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Psychologists believe that intuition is fueled by pattern-matching; the mind combs through experiences we've stored in our long-term memory for similar situations and presents in-the-moment judgments based on them.
Even Albert Einstein relied on it. "I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am," he told The Saturday Evening Post in 1929. It's much better to trust those instincts and test them later than to dismiss them out of hand, he said.
But Reddit user ElectroIsland was interested in how we approach it when the stakes get higher, so they asked everyone on the platform to share the scariest "We need to leave, now" gut feelings they've ever experienced. Here are some of the most upvoted stories they have received.
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#1
Does an "I need to go home now" feeling count? And it wasn't me, but my mom.
Anyway, I was around 12 or so and my mom left to run an errand, leaving me alone. Very soon after she left, the doorbell rang. This was weird because we lived on a hill with only two neighbors (we all kept to ourselves) and we just... didn't get random visitors. Thanks to some conveniently placed picture frames, I could see out the door without being seen. I look out and see a young man I don't recognize. He's dressed in a tshirt and jeans and something just feels... off. So I ignore him and wait for him to leave.
But he doesn't. He lingers and starts smoking. Again, this is an isolated hill, I'm alone, and now I'm getting scared. I go and hide and plan to wait for my mom. Except she JUST left, had a few errands to run, and I couldn't reach the phone without the guy seeing me.
As I'm trying to figure out what to do... my mom comes home. She runs in and asks if I'm okay. Apparently she got this random "go home NOW" urge. She hadn't even run her first errand yet but turned around immediately. Found the guy in our yard and asked what he needed. I guess he muttered something about looking for someone, or something to that effect, and my mom told him to leave. Apparently he was acting very strangely and made my mom nervous.
To this day I have no idea what he wanted, and no idea how my mom knew to come home. But I am VERY grateful she did.
Nea 1 year ago
As someone living with severe anxiety, I am highly perceptive to fears or threats. So much so that sometimes those fears arent real but strong enough to make me flee. I have these ‘leave right now’ moments just way too often :(
Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
This! People get gut feelings all the time and I’m just like, how do you know which ones are real?!
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Poultry Geist 1 year ago
When I moved in with my dad he told me “ if the neighbors son ever comes over when I’m not here, don’t let him in “ the son was a grown man living in his parents basement, he had been in some sort of rehab or jail for a long time and had moved back in with them recently. My dad drove a big white van so it was easy to tell if he was home. Don’t you know the very next time my dad left I looked out the window a few minutes later and see this man walking up my driveway !I locked the door ran out the back door hopped the fence ran through my neighbors yard cut over 2 street and what was usually a mile trip because of roads I had traveled in about 7 minutes! Got to my friends house I was so freaked out !
Krystal Quigley 1 year ago
Definitely call in his description to the police as a predator prowler in case someone else her age in the area disappearrs
Bettye McKee 1 year ago
Woman's intuition, mother's intuition, whatever you call it, don't ignore it.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago
She would have seen him on the way out and her brain did the rest. Mums are perceptive.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
decades ago, my mom had several instances where she picked up the phone to call my grandmother or me and essentially answered it before it had had a chance to ring, because we were on the other end of the line calling her at the same time
Annita Stephanou 1 year ago
My dad had a go home now feeling when he was at a football match and I was at home with my heavily pregnant mom. She went into labor that night.
BossyHossy1 1 year ago
Momma-b-dar (Mamma-bear radar: able to sense kid distress at any distance, stares weirdos down with one brief glance and able to restore kid/like equilibrium with one hug!!).
We got in touch with ElectroIsland, and the Redditor mentioned that they came up with the idea to ask this question while simply relaxing.
"I was just watching Adult Swim and thought of some situations that Rick and Morty present and go through," the author of the post told Bored Panda.
After reviewing the discussion, ElectroIsland said, "A lot of the stuff posted had to do with either attempted kidnapping/SA, or some kind of robbery or gang presence."
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#2
I was at a family gathering, basically a reunion but just for family within reasonable driving distance, probably 30 people all together. It was at county park on a small lake with some grills and buildings (just an empty hall with some picknick tables inside) you could rent for this kinda stuff. The sky started darkening as a storm was approching, all the coolers, chairs, balls and other kids toys, etc. were brought into the building anticipating the rain. The plan was to wait it out since afternoon showers are common just about every day in the summer. Something in the air didnt feel or smell right even though it appeared to be just a regular afternoon storm. Hair on my neck was standing up and I was in full flight mode. Cant really descibe it, the feeling in the pit of my stomach can only be decribed as absolute dread. I told my wife to take my daughter and get in the car. My brother in law took one look at my face and said whats wrong.. apparently I was white as a ghost. It wasnt even raining yet and I was full on panic yelling for everyone to leave, something isnt right. No one else was that worried, mostly concerned with how I was acting. I went out to the car and as soon as I was about to turn the key the tornado sirens went off. We were not far from wherever they put those (or they are just stupidly loud), because it was deafeningly loud. Now the rest of the family is pouring out of the building to their cars, kids crying, and I look across the lake maybe a few miles in the distance and see a funnel cloud. Got the hell out of there, as did everyone else. The building we had rented for this family bbq thing was completely annihilated...literally just a slab of concrete and a s**t ton of debris all around. It was hit dead on by an EF3.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
I think the lucky part completely cancels the unlucky part!
Load More Replies... Rebekah 1 year ago
FYI - you can "smell" tornado's. Like you can smell the rain before it hits. Know the smell = get inside.
Boots 1 year ago
What does a tornado smell like?! I just live in hurricane-prone areas...
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CanadianDimes 1 year ago
Tornado storms feel different than regular storms and the colour of the sky can be really bizarre as well. I’d say this is less of a gut feeling than it is reacting to observable changes.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I live in SW Washington state and we don't normally get different sky colors or tornadoes,. However, one time I HAD make it to an auction about 45 miles away. We'd had a storm and leaving town there were lights out periodically but the freakiest thing was driving north on I-5 and not seeing lights on either side of the freeway most of the way then suddenly seeing lightning and a green sky. Very little wind either until a decent sized dust/leaf devil crossed the freeway in front of me as I got close to my exit.
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Mark Kelly 1 year ago
I assume OP lived there for years so his subconscious must have known I told it all could happen as I'm sure they I regular around that area at that time of you.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The year I was born, my grandfather's gas station was hit by a tornado twice. Never again since.
MacintoshID 1 year ago
I have heard of how the changes in pressure are felt by just a few before a major tornado develops. People also will be affected by the electrical charges in the area and cause that dreaded feeling throughout their bodies.
Bettye McKee 1 year ago
When the barometric pressure changes, you can feel it. Hair raising up on the back of your neck, feeling anxious. We should pay more attention to these signals.
#3
My brother and I were kids, playing hide and seek in the front yard of our house. My brother was 3, and I was 6. My brother was supposed to be counting and finding me, but he was taking forever, so I peeked around the side of the house to see what was taking so long. He had lost interest in the game and was standing near the front gate, which led to the street. As I'm looking, I see a brown car pull up with two men inside. The car wasn't familiar, and neither were the men. They both got out of the car and approached my brother. They started asking him questions and moving closer to him. I remember feeling panicked. I had learned about stranger danger in school and knew this wasn't right. I ran around the side of the house, flew through the back door, and screamed, "Someone is trying to kidnap Steve!" My dad didn't hesitate. He got up and flew through the front door. When the men saw my dad coming through the door, they bolted and peeled out. From that day forward, we weren't allowed to play in the front yard anymore. It's a really scary memory for me.
Tara L. 1 year ago
This is why we weren't allowed to play in the front yard unless we took the dogs with us. Two big, protective dobermans kept all strangers away
Luiza Menezess 1 year ago
That's why you should walk with your kids about strangers and not talking with them
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
Steve was also 3. Thankfully OP was older and had taken to heart what he'd been told.
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"I can find many uses for it, even in normal, non-life-threatening situations," they added.
Scientists agree. For example, while researching intuition for her book 'Sovereign,' Emma Seppala, a Yale management lecturer, found that gut feelings are a powerful source of information that we can and should rely on.
