One of the hardest things to believe is superpowers. It is just full of unimaginative, strange, and unexplainable ideas that no one can explain. However, most people believe in science and coincidence.
These people from Reddit shared their unexplainable experiences that made them think twice about how it became possible to happen. Encounters that no one can explain. You might want to check these out and see if something similar happened to you!
1. A Good Run
I drove to the park to go running, using my cell phone as GPS. When I was done, I put my phone on top of my car and stretched for a few minutes.
Then I got in my car and drove home. On the way home, driving about 35 with the window down, I took a turn, and the cell phone slid off the roof of the car and into my open window, bouncing off my arm and landing in my lap.
I never told anyone because I didn't think they'd believe me. It sounded very unusual, but thank God I still got it. It would have been stressful to lose my phone.
Atheose
2. A New Title
In 2007, I read "The 4 Hour Work Week" by Tim Ferris. The book inspired me to quit my job and move to Uruguay En route to Uruguay.
I got in line to get my passport stamped. The guy in line directly in front of me was Tim Ferris, on his way to Uruguay for the first time.
I introduced myself and told him his book inspired my life change. We had a nice 3-minute conversation while standing in line. Cool guy.
Citizen2012
3. True Clutch
The work I used to do required me to carry a lot of keys. At the end of my shift, every day, I would go to hang up my keys on a cup hook, but as I entered the room, I would toss them over to the board with the hooks, trying to get them to land on the hook.
Every day, the keys would miss and fall to the floor. I would retrieve them, hang them, and sit and do my paperwork. One day, at the end of my shift, I was a bit later than usual, and the supervisors were in the room.
Again, I tossed my keys, and they hooked.
All of the supervisors were stunned, but my direct supervisor said, "I bet you couldn't ever do that again." I grabbed the keys off the hook, walked over to the door, and tossed them again. And again, they landed on the hook.
In the two years of working there, that was the only two times they were caught.
Mighty_adventurer
4. Awesome Request
I was in a local bar once, and this guy was playing guitar. My friends and I were drinking and recognized the song. It was Born of Osiris, and we just kept drinking and watching him play.
He asked if we had any requests. I requested Black and Blue by Bring Me the Horizon. He looked at the camera and said, "Do you guys know who I am?".
Sure enough, he was the guitarist for Bring Me The Horizon, and he then played their whole Season album for us. It was pretty awesome.
SlightlySlizzed
5. Just Got Caught
I was teaching ESL in Korea, and we went out one night to a local bar that had a monthly open mic night where a lot of foreigners would gather.
I got chatting with a random white guy at the bar and asked where he was from. He said, "Ottawa." I was like, "No way, I used to live in Ottawa! Where in Ottawa did you live?" He answered, "Sandy Hill."
I once again said, "No way! haha, I had a car stolen that was found there." His face goes slack. "...was it an 88 to 91 Honda Civic?" "Yes." "Yeah, I think that was me. Um, let me get your drinks for the night."
Homerjaythompson
6. Twin Car
I got pulled over by the police because my car and the car in front of me had the same license plate. I was sitting at lights behind a wee black Vauxhall, with a police car behind me.
The next thing I knew, the police were asking us both to pull over - we both had the same license plate. Turns out that both cars were registered at the same dealership on the same day.
A clerical error had led to both getting the same plate. Months later, we were both sitting at the same traffic light, and the police were there to see it.
Deleted
7. Grandpa Takes the Wheel
When I was at university, I would quite often get a taxi ride after a night out from a nice old man nicknamed "Grandpa." He had "grandpa" on his taxi license, business cards with "grandpa" on them, etc.
He would always give you cheap rides and come whenever you called. Anyway, four years or so passed without me getting a ride from him.
I had heard rumors that he had died, which was quite saddening.
About a month or so ago, a couple of mates and I were waiting to get picked up by a taxi when I decided to tell them about the story of "Grandpa." Eventually, I finished my story, and our taxi arrived with no one other than Grandpa at the wheel.
AntonyL
8. Coincidence Incident
I ran up the rear end of a taxi twice on the same night. The first time I was going clubbing with mates, he'd locked his brakes, and I drove straight up the back side.
We exchanged details, etc. After the club, we were driving back. I thought the cab in front looked familiar. He locked his brakes again, and I smashed him again.
He gets out and turns white, "YOU! Why? WHYYYY?" It was very unlikely to happen, but luckily, both of us were alright, and no one got hurt.
Omegaweapon
9. Too Greedy
I won a Frosted Flakes sweepstakes competition about ten years ago. I was a kid, and my mom filled out the form on the back of the box.
