“It Was A Cult”: 49 Times People Realized That Something Was Very Wrong And They Needed To Leave

Walking home from school at age 9 with my best friend. A man next to a ‘broken down car’ asked for our help. Immediately grabbed my friends hand and ran telling her what man would need a 9 year olds help? He drove by us as we were running. Our parents called cops as we had first few letters of license plate and rough make/model of car. (Blue Camaro). He was pulled over the next day and there was a girl in his trunk. ALWAYS trust your instincts!!!!

Backpacking in Colombia. Told my group we needed to leave immediately and we went indoors to a coffee place. Watched a group pass by and the owner said oh yeah they would have robbed you and hurt you. I suddenly just felt a need to go. We had set up a rule beforehand that if one of us felt unsafe we all listen, no debate. Glad we did.

How about the one time we should have and didn't.
I was pregnant only once - at 42, & was miscarrying naturally. On Christmas Day. My mother insisted we HAD TO come over. I'm doubled over, actively contracting in her kitchen. She laughs & says "you have no idea how much labor hurts! You've never had a baby!"
My husband gasped. I was in shock. We did leave. And I haven't spoken to her in years. To this day, she denies she ever said it.

My ex-roommate asked me to come to her graduation ceremony, as she had no family or friends to attend. Before the ceremony, they brought the guests into a separate room, and told us we could not see the graduation unless we sat through their pitch. Every warning signal went off in my head. I got up and left.
It was a cult.

We were in Rocky Mountain National Park. People had left their cars to look at a moose, and had it surrounded on three sides. We were standing back when my mother heard someone say they were going to put their child on the moose’s back for a photo. She hustled us out of there saying “we’re not watching a child get trampled, get in the car RIGHT NOW!”

As a freshman in HS, my friends and I walked from school to the house where students were decorating a homecoming float. The parents were not home. It was 3:30pm. They had kegs of beer. My friend and I were 13 years old. We all looked at each other and said, “Let’s leave now!” Several people called us nerds as we walked away. One of our friends lives about a mile away. We walked to her house. On Monday, we heard rumors a girl had been SA’d. Never been so happy to be labeled a nerd.

We were on a hike in the woods. Suddenly, just a few steps away, some young wild boars ran across the path, and a little further back, something large rustled in the bushes. “Let’s turn back. Right now!” was apparently so convincing that my husband just went along with it.

Was at a church party with pastors and elders. We sat down to eat and they all started telling horrible racist jokes! I looked at my husband in horror and we left. I never hang out with religious people anymore.

I was at an outdoor dog show, with my boyfriend, our 7 children and his out of town family. I live in a city known for sudden intense summer storms.
I noticed the air got still and the clouds in the north started building up, and stacking on top of each other. We still had clear blue sky above us, but I insisted we leave. Everyone was mad at me. The wind started picking up as we made it to our cars. 15 minutes later the hail and torrential downpour started.

So I am Chinese-American. I took a cross country trip and stopped in this small, affluent town and went to explore its antique shop. I was casually browsing when I saw a large wooden plaque with six carved Chinese figures. When I looked, the plaque said “Six Little Ch****. My mouth dropped open. I noticed the rest of the display cabinet was filled with racist memorabilia. I then looke around and realized I was the only non-white person in the shop so I speed walked/ran away.

I was driving home for Christmas, stopped at the usual stop, about halfway, and got the worst feeling and booted it out of there.
Less than 10 minutes later there was a domestic confrontation in the same store, and he then chased her and her friends up the highway and sh*t them all.
I was shown leaving on surveillance during the court proceedings as they fast forwarded through footage.

A fire alarm went off again. We didn’t go outside right away. Most of them have been false alarms at all hours. Then I smelled smoke. I told my fiancé we should step outside this time. As soon as I open the patio door, a small amount of smoke started wafting in. We got out immediately. Once we stepped out we saw the flames from the top floor of our building. Our unit had smoke damage and water in the walls. We were displaced two weeks ago🙃

On a hunting trip with two friends, the one guy hiked up to the car, but then he didn’t come back and then suddenly I hear a car horn honking three times.
We were in Gunnison, Colorado late November the end of elk season, and a storm is coming in. I continue to hear the horn honking three times and I said to the other guy we’re leaving and we’re leaving right now!
Turned out that the other guy was in the car with hypothermia and if we hadn’t hiked up there when we did, he would’ve died.

My mom’s big dog jumped on us in the water and I almost drowned trying to save my small child from drowning. We tried to scream help but the dog pulled us under. My instinct was to pull my kid up but the dog pulled me deeper. My mom nor my sister came to help but my ex did. When we got out of the water coughing and crying, my sister was screaming ”why tf they need to be so loud and scream there, it’s embarassing and the neighbours hear” and my mom said nothing.
We left immediatly.

I was invited to a party when I was 17 by a 21 year old guy who claimed all our friends were coming to his place (including the guy I liked). I didn’t have a car so he picked me up. When we got to his house there was only one other guy there and he was like “why are you here?” Cus he knew I liked their other friend and (shocker) there was no party. 21 yr old went to get me a “drink” and the other friend immediately was like “want me to take you home?” And we booked it out of there

We were driving home from my FIL funeral, I was driving in 2nd lane from left. A pickup truck got in front of us with an open bed and huge monster tire in the back. I suddenly got as far over as I could and that tire flew out of the truck, hit car that had been behind me. K**led them.

I went to a coworker’s house. He and his lover were probably swingers but I didn’t know that at the time. We were in the living room having cocktails & hors d’oeuvres. My coworker came out and leaned over and started pinching the nipples of another guest. And then another guest laughed and joined in. I got the hell out of there.

I was walking home from the midnight shift at a drug store (20yrs old) and sensed someone following me. He yelled What’s up sl*t? over and over. I said f*ck it and walked into oncoming traffic. A car stopped and a dude got out. His girlfriend made him stop. Dropped me off safely. That was next to a huge construction pit. Weeks later they found the bodies of girls m*rdered and dumped there.

I was seven or eight years old and I was spending the night at my friends house for the first time. This was about 1987. No cell phones.
I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I turned on the light and saw 100s of roaches scatter off of the toilet.
I made that girl wake her parents up and made them wake my parents up to come pick me up because I told them I was uncontrollably vomiting. I still have nightmares.

Hurricane Floyd 1999. Eastern NC. Naive, but only worried about wind, not water. But when the power went out ,thought I should head elsewhere. If I had stayed,by myself, no phone, I would’ve awakened to 3 feet of water in my house in the dark @2:30 in the morning. I probably would’ve panicked bc nowhere to go. I know others have had similar or worse in storms.