67 Unbelievable Moments That Actually Happened To People

I lost my keys on a sandy beach in waikiki. We walked up and down the beach for hours trying to find them. And right as we were giving up, I joked "what if they were right here" and stuck my hand in a random spot in the sand and literally pulled them out. I could not believe it. I still don't understand how that happened!

Went to Europe 4 times

Trip 1. Broke my ankle.
Trip 2. Plane crash. (Landing gear caught fire when we landed hard and had to evacuate)
Trip 3. (This was pre Covid) exposed to infectious disease and the public health department quarantined me at home when I got back.
Trip 4. Paris Terror attacks.

My wife and I were dog sitting and we left the dog alone in our house for 4 hours. The TV was definitely off when we left.

When we came back, the TV was on and it was playing one of those channels called “Dog TV” where it’s all dogs playing that’s supposed to entertain and calm down your dog. Our remote was chewed to pieces. Somehow. Some way. I swear that dog turned the tv on and navigated to a channel that my wife and I had never used (we don’t have a dog).

I found a $1000 a month rent controlled apartment sublet in Chelsea on Craigslist the day I was moving to NYC. The ad was placed at 8 am and I replied at 8:05 , I moved in at 2 pm with nothing more than a handshake and lived there for 10 years. The apartment was 1400 sq feet, had a 19x30 foot living room, two bedroom, washer and dryer, on NW 22nd Street and 6th ave. My downstairs neighbor was David Barton of the gym. I had a rooftop and life was awesome.

Back in the mid-90's I was a Realtor. I was on the way to one of my listings, to open it up for another Realtor to show it to her client.

It was during the Winter Olympics, and while I was driving, I started thinking about figure skating, which I always enjoyed watching. I started nostalgically remembering the Calgary Olympics in '88 (I'm Canadian) and how thrilling it was to watch Elizabeth Manley skate a brilliant routine which was one judge away from winning gold. I started fantasizing about how if I ever met her, I would tell her how proud Canada was of her, and how incredibley exciting her performance was.

I got to the house, the other Realtor arrived, and introduced me to her client. It was Elizabeth Manley.

I was too gobsmacked to tell her anything I had been fantasizing about telling her. But I did get her autograph. Which wasn't very professional of me, but I didn't care.

I worked on the grounds crew at a golf course in my early 20s. I was mowing the practice green that was up by the club house. There was a paved path that went up a fairly steep hill to get to the clubhouse from 18, and a small pond just off that path. My superintendent had parked near the plateau of the hill, only very small grade downhill, hopped out, and ran into the clubhouse. During my last pass of the practice green I noticed movement in his cart. The parking brake had apparently come undone and the cart began rolling down the hill, aiming straight towards the pond. I turned off my mower and began sprinting towards the cart as it was picking up speed. Just barely managed to hop in the cart, mash the breaks, and get it stopped. He walks out of the clubhouse before I'd even got off the cart and asks what the hell I'm doing in it. I explain the previous 30 seconds and he doesn't believe a word of it, probably still wouldn't, but it happened. Probably the only time in my life I've felt like a action movie hero, and never got a wink of credit for it.

I was at the British Embassy in Los Angeles for a party honoring the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. They did a drawing for hundreds of guests where one person and their guest would win a trip to London (flights, luxury hotel, the works). I turned to my husband and very dramatically said my name in an announcer voice, and then two seconds later they called my name!

On my first date with my now wife, I told her that the weirdest things naturally happen to me and if she’s serious about hanging out, she needed to get used to it. Right at that moment an Elvis impersonator driving a pink Cadillac with the phrase “Thank you very much” pulled up next to the car we were in. It was in the parking lot of a Waffle House at 2am.

My Aunts favorite soda was diet coke. She always had them 24/7. Back in the mid '90s when she passed me and my mom were at the kitchen counter/island where we had just received the call about her passing. Left our home and were on our way to my other aunt's house to meet up with all of our family who was gathering after hearing the news.

