Expect the Unexpected: 40+ Real-Life Plot Twists We Didn't See Coming

Every once in a while things take you by surprise, throwing a curveball that ends up changing everything. From hidden family secrets to ghostly goings-on and last-minute revelations, these people shared their most shocking real-life plot twist stories on Reddit, showing that you can never truly predict how life might turn out. Prepare to pick up your jaw from the floor.

Hard Nugget

u/Derp43: “Paramedic here. I ran a call on a guy that was ejected out of a late 80's mustang. The guy said the car rolled 2 times before pitching him out of the driver's side window. He said he landed on his head and the 7 inch scalp avulsion seemed to corroborate his story. The car was completely crushed and sitting on its top. The guy wanted to refuse treatment and transport…never lost consciousness. I insisted though that he be seen at the ER. He rode the whole way texting people. When I told him that he shouldn't be alive he said ‘Yeah I got a hard nugget.’”

Secret Weapon

u/CYKAABYLATT: “[My mom] is a visiting physical therapist. She used to work in a small city in the area, with some bad areas, and she had to do therapy for a rather overweight guy who was pretty paranoid about the people in his complex…but my mom sat down on the couch and felt something hard underneath the cushion. She had the guy get what it was, and it was a stick, with a large knife taped to the end. She had almost sat on the knife too. She asked him if there was anything else like that in or around the area she needed to work in, and he managed to remove multiple knives, makeshift spears, and a syringe based weapon.”

Head of the Family

u/govzombie: “Was a bridesmaid in a wedding, at the reception we couldn't locate the groom for the first dance. We fanned out to search for him. I found him... getting hard...from his 2nd cousin. His excuse.. he was d---- and thought it was his new wife...even though she was in a bright red dress. The marriage didn't last long.”

Love Triangled

u/808breakdown: "This may get a little convoluted but a girl I went to high school with had a boyfriend. After like 2 years she found out that her boyfriend was being paid by a l------ to go out with the girl so that the l------ could pretend to be him online and talk to her. I guess it was to make the girl fall in love with her or something."

Jamaican Love

u/Whoistcmt: "The friend in the group everyone assumed was in the closet kept talking about his 'Jamaican Girlfriend', but we could never actually get good information about her. He said they met online in a Christian dating website/chatroom and that she was perfect. Never got much out of him other than weird comments like 'She's perfect' or 'Her eyes shine' .. so.. not much to go on. He's been gone 3 years; after moving to Jamaica, getting engaged and is now married to a evangelical female pastor of a fairly large congregation. He sent us all Wedding pictures and every now and then we get an e-mail or text. I don't think he realize how completely shocked we all are that it was all actually true."

Take That to the Grave

u/Chardagoat: “I received a phone call from my late husband’s girlfriend the day of his funeral. She was phoning his cell phone which I had turned off while he was in the hospital. She told me that my husband had been paying her rent for the last year. The bank had recently foreclosed on our house. I had no idea he was unfaithful to me but she knew all about me.”

Love Triangle Flip

u/DotReality: "So my friend told me about this one. Her best friend was dating this guy and they were pretty sure they had found 'the one' with each other. This guy was all ready to propose and was picking out rings. So these two decide to have a t-------- and as a third he chooses his ex girlfriend. At this point any guy with a shred of common sense should know this is probably going to end badly but this is where the twist is. The girlfriend enjoyed it a little too much and broke up with him to date his ex girlfriend."

Keep Your Enemies Close

"As I walked into the office, I noticed my co-worker, Amanda, packing up her things and crying. Concerned, I approached her and asked what happened. Through her sobs, she managed to whisper, 'They fired me, just like that.' Shocked, I couldn't believe it. Amanda was the most hardworking and dedicated employee I knew. Determined to uncover the truth, I logged onto the company server and started digging. That's when I stumbled upon a series of confidential emails that I definitely shouldn’t have looked into. It turned out that Amanda was secretly working with a rival company to steal our valuable intellectual property and feeding them confidential information about our upcoming projects, with the promise that they’d hire her for a huge salary. She just wasn’t the person I thought she was."

