Folks Are Sharing Their Most Mind-Breaking “One In A Million” Tales, And It Actually Makes Me Really feel Like We’re Residing In A Simulation
Reddit person u/yankeevandal posed the question: “What statistically unbelievable factor occurred to you?” The thread promptly full of lots of of chilling, surprising, and interesting tales of brushes with dying, eerie coincidences, and unlucky mishaps. BuzzFeed Community customers additionally chimed in with their very own one-in-a-million tales. Listed here are a few of the most attention-grabbing anecdotes:
1.“I used to be 8-months pregnant and placing my mom’s ashes to sea. My mother had died a pair years prior on her sixtieth birthday, however my grandmother hadn’t been able to say goodbye then. My grandma was involved about me being on the boat, however I insisted I might be tremendous. As I dropped her ashes into the water, my very own water broke. The captain rushed us again to land. My daughter was born the identical day and hour as my mom had been over 60 years prior. We named her after her.”
2.“I acquired my tonsils out twice as a result of they grew again. Let me let you know: Throwing up blood that runs down the again of your throat after surgical procedure was an exorcist-level occasion. I’m glad the ache drugs have been so big that I needed to break them up into smaller, jagged bits…”
3.“My sister’s husband was taking courses at a group faculty of their metropolis. He met a woman in his class who instructed him she was from the identical small city the place he and my sister (together with my dad and mom) used to reside. They talked some extra, and he discovered that her mother and stepfather labored on the identical jail as our dad. He talked about my dad’s identify to her, and she or he mentioned, ‘That’s bizarre. That’s my stepdad’s identify.’ That is how we discovered about my dad’s affair and his different household.”
4.“My husband and I visited our previous hometown and went to a used bookstore we used to frequent. I picked up a well-recognized title in nostalgia and flipped it open to discover a pupil’s faculty ID card. The identify and picture on the ID? My husband’s. Seems his mother had donated books to that retailer a few years earlier than all of us moved away from that space. He will need to have been utilizing it as a bookmark and forgotten. It’s not so stunning contemplating we used to reside in that space, however the ID was practically 10 years previous by the point we discovered it. That e book was sitting on the shelf for practically a decade, untouched, ready for me to return alongside and choose it up. Weird.”
5.“My son died at 11 months previous for 2 and a half minutes. I acquired to carry him as he took his first breaths, maintain him whereas he took his ‘final’ breaths, after which acquired to carry him as he took his first breaths once more. It’s one thing that, as a mom, I don’t want on anybody. It was by far the scariest evening of my life. I’ll always remember it: New Yr’s Eve 2007 in Fairbanks, Alaska. My son statistically was not speculated to survive the being pregnant. I practically misplaced him thrice within the first trimester. I began going into energetic labor at 20 weeks, acquired placed on strict mattress relaxation, after which developed preeclampsia. I additionally had Hyperemesis by means of the entire being pregnant. I couldn’t even maintain down water and wanted every day IV fluid and diet. I used to be 17 kilos lighter than my pre-pregnancy weight after I delivered him at 39 weeks. Due to all of that, he shouldn’t be right here now.”
“To make issues even weirder, the physician who saved me from shedding him in my being pregnant was the physician who handled him in Alaska — at a very totally different hospital, all the best way throughout the nation from the place we first met. It felt like divine intervention seeing his face. I knew, deep in my soul, that my son was going to be okay. My son is a contented, wholesome teenager now. I’m sitting right here crying occupied with that evening. It positively nonetheless seems like a intestine punch after I give it some thought.”
6.“I used to be hit by lightning…type of. Not directly. Lightning hit a tree close to the wellhead whereas I used to be doing dishes. It exploded the tree, fried the effectively, and gave me a jolt that made my steel fillings so sizzling, they burned my tongue. Aside from that, I used to be tremendous.”
7.“I used to be virtually murdered in a case of mistaken id. A man got here chasing after my automobile on the freeway, waving his gun out the window. He finally acquired in entrance of me, blocked my automobile, and stopped his automobile and acquired out. He got here proper as much as my window, pointed the gun proper at my head, seemed me within the eyes, and mentioned, ‘Sorry, mistaken chick,’ then acquired again in his automobile and drove away. I nonetheless do not know who he was or who the ‘proper chick’ was.”