#4
Me and my little sister went camping in the woods very close to our house when we were kids. We'd seen this bald guy with a blue shirt and a dog walking around, which isn't unusual for the area, you'll often see people walking and say hello. For some reason though, I just got this tight feeling in my chest, and my sister must have too, because we both just gave each other this look. I don't know what it was that made me do it, this is very out of character for me, but I took a photo of the back of him as he was walking away.
A while later, we see the same guy AGAIN near the lake. He comes over and asks about the tent we're carrying, where we'll be setting up, and are we camping with our dad? We say yes, we're just going to see him now (a lie).
We must have had the same moment of psychic-ness, because we walked off up a fork in the path until we were out of view, then looked at each other and jumped down a path hidden by the bushes and waited behind them on the parallel trail for a bit. The guy watched us walk off, pretended to play with his dog until he couldn't see us, then turned around and ran up the path after us. Thankfully he didn't see us hidden and carried on up straight where he thought we'd gone. We decided camping was a bad idea and went home.
That evening my mum shows us a post in the local residents group, which is a picture of **the same bald guy** trying to break into someone's house. Apparently he'd just been walking round trying people's front doors and claimed to be a repair guy when he was stopped. I dread to f*****g think what his intentions were, but it was very lucky me and my sister knew those woods so well, otherwise we wouldn't have thought to go down one of the hidden paths.
Krystal Quigley 1 year ago
Your subconscious can process body language and other red flags your conscious brain doesn't connect. Never ignore a hinky feeling for the sake of being polite. And if you catch any parent chiding their child about not being polite when someone makes them uncomfortable, rip them a new one in front of the kid. Do it in a manner consistent with how harshly they chided the child
#5
We were driving back from an impromptu family vacation. My husband and I were both driving cars (too many people, not enough alert drivers) and I was following him. We were in the left lane passing a truck and I suddenly had an overwhelming feeling that we needed to slow way down and move over *immediately.* I called him and told him that we needed to get over, go slower than the truck, and turn our hazards on. He thought I was a little crazy but he’s learned to listen to my gut feelings and did it. Suddenly we ran into a freak ice storm and the truck slipped off the road, the car that went past us on the left slid into oncoming traffic, and 3 other cars behind us proceeded to slide off the road. There was a big dip on the side of the road and one of the cars even tipped over. We somehow came through unscathed and made it home safely.
Another time I was driving to work and I was behind a work van with ladders on top of it. It wasn’t particularly busy on the highway but someone was behind me somewhat close. I had a horrible feeling wash over me that I needed to move over right away. I moved one lane over about 15 seconds before one of the ladders flew off the van. It hit the road right next to me and the car that was behind me ran over it a little but luckily wasn’t impaled or anything.
I’ve had this feeling several times in my life and have even cancelled entire vacations over it. I don’t know if anything would’ve happened for several of them, but I truly think I’ve avoided some serious trouble.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
I was traveling behind a truck carrying large plate glass windows. Though I was at a safe distance I felt it imperative to slow down "just in case". One of the windows flew off the truck moments afterwards and shattered across the interstate.
Tikijade 1 year ago
I actually had something similar but opposite happen. I'm a truck driver, and had this sudden urge to change lanes and come in behind a work truck loaded with ladders. Seconds later, a ladder came loose and impaled right through the grill and hood of my truck. If I hadn't moved over, it would have been right through the windshield of the SUV that had been behind the truck.
Eunice Robertson 1 year ago
Always obey those "hunches".More than once, I've planned to do something or go somewhere, and something has happened to keep me at home. I'm always grateful for the "guardian angels" who keep me safe.
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
I second that and agree with you 100%! I have a sixth sense and it has gone off on me. At the time I had no reason why until later.
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 1 year ago
A lady I did some work for had a husband die from a logging truck losing the longs ! Like in the movie !scary
Jane Hower 1 year ago
You have a really loving guardian angel on the other side. Keep listening to him!!!!
"Awareness is key to sovereignty," Seppala explained. "As you start to make room for intuitive insights, you'll find your awareness deepens further. By making time and space for intuition to arise, you'll have greater insight into yourself and the world."
To incorporate it into our everyday life decision-making, Seppala suggested to "make it a habit to also consult your feelings on the matter ... When you need to make a decision between options A and B, for example, sit with your eyes closed for a moment. How do you feel about each option? You might notice one makes you tense up while the other makes you feel relaxed."
This might take practice, and you might not notice much at first. But try it in different situations and see what happens!
#6
I stopped by a friend's house to watch a ball game, he, his wife and I were just relaxing and someone knocked on the door. It was the middle of the afternoon, he opened it up, he was expecting others might come by also. I hear him greeting someone, the guy was his brother I had never met, but had heard about. Very sketchy looking guy, meth teeth, scrawny, long greasy hair, my friend had told me that he had a brother who lived in the area who had a serious d**g problem.
Buddy is talking to his brother about nothing and the guy gets a call on his cell, whoever called, all he told them was "not yet, I'll call you later". Seems pretty obvious this guy has come to rob and most likely to take out witnesses, I look at my buddy, it seems he has come to the same conclusion. Now my buddy's wife is a no nonsense type of woman, sweet, but athletic, on the tall side, she had left the room to go to the bathroom, or so she said.
She comes back in the room with a handgun, I'm thinking "WTF did I walk into", but she calmly says "Ron, you're strung out and came here with bad intentions, you need to quietly leave, if you get any ideas, Chris, their son, is sitting outside in his truck to make sure you go."
Ron doesn't say a word, he just turn and goes out the door, we can hear his old pickup drive away rapidly. Chris come in and says "he's gone, I don't think he's coming back". The ask me to leave so they can decide what to do, they have already called the police, who are well acquainted with Ron.
The next morning my buddy calls me, the police said they found his brother in the trailer park where he lived, m**dered with multiple gunshots. They are guessing he was in serious d*ug debt and had come to rob his brother. I told my buddy I was sorry, he said "don't be".
Menacing Duck 1 year ago
holy hell. Hopefully neither of my brothers, or anyone, ends up like Ron.
Melinda Flick 1 year ago
"Don't be" I'm sure they mourned the brother he used to be, and were relieved they didn't have to worry anymore. That's so sad.
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
True, or they already considered him "dead' in that the person he used to be was dead and all that was left was his body which was only existing.
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MacintoshID 1 year ago
Surprisingly many families have to deal with a family member like this because that person has no interest in getting help. Seen it first hand with a former employee who's brother was just like this guy Ron.
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
Addiction and fear are both powerful motivators and empower people to make choices they would never choose otherwise. He knew it was either get the money or die. There was never any way this could be resolved positively.
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Surfing a fairly secluded reef-break, offshore across a channel. This place is in a very southern state of Australia.
Overcast weather, but a still, amazing day for the waves. I was surfing with only one other guy - we were trading waves and getting to know each other in between sets.
I asked what he did for a living and he was a marine biologist. We’d both recently moved to the area and were new to surfing it as well.
Despite it being extremely good surf, after 40 mins he says, “I don’t like this, something feels off, I feel like I’m being watched, like I’m bait”.
I didn’t want to leave as it was excellent surf, but this guy was a marine biologist so I took his instinct as a sign to play it safe. We paddled back across the deep channel together as quickly as we could without panicking and walked the 15 mins trek back to the carpark talking s**t the whole way. I got his mobile number for future surfs together given how small-town it is here and not knowing anyone.
We noticed a 15ft inflatable boat pull up near the reef and hang around for a bit without much thought. Later that night while looking at my social media, I read about three fisherman at the same location we were at that morning, at the same time - in their boat; as they pulled up to check their cray pots on the beach side of the reef, they were circled twice by a great white shark that was as big as their boat.
That guy most likely saved me from a horrible experience that day, I messaged him with the link to the Facebook page with the comments regarding their experience. Chills ran through my body for a good twenty mins. He was adamant he felt the presence of something and he was right.
