When Trusting Your Gut Feeling Saves You
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The story about the guy missing the Titanic and then being killed by a car sounds like the plot of a Final Destination movie.
Bahahaha, true Death was finishing his business
Final Destination 1912
And then they wake up and just stay in their house all day.
Or how a major cartoon maker becomes jaded. Seth MacFarlane had a similar experience. He got hung over and missed his flight on 9/11.
Some one else stayed the night with his GF, and he lived in that apartment tower that collasped recently.
Yay, I’m alive!
*gets ran down by car*
On second thought..
What if your gut trusts you
Then... Well I am trustworthy
You Don't Have A Stomach Ache.
Hmmmm🤔
What if it trusts u but you dont trust it back but your body forces you to trust it
@@norivixen1877 i really like Your view 😊👍🏼
When my sister was a teenager she was supposed to go to a party with some friends. She wasn't in the mood so she stayed home instead. That night her three friends she was supposed to go with went for a drive with some guy that one of the girls had a crush on. Turned out he was drunk and slammed the car into a tree. Two of them weren't wearing seatbelts and died instantly. The third girl was wearing hers so she just had a mild concussion but the car had flipped over and the only way she could get out was by climbing over her friend's dead body. She of course got severe PTSD from it and had to go through all the details multiple times at the trial against the guy who had also lived. My sister was a mess for months, both at the horrific loss of her friends but also with guilt because she kept wondering if she had been there would she have talked them out of going or just gone with them.
I'm so sorry for your sister's losses. Is she ok now? hope she got some help. Survivor's guilt sucks in different ways, but still shit. How long is the asshole in jail for?
That was not her fault, she is going to feel bad regardless but she shouldn’t put that on herself. I hope the best for you, your sis and her friend
lol
On September 11, 2001, a Buddhist priest my mom knew was supposed to take a tour of the world trade center. Unfortunately, that morning, he got a stomach bug and the trip was canceled which saved his life.
Wow...talk about lucky
On 9/11, my mom and oldest brother (my other brother and i werent born yet; just my oldest brother) were supposed to go to the doctor’s. There was something telling her not to go so she rescheduled. Later that day she heard a big crash (she lived near the twin towers back then) and that’s when 9/11 occurred. I truly think God had saved her there.
So you're the priest? Or your mom? Or was that a typo?
Fortunately*
@@madkirk7431 What? He clearly says that a priest his mother knew got the stomach bug.
When I was young, we were camping and I didn't want to sleep in the tent (for some reason) and wanted to sleep in our RV. My dad said it would be okay and I kept refusing to sleep in the tent. So we slept in the RV and the next morning a big tree fell on the tent. If I hadn't said anything we probably would have died
Tents suck anyway XD
@@coralmaynard4876 true
Didn’t go on a church youth hike up half dome because I didn’t think I was in good enough shape for it. It was on a Saturday. They didn’t get to the top until after dark, ran out of food and water, no one’s parents could get ahold of them, by the time they got back into town it was 23 hours since they left the morning before. I was the only girl my age at church that Sunday lol.
Back in high school there was a party that was gonna be like the ones you see in the movies. Rich kids parents were out of town and he has a cousin with a fake ID. Kegs, liquor, weed, the works. Nearly everyone in the whole school was invited. My best friend and I were all set to go. We had everything we needed and his mom drove us. As we were getting closer I started getting very anxious and talked my friend into just going back to his house. His mom was a little frustrated as it was a long drive but at least she wasn’t gonna have to make a second trip to retrieve us. We realized going to a party was dumb since we could already drink and whatnot at his house and no risk of getting busted. Got into school the following Monday and found out the party got busted. About half of the school was suspended and got MIP charges. We later found out it was one of the few kids that was not invited. She got pissed and called it in. She wasn’t very popular before and this basically killed what little social standing she had,
So the ones who went got lit and then got to miss weeks of school? I dont see how missing that was a good choice
Calling the cops on a party just because you didn't get an invite absolutely confirms that the person did indeed not deserve an invite
@@fazormcghee7936 some of those kids lost scholarships because of it. They got suspended from their sports teams and fell several weeks behind on school work and many had to repeat classes the following year. We had several kids from our class that had to go back for Senior year pt2 over it.
