40 People Share Moments When Following Their Instinct Changed Everything

They call it a “gut feeling” for a reason. It’s that sudden, uneasy tug in your stomach when something doesn’t feel right, even if you can’t explain why. Sometimes it’s subtle, sometimes it’s overwhelming, but often it’s our brain piecing together tiny clues our conscious mind hasn’t fully registered yet.

A Redditor recently asked: “When has your gut instinct saved your life, or helped you avoid something horrible?” The thread quickly filled with chilling, inspiring, and unforgettable real-life experiences of people who trusted their instincts and were glad they did. Here are some of the most striking stories shared.

#1

Image source: reincarnateme, kimber/unsplash My husband took the kids trick or treating and I stayed home to hand out candy. At the end of the night a young kid came to the door and I handed him candy. As he was walking off the porch I noticed a teenage boy standing on the stairs staring at me, and he started walking toward me. Before I could think, I loudly said to him, "Hey hold on" as I looked back into the house and yelled "Ok, wait a minute!" The teen stopped, looked at me and then turned and walked away. I quickly locked the door. There was noone in the house, I just pretended to answer someone so that the teen didn't think I was alone. About one month later the teen was arrested for r**ing and m**dering someone in our neighborhood. The feeling he gave off in those seconds of meeting can only be described as evil.

#2

Image source: IrritatedMango, Getty Images/Unsplash Met this guy on Tinder and he asked if I fancied going for a walk on this nature trail near where he lived because it had a river and the flowers were blooming and all. I said no and we met for coffee in the city centre instead. He seemed nice enough, a little weird but my gut instinct was screaming at me to leave and never see him again. We never actually spoke after that date and I didn't think much of it after. A few weeks later he m******d a jogger on the nature trail he suggested we go on. Apparently, when police raided his house, they found a list of "types" of women he wanted to k**l. As a huge overthinker, I always thought my intuition was me overthinking but after that I trust it with my life.

#3

Image source: anonymousnina, Frank Flores/unsplash When I was 16, I was walking alone down a trail on my way home from school. It was still light out but about to get dark. I was walking down the trail when I heard some leaves crunching behind me, a quick glance back showed me a tall man with a hoodie on hiding his face walking in my direction. My brain immediately was like "this guy is going to attack you". I'm an overthinker and doubted myself, but grabbed my pepper spray out of the bottle holder on my backpack, slipped it up my sleeve and picked up the pace. Look back again, he's picked up the pace and closed the distance between us in half. He's about 6 feet from me when I turn around and say "are you following me?" with my pepper spray ready up my sleeve. It felt like before I could even get that out, he lunged towards me and I shot the pepper spray straight into his eyes and ran as fast as I could. Never doubted my gut feeling since.

#4

Image source: gothiclg, Krists Luhaers/unsplash I'd asked for days off to see The Dark Knight in theaters. I had the seniority at my retail job to get the days off and asked 3 weeks in advance for the days. The scheduling manager hated me and didnt give me the days off. I'd really wanted to say f**k it and go anyway and just go to work on 4 hours or less of sleep. The say rolled around and my gut instinct told me to just go to bed and to see the movie the next week. Had I gone that night I would have been in the Aurora theater James Holmes had been in. I'd had 3 friends in the theater that all lived but multiple coworkers lost friends or family. My dad heard the news break when it happened (he worked nights out of his truck and heard it on the radio) and called my mom frantic to check I was in bed and hadn't gone to the theater since he knew I loved batman and wouldn't shut up about the movie. I'm glad I went to bed. I saw the movie when it was released to DVD. I couldn't bring myself to see it in a theater.

#5

Image source: WhirlingDervla, Blake Cheek/unsplash Oh my god. There was this guy trying to get close to me. He was nice, attractive, we had friends in common. I can't say what it was. But I just didn't want to be around him. One of my friends told me I should just be nice to his cause his girlfriend just died. Died? Died. And weeks later he was found to have m******d her.

