People Share Real-Life Stories That No One Will Ever Believe Happened

Life is split between two types of people; those who have false stories that people somehow eat up more than a bucket of jell-O and the other half, that has the most incredibly wild stories that one seems to buy.

Well, that’s what we are discussing today, that later half. Read these 40+ stories of the most incredible unbelievable things that happened to these folks that somehow no one seems to believe.

1. Conjugal Visits

My dad was married 2 times before my mom. When he was with his second wife, he would travel a lot for work, which I knew. 

What I didn’t know is that one night he came home to find his wife in bed with another man.

He actually walked in on them. He left the room, came back with a weapon, and assaulted the man. He turned himself in immediately and was sent to prison.

He was sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security prison. In the last year he was in prison (which was the 4th year, he got out for good behavior, and since the judge ruled it a crime of passion), he met the prison minister.

The prison minister was my mom. So basically, my dad is an aggressive man, my mom was the minister and I am the product of a conjugal visit...

Bg001x

I was sitting on the curb of a busy intersection with my girlfriend at the time when a speeding car approaching the intersection hit a random rabbit on the street.

The rabbit was in mid-stride, and it flew forward instead of getting squashed. Phew! The rabbit flew a few feet and landed right in my lap. Surprisingly, both I and the rabbit survived. It’s my rabbit now.

Wonderer1993

My aunt has the worst luck with planes. It’s so ridiculous to the point where they need to make a movie out of it. So here’s the story, my aunt has only ever flown from Atlanta airport twice.

The first time it was hijacked, taken to Cuba, and then eventually sent back to the United States. The second time the landing gear didn't work and they did a crash landing on the belly of the plane. My aunt has never flown through Atlanta since.

Amannelle

My husband had the opportunity to operate on a gorilla's knee once. They have essentially the same anatomy as humans, so they ask human physicians to operate on them in many major zoos.

It was really cool, and afterward, they gave him a painting done by the gorilla as thanks.

Apparently, the gorilla was going through some adolescent rank-wars with other male gorillas and had his knee battered and bitten (though the meniscus!).

I know, it's his story, not mine, but he doesn't get on the internet, and I think it's super cool and I'm really proud of him.

lcbug78

My life is akin to a bad pun at times. I was carrying my skis, slipped on some ice, and fell down. I asked a passing girl if she could lend me a hand with the skis while I got up.

Without batting an eye, she then told me she had no arms, and proceeded to wave her empty coat sleeves around as proof. I just kind of fumbled to get up whilst apologizing profusely. She giggled and walked away.

Erastus_Bacheldor

Nobody ever believes that I accidentally stuck my fingers all the way into a client's mouth. It’s just too ridiculous to believe so I get it.

She was holding her dog while I clipped its nails. When I was done she bent down to kiss his head at the same time that I was going to pet the top of his head.

Pop went my fingers all the way into this old lady’s mouth. Everyone thinks I’m exaggerating the story, unfortunately for me, I am not.

LoverOfDogsDawg

I was home alone when I was a kid and a grown man walked in my front door, looked at me, walked out the back door like he was on a casual Sunday stroll, and hopped over our fence.

My dad then showed up a minute later and asked me why the front and back doors were open, I told him what happened, and he stared at me in disbelief as I spoke. To this day, no one in my family believes me.

[deleted]

Back when I was in school I saved this douche bags life. We were more classmates than friends. A van had lost its brakes and was coming to us at say 60km/h, the jerk did not even honk the horn or anything.

By chance, I turned around and saw the van coming towards us. I pushed said douchebag out of the way and got hit in the arm with the side mirror. The next day at school he tells everyone how he saved my life and how I was crying.

Fed_Guy

There was once a bunch of us chilling on a staircase and my friend at the top asked for my lighter, I threw it up to him but he had looked away so he wasn't ready.

However, my mind, his mind, and everyone's mind were blown when the lighter spun through the air and landed in his hand, perfectly snug in his fingers, with his thumb in the position ready to use it.

He literally didn't need to adjust the lighter in his hand at all. It was magical.

BaileyEnergy

I had a crazy experience happen to me at a party once. There was a bag of “baby” carrots beside me, and my buddy across the room said something that warranted me tossing a carrot at him.

He had looked away as I tossed it, and turned his head back towards me with just enough time to open his mouth and the carrot landed perfectly between his front teeth, like he was a gangster holding a cigar.

Triassic_Bark

I've thrown cigarettes to people a few times and one time I was at a light and the guy did the "got a cigarette motion" so I tossed a few in his passenger window.

I threw like 4 of my cigarettes and he caught all of them with the same hand. 

