40 People Describe The Creepiest Gut Feeling That Turned Out To Be Right

I was maybe 11 or 12 years old at an adoption fair. Prospective adoptive parents would come to meet and greet with potential kids. I was paired with a single man in his 50’s. He was my only taker. He was interested in adopting me. I immediately had a terrible feeling about him. My case manager was like “no, he’s cleared, we’ve done our research, he’s nothing to worry about. you should do a trial stay at his home. You’re getting older, it’s harder for older kids to get adopted be grateful”

I had zero autonomy over this and sure enough, tears and all they made me do a trial at his home over a weekend. I went to take a shower and he “mistakenly” walked in the room while I was naked, but he stood there for like 5 minutes just staring. He said nothing then left. I climbed right the f**k out the window and ran away. You can’t convince me he wasn’t going to a*****t me.

We were in a bus accident, I was thrown out of the bus and hit my head. Everything went black and I was dizzy, and someone I was with grabbed me a pillow and helped me to lay down, which I did for a few minutes. Then I suddenly got really cold and something told me “go find your hoodie”. I had it with me when I was on the bus. I slowy stood up and could see a tiny bit again.

I stumbled over to the bus wreck looking for my hoodie and while stumbling over I heard a huge screech of brakes and people screaming. An 18 wheeler hadn’t seen our accident and Jack-knifed into our accident. Found the pillow I was laying on stuck under one of the 18 wheelers wheels. I fully believe I escaped death twice that day.

Oooo i got a good one, it wasnt me but an ex partner, I was visiting her and her family for the holidays and we decided one night to go out dancing. We got all dressed up and I was real excited to go to the club with her. We get to the parking garage and maybe 10 steps out of the car she stops me and says “i have a bad feeling about going to the club, would you hate me or be mad if we just went back home?” I said “absolutely not, id rather us be home and you be wrong than be out and you be right. The next day we found out there was a shooting at the club and a couple was killed. I hugged her and thanked her for saving our lives… trust your gut!

Two off the top of my head. My husband and I had taken the skytrain into downtown Vancouver in 2011 to watch game 7 and when he said we NEEDED to leave before the 3rd period, we left. People started texting me to see where we were and I had no idea what was going on. By the time we got home, the rioting was in full swing and the skytrain was shut down. When I asked my husband why he knew we needed to leave, he basically said there was bad vibes

The other time was in Nov 2020. My husband basically begged me to take the earliest ferry back from Van Island so we could leave the lower mainland asap and drive home. I listened, and we got home safely, with a couple detours due to rising water. If I hadn't listened, we would have been stuck there for another 2 weeks, as it rained so hard that day, it flooded highways and washed out bridges. Again, I asked my husband how he knew we need to go NOW and he said he just wanted to go home

My sister went to a school that was an hour away and had to be up at 5 every morning. This happened around 2009. We were 12 & 16 years old, woke up one morning, getting dressed and heard a baby crying outside. This is Minnesota so it’s VERY dark and VERY cold in the winter at 5 am. We knew it was some bs - cops came - found tracks in the snow to our door. Someone had been playing a tape trying to lure us outside and I never slept well in that house again knowing someone tried that

I was 10. Seeing a movie with a friend and in the middle of the movie a man sat next to me. He starts touching me. I didn’t know what was happening. I jumped up from the chair told my friend I needed to use the bathroom, and ran to the back of the movie theater, but I didn’t go to the bathroom. Hid in the empty back row of the theater. The guy walks out a minute or so later. The doors to the theater had pothole type windows and I looked out and the guy was standing outside the womens bathroom.

Driving through a tiny Texas town with my (now) ex — I’m white passing, he is not. Stopped at a diner around 8:30/9pm and one (of 2) servers made some racist comments but we ignore it while the other takes care of us. When we left, he told us FOUR times to be careful. It was raining, but not 4 warnings type of raining. We made the fastest stop for gas and got the h**l out.

PS the town to avoid is Aspermont. It’s in the middle of nowhere but is part of the drive from Denver to Austin, so just a warning for any POC, specifically black people, on that route

It was a “we need to stop right now” feeling. We stayed at my in laws the night before and decided to leave early am. I famously do not really eat breakfast but this particular morning I was damn near begging my husband to stop for breakfast. I didn’t care where literally any place that sold food. Pulled into a bojangles about 5 miles from our apartment. Sat in the drive thru about ten minutes and headed home. We pulled into our complex a few minutes after 8 am to see police cars.
Because my neighbors argued with a man the night before and the man came back and shot up the quadplex 17 times. In broad daylight. At 8 am where I would’ve been sitting if we didn’t stop for food

My husband & I once stayed at a cabin in the woods. Came back from dinner & someone been in the cabin. The front door that was *locked* was now open, another door that was closed was open, things had been moved but not stolen — and only a few so it was like they’d tried to retrace steps but forgotten to reset small things, not like a thief had ransacked it. The vibes were MAJORLY off. We both just looked at each other & knew, so we packed & left immediately, driving through the night to get home.

It was the creepiest feeling. Really felt like we were being watched and they were going to come back when we were sleeping. The relief we felt when we were safely locked in the car and driving away was palpable.