One Wedding and a Funeral

u/shak2die4: “When i was in college studying photography, [fellow student] asks me to assist him on his next wedding. Big day comes and im prepared to get photos of them getting ready, but the groom refuses to be in any pics stating he was feeling under the weather. I kinda thought suck it up its your wedding day…he was insistent. Ceremony comes and goes....again groom refuses pics much to everyones annoyance. Get to reception, speeches begin… the groom just leaves saying once again he was feeling ill. This is where the bride went into a rage... Everyone agreed he was being dramatic. We got paid in full even tho we were done. i go home, phone goes, its the photographer. Groom passed away shortly after leaving the reception hall.”

Another Life

u/weedandsteak: “My grandfather was Polish. He'd fought in the second world war in the allied forces after escaping to occupied Italy. Later, he came to the UK and met my grandmother, with whom he had an unbelievably troubled relationship, and five kids. He died when my Dad was 14. My Dad and his brothers found some old projector films in the attic, one was a slideshow that appeared to depict him, in a suit, next to a woman in a wedding dress, standing at an altar. The guy had been married already, in Poland. We don't know what happened to his first wife, but he was estranged from his Polish family.”

Scammer Mom

u/rebel_nature: “My buddy's mom totally killed my buddy's dad. She had taken a $200k life insurance policy out on him 6 months before he died, and he died from not taking his medication that he'd taken no problem all of his life. My buddy was away for the weekend so wasn't home when his dad died. After his mom died, we found out she'd taken a life insurance policy out on my buddy at some point too, and she'd also forged his signature to sign over $100k my buddy's dad had left to him.”

BrideZilla

u/themiddlemile7: “My cousin got married last april. I only went because my parents were going and i had nothing better to do that weekend (also, free b--). Got to watch her set her bouquet, the white carpet, and the groom's pants on fire mid ceremony because he had spiked his hair wrong. Best part was the minister just kept reading the vows as it all went down. Eventually they got it all under control and the two said their 'I Do's. The divorce finalized a couple days ago.”

Murder Mystery

u/cdubyadubya: “A buddy of mine is a hotel manager in a large downtown hotel. They had a p--------- come down to the front desk fully n---, screaming in hysterics to call 911. She had just woken up in one of their rooms strapped to the bed like it was Dexter's table. The whole room had been draped in plastic. The John was in the shower when she came to. She managed to wriggle free and ran out of the room. By the time the cops arrived, the dude had left, but the room was still all Dextered up. The security footage could see the guy leave the hotel, but he'd obscured his face on every camera angle. To my buddy's knowledge, the guy was never caught.”

Unreal Blueprint

"My sister's boyfriend decided that he wanted to do more with his architecture skills so he gave his two weeks notice and moved to Haiti to help rebuild after the earthquake. They stayed together. He had bad phone service so they mostly kept in touch through emails. He would send her long emails with photos and stories of what they were doing. This went on for a couple of months. One off-handed tip from a co-worker and a week of sleuthing later and it turns out he never went to Haiti. He moved to Seattle to be with his fiance and partner of 9 years."

Managerial Mix-Up

"I strolled into my new job bright and early on my first day. Making my way over to a guy, I extended a friendly greeting. He wasted no time and immediately handed me some odd tasks to tackle. Without delay, I dove into the work. An hour in, my phone buzzed, and it was from the very job I was at. I picked up, and the voice on the other end chimed in, 'You do realize today is your starting day as manager. You’ll be given two hours of training and then we expect you to start the job after lunch. This might’ve been skipped over during your orientation, but we’re happy to have you with us.' The person hung up and I tried to calm myself before going straight into panic mode. How did no one tell me the actual position I would be working in?"

Going Ghost

"My girlfriend of two years was the breadwinner at the time, the leaseholder, etc., and for my birthday, she sent me to a music festival back in my hometown. I had a great time at the festival, and when I called her to tell her all about it, she informed me that I wasn't welcome back home. Since I was already in my hometown, she helpfully suggested I stay with my parents, and she'd ship me my stuff. We had just gotten back from a trip all around Europe two weeks prior, and I was under the impression that everything was going smoothly. Double plot twist: She regained internet in our new apartment and kicked me off of everything—the lease, the bills, the wifi, seriously everything. I was blocked from everything and literally never had contact with her again."

