My mom was kidnapped as a kid. The guy just walked into her unlocked house and took her. She actually escaped after he left her alone in his house for a few minutes. She ran until she found a woman who asked her why she wasn't dressed right for the weather. She was the last victim because she led the police right to him.

Moral of the story: When the “Lizard Brain” starts screaming at you, listen closely.

Story 1:People,Teach your kids to scream louder than Goku when he first turned Super Saiyan if a stranger approaches them

I was about 4 years old and lived in South Saint Paul at the time. An older guy pulled up in a windowless van, he stopped in front of the yard i was playing in and asked if i wanted to see his motorcycle in the back. I got in the back of the van. Thankfully, our neighbor was an officer and had a retired K9 unit, Zeke, as a pet. He saw what was going ok and sent her out to get me. I don't want to think about what would have happened if they didn't step in. That was over 20 years ago, so im sure Zeke is in doggy heaven, but if you're reading this, Thank you, Chad. I know you and Zeke saved me that day.

I have a similar story. When I was about 17 we got a foreign exchange student. My parents ordered us chinese food that we had to go pick up as they were still out at work. We went to get it and when we got back home I saw that they got my order wrong. I called and they said they'd get it fixed and to come back. Since my new roommate didn't want to go out again I went alone. When I got there my food wasn't ready yet so I was sitting at one of the tables and waited. I didn't have a smart phone so I was just sitting there and as I was this guy walks in and immediately locks eyes with me. He stares me down while he's waiting for his food. I felt so uncomfortable. Another guy walked in and I think he noticed how weird the guy was because he stood between me and the other dude. When the creepy guy got his food, he grabbed it but didn't leave. He waited until I got mine and started to leave when I did. Like he walked directly behind me. I didn't know what to do but the second guy suddenly said, "Hey, don't you go to school with my daughter?" I took the out and stopped to talk to him. The creep couldn't turn around without looking incredibly suspicious so he left and I waited until I saw a car turn on and drive off. If that guy hadn't said anything I don't know what would've happened

When I was 17, I had a gut feeling that probably saved a woman's life. I had met her just a couple days before. She had asked an acquaintance of mine to bring me by her flower shop; where she told me: "You can see my driveway from your back porch, right? If you see a white van there, call the cops. I'm leaving my husband and if you see that van, he's there abusing me." Sure enough, 2 days later, I look out my back door and see the white van. Police response time in my neighborhood was a joke, so I marched down the alley and managed to catch him getting out of the van. I snatched him up and pinned him to the wall. He says "What are you doing? I live here!" I tell him "Not anymore you don't. She told me about you." I bounced him against his van and calmly asked "You wanna leave now, or when the ambulance gets here?" He got in his van and sped off. The next day, I'm again summoned to the florists'. She gives me a big hug and tells me she'd seen what I'd done on her cameras; which was proof of him violating a protective order. She also told me the cops had pulled him over as soon as he pulled onto a main road. He was very drunk, was cited for several moving violations; on his passenger seat was a loaded, unregistered handgun and a knife. He also had a shovel and several feet of rope in the back of the van. She said, "With the charges he's facing, I might not even have to move now. 😊" I'm so glad I decided to check on my neighbor when I did.

I used to model aged 18-22 and worked with photographers all around my country (Scotland), and it was normal for me to travel to them via public transport and meet them at a bus/train station. Before a shoot I’d ask photographers to tell me what locations we’d be visiting so I could have appropriate footwear but was in reality to tell my sister and brother in law, so they knew my location at all times, with regular texts sent to tell my sis I was safe and okay. Well one time travelling to Edinburgh this photographer immediately gave me bad vibes, changed the locations with no notice, kept trying to creepily watch me as I changed outfits, so I texted my sister I’d be cutting the shoot short and gave my live geotagged location to her. I told the photographer I needed to go to the bathroom at a public store and he agreed and started driving us there, only for him to turn away at the last second and tell me I could just go use the bathroom at his house, started making weird comments and tried grabbing my thigh. I firmly told him not to touch me, he called me prude and grabbed my thigh again. I warned him to NOT touch me or he’d be sorry. He did it again anyway whilst laughing cruelly. I quickly grabbed his finger painfully upwards at an angle to break it, looked him dead in the eye and challenged him to do it again and “see what happens”, punched the top of his thigh and warned him “the next shot is your balls. You’re driving me to the bus station, and if you’re lucky I won’t beat you and have you crash your car.” He went from cruelly laughing to looking terrified but I wasn’t kidding, I’d 100% fight him and he was very aware I would. Texted my sister what happened and he started complaining, so I looked up and shot him a LOOK, he silenced. He dropped me off at the bus station complaining I was an “unreliable model”, I demanded he pay me for my time like he was supposed to and apologise or I’d be contacting his wife as to why he has a broken finger. He shut up, paid me, and left. That “we need to leave feeling” kept me on edge but highly aware of his behaviour the whole time, allowing me to make sure I was safe and location known. And for extra fun: he tried complaining about me on the model website we used, emailed me that he’d leave “retaliatory negative feedback” (something that who’d have your profile banned as per the sites rules) and I have brutally honest feedback on his profile, that he’d tried sexually assaulting me, got a broken finger for not accepting “no”, refused to tell me where we were going, made me feel unsafe the entire time, and was generally incredibly nasty. I sent all the screenshots of his attitude towards me and texts I’d send my sister at the time it was happening. He got banned and apparently I did the Edinburgh model/photographer scene a huge favour because that was “normal” behaviour for him but models were too scared to speak out, whereas I straight up didn’t care if this gave me a label of “difficult model” because I refused to accept sexual harassment and assault as “normal” behaviour just to get paid for work.

