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Imagine you're in an unfamiliar dingy cafe or on a dark narrow road and in a fraction of a second, your body and mind send you a warning sign that something bad is going to happen. Would you listen to them?
According to University of New South Wales neuroscientist and psychologist Joel Pearson, a lot goes into that sixth sense. "[Your brain is] processing all the things in the environment; the time of day, how well it's lit, how well it's not lit, the pace the person's walking, for example, the shadows, the tone, and a hundred other [details]," he explains.
Call it intuition – a nebulous concept that Pearson has been studying for two and a half decades. As the author of a book called The Intuition Toolkit, he's settled on a definition that says, "It's the learned, positive use of unconscious information for better decisions or actions."
But it's a slippery term; not everyone can put their finger on it. So let's look at a Reddit thread that has plenty of stories to illustrate what Pearson is talking about. Started by platform user TheRealGreedyGoat, it invited people to share the scariest "trust your gut" feeling that they've had. Here are the most upvoted ones.
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#1
I thought my son’s breathing was weird. He was 4 days old. I couldn’t even explain to his doctor what I thought was weird, I just knew it was weird. Took him into the pediatrician and she did a basic look at him, watched him breathe and said he was fine, I’m just “in anxious mommy mode”
yeah okay
following day I take him into the er telling them the same thing. “I don’t know what it is but his breathing is just weird” and boom his oxygen was 72. he ended up staying on supplemental oxygen at home for 2 months. I was crying to one of the nurses and he told me “mom instinct is real and I’ve seen it save a lot of kid’s lives.”.
María Hermida 1 year ago
I think the difference is simple: "how often does it happen?". If you are a normally calm and rational person and suddenly you think something is wrong, you are probably right. If you are always anxious and feel the apocalypse is going to happen in the next two seconds ten times a day, you need anxiety medication. Gut instinct is real, and nobody knows a baby better than its mother.
Chenga Animates 1 year ago
I have a sort of similar story? (not me but my mom) basically I got sick a lot as a baby and my mom was brushed off initially because "babies are sick a lot" (which is true, but I was sick like 75% of the time) IgA deficiency, there really was something there. Moms know.
Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
Same for me. I told the assistant (who, in my country, is nothing like a doctor) my five year old had a crazy cough, sounding like a seal, and also for way too long (months on end). She told me I was too worried and five year olds ‘just have coughs in the winter months’. I kid you not: the SAME afternoon my boy stopped his bicycle, sat down on the street and broke down in tears. He was short of breath. We went to the doctor the next morning, after that straight to the ER, where he was diagnosed with way too low a level of oxygen. Turned out he has asthma. I swear I could strangle that assistant, so nonchalant…
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Yea for this mom. When my son was about 18 months old, he had what seemed like a standard cold but there was something about his eyes that didn't seem right and I knew something was wrong. I took him to the doctor where he was diagnosed with early stage orbital cellulitis, a serious infection of the eye obits. He was immediately given some strong antibiotics and rushed to the closest ER/ED/A&D from where he was admitted to the hospital. Complications of this include meningitis. Listen to your guts moms and dads!
We managed to get in touch with the person who started this discussion, and they were kind enough to have a chat with us about it.
"I love asking Reddit users to share their life stories," TheRealGreedyGoat told Bored Panda.
"This allows me to learn more about people. Since I also have no problem reading all the comments, I find it incredibly interesting to engage with diverse perspectives and experiences."
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#2
In the days of MySpace, a girl I knew through high school extracurriculars posted a vague warning about an active duty sailor she met online who seemed normal but suddenly wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. I messaged her to ask if she was okay and she told me his name, warning me not to engage with him if he tried to contact me. She then mentioned how she had been deleting some of her pics and profile details because she honestly thought he might try to show up where she worked or even at our shared after school activity.
Literally the following week, I had shown up for said extracurricular and was in the process of setting up with a few other people. The girl was in the women’s restroom down a long dark isolated hall far removed from the primary entryway. Out of nowhere, a guy who looked high school-ish in face and build (and could fit in with us only in that sense) but who I had never seen before, showed up and began looking around as if he knew the place and knew what he was after. I was used to other kids around my age dropping by to visit us out of curiosity, but they would normally just stand around awkwardly until approached. This guy’s level of focus struck me as extremely disconcerting and I couldn’t shake this feeling that I needed to tell the girl first and any nearby adult. Because I felt so weirded out, I already knew I didn’t want to talk to him, so I looked at the sign in sheet at the entryway. He was the creeper the girl told me about.
As soon as I knew that he couldn’t take notice of where I was headed, I booked it down the hall toward the women’s restroom where I found the girl and told her what I saw and how I knew it was him. She started crying uncontrollably and I told her to lock the door and that I was going to tell the adults in charge as soon as I could find them. I then found two of the adults and told them what I saw and knew of the situation, the fact that the guy in question was literally just in the other room from us, and that the girl had already locked herself in the bathroom. I was only 15; I don’t know how I stayed so calm. The adults kicked right into action, escorting the guy off the premises and filing a police report.
Brenda 1 year ago
Good for you! What an amazing friend you are! And bravo to her for thinking ahead and telling you!
Arnold Larkins 1 year ago
Both were brave and able to keep the situation under control
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Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
Well done. In crisis situations my brain disconnects from my emotions, which means I stay calm and do what needs to be done. It sounds like you might be the same. It's very useful and in life-or-death situations can keep people alive. It can leave you overwhelmed with emotion when your brain reconnects, though, or your brain can struggle to reconnect if the incident has been particularly traumatic - its important to be aware of this so you can get support to help you handle this (either option). But very well done - and you are a very good friend.
meeeeeeeeeeee 1 year ago
When I was 15 the schools wouldn't do anything about the peados, they were allowed to roam free and rape who they wanted. Glad times have changed
Angelshark 1 year ago
I'm a former sailor, and this guy should be keel hauled (in the old school sense) for acting like that. If you or anyone you know is attacked or threatened by military personnel you can report it to where ever they may be stationed. If they live on a ship, you can still report it to the base security. Just go right up to the front gate and tell the guard.
#3
When I was pregnant, I got bit by a Lyme tick at 28 weeks. Noticed the bullseye and got on antibiotics. My obgyn brushed it off after that, no harm done according to her. When I went to the hospital at 35 weeks to register for delivery (normal procedure here), I mentioned the Lyme but that i took abx.
Next day, they call me and tell me they want to induce at 37 weeks because Lyme can damage the placenta and they would rather not risk it. Oof.
I talked to my obgyn about it and she basically laughed it off telling me not to induce.
My gut instinct told me to induce, so I went with the hospitals advice and had my son at 37 weeks. He was tiny and it was a tough few weeks after that getting him to eat and stuff because he was so tiny and tired.
The hospital sent the placenta to pathology.
It was severely damaged and wouldn’t have held up much longer.
If I had listened to my obgyn, I would have probably lost my son.
Needless to say, I switched obgyns after that.
minnieslave0 1 year ago
Switched your doctor? I'd have gone back to her office and slapped her with the rest of the placenta.
Sunshine124 1 year ago
She could do both, slap with placenta and switch doctors.
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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
At 37 weeks you should have a fully grown baby, being tiny at that gestation age means the placental damage started long before then. Wow! Great instincts.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
Tick disease particularly Borrelia (Lyme is one of the many Borrelia bacteria) is very dangerous. My son is now in his 24th month of intensive treatment for chronic tick disease; he didn't have the bullseye rash. In fact we now know 6 or 7 people with chronic tick disease and none had the bullseye rash.
After going through the replies they'd received, TheRealGreedyGoat noticed a few common themes. Mainly, encounters with strangers or navigating unfamiliar environments.
"When you feel something is wrong about someone or 'creepy,' there's probably a fair reason to listen to it. I’ve read comments saying they had this feeling and ignored it and wished they didn't."
#4
Not me, my grandfather. He used to never wear his seatbelt. One day he's driving around with my mom and suddenly remarks, "I feel like I'm about to go through the windshield" and buckles in. Less than 30 seconds later, as they're going through an intersection, a car blows the red light going like 40mph and slams into my grandpa's side of the car.
He walked away with nothing worse than some fractured ribs and now he always wears his seatbelt.
