" This big arm fell off of their pine tree onto the table where we were sitting . "
Recently,u/ElectroIslandasked people to share theirscariest gut feeling momentsthat made them go “we need to leave”. Here are some of the most upvoted answers:
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1.“My brother and I were kids, playing hide and seek in the front yard of our house. My brother was three, and I was six. He was supposed to be counting and finding me, but he was taking forever, so I peeked around the side of the house to see what was taking so long. He had lost interest in the game and was standing near the front gate, which led to the street.”
" As I ’m front , I see a brown car tear up with two men inside . The auto was n’t conversant , and neither were the human . They both got out of the car and near my brother . They bulge asking him questions and run nigher to him . I think of feeling panic-struck . I had learned about stranger danger in school and knew this was n’t right-hand . I ran around the side of the menage , fly through the back door , and scream , ' Someone is trying to kidnap Steve ! ' My dad did n’t hesitate . He flummox up and fly through the front room access . When the men saw my dad coming through the door , they make off and flake off out . From that daytime onwards , we were n’t allowed to bring in the front M anymore . "
u / Ambam3434
2.“My car was stolen the very night I moved into my new house in a very good neighbourhood. The neighbours had warned us that the neighbourhood was being targeted at the time. They mentioned a woman around the corner that opened the door for knockers in the middle of the night and they attacked her and robbed her.”
" We had reported the car stolen and did the police reports when it happened . Well , two nights later in the middle of the night I get a line a knock on the doorway and they enounce ' open up , it ’s the police force ' . Well , since I had heard the story about the other lady , I was suspicious and did not answer . I grabbed my Kid and put them in my daughter ’s room because it had memory access to the roof from the windowpane . I called the police to say that two men claiming to be law are thump on my door . They state there was no police in the area and they ’re sending a gondola . Turns out , these same guys stole the car and came back for seconds . I did get my cable car back because they bring it with them . "
u / BassIll9657
3.“I was around 12 or so and my mum left to run an errand, leaving me alone. Very soon after she left, the doorbell rang. This was odd because we lived on a hill with only two neighbours (we all kept to ourselves) and we just… didn’t get random visitors. Thanks to some conveniently placed picture frames, I could see out the door without being seen. I look out and see a young man I don’t recognise. He’s dressed in a tshirt and jeans and something just feels… off. So I ignore him and wait for him to leave.”
" But he does n’t . He linger and start out smoking . Again , this is an isolated hill , I ’m alone , and now I ’m getting scared . I go and hide and plan to wait for my mum . Except she JUST left , had a few errands to run , and I could n’t reach the phone without the guy picture me .
As I ’m attempt to visualize out what to do my mummy come home . She turn tail in and asks if I ’m okay . obviously she got this random ' go home NOW ' urge . She had n’t even run for her first errand yet but turned around immediately . find the guy in our G and asked what he ask . I guess he mumble something about looking for someone , or something to that result , and my Dendranthema grandifloruom evidence him to leave . Apparently he was acting very strangely . To this twenty-four hour period I have no estimate what he want , and no idea how my momma knew to come home . But I am VERY thankful she did . "
u / Willowed - Wisp
4.“When I was around nine or ten my mum took me with her on a business trip to a nearby city. This is before smartphones when you still had to Mapquest stuff. We were supposed to meet my mum’s friend/coworker at the mall for something. Since her friend had given her directions we didn’t bother going down to the hotel computer to print them. We got lost and ended up pulling into a small storage unit place to pull out a map. It was just two rectangular buildings, maybe a total of like 20 units.”
" I do n’t call up why , precisely , but I was really scared and kept crying and asking if we could just go back to the hotel . I assume she got course up with her Thomas Kid crying in the passenger seat and she could n’t quite figure out where we were , so we go back to the hotel . The next day they found the bodies of two stripling in one of the units we pulled in front of . "
u / DueTangerine2539
5.“I was at a family gathering at a park on a small lake with some grills and buildings. The sky started darkening as a storm was approching, everything was brought into the building anticipating the rain. The plan was to wait it out since afternoon showers are common just about every day in the summer. Something in the air didn’t feel or smell right even though it appeared to be just a regular afternoon storm. Hair on my neck was standing up and I was in full flight mode.”