State fair part: YEAH! Iirc, the serial killer woman basically used the "he coerced me into doing these things" argument as part of her defense, even though there was evidence supporting that not only did she willingly support her husband in those kidnappings and murders, but at times she would even pick their victims based on his tastes, torture them by herself and even direct him on what to do! Crappy justice system we got here

One caveat to "trust your gut." The earth is indeed a globe and not flat, if your gut says otherwise, eat a Snickers.

Native Kansan here, been through a few tornados, seen one up close but thankfully have never been hit. The sky turning green is a BIG tell that a tornado is about to touch down; if you live in an area where twisters aren't common, and you see the sky turn green or hear a sound like an oncoming train, get to a basement or to the innermost room without windows as quick as you can.

This is the story I always tell whenever people talk about having an urge to leave out of nowhere. When my mom was pregnant with me, her, my dad, and a couple friends were at this bar/club, just listening to music and having a good time. Out of nowhere, my mom got this random urge to leave, and she told my dad. He was irritated and told her everything was fine and that they should stay, but she was insistent, and even offered to head home without him. They both got up to leave and were walking back home when one of the friends they were with ran up to them and said a bar fight had broken out not even 5 minutes after they had left, and the exact chair my mom was sitting in got crushed in the mess. Had she been sitting there, she would’ve gotten hit and hurt badly. My dad hasn’t doubted her in any situation like this since.

Strange woman story:Annnnd this is why you should never stop for strangers while driving

Tornados are terrifying. We had one hit the city where I live on the 4th of July, and the sirens didn't even go off. The forecast had called for thunderstorms, but there wasn't even a tornado watch. The tornado hit so fast, no one had time to send out warnings. Thankfully, no one was badly hurt, and it wasn't very strong.

Parents, please be aware of the "nice" customers in stores or at parks. Just because it is a public place with lots of people doesn't mean that kids don't get snatched. I was at a Home Depot with my husband and my very friendly daughter. She has no fear of strangers, everyone is just a friend she hasn't made yet. She was looking at paint colors about 10 feet from where I was standing. A woman came up and started talking to her, and my kid of course engaged in conversation, because she will talk every moment of every day if she can. The woman wasn't holding anything, wasn't looking at the colors, just focused on my kid. That was until I walked over and asked my daughter which colors she liked. My kid then introduced me as her mom and the woman was polite but disengaged quick. My husband commented later on how nice the lady seemed to talk to our kid, until I pointed out all the red flags. My husband has been paranoid about people we don't know since. He makes sure he knows where she is when out in public now.

Kansas born and raised here. The sky turning green is very much the most clear sign a tornado is coming. If it gets green outside and goes quiet you fucking get to the safest place you can. If you don't have a basement or storm shelter and don't think you can get to a safe place with one soon enough get to your inner most room with NO windows. Pets in carriers and if you're in the bathroom put a mattress over yourself and your pets in the tub in case of debris. If the tornado is getting close it'll sound like a train is heading right to you and god forbid if you're outside and it looks like it's not moving RUN. A tornado that doesn't look like it's . moving is a tornado that's heading right in your fucking direction.

I remember when I was young my older brother walked about two feet behind me to keep an eye on me because a weirdo was following me as I was walking home from elementary school.

10:12 I know that "sky turns green" moment all too well as I've been all too close to two different tornadoes years apart, watched others form, run for the basement many times due to the sirens going off. That's the sign that a tornado is very close by. Also, folks, being in a car or other vehicle is the WORST place you can be. You really can't outdrive a tornado, and you're safer driving over a ditch, parking, and getting under the vehicle.

My mother had her own trust your gut moment. Last year, we were hit by a tornado. We live in a tornado valley where there’s always severe thunderstorms and possible tornados. I just got out of the shower and was yelled at to get into the bathroom with the dogs after getting dressed. After fighting the dogs to get them in my ears popped and I couldn’t hear. Everything started shaking and I jumped into our tub with my mother and less than five seconds later the tornado hit, Taking our entire house except the walls of the bathroom we were in. EF 5 tornado. Took out half of the whole town I live in. Blessed moment

I was friends with a serial killer. Didn't know it at the time. We worked together at he invited me over for a sleepover with his other friends. I couldn't make it and didnt see him at work again after that. Turns out he killed his 3 other friends in their sleep and was sent to an asylum.

Strange woman story: I worked for a few years as a designated driver and ended up going to all sorts of places but whenever I was driving down a dark road with nothing around I would call them murder roads and tell the people if someone comes running out of the woods we don't stop, and no matter how drunk they were everyone agreed on that one.

When the guy said he felt the air change and felt strange, I knew it was going to be a tornado. Also remember friends, when she’s green, she’s mean.

Walking home from school when I was around 15, I noticed as I was entering the crosswalk that my shoelace was untied. I briefly thought about tying it, but was like "nah wait until you get across the street." Just as I was reaching the other side, I heard a loud crunch behind me. Two cars slammed into each other head-on, exactly where I would've been crouched if I'd stopped to tie my shoe the moment I noticed it.

