Every comic book fan knows about Spider-Man’s “spider sense.” It’s his innate ability to sense danger, and it often happens through a palpable sensation of impending doom.
We all have that “spider sense.” That inexplicable feeling in our gut sounds the alarm bells, and adhering to it may just spare us from potential harm.
These people would know, and they are sharing their experiences in a recent Reddit thread. Some were about detecting an illness early, while others were the typical “we need to leave now” scenario that turned out to be on point.
These stories are captivating and may also serve as a reminder that when your gut tells you something, you may need to stop and listen.
#1
I knew, KNEW, that I had cancer. I am also pregnant and the outward symptoms were so similar, it would have been so easy to ignore me. Luckily, everyone took me seriously enough to rush me for tests (even as they were reassuring me I was wrong). When the consultant phoned me to tell me I had a mass in my chest he was audibly shocked.
Started chemo this week – me and my baby are gonna get through this!
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#2
Went out dancing with my gf at the time to an area that has a bunch of clubs and is generally safe, so long as you stick to the main streets and well lit areas. We were walking back to the car and had just left the main street to walk to the parking lot when I just got this sudden panic feeling and stopped dead in my tracks and started looking around. My gf was like “What? What’s wrong?” I said, “I don’t know, but I feel like we need to go back for a few minutes until more people are around.” So we went back and waited for more people who were walking our direction, but actually a cop car that patrolled the area showed up and I walked over asked him “Can you watch us walk to my car, it’s just right over there, I just feel like there’s someone waiting for us to be alone.” We walked to the car and man with a hoodie and a gun jumped out and demanded our valuables…the cop immediately turned on his lights and siren and his tires started squealing as he sped over, the dude of course immediately bolted. The cops chased after him, I have no idea if they caught him, but had I not had that unexplainable fear and instinct, we would have been robbed, maybe even shot. I still can’t explain how I knew because I didn’t see anyone, I just felt in danger.
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#3
Not me, but my great aunt’s gut instinct and it’s the reason I’m still here to tell this story.
We were visiting family in Brazil over Christmas break when I was a kid. One of the things they do in Rio for New Year’s is taking party boats out in the bay and watching the fireworks show that they shoot off from the beach. My great aunt and uncle bought us all tickets for one of the boats. When we got there, she took one look at the boat and refused to get on it. Ended up eating the cost of the tickets and buying us tickets last minute for another boat. It cost her a small fortune and we all thought she was nuts.
The boat we were supposed to be on eventually ended up overloaded with passengers, but it wasn’t like that when we got there. The water was choppy that night and it capsized at about 11:45. Dozens of people on it drowned, including a famous Brazilian actress and most of the children on the boat. The phone at my great aunt’s apartment started ringing at 6 AM from people who heard the news and were making sure we weren’t on that boat. We had no idea what had happened until that first phone call. After she got off the phone, which had woken us all up, she looked like she’d seen a ghost.
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#4
December 1987. I had two weeks leave,and I went to Milwaukee to spend Christmas with a friend that had been discharged from the military that year.
During my visit, my friend came out to me as being gay. He was awkward and funny; l told him that l had figured it out on my own, that as long as he was OK with me being straight, l was OK with him being gay.
We had a great time, including doing a lot of bar hopping. In one particular bar , we were approached by a nice looking blonde guy. My buddy and l did what had become a routine, both of us saying “straight” while he pointed at me and both of us laughed. The guy took it well, laughed with us, sat down and started talking to my friend.
I got a weird vibe from the guy, even though he was nice and polite. I took my friend aside and asked to leave. My buddy was not exactly happy with me, but we left.
We had a long and somewhat tense discussion when we got back to my friend’s apartment. I had no response except that the blonde guy just gave me bad vibes. I went back to my duty station after extracting a promise from my friend that, if he saw the blonde guy again, that he would leave the bar.
That blonde guy was Jeffrey Dahmer.
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#5
My brother has epilepsy caused by cranial angioma tumors. One day, I was at home with my 3 young kids and out of nowhere my stomach just dropped and my whole body tingled. My heart skipped around a few beats, and I started breathing fast. I had this absolutely horrid feeling that I had to find my brother NOW. There was something WRONG and I had to find him. I practically flew to my father’s house in my car to find my 17 year old brother spread eagle on my dad’s kitchen floor with my other siblings attempting CPR. He had a grand mal (tonic clonic) seizure and his heart stopped. I was the only one who actually knew CPR (OR scrub tech) and got him to come around after about 30 seconds. I rushed him to the hospital and they performed an emergency craniotomy to remove a bleeding angioma. He made a full recovery. That was 15 years ago and he is perfectly normal now (on anti convulsants). No one told me he was at my dad’s. He didn’t even spend a lot of time there, I just absolutely KNEW that’s where he was. There was no question. I just knew he was there and he NEEDED me. I do not ignore my gut. I don’t think anyone would have believed me if I hadn’t had witnesses. I literally showed up and saved the day, and his life! I was always closer to him than my other siblings. Intuition exists for a reason!
