At some point in your life, you’ve likely found yourself in the middle of a dangerous situation. And you only made it out in one piece because you either listened to your instincts ringing the alarm bells, or due to sheer dumb luck. It’s moments like these that ground you and make you grateful for what you have.
Internet user ‘wheneverybodyiswatching’ went viral online after he asked the internet to spill the tea about the “craziest event” they survived. The net took him up on this, and tens of thousands of people revealed their scariest and most dangerous life experiences. Scroll down to read their eerie stories.
#1
We had this blind donkey named Kevin that lived on our family ranch. One night our dog Sergio goes missing(again) so me and my sister go out looking for him. We think we see him but turns out it’s a mountain lion cub… before we realize, mama lion is walking towards us. Me and my sister start sprinting home while mama lion is gaining on us. We yell at the top of our lungs for our dad but end up waking up Kevin(he’s really sensitive to loud noise)He breaks out of his enclosure and frantically starts neighing and running around in circles. Me and my sister are in a full on sprint to the house. I turn around and see Kevin full on BODYSLAM this mountain lion at like 30mph. Both of them take a tumble. The mountain lion runs off back into the dark…Kevin ends up passing away a few years later from a bladder infection. R.I.P Kevin, he saved our lives that night. I miss him (he was technically a mule)
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74points
#2
apartment fire. the only reason we and 10 others didn't die from smoke inhalation in our sleep was because a postal worker decided to start his route 3 hours early and saw the apartment building completely engulfed. he went door to door banging and screaming fire.
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51points
#3
I was carjacked at gunpoint. They told me to walk away and don’t look back, I called police when I got away and they came. My car was found exactly where I was carjacked at, with the keys locked inside and everything. It turns out it wouldn’t start for them. I kept that car for two more years and traded it in. It never stopped on me or anything.
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43points
Simply speaking, your body has four main ways of reacting to stressful and dangerous situations. These are:
- Fight
- Flight
- Freeze
- Fawn
Your body instinctively does what it thinks is the best strategy to ensure your survival.
#4
So when I was younger my mom took me and all 5 of my older siblings to the mall. I was 5. I was playing around in the store playing hide and seek and I lost all of them. I checked everywhere, I started crying I ran out of the store and I said I lost my mommy. All of these adults were sitting around the seated area. A lady stood up, she came over and said she was going to bring me to the office. She took my hand and slowly started pulling me while she walked. She turned the corner and I saw the exit of the mall. She was not taking me to the office. As we are walking past the store my family was in, there were posters on the windows. But one open crack in the window where you could see out of the store. I turned and saw them checking out, by gods grace my sister turned and she saw me being dragged out of the mall. She booked it and pulled me away from that lady. Still remember it vividly to this day. Couldn’t sleep for months.
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40points
#5
Survived bacterial meningitis at 17. I had never even heard of it. I just remembered having the worst headache of my life. My parents thought I was over exaggerating we went to the ER and they said if I waited one more day I would have died.
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37points
#6
Survived Covid in the beginning of the pandemic. Turns out I was at one of the first super-spreader events in the U.S. in Feb 2020. About a week later I was eating lunch and finished half my sandwich before feeling like the cold I was coming down with was taking a turn. Put the sandwich in the fridge, emailed my professor I wouldn’t be in class, took cold medicine, and went to sleep. I don’t remember much during the worst of it, just waking up to take medicine and going back to sleep. Called the hospital at one point because I had a fever of 103 but they told me to stay in my dorm. Woke up in the middle of the night one night starving, went to the fridge and saw my sandwich was moldy. I thought it had been a few days. It had actually been a week and a half. I still deal with the damage covid did to my body to this day.
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36points
For example, your body enters fight mode when there’s a good chance that you can overpower the threat you face.
On the flip side, it will enter the flight mode stress response if the threat seems like something you can outrun.
If those two approaches aren’t good options, you might find yourself freezing up.
Or you might enter fawn mode, where you try to minimize the danger by being overly helpful and agreeable toward the threat, trying to make them happy.
#7
I had an ectopic pregnancy. I did not know I was pregnant at all. But this one morning my body kept feeling like it was failing. I told my kids father to rush me to the emergency room and he thought I would get over it but I couldn’t even keep my head up I kept blacking out until i screamed at him I need to go I feel like I’m dying. So he took me and they ran tests. Found out what was going on and rushed me to get surgery and right when they opened me up the ectopic burst.
