Have you ever had that feeling in the pit of your stomach that something just isn’t
quite right?
You don’t know where its coming from - you can’t even explain it to anyone else - but
you can sense that something is going to go badly - for you - for your family, your friends
or maybe even someone you don’t even know.
Have you ever acted on that feeling?
Have you ever trusted your gut?
I found some creepy stories of people who did - and it may have saved them.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Gut Feeling Stories.
Starting off at number 10 we have The Serial Killer[a].
Yes, were starting off with a very intense one right away.
This came from Reddit user Arcamdies who said -We had a serial killer in SC a couple years
ago.
No one knew what he looked like yet but he had already killed 3 people at this point.
Well, my granny has lived alone since my grandad passed about 15 years ago.
She lives at the end of a long dirt road with about 10 other families but the closest one
was about a 1/4 mile up the road.
One afternoon some random guy comes knocking on the front door of her house.
My granny is a practical woman, she has never been to school because she grew up on a farm
and was expected to pull her weight, but she is a smart woman.
She goes to the door but doesn’t open it (glass door).
The 40ish year old man is there asking if he can use the phone since his car broke down,
granny doesn’t like the look of this guy.
If he doesn’t live here there is no reason for him to be on this road and if he was visiting
someone their house or anyone else’s house would have been closer since she lives on
a dead end.
Anyways, she tells him that no he can’t use the phone and needs to leave.
She backs up and picks up my grandad’s 410 as she goes.
Once he sees the shotgun he hightails it out of there.
About a week later the cops finally catch the serial killer and low and behold if it
isn’t the same damn man
Next up at number 9 we have The Tornado[b].
This is a short one that came from Reddit user Telegraphkiss.
They said -I worked at a hospital PRN and frequently picked up extra shifts.
I worked overnights and had asked the supervisor to go ahead and put me down to work the next
night...
Well as the night went on I just felt fucking awful, like completely doomed- I had never
wanted so badly to be home (I lived an hour away from my job) so by the morning I called
the supervisor and asked her to remove me from the schedule.
So I went home, feeling unexplainably scared...
By the time I woke up I was getting calls that an EF-5 tornado had hit the town I worked
in and the hospital I worked at- … I found that one really interesting.
They say that animals can sense impending natural disasters - do you think humans can
tap into that ability as well?
Moving on to number 8 we have Helping A Friend[c].
This one came from Reddit user Calamity H Jane.
Their story sounds like its come straight out of a gangster movie - that might sound
cool - but how would you like to be in this situation.
They said -A few years ago, about 1am Sunday morning, I had to take my dog out before bed.
I live in a rough neighbourhood and I am a female so I usually have my guard up regardless
of the time.
Before I left the apt building my gut told me something was up.
The street was completely void of traffic and people except for a van parked out to
the side of the road.
Outside of it were three people whom I quickly identified as male.
Right away my reaction is to keep my head low, put my jacket hood up and not bring attention
to myself.
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see they were struggling; on closer inspection I see
two of the men are holding up the other man between them.
I make the assumption that they are headed home after a night of heavy partying and they
are just helping their friend get sick or something.
I am telling myself this to ease my fears.
Then they notice me and they stop everything and freeze.
I thought that was odd and no good so I drag my dog straight back to my building (I don't
even know if he got the chance to pee that night!)
I go to bed and thinking nothing more of it... until it's time to take the dog out again
in the morning.
There was a notice in the elevator asking for witnesses as to exactly what I saw that
evening because a dead body had been found.
So... this wasn't a friend of theirs after all.... they were ditching a body.
Still upsets me today and I will never ignore my intuition again.-
Next up at number 7 we have Katrina[d].
This one came from Shannell Number 5 on Reddit.
This is a story that is very personal to them, but people all over the world will know what
the event theyre talking about.
They said -I've lived in south Louisiana my entire life, about an hour south of New Orleans.
In July 2005 (I was only 11 years old), I kept having this recurring nightmare of me
lying in my backyard, staring at the sky, and suddenly a large brown wave of water,
probably 30 feet high, came up and washed my entire neighborhood away.
It would always end right after the wave crashed, and I would wake up.
Then, Hurricane Katrina hit a month later.
