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“It Has To Be Under 1% Chance”: 30 People Share The Craziest Stories That Actually Happened To Them
We all love a good “based on a true story” film or a documentary with so many twists and turns our brains can’t comprehend that they actually happened. Truth is stranger than fiction, anyway. And while not everyone has the platform or the budget to share their wild stories with the world, many people still have these unbelievable tales, just sitting inside their brains waiting to be shared.
Thankfully for us, one Reddit user recently started a conversation by asking others to detail the craziest things that have ever happened to them, and people certainly delivered in the responses. We’ve compiled a list of the most shocking and intriguing stories down below, so you too can read them and marvel at these crazy tales and unbelievable coincidences.
Be sure to upvote the anecdotes you find most entertaining or surprising, and feel free to share your own “craziest thing that ever happened to you” story down below. Then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring strange and inexplicable occurrences, we think you’ll enjoy this list right here.
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#1
I was abducted when I was 15. My “best friend” helped the pimps (who she was working for) help sell me.
I had a pimp, named Goldie, beat the s**t out of me the first night and then made me go out on the streets. He followed me every time I was picked up to make sure I didn’t run away. I finally found a opportunity, and ran away with a couple of bucks in my pocket. Another pimp helped me escape. When I finally made it home, my parents were so happy. The rest of the world, not so much.
Kids at school found out and I was labeled a wh*re forever. This was 30 years ago, and I just had a girl I went to HS with message me on Facebook to tell me that I have to always remember I’m nothing but a cheap hooker. This was after she saw my name in a mutual friends post. I informed her I work with social workers and police officers who try and help victims of trafficking. That the shame spiral for these poor girls leads to all rate mortality at an alarming speed. That my partner and best friends know what happened to me.
I used to let it shape me. I used to think I was just an ex hooker so no one would ever love me or want me. That I wasn’t supposed to be happy or ever have a good job. Or that I would lose it all if anyone ever found out.
I’m only in my 40s now but I’m wise enough to have figured out all of my fears were just from PTSD. I do deserve happiness and a good life. I’m not an ex hooker- I was a kid and a victim.
Kids - if anyone tells you that you aren’t s**t, please remember you are AWESOME. And if your situation is s**t, I promise you. It can get better. Hugs from an Oregon mamma.
Edit : thanks so much everyone! Holy smokes I woke up to so much support and so many great messages and comments. You guys made my whole week.
Tash Wen 3 years ago
Wow, just wow. What a thing to go through. And what the hell kind of person feels the need to attack another without context, 30 years later? People suck, but you are a hero.
Micah 3 years ago
Someone who's very unhappy with their own life. That's not an excuse, it's just the only reason I can imagine outside of having a personality disorder. I honestly can't fathom the thought process that would lead you to attack someone who was a victim, 30 years after their experience.
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Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
It’s so hard to see people are still so awful even after becoming “mature adults” with life experience. Good for op overcoming her past, seeing her self worth and helping other girls overcome their pasts as well. And the girl from high school, I really hope she gets her karma
Sergio Bicerra 3 years ago
How sad has someone to be to send that message 30 years later? Good on op not to lash out, but I guess she's way better than me.
Mam cymraeg 3 years ago
As a 42 yr old mother of 3 girls I feel so lucky to know there are amazing women out there who not only got them selves through such an ordeal but who help others through it thank you
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Who the heck calls a kid who was forced into prostitution a w***e? You know what? I'd rather be friends with real prostitutes, then with people like that! What horrible persons!
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#2
I had a beater car in college. It was an ancient Plymouth, made mostly out of duct tape and rust.
I had all of my college books in it. Just kept them there. Easier for studying. Go out to my car and grab what I need. Engineering books, too. So super super expensive.
Someone stole my car out of my driveway with all my books in it.
Police report, all that. No joy. I was heartbroken. How in the world could I do my homework? How could I continue the semester? I was totally f****d.
My mom offered to take me to school that day. I was just ruined. I had no hope. No idea how I would get by.
And on an on-ramp on the way to school, **there she sat**. I just happened to notice her as we were driving by!
The old girl chose *that exact moment to throw her transmission*. When the thief was out joyriding it around and tried to get on the freeway. And I just happened to notice it sitting there.
All my books were still in it.
You just don't get that kind of loyalty with a car anymore. She sacrificed herself in just the right spot so I'd see her and get my books back. I'll always love that car. Godspeed, you old boat.
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
This kind of reminds me of my old car, Linda. It was an old bmw with 359k miles, and I was pulling into my driveway when she finally broke down for good. I genuinely feel like she didn’t want to leave me stranded on the side of the road somewhere. Lol
Lonely Leafeon 3 years ago (edited)
We had an old Volvo station wagon that somehow never broke down on a long trip, like when we drove to the beach. But whenever it did break down it was just a trip to the grocery store or something lol. I grew up in that car... I still miss it I called her Old Faithful
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Sandra Givens 3 years ago (edited)
I always say our pickup sacrificed itself to save my son from serious injury when someone drove through an intersection into us. Was totaled by the insurance company but my son, who was in the side that was hit, was shaken but unhurt. Still miss that truck two good cars later.
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
This reminds me of my car Betty. I had put antifreeze in her every day until she finally threw a rod because they put the wrong oil in when I got an oil change. Fortunately, she let me drive all the way home before she died. The last time she left my driveway I was in the back of a tow truck. I still miss her.
Renegade 3 years ago
Some vehicles are just amazing. We have what we call the Christmas Tree Truck. My grandfather bought that green truck it when I was in the fourth grade. That truck never stops. It's never stopped. It's now called the Christmas Tree Truck because at some point the truck bed rusted out and my Dad got a red bed from the junkyard for it. So now it's green and red. For context, I'm now 57 years old. My dad is still using that truck. Me, my sisters, all my kids and their cousins have learned how to drive in that trunk and my niece's kid is now learning to drive in that truck. That truck is a beast!
Thomas Biorogue 3 years ago
Somebody got to do a better job of choosing the photo to go with the story. "I had a beater car in college. It was an ancient Plymouth, made mostly out of duct tape and rust." And the photo is of a nice, looks new car.
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Ah! "Chuck the Truck"(my son named Him) Twenty five years and like Sam Waltons truck allowed me to build a life for my family. Gave out in the parking lot of a hotel where I made my biggest deal ever. Great old Chevrolet Silverado!
MimSorensson 3 years ago
… The ending of this story makes it very clear that a Plymouth it may have been, but it wasn’t a Plymouth Fury. And it wasn’t named Christine. Otherwise there would have been no “godspeed” and no happy ending.
#3
In 2013 I received a notice from my college that my low GPA from the previous semester made me ineligible for financial aid the following semester. It was my last term in grad school and the college was threatening to drop me from all classes if I didn't pay tuition within 72 hours. I went to drown my sorrows at a bar later that night and I met a stranger and we started talking. I told her my story and she offered to pay my tuition. I told her I didn't accept loans from strangers but she said it was a gift. Turns out she was a very wealthy CEO and that night she wrote me a check for $2,500. I paid my tuition, finished school, and we still keep in touch.
Asif 3 years ago
This thread is literally about things that sound fake but are real.
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Daffodil 3 years ago
And we're all waiting for you to STFU. Everything is so overly sexualized in media and in real life. It's nice to have a story once where no aspect of it is related to sexuality, and yet you have to make it sexual? Go watch porn or something if you're in that state of mind.
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#4
When I was a teen in the '80s, I got to meet and briefly hang out with an idol of mine. He was (and still is) an extremely famous rock star. He was very nice but a bit twitchy and very high-energy. Cocaine is a Hell of a drug.
At the end of my little visit, I asked if I could have a photo with him. He said "let's take a bunch!" So I handed my camera to an assistant and he took a few nice normal pictures. As I'm reaching to take back my camera I hear "ONE MORE!" from behind me, and the dude jumps on my back and assistant snaps the photo. Keep in mind that I was a 14-year-old girl at the time, Mr. Rock Star weighed probably 200 pounds, and I was caught completely off guard. It's a miracle that I kept my feet under me and didn't get injured, but I got the most hilarious photo ever!
Fast forward about 35 years, and I by some miracle had occasion to meet him again. I was standing around with some other people waiting, he came in and started shaking hands. When he got to me, he shook my hand, looked me straight in the eye, and said "Hey there Gorilla! How's your back these days?" I was literally shocked speechless. This man, who has been fighting drug and alcohol addiction for most of his life, remembered a 15 minute chat/photo-op with a nervous teenager several decades ago, remembered my name and his little prank, and recognized me in middle age.
What a great guy. I'm still his biggest fan.
Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago
The consensus in the original thread seems to be it's Ozzy Osbourne from the contextual clues, and, tbh, it does sound like something he'd do.
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#5
My dad wrote a book a very long time ago, and signed the copy that he gave to his in-laws. Years after he had died I loaned the signed copy to a guy I was dating. We stopped seeing each other and he never gave it back.
Years later I decided I wanted a copy of my dad’s book even though it wouldn’t be *my* signed copy so I ordered it used on Amazon. The book that arrived is the signed one I’d loaned out. Turns out he had sold it to a used bookstore, and I just happened to order from them.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
To be fair, sometimes you don't have any means to contact them, and sometimes you've got good reasons not to: I usually am a stickler for giving back what I've been loaned. BUT a friend with benefits once loaned me a book to read, we lost touch after he got a very jealous girlfriend who didn't want him to talk to me again. Fast forward to us meeting on chance, having lunch, me telling him about my fiancé, him telling me he's single again, both talking about jobs and recent movies etc. So we said we could have coffee at some point, because we were FRIENDS. Then, a few days later, he messages me if I want to have dinner next day. I say I have plans with my fiancé. He says I can do that another day, he insists despite me saying no. I tell him I'm not comfortable with being pressured when my relationship comes first for me. He gets mad. I go NC. I find his book when my husband and I move. I decide not to open that can of worms and donate it.
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UKGrandad 3 years ago
I once bought a box-full of old books at an auction which was around 50 miles from my hometown (where my mother's family had lived for many generations). Looking through them later I found a postcard that had been used as a bookmark. It was from my great-uncle (my mother's uncle) to my maternal grandparents.
Lonely Leafeon 3 years ago
A lot of these stories would be (I think, let me know if not) what we'd call serendipitous
Ruth Hempsey 3 years ago
I like this. But I'm old and learned long, long ago, never loan anyone anything that has meaning to you. I'm looking at all you youngsters! Beware the borrowers!
#6
Was going to see a concert with some friends. Printed my ticket at home. This was before mobile tickets were ubiquitous. We all decided to meet at a bar about a mile from the venue, then walk over after a few drinks.
Have our drinks and some food and head to the venue. When we get there, I suddenly realize I don't have my ticket on me. Panicked, I run back to the bar. Check my car in the parking lot, nothing. Head inside the bar, check the table we were at, look everywhere. No ticket.