#6

Image source: SmallSacrifice, Sandra Seitamaa/unsplash I worked at a gas station in college and a guy in his 50's used to come in every day for lottery tickets. He flirted with the staff and most of them liked him...but I would feel nauseated, dizzy and panicked when he came in. I used to find a reason to escape to the back room when he came in. He drove a cream colored vw van with orange striped curtains and I would book it when I saw the van pull in. He didn't show up for a few days....and we saw him on the news after he was arrested for abducting and r**ing a child.

#7

Image source: CaptainOddballl, Curated Lifestyle/unsplash I was “friends” with this guy, let’s call him rob. Rob was a grade above me and always tried to be super cool to me but he always made it weird. Every time he came by my stomach would turn, then one day I was walking home alone with earbuds in just listening to a podcast. When all of a sudden he’s right next to me on his bike. I say hello and try and be polite but my stomach turned into a huge knot and told me to run. I made small talk and tried to make an excuse to get rid of him. While we were talking rob starting saying some weird things, asking if I was still with my boyfriend and why I was with a guy like him. I just answer them and start walking faster. Well so did he then he said something that made know i was in trouble. He said “wow your thighs are amazing. I bet those would feel amazing around me face, though I don’t think your arms could push me off if I tried to do that.” I was terrified and I told him to leave me alone and started to reach for my phone. He took it out of my hands and wrapped his arms around me and grabbed my a*s. He told me to calm down and stop or I’ll get hurt. Well we were still on a busy Main Street so I struggled and go free and I used my “amazing thighs” to run straight for him and use all my strength to kick him in the “family bits.” Little did he know I was on the football team (aka soccer) and I got some power behind me. He fell so hard on his face breaking a couple of teeth, I called the police and a friend to meet me. The police arrived and medics, nothing happened to me since tons of drivers saw my struggle and pulled over while I was calling the police. He got expelled and arrested and can now no longer have children according to the officer. Always listen to your gut and always walk home with someone you trust.

#8

Image source: anon, Taneli Lahtinen/unsplash I was getting gas with my mom on a sunny Saturday afternoon. An old, beat up white car flew into the parking lot, going way too fast, and screeched into a parking spot in front of the store. Something immediately just felt “off.” I turned to my mom and said “get in the car” and we left immediately without pumping the gas we’d paid for. We found out later that the man in the white car robbed the little store of the gas station at gun point, k**ling the cashier and one patron before cops were able to apprehend him. My mom is usually quite argumentative/slow to catch on to subtle hints, but she said afterward that whatever look I had in my eyes made her comply immediately, no questions asked.

#9

Image source: wuapinmon, Getty Images/unsplash I pulled up to the corner of Audubon Blvd. and Fountainbleau Drive, a four-way stop. I'm reading towards the river, and I look to my left and right, after coming to a full stop, and see no one. But, instead of going, I like almost heard a voice in my head say, "Stop and take a drink of your drink." I didn't hear a voice, but I felt this oddly strong prompting in my mind's inner dialogue to take a drink of my drink. As I'm reaching down to grab it, a car flies through that intersection going as fast as you possibly could on that street. It would've crashed right into me on my side, and likely k**led me or F-ed me and my toddler daughter in the car seat behind me up for good.

#10

Image source: Irun4donuts, Getty Images/Unsplash In college, I dated this guy I met through Tinder. Didn’t take long for him to schmooze me into being his girlfriend. He was charming, romantic and sweet so I gave it a shot. A month in, my GUT was telling me that he wasn’t genuine with his words. I knew he had told a few other women the “L” word, and he would say sweet nothings like I’m the best woman on the planet, etc etc. but something was telling me he had said it to several other girls before, so it almost felt empty to me. So I broke it off with him. Fast forward 5 years, I found out the person that was blackmailing me nudes over text was him. (Took 3 years for me to find out it was him doing it.) He’s now in prison for extortion with sexual motivation, and he had over 50 victims. Creeps me out.

#11

Image source: anon, Curated Lifestyle/unsplash When I was around 10 years old I was walking home from GEMS. One of the church dads offered to give me a ride home. But he was a little off. Tall, gumpy, and just gave me a gross vibe. I said no, and continued home. Fast forward 2 months and his family isn't in church. Turns out he was arrested and sent to prison for the r**e and m**der of a 12 year old special needs girl. He picked her up in his apartment complex as she was walking and he lured her in by saying he was taking her to a pool party.