Stalking Down the Aisle

"For 13 years, I had a stalker since grade school who copied everything I did. After my parents filed a restraining order, we moved states to escape her. Yesterday, while unpacking in our new house, a photo left me speechless. 'Why do you have this!?' I gasped. My husband grinned, 'It took you this long to realize. Didn’t you ever notice the similarities? My sister died ten years ago, and i had to continue on her journey of keeping tabs on you. But now, we’re married, and you love me, so we can both thank her for bringing us together, despite the weird circumstances.' Suddenly, i couldn't recognize the person standing in front of me. How could he?"

Driven Away

"A few years ago, my husband and I went car shopping. We decided to stop by a Lexus dealership. Now, I have to say we were not 'dressed' to shop at Lexus. My husband's first question to the sales guy was, 'What's the difference between 4WD and AWD?' The sales guy rudely answers, 'For someone who is looking to buy an SUV, I would expect you know the difference.' Strike 1. My husband goes quiet. Then, to my surprise, he suddenly said 'My father used to own this dealership. I wanted to see how customers are treated when they aren’t recognized. Clearly, there’s room for improvement.’ The sales guy turned pale. The dealership owner overheard everything and stepped out. Upon recognizing my husband, he apologized profusely. The salesman was fired on the spot and the owner offered us a significant discount. We thanked him but refused his generous offer. We drove down the road and bought a BMW X5 instead."

Villain Era

"A girl with long, gorgeous hair walked into the salon and told them to cut it all off and dye it blonde. Her phone has been ringing since she arrived. She hasn't checked it once. She's moved on, she's in her villain era now."

Rising from Rejection

"I once had a job interview. It was very early in my career and I was trying to move 500 miles to a new place. I built prototypes and brought samples of my work. It was a 9 hour drive, but everyone seemed so enthusiastic that I figured it was a lock. I did not get the job. I found another job in the area and took it. 6 months later they called and asked me to interview for the job above the one I had applied for. I was given an offer on the spot and worked there almost a decade. In the first few months the people there told me the guy who's job I had (who would have been my boss if he hired me initially) had actually said the samples and work I did was beyond him and he didn't want an employee who knew more than him. Well, I guess he doesn't have that problem since they fired him and replaced him with me."

Deadly Overdue

"One day, I received a call from a lawyer informing me that a distant relative I had never heard of had passed away and left me their entire estate. I was shocked and couldn't believe my luck. I quickly made arrangements to visit the lawyer's office and sign the necessary paperwork. When I arrived, the lawyer handed me an envelope with a letter from the deceased relative. I eagerly opened it, expecting a heartfelt message or perhaps some words of wisdom about being in charge of such a vast amount of wealth and property. That is absolutely not what I got. Instead, it was a letter explaining that since I was the only family member left, receiving the estate meant coming with it was all the taxes that hadn’t been paid for more than a hundred years. Now, it was my responsibility, and the authorities were already hounding me for it."

Happy Ending

"My husband had an affair with a woman who was a high level executive at a tech company. When i found he broke it off with her and we started couples therapy. He made it clear that he wanted our marriage to work. But after few days her ex called and told us she PASSED AWAY and that she left him 5 million dollars with a note along. When he opened it he SCREAMED so hard and THREW it over. His reaction WIDENED my eyes. The note read that his mistress had fallen in love with my husband, even though she secretly knew about me all along. She knew she was dying and wanted us to have a happy life together so she left the money for him in her will. At first, he felt guilty about taking the money. But it didn’t take long for him to come around, and we had a beautiful vow renewal ceremony on the beach in Barbados, all thanks to his affair."

Unexpected Truths

u/Torien0: "I knew a woman who was going through divorce proceedings with her husband. He was always argumentative...towards her, certainly always shouting and demeaning. Then, just as the divorce was entering it's final stages he very suddenly died. His autopsy showed that he had a massive undiagnosed brain tumour which had been physically altering his personality. His wife felt all kinds of guilty afterwards and took it out on everyone she talked to and lost a lot of friends in the process."