" I ca n’t really descibe it , the feeling in the infernal region of my tum can only be report as absolute dread . I tell my wife to take my girl and get in the cable car . It was nt even raining yet and I was full on terror yelling for everyone to leave , something is n’t right . No one else was that worried , mostly concerned with how I was acting . I extend out to the car and as soon as I was about to wrick the key the tornado sirens went off . I reckon across the lake perchance a few miles in the space and see a funnel cloud . Got the blaze out of there , as did everyone else . The edifice we had charter for this family unit bbq affair was completely annihilated . Literally just a slab of concrete and a sh*t gross ton of debris all around . "
u / MatrixVirus
6.“I was at the state fair with my mum and my best friend. My friend and I were looking at the rides and the games. This creepy guy and his girlfriend kept babbling at us about taking head shots and that he was a modeling agent. He just seemed off and really sleazy and the girl was giving me the creeps, so I pretended that I saw my mum telling us to come and grabbed my friend and dragged her off.”
" A few days later , there ’s a news write up and rumor going around the school about two girls being nobble , assaulted , and mangle . They were taken from the fairish the same day we were there , just few hours later . The creepy-crawly couple were Gerald and Charlene Gallego , nonparallel killer whale . "
u / Danivelle
7.“Sitting in my friends backyard with their two kids, my husband, and another friend, enjoying pizza. It was a beautiful, clear day with no real wind. We’re having a great time, just out of the pool and hungry for pizza, when I suddenly felt on edge. I looked straight at the kids and just said ‘get in the house’.”
" We all scramble and a second later we try creaking , and maybe five seconds after it started , this bragging branch fell off of their pine Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree onto the board where we were sit . Thankfully no one was wound besides having to pick pine needles out of our pizza . I can only arrogate that I subconsciously heard the branch starting to give . "
u / tomyownrhythm
8.“My husband (ex) was a marine and was at work and I was driving home from visiting family further south. You have to travel along this long dark and windy street. It’s already a super dark night, about 11 pm, and it’s a little foggy as well. I’m slowing down and coming around this slight bend in the road and all of a sudden the hair goes up on my neck, and I feel incredibly anxious.”
" About five second later , a young cleaning woman jump out of the George Bush directly in the lead of me ( perhaps 50 metrical unit away ) on the left - hand side of the road , while curl her arms in the air travel and gesturing frantically for me to pull over . I swerved a chip to the right , slow up down even further , but I did not stop . She was vernal , maybe early 20 ’s or even former teenager , and a picayune dirty , and I was immediately conflicted over extend to aim . But something distinguish me not to bar under any luck . I catch further up the route , slowed a little more , and dialed 911 with one shaky deal . The dispatcher allege she ’d send someone to check , but encourage me not to finger speculative . Apparently there had already been call about this miss over the last hour , and they were ineffective to find her when law follow up . I learn a few weeks later about some railroad car - jacking / looting attempt in the field . Very relieved I listened to my instincts that night . "
u / stillgot1111 t
9.“I went on a midday run along a beautiful river pathway near my apartment block. About 1km in I felt people watching me and directly turned around and ran home (even though I did NOT see anybody!). Closed the two magnetic gates leading up to my door and didn’t see anybody around or follow me. About ten minutes later two guys were at my front door trying to push it in.”
" I was luckily on the other side of the doorway at that moment and push it back closed with all my force and began screaming , I managed to security lock the front door and text my apartment blocking for help .
I was on the second floor , and they obviously see which flat I sound into . Looking back at the apartments security cameras they were able-bodied to see the two guys pull aside the magnetised security gates , two of them ! The block then quick changed the gate to a mechanic ringlet that can not be pulled aside . "
u / Odd_Llama800
10.“I’m a teenage girl who worked at a restaurant/pizza shop. I was harassed by these two men one weekend who were totally wasted, so they were kicked out. The following weekend they return, and they tried to sit next to me but they couldn’t so they chose a table across from me and moved both their seats to look right at me. They would only order from my counter instead of our waitresses, were staring at me, making jokes about killing a girl, and kind of just freaking me out.”
