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Have you ever had a gut feeling that you conscionable couldn't ignore? I cognize I've decidedly had moments erstwhile my intuition shows up, and fto maine archer you, it's NEVER wrong.
So recently, we asked the BuzzFeed Community to archer america astir a clip erstwhile their gut feeling ended up redeeming their life, and these stories did not disappoint. Here are those moments:
Note: Some responses are besides from Reddit threads.
1. "My family, including my husband, five-year-old son, three-year-old son, and my precise large self, were walking location from an event. We were astir to attack a engaged crosswalk that we’ve safely crossed galore times. I knew the airy would beryllium changing soon to let america to cross. When I looked to my left, I saw a small robin’s ovum connected the ground. I’ve seen robin’s eggs dozens of times successful my life, but thing told maine that I should halt and amusement my children the egg. My boys came implicit to look and arsenic I predicted, the airy had changed. We would person made the airy easily, but conscionable astatine that moment, a ample SUV came barreling done the intersection, moving the reddish airy close wherever we each would person been crossing the street. Something heavy wrong of maine told maine that we needed to halt and look astatine that egg. I americium grateful each time that we did, and shudder to deliberation astir what could person happened that day."
—Anonymous, 34, Pennsylvania
2. "I was driving to conscionable a person astatine a fashionable bar. Just arsenic I turned onto the street, I had a weird feeling. I thought it was societal anxiety. I called my person to conscionable maine a fewer miles south, astatine different barroom with little people. Come to find out, astir the clip I arrived astatine the different bar, an aggravated patron who had been kicked retired of the barroom I was expected to beryllium astatine drove his elephantine motortruck into the enactment of radical waiting outside, severely injuring and hospitalizing tons of people. I would person been successful that line."
—Anonymous, 33, San Diego
3. "I bought tickets for a midnight movie merchandise — it was my partner's birthday. I did travel location from enactment legitimately exhausted, but thing made my full being balk astatine the thought of going. I truly wanted to spot the movie and I truly enjoyed the radical we were going with. He said we could enactment home. It was the Dark Knight Rises showing successful Aurora, Colorado. One of our friends died successful the shooting, and the remainder were traumatized."
—Anonymous
4. "My dada tells maine a communicative of however once, helium was roaming astir a section marketplace connected a random Saturday erstwhile helium heard my ma calling him doubly from a distance. She was astatine home. He felt uneasy and went home. An hr later, that section marketplace had a precise disfigured IED blast."
5. "For the past 9 years, I person celebrated New Year's Eve successful the French Quarter. In 2025, I woke up and conscionable had a feeling to enactment home. There was a violent attack."
6. "I was expected to beryllium successful Champlain Towers erstwhile it collapsed successful 2021. I was packing my bag, and past my canine started hacking up a hairball and it wholly distracted my bid of events. I was saved by a hairsbreadth ball. Thank you, Sunny. Miss you girl."
7. "My schoolhouse was doing a travel to London that I was expected to beryllium a portion of. I woke up and felt sick to my stomach, not successful an unwell way, but successful a 'something atrocious is going to happen' way. My mum fto maine enactment home, reasoning I was excessively anxious to beryllium going truthful acold from home. We watched connected the TV arsenic quality of the London bombings broke. I should person been determination connected the Tube, but someway I knew to enactment home."
—Anonymous, 35, United Kingdom
8. "I erstwhile had a weird gut feeling not to instrumentality my accustomed way home, truthful I switched it up astatine the past minute. Later, I recovered retired there’d been a large mishap close wherever I usually would’ve been astir that time, and it honestly gave maine chills."
9. "I was driving connected the thruway erstwhile I passed a truck. The idiosyncratic down maine wanted to spell faster past me, ran into the backmost of my car, and pushed maine implicit successful beforehand of a tractor trailer. My car started spinning and I took my ft disconnected the state to break. I don’t cognize if it was a gut feeling, but precise loudly, I heard 'don’t interruption twice.' I knew I had to listen. I ended up connected the broadside of the road. The car was totaled, but I was wholly unhurt. Even the motortruck operator was amazed. I drove a small car; helium didn’t person clip to halt and thought helium was going to tally implicit me. Always perceive to that voice."
—Anonymous, 65, New York
10. "Every Friday evening, I'd instrumentality a abbreviated locomotion down to a country store to get immoderate chips and soda. It lone took 5 minutes to get determination connected foot. One evening, I conscionable had an unusual feeling that I truly didn't request to spell and that it'd beryllium amended for maine if I stayed successful for the night. Not reasoning overmuch of it, I took my overgarment and shoes disconnected and turned connected my machine to chill. Not adjacent 2 minutes later, weapon shots went off, little than a fewer yards from wherever I precise apt would person been standing. One idiosyncratic had been attacked and hospitalized."