My hometown was out of power for two weeks but, thankfully no flooding.
But then I had the same dream after Katrina hit, except I saw the aftermath.
I kept seeing dead animals floating past me as I tried to swim to my house.
When I woke up, I had this horrible feeling that something horrible was going to happen
to us.
Hurricane Rita was making landfall, and we were waiting it out at my house.
I kept telling my mom that I wanted to go to my aunt's house, which was in the parish
north of us.
She said no, and told me to go back to sleep.
About an hour, the levees in my town broke, and our entire town had an hour to evacuate.
Most of our parish was under six feet of water.
I lost two classmates, and six family members.
When we came back, about a week later, everything was coated in mud.
There were dozens of dead animals, all over the road.
Most of us were homeless for years after, but at least we're alive.
So now, when I tell my mom something, she listens.-
Next up at number 6 we have 9/10[e].
For those of you that are old enough to remember 9/11, it was a day many people will never
forget - but how many people remember the day before?
I guess that would be called 9/10.
One Reddit user does, and heres why - they said -True story, I was a freshman in high
school when 9/11 happened and was kind of a worry wart..
I'd always watch the news/read newspapers and had a solid understanding of who Bin Laden
was and what his goal was.
I remember on 9/10 around 11 am I got a really bad bad feeling in my mind and went to the
nurses office.
I called my mom and told her I wasn't feeling well and needed to get sent home from school.
She was busy working and couldn't come get me, but said she would ask my grandfather
if he could.
He agreed and showed up within about 30 minutes.
When I got into his car he looked at me and said you look fine.
We talked for a good portion of the ride home and at some point I remember saying to him
I thought tomorrow was going to be the day the world ended.
I believed wholeheartedly we were going to be attacked on a massive scale, I'm talking
nukes and all that.
Obviously it wasn't that drastic, but still that next day was 9/11 and I'll never forget
the feeling in my stomach during 3rd period when my principal pulled my teacher from the
classroom and she came back in and turned the TV on to see the first tower smoking.
Haunting-
Moving on to number 5 we have The Snatcher[f].
This one came from Reddit user Apple Bliss - great name - they share a story that is
every parents worst nightmare - but luckily, kids can sometimes have a strange intuition.
Apple Bliss said -I think a gut feeling led to me not being kidnapped.
I was maybe, 9 at the time.
I was in a department store, wandering on my own when all of a sudden the most terrible,
gut wrenching feeling came over me.
I don't know how, but I knew I had to get back to my mom.
I ran to the isle she was in, a man hurriedly followed me into the isle.
When he saw I was with my mother, he stood their for a few seconds and stared at me,
before walking away.
I will never forget that feeling, or his terrifying face-
Moving on to number 4 we have The Warning[g].
This one came from Reddit user Valoci Dapper.
I think this one would be scary just by itself, but the gut feeling makes it even better.
They said -When I was about 12 years old I had a nightmare one night that I could see
my identical twin sister standing outside on the porch waving her arms at me as if to
dissuade me from coming outside.
She looked dead, and was lit up by this eerie green light.
It was so scary that I can still see it vividly in my mind today.
When I woke up my heart was thudding in my chest.
Normally when I had a nightmare (I often did as a kid), I would go wake up my stepmom who
would take me downstairs and make me some cocoa and we would sit at the kitchen table
and talk about it until I felt better.
That night, for some reason, I stayed put in my bed and couldn't bring myself to wake
her up.
The next morning we were awoken to shouting downstairs.
A man who was drunk or stoned or something had broken into our back porch.
The porch connected to the kitchen where I'd have been with my stepmom.
He'd stripped down naked inside the porch, messed with some of my dad's tools, and then
at daybreak had gone outside when he heard our neighbor lady hauling her trash to the
curb.
She'd thought it was my father and called out to him, at which point he'd gone after
her.
Police were called and he was taken away.
There were all kinds of hunting supplies/tools on that back porch, including a hatchet.
I shudder to think what would have happened if we'd wandered downstairs in our nightgowns
and he'd been just on the other side of a pane of glass.
Thanks sis-
Next up at number 3 we have Hanging Knives[h].