@@fieryjalapenos4442 oh
@@fazormcghee7936 yeah OH... gotta look long term and not just at the immediate future. Sure missing some school was probably fun at one point but some of those kids lost several weeks of their Senior year that they will never get back. And then there were the ones who repeated Senior year. I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I had to repeat senior year. TBH I probably would have enjoyed it. My Senior year was so nice it might have been worth doing twice. But I also could see the magic of a 2nd Senior year wearing off after a couple of weeks.
In 7th grade, I signed up to go on the school Disney world trip and asked my mom to sign the slip. However, my mom didn’t let me go, as she said that it was a waste of money to go on a school trip, and that it was better to go on our own. However, that would mean I couldn’t go with my friends. I got extremely mad at her and barely talked to her for a couple of days. I think I hurt her feelings a bit. 2 days after the trip was over, on the following Monday when we all returned to school, I found out that a rainstorm passed through during the trip for 2 hours and the park was shut down during that time. Although people claimed they still had fun, they didn’t ride that many rides. 2 weeks after the trip, my family went on our own trip to Disney world. Perfect weather. No regrets. I guess mom was right after all.
Mum's have special powers we cannot even try to comprehend...
8:48 is actually really similar to something that happened in my family. my great grandfather was drafted in ww2, but was given leave when his wife was left in critical condition after giving birth to my grandmother. She ended up surviving and actually lived well into her 80s, but while my great grandfather was on leave, his entire unit was killed in the battle of the bulge
My cousin and her family went to the aurora theater that night, the guy next to her died. She and her wife are former military so they got the family down, she carried his girlfriend out of the theater. They then helped the police as they worked in a prison. Messed them all up badly.
I've never heard the Aurora story. Could you fill me in?
@@the_epileptic_gamer1190 Aurora, Colorado. A midnight premiere of the Black Knight. A shooter decided to open fire. Some people died. That’s the gist of it.
@@QueenSunstar thanks
@@the_epileptic_gamer1190 I get bad anxiety in movie theaters ever since that shooting happened. I don't like going to see new movies any more. I wasn't there just to be clear, it's just a scary story and you are more or less trapped inside of movie theaters while an attacker can block the exits
This was my grandmother's story. She went to visit her boyfriend who was on furlough in boston back in 1942. While she was there she got into a fight with him and they wound up breaking up. Well they originally had plans to meet up with some mutual friends to go to a popular night club in the city. The ex decided to meet up with those friends and go anyways. Turns out the place they went to was a place called the Cocoanut Grove, which would burn down killing 492 patreons including Grandma's ex and their friends.
Actor John Larroquette was supposed to be on the set during the horrible Twilight Zone accident, but his car broke down on the way there.
And let me clarify: HE wasn't supposed to be a part of that horrific scene (thank God), but he was supposed to report to work that day. I'm glad he wasn't.
Just wondering, what was the twilight zone accident?
@@mart10the2nd It happened in 1982 on the set of the Twilight Zone movie. Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were on the set of filming a scene where Morrow's character was to rescue the two children.
Unfortunately, there were *plenty* of illegal and dangerous activities going on at the time, namely with there being a real live helicopter on set and the two children working at night in spite of the child labor laws that were in place that were supposed to bar them from doing that.
Director John Landis was filming the scene and insisted on more explosions and the helicopter to fly lower. Tragically, an explosion went off that ended up blinding the pilot's vision and causing him to crash onto all three actors, killing them instantly.
It's one of the most, if not *the* most horrifying on-set accidents in Hollywood history and set off a whole new precedent towards safety and accountability for production studios.
@@PrincessofPower84 OK, thanks for explaining.
In high school, four of my friends and I went to a concert three hours from home. We stopped at a gas station and a man in his forties with short black hair and glasses asked us if we needed a ride home. I said no, but my friends took a vote and abandoned me at the gas station. My parents had to come get me. The guy ended up taking my friends to a motel for two days and one of my friends got the front desk to call her parents when he left everyone unattended while he bought food. I’m so glad everyone was okay but also so glad I turned down his offer.
Holy shit what?? Like he held them hostage in the hotel or something? Wtf
#stranger danger
But fr WTF
Why did you and your "friends" stop at the gas station? Were you walking and had to use the restroom or what? There has to be some reason you all stopped and you were left behind and you all apparently had no car...? Your story lacks some critical details.
