Category: what happened to you but no one ever believes it

As a writer, I read true stories all the time that I think I could never use in a book because readers would roll their eyes and call it unbelievable. It must be frustrating to be the owner of one of those stories and never be able to tell them without people thinking you’re a liar, right?

These 13 people have exactly those kinds of tales, and if you say you’re not curious to hear them, I’d say you’re the one who’s not telling the truth.

13. Huh. So it only takes one.

I saw a bird unscrew a lightbulb once.

Yep. Just 1. It worked at it for a long time.

12. Witchcraft.

I knocked a cup of coffee off my counter and caught it and no coffee spilled out of it.

11. She knows what she saw.

Short story: birds + sockets don’t mix.

Long story: I was 5 & we’d just moved to a new house. My mom had sent me outside to play while she unpacked stuff. The house had recessed can lighting under the eaves on the outside. There was a bird in one of the light fixtures trying to unscrew a bulb (presumably to build a nest or something, but it was in the fall). It was using its wings, feet, & body pressure to work the bulb around. I went inside like 5 times trying to get my mom to come outside to look, help me scare of the bird, help the bird or whatever. I was constantly met with the response of “[my name] birds can’t unscrew lightbulbs, go play.”

It eventually got the bulb unscrewed, but the bulb flipped upside down & blocked the hole on the light fixture. Unfortunately, Birdy electrocuted itself. I went inside & told my mom “Well, it got it out.” Then went back to play. She laughed it off assuming it was just part of a make-believe story or something.

My dad came home, I pointed it out to him. He got the ladder, fixed the bulb & removed the body. Both parents were sad they didn’t get to see a bird unscrew a lightbulb. It never happened again in the 15 years we lived at that house.

As a result, whenever my 4-year-old tells me I need to see something cool…I drop whatever & go look. Just in case it’s a bird unscrewing a lightbulb or something. Lol

10. A great cross to bear.

One time when I was a teenager I was playing pool with friends. The pizza arrived or whatever and I took one last shot just as everyone was leaving and sank like five balls.

It was the single best move I have ever made in any game I have ever played, but no one saw it and there was no way to take credit for it without sounding like a liar.

9. You can’t unknow this.

I saw a bee eat a piece of cheese. It was horrifying. I didn’t know it was possible.

Bees will eat human flesh if they get desperate enough, but it has to be already dead.

8. Anyone who owns goats would definitely believe this.

Was doing a service call at an equestrian farm. I went to the bathroom in the barn to take a leak, the door was slightly ajar and the light was off.

I pushed open the door and hit the light only to see a goat dressed in a fleece vest eating toilet paper off the roll.

He gave me this look like to say “wtf are you looking at?” I turned off the light and left.

7. I can imagine his face in this moment.

I once threw the inside of a pen at least 9ft clear across a room and skewered a fly that was annoying me.

Legit I felt like a ninja and have no way to prove it to anyone.

Not gonna lie It’s probably my peak and it’s all been downhill ever since.

6. That would have made me squeal.

Heath Ledger was sitting in my seat on an airplane when I was about 13 on a family holiday.

I knew him only from 10 Things I Hate About You at the time and it was my FAVOURITE FILM EVER.

He was in the right seat but on the wrong plane and jumped up and ran across the tarmac – simpler time, small airport in Spain. No one ever believes me!!

5. She has a type, I think.

My ex (American, met him in the US) and my other ex (Dutch, met him three years later in Argentina) work at the same office in Amsterdam. They are colleagues. I found out cause I saw a fb post in which they were at the same office (2 years after me and Dutchie broke up). And I still live in Argentina!

Also, some years ago, I was in a relationship with a guy. We lived together in a tiny apartment. The relationship ended in a terrible way. Four years later, I started dating another guy. He takes me to his house. It was the apartment I used to share with my ex.

And let me tell you, Buenos Aires is a HUGE city.

4. It’s almost like he knew…

Was in a bookstore once and my friend being a huge Doctor Who fan was looking at some Doctor Who books in the Sci fi section while I looked at Star Wars books.

I came around the bookcase to see what he was looking at and I started saying how boring Doctor Who is. I then started roasting particular actors who had played the Doctor. Especially Colin Baker. I was ripping into this guy and how shit of an actor he is and over acted everything and was just the worst Doctor ever.

My friend and I both looked up and standing where I had been standing 5 minutes before with this huge grin on his face was Colin f*cking Baker.

3. He must be a Jedi.

Was lying in bed watching a movie and too lazy to move.