11. "I was with my family, walking towards the decorativeness enactment of the Boston Marathon successful 2013. Randomly, my relative suggested we measurement wrong a store we were walking past. He was starring the way, truthful we didn’t deliberation overmuch of it. All of a sudden, determination was a large sound and the gathering shook. A fewer moments later, determination was a louder sound and the gathering shook adjacent more. Two bombs went disconnected connected the different broadside of the street. We ran done the backmost exit of the store to get away. I bash not judge we would’ve been hurt, since we were connected the other broadside of the street, but if my relative didn’t person america spell into that store, we would’ve felt the afloat interaction of the 2nd weaponry and seen the carnage it created."
—Anonymous
12. "Shortly aft college, I was driving retired to the Beaches successful Toronto to conscionable immoderate friends for meal astatine our accustomed hangout spot. It was acheronian and raining lightly, but was unusually empty. Coming up to a notoriously atrocious intersection astir 100 yards earlier the light, I had the astir vivid representation I’ve ever seen flash into my head: a bull car with lights on, moving the reddish airy from my near and T-boning my car close successful the driver's doorway — past blackness. It was truthful startling. I conscionable took my ft disconnected the state and dilatory decelerated. JUST arsenic I came to the intersection, a car came barreling done the reddish airy successful beforehand of me! It wasn’t a bull car, but they would’ve killed maine if I hadn’t slowed down. I was shaken truthful bad, I had to propulsion over. It’s inactive vivid successful my caput contiguous and it's been 30 years since!"
—Anonymous, 53, South Carolina
13. "Back successful the '80s, I had to locomotion respective miles to precocious schoolhouse each day. A feline I knew 2 streets from my location saw maine successful the vicinity 1 day, and told maine he’d gotten a car. He asked if I wanted a thrust the adjacent time with him and his 2 friends. The adjacent morning, I woke up earlier than accustomed and conscionable wanted to get retired of the house, truthful I decided to commencement walking to school. A spot later, arsenic I turned the country towards my school, I saw exigency vehicles everyplace and past a chopper flew over. My person had wrecked his car truly badly; they were each chopped from the car, sent to daze trauma, and were determination for galore months. It was perfectly shocking, and I’m truthful gladsome I decided to locomotion that day."
—Anonymous, 59, North Carolina
14. "I was successful downtown Phoenix with my woman and tiny child. We were walking and saw a 'walk' airy astatine an intersection. I didn't consciousness similar the oncoming car was going to announcement the postulation light, truthful I made my household wait. The car slammed connected their brakes precocious capable that they screeched into the intersection. If I trusted the 'walk' airy oregon the car to announcement it, we each would person been hit."
15. "My mum had a adjacent telephone successful 1987. She skipped the King’s Cross conduit 1 nighttime due to the fact that thing felt off, took a taxi instead, and minutes later, the presumption occurrence happened."
16. "I was hiking with my woman successful the wood successful Washington. It each of the abrupt got quiescent and the aerial stunk similar soiled bedewed dog. We some got freaked retired and high-tailed retired of there. We aboriginal recovered retired determination were a batch of reports of a upland lion successful the area."
17. "I was successful Memphis for a conference, and had been determination each week. We'd partied passim the week, but connected Friday night, the aerial conscionable felt wrong. I told my hubby I didn’t privation to go, and we went backmost to the hotel. There was a shooting conscionable extracurricular the barriers that night. There were a fewer times that week wherever I listened to that gut feeling."
18. "I was retired for luncheon with my woman astatine the clip and a buddy. I forgot my wallet successful the car, truthful I went retired to the parking batch to drawback it. There were 2 radical wandering around. At archetypal glance, thing seemed retired of ordinary, but thing conscionable didn’t beryllium right. I mentioned however I didn’t similar it to the group; we finished our drinks and near 5 minutes later. We didn’t spot them arsenic we left. Fast guardant 15 minutes later, arsenic we’re getting settled backmost into the apartment, a clump of constabulary sirens spell off. Shortly after, section quality posted that determination was a shooting astatine that nonstop barroom we were conscionable at. They were waiting for idiosyncratic other to travel retired of that bar, and changeable him erstwhile helium did, sidesplitting him and different patron. Some clip later, erstwhile the unfortunate was identified, helium looked VERY akin to me. I wonderment however adjacent I was to being changeable successful that moment."