Bummed and dejected, I leave the bar and begin to trek back to the venue to let my friends know I can't go with them. While I was waiting at a crosswalk, the wind blows a bit, and with it, a sheet of paper floats past me and comes to a stop on the sidewalk.
I reach down, pick it up, and it's my goddamn printed ticket. One of the best days of my life.
Frankie 3 years ago
I once dropped my concert ticket somewhere in the snow + dark RIGHT before I was about to enter the venue and everyone in the line helped look for it so I got it back. Would've been so easy to steal it
In too many fandoms 3 years ago (edited)
Aw, maybe people are not *all* bad Edit: I meant it as it is nice that people helped you, not that I am judging you for thinking people would steal it… I would be a little afraid of it me too! 😂
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Bella V 3 years ago
Something similar (ish) happened to me. My grandma gave me a ring before she passed and one day it had fallen off my finger and I lost it. I was heart broken as I am very bad at losing things (still am). I tore the house apart and then cleaned it spotless. I vacuumed the whole house thinking I'd hear it if it got sucked up... nothing. I sat down defeated and cried and told her I was sorry. I went to the kitchen to get a drink walked back into my bedroom and there in the middle of the freshly vacuumed floor (I hadn't even yet walked on the vacuum marks yet) was my ring. I said thank you and put it back on my hand. I'm still convinced she put it there for me to find.
#7
Taking a beautiful Saturday morning ride home on my motorcycle. Mini van pulled out in front of me. Totalled motorcycle and van. Hospital did a scan of my head. Come to find out I had brain cancer that we caught very early. Which may have saved my life.
Jo pay me more 3 years ago
Had a similar experience. Kept getting a stitch in my side and put it down to a pulled muscle. Over months the pain of it got worse, to the point it would immobilise me. Finally went to the doctor and it turned out to be a large ovarian cyst the size of an American football. I named it Clark After surgery the surgeon told me they had found cancer in my womb while removing Clark, so I ended up having a full hysterectomy. Clark saved my life.
Mike Crow 3 years ago
I also had something similar. I was very sick and kept throwing up. We thought it was my appendix due to the pain and went to the hospital. They did a cat scan and said my appendix was fine but found a lump on my left kidney. They removed it to be safe and found it was early stage of cancer.
Julia Mckinney 3 years ago
In '97, my husband and I came into some money (and I will always love "Magic: the Gathering because of that) and decided to get him some hearing aids. Our new ENT (ear, nose throat) doctor ordered an MRI to check out the inner ear areas and because my husband's hearing loss for over 10 years had all been on one side. Turned out the hearing loss was due to a slow growing, benign brain tumor that had already engulfed his acoustic nerve, was wrapped around his optical nerve and was pushing into his brain stem. His ONLY symptom was the hearing loss which really puzzled the neurologist. Neurosurgeon got it all out, 12 hour surgery, and today the only signs of it are his hearing loss and when he's tired, he gets dizzy. So THANKS, Magic: The Gathering, for saving my husbands life.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
How did M:tG play into you getting money? I'm glad your husband is alright. I'm a bit bummed that an ENT doctor isn't something more special, though... 🌳
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I found early stage cancer because of a covid vaccination. As I was pulling off the bandaid from the shot, I noticed a small but irregular mole in the back of my arm, a place where I may not have seen/looked in months otherwise. Got it checked and it was early stage melanoma.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
You're scaring me, my husband and I have heaps of moles, but we've been procrastinating going to the skin check-up for about a year now...
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Tammy Kirks 3 years ago
I named my uterus tumor Ursula. Luckily, she was benign so all is well. Glad you're well too!
MSP 3 years ago
Unrelated to these stories: what year is that photo from? Looks like they're stuffing her into a washing machine!
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
It's a pink backlight, but the machine does look awfully small.
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Bouche Clay 3 years ago
I have a fallen bladder, and am therefore incontinent without medication. One of my roommates in prison made a gigantic deal out of this after she got mad at me for something. Because of her complaining and making my life hell, the nursing staff tried to find out what was wrong. When doing an ultrasound on my bladder, they found an abnormality in my uterus. I had uterine cancer. If that woman hadn't been so hateful, the staff wouldn't have made the effort to find out why I had accidents, and my cancer wouldn't have been caught. That woman saved my life.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
I was leaving the VA hospital and flying down a recently repaved street on my bicycle. I spotted a car parked on the other side of the street pointed in the opposite direction and I could see the back of the driver's head. She pulled out and crossed 3 lanes to make a left hand turn right in front of me. My last thought was, "This is going to hurt." Fortunately I was wearing a helmet but I woke up about 20 minutes later as I was being put in an ambulance. Because of that I was given a CAT scan and it was discovered I'd had several mini-strokes. I was put on blood thinners and got treatment for my hypertension and have lived another 25 years.
Gretchen Esquilin 3 years ago
Same happened to our friend. Hit a telephone pole, got a CAT scan, found his tumor & they operated. Unfortunately, about 10 yrs later, he got hit head-on by another driver & didn't make it. He was only 36 at the time. We all miss him soooo much!!!
#8
I (American) was visiting the UK for the first time. I got to my hostel and started chatting with the Australian guy in the bed above mine. When I mention where I’m from, he says there’s a famous restaurant there he really loves and goes to with his family every time they visit. Turns out it was a place I used to work. He says “Hey I have a picture of our server from the last time I was there, maybe it’s someone you know.” It was me.
Chloe SWatson 3 years ago
One New Years in the middle of a small mining village in the UK, my friend a little worse for wear decides the play his didgeridoo in the middle of the street at midnight. Cue an Australian man walking past 'Is that a didgeridoo? I'm from Queensland', followed by lots of drunk cheering in an otherwise empty street.
Sleeping Solipsist 3 years ago
To be fair, two drunk guys with a didgeridoo singing in the middle of a mining town would not necessarily stick out as unusual. We Brits can be surprisingly jovial and loud after a couple of drinks.
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OmBoyGanesh 3 years ago (edited)
I hadn’t seen my brother (different father) for 6 years. I was busy working between SF & HNL and he worked in Bavaria. I often visited my father & paternal family in Utrecht and all although we made many attempts to meet up, it hadn’t worked out. Then, I decided to see a band play a few shows through Europe and had just arrived in Prague. I hadn’t mentioned the trip to my brother as I knew I wouldn’t have dedicated time for him. Turns out the previously unannounced opening band was one of his faves. I mentioned that to friends in the middle of town the day before the show & said it’d be an awesome coincidence if he showed up. Just then I turned around to my brother standing in the crowded square, 10,000 miles from where we grew up & last saw each other.
KamCy Ahaka 3 years ago
I want to believe he was taking pictures of the place and happened to have the server in the shot...
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Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
I (German) was spending one Christmas alone in London, since I was on a year abroad in the UK (Yorkshire), but didn't want to spend so much money on flying back and forth for a week-long holiday. I spend a week going to musicals, saw "The Mousetrap" on stage, went to the Sales etc. On Christmas day, I went to one of the few restaurants that were open, an Italian restaurant, and sat down with a book. Up comes the waitress, we get talking, I mention I'm from Germany, she says she's from Germany, too, like, 72km (=45 miles) away. She later brought me a German magazine that she gets daily from another German, who's a regular. So now I was sitting there, with the Christmas day edition of the German "Bild", in the middle of London. I still got it in my memory box somewhere.
Living Example 3 years ago
This guy carries pictures of a server who served him once. Kinda creepy? I wonder what else he might be carrying around.
Mouse 3 years ago (edited)
I assume it was on his phone, not a framed photo on his hostel nightstand.
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My husband and I went to a Tom Petty concert at the last minute only being able to get tickets for the cheap seats. Right before the concert starts somebody approaches us and says ‘do you want to get bumped up’ and I said sure because there can’t be any worse seats than this and he says ‘ I am with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and these are front row seats’. He hands them to me and disappears. My husband and I looked at each other, walk to the front section security guard, showed him our tickets and he walked us to front row center seats and we enjoyed a really great concert.
Monday 3 years ago
A few artists seem to do this. They reserve a few front row seats and offer them to cheap seats folks so they can be sure the front row contains some actual fans and not just rich snobs looking to show off.
vglw 3 years ago
In the late 1970s, I was in college and a buddy of mine was working the mudslides in LA (he worked as a property assessor). He called me and asked if I wanted to come to LA for a long weekend and he could expense it on his government job. So sure, I went. It so happened that the King Tutankhamun exhibit was in LA at that time. No tickets were available still, but I thought I would take a chance and go stand in line - maybe score a scalper tickets or something. I was prepared to pay $100 for a ticket. I began to chat with a man and his wife in front of me, and told them I was hoping to buy a ticket although I knew it was a slim chance of getting one. He had an extra ticket and offered to sell it to me for what he paid for it - $10. I was over the moon happy!
cry_time 3 years ago
I know for a DANG fact that one artist, forgot the name of them though, keeps his ENTIRE front row empty and sends people out to get fans from the back seats because “I want REAL fans to enjoy my show, not some stuck ups.” I do not remember if that’s exactly what he said because this was a while ago I found it out and I have a bad memory so please forgive me!
Lisa Intally 3 years ago
Tom Petty's SIL was my kid's science teacher and they seem like the nicest people. Very down to Earth.
Mama Bird 3 years ago
This happened to me when my friend and I were maybe 19 years old. We were in major nose bleed seats for a John Mayer concert. It was for his first cd. I remember we got there really early to heat the crowds. Her sister had gotten like 13th row. We could barely see the stage lol. Anyway, we’re hanging out and chatting and this woman comes up and asks us if we’re excited for the show and we’re like yeah for sure. She asks us our favorite songs etc. then she says ‘I work for John, how would you like to have better seats’. She moved us to 3rd row center. We were right behind 2 girls who had won their tickets from the radio. Was super surreal. Oh and her sister was so pissed, which was only satisfying bc she was so annoying bragging about her seats, when we were just happy to get to go and lo and behold we got awesome seats.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Something similar happened to a group of us when we went to see The Producers (musical) in Berlin. Seems like the front rows weren't sold out, and rather than have the actors play in front of visible empty seats, they bumped us up.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
One time about 5 of us headed to a beach theater to listen to the concert from the parking lot. We couldn't afford tickets but we could atleast hangout and listen outside. For whatever reason, a person approached us and just gave us 2 tickets. It was cool that atleast 2 of us were able to see the concert while the rest of us had fun goofing around in the parking lot. I saw my first skunk that night while listening to Green Day in the parking lot.