#12

When I was 34 weeks pregnant with twins, I had a normal OB appointment, where the OB weighed me, measured my girth etc and said babies were growing. I had had a worried feeling about Baby B my entire pregnancy, and told the doc I wanted an ultrasound to make sure he was growing. Doc said everything is fine, but he always listens to a mother's intuition and I could go to maternal fetal medicine and have an ultrasound, he was going to lunch. I went to MFM, and saw that Baby A had grown a pound and a half since the last US but Baby B had only grown 2 oz. Needless to say, that ultrasound saved my babies' lives. I had a C-section for absent diastolic flow and IUGR and my twins are happy health 6 year olds now. I feel so lucky that I, and my doctor, trusted my gut. Image source: Rediculous69

#13

Image source: hipopper, Curated Lifestyle/unsplash When I was 14yo we had the same youth pastor at church for years. I didn’t like him. He was weird, kinda touchy feely and could be physically oddly aggressive during games, like snowball fights, etc. I told my mom he was kind of “touchy feely” and I didn’t really like him. She dismissed it as a misunderstanding. A couple years later it blew up that he was sleeping with a 17 year old girl in the youth group and had been for a year. My intuition was spot on.

#14

Image source: DogsNotHumans, Sebastian Laverde/unsplash I was about 11, and this neighbourhood man started kind of hanging around my friends and me sometimes. He was friendly and would buy us junk food from 7-11. My little friend crowd was mostly boys and it wasn't unusual for me to be the only girl with them. This man started inviting them over for snacks, would give them money for 7-11, etc, and they thought he was the greatest thing. I got a creepy feel and didn't like how he seemed to look at me more than the boys, so I never went to his house. Creep started bringing gifts to my house for me until my mom answered the door one day and told him to hit the road and never come back. The next we heard of him was in the newspaper because he was serving time for "interfering with a minor". He sent his victim a Valentine's card from there. I'm grown up now and I really hope that piece of s**t is long dead. I escaped him ruining my childhood, but some other little girl didn't. I think about that sometimes.

#15

Image source: SarahShiloh, The Nix Company /unsplash I was coming home from having a drink with my best friend at a bar in the hip midtown area. Made it to my front porch and started to unlock my storm door. Something told me to turn around and look behind me (and I’ve never had that feeling before while going into my house.) So I did and noticed there was a car that had quietly pulled up in front of my neighbors' house. A man wearing a bandana and holding a gun jumped out of it and charged at me. I managed to get the second door unlocked and moved inside and locked it behind me. It was terrifying. Don’t know what told me to turn around, but I’m glad I did.

#16

Image source: disneychannelmovie, Alex McCarthy/unsplash Since March, I have been living at my boyfriend’s house in a typical, quiet, suburban neighborhood. We’ve spent every day together and our relationship is extremely pleasant, so my mom was concerned when I texted her last Monday and asked if I could sleep at her house that night (she lives about 15 mins from him). My boyfriend kept asking if I was mad at him, if I needed space, etc. I told him that I just had this weird feeling that I should sleep at my parents’ house, and I would go for my morning jog around there instead (I jog about 3 miles each morning around his neighborhood). When I got to my mom’s, I had to keep explaining that we were truly OK and I had a gut feeling that I should hang with her and watch a bunch of movies. The next morning, I ran through my mom’s neighborhood and came back to a bunch of texts from my boyfriend saying that someone was m******d on his block and the body was found around 8 AM, but had been there since midnight. I always jog super early, and the body was directly on a street that I run through, so I just know I would’ve been the first to find him and would not have handled it well.

#17

Image source: anon, Getty Images/unsplash My older sister's high school boyfriend (also a high schooler) was someone who always put me on edge. My mother liked him because he was respectful, my two younger sisters liked him because he brought them candy, who knows why my older sister liked him and I'm not sure my dad ever met him (Dad was a long haul trucker most of my life and could only be relied on to be home for birthdays and Christmas). Anyways, I trusted this guy about as far as I could throw him and would leave the house if he came over. My sister thought I was being mean and we fought about it a lot. About a year later they broke up and five years after that my dad is reading the newspaper, asks my sister what her ex's name was and announces that he has just been arrested for p**dophilia.

