“My Friends Didn’t Believe Me”: 76 Internet Users Reveal Events From Their Lives That Seem Too Wild To Be True

Met an American couple at a resort in Dubai… ran into them again at a different resort in Malaysia. We were both celebrating our birthdays.

I drove behind three of the 9/11 hijackers in their blue Toyota a few weeks before the attack. They lived a mile from me.

I was left behind at a pizza parlor children's place after a birthday party (9). This was in the 80s and no one realized I was missing until 6 hours later.

I once knocked Oliver North into a wall on accident.

He was CNN’s war correspondent during a deployment I was on when I was in the navy and was doing a report from my ship.

At the same time he was walking out of the ship’s journalist’s office, I was rounding a corner hurrying to get a pair of sound powered headphones to the back of the ship and was told by the Captain to get them back there quickly even if I had to knock people over to do it.

A plane that was low on fuel needed to land and for communication reasons the aft lookout had to have a working pair of headphones.

So I round that corner and go shoulder to shoulder with North, and he goes back into the wall. I look at him, he looks at me, I apologize for bumping into him and he says he’s sorry for getting in my way.

Sat next to random at Iceland airport for 6 hr layover. 10 hours later, I was standing behind him at our local burrito joint in Seattle.

I had a nightmare about planes hitting skyscrapers a week before 9-11. I watched it live while changing my daughter’s diaper and at first thought it was a movie trailer. Then I see the second one hit and I remembered the nightmare and just felt cold. I’ve had a few dreams over my life that predicted the future but it was mundane stuff. This freaked me out and I only told maybe 3 people.

I was sent into a light pole sideways traveling about 60 mph in a pickup (black ice). It hit hard enough to break the seat belt and I was thrown through the driver's window and landed in a field. Zero injuries aside from a minor headache. Insurance company investigated me for fraud because of the lack of injuries they thought I made it up. I ended up being fine in the end.

I moved to LA straight out of Acting grad school and six weeks later was the female lead on a major detective television series.

I went to a horror/tattoo convention in nashville. moving through the crowd in the area where people were getting tattoos, gary busey was passing me. i said, “oh, it’s gary busey!” he brushed my arm with his hand as he passed and said, “hey, baby.” as i moved through the crowd, i saw his son, jake, getting a tattoo. i told jake how great i thought he was in the film identity. much later, we were about to leave and saw jake in the lobby of the hotel again. he told me i should stay and he’d buy me a beer at the bar, but my friend wanted to leave. don’t know to this day if i regret leaving or not (we drove separately, i could have stayed).

Bit of a bummer, but I had two kids with the same non-hereditary birth defect (spina bifida), 6 years apart.

ETA: For the record, my kids are amazing and I love them, but the situation is not exactly stellar.

Had a headache for a week - turned out to be a stroke - aneurysm I was born with started bleeding in brain - all the partying I used to do brought it on - kinda lucky it happened young coz I recovered pretty much ok after brain surgery…
Always makes me think of Arnie line “it’s not a tumor..!” from Kindergarten Cop….

Got kidnapped as a kid.

Grounded myself to one leg of a 34kv switch...still here. With both hands mostly intact and functional if you can believe that.

Mark Wahlberg pulled me out of the way from getting hit with a golf cart.

Former Vice-President Al Gore watched me break my arm in kindergarten during his 2000 campaign tour.

My phone was tapped because my best friend's father was being charged with treason during the Clinton campaign scandal.

Sigh. Good times.