19. "Drove my buddy to conscionable a woman who was selling her car connected Craigslist. We had to conscionable the woman aft she got disconnected enactment arsenic a bartender. The determination was nationalist and busy. We get to the meetup spot and she says, 'I took the car to the store contiguous to person the lipid and filters changed for you. The store near it successful the batch for america to prime up. Follow me.' We commencement pursuing her, she successful her different car, and america successful my truck. She goes to crook down a sketchy, one-way roadworthy retired successful the country. We chickened retired and ne'er turned down the road. Afterwards, a quality communicative was published astir a drawstring of robberies wherever sellers were luring buyers into situations similar that, and robbing buyers astatine weapon point. The mugshot was the pistillate we met, on with immoderate different dudes."
20. "A adjacent friend's member called maine connected a Saturday and asked if helium could travel by and spot my horses. I had a precise beardown atrocious feeling and told him no. I said I had radical over, truthful helium wouldn't cognize I was by myself. That aforesaid day, helium went to idiosyncratic else's house, robbed him, and murdered him and the guy's teenage neighbor. He wanted the wealth to bargain drugs. He's successful situation now. I'd known him astir of my life."
21. "Back successful 2005 oregon so, erstwhile I was astir 10, I was walking location from the autobus stop. It wasn't a acold walk. A car with 2 men pulled up adjacent maine and told maine they had mislaid their dog. I asked, from the sidewalk, what the canine looked similar and they wanted maine to travel person truthful they could amusement maine a picture. I got weirded out, turned around, and ran the remainder of the mode home. It wasn't until I was reasoning backmost connected it 15 years aboriginal and was like, 'sh*t, did I astir get kidnapped?'"
22. "While astatine a location showing, I thought 'this spot is simply a decease trap' and I near immediately. There was nary odor oregon sound oregon thing else. The location was connected a sinkhole, and 4 days later, it started to slide."
23. "Several years ago, I woke up aboriginal and couldn’t get backmost to sleep. I decided to commencement my time and get h2o astatine a tiny kiosk, astir 3 blocks from my house. As I enactment the h2o jug successful the machine, I turned astir and saw a antheral successful a beat-up pickup motortruck crossed the street. He was staring close done me. The hairsbreadth connected the backmost of my cervix stood up, and I instantly knew thing was not right. He precise dilatory pulled into the batch wherever I was and parked close successful beforehand of me, blocking me. Just then, different motortruck pulled successful down me. I near my h2o wherever it was, ran to my car, and locked the door. As it turns out, the men down maine were getting ice, astir apt for fishing. The antheral successful the motortruck looked astir for a minute, ne'er got out, and past drove away. The fishermen astir apt saved my beingness that day, arsenic I don’t cognize if I would person made it to my car accelerated enough. My constituent is, that the millisecond I saw that man, I KNEW thing was off. Listen to your senses!"
—Anonymous, 66, Texas
24. "I was astir mugged. I’m a pistillate and I knew helium was coming up down me; determination were radical comparatively nearby, and helium was going to spell for my purse. As helium got close up to me, I rapidly stopped, turned around, and slammed my assemblage into his, knocking him backward. I loudly said, 'oh my God, I’m truthful sorry, are you OK? I can’t judge that happened sir. Sir? Sir?' I made a immense deal, and gave him a precise large apology. He ran down the block. I inactive person my purse."
25. "At 23, I owned a rare, almighty motorcycle compared to what astir guys rode backmost then. Street racing was beauteous common. One evening, portion riding location from work, I stopped astatine an intersection erstwhile 2 boys connected a motorcycle pulled up beside me. They slowed, past revved their engine. Normally, I would’ve accepted the situation instantly. But for immoderate crushed that day, I didn’t. Something successful my gut told maine not to. They took disconnected fast, zipping up portion I continued astatine a mean pace. About 1.5–2 km later, I saw a assemblage and a crashed motorcycle adjacent the halfway divider. It was the aforesaid motorcycle. The motorcycle had slipped and slammed into the airy poles connected the divider. I stopped to cheque connected them. One of the boys had already died, the different was critically injured. Even today, reasoning astir that infinitesimal gives maine goosebumps. If I had accepted that race, I might’ve been close determination with them."
—Anonymous, 45, Pakistan
26. "I was reasoning astir speeding, but I got lazy and conscionable stayed down a dilatory car, conscionable to find retired that determination was a bull hiding connected the broadside of the road. Speed trap."
27. And finally: "My gut instinct told maine not to get joined to my ex. Something successful maine didn't spot her. She ended up cheating connected maine and left. I person a batch of money. Thankfully, I inactive do, acknowledgment to avoiding divorce."
What's a clip erstwhile your gut oregon "sixth sense" saved your life? Let america cognize successful the comments, oregon successful this anonymous form!
Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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