From time to time, we all eavesdrop on conversations not intended for our ears. Whether it’s on public transport, in a shady bar, or at a coffee shop, our curiosity gets the better of us. Sometimes we can’t help it, and other times we might deliberately try to listen in on what a stranger has to say.
However, once you hear something, it can’t be unheard. So when someone asked, “What is the creepiest thing you’ve overheard?” on r/AskReddit, replies started pouring in. From weirdly disturbing to painfully ridiculous, these stories show how people forget to read the room before loudly oversharing their thoughts.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best interactions from this thread, so continue scrolling and upvote the ones that surprised you the most. And if you’re in the mood for some more bizarre things people overheard in public, make sure to check out our previous posts about it right here, here, and here.
#1
I use to work at a Honda factory in Alabama and they get a lot of workers in from temp agencies, so you tend to get a lot of weird ones. As I’m walking back from my lunch break, I pass two guys and accidentally overhear, “I just want to impregnate the first thing I see.” My only thoughts were, “Don’t make eye contact, don’t make eye contact, don’t make eye contact.”
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#2
I overheard someone in a bathroom talking to themselves in Yoda’s voice saying “mmm tough this one is, use the force I must”.
8 years ago, still creeps me out
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#3
“Send the money back to Jamaica, or everyone’s gonna die!”
I was waiting at a bus stop when a woman walked past me, screaming this into her phone. I’d very much like to find out if they sent the money back.
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#4
I was sitting in my room quietly working on homework (I was in college at the time) and overheard two men (one of whom lived in the room next to me) calmly discussing the best way to [sexually overpower] me. It was 10am and they were already drinking beer. They were discussing tactics like drugging my food or drink, or physically overpowering me on my way to the bathroom, either very early or late when no one would be awake to hear me scream.
They then started discussing the vile things they wanted to do, mostly involving [harming] me in vicious and inventive ways.
#5
“No, shut up. Just shut up. Listen to me. Go get some trash bags and rent a Uhaul. Everything’s gonna be fine, I’ll be there in 10 minutes.” She then got up and walked out of the lobby while I exchanged horrified looks with the hotel cashier.
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#6
At Starbucks in a pretty affluent area. Two soccer moms are having a conversation about mom #1’s 12-year-old son [inappropriately touching] his sister who sounded close in age. It was graphic and detailed about what he did and what they were doing to stop it. They were talking in normal tones and not even being remotely secretive about this.
No, I didn’t call the cops. No one is going to believe a poor kid over rich soccer moms anyway.
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#7
“I love you, but I can’t let you throw my baby out the window.” Said by drunk redneck lady to her male companion at a hole in the wall Mexican restaurant. She kept repeating it to the man, still have no clue what events took place in their lives to lead up to that conversation.
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#8
While having breakfast one morning in 2015, at a pousada somewhere in the Northeast of Brazil, I overheard the British owner say the following to some of his friends:
“So in terms of the new law, even if the boy consents or seduces you, YOU can still be charged […] if he was underage.”
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#9
I was babysitting my 4 year old cousin not too long ago. I had been fostering a mama cat and her litter of kittens.
The kid was playing with the kittens in my living room while I was cooking lunch and I overheard her singing “Gonna catch a kitty. Gonna have it for lunch.” Over and over again.
Kids are creepy.
#10
overheard a crazy hippies plan to put a oz of shrooms into 4 separate brownies and feed them to someone he referred to as the son of satan
#11
Two guys are talking next to me at a restaurant.
Guy 1: Dude, how do you decide if you take her to her place or your place?
Guy 2: It depends on how rough I want [it] to get.
Guy 1: What do you mean?
Guy 2: Well, if I get rough and we’re at her place, she kicks me out and I have to go home in the middle of the night. If we’re at my place, the girl can leave and I’m already in bed.
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