67 Unbelievable Moments That Actually Happened To People

When I was young I would take a ferry over the Oslo fjord to my summer cabin. It was an old and tiny ferry called «Bastøyfergen» and I probably took it 6 times before it was replaced with a new electric ferry. Skip to about 10 year later I was driving with my family along the sunshine coast out in nowhere in Canada with a couple small ferry crossings on the way. One of those ferries seemed very familiar but I didt get why. My mother jokingly pointed out it looked very similar to the Bastøy ferry but we did not believe it actually was, maybe just a similar model or something. Then we found an info placard on the boat saying that it crossed the atlantic 10 years ago from Norway where it previously shuttled across the Oslo fjord. It was the exact same ferry.

When I met my wife, we met online and I came over to her house to cook her dinner. I was admiring her book collection. And I noticed she had the same first edition copy of The Hobbit that I had. So naturally I get all nerdy and pull it down. Turns out hers was the 7th print and mine was the 8th. Then we watched LOTR and we do it every Xmas day. All day.

I saw the ice cream machine working at a McDonald’s once.

In Grade 2 and Grade 9 I won one of those "guess how many candies in a jar" contests. The number both times was 146.

I got something like 20th in the entire state on a statewide multiple choice math test given to all 7th graders, where students were explicitly allowed to use a basic calculator.

The 1 in 1,000,000 part is that I left my calculator in my locker, and my teacher wouldn't let me get it (I know), so I ran out of time and had to blindly guess on the last 5 questions. Got 4 of them right by pure chance.

I was a shy kid, but I absolutely reminded my teacher that she didn't let me go back to my locker for my calculator after the results came back :).

I was training in Toronto with an expert in my field. Some other guy was there with overlapping training (he was the person trained just before me, then we switched off); he was from Alberta. We met and made small talk.

Him: Where are you from?

Me: Winnipeg.

Him: Oh, my wife is from Winnipeg. Well, sort of. From a town near Winnipeg.

Me: Oh, where’s that?

Him: Some place called Oak Bluff.

Me: Huh. My wife is from Oak Bluff. What year did your wife graduate high school?

Turns out: this guy and I, who lived 1300 km apart, had both worked in the same field, and had both come to train in Toronto with the same national subspecialist expert, had both married women from a town of ~2000 people, who had grown up 5 houses apart from one another and rode the school bus together. But beyond that: I had bought his wife’s childhood home and was living in it, in the neighborhood my wife grew up in.

I had my vehicle stolen in las vegas and instead of finding it trashed somewhere, it was found 8 days later with some minor cosmetic damage, a new aftermarket radio and subwoofers, tinted windows, and a bunch of new and used tools in it. Over $2k worth of stuff.

I don't live in Las Vegas so when I was on my way back to pick it up the detective told me over the phone, "There's A LOT of stuff in there, and I don't know what is or isn't yours so....have a safe trip home after you pick it up"

Honestly the biggest surprise was that on my way to Las Vegas the change engine oil light came on and when I picked it up it was off. I assumed he had just reset it, but when I drained it to change it, even the oil was brand new.

Maybe not 1 in 1,000,000 but I've never heard a positive auto theft story.

Got cancer due to a genetic mutation; got to use a new immunotherapy (off label) due to another genetic mutation. The immunotherapy was a much easier course of treatment than the standard chemo/radiation/surgery. Had I been diagnosed six months earlier, the immunotherapy would not have been an option. I will forever be grateful that I didn’t have to go the standard route and that my wife and kid didn’t have to watch me go through the same.

My car stalled out in the middle of a very busy road, so I was trying to push it into a gas station parking lot with the help of a good samaritan. The car got going too fast, I fell, and got dragged by my car for a few feet. Then while laying in the middle of the road, I watched my car careen in the opposite direction of the gas station, pass right in front of my face, go through 5 lanes of traffic and over a median.

While my car was going over the median, the good samaritan ran through traffic, jumped into my car, and steered it safely into a parking lot. I jumped up and ran across the road to follow her. I had some bruises and road rash, but didn’t die, and she saved my car. I can’t imagine that series of events is very common.

I was at a holiday party that had door prizes. When it was time for the draw, I decided to be funny and as soon as they read the first digit (of the like, 6 or 7 digit ticket number) I yelled "I won!" and got my laughs.


Then it turned out; I actually won the prize lol.

I went completely blind and was paralyzed by an autoimmune disease at 23. I was completely disabled and dependent on others for an entire year. And within a few months it cleared up and if you saw me now, no one would ever know.

My dad had written me this note about how I would find true love in my lifetime and how he was so proud of me. This was when I was a freshman in high school. After he died when I was in my 20s I tore up my apartment trying to find it. I was so upset when I couldn't find it. A few days later it was just sitting in the middle of my living room. After I had cleaned and everything. No idea where it came from.

I was spending time in the library worrying about paying bills and found eight 100 dollar bills laid neatly behind the cover of the Tao of Pooh. I stuck the cash in my pocket checked out the book and went to pay the electric and insurance.

I had been asking for crows to befriend me for months while my husband was battling cancer. One day I came home to 3 waiting for me they never were there before. That was the last day my husband was coherent enough to talk to me and he passed less than 48 hrs after. I swear it was a sign.

I have not one, but two, and they both literally deal with the word ‘Mystery’:

1. I was reading the nonfiction book Poverty, By America, while Unsolved Mysteries was playing on the TV in the background.

I ended up reading the word “Predestination” in the book at the literal exact same time that it was also said on the TV by someone on the show.


2. My favorite book growing up was called “The World’s Last Mysteries”. Also, while growing up, my mom and I used to press wildflowers in books that we would find on our walks. The last flower that we pressed in “The World’s Last Mysteries” was a red wild rose. We pressed it in the exact middle of the book so we could find it easily. When we moved across the country, we sold this book on accident at a garage sale, and I was devastated.

Flash forward a decade later, I’m at an antique shop in our new home state, and what do I come across? The World’s Last Mysteries. I bought it immediately and brought it home. As I’m flipping through the pages, a super flat, super dry red wild rose drops out of the middle of the book.

Had a paper route when i was a kid. threw a paper towards the porch that was a somewhat elevated from where i was passing on my bike and it landed on end standing up on the hand rail..

Every Friday we’d play “high card” at work. Everyone puts in $20 and picks a card from the deck highest card takes the money. Ties pick another card until a winner is decided.

I won 17 weeks in a row.

Most guys would congratulate me and call me lucky. Others were furious and swore I cheated. They’d changed the deck. Made me pick first, second, last, second to last. But nothing mattered I just kept winning. Pretty bizarre. Wish I would have used that luck on a lotto ticket though.

Not as rare as some of the others mentioned here, but I finished Chapstick without losing it lol.

I don’t know the odds but got last minute appointment in Turkey to get my entire body scanned because I wanted to make a fun TikTok.

No issues. No pain. No genetic problems. 40. No surgeries. Healthy my entire life.

Found stage 3b breast cancer. I would have been goner had I not done that and never seen it coming.

In January of 2021, my partner and I were verbally and physically attacked by a drunk horde of Amish people on a beach in Florida.