" When we told my mom , she go white and called the cops . "
Please observe : this article contains mention of furiousness and sexual violation .
Tingles up the spine or pressing feelings ofwrongnessmight seem like they only happen in horror movies, but in real life, too, people often have a sixth sense for danger. Recently, Reddit useru/ElectroIslandtook to the popularAsk Redditpage to ask users, “What was the scariest ‘We need to leave…now” gut feeling that you’ve ever experienced?” and the stories were absolutely chilling. Here are some of the most fascinating:
1.“My little sister and I went camping in the woods very close to our house when we were kids. We’d seen this bald guy with a blue shirt and a dog walking around, which isn’t unusual for the area, you’ll often see people walking and say hello. For some reason though, I just got this tight feeling in my chest, and my sister must have too, because we both just gave each other this look.”
“We must have had the same moment of psychic-ness, because we walked off up a fork in the path until we were out of view, then looked at each other and jumped down a path hidden by the bushes and waited behind them on the parallel trail for a bit.”
2.“In 1985, when I was about 8, an old El Camino pulled up alongside my friend and [me, driven by] a man saying he knew my mom. He did know her name, but something felt off, so I grabbed my friend and ran.”
3.“Years ago, before cell phones, I was driving home from dropping my husband at the train at 4:30 a.m. Only me and one other car [were] on the road.”
4.“I bartend, and years ago I kicked this guy out because he was acting very strange, muttering under his breath that he would kill my other customers, just really hostile. He had missing fingers on one hand and he was kind of a bigger guy.”
5.“I was at the state fair with my mom and my best friend. [My] friend and I were looking at the rides and the games. This creepy guy and his blonde girlfriend kept babbling at us about taking headshots, [saying] that he was a modeling agent. "
6."[I was on a] Wednesday midday run along a beautiful river pathway near my apartment block. About 1km in I felt people watching me and directly turned around and ran home, even though I did NOT see anybody!”
7."[I was] surfing a fairly secluded reef break, offshore across a channel. This place is in a very southern state of Australia. Overcast weather, but a still, amazing day for the waves. I was surfing with only one other guy — we were trading waves and getting to know each other in between sets."
“We noticed a 15-foot inflatable boat pull up near the reef and hang around for a bit. [We didn’t give it] much thought.”
8.“I stopped by a friend’s house to watch a ball game. He, his wife, and I were just relaxing, and someone knocked on the door. It was the middle of the afternoon, [so] he opened it up; he was expecting others might come by also.”
“She came back in the room with a handgun — I’m thinking ‘WTF did I walk into!’ But she calmly said, ‘Ron, you’re strung out and came here with bad intentions, you need to quietly leave.”
9.“In college I was studying at my school’s business school building, waiting to meet a friend, and I had a sudden sense of dread. I texted my friend that I would just meet her at her dorm later instead of meeting at the business school, and I left to walk to a nearby library instead.”
10.“I was walking down the street in a very unfamiliar city with a group of friends. I got this feeling and didn’t know how to articulate it so I said to the group, ‘Hey, I’ve gotta use the restroom, can we just duck inside this Subway real quick? I promise I’ll be quick.’ About a minute later there was a shootout just up the block. If we [hadn’t] gone into the restaurant, we would’ve all been standing right in the middle of the incident waiting to cross the street.”
11.“We were smoking a joint by the lake downtown. We saw a group of about eight guys walking towards us and joked ‘Yeah, I bet those guys will totally try to beat us up.’ We ignored the feeling. They jumped us, beat us down, and stole my phone, so I guess we should have listened to our intuition.”
— u / paraiahpapaya
12.“When I was around 9 or 10, my mom took me with her on a business trip to a nearby city. This was before smartphones, when you still had to Mapquest stuff. We were supposed to meet my mom’s friend/coworker at the mall.”
13.“Years ago I was at a club with some friends. I was at the bar and for some reason looked down at the other end of the bar and saw two guys quietly arguing. They tried to keep from being overheard but I saw their agitated faces. I went back to my group of friends and told them we should go.”
14.“I was around 10 or 11 years old and had been invited to a sleepover. My mom didn’t really like me going to those, because I’d usually end up staying up way too late and then being cranky the whole next day. When she dropped me off, she told me her usual send-off: ‘Just remember, if you want to leave, I will come get you. It doesn’t matter what time it is, just call me.'”
“I went upstairs and asked to use the phone, saying I wasn’t feeling well and needed to go home. Her mom at first told me no.”
15.“Picture it, 1994. I was 18 and waitressing in a sports bar. A comedy club was upstairs. One night a comedian kept visiting between sets. He was funny and charming, and he seemed quite smitten with me.”
16.“When I was looking for a new place to rent a few years back I found something not far from the house I was leaving, and to my surprise [when I went to tour it] the front door opened to reveal someone I knew from school. He was a few years younger and didn’t remember me.”
17.“When I was in college I was waiting at my boyfriend’s apartment for him to get home from work. My boyfriend’s roommate was sitting on the couch, rocking back and forth and rubbing his hands on his knees, just giving off a very bad vibe.”
" I immediately start getting a ' scrap or flight ' tone in the pit of my tummy and [ then he ask ] , ' Is it me , or is there a LOT of sexual tautness in here ? ' I straightaway aver , ' It ’s you , ' and bolted . "
" He ’s now served almost ten year of a 40 - year condemnation for raping quondam women and children . "
— atomic number 92 / Jennabear82
18.“When I was about 13, my little sister and I were deemed old enough to see a movie on our own. My mom was in the mall working out in the gym and told us to get her when the movie finished. About 15 minutes into the movie, a man with a backpack sat in the seat next to me.”
19.And finally: “When I was about 16 my best friend and I used to hang out in a coffee shop before we went to a local college for a class we were taking together. There was a guy in our class around 17 or 18, and we would make small talk but something about him made my bones feel cold.”
“About a month later, he sauntered into the coffee shop with a manic, fixed grin on his face. He looked completely terrifying and kept letting little laughs escape. He came up to our group and said he was paying for everyone’s food and drinks because ‘Today is a magical day.'”
I, for one, was terrified by some of these. These stories just go to show that if you ever have a gut feeling,listen to it.You never, ever know: it might save a life.
observe : Some meekness have been redact for length and/or clearness .