Seeing Double

"We were living in Florida at the time and my Dad goes to the eye doctor because he is seeing double. In all other respects he's healthy. He explains his symptoms to the doctor. This was the early 2000's. The doctor picks up a medical book on eye problems. The doctor shows him the book. In the book there is a whole medical page explaining what he is experiencing and a picture of a kid from the 1960's. My Dad looks at the picture and says 'Doc, thats me!' The doctor says 'Yes, those are the symptoms you are showing.' My Dad says 'no really that’s me in the picture!' The Doctor was confused. 'Sir, this is a young boy from Florida 40 years ago. It’s my understanding you grew up in Cuba.' My dad dropped it but then later called his mom to tell her the story. After a long pause, she revealed that my dad had a twin brother whom she sent away at birth. She couldn’t look after two new babies and she thought he’d have a chance for a better life in the States. The eye condition was genetic, my dad had just got it much later in life. A few months later, my dad reunited with his identical twin brother. Talk about seeing double!"

Similar Dreams

u/xRaw-HD: “I was 16 years old with my first GF, i'll call her Megan. So i'm having this dream where i'm the 'Walter White' of a big...operation. Megan is heavily against [substances] so naturally i didn't tell her. One night i'm in my room, i look out the window, she's there mortified, watching me while holding up a bag of [substances] 'that i made'. I panicked the f--- out and just shot her. Now the weird part is a few days go by, and out of the blue she wants to talk to me. She tells me about a dream she had, which happened to be my exact dream from her POV. I was stunned. Still haven't told her my side to this day.”

Who’s Calling?

u/notsherriseeley: “My sister died in an auto accident years ago. Shortly after, I was at home for lunch on a work day, and the house phone rang. It was someone asking for my sis. I asked who was calling, since everyone we knew was aware of her passing, and he identifies himself as Tom' (or whatever). I explained the situation, and the call ended. Couple days later, talking to sis's best friend and I mention the call. She tells me that 'Tom' had also been killed in an auto accident weeks ago, so he couldn't have called.”

Hidden Paradise

u/throwaway215091: “Two and a half years ago I was in dire financial straights, so I sold my home to keep my struggling business afloat. I neglected to tell the owners that they have an 800 sq. ft. bunker on the property that I built about seven years ago. The bunker that I've called home since I sold it. The entrance to it is well-hidden, but I still come and go very early/very late in the day. I'm a single man who keeps to himself. I'm now in a situation where I could move somewhere else, but I love this hidden paradise so much.”

The Main Character

u/Lagrumpleway: "My little sister always seemed like the main character of our family story. She had this huge lovable personality, all these addictions to overcome, and had the movie star good looks. I spent a lot of my young adult life as a supporting cast member to her, helping, fighting, hoping. Seemed like things would get better for her. Two years ago she died. I was totally bewildered. Lesson: you are the main character of your own life."

Accidental Love

u/OneSourDude: "So sometime last year, I got a friend request on Facebook from this girl I don't know. We have some friends in common and her profile says she had gone to the same university and was in the same program, just a few years before me, so I figure we must have met at some party or something and accept the request. Flash forward to July. I move to a new city for a new job and on my first day, bam! there's the girl who added me on Facebook. We ended up dating for a few months too. Turns out she had added me because one of our bosses has literally the exact same name as me and she thought she was adding him to Facebook. Always thought it was a really bizarre situation."

Cheating Death

u/Stayinschool-tty: “Sisters fiancé died very suddenly and very tragically from a heart attack. (She was 20 he was 23). In the months following his death she found out he had been cheating on her basically since the start of their relationship (2-3y). Some women were long term and knew about her, others were just casual one night stands… She kind of went off the deep end…bc now was she not only mourning a man she loved she now had to deal with this fact w/o being able to ask him for answers. Silver lining though, she ended up dating and marrying one of his good friends. They sort of bonded in the aftermath of his death. He is the best thing that ever happened to her and vise versa.”

Unexpected Delivery

u/Mrs0Murder: “I was taken by CPS when I was two, adopted by the same foster family that originally took me in when I was 5…with one baby picture and maybe a toy. No contact allowed with bio family, as per court ruling. Cue 20 some odd years later, I'm working as a pizza delivery driver. Quit, come back a year later. I'm friendly with one of the drivers there, who retired from the social work field. I notice on facebook he's friends with my half-brother. Ask him about it…Turns out he used to be married to my bio aunt, sister of my bio mom. He babysat me a bunch when I was a baby, and his ex-wife left a ton of junk in the divorce. Including my baby pictures.”