This one came from Reddit user Deacon Nuno who said he used to work as a security guard
at a dormitory that used to be an old hotel.
He prided himself on going down every dark hallway alone and leaving no stone unturned.
He said -One night, though, I got to the double doors that went to a particularly dark hallway
leading to the back entrance to the kitchen and froze.
"No.", I said to myself.
"I'm not going down there, tonight."
This was extremely out of character for me, and I had no idea what would cause me to all
of a sudden have so strong an urge to stay out of there, but it was like, really strong,
so I went with my gut.
I was kind of embarrassed about it, and didn't tell anyone.
That night, at that exact time, there was a strung-out addict robbing the kitchen.
And there were really sharp, gigantic cheese knives hanging all over the place, just in
case he didn't have his own weapon.
I'm pretty sure he would have attacked me, as the only witness, had I gone down there
that night.
Who knows who would have come out on top, but I like to think something saved me that
night.
...But if it was my subconscious, how did it assess that there was someone down there
before I even opened the doors?-
Moving on to number 2 we have The Detector.[i] This one came from Roscoe Cracks Corn - and
its a reminder that you should always check your smoke detector.
Seriously guys, after this video - check yours or ask your parents to.
This story is a good reminder why.
They said -Was driving home from work one afternoon and was troubled by the thought,
"It would be horrible if I turned the corner and found my house was on fire."
Got home and my house was fine, but that afternoon, I thought "I need to check the smoke detector..."
I'd moved in a year and a half before and hadn't ever checked the smoke detector.
Bought batteries a couple days later with the intention of putting them in, but noticed
that the detector looked different than the usual battery operated ones I was accustomed
to seeing.
Didn't get around to actually checking it though...I mentioned it to my friend who said
he'd get a ladder and help me check it...Didn't get to.
A few days later, I was awakened by my smoke detector at 4:00 a.m.
My house was burning.
Got my kids out and my parrot, with only my bathrobe on.
Turned out that my smoke detector was hard-wired.
I'm alive only because of that.
It was arson.
No one was ever arrested-
And finally at number 1 we have Name and Birthday[j].
I had to put this story at the number one spot because its scary but also I have to
much respect for the storyteller and their friend.
You’re about to see why.
Their Reddit name is G Money 5786.
They said -When I was in university I was walking home from the bars in the Byward Market
in Ottawa with my roommate at the time.
It was about 230am and we were looking forward to getting home and ordering some pizza when
we came across two guys and a very drunk girl.
Initially we didn't think anything about it because it was a pretty common sight on a
Friday, but as we walked behind them for a few minutes we noticed how out of it she was.
One of the guys was essentially carrying her, and her clutch was loosely dangling from her
limp wrist.
Our street came up, but instead of turning down it we decided to see what was going on.
The guys explained that she was one of their girlfriends and had too much to drink so they
were taking her home.
We asked them a few more questions: what bar they were at, where she lived, if she was
an Ottawa U student etc...
They gave pretty convincing answers but all the same seemed really uncomfortable and wanted
us to go away.
During the conversation the guy holding his "girlfriend" shifted her position to get a
better grip, which caused her arm to dangle down and drop her clutch.
Before they could move, my roommate grabbed the clutch and took out her ID.
My roommate then asked if they knew her first and last name along with her birthday.
This is where things changed.
The other guy got really aggressive and confrontational while the other went silent.
They didn't know her name OR birthday.
I then pulled out my phone and called police.
The guy dropped her and they took off running.
We waited with her for about ten minutes until the police and EMS got there.
We gave a statement but did not have much to go on other than their descriptions.
Police told us they suspected she had been dosed, and that she was lucky we happened
to be walking behind her.
Pretty scary stuff-
Wow - do you see what I mean?
Ive got a lot of respect for people who stand up for the right thing in those kind of situations
- even if its a tough thing to do.
Anyway, the topic of the video was gut feelings so tell me about any gut feelings youve had
about people or situations that turned out to be right!
Also, have you ever had a gut feeling that turned out to be completely wrong and it actually
made things worse for you?
Perhaps that can be the subject of our next video, let me know.
Until next time guys, thanks as always for watching, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see
you all in the next video!