#18

Image source: anon, Behnam Norouzi/unsplash I was seven years old. It was about 4:00pm — I was home from school, but my father had yet to get back from work. I was upstairs in my room playing Crash Bandicoot, and my alcoholic mother was downstairs, sprawled out on the couch with a bottle of Bacardi in her hand, and I knew she’d soon start the daily process of hiding her bottles, blitzing her mouth with mouthwash, drinking a coffee to further cover her breath, etc. Usually I’d just stay in my room until my dad got home and called me to dinner, but that day, I felt a sudden urge to go check on my mother to see if everything was okay. I crept downstairs, and sure enough, she was sprawled out on the sofa with a cigarette in one hand and the Bacardi in the other. I walked down the hall to the kitchen and as soon as I stepped into the room, the smell of gas hit me. I didn’t know what the smell was at the time, but I somehow knew it was bad, so I ran back to my mom in the lounge and told her we needed to go out the front of the house because there was a poisonous smell in the air. In her half-conscious stupor, she let me lead her by the hand out the front door, and when we were outside, she asked me to repeat what I’d said. I told her, there was a poisonous smell in the kitchen. I think she sort of sobered up quite quickly when she realized what had happened — she’d left the gas on on the stove. The kitchen, and half the hallway, was filled with gas. She threw down her cigarette and stomped it out, dusted herself off, handed me the Bacardi, and told me to stay outside. She went in, turned the gas off, and opened all the windows. My dad arrived home as all this was happening, and he saw me stood outside, holding the Bacardi bottle. He was completely perplexed, as he thought she’d managed to kick the habit after a successful detox course six months earlier. I never told him because she threatened me with stuff about ‘mommy leaving’ if I did. After that, she left anyway, because they got divorced and my dad got custody of me. TL;DR: alcoholic mom almost blew up the house with a cigarette + stove gas extravaganza.

#19

Image source: jemdamos, Usman Malik/unsplash When I was a teen my mom was driving me out to work one morning and something didn't feel right. I felt like I was in a dream or something, I didn't know why, but I felt like something was going to happen. I told my mom this and she believed me, I've always had a strong intuitive sense, but since I wasn't sure what was going to happen yet we just went on and she told me to let her know if I figured it out. When we got to the turn in for my job, a car came crashing into us from behind. It was a country back road and they were speeding, our car went flying forward. It was a miracle we were okay, but luckily we weren't hurt, just in shock and sore from being thrown forward. I remember as the other car hit us, that dream state broke and everything felt super real all of a sudden. My boss saw the accident and came down to check on us and call 911 and everything. After the paramedics cleared us my mom told him I knew something was going to happen to me, and he got super serious and said hey, if you EVER feel that way again, or have any intuition or anxiety, stop and call me and tell me you're not coming to work because you had another bad feeling. I will understand no questions asked. If you're driving, pull over until that feeling passes. Call it God or guardian angels, call it psychic, call it science, call it whatever you want, but always take it seriously.

#20

Image source: ahmulz, Nina Zeynep Güler/unsplash I was at a party my freshman year of college. Wasn't into drinking yet, so I was sober. My friends around me were getting very, very, VERY drunk. I got a few empty Solo cups to fill them with water from the bathroom. As I was handing out water to my friends, I heard a guy say to me "you're Miss Responsibility, aren't you?" I looked at him and I was terrified of him all at once. I dismissed it because of the extreme emotional reaction. My friend started dating him. She then later told me that he took her virginity by pinning her down when she was very drunk and r***d her. I now listen to those extreme emotional reactions.

#21

Image source: jellyantler, cal gao/unsplash Walking dog on a quiet lane in a village near where I live, turn round see a man walking up behind me, about 100ft away, quite quickly, so I step off the path a little way so he can pass me and muzzle my large dog as he can be aggressive. When I look at him again he's staring at me as he walks up, dog is bristling. So I put a bit more distance between me/dog and the path, and remove his muzzle. Once the guy saw me hook the muzzle onto my belt he immediately turned around and walked off the way he came.

