62 People Reveal Terrifying Moments That Nearly Cost Them Their Lives—and How They Miraculously Survived
Had I kept going and not pulled and blacked out I could definitely have been gone from being tangled in my reserve. The spinning also caused all the capillaries in my eyes to burst and so I looked like the devil for two weeks.
Driving behind a pickup truck on the LA freeway with a massive load of furniture piled in the bed. Just as I am pulling up to this thing to get around it all the furniture comes flying out the back. I had to swerve, going full freeway speeds, multiple lanes to avoid hitting anything. Somehow I managed to avoid everything and maintain control of my car. My adrenaline was pounding the hardest I had ever felt. I didn’t even think to look back and see what happened behind me.
That same day, late at night on a desert road (was on a long road trip)… I was booking and *again* had to swerve, but this time around a giant black dog straight up just standing in the middle of the road. We are talking waaaaaay out in the middle of nowhere. Just this massive black shaggy dog standing there. Didn’t even look up at the car as I barely got around it. Here’s the craziest part of this… a handful of miles down the road I had to stop at this tiny little rickety single pump gas station. Super old and run down but actually had a pump with a card slot. It’s like 2 am, there is one little flickering light above the pump. Pitch black everywhere around. I’m standing there pumping my gas. A cat walks into the light and passed me…. followed by a big massive shaggy black dog. I had probably pumped 2 gallons, I got right back in my car and bounced out of there.
In 2015 I was planning to go to Paris with my friends. We lived in NL at the time and planned to take the afternoon bus, and then be there for dinner. But then, we realised if we take the afternoon bus we would have to skip a class, so we decided to take the next available bus. Later that evening, the Paris attacks happened. The restaurant we planned to have dinner in was within the affected area. We were “trapped” as basically the country went into lockdown for a few days, but at least we didn’t get ourselves hurt or something.
I was working on a pipe crew in 1998, we were installing a large concrete vault in a pretty big hole. I’m standing in a ditch about six feet deep marking grade while the excavator operator is digging. So to the front of me is a large excavator bucket, itself weighing hundreds of pounds and backed by powerful hydraulics and thousands of pounds of steel armature, and behind me is a solid concrete wall about a foot thick. And the ditch is only a few feet wide and too tall for me to jump or climb out of with any kind of speed.
Suddenly the excavator spins to one side and the arm snaps out to full extension with full force, and the operator shuts it down. The bucket missed my head by about a foot. He climbs out of the machine, visibly shaken, and tells me that something has failed on the machine and the arm “wasn’t supposed to have done that.” So as he’s been digging he’s been noticing that ever so slightly there’s a bit of a delay between his inputs and the machine’s actions, and in the moment before failure he just felt “something wasn’t right” and tried to pull the bucket in; when it didn’t seem to want to, he turned the excavator “just in case” and that’s when the arm extended. Had he not, I would have been crushed.
There were two other excavator operators on that crew, and they were basically idiots. Had one of them been with us that day, I’m sure I’d be gone.
A couple months ago I was in a head on collision with some dude driving down the wrong side of the road with his headlights out. I was going probably around 50 before I saw him (speed limit was 55 so that’s my best guess.) saw him with a second or two of reaction time, managed to brake hard and swerve over only bad enough to total my car, but I still walked away with nothing more than a sore neck. If I hadn’t seen the dude I don’t doubt that I could’ve passed away or been seriously injured.
I don’t know if I would’ve been gone, but when I was very small I woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling like the dog was missing. I woke up everyone in the house and we went looking for the dog. Somehow we were all outside when a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the neighbor’s house and their house exploded setting only one room in our house on fire—mine and my sister’s. If I hadn’t had everyone frantically searching for the dog, who knows what would’ve happened. The dog must have known something was up, too because she had gotten out of the house and was hiding under a porch across the street.
Had a bad hangover and was kind of nervous/jittery, which in turn made me extra watchful. I was driving home, light turned green and I started to go. Car going about 45 in crowded city traffic doesn’t care and goes right through the red. I slammed on the brakes and felt my anti-lock brakes engage for the first time in I don’t know how long. Guy missed me by inches. Didn’t even slow down.
Had I not been hungover I doubt I would have given the cross traffic that second look to see him barreling toward me. He likely would have t-boned me right in the driver’s door.
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