Props to the last stories wife. 👏👏👏 She knew the moment Ron walked in that he intented some bad juju and was calm, collected and was gonna take no L's that day. 👏👏👏

I have a story from when I was a kid. Here ya go: In 2010, I was 9 years old. That summer, my Tennessee town experience what was dubbed the "Once in a 1000 years" flood. Everything was buried in water. Well, the night before, my family had been in Nashville walking the Opry Mills Mall. We were having a great time, had food, was shopping, all around a good time. We went into the Bass Pro Shop to look around and something in me snapped. I suddenly just felt panic, dread, and an absolute unexplained desperation to GTFO. I started throwing an absolute fit, screaming, crying, even throwing myself on the floor which I hadn't done since I was maybe 3. I of course got in trouble and we started to leave. As we left, I noticed the parking lot had about an inch of standing water and it was still absolutely downpouring. That night, I sat in my room just staring out the window. Even at 9 I knew that this constant, all day, full force downpour was not normal and that something was wrong. I kept asking when it was going to stop. I woke up the next morning and my mom turned on the news to see pictures of Opry Mills under water! It was horrifying. Turns out, not long after we left, the water broke the banks of the Cumberland (which is literally like 1/8 of a mile from Opry Mills) and started rapidly flooding. My unexplained panic, it saved us that day.

I grew up in the country in the 80s. Our mom was teaching us about stranger danger & about Baby Holly. If you don't know about her, her parents were unalived & she was missing. A couple days later, a guy in a dark pickup pulled up asking if we'd seen his dog... My sister & I said no & he asked us to get in & help him look..... Mom had warned us of this tactic. We ran screaming for mom & he peeled out of our driveway. A couple of years ago they found Baby Holly.... Turns out, she's a friend of mine & never knew of her past. Small world. Her story saved me & my little sister.

Re: inner voice/intuition - my dad has a very strong intuition. He claims he's had it his entire life. Its name is Charlie, and if Charlie tells my dad to do something, he does it. This has included changing plans, taking a different route, or just calling someone to check on them.

A Rare Askreddit Video

This is a little bit different than your normal content and honestly, I was so here for it. Some of these were so crazy I have literal goosebumps.

Story 1: I took the threat of kidnapping so seriously as a kid. One day I was walking home from school and my cousin drove by, stopped, and asked if I wanted a ride. I said no and ran all the home ... where my very confused mom and cousin were waiting.

I've been in tornadoes seen them form and I always know when one will form nearby, it's the way my breathing feels tight. I always pay attention to the tornado warnings and take cover warnings, but I can tell the difference between when they are being overly cautious, when to watch the skies and when to get to cover.

14:01 I looked into this couple, and wow, the backstory of these two are absolutely disturbing. Gerald was SA'd quite a bit, Charlene had a drug problem, and after they met, Gerald began expressing his desire for "s3x slaves," and I believe that's when the murders began. Haunted

Glad to see Rslash is going back to some other subs he used to cover

Really enjoying the break from aita reddit stories.

I have a "trust-your-gut" story. I was around 10 years old, and my mom had gone to shop some clothes with my sister and I. In the car on our way home, we realized that we forgot to buy a couple of shirts that we wanted, and my mom just had the instant feeling that we HAD to go back to get them. So we did. When we drove back home again, just a little bit further than when we turned around, we came across a terrible carcrash with several victims. We later read in the newspaper about what time the crash had happened, and if we hadn't turned back, we would have been part of it. It's so crazy how the human instinct works.

Oooh an askreddit post. Just need a new tree law post now

The one that was less wholesome and more terrifying at the end was my 3rd story which only happened recently. I was on my way to work, I take public transport and work nightshift, so I go out at about 10pm. Since I live in a large city by now, this was never a problem. On a small bit of walkway, it was going to be busstop, walkway of two minutes, street I had to cross, walkway of three minutes, then turn left to the train. Some guy rounded the corner on that street in front of me and came walking into my direction. I didn't think anything of it until we had this weird conscious eye contact where you stare into each others soul for a couple seconds, and he seemed too conscious and aware for this time of day. That weirded me out. But that guy walked past me, until he was like 15 steps behind me, suddenly turned around 180 degrees and started following me. He had no reason to turn around. The bus stop was further away, he was in the middle of the sidewalk, and he walked too far to be like Oh fuck wrong direction train is the opposite way. Of course I noticed after two steps that someone was walking behind me and glanced over my shoulder. It was him. I had such a huge bad feeling. I walked at a brisker pace, right to the train station where a guy stood as well. I was faster than the dude following me and I stopped right next to the new guy. "Hey do you mind if I chill myself next to you? I thiiink there is a man following me." Dude immediately said yes and I told him what just happened, and emphasized that he had no reason to suddenly turn around and go the same direction I did. He said "Haaa, don't think too much of it. I'm sure he wasn't following you." riiiiight as that guy came into view walking down the sidewalk before taking the left to the train station, where I was. "Yep, that's him..." "That's the guy?" "Uh-huh...." The guy gave my follower a deathglare as he approached and I avoided eye contact with him, instead holding my bag close to me. The station wasn't exactly tiny. He had so much room to walk past me. But he walked past me, so close, that he brushed against my arm before stepping into the train. The guy next to me breathed a sigh of relief and asked me if I lived here, and I told him yes but I was heading to work now. Same for him, so we rode the train together next to each other until I had to get off. Creepy guy was nowhere in sight. To this day I'm so thankful that the guy waiting for the train was there. Imagine if I was all alone. The train conductor wouldn't have noticed anything.