#10
I’m a medic and firefighter. We once had a call for something normal, like chest pain or something, I can’t remember. The caller said he was in his barn/garage, which isn’t weird really around here. Anyway we pull up on scene and something just felt off. No idea why but something just told me in my gut that something was wrong. I decided to do a 360 around the building before we went through the door at the front that was clearly the entrance. I walk around and come to a window on the side of the building and look in. There was a shotgun rigged to the door. The guy had set a booby trap for us. And he had hung himself as well. We kicked in this plexiglass type material on the side of the building and entered that way. Guy was dead. Nothing we could do about it at that point. I would have been the first through that door. No idea why I didn’t just walk through it that day. Edit: I’ll try to answer some of the questions here. No idea why the guy did what he did, but my hypothesis in situations like this and mass shootings and the like is angry suicide. The reason I made entry before police were present was because they were more than 30 minutes away and if the guy wasn’t dead I would have attempted to revive him. I assessed the scene and made a risk/reward decision and decided it was safe enough for me to enter from the side of the building. I’m not religious and I think it was just training and experience that made me double check the scene. Something looked off to me at the time but I can’t even point out what it was. I’ve been in emergency services for about 15 years and this is just one story of weird s**t that has happened in that time. And thanks to everyone for saying kind things about me still being here. I’m glad I’m here too.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
People will try to explain this a couple different ways, either this kind of intuition is just you noticing things that you're not consciously aware of, or there's something a lot weirder going on (fringe science kinda thing or even supernatural). Personally, I definitely think the former happens all the time, that we just take in all this stimuli that we're not fully aware of, and our brain is filtering it all in the background and matching patterns, and sometimes it goes "Hey, this might be worth checking out.". Having said that, I like to keep an open mind and don't dismiss the possibility of something far stranger. There's still just so much we don't know, though science continues to unlock little pieces a bit at a time.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Yeah, it's like when dogs can smell oncoming seizures because the brain chemistry changes. We probably have those "fringe" senses, too, but they are often overwritten by our conscious self. The exceptions are usually when what we (don't) notice triggers our self-preservation instincts, like when someone seems scary to you without any "real" reason. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to research things that are absolutely impossible to predict.
Load More Replies... Michelle C 3 years ago
Unlike OP, I am religious but also believe in listening to “intuition.” God created us with the capability to take in more about our surroundings than we realize we are capable of doing. I truly believe that was God protecting OP from certain injury or death if the patient had been alive at the time OP entered the house!
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
You should demonstrate this God exists and get yourself a Nobel prize
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Colleen M Youngblood 3 years ago
Loved my 30 yrs as a fire-paramedic. To this day I always and I mean always go with my gut. It saved may a*s and others more than once and my 20s aged kids now absolutely believe when I tell them to rethink something. So grateful for your service and you were called to this line of work for a reason! Always remember.... You do not CHOOSE EMS It CHOOSES you And if YOU choose EMS It CHEWS you up and spits you out!
Pirette Russell 3 years ago
Good call. My engineer trainer taught Me the first day of driving the rig. If you can't get there, you can't help. Had you walked thru that door, you'd not been able to help.
Cpt. Robert Christian 3 years ago
Training and Experience, builds and teaches the muscle memory to activate, to save our lives. E.g. "Scene Sizeup" or "Mayday Drills".
#11
I was walking through the woods with my boyfriend in high school and we found some papers scattered everywhere. They were really old and gross but we were like "oh what if it's the DB Cooper briefcase" or something and picked up a sheet to see what it was and it WAS A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT I COMPLETED AND TURNED IN DURING THE 4TH GRADE.
Nothing could have prepared me to see my own name in my own childhood handwriting in the middle of the woods lol
Pascale Pierloot 3 years ago
The universe is asking for a review on that assignment...could you have done better??? 🤯🙆🙅🤦🙇🤷
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
Maybe the teacher was attacked by a wolf while walking through the woods with her papers? Maybe a magpie stole them from a landfill to feather her nest? Maybe the garbage truck decided to dump its contents in the woods instead of going to the landfill?
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I moved away from my hometown when I was 20. I started working for a company that had several locations around the city. One day I just happened to be walking past one of the locations that I didn't work at because I was going to an eye appointment. Right as I was walking by, a guy I knew from that other location walks out the door and tells me that my mom is on the phone. She was desperately trying to get in touch with me because my grandfather had died. She knew the name of the company I worked for but didn't know which location I worked at, so she got an operator to connect her with one of the locations at random. The guy I knew said he was on the phone with her and was just starting to explain that I didn't work at that location when he looked out the window and saw me walking by.
Quitethedilemma 3 years ago (edited)
Right place right time. Amazing, though such sad news for the op. Angels were helping that day.
#13
Our guitarist was late to band practice so we decided to go to the mall and pick up our drummer's pre-ordered copy of GTA4. We decided we were hungry but we were ultra broke so we went to Wendy's. We happened to be talking about quad core processors (brand new tech) and how the rumors we heard was that they were prone to crashing. This old guy behind us interrupts us and tells us he finds them to be quite stable. We talk computers with him a bit and he says he'd be interested in hiring us for an infusion of youth into his company. He gave us his card and told him we appreciated the offer. We look him and his company up later and he's a legit billionaire. Private jet billionaire. We apply and the interview was basically a formality because he met us in the lobby and said he was going to tell them to push us through. I went from blockbuster to a corporate job as a software tester due to a series of coincidences.
Apatheist 62 3 years ago
On a slightly smaller scale...I was put on redundancy notice because my responsibilities (although not head count) were transferring to another department. The head of that department happened to live on my way home and, just before I was about to transfer elsewhere, he didn't have his car one day so I gave him a lift. We discussed what was happening and, long story short, he pulled some strings and I transferred to his department. Instead of a dead-end and unsuitable job in statistics, I've had almost 40 fascinating years in data processing - several promotions and a job that suits me down to the ground.
Question everything 3 years ago
I hope your wish will come true. Also I hope you go places, as the probability of someone knocking on your door to offer you a life changing opportunity is pretty low 😉 But you never know, right?
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Me, my husband & 2 young kids decide to go to a Six Flags park on a Saturday. I picked out everyone clothes for the day, but my husband decided to wear a different shirt, an ugly green polo. I hated the shirt and acted pissy all the way to the park during the two hour drive.
We arrive and got in line to get admission tickets then a stranger walks up and asks us if we want to get in free as he had season passes and it was some kind of "bring a friend" type of promo day.
We thanked him for saving us admission costs and asked him "why did you choose us out of all he people here?".
It was because my husbands shirt color was the same color of his favorite sport team.
My husband laughed about it all day.
wenchie 3 years ago
I bet she had plans for everyone to be all matchy-matchy for family photos at the theme park. 🙄
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Vanessa Panerosa 3 years ago
Who the hell dresses their husband and then acts pissed off for 2 hours on the way to a really fun day? Poor husband and kids. I’m sure they’d be so much better off w/o that mess weighing them down.
#15
This was early seventies when I was about 1 year old. My parents went on a camping trip in New Hampshire, got to the site late, and had to set up everything in the dark. My parents put me in this German-made baby leash thing and wrapped it around their arms, because I would "sleep crawl" and there was no crib. The next morning my father awoke to tugging on his wrist. He finds me dangling by the leash straight over a several hundred foot shear cliff. They had set up the tent not knowing how close they were to the side. If it hadn't been for a little leather strap attached to a harness around me, I would have plummeted to my death without making a sound that night and no one would have known for hours. It was possible they wouldn't have found my body because the valley below had coyotes at the time.
erinmophila_gibsonii 3 years ago
"Poultry Geist" that is so friggin cool! 🤣I love your name ❤️
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François Carré 3 years ago
Wow, after such a fright, if I were your dad you would still be in that baby leash to this day.
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
...no one had a torch? If it was too dark to see the cliff, surely it was too dark to set up a tent?
Tim Anderson 3 years ago
It's amazing that someone didn't fall over the edge while setting up camp!
Lisa Intally 3 years ago
In the days before Internet discount hotel rooms, my folks made us go camping because it was cheap. We arrived at night at our Canadian campsite, and we also woke the next day to find we had camped close to the edge of a substantial cliffside. That was our last camping attempt.
#16
I opened my wallet to show my friends I had no monies, and a moth flew out of it.
Edit: I first related this incident 9 years ago, and it got ~500 karma. 3 years ago it was ~4000.
I think maybe all need a laugh more as time moves on.
Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
I am also a moth, my day job is flying into empty wallets then flying out when they are opened. I’m paid like a famous actor
Elizabeth Elliot 3 years ago
NONO, you need to be all "I used to be a man in the ceiling but NOW I MAKE TOP DOLLAR AS A MOTH ASK ME HOW!"
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Quitethedilemma 3 years ago
I worked in a community pharmacy years ago and we had an elderly man who came in with his daughter regularly to get his scripts and everytime with out fail he'd take his wallet out open it and catch imaginary moths and laugh like it was the first time he'd made the joke. Ofc we'd all laugh with him. He was a sweet old man with a sense of humour. His daughter would look after his money for him as he was early stages dementia.
Tamra 3 years ago
I once went to the bathroom, and as I pulled my pants down, a moth flew out. 😬
#17
I was visiting the Statue of Liberty with my family. Accidentally bumped into a woman. When I turned around to apologize I realized it was the exchange student we had hosted a decade before. What a coincidence that we were visiting NYC from TN and she was visiting from Denmark at the same time, we both decided to visit the Statue of Liberty at the same time, and I just so happened to clumsily run into her. It’s a small world
Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
All of these stories really make me consider the “we’re living in a simulation” theory
E Menendez 3 years ago
However, remember that just because it is improbable, it is not impossible. Statistics are wild.
Load More Replies... LH25 3 years ago
It is a small world. While my mom and I were on vacation in Europe, riding the evaluator up the Eiffel Tower, we were chatting with a couple of women who were also American. We did the "where are you from" thing, narrowed it down to them being from the same small hometown my mom grew up in, and found out they had been friends with mom's older sister in high school. We also chatted with a family in Switzerland who lived in the same smallish town we did. They took walks on trails about 1/2 a mile from mom's house.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
It is really. If you work in theatre it is extremely small. It is such a tight group that even if you don't become famous, you will still find tangential folks that have moved around the country to get work and they will be somehow a acquainted with someone you know from a completely different theatre, college, state etc. miles from where you started from. People also in the art world as well.
Chancey 3 years ago
I was visiting So Carolina from New Jersey and stopped for bathroom and smoke break. Starting chatting with a man because he saw my NJ license plate on the car. He said he was from NJ too. Told him I lived in South Jersey and he said he was from North but his grandmother was from South. I asked him where and he named my town of 800 people. I asked him what street and he named my street. I said, "you must be Ted's son!" His eyes got very large and he couldn't believe I knew that. I explained that his grandmother was my neighbor and her daughter was my mother's best friend. I knew that his family was from the area where we were vacationing. Small world!
#18
I was working a front desk job at a small office in a strip mall. A car pulled up, went over the curb, through the window, and hit the desk as I was sitting there.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
"No, but the sign outside said you guys accept drive-ins."