Saw a small/harmless spider drop down from a thread on the ceiling obviously heading for the far side of my bed.

Even if it wasn’t venomous I didn’t want to share my bed with it, but also didn’t want to move; not thinking it’d actually do anything I reached out my arm towards it (but still quite a few feet away) and started waving my fingers at it in annoyance.

To my absolute surprise it immediately stopped its descent and actually retracted back up its line while I was sitting there in surprise.

Took me a couple of seconds to realise that my hand must’ve looked like the most giant freaking spider he’d ever seen standing on its back legs and waving the front 5 in the “F*ck off or I’ll wreck you” dance.

2. There’s a feather in your cap.

I was once arrested for “dueling”. That was the charge.

I went after my best friend with a knife and he came at me. The cops pulled up after about 5 minutes. We took off. They caught us. Charged with dueling.

He had f*cked my wife.

1. No one ever noticed.

I started out in the normal math class until my teacher realized I should switch to the advanced class because I got perfect scores on everything.

We were just about to start the chapter about telling time when I made the switch.

The advanced math class already knew how to tell time. I had all digital clocks at my house.

I didn’t actually learn how to tell time til I was about to start high school and thought I should learn

I could read these all day long, y’all.

What’s a story you have that no one ever believes? Share it with us in the comments!

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One of the most horrible feelings in the world is watching something crazy happen, or having something unbelievable happen to you, and no one being around to witness it – because you know for a fact anyone you tell is going to call you a liar.

That’s exactly the experience these 14 people in these situations, so take a read and decide whether or not you think they’re telling the truth.

14. What could have been happening?

When I was a kid, I got a shoebox and filled it with some sand, a pile of sugar, and a few ants, like three or four. I brought that box into the house and put it in my cabinet. I forgot about the box for like two days.

When I went to check the box, because I thought the ants couldn’t get out, I saw something that still seemed insane to me. But I know what I saw.

A military style formation of ants, in a large rectangle, sorted by sizes with the smallest ones in front.

Like two (might have been four) big ones in front of the others facing the formation. The large ones were facing away from the cabinet doors. The ants remained still for like two or three seconds then scattered in every direction.

13. When you can’t quite believe your eyes.

I watched a kid on his bike get hit by a car somehow he got up like it was nothing.

Shock and adrenaline are a helluva drug.

12. Quick thinking.

I legit found a $100 bill on the ground.

I couldn’t believe it myself but I took it straight to the ATM and it was accepted.

11. Nope. Don’t like that.

My grandad raised a crocodile in my mums backyard pool on an island, while she was growing up.

Every so often they would take him out to sea and try to release him, but a few days later he would come crawling up the local boat ramp, going home.

He killed the neighbours chickens a few times. They didn’t like him so much.

When he was taken into care at a crocodile park, they flew him on a plane to the mainland. He is one of the top 5 biggest crocs at his wildlife park.

10. I’m about to fall down a rabbit hole.

My wife has an artifact (reflective metallic nose ring looking object) embedded in her lower left rib cage between the bone and fatty tissue. It was discovered after an MRI for unrelated issue.

9. You can’t be selfish with a gift from the universe.

i once left my house in nothing but a tshirt and sweatpants in a suicidal manic-depressive state, bought a pack of cigarettes, and told the universe that if it couldn’t give me a good reason not to kill myself by the time i finished the pack, i’d do it.

i ended up seeing Daniel Radcliffe smoking a rollie outside of a starbucks. i offered him a “real cigarette” pretending to have no idea who he was. “oh, no thank you,” he said. “i much prefer the ritual of rolling my own.” what i COULD have said was well ya that makes sense seeing as how yr a wizard. what i DID say was hi i’m [PhDVa], what’s your name?

given my pact, and with nothing to lose, i unloaded all my emotional baggage on him right there. we ended up talking on the curb for half an hour. he asked me about my tattoos and listened to me recite Shakespeare. eventually he touched my shoulder, looked me in the eyes, and said “i know there’s no good way to say this, but please don’t kill yourself.” he asked me some reasons why i don’t. “well, my cat, my mom, my brother—” “right, well, i’m glad the cat came first.” totally charming. finally he announced that he was going to “wander off that way.”

i’d left my house without my phone due to the nature of my pact with the universe (having nothing but the cigarettes on me to distract me from my angst was part of it) and so made no attempt to follow him or to get his number. (i went back to that starbucks several times over the coming weeks to no avail. i still don’t regret not trying to give him my number, though, as it would have violated the spirit of the pact. you can’t get selfish with a gift from the universe like that. bipolar people may understand what i mean. in any case, acknowledging his fame or getting all stalky would have broken the spell.)

