Reddit Users Share Terrifying Moments Their Gut Feelings Saved Them

Have you ever had a moment when your gut told you things were about to go south really fast?

It's a feeling most people experience at least once in life. It's almost like you can sense a change in the wind, your skin starts crawling and a voice starts speaking in your ear that whatever situation you're in is about to get really bad.

I'm sure most of you reading this know exactly what I'm talking about. Your gut intuition is almost like having a sixth sense.

Well, whether you've personally experienced it or not, there are plenty of people who have, and the stories might keep you up at night.

People are sharing the scariest gut check moments on Reddit. (Credit: Getty Images)

Reddit users share scariest gut intuition moments.

A thread titled "What was the scariest ‘We need to leave… now’ gut feeling that you’ve ever experienced?" is going mega-viral, and it's straight nightmare fuel. Whether it's a violent story, Mother Nature bearing down or something else, this thread has a little something for everyone.

Check out the responses below, and hit me with your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com:

• I was at the state fair with my mom and my best friend. Friend and I were looking at the rides and the games. This creepy guy and his blonde girlfriend kept babbling at us about taking heads shots and that he was a modeling agent. He just seemed off and really sleazy and the girl was giving me the creeps so I pretended that I saw my mom telling us to come and grabbed my friend and dragged her off. She was close to 5'8 and not a small girl st 13 yrs old, I was 4'9 and around 65 lbs at 14 yrs old. A few days later, there's a news story and rumors going around the school about two girls being kidnapped, assaulted and murdered. They were taken from the fair the same day we were there, just few hours later. The creepy couple were Gerald and Charlene Gallegos, serial killers
• I bartend and years ago I kicked this guy out because he was acting very strange, muttering under his breath that he would kill my other customers, just really hostile. He had missing fingers on one hand and he was kind of a bigger guy. After bar close I was almost finished counting money, so like an hour after everyone left, and i was just about to leave and I had that gut feeling. I looked out the window and that guy was standing on the corner watching me in a ski mask. I know it was him because of the build. As soon as I grabbed my phone he took off but the cops know who he is. Now he has a vendetta out against me and he’s well known around town. He’s f*ckin nuts
• My brother and I were kids, playing hide and seek in the front yard of our house. My brother was 3, and I was 6. My brother was supposed to be counting and finding me, but he was taking forever, so I peeked around the side of the house to see what was taking so long. He had lost interest in the game and was standing near the front gate, which led to the street. As I'm looking, I see a brown car pull up with two men inside. The car wasn't familiar, and neither were the men. They both got out of the car and approached my brother. They started asking him questions and moving closer to him. I remember feeling panicked. I had learned about stranger danger in school and knew this wasn't right. I ran around the side of the house, flew through the back door, and screamed, "Someone is trying to kidnap Steve!" My dad didn't hesitate. He got up and flew through the front door. When the men saw my dad coming through the door, they bolted and peeled out. From that day forward, we weren't allowed to play in the front yard anymore. It's a really scary memory for me.
• My car was stolen the very night I moved into my new house in a very good neighborhood. The neighbors had warned us that the neighborhood was being targeted at the time. They mentioned a women around the corner that opened the door for knockers in the middle of the night and they attacked her and robbed her and almost killed her. We had reported the car stolen and did the police reports when it happened. Well, 2 nights later in the middle of the night I hear a knock on the door and they said open up, it's the police. Well, since I had heard the story about the other lady, I was suspicious and did not answer. I grabbed my kids and put them in my daughter's room because it had access to the roof from the window. I called the police to say that two men claiming to be police are pounding on my door. They said there was no police in the area and they're sending a car. Turns out, these same guys stole the car and came back for seconds. I did get my car back because they brought it with.
• I was at a family gathering, basically a reunion but just for family within reasonable driving distance, probably 30 people all together. It was at county park on a small lake with some grills and buildings (just an empty hall with some picknick tables inside) you could rent for this kinda stuff. The sky started darkening as a storm was approaching, all the coolers, chairs, balls and other kids toys, etc. were brought into the building anticipating the rain. The plan was to wait it out since afternoon showers are common just about every day in the summer. Something in the air didnt feel or smell right even though it appeared to be just a regular afternoon storm. Hair on my neck was standing up and I was in full flight mode. Can't really describe it, the feeling in the pit of my stomach can only be decribed as absolute dread. I told my wife to take