Cindi Antrobus 1 year ago
My family always wear their seatbelts due to two different car accidents. One my grandmother was hit by a semi doing 90 in a 50 mph and if she did have it one she would have been found 250 yards down the road with her glasses and the other a seatbelt saved my little brother in a rollover we wear our seatbelts even if we are going just down the road. Most accidents happen within 5 miles of your home.
Bubs (he/they) 1 year ago (edited)
I don't consider myself religious (not anymore at least, my family is catholic though), but I still do believe in guardian angels, or at least some sort of unseen force that protects us somehow. There's just so many stories of premonitions like these that it just feels like that to me. Obviously, everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, I just like to think there's some force out there watching over us as best it can. // Quick edit; Instincts are awesome, and an amazing product of human evolution. I'm not trying to say we don't have em, not at all. But maybe, in cases like the OP's grandpa's case, where it's just such a specific premonition, maybe there's an outside force that influences our instincts to help us, yknow? IDK, just my thoughts.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
To this day, my ex doesn't know why he buckled up one night many moons ago. These were back in his Bad Boy days. He rebelled against anything and everything. "No seat belt can hold me! Too awkward when you're driving. Who needs 'em?" Well, one night, after he and his buddy did a bad thing (stole some car stereos), he belted up before they left the scene. Trust me, this was not his first rodeo, he'd been in plenty of police chases before. Well, someone was looking out for him that night. There was a chase and a crash. His buddy didn't make it. 40 years later, he's a completely different man, a veritable pillar and respected member of his community. Wear your seat belts, kids! And stay out of trouble.
#5
At school there was an event with a little buffet line. I was in line next to one of my classmates I didn’t know well. Nothing happened. Might’ve said a word or two to him. I went to sit down next to my now-husband. We hadn’t been dating long. He whispered that I should never be alone with the classmate that was next to me in line. I pushed him for more- did he know him? He said no, never seen him before, but he could tell he was a bad dude. Couldn’t really explain it.
Later that year we learned he r*ped at least 7 classmates.
Husband said he’s only gotten that feeling a few times but it always pans out. He just can read criminal sociopaths or something. We listen to that gut feeling when it happens.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
I knew Kevin Spacey wasn't kosher the first time I saw him on screen. He gave me what I can only describe as the "screaming heebies". I seldom get that feeling about people but I'm always right when I do, actor or person in real life. And before people start going, "He was found innocent," two things: 1. 'innocent' isn't the same as 'not guilty' and 2. OJ was acquitted too.
BEDE 1 year ago
Well, innocent is better than not guilty. Not defending him, and I think he’s guilty, but I think you got those two mixed up
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Mirolfur Grafarson 1 year ago
How the f*** did he rape so many classmates and it wasnt publicly known that he is that kind of monster???
Reggae-Musik 1 year ago (edited)
I get those gut feelings, too. And dang if I ain't always right... sadly
Caffeine72 1 year ago
I've had a lot of friends use me as a sort of "crazy detector" for potential boy/girl friends. Most I like, but the ones I warned them about always turned out to be very bad people.
Many do. 70 percent of adults in the UK, for example, always listen to their instincts, with 35 percent physically getting a "gut feeling" about situations, a recent poll of 2,000 Brits has revealed.
Nearly one in five rely on their intuition to tell them if something’s wrong regarding their health and two in five follow this "gut-guru" to guide them when it comes to trusting their partner.
#6
I’ve had a few. A coworker in the office next to mine, I just felt one day something was wrong. I asked him if he was okay, he said he was fine, I got him a cookie. He died that night. I’m glad I did something nice for him and I’m glad I asked how he was.
3 dudes I’ve met gave me a gut feeling to steer clear. One then brought a gun to school, called in bomb threats, in jail now, may have m**dered his girlfriend. Another was caught breaking into women’s dorm rooms while they were asleep. The third date r*ped my friend.
I don’t believe in esp. I do believe your brain is gathering a lot of information that you aren’t really focused on that can tell you things you might feel as gut instinct.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
Absolutely this: Your instincts are working even when your brain is not.
El Cucuy 1 year ago
Gut instinct is real. When it hits you it is an overwhelming feeling. And can come out of nowhere. I have had several instances of this happening to me and it has never been wrong. And it wasn't my brain, it was my entire body sensing something was very bad about a person or situation. It's like a giant siren going off inside your body. Often, within only 1 or 2 seconds of crossing a person's path or being presented with a situation.
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Antony Aston 1 year ago
We subconsciously take in so much information that turns out to be helpful.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
I have had experiences where I have to believe there is more than just gut instinct, although I do believe that too!
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
There was a boy I was driven to befriend I don't know what it was about him he just seemed like he needed me there. I remember trying to always include him, I helped him as he was coming out to his family. And then suddenly one day he was gone suicide due to rejection and bullying.. I still wish I had been able to do more for him. People please teach your children not to be bullies.
Mike Barbadora 1 year ago
What if your coworker was allergic to nuts and the cookie you gave him is what killed him?
Lauren Wilder 1 year ago
anaphylaxis occurs in minutes not hours. If that wa the cause of death it would have been known.
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#7
I noticed pain in my lower back one morning and thought I slept on it wrong or something. Throughout the day it continued and started to feel like when you get kicked in the groin.
Thought to myself it's probably cancer.
Did a self check and didn't think I noticed anything and had my GF do the same and she wasn't sure.
Called a urology office on my gut feeling and got the last appointment before Christmas break. It was cancer but it was super early. Got an orchiectomy a few days later, then some mild chemo a few months later and have been just fine ever since.
EDIT for more information because this blew up:
I had noticed some similar pain that lasted a weekend or so a month or so before the pain that sent me to the doctor. The doctor was very kind considering I walked into his office and said "I think I have cancer." He and fellow both did a gloved hands on exam of both testicles. The decided to do an ultrasound on both testicles next at the same exam. Showed me both images and there was a huge difference between the normal and irregular. The next step was surgery to remove the bad testicle which is called an orchiectomy. Scheduled it for 3 days later with the same doctor in an outpatient surgery center attached to their building. Surgery went well and then I was kind of in limbo for a few months.
The urologist recommended radiation therapy, talked to a radiation oncologist who recommended chemotherapy. Talked to a Chemotherapy oncologist who recommended observation with the urologist. Had a follow up with all three and finally decided to do 2 rounds of carboplatin at a highish dose but over a short period.
Shaved my head into a mohawk expecting to lose my hair but did not and just ended up looking like a goober. Had some medical debt and stupidly paid that over student loans which messed up my credit for a second. Though the experience made me realize how caring and kind and amazing my girlfriend at the time was and we have been together ever since. Married for 7 years now :D 10/10 would do again.
María Hermida 1 year ago
I'm really happy you are fine, and you found a caring, loving person. It's sad that you had to get indebted to get medical treatment. Very, very sad.
Shelby Moonheart 1 year ago
If someone sticks with you and takes care of you when you have a serious illness, they are a keeper.
Dogfacedboy1980 1 year ago
Here comes Johnny with his p****r in his hand he's a one-ball man and he's off to the rodeo!!
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
"Well, allemande left and allemande right! C'mon your f**king dummy get yr right step right" When I did a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" in '81, our stage manager played this over the dressing rooms intercom systems 5 minutes before "places" every night. Always made us laugh. To tell the truth though, I wasn't used to any swearing in a song but still liked it.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
Had one testicle removed. So how did the chemo and radiation affect the other testicle? Just curious?
BEDE 1 year ago
If you’re asking why he had to do more treatment even after the surgery, that’s a standard thing with cancer to prevent it from spreading. Even after the cancerous testicle is removed there could still be cells that might affect other parts of his body and cause more tumors
Load More Replies...TheRealGreedyGoat belongs to the majority; the Redditor also believes intuition can be a reliable guide. "I had this experience too. I was in a forest and the scenery was beautiful. I looked at an area near a cliff I wanted to look out at and got this weird feeling I shouldn't stand there. I reasoned with myself that there were probably ticks. My friend and I talked for a while and then I heard a giant crash. I turned to the spot I was just about to stay at and there was a giant log there. It would have crushed me! And we wouldn't have been able to get help because we were a bit lost."
#8
My dead best friend “visited” me in my dream and ran into her in a grocery store. I remember I was ecstatic to see her and blabbed and she just simply responded “you’re sick” and I woke up. In a few days I found out I had high risk cervical lesions and needed surgery.