We sent it in, and I ended up winning an all-expenses paid trip to California, a Playstation 2, and a crapload of money, amongst other things.
I always thought sweepstakes were scams and companies never followed through, but it turns out that there are winners.
enjoy_the_silence
10. Silent Sniper
I was working a wine banquet back in college on a nice sunny afternoon in a wide-open field with no trees. Pretty much everyone was gone, and we wrapped up after a long day.
I yawned, and the only bird for miles pooped exactly straight right in my mouth as he flew by this crap. How unlucky am I? That really sucks, man.
That and the brain aneurysm that I had about a 1/25000 chance of surviving, but I'm still here, looking for that damn bird. I've been saving a bottle of Exlax just for him.
Fumidor
11. A glitch in the Matrix
After I finished my cigarette, I flicked it in the air. It hit the ground, bounced, then landed on its butt, literally right side up.
I also had another time when I was trying to catch a ball after throwing it in the air and doing a 360 spin. I threw it in the air, did the 360, and the ball disappeared.
After a minute of wandering and wondering how it had vanished from thin air, I dug into my pockets, and there it was. I guess the ball had just flown straight into my pocket.
Herpderpnalll
12. Fly Wood
It wasn't me, but my sister. She was driving to work on a highway, and a semi-truck in front of her ran over a big piece of plywood that was in the road.
This caused the plywood to go flying right at her vehicle, and it wedged itself under the hood of her car instead of hitting the windshield.
You could have recreated that event a thousand times, but I don't think it would work out exactly like that. She was very lucky that day!
Anxious_midwesterner
13. Line in a Hook
I once went fishing as a teenager. I caught something on my line and eagerly began to reel it in, hoping to see a big ol' fish.
To my surprise and confusion, what I found on the end of my hook was another fishing line that had somehow become snagged on my original hook.
At the end of the fishing line that I had caught on my hook, there was a hook. On that hook, there was a big ol' fish. I still can't really comprehend the odds of that happening, but there it is.
Someone had clearly caught this fish at an earlier time, but for whatever reason, the line had come off the rod, and the fish had gotten away.
It would've been less weird if the dumb fish had taken MY BAIT, too. But no, I somehow caught the line that held the hook that caught the fish.
Operatics
14. Lucky Inch
Working at a furniture warehouse one summer as a younger guy, I was nearly crushed to death by a couch falling from storage several racks up.
Apparently, I was helping someone move some kind of chest or something into one of the storage alcoves, and someone driving a forklift bumped the rack, which is bolted to the floor.
An oversized couch on top was not bolted to it; however, it fell. I heard it coming and moved back, but one of the couch legs caught my necklace and tore it off my neck.
It missed me by about three inches. I almost died. I left that day and never went back to that job.
The_Urban_Core
15. Act Normal
In 10th grade, I was running through the cafeteria when a friend decided to throw a fruit snack at me. My head was turned to the right, and he threw it from the left, so it kinda would have hit the back of my head.
Someone made me laugh as I was running with a silly gesture, and I looked away as I did so.
At that very moment, the fruit snack landed in my mouth nearly immediately after turning my head.
I then started chewing it as if I expected to catch it. The best part is that I already had a reputation for being really good at catching food in the air with my mouth.
OffInBed
16. Meant to be
5 years ago, I was in love with a colleague and so obsessed with him that I would pass by his house at least once a day, hoping I would meet him "by accident."
It never happened. Two weeks ago I went on holiday to India. I took the lift to get to my hotel room. This guy came in. I didn't know him at first.
We got stuck in the elevator for 10 hours, and he kissed me. I didn't expect that this would happen to me, but I feel so lucky.
Kaffeekosmos
17. Family Reunion
Didn't exactly happen to me, but last year, my mother visited the house of my in-laws for the first time, so we had dinner and a little chit-chat.
After dinner, she asked my MIL whether she knew "Bob." So, "Bob" was one of my mom's ex-boyfriends and, 20-something years ago, also the best friend of my FIL.
So, as it turns out, a little prior to my birth, my mother and my in-laws had already known each other! Everyone was shocked, but it was still unbelievable.
belixX
18. Insurance Needed
I was 19 and driving home from work in the afternoon. Out of nowhere, this guy slammed into the back of my car, and it slammed me into the car in front of me.
The guy who hit me decided to take off, and I, being the hot-headed 19-year-old I was, followed him while taking my brass knuckles out of the glove compartment.
I phoned the police and told them what happened while I was tailing him for his license plate number. I got the number, and the police told me to head back to the accident scene.
I was driving back, and then, out of nowhere, an SUV slammed into my backside. Some woman was on her phone and didn't see me. 3 car accidents in about 4 minutes.