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35points
#8
Aurora, Colorado 2016. Century 16 movie theater... shall I say more?.....
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30points
#9
I was hit by a truck as a pedestrian crossing the street last year. The truck was going 40 mph and I bounced off of it and landed in someone’s yard. I left with 5 fractures and a concussion. But I’m alive and walking
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30points
Well-functioning stress responses keep you safe. However, if you’re constantly in a state of h**h alert and stress when there’s no tangible danger, it becomes a serious problem, damaging your health over a long enough time frame.
The Cleveland Clinic warns that frequent, chronic, and disproportionate stress responses can be detrimental to your physical and mental health.
Harvard Health also states that repeated activation of the stress response wears down the body and mind. It leads to h**h blood pressure and contributes to anxiety and depression.
#10
I was almost kidnapped in Walmart in Orlando in the middle of the day as an adult. It was an older woman baiting me for 2 men.
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#11
walking home alone at night at 14. got to the alley by my house and heard someone behind me. it was a man who had no business being there. I live on a dead end and he wasn't one of my neighbors. I heard him coming up behind me quicker and he then got attacked by 3 stray cats I had been feeding
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#12
I was living with a friend during the winter and it had snowed almost three feet of snow. I had a doctor's appointment that could have been rescheduled for a month later. something told me to dig my little purple s10 out of the snow. it took me two hours. I almost gave up. I ended up making it. it was snowing so hard I could barely see. when I got to this appointment I told the secretary I lost 54 pounds in 3 months and thought I had an ED. two hours after taking me to the ER the doctors said I had leukemia and they needed to start chemo that week because I had weeks to live if I didn't. around the same time the appointment would have been rescheduled. im still in remission today because of that voice telling me to go.
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29points
The question that ‘wheneverybodyiswatching’ posted online on TikTok reached a massively impressive number of people. At the time of writing, his post had 12.2 million views, 1.1 million likes, and 45.7k comments on the video-sharing platform. What’s more, the post was bookmarked a whopping 88.4k times and boasts 15.4k reshares.
Which of these stories chilled you to the core? What’s the most dangerous situation you’ve ever found yourself in, and how did you get out of it? Do you think your instincts are a reliable warning system, or do you find that you tend to rely on pure luck having your back? You can share your scariest stories in the comments at the very bottom of this post.
#13
My ex left me stranded in a dangerous part of Mexico. I didn’t have money or a place to stay. Thankfully my uber driver didn’t take advantage of me and some distant family members came to get me
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27points
#14
I gave a guy a ride home so he didnt have to get in the car with his drunk friend. Drunk friend followed us to the house. He got out of his truck walked up to me sitting in my car waiting for gas money. He pointed a gun in my face and immediately pulled the trigger. It was empty.
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26points
#15
I was mauled by a pitbull at the age of 4 and required over a hundred stitches to put my head back together. I have extreme frontal lobe damage from this and have almost no fear response to things, i get an anger response instead.
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25points
#16
Was hiking in the Grand Canyon, walking down a narrow path to the bottom. I sliped and fell on loose rocks. I started to slide to the edge, my sister caught me by the collar of my shirt. My feet were dangling off the edge of a 80 ft drop
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23points
#17
Woke up about 30 seconds before a tornado started destroying my house. No sirens or alerts had gone off yet but i woke up with just enough time to get dressed, grab my dog, and take shelter. everyone made it out with out a scratch but the place was destroyed.
see when the place got condemned that’s what i thought too, also the black ceiling is the night sky and the walls were starting to cave
see when the place got condemned that’s what i thought too, also the black ceiling is the night sky and the walls were starting to cave
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#18
my brother's friend put a pistol to my head when we were shooting in an open field. he thought it was empty and had full intention to pull the trigger. then raised it above my head and shot. it had one bullet left. that memory stuck with me forever
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21points
#19
Did h IV and when i went into rehab the nurse came to take my BP and i said “oh no i’m about to go down” woke up in the ER, had a blood infection, almost died, and now I’m about to hit 7 years sober.
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21points
#20
I got caught in a riptide when I was like 6 and when I finally made it out, I was on the other side of the beach miles away, sunburnt like a mf, and I had to walk until I found a lifeguard stand.
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20points