@@debbys-abqnm4537 they literaly said they went to a concert 3 hours from home? So they had to walk 3 hours BACK. i would think walking 3 hours would make you hungry and you'd need to use the bathroom. They said they WALKED so of course they didn't have a car??? It's not lacking anything you seem to lack comprehension skills. It's not that hard to understand once you put the pieces together. She choose to stay which was smart, the other girls got into the car assuming they would be driven straight home but instead the man took them to a hotel. It's so simple
@@moonxi2769 -- thanks for your opinion, it's worthy _almost_ what I paid for it.
I live in Cincinnati. The irony of hearing about people NOT dying because they went to see The Who is insane.
Now that you've pointed it out, it is kind of funny.
Amazing how rabid fans could accidentally crush each other to death.
@@crotchwolf1929 Thing is they weren't even close to being rabid. More tickets had been sold than the Riverside Coliseum could safely hold (festival seating, guess what's illegal in Ohio now for indoor venues?) and the people running entrance only opened up like two entrances/exits. When people heard the music start they naturally started moving to the doors, and poor crowd direction in too small of a space ended up in a slow unrelenting crush that people couldn't escape from, and the people who did get out and went to get help were ignored by apathetic police nearby.
The "rabid fans" thing came from mainstream media at the time writing the victims off as Delinquent Youths before all the details had come to light, and unfortunately by the time they had the main narrative of the tragedy was set as rabid teenagers in a rush instead of the horrific slow ribcage crushing and suffocation it actually was.
(Sorry about the word vomit I'm kinda . . . Passionate about history stuff like this. 😅)
My cousin chose to stay home one night, instead of going out with her friends because she didnt feel well. Her friends got into a car accident that night and died.
I was at the airport with my husband and son ready to check in for our flight to Curacao, I had messed up my sons passport (this is very unlike me to do something like this) expiration date and it had expired so we couldn’t go, our friends went cut to COVID causing a total lockdown the next day, boarders closed.
My friends got stuck there for 6 months with 4 kids.
Not so much a gut feeling but a bullet dodged.
Man the wrecked party houses always kinda kill me. I lived in a six person house my last two years of college, we had large regular parties. Sure the house was disgusting the next day but we cleaned it up and even with 100+ people there on a party night nothing got stolen (to be fair we kept little beyond furniture in the basement and downstairs areas and literally blocked off the kitchen and the stairs to our rooms) In fact we got some free donations in the form of drunk folks leaving jackets and such. And no one broke shit because... people we went to school with knew how to get shitfaced and have a good time without going full chimpanzee?
Back to in person school a week after a large spike of covid-19 cases in my state.
The first week 10 students and staff tested positive, but the school somehow was allowed to stay open. The second week it closed after another 7 tested positive including the principal
My mom's grandmother had a ticket from Ireland to USA on the Titanic and didn't go.
That's erie as hell....
@@superFordwitha And to top that off, she was on one of the ships that picked up the survivors.
@@domosautomotive1929 eeeeeekkkk that's creepppyyyyyyyy. I bet she had trauma from that
Yeah talk about an oh shit moment.
She sounds racist
My uncle was late to work. He took the subway everyday on his commute. The day he was late was the day a cult in Japan used Sarin gas on the subway and my uncle luckily missed it bc he overslept.
My grandfather on my dad's side joined the Marines and served in the tail end of the Korean War. He rode on amphibious vehicles, AMTRACs, from the ship to shore (I can't remember if that was his job or if he only did it one time; he has Alzheimer's now so I'll probably never know). On one trip he was assigned at the last minute to another vehicle, and the weather was rough on the crossing from the ship. When he gets to the beach, he sees his sergeant's body washed up; the AMTRAC he was supposed to go on had sunk, with everyone aboard dying.
It's more my mother's story than my own. It wasn't a 'this is a bad idea' situation however.
In the mid/late 70's my mother and her then boyfriend were at the 'I want you to meet my family' stage. If I remember correctly, he was from around the New York area (she never really told me exactly where) and he bought her plane ticket for the trip. My grandmother became sick at the last minute and my mother was trying to arrange for grandma to stay with a relative for that time, but the boyfriend insisted that mom stayed home and took care of grandma. He had promised his family that he would visit and got on the plane. Unfortunately, the plane crashed and there were no survivors.