False Alarm

"My boyfriend and I stay at each other's apartments. So, I'm getting ready one day, and I notice something in his bathroom trash can. A pink pad wrapper. Mine are blue and he doesn't have any female family/friends in the area. Later, when we finished eating, I told him what I found. He started laughing and said, 'Babe, go look at the shelf on top of my computer.' I go and turns out it was a pink cleaning wipe. I was relieved but still a little confused; 'Hun, why do you have pink cleaning wipes?' He looked at me like I was dumb and explained 'They’re anti-static, they’re for cleaning my tech equipment.' Guess I panicked for nothing."

Hidden Branch

u/NTXhomebaker: "After my Dad passed away my brother did our Ancestry line for fun. Come to find out we have a half brother that my father didn’t acknowledge. He was married before my mom which we also didn’t know. We started a relationship with him and his family and all was well for awhile... now we realize he’s a complete tool who constantly borrows money, cusses everyone out when things don’t go his way...and just makes our life miserable in general. Truly wish I had never met him."

Getting Ghosted

u/Zombie_Dance_: “My uncle works for dispatch in my town. He had received a call from a landline one night and when he answered it there was only static on the other end. This happened two more times. Finally he calls a squad to go check out the address from the caller ID. When the cops got there and walked into the house they immediately saw that there was a dead body. The person had been dead for 5 months. The craziest part about it was that there was no electricity or any other utility working. So there is no way they should have been able to get those calls into dispatch. But if they hadn't, who knows how long that persons body would have stayed there.”

Keep it in the Family

u/gives-out-hugs: “My buddy had a wedding about 15 years ago, we thought he had found the perfect woman, she was so nice all the time, hot as a bonfire and from what we understood from manly banter… Wedding time comes round ‘does anyone have a lawful objection’ his dad objects because he hadnt found a way to tell everyone that he cheated on my friends mom and this was his half sister with the other woman apparemtly the dad had only seen pictures of the girl as she grew up and only him and her mom knew the truth. A dna test later to confirm and now my friend is in therapy because ‘the best love amd lay of my life was my sister!’”

Next Door Neighbor

u/discreet1: "My little brother hitchhikes a lot. He was trying to hitch to Valdez Alaska to run a half marathon there before hitching to my parents house near Fairbanks. He gets picked up near seattle by a woman. They're chatting and my brother is telling her the story of how he rode his bike from Alaska to Argentina. The woman says her neighbors son had done the same thing. Turns out she was my parents next door neighbor. Edit: he's agreed to do an AMA since there was so much interest. He's checking out this 'reading it' thing."

Some Kind of Miracle

u/ElCaminoInTheWest: “I work as an ER nurse and I took handover on a patient who had a little dizziness, a little nausea and a swollen abdomen. She was able to talk, nothing seemed too horrific. But she was turning a grim grey colour and breathing quickly. Our average wait time today was two hours. I could have put her back in the queue, but I had a little dark feeling that there was something sinister happening. So I called our most senior doctor out of a consultation and asked him to see her. She had a burst abdominal aorta. Within five minutes she was barely responding…Within an hour she was on an operating table clinging to life. Because I raised the alarm… that woman is still, somehow, alive.”

Complicated Family Tree

u/myfriendisfromYORE: “I have 9 siblings. We all share the same father. I only knew about 7 of them until my dad died. I found out that two of my 'cousins' were actually my brother and sister. My father had cheated on his then wife with her sister. So those kids were born out of wedlock. When my mother passed I figured out that my sister (whom I thought we shared the same parents with) was fathered way before they met. My only blood sibling is my twin. I'm only close to him and my sis. The other half siblings get along well with us but we are not close.”

The Other Man

u/b4rn5ey: “Was with [girlfriend] for just shy of 2 years. Holidays…discussions of marriage the lot. Claimed she lived at home with her Mum, who had terminal cancer, and as a result her mum didn't want to bring anyone new into her life as the pain of knowing she would soon leave them was too much. Therefore we spent all our time at mine and I never met her family. Received a message from a guy one night asking how I knew her, I explained, turns out her Mum was fine, and she had been engaged to this guy and living with him the entire time...they were due to get married in a fortnight. Still blows my mind that she managed to play us both so well the entire time.”

