date goes to the concession stand to get snacks. As soon as he leaves a young man comes in and sits right behind me. I immediately get up and leave the room. I’m speed walking to the concession stand to meet my date. He ask what’s wrong, I tell him what happen. When I turn around towards the screen room I see the kid walking out of the room and he exits out of the side entrance of the theater.
#32
OK, my friend and I were in this cul-de-sac in the middle of nowhere surrounded by fields and it was like our little smoke spot,we were just chilling and it was like the dead of night. We’re laying back high as fuck livin life having a deep ass conversation bawling our eyes out and out of nowhere this truck comes come down the road and they park right behind me and get out of their car and right before he comes up to my car. I lock it cause I’m like oh I should probably have my car locked
he pulls on the passengar side door to open it, and im like wtf and then he comes to MY side (the drivers side) and tries to open my door too, bitch when i tell you i zoomed tf outta there
OH and mind you, another time we were at this spot we decided to leave and took the wrong way out, and crossed over this old abandoned military gaurd post in the middle of feilds & no where, and as we cross over my friend and i both get this eerie feeling like we’re being watched, we genuinely felt like we were in danger the moment we crossed that post, i told her whip that thang around and get outta here
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I live in a relatively-quiet beach tourist town in Southern California and I made it a habit years ago to lock my car doors the second I'm in my car. It's near-instinctual now. I can't imagine just hanging out parked anywhere while my car's unlocked. Feels majorly scary even to think about it!
Pedantic Panda 4 months ago
Reminds me of trying to smoke weed in North Ireland in the 90s when the were real reasons to be paranoid. If you were going to be caught, you'd hope it would be the cops.
#33
One year I had not planned a Halloween costume, but a girl in one of my classes invited me to a party so I was trying to think of something last minute.
I was a student at a cowboy college that had a strong athletics program - we had a big rodeo team and our baseball, soccer, and football programs were also very successful.
I also worked part time as an assistant to the local mixed-practice vet, a stern and quiet man in his early 70s.
I was in the truck with the Doc heading out to a ranch call on Halloween, and he asked me what I was going to dress up as. I hadn't actually figured anything out, but said, "I'm going as the scariest thing I can think of... you!" He roared with uncharacteristic laughter and I realized it was actually brilliant - easy to assemble, and I was going to a rodeo team party so most of the students knew our local small-town vet (and his reputation for being, uh, terse).
When we got back to the clinic the Doc gave me an old surgical gown, cap, mask, booties, and a handful of 60cc syringes with 16g needles.
After work I hit the dollar tree for a pair of glasses similar to his, went home and filled the syringes with vodka, snipped the tips off the needles so they wouldn't be too sharp, and headed over to the party.
The girl who invited me didn't show up, and I didn't know a single person there - it was all rodeo and football guys.
I am INCREDIBLY shy, but I was all dressed up and had nothing else to do, and I realized that with my costume on I was unrecognizable. The feeling of complete anonymity gave me confidence, so I slid one of the needles through my lip piercing, attached one of my vodka syringes, and walked quietly around the party slowly injecting sips of vodka through my lip.
Several guys asked who I was. I said, "I'm Doc R!" They'd reply, "I see that, but who are you when you aren't Doc R?" I refused to answer - they wouldn't have known who I was anyway; I literally did not know a soul there - and eventually they decided it was hilarious and stopped asking.
I walked around telling people to "open wide, it's time for your shot!" and squirting vodka into their mouths from a different, needleless syringe. Overall I noticed the cowboys found it funny and were down to "take shots" from a stranger, while the football players found it creepy and avoided me with suspicion.
At some point one of the guys produced a Hot Shot (a small cattle prod), and the cowboys stood around shocking each other and laughing.
Then one of them shocked a football guy with no warning, which earned him a punch in the face. That started a scuffle, until one of the cowboys ran to his truck and came back with the oldest, jankiest rifle in the world and started waving it around, at which point I slipped out the door and walked home.
he party was the subject of a ton of gossip the next day - no one was seriously injured, but it was quite the drama. Several times I heard people asking, "Who was that guy dressed as the vet?" (I'm a lady person, but my costume was baggy and there were no other girls at the party so it was a fair assumption). I didn't say a word.
