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“That’s How My Family Ended Up In Ohio”: 35 Stranger Than Fiction Stories That Actually Happened, According To This Viral Twitter Thread
My grandma often used to repeat the saying, "Man plans, God laughs." Whether or not you're religious, I think we can agree that life can be stranger than fiction. Just when we think we have it all figured out, the universe plays a trick, reminding us that nothing is guaranteed.
Interested in these strange occurrences, Twitter user Naomi (@AMythicWitch) asked other people on the platform to share their personal stories that sound too wild to be true. The request immediately went viral, and everyone started describing the weirdest experiences they've had.
We collected the most memorable ones and even managed to get in touch with Naomi, so continue scrolling to read about those crazy moments, and don't miss out on the talk we had with the author of the thread — you can find it between the pictures.
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Deborah Harris 4 years ago
Case was dropped? After being abducted by a cop? Did I read this right? 😳
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Draco's Dragonfly 4 years ago
Charlie as in Charles Manson? That quite the bullet she dodged there!
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Lauren Compton 4 years ago
At 18 months old, how were you so articulate and how did you get up the ladder to the top of the slide?
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Psycho Cat 4 years ago
How did you manage to take his place in detention? I don't get this one. Surely someone noticed that his mom was there and not him.
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Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago (edited)
He was probably praying, "O Lord, give us our daily bread (pizza, wink wink)".
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KittyGotClaws 4 years ago
I live in Ireland now... I married an irish man I met on an online dating site, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Andy Frobig 4 years ago
My maternal grandparents' fathers grew up on the same street in Manhattan and their kids met decades later in Brooklyn. My parents were baptized in the same church in Brooklyn, Mom's father knew Dad's mother but my parents didn't meet until they were in the same school in Maine in their 20s. My dad and my ex-wife were born in the same hospital in Brooklyn, and my mother knew my ex's aunt's cousins in Brooklyn, but my ex grew up in Florida and we met in Minnesota.
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DuchessDegu 4 years ago
Wow I've watched a documentary about Andrew Cunanan, he was a very sick individual
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Michelle C 4 years ago
I can only imagine how much that must’ve hurt! I accidentally cast a line into a friend‘s hair once when I was rather young and her getting it out of her hair was hard and painful enough!
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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
I got stuck in Denmark due to the same Icelandic volcano. I had a nice weekend in Copenhagen, put in two more days paid work and caught a bus home, as my airline decided to become temporarily a bus company. 19 hours on a coach got me as far a London, which as luck would have, is where I was supposed to be working that week. I arrived just as the first planes started to land, after they changed the rules on how much ash air traffic could fly through. The annoying bit is that my colleague made me do a day's work before taking me to my hotel - I was dishevelled, unshaved and hadn't slept. Still, I can laugh about it now!
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Helen Waight 4 years ago
I was in very slow moving traffic on the motorway due to rush hour and there’s a woman in the car next to me driving along while looking down and doing something on her phone and saying quite loudly ‘it’s so boring here that I’m reading on the motorway!’ (It was summer, windows down). 5 seconds later she smashes into the back of a police car. The police do have a wonderful ‘did that just actually happen?’ look on their faces but get witness statements, clear the cars onto the hard shoulder and arrest the woman for dangerous driving. People don’t believe I saw that, but it really gets weird when I’m at work the next day and we find that our new health and safety officer won’t be starting because she got arrested for dangerous driving. It was the same woman.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Years ago, I was returning from dropping my daughter off at college north of Boston. Part of my route was on I-95, a 4-lane nightmare where the speed limit is nonexistent (but technically is 105kph). A car was in the passing lane traveling at 80kph. As I passed her on the right (out of necessity), I glanced over. She was applying mascara.
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Elliot Fowler 4 years ago
When I was 10, I was the goody two-shoes nerdy teacher's pet in my newly built private school. This school open only last year and it have only 3 classrooms and less than 100 students. So gaining new students was the main goal of the administration. One day a new student from a rich family came into class. His family was considering transferring him to the school and wanted him to spend a day in class to get a feel of the class environment. Naturally the the teacher assigned me the responsibility of convincing him that this is a good school and that he should transfer here. Well, They sat him next to me and as soon as I introduced myself and started talking about what a great school this was, the ceiling light and part of the ceiling broke and fell on top of my head. He decided not to transfer.
Rachel Reynolds 4 years ago
My first born had an atrial septal defect, a hole in his heart and needed open heart surgery at 3 months. My husband is a doctor and at the time had just opened his practice, basically he couldn't take time off or he risked losing his business. So I take my very young baby 150 miles from home to the Children's hospital all alone while still in the grip of wonky hormones. My baby goes into surgery, I'm told it will take around two hours. Six hours later no one can give me an update and I'm panicking. The nurse suggest I take a pager and go to the garden, they'll let me know. I get in the elevator and just break down. After a minute or so of ugly sobbing I hear "Do you need a hug?" I nod, I don't even care. This guy squeezes me super tight and holds me until I get control. I finally stop crying and step back to thank...John Cena. He was there for Make-A-Wish and just happened to be in the elevator when I had a breakdown. (Insert joke about how I didn't even see him)
Helen Waight 4 years ago
I was in very slow moving traffic on the motorway due to rush hour and there’s a woman in the car next to me driving along while looking down and doing something on her phone and saying quite loudly ‘it’s so boring here that I’m reading on the motorway!’ (It was summer, windows down). 5 seconds later she smashes into the back of a police car. The police do have a wonderful ‘did that just actually happen?’ look on their faces but get witness statements, clear the cars onto the hard shoulder and arrest the woman for dangerous driving. People don’t believe I saw that, but it really gets weird when I’m at work the next day and we find that our new health and safety officer won’t be starting because she got arrested for dangerous driving. It was the same woman.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Years ago, I was returning from dropping my daughter off at college north of Boston. Part of my route was on I-95, a 4-lane nightmare where the speed limit is nonexistent (but technically is 105kph). A car was in the passing lane traveling at 80kph. As I passed her on the right (out of necessity), I glanced over. She was applying mascara.
Load More Replies... Elliot Fowler 4 years ago
When I was 10, I was the goody two-shoes nerdy teacher's pet in my newly built private school. This school open only last year and it have only 3 classrooms and less than 100 students. So gaining new students was the main goal of the administration. One day a new student from a rich family came into class. His family was considering transferring him to the school and wanted him to spend a day in class to get a feel of the class environment. Naturally the the teacher assigned me the responsibility of convincing him that this is a good school and that he should transfer here. Well, They sat him next to me and as soon as I introduced myself and started talking about what a great school this was, the ceiling light and part of the ceiling broke and fell on top of my head. He decided not to transfer.
Rachel Reynolds 4 years ago
My first born had an atrial septal defect, a hole in his heart and needed open heart surgery at 3 months. My husband is a doctor and at the time had just opened his practice, basically he couldn't take time off or he risked losing his business. So I take my very young baby 150 miles from home to the Children's hospital all alone while still in the grip of wonky hormones. My baby goes into surgery, I'm told it will take around two hours. Six hours later no one can give me an update and I'm panicking. The nurse suggest I take a pager and go to the garden, they'll let me know. I get in the elevator and just break down. After a minute or so of ugly sobbing I hear "Do you need a hug?" I nod, I don't even care. This guy squeezes me super tight and holds me until I get control. I finally stop crying and step back to thank...John Cena. He was there for Make-A-Wish and just happened to be in the elevator when I had a breakdown. (Insert joke about how I didn't even see him)
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