59 Chilling Stories Of People Who Got A Sudden Bad Feeling And Left Just Before Things Went Wrong

I was at a mall and went outside to drop off some bags in the trunk of my car. The sun had just set. After closing my trunk, I began responding to some texts on my phone. A few minutes later I notice some headlights shining on me. I look up and a white car is heading diagonally across the parking lot straight towards me. There are plenty of open parking spaces, so this car is very intentionally coming towards me. The car pulls right up beside mine, despite the nearest car being parked about 8 spaces away, so this was very intentional.

There are two men in the front seat staring at me. The car was old and beat up. At this point I realize I’m about to be a*******d or mugged. So I start walking very fastly towards the mall. I keep looking back to see if they’re going to jack my car (it’s an expensive BMW) and when I’m far enough away for safety I stop and stare at them. Mostly because I was genuinely curious what the heck they were going to do.

I see them staring back at me, driving a little further past my car. They then speed away.

I reported it to the mall and they said I likely was about to be robbed or carjacked because it had happened there not too long ago. Apparently my staring at them deterred them from making a move.

I was doing a walkthrough in a house we were looking to buy. Everywhere we went in the upstairs areas gave me a feeling of impending doom, as if the house HATED me. After the third round of goosebumps in five minutes’ time I mumbled, “I’m getting the impression that someone died in this house.” (I’m not woowoo, btw…sometimes I just get impressions)

Realtor: (rifling through pages) Umm…yes, someone did pass away here. Says ‘natural causes’

I looked at my wife and motioned out the door in a ‘lessgo!’ kind of way. On the way out, the back of my hand brushed the door frame and came away wet. The frame looked like it had started sweating.

Talking to the realtor after the fact she told us that she bailed on that sale. Several other people reported sensations of unease.

In the early days of dating my former husband, I took a job on the coast at a camp and would drive back every weekend to visit him. I was 19. On my 4 hour drive back to work, I stopped into a quiet rest stop no one around, went to the bathroom, got in my car and a guy came towards my window while another guy beelined towards the other side of my car. It appeared the first guy had a question to ask. Normally I'd roll down my window a little to answer but not this time and I politely held up a still wave as I drove out of there. They'd have to wait for someone else if they truly needed directions, hopefully not a young lone female. .

Was on a road trip in college. Someone said “it’s cool but you’ll hear the music change at some point and you’ll see the energy of the party shift. that’s your cue to go…… heard it, felt it, left. It Got shot up about 20 mins later.

Many years ago I was out drinking with friends. I wanted to take a cab ride home but a friend insisted her friend could take us home. She was already in the backseat making out with his friend. I dropped my phone between the car and the curb as I was getting in and he said “just leave it.” Who just drops their phone and just leaves it???

I later learned that guy was known for mistreating women and being a general creep. I felt like my friend was kind of feeding me to him. She was all nonchalant about it. We stopped hanging out after that.

Went to a party with my friend back in college. As soon as I got there, it seemed off. I'm not sure what it was but it was something about how a few of the guys looked at us and then at each other. It wasnt obvious and I don't even think I picked up on it consciously at the time but it gave me a bad feeling. Looking back on it, that is what told me to leave.

I told my friend we needed to go and she thankfully listened to me. We heard later that the house the party was at was notorious for d***ging girls.

Was driving in rural North Carolina20yrs ago on one of those two lane rural roads. Must have been some accident because traffic was going about 5mph. There was a town about a mile ahead so we decided to just book a room and get to our destination the next day. There was a little dive bar right where we were so the three of us decided to have a beer. It was January btw. We’d been there about ten minutes when some guy at the bar said “James Earl Ray Day” and everyone at the bar laughed. We got the hell out of there asap.


For those who don’t know James Earl Ray k****d MLK.

I was little and my family were visiting their friends. We were all outside doing a picnic but I went inside to use the bathroom when the guy who owned the house followed me inside. He creeped me out so much. Thank god my mom had intuition and quickly followed me inside. I look back on it and definitely think he was a predator.

Once me and a friend were walking in London at about 1am, going back to her house and we turned down an empty quiet street and I don’t know what it was but all my hairs stood up and all my spidey senses were tingling and everything in me was saying not to carry on down that street. I made us go back and turn around and I’m sure my mate thought I was mad but it was like the biggest alarm bell in my brain. For no apparent reason. I’ll never know if there was danger but I wasn’t about to risk it!

Also once I went to my car in a car park and felt like I was being watched so I was on edge even though I couldn’t see anyone so I locked myself in the car when there was a knock on my window! I jumped a MILE! It was my friend he’d seen me get in my car and then decided to ask me a question. I couldn’t see him but I KNEW I was being watched!

Trust your gut. Your brain subconsciously picks up things you don’t even realise. It’s not spooky, it’s a survival instinct. If something feels wrong, don’t try and be logical, get the hell out of there and you can figure it out later.