The girl who'd invited me apologized and I said no problem, when I didn't hear from her I went to a different party instead.
Never told anyone.
When that rifle came out. No one was hurt but I wasn't sticking around to find out.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
I agree: the fuck? XD And am I the only one who thinks OP really added to the overall weird creepiness of the party as well? XD "I'm super shy, but I started acting really creepy and started trying to force alcohol/mystery liquid into other peoples' mouths!" No wonder the football players thought it was creepy... because it WAS. That's borderline r@pey.
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spacer 4 months ago
so... you, a girl, got invited by another girl who you barely knew to a party but didnt show up - meaning you were alone with only guys, not wondering why no other girls were around. oh boy, im happy she managed to cover herself up that could have ended poorly. your guts didnt save you from the worst, your costume did.
Audrey Malone 4 months ago
There's a butt-ton of context to this story, but it isn't maling anything clearer. How is this a "got a bad gut feeling and had to leave" story?
#34
I pulled into a drive thru at an ATM and I tried to withdrawal money, twice. The first time it said “please try again”. The second time, the message on the screen said “Come back tomorrow”. I got that feeling and just drove home. Found out the next day there was a robbery at the convenience store that was beside the bank - right around the time I was there.
#35
I was waiting for someone outside the bathroom at the back of a Lowe’s when everyone (all the customers and employees) started running past me quietly to the back of the store past the restrooms looking very, very scared.
Someone pulled a gun near the registers, no one was hurt, but running from what you think is an active shooter situation is surreal.
Sara Frazer 4 months ago
I don't think this is a "gut-feeling" situation when there's visibly something very obviously wrong (tons of scared people running past)
#36
Me and a friend went to get a TV from some guys house that we found on Craigslist. We got there and he had us come inside saying he had several options of the model we were looking for. Inside it was packed with kids toys. This guy was 40 or older. Had a miniature train track going along the perimeter of his home. He told us the TVs were in his basement. At this point, the movie “Zodiac” came to mind.
I was mad when my friend agreed to go down to his basement. I just kept my eyes on this guy the whole time. Obviously, I’m not dead. But the 90 seconds it took to go down to his basement, pick the TV, and get out was awful.
spacer 4 months ago
miniature trains is a pretty common hobby tho so i dont see whats odd about that. he could simply be a collector
#37
Funny that you asked, last Friday a neighbour and friend of mine were invited for some drinks by our neighbour and his girlfriend. It was polite, nice talk and music too. Getting to know one another. 2 men showered up, came said hi think they were scouting then came back 2 hours later. One of them lives 2 floors above us. They acted like it was their place, drinking our wine and making all sorts of complaints and remarks about everything even changing the music. I noticed my mood shift and texted my neighbour I'd she needed to, we can leave. An hour later abruptly she said we need to go, something wasn't right. So I did. These guys followed us home. So now they knew where we lived but refused to step away so we hurrisly said our goodbyes and each got indoors until I heard someone try to opén our doors. Well our Landlady did nothing about it, didn't take my complaints seriously. I'm currently house hunting.
tameson 4 months ago
Again, why the downvote? I don't even know who was hosting the party, let alone why two uninvited guests were allowed to walk in and act like jerks.
Load More Replies... spacer 4 months ago
why did you go directly back home and split up knowing you were being followed??? but also you recognized one of the dudes as a neighbor which means you two have seen each other before then. these people would die first in a horror movie
zububonsai 4 months ago
Yup, dear young readers, if you ever find yourselves followed by two strangers, you will STAY together (don't split up!) and walk anywhere but NOT to your homes (so they won't know where you live, d**n 🤦🏻♀️), best option: stay in crowded areas/streets and walk into the nearest police station (if that's a safe option in your country).
