"I've Had Exorcisms Performed On Me": 43 Implausible Things That Still Happened To These People

I bought a suit once owned by my father at a vintage clothing store 500 miles away from where he lived. He died a few months before I was born. His National Honor Society card was in the jacket pocket. I discovered it the day after I purchased it.

I’ve had exorcisms performed on me. I grew up in the charismatic church, where they believe every ailment is caused by a demon. I had depression, anxiety, and ADHD, which were supposedly caused by demons. So on more than one occasion they did deliverance sessions to try to cast the demons out of me. Disappointingly, nothing happened. Later in life I found out demons HATE Adderall and Prozac!

I slid on ice while driving and hit a tree, totalling the car and giving myself a mild concussion and bruises. The hospital called the next day after reviewing the xrays to tell me I had broken my eye socket. In the follow up appointment with an ENT, I learned that I actually had a cyst that had been eating away at my eye socket. It would have caused blindness if not caught on time.

Sometimes hitting a tree is a miracle?

Mosquitoes are afraid of me. I can walk directly into a swarm and they’ll split and fly away. This provides mosquito protection to me and anyone in about 2 feet to any direction. My wife enjoys this super power.

I've discovered two new species of animal.

I am not a scientist. I don't even have a job.

I misdialed a friend’s number in the 1980’s but got the person I wanted at the wrong number. She was at her uncles house.

Just learned how to ride a bike at 30. Literally last week. It's the proudest moment for me..and i have a phd lmao. Childhood things you achieve as an adult just mean more.

Twice I have hit a pedestrian and both times the police thanked me.

1st one - driving home from University (commuter) someone ran into the road, I slammed on my brakes and guy landed on hood of car, 3 police officers piled on him, handcuff him on my hood and one turns to me and says thank you, you can leave. Get home tell mom, we are watching the news and story on news is about how a bank robber was caught by 3 police officers. No they didn't, I did.

2nd one - driving home from work, get off freeway turn left, turn right at light, turn right onto my street. As I am driving up my street, someone runs out form between parked cars and lands smack on my hood, 2 police officers appear and jump on guy and handcuff him on my car hood. One turns to me and says thanks for your help, you can leave. Next day read in the paper about how they were chasing someone, he got off freeway, tried to drive around behind the Kmart and ran into wall, got out, jumped wall, and was caught by two officers. No they didn't, I did.

I had a lobectomy … a right temporal lobectomy… to stop my seizures Its been 20 yrs im still seizures free.

I am a diagnosed sociopath. They call it something else now, but about 1% of the population has Anti Social Personality Disorder. Sociopaths aren’t just people who lack empathy because we’re evil. Our brains are wired differently. You can see it in an MRI scan. 

While sociopaths are overrepresented among violent criminals, it’s still a spectrum and plenty of us live ordinary lives. Please don’t use “sociopath” as an insult, we can’t change the way we are. .

Maya Angelou played wingman to my (now) husband and insisted I go out on a date with him because “if you end up marrying him, you’ll never have to cook a day in your life.” She was correct.

My husband is a professional chef and we met working at a boutique hotel in Santa Monica. He was the head chef, I was a server. Maya was a regular because she was obsessed with his food.

When I was 12 years old I pitched a perfect game playing for my little league team. 18 batters faced, 18 strike outs. I didnt even know what a perfect game was, I thought I had a no hitter going.

After final strike out everyone came and jumped on me, and told me what I did. They didn't mention it during game to not jynx it. Ended up with a nice trophy, local media attention, and got to be in Sports Illistrated for Kids. Turns out, one had never happened in my state for my age range that they could find. I tell people now they dont believe me, until I show them the trophy in my man cave. Fun time.

At my peak I was almost certainly in the top 1% of cherry pickers worldwide, pounds picked per season, and also per day.


Personal record is 2700 pounds in about 8 hours.

When I was younger my brother and I would try to beat super Mario world as fast as possible and use a stop watch to time it. Years later we found the Internet has Speed Run records and learned our times on the unmoded console were between 3rd and 4th for the world.

I’ve had the Black Death. (I got better).

I didn’t know I was pregnant until 6 days before my son was born. He was full term.

Sunday - @ home test confirms

Monday - ER says I’m only 2 mo along according to blood test

Tuesday- called OBs all day, found appt for Thursday

Wednesday - bugging out

Thursday - OB nurse says ~5-6 mo look wise, OB does exam says “HA no like 34 weeks, can you come tomorrow for ultrasound?”

Friday - ultrasound tech going off crazy “THIS BABY HUGE, OH IT COMIN! Y’all probably got about 3 weeks

Saturday - Go into labor, son arrives on 9/23/23 @ 23:23:45, 5lb 6oz and 23.75” long

I was living on an unfinished bus with no running amenities, just a hose outside and an electrical cord through a window. Fully renovating the interior of a rental from studs from about 6 months pregnant, all essentially alone. His dad left me hanging so much. Doing side work of all types (I was on a roof the month prior replacing framing and roofing after a tree guy messed up the garage roof) replacing floors, building custom cabinets, and working full time teaching carpentry to juvenile detention residents in max security detainment.

I’m going to buy a house in a few months and we’re doing so great now! Got a promotion and been able to lay off side work as much.

I messaged a girl randomly on Facebook thinking she was someone I talked to when I was in my early teens. All I remembered about that person was her name and that she lived in some other state. This person had the same name and was also from another state. It turned out she wasn’t the right person but it just so happened she had just moved to the other state to mine. That was five years ago, we got married in August.

I know how and can successfully fold a fitted sheet.

Bullied constantly throughout high-school as a morbidly obese girl. Staff knew. Spent 7 weeks first semester of senior year in the hospital because I got violently ill (stress from school) came back with doctor/hospital notes - given ISS. Teachers didnt provide work in ISS because it was 'hopeless' and I wouldn't pass regardless. Was told I'd have to repeat senior year. Dropped out. Went and got my GED. Found out I got an Honors GED (didn't know that was even a thing) and offered a full scholarship to the community college where I took the GED because of my grades. Lost all the weight naturally and most of the kids that terrorized me in high school are fat, balding, on their third marriage or became a priest 😂.

I was a background rando in both The Vikings and Game of Thrones.

In both cases, my whole "role" was standing in the background, while menacingly sporting long hair and a beard.

There are a pass-by shots with my face in them in several episodes of both shows, since being cold and uncomfortable for hours on end gave me the properly grim "Northern Barbarian" frown.