As someone in the Midwest, if the sky turns green, you taste static, and/or there's a very sudden temp or pressure drop, you IMMEDIATELY get to a tornado shelter. Get down facing a wall and curl into a ball with your arms protecting the back of your neck. We used to keep spare shoes and our bike helmets downstairs. I'm in an apartment now, we will sit in the hallway with the dog if I get nervous but if the siren goes off we go sit in the car in the underground garage.

Absolutely trust your gut, if you feel something is off, trust it. My sisters a couple years ago were going to go out to the store (the store is 5 minutes away so they wanted to walk) they both got ready and they were just about to step out the door when my eldest sister said, something feels off, I'm not gonna go right now. She turned around and stayed inside. Not even 2 minutes later gun fire was heard from across the street. Someone had come to one of my neighbors homes, busted inside and shot my neighbor. My sisters easily could have bumped into this person or gotten involved accidentally if they left when they wanted to at first. Heck, they easily could have gotten shot, too. I'm thankful My sister listened to her gut feeling and stayed inside. There's no doubt in my mind if they left when they wanted to they would have bumped into the shooter and who knows how that would have ended up.

If the sky turns green find cover immediately. Its a good thing the woman didn't stop to help the woman because it kinda saved her life possibly

I got a story, me when I was really young, I mean, I was in kindergarten. Me and my older brother was walking to school and this car with this white lady drove up and I asked if we needed a ride. I was about to say yes being a dumb little kid, but my older brother stopped me and yelled no thank you and go away now. She left in a hurry because you know we weren’t the only kids around and the school was nearby.

The weather ones are always interesting because theyre rarely flukes. People can just sometimes sense a change in the earth/atmosphere as an instinct. Think old sailor man "there's a storm comin, I can feel it in my knees". Also, I believe it's been recorded that seismic activity that you don't even notice consciously can cause feelings of dread. I spent a lot of time outside as a kid and have funky joints. So every now and then, I can tell people it's about to rain from the pressure and wind lol

Storm stories: My sister's really into meteorology, particularly around tornadoes, so I know a fair bit. I can't _recommend_ jumping into your car at the sight of a funnel (cars and other vehicles can be absolutely mangled by even lower-rated tornadoes), I'm assuming OP's family didn't have a better choice for shelter. Also, the EF scale _technically_ has 12 levels, but anything above a 5 is labeled as "inconceivable damage" and are rarely, if ever used.

As someone who lives in tornado alley, that green hue sky is eerie. Though the weirdest was that morning the sky was saturated in a red hue. Like wearing red shades it was that vibrant. Kept an eye on the weather. Heard of a tornado a few miles away. Then suddenly everyone in the office phones start alerting. The rain outside moves from a slight drizzle to downpour and the trees blowing harshly. We had enough time to run a sweep of the building to get everyone to the shelter. Waited out the storm for what felt like an hour.

I was walking from my work to the corner store. Ironically, for some milk. When I went in, I saw the cashier arguing with 2 wannabe gangsters and telling them to get out. I walked around them, grabbed my milk, and they were leaving when I was approaching the register. When I was walking back to my job, I noticed one of the guys was walking in front of me. My gut was telling me to look behind me and I saw the other guy rounding the corner, walking slightly faster than I was. Now I’m 6’2”, 250 pounds, and built like a brick shit house, but my brain immediately jumped from DEFCON 4 to DEFCON 2. I did take some self defense classes when I was younger, but I wasn’t about to get into a fight outnumbered and potentially out gunned. Immediately, I crossed the road and despite losing the sidewalk, decided to walk back on the other side. The two turned down an alley way together. Later that day, they would hold up the store we were in. However, the cops frequent that store and there was a cop in the back when they went in. They were arrested, and I slowly shat my pants realizing the potential danger I might’ve been in.

The weather story reminded me of something that happened in Poland not too long ago, like maybe a month or so ago on a Wednesday. For the last few days we've been given emergency warning that strong winds, storms and rains were supposed to happen (they were coming pretty much daily forecasting awful storm for each days, though most were just sunny, so most people tend to ignore them.) On the wednesday as I came home, my mom joked about "where are the storms that were supposed to come" around 20 minutes afterwards my brother also came home, then slowly the sky started turning basically black, which for 8pm on summer is really unusual, then sort of yellowish green as the winds began. It wasn't as bad as in the op's story, but many houses had their roofs blown off, some roads were blocked by trees and branches that fell over, worst I've seen was in one place where a piece of a tree hit power cables and pulled them down. Not something that happens often in Poland; or basically ever for that matter

Nice to see you doing other subreddits again. Keep up the good work

There's a book called The Gift Of Fear, which basically boils down to trust your gut. It theorizes that sometimes you might fear something while not knowing in the moment why because your subconscious has picked up on context that you didn't notice yourself.

I got one. I was like 19 and driving home from a late shift at my first job. I was maybe fifteen minutes from home and realized my car was almost out of gas so I started looking for a station. I knew there was one about ten minutes away but I was worried the car wouldn’t make it, so I used Google maps to find a closer one. It took me to this little barely lit, two pump gas station way away from the big strip malls that dominated the area. I was young and dumb and pulled in anyway, noticing there were only like two other cars in the parking lot and a guy standing outside, leaning against the side of the building smoking. I parked at the pump, opened my door and saw from the corner of my eye the guy drop his cigarette and start walking toward my car. I got ‘that feeling’, jumped back in my car, and sped off without looking back. I managed to make it to the other gas station, which was well-populated and well-lit and I called my mom and kept her on the phone the whole time I was parked. Now I never let my car get low on gas so I only ever have to stop during the day.