Debbie 1 year ago
I like most about this post is that this is how friendships start. Not even the shared experience, but just two people out there being new and being friendly to eachother.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago
It seems so easy... I've tried for over 40 years and still haven't figured out how to get a real friend. Friendship seems something only real in movies and fiction books
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Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
South Australia for sure. Great surf, but so many shark attacks. Because Great Whites are dumb and surfers dress like seals.
brittany 1 year ago
that feeling happened to me once. i was in the bahamas with a friend and she is very at home in the water. i can swim, just not great at it. we were having fun and we wanted to swim out to this floating water thing (dont remember what it's called but they are usually orange or red) anyway about half way i get this sudden inexplicable fear not to go any further. i shout to my friend that i cant go further (she was several feet ahead of me at this point) and so we swim back. she was kind of miffed about it and i told her i just didnt feel right. we went back in later and i was fine, just didnt swim out that deep again. i have no idea if there was something close by or if it was just me, and i almost dont want to know. i learned a long time ago to listen to myself. so when my brain says dont, i dont.
jonesnori 1 year ago
Even if it was your own body not being up for that swim, you were smart to listen. You may have saved your own life.
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Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
I'd definitely want to surf with him again. he's got good, reliable instincts, and things could have been very scary if he wasn't there.
#8
Years ago, before cell phones, I was driving home from dropping my husband at the train at 4:30am. Only me and one other car on the road. He started turning where I turned twice so I didn't go home, I went to an all night gas station and called the police. I gave them a description of his car. 3 weeks later, he was arrested. Turns out he was following women home and driving past their house and doubling back to r*pe them. No one had noticed his car. I'm glad I paid attention.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago
If you call being aware of your surroundings, thinking clearly, and taking appropriate actions lucky, than sure.
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Christine Stewart 1 year ago
Years ago on a lonely stretch of highway a man was following me in his car, behind me, then to the side of me and behind me again- this in the days before cell phones- pacing me, so I knew it wasn't just coincidence- finally I was getting closer to the two exits that could get me home- I usually took the second exit- but I waited until the last second and careened across several lanes of highway to take the first exit, when it was too late for the man to follow me. He might have just been a jerk trying to scare me, but i was really glad as I was driving through town with no one following me...
Jane Hower 1 year ago (edited)
I used to do Singing Telegrams and wore rather sexy costumes. One late night I got hom and several men were loitering around the stairwell I had to go up to get to my condo so I just sat in the car for a VERY long time until they left. Did not want them to see me like that and know what unit I lived in. whew
Bettye McKee 1 year ago
That's Rule Number 1. If you're being followed for sure, don't go home, go to a public, well-lighted area. Calling the police gets you bonus points.
#9
When we were in our teens, my sister and I were walking our dog in our local forest area very close to our childhood home. We were about to leave and had just clipped our dog back up, when a lady appeared out of nowhere and started chatting to us. She was…odd. She told us her dog would love some socialisation with our dog and could we go back with her for five minutes. What I hadn’t clocked, but my sister had, was that her dog was nowhere to be seen. The lady was almost rounding us up to head back towards the forest when (little did I know) my sister had spotted a van out of the corner of her eye. I was still oblivious at this point. Suddenly, my sister screams ‘DAD!!’ and to our luck, my dad had finished work and was now out on a run. He starts waving and running towards us and as we turn back around the lady had vanished. My sister looks back over at the van and sees the lady closing the passenger door and it speeding off. Dog still nowhere to be seen. I believe we were minutes away from abduction. It was divine intervention that my dad happened to be at the right place at the right time!
hockeygorl 1 year ago
my dog is an absolute sweetheart but if someone tries to hit me they’re in trouble, even if they js reach for my arm and i’m clearly not happy she starts going insane- she’s a german shepard
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I was 12 at the time, and my favorite thing in the world was spending the night at my grandma's house. We lived in the sticks at the time, and my grandma lived closer to the nearest town. Thursday night was grandma's night.
I felt something off one Thursday night and asked my mom if I could just stay home with my mom and dad. They reluctantly agreed. I went home, watched some TV, and went to bed. My bedroom was on the adjoining wall to the living room.
I wasn't really asleep but I heard my mom keep saying my dad's name over and over again, with a hint of panic. I sneak out to the living room, and my dad is on the couch with his head tilted back, snoring, really loud. Which wasn't uncommon but my mom was beside him shaking him and telling him to wake up. She yelled at me to go back to bed.
I didn't obviously. I snuck to their bedroom to call 911. I told the dispatcher that my dad was asleep and my mom was trying to wake him up but she couldn't. Eventually the phonecall went to the living room and my mom talked to the dispatcher. They sent an ambulance, to the middle of nowhere. My dad had taken a bottle of diazepam to try to commit s**cide.
I remember sitting on the floor and holding his hand and repeating over and over that I loved him. The ambulance came, and took him to the hospital. Lights and sirens the whole way. We didn't know what happened during that time but we found out a day or so later and that is when our world changed.
I am very sure if I did not call 911 that night that my dad would have succeeded and it would have probably have drove my mom over the edge as well. And I have no idea why I didn't want to stay the night at my nanny's. I just had that feeling that I needed to go home.
Palestine Will Be Free 1 year ago
That's how I felt not to long ago 😞 just to give up but I'm grateful for my support system
jonesnori 1 year ago
I'm grateful, too. I hope they will continue to help, and you'll be able to continue climbing out of the pit. Been there.
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rorschach-penguin 1 year ago (edited)
Valium (diazepam) will almost never kill you if taken alone, regardless of the dose. It is, however, very dangerous when mixed.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
Well it can if you take enough. I think it's like 40mgs that can stop you from breathing.
Load More Replies... Krystal Quigley 1 year ago
The mom probably had an idea what he tried to do but she didn't want to involve the kid if she could keep him from finding out what dad tried to do
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago (edited)
There aren't always signs someone is going to hurt themselves. I have 2 close friends that ended their lives and I know of several more. One was an ex who I still loved and was still a huge part of my life and had just 18 and he was one of the happiest friendliest people ever. He had a plan of becoming a cop and moving to LA and wanted me to go with and get married, which I was considering. He had just received a huge cash inheritance and was making plans on when he was leaving. One day he was talking to a friend while sitting in his truck and just grabbed his gun and shot himself in the head. He was in a coma for 2 days before he died. You really never know what people are thinking. They could seem 100% ok and put on a huge front that the are happy but be in complete turmoil inside.
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
I am sorry you feel like this is necessary. I know from experience that when you are in that darkness the cliches and flowery words of others are easy to discount. Please, if you are able to reach out to anyone, please do so. 988 is a suicide/crisis helpline with both talk and text support. The BoredPanda community is full of wonderful people who truly care about each other. We are glad you are part of us. We are stronger with you. If you want to talk, just message me. I will try my best to help. 🐼 🫂
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Danish Susanne 1 year ago
Calling 911 and sitting there telling your dad that you loved him might have been the two things that saved him. When people think of committing suicide they often believe nobody will miss them.
#11
Years ago I was at a club with some friends. I was at the bar and for some reason looked down at the other end of the bar and saw 2 guys quietly arguing. They tried to keep from being overheard but I saw their agitated face. I went to back to my group of friends and told them we should go. This was a popular club and it took us forever to get in so they didn’t want to leave.
I don’t know what came over me but I picked up my friend’s girlfriend (she was barely 5’ tall) and started walking to the door. She was kicking the entire time and the rest of the party followed me outside telling me to put her down.
When we got outside, we heard the distant “pop pop” and people screaming. We looked at each other for a second then ran for our cars. I forgot to put her down and was still carrying her over my shoulders.
Update: Dang, I didn’t think this would blow up. It was the early 1990s and we were at a club in Miami. If I recall correctly from the local news, it was a d**g deal that went bad between 2 groups. No one was k*lled but they wounded each other and a couple of innocent people.
LOL, I’m still not carrying her today, the legend are false. Those two eventually got married and they mentioned me in their speech, something about the other groomsmen holding me back so that I don’t get the urge to carry her across the doorway.
LinkTheHylian 1 year ago
It sounds like the strip club scene in 'Beverly Hills Cop' (forget if it's 1 or 2), except Axel doesn't run out with some woman over his shoulder.