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#6
I used to own a motorcycle when I was younger. A series of choices led to me selling it and moving states. Fast forward a few years, and I am married with kids, and my wife doesn’t want me to get a new bike. She has never ridden on one and fou d them scary. I have a friend who rides and convinced her to go on a ride with him to try something new. They went out around the block a few times and came back. We were hanging for a bit more and having a few drinks. My friend decides he wants to go downtown and get a drink at a party bar. The wife asked to ride along, and I said sure. They got ready to go, and I had the strongest gut feeling it was a bad idea. Then, I talked her out of going. She was disappointed, but it happens. My friend laid down his bike on the drive to the bar. He broke his arm and got all messed up. Now, she is 100% against me getting a bike. I can live without the bike, but not her.
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#7
My 2 friends and I were typical dumb teenage boys, so when we found an abandoned giant wooden spool at a construction site, our first reaction was “let’s take it to the skate park and roll it down the quarter pipes!” After a while, my friend had the bright ideas to climb inside the spool and have my other friend push him down a ramp while I filmed it. I got such a bad feeling about it and was like “dude, you’re gonna get hurt” but he was adamant that he would be fine. When he started rolling down the ramp, the weight distribution of him being inside caused the spool to veer off course right towards a grind rail that protruded out from the supports (imagine it like a pi symbol). I dropped my phone and started sprinting towards the spool to jump in front to try and stop him. The spool totally wrecked me and I fell over and hurt my wrist, but I did slow the spool down significantly before it hit the rail. That metal rail tore straight through the wood and hit my friend in the stomach with enough force to leave a bruise. If I hadn’t jumped in front of the spool to slow it down and it hit that rail at full speed, my friend would have 100% been impaled. So yeah…Nick, if you’re reading this… you owe me your life and I hope my sons aren’t as dumb as we were when they’re teenagers.
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#8
I used to deliver dairy and deli product in a 26ft box truck.
At one store, I had to back up the width of the building, turn 90 degrees and back up the length of it. No camera in that truck. I had a new employee with me and she was always baffled at how I could drive in reverse with just mirrors.
This was our second to last stop of 15 stores or so, and I got to the corner of the building and just stopped. I turned to her and said “I don’t like it. Can you please check to see if I’m going to hit something.”
Confused, she got right out and walked back to check for me. Expecting her to pop into mirror view, I waited a full minute before I started wondering if she misunderstood me.
I was about to get out when she hopped back into the truck and said there were four kids playing on the loading dock, but she got them inside and with their mother.
I sat there for a good 5 minutes processing that I’d avoided possible disaster based on a gut feeling alone.
* I forgot to iterate this was a route, so I’d done this maneuver 100s of times without pausing. I’ll never know why I stopped but I’m glad I did.
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#9
Not quite as intriguing as some of these, but when I was 18 I used to deliver pizzas for a local pizza shop. One year, I was working New Year’s Eve for a few hours before I was supposed to go to a party at my girlfriend’s house. This was in the late 80s and back then, I never wore a seatbelt when I drove. This was the case for the first few deliveries I made that night as well. Then, before one delivery, I stopped to get some gas and when I got in to leave, something made me put on my seatbelt. As I was driving the order to the house, something ran in front of me on the road – I swerved to miss it, hit a patch of ice and ended up crashed head on into a telephone pole. Car was totaled, but I walked away with just a bruised knee. I have worn my seatbelt ever since.
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#10
Felt like the car behind me was going to hit me so I moved over to the next lane and he hit the car that was originally in front of me.
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#11
I was taking a uber home after a long trip. I’ve probably seen three deer in 2 years of living there on my street. Somehow I had the instinct to tell the uber driver “Hey there are a lot of deer here be careful.”
10 seconds later a deer ran directly in front of his car and he was able to stop short.
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#12
We were playing at a popular low water bridge at a stream crossing. Several families playing with children in a clear running stream. I told my daughter, 9, to put on her life jacket. A few minutes later she was sucked into the vortex of a drainage culvert that ran under the road. She came out the other side bruised and battered, but alive. There was no indication, such as swirling water, that this hazard existed.Without the life jacket she might have drowned, and was certainly more padded against the rough walls. She was fine after a visit to the emergency room.