I said "NICE DUDE" and we laughed at a green light for like 15 seconds.

The people behind us were probably not too happy but I had to get my laugh out, It had all been pretty cool in my opinion.

Chokingzombie

I may have saved two little kids' lives when I was 10 or 11. Essentially what happened: I was at a big public pool when there was a commotion because a kid needed the lifeguards to pull him out of the deep end of the pool.

Everyone was focused on watching that unfold, but I saw off to the side two kids in the shallow end also struggling almost drowning.

The younger boy was clinging to his older sister and not letting go, and they both kept bobbing under the water, and the sister was clearly panicking because she couldn't keep them both above water.

I just grabbed the boy under my arm and let the girl cling to my other arm and floated them over to the side of the pool, where their mom noticed them crying and immediately rushed over to take over the situation.

I was in a daze and got out of the pool. Other than the kids' mom and maybe one other person, no one saw me do this, and when I told my own mom what happened, she seemed like she didn't really buy it.

I don't really tell anybody the story IRL because I imagine it'll come off as self-aggrandizing, but I'm glad the two kids were okay.

blueeyesredlipstick

This happened on my 19th birthday. My history class got out at 1:10 when I was in college. I always sat near the door so I could leave quickly.

As I was getting up he said "Hold on guys. Test this Friday, study!" so I really only left 5 or so seconds later than usual. It was rainy and icing over that day.

As I was on my usual walk home, a truck lost control and swerved, running right onto the sidewalk about 10 feet in front of me and hitting a light pole.

I ran into a parking lot because of possible active power lines, but man. Had I left at my usual time I would've definitely been dead.

Strych-9

Years ago, I was secretly dating a woman who had separated from my co-worker. I was very much in love with her, and for the first six months, we were able to keep our relationship from all of my coworkers.

One night we were out at the bar with the rest of the office (except for her soon-to-be ex) when another woman in my office, a former NFL cheerleader was dropping hints that I should take her home.

Eventually, she stopped dropping hints and just said, let's leave and go have a “good time.” And I couldn't do it because I was crazy about my secret girlfriend. All of the guys in my office were like "What the heck is wrong with you? Go!"

-Words-Words-Words-

I was home alone one day when I looked out my window and saw a man walking with a long stick with a bird sitting on his shoulder.

The man stopped and seemed to look at me from about 75 meters across my yard and I saw this piercing blue eye staring back at me.

I blinked and when I looked again there was just a large group of birds staring at me. I never got back to sleep that night. I was freaked out!

Thegreatherakles

We have a few acres of woods behind our yard. Nothing fancy, just rural folk. Anyway, my cat and I were going out to do our usual walk around a loop trail through the woods.

When we were about ten feet into the trail he froze, took a few steps back toward the house, and then (this is the part nobody believes) paused and looked at me with urgency like "GET A MOVE ON, IDIOT!!!"

I then began breaking out running and he did too and just as we had the door open and were going back inside, CRASH a poplar about ten inches in diameter, thirty feet tall, which I guess had probably been dead awhile & got unstable, fell onto the trail right where we had been, due to a gust of wind.

We get these weird winds like a tornado too small to see or a gentle air tsunami, I dunno what they are, you just hear them roar through like a vehicle driving past, but it's marsh so no dust, making the wind invisible.

Sweaty_Sweater

There was one time when I was young, like 4 or 5 in the late 90s or early 00s, my mum had just bathed me and my sister and we were on my parent's double bed with their classic, huge box TV with a VHS player facing the bed.

All of a sudden it stopped whatever program was on and showed US instead, as if it had a webcam in the front. 

Me and my sister thought this was hilarious at the time and were goofing around dancing and having fun but my mum was just like WTF and turned it off.

I'm in my 20s now and we ALL still remember it happening, but NO ONE believes us. So freaking creepy when I think back on it.

itliesinthewoods

A kindly old woman was sitting next to me one day at my grandfather's church and she ripped the nastiest, loudest, rumble fart I’d ever heard. It shook the pew and smelled of eggs and Indian food.

Without missing a beat she clasped her nose and glared at me. 

I got in trouble, and not a single soul believed me when I told the truth about what happened.

The smell haunts my memories, and so did that little smirk she wore while I got yelled at. It’s one of my core memories now.

BobKelsoLovesMuffins

My story is not really that interesting, but I am blocked from playing CS: GO from my Steam profile. So here’s what happened, the actual truth.

I leant my account out to a friend of mine, to "train" for his competition.   

Apparently, he cheated, got caught, and I got banned.

But nobody believes me, because they think I am just putting the blame on somebody else. Now everyone thinks I am a cheater and he is a saint.