My flatmate at the time, now best friend, had wanted to go to a concert but couldn't because she didn't have the money so she let go of the idea. The concert in question was the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester a.k.a the Manchester Arena bombing. I didn't find out until about 6 months afterwards that being broke possibly saved her life
2 years ago on a family trip in thailand, we had the option to go out on a boat again in phuket for more sight-seeing/snorkeling (we had just gone the day before). Being the active teenage boy i was, I wanted to go so bad because who doesn’t wanna go snorkeling and see monkeys on an island and shit. No one else in the group wanted to so I couldn’t. That day there was a big storm and 3 or so tourist boats capsized in the same area we would be in and I believe 40+ people died that day. This was during the time that soccer team was stuck in the caves.
Holy crap Ted budy story had me shook
One day long ago I was kept in the classroom at recess as punishment. I got a good chuckle out of watching through the window as a freak hailstorm dropped huge hail stones all over the kids allowed to have fun.
Dodge a hailstorm🤣
Elemental dodgeball lol
about the several kids threw up, it's a common response to stress to throw up. Being stuck in an elevator would do that to some people
Additionally, elevators are not usually connected to the building air conditioning. After that many people were stuck in that small a space for that long, it was probably very hot in the elevator. Dehydration can cause vomiting.
One such thing happened to me too. One night, I was laying down getting ready to sleep when instantly I felt like I was in danger, but I was alone in my apartment. My instinct screamed at me to go check the door. Realized I had forgotten to close it. The horrible feeling continued for a good hour. Thought I was going paranoid. Two days ago, I learn that 3 burglars had breached into my neighbour's flat that same night, severely injuring them too. I've never gotten to sleep without checking the door again
i just remembered i forgot to lock the door omfg thank you for that
When I was 10, we were visiting my grandparents (maternal). My dad was in Vietnam. My best friend had been given permission to go out of state with us (from Texas to Wisconsin - had to have it in writing). One evening there was to be a church meeting and we were going to go. However, my friend hurt herself rolling down a hill (hit her head, not badly, was shook up). My mom decided that the 4 of us would stay home (me, my little sister, my friend and my mom). My grandparents and my mom's youngest sister were killed by a drunk driver on the way to church and two of my cousins were so badly injured they were in a coma for week. If we had gone, we would have been in the car behind them and witnessed the accident.
I'm so sorry your mom and you all had to lose that much family at once. I hope you guys and your cousins are doing well and stay close.
The story about the Boston Marathon... I was at the baseball game that day, and I was wondering why the subway was all backed up. Then I got a news notification about it, then had to walk all the way to Central Station to get on the subway to go home
16:15 that last sentence broke me
Same
My grandfather worked in a factory that got bombed in WW2, but the day it happened, he basically chucked a sicky to hang out with my grandmother, crazy shit man
I was supposed to drive home with this particular person after a night out.
We made a point of sobering up, while he didn't drink much alcohol the entire night. Last minute decided not to get in the passenger seat and got in the back of another car.
We drove right behind him as he went through a green light (which means it was red for cars diving perpendicular to us at the crossing), when a speeding car crashed RIGHT INTO HIM. In front of us. His car must have spun at least twice.. Passenger side completely, and I mean completely bent in all the way to the gear box.
I would definitely not have survived that, gives me shivers just recalling it.
What a horrible "friend" in the IED one. It was HIS idea to go on the dismounted mission, and he's just looking for somewhere other than himself to shift the blame, because it's clearly his own fault he lost his leg. A fairweather friend indeed, OP is fortunate to have lost him before he really needed his help in bad times.
Had my aunt (sister of my moms brothers wife) not been late to a meeting, she would have been in one of the towers when the Trade Center attacks happened. As it was, she was in the courtyard when the first plane hit. She’s lucky to be alive, and later thanked the taxi driver who was the reason she was late!
My maternal grandfather was born in the Belorussian part of Poland, and his Dad picked up him and his mom in 1940. I only recently thought of how much of a close call this was, because I've only met him on five occasions with sparse talking, and his family history is not well-understood or discussed much.
The daughter of one of my Less-Sophisticated cousins got married, and I went to the ceremony, but something told me not to attend the reception....so I dropped off my wedding gift and left. 'Sure enough, later I found out that fights broke out, cops were called and the usual hi-jinks ensued....
No One ever knows. Gut feelings have saved me hundreds of times, but one day it won't.
Jeez. Sobering.
Only if you ignore it!