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#12
My little brother and I were tossing a baseball around near dusk at the bottom of our property, 30 wooded mountain acres WAY in the middle of nowhere. It had gotten dark enough that we were *just* about to call it quits when we heard the single most horrifying scream we've ever heard coming from the trees just beyond the edge of the clearing.
Imagine a woman screaming in mortal agony, writhing in the most wretched torment imaginable, every tortured scream from horror movies, war movies, anything you've ever heard; nothing compared to this. Even now, decades removed from hearing it, the hair on my arms and neck stands up just thinking of it, and it's made even worse by the realization of *what it actually was*:
A mountain lion. Full-grown female mountain lions scream loudly when they're in heat, and it sounds like a human woman being torn to pieces by the devil himself. To hear that, two kids alone in the dark, in the middle of nowhere, was about as terrifying as it gets. I grabbed his arm and ran-scrambled-fear-levitated up the hill faster than ever before or since. It's been 25 years, and I still haven't fully un-puckered...
Dainty72 1 year ago
Really was! OP could write a novel with their clever vocabulary!
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Leekun 1 year ago
As someone not living in the USA and has never been around a mountain lion, I looked up their screams on youtube. Jesus, I was not prepared. Fully understand how terrifying that must have been
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
They are very loud. It's not the loud ones you should be worried about.
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Alethea Fletcher 1 year ago
I've never heard lions, but cats in heat sound like babies being tortured. I can imagine lions/tigers/big cat types, sounding 100% worse.
Lost Penny 1 year ago
Who else went on YouTube to find a clip of a female mountain lion screaming?
Leesa DeAndrea 1 year ago
Similar occurrence when I was a young teen. I lived in New Mexico at the time. My friend & I were going to camp out in her backyard. Her yard was right next to a river. It was early evening & we had just started to set up the tent when we heard what sounded like a woman scream. We just looked at each other and without even saying anything went back into her house. Camping out over!
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
bobcats and foxes have horrible screams as well but i think mountain lions are the winners
#13
In college I was studying at my school’s business school building, waiting to meet a friend and I had a sudden sense of dread. I texted my friend that I would just meet her at her dorm later instead of meeting at the business school, and I left to walk to a nearby library instead. When I got to the library about 20 minutes later, I checked my phone and I had nearly 20 missed calls and texts from my friends who knew I was at the business building. Literally seconds after I left, a student entered the building and stabbed multiple people, k*lling one professor and injuring several students. It happened in the room I had just been in.
Magenta Blu 1 year ago
The worst registered flood hit my town 3 months ago... River rised over 17 meters and practically the whole town was under water...Big breaking news all over the country... Absolutely NO ONE called me or texted me to check if me and my kids were safe. So I just deleted all the contacts in my cell phone.
Seadog 1 year ago
And yet it didn't make the news. Why? Because he used a knife and not a gun. It goes to prove that people like this will kill no matter what. Just imagine how different the outcome would've been if just one person had been carrying. But instead guns are banned on school grounds, making everyone easy prey. When I went to school, there were multiple guns on the grounds, many in the back glass of pick-ups. How many school shootings did we have back then? NONE
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
Wikipedia has a long list of university attacks. There are a few with descriptions that this could be. Unfortunately, this is far more realistic than it should be.
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#14
Picture it, 1994. I was 18 and waitressing in a sports bar. A comedy club was upstairs. One night a comedian kept visiting between sets. He was funny and charming, and he seemed quite smitten with me. He asked me out to late night breakfast. If you’ve ever been in hospitality, you know we go out and eat at 3:00am. I changed after my shift and waited a few minutes for him. I realized I really didn’t know this person, and I should not let him in my car. I decided to be smart and GTFO. A few years later I was absentmindedly flipping through a People magazine at a friend’s house. That is when I saw my comedian date, Vince Champ, had been arrested as a serial r*pist. His favorite target was young college girls and they finally caught him after putting the puzzle together between victims and his campus circuit. Holy s**t I dodged a bullet!! I think he may still be in jail; he was that terrible.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
Sounds like a great guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Champ (yes I'm being sarcastic, he's obviously NOT a nice guy)
The Redhead 1 year ago
Glad you got out of that situation unharmed. Also love the Golden Girls reference.
#15
I was freshly married in my early 20's, living in Fallbrook California. My husband (ex) was a marine and was at work and I was driving home from visiting family further south. In order to get into Fallbrook you have to travel along this long dark and windy street called Mission road. It's already a super dark night, about 11 pm, and it's a little foggy as well. I'm slowing down and coming around this slight bend in the road and all of a sudden the hair goes up on my neck, and I feel incredibly anxious. About 5 seconds later, a young woman jumps out of the brush directly ahead of me (maybe 50 feet away) on the left-hand side of the road, while waving her arms in the air and gesturing frantically for me to pull over. I swerved a bit to the right, slowing down even further - but I did not stop. She was young, maybe early 20's or even late teens, and a little dirty, and I was immediately conflicted over continuing to drive. But something told me not to stop under any circumstances. I got further up the road, slowed a little more, and dialed 911 with one shaky hand. The dispatcher said she'd send someone to check, but encouraged me not to feel badly. Apparently there had already been calls about this girl over the last hour, and they were unable to find her when police followed up. I heard a few weeks later about some car-jacking/robbery attempts in the area. Very relieved I listened to my instincts that night.
Mocha the Lion 1 year ago
im afraid my moral compass would have gotten the better of me in a situation like this, scary!
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
that's the worst part. the people who LEAST deserve to be targeted are the ones more likely to be robbed or worse.
Load More Replies... Phineas T 1 year ago
When we were late teens, my sister was coming home late from a catering gig, also on a dark winding road, no cells since this was late 90s, and a truck pulled out in front of her and tried to bring her to a stop. She did not stop, but drove up on the shoulder in a dangerous area, but made it home safe. Heard not long after that a couple men were carjacking / robbing people in that same area
Poultry Geist 1 year ago
I’ve had this happen twice where someone jumped in front of my car for me to stop and I said “oh hell naw “ jerked my wheel and sped off! Once in the night in Atlanta Georgia and once in gulf port Mississippi! The time in Ga I had people with me so I probably would have been fine but in Gulfport I was alone but on my return trip I saw that guy sitting on the curb with another guy he looked like he was drunk and crying 🤷🏻♀️
Seadog 1 year ago
Another popular scam for carjackers is to lay what appears to be a baby in a blanket on the side of the road or in a car seat/carrier. Where I live, more than once these idiots have actually gone out and laid in the road. First one I heard of didn't make it, it was dark and he got run over.
#16
I was at the state fair with my mom and my best friend. Friend and I were looking at the rides and the games. This creepy guy and his blonde girlfriend kept babbling at us about taking head shots and that he was a modeling agent. He just seemed off and really sleazy and the girl was giving me the creeps so I pretended that I saw my mom telling us to come and grabbed my friend and dragged her off.
She was close to 5'8 and not a small girl at 13 yrs old, I was 4'9 and around 65 lbs at 14 yrs old. A few days later, there's a news story and rumors going around the school about two girls being kidnapped, assaulted and m*rdered. They were taken from the fair the same day we were there, just a few hours later. The creepy couple were Gerald and Charlene Gallegos, serial k*llers.
Annie 1 year ago
Gallego, not Gallegos. One of the girls he murdered was buried alive. Thankfully he finally ended up getting a death sentence: cancer, and I hope it was painful to the end.
Paddling Panda 1 year ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_and_Charlene_Gallego
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Shenanigans333 1 year ago
thats what you took from the story? does it matter?
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#17
This happened to my cousin. She was driving her car with her toddler in the back and approaching a corner. Suddenly her little girl starts yelling ‘Mummy slow down!’ Just over and over, really upset. My cousin wasn’t speeding but she slowed down to placate her daughter and as she went around the corner there was someone passing a car coming towards her on the other side, on her side of the road, narrowly missing her car. If she hadn’t slowed down they would have been involved in a head-on collision. And one from my SIL - She was driving home and thinking about something else and suddenly realised she’d taken a wrong turn. Couldn’t explain why. She saw a dairy (NZ style convenience store) and thought she might as well grab a snack or a drink so she stopped. Next minute this little kid, maybe 3 or 4 went bolting past her out towards the road and my SIL (who claims to never be one to act boldly in a situation) ran out after him and grabbed him just as he was about to run onto the road. As she pulled him back towards her she felt a rush of air as a truck sped past, only just missing this kid.
