42 People Whose Brains Screamed “Get Out” Before They Knew What Was Happening

I was 9 years old. I grew up in rural Vermont. One summer day, I walked to a nearby field to pick wild strawberries. I had just crawled under a barbed wire fence when a guy driving a jeep went by. He honked and waved at me. I didn't recognize him but I just assumed he knew my parents and waved back.

I'd been in the field for about ten minutes when I suddenly knew it was time to go home. I didn't feel any fear and I didn't connect it to that guy, I just knew I had to immediately stop what I was doing and go home.

I had crawled under the fence and crossed the road when I heard a horn honk. I looked back and the guy in the jeep was back, parked right next to where I had just emerged from the fence. I didn't immediately realize what was happening and actually took a couple of steps towards the jeep, thinking maybe the guy needed directions, before it occurred to me what was going on and I turned and ran all the way back home.

My dad had this buddy of his take us out on his fishing boat when I was young. Though I’d grown up on the water I was incredibly freaked out the entire time - they kept poking fun at me for how scared I was. He was driving crazy and the water was very rough.

The next day I refused to go again, had a full on tantrum at age 8 that I wasn’t getting on that boat and swore I’d jump out if they tried to force me on. My dad stayed back with me, very frustrated.

We sat on the shore and had front row seats when the boat flipped over.

Went to a club. Walked in with some friends and headed off to find the restrooms. As I was walking across the dance floor I noticed people were standing up against the walls and only a few girls were dancing. Remember thinking 'this reminds me of a middle school dance from when I was a kid.' By the time I walked back out some of the people had moved around and I remember thinking 'they're dancing weird...' made it to the middle of the dance floor when I realized they weren't dancing but I was standing in the middle of a large brawl. The lighting wasn't the best as it was dark with the flashing lights which would move around so it was a bit disjointed but I walked over to my friends and said 'let's gtfo here, now...' several people were st**bed and a guy got sh*t probably 10 minutes after we left.

Tried to enroll at a senior high school for an animation course, it was way too far away from my home but there is no tuition fee so that's a bit of a huge plus. I missed a lot of red flags back then, but for some reason there was one time I just thought that maybe it wasn't worth it because it was too far away.

I found a nearby school that is offering a free tuition fee too but they only have STEM and IT courses (I took STEM). The previous school keeps messaging me and asking me if I would continue my enrollment to them, they even "threatened" me that I wouldn't be able to enroll to other schools because I'm already registered into them. Didn't buy that s**t at all, and I proceed to block their contact number after that.

Fast forward a year later, all my classmates who enrolled at that school regretted enrolling there because not only is it faraway but the "free tuition" they offered was a scam and didn't last a year. The current school where I was at that time wasn't any better but at least I still have free tuition and its nearby where I live.

I was leaving a bar once and saw a friend sitting near the door. I stopped and sat down with them for a minute. I saw a guy watching me and he gave me the creeps. I told my friend about it. After I left, my friend called and told me that the guy had tried to follow me out and they stopped him. I doubt that would have ended well for me.

Hiking with a friend, about to enter a path, I felt something eerie. My friend did too. Without saying anything, we both looked at each other and turned around at the exact same time... Turns out there had been some reports of men with machetes in the area robbing tourists.

I was maybe about 12 years old and out shopping with my mom. We get about 20 feet away from the entrance to a Ross and an old man walks and holds the door for us. I took one look at him and something in my gut told me to get away ASAP. I told my mom I wasn’t feeling well and wanted to go home. When we get in the car she looks at me with the strangest look and tells me she was trying to figure out a way to get me back to the car before I’d even said anything. Turns out he used to be my mom’s patient (she’s a nurse) and had started making creepy advances and sending weird letters to our house!

I was knocked out sleep one night when I jolted awake and a voice in my head said “check your hot water heater.” I went to check it and it was smoking and had caught on fire.

All I could think to do was turn off the circuit breaker and called 911. Luckily by shutting off the power, the flame slowly extinguished. Fire department came and determined it was an electrical fire.

