"Guy Behind Me Basically Evaporated": 40 Times People's Gut Instinct Saved Their Lives

Not quite horror movie level...but I Was helping my 88yr old grandma with yard work and had my virtually mute dog with me. My back to the treeline. Was looking down pulling up weeds when my dog started growling real deeply. I look behind me and there's a 400 lbs black bear walking up on us looking right at me. It was less than 50ft away. I never heard it approach. It was silent. Didn't stop till I started yelling at it. If my dog wasn't there I don't know how close it would have gotten, or if it would have attacked me. Needless to say Carly Girl had my back. Shes been especially on guard since.

when i was 10/11 i went to nyc with my mom who was chronically ill. late at night she sent me to the mcdonald’s in times square to get food (about 2 blocks from our hotel) and i went alone bc she was sick and couldn’t move. omw back i passed a homeless man and felt sorry for him so i gave him my chicken nuggets. kept walking and a stranger man grabbed me and started to drag me off and i was shouting but it was so loud nobody heard me? after a second the homeless man started beating the guy and i ran back to the hotel safe. i always think about what might’ve happened

Not me, but my mom. I was feeling lethargic, dizzy, and not eating. She took me to a day clinic and they told me, it was dehydration. They sent me home that afternoon. My mom’s “gut instinct” told her to take me to the emergency room and I was diagnosed with AML Leukemia that evening. I’m 3 years into remission thanks to my Mommy!

My mom had gotten me this bed that had an area underneath that I could fit into, normally for clothes but I made a little “hangout” under it, one night when I was 13 my mom had left to go grocery shopping and I decided to go under it and read a book, ended up falling asleep and I woke up to my mom opening it and dragging me out screaming and crying. Someone had broken in and robbed us. If they had known I was there I don’t even wanna think about what they would have done to me

my apartment complex had a 6 level fire down the hall from me. I ran in to get my cats. I ran past cops, up 5 flights, through ash floors, flooded hallways and my apartment full of smoke. I got my two babies. worth it but absolutely have some trauma from it.

One night I was home alone and suddenly choked on nachos I made. Instead of doing what was logical I started panicking. As I started to black out I fell to the ground & my dogs thought I was playing so they jumped on my back with a toy and the pressure of them jumping on me caused me to throw up the nachos. They saved me without even realizing it.

Arc flash. Guy behind me basically evaporated and I came out unscathed.

I woke from a deep sleep to find a man standing at the end of my bed. My dog was in the bed with me and was going crazy. The man had broken into ny townhouse, stolen my purse, rummaged through my downstairs and I had slept through it all. My dog woke me up and scared him away. I called the police but they couldn't find him. We found out later he had been hiding in the model home next door. He came out out later that night and attacked the lady across the street from me. They found my purse in her bedroom. I've never been without a dog since then.

something told me to teach my momma how to video call. we practiced and practiced and a week later, covid hit.

I got thrown out of a car in i95 going 35-40mph. I was unconscious and woke up in the hospital. The car behind me was an off duty cop who saved my life, I didn’t have a single broken bone or anything. Idk what saved me but I have 7 years clean now

Postpartum depression. My brain in the middle of the night told me to suffocate my new baby. I immediately removed myself from our home. My brain telling me to delete myself over and over again. I drove white knuckled to the hospital to beg them to put me in a padded room. The entire way my brain told me to floor it into a tree and end it all (hospital said it was JUST PPD and sent me home). Most terrifying time of my life. PPD is no joke

I was 18 and in a nightclub I had no business being in. A man kept buying me shots. Said he wanted to dance so I went with him to the dance floor. But we never made it. He pushed me out of a side door and drug me to his car. Opened the door and pushed me in. He was leaving the parking lot and my friends came to find me and brought the bouncers. Bouncers stood in front of his car while my friends got me out. I’m 52 now and often wonder if I would have survived

I was kidnapped and carjacked when I was 6 months pregnant. Managed to fight off my attacker AND I kept my car.

Fell of a boat at night in the pitch black. My friends were a good half mile away I could see them with their phone lights trying to find me and they couldn’t hear my screams. Suddenly something bumped into me it was a buoy I clinged onto till another boat spotted me hours later.

I was at a red light with my little brother who has an intellectual disability and is generally pretty quiet and reserved. Light turns green and I start to go. He grabs my arm looks at me and yells WOAH! Totally unusual for him. I stop and a car blows through the intersection. He wasn’t even looking that way. Idk how he knew.

I drove myself to the ER while having a "widow maker" heart attack. almost didn't go at all.

Got hit by a drunk driver on the freeway. Everyone in the drunk drivers car was airfted to the hospital. I walked out of my car with a scratch on my toe.

Doctor mistreated an infection I had, and I went into septic shock. Was on life support for four days, and doctors advised my parents to have family come say goodbye. A doctor from another hospital who happened to know my dad was visiting a patient in the ICU with me, and asked my dad what he was doing there. My dad told him about me, and the doctor asked if he could see my chart. Told them to careflite me to the hospital he was out of, and had a team of doctors waiting for me when I got there. Woke up the next day, and spent about a month in a long term care facility.

I was seconds away from burning alive when someone left a soda bottle of gasoline next to a bonfire. I had the sudden feeling I should move away from the fire and insisted my friends come with me. Big explosion

I was sitting at a red light and seen my car get hit by an 18 wheeler, when the light turned green I sat there for about 5 seconds and sure enough an 18 wheeler blew through the red light and would have hit me if I went.