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

I'm a twin, and we both have scars from separate accidents on the same part of our bodies.  I was sliced and he was impailed.  Both were deep wounds and required going to the ER for lots of stiches.  These events occurred about 15 years apart.

I have been diagnosed by a psychologist with an extremely strange form of hyperthymesia. I cannot forget information relating to a human. Names, dates, addresses, faces, entire conversations verbatim, feelings, they do not fade or leave my memory. Ever. This only applies to real people. (Fictional people just don't trigger it for some reason) In other subjects my memory is rather mediocre. It started when I was 4, and I can recall anything related to a person ever since with perfect recollection.

While I was in high school my father and I flew across the Bering Strait in our Cessna. We were the first Americans to enter Soviet air space in 40 years. We followed the Lend Lease route used in WWII. All very official. It had taken a year to plan and get clearance.

My best friend from 3rd grade moved to Texas and I thought I'd never see him again. I was in Missouri and this was pre-Internet.

We bumped into each other when we were 20, in St Peter's Square surrounded by thousands of other tourists.

We instantly recognized each other.

Once I was cutting sod in the middle of a baseball field… and got hit by a car.

I've had my pants sucked off in a tornado, at the same time fractured my neck.

Edit: Lost one shoe, but somehow, the other one was still on. So once I eventually got up, I had to walk around downtown with 1 shoe and no pants. Walking over all of the debri, it was... bad. It's amazing that I didn't step on anything or have any bad falls with all the walking I had to do.

Walked about a quarter mile with the neck fracture, didn't know how injured I was till I got to a hospital

I went to the spot a week later once I could walk around again. My pants were still there really mangled up in some debri

I live in a country of only 17 million people.

I once made a stupid animation video, put it on YouTube and somehow it got more than a million views.

A few years later I made an album with two other guys. One of my songs somehow got more than a million streams on Spotify.

We also did a TV gig with that band. More than a million people have watched that.

Most of the people I know have no idea.

There was a short time when I was the youngest person in the world.

I once won a costume contest that I didn’t enter. The kicker? I wasn’t wearing a costume.

I was wearing Jeans and a zip up hoodie. It was at work.
I did not realize until after the contest that the Batman hoodie had little bat ears and a mask on the hood, so HR thought I was dressed up.
I won Funniest Costume, so there were other winners as well.
I don’t really remember too many of the other costumes, but one guy in my department dressed up as Baymax from Big Hero 6.

I once embezzled a clients money(I had a bad debt with bookies and was going to be shorter as they were gonna take my kneecaps) I asked a friend to place the money on a horse for me, as I was well known around the courses, she bet the wrong horse, it won, we paid off the debt and I put the money back in my customer’s account, they never knew and we got married and had a wonderful life together till she sadly passed away, I have never gambled again since that day.

I worked in a bank in South Africa and had to set up for the board meeting - I used the chairman’s elevator to get there quickly - doors opened and there was the chairman and Nelson Mandela.

I chased down a drunk driver and forced her to pull over, and got someone on the sidewalk to call the police. It was in Manhattan, at night. I was riding a three speed Mary Poppins style bicycle.

I got cancer twice. Both completely unrelated to each other within a 10 year span. Beat it Both times.

I both failed out of college and graduated with honors.

I'm in double digits for the amount of staircases I've fallen down, not like a trip, broken a few bones.

Ive been licked by a lion, gored by a goat, and sat on by a seal on the sea floor.

I once failed every single class in high school and had to repeat the year. Somehow got into a good university with my story of failing high school. Got good grades from college and grad school. Got a good job at a top tech company. Became a tech fellow in the company and also a part time teaching professor at a top university.

Way less exciting than most of these comments but worked for a small business and made profesional hula hoops. I manufactured plus shipped more than 30 pro hula hoops a day and I can’t even keep a hoop up more than a second. I didn’t even learn tricks until I left.

Used to be a gogo dancer. Lived out of my jeep for 2 years and made money by spinning fire on the beach.

For several years of my life I was unable to speak if I turned my head to the left.