Okay so I have a story about this. It's not as strange as we all were in a safe environment but it's still creepy nonetheless. A long time ago like 5 years or so I did an internship for my highschool. Internships are a requirement to be able to do your final exam in Italy. The internship was at a group of villas where we got divided into group to do tours for each one. We had adult supervision but the adult supervision in our case was wacky. We had a guy who came I guess to meet some work quota or something. He was a banker in his 40'/50's. He acted really weird. He was really friendly and kept trying to be buddies almost. He took photos of us doing tours and even offered us food at some point. He then at one point asked for our emails to send us the photos he took. So far it might not sound so creepy but this was a huge violation on our part. We were not supposed to give this man our contact information. I think I gave my school email so it didn't matter to me. And the other girls either did the same or gave them an old inactive account. Still that meant this man possibly had a way to contact us and possibly harrass us. We were 17/18 at the time so we didn't know any better either. This man then proceeded to insult the volunteer's job arguing with her saying: "why can't you just put a recording of them saying the same things? Why force them to say the same thing over and over?" to a tour guide. She got frustrated and said he insulted her job and that that's not the only thing tour guides do. That they do so much more in terms of researching and quality work. I think we let this lady know about him being a weirdo and she almost berated us for giving him our contact info. She said she wasn't mad at us but him. That he should've known better rather than do such a thing full knowing he was in violation of the policies in place. Luckily nothing bad happened but all three of us on the floor had the feeling we had to leave but couldn't. We simply tried to avoid this creep as much as we could. Luckily nothing bad happened and he didn't show up the next day if I recall correctly.

I was walking home late after school one day in 8th grade. We were latchkey kids, and my home was _horrible_ so I often stayed late at school clubs or whatever I could find to do. (Usually the "Boys and Girls Club of America") It was around 6pm, so everyone else had gone home, and this guy in this red car drove up alongside me and offered me a ride home. He had a toddler in the back seat, but somehow I instantly felt creeped out (and I was a very oblivious kid), so I said "no". He kept following me and insisting, so I lied and said I was almost home, that my home was right around the corner. I ran to a random house and went up to a random house. I asked to call my mom, then waited for the guy to leave before finishing my walk home. The cops were already there when I got home and I had to describe what happened to them. Apparently, they had recieved other reports about a similar looking car & man, but didn't tell us anything more then that. They sounded _very_ concerned about the boy in the man's backseat.

My mum has one of these. She was about 18 and had just left work when a young couple pulled over and asked her for directions. She worked at a gas station so this was pretty common in the area, but she had a gut feeling that something was wrong. She doubled back into the building and locked the door until they left. A few weeks later, Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka were all over the news

Really missed askreddit videos! Thank you!

A rare video,but a welcome one indeed

I had a similar experience with a family reunion and a tornado years ago. I remember waking up that morning feeling sick to my stomach, but I was like 12 and wasn’t sure what that feeling was so I didn’t say anything before we left to go to the reunion. Almost 10 hours later everybody at the reunion was huddled in the corner of a basement. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that ugly greenish yellow colour of the sky and the feeling in the air from the heat and humidity just before the clouds started to swirl

11:15 That is freaky. I'm glad he was arrested, but holy hell I hope he never meets OP ever again

I have a similar story. My family used to live in an apartment in the 1980’s. I was maybe 6 or 7 and my sister was 2 yrs younger. A man in a van stopped and approached us when we were taking the trash out. The garbage bins were on the outside of the complex and us kids often had to throw it out was a chore. He asked us if we liked candy and puppies and said that he had a puppy in his van. I remember this vividly because my baby sister said “yes” and was walking toward this dude’s van. Knowing better, I grabbed her little wrist and ran back to our apartment as fast as I could. I told my mother and father, which were both at home, and told them what happened. My father lost his shit and drove around with me in his car trying to find the guy. We didn’t. At the time I didn’t realize that I probably saved my sister’s life, keeping her out of that weirdos van.

So I’m a child abuse survivor and didn’t have a great understanding of what a healthy relationship or love was, just for context: At 17 I dated a 29 year old man (yeah lots of red flags, see the context) for a short period of time but he tried being violent towards me, I refused to accept that behaviour and fought back HARD, told him it was over and to never contact me again. Well he stalked me for a period of time, caught on my work CCTV, my work (the only adults in my life who truly cared for me) made sure someone drove me home every late evening (Burger King late shifts), the male staff would escort me leaving the building because my ex was TERRIFYING. He someone kept getting my new mobile number despite having changed it several times only to find a “friend” felt he “deserved” my new numbers, so I changed my number AGAIN and didn’t give it to anyone unless necessary. He’d stalk me online, outside my work, outside my home, the police knew of the situation but he hadn’t physically done anything to me but was clearly gearing up to do _something_ and I was on edge. He got my new number somehow and I agreed to meet him in the town centre in broad daylight at a certain location. Contacted the police so they knew where this meet was because he had warrants for his arrest so they’d have some officers waiting to arrest him. The whole time my body is screaming “LEAVE NOW” and I would listen any other time, but I was DETERMINED to be free of this utter psycho ruining my life. I met him, he was _off_ and it frightened me but I had to suppress every visible emotion and get ready to defend myself in case he kicked off which was incredibly likely. He kept demanding we go to my house to “talk”, that we’d “watch a movie” as he “puts me in my place”, that I **HAD** to listen to him because I “belonged” to him. I started walking in the town centre with him by my side because I couldn’t sit still during this meet, I couldn’t trust him and needed witnesses in case _something_ happened, to an area with CCTV… the cops grabbed him, he went into a RAGE screaming how he’d end me, how I didn’t deserve to live, that he’d ruin my life, and that I was “lucky”. The cops went through his belongings and found condoms, rope, and a firearm. I’m from Scotland, we have very strict firearm laws and I later found out his arrest warrant was for having illegal firearms and for attacking a man with a knife cutting up his face, so when he screamed I was “lucky” he wasn’t kidding. The cops and myself were very silent seeing this firearm, blood running cold, I wanted to run the very moment I got to the town centre but the only way I’d be free was to stay there despite my lizard brain screaming “RUN”. He’s still in prison, there were a bunch of other charges relating to indecent sexual conduct towards minors, using the firearms and narcotic offences. The only time I’ve ignored that “you need to leave” feeling because he desperately needed to be imprisoned, the only other times has been creepy dudes and I’ve left immediately making it known that I WILL break limbs.

