" To this Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , I wonder about the existent betting odds of that happening ; it feels like it ’s right smart more than one in a million . "
Sometimes, life truly is stranger than fiction. Recently, people on Redditsharedthe most surreal “this can’t be real” moment of their lives, and a few of these sent shivers down my spine. Here are some of the most bizarre tales:
1.“I was hiking alone in the mountains when a sudden fog rolled in. Complete white-out conditions. As I was trying to figure out my bearings, I heard bells jingling, and out of the mist appeared an old man with a staff leading about 20 goats. He nodded at me without saying a word, walked past, and disappeared into the fog with his goats. The entire encounter lasted maybe 30 seconds.”
2.“I had an incredible urge to go to my employee’s house. It was weird and overwhelming; I called my Mom thinking I lost my shit and she said to trust my gut, so I went. It felt weird, who wants their boss showing up after hours? When I got to his house, I heard a faint ‘help me’ coming from inside. I kicked the door in, went inside, and the dude had a stroke 24-48 hours prior to my arrival. He was just lying on the floor and would’ve rotted there had I dismissed that crazy urge.”
— ShitIsGettingWeird
3.“I had a lucid dream at 16 years old that I could fly by flapping my arms. I flew around my neighborhood (in the mountains) and noticed a house with a blue roof at the corner of Pine Ridge and Hook Creek road, back in the late ’70s. The dream was so real. I even went looking for the house, found it, but it didn’t have a blue roof. My teleportation fantasy was crushed. Just a dream, but so real. Five years later, I was a crewman on a forest service Helitack crew.”
" We were dispatched to a lightning strike in my neighborhood . I was hanging out the door of the chopper , look for smoke , when I suddenly had a deja vu experience . I recognized the flight convention from my dream . I freaked because I could predict the helicopter ’s flight . I anticipate accurately the next couple of turns … . I pant as I calculate down because the house had a juicy roof . I just got big goose extrusion memory . Weirdest motherfucker ever . "
— Dirtdancefire
4.“Hotel cleaning staff came back to the front desk complaining that they couldn’t clean a room due to the alligator in the bathtub. Thought I was misunderstanding something at first. I wasn’t. There was literally a decent-sized alligator in the bathtub. (Threeish feet long, which in my mind wasn’t big enough to kill you but absolutely big enough that I didn’t want anyone going back in there.)”
5.“Neighbor old lady came over and asked, ‘Want to see something?’ I said yeah, and she told me to grab my keys. It’s late at night already, but I just shrugged and got my keys, and she met me at my car. She gave me directions to a farm with a fenced-in area with about 80-100 cows. We stand outside the fence, and she keeps looking at her watch. At this point, I was sure I was going to get murdered. But what happened next…. I still can’t explain it.”
" One by one , all 80 - 100 cow kneel down . They stayed that way , mayhap a solid instant or two , and then just draw up and start drift around all normal again .
She got back in the automobile , and after I plunk up my jaw , I got in and we drove home wordlessly . When we pulled in , I asked her what the hell I just see . She made the motion of zip her sass and drop away the keystone . I went back to the farm several times alone and never saw anything out of the average . I even spoke to an employee for the property , and probably looked like a everlasting sociopath asking the questions I was . She refused to know anything . This was over 25 age ago . I conceive about it still . "
— moth-eaten - speculum
6.“I had this moment when I met my husband! I work at a convenience store, and one night I had a dream that I was talking to this super handsome guy about how he was working on his new house. It stuck in my mind for some reason. Well, a guy started coming in when Covid was going on, so I didn’t realize it at first, but when he finally came in with his mask off, he came up and we started talking, and I thought,Why is this guy so familiar?”
" And then he started tell me that he was in the outgrowth of pull up the carpet in his theatre and I was like ' holy shit . ' We ended up hit it off , and he give me his number . When we started dating , I told him about my pipe dream , and he was equally as freaked out . Two beautiful daughters and living in the happy time of my lifetime , I wish to suppose the population give me a headspring up . "
— PotentialDifficult62
7.“When I lived with my parents, my girlfriend and I used to sleep in the back room with a window looking out to the backyard. I had a dog that was terminally ill. One of the symptoms was that she used to get up and drink constantly, often until she threw up. Every night, we’d hear her walk across the porch and drink. Eventually, we had to put my dog down. The night after my dog was put down, my girlfriend and I still heard doggy footsteps on the porch and drinking sounds. It was faint, and we would hear it at different times. Subtle enough for us both to think it was just a phantom sound.”
8.“I once loaned a copy of a book my dad had written to my boyfriend at the time. It was a special edition to me because my father had signed it, dedicating it to my grandparents. The BF dumped me. I asked him for that book back several times, but he never even replied. Years later, I decided I wanted a copy of my dad’s book anyway, but it was no longer in print, so I bought it used off Amazon. When the book arrived, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was the book that I had loaned to my BF, with my dad’s signature. BF had sold it to a used bookstore, which listed it online.”
— l-1 - l-1 - l
9.“I was on a long-haul bus journey years ago, in my early twenties. A guy, about my age, got on halfway through and sat beside me. He didn’t speak — just pointed to his ear and shook his head. He was Deaf. We ended up communicating by typing messages on our phones, showing each other our screens. I let him read the magazine I had with me. It was oddly quiet, but… comfortable.”
" Just before he sustain off , he asked my name . I showed him my ID . He star at it a moment too long . As he stood up to leave , he extract out his billfold and showed me his own ID .