8.“Earlier this summer season, I used to be strolling within the woods with my canine, a 5-year-old, 65-pound pit/lab combine. We have been on one in all our normal trails, and at a slim a part of it. My canine randomly stopped, stared, and laid down. About 30 ft in entrance of us was a lone deer blocking the trail. It simply stood there watching us for about 30 seconds. I made a decision to let it take its time; I used to be in no rush. Finally, the lone deer ran again into the comb, and my canine and I continued on our path. Once we acquired to the place the deer was, a MASSIVE department fell 30 ft in entrance of us — the place we WOULD HAVE BEEN if we hadn’t stopped to attend for the deer. As soon as I noticed that, I used to be so shook, and we went again the opposite manner. I’m not a superstitious or ‘every thing occurs for a purpose’ individual, however after I instructed my mother about it, she mentioned it was the deer ‘paying it ahead’ as a result of I work with animals (vet nurse).”
“If I used to be hit, I believe I’d a minimum of be coping with some nasty hospital payments, and if my canine have been hit, I hate to consider what may’ve occurred. The entire thing broke my mind and made me really feel actually fortunate.”
9.“I used to be contacted by the FBI with regard to a felony on probably the most needed listing. There have been so many coincidences in our lives that the brokers thought that I needed to know the place he was. They grilled me for a few hours attempting to get info, however I had by no means heard of the man. It was unimaginable since our lives appeared so related. We lived two streets aside as youngsters, attended the identical elementary, center, and excessive faculties, and have been members of the identical church. He was three years older than me, so we by no means met in school, and his household attended church throughout a special time slot. We each studied French on the identical college. As language tutors, we labored in the identical workplace and had the identical boss and common cellphone quantity. The age distinction saved us from ever assembly, and he switched from French to enterprise earlier than I acquired there.”
“We each did a church missionary service in the identical a part of France, and even lived on the identical deal with twice. Our time in France by no means overlapped, and people mission residences modified tenants each couple of months. Once we each lived in Salt Lake, we lived in the identical (massive) condominium advanced. He robbed an armored automobile outdoors of a movie show on a Monday morning, getting away with plenty of money and murdering the driving force. I used to be working the in a single day shift at a grocery retailer (from Sunday evening to Monday morning) on that actual morning. The theater and the grocery retailer shared a parking zone. Each six months or so, the FBI checks in with me.”
10.“Once I was a teen, I picked up a hitchhiker, after which a number of years later, the identical man picked me up after I was strolling after I ran out of gasoline. By no means noticed him earlier than or after these two events.”
11.“I survived two tried kidnappings between the ages of two and 5. I don’t keep in mind the primary, however I keep in mind the second time vividly.”
12.“I used to be driving with the home windows down, and my buddy was driving shotgun telling me about his buddy, nicknamed Fowl, whose dying anniversary it was. We stopped at a purple gentle and a feather flew into the automobile and landed on his arm. His arm has a feather tattoo in honor of his buddy.”
13.“Whereas driving my bicycle on a industrial fishing pier as a child, I misplaced management and rode off the sting with a 20-foot drop to uncovered rocks at low tide. I attempted to cease myself going over by planting my ft on the sting of the pier, however I knew my bike was too heavy. Someway, the bike stopped midway over at a 45-degree angle. Nevertheless, the seat was within the small of my again, stopping me from getting off. I could not budge it in any respect to get the bike again up. A fisherman lastly ran over to assist me, and we determined he would pull me as exhausting as he may, and I might let the bike fall.”
“I jumped to the facet as he pulled me again to the pier, and it labored. Nevertheless, my bike remained there, not transferring in any respect. Once I examined what had occurred, there was a bit of rebar protruding from the sting of the pier bent upwards in an L-shape, and it handed diagonally by means of the spokes of my entrance tire and utterly wedged my bike in place. It was the ONLY spot on the 300-foot-long pier with ANYTHING protruding. I most definitely didn’t cease myself and my bike from going over.”
14.“I discovered a dropped cellphone, tried my birthday because the passcode, and it unlocked.”
15.“Once I was 16, I used to be driving with two of my pals on a again street. It had simply began raining, which reminded us to placed on our seat belts. About one minute later, the SUV hydroplaned and slid off the shoulder of the street. Being an inexperienced driver, I over-corrected, and the car did a 180° within the street, then flipped over the opposite facet and rolled thrice. We landed the other way up, all hanging from our seatbelts. Considered one of my pals (who had watched too many motion motion pictures) began screaming that the automobile was going to blow up, so all of us tried to get out as rapidly as doable. I keep in mind hooking my ft on the steering wheel to get to unlatch the belt. All of us slid out of our damaged home windows and ran again.”