Omg the first one!!!! 2 guys wanted to smoke k2 at the boys and girls club and a lot of us wanted to do it to be cool but we all ended up chickening out. One of the guys got so sick he had to be rolled out in a wheelchair and they both got banned for life from the BGC. The guy who got wheeled out was my BF so they really thought I smoked it too but I hadn’t ever smoked before and my dad is scary
Did they realize you didn't smoke?
How can that guy blame his friend for losing his leg,he was the one who wanted the dismount experience
"Reading this thread makes he never want to leave my house again."
Yet, most accidents occur within a certain distance of your home. :P
Because that's where most of us spend most of our time.
A group of friends and I went to a random club one night. I had a really bad feeling that just kept getting worse and worse as the night progressed. Finally, around 1 am, I convinced my friends that we needed to leave.
An hour later, a fight broke out that lead to a shooting. I'm not sure if anyone died, but a few people were injured. I started trusting my gut feeling a lot more after that
The Ted Bundy reveal made me actually scream out loud in my kitchen.
Family was planning to go on a hike with a few good friends of ours. I told them that I'll just stay at home and keep watch. Got told off by dad to stop being lazy before everyone went.
Turns out the dirt path became very muddy and slippery from yesterday's storm and a lot of people slipped and fell. No major injuries, but nearly everyone had to finish the trek with mud all over their clothes. Dad pulled me to the side and said that I was right.
Dad is still right about to stop being lazy though, lmao.
One night my mom and sister went out to get some items for my sister. I wanted to go. I got a gut feeling a bad one. My mom hit a train( both are ok). The seat I would have been in got destroyed and was ripped up like it was paper.
I and my aunt were supposed to go to the Boston Marathon 2013 but due to us missing our flight we decided to not go. My Aunt was a advent Marathon runner and she wanted to see what it was like for Boston so she knew what to prepare for.
9:25, damn i bet he wasnt suppose to miss it and die on the the ship. Since he missed it death must have been like “ohhh shit” and popped him off
My best friend was on the junior high cheerleading squad, and I wasn't. She was with me on the day that the cheerleading squad was hanging out, and they got busted for underage drinking.
I was studying abroad. Smoking weed was illegal but it wasn't treated as a huge crime as the cops never paid attention. So People smoked anyway. I was invited to a hotbox party. My friend talked me out of it last minute. So we opted to go clubbing instead. The party was busted because one of the lease owners let his visa expire. The immigration police arrived to find a party with bags of weed and everybody stoned. 12 foreign students were expelled and deported. Glad I was talked out of that party
I remeber something like this happening to me. Sometime perhaps 2011, I was supposed to get on the LIRR from LI to NYC...because I honestly had nothing better to do that day. I was scheduled to go around 9am yet for some reason I dragged my feet and missed my original stop for an hour. Then had to wait another hour after arriving just to find out the train I was supposed to get on had crashed and there were many badly injured and I think a few deaths. But I felt ALMOST as lucky as those who missed out of 9/11. Wound up forgetting why I went to NYC in the first place after that.
9:11, literally Final Destination in real life.
My dad was going to take either my brother or me for a drive in his 1967 Corvette Stingray convertible. We had a rock paper scissor contest to see who goes first. I won, but being the older brother told him to enjoy the trip. 10 minutes later, I’m driving to their location because the battery died.
My paternal grandfather served during WWII. He was a Catholic from a country where that's a religious minority, as in parts-per-million rather than percentage, and the fact that he was an educated man made his superiors wary of him. On top of that, he was also of Italian descent, and Italy was still an Axis power at the time. He didn't find out until years later that he had someone following him to make sure he wasn't a spy. At some point during his service, he was taking time off and strolling around a city. Since it was Sunday, he got it into his head that he might want to head into church, more so to see some pretty girls than actually worship. Wouldn't you know it, the only church in town was in an Italian embassy. After giving it some thought, he decided to continue his stroll instead. Had he gone into that embassy, the guy following him would have been obligated to report him as an Axis spy.
If it weren't for my grandfather being a bad Catholic, I wouldn't exist.
6:19 Same! I was the only one who got Subway while the rest of my family got Chinese food and got a horrible food poisoning from it. That was my first time getting food poisoning too lol. I will never forget that. There’s something about Subway...
It's the uncooked vegetables, probably the lettuce which if not cleaned properly can make you really sick. Or they're just unhygenic.