Bjarken98

I tried to join the National Guard some years ago. When you go through processing, one of the many tests they do is a hearing test.

I failed mine twice, badly, and they wouldn't let me swear in until I saw a specialist and applied for a waiver. So the next week I go see this very nice, very competent audiologist.

She basically gave me the same test but with a few more steps to eliminate possible causes. Then she showed me my chart. If you've never had a hearing test, they basically start with a square, where the x-axis is frequency and the y-axis is volume.

They chart the volume you need each frequency to be at before you can hear it. 

A normal chart is just a simple line across the top, meaning you hear each frequency without much volume added.

MY chart started below normal, on the left, went straight to the right until about the middle, then dipped way down, then back up again to finish flat below normal on the right.

She called it a cookie-bite loss. She also did these extra steps and determined that it was congenital, as opposed to ear damage or something. Now comes the part no one ever believes.

The audiologist shows me the range where my hearing drops out and says, "This frequency range is right where the majority of women's voices fall." I literally cannot hear what women are saying to me.

ElderMarakus

Someone pulled up next to me at a stoplight and jokingly asked if I had any Grey Poupon. I was on the way home from the store and had a jar in the seat next to me. I held up the jar and we shared a laugh.

Nobody believes that this incident actually happened but these same people totally believe (also a true story) that I tried to steal a bulldozer when I was 2 years old. Where’s the logic people?

72scott72

So, I was on the NYC subway one day, and this...rather large gentleman sat down across from me. He's sporting a raggedy beard, and his clothing could be best described as hobo haute couture.

Anyhow, he reaches into a beat-up knapsack and pulls out a lemon and a potato peeler. He peels the lemon with a slightly disturbing look on his face, then takes a greedy BITE out of the lemon.

I still remember how he chewed it, a look of grim satisfaction on his face. He swallows his bite, freezes, and looks up at me.

"What...what time is it?" he asks. I tell him it's 5:07 PM. He looks down at the lemon with a sad, mournful expression, and gives a quiet "Oh..."

He then puts the peeler and half-eaten lemon back into his knapsack. I'm still stumped by his actions. I still try to replay what happened that day.

[deleted]

I was driving my sister's convertible and we pulled up to a stoplight next to a bus. I made eye contact with the bus driver and he thought I wanted to speak with him so he opened the doors.

I pulled a quarter out of my sister's ashtray and while pretending to throw it into his bus he kinda gave me the "go ahead" look. I sunk that quarter right the heck into that coin box. From down, town.

Chalky_Cupcake

I grew up in a rural area with a highway between my house and the bus stop. I was about to miss the bus and was focused on sprinting across the road.

I stepped one foot onto the highway when I was pushed backward by a strong force (felt like a gust of wind with hands) onto the road’s shoulder.

In the next blink of an eye, a Semi Truck came barreling past me down the highway. I have no idea what pushed me out of the way.

frecklesfunn

When I was about 7 years old my older sister and I shared a room and she was gone that night for some reason so I was in the room all alone.

My parents were sleeping in our living room and I had woken up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I looked over and there was a big hairy monster with yellow eyes and sharp teeth with an underbite sitting against my side table under the night light.

This is the first and only time in my life I’ve been so scared that I tried to scream and no sound came out.

The monster grabbed me and bit my lower back and I don’t remember anything after that.

I woke up and I thought it had been a dream, so fast forward to the next day my mom was getting me dressed and saw my lower back and freaked out... there was a bloody bite mark on my lower back and I had to tell her the story of the night before.

She said she believed me but I’m not sure she did lol... I’m 23 about to be 24 and I still remember how this monster looked so vividly and the thought of it still scares me to this day.

[deleted]

While I was in my babysitter's car when I was really little I started laughing because I saw a street called buttonball lane. It was such a hysterical name to me.

My babysitter called me a liar and didn’t give me my after-school snack, which was a pop tart. She’s dead now though, and I can afford my own pop tarts, and one day, a down payment to a house on buttonball lane.

industrial86

During undergrad when I was working as a lab technician, I was sterilizing tools using flame sterilization (coat tool in alcohol, run the tool through a flame, place tool in a sterile tray).

Long story short, I caught myself on fire. I don’t have any burn scars because of safety equipment (heavy-duty gloves, lab coat, long pants, etc.) so nobody ever believes the story.

Gerbil-Space-Program

Every single time I tell the story about getting shot in the spine by a 12 gauge shotgun and fighting off the shooter I gotta break out the ol' backwound and show people the 6-inch by five-inch crater in my back for them to believe.