I got out of my car in the middle of the 6-lane road and screamed, "IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING?!" I didn't expect that to happen to me.
Deleted
19. Look at this Photograph
Not mine but my dad's. He was retiring and clearing everything out of his office as he was closing his practice. His favorite picture of my stepmom needed to be removed from the frame so he could have it digitized.
Having been in the frame so long, it was sticking to the glass. When the picture finally came off, it slipped, fell from however high a 6 '3 men would be holding everything to remove it, and fell perfectly into the slit of the shredder.
Which was an automatic one, shredded the picture as my dad stood there in stunned silence, unable to comprehend the event that took place just happened and the emotional loss of the photograph.
UnethicalVT
20. Literally Runaways
Back in the early 70s, I gave shelter to a couple of runaways who were walking around NYC for a couple of weeks. One day, I came back to my apartment to find it had been ransacked and then gone.
They stole my rent money, so I had to move out. I hitchhiked to Miami to move in with my sister. Two weeks later, I ran into one of them in Coconut Grove!
I was standing at a corner and spotted him walking towards me from the other corner, holding hands with some girl. As soon as he spotted me, he said “run” to the girl, and they both ran away as I laughed.
Rrassi
21. The Cool Guy
Back In High school, I was sitting at my desk in class, quietly reading to myself. There was this kid sitting behind me who was annoying and talking to another kid in the next row.
The teacher kept telling him to be quiet, and he eventually lost his crap and threw an orange across the room at the kid. It was a pretty good throw.
Without looking up, I reached up and plucked the orange out of the sky with my left hand (I'm right-handed) and slammed it down on my desk without looking up from my book.
It turned out that I had caught the orange right before it smacked the kid in the face. The whole class was looking at me in shock.
I asked the kid if he would be quiet now, and he just nodded his head. I then started peeling the orange and ate it while the teacher stared at me in disbelief. I felt like a badarse, but it was just luck.
pretends2bhuman
22. Lucky Winner
In one of my college classes, the professor told the class that whoever could locate the page in the textbook that had a little blurb about a study conducted by our school district would win a bag of peanut M&Ms.
I hadn't purchased the textbook yet, so while everyone shuffled through their books, I just guessed out loud, "674," which, for whatever reason, has always been my go-to number in stupid guessing games.
Turns out, I was correct. The book was over 1000 pages long, so I guess I/1200 isn't exactly 'improbable,' but it's still a long shot. I was kind of bummed they were peanut butter M&Ms, though.
Sexiestgrandfather
23. Caught it and Hatched It
A few of my friends got a taxi back from a night of drinking in town, and because we all live in the same area, we got out at the same place.
The 2 of us start walking back because we live close by, and a car goes past and throws an egg but misses us and breaks up on the floor.
Anyway, we carry on walking about a mile or 2 down the road, and my friend puts his hand in his jacket pocket and pulls out an egg, unbroken.
So when we got egged by the car, instead of being a terrible shot, my friend caught it in his jacket pocket without even knowing!
It was pretty amazing, and I imagine it to be a once-in-a-lifetime event!
Kyle343
24. He saves the Day
My seventh-grade math teacher had one of those tiny basketball hoops hanging on the front chalkboard. He was a pretty cool guy.
So, one day, we spent an entire class period trying to get the little plastic ball through the hoop. From the middle of the room, a few people could make it, but from the back, nobody made the shot in 20 minutes.
Enter me, an awkward, uncoordinated kid sitting in the back row. My teacher looks at me and says, "Class, if carrillo232 can make this shot, you all get 100s on the test you took yesterday." He tosses me the ball. Swish. Hero of the day. Felt good.
carrillo232
25. Lord of the Ring
My dad was once in a pool on top of a high-rise in Downtown Chicago, playing catch with my little brother. My Dad throws the football to my brother. His wedding ring flies off and falls into the streets of downtown Chicago.
My dad goes down to look for it and finds it within 2 minutes. Then, a few years later, my dad was shoveling snow in our yard and realized his wedding ring was missing.
He accepted that he lost it and was very disappointed. Then, during the spring, once the snow melted, he found the ring in our front yard and thought he would never find it again.
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26. Flying Fry
In the cafeteria in high school, we had circular tables. One day, a buddy of mine threw a french fry at me jokingly after it hit me and fell to the floor.
I picked up the french fry and threw it back at him. When I threw it, he was about to take a drink from his soda. The fry flew just under the cup and into his mouth.
It was literally milliseconds before he took the sip. The look on his face as he realized what had just happened and how he spit the drink and fry back out was priceless.