When I was 17 my friends and I were celebrating my other friends birthday, but I had to go home early for ✨band✨ the next day and when they left they went to a park to smoke the Mary Jane, and they were caught up by the cops.
My parents talked about going to Minneapolis the summer of 2020 one year prior, covid made us not go and I really dodged a bullet on that one...
In 2011, I was at basic training and that particular day one of the soldiers had to stay on quarters due to some "pain". He was left alone in the barracks (on a 3rd floor). When we were back, we always had a challenge that the fastest we got back to the barracks the more time we had to rest before the next formation. Faithfully, when we got back that day I reached the stairwell door first and something (I felt as if time stopped and heard a voice) told me to hold the door open and not go in. The other soldiers were startled when their faces touched the legs of the soldier that stayed as he hung himself from the top floor veranda. Later I realized he was the soldier that sat next to me on class. I've always felt I could have done something.
If you are having trouble, seek help. Someone will always be willing to assist.
The takeaway from this seems to be to never do anything.
Imagine missing one of the largest maritime disasters in history,only to get hit by a car right after
Man that synthetic weed. Took one hit and everything in your life felt wrong. You also drooled a bit. Lmao
7:26 This reminded me my great aunt and uncle were in that part of Thailand and they wound up leaving 3 days before it hit.
That Bundy one...
When I was in college my group of friends wanted to hang out, the plan was to basically buy booze and just sit there in the street and drink. Guess who got fined and who played Skyrim all day and kept his money.
17:31, I had to google what was going on. At first I thought he hated the movie and it was trash and it was a joke post about missing out on a horrible movie. But that didn't sound right cuz I thought that movie was meant to be super popular. I forgot how common sh**tings happen over there.
A teen in our neighborhood had some sketchy friends show up and invite her to go with them in their car. She declined.
Then she became a witness in the timeline of events that night for their murder trial. (The sketchy friends killed someone.) Best decision that teenager ever made.
That Ted Bundy one freaked me out.
The more the story unfolded the more I had a feeling it was about Ted Bundy. It seems there're actually a few accounts of close calls with the guy. But yeah, totally creepy
I have ever though about posting on Reddit but I do believe that my stories would make interesting entries.
10:40 carbon monoxide poisoning sounds to me like he killed himself in his car with a hose from the exhaust pipe.
That’s what I was thinking, too. Maybe from the guilt. Guess we’ll never know.
My bullet dodged. I was a senior in high school. I went to the office to pay a late fee and get my yearbook. Well, I got a bad feeling and stayed away from the office. Ten minutes later, we were ordered into lockdown. Turns out there was a hostage situation across the street and the guy responsible was hiding in the office. It took the cops several hours to finally nail the guy because he kept moving and hiding in various locations. Those of us, myself included, hiding in the art building actually heard the guy run right by the classroom.
The way this guy ran, you’d think he was an elephant. I shudder to think what might have happened if I actually had gone into the office. I probably would have been held hostage.
About the noodle story. I laughed so hard when they all came back with noodles. Then the Persona 4 comment came and I laughed even harder.
2:42 Careful with roommates, especially strangers and/or folks that are not part of the same institution, college, work, etc., as you. In some states, like Texas, a co-habitat can take all of your stuff and its a civil, not criminal, matter. Good luck getting any of your stuff back.
I feel like the closest thing I had to this is when I faked being sick in highschool once. That day they had a lock down because some kid was walking around the school with a knife. Nothing really happened but I'm still sorta glad I didn't go. At worst they had to stay under lockdown and deal with police for a few hours, my friend got his lunch stolen too during the search lol.
My mom worked in one of the twin towers(I think the right one). Luckily she was out hanging with her friends out of the city. If she was there on 9/11 I would not be here today.
There was a weekend when I was still in high school that I had already gotten permission to go with friends somewhere on Saturday. I had been allowed to go somewhere on Friday (I don't remember where either place was) but my Mom decided that since I went somewhere on Friday, I couldn't go on Saturday. Not a normal reaction. But later that day, we saw my friend being carried in the house. They had gotten in an accident and she had gotten bad whiplash and I think get foot was messed up too. Glad I didn't go.
I can't say for sure I'd have gone, but sometimes when my sister would go shopping, I'd wanna go too. The one day our neighbor asked for a ride, I wasn't at home but rather out with friends. On the way there another driver wasn't paying attention and rear-ended her. My sister and the neighbor weren't hurt but the car was totaled, the trunk was completely smashed into the back seat. If I'd been home and decided to go, Is probably have been killed or seriously injured since I'd have been in the back.