“Fortunately, one other car was driving behind us and noticed the entire thing. He referred to as 911, then instructed us what he noticed. He thought we have been all useless, and we should always have been! It was miraculous to outlive the accident, however right here’s all of the ‘one-in-a-million’ stuff: Seems the automobile flipped proper between a lightweight pole and an enormous tree, solely lacking each by a number of ft. Considered one of my pals was lacking her cellphone, which was in her hand earlier than the accident. We discovered it completely positioned in her open purse, sitting upright beside the tree. EMS arrived and checked us out on the scene. We declined going to the hospital. Law enforcement officials claimed we have been fortunate to be alive. Seatbelts definitely performed a job in saving our lives, however the roof was utterly caved in and will have killed us all, with or with out seatbelts.
The subsequent day, we went to the tow truck yard to take a look at the automobile. Seems my mother had left a field of roofing nails within the again that she was supposed to inform me to present to my stepdad, however in fact forgot. They have been scattered all through the automobile, largely nailed into the ceiling that had caved in. So, not solely did we survive the accident largely unscathed, we additionally had averted nail shrapnel throughout it.”
16.“I used to be hit in a crosswalk two instances as a pedestrian by the identical individual. The incidents have been 4 years aside and in numerous states.”
17.“I acquired my coronary heart transplant after being on the listing for less than seven hours.”
18.“A site visitors gentle fell off of its cable and instantly in entrance of my automobile whereas I used to be stopped on the purple gentle.”
19.“A hen crapped in my mouth. I had the automobile door barely open whereas my boyfriend pumped gasoline and was mid-sentence when a hen flew underneath the awning and pooped on the good angle to undergo the hardly open door, proper into my mouth. Gross.”
20.“I used to be driving to a buddy’s home when an enormous tree fell on the street. My automobile handed underneath it because it was falling, in order quickly as I may pull over, I referred to as the emergency companies and messaged my buddy to say I’d be late. Once I acquired to his home, I discovered that his girlfriend’s mum was within the automobile behind, and the tree fell on her automobile. Fortunately, she solely had minor accidents, however one tree virtually took us each out.”
21.“After shedding an AirPod whereas snowboarding, I used to be capable of finding it the subsequent run.”
22.“I’m going to the identical dentist with a girl who has the identical first, center, and final identify, and identical delivery month and day as me. We’ve by no means crossed paths, however the hygienist tells me we each make them double-check the delivery 12 months each time we are available.”
23.“We moved out of our household house that my dad and mom had lived in for about 25 years. We’d already moved out, and the brand new homeowners had moved in, however a few week later, my mum remembered that she’d left some previous picture albums within the attic. She went again to gather them, and after we have been wanting by means of them, she realized {that a} younger boy in a number of images of household pals was truly the brand new proprietor of our previous house. I nonetheless discover it humorous that earlier than transferring any of his possessions into his new house, there have been already pictures of this man as a toddler in his home.”
24.“I acquired left a written message to name a woman, and I mistakenly referred to as one other woman with the identical identify as an alternative. We have been married for 14 years.”
25.“My spouse and I have been on an extended cross-county street journey killing time within the automobile by listening to comedy albums. We completed listening to a Jim Gaffigan particular as we have been pulling right into a relaxation cease off of 80 in Ohio. Who do I see popping out of the toilet on the relaxation cease?? Jim freakin’ Gaffigan. I lived in NYC for 20 years and by no means bumped into him, noticed him carry out, or knew his materials, however now, I used to be seeing him at some random relaxation cease after listening to him for an hour?! For the primary time in my life, I believed that we have been dwelling in a simulation, and one thing glitched. It was like we conjured his presence or one thing.”
26.“I used to be on a prepare that derailed.”
27.“I noticed an advert on a Pepsi case at a grocery retailer for a text-to-win contest to see Beyoncé in live performance. I figured why not, so I despatched a textual content and was entered. A couple of weeks later, I acquired a textual content again from the identical quantity that instructed me I received the grand prize! I ended up profitable two tickets to Beyoncé’s Mrs. Carter Present world tour in Brooklyn and $500 on a Visa reward card. I used the $500 for some bus tickets and a lodge down the road from Barclays. The seats have been superior, and it is one thing I’ll always remember!”