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Drove up to a gas station at 1 AM and saw two guys walking up to the door wearing ski masks. Left and went somewhere else. Ended up hearing about an armed robbery at that location around 1 AM the next day
Saber4 2 months ago
If the ski masked people saw them calling the OP probably would’ve been shot as well
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MissMePhoenix 4 months ago
Thaaaaat's not a *gut-feeling* that's an *i-saw-a-crime-about-to-happen-and-didn't-do-anything-about-it*...."feeling"
John Bennett 3 months ago
Hi what an idiot what if they killed the cashier you could have called the police
#39
My new bride and I were moving to our first apartment in ATL. We stopped at a rest stop in SC and there were people running around, people acting real creepy, and I looked at her and said, "Let's get the the hell out of here!" We drove through the night to our new apartment, laid out blankets on the floor, and slept. Bad vibes!!!
LinkTheHylian 4 months ago
Bad vibes from a bunch of hicks? I never thought I'd hear of such a thing.
#40
2022 Brisbane Floods. 2nd story house. All was fine until it was almost at the top of the first floor. That panic to leave hit like a gut punch.
Kit Black 4 months ago
The panic to leave the flood zone didn't kick in until the floodwaters were almost to the top of the first floor??? Your panic button does not work properly
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
And unless you've a boat or a helipad with helicopter on the house's roof, you're not leaving anyway at that point D:
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WalterWhiteSavannah 4 months ago
I don't think this requires any special gut feeling. If you see the water rise that much and need to rely on your gut instinct to tell you somethings wrong.... well... that's not good.
Kayla White 4 months ago
There was plenty of time to leave our properties in the 2022 floods 🙄
Gracie Mae 4 months ago
hmmm...I'm hoping that there were weather reports, warnings and evac notices?
What do you think ?
Gary 4 months ago
I want to believe these but I have become very cynical to the internet and think that at best these incidents are elaborated on over and over to create these 'facts'. I think the people presenting them believe it, but I don't believe its whats went down at all.
XenoMurph 4 months ago
Same. Also, "I felt cold and went to get my hoodie, if I didn;t I would have died" suggests some power made them move and saved them. How are they more valuable than the people who died that day? What force saved them but didn't save the others? Were the others of less worth? Life is freaky and random. maybe some other guy who moved to get his phone died because he moved, but he wasn;t alive to tell the story of how special he was. Life is random, good people die, bad people live. You don;t have a guardian angel. You just got lucky. Be good and use that luck to help people.
Load More Replies... BrunoVI 4 months ago (edited)
I would never criticize anyone for getting out when their gut feelings tell them there is danger. But so many lack any reason to believe there had been actual danger besides that gut feeling, so was it really danger, or was OP just making presumptions about people that were different. Don't get me wrong: if you don't feel safe because a guy from a windowless van starts talking to you, I don't care if it's about Christ or Marx or their local congressman; you have every right to get the hell out of there as fast as you can. I mean fine, I'll eat the candy myself.
Joanne Hudson 4 months ago
I believe in karma. I don't remember every little thing but back before caller ID if someone I knew was calling, I always knew who it was. My life is full of "precognition"; I just don't talk about it. Especially to folk who don't understand it.
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QuincyForrest 4 months ago
Went camping, early to mid November back in 1985-6, up in the Sierras above Fresno, on the road into Yosemite. Beautiful weather. Went up side road to Forest Service campground. Woke up in the tent to wind whishing through the trees. Got a feeling, told my girlfriend we had to leave "right now!" Fifteen minutes of pulling the tent down and putting in the back of her two-wheel drive pickup and the snow was falling. Six inches of snow on the highway before we crested the highest elevation on the way out. Massive early season snow storm, weather service missed it. Three fishermen got caught in it and died of exposure. Girlfriend and I got lucky because I had a "feeling", and I don't much believe in that stuff, but this time, yeah.
XenoMurph 4 months ago
I' guess that you felt an unusual change in the weather/humidity/air pressure. Something you felt was unusual enough to make you feel uneasy. Especially when the combination of things is something you've not felt before. Our subconscious is better than our conscious mind sometimes. I think this is particularly true if you work outdoors. Our senses tell us much more than we realise if only we listen, as you did.