I'm listening to all of these stories about people who were so lucky that something prevented them from being at a place where a lot of people died, like the 2004 tsunami, or the twin towers on 9/11, and I cant help but think about all the people who probably had stories very similar to the ones in this video, except the story was about how lucky they were to be able to go to these places. However, they are no longer around to tell their stories, and in the end, they weren't actually the lucky ones.
10:42 I smell ghost vengeance.
Was going to ask if we could join my friend going to the movies, decided we didn’t want to ask so late in the day so we didn’t bother to ask. My friend was mildly speeding down the road we lived on, and a guy turned in front of him. Car crumpled, and rolled several times. He died on impact. We would have too.
I was randomly terrified of a helicopter. My dad's friends decided to stay off from it. After awhile everyone thought I was being weird. It crashed the next week, bo survivors.
I was supposed to pick up some supplies from a store for a class. I thought about going on Wednesday just so I would have my supplies early. I needed them by Thursday afternoon. My mom insisted I pick them up on Thursday after running errands with her. I decided to go with my mom. On wednesday, it turns out there was a horrible car accident caused by a drunk driver on the intersection i would’ve passed by. It happened around the time I would’ve left if I had gone on Wednesday. The driver and passenger passed away on the spot.
I'm not sure if this counts as an "opt-out" story, but my maternal grandfather served in the Army in WWII, specifically in a unit that participated in the Battle of the Bulge. He left a typewritten record of his company's history and the events they went through, and one in particular stands out in my mind. One day, they were at base when they heard (and felt) a loud explosion. Figuring it would be best to wait before going to get their next meal, they didn't go to the mess hall until about 20 minutes later. When they got there, however, they found that it was the mess hall that had been shelled, and a cook and staff member were killed in the explosion. I often think about how I wouldn't be here had my grandfather been at the mess hall when the bombs fell.
Because of my poor health I’ve had to miss a lot of family get-togethers or vacations - one that has stung at the time was missing out on a trip to Savannah, Georgia, a place I’d always wanted to go to because I’m a bit of a ghost fanatic and love touring haunted places. But, I was in too much pain to go, and my mother left me behind with my dad while my mom, siblings, grandma, aunts, and cousins all went.
One of the places they’d be dying to go to was Paula Deen’s restaurant (this was before it came out about her racism, which as a black family is absolutely a dealbreaker), and the first day of the trip ended with a visit to the famous restaurant.
When I wake up the next morning, it’s to Dad shaking his head, where he proceeds to tell me that every single one of the trip-goers got some degree of food poisoning or gastrointestinal issue. So that’s like, ten people, across 4 hotel rooms, aka 4 bathrooms, children still in diapers, all of them sick as dogs and unable to leave the hotel to do anything else for their entire stay because they’re all trying to juggle the 4 available toilets between their various ailments. Any upset I’d felt about not being able to go vanished in an instant.
Mine isn't a dark one at all, but I had this intuitive gut ability that I used while playing four corners in class when it was too rainy to play outside. If I held both of my arms in an L shape, I could feel a weight in my arms, telling me which corner to go to. For example, if my left arm felt heavier, I would go to the corner in that direction. I never lost a single game of four corners. Recently I got curious and decided to test if it still worked. You know the glass bridge game from Squid Game? For those who don't know, there's a bridge with glass panels to get across. Some glass panels will break, others will hold your weight, and you have to try to guess the right ones all the way to the end or you fall to death. I decided to play a virtual simulation of this game, putting my gut ability to the test. Made it across without dying. Yup. Still got it. Tested it a lot since then with other luck based games, but I've discovered a downside to this ability. It varies each game, but sometimes the weight is telling me which way I SHOULD go and which way I SHOULDN'T. And sometimes it switches which one it is halfway through.
The guy not wanting to move and got severance and then the division was closed reminds me of a company I saw do that. I was contract in the IT dept so no part of this. But the company was moving a bunch of people to another town, closing other ares, consolidating things. Like the story, they were given a choice. Many moved only to find out the company was downsizing later and some who moved lost their jobs.
Same thing also happened to my brother, he quit and after the group moved their division was outsourced to an India call center, which last he heard failed and ended up costing the company money and contracts.