Debbie 1 year ago
Little kids can move with the speed of light. One moment they are next to you, then you look down to collect the change or look at the cashier to wish them a good day, and you look down and toddler is gone. WOoosh. Before you pinpoiny their location they are 3 meters away. Before you have rounded your cart they are outside, and you need to wait for the sliding doors to open again.
Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago
Spoken like a parent with personal experience. I am too. Your head constantly swivels when you're out with a child who's too big for a stroller but not old enough to know to stay constantly with mom/dad.
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Shaunn Munn 1 year ago
There are harnesses and leads for this situation. Parents are either not aware of them or are aghast at the idea. Safety doesn't seem to be part of the equation. And children die.
#18
A friend called me and said “theres a wild fire 8 miles away! Can u help me move my horses?” So, i drove down. She was wrong, its 8 miles by car. Under 2 as the crow flies. We got the first set of horses out and down to another farm. The 2nd set, im working on and suddenly, things get quiet. Its as if the world stopped for a minute.
I look at the horse and the horse looks like its ready to run. I take a deep breath and suddenly, the noise comes back, the wind is hot af. And the light changes. I told sherry (the girl im helping) “we gotta go now! No time to shove the horses in to the trailer, they are smart enuff to survive” and i let em loose.
We run to the truck, and the barn is already on fire. Then, we get in the truck and notice the fire passed us and is blocking the road. So, we jump out and ran to a small pond for the horses. And we dive in. Hoping the fire doesnt burn us. It was about 20 min of hell. (It might have been longer, idk. It was insanely scary, hot n loud)
We got rescued by the fire department’s water dropping helicopter. It landed in the field and pulled us in. We got lucky.
The truck was burned to the frame. And the horse sherry let go died. The one i let go survived but was burned. Thats most likely the scariest moment.
Ash 1 year ago
glad you set those two horses free; at least one of them survived. If you'd left them in the barn, neither of them would have.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
yes. you gave them the best chance they could have had. at least they weren't trapped and could try and find safety.
Load More Replies... Mocha the Lion 1 year ago
was the first set of horses that were moved down to a different barn okay?
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
If you hadn't helped maybe none of the horses would have survived, and possibly not your friend either.
Momogi 1 year ago
Keep on hating then, he's quoting his speech, I dont see anything wrong with it.
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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
As it turns out, there was nothing else he could do. They would have died either way. I feel like it would have been worse all cooped up in a small trailer though.
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Sitting in my friends’ backyard with their two kids, my husband,and another friend, enjoying pizza that my host made. It was a beautiful, clear day with no real wind. We’re having a great time, just out of the pool and hungry for pizza, when I suddenly felt on edge. I looked straight at the kids (about 8 and 10 or so years old) and just said “get in the house.” We all scramble and a second later we heard creaking, and maybe 5 seconds after it started, this big branch fell off of their pine tree onto the table where we were sitting. Thankfully no one was hurt besides having to pick pine needles out of our pizza. I can only assume that I subconsciously heard the branch starting to give.
Ash 1 year ago
what's impressive to me is that everybody immediately obeyed without stopping to ask questions.
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
Just like most of these involve your brain picking up things you haven't consciously noticed and determining a course of action without you knowing why, her family picked up from her tone of voice that something was wrong and were probably moving before they thought about it.
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Pheebs 1 year ago
Ooh! I have a tree story. Went camping when I was still in single digits. First morning, sib and I were up pretty early (they’re an early a*s morning person and likes to share the torture x and we were sharing a tent). Little while later I was cold and tired af. Dad says to go back to sleep for a while as it was still pretty early. I got as far as the tent entrance, then made a snap decision to go up to the bath house so I could soak my hands in some hot water. Not 5 minutes later, the tent was crushed. A tree damaged over the winter in ice storms had given out, and the trunk landed on my sleeping bag. Yay for wanting warm hands. That trunk was a solid 12” across and would have crushed my small self. Dad, thankfully, did not suffer a heart attack as he panicked, thinking I was in the tent.
Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
I was outside in the yard 8/13/23 and it felt weird out under my tree. No idea why and can't describe it but weird, wwnt back inside and didn't go back out. Next morning the tree had come down. Trust your instincts.
#20
I bartend and years ago I kicked this guy out because he was acting very strange, muttering under his breath that he would k*ll my other customers, just really hostile. He had missing fingers on one hand and he was kind of a bigger guy. After bar close I was almost finished counting money, so like an hour after everyone left, and i was just about to leave and I had that gut feeling. I looked out the window and that guy was standing on the corner watching me in a ski mask. I know it was him because of the build. As soon as I grabbed my phone he took off but the cops know who he is. Now he has a vendetta out against me and he’s well known around town. He’s f****n nuts.
#21
Wednesday midday run along a beautiful river pathway near my apartment block. About 1km in I felt people watching me and directly turned around and ran home (even though I did NOT see anybody!). Closed the two magnetic gates leading up to my door and didn’t see anybody around or follow me. About 10 minutes later two guys were at my front door trying to push it in. I was luckily on the other side of the door at that moment and pushed it back closed with all my forced and began screaming, I managed to security lock the front door and text my apartment block for help.
I was on the second floor, and they obviously watched which apartment I went into. Looking back at the apartments security cameras they were able to see the two guys pull apart the magnetic security gates, two of them! The block then quickly changed the gates to a mechanic lock that cannot be pulled apart.
L.V 1 year ago
One of the things I've learnt but apply when it's dark. If you are being followed and live in a flat, do not turn on the light as you get home, so they don't know which place is yours.
Tara L. 1 year ago
Even better is to have a light on a timer that turns on an hour before you get home. It makes it look like you live with someone & you don't walk into a dark house/apartment.
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Jane Alexander 1 year ago (edited)
"C'mon kids, we're leaving" said my Grandma. "but we haven't seen the air ship land" they protested. But they left anyway and that's how Grandma avoided them having to see the Hindenburg disaster. Emergency Vehicles screamed past toward the wreck as they escaped.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
You should educate yourself on the statistics of gun ownership and how often they end up harming owners or the owners' kids instead of protecting them. For the record, I grew up around rifles, and I know how to handle them (and I'm a decent shot), but I'm absolutely sick of the fear mongering.
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#22
I’m a teenage girl who worked at a restaurant/pizza shop. I was harassed by these two men one weekend who were totally wasted, so they were kicked. The following weekend they return, and they tried to sit next to me (at counter which is connected to Bar) but they couldn’t so they chose a table across from me and moved both their seats to look right at me, then would only order from my counter instead of our waitresses, were staring at me, making jokes about k*lling a girl, and kind of just freaking me out.
I ended up going to our upstairs employees only section to fold boxes (up there all alone down and hallway where nobody would hear me), I ended up feeling sick to my stomach as I heard someone walk up the stairs and whispering and I closed the door and turned my music off and texted me mom. The two followed me up there, then tried to go down the unlocked hallway but another waitress noticed them bothering me and caught them trying to come after me.
I just had a gut feeling as I heard them coming and she came down the hallway and told me to be quiet and hold our body weight against the door. We waited for them to leave as they stood there, waiting for me to come out before making some remarks about not knowing where I was then going back down. My dad came and picked me up early because I just felt so off. The following day I had to come in for another shift and as I was clocking out the TV’s started playing a true crime documentary on a girl with the same name as me who was kidnapped and assaulted by two men. My stomach dropped and shortly gave my notice after that. I realized I wasn’t going to be protected there and wouldn’t be surprised if they returned again.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Should have called the cops and let them know what happened to you and let them know what you knew
#23
When I was around 9 or 10 my mom took me with her on a business trip to a nearby city. This is before smartphones when you still had to Mapquest stuff. We were supposed to meet my mom’s friend/coworker at the mall for something. Since her friend had given her directions we didn’t bother going down to the hotel computer to print directions (I think there was maybe 1 there, this was around 2000-2001).