#22

Image source: pug9449, Tamara Govedarovic/unsplash Not me but my mom. Growing up my grandparents had a friend who came from the same town in Italy as they did. Coincidentally, he immigrated to the same city that my grandparents did and they stayed friends. My mom says that growing up she always felt creeped out by him. She would make an effort to be out of the home whenever he visited, and made sure she was never alone with him. My grandfather always said she was crazy and that he was a good guy. When I was a toddler, he came to visit my grandparents, and tried to get me to go over to him. I guess I has a weird feeling too, so I hid behind my mom (which she was obviously happy about). Years later it came out that he had molested multiple young girls going back decades.

#23

Image source: easypeasylemonbeasty, CHUTTERSNAP/unsplash My mom had an awesome job with an airline and the whole family got flight benefits. If there was an empty seat on a flight, we could take it. This meant that impromptu trips were common for us. One rainy day, my mom noticed the flights to Florida were wide open and we decided for a “beach day trip.” I usually LIVE for this stuff. Jumping on a plane with my swim suit and a pair of sandals as my only luggage? I felt like a freaking celebrity. But this day just felt...wrong. I couldn’t articulate the feeling, but I knew with every fiber that I did not want to go. I felt bad disappointing my mom, but we eventually decided to stay home. Later that evening we see a mass shooting had occurred at the airport we would have arrived to, right when we were due to leave. It very well could have been us.

#24

Image source: AristilliaPrior, Annie Spratt/unsplash The summer before my freshman year of college, a former coworker of mine asked me on a date. I didn't have anything against the guy, and figured "why not?" He offered up a restaurant and offered to drive, but I told him not to worry and that I would meet him there. Something told me not to let this guy know where I live or to get me alone. Over the course of dinner, he made some 'off' comments that, by themselves might be strange for a first date, but together became a bit of a red flag. He offered to pay, but I told him not to worry and that I would pay for myself, also internally thinking how I did not want this guy thinking that I owed him anything. A couple months later, when I start living in a dorm at the university about an hour away, I get a facebook message from the guy saying that he was across the street from campus and wanted to meet up. I saw the preview of the message and didn't open it because I didn't want him to see I had read the message. I hadn't told him that I would be living in a dorm or close to campus. I met up with another former coworker of mine a week later that I was close with that used to be roommates with the guy I went on a date with. This friend asked if I had heard from that guy recently. I told him that I had received a message but didn't respond, and asked why he asked. He told me that, not long after our date ended, he went home and beat the c**p out of his mom and sister and got arrested for it. He had gotten out of jail the week prior (when he sent me the message) and started breaking into his friends' homes and leaving pokemon cards to let them know that he had been there. He also started making posts on Facebook wondering if people would taste better medium or rare... yeah I'm pretty glad that he didn't know where my parent's house was, and that I didn't meet up with him the week prior.

#25

Image source: anon, Sarah Tatton/unsplash I was walking on a block/route I'd been doing every day. It was early afternoon, not even night time. My dog got stiff very randomly and no one was around so I ignored it. Then I started feeling very anxious and uncomfortable so I turned us around and went straight home. Pretty much right after I got home, a woman was a**aulted on that block.

#26

Image source: anon, CBC News Not me but my friend's mother. Apparently a few decades ago she went on a date with a guy from the countryside. Said the date itself didn't go too well, she didn't go home with him and didn't call him again. The man she went on a date with was Robert Pickton.