28.“Misplaced a small (actual) pearl earring within the snow down the road from my boyfriend-at-the-time’s home. I used to be adjusting a shawl, and it flung out of my ear. I used to be unhappy as a result of my grandmother acquired them for me. The subsequent spring, my boyfriend-at-the-time flicked a joint into the woods and was paranoid it didn’t exit all the best way. He went to go step on it, and proper subsequent to his foot was the earring.”
29.“In 2006, I purchased a journey information to Costa Rica from a used bookstore to arrange for an upcoming journey. Contained in the e book was a duplicate of a delivery receipt from somebody who’d ordered the e book on-line a number of years earlier. I did a double-take after I noticed the delivery deal with on the receipt. The earlier proprietor of the e book had lived not solely at my deal with, however IN MY SPECIFIC APARTMENT. And, presumably additionally took a trip to Costa Rica, as a result of that is normally why folks purchase journey guides.”
30.“I acquired attacked by a robin within the morning, then attacked by a hawk three hours later. Bizarre day.”
31.“About 10 years in the past, I used to be in Baltimore for the massive east coast earthquake that resulted in harm to the Washington Monument. It was main information as a result of the east coast hardly ever has earthquakes, not to mention ones massive sufficient to trigger a commotion. That day, I used to be packing baggage to make a journey again west to the Bay Space. Once I landed and acquired again to my dad and mom’ home at about 11:30 p.m., we have been sitting, having a glass of wine, and chatting after we felt a magnitude 3 to 4 earthquake hit. Regular for the Bay. I could also be one of many few folks ever to expertise an earthquake on two totally different US coasts on the identical day.”
32.“My sister handed away in 2019, and a bunch of us went on a float journey a few 12 months later. It was our first journey with out her, so I introduced a koozie that had her identify on it to have a bit of her there with us. We acquired caught up in some branches quickly after our journey began, and I misplaced the koozie. I used to be bummed. Not lengthy after, we stopped on a seashore, and my sister’s daughter and I have been hanging out in the course of the river. Swiftly, the koozie brushed my hand! It was down within the water, not floating on the high, and the water was transferring so quick, the koozie ought to have been a lot farther down the river by that time. In fact, I began screaming in celebration that I discovered it. Nonetheless blows my thoughts that I discovered it, and there isn’t any different clarification aside from my sister made it occur!”
33.“I as soon as acquired right into a automobile accident whereas driving house from work. I hydroplaned and acquired pitched off the street. My automobile ended up flipping over totally, and I ended up upside-down. My airbags did not deploy, and my automobile was utterly totaled, however I walked away with just a few bruises and a small piece of glass in my thumb. The cops that arrived on-scene have been amazed that I got here out virtually unscathed. They did not even have to make use of the jaws of life to get me out; I simply opened the door and crawled out. There was positively a guardian angel looking for me that day.”
34.“My brother had his pockets stolen. On the time, my mother was working a second job at evening at a gasoline station on the opposite facet of city. Three clearly underage youngsters have been attempting to purchase beer, and when she requested for ID, it was my brother’s! She gave these youngsters hell, and demanded his pockets again. They threw it on the counter and ran.”
35.“I acquired hit by a automobile and wound up within the entrance passenger seat with out going by means of a window or open door. I went by means of the open moonroof.”
36.And: “I met my boyfriend on a relationship web site after we have been each in our 40s. We’re an ideal match for one another. We grew up in the identical city and lived in the identical city as adults. He was in the identical third-grade class as my older sister. Right here’s the place it will get bizarre. Two years into the connection, my grandmother handed away one month earlier than her one hundred and first birthday. I had been dwelling in her home for about 4 years (to assist look after her earlier than and whereas she resided in a nursing house). My boyfriend’s dad attended the wake and acknowledged my aunt and uncle. Seems, my grandfather’s brother was married to my boyfriend’s grandfather’s sister! Our dad and mom have mutual first cousins, however my boyfriend and I will not be associated by blood. We at the moment are within the course of of shopping for my grandparent’s home — a house his grandparents visited many instances so way back.”
Completely. Wild. What’s your one-in-a-million story? Inform us within the feedback! 👀
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