Again in January, we shared a bunch of individuals’s tales that sound like a lie however are fully true. Effectively, the feedback on that submit have been full of much more unbelievable however true tales, so we rounded up a number of the greatest ones. Take pleasure in!
Warning: A couple of of the tales could also be disturbing to some readers.
“After I was round 8, my canine adopted my dad to attend with me for my college bus. Whereas they have been ready, my dad noticed Fluffy get hit by a truck, so he took him and buried him. We then went out of city for the weekend. However on Sunday night after we acquired residence, Fluffy was standing on our porch! Dad couldn’t consider it and advised us, ‘I buried him on Friday!’ Seems, Fluffy had simply been knocked out chilly, so he rose from the lifeless and waited on us to return residence.”
—Tamara Baker, Fb
“My mother and father have been newlyweds in New Jersey after which moved to Illinois after I used to be born. They lived there my total childhood after which divorced the yr I graduated. My dad moved to Las Vegas, my mother to Texas. After I turned 30, I took a job in South Florida — the primary and solely member of my household to ever journey there. Whereas at an area Goodwill seeking residence furnishings, I discovered an previous e-book of poetry on a kitchenwares shelf, and I appreciated the look of the duvet, so I purchased it for 1 / 4 and took it residence with the remainder of my stuff. Later that evening, I opened the entrance cowl and was shocked to see an inscription in my dad’s unmistakable handwriting. It was his reward to my mother on their third wedding ceremony anniversary. My mother had bought it at a yard sale 10 or so years earlier. Each of them have since confirmed this.”
—Valerie Perreault, Fb
3. The haunted condo:
“I used to be having lunch with a brand new coworker as soon as, and he was telling me about his condo and the way haunted it was. He didn’t inform me the place it was, however the haunting sounded acquainted — like an condo I had as soon as lived in. I advised him the tackle, and he turned as white as a sheet. He was dwelling in that very same haunted condo! After I advised him just a few particulars solely he might know, he freaked out and moved out of the place that very week.”
“My father had a coronary heart assault a few years in the past, and I confirmed as much as the hospital at 3 a.m. Given the time and the truth that he was in ICU, I initially wasn’t allowed in. Nonetheless, I used to be lastly let in by a nurse who calmed me down and allowed me to see my father. He was so type to our household all through my dad’s hospital keep. About six months later, my paternal grandmother was within the ICU for a medical subject, and once more, we have been cared for by this nurse. A few yr later, I acquired a name from my dad telling me to activate CNN. Seems, the nurse was Charles Cullen, who famously confessed to murdering as much as 40 sufferers.”
—Chari Kupstas-Cribb, Fb
“A few years in the past, I used to be flat broke and in a retailer spending my final couple of greenbacks on ramen to get me via pay day. The lottery occurred to be excessive, so I made a decision to spend my literal final $2 on a ticket. Effectively, this little previous girl walked up behind me, and for the reason that retailer was packed, I let her go forward of me within the line. She bought one fast choose lottery ticket. I then bought my lottery ticket and ramen and went residence. A few days later, I noticed her on the information: She was the one winner of a $90 million jackpot. If I hadn’t let her in entrance of me, I might’ve bought that ticket, and I’d be millionaire proper now.”
“After I was a child rising up in Texas, we had a cute little weenie canine named Golondrina. At some point, the gate was by accident left open, and he or she acquired out and ran away, leaving us heartbroken. A yr later, the home subsequent door to ours bought, and our new neighbors, from Kansas, had the cutest little canine — a weenie canine!
A couple of months later, after our neighbors had settled in, we began noticing sure issues concerning the canine. I swear it felt just like the canine knew us. Each time she noticed us, she would whimper uncontrollably. So, in the future, my mother and father lastly determined to ask the neighbors how they’d gotten the canine. They mentioned they’d discovered her questioning their neighborhood in Kansas. After taking her to the vet to see if she was chipped, they’d posted indicators, however nobody ever claimed her, in order that they determined to maintain her. My dad advised them we had a canine similar to theirs, and her title was Golondrina. Seems she was really our misplaced canine, they usually nonetheless had her collar that confirmed it was her!”
—Laura Leopard, Fb
7. The well-known French fry thief:
“I used to be consuming lunch at Wendy’s when Invoice Murray sat down at my desk, stole a fry, dipped it into my Frosty, and ate it. He then checked out me and mentioned, ‘No person’s gonna consider you,’ and walked away.”
—Wes Helgeson, Fb
“After I was 19, my boyfriend was stabbed to demise whereas breaking apart a battle. Two years later, my boyfriend and I moved right into a home that was break up into two flats. I labored with the woman subsequent door. Seems, she was my boyfriend’s killer’s then-girlfriend.”