Will_not_give_crap
27. Cool, But kinda Awkward
Earlier in the day, my friend stuffed my pocket full of spoons when I wasn't looking, and later, I was talking to two girls I kind of knew.
They said that they needed to go get a spoon as a prop for a project we were doing. I then produce a spoon from my pocket and give it to them.
Which I receive a very bewildered look. Obviously, I do the most logical thing and silently walk away. They won't talk to me anymore.
Gavd97
28. Hoop for a Car
I had a friend in college who had a very rich uncle. He was pretty good at playing basketball by Midwest white guy standards.
His uncle told him that if he could throw the basketball over the house and make it through the hoop in the garage, he would buy him a Corvette.
This was when he was 15 years old or so.
He did it, one try and made the shot. The rich uncle swore that the day the nephew graduated college, he would buy him a brand new Corvette.
Flash forward to when I met him in college. He got a Lexus SUV instead but definitely made good on his promise. What a great uncle.
WolfSpiderBuddy
29. Buddies for Life
Growing up in my hometown, people always told me I had a twin. Never believed it. But then, about 5th grade, I joined a new soccer team.
There he was. A kid who looked exactly like me, with the same name down to the middle initial, and because of this, the school district made us one person.
They finally figured it out by my senior year. Then I moved on to college. Guess who my roommate was. It was this guy, the same kid who looked exactly like me.
The University either has a sick sense of humor, or it is just extremely improbable that I have grown up with an unrelated twin. He and I became best friends.
Kokir
30. Bad Cowboy
I was about 11 years old, and at a friend's house, there were a bunch of us taking turns playing with his BB gun while his parents weren't home.
After being fairly responsible with it, taking turns shooting at targets and not pointing it at anyone, just being safe, my friend grabs it, aims in the sky, yells something, and fires it off like a hootin-tootin-shootin cowboy.
At that moment, a bird flew overhead and took the BB to the wing. We heard it screech and looked up to see the wing go limp. It crashed and landed just outside the yard.
That was enough playing with the BB gun for that day, hah. After a moment of stunned silence, we went inside with heavy consciences.
pepperNlime4to0
31. The Lucky One
When I was young, around 10, I was studying probability. I learned how having more tickets in a raffle reduced the chance of any ticket being drawn.
My school had a fundraiser and a dozen prizes, including a shiny new bike. Mom gave me 10 tickets, despite my desire for the bike.
I only put one ticket in 10 different baskets. I won 7 of them, including the bike. Just what I studied, turns out that I got lucky with 1 ticket.
Goldenlancer
32. The Karma being Good
I am kinda nerdy so people like to make fun of me at school. I was in math class doing the work, and I made a mistake, and I needed an eraser.
At that moment, some idiot decided to throw one at me. I moved my hand to ask for an eraser from the person next to me, and the eraser the idiot threw at me landed in my hand.
I just turned back to my work in stunned silence, rubbed out my mistake, and then threw the eraser over my shoulder, which hit the idiot in the face. The best thing that happened that day.
Deleted
33. Air Pepper
I used to share an apartment on the 7th floor of a residential building with a balcony. One sunny afternoon, my roommate and I were drinking wine and eating tapas, which included some bell peppers stuffed with mozzarella.
We were a little drunk, and my flatmate dropped something off the balcony. When he went to retrieve it, I decided (for science) to drop one of the bell peppers on him from the balcony.
As I dropped it, I yelled his name, and he looked up, opened his mouth, and the pepper landed directly in there. It was the craziest luck I have ever seen. 7 floors is like, what, 80 feet?
High_Learning
34. Chef’s Fork
I used to work at a restaurant when I was younger. One night at around closing time, one of the chefs is shooting the crap with me while I am at our table-setting stand putting silverware away.
Now, all the forks, knives, and spoons are segregated into drawers, but on top of the stand is a ceramic coffee cup that the small shrimp forks go in. The utensils were all washed together unseparated, so I would just grab a handful and disperse as needed.
Well, after grabbing a handful, one of the little shrimp forks falls out onto the ground right in front of the chef. What happens next is impossible.
In an attempt to flip the fork up, the chef slams the toe of his shoe onto the tip of the fork, causing the fork to launch into the air and hit him directly in the mouth. "That's not so crazy," you say.
Well, the fork then ricocheted off his mouth and landed directly into the coffee cup about three feet away from where it was supposed to go. Neither of us could freaking believe it.
Hotguy657
35. Fancy Trick
Happened to my sister. We're at her place with a couple friends, and she's bringing glasses (the kind actually made of glass) for drinks.
Before she reaches the coffee table, she drops one clumsily. It falls from a holding height of about 80cm down to the floor. The solid, tiled floor. Doesn't break.