my daughter and get in the car. My brother in law took one look at my face and said whats wrong.. apparently I was white as a ghost. It wasnt even raining yet and I was full on panic yelling for everyone to leave, something isnt right. No one else was that worried, mostly concerned with how I was acting. I went out to the car and as soon as I was about to turn the key the tornado sirens went off. We were not far from wherever they put those (or they are just stupidly loud), because it was deafeningly loud. Now the rest of the family is pouring out of the building to their cars, kids crying, and I look across the lake maybe a few miles in the distance and see a funnel cloud. Got the hell out of there, as did everyone else. The building we had rented for this family bbq thing was completely annihilated...literally just a slab of concrete and a shit ton of debris all around. It was hit dead on by an EF3.
• When I was about 12 my mum randomly woke up one night and suddenly had the urge to check on me for no reason whatsoever. I'd just woken up with nausea and stomach pains when she came into the room, but I hadn't made any noise or called out. Went straight to the hospital where I was in surgery having my appendix out within two hours. Mum intuition is weird, and real!
• I was hammock camping while riding my motorcycle through Arkansas. I had a dream That I was gettin pulled over by the cops on my bike. The flashing lights were super bright in my eyes. And as I woke from my dream I notice my blue hammock tent is lighting up like flashing police lights! I immediately felt an adrenaline spike and went into full flight mode. Packed my shit up faster than I could even put my boots on. Hopped on my bike in my underwear and rode a mile to the top of the campground where the showers were. The second I stepped into the shower cabin the sky opened up and cloud to ground lighting started striking trees in the campground every 10-15 seconds. I could have been royally f*cked up by a lightning strike had I stayed sleeping between two of them.
• A shady looking guy told me to "come here" when I was waiting for my mom under the apartment building. I was about 10. I ran upstairs immediately without looking back. Looking back as a 25 year old, I couldn’t imagine why any normal adult would need to speak to a random ten year old unless the kid looks lost or is doing something dangerous. Glad I bolted.
• When i was around 9 years I was playing in my front yard. I remember some man on a bike asked me to help him n i agreed. I started walking along with him on the bike till probably 4-5 houses down n i didnt have my footwear on so I told him I can't go further w/o my footwear. He insisted I sit on his bike but something came over me n i ran back. When i reached my house n looked back he was still looking at me. Told my mom n she came out looking for him but he had fled. The entire neighborhood was on alert for a few days.
• I was scuba diving in Asia - 3 of us went to a reef that hadn’t been dived on before, which bottomed out at 50-70M depth. 5 minutes into the dive, we all get a verrrry bad feeling like we were being watched. Ignored it but the feeling wouldn’t go away. Further 10min into the dive, we all watched the silhouette of a white shark glide slowly past, right on the periphery of where we could see. Then glide back in the other direction a minute later. The decompression stop to get out was the scariest 3 minutes of my life.
• I was walking on the beach with my partner in a country with a pretty high crime rate and a shady ass dude with one of the scariest facial expressions I've ever seen started to follow us for almost 10 minutes, and as soon as I saw a bus full of tourists we jumped right on it. For sure that dude was either rob or kidnap us.
• I was walking down the street in a very unfamiliar city with a group of friends. I got this feeling and didn't know how to articulate it so I said to the group "Hey, I've gotta use the restroom, can we just duck inside this Subway real quick? I promise I'll be quick". About a minute later there was a shootout just up the block. If we wouldn't have gone into the restaurant, we would've all been standing right in the middle of the incident waiting to cross the street.
• During a HS party, very drunk guy rips his shirt off and starts doing pull ups to prove something. His buddy slapped him hard af on the back and it caused him to fall while bystanders had a laugh. He gets super mad and threatens to get his gun. The second I saw him head to his truck, I left because I knew exactly what he went in there for.
• When I was a kid, the neighbor across the street offered me a ride to school when he saw me walking and said he'd give me candy too. It felt off so I just said no thanks and kept walking, thinking nothing of it. Maybe a year later, he shot and killed his wife and then himself.

I think there are a few quick lessons we can learn from all these stories. Don't go near strangers, act with caution when someone is behaving in a threatening manner and if the weather looks bad, trust it is.

The world is a big place full of strange, weird and downright dangerous people. I believe it was said best in "Game of Thrones" with "The night is dark and full of terrors."

Fact check: 100% true.

I wish I had something to share to match these stories, but I simply don't. Every time I've been in major danger, I saw it coming. Didn't really need a gut check to tell me things were about to get very dicey. Do you have a moment in your life where your gut feeling saved your life?