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Jon Rindfleisch 3 years ago
I was at lunch in a burger joint in sitting at the front window table and decided not to have another soda. As I was waking back to work a few blocks away I heard a bunch of noise from the direction of the burger joint. Went back, a vehicle had jumped the curb and a 3 foot wall then smashed the window and had destroyed the table I had been sitting at just minutes before. I'm glad I DIDNT have that extra glass of coke.
#19
I had an ear infection that was misdiagnosed for years, from when I was about 25-33. During that timeline, it spread out of my ear canal and into the surrounding bone. Then, due to an atypical born formation in my skull that would have otherwise been asymptomatic, the infection traveled up my skull and into my cranial cavity, unbeknownst to me. The symptoms I experienced were only in my ear, where I felt fluid and pressure. I finally demanded that an ent place a tube to try to clear out the infection. The tube drained for about three weeks, and finally the ent I had gone to panicked and misdiagnosed me with a cerebrospinal fluid leak. He rushed me to the ER without even testing the fluid, and he intended to cut my skull open to look for a cerebrospinal fluid leak that didn't exist. I was in the ER on a table with the doctors running preop antibiotics when I got a call from a friend of the family who is a doctor. He had been speaking to his doctor friends, and they all agreed I needed to get the f**k out of there. They didn't believe there was a csf leak at all. I told the team of doctors who had assembled to operate on me that I was leaving, and they were pissed. They all shot me condescending and angry looks as I left. I got a call two days later from the ent telling me that they got the analysis of the fluid back, and it wasn't cerebrospinal fluid. I was in shock. They were going to slice my head open on a fishing expedition for a csf leak that didn't exist. He didn't apologize or anything. I hung up the phone and never talked to him again. Eventually, the team of neurosurgeons my friend knew diagnosed me with a runaway ear infection. One told me that I have "the most unique looking skull he'd ever seen." Some compliment. One showed me a CT of my skull. "See this black spot inside your skull? That's air. That's not supposed to be there, and it means there is a channel from the outside world to inside your skull. That's very bad. Do you ever fly? [I responded that yes, I fly all the time. For work, for pleasure, all the time.] Well, stop that immediately. This is very dangerous. Every time you've flown over the last several years, you've been rolling a die. It's possible that, when the cabin pressurized, this air pocket would expand and create a midline shift in your brain and you'd die immediately." So, after a sh*tload more scans, they took me in for an 8 hour surgery. They removed all of the infected bone in my skull, a piece that ran about 2" x 6". In its place, they put a titanium mesh implant to hold my skull together. The recovery was the weirdest and most disorienting experience. When I turned my head, I could feel the plate shifting, and my skull was no longer a full circle, so it wasn't structurally sound, so it too kinda shifted. But the bone healed over the implant, and now you'd never know that any of this happened, except for a barely noticeable scar behind my left ear. Thank God I had that friend to tell me to bolt from that emergency room.
Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
Extraordinarily lucky, but I am amazed that you felt no pain. I had an ear infection that went into the bone and the pain was excruciating. Intravenous antibiotics eventually cleared it, but I couldn't fly for two years.
Lea 3 years ago
This one seems suspect. So you're on the operating table like wait, got a call coming in I need to answer. Brb
Neb Skram 3 years ago
yeah just a bit suspect? so "friend" diagnosed over the phone to override the DR. in the room? yeah but no
Load More Replies... Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
A similar thing happened to a friend's cat. Was obviously in pain, a-hole vet said he was just getting old. About 2000€ and about a month later, another vet found the ear infection that had spread. Unfortunately, at that point, there wasn't much they could do, and the cat died at 12 years old. My husband and I were there for the whole ordeal, and it was pretty horrible.
#20
When I was a kid, my sister was terrified of thunderstorms. One afternoon, a storm rolls through. We were doing homework at the kitchen table together, and my sister started getting scared. She got under the table, just in case. My mom tried to coax her out, to which my sister replied "What if we get struck by lightning?"
My mom, exasperated, replies, "We are *not* going to get struck by lightning."
And the moment her sentence ended, there was a loud crack and lightning struck our house.
It hit halfway up our stairs, where it reaches a landing and curves back on itself. There was a window at that spot and the entire windowsill was black, as were the bottom 6 panels of the blinds. No damage whatsoever to the tall pine tree directly outside the window.
Knocked out our phones and security system. The wiring had to be replaced completely. Power was totally fine though.
And I had a cool, yet unbelievable, story the next day about why I didn't finish my homework.
E Menendez 3 years ago (edited)
Lightening is no joke. My mom got struck by lightening as a kid when it hit the house and went through the light fixture. She attributes her survival to the fact that She was sitting cross legged on a metal chair. There was a ring burned into the floor below the chair after. She always had a gray streak in her hair after that. My sister got struck by an open window. She was deaf for a few days which was scary, but fortunately was fine after that. She was also cross legged on a chair.
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
Moral of the story: if you sit cross-legged on a chair in a storm, you'll get struck by lightning.
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Quitethedilemma 3 years ago
Wow I would have s**t myself for sure. I think it was a bp post where I read a man named Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning and survived on 7 occasions.
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
We were all at my grandparents house during a thunderstorm and my cousin was in the bathroom, when one of those blue lightning balls came in the window, bounced around in the tub and into the sink. Her hair stood on end and she screamed bloody murder, but she was ok.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I've never heard of lightning striking indoors. I wish I still hadn't.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Hit my house when I was a teenager. We had a wood burning fireplace and the bolt shot straight down the chimney.
Load More Replies... Michelle C 3 years ago
It’s crazy but it does happen! I know of a woman several streets down from mine who almost lost her house due to a tree falling on it thanks to a lightning strike about two months ago! I also thought of a friend in college who got in trouble for not bringing his homework To his math class one day and he swore up and down that his cat destroyed it by urinating on it. His professor didn’t believe him until he brought in the destroyed homework in a sealed sandwich or gallon plastic bag and then the professor let him make up the homework!!
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I was almost hit by lightning as a kid, me and my mate were walking and it hit the metal railing on some stairs up to the park - scared the b'jesus out of us, but of course everyone thought we were at it
Tami Goudy 3 years ago
I grew up in the Tampa Bay area. Everybody I knew had at least one crazy lightning story. When I was around 8, my older bro and his gf were moving into a new apartment a few blocks from the little old house they had been in for a couple years. Other than the furniture, they moved everything else in several trips with their small car. During one of the last loads to the new place, lightning struck the power line, it fell on the roof and burned the place down. 20 yrs later, I lived in the NC mountains and was moving to a new house about an hour away. An unexpected snowstorm hit and delayed us moving the last load for a few days, waiting for the roads to clear. The day we were going to get it, at 5am lightning had struck the power line, which fell on the roof and burned the place down. Wouldn't believe it if it didn't happen to me.
Chris Cristo 3 years ago
For years, I've been thinking that lightning bolts don't strike houses because there are higher objects around like trees, utility poles, etc. WRONG! Roughly half a year ago, in Tampa Bay area, lightning hit a house, went through the roof, and completely destroyed the kitchen. There were pine trees all around it. (Saw it in the news with photos of the damage.)
#21
I had just got a new-to-me truck. I took it to my Dad's house and we were looking it over. I realized I'd never checked to see where the spare tire jack and tire iron were, so we started looking for all the parts. My Dad was looking under the passenger seat (where the tire iron ended up being) and said "Drop something? " He gave me my driver's license. I opened my wallet to put it away, and my license was still in it. What he had was the driver's license that had been stolen while I was on a road trip in Arizona - under the seat of a truck I bought a year later.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
My friend bought a used car from a legit popular Toyota dealership. After he brought the car home, he too decided to check for a jack and found a bag of loose bullets! Yes we're in the US, New York to be precise, but how does a proper dealership overlook a bag of bullets? Still have the bag of bullets because too lazy to turn in to a police station; still has the car too
#22
In college, I was chilling with some friends, doing homework and hanging out, when I got an email from my grandma. She had been really into genealogy lately, and had found some distant branches of the family tree. She was letting me know she'd discovered that I had a 3rd cousin who attended the same college as me. Well, not only did I know the guy, he was actually sitting right beside me as I read the email. I jumped up and shouted "Dude you're my cousin!" And that's how the guy one chair over got upgraded from friend to family in two seconds flat. Edit: Somebody who was there that day just sent me an award, with proof. Looks like the anonymity of my Reddit account has been compromised. Time to burn it all down I guess.
Remington Greer 3 years ago
I had a similar thing where I was talking about famous ancestors with my high school English teacher. Found out he and I were related by the famous Scottish brigand Rob Roy MacGregor
#23
When I was about 12, there was a pizza place near my house with a Ms. Pacman arcade game in it. I had spent maybe two years trying to get on the Top 10 score list. Finally went in one night and was just possessed, played a nearly flawless game, and ended up being *the* high score on that unit! Put my name on the top of the list for everyone to see, and felt like a queen!
Not even maybe a minute later, three men, all asian and wearing what I think of as the stereotypical "Japanese office worker" outfit of dark slacks, belt, button down white long sleeve shirts, walk in, go directly to the game, don't order food or talk to anyone else. One of them starts playing the game. And within a few minutes, he obliterates my high score and puts his name at the top. They left without interacting with anyone in the place. Just walked in and knocked me off the top and left.
If anyone can explain what happened to me that day, I'd appreciate it!
Matti Äikäs 3 years ago
Just a few field agents from the ministry of truth making a quick in-situ correction.
François Carré 3 years ago
They were PacMan ghosts disguised in Japanese office workers' outfits I guess.
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
It's called Instant Karma. It's crappy when something happens but it's much better to get the little dose of instant karma than a big ol can of whoop-karma years down the road.
Brian Droste 3 years ago
That's to bad. Isn't a good feeling when you get a high score on a video game. I got 2nd high score on a video game recently. Be a little less than a year before to see if it is still there. Live in 1 state, the video game is in another state at a pizza place.
#24
I was on a plane with a wanted terrorist. I was seated 5 rows ahead of Faisal Shahzad, the Time Square Bomber on a flight to Dubai. The doors were closed and we never left the gate, and the captain kept making announcements/excuses as to why we were delayed. After nearly 3 hours of sitting there, the federal agents rushed the plane and marched that little s**t off the plane.
Edit(s): this happened 12 years ago and my memory has failed me, so...
1) The plane did taxi away from the gate and returned, apparently. Many of you have made that clear.
2) I am not certain why it took 3 hours, but I suspect it was to evacuate the terminal.
3) Some of you object to the word "rushed". Really? The law enforcement officers did not amble or saunter onto the plane; they were in a hurry, IMO.