My band was hired by a very wealthy couple to play a 4th of July party at their personal residence (large main house, pool, guest house, golf course on site etc, it was a whole ordeal). Upon arrival at the house, the husband offered to give me and our sound tech’s girlfriend a tour of the house (some of the guys had been there before, so the fact that he only asked us two didn’t immediately alarm me). We eventually ended up in the basement walking through his wine cellar, when he started making comments about how the cellar is a great place to bring girls with no bra on because it stays so cool down there.
We had driven for 15 hours to play this gig, and for the sake of comfort, I was wearing an XXL tshirt and no bra. When he made that comment, a lightbulb went off in my head and I looked around the room to realize he was standing in front of the only door. The other girl in the room made eye contact with me and we kept as much distance between us and that man as we could My boyfriend at the time was the band’s frontman, and thankfully, he came downstairs looking for us, and we all went upstairs.
That man proceeded to sexually harass me for the remainder of our time there, making comments about how he noticed I was braless when I arrived, and how nice my breasts are etc in front of his wife, my boyfriend, the band, everyone. No one knew what to do because we knew he had guns and plenty of friends around if we decided to pick a fight.
We played our show and then left as soon we could. I spent the entire time hyper-aware of my own body and feeling unsafe in my own skin, because if he noticed my breasts in that large tshirt, it was clear there was nothing I could wear that would “hide” my body from him. I think about that moment in the cellar all the time, and how lucky we were that my former partner came downstairs when he did.

Last Halloween, I went to a house party with a friend. It was all fun until around 3 AM, when some guys showed up. The vibe was immediately off but no one seemed to notice. After a couple of minutes, I told my friend we should leave. She didn’t want to go at first, but I convinced her. The next day, we found out there was a shooting at the party right after we left.

I was walking downtown late one night after work when a car going the opposite direction passes and a man shouts at me from the window of the car. There was a street light behind me, and he gets in the turn lane. I get the feeling like I need to find a place to hide but the sidewalk just goes under a bridge that’s still pretty visible to the street. I start walking faster, he passes me and pulls over in a parking lot right on the corner of the intersection in front of me. I turn before I hit that corner and he’s out on the street again. I feel pretty certain at this point he’s following me, so I call a friend of mine and start c*****g through streets tryna lose him. Lotta streets are one way so he can’t directly follow but he keeps passing me. I try to stay on streets with large groups of people and am running at one point tryna get to a bar I know with a back I can leave out of. He passes one more time before I’m in, waited him out for an hour just to be safe

Booked an airbnb in Oregon last minute because we needed to wash our clothes after travelling for a month straight. Got to the area suddenly, I felt nauseous and my sister noticed how shady the area was, went inside, met the host (who lived upstairs with no separation) saw tons of saws, large barrells, and SUPER clean workspace in the garage. We RAN out of there. Always trust the gut - reported to airbnb and kept checking up, they removed him after some sketch reviews!!!

I was at a football game in highschool it was my school vs my cousins school. The game was at her schools stadium which was a few streets over from her house. As we were getting ready to leave I felt butterflies in my stomach but ignored it and we continued walking once we got there one of my cousins and I went to my schools side while she and another of my cousins went to her schools side. At halftime I called her so I could switch sides and meet up with her but that butterfly feeling became Even more intense. Thats when I looked up and seen a large crowd that sat at the top of the stadium run from one side to another unbeknownst to me that was the first shooting.
I was still on the phone with my cousin as I walked into the concession part (I forgot what it’s called) when I started seeing it get overly crowded. Again that gut feeling hit me and this time I felt like my head was spinning and if I didn’t leave at that moment something bad was going to happen possibly to me. So I left And by the time I made it it to ihop I was getting back to back calls saying it had been a shooting and they had the football players including my boyfriend at the time laid out on the field.
4 people ended up being shot along with one of my cousins who had came at a later time than us and all I could think about was what if I’d ignored that feeling one more time

At a hotdog place in Chicago I felt something was off and left, my friend (who I tried to get to come leave with me) got stabbed not more than 5 minutes later.

In the subway, late night, at the terminus waiting for the subway to start, and there's absolutely no one in the train or outside. I get inside a wagon and sit next to the door, just in case. A few minutes later, a man walks in through the last door in the opposite direction and sits, far, but facing me. I do a quick safety glance and notice he's staring at me. I don't want to make eye contact but I check again and he's very calm, hands together on his knees, eyes locked on me I pretend to go look outside for directions, walk towards the head of the train, wait a bit, then enter another wagon. Still no one anywhere. After a few minutes, the same man enters the wagon and sits, a few meters away, staring at me. There's something cold and methodical in his behavior. This time I stared back showing I clearly saw him, stood up and stomped my foot on the ground, turned to leave and he said "No, you don't leave, I'm the one who leaves". And he left.

When my son was about 3 years old I drove him one night to see the Christmas tree outside a little church nearby. I’d never taken him there before but knew they’d do an amazing job with the lights each year. We pulled into the parking lot near an adjacent house and my son said “Ok mom but we need to leave right now because a very bad man is going to come out of that house in a minute.” I have no idea what vibe his little mind picked up on, but I didn’t question it for a second! Got the heck out!

A few years ago my friends and I were driving in Cherokee Park in Louisville KY, and pulled over in one of the parking lots to smoke. It was around midnight. An old man pulled up in the car next to us, we already thought he was a bit creepy.. then he picked up a curly haired almost clown like wig from his passenger seat and started to put it on… we had the car on and backing up before he even finished getting on his head.. we drove away so fast

In 2023 me and my husband stayed in a hotel in front of the shore at Hollywood beach. We spent the whole morning/afternoon cycling the city and when we came Back to the hotel we should decide going to the beach or hotel’s swimming pool. I felt to my gut that we should definitly go to the pool and some minutes later we heard the shooting coming from the beach. The News reported later that 9 people were injured and the police were looking for the 3 gunmen.

I just can’t help myself by thinking about our famílias in Brazil receiving the terrible news if we decided to stay.

Went out with my bother and mom to a tavern for some burgers. As soon as I walked in the door I was like, ‘nah guys this is where trouble starts’ I got the same feeling from that place as I did right before shit went down when I was deployed overseas. Blood pumping in my ears, neck hair standing straight up, cold sweat. We left immediately and went somewhere else. A week later somebody got kicked out for being drunk so they got their AR and shot the place up.