“I had this really bad gut feeling.
Recently, redditoru/TheRealGreedyGoatasked the r/AskReddit community tosharetheir scary “trust your gut” moments.
Here are their stories.
“Not me, my grandfather.
He used to never wear his seatbelt.
He walked away with nothing worse than some fractured ribs, and now he always wears his seatbelt.”
I sat there, just looking around for two minutes or so.
Then the feeling went away, and I left.
The truck blew a tire and hit other cars, which also hit other cars.
It was a mess.
A few others were heavily injured in the hospital.
I still do that sometimes, thinking back to that moment.”
u/ikbenerook
3.
The hay was stacked on a trailer and towed by tractor to the barn.
As soon as I did, I heard a clang.
The hitch had come loose from the tractor while heading down a steep hill.
I climbed down the back and easily stepped off moments before the trailer flipped over into a ravine."
“I got an absolutely gut-twisting nauseating feeling and waited a few seconds before driving through the green light.
Two pickup trucks slammed into each other and would have crushed me on my motorcycle.”
u/LostArgonac
5.
“I used to live and work in the suburbs.
One evening, I was driving home at dusk.
I was 1819 and had the house to myself.
My brother was out of town, and my mom was with her parents.
My job was about 10 miles from my house and maybe six turns on decently sized roads.
I got a gut feeling I was being followed, so I passed my house and turned left.
“So it wasn’t my gut, but my friend’s.
I noticed that whenever she had a bad feeling, it almost always turned out to be correct.
She told me she had a bad feeling, and I immediately backed out, and so did she.
u/ThinnMelina
7.
Turns out he was a serial killer and killed a backpacker mere weeks later.
Police interviewed me to learn more about what he had said.
He had offered to take a few girls out before he killed her.
She and I were the same age, height, and build.
I still have nightmares and survivor’s guilt.”
In a few days, I found out I had high-risk cervical lesions and needed surgery.”
u/Bubbly-Competition14
9.
“When I was pregnant, I got bit by a Lyme tick at 28 weeks.
I noticed the bullseye and got on antibiotics.
My OB-GYN brushed it off after that; no harm was done, according to her.
“This is not mine, but it is chilling.
My workmate was to be on the ‘Skins’ team, but he refused to take his shirt off.
One thing led to another, and a big drama ensued.
He got kicked out of the club and sent home.”
u/Weeyin999
11.
“It was in college a couple of years ago that I had that ‘trust my gut’ feeling.
One of my buddies had invited me to a house party off campus nearby.
I didn’t have a car at the time, so I rode my longboard there.
Not 10 minutes later did I hear the gunshots.
Someone had brought a gun to that house party and shot four people.
Sadly, one died, and three were injured.
“It wasn’t my feeling, but my mom’s a few weeks ago.
She works and lives near me and was going home at lunch to meet a plumber.
She offered to drive me to my house so I could let my dog out.
On our way back, we saw ambulances and police cars going back towards my house.
u/grizzly-claire-
13.
“I felt sick one morning, borderline whether it was enough to take a sick day.
I ended up calling in sick.
He survived with minor injuries, but the passenger seat was completely crumpled, seat to dashboard.”
The girl was in the restroom down a long, dark, isolated hall far from the primary entryway.
u/agnesdewitt-pianist
15.
“I thought my son’s breathing was weird.
He ended up staying on supplemental oxygen at home for two months.
u/qweenbimbo_
17.
“My wife and I went Black Friday shopping in 2018 when she was nine months pregnant.
A fight broke out outside of Foot Locker that ended with one dead and a few wounded.
“One evening, I had this sudden urge to study the Heimlich maneuver.
I woke up the next day from the concert hungover.
I jumped out of bed, hopped behind my cousin’s girlfriend, and started doing the maneuver.
After a few pumps, out came an Advil.
She had taken one of those massive gel tabs, and it got stuck.
u/dylsster
19.
“I was 15 and was at the annual Royal Adelaide Show.
She pleaded with me for so long, and I wouldn’t go.
I couldn’t explain it, but I got a bad feeling and refused no rhyme or reason why.
My sister went on, and nothing happened.
I felt kind of silly.
A few days later, an 8-year-old girl was flung from this ride and died.”
“I was helping my friend with her move to a new apartment with her fiance.
Right before we were leaving, I had this really bad gut feeling.
I was disoriented for a few minutes when another explosion happened.
u/Accomplished_Blonde
21.
“I noticed pain in my lower back one morning and thought I slept on it wrong or something.
Throughout the day, it continued and started to feel like when you get kicked in the groin.
I thought to myself, it’s probably cancer.
I did a self-check and didn’t think I noticed anything.
I had my girlfriend do the same, and she wasn’t sure.
I called a urology office on my gut feeling and got the last appointment before Christmas break.
It was cancer, but it was super early.