Georgia Ireland 1 year ago
My deceased best friend told me he liked the tattoo I got in his memory in a dream like state.
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Ria C. 1 year ago (edited)
My dad visited me in my dream a week before I had my appendectomy. He was in the hospital laying on the hospital bed but otherwise looked well. He just smiled when I walked in the room. I like to to think that was his way of saying everything was going to be ok. Edit: word
Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
My dead friend visited me in a dream too, but he just told me I should totally play Overwatch because it's awesome (and yes, in life he was a gamer). That memory still makes me smile.
#9
This is not mine but is chilling...
About 15 years back, I worked with a guy who told me that in his younger days ( aged c 12 iirc) he attended a local youth club. One night, the guy that ran it wanted the boys to go "Shirts v Skins" for a game of football or whatever.
My workmate was to be in the 'skins' team- He refused to take his shirt off, one thing led to another , a big drama ensued, he got kicked out club and sent home. His Mum and Dad weren't happy, starting giving him a row, asking why he'd made such a fuss, he said he wasn't comfortable taking his top off in front of the youth leader as "there was just something about the guy"...
A few years later, the youth leader, Thomas Hamilton, brutally m**dered 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane Primary School.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
Amazing how in other countries when someone shoots a bunch of kids they enact strict gun control laws! Here in the US they ask for thoughts and prayers and say "guns don't kill people, people kill people". It disgusts me.
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Tamra 1 year ago
Please correct me British pandas, if I'm wrong, but didn't this event spur new gun legislation? I mean, I live in the US, so I really am fascinated by governments that actually take action to prevent these kinds of horrific events from reoccurring, rather than the absolute nothing that our government does.
Hmmm hmmmm 1 year ago (edited)
Yep , it was incredibly revolutionary to the UK's gun attitude seeing children being killed, . This is e I believe the only major school shootings in the UK , there's that number in a week in America and still nothing Is done
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Aniviel 1 year ago
The tennis star Andy Murray and his brother Jamie were both at the school when this happened.
CKB 1 year ago
Thier mother was a teacher there at the time too I believe. And he refuses to talk about it. Good on him
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Psychologist Joel Pearson highlighted that the information we are conscious of receiving – the sound of a colleague on the telephone, the smell of coffee when we walk past a cafe, the feeling of hot sun on our skin – is but the tip of an iceberg.
"The brain is really good at restricting the spotlight, so it can make all the resources focused on one narrow thing, like a spotlight on the stage,” he said. But all of that sensory information – the bottom part of the iceberg – is still being processed. And for that, we should be very grateful.
#10
I was driving a very remote road in rural Australia. No streetlights, dead straight, pitch black, no other people for 100+ kilometres. It was between Bourketown and Julia Creek in far north Queensland.
The song "can't stop" by the red hot chili peppers was playing and it repeated "stop" three times half way through the song. I thought huh.. f*****g weird for Bluetooth to be messing around after it's been perfect for the last 8 hours of driving but as I finished that thought, I had a feeling there was something more to it .. so I slowed right down .. I must have got to about 60kmh when a herd? Of donkeys wondered onto the road. Had I been going the 120km I would have hit them no doubt and very likely been in quite a decent accident. I was going just slow enough to navigate them and ended up having to swerve onto the side of the road which is just dirt... Any faster the car would have skidded and likely rolled.
No cell phone signal and literally no one else around.
Everytime I hear that song and particularly where it repeated, I get a wicked shiver and can only think if I hadn't slowed down it could have been a very poor outcome.
The Problem With Censorship Is ******* 1 year ago
Hey, I've always said that they are a magical band, and Can't Stop happens to be my song. So no surprises here. XD
Sunshine Lady 1 year ago
Once I was driving on a highway with my kids sleeping on the backseat. There was no car visible on the highway, but a voice in my head just said "Go to the left lane". I was thinking why would I do that, I'm in the middle lane and the highway is completely empty. I decided to follow the voice and several seconds later a car appears from highway entrance, the driver wants to make a U-turn and stops on emergency lane and middle lane, there were less than 20cm between the cars. Had I stayed in the middle lane with 120km/h, I wouldn't be here today.
Libstak 1 year ago
I have a history of pre cognitive dreams, it's well known in my friends. This is not about me though. I had a border many years ago, a good friend. He was a baker and rode a motor cycle at that time. He worked a night shift at a big hotel preparing breakfast pastries etc. He had a dream he was on a multi laned road at night,,it was wet from recent rain. He was coming to an intersection on green. As he went through a police car came through and hit him hard, he flew of his bike. He asked for advice. It was obvious advice, slow down on any such road and look left and right at any intersection. The rest is history, he slowed down one night on a wet road and looked, a police car ran a red at high speed just in front of him.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
If they'd been doing 120km/h then they'd have been speeding at 20km/h over the speed limit. There are no roads in Qld that have a 120km/h limit, and there's only 2 highways that allow 110km/h for some stretches of them. Neither are rural, remote roads.
#11
Someone I came in contact with at work semi frequently (once every 1-2 months) gave me the creeps but for no apparent reason. He never said anything inappropriate or touched me, and I could never figure out why.
A couple years later it came to light he was drugging young patients and videotaping SA'ing them in his clinic (family medicine doctor) his wife found the footage and turned him in.
I have so many situations like this but this one definitely stands out. I live by the mantra if it feels weird it is weird. Our gut instincts are usually spot on.
Razill 1 year ago
I actually know this person and his wife. I have the most respect for her chosing to do the right thing knowing what it would do to her family. He was such a f***tard - running a medical spa in a very superficial city, pretty much raking in the money, beautiful and smart wife yet throws it all away on sick pleasures. Im so glad hes in prison
#12
Not me, but my daughter. We were at a mall and had just arrived at the food court. My daughter (24) suddenly got agitated and said, "We have to leave! We have to leave now!"
I thought she was about to get sick and told her to head to the car, that I was going to get her siblings some lunch, and we'd be right out. She looked terrified and said, "NO! We have to go NOW!"
I had no idea what was wrong but we quickly went to the car. We were still in the parking lot 10 minutes later, waiting in traffic, when several police cars zoomed in with sirens going. Found out later a gang fight broke out in the food court where we'd just been. A dozen people were arrested.
We have absolutely no idea what she picked up on. There was no yelling or angry voices, no groups gathering, no people who appeared to be anything but families getting lunch. But somehow she knew something was about to happen.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
I do think that, even when there are no signs, people give of smells or something when they are really angry or agitated, and maybe that's what we pick up on. Very glad she didn't ignore her daughter.
RavenCroft 1 year ago
All I can imagine after reading your comment is "Angry Flatulance" I mean, after a bad burrito my gut gets agitated ;)
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Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
Spouse has learned to just git 'n go when I suddenly say "We have to leave now." Doesn't even ask why any longer. Too many incidents of violence have happened in places we were just at. Though the author may or may not be a douchebag, _The Gift of Fear_ is a very helpful book for learning how and why to trust that alarm bell in your head.
#13
I worked at a bar and had a very friendly gentleman offer to buy me dinner after we had some banter about favourite beer. I was flattered and he was handsome but something in me didn’t feel that it sat right. Turns out he was a serial k***er and k***ed a backpacker (Grace Millane, give it a google, but proceed with caution), mere weeks later. Police interviewed me to try and find out more of what he had said. He had offered to take a few girls out before he k***ed Grace. Grace and I were the same ageheight/build. I still have nightmares and survivors guilt. He also r*ped some ladies too. Trust your f*****g gut.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
BP thinks their audience is severely over-sheltered toddlers, apparently.
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
I looked into this and apparently in April of this year, a documentary was released by a British filmmaker, called The Lie.
#14
Not sure if it qualifies but I used to live and work in the suburbs. One evening I was driving home at dusk. I was 18-19 and had the house to myself. Brother was out of town and Mom was at her parents.
My job was about 10 miles from my house and maybe 6 turns on decently sized roads. I’m a fairly observant person and it wouldn’t be odd for the same car to be behind me for half of those turns but this time a car “followed” me all the way to my residential street. I got a gut feeling I was being followed so I passed my house and turned left. My house was one over from the corner of another residential street that was a quarter mile loop that also had another small street in it that reconnected to the loop then back to my street.