My mom had one of these moments, actually. We were at a local fall festival when I was about 12 years old, and I was in line to go on the bumper cars ride, but my mom saw some guy near the exit. She told me that she was uncomfortable because the guy had been standing there for a while, and not once did he actually seem to leave with any kids, so he didn't seem like a parent. I still got on the ride, and as soon as I was done, my mom grabbed my arm and we left, the guy having left before I was off the ride. When the local news came on that night, my mom found out that the police had arrested the guy as a pdf file and a kidnapper, saying that a plain-clothes police officer had been tipped off after hearing a woman in line comment about the man. So my mom not only kept me safe, she got the guy arrested. Never doubt a mom's maternal instincts

When I was 5 my parents put me in a local summer camp, and one day my friend convinced me to leave the camp with him to go see a football stadium nearby. It was incredibly stupid looking back, but we managed to sneak out and walk over to the football stadium. On our way back, a beige-looking Honda Accord pulled over right next to us, but thankfully it wasn't someone trying to kidnap us or anything. She was this blonde woman in her 30s, and she seemed really concerned after seeing two 5-year-olds walking alone in an LA suburb. She did take us back to our summer camp, and I remember being scolded by our counselors for what we did, and looking back we easily could've been abducted/kidnaped had she not pulled over.

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When I was in Kindergarten, my dad had a gut feeling that he needed to follow my bus route to school, despite the fact that he had to commute to work 1 hr in the opposite direction. My foot got stuck in a snow bank outside the school. By the time my dad got there, I was outside, alone, screaming for help because I was cold and scared. I remember it feeling like a long time, but I was probably only out there for 10 minutes or so. One of the few times I've heard my dad yell was when he laid into the school administration for the lack of supervision.

I grew up in a rural part of a small town. I had seen the "stranger danger" videos and commercials and whatnot, but it didn't really connect that bad things could actually happen to me because the place I grew up in was in general very safe. When I was gradeschool age, I was walking home from a friend's house. Home was about a half mile away with no other houses in-between and I was really hot and tired. My dumb self remembered seeing people hitchhike in movies, so I decided to put my thumb out when I saw a car go by to try and get a ride home. Thankfully, the car that stopped and picked me up was being driven by a friend of my grandmother's who knew who I was and took me straight home. So, yeah, teach your kids not to do that. Even in a "safe" small town, bad things can happen.

ALWAYS listen to your gut. This happened years ago. I'm a retired LEO. I was coming home late at night from an event. I live in the suburbs, and had a long driveway leading to my garage. There were no driveway lights at the time as I had just bought the house. I pulled up in front of the garage and got out to get stuff out of the trunk before putting the car in the garage. That little voice said to turn around quick. As I did my left hand instinctively swept my jacket open, and my right went to my shoulder holster. There was a guy about 10 feet behind me, a white pickup across my driveway facing the wrong way, and another guy standing next to the pickup. I think guy #1 needed to change his underwear when he saw my badge hanging around my neck and my hand on my gun. "You're on private property. One wrong move and I drop you AND your buddy." He stammered something about them being lost and heading to Boston and had "taken a wrong turn." "Yeah...you took a wrong turn alright. Get back in your truck, turn around and go back the way you came." Now my house was MILES off the Interstate that they would have been on to go to Boston. The exit they would have taken to get to my house was adjacent to the county airport. If they got off the "wrong exit" wouldn't the logical thing be to go to the airport and ask directions...rather than drive 8 miles on multiple back country roads? So yeah folks...when that little voice inside starts telling you something...LISTEN TO IT!!!!!

I’m pretty sure I’ve watched every single one of your videos, I’m glad you’re finally doing askreddit!

Omg all the stories about tornados- A series of tornados hit where my family lives a few weeks ago. I had been living away for uni and wasn’t often home for storm season, so I put my unease at the storm to that. I had always had a fear of tornados and storms, but my cats were always comforting. My favorite cat was hiding somewhere from the storm, so I decided to go downstairs to hang out with the not as smart cat and watch the storm from the big windows. At some point, I started to hear hail and decided it’d be best to not be nearby the windows, so I took the cat into the pantry and closed the door until it calmed down a bit. The next morning, it had turned out that there was a tornado maybe 100ft from our house. My parents were amused that I saved the cat instead of waking them up- Luckily there was no damage LOL

AH! I had the same experience with the newspaper car-- they were in a white van, and I was waiting out for the school bus with the other kids, they pulled up very quickly, and I was already bolting the second the back door opened-- I made is about a block away before the other kids ran and shouted "It's just people delivering the newspapers!";; that was years and years ago, but, I'd probably do the same thing today 🥲