We got lost and ended up pulling into a small storage unit place to pull out a map. It was just two rectangular buildings, maybe a total of like 20 units. I don’t remember why, exactly, but I was really scared and kept crying and asking if we could just go back to the hotel. I assume she got fed up with her kid crying in the passenger seat and she couldn’t quite figure out where we were, so we went back to the hotel.
The next day they found the bodies of two teenagers in one of the units we pulled in front of.
Georgia Ireland 1 year ago
You probably smelled death. I've smelled it a few times, and your brain KNEW that smell, even if it couldn't interpret it.
Max Pasterski 1 year ago
In 7th grade, one of our teachers died in a fire the night before, but we weren’t told because it was a celebratory day. The entire school day just felt off, but I just had no idea what was causing it. I found out later that night right after a wave of dread passed over me.
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#24
I was walking down the street in a very unfamiliar city with a group of friends. I got this feeling and didn't know how to articulate it so I said to the group "Hey, I've gotta use the restroom, can we just duck inside this Subway real quick? I promise I'll be quick". About a minute later there was a shootout just up the block. If we wouldn't have gone into the restaurant, we would've all been standing right in the middle of the incident waiting to cross the street.
Ariel Andersen 1 year ago
Listen, I like Subway fine. But calling it a 'restaurant' is a stretch.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 1 year ago (edited)
Must be a pretty good view from atop that high horse of yours.
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_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
Hey, at least you could get yourself one of those footlong cookies while calling the police and watching horrifiedly
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
I can imagine myself doing that if I were in that situation and the window breaks and I'm just like "Wow. Glass. In mah cookie. Savage." /j
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#25
I usually tour by myself (split boarding which means the board you can ski up the hill with skins on the bottom, then you assemble it into a snowboard at the top) which isn’t recommended because you should have a buddy to dig you out if there is an avalanche. Because of that I stick to terrain know well and absolutely won’t slide. Headed up on a settled day but something just felt off. Snow was supposed to be stable at this point with recent weather but it just wasn’t acting like it should. Got passed by 2 other guys heading up and decided to turn around. Now that somebody was above me I felt like it could be triggered out of my control. I was the last person to see these 2 guys before SAR recovered their bodies. Freak avalanche.
#26
I was a high school teenager around 13 (I'm petite and look way younger, so looked at least 10/11). I was in my school uniform on my way to school and our local shopkeeper stops me. Starts talking to me as usual and asks me what my plans are for the day. I look down at my uniform and tell him I'm going to school. He asks me if there's anything interesting happening and I responded with "as a matter of fact, we have a mini trip for my Geography class". So he offers me a few snacks which I declined. Now, the reason I declined it was, because he was speaking to me from the back door of the shop and asked me to come to the back store room to collect the free snacks. I started feeling really strange and declined and said I have to go, I'm getting late. He then asked me for my number and I got freaked out and said I don't have a phone and ran. I remember him shouting something at me, but I was too scared to hear him out. When I got back from school, I told my parents about it and my father went storming to the shop to confront. Well the coward of a man hid while the owner of the shop apologised. It made me wonder, if I was a naive teenager who actually walked in for the free snacks, thinking he was being friendly, what would this grown man have done to me? Keep in mind, he looked like he was in his early 30s and I was 13 in my school uniform, looking like a 10 year old. I've had a few close calls as a young girl, but this one stood out the most to me.
#27
Years ago when I was still living at home with the parents I drove home around 2 am. As I parked my car I noticed a man walking down the street….I decided to wait until he passed my car and was far enough for me to get out, however, instead he passed my car and hid behind the van that was directly parked behind me. I guess he did not think I was paying attention to him. So I called my dad who was asleep to come down and get me. He did and when the guy saw my dad he immediately ran away. I was lucky.
Ronna Black 1 year ago
Cops wouldn’t have done anything, cuz the guy hadn’t done anything yet. Dad was the right call.
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Winter 1 year ago
I had to call my father once. I was coming home from work in the city - I had to catch two trams, a bus, and then had a reasonably long walk. I was on the first tram when I noticed a young man looking at me strangely, but I thought not too worry, I'd be off this tram soon! He got off too and followed me onto the second tram - the same when I got on the bus. What should I do? So, I crossed to the other side of the road (he followed) and I walked as normally as I could up to a strange house, right up to the door. I asked the woman who answered the door if I could use her phone to call my father, as I'd been followed home from the city. She let me in - the guy waited at their letter box - and Dad walked down the 8 or so houses and picked me up. When the guy saw Dad arrive, he ran away! Scary!
#28
I was in Taco Bell with my daughter and I saw a guy come in and back out with a T-shirt over his hand.
I told her to dump her tray and get moving. We went out to the car quickly and left. Found out later on the news that the guy robbed the place with the gun hiding under his T-shirt.
#29
I missed the Westminster Bridge attack by minutes. I was supposed to go meet my husband after a scan at St. Thomas's so. i would have had to cross the bridge to get the tube around to meet him. I was heavily pregnant, slow and.. Something didn't feel right so I decided instead to walk to Waterloo East and go home. I was walking towards the station when it happened.
Tyke 1 year ago (edited)
I was visiting my brother in London with my housemate (a Londoner) and we were in the Soho area. Brother and friend were debating whether to get the bus or tube, she "won". That meant we left early enough to just miss the Soho end of it. Later found out we started our night out at a time that meant we just missed the first bomb in Brixton too.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
My mum wanted me to go to London on 7th July 2005 for a job fair. I decided not to go but that was the day of the subway (and bus) bombings. It would have been incredibly unlikely I would have been on the right train at the right time but it would have been terrifying to have get back to the train station then leave London by train right after that
Pixie T 1 year ago
I was due at hospital early for some scans and would have been at Liverpool Street Station waiting for the tube in July 2005. Luckily as it turns out, I'd slipped on my stairs on my way out my house and hurt my ankle so was unable to make my appointment. I was safely at home resting my ankle when I saw the news reports.
#30
Standing outside my friend’s house watering their garden while they were away on vacation. — not even 30 seconds after i shut the door & locked it about 6 men started pounding on the door,, reaching in the mail slot trying to unlock said door,, telling me to come out + calling me cutie & other degrading pet names.
Seadog 1 year ago
Had a teacher that told us of a time when her mother was ironing and an arm reached through the screen to unlock the door, so she just put the iron on the persons arm. You know the result. The outcome however was her neighbor calling soon after to say her husband had come home from work with a terrible burn on his arm.
#31
I was scuba diving in Asia - 3 of us went to a reef that hadn’t been dived on before, which bottomed out at 50-70M depth. 5 minutes into the dive, we all get a verrrry bad feeling like we were being watched. Ignored it but the feeling wouldn’t go away. Further 10min into the dive, we all watched the silhouette of a white shark glide slowly past, right on the periphery of where we could see. Then glide back in the other direction a minute later. The decompression stop to get out was the scariest 3 minutes of my life.
Me Oh My (He/They) 1 year ago
Great Whites are harmless. It's tiger sharks and bull sharks that you need to worry about.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
harmless is a stretch. shark attacks are rare, that is true. but you still want to avoid the risk of them happening
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#32
I was hammock camping while riding my motorcycle through Arkansas. I had a dream
That I was gettin pulled over by the cops on my bike. The flashing lights were super bright in my eyes. And as I woke from my dream I notice my blue hammock tent is lighting up like flashing police lights! I immediately felt an adrenaline spike and went into full flight mode. Packed my s**t up faster than I could even put my boots on. Hopped on my bike in my underwear and rode a mile to the top of the campground where the showers were. The second I stepped into the shower cabin the sky opened up and cloud to ground lighting started striking trees in the campground every 10-15 seconds. I could have been royally f****d up by a lightning strike had I stayed sleeping between two of them.
#33
When I was walking home age 7 and a man asked me to help him find his puppy. I felt pure fear and adrenaline and said, "I can't, I have to get home, sorry." I've never sprinted so fast in my life.