" I ended up going to our upstairs employees - only section to close up boxes ( up there all alone down a hall where nobody would hear me ) . I terminate up find tired of to my stomach as I hear someone walk up the steps and rustle and I closed the room access and turn my euphony off and texted my mum . The two followed me up there , then tried to go down the unlocked hallway but another waitress noticed them bothering me and caught them judge to amount after me . I just had a catgut impression as I heard them add up . She came down the hallway and told me to be quiet and hold our soundbox weight against the doorway . We waited for them to leave as they stood there , waiting for me to come out before making some remark about not knowing where I was then going back down . My dad came and pick me up early because I just feel so off . The following Clarence Shepard Day Jr. I had to make out in for another fault and as I was clocking out the TV ’s get down play a true crime documentary on a girl with the same name as me who was kidnapped and assaulted by two human beings . My venter dropped and presently hold my observance after that . I realised I was n’t run to be protected there and would n’t be surprised if they returned again . "
u / Mack_turnzie
11.“Years ago I was at a club with some friends. I was at the bar and for some reason looked down at the other end and saw two guys quietly arguing. They tried to keep from being overheard but I saw their agitated faces. I went to back to my group of friends and told them we should go. This was a popular club and it took us forever to get in so they didn’t want to leave.”
" I do n’t bonk what came over me but I picked up my champion ’s lady friend and started walk to the door . She was kick the intact time and the quietus of the party conform to me outside say me to put her down .
When we got outside , we heard the remote ' soda water pa ' and people screaming . We looked at each other for a second gear then bleed for our cars . I blank out to put her down and was still carrying her over my berm . "
u / ZestyGolf7654
12.“I was walking down the street in a very unfamiliar city with a group of friends. I got this feeling and didn’t know how to articulate it so I said to the group, ‘Hey, I’ve gotta use the restroom, can we just duck inside this Subway real quick?’. About a minute later there was a shootout just up the block. If we wouldn’t have gone into the restaurant, we would’ve all been standing right in the middle of the incident waiting to cross the street.”
u / bbbbbthatsfivebees
13.“I was hammock camping while riding my motorcycle through Arkansas. I had a dream that I was getting pulled over by the cops on my bike. The flashing lights were super bright in my eyes, and as I woke from my dream I notice my blue hammock tent is lighting up like flashing police lights! I immediately felt an adrenaline spike and went into full flight mode. Packed my stuff up faster than I could even put my boots on.”
" I hopped on my motorcycle in my underclothing and rode a geographical mile to the top of the encampment where the shower were . The second I stepped into the shower cabin the sky open up and cloud to ground lightning started striking trees in the encampment every 10 - 15 seconds . I could have been royally f*cked up by a lightning strike had I stayed sleeping between two of them . "
u / Doctor_Spacemann
14.“Many years ago I went with my then-girlfriend to one of her friends houses who was married to a guy I’d never met before. I’ll call them Jack and Jill so I can tell the story a little easier. We played cards with them for a couple hours and it was good besides an odd feeling I had the whole time I was there. Something just didn’t sit right with me being there with them in their home. The best I can explain it is that I was having an anxiety nervous-like feeling, but having no reason to feel that way.”
" After leaving I told my girlfriend the feeling I had and that I did n’t think we should go back there again because something was n’t proper .
Fast forward several months to a year or so later ( I bury the exact timeline ) , Jack murders Jill in that same home with his semi automatic shooting iron before kill himself with one of the last rung . No motive . "
u / The_Swampman
15.“My great-grandma lives at the far end of a neighbourhood, right next to a big, busy street, so there are suspicious characters by her house often. When I was a kid, I visited her every weekend, and one time when I was 11, I was sitting on the living room floor and I heard these two people arguing in Spanish. I hear a lady screaming at the top of her lungs.”
" Curious , I function to the kitchen and peeked through the window which wait out onto the street , and something did n’t seem right . I felt like I should duck and the second I did the gentlewoman pulls a gun out and take off shooting . "
u / EcstaticAvocadoes
16.“My husband and I were both driving cars and I was following him. We were in the left lane passing a truck and I suddenly had an overwhelming feeling that we needed to slow way down and move over immediately. I called him and told him that we needed to get over, go slower than the truck, and turn our hazards on. He thought I was a little crazy but he’s learned to listen to my gut feelings and did it.”
" Suddenly we ran into a freak ice storm and the truck slipped off the route , the car that went past us on the left slid into oncoming dealings , and three other cars behind us go to slip off the road . There was a bad dip on the side of the route and one of the car even topple over . We somehow came through unscathed and made it home safely . "
u / ScoobyScoob
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