“I by accident set my greatest pal up on a blind date along with her ex-husband. I used to be going out on a primary date with a man, and he requested if I had a pal for his pal, so I invited my greatest pal alongside…after which the fellows confirmed up, their jaws dropped, and we had many margaritas.”
—Alyssa Armand, Fb
10. The divine intervention:
“My grandpa raised me rising up, and his favourite quantity was 44. Every single day, he had me wait with him to look at the clock change to 4:44. His son (my uncle) had died in a automotive accident, and his soccer jersey quantity was 44. Then, my grandpa handed away in 2016. The subsequent yr was the worst yr of my life. I wasn’t spiritual, and I didn’t normally pray, however on this occasion my automotive had damaged down, and I used to be registering my grandpa’s truck on the DMV. Within the notes app on my cellphone, I requested for an indication that my life would change or for a guardian angel — it was the primary and solely prayer I had ever written down on my cellphone. When the woman known as me up, she requested what I needed the license plate to say — ‘State of Florida,’ ‘In God We Belief,’ or one thing else — and I mentioned ‘In God We Belief.’ She introduced me the license plate, and the quantity was 4444. I instantly began crying. And my life really did flip round in each respect.”
—Catrina Crawford, Fb
“After I was 9, I broke my arm and hit my head after I fell off my bike, and a boy on the street helped me up. Twenty years later, I used to be assembly up with one in every of my greatest pal’s pal, and I advised the story of that bike accident. Seems, my greatest pal’s pal was the boy who picked me up after I fell — and now we’re married.”
—Karen Hathaway Ochu, Fb
12. The household condo:
“My boyfriend and I moved into the identical condo my grandparents had lived in after World Warfare II. We didn’t know till my mum was going via their previous stuff to make a Remembrance Day piece for her entrance corridor and located an previous letter addressed to them at my tackle.”
“After I was first married again within the early ’70s, one of many cups from my greatest dinner set acquired damaged and I couldn’t get an actual alternative. I might get the identical shade, however in a distinct form. Forty years later, after shifting 2,800 miles throughout the nation, I went for a meal at a pal’s home and seen she had cups just like the alternative one. After I advised her the story about breaking a cup and solely having the ability to get one like hers, she went to her cabinet and introduced again a cup just like the one I’d damaged. She had had the identical expertise, however in reverse. So 40 years later, we swapped cups and each had a full set once more!”
“I came upon that if my husband had been born a woman, his mother and father had deliberate to call him Megan Elizabeth. That’s my title.”
“At some point, I noticed a hummingbird attempting to fly out of my storage. It was trapped and couldn’t discover the opening. I held out my hand, and it freaking flew proper into it! So I took him outdoors and let him go. A month later in a relative’s storage, one other hummingbird was trapped, so I went over there and held out my hand once more, and this one landed in my hand too! I in fact let him go too. My solely thought was that they have been exhausted and for some purpose felt snug with me.”
—Shelby Zee Jackson, Fb
16. The identical…every thing:
“My daughter met slightly woman on the park final summer season, and it turned out that they have been each going into kindergarten on the identical college. They ended up having the identical instructor. This little woman additionally lives on our avenue. The truth is, after we have been home looking, we toured their home. I additionally came upon that after they have been infants, they have been each on the identical heart for just a few months. I really keep in mind assembly her mother after we toured the room. And, very lately, we each found that we had gone to the identical school and graduated the identical yr.”
“My grandmother was touring to the Philippines along with her sister who was unwell. After they acquired off the aircraft and went into JFK airport, Harry Connick Jr. helped choose her up after she collapsed onto the ground. My grandmother seemed up and mentioned, ‘You look quite a bit like Harry Connick Jr.’ He responded, ‘That’s as a result of I’m Harry Connick Jr.’”
—Rachael Lynnae McGrath, Fb
“My spouse is a childcare supplier, and a few years in the past one in every of her shoppers was a pair with slightly woman about 2 years previous. They dressed her up as a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit with make-up eyebrows and scars on her face. She turned the non-crying half of the ‘timeout adjustments a person’ meme. The crying boy within the image is a neighbor.”
19. And eventually, the sophomore yr setup:
“Throughout my sophomore yr of highschool, my sister and her pal tried to set me up on a blind date with the man who mowed her mother and father’ garden. It by no means labored out, and we by no means met. Two years later, throughout senior yr, I met and began courting the man who I’d ultimately marry. A pair years later, we found that we have been imagined to have been one another’s blind date sophomore yr. We’ll have been collectively 17 years this March!”