#34
A shady looking guy told me to “come here” when I was waiting for my mom under the apartment building. I was about 10. I ran upstairs immediately without looking back. Looking back as a 25 year old, I couldn’t imagine why any normal adult would need to speak to a random ten year old unless the kid looks lost or is doing something dangerous. Glad I bolted.
#35
When I was a teenager me and some friends were hanging out around midnight. A caravan drives past slowly with a few people looking out the windows, we all look at each other quiet, and the caravan pulls into a nearby parking space. We all get up and walk to our bikes because something feels really off. A few minutes later we hear someone shout and as I turned around there was about 5 or 6 people getting out with metal pipes and other things in hands. We ran so fast, nothing happened but I'm 99% sure we were about to get beaten and robbed.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Plumbers don't just show up to peoples' houses without an appointment. Come on, buddy.
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It was at a trailhead in the Cascade Range in Washington. Nice warm Saturday and just off of a fairly major road, but when I pulled in there wasn’t a single car in the parking lot. I would’ve expected at least a moderate crowd. When I got out of the car, there was a strong smell in the air. Not sure what it was exactly, maybe sap? But about a quarter of a mile into the hike something about it made me think, “I need to go now, this place is going to burn.” I hauled my dog back to the car and drove home. Ended up being close to a five hour drive with no hike. A forest fire swept through the area a couple days later.
#37
I exited a Metro station about 2 decades ago, and the parking lot had a small area behind bushes where I parked. As I headed into the parking lot I saw two guys standing between a row of cars, which looked out of place? They were watching me to see where I was going; I decided to walk right toward them, and they moved off some, then I walked to my car, and drove away. I glanced back, to see them heading back for the bushy spot. They k*lled a woman shortly thereafter who was parked in that bushy area!
#38
I was walking on the beach with my partner in a country with a pretty high crime rate and a shady a*s dude with one of the scariest facial expressions I've ever seen started to follow us for almost 10 minutes, and as soon as I saw a bus full of tourists we jumped right on it. For sure that dude was either rob or kidnap us.
#39
My great-grandma lives at the far end of a neighborhood, right next to a big, busy street, so there are suspicious characters by her house often. When I was a kid, I visited her every weekend, and one time when I was 11, I was sitting on the living room floor and I heard these two people arguing in Spanish. I hear a lady screaming at the top of her lungs, and having gone to Arizonan schools all my life, I recognize every cuss word. Curious, I went to the kitchen and peaked through the window which looked out onto the street, and something didn't seem right. I felt like I should duck and the moment I did the lady pulls a gun out and starts shooting. The man she was arguing with was out of my view so I didn't know what happened to him, but I was the only witness to that crime.
#40
I was having a coffee outside a small Cafe a couple of years ago when suddenly i heard a ritmic clicking approaching. When i looked up I saw a guy dressed with a worker uniform (very common in Germany) and he had a box cutter in his hand. He was pushing and pulling the blade inside of it as he walked (hence the clicking sound) and he looked angry. Looking around and pacing in a very aggressive way, he walked past me. Now this might not seem like a crazy situation and this never happened to me before or after (for now), but I heard my own brain clearly telling me "LEAVE NOW". So I stood up and left instantly. As I was going to turn around the block i looked back and I saw the guy had turned around at some point and he was back outside the Cafe. It's anticlimactic because i never heard any news or anything, but as i was walking away I still felt uneasy for 20 minutes. I wonder what happened there because I could see clear as day that I had to leave, and as I said it never happened before or since.
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michael Chock 1 year ago
We will never know the stories of the people that ignored their inner voice.
DC 1 year ago
I ignored it several times. So far, nothing that killed me happened.
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Lyoness 1 year ago
I was 11 and walking to our local Becker's (a convenience store) when a car pulled up beside me; in the car were a young couple, both blonde. The woman leaned out and asked me for directions and suggested I come over and show her where they were on the map. We'd been taught to never, ever talk to strangers and it all felt wrong so I backed off and ran into the store. The owner knew every kid in the neighborhood and he let me hide behind the counter while he went outside to see if they were still there, but they were gone. It was a long time ago and I can't be positive but when the news of their crimes came out I realized they definitely looked liked Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the Scarborough rapist and his wife who eventually tortured and murdered three girls (including her sister) in the area around that time. Do NOT look these people up, their crimes are horrific.
A.M. Pierre 1 year ago
We all have such a good subconscious understanding of what's "normal" or "safe" that if you fell "something ain't right" you're probably right. Two guys were walking behind me out of a grocery store. They weren't doing or saying anything - just walking briskly - but there was an energy or vibe in the air that something was about to go down between them and I wanted no part of it. I hustled back to my car as quickly as possible and sure enough, as I put the car into gear they started beating the heck out of each other. (apparently something had already happened between them in the store as security guards came rushing out and I saw flashing lights coming in before I'd left the parking lot)
Emma London 1 year ago
Me and my friend set a code word "vesimeloni" (Water melon in Finnish) when we took a trip together. If either of us would drop the word, the other would abandon what she was doing or saying and immediately follow without hesitation. We didn't end up using it, but the agreement stays even today.
Be_ Heard 1 year ago
That's actually a fantastic idea. I'm glad you've never had to use it tho:)
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Arlene Harris 1 year ago
so back in 1989 I was gifted tickets to the third game of the World Series, featuring SF Giants and Oakland A's, the two local teams (the "subway series" of the West Coast). I'm not that big into sports but what the hell, when is this going to happen again? So I left work early and went. Oh, and then there was this massive earthquake that almost leveled San Francisco you might have heard of. One of the things it did was pancaked a section of the freeway. That I would have been on had I gone home at my regular time instead of going to the game.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
Candlestick wouldn't accept AmEx for tix, otherwise I would have been there.... my bf went over that collapsed section of freeway about an hour or two before the quake.
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Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
I was working as stage manager on a college theatre production. One of the pre-show tasks was to check the flash pots (special effects devices that made a large flash and smoke). One other stage hand was with me. I called up to the booth to tell them to stay away from the switches that controlled the pots. The guy that was with me suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me away and down to the floor just as the pot went off. The booth had misheard me and I would have lost my vision had the stage hand not pulled me away.
Neopet22 1 year ago (edited)
When I was a child, from 6 to 8,me and my friends used to like swimming in fountains we had in the city. It was early 2000s so it seemed normal to us. It was free and refreshing in the summer. There were 2 fountains in the exit from our city. They were on opposite sides of a busy 4 lane road and one time when I was 7 me and one of my guy friends who was 8 went to swim in one of those fountains. While swimming and minding our own business,this older guy,maybe mid 30s or so,came and sat on the edge of the fountain and put his feet in the water. He was talking to us and saying how there is going to be a show in our city soon,asking if we are going. Then I remember he started telling us how bad chlorine was for our private areas and we need to clean it. He told us he will help us clean and asked us to come with him. So behind this fountain,there were some steps to go down and to the right was a secluded place that was boxed in between 2 walls from your left and right and if you look
Neopet22 1 year ago
If you look forward there was some grass and it's also blocked. So the only area you can actually access this place was from where we came. Also considering it was near a busy road and very few people came there,it was pretty secluded. So this guy gave my friend some cloth to wipe himself and he took my pants off (I'm a girl btw) and started wiping my private area. There was a sort of waste disposal bin there (more for like construction bin) and he sat me down on it while wiping. I recall him saying how my friend is a good boy for cleaning himself alone and then he kept telling me to lay down. I got a really bad feeling then,I told him I wanna go home. He kept insisting and I kept raising my voice that I wanna go home. He ended up running away and his penis was half outside his pants. I told my friend to run and we just grabbed our stuff and ran away. I don't want to think how that would have ended if I actually laid down.