I have a story myself, I was 14 but I've always been small and looked younger than I am so I easily passed for 11-12. I was going to see the 3rd Rugrats movie, the one with the Wild Thornberrys crossover, while my dad and older brother saw The Incredible Hulk. It was my very first time in a theater alone and I was nervous because I'm on the spectrum and have an anxiety disorder. My dad asked the staff if it was fine for him to come check in on me every so often and since my movie finished first, if I could be allowed to go to their theater rather than wait alone in the lobby. The staff was nice and said it was fine and that's all I was aware of. What I WASN'T aware of until years later when Dad told me was that when I was heading into my theater, a man his aged followed me in, no kids of his own, to an almost empty theater where I sat way off into the corner and he sat directly behind me, for a Rugrats movie. Dad spotted the guy and followed him, saw him sit behind me and came up and asked if I was all settled in and I said yes. I genuinely didn't know there was a strange man right behind me because the theater was already dark and he was dead silent. Apparently right after I turned to face the movie screen, he dragged the guy out and asked management to call the cops. The only other details I remember was that the guy was buzzed and it turns out he did come with family... Who were all watching the Hulk and wondering where he went off to. Yeah, so that's my close call with a potential PDF file.

Man listening to the tornados ones. I am thankful that where I live that we only deal with snow. In fact we've had an Earth Quake a year or two afo. We dont have them. Also a tornado touched down back in the 80's i think briefly. I think it would be considered an E0 cause the thing just took off a roof and that was it.

I remember when I was like 12 or 13 (over a decade ago)my family was stopping at the dollar store in our town to check foe back to school supplies before driving over to the city with bigger shops. An old guy asked me for help with his trunk of his suv (I was the last out of the family car and taking my time) said no and quickly went to my family but didn't say anything the old man then followed me around the store.

Can you do tales from the front desk, tales from tech support, or more tree law stories?

Stories like these make me feel happy that i very rarely leave my house loo

These tornado stories got me emotional! 🥺

Back in the early 2000s we had a tornado that absolutely leveled the town of LaPalata. We were there for a family event and I got this really weird feeling. I felt like we were in imminent danger. I begged my mom to leave. We headed home about 15 minutes before the storm hit. I will never forget that feeling.

Never stop your car for strangers at night for any reason. Get to where you're going and call the cops. Don't take the bait.

Great to see you doing some AskReddit again! Hard to find non-bot channels doing this sub.

7:30 This tornado story is 100% legit! Some people really can feel the air pressure changes caused by a tornado! Some people are just more sensitive to it then others. Animals, too, often act different before or during a tornado.

11:18 (I've posted this on another video before, but I love telling this story.) Not a bartender (yet), but I work in a liquor store. I had a guy come in, buy his stuff, and then spend a WHOLE HOUR trying to convince me to give him my number. I kept politely saying, "No, thank you. I'm taken. I'm not interested." Finally, he left. Then he came back at closing, and while I was trying to get to my mom's car, he TRIES TO GRAB ME AND *PULL ME INTO HIS CAR.* I was so lucky my mom's roommate was there, he was a big dude and kept putting himself between me and the attempted kidnapper.

I've firsthand seen the damage an F0 can do alone, an F3 is a full on get the hell out situation.

The ones where people instinctively know something’s up when a tornado is about to hit, before sirens are going off and the sky turns green, make complete sense. You might not notice the air pressure changing outside but your brain definitely does and knows when that means to seek shelter.

I hope one day I can trust what I feel is 'the gut feeling' because as an anxious person, I've always feel the sense of dread to know the difference and end up it nothing bad happening but I do have enough common sense to decide that driving in fog or walking in a dark alley or walking too close to the road enough to be snatched or whatever is generally not a good idea. Especially for a 5 ft woman.

One of my own, just about a week ago my friend and I were out when we heard loud popping. Easily could've been fireworks, but we both decided to get inside anyway, and lock the doors. Turns out the next neighborhood over, someone murdered his parents while being on something, and that popping was the police shootout that happened near after

I once had a gut feeling like that. I was on the train commuting to college, when I suddenly got like a cold feeling on my spine, like when you wake up from fallikg on a dream, got down on a station 30 minutes away from my destination, then took a bus the rest of the way to my campus. It was on the local news that afternoon that the train derailed, and like 7 people died and other 20 were injured

Extremely thick fog is creepy and dangerous. Once my mother and I were taking my brother to his midnight job, at that point the fog hadn't fall yet, when we were going back we saw the fog fall and it looked like the movie "The Mist" from the Steven King's novel. Where I live there are miles of fields between my brother's workplace and the closest town in our way. We could barely see 6 feet away from our car. Thankfully the road was a straight line and we could partially see it and we could barely see the rear lights of a car ahead of us, but half way we lost view of the car. The second we arrived to the closest town we took a sigh of relief and we noticed how much of a difference buildings do to stop fog.

OPs mom's "turn around NOW" urge wasn't an urge, it was her MATERNAL INSTINCTS EVERY MOTHER HAS, REGARDLESS OF THE AGE OF THEIR CHILD!

I’m a meteorology student and I just want everyone to know, if you have a gut feeling about the weather, even if nothing is happening at the moment, ALWAYS listen to it. Worst case scenario, your friends or family will tease you about being paranoid about the weather, but it’s better than the alternative.

A friend of mine was approached by a stranger at the park 'looking for his puppy'. My friend screamed " Mommy! A p3d0ph1l3!!!" He bolted!