4) After the suspect was removed, all passengers deplaned. When I made it to the terminal there were hundreds of law enforcement officers: NYPD, FBI, ICE, Transit Police, etc. The flight crew and reps from Emirates Air were fantastic! Accommodations were made for everyone who did not want to get back on the plane. All our luggage was removed and scanned / searched, and we had to claim our bags under the supervision of many, many eyes. I got back on the plane, got airborne, made my connection in Dubai but my luggage did not. Emirates Air had it delivered to my hotel the next day.
just another teen 3 years ago
im glad that you ended up getting out of that situation safely, and that everyone was keeping everyone else safe
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I'm imagining that scumbag sitting there with sweat running down his back and his buttocks clenched into a perfect sphere, silently praying that the huge delay is just a coincidence. "Please don't be on to me, please don't be on to me... oh s**t."
#25
Missed an archery target and hit a copperhead snake that was hiding in a bush.
#26
Have a 2 dollar bill that has me and my wife's signature on it saying "just the 2 of us". We did it when we first got together and after a while had it framed. Some years later it was stolen by some jackass who decided to break into my house. I ended up going to some random gas station weeks later and got I back as change. Literally just stood there and stared at it in disbelief and told the cashier about it. Just insane coincidence and luck. Still have that sucker and it's been another 5 years.
Edit: I'd like to thank everyone for their support and feed back on my story! I actually just posted a picture of the bill on my profile if anyone is interested to see it https://www.reddit.com/user/Straight_Spring9815/comments/x1ohr2/this_is_the_lucky_2_dollar_bill_beat_up_as_all/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
#27
When I was a kid I slept walk really badly and would also sometimes quasi-sleepwalk where I was aware and would remember it later, but would be out of my f****n mind confused and semi-dreaming while it happened. I "woke" up in the middle of the night one night at 7 or 8 years old and there was apparently a power outage because it was pitch black in my room, no nightlight, and no light coming in my window from the streetlights. I wanted to leave my room and go wake up my parents because I was freaked out about the dark but got disoriented and confused my closet door with my bedroom door and started panicking because I thought someone stacked a bunch of s**t outside my bedroom door to trap me. Started throwing s**t out of my closet and got to the back wall. Now, my childhood home had a dormer-style upstairs added before we lived there such that my bedroom was on the same level as the attic over the original house area. There was an access panel to the attic in my closet and I somehow managed to get that open and "escaped" my room into the attic. Around that time I fully woke up the rest of the way to full lucid consciousness and freaked the F**K out not knowing where I was and surrounded by dusty-a*s boxes and spiderwebs and started screaming my f*****g brains out, turns out the part of the attic I was in was directly over my parents' bedroom and I scared the s**t out of THEM because my screaming was coming from their ceiling, they start freaking out and I was in there screaming for a solid 5 minutes before my parents were able to figure out what happened and rescue me. I am 36 years old now and STILL have the occasional nightmare about waking up in that attic.
#28
Was going from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with my aunt and cousins. The day before we were supposed to fly, we changed our flight to the following day so someone could pick us up at the airport when we arrived. Our original flight was the Air France 447, that fell in 2009 and everyone died.
The Idaho Potato 3 years ago
AFR447 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean due to stalling (not enough speed to maintain lift) over high altitudes. What was initially a pitot tube issue spiraled out of control as poor crew communications caused the pilots to basically counteract each other's attempts to resolve the aircraft's stall/nosediving. It was also nighttime, which over the ocean means less visual references.
just another teen 3 years ago
thank youfor explaining the "back story" as to why the plane crashed
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#29
When I was a kid I caught MewTwo at full health with a Great Ball in Pokémon FireRed. I thought, “hey why not just toss one out on the first turn cause why not” and as the ball kept rocking back and forth I was like lmao there’s no way. But then it caught him and I just sat there with my mouth open for a couple minutes. I didn’t know what to do since it would’ve been impossible to explain to my mom the significance of what just happened. I don’t know the math but it has to be under 1% chance.
Greg Williams 3 years ago
If you don't understand what that means, imagine flipping a coin and it lands on its side, or throwing a full court basketball just for fun and it goes in
Khara Mei 3 years ago
According to bulbapedia's approximate catch rates - a Mewtwo at full health, no status effects, with a great ball is 4/200*128/256 so 1% exactly. HOWEVER, Firered is a remake of red and I don't know if it's using red's calculations or anoher gen's calculations - this is red's. If it's another gen (I don't know which one), it might be lower.
Sarah Stalder 3 years ago
I don't know what any of that means, but I gave you an upvote, anyway
Sleeping Solipsist 3 years ago
I don't know either but I liked your reply. Have an upvote, friendly panda. *pat pat*
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Kathy LaPan-Miller 3 years ago
Goddamn! I am renown for having ridiculous luck on video games. A couple days ago my son had me open some crates on TF2 to see what my luck would bring. More than half the crates had two items and one had three. Two specials and an unusual. The unusual was a taunt with a special effect- only 4 of these in existence. He has been playing this game since he was 11 and he's 22 now, and he's never gotten an unusual in a crate. I did on my first try. He spent $25 and I won him $100 worth of items.
#30
My date and I got stuck at the top of a Ferris Wheel for nearly 3 hours when the ride's mechanism failed.
It was a very tall wheel - and she was afraid of heights. So, those hours in the Ferris Wheel car together seemed like eternity.
ThatOtherPanda 3 years ago
I was waiting for like, “and we just celebrated our 20th year anniversary” or smt… great story tho
Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
“And we found a man in our ceiling 20 years later!”
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Seonag Udell 3 years ago
I can do all the big rollercoaster 's no problem, but I am scared of the Ferris wheel.
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LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
People will do anything when they're trying to impress someone they like.
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Lee Banks 3 years ago
My very first time on a rollercoaster, it got stuck. One of those 'ring of fire' types. I was at the very top, upside down, and too small to have been on in the first place. Had to push my hands down on the safety brace for 15 minutes (eternity) to keep from falling out. I feel for your date, and now even have a fear of stairs.
#31
My husband and I woke up in the middle of the night to a hideous growling noise in our bedroom. We were both jarred awake at the same time and started trying to turn on the lights (phone, lamps, whatever we could reach) And there beyond the footboard of our bed, were TWO collarless, IDENTICAL-looking gray cats, growling at each other WE ONLY HAVE ONE gray cat. Literally seconds after we flipped on the lights, they get into a fighting/hissing match all about the room while my husband and I try to snap out of shock We’re chasing these cats around, and I’m screaming to him “Grab Nenna!” and he’s yelling “I don’t know which one is ours!!” In between several Oh my gods and WTFs?!?! and the moments that we could break them up enough to get a decent look at them, we could not identify our cat and had NO clue how another got into our bedroom on the 2nd floor Finally they run into the next bedroom and one cat jumps out an open window onto a ledge …which is when we realized the friend who’d stayed over a few nights before, left a window open Talk about five LONG minutes in the Twilight Zone. P.S. we’re like 97% sure it was *not* our cat that jumped back out the window.
Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
Have you been suspicious that you’ve been feeding an imposter ever since?
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
My husband and I woke up one time to a bat flying circles above our bed in the pitch-black dead of night. TERRIFYING! I guess the echo-location click sounds he was making is what woke us up. We huddled under the blanket to form a game plan and eventually settled on tossing the blanket over it and transport it back outside. Worked like a charm. Lol
#32
One of my friends was a social worker. She was blind. She had gotten divorced during graduate school. When she got divorced, I took over caring for her computer and for her Seeing Eye dog. Several years later, she started dating this guy, and told him about me. Among other things, I had a colorful, unique, unbelievable Air Force career. So when she introduced me to this guy, he told me that she had talked about me a lot, and that he had been a Navy Seal. A few months later, one of her colleagues from work asked me what I thought about her dating a former SEAL. I didn't really think about what I was saying. I just said "Oh, he was never a Navy Seal." She said "Why do you say that?" I said, "He's too stupid to have ever been a SEAL." She mentioned what I said to my blind friend's parents. They were already uneasy about this guy; they engaged a private detective. He engaged the police. The police engaged the FBI. Turned out this guy was wanted in connection with the murder of a New Jersey state police officer. He found out that it was my comment that set all this in motion. He phoned me and threatened to kill me. The FBI had a tap on my phone for over a year. He never called back. I don't know if there were any developments in that case. That was 30 years ago. My blind friend is doing fine.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Nope. The lack of flippers was a dead giveaway.
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One time I went camping with my ex, and we took some LSD. Was around 1am, and I started seeing flashes of light, figured it was just someone else in the campsite with a flashlight... and then I heard a distant ominus boom.
Looked outside the tent, one side of the sky was a clear starry night, the other side was a giant black doom cloud with a f*ckload of lightning coming from it. So then began the scramble to get everything out of the tent, and into the car. I remember picking up handfuls of stuff that was just... melting into my arms because I was in the peak of an acid trip.
We got the stuff in the car, and left the tent because we couldnt figure out how to disassemble it, and then huddled in the car ourselves. By this time the storm was on top of us and the rain was pouring, and lightning was coming down all over the place.
Then, the crazy part. It had been a couple hours into the storm, and we were still high as f**k. I suddenly felt super tingly all over, looked at my ex and her hair was standing right up on end... we knew what was about to happen and managed to give each other a wide eyed glance before *KABOOM!*. The lightning stuck the ground not an arms reach from me, I could have grabbed it if the window was down. It wasnt a normal strike either, it was a positive lightning strike which starts at the ground, and goes up, and is usually about 100x the power of negative lightning. I described as Zeus looking down at some puny mortals tripping balls in the middle of a storm and said to his greek god bros "Hey guys, wanna see me scare the c**p of these two?"
Was amazing to see... but I never wanna experience that again.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
PSA: don't downvote somebody you disagree with. Downvotes work like the 'report' button on BP. Get two or three downvotes, and you're banned.
Load More Replies... Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago (edited)
That's how all lightning strikes. It ionises the air from the ground up, then the electric charge jumps down the ionised air to the ground. Don't worry, it's a cool enough story without making something up about super extra mega lightning.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
That’s true, but positive lightning really is more dangerous! https://www.discovery.com/science/Positive-Lightning-Rare-Super-Deadly
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Nicky Hands 3 years ago
Hahahahaaaa....have many a good time with LSD and shrooms...Gods gift to us for accelerated learning about why we are actually on this earth! Aaannnnddd NO, it’s not to accumulate money, material belongings or control!!! You are being lied to about what is actually important 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️✌🏻❤️
#34
I was scammed by a car rental company (Driv-O) and I left a bad review on their Yelp page. Someone reached out to me and said it happened to them too and to email the DA who was building a case against them. So I emailed my complaint and didn’t hear anything for 5 years. Then one day they mailed me a check and I got all my money back. I can’t believe it actually worked.
#35
Went to a secluded mansion in Scotland for the weekend with my partner to attend a "conference" a friend suggested, that turned out to be an drug fueled orgy for corporate swingers. Us and a couple of other misinformed guests ended up barricading ourselves in a study and watching old horror movies all weekend while a bunch of randos on LSD had sex in the grand dinning hall next door.