This car followed me as I made a loop. I then turned right to restart the loop and it followed me again. This time I turned down the small street and completed the loop again. It followed me one more time. As I was about to make the loop for the 4th time they finally drove off. I drove around another 5 mins just to make sure they didn’t circle back as I had nowhere else to park except out front of my house but I was creeped out the rest of the night.
I slept with my door locked and barricaded and with a big kitchen knife. I have no idea if or why they followed me. Don’t know if it was a friend pranking me or if my brother put one of his friends up to it since it’s the only time that’s ever happened and it was quite coincidental that I was alone. I worked retail and some of the employees did have records so I just don’t know. .
TheAmericanAmerican 1 year ago
What do we do when being followed by a strange car? 🎶Just keep driving. Just keep driving. Just keep driving driving driving! 🎶
River wolf (she/her) 1 year ago
🎶loop around the police office. police office. Police office office office
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HTakeover 1 year ago
I accidentally was the following car once. Met with a group of friends at a house, all decided to head to a different friends' house so all went out to our cars. I don't know half the people so I'm told to follow someone. I hop in and pull out... 2 cars make it to the end of the street before me. One turns left, one turns right. I mentally flip a coin and choose one. End up following through several neighborhoods. That one turned out to be a random neighbor who just happened to leave at the same time. Oopsie.
Elizabeth Dittrich 1 year ago
I had that happen to me in the 90s. I was on my way to work 4,am. I had a car follow me so I did the same thing, but drove to the police station. Told the officer at the desk what happened and since it was a small town and 4 am they found him. His excuse, he thought I was going somewhere for coffee and didn't know the area so he would follow me. I don't know him , never saw him again.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Someone else posted somewhere that you should try and lead them to the police station/
Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
Yeah, I drove to the State Patrol office when a creep from work I had testified against in an HR investigation (he was stalking and creeping on a coworker) was following me, tailgating actually, on my way home on the freeway. He rode my tail right into the parking lot before apparently noticing the 50ish SP vehicles all around. He idiotically squealed tires getting out and was immediately followed by several of our State's finest. Employer legal got a restraining order against him and we never saw him again.
#15
One evening I had this sudden urge to study the heimlich maneuver. Figured I had seen it on TV but didn’t understand the technique and how effective it truly was. A month later I went to stay at my cousin and his new gf in another city to see a concert. I wake up the next day from the concert hungover af and my cousin is at work and his gf enters the room, panic on her face and grabbing her throat. I jumped out of bed in my boxers, hopped behind my cousins gf and started doing the maneuver. And after a few pumps…. poof out comes a advil… She had taken one of those massive gel tabs of advil and apparently it musta got stuck. Anyway…. I was hungover as heck, but having what I learned fresh in my memory def helped me in that situation.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
Learning basic first aid stuff is never a mistake! Btw for choking babies/young kids, you sit down and flip them face down over your knee with their head significantly lower than their chest (chest/stomach on knee) and bang them on ribcage/between shoulder blades with the palm/heel of your hand rhythmically in an upward direction (towards their head). Hope that makes sense!
Upstaged75 1 year ago
It's also a good idea to have one of those suction masks that first responders carry. Many restaurants have them now too in case a child chokes while eating. I've seen videos of the masks saving kids' lives.
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Georgia Ireland 1 year ago
I learned the Heimlich maneuver in high school, and never thought I'd have to use it. A few months ago, my roommate started choking, and just like I'd been trained in high school, I got behind him and started doing abdominal thrusts. Five or six thrusts later a piece of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich came flying out.
jonesnori 1 year ago
It's useful to know that it can take several tries. Thank you, and I'm so glad you were there for your roommate.
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#16
Not my feeling but my mom's a few weeks ago. She works near me and also lives near me and was going home at lunch to meet a plumber and offered to drive me to my house so I could let my dog out. I normally take the bus to work and then bus home at lunch and back, so the plan was for her to drive me home so I could walk my dog for a bit longer and then I'd take the bus back. But when we got to my house she said she thought she better just drive me back to work real quick (it's like 10 minutes) and then go meet the plumber. On our way back we saw ambulances and police cars going back towards my house. I pulled up the police scanner and we realized there was a shooting at my bus stop at the time I would have been waiting for the bus back to work.
River wolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Ooorrrrr….. she was in on it! (Sorry I love conspiracy theories)
#17
When I was about 11/12 walking home from school with my friend (same age), a man driving a red car drove past, slowed down and watched us. He then drove off, turned around, came back and did the exact same thing. Slowly drove past and watched us. He did this at least 5 times as we continued walking home. I had the worst feeling in my gut, I knew something was wrong… My friend was almost home so I said to her, as soon as this red car drives off and we can’t see it, we’re gonna run as fast as we can home. As soon as we lost sight of the car we both ran in opposite directions home. I have never run so fast in my life. The street I had to go down was a dead end and had a park attached to it which I lived on the opposite side of. When I turned around to look back at the road, I could see the red car driving down it. We both got home safe.
Mjskywalk 1 year ago
Most stranger abductions of children (in the US) occur while the child is walking to or from school/bus stop. This is because there is a routine the abductor can observe and take advantage of. Just happened to an 11 yo in the city I live in. She escaped, not quite unharmed.
⨺⃝ ~Just-A-Black-Cat-Lover~ ⨺⃝ 1 year ago
This happened to me while I was running for some sport (I don't remember which) that required us to be outside. These two creepy guys would circle the lot slowly with their windows down and their music bumping loudly. One of them whistled at like, every single girl there. Finally, someone told the coach and they were shooed away. Still scary though.
Georgia Ireland 1 year ago
I had a guy who stalked me when I was a kid. I became very good at running and finding hiding spots.
#18
I got an absolutely gut twisting nauseating feeling and waited a few seconds before driving through the green light..... Two pick up trucks slammed into each other and would have crushed me on my motorcycle.
shankShaw deReemer 1 year ago
I always wait a few seconds before going through any of the bigger, busier ones now. It's just a habit I started after seeing too many of what you described. And the person who is hit, suffers tremendously with insurance, rentals cars (if one gets a rental), cost in general, and just overall inconvenient and time-consuming. I do everything I possibly can to avoid other drivers' stupidity. I am too old nowadays and don't have the patience or temperament I used to have, having dealt with this a number of times before. It's usually too a few honks everyday, but I have dark windows and just curse and flip them off!
Kikikaboom 1 year ago (edited)
I've do this regularly to, including when turning, and twice now I saved myself (and one time my niece) from potentially getting side swiped
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Decided to take a day off work. I never miss time well that day there was an explosion in my work area and if I had been there it would have definitely caused significant damage or death.
K. LNU 1 year ago
Makes me think of all those 9-11 stories about people who were late or missed work on that fateful day...
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Count me among them. I wouldn't've been killed if I had gone to work, but I would've witnessed more than I did. I stayed home with an inexplicable feeling of dreading going to work.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
This happened months ago at a Palmer factory location. I wonder if OP worked there.
#20
I don't know about scary, but there was the guy at work that from Day 1 I really didn't like, but for the life of me, I couldn't tell you why. He never did or said anything to elicit this response. I brought up not liking him with coworkers, and they all told me to give him a second chance, etc, and I straight up said no. I was told I was being an a*****e. A couple of weeks later, a coworker came up and showed me a news article with mugshots. There's the guy I hate for no reason. He had been arrested for producing CP.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Most people don't write out the full term because they find the words incredibly distasteful. It's not censorship, you're being ridiculously childish.
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Tamra 1 year ago
To my knowledge, there is no d**g or treatment, or any other way to ensure that a pedophile won't act on their impulses, or reoffend if they already have. I am fine with shipping these people to an isolated island, far away from the rest of humanity. Give them supply drops, and patrol the perimeter with coast guard or similar.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Not only do pedos have a high recidivism rate they are also highly likely to eliminate their victims to hide the crime. I agree with the isolated island scenario with patrols but not the supply drops, let them fend for themselves.
Load More Replies... Xenia Harley 1 year ago
My good friend had a neighbor that I really disliked. He was always telling our children he will give them money, or other stuff like that. He totally creeped me out. I told my friend not to trust him, especially near kids. A few years later, he was caught raping the neighbors' 11 year old girl. She finally said, "huh, you never did like him," (or something to that effect.)