The storm stories reminded me so much of a recent experience from a few weeks back, in June. I live in Canada, near to the city of Vancouver in BC. We do not get tornadoes here. Like at all, first tornado I ever heard of was the EF 0 that wreaked havoc at the Vancouver University Campus, a few years back. I was sitting in my room doodling on my ipad, listening to some unsolved mystery YT videos, and I look out my window and I just get this off feeling. It was raining off and on all day with the usual Pacific Northwest wind, but it was deathly silent when I looked out. My sense manifested as anticipation of a thunderstorm, and I was checking to make sure my portable battery, and everything else was charged, and was checking to see if my cat was inside or could still enter through her cat flap. Then I went back to my doodles. Couple minutes later, I get notifs of my family sharing some pictures on the family group chat, and what do you know? There are pictures of cloud in a very obvious funnel shape. It wasn’t at all near to becoming a tornado, but it was still that very distinct shape, and it just hovering there at the edge of the cloud. My childhood fears created from disaster movies, all came rushing back, and I was still pretty calm. It may have been me in shock, or my adhd brain being occupied with several other things. Then my dad rings me on my iphone (Which is not normal at all, as my family would call the landline, or just text the group chat). I answer my phone to my family asking if I’m okay, and getting me to describe the weather at the house, and also them saying they’ll be home soon. We eventually decided I should go and stay in the basement just to be safe. I grabbed my emergency kit, a blanket, some water, and cat food for my cat. I think my cat could feel the wrongness in the air too, as she was acting very uncharacteristically. She wasn’t poofed up, or showing any other scared cat behaviours, but she was following me around, and she was not doing her usual “Tag you’re it” stuff she does when I’m moving around the house. She even stayed in the basement with me, instead of going to the top floor and napping on her favourite rocking chair, despite our basement not having a door due to how wide the stairs are. It was a huge News story, and social media was going nuts. My small City’s Facebook page had people posting pictures and freaking out. Lol

A kid I used to babysit when I was like 11-13 was almost snatched from her front lawn. Her mom had her 2 younger kids, 3 and 4 at the time, playing outside with her and she ran in to get them all water. Keep in mind this is in a small central Wisconsin town where we don't have stuff like this happening almost ever. According to her son, the older one, some guy just walked into the yard with them and picked her up. They both started screaming their little heads off. Dude DROPS HER LIKE A HOT POTATO and books it down the road. When she came out and figured out what happened she called the cops. Dude was never found.

As someone who lives in tornado Alley, it's so strange to listen to people who don't live here talk about tornadoes. Where I'm from, you don't even begin stress unless there's a tornado on the ground or about to be very nearby. Not even a concern until you have a tornado warning coming straight for you 10 minutes away. You get the back of the neck tingles occasionally during those really bad ones. If it's not headed towards you, you sit on the front porch and you watch it, make bets about what level it's going to be, and hope no one gets caught in it and is unalived. You might go see the damage, maybe try to help with cleanup if you can, and life goes back to normal until the next one sweeps through. It never occurred to me that in places where tornados aren't common, watches for them may not be that good because there's not much experience. It never occurred to me that watching an EF3 roll through here would terrify people who aren't from here. Wild. Thanks for the epiphany RSlash!

The last story. Man what a left turn.

I was almost kidnapped as a kid at that visceral fear isn’t something you forget.

As a kid, the father of the family that lived next to our attached townhouse gave me the strongest vibes of danger whenever I saw him. I never heard him speak or seen him off the front porch. Years later, we found out that he murdered three people in 2007. He was caught when the veteran he beat up wasn't dead.

There is a story of a gut feeling in my family. My Nana almost became a victim in the Hi Fi murders. She knew the girl working there and was planning to stop in and say hi to her while she was out shopping with some other friends. They were going to talk with the girl before they left but my Nana had a feeling not to do so and the group took a different way too from the shopping area. She says that they left about the time the murders took the people in the store hostage

I have a mildly similar story to the first one: I was maybe 12 and walking to school one morning. As I was walking along the sidewalk between my middle school and the high school next to it, I noticed one of the cars parked along it had its windows open. Two guys were in the front, and they asked me the oh so original question “Hey kid. Do you want some candy?” They looked like they were in their mid twenties, but I don’t remember now. All I said was “I may be stupid, but I’m not gullible!” as I walked past them. They didn’t try anything else, but I was still a bit freaked out.

One thing I love about being human is how close we are to our animal instincts. Always go with your gut even though it might seem wrong...

Please do more stories like this. This is my favorite so far!

Only one big tornado has ever hit my city. Tornados is general are not common whatsoever here so we’re not outfitted with any sirens or warning systems. It tore through the city and went northbound towards an unsuspecting trailer park.

Word of advice, DO NOT GET INTO A CAR WHEN THERE IS A TORNADO, they turn into flying metal coffins

A similar situation happened to me and a neighbor when I was young, maybe 6 or 7. We were waiting for the elementary school bus and some guy drove up and told us we were invited to his daughter’s birthday party and asked us to get in the car to get our invitation. We were confused and didn’t get a chance to say anything before my neighbors mom came running over and pulled us away from the car. He immediately pulled off but she took down his license plate and was arrested for doing the same thing to some other kids. She ended up sending in a testimony at his trial

I was too trusting in kindergarten. I literally accepted someone driving me home when I was walking there from the bus stop after school, and I wasn't kidnapped. Whatever nebulous force or entity that works over this earth really wants me alive and safe.