It’s shocking that I lived through such a thing and when I show them it's often followed with pics of the carnage the night it happened. It sounds so "internet macho-man" and fictional.

toxictraction

There is a ghost that lives above my bathroom door. Sometimes I’ll make up stories about it because she usually just sits there and stares at me, but occasionally moves a bit, or even gets up and leaves for a few nights.

She is real and I see her basically every night, but no one believes me because she isn’t there when other people are around and doesn’t show in pictures.

IAmTheSorcerer

I spent 3.5 years of my life living under the Pacific Ocean, I've been to the Arctic and Antarctica, and I've been inside, manned, and controlled space rockets.

I've worked with U.S. and Russian governments on strategic arms reduction. I lived and worked <500' from a nuclear reactor, had a top-secret government clearance and was trained in counter-espionage.

I regularly dismantled explosives >60,0000lbs TNT equivalent via detonation (leaves a hole bigger than your local swimming pool) and now build houses and work in R&D for a large corp. Can you believe it?

corJoe

My unlikely story is that back in the day, I had a chihuahua that was like 5 lbs top, that would go play with one of our horses. She'd run up to him paw at his hoof.

He'd then lean his head down and she'd stand up and place her paws on his nose. Then he'd gently push her and she'd go rolling. They'd do it over and over. My little black chihuahua would come back home hours later, the color of the red dirt.

03mika03

I was about 17 and had been called by the local police saying that they had received a report that a car similar to mine had been involved in a hit-and-run so they asked me to come down to the station so they could see my car.

I took my mom with me but when we arrived she got a work phone call she needed to take so she stayed outside. When I walked in and asked the policeman for the detective I had spoken to on the phone, he said “Oh he’s waiting for you?”

I replied with a simple yes, to which he said “With whips and chains?” I just stood there as a scared 17-year-old not believing what I just heard when he laughed and turned away to grab the detective.

Later when I told my mom she didn’t believe me in the slightest, thinking I just misheard— how do you mishear that?? — and even my boyfriend at the time didn’t believe me.

26pages

Back in the day when I was about 14 years old, I legit slipped on a banana peel in the middle of a shopping mall. I felt something go under my foot, crashed down on my butt, turned around, saw the skin, and was like "Are you actually kidding me?!"

The weirdest part was, that nobody else around me seemed to notice, so now even I have trouble believing it actually happened.

[deleted]

I grew up on a parakeet Farm. We had some like 8,000 birds in a barn on a couple of acres of land. For my 5th birthday, I got a BB gun and a dog and it was my job to take care of rodents, cowbirds, and the like, that would get in their little cardboard cages and kick the eggs out.

No one has ever really seen 8,000 birds in one spot in their life and the sound of them is really something. I look back on my younger years very fondly.

Most people think I’m joking when I tell them I lived on a bird farm lol, but I really did. I’ll be the first one to tell you, bird farms are real.

RandomOregonian

I was rolling through chat roulette one night and came face to face with my previous year's college roommate whom I hated. As in, I really disliked her with a passion.

She lived in New York and I'm from CO. We took a second look at each other, and both did the "you!" face and pointed. We did not like each other at all so after a second of laughter, we just waved and disconnected.

sipsredpepper

My mom married the uncle of Matthew Perry (Chandler from FRIENDS), making him my cousin. In his pre-FRIENDS years, we would meet at family gatherings.

I remember thinking he was really cool and awesome. He was a "rising" actor in Hollywood at the time. 

The last time I saw him was when his/our aunt died of leukemia.

My mom and his uncle divorced and I never saw him again. Then FRIENDS came on the air about two years later - he blew up. I told everybody - I mean EVERYBODY - and nobody ever believed me.

BosskHogg

When the first episode of Futurama aired in '99, I clearly remember a gag, when Fry first realizes he is in the future he says "OH CR--" Then it cuts to a commercial break, and when it came back he was screaming "-AP!"

No one else except my boyfriend remembers this, because every time it airs now, he cheers or something, but it totally happened that first time! And that line was in a script I found on the DVD extras.

khelekmir

I'm late to the game and this is long but it's 100% true. I was driving from Boston to Upstate NY with a guy who had his GPS set to shortest distance rather than fastest route - we were on weird back roads rather than highways.

It was broad daylight but the road was in a heavily wooded area. It's also worth noting that the guy was notoriously a poor driver and was always 15+ miles over the speed limit.

  So okay, we're speeding through these woods and we don't see another car for miles. All of a sudden - and I have not had this feeling before or since - I am beyond all doubt that there is a ghost in the back seat of the car.

If you want to push for details, I would have said that she was about 12 with long and dark hair. I start freaking out because - I need you to believe me on this - there was a ghost in the car.

For once in his life, the driver slows down It's in reaction to me freaking out. All of a sudden, the wooded road ends dramatically on a hairpin turn.