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Bamboozled 1 year ago
I've actually ignored my gut once, almost got in trouble. I was walking home and it wasn't even that late, it was maybe 8pm summer time so it was just getting dark. I was walking on the sidewalk across from my building and saw a man and just felt off. But i said to myself not to be paranoid, its just a person walking. So i crossed to the side and the man crossed with me. I hurry, the man hurries. I become alert and start rushing home i see him rushing towards me. I run home, he starts running after me. I feel the rush of adrenaline and think to myself these people are usually cowards, maybe i should just turn around and confront him, but this time my mind goes straight to him potentially having a weapon and i listen and just keep running to my house. I get inside my apartment and i immediately take my dog out and return outside to follow this man. I follow him to another building and just wait it out. Turns out he was a serial rapist, could of been a victim if i ignored myself.
Bamboozled 1 year ago
I went out with my dog because i was mad, thinking back i was completely irrational at that moment, i was furious and wanted to trap him somewhere and call the police. The dog in question is a doberman - scary looking, but actually a goofball, but ofc he couldn't have known that and clearly he was spooked enough to run away as soon as i came out.
Load More Replies... Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
How many times have you been delayed by something on a road trip, then discovered that an accident had happened which you probably would have been caught up in?
The Redhead 1 year ago
When I was in the first grade late '88 or early '89 I went to the YMCA for swim lessons after school. There was one counsler there that always creeped me out (don't know why, but it was just something). His name was Ernie one day he came up to me and asked where I lived. I didn't want to tell him, he said come on tell me. I told him we had just moved to our home from a different state (that part was actually true) he asked for the address so not quite sure of what to do I told him "my" address; which was really the address & street of the home we had moved away from. After that I told my parents going to the Y was boring (I felt weird telling my parents the consuler creeped me out; my parerents were the type you could talk too but they always seemed to have a freaked out reaction over stuff so I kept the real reason to myself) so I never went back. Not sure what became of Ernie if he turned out to be a normal guy or some pervert. Still feel uncormfortable when I think of it.
jonesnori 1 year ago
It's best to trust those feelings. You did very well.
Load More Replies... michael Chock 1 year ago
We will never know the stories of the people that ignored their inner voice.
DC 1 year ago
I ignored it several times. So far, nothing that killed me happened.
Load More Replies... Lyoness 1 year ago
I was 11 and walking to our local Becker's (a convenience store) when a car pulled up beside me; in the car were a young couple, both blonde. The woman leaned out and asked me for directions and suggested I come over and show her where they were on the map. We'd been taught to never, ever talk to strangers and it all felt wrong so I backed off and ran into the store. The owner knew every kid in the neighborhood and he let me hide behind the counter while he went outside to see if they were still there, but they were gone. It was a long time ago and I can't be positive but when the news of their crimes came out I realized they definitely looked liked Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the Scarborough rapist and his wife who eventually tortured and murdered three girls (including her sister) in the area around that time. Do NOT look these people up, their crimes are horrific.
A.M. Pierre 1 year ago
We all have such a good subconscious understanding of what's "normal" or "safe" that if you fell "something ain't right" you're probably right. Two guys were walking behind me out of a grocery store. They weren't doing or saying anything - just walking briskly - but there was an energy or vibe in the air that something was about to go down between them and I wanted no part of it. I hustled back to my car as quickly as possible and sure enough, as I put the car into gear they started beating the heck out of each other. (apparently something had already happened between them in the store as security guards came rushing out and I saw flashing lights coming in before I'd left the parking lot)
Emma London 1 year ago
Me and my friend set a code word "vesimeloni" (Water melon in Finnish) when we took a trip together. If either of us would drop the word, the other would abandon what she was doing or saying and immediately follow without hesitation. We didn't end up using it, but the agreement stays even today.
Be_ Heard 1 year ago
That's actually a fantastic idea. I'm glad you've never had to use it tho:)
Load More Replies... Arlene Harris 1 year ago
so back in 1989 I was gifted tickets to the third game of the World Series, featuring SF Giants and Oakland A's, the two local teams (the "subway series" of the West Coast). I'm not that big into sports but what the hell, when is this going to happen again? So I left work early and went. Oh, and then there was this massive earthquake that almost leveled San Francisco you might have heard of. One of the things it did was pancaked a section of the freeway. That I would have been on had I gone home at my regular time instead of going to the game.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
Candlestick wouldn't accept AmEx for tix, otherwise I would have been there.... my bf went over that collapsed section of freeway about an hour or two before the quake.
Load More Replies... Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
I was working as stage manager on a college theatre production. One of the pre-show tasks was to check the flash pots (special effects devices that made a large flash and smoke). One other stage hand was with me. I called up to the booth to tell them to stay away from the switches that controlled the pots. The guy that was with me suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me away and down to the floor just as the pot went off. The booth had misheard me and I would have lost my vision had the stage hand not pulled me away.
Neopet22 1 year ago (edited)
When I was a child, from 6 to 8,me and my friends used to like swimming in fountains we had in the city. It was early 2000s so it seemed normal to us. It was free and refreshing in the summer. There were 2 fountains in the exit from our city. They were on opposite sides of a busy 4 lane road and one time when I was 7 me and one of my guy friends who was 8 went to swim in one of those fountains. While swimming and minding our own business,this older guy,maybe mid 30s or so,came and sat on the edge of the fountain and put his feet in the water. He was talking to us and saying how there is going to be a show in our city soon,asking if we are going. Then I remember he started telling us how bad chlorine was for our private areas and we need to clean it. He told us he will help us clean and asked us to come with him. So behind this fountain,there were some steps to go down and to the right was a secluded place that was boxed in between 2 walls from your left and right and if you look
Neopet22 1 year ago
If you look forward there was some grass and it's also blocked. So the only area you can actually access this place was from where we came. Also considering it was near a busy road and very few people came there,it was pretty secluded. So this guy gave my friend some cloth to wipe himself and he took my pants off (I'm a girl btw) and started wiping my private area. There was a sort of waste disposal bin there (more for like construction bin) and he sat me down on it while wiping. I recall him saying how my friend is a good boy for cleaning himself alone and then he kept telling me to lay down. I got a really bad feeling then,I told him I wanna go home. He kept insisting and I kept raising my voice that I wanna go home. He ended up running away and his penis was half outside his pants. I told my friend to run and we just grabbed our stuff and ran away. I don't want to think how that would have ended if I actually laid down.
Load More Replies... Bamboozled 1 year ago
I've actually ignored my gut once, almost got in trouble. I was walking home and it wasn't even that late, it was maybe 8pm summer time so it was just getting dark. I was walking on the sidewalk across from my building and saw a man and just felt off. But i said to myself not to be paranoid, its just a person walking. So i crossed to the side and the man crossed with me. I hurry, the man hurries. I become alert and start rushing home i see him rushing towards me. I run home, he starts running after me. I feel the rush of adrenaline and think to myself these people are usually cowards, maybe i should just turn around and confront him, but this time my mind goes straight to him potentially having a weapon and i listen and just keep running to my house. I get inside my apartment and i immediately take my dog out and return outside to follow this man. I follow him to another building and just wait it out. Turns out he was a serial rapist, could of been a victim if i ignored myself.
Bamboozled 1 year ago
I went out with my dog because i was mad, thinking back i was completely irrational at that moment, i was furious and wanted to trap him somewhere and call the police. The dog in question is a doberman - scary looking, but actually a goofball, but ofc he couldn't have known that and clearly he was spooked enough to run away as soon as i came out.
Load More Replies... Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
How many times have you been delayed by something on a road trip, then discovered that an accident had happened which you probably would have been caught up in?
The Redhead 1 year ago
When I was in the first grade late '88 or early '89 I went to the YMCA for swim lessons after school. There was one counsler there that always creeped me out (don't know why, but it was just something). His name was Ernie one day he came up to me and asked where I lived. I didn't want to tell him, he said come on tell me. I told him we had just moved to our home from a different state (that part was actually true) he asked for the address so not quite sure of what to do I told him "my" address; which was really the address & street of the home we had moved away from. After that I told my parents going to the Y was boring (I felt weird telling my parents the consuler creeped me out; my parerents were the type you could talk too but they always seemed to have a freaked out reaction over stuff so I kept the real reason to myself) so I never went back. Not sure what became of Ernie if he turned out to be a normal guy or some pervert. Still feel uncormfortable when I think of it.
jonesnori 1 year ago
It's best to trust those feelings. You did very well.
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