I was 10 years old at my regular riding lesson. Another young girl whose father worked at the farm where my lesson was came to me and told me the riding instructor had felt her up the day before. He was always the kind who would put his hand on my knee while talking with me on the horse. Got off the farm’s horse, back on my own and rode home, never went back.

In college my roommate who i didnt know very well asked if I wanted to go to a party. I said sure, not knowing it was 90 minutes away. She drove and when we got there it was a family all living in one house. A grandma, kids, kids kids, aunts and uncles. I was like is this the party? She said it must not have started yet. We go inside abd the whole family moved for me to sit on the couch. They were eating when something caught my eye on the wall. It was a picture frame with dozens of roaches going in and out while they are just eating dinner and even putting their plates on the floor. I grew up with roaches but you would see like one a week but we were always spraying. I look down and there are literally roaches everywhere. I texted my friend "Girl hell no there are roaches everywhere I want to leave." She said please can we stay a few hours. I felt like i had no choice because she drove and I was far away. So I said ok and I tried staying outside. So 2 hours goes by and she said come in this guys room there is no roaches. I knew that was a lie but went in and she asked me in front of them if we could stay the night. I got f*****g pissed and said f**k no I want to leave now and you can come back. I turned fast and hit a picture frame with my shoulder and hundreds of roaches went running. I will never forget it and f**k you crystal lol.

In my teens at home. My family was watching TV one night and my dad notices that the house smells weird. He makes us all check our shoes to see if anyone stepped in dog p**p. Nothing. Something was off though. My family all goes to bed except me, staying up to finish a movie.
15 minutes later my sister walks past the fireplace in the den, then looks at me in the living room and whispers, “come here. Look…” she points up where the stove pipe cut through the ceiling. The lights were off in the den, but the beam of orange light coming through the ceiling was CLEAR. Our entire attic space was on fire. I dashed across the house and threw my parents’ bedroom door open screaming “the house is on fire!” I’ve never seen them jump out of bed so fast. Fortunately no one was hurt.
Days later my sister told me she thought she was hearing someone with a deep voice whispering in her ear every time she was about to fall asleep. So she got out of bed to get a glass of water. Our mutual friend in school had recently passed away and he had a deep, low voice. She said it sounded like his voice whispering in her ear.

Was camping with husband and we went for a little canoe trip on the lake.

I suddenly felt a change in the wind (hot+cold) leaves turning, birds flying away, everything went quiet.

Told husband i didnt want to camp anymore. He eas feeling the same because our camping spot.was awful and full of mosquitos.

While on the lake, he texted a friend in a nearby city asking if we could visit. We packed our stuff, friend texted back and said to come.

Started to rain. As we were entering the city (some 20mins later) there was a tornedo alert.

We arrived at our friend as the tornado hit the surrounding including the campground.

When we were teenagers, my cousin and I went into a pet store. We were looking at the kitties and when we walked out, a guy approached us and told us he had kittens at his place we could check out and asked us if we wanted to come into his vehicle. Very scary. Glad we were in a public place at the time.

Not exactly my choice, but I would have done the same if it were my kid.

My mom took me to a friend’s house and she always popped in to say hello before she dropped me off. The father was blackout drunk - hitting on my mom, slurring…

I didn’t understand at the time why we suddenly left but she noped me right out of there.

Guns per se don't bother me--in locked cabinets, places out of sight, etc.

This guy had guns sitting on side tables, leaned up against chairs, etc. Bye.

When I lived in a CA beach town a neighbor friend of mine threw a big party. A professional MMA fighter showed up with three or four other MMA types. At some point that group started to get rowdy and the MMA star grabbed the host and cheerfully flipped him upside down and dangled him from the 2nd story balcony by his ankles. The two guys had been H.S. friends. I could not leave that party quick enough.

Hiking a 5-mile loop to some waterfalls. I had been camping with a few people at a National Forest campground nearby, and we’d packed up already with a plan to leave right after the hike.

We had made it to the falls and stopped for a snack break. Noticed the sunlight was more orange than it had been. It felt eerie. As we were making our way back, the light got darker. Ash began falling from the sky. Obviously a forest fire was nearby and getting closer, fast.

We hustled back and got into the car to leave. Forest rangers were there closing down the roads behind us as we were the last ones out of that area.

A friend's friend's mom cut hair in her basement. I said sure, I'll save a little money. I get there when she asks and she says "hold on, I'm finishing this movie. Just another 45 minutes." um. ok. Well a few minutes later a guy in a giant truck hops the curb and parks in her front yard (this is in a dense city.) He starts screaming for the hair cutting lady's daughter to come outside. His mom gets out of the other side and immediately starts insisting to the gathering crowd he doesn't have a gun. No one asked, pretty suspicious to claim. Hair cutting lady said "let me deal with this" and I just NOPED out. Last thing I remember is seeing her in the middle of the street holding up her arms like "what happened?!" in my rearview mirror.

Our GPS took us through a low income residential area in Memphis, Tennessee. Everyone was staring at us. We came to a red light and then people starting running towards us. We ran the red light and the red lights after that until we were back into a business district.