If we hadn't slowed down, the car would have gone straight over. As we drove by, we could see the wreckage of another car being slowly towed up. The ghost vanished.

katieslabyrinth

On Mortal Kombat One for Sega Genesis Liu Kang has a hidden fatality where he simply uppercuts the living crap out of the opponent who doesn’t come back down until the last second before loading the next fight.

I don’t remember how to do said move because both times I did it, I was literally mashing random buttons. I’m not crazy, I’ve done it twice, but I’ve NEVER seen it mentioned anywhere like wth.

Game_Caviar

When I was a kid, I lived on one end of a 40-acre farm, and my cousin and his family lived at the other end. There was a walking trail that we had, that he and I would use to get back and forth to each other's houses.

The farm was right up against a large conservation area, and there was the occasional sighting of a black bear or cougar. There had been stories from many years ago of some seeing a "large black cat" or, "panther", in the area, but most folks dismissed them as false.

One afternoon around 4:00, when I was 14, I left the house and started walking down the trail to my cousin, because I was going to spend the night at his house.

I got a little more than halfway and was on the part of the trail that weaved out of the woods and ran along the edge of the woods in an open field.

About the time I broke past the treeline into the open, I heard a loud crashing noise behind me to my right, and all of a sudden a whitetail doe came running past me about 40 yards to my right and went racing across the field.

Immediately after that, this huge black cat, who looked like a small cow, ran out right behind her and was chasing her up the field. He caught up to her, hit her, and they both rolled on the ground.

The doe jumped up and lit out again. What I believe to have been a panther, was hot on her heels. They crashed into the woods about 180 yards away to my right, and I ran like hell to my cousins.

Not one of my family members believed me except my uncle. He claimed to have seen a black panther years ago. To this day I don't really bring it up to anyone, because it's so fantastic I almost don't even feel like I'm telling the truth when I talk about it because it's so unbelievable.

I don't live in an overly exotic state, or area when it comes to wildlife, so it really was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

[deleted]

When I was in first grade, I was the leader of a mini school-wide 'war' purely coordinated through word of mouth and my side won.

Me and one other girl who had joined my side that day and I didn't actually know were implicated as the ringleaders. She of course, immediately insisted she didn't do it and this was all news to her.

Rather than cover for myself, I stepped up and insisted that I had in fact been the ringleader but I had never seen this girl before and she definitely wasn't to blame.

She got off scot-free - and after a stern talking to, so did I because I'd told the truth and stuck up for her. I was awesome as a six-year-old. I really don't know what happened.

GiftedContractor

I work at Walmart and give a challenge out to every gamer I see. They beat I Want To Be The Guy in under 10K lives and I'll buy them any three games they want, provided they give me a video of them beating the game.

Alternatively, they can beat it in its hardest difficulty at all and I'll get them a game system. Needless to say, no one thinks it's gonna be as hard as it is.

So when they hear after failure that the hardest difficulty doesn't have any save points except one that tries to kill you, they don't believe I beat it. Despite it taking months of replaying it to beat it like that.

MamaMitsu

I came up with the ideas for the middle names of both my younger cousin and my younger brother when they were born. My Auntie is the only one at all who remembers this.

My parents agree that I gave my cousin her middle name, Jane, but remain adamant that my other brother came up with my youngest brother’s middle name, Luke. BUT I KNOW IT WAS ME CAUSE I GOT IT FROM STAR WARS.

[deleted]

Justin Bieber once subscribed to me on YouTube. As a preteen/teen I used to make YouTube videos. Nothing special, I had around 200 subscribers.

Back then there were groups you could join, I joined one for people under the age of 18. The criteria was you needed over 150 subs or something.

A little while after I joined someone named "kidrhaul" subscribed to me. I checked out his channel, watched a couple of videos, and thought "Wow this kid can sing!" Several months later he was all over the news.

Bieber never commented on my stuff or anything, pretty sure he just subscribed because we were both in the same group. I have long since deleted that channel and none of my friends believe me!

AngryCanuck676

Me and a friend went backpacking out in the middle of Missouri. We walked about 1.5 miles to the typical spots that are right off the trail and everything was full (8+ at one spot, 6+ at the other) so we ended up having to walk a little bit off the trail.

We get to the spot, smoke a bowl in our tent, and go to bed. Around 1030 at night we suddenly started hearing chainsaw noises and were a little freaked out but decided to just ignore it and play some music on our phones.  

We woke up the next morning at around 6-7 and decided to walk to a cave nearby. We walked past the spots everyone was at the previous night and everything and everyone was gone...

Digitaltrey