Nano Iders 1 year ago
My son's speech therapist's husband was arrested in a huge CP bust a couple years ago. Met the guy a couple times, never liked him. He seemed normal, albeit somewhat reserved and furtive. No real reason for me to feel that way about him, but there you have it.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
There was a girl I worked with (at a cab company in dispatch) years ago. We always butted heads (I was her supervisor) and the manager would never listen to me about her being on something or something not right about her. One morning, one of the road bosses found her strung out on meth at a 711 right up the street from our shop. She finally got a d**g test and was fired.
GhostlySnail (she/her) 1 year ago
There was a guy at my school last year who I always thought was a creep. It was quite well known that he was a racist jerk but everyone dismissed it because he’s Black and anyway “he was funny”. I really, really disliked him. Not some inexplicable gut feeling, more of a “he is clearly and obviously a creep and dangerous person”. I said it over and over again, no one listened. He was expelled for assault and taking an inappropriate photo of another student (definitely without consent). Some people still say they miss him (they know what he did) and that he was funny. I want to punch them.
GhostlySnail (she/her) 1 year ago
He was assigned to be my table partner and would sit under the table :)
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#21
I wanted to talk to a professor about an essay I was writing. I knew her office hours were open, just talked to a bunch of friends, and had good grades. It was a new term and things were good, even nice weather for Fall Term. I thought, f**k it, I'll just grab a snack from the student store. I walked in, popped open a Cup-NoodlesⓇ (not a sponsor) and dispensed hot water in it. As I was paying for it at the counter, a student burst in out of breath, crying, and frantic. She said to call the police as there was an active shooter. We hid in the supply closet next to snacks and textbooks, along with at least 6 others. The student explained where it was and it was a rampage through the same building I was about to go to. My professor was with a student, and I would have been waiting right in the open near where part of the rampage took place. At least 9 died that day, and one was someone I grew up with. If it weren't for my gut literally feeling empty, and my mind saying "f**k it", I would have had a front row seat to that.
james stevenson 1 year ago
It's horrible that children have drills to prepare for this kind of thing in america
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
All thanks to bugnuts who love guns more than children
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My grandparents let this one guy stay with them and do some side projects for cash for a few days. When I met him, he made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. He seemed nice on the surface, but he also just felt *wrong* somehow. Like a year later, he shot up his entire family, then had a multiple hour standoff with the SWAT team before finally being tear gassed out and surrendering. So while I didn't do anything, it's crazy how my intuition knew this guy was bad news.
#23
I was once walking down a street at night and randomly thought to myself, “yikes, I’m going to get mugged.” I ignored the feeling. Got mugged.
María Hermida 1 year ago
There wasn't a lot you could do, anyway. I think your unconscious brain had already seen "something" hiding in the dark. You had already been "chosen".
C Hendrix 1 year ago
If you get that feeling, move to a well-lit area with lots of people. I've walked into stores at night before to shake off potential stalkers.
Load More Replies... KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Was walking down a street with my friend and suddenly told her to hold her bag tight - 1 second later, some guy tried snatching it. (He came from behind, I hadn't seen him)
#24
Shouting at my daft brother-in-law to get out of the sea. He's a fit, strong, confident swimmer but he had his young daughter on his shoulders and my gut was telling me that the waves were just too rough to be safe. They were both fine but after we all returned home we heard that another strong confident swimmer died in exactly the same place about half an hour later.
#25
When I was a teen I'd make a few bucks helping a local farmer bale hay. The hay would be stacked on a trailer and towed by tractor to the barn. I usually sat on the front of the trailer on the way to the barn, but I suddenly felt like that wasn't a good place to be and I moved to the back. As soon as I did, I heard a clang. The hitch had come loose from the tractor - while heading down a steep hill. I climbed down the back and easily stepped off - moments before the trailer flipped over into a ravine.
Rob D 1 year ago
It should be more secure regardless, but I wonder if the weight shift to the back teetered the hitch up off the ball.
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Tractors do not typically use ball hitches, but rather a heavy pin with a spring loaded keeper. Unlikely a minor weight shift would dislodge that arrangement without a defect in the hitch.
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#26
This is my dad's story.
My grandfather was old but in good health. Every night, My dad used to call my grandfather, tell him he's coming over, then go and spend an hour talking to my grandfather.
One night he had this feeling... He had to go. Just HAD to go.
He called, and said he was coming. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
But then a series of really unlikely things happened... Walmart register transaction had some technical issues that took 15min to sort out. Then there was an accident causing more traffic backup that added another delay. Then a 3rd thing that I no longer remember.
When my dad finally got to my grandfather's, my grandfather had died. As if he had simply fallen over in his bedroom mid-step.
My dad (a physician, actually) wonders to this day... What if he had shown up just 30 or 45 min earlier?
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
Sometimes it's just our time. And maybe granddad would have preferred it that way, quick, with no lingering pain.
Fairytails From Other Worlds 1 year ago
Nah, it was his time to go. The universe stopped Dad from saving him.
Michelle Simpson 1 year ago
Honestly, it was probably a massive heart attack (widow maker) and literally happened mid step. He wouldn’t have even known what was happening and it would have been traumatic as hell to witness
#27
Felt sick one morning, borderline whether it was enough to "pull a sicky".....I did call in sick. My colleague who always gave me a lift to work was Involved in a head on crash with a truck that veered lanes, he survived with minor injuries, the passenger seat was completely crumpled, seat to dashboard.
#28
I was walking in a quiet part of town and I walked past a guy who was stood still, then he phoned someone and started walking behind me, well, I saw a guy really far ahead answer his phone at the same time then started walking in my direction, so I turned off and jogged a bit along a path and looked back, they were both walking together very quickly down my path now, so I turned down another road and jogged again until I was back in the main part of town. Almost certain they were planning on mugging me, as it happens it was in the news the next day that someone got mugged in that area by two guys.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Situational awareness, something that has become as uncommon as common sense
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#29
My Dad (77) has a sweet tooth. I mean he hides little treats all over the house lol there was a donut shop he used to go to regularly because he has been going there since childhood. One time he took me with him and the lady that owned the donut shop greeted me. I immediately felt uneasy and literally sick to my stomach. I would not eat any of the donuts my Dad had purchased.
My Dad was very offended I wouldn't eat any. I told him that the woman gave me the heebie jeebies, and was creepy. He laughed it off because more for him right?
Like 5 months later we found out that she had a basement full of abducted children...
EDITED TO ADD:
She was a much older lady. Had been running the donut shop for 50 years. Very unassuming in appearance.
Jinx (she/her) 1 year ago
I thought the doughnuts were gonna be poisoned or messed with but nope
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Same! But I wonder now: How did not eating the donuts stop them from being kidnapped?
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 year ago
This one is made up. There's nothing that verifies it and it definitely would have been news.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
"Basement full of abducted children"---absolutely relatable that they were just too many to be counted. Is your name QAnon...or is this a new conspirancy story, by the ice cream or tortilla chip industry, to keep people from eating donuts?!?
#30
One of my friends from high school who I kept in contact with had her partner's good friend living with them. I couldn't pick what it was but the guy made me uneasy, I just couldn't shake the feeling. i told her but she dismissed me. I stopped going to their house. A year or so later it came out he was sodomizing her 6yo. He totally f****d up her insides, she's now 16 or so and still has issues with spontaneous pooping.
Me Oh My (He/They) 1 year ago
Rape. Come on, it's not a hard word to say. He was raping a child.
sam harry 1 year ago
yes but perhaps look up the word sodomizing, op is clarifying the type of rape that was inflicted on this poor child.
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Jeevesssssss 1 year ago (edited)
Oh my god, that poor girl. What a monster. I'm guessing if he went to prison he got what was coming to him... nonces don't tend to be popular with the other inmates.
Tamra 1 year ago
I stand by my previous comment about shipping these monsters to a deserted island. Jesus christ, this is awful.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
And that's enough of this particular article. Time... Time for bed I guess... Ugh.
Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
Friend, go look at some cute puppy/kitten photo collections or "I hate autocorrect" collections first. Clear your skull before sleeping. ❤️
Load More Replies... Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
So horrible for the girl. I bet the mother wishes she listened to OPs gut feeling.
Plant lady 1 year ago
The mom didn’t notice any bleeding from the area?? The child had to be in pain. How was this missed??