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
I think BP does that. But it is really pretty. I'd love to live in that house.
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I lost an important paper after bringing it home from work. Searched for 2 weeks and couldn't find it. One day at home, I took a container of the previous night's leftovers out of the fridge and set it on the counter. Then I ducked back into the fridge for another item. When I stood back up and looked at the container on the counter, the paper was sitting on top of it. Still gives me the f*ckin creeps.
Lily bloom 3 years ago
I'm still waiting for a kitchen sponge to reappear. My husband was in the kitchen, used the sponge, left the room, and the sponge was never seen again. We looked everywhere. Not in the trash, not in the bathroom (or any other room for that matter). Just vanished. Will be interesting for sure if it rematerializes someday.
Annie 1973 2 years ago
I asked one time for help getting my 5 year old daughter to sleep and I had to be up early for work. She was asleep in 20 minutes and told me the next morning that an old lady sat on her bed with her and sang until she fell asleep. Just be respectful .
Annie 1973 2 years ago
When there is paranormal events happening, especially in an old house it's because you've been disrespectful to the house. First thing you should do when you move into a new/old house is to say out loud that you are very grateful to be there and for sharing their beautiful home with you. They were there before you came and will be here long after you leave and that they are welcome to stay. You only have 1 request (obviously if you need more add it but don't ask for the impossible, for them to leave people etc) that they are quiet at night as you really need to sleep at that time. Another thing I ask for is that I'm terrible at losing items and that I'd really appreciate help with finding the items. 9 times out of 10 the item appears on my bedside table within a short while. The other 1 I've lost outside of the house and of course they are unable to help with that. They are usually playful and move things around but they can also be helpful.
#37
I had the lower bunk of a set of bunk beds. I was about 3 - 4 years old at the time, and I woke up and ran to my parents room just minutes before the top bunk smashed down on my lower bunk. We all ran in and found my older sister sitting up on the upper bunk as it lay on my lower bunk, crying but otherwise fine. I don't know that it could have killed me - I kind of doubt it would have been that bad - but it definitely would have hurt me if I'd still been there when it crashed.
Vervelende Panda 3 years ago
Same thing happened to me when I was about 9-10 years old. School camp, the kid in the upper bunk was jumping up and down. I got out, and within minutes the heavy steal rod that supported the head end of his matress ended up on my pillow. I really don't think I would've survived. Told the teachers, nobody cared. That was the 80s.
Jro308 3 years ago (edited)
This happened to me and my sister when we were young. Our brother was on the top bunk and he kept hopping off the bunk and onto the dresser and back again. Well he came down too hard and the mattress came crashing down on top of us. I was on the outside and managed to roll out of the way but my sister didn't make it out. She screamed like a banshee but was unharmed. I was laughing like a lunatic because the scene of my brother sitting on top of the mattress wide eyed not knowing what just happened and my sister half stuck under it screaming her head off was hilarious to 10 yr old me.
#38
Just happened to me last month. I bought an old pop up camper from Craigslist and my fiancé and I wanted to fix it up to make memories with our 3 year old. We started repairing some tears in the canvas, ordered new cushions for the dinette and I built a table to replace the original. We were set to do our first camping trip and I wanted and I wanted to make sure the stove and furnace were working properly before we went (the original seller said they worked.) I followed the furnace lighting instructions, turned the propane on and tried to light the pilot- nothing happened. I waited a few minutes and tried again. As soon as the lighter ignited I was engulfed in a fireball the whole neighborhood heard. I had 3rd degree burns to my face hands and feet. I turned the garden hose on my body till the ambulance came as my skin was peeling and blistering off my body, it was quite a spectacle. I spent the next 3 weeks in the burn unit (the same one anne heche was at.) I’m relieved I didn’t die and that my daughter was safely sleeping upstairs. Also mostly minimal scarring! As a bonus I’ll be Deadpool for Halloween this year so I got that going for me which is nice.
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago (edited)
Well, if they didn't shut off the gas for those few minutes of waiting, what did they expect to happen? I'm surprised the campervan didn't rocket into space. It's bad and sad what happened, but I wouldn't call it surprise. I'm glad OP is ok now.
Rayisgay 3 years ago (edited)
Downvote this ^^^^ it’s so rude to make fun of someone’s injury like that
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Marybeth Martens 3 years ago
that sounds painful hope the following year u won't be going as deadpool
#39
As I walked into a high school hockey game, I had a strong premonition I would be hit with a hockey puck while sitting in the stands. I told all my friends who very much laughed and gave me s**t. I asked them to choose our seats which ended up pretty far away at center-ish ice. They made of fun of me all game until half way through the second when a puck comes screaming off the ice and hits me square in the chest falling flat into my open hands. We never talked about it much after that, and no, I do not think i’m psychic. It was just the first craziest thing that happened to me that popped in my head. I still have the puck 30 years later.
MSP 3 years ago
I went to a hockey game as part of a "pastors kids weekend retreat" thingie. I was NOT interested in the game and read a book instead, so you can imagine my surprise when I got hit by a flying puck! My brother took advantage of my shocked state and snatched it off the floor. He kept it.
#40
I was in Hawaii for the missile strike turned false alarm. It was a movie scene. Full grown men with families asking me what to do. People running in from the beach screaming. Screeching tires. Terrifying.
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#41
I work on a psych ward. I had a patient I'd never met or seen before walk right up to me and tell me I had my grandfather's eyes, "you know, like this - " as he did a sieg heil... my great-grandfather was in the Sturmabteilung (SA) during the Third Reich and I do indeed have his eyes, as does my father and his mother. it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
DC 3 years ago
The relations seem off. Your Grandfather ... ok ... Father ... ok ... you ... ok ... but whose mother has the same eyes? Your Dad's mother has your Granddad's eyes? Isn't that, somehow, incestoid?
Sera 3 years ago
It’s his great-grandfather, so - SA member, his daughter (OP’s grandma), her son (OP’s dad), OP. Not that complicated.
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#42
I was in a coffee shop in Austria called the Pharmacy. I asked for the toilet and the old man behind the counter told me to go downstairs and to use the door that said ‘ do not enter’.
I done what I was told but found I was trapped in the dark some storage room. Fearing it was a Fritzel room I switched on my phone light and noticed a ladder, so I climbed up it.
At the top I exited a hatch and was surrounded by horses. Very expensive looking horses.
I’d come up in the stables of the Vienna Spanish riding school. Had to exit through the riding ring.
#43
We are traveling in a van in Europe. In October 2021 we parked on top of a random hill near Dubrovnik, Croatia. We meet another German couple with the cutest dog who also live in a van. We talk a little 'oh cool, you smell bad to' you know like you do. We leave the next day, we don't have instagram or something so we didn't excange info. After that we travel some more until in December I broke my foot. We go back home, I recover and we set back of after a few months. So the past month we're traveling through Norway. We stop in a little town of bumf**k nowhere to get some (very expensive) food. We're in the line for the register and in walks this f*****g same German couple. In Norway. In a random town. In a random store. I MEAN HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN My mind is still blown, what are the f*****g chances. Probably will never see these people again, don't even know their names. But man, I think it's so crazy this will never not astound me when I think about it.
(She/her)Introverted Potato 🥔 3 years ago (edited)
Little town of bumf**k nowhere love it there lol
(She/her)Introverted Potato 🥔 3 years ago
OMG WHY DIDDNT BP CENCOR THAT SORRY
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#44
Off of the top of my head, when I was travelling through Moldova I came to my parked car to see that a woman was writing a note. Long story short she hacked off my rearview mirror when she was driving next to me but she was a high court judge who wanted to do right by me. So she offered to go to Kia dealership and buy me a new mirror. They told us they have to order it and it takes 7 days. As coincidence would have it, she had the same car as me (Kia Sportage) even in the same color, so we just sked the mechanic to switch hers for mine and now I have a Moldovan Judge’s rearview mirror. What a nice lady. Also, when I drove through Kyrgizstan and there was a road blockage by landslide on the only one of two roads through the country. Driving through the other road would take 15 extra hours. So we just had some vodka with locals who also wanted to drive through and started digging. Took us less than 4 hours to dig through (plus another 4 hours to be in semi-sober state to drive again). Good times Edit: typos
#45
Was an exchange student in South America. There was a military coup and the airport was absolutely shut down. Somehow, though, I was the only person on a jet out of the country. My dad was a Green Beret and I’m pretty sure I was Liam Neeson-ed out of a crumbling nation. Also, I was supposed to fly to said country on 9/11/2001 via NYC. Somehow, my flight was changed to 9/8/2001, and I was there when it happened.
#46
When I was young, I got to go to Disney World and ride Space Mountain. It was the end of the day by the time I finally got on, and the park (or maybe just the ride) announced it was closing. Everyone left, but they continued running the ride. So there was a cycle of go on Space Mountain, run (and I mean I went as fast as I could) back to the start of the line, and go on Space Mountain. I did this five or six times until my family dragged me away, and I remember racing with two or three other kids doing the same thing for the front seat. Even as a kid, I thought this was crazy, and no one believed me in school when I told them it had happened. That was one of the most awesome experiences of my life.
Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
Yes this absolutely does happen, or did happen, it’s been about 30 years since I did it
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
You can fast-track your way on a lot of rides if you wait for the fireworks or the parade at night.
Thomas Biorogue 3 years ago
My brother and I used to get season passes to Carowinds, theme park like Six Flags, back when a season pass was like $18. We'd go on a Tuesday / Wednesday after work and you'd almost have the park to yourself. We went to ride Carolina Cyclone and we got off the ride and no one was in line to ride again so the guy said we could go again, so we did....3 times. Then he made us get off and we had to run around to get on. We did that 17 times.
#47
I was rounded up illegally by the Chicago police for protesting the outbreak of the Iraq War. (Protesters marched up Lake Shore Drive, the police blocked it off, then finally blocked marchers from both directions and randomly started arresting people.) I managed to call my gf at the time from the paddy wagon to tell her what was happening, and once I was photographed and booked, I was led to a cell full of other protesters. At some point, I was removed from that cell by a cop and taken far down a deserted hallway, where I was put in a cell by myself. I kept falling asleep and waking up expecting to be bailed out, but nothing was happening. I had no idea how many hours passed under the unblinking fluorescent lights and I started to feel like I was going crazy…a sensation that deepened when I thought I heard a sing-song voice or voices calling my name from far off. ‘BrettTheSh*tmanShaaaaaaart…’ ‘BrettTheSh*tmanShaaaaaaart…’ My actual name is somewhat uncommon so it wasn’t like I could be confusing it for something else…or could I??? Surely I was going crazy, right? Or was I actually hearing my name?? I kept trying to sleep, do push-ups, meditate…and ignore the disconcerting feeling that I was going insane every time I’d notice what sounded like my name being sing-song’d by someone far, far away. They eventually locked some more people in my cell so I wasn’t totally alone. I spent 32 hours in total in custody. Some local filmmakers did a documentary about the protest and they happened to interview me…where I found out that because my gf kept calling the police station and telling them that I was a journalist (smart girl!), the police would come to the general holding area with all the other protesters and call my name. The protesters thought that someone was pranking the cops bc my name is so unusual, so they started calling out my name en masse in this sing-song cadence. So I wasn’t dreaming it or going crazy! Some people even screenprinted ‘FREE BRETTTHESH*TMANSHART’ t-shirts in the mode of the FREE WINONA shirts that were popular at the time. (And in case you’re wondering, we class-action sued the city and each of us won five-figure settlements 10 years later.)