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Tonyah Mcanelly 4 months ago
Some of these are just creepy as heck. they would make for a good story plot in a horror show or horror novel
Rick Murray 4 months ago
Needs another option: Yes, but I don't know if it was right because I left post-haste.
trixiefly11 4 months ago
My husband had a literal "gut" feeling that possibly saved his and our children's lives. He was outside our rental house playing basketball in a side yard with the kids (all under 5). He suddenly had to go to the bathroom. The kids being too young to leave outside unsupervised had to go inside with him. While he was in the bathroom he heard a large crash. The wind picked up and a large tree in our yard fell right where they would have been playing.
Pferdchen 4 months ago
I visited Arlington Cemetery over Memorial Day Weekend in 2018. This was when the family separation policy at the southern border first got a lot of news. I got this gut-wrenching feeling that America was a failed experiment and that all those soldiers had died fighting for a lost cause. Unfortunately, I didn't follow my instincts and am still here in America.
Gary 4 months ago
I want to believe these but I have become very cynical to the internet and think that at best these incidents are elaborated on over and over to create these 'facts'. I think the people presenting them believe it, but I don't believe its whats went down at all.
XenoMurph 4 months ago
Same. Also, "I felt cold and went to get my hoodie, if I didn;t I would have died" suggests some power made them move and saved them. How are they more valuable than the people who died that day? What force saved them but didn't save the others? Were the others of less worth? Life is freaky and random. maybe some other guy who moved to get his phone died because he moved, but he wasn;t alive to tell the story of how special he was. Life is random, good people die, bad people live. You don;t have a guardian angel. You just got lucky. Be good and use that luck to help people.
Load More Replies... BrunoVI 4 months ago (edited)
I would never criticize anyone for getting out when their gut feelings tell them there is danger. But so many lack any reason to believe there had been actual danger besides that gut feeling, so was it really danger, or was OP just making presumptions about people that were different. Don't get me wrong: if you don't feel safe because a guy from a windowless van starts talking to you, I don't care if it's about Christ or Marx or their local congressman; you have every right to get the hell out of there as fast as you can. I mean fine, I'll eat the candy myself.
Joanne Hudson 4 months ago
I believe in karma. I don't remember every little thing but back before caller ID if someone I knew was calling, I always knew who it was. My life is full of "precognition"; I just don't talk about it. Especially to folk who don't understand it.
Load More Replies... QuincyForrest 4 months ago
Went camping, early to mid November back in 1985-6, up in the Sierras above Fresno, on the road into Yosemite. Beautiful weather. Went up side road to Forest Service campground. Woke up in the tent to wind whishing through the trees. Got a feeling, told my girlfriend we had to leave "right now!" Fifteen minutes of pulling the tent down and putting in the back of her two-wheel drive pickup and the snow was falling. Six inches of snow on the highway before we crested the highest elevation on the way out. Massive early season snow storm, weather service missed it. Three fishermen got caught in it and died of exposure. Girlfriend and I got lucky because I had a "feeling", and I don't much believe in that stuff, but this time, yeah.
XenoMurph 4 months ago
I' guess that you felt an unusual change in the weather/humidity/air pressure. Something you felt was unusual enough to make you feel uneasy. Especially when the combination of things is something you've not felt before. Our subconscious is better than our conscious mind sometimes. I think this is particularly true if you work outdoors. Our senses tell us much more than we realise if only we listen, as you did.
Load More Replies... Tonyah Mcanelly 4 months ago
Some of these are just creepy as heck. they would make for a good story plot in a horror show or horror novel
Rick Murray 4 months ago
Needs another option: Yes, but I don't know if it was right because I left post-haste.
trixiefly11 4 months ago
My husband had a literal "gut" feeling that possibly saved his and our children's lives. He was outside our rental house playing basketball in a side yard with the kids (all under 5). He suddenly had to go to the bathroom. The kids being too young to leave outside unsupervised had to go inside with him. While he was in the bathroom he heard a large crash. The wind picked up and a large tree in our yard fell right where they would have been playing.
Pferdchen 4 months ago
I visited Arlington Cemetery over Memorial Day Weekend in 2018. This was when the family separation policy at the southern border first got a lot of news. I got this gut-wrenching feeling that America was a failed experiment and that all those soldiers had died fighting for a lost cause. Unfortunately, I didn't follow my instincts and am still here in America.
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