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
That's horrifying...that poor girl. That sick f**k should get castrated and fed his own giblets.
#31
My friend and I were supposed to meet for coffee at Starbucks- I randomly was like… do you want to do sushi instead?
So we ate at the sushi place directly across from the Starbucks.
While I was waiting for my friend I heard the gunshot. Someone was shot in the head at the Starbucks we were supposed to be at, I literally ran outside looking for her, she just got there in her car thank god.
It was probably a gang shooting, but I would have witnessed it from like 6ft away had I not listen to the fleeting feeling in my gut.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Normally shootings are targetted so youre unlikelyto be the victim, but this could be America!
Alecto76 1 year ago (edited)
Gang shootings in America are also usually targeted. Gang bangers don't generally care if they hit innocent people or not.
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#32
I had to leave for an appointment and for some reason I felt the urge to just sit in my car before leaving. I've sat there just looking around for two minutes or so. Then the feeling went away and I left. When I was on the highway, I saw a crash happened just minutes before I was supposed to be there. Truck blew a tire, hit other cars which hit other cars as well. It was a mess. Two people died. A few others heavily injured to the hospital. I was in the traffic behind the scene for about two hours and was so glad I just sat in my car just staring around before leaving. I still do that sometimes, thinking back to that moment.
Jackie Lulu 1 year ago
I had a similar feeling once. Back when I used to walk to work, I was ready to go to work, but somehow just couldn't get myself to leave the house for a few minutes, but finally did.. Along the way, there was a stone wall close to the road, and no sidewalk, just a little path. A car had crashed into the wall a few minutes before, about the time I would have been there, had I left the house on time. I was pretty glad I missed getting squashed on the stone wall.
Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
That actually happened to this guy I knew as a kid. He survived, but his arm was permanently crippled. Lots of surgeries and he couldn't lift it properly any more.
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Sarah Fisher 1 year ago
Had a similar incident happen to me and my now husband. During college I was attending an all girls school and after 8 no male company was allowed. So we had a thing where we would order food, take his laptop, hookup the hotspot on my phone and watch dinner and a movie in a secluded parking spot right by the train tracks. Trees blocked the road so it was perfect for us. It was winter so we had a blanket to stay warm. While watching the movie in the car we fell asleep. I like to sleep with covers over my head with only my nose poking out (don’t ask lol) Anywho he fell asleep as well and we were awakes by a knock on his side of the window. I wanted to sit up but my body just froze and I swear I heard a voice tell me to just be still and don’t move or say anything. My husband being naïve and tired rolled down his window and asked what he wanted. The guy asked for money and he said he didn’t have any. He stood there not saying anything which felt like forever and then left. When I was sure
Sarah Fisher 1 year ago
The guy left I sat up and we both felt uneasy so we left. The next day he calls me frantic and tells me to turn on the news. Remember I never saw the guy but he did. He swears the guy on the news was the same one who approach him last night. Only problem was the guy went on a killing spree in the early hours of the morning only killing WOMEN. He killed his boss, a co worker, the mother of his child and two random women before being killed by police. I think back on that night and wonder if I would have sat up if we would have been his first victims.
Load More Replies... Boots 1 year ago
Had something similar happen years ago. I was on the highway, and inexplicably felt compelled to stop at my friend's house (but knowing she was likely at work). Of course she was at work, so I left and got back on the highway, and noticed just yards away from where I had been, was an accident. If I had not stopped, I would've been part of the pile up.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
Had similar happen. Passed an accident that had just happened. Left work at the same time as a colleague but I waited for the gate to close as he drove off. Messaged him to see if he had been involved/seen it, but he went for fuel instead. Had I left first, or he hadn't gone for fuel, one of us would have been involved.
#33
Leaving my headphones out when the Bluetooth spontaneously disconnected. A weird guy was following me home, i watched from my patio as he went up and down the street looking for me.
A few weeks later a woman has attacked in the area. Serious injuries.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Using headphones in public (street, park, transport...) is the most stupid, un-safest thing you can do. They isolate you from the environmental noise, so you lose contact with what's going on around you. I can't understand why people (especially women) do it.
GrowingThruConcrete 1 year ago
I personally can not do activities of daily living without noise canceling ones. I am on the Autism Spectrum. After 2 years of therapy I'm proud to announce learning to use a simple tools, such as headphones, has given me independence in grocery shopping, my case manager doesn't go with me anymore!!☺
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Kayleigh Haigh 1 year ago
I used to wear headphones all the time in my teen early 20s one night i finished work at 10pm was waiting for my bus 40 min wait my phone died so i could hear noises around me before i took out my headphones, i heard footsteps behind me as i turned a local hooker tried taking my bag but she missed it just as i turned she did get a good punch to face and fell to floor before getting up and running off my bus arrived about 10 mins later so got on it and went home but from then i only wore 1 headphone and at low volume now i dont wear them at all.
#34
I got one, but it’s not my story it’s my moms. When she was younger, I think like mid 20’s her friend wanted to set her up with some guy she knew. My mom got a weird feeling about the guy. She didn’t know what it was but she decided not to go on a date with him. Her friends were telling her that she should rethink it and give the guy a chance he is a great guy blah blah blah. Mom just said no I’m good, she said the guy just gave her a weird vibe. Guys name was Cary Stayner….
Wild story.
TheNewJenBrady 1 year ago
Damn! That guy did monstrous things to 3 women. I remember when it happened and just the basic details gave me terrible anxiety and insomnia for a long time. It was at a place by Yosemite national park that I had stayed at many times before
titansterritory 1 year ago
His brother was abducted at a young age. Missing for years. Police found him, and he was reunited with his family. Cory Stayner was his older brother. Killed 3 women. Mother and daughter and daughters best friend. This happened in Yosemite National Park. Google his name for more info. Unfortunately, his brother was killed in a motorcycle crash. Sad story for that family..
GrowingThruConcrete 1 year ago
His brother took his abductors new victim with him to safety too
Load More Replies... Michelle C 1 year ago
Good for Mom for saying no! Dating and/or marrying the wrong person, so to speak, can have deadly consequences. Mom did the right thing, no matter what her friends said!
#35
Last March before my father passed away I called my mom to see if she got a text message I had sent her after not talking to her for almost a year. Something had told me to call her and when I did she told me she was on the way to the hospital because my father was at urgent care and had a heart attack while talking to the doctor and another one in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Later on that night we found out that he had a heart attack 2 weeks prior around Valentines as well, which is weird because around that time myself as well as my brother started having really bad chest pains to the point I told my husband I was about to go the ER and not wait for my appointment a week later. We also found out that he had CHF, a blood clot in his eight lung and two clots in his heart. Sadly he passed away less than two month after finding this all out. After he passed away his cardio told my mother he had a genetic heart condition that myself and my siblings need to be checked. So I now have the same cardio as my dad and its sad going in the office knowing my father was there.
#36
So it wasn’t my gut, but my friend’s. I had noticed whenever she had a bad feeling, it almost always turned out to be correct. We were going to sneak out one night and ride in the back of a friend’s truck like we did sometimes. She told me she had a bad feeling and I immediately backed out and so did she. The others didn’t listen and that night the truck flipped with two of our friends in the back. They were both hospitalized for a couple of weeks, one shattered his arm so bad it never fully healed right and one has full back scars from the road burn.
#37
One night, back in college, I was the DD and had a car full of people I was driving home. The light turned yellow and I briefly contemplated punching the gas and going through the light. For some reason I can’t explain I decided not to. The car next to me decided to instead and was T-boned by a semi. Had I run that light, I may have died and k***ed a car full of people.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
I know it isn't the point, but I swear every single one of these stories is caused by a truck or bus driver.
Novadoe (She/They) 1 year ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted when you're just making an observation, so take an upvote, because I agree
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Not sure if this constitutes the scariest, but...
There was a guy I used to go to community college with back in 2014 - 2016. Call him Mark. Mark was older than me by several years, and if memory serves, was studying political science. We had mutual friends and I'd see him at parties or at hangouts. Can't say he *always* gave me the creeps, but I definitely noticed there was something about him that was **off.** Ironically enough, he could be surprisingly charismatic and didn't have a difficult time with women despite not being the most handsome guy in the world.