Bounces back to the top of the coffee table. Upright. We were just a little bummed she didn't want to show us that trick a second time.
Ewba
36. It Goes Back
I was starting a new year of high school. I happened to lose the combination lock that I had owned for a few years and needed to purchase a new one.
My school set aside a couple of days where students were able to purchase a lock. There were a few different tables set up around the building. Walked up to one, waited in line, and made my purchase.
I opened the package to see what my new combination would be, slightly frustrated that I had to spend a little time trying to memorize the new numbers. Well, sure as hell, the combination happened to have the exact same numbers (in the same order) as the lock I had lost!
Oofda
37. Time to Change Pen
Working in a sports store, I was doing inventory with a clipboard and writing things down on it.
From across the room, my co-worker threw a pen at me over shelves of stock. The pen lands perfectly in my hand, knocking the other pen out of my hand.
It landed in a way I could continue writing. I stood in shock for probably half an hour, thinking how that even happened. We were in shock.
Jjcola
38. Clean Cut
Once, while cooking with my sister, a bee flew close to my face. I instinctively swatted at it, not taking into consideration that I was holding a large chef's knife in my hand.
The bee landed on the table in front of us in two clean halves, not crosswise, mind you, but rather lengthwise, from what would be the bee's face, clean through to its stinger.
Although, in retrospect, it was horrifyingly stupid of me to swat at it with a knife, especially considering there was someone else in the room with me, it was the only time I've displayed any real Ninja moves and had an eyewitness.
Encourageabull
39. Thunder in Summer
Once, I was riding my bike to the grocery store on a nice summer day, and there was not a cloud in the sky. Then, all of a sudden, I blacked out and woke up on my back with paramedics working on me.
They said I was lucky to be alive. I ended up with a burnt scalp, a broken knee, and a leg (The electricity caused my leg to spasm so violently that it snapped). Also, my bike was a melted heap of scrap metal.
It turns out I was struck by lightning in what is known as a "bolt from the blue," which is when lightning strikes up to 20 miles behind a storm cloud into what appears to be a clear blue sky, hence the term.
TechTwista
40. Be Careful what you Wish for
I once left my wallet on the table where I was having lunch. As soon as I got back to my office, I got a call from the person who found my ID and tracked me down.
Turns out the person who found my stuff was a friend I had not seen for over ten years, who had also moved 3000 miles away from home to my city.
He was having lunch at the exact same table I was, just minutes after me, and of course, we had a little chit-chat. Good thing he got my wallet
paper_moon88
41. The Same Problem
I once lost my bank card and called a large store to see if they had it. The guy answered and went to check before telling me he did indeed have the card matching my last name.
It turns out it wasn't my card but my brother's, which he'd left there a few days prior, and he hadn't even realized he'd lost it, just like I did.
I live in a town with about 100,000 people, and I have a unique last name. The funny part was calling my brother to let him know he'd lost his card.
ABlueCloud
42. Psychic Kid
In high school, on the bus, I was casually watching these two kids play cards, which involved each one flipping a card at random onto the top of a stack.
I was listening to my headphones and bored, so I decided to start predicting each card before it was flipped over, calling out a random card just for fun.
I did it 8 times, and each time, I was exactly right on my prediction. No way of knowing how or why I was able to do this at that moment.
Psychcat
43. Zeus is Mad
I was walking to school in a storm, and the route I took took me over a hill through some open fields. I decided to stop at one point on the trail to observe the lightning hitting various things (Including a cow).
The second I stopped and turned around, Lightning struck maybe 2 feet in front of me. I turned round to continue my walk, and as I turned round, the same thing happened again.
So, lightning hit both sides of me. The bit that terrified me was I'd only just taken out my headphones too and thought of myself as a lucky one.
Deleted
44. According to Plan
I have found a $100 bill on the ground twice. Once, I was in a pretty empty parking lot (luckily, there was nobody around me at all).
It was perfect because an hour later, my car died, and I had to get a new battery for my car to start again and that was $99.99.
The second time was in a pretty empty parking garage on campus during Christmas break, and I was really tight and needed money.
Both times, I looked around for people and cars that it may belong to, but it wasn't close to any of them, so I assumed it was already mine.
Kristianmae
45. Swish Trick Shot
I have always sucked at sports, but one day in middle school, we were all walking in from the outdoor basketball courts at the end of gym class.
I loudly announced, "Check this, witches," and flung a mid-court, blind hook shot, mid-stride. I just kept walking forward like I owned the world, as if in an action movie with an explosion behind me.
You could hear the intake of breath as that ball went in, “nothing but net.” Probably one of four basketball shots I've ever made in my life because I'm that bad.
Whiskeydodger