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#13
Not me, but my buddy . He was surveying a pipeline ROW in the bush, and he couldn’t shake the feeling that he was being watched. After about half an hour of stopping to look around out of paranoia every few minutes, he noticed something behind a big poplar tree. All he could see was the eye, end of a tail, and one ear of a cougar peeking from behind the tree, watching him intently. His coworker was a ways away from him, so he kept facing the cougar and took 2 inch steps backwards as to not initiate a chase instinct in the cat. It took him half an hour to get back , whereas it would have taken 5 or so minutes walking regularly. Him and his coworker went back later to check the tracks and it had been following him all morning, mirroring his steps , stopping when he stopped etc. Glad he had the gut feeling that day.
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#14
In the early 90s there was a huge wind storm in California. Friend and I were driving south on a highway. Visibility gets close to zero due to all the dust flying around. We decided to pull over to the shoulder of the highway. I still have an unsettled feeling and say I think we should pull into the field next to the highway. After about 20 minutes the dust begins to clear enough for about 50 feet of visibility. Right near where we had been were several cars that had collided. My friend still brings it up and wonders how I knew.
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#15
Far more mundane than these other examples, but I almost always have a really strong sense of time. I will set a timer on my oven to cook things, and without checking the start time I will get up to go back to it about 30 seconds before the alarm sounds. I’m not trying to or anything, something just tells me I should probably go check it out.
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#16
When I first started dating my now husband, I went to a wedding with him. It was for someone that he worked with. There was a guy there that he introduced me to and I immediately knew he was bad news. I told my husband, there’s something wrong with that guy. He said, “No he’s a good guy.” Turns out, he had been beating his girlfriend quite badly. There was more stuff that came out and that I forget now as it was awhile ago. But he ended up getting fired. He was a real AH.
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#17
We were at a friendly gathering with my ex. It was a big table, and everything seemed fun. People were cheerful, joking, and smiling.
Then, I got this weird feeling for no reason and asked to leave. I had to insist over and over, and my girlfriend gave me a hard time on the way out, acting like I was being paranoid.
Two hours after we left, a guy at our table beat another so badly that he was hospitalized with life-altering injuries.
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#18
Not me but my mom. She was set to marry my step dad in a few weeks (invites out, etc) but she had a feeling she needed to cancel. She told my step dad she just had this feeling that they should not get married on that day. So the called it off temporarily. Turns out her best friend ended up dying tragically in a car crash the night before the day her wedding was supposed to be and she spent that day experiencing that loss.
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#19
I saw rain clouds rolling in and decided I needed to get my dog out to go to the bathroom RIGHT THAT SECOND. It didn’t look like it was super close, and we could have waited until after the rain passed.
But, for some reason, I made us run to the backyard and then run back in. About 30 seconds later, straight line winds came through. The electrical pole in the backyard landed where we would have been standing if we had been any slower, and we couldn’t get outside because electrical lines were hanging over the doorway.
It’s always felt so crazy to me that I had that inexplicable need to rush through that. But it might have saved both of our lives. .
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#20
My brother’s dad had a off-roading vehicle and he, my brother, my mom and I were off in the woods having a great time. We came across this super steep hill and they all wanted him to gun it. They were all cheering and yelling for him to go.
I felt something was wrong so I got out the vehicle, walked in the middle of the path so they couldn’t pass me and ran to the top of the hill. I looked down a 50+ foot drop into rocks. There was no cell service and no one else knew we were out there. We simply just would have died at the bottom of that cliff.
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#21
Not once but twice a woman has been talking to me and I’ve snapped my fingers and declared:
>“You’re pregnant, aren’t you?”
Both times I’ve been right; 4-6 weeks along, far too early to be showing.
It’s the world’s most useless superpower.
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#22
My first child was normal but small, in a way that I was disturbed by. Asked at each pediatric visit if she was really all right and was told she was fine. Even took a book out of the local public health library about how to evaluate a very young infant or child. She was so young (only a little over a month) that the only test I could do was about head lag and I noticed she wasn’t really holding her head up as much as she should have. Then when she was 6 weeks old, I was holding her and she suddenly had a weird moment which I learned only later was actually an epileptic seizure in an infant. Turned out she had a super-rare condition from birth and ended up extremely intellectual delayed (never even learned to talk). So my instinct that there was something really wrong was right, even though no one else noticed it.
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