#27

When I was in college, I went into a gas station restroom to pee. I had this instinct to look up before I pulled my pants down, and there was a worker staring down through the vent. I screamed and ran out yelling that there was someone looking down through the vent. The woman who had just been in before me was still washing her hands, and she was mortified. My BF at the time went after the guy and had to be pulled off by his co-worker. I always check vents in public restrooms now before doing my business. Image source: Cheese_4_all

#28

I had an opportunity to move to the West Coast all expenses paid. It seemed like a great opportunity. I was deep into planning and I said to my wife "you know what, let's wait 6 months and be really sure it's what we want". Four months later, everyone at that site was laid off. I would have been in a new State with no job and no safety net. Image source: zerbey

#29

I decided to get gas on my way home recently, at around 10pm. This place is right next to my apartment, and it’s always busy. It was completely empty that night, besides a couple people’s cars who were in the store. I start the pump and get back into my car, while talking to my boyfriend on the phone. As I got into my car and locked the door (I always do) another car pulled up right behind me. I immediately felt nervous, and I realized that it’s kind of an unspoken rule (at least in the US) to park one or two spaces away from anyone else if possible, we like our space. I almost got out of my car, thinking I was being paranoid, but decided not to, and I told my boyfriend what was going on. Then the guy in the car behind me sat there. For five minutes. He never got out, never pumped gas or went into the store. Finally he turned his car on and turned his wheel like he was about to leave, and then proceeded to wait another two minutes before finally pulling away. I almost got out again when he acted like he was leaving. The whole event lasted ten minutes, and I was terrified. If you’re ever nervous, think about what’s throwing you off, even if you’re just being paranoid, and do not second guess your instincts. Image source: AmaLea04

#30

There was this man, the husband and father of a family that i went to a weekly class with (keeping this very vague on purpose). He would always sit and watch while we participated. He never took his eyes off his wife or kids. He always made me uneasy just by sitting there. His demeanor, the way he watched, the way he talked every once in a while. I always kept my distance and made sure to never be close to him or around him alone. A while later he stopped coming to classes and I felt more comfortable, until I heard he went to prison for molesting his daughter. His wife always had bruises as well and I'm sure it was from him. I'm mostly just proud that the daughter decided to speak up about it. Image source: Rini365

#31

Image source: Miimmoouuu, CK Andalon/unsplash I was driving up the street the other day, and I was approaching an intersection. The way I was coming, there wasnt a stop sign for me, but for the cars coming in from the left and right, there were stop signs. I was driving and I had this feeling all of a sudden and thought “what if a car blew right through those stop signs?”. So I decided to slow down to 20 under the speed limit. Low and behold, a biker zooms right past the stop sign 5 seconds later RIGHT in front of my car. I had to slam on the breaks and they slammed the breaks on their bike and fell off. If I hadn’t slowed down, I would’ve mowed that person down, I was in awe.

#32

Not as dramatic, but walking to uni I halted at some random point and one second later seagull poop lands right in front of me. Felt blessed at that moment. Image source: QuestWithAmbition

#33

Image source: textmewhenyougethome, Joshua J. Cotten/unsplash A couple of years ago my husband and I decided to go a hike. We live in the desert so we have to be cautious of rattlesnakes but in the 5+ years of hiking together we’d never ran into one. We started this beautiful hike and within minutes I had a weird feeling come over me and said out loud to my husband “we’re going to see a rattler today.” He laughed it off because again, it’s probable but not likely since this was a well-marked trail with lots of traffic. At that point though my senses were turned up max and I was extremely cautious. Literally just a few minutes later we were rounding a bend and I heard a rattle and sure enough, I just about stepped on the snake. I backed away and it was in the corner of the bend/curve and because they camouflage so well, you could barely see it. We ended up hanging out for awhile warning people coming down to go on the other side of the trail since the rattlesnake was still there and now pissed off because I almost stepped on it. A few hikers that had a pole ended up moving the snake and we were able to proceed as normal on the hike. It was a really weird experience for me to have had that gut feeling hit me just minutes before - did I put it in the universe or was I meant to sense it to warn others from harm?

#34

Image source: JurassicPark-fan-190, Getty Images/unsplash There was a neighborhood by where I lived that had really nice houses, then condos and townhouses and then small apartments. I ALWAYS got a weird feeling when driving by with my kids. But I’m an extremely overprotective mom and just didn’t take my kids on our walk there. It’s important to note my friend lived there and was debating let’s his 10 year old daughter walk home from school ( past these apartments) and stay by herself after school for an hour or two until they got home. I checked the s*x offender registry and there it was. A man on probation for assaulting a 9 year old girl. I told My friend and now he has her stay at school/ after school program. Go with your gut ( and always check the register).