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago (edited)
Maaaan lucky they didn't take you to one of the warehouse blacksites that got reported and then wiped from light really quick. ..............https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands .................seriously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility
#48
Was one of the main victims of a terrorist attack a few years ago! It was an American who was inspired by ISIS and set off a few pressure cooker bombs in NYC. Luckily only lost some teeth and were able to get them replaced, but took about a years worth of surgery due to the damage to my gums. Was super lucky the pellets that shot out of the bomb mainly hit my teeth and lips versus my eyes or anywhere else more serious
#49
I was sitting outside with my friend and he was twirling his double bladed pocket knife. This thing was big too. It slipped out of his hand and flew straight towards me. The handle (between the blades) hit me in the head, but not a single part of the blade touched me. I’m not sure how that happened.
Wood Carver 3 years ago
There is a great scene in the Wheel of Time, where a character is trying to learn to throw knives. His commander sees him and says 3 things. 1 the people you see doing that have practice for years. 2 they miss all the time because throwing knives accurately and effectively is incredibly difficult. 3 it's a knife stop trying to turn it into an arrow and just use it to poke things like a normal person *paraphrasing obviously
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This will get buried, but I was at a bar with my x girlfriends sister (she was like my sister) and Andy D**k shows up. He was known around the area but he was talking to my sister and then grabs her tits. She was shy and didn’t stand up for herself. So, I ended up getting into a physical altercation with him and punching him in the face. Turned into a fight, police showed up, he got arrested, bar tender stood up for me. Crazy times
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Not the only time someone punched that jerk out in a bar, either.
#51
When I was a teenager I was ramping the dirt bike out in the field. Took one too fast, flipped the bike on top of myself and conked myself in the head. Knocked out even though I was wearing a helmet. When I came to, it was two hours later and I was sitting at the foot of my bed playing guitar. I was fingerpicking the main riff to Sweet Child O Mine (which I had never played before). My mom said she never knew any wreck had happened, I had just walked into the house, gone upstairs, and played guitar for two hours.
#52
My dog got stolen from me in a Target parking lot… and I got him back by tracking down a black mustang with pink racing stripes, no license plate, and no professional help. All in <24 hours.
#53
I was at a stoplight in a convertible, and a taxi cab came hurtling in my direction at over 100 miles per hour (he thought his brakes failed, but he was actually pounding the accelerator). He went into a ditch as he approached me, and it sent him airborne. He scraped along the side of me, his tires left a mark at about my elbow level. His bumper grazed my head, and he flipped three times, and crashed into the truck in front of me. His bumper removed a mole on the back of my head, and I had a massive concussion that kept me in the hospital for a week, but I was otherwise unhurt. Incredible car accident.
#54
On May 2, 2019 I was attacked by a hive of bees. The nurses stopped counting stingers at 600 with plenty more to go. They were flying in my mouth as I was screaming. A live bee was extracted from my nose at the ER. [proof](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bk6il7/i_was_mauled_by_bees_yesterday_on_my_upper_body/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Same thing happened to me with a fly. It flew up my nose and when I sneezed it out again it was still alive.
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#55
Lost a pair of earrings 4 years ago. Looked everywhere for them and couldn't find anything. While moving to a different apartment I tried looking for them again in every item of cloth. Absolutely nothing. 4 years later I'm already after 2 apartments, and I suddenly step on something that was on the carpet. It was one of the earrings. I have no idea how it got to the carpet in the middle of the room, and why after 3 month of me living here. There is no logical explanation for this. Can't find its pair though.
Francesa Miller 3 years ago
I had a plan to make a charm bracelet out of all the single earrings. I really liked most of them. Only didn't because I don't wear bracelets.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
I made necklace pendants out of a few of my single earrings :)
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#56
Probably the time I met an old middle school classmate at my 20s… Half the world away. Working at the same place.
Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
My best friend from childhood moved away. We had lived in apartments in the building next to each other for a couple of years and were together all the time. We lost touch a little while after she moved when I was around seven. We moved into a new house when I was in seventh grade. I sat at one of the tables in the cafeteria during orientation and my friend from the apartments happened to sit right across from me. We couldn’t believe we now went to the same school! I told her where I lived, she ended up living 3 houses away from me.
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
I have a similar story! Lived in North Carolina in my elementary school years. Moved to South Dakota right before middle school—school starts and BAM, in walks my friend Brett for my North Carolina elementary school!
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I once met an elementary school classmate at the poolside while on vacation in Turkey, lol.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
I think these stories are like the birthday paradox, which is the counterintuitive fact that in a random group of 23 people, there is about a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem In any given place you go, what are the odds that someone you’ve ever met is also there? You go a lot of places and have met a lot of people. Eventually the numbers work out, even though it seems like such an impossibility.
#57
I went to a school in the UK. For like 3 months before I left I had a recurring dream. It was about anything, just 3 girls sitting in a kind of old fashioned bedroom, wearing very specific clothing. These baggy blue smocks, riding pants, blue bandana around their hair. So I get there, housekeeper is showing me around this house, an old converted manor house. She opened the door to a bedroom and ( honest ) it was THAT DAM ROOM. 3,000 miles from where I lived, I couldn't have seen it before, no brochures, nothing. Pre internet, you couldn't look stuff up. Then she told me what we were supposed to wear, went to the school office to buy it- and met all these other girls wearing the same thing I had to buy and saw in my dream. Same bandana, riding breeches. ( It was a riding school ) Freaked me the heck OUT. Never found an explanation.
#58
I somehow got backstage without them checking me for a pass when everyone else had to show theirs and finally got to meet Sufjan Stevens, my absolute fave, after 13 years, and we talked for like 45 minutes! And I think he would have kept talking if I hadn't felt so like I was keeping him up and told him I had to go. He had even turned down celebratory drinks (it was the last show of the tour) with his band to talk. It's been 6 years I still can't believe it and I think about it multiple times a day. And to boot, Bryan Devendorf, the drummer from my fave band The National was there too so I got to meet him too. He is incredibly tall.
#59
I put on a funny remix of the Hamster song at work and then we were robbed at gunpoint. It was surreal.
#60
I played poker once with Chris O'Donnell in a skeevy riverboat casino in Illinois. I got dealt a straight flush and won a $5,000 instant bonus for it. (It was an otherwise low stakes table.) The worst part is that I had no clue who Chris O'Donnell was. When you hit a bonus like that, they close the table for a few minutes to review the video and make sure you didn't pop an ace out of your sleeve. Chris left the table and immediately everybody started talking about him and completely ignored my gorgeous straight flush that was still sitting on the table. Ah well, I got paid...still the only time to this day I've won any kind of remotely material amount in a casino. EDIT: Since many are asking, it was in or near Elgin. Other commenters have suggested the boat was called Grand Victoria but I honestly don't remember its name. Timeframe was mid 90s.
Thomas Biorogue 3 years ago
Still don't know who he is. I wouldn't be able to pick him from a line up. I do recognize the name, that's about it.
#61
I once asked a country artist if they were going to attend his own show. It was Aaron Tippin. He just came from a celebrity baseball game and was still in the uniform. I was taking a side entrance to bring in some 12 packs of soda to the hotel room and him and I guess one of his crew held the door open for me. The grew member had a cowboy hat and the whole look going on. After thanking them, I casually asked if they were there for the concert. Aaron Tippin was walking away and heard me say it. He started laughing as he turned the corner. It then dawned on me and I asked his crew member if that was who I thought it was. He smiled and nodded. After the show I went and got his autograph and joked about it. TLDR: didn't recognize singer when they held a door open for me. Asked him and his buddy if they were there for his concert.
#62
Was on a late night walk with a friend. We found $900 in $100 bills on the ground as we walked passed a parking lot at about 1 or 2 am.
#63
In high school, I lived in a house that was at the end of a T intersection. It was a small residential area, and for the most part got very little traffic other than residents. But occasionally people would turn down our street instead of the next one over, which went through to the next major street. One night, I was hanging out with my friends when I hear tires screeching outside. Then I see this trans am barreling straight toward my house. I start running away from the front door when I hear crashing and tires squealing. Thinking that the car had hit my dad's car and was fleeing the scene, I ran outside to try to get his license plate number. I totally didn't expect what I saw. My dad's car, which was parked in front of our house, was now on our front lawn (about 10-15' away). And it had knocked down and was now on top of a tree (not huge, but maybe 6" in diameter) that used to grow on the grass between the sidewalk and the street. The Trans Am was on top of this huge rhododendron that grew between mine and my neighbor's driveways. Its tires were still spinning, one of them smoking on my driveway. But it wasn't going anywhere because the front end of the car was inside my neighbor's Lincoln Mk IV, which had been shoved about 2' to the side. My neighbor got the door open and turned the car off. The driver was unconscious and bleeding. The rest of the night was all emergency vehicles and tow trucks. The police later told us he was on cocaine and alcohol. The craziest part is that if my dad's car wasn't where it was, the guy would've ended up in my living room. And if my neighbor's car wasn't where it was, he might've ended up in my neighbor's living room.
#64
My roommate in 1st year of college was breaking and entering all over campus. He stole equipment from the library. I remember reading the suspect's description in the newspaper and thinking that it matched my roommate, including the clothes, but dismissed it because what are the odds. Flash to me getting pulled out of history class by cops and taken in for questioning. They wanted to know why there was all this stolen s**t in my shared room. I probably seemed pretty guilty because I was in shock about suddenly being interrogated by the cops and because I'd been crunching for school and not slept for two days. Well, they eventually let me go, the dude ultimately got kicked from school, and I got an exclusive room for a few months! Oh! And, weirdly, some other time that year, a PI came to my door investigating who was supposed to be in my room instead of me. Turns out that kid went missing and his parents were trying to find him. Cursed room man.
