10 Creepy Times People Trusted a Gut Feeling and Avoided Disaster

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Eric Lund
Feb 25, 2019 12:00 PM EST

You hear about moments like these all the time. Something just doesn't seem quite right, so you hesitate, prepare, or get the hell outta there. These people had especially vivid moments where their instincts kicked in and they made a decision that ended up saving their skin. Here's more times someone dodged a huge bullet.

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    Text - 19 hours ago edited 19 hours ago This was a few years back. I came out of a club in my home town after a heavy night of drinking. I was a student then, and out with a lot of university friends - friends that I lost during the night. I was alone. donalc93 3.9k points I was going to get a taxi home, but thought I could do with some McDonalds first. (We have a big 24hr one in our town). During my drunken walk towards the McDonalds I heard crying coming from one of the dark narrow alleyways w
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    Text - 15 hours ago waltermittyslife 2.4k points When I was in college, I lived in a sketchy part of Chicago (Humboldt Park/Logan Square before gentrification). I liked to take late night strolls, even when I was living in that neighborhood as a 20-year-old woman. Yeah, I know. Pretty dumb of me One night, I was feeling stressed out so I embarked on one of my late night strolls. I was walking along a somewhat busy road. Cars were zooming past me. Pretty normal. I wasn't paying much attention bec
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    Text - PrincessofPersuasia 1.6k points 19 hours ago edited 8 hours ago I was working as a bank teller and our bank had large windows on 2 sides of the building so you could watch everyone walk from their car into the bank. A guy started walking in and I instantly knew something was up. He wasn't doing anything abnormal, I just got a weird feeling. I was the only one in the front. Everyone else was either at lunch or in the vault, so I couldn't leave my station. I prepared myself to get robbed so
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    Text - Ashlei96 568 points 18 hours ago Not really a life saving moment but avoiding a visit to the hospital. I was staying the night at my grandmas house and I had to get up to use the restroom. I was walking in the dark and I stopped. I had this bad feeling so I switched on the light. Right in my path way a couple feet away was a baby scorpion. I had a huge chance of getting stung.
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    Text - therisingsun0510 226 points 13 hours ago edited 10 hours ago Not MY gut feeling but my Gran told me this My Grandparents live in fairly rural area, more so back in the day. When my mum was about 3 she was in a pram and my Gran was pushing her along the side of the road towards town. My mum had been wriggling about and wanting to walk for ages and eventually she made so much fuss my Gran stopped to let her out. So mum had her hands on the pram and was helping to push it when a tractor pull
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    Text - MeddlingKids1126 1.0k points 17 hours ago I don't know if it was a gut feeling so much as good timing but as a kid me and my brother shared bunk beds, I had the bottom bunk. Every night I would get up to get myself a drink and go back to bed. I was maybe 6 when one night I get up to get my feckin juice and I barely had stepped out of our bedroom when there was a loud cracking sound. This woke my parents and the three of us rushed back to find that the wood supporting the top bunk matress
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    Text - bananasareappealing 976 points 18 hours ago I was on my way to work once and as the light turned green and I was about to go through, felt something tell me to wait so I slowed a bit and I as did a car zoomed through the red light of that intersection. I'm sure if I just went through I would have been hit. ^ I'm sure a lot of people have stories like that, and it's always amazing/creepy to hear about such instances.
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    Text - jayrambling 345 points 17 hours ago I was at a bonfire and had planned to get a ride home with one of my friends. I got really anxious right before we left and ended up staying at the bonfire. On his way home, my friend had hit a light pole and it ended up falling and crushing the passenger seat, right where I would have been sitting. He was completely fine, just a few scratches and bruises but I definitely would have been severely injured if not killed
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    Text - 11 hours ago RaisingWild 670 points Almost 8 months pregnant, normal, complication free pregnancy. Walking through the grocery store i had a twinge of a headache. Told my husband we needed to go home. At home i took a shower and relaxed a bit, but got an urgent "impending doom" feeling. Still just a tiny headache, not even enough for a tylenol. Packed my toddlers diaper bag and requested we go to urgent care The whole ride there i felt fine, wondering what i was even going to tell them at
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    Text - covertredditaddict 650 points 12 hours ago Three years ago I was planning a major fundraising event. I was working ridiculous hours trying to make sure everything was going to run smoothly. I had worst case scenarios planned out like a crazy person. One day I was climbing the stairs after getting home rather late when I became unnaturally short of breath. As I sat on my bed my breathing returned to normal. My face became hot with what I can only assume is what's considered a hot-flash in
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