" He walked away with scratches … I probably would have been numb if I had gone with him . "
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No, that creepy, spine-tingling gut feeling you get that tells you something iswrongisn’t just you. Recently,I wrote aboutpeople sharing their stories of the scariest time they had a, “We need to leave…now"gut feeling, and they turned out to be right.
These storieswere so compelling that many members of theBuzzFeed Communityfelt compelled to share their own. Here are the most chilling:
1.“My now-husband and I got into an argument late at night, so I left my apartment at midnight to walk a lap around the block and cool off. I lived in a well-off part of town and thought nothing of it. On the other side of the road, a man was walking in the opposite direction and said hello. I waved and continued walking, but something 10 seconds later told me to turn around.”
2.“My grandma and her friend drove to San Francisco together in the late ’60s, young ladies in their 20s just wanting to make their way west and explore.”
" They did n’t have any money ; my grandma tell me about sleeping on the Ellen Price Wood level in an apartment they ’d sublease and using their suitcases for pillow . Her friend embark on hanging out with people in the hippy culture , especially these exceptional two girls who kept asking them to number confab their ranch . My grandma did n’t wish their vibration , but the champion go on to hang out with them . Eventually my grandma run low back to Minnesota because she was n’t having fun .
The hipster friends my grandma ’s friend was fall out with ? The Manson family . "
— michelangelofangirl
3.“Many years ago I stopped at a drug store on my way home from work. I needed to buy cough medicine for my 13-year-old daughter and some shampoo. While I was looking at the cough medicine, a guy walked down the aisle and stood a few feet from me.”
4.“My parents have a camper at a campground in the Berkshire mountains. It’s very rural and densely forested. One night, my sister and I drove their golf cart to a clearing to look at the stars. We both lay on our backs and looked at the stars for a bit, before I started to get this sinking, terrified feeling in my gut.”
5.“Back in the mid-’90s I was a DJ and played all kinds of clubs. I met up with a friend while I was playing a popular goth-themed nightclub in L.A. He met a smoking hot woman and spent most of the night talking and drinking. They exchanged numbers and she left.”
“About an hour into sex, she freaked out — started screaming at him, hitting him, and telling him sex was a mistake. She chased him out of her apartment. End of the date, but not the story. A couple of days later, he called me up, totally weirded out.”
6.“I lived in San Francisco in the early ’70s. My roommate and I had gone out to dinner and taken the bus. On the ride home there was a guy sitting behind us who gave us both a creepy feeling. Our apartment building was right in front of the bus stop, so we got our keys out to the security door and waited until the last minute to pull the cord. We rushed off the bus, and he followed us.”
7.“A friend’s dad was working at the Pentagon on 9/11. He was in a conference room watching coverage of the Twin Towers with co-workers when he suddenly got that feeling. He went to a bathroom to splash his face with water. That’s when the plane hit. He was spared while everyone in that conference room perished.”
8.“I was 15 taking the bus home and I felt someone staring at me, so I turned around. It was a guy at the back of the bus and he didn’t look away when I caught him. As a young girl, I got instant alarm bells.”
9.“I was walking to my car, about to go to the bank on lunch. It was payday. A guy was walking toward me and our eyes met as he passed. Something in my brain said, ‘Hope he doesn’t try to rob me.'”
" The next second there was a gun stuck in my side , and he said , ' Give it up . ' I afford him my pocketbook and he grabbed my railroad car keys . He told me to get on the reason , and I watched him drive away in my car . Luckily he only got my checkbook , not literal money . I was pretty have sex up about it for a long time . But I guess I knew when he looked at me . "
— luckyangel30
10.“I was set to go on a date. I was getting ready and this feeling just came over me and a voice kept telling me to skip it, don’t go. He called me about 10 minutes later and said he was running late, slurring his words and repeating himself the entire time. "
11.“I was on my way to the library at Riverside City College to work on my chemistry term paper due the next day. It was already fully dark as I parked on the road behind the library.”
12.“Not me but my mom. She had gone to high school with these four guys and had been friendly with them. After graduating she ran into one of them and they decided to hang out.”
13.“I was around 19. I used to go out to the bars to hang with friends. Occasionally, I would pick someone up to have a quickie. One night l met a cute young man. We got into his truck and started to make out.”
14.“It was a hot August day at a remote Cape Cod beach. My sister and I went for a hike down a path through the dunes, chatting away. Suddenly, we both fell silent and began to slow our pace.”
15.“At about 13 years old, my group of friends religiously went to a local mall every Saturday. There was no question that we would arrive at a specific time via public bus and return home around 5 p.m.”
16.“My parents were friends with an older man in the neighborhood. One Saturday morning, they left me home as I was still in bed. I must have been about 13. I had just gotten up when I saw him walking up the road to our house.”
17.“My work colleagues and I used to go to this bar after work. I was waiting for some friends and this guy approached me. He said he was a modeling agent and extended his card, saying what a beautiful woman I was.”
18.“I was a bartender in my 20s and would get off work very late. One night, after two in the morning on my drive home, I saw a car pulled over to the side of the road. I lived out in the country so you noticed things like that. About half a mile up, there was a girl running from a house, so I slowed down. She looked terrified and almost ran into me.”
19.“In 1989, I was 13. I was having fun at my best friend’s house and desperately wanted to sleep over so we could keep playing. I was not allowed to sleep over because my family was going to a boat show the next day. All of a sudden, I blurted out from nowhere, ‘You know, I bet my parents are going to be in a car accident, no one is going to be hurt, and we won’t go to the boat show the next day, so there’s no reason I shouldn’t be allowed to stay over.”
20.A few years ago, my fiancé moved in with me and my mom on the West Coast. Like many millennial-Gen Z cutoffs, we were flat broke. Because we lived about 90 minutes from the nearest city, we had to switch my fiancé’s cell service and needed an exchange.”
“I stressed myself out so much that I finally burst into some of the most dramatic sobs you’ve ever seen, squeezed my fiancé, and said, ‘If I go today, I’m never going to see you again.’ Of course, he told me not to worry, we’d go in a couple days, and the feeling immediately dissipated.”
21.“I was 19 and in college. I had a sociology class with this really cute girl who, for some reason, decided to sit next to me and talk to me every class. After a few weeks, I started getting this weird feeling every time she sat down. It wasn’t coming from her, but I just couldn’t shake it. This went on until right before spring break when she asked me to hang out with her at a coffee shop after class.”
22.“I, a girl, grew up in rural, heavily wooded farm country and as a kid spent many hours hiking the local trails alone. Occasionally I would get a really bad feeling on a specific trail and turn around and go home. Strange, but no explanation.”
23.And finally: “It was New Year’s Eve in the late ’80s and my at-the-time girlfriend’s birthday. After considering various ideas, we decided to go to the ball drop in Times Square.”
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