#35

Image source: anon, Desiray Green/unsplash I was visiting my mom’s home country and some friends talked me into going to this party because they needed a girl in the group to get in. (Sometimes events and parties over there don’t allow groups that only have guys.) The party was outdoors and was hosted on a massive plot of farmland some rich guy’s family owned. It was in the middle of nowhere, and none of us personally knew the host. We took an Uber to get there, but nobody had cell signal to order a ride back. I felt really anxious the whole time. Other than the dance floor, it was super dark. People were really tripping on hard d***s, and this is a very conservative country. At the time my mom’s home country had tense relations with their neighboring country and they were on the brink of a war. This farm was only 30 miles from that border. We finally left early because I was so anxious, but we heard the next day that a fight broke out between two guys. One of them pulled out a gun and fatally shot the other one which led to everyone else panicking and running.

#36

This isn’t really a personal situation but a couple years ago I started running into this guy in my neighbourhood. I had never seen him before and started seeing him almost daily when I was coming home from work or just going out for a walk.. something about him made me uneasy and I kept my distance but didn’t think much of it. About 2 months after seeing this guy around and not knowing anything about him, I just stopped running into him. About 2 weeks before realizing it had been a while since I’d seen him there was someone m******d next door to me. I checked out the police report and googled the name of the victim, turned out it was this guy. He was way younger than I thought he was from looking at him, turns out it was d**g related and last I heard it was still unsolved. Really sad, there’s a small vigil where he was shot and I think about him every time I walk by it. Image source: loony2476

#37

I was the passenger in the car with my college roommate and we were on the interstate, in the left lane. I suddenly got a bad feeling about a car that had passed us on the right, so I asked her to get over to the middle lane. She thought it was weird, but did it. Shortly thereafter, the car that had passed us on the right caused an accident by cutting off the car that had been in front of us, causing that car to do a 180* and end up facing oncoming traffic. Everyone was okay, but if we had still been in the left lane, we would’ve run into that car, head-on. Image source: lemon_lime__

#38

Image source: ronie-kaye, Anthony Maw/unsplash This wasn't me but my mom, and everyday she would take the same route to work and get off at the same highway exit. One day she had a really strong gut feeling to stay off that exit and so she did, and used the next one to get to work. Later that day she sees on the news that there was a really bad accident that happened on the exit at the same time she would've been on it had she taken it. Essentially if she didn't listen to her feeling she at the very least would've been chronically injured.

#39

I used to have a job where I would get off of work pretty late, like 1 or 2 am and I live in a residential area that’s also pretty rural. It’s quiet and mostly just families. So one night I was driving home and was about to turn onto my street when I thought, “What if someone is walking around, I should slow down.” Idk why that thought popped into my head or why I had a feeling that I should listen to it because no one was ever out that late, but I slowed down to basically a crawl and right when I went to turn onto my street there was a guy dressed in all black sweats walking in the middle of the road right where I was about to turn onto. Since I was going so slow I was able to stop, but I was still only like ten feet away from him. When I saw him my blood went cold because I knew that if I hadn’t been driving so slowly I would have definitely hit him. He just glared at me, (I’m guessing he was high or drunk or whatever) and kept walking, crossed the intersection and continued down the street like nothing. I’ll never forget that night and I’m so grateful that I listened to that random thought. This feeling has happened to me a couple of times since, but it’s always been deer that are about to cross in front of me. Image source: lalayuh17

#40

There was a dodgy bloke outside the block of flats where I stayed down south England. I didn't like the look of him whatsoever, so I stayed where I was and just watched for an hour. This was about a year before mobiles were a thing, so I had no way to call a pal down the phone or owt like that. Anyway, bloke leaves and I gan on home. Couple of days later one of the p**stitutes who lived opposite me told me about the bloke. He'd been arrested on two counts of kidnapping two girls. One for three hours and one for four. He got a few other charges anorl, but it was 22 years ago so the details are fuzzy. He was proper shifty, though. Image source: Arlessa