Not as life-saving as many other stories here, but I'll share.
So in my highschool there's a class called international arts(essentially a dance class which is mandatory throughout all programs...dunno why). We just finished practicing the exercise during class when the teacher announced that the exercise will be scored as a test, which we can come take the test anytime within the next 2 weeks. Since the class is in Thursday, most people in my class opted to come back later, but I didn't as I already nailed the exercise so I planned on taking the test right away. My friends almost left too but stayed as they see me, and we stuck around practicing the moves then finally taking the test. We all passed.
Fast forward to that Saturday. The school released an announcement of an emergency shut down(The nearby university had a covid outbreak) so...after that, the school shut down for the rest of 2 weeks that we're allowed.
The same kind of thing happened after the school reopens too, and this time my friends stuck around with me.
Me and my friends are some of the only people that didn't have to take a video of ourselves dancing, twice!
The ted bundy one elicited an audible holy shit from me.
i cant tell if this is opted out or sheer dumb luck. my great grandpa fought in WWII and he and some of the people in his group were fishing off the back of one of their boats, with their feet in the water. my great grandpa had the idea to move the boat back a bit so they were directly above a reef. a few minutes later a torpedo goes zooming by. had they been in the same spot they would have been blown up and i would not be telling you this story.
that is the PERFECT thumbnail!
Not me, but my dad was in the Royal Air Force for around 12 years, and usually whenever a type of plane is being phased out, they do a commemorative flyby, that servicemembers can go on (this was a transport plane, can't remember the type.) He signs up to go on this flight, though at the last minute the unit he was with had some other work to do, so he couldn't go. The plane crashed, and everyone aboard sadly died, think it went down in central England. I'm pretty sure I'm remembering this correctly.
Edit: Not exactly gut feeling, but still a close call.
I have never been in the military but I knew of two guys that where in separate IED explosions and survived. One lost most of his internal organs and his head went to lonely land. The other was not to badly physically hurt but he also had his head go to lonely land. I'm not sure that them surviving was the better result.
When I was in college a group of friends went cliff diving. They said I didn't have to jump just hang out. They were there 15 min before a poor girl dislocated a hip and they had to carry her 2 miles back to the road
I decided to not go with my mom sister and step sisters to do idk something. Anyway I get rushed to the hospital because they were hit by a drunk driver. My mom moved to take the hit and got a shattered pelvis and broke her leg in 7 different places.
Hot chocolate looks like dried blood. There was a lot of both in the van.
8 years ago, 22nd of March 2016. I was supposed to drop some papers to my mother's client before going to the first class of the day, but I got lazy and decided I would do it the next day, so I decided to skip this first class and sleep a bit more. When I woke up, my phone was buzzing. There ahd been a terrorist attack in the subways of Brussels and at the airport. The metro that got attacked was the one I should have rode to drop the papers.
That was also the day my mother was supposed to come back from Malta. She decided to come back on the 21st instead,sonce she had been away for months and wanted to see me as soon as possible. She was saved by motherly love. I was saved by my lazy ass.
I was like is that Ted bundy and when it said Ted Bundy said Yeah!!!!
9:03 A great great great grandma or aunt or something, I don’t exactly remember. Anyways, she was on the titanic, but survived! She died while giving birth a few years later.
Speaking of over capacity elevators. My junior year of college, it was Halloween weekend and most students were going to costume parties. Well a block of dorms with about 12 stories each of identical building has a group going to the same party. Rather than wait for another elevator, they crowded into one and the elevator starting falling without any promoting. One guy was claustrophobic and started to climb out. The elevator kept falling, and despite people in the elevator pushing him up and people on the floor above pulling, he was cut in half. Now, I am always doing a mental calculation of weight in a crowded elevator and I always read the capacity load.
Male is late to the titanic and misses the boat.
Gets hit by a car on the way home and dies anyway
What is this Final Destination Bullshit?
So I guess… if something happens to you that is annoying because it makes you opt out of something you wanted to do, you’ve probably just survived disaster. Be thankful lmao
20:36 I think this is referring to the sunshine skyway bridge collapse, when the Freighter ship *MV Summit Venture* hit one of the bridge supports, causing part of the bridge to collapse, & one of the vehicles that plunged off the edge was a *Greyhound Bus.*
17:25 holy shittttttttttttt