What really got me though was one time at a hangout, Mark and I got to talking. I said something to him that made him stop and stare me down. I stared back because I thought it was in jest, and then I noticed there just wasn't "anything" in his eyes. Like staring into black holes. F*****g tripped me out. Remarkably intelligent guy, too. And I'm almost ashamed to say that we ended up getting along for some time after that because I was never able to shake the off feeling he gave me. But I could only ever tolerate him in doses, so I kept him at a distance until I found out who he really was.
Apparently, years before we ended up at community college together, he'd either been in some kind of frat, or communal living where he threw this party and ended up r*ping a woman. Found this out through a close friend who knew him then, but who was beaten unconscious by the other people in the house before he could stop it from happening.
He told me that Mark had apparently done psychedelics out in the desert with some friends prior to that incident, and when he got back he was just... different. Obviously I ensured there was no contact between us anymore.
Well, through mutual friends, I found out that a few years ago he **m**dered his mom.** Dude had a psychotic break, k***ed her and dumped her body in his town's lake. Made the local news. Dude's still so out of it he's been put into the state's mental institution for the rest of his life.
#39
About 15 years ago, I lived in a subdivision north of seattle, and I was out jogging one morning. there were lots of houses and apartment buildings around, but I was coming up to a stretch of road that had some sort of woods on either side of it, which I had jogged through many, many times before. however, on that day, a white van passed me going pretty slowly and I noticed about four blocks up ahead, it had stopped and was just parked on the side of the road. my gut started pinging pretty loudly to not jog on, and just turn around and run home, which I did. I'm super glad I did that because I'm almost 100% positive that van was waiting for me. 😳.
#40
Idk if this counts, but in March 2021, I wanted to get teriyaki chicken at a local shopping mall in Philadelphia, PA, but decided to go to a different mall instead. around 5 pm, a fight broke out which lead into a shooting at the food court i would've gotten teriyaki chicken at. if i had gone to that mall at that time, i could've been shot.
#41
Had a bad feeling about a routine transit from Ann Arbor to metro Detroit once and asked my buddy if i could follow him home. Hood popped open on the freeway and destroyed my windshield and scared the c**p outta me. Buddy was there to help complete the journey.
#42
Not me but my mom. Back before I was born, her and my dad (I think they were married at the time, but idk) were headed into California. But mom started freaking the f**k out and panicking, and dad listened to her and turned around. The city they were about to drive into had a major earthquake a day or so later.
#43
I was in Khandahar Afghanistan, walking at night, using pvs-14 night optical devices. I was walking by myself between one group of soldiers and another a couple hundred meters away, trying to do a "night time observation" kind of deal. I came across a large black rectangle in my night vision. I was thinking this ain't right. A patch of asphalt in the middle of a hadji-farmer's field? Why? Part of me just wanted to say screw it and keep walking over it as I stood at the very edge. While new to Afghanistan (it was my first month) I knew one thing. If it looks weird: **don't step on it!** (Lol, I must be some kind of genius...) Something instinctually told me something was wrong with this 15-foot wide rectangle. I turned on my IR flashlight on my rifle and used it to illuminate the area in front of me. It was a giant hole, 30 feet deep. It was a well. No wall, nothing, just a gaping hole. The funny thing about this discovery is my balance at the edge of this potentially lethal fall *(if not deadly, then crippling)* became immediately precarious. I was flailing my arms and everything for a second or two. After taking a big step back, I marked the area with IR chemlights (glow sticks that you can only see with night vision) and let everyone know of the hazzard. Edit: grammar, general improvements.
#44
One time I got my grandma to the local train station so she could buy a ticket for a future ride. We were in there and the vibe felt really off. We talked about it and agreed to leave, do some groceries first and come back later. We came back an hour later, the train station was closed, police everywhere. Someone jumped on the tracks 30 minutes ago and was hit by a high speed train.
#45
I was walking home and passed a jewelers window. I think jewelry is a waste of money so normally I ignore their display. That day, a ring caught my eye and I stood for a couple seconds admiring the design. When I got back in motion, a car shot out onto the pedestrian walkway from the side of the jewelers building. If I hadn't stopped, the car would have broken my legs and hip and thrown me into the road.
Milady Blue 1 year ago
I would have gone into that store and bought the pretty ring that caught your eye.
What do you think ?
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
I saved my life (and my baby's) when I was 7 months pregnant because of a gut feeling. Absolutely nothing factual, just a feeling. Why did my legs felt a bit heavier this morning? It obsessed me the whole weekend. I decided to do my monthly tests the next day, 10 days early, just to be sure. The results made me hospitalized the same day with a pre-eclampsy suspicion. During 4 days, the doctors didn't really know. It could be kidney stones, whatever... Everything seemed normal, except the proteins in my urine. Then they understood I had a kidney failure. 3 more days, nearly no symptoms (I felt good, I just had fluid retention, not a big deal at 7 months) and all of a sudden I got major neurological signs and a very high blood pressure (175/110). I had an emergency c-section for a severe pre-eclampsy. It was quite complicated for the anesthesist because of my blood pressure going up and down and some important blood loss. We both could have died. We both are healthy today.
howdylee 1 year ago
Sophomore year at college, I talked to my mom on a Friday evening. She was wishing me luck for Finals the next week. Got off the phone with her and I started bawling. I knew something had happened to my cat (at home.) She had said nothing about him but I just knew something was wrong. Got home at the end of that next week, and yup, Tiger had died that morning that I talked with mom. She didn't want the news to disrupt my finals but man I was sad that she didn't tell me. He died on a Friday the 13th. His brother (our other cat) also died on a Friday the 13th years earlier.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Call it intuition – a nebulous concept that Pearson has been studying for two and a half decades. As the author of a book called The Intuition Toolkit, he's settled on a definition that says, "It's the learned, positive use of unconscious information for better decisions or actions."
ZGutr 1 year ago
No matter what you call it. Bottom line: never ignore it. Sure, every now and then you feel stupid that no disaster occurred in your footsteps, but that's SO worth it.
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HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 1 year ago
One time I was out walking, in the rain, about 30 minutes from my house, and I sat down under a pagola in the park to get out of the rain read for a bit. After a few minutes, this car very quickly turns off the road, goes through this massive puddle and parks about 5 metres into the park on the soggy grass. I sit for another few minutes, and no one gets out of this car. I find this a bit odd, so I get up and walk around to the pathway, staying as far as I can away from this car without walking in the creek. I head around to the path and this car starts moving again, I keep walking, and then this car's at the end of the path (the park's on a corner and the path cuts through the middle), and they're not moving, and they're blocking the end of the park. I stood in the middle of the park and start panicking - am I overreacting? I called my mum, and she drove to come get me, but that was scary, especially because I was the only one out in the rain - it was me and this car.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I was in the middle of a horseback riding lesson that wasn't going great and I told my coach I had a bad feeling today. She said OK, just do one more jump and we'll be finished. I should NOT have done that last jump. My horse fell when she landed. I was knocked unconscious and got stepped on, and then spent the rest of the day in the ER. It would have been worse if the ground had been dry, but it had poured rain the night before and the sand in the riding ring was wet. I was digging dirt out of practically every orifice for a week, but I'm sure it saved me from a broken back, or worse.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Idk if this counts, but one time my mom and sister were driving on the freeway and my sister asked my mom what a sink hole was. (She was maybe 10 at the time) My mom told her, they drove home. A couple days later my mom found out that there had been a sinkhole right were my sister had asked about them while they were driving.
Lee Banks 1 year ago
About twenty years ago, a friend and I were hitchhiking the US Eastern seaboard. We got stuck somewhere in NC for about twelve hours. It was cold, the staff was beginning to hate us, and we'd run out of money. A guy at the truck stop said if we could hold out 'til morning, he'd give us a ride. The only catch was his cousin was doing a ride along, and we'd have to ride in the cabin. We agreed, but it didn't sit well with me. Thousands of miles covered, and no one had ever made this request. My buddy and I fought big-time, but she relented. We slept in a place he wouldn't see us. Next morning they were gone, and a man was gently shaking us awake. He said that he watched the guys for us. The "driver" was the cousin, and they were pissed they couldn't just "have" us. Dude bought us breakfast, and got us to a better stop. Soooo glad I listened to my gut.