We made a quick stop to a dollar store on the way there where they had 2 off brand soda machines outside. I can't remember the off brand soda I was getting but when it vended, a diet coke popped out. Keep in mind there was only two soda machines and they were both off brand, neither of them were name brand.

We thought that was weird. So we get to our other aunt's house and gather with our cousins and uncles/aunts etc. And eventually after a few hours me and her headed back home.

When we got back home late that evening we walked back into the same kitchen we had left from originally after receiving the call earlier in the afternoon. And sitting on the island counter was a cold can of diet Coke. We never had diet Cokes in our house. As a matter of fact, we never had diet anything. The only soda we ever had in the house was Dr Pepper.

It was a completely different can of diet Coke as the one I had got from the vending machine, because that one was still in my mom's car warm and almost empty from me drinking it.

The vending machine was kind of weird but we had kind of explained it away by saying the vendor must have accidentally put diet Cokes into it by accident or maybe on purpose etc. Who knows.

But to get home and find a cold diet Coke sitting on her counter unopened really took it over the top for us.

I believe this was like 1995 if I'm not mistaken.

I was walking along the harbour of vancouver bc at midnight, and a raccoon scaled up the wall and was walking beside me like a dog for about 20 minutes.

I was fishing on my boat about 2 miles out in the ocean and a bird just lands on my fishing pole that I had in my hand and it stayed there for a while maybe a foot from my hand. Not as good as the other guys story about his grandmother's art work and meeting his future wife, but thats what happened.

Stayed in an AirBnB over 1200 miles away in Seattle. My sister, whom I rarely talk to, happened to be staying in the exact same AirBnB as me at the exact same time.

Found two four leaf clovers one by the other on my birthday.

Someone stole my hat from my head when crowdsurfing to Avenged Sevenfold at Download Festival in 2011. About 30 seconds later, I'd been crowdsurfed forward god knows how far, and the people under me didn't quite have me, so put me down. As this happened, something fell from the sky and landed my shoulder - my hat!

I found my grocery list in the store when I picked up a bag a chips. It was behind the chips and it was a list from about a year before that.

My wife hit a hole in one her first time on a golf course. Barely swung a golf club 100 times. I mean we have video driving up, but no one believes it at first.

I was a young fella, and picked up the phone in my home one night. Someone on the other end asked if it was *John*. I said yes. “Put your mother on the phone.” “Can I tell her who’s calling?” “Come on, *John*, put *Mary* on the phone.”

After a bit of a back and forth where I didn’t know who it was, I asked what number they were calling. They gave me our phone number. For SOME reason, I asked what area code. They said 702. I lived in Nova Scotia at the time, NINE-02.

So a woman in Nevada and a woman in Nova Scotia both shared a first name and a son’s first name as well as nine of the ten digits of a North American phone number.

My Dad came home from work one day while my friends and I were playing basketball. He told us to throw him the ball and he proceeded to swish a 40ft. hook shot. We all laughed and said something about being lucky. He stopped and asked for the ball again and DID IT AGAIN! absolutely nuts!

A while ago my wife and i had a misscarriage with our first pregnancy. It hit us really hard. As a way to deal with it we went down to a local beach one night and wrote a goodbye message in the sand, and said a few words and just gazed out at the stars. All of a sudden the surf rolled forward and all the way up to our feet, and washed aay the message out of the sand.

The tide was not high. It was low. We were standing easily 20-30m away from the edge where it was lapping, and the surf was not raging. I have no explanation. Very, very weird, but we both did feel some sort of presence at that moment. I'll never forget that moment as long as i live.

When I was around 10 years old, my mom took our family to get pumpkins. 


I already had my pumpkin and you paid by the pound. Random old guy walks up to the scale I'm standing next to and asks me to guess the weight of his pumpkin. I guessed 46lbs. 


It was exactly 46 pounds. 


He then accuse me of weighing it and putting it back because that's the only way I would know! 


Not like there was a prize or it was an employee, just a random interaction with the guy.