Same name . First and last . "
— RumpleFugly201080
10.“I used to work part-time as an EMT. You would not believe the number of people who died and said they went somewhere. We know this as a near-death experience, but to them, it is more real than life itself. I used to watch TV shows about this when I was a kid, and thought it was nonsense, but when you talk to those people, it is very real to them.”
11.“Driving the band home after a gig in the wee hours of the morning, I turned a corner, down the tiny alley where our sound guy lived, and standing in the middle of the street, holding a bunch of balloons was 7ft tall Winnie the fuckin' Pooh. He just waved at us.”
" I stopped and call for , ' Everyone else interpret this shit , right ? ' Indeed , they did . I labor around him , slowly , and it was plainly a dude in a suit , but …. why there ? It ’s a small goddamn town . Why 4 a.m. ? Why Pooh Bear ? "
— Gonzostewie
12.“Driving home at night on a relatively busy road in the UK. Straight ahead of us in the sky, three lights that looked like stars were darting around the sky. The best thing I can liken it to would be that old arcade game ‘Pong’, but they were moving much faster and in random directions.”
" The car in front also slowed down , and I ’m guessing they get a line it too . I remember I set out to shoot down up , I imagine through awe , because I could n’t comprehend what I was in reality see . They were there for about 5 - 10 endorsement , then disappeared . Never get word anything before or after that could logically explain what we saw . "
— socialdrop0ut
13.“Music lover and live concerts enthusiast here. When I was younger, I had a list of the bands I had to see live before I died. At the concert of the very last band left on that list, I met my partner/father of my kids/love of my life. If I think about it, I still cannot believe we met so randomly, but it still has so much meaning for me!”
14.“I was waiting for a red light to change, right at the crosswalk. Nothing unusual there… When the light changed, I tried to drive, but my leg wouldn’t move. I panicked, thinking,Is this some sort of stroke or something? Why can’t I…And then this car comes BARRELLING through the red light, right where I would have been had I started driving. That car and speed…it would have killed me.”
" I got checked out anyway , neurologically and physically , there was no sign of the zodiac of anything , but for those few seconds , my stage not moving keep me active .
This was a act pre - COVID , and I still sometimes get a shiver when I call up about it . "
— the - doctor - is - genuine
15.“I was fairly early in my pregnancy with my second child when I dreamed of my grandmother, who had been deceased for several years. I did not see her face in this dream, but I felt her presence and recognized her hands as she handed me a note. In her distinctive handwriting was written ‘41 + 4.'”
" When I woke up , I knew that she was telling me how long I would be fraught , 41 weeks and 4 sidereal day . Sure enough , several months later , my daughter was born at 41 weeks and 4 days of maternity . "
— Cancergarden
16.“I went out fishing a couple of weeks ago when a big ass dog wandered out of the woods. It didn’t look like any dog I had ever seen before. I was in the middle of rolling a smoke when it walked up next to me. I finished rolling and lit up, and we started vibing, gave him a little head scratch, and started moving spot. Well, this dog followed me all across the lake, wherever I went, this big dog went.”
17.“I was hiking this weekend. A skunk jumped from the bushes and stopped in the middle of the road, 50 centimeters from me. It looked at me like, ‘Bro, I’m gonna fuck you up.’ I just froze and accepted my fate. I’m gonna stink.”
" A crow arrived and landed on my articulatio humeri . It cawed at the skunk , the rotter ran away , and the crow flew off . The whole matter took less than 3 - 4 seconds . I guess I have a defender vaporing , nice to know . "
— BatouMediocre
18.“I was delivering pizzas in my 20s and knocked on a door. I realized after I knocked that I was at the wrong address. We’ll call it 9th St SW instead of 9th St NW. So I was exactly on the other side of town from where I needed to be. As the guy opened the door, I was about to do my ‘Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to disturb you, have a nice day,’ thing I usually do at a wrong address, but the guy didn’t look confused and was holding money ready to go…”
" turn out he ordered pizza and unintentionally put his address in wrong . Which means I was incidentally at the right place . Our two mistake perfectly cancelled each other out .
To this day , I wonder about the actual betting odds of that happen ; it feel like it ’s right smart more than one in a million . "
— runswithpaper
19.“Stopped the car in a rainstorm because my friend spotted a little old lady lying on the sidewalk. She had slipped and fallen. She was soaked and scared but unhurt. I got her in the car and offered to take her home, so she started giving me directions. I kid you not: as we passed the local graveyard, she said, ‘Wait, you just drove past!’ I backed up, and sure enough, she told me to drive through the gates.”
20.“I was in high school, and my friend’s grandma died. She was devastated. I was thinking of any way I could cheer her up. I only had $7 to my name. I wandered into the thrift store and found an old wedding dress, which was perfect for a costume she had been wanting to make. Guess what it cost? $7.”
" To top it off , that Nox after I yield it to her ( she was over the moon , it was a perfect fit . entirely cheered her up and got her mind off things ) as I was walking home on the sidewalk , up ahead under the orange streetlamp lambency I assure a slew of something . As I came upon it , I realized it was money . You ’ll never hazard how much it was . $ 7 .
I keep those $ 7 in a computer memory box as a monitor to myself that good deeds done without prospect and only from the good of your heart will always manage to be return to you . Now , or later . "
— Flat - Cry-3504
21.And finally, “Seeing Donald Trump become president… twice.”
— ConsciousFyah
