People have been sharing their most surreal experiences – 17 strange but true tales
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‘I got a message from a stranger saying, “You saved my life.” Turns out I’d responded kindly to their random forum post a year prior.’
-peachykeen-z
11.
‘I once hugged a stranger on the street because we started crying at the same time for totally different reasons then we laughed like idiots for 10 minutes straight.’
-xo_dreamyyy
12.
‘It was dangerously freezing temps. I had just gotten off work and was broke, was a dollar short to get on the bus to get home and it was too cold and icy to walk home safely. My rich dad wouldn’t send me the dollar I needed for bus fare. No reason, he just didn’t want to. I went to the library to warm up and try to figure out what to do. Grabbed a random library book, opened to a random page and there was a folded up dollar bill inside. Not as crazy as some of the other stories here, but I was very grateful.’
-bob-omb_panic
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‘Hotel cleaning staff came back to the front desk complaining that they couldn’t clean a room due to the alligator in the bathtub. Thought I was misunderstanding something at first.
I wasn’t. There was literally a decent sized alligator in the bathtub. (Threeish feet long, which in my mind wasn’t big enough to kill you but absolutely big enough that I didn’t want anyone going back in there.)
Turns out he was the animal guy for a magic show.
The even bigger shock was that when he came home from the set that day and asked why his room hadn’t been cleaned, he told us to our faces that there were no animals in his room now or ever.
Held the line through an increasingly baffling and angry conversation, so certain that even I started to doubt reality itself.
This continued throughout his weeks long stay. Housekeeping resorted to taking pictures of whatever weird ass exotic animal he had in there and he still denied it. At one point started saying his assistant had been in the room all day so it was perfectly safe, but no one would be there.
He’d be practically foaming at the mouth pissed over it, which was typical, but the bizarre thing was just this repeated insistence that it was perfectly safe, no animals, and then there’d be a fucking capuchin loose in the room.’
-lovebyletters
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‘I once ran into my childhood neighbor halfway across the world—in a random alley in Tokyo’
-killerkouturem-
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‘I had a lucid dream at 16yo. that I could fly by flapping my arms. I flew around my neighborhood (in the mountains) and noticed a house with a blue roof at the corner of Pine Ridge and Hook Creek road, back in the late 70’s. The dream was so real. I even went looking for the house, found it, but it didn’t have a blue roof. My teleportation fantasy was crushed. Just a dream, but so real.
Five years later I was a crewman on a forest service Helitack crew. We were dispatched to a lightning strike in my neighborhood. I was hanging out the door of the helicopter looking for smoke, when I suddenly had a deja vu experience. I recognized the flight pattern from my dream. I freaked out because I could predict the helicopter’s flight. I accurately predicted the next couple of turns…. I gasped as I looked down, because the house had a blue roof. I just got big goose bumps remembering. Weirdest shit ever.’
-Dirtdancefire
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‘I walked into a bookstore, picked up a book, and it opened to a page with my full name written inside it. In someone else’s handwriting’
-bubblebliss2a
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‘One spring afternoon in about 2013, there had been tornadoes in Oklahoma in the morning. Being in SW MO I was looking towards the skies for any exciting looking clouds and I think we were under a tornado watch.
The local news had told of one tornado in OK that had destroyed the attics of several homes and lifted material way, way up into the atmosphere and was caught in upper level winds, with some pieces of a roofing felt and paper landing here in Springfield, MO.
As I walked down our street about 5 houses away from home I saw something tumbling down out of the increasingly gnarly looking sky. It came down a few yards away and I leaned over into the yard to grab it.
It was a piece of paper about an inch x an inch. A neatly cut piece of a page from some kind of school textbook.. The cut had been through a paragraph so it was only portions of sentences but the words were:
..and causes hot air to rise.. ..the formation of tornadoes..
I honestly thought I was losing my mind. I kept it with me for many years until it disintegrated. It sounds just as ridiculous every time I retell the story.’
-Bitmush-