LasPapasFritas1234 1 year ago
My dad hired some pulled-together creep. When I met him and shook his hand I mistrusted him- months later, he took advantage of my father's busy hours. He had been getting flat out drunk every single day on the job through the restaurant's alcohol. Could almost bet that he threatened the other employees to not tell and to give him the alcohol. New tip: if you have a restaurant or establishment with alcohol ALWAYS ask if they have EVER had any issues with alcohol in even the distant past. What recovering addict gets a job at a bar?
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago (edited)
An estranged (for other reasons) but pretty well-to-do uncle used to have a driver pick me and my cousin up from school (cousin is also estranged now for same other reasons). He was quite the jovial, helpful and laid-back guy so there was really no reason for us to think he was up to anything. One day after school when he was about to pick us up, I had a strange feeling in my gut that me and my cousin should just forgo the ride on that day so we decided to tell him we had after school activities and would be going home later. Never had my gut been more right that day because a good hour or so later, our parents frantically called the school asking if we were there and the relief was in their voices when it was confirmed. Word had gotten out and was later confirmed that the driver had ran my uncle's jeep into a ravine and did not survive. It was later confirmed that he wasn't drunk or on dr*gs at the time but his retrieved phone showed that he had at one point gotten into a spat
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
cont: with my uncle about a pay raise. When my uncle refused (he was kinda a miser), he thought he had to take drastic measures. Pretty sure he had all intention of plunging us all to our demise if we had taken the ride that day. After that, I refused all rides by anyone except my parents for a while until eventually I just decided to cycle to school (didn't do so earlier because of heavy traffic and never-ending constructions but after that incident, those didn't seem so bad).
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Fried Mermaid 1 year ago
Remember one time years ago, I was with my best friend at the time just hanging out. Night came and he said he was going to a girls house (they were kind of starting something) so he started to leave but I stopped him, something made me really worried and told him to PLEASE be careful. He laughed it off. Next day he called me, are you a witch or something?... turns out they were hanging out in the front yard of her house, and two guys came to rob them, guns to their faces. They were unharmed physically but the poor girl was in shock for a while. Since that day I always trust my gut and if I remember someone suddenly out of nowhere I try to contact them and check on them
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
I saved my life (and my baby's) when I was 7 months pregnant because of a gut feeling. Absolutely nothing factual, just a feeling. Why did my legs felt a bit heavier this morning? It obsessed me the whole weekend. I decided to do my monthly tests the next day, 10 days early, just to be sure. The results made me hospitalized the same day with a pre-eclampsy suspicion. During 4 days, the doctors didn't really know. It could be kidney stones, whatever... Everything seemed normal, except the proteins in my urine. Then they understood I had a kidney failure. 3 more days, nearly no symptoms (I felt good, I just had fluid retention, not a big deal at 7 months) and all of a sudden I got major neurological signs and a very high blood pressure (175/110). I had an emergency c-section for a severe pre-eclampsy. It was quite complicated for the anesthesist because of my blood pressure going up and down and some important blood loss. We both could have died. We both are healthy today.
howdylee 1 year ago
Sophomore year at college, I talked to my mom on a Friday evening. She was wishing me luck for Finals the next week. Got off the phone with her and I started bawling. I knew something had happened to my cat (at home.) She had said nothing about him but I just knew something was wrong. Got home at the end of that next week, and yup, Tiger had died that morning that I talked with mom. She didn't want the news to disrupt my finals but man I was sad that she didn't tell me. He died on a Friday the 13th. His brother (our other cat) also died on a Friday the 13th years earlier.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Call it intuition – a nebulous concept that Pearson has been studying for two and a half decades. As the author of a book called The Intuition Toolkit, he's settled on a definition that says, "It's the learned, positive use of unconscious information for better decisions or actions."
ZGutr 1 year ago
No matter what you call it. Bottom line: never ignore it. Sure, every now and then you feel stupid that no disaster occurred in your footsteps, but that's SO worth it.
Load More Replies... HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 1 year ago
One time I was out walking, in the rain, about 30 minutes from my house, and I sat down under a pagola in the park to get out of the rain read for a bit. After a few minutes, this car very quickly turns off the road, goes through this massive puddle and parks about 5 metres into the park on the soggy grass. I sit for another few minutes, and no one gets out of this car. I find this a bit odd, so I get up and walk around to the pathway, staying as far as I can away from this car without walking in the creek. I head around to the path and this car starts moving again, I keep walking, and then this car's at the end of the path (the park's on a corner and the path cuts through the middle), and they're not moving, and they're blocking the end of the park. I stood in the middle of the park and start panicking - am I overreacting? I called my mum, and she drove to come get me, but that was scary, especially because I was the only one out in the rain - it was me and this car.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I was in the middle of a horseback riding lesson that wasn't going great and I told my coach I had a bad feeling today. She said OK, just do one more jump and we'll be finished. I should NOT have done that last jump. My horse fell when she landed. I was knocked unconscious and got stepped on, and then spent the rest of the day in the ER. It would have been worse if the ground had been dry, but it had poured rain the night before and the sand in the riding ring was wet. I was digging dirt out of practically every orifice for a week, but I'm sure it saved me from a broken back, or worse.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Idk if this counts, but one time my mom and sister were driving on the freeway and my sister asked my mom what a sink hole was. (She was maybe 10 at the time) My mom told her, they drove home. A couple days later my mom found out that there had been a sinkhole right were my sister had asked about them while they were driving.
Lee Banks 1 year ago
About twenty years ago, a friend and I were hitchhiking the US Eastern seaboard. We got stuck somewhere in NC for about twelve hours. It was cold, the staff was beginning to hate us, and we'd run out of money. A guy at the truck stop said if we could hold out 'til morning, he'd give us a ride. The only catch was his cousin was doing a ride along, and we'd have to ride in the cabin. We agreed, but it didn't sit well with me. Thousands of miles covered, and no one had ever made this request. My buddy and I fought big-time, but she relented. We slept in a place he wouldn't see us. Next morning they were gone, and a man was gently shaking us awake. He said that he watched the guys for us. The "driver" was the cousin, and they were pissed they couldn't just "have" us. Dude bought us breakfast, and got us to a better stop. Soooo glad I listened to my gut.
LasPapasFritas1234 1 year ago
My dad hired some pulled-together creep. When I met him and shook his hand I mistrusted him- months later, he took advantage of my father's busy hours. He had been getting flat out drunk every single day on the job through the restaurant's alcohol. Could almost bet that he threatened the other employees to not tell and to give him the alcohol. New tip: if you have a restaurant or establishment with alcohol ALWAYS ask if they have EVER had any issues with alcohol in even the distant past. What recovering addict gets a job at a bar?
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago (edited)
An estranged (for other reasons) but pretty well-to-do uncle used to have a driver pick me and my cousin up from school (cousin is also estranged now for same other reasons). He was quite the jovial, helpful and laid-back guy so there was really no reason for us to think he was up to anything. One day after school when he was about to pick us up, I had a strange feeling in my gut that me and my cousin should just forgo the ride on that day so we decided to tell him we had after school activities and would be going home later. Never had my gut been more right that day because a good hour or so later, our parents frantically called the school asking if we were there and the relief was in their voices when it was confirmed. Word had gotten out and was later confirmed that the driver had ran my uncle's jeep into a ravine and did not survive. It was later confirmed that he wasn't drunk or on dr*gs at the time but his retrieved phone showed that he had at one point gotten into a spat
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
cont: with my uncle about a pay raise. When my uncle refused (he was kinda a miser), he thought he had to take drastic measures. Pretty sure he had all intention of plunging us all to our demise if we had taken the ride that day. After that, I refused all rides by anyone except my parents for a while until eventually I just decided to cycle to school (didn't do so earlier because of heavy traffic and never-ending constructions but after that incident, those didn't seem so bad).
Load More Replies... Fried Mermaid 1 year ago
Remember one time years ago, I was with my best friend at the time just hanging out. Night came and he said he was going to a girls house (they were kind of starting something) so he started to leave but I stopped him, something made me really worried and told him to PLEASE be careful. He laughed it off. Next day he called me, are you a witch or something?... turns out they were hanging out in the front yard of her house, and two guys came to rob them, guns to their faces. They were unharmed physically but the poor girl was in shock for a while. Since that day I always trust my gut and if I remember someone suddenly out of nowhere I try to contact them and check on them
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