8. Yeah don’t bring that up.

My old boss has a NXIVM brand. I saw it when she reached up to get something and panicked because it just seems rude to POINT OUT THE BRANDED SKIN on another person. I immediately recognized the symbol and it was surreal. I was immersed in podcasts and stuff about that at the time.

NXIVM was (is?) a cult that started as a mlm company and somehow progressed into young women starving themselves, being branded with an old guy and a random b list actresses initials and LARPing slavery. It’s a lot more but there’s the gist.

7. How charming.

One day I noticed my dog standing at the glass door with something in his mouth. It was a $5 bill. We went to BK and grabbed him a cheese burger for a reward.

The next day he was at the door with a $1 so we got him another burger. Figured it was only fair as he paid for it.

6. I mean…

Got a hole in 1 playing golf by myself with no one else around me on the course.

Most of my friends take my word it but still give me a hard time saying it never happened.

5. I hope they kept the stick.

I held a stick straight up in the air while pretending to be a magical creature and then it immediately started raining heavily.

4. Beginner’s luck?

I found and caught a shiny Ho-oh first time playing Pokemon Gold. All my friends thought I cheated.

My cousin and I each got Diamond and Pearl back when they came out and I saw that the very first Pokémon he ran into (before he had access to pokéballs) was a shiny Shinx. He even wanted a Luxray on his team and he’s still pissed about it to this day.

3. Sounds major.

I snuck into the Canadian Parliament building at around 1:30 AM on June 27th 1998.

I just walked around for about 15 minutes and tried to open a bunch of doors (which were all locked).

There was major construction happening on the west side of the building at the time. They were digging large holes around the foundation and surrounding areas and they had built a small temporary enclosure around one of the doors.

My three buddies and I had just graduated highschool and decided to wander around downtown, under the false hope that only 18 years olds can muster that doing so would somehow get us laid.

We climbed up a dark stairway on the hill at the back of parliament and reached the rod iron fence with a locked gate at the top. We could see two security guards (or, upon reflection, they were probably RMCP) who were doing rounds of the entire construction area, since it basically left the side of the Parliament building open.

My one buddy dared someone to try and sneak in. I was easily the most timid of the group, I couldn’t even bring myself to speak to girls on most days. But for some reason that night I gave zero fucks and just hopped over the fence while my buddies loudly whisper-hissed for me to come back.

I ran between the various CAT construction equipment, trying to stay in the dark patches, pausing to watch and memorize the route the two security guys were taking. The temporary door to the small enclosure was unlocked, I had seen one of the guards open it from our hiding spot behind the fence.

I sprinted the last 15 yards or so which were illuminated by construction flood lights and in the open, certain I’d be caught, but I made it into the door without making a sound. The actual door to parliament on the inside was open, so I just went inside.

The harder part was sneaking back out, I had to retrace my route and because I had been inside in the light for so long, my eyes had adjusted so I couldn’t see shit once I made it back to the darkness of the construction equipment. I nearly tripped a half dozen times on my way back to the gate.

My buddies had bailed on me within five minutes, assuming I’d been caught and wanting to put as much distance between me and them. I eventually found them at the base of the hill near the river, where I was met with a mixture of high fives and questions about my intelligence.

None of us got laid.

2. This gave me chills!

The owls.

When my grandpa passed away in November of 2008, I was at my dad’s house. The front yard is almost enclosed by pine trees. I kept hearing weird noises, so I decided to go outside and see what it was. We shown a light on the trees and was greeted by many many pairs of eyes.

There had to be at least 20 owls just hanging out in the trees. My grandpa had an interesting way with birds and we had a very close bond. That was the only time the owls had ever been to our house.

Until my Mastiff passed away last year. I was home alone, brushing my teeth when I heard the familiar sound. I thought I was going crazy, but no. There they were, owls in the trees. A completely different time of year, twelve years later. The owls keep watch.

1. A handy helper.

My husband and son were watching ants filing into their hole with their loot. One ant was carrying a piece of wood, but couldn’t get through the hole with it. It kept trying, holding up the line of other ants. Upon closer inspection, my husband see it’s actually been impaled with a sliver of wood. He picks up the ant and carefully removes the wood, and the ant fits down the hole.

As someone visually impaired, this a much different world than the one I live in.

I’m dying. I would have freaked out at some of these!

What’s your “no one will believe it” story? Share it with us in the comments!

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