#65
I went to watch an MMA Event called Xtreme Cage Warz in 2006. I was talking to the promoter as I knew him. The heavyweightm main event fighter came up to Dave and said his opponent cant fight for I dont remember the reason. I looked at the guy and said "Ill fight you". He asked if I was serious, I said sure you came 1000 miles might as well fight someone. We both asked Dave he said sure why not. They ran some checks on me, I borrowed a pair of Muay Thai shorts that I put on backwards, someone ran to wal mart and got me a cup and a mouthpiece. I then got in the cage on no notice essentially and fought they guy. He absolutely twisted me up and kicked the living hell out of me. It was super fun, mma gloves are much softer than I expected and didnt get knocked out. For doubters, pm me Ill give you my name and his name and this fight can be googled
#66
This happened when i was 19. It was about 4am and I had gotten a flat tire. I was about 2 miles from home so I just started walking home. About 2-3 minutes later a car pulls up and offers me a ride. The driver of the car was my first real girlfriend who I hadn't seen in 3 years. Her dad was a Marine and was transferred to a base in another state about 1500 miles away. Her and her friend were moving to go to college and they had driven 200 miles out of their way just to show each other the homes that they grew up in since they originally came from the same city. She starts to introduce me to her friend and her friend was actually another ex girlfriend that I hadn't seen in about 2 years. Her father had moved for a job and the girls met in high school. They had no idea that they both had dated me (it was almost a year of dating for the first, about 5 months for the second, I was16/17 at the time and they were 15/16). Sorry to disappoint, but nothing happened that night, there was no threesome.
#67
In senior year of high school we took a field trip to Little Tokyo in Downtown LA I was hanging out with three of my friends and at some point we were sitting on one of those bench planters that go around a tree. A year or two later 2 of the same friends and I went to Little Tokyo again and made our way to that bench where I went “last time we were here (our third friend) was sitting right here with us as well”. Not 2 minutes later that friend came walking up to the bench completely coincidentally. None of us even live all that close to Little Tokyo he just happened to be in the same spot at the same time after I had just referenced him being there years before. We were all dumbfounded. Edit: Just because I felt like sharing another; one time I was playing Mario Party 7 with my cousins and there’s this windmill bank map (Pagoda Peak is better) that has this big pink flower that takes you to 1 of 2 spaces. We rode it 7 or 8 times and every single time it took us to the same space, it got to the point that we were questioning our map knowledge, we were like “does it only take you to this one space?”. Assuming it’s a 50% chance and we got it 7 times there’s only a 0.3% chance of that happening. I think the Little Tokyo one is crazier but my mind was blown at Mario Party as well. Edit 2: According to the wiki the pink flower can take you to “one of several random spaces” which seems to imply there’s more than 2 locations… if this is true we may be talking lottery ticket odds which in turn may edge out the friend coincidence.
Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I interpret the Mario thing as meaning “there are several random spaces, but THIS flower takes you to only one of them.”
#68
Was on my way home from church, and some other church down the road got bombed by Boko Haram terrorists. I must have been about 13 or 14. My mom who is usually calm was understandably freaking out about what road we should take home because the vehicle the boko haram members were in was driving towards us. I remember a guy with a leg that must have been broken years prior hobbling towards the road to block off the terrorists as well as hurling rocks at their car with others as they sped past. They were driving so fast our car shuddered as they went past us. We got home fine though
#69
When I was around 10, back in the 70s, before seatbelt use was common. I was in the middle of the back seat, with siblings on either side. A car ran a red light and smacked in the side of the car. No one was seriously hurt, just cuts and bruising, except myself. I had no injuries. My brother next to me, on the far side of the car, had cuts from flying glass, but none hit me.
#70
Ok, I'm not making this up. Many years ago and approximately 6-7 years after John Lennon's murder, I was in this room by myself, and there was a piano in the corner. Now, I do ***NOT*** play the piano. The best I do is one finger melodies and a major chord or two. That said, pianos always fascinated me, and I always felt drawn to them. So, I go over to the piano and start playing around with it. All of a sudden "Imagine" pops out. The actual song, including the little runs at the end of each phrase. So, I'm wondering where the hell this is coming from, and then I get this really strong feeling that Lennon is standing behind me. Of course, he wasn't, but I look anyway. This whole thing weirded me out so much, I ran and got my wife and told her what had happened. So then I tried to play it again while she was standing there. It was still there a little bit, but it was fading, and I've never been able to do it since. I've never believed in channeling or other New-Agey stuff, but this definitely made me think a little.
Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
This story leaves a lot to be desired. When op said they were “in a room” by themselves, what kind of room? Like, a public place? A hotel? A restaurant? A room that was unfamiliar to them? Someone’s house?
#71
A car went near me, hit, and than wanished down a road. it was a one way street, nowhere to go and a lot of people saw it.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I can werify that weered, went “wroom wroom!” and wery quickly wanished!
What do you think ?
Ariadne_byu 3 years ago
My ancestor Hannah’s family got separated when their dad died and mom went crazy. Her brother John, who had lost his index finger in an accident as a child (important later), spent years trying to find his siblings to no avail. This was in the U.K. in the 1800s and all he knew was that they might have moved to the US. Years later he married and immigrated to the States. They moved to Utah and lived there for 25 years. One summer day, John’s wife and Hannah (his long-lost sister) both went to pick berries. They had been living 8 miles apart for 25 years and never knew until that day! They way they identified each other was based on their shared surname/maiden name, and the fact that John was missing an index finger.
E. Hamilton 3 years ago
I am from Olympia, Washington (US). The California punk band, Rancid, wrote a song called "Olympia, Wa". It was kind of an anthem for kids like me back in the late 90's. When I was in my 30's I was sitting in an airport and I decided to listen to the Rancid album while I was waiting for my flight. I made the song selection. I look up from my ipod and the founding member of Rancid sat down in front of me.... I gave him one of those 'sup nods, he nodded back. That was it. I tell that story to all my former punk friends.
Tom Murphy 3 years ago
A couple years ago, this keyboard I'm typing on fell and one of the ALT keys popped off, never to be seen again. 2 days ago, I completely disassembled it for cleaning, soaking all the keys in dish soap and water. After sorting and drying the keys out, my missing ALT key had reappeared.
CH1990 3 years ago
Went to a party (±6000 people) with a group of friends from my hometown. Another few friends I met on holiday from a town 1.5h drive away (this is far in the Netherlands) were there too. I left my initial friend group behind to walk around the party and see if I could find my holiday friends, and somewhere halfway through the night I finally found them, sitting with my initial friends, holiday girlfriend kissing my hometown male friend! They had never met before... Weirdest coincidence ever
Monica Pryts 3 years ago
I do a lot of driving for work. There have been a few times where I came upon car accidents. One day I left home a few minutes later than planned because I was texting my mom. I passed a car accident near my home on my usual route that had happened during those few minutes. I often wonder about those near misses.
Ann Mohrmann 3 years ago
I've had a ton of yard sales in my life, and one time, I actually had someone offer to buy everything. 0.0 She had been racking up quite a pile and was up to, like, 30 or 40 dollars and then just asked 'How much for all of it?' $100 later, I closed early.
oktopus 3 years ago
Way back before mobile phones etc., I left home and one of my first purchases was a small battery-powered alarm clock. The kind which beeps incessantly until you switch off the alarm. One day I had an Important Interview at the other end of an early morning flight. I set the alarm, and woke up around the time said flight was due to depart. Now, I am not one of nature's oversleepers, and usually wake up before any alarm goes off, and would certainly have been awoken when it did go off. Except that one day, when I am sure I a) set the alarm and b) it never went off, and c) I unusually overslept, all of which turned out to be quite decisive for the rest of my live (mostly in a good way, I think). Also that alarm clock - worked every damn time for the better part of a decade after that.
jetzzfan 3 years ago
I was in Houston at an Astros game (visiting from Phoenix) sitting about 20 rows behind home plate and chatting with some of the locals during the game this past April. In May, I was in Boston for more baseball and when I took a tour of Fenway park, one of the couples from the game in Houston that I was talking with were on the same tour.
Ariadne_byu 3 years ago
My ancestor Hannah’s family got separated when their dad died and mom went crazy. Her brother John, who had lost his index finger in an accident as a child (important later), spent years trying to find his siblings to no avail. This was in the U.K. in the 1800s and all he knew was that they might have moved to the US. Years later he married and immigrated to the States. They moved to Utah and lived there for 25 years. One summer day, John’s wife and Hannah (his long-lost sister) both went to pick berries. They had been living 8 miles apart for 25 years and never knew until that day! They way they identified each other was based on their shared surname/maiden name, and the fact that John was missing an index finger.
E. Hamilton 3 years ago
I am from Olympia, Washington (US). The California punk band, Rancid, wrote a song called "Olympia, Wa". It was kind of an anthem for kids like me back in the late 90's. When I was in my 30's I was sitting in an airport and I decided to listen to the Rancid album while I was waiting for my flight. I made the song selection. I look up from my ipod and the founding member of Rancid sat down in front of me.... I gave him one of those 'sup nods, he nodded back. That was it. I tell that story to all my former punk friends.
Tom Murphy 3 years ago
A couple years ago, this keyboard I'm typing on fell and one of the ALT keys popped off, never to be seen again. 2 days ago, I completely disassembled it for cleaning, soaking all the keys in dish soap and water. After sorting and drying the keys out, my missing ALT key had reappeared.
CH1990 3 years ago
Went to a party (±6000 people) with a group of friends from my hometown. Another few friends I met on holiday from a town 1.5h drive away (this is far in the Netherlands) were there too. I left my initial friend group behind to walk around the party and see if I could find my holiday friends, and somewhere halfway through the night I finally found them, sitting with my initial friends, holiday girlfriend kissing my hometown male friend! They had never met before... Weirdest coincidence ever
Monica Pryts 3 years ago
I do a lot of driving for work. There have been a few times where I came upon car accidents. One day I left home a few minutes later than planned because I was texting my mom. I passed a car accident near my home on my usual route that had happened during those few minutes. I often wonder about those near misses.
Ann Mohrmann 3 years ago
I've had a ton of yard sales in my life, and one time, I actually had someone offer to buy everything. 0.0 She had been racking up quite a pile and was up to, like, 30 or 40 dollars and then just asked 'How much for all of it?' $100 later, I closed early.
oktopus 3 years ago
Way back before mobile phones etc., I left home and one of my first purchases was a small battery-powered alarm clock. The kind which beeps incessantly until you switch off the alarm. One day I had an Important Interview at the other end of an early morning flight. I set the alarm, and woke up around the time said flight was due to depart. Now, I am not one of nature's oversleepers, and usually wake up before any alarm goes off, and would certainly have been awoken when it did go off. Except that one day, when I am sure I a) set the alarm and b) it never went off, and c) I unusually overslept, all of which turned out to be quite decisive for the rest of my live (mostly in a good way, I think). Also that alarm clock - worked every damn time for the better part of a decade after that.
jetzzfan 3 years ago
I was in Houston at an Astros game (visiting from Phoenix) sitting about 20 rows behind home plate and chatting with some of the locals during the game this past April. In May, I was in Boston for more baseball and when I took a tour of Fenway park, one of the couples from the game in Houston that I was talking with were on the same tour.
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