Real Stories From People Who Had a Surprising Gut Feeling That Turned Out to Be Correct

Some people claim to have a sixth sense that lets them know when something is about to happen. Although most people aren’t clairvoyant, there is some truth to having a gut feeling about future events.

People have claimed to turn down job offers, decline evening plans and forgo vacations just because they had a feeling that things were about to take a turn for the worse.

And when these feelings prove to be right, it’s evident that maybe there is a reason that people have these instincts.

The gut wrenching feeling that you have to act now just can’t be ignored. Having a life-threatening experience is memorable enough, but narrowly avoiding one by seconds is just as unforgettable.

He's Still in Jail

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My oldest daughter (30-something) stopped by my work one day and introduced her new boyfriend. He seemed a little off to me, but I decided it was just “

guy dating my daughter” and let it go. Later, he met my wife and I and she told me later that he seemed off to her, too.

She has pretty good instincts about people, so we decided to investigate him a bit.

Typing his whole name into Google, the first result was a mugshot from a couple of years ago. The third was an active warrant.

More searching resulted in finding three warrants from different counties, an extensive record (check deception, theft, driving while suspended, driving after a lifetime suspension, and driving while a habitual traffic offender), and a brand-new marriage license for him and my daughter.

They were going to get married later that week.

We, of course, told her about him, but she insisted that he’d already told her about all of that and had “taken care of it.”

We emailed links to her roommate, who showed her, but she didn’t have any luck talking her out of the relationship.

They were in love, and everything would work out OK in the end.

We sent in an anonymous tip, and he was arrested the next day at her apartment. My daughter then found out that he’d been lying to her about pretty much everything.

He had entangled her in a business he was trying to start that mostly involved her financing things for him, because his credit was trash due to records for bounced checks and theft.

She’s still working to untangle herself from that.

He is still in jail, and, according to her lawyer, will be for at least two years depending on what happens in two other counties. Story credit: Reddit /Wadsworth_McStumpy

I Could Have Been a Victim

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Not me but my mom. When I was about ten years old I got invited to spend the night at my really good friend’s home. My mom said no.

I begged her to let me go but she was adamant that I couldn’t.

She said she just didn’t feel right about it and that no amount of pleading was going to change her mind.

A few weeks later my friend’s dad was arrested for inappropriate child imagery.

After he went to trial it was found that he had also molested several young girls. He would have his daughter invite them over for a slumber party and then touch them when they went to sleep. If my mom hadn’t trusted her gut feeling I could have been one of his victims. Story credit: Reddit /MuttyAndMalarka

We Caught Her Just in Time

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My mom had one. I was there with my brother but we didn’t believe her at the time. Three years ago, my brother, my sister and I were supposed to meet at mom’s place for dinner at 7.

My mom and sister are very close; her being the firstborn, the only girl and us being a Lebanese family.

Anyway, they talk throughout the day quite a bit, daily.

Around 6:30 pm, my sister is not answering phone calls or texts. My brother and I think she’s asleep or just doing whatever and it’s nothing to worry about.

By 7:15, still nothing from my sister and my Mom at this point is pretty much saying “Something is wrong here, I can just feel it.”

We still don’t believe her but it’s not her style to worry and she is really now worrying.

I call up her now ex-husband who was at a conference saying we haven’t heard from my sister. It turns out neither has he.

I asked if he knew her iTunes credentials so I could track her phone.

Turns out she was at home. We called a friend, sent someone knocking at her door, and no answer. My mom started driving there and made the decision that we need to break into the house.

She texted her friends to kick the door down. They did and found my sister unconscious. She had a major stroke and a concussion.

The aftermath was very, very difficult. I won’t write a novel and be brief.

Major stroke, concussion and required open heart surgery. Was told she may never talk and would likely be a vegetable and if we actually wanted to proceed with the surgeries.

We did. She’s alive, she talks, she can walk with a cane and will at some point, walk without a cane. She lost everything on the left side of her body. The only part of her that may never come back is her left arm. Story credit: Reddit /MrCarlEdwardsSagan

She Made Us Leave Early

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Not mine but my grandma’s. We went camping at this one spot in the woods by a small creek every summer.

One summer she gets this bad feeling and makes us pack up and we leave.

Couple days later they end up finding a dead body right near our then-campsite. Story credit: Reddit /ihatemakingthese69