We all have that one fact or story that we pull out when we really want to shock our friends, make them do a double-take and ask if we’re serious.
A now-viral tweet asked people to share those stories, and people were happy to deliver. With over 3000 replies and 34k quote tweets, here were some of the most popular tales shared.
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Desperate times.
“I once fell off a cliff trying to get phone signal.”
This person then returned to elaborate further, “[To] slightly expand on this: technically I climbed the cliff to get the phone signal. I was successful but then had a different problem.”
Underground discovery.
“When I was living in Paris, I had a local friend who knew how to break into the Catacombs. A group of us went in there one night, and I discovered that there’s an underground community of artists and ravers who spend their time down there. It felt like a club.”
Not the worst.
“I once duct taped a propane tank to the back of a 4-wheeler to burn fallow at the end of a field. Things were going well until I popped the clutch, couldn’t get it started while surrounded by fire, didn’t blow myself up, and came home with no eyebrows.”
History repeating itself.
“I was 9 years old. A 5 year old boy ran up to me and kept saying; ‘Come meet Auntie Myra’. I shooed him away.
“[Seven] years later in a different country: A knock at the door. A 5 year old boy. Same appearance. ‘Come meet Auntie Myra!’. ‘Come meet Auntie Myra!’ ‘Come meet Auntie Myra!’.”
Man’s other best friend.
“After vomiting and feeling terrible one morning I lied down in bed. I just wanted to sleep but my cat Dag kept jumping on my back real hard for about 5 mins. I got out of bed to kick him [out] and fell over. I was having a stroke. Doc said cat saved my life for sleep = deadness.”
Unwelcome discoveries.
“Once I was exploring an abandoned asylum. It had a tunnel system which was 100 ft of darkness before light from a grate/ladder to the street level, repeat. After about 20 minutes in this tunnel of nothing there was a chair with a teddy bear. I still think about this bear.”
Yes, the picture above is the actual bear this person saw. Saying it’s scary is putting it lightly.
Fire-y vendetta.
“[People have] deliberately tried to light me on fire enough times for me to know I’m significantly more burn-resistant than a normal person. Like that time I had to catch a red-hot steel bar that was dropping in a way that would’ve stabbed my inner thigh. Fully-healed in a week.”
A labor of hate.
“My grandpa makes multimillion dollar custom built string instruments. [When] my mum asked if there’s any he doesn’t want to let go [of], he replied he hates all of them and once they’re sold he doesn’t have to look at [them] anymore.”
Call of the wild.
“Date in a park at night. [It’s] pitch black and I am the only person in the park. Date shows up 15 minutes later. We come across a guy who feeds ducks. The guy tells us he can talk to the ducks. He yells ‘woooolie’ and ducks come flying from everywhere in the park. Hundreds.”
An eventful day.
“[The] last 48hrs of my trip to Japan included missing the last train – the one thing you’re not supposed to do – sleeping in a rock garden, running from gangs in Chiba, finding a body, police thinking I was responsible for the body, and escaping police by crawling under a train gate.”
Shutting it down.
“In college I dated a girl who turned streetlights off by walking under them. She had no control over it. I witnessed it myself on multiple occasions. It was deeply unsettling. Walking with her at night left a trail of darkness. They came back on after a minute or so.”
The magic words.
“In my childhood I cried and screamed every time [I had] to take an injection. I even ran away from the hospital few times, but one day my mom told this to the nurse and [the nurse] said ‘Mom, can you leave the room for a moment so I can to talk to him?’ My mom left then [the nurse] put me seated over a cabinet, looked into my eyes and calmly said something that I CAN’T REMEMBER! When my mom get back I was completely relaxed and peaceful, I watched the needle pierce my arm without crying and from this day forward, I never feared needles again.”
This can only end well.
“When I was very small I was bitten by a water-viper when swimming in a French river. My parents rushed me to hospital. I arrived at the hospital clutching a little plastic lidded basket. The nurse asked me what was in it. I told her I’d made a new friend. She opened the basket…”
It takes a village.
“We have wild turkeys in my childhood neighborhood and during a storm one night, a spooked turkey crashed through our second story window (storm windows screen and interior glass, all of it); it lived, was big scared, and it took 2 cops to get it out!”
Right place, right time.
“I once accidentally walked into Mexico while running a camp for children on a Reservation in Southern Arizona and so help me god an ice cream truck appeared in the desert, Smashing Pumpkins style. There was nothing else to be seen in all directions for miles.”
Pretty direct.
“I instinctually reached out and caught a pigeon out of the air while vacationing in Oahu. We both stared at each other like ‘Why did this just happen’? Me and the pigeon then shared an ice cream cone. My grandma was not impressed.”
Not their strong suit.
“My driver’s license record is so long PennDOT won’t fax it to the cop, they’ll only mail it. My driver’s license record is so long it won’t come up on a cop’s computer, they have to call it in. I was denied life insurance for my driving record… 7 years ago when I was 24.”
Electric vibes.
“When I was in high school, my dad had a remote control sailboat which went absolutely haywire when I came near the controller- didn’t even touch it. Apparently my personal electric field was/is on the same frequency as the transmitter.”
Well, that’s horrifying.
“I saw one of my best friends get struck by lightning from ~2 feet away. We were at summer camp, looking for a place to fish. I’d just jumped to lower ground and turned back to help him down and it happened out of nowhere. Seeing it come out of his eyes and mouth still scares me.”
In case you were wondering, the friend survived and is doing great.
Dream life.
“Had a dream the world ended via zombies. Lived in that dream world for ~25 years. First three years I was alone and spent my free time in libraries learning how to make crop irrigation from collected rain water. Met some nice people and formed a community. Took 2 hours when I woke up to remember where I was and that I was 16. For a few years I missed my community and friends that I met and spent so long with in my dream. I dont remember when I forgot their faces though…”