My smoke detector never went off even with all the smoke. Thank God for waking me up that night.

Once, dead of summer, my sibling and I decided to go swimming at a local river. Great place, shallow, slow current, not too bad. it was sunny pretty much all day, but it was getting a little cloudy as we were heading out. A few clouds wasn't an issue, I thought, so we kept going.

Well, walking down to the beach, I asked "what's the highest point on the river?"

We decided, eh let's just go swimming another day. it's not so fun swimming in the rain sometimes.

A real bad Storm rolled through like a freight train, the worst i had seen in years. Kinda just came out of nowhere.

That storm came from over the horizon and caught up to us on the way home within like 10 minutes. It was one of those thunderstorms were you sit in your basement until it passes you by.

In hindsight, it's obvious, but at the time it just kind of snuck up on us. Young and dumb

I was out late with friends & some of us had split up. We were on our way to the next place which was across the street when I stopped before crossing the street bc something just said “go home now” I listened, even in my drunken state of mind. There was a mass sh**ting 6 seconds later that started in the line for the bar we were originally headed to to meet our friends.

When I was around 11, I was with my brother and our dog. We passed a house just down the road and an eldery woman started talking to us, complimenting our dog. She then asked us where we lived. Behind her was three grown men, standing with their arms crossed and looking at us. I refused to tell her. She said "oh come on. You can tell me! I'm just an old woman!" Again, I refused. She kept insisting. I ended up telling her we really needed to go home and did lots of detours to go back home in case.

In college our dorm had a janky elevator. I was in floor 7. I was riding up and the elevator made some weird movents. I didn’t like it. I hit the next floor, 5 and it stopped and let me off. The doors closed and it didn’t move again for 2 hours. There were like 5 more people in there that had to be rescued. The funny thing is if I hadn’t stopped it, it probably would have made it to 7 just fine

I was on a ghost hunting trip with a friend. She had asked someone where a good place to investigate might be. This dude gives precise instructions out to a "haunted" location. Where? I dunno. So, we're out driving around, trying to find this place. Finally, we come to the turn for the location. As I am slowing to prepare for this turn someone or something bellows "NO!". Needless to day I righted the car and got the fck outta there.

One evening my mom frantically called my siblings and I into her room saying she had a feeling something bad was about to happen. We rushed to her room and 2min later a blast shook everything. Someone had planted a b**b in a car and detonated it right as it drove past our home. Most of us were lying/sitting right by windows and who knows what would have happened if our mom hadn’t called us to her room. pieces of the car were on our roof. I guess thats what you call a mother’s instinct.

I was driving home late at night and was in the far left lane when I heard a voice say “move over.” I moved into the center lane and not ten seconds later a car came screaming down the left lane GOING THE WRONG WAY. I would have been k****d immediately if I hadn’t listened.

I remember standing at the curb and I caught my ex looking at me - just then 3 hawks flew over and there was a flash in his eyes and a voice told me “he’s going to end you one day” I left that day.

I was at a music festival, took some stuff from a stranger and I'm not sure what exactly set me off but immediately told my now ex-friends that I needed to go back to camp. I was seriously messed up but we made it. 16 hours of visuals even at camp in the dark, broke the simulation, fell twice. But the worst part was that my "friends" both told me that they should have sat me down at a stage and kept an eye on me. I 100% believe I would have literally gone insane if I didn't go back to camp.

My mother-in-law was living in a seedy hotel and we went to visit her once.

All I could think was "oh yeah, we could absolutely get m**dered in this place." It just had those vibes.

Within a week there was someone was m**dered in the lobby. So I guess I was right.

Not a lifesaving moment, but both my sister and I woke up at the same time in the middle of the night one night when I was 13. We both had a horrid sense of dread and had no idea why. We found out later that day that our lifelong childhood friend had suddenly passed away in the middle of the night.

I had a migraine and fell asleep at my ex’s place. I heard a deep voice say “wake up he is hurting you!” I woke up and he was standing over me laughing. He had been hitting my side and kidney area hard. I had bruises there.