Not Just Lazy

u/FamousSquash: “My stepfather was getting more and more tired, falling asleep during the middle of the day, sneaking off for a nap...really pissed off my mother and me. We were helping him renovate a house at the time and we didn't appreciate him always dozing off. A while later he got diagnosed with bladder and kidney cancer, which had already spread too far to be treatable. We only really realised after his death last spring that he was tired all the time because his cancer was already slowly killing him. I didn't always get along with him, and I regret a lot of things I said to him. I just thought he was being lazy, I never thought he'd be dead within three years.”

True Love

u/IZ3820: "For backstory, I was in love with my best friend for a long time, but something was always in the way, be it my SO or his. We had dated once, but it didn't end very well. I was going to a party with a mutual friend of ours, and he told me that my best friend was going to propose to this girl I couldn't stand that night. He told me where he was going to propose, so I rushed there to stop him; proclaim my love for him, you know how it goes. When I get up there, I see that he has everything set up; candles, rose petals, the NYC skyline, everything that would make a girl melt. I pick up a piece of paper he had placed on the ground, read it, and when I look up, he's down on one knee, proposing to ME."

Bitter Bride

u/PTSDPillowGuy: “When the pastor got to the part ‘or forever hold your peace,’ the bride said, ‘Yes, I’d like to say something.’ Then she turned around to her guests and said, ‘I’d like to thank my maid of honor for sleeping with my fiancé last night.’ With that, she threw her bouquet and stormed off. The story even made it on the radio at the time.”

Memorial Lesson

u/meditatorBear: "In primary school We had a WWI memorial lesson and we were asked if anyone had any relatives who fought at the time. My friend brought in a picture of his great great grandfather with his wife. A girl also brought in a picture of her great great grandfather with his wife. The teacher said they looked similar. She put them side by side and looked shocked, we gathered around and it was the same man who had kept his two wives a secret. Both had been married privately. They were cousins and didn’t know."

Bitter Rivals

u/ronearc: "Little town I grew up in had these two car dealerships on opposite sides of town - one Chevy, one Ford. They were bitter rivals. Attack ads, s--- talking salesman, billboard wars, you name it. When the owner of the Chevy dealership died, it came out he'd also owned the Ford dealership by way of a shell company. No one saw that coming, including a lot of the higher ups who worked at the dealerships."

Nepo Baby

"After years of struggling to make ends meet, I finally got a job offer that promised financial stability. Ecstatic, I gave my two weeks' notice at my current job and eagerly prepared for my new venture. On my last day, my boss called me into his office and said, 'I'm sorry, but we've had a change of plans. The company decided not to hire anyone new.' Devastated, I went home and drowned my sorrows in a pint of ice cream. As I mindlessly scrolled through social media and shoveled Ben & Jerry's into my mouth, I suddenly spotted something that made me do a double take. It was a post by my boss’s wife, wishing her son luck on his new job. It turned out my boss had a share in my new company and he’d decided at the last minute to give the position to his son. I sent a screenshot to my boss and he offered me a $10,000 payout to keep quiet about his nepotism. It kept me going until I found an even better position."

Name Connection

u/FabricateReality: "Right after high school graduation, I met a girl in a pool hall who had the exact same name as my mother (it was Jacqueline, for the record.)We were both born and raised in the same mid-sized city. I didn't think much of it beyond the obvious 'oh that's a completely coincidental happenstance!'. Fast forward two or three months, her and I are dating hot and heavy. Meet her parents, and her dad 'swears' he's met me before. Couple weeks later, I go to visit the gf at work, and am greeted with the following: 'So, i know why my dad thinks you look familiar. Turns out, he dated your mom in high school, then named his daughter after her. :/' MFW i realize that my high school-aged mother was so good at SOMEthing, this man named his daughter after her: :/"

Awkward Announcement

“I've only been to one wedding and it was dad's cousin's wedding. My dad's uncle (the groom's father) did a toast when the groom and bride were at the alter (is this normal? Everyone around me seemed confused), and he said… 'I'm glad I made it out here today. I just want you guys to know that I have cancer and I'm going to die soon. Congrats to my son and his beautiful bride. Enjoy your time!' Everyone was in complete silence. It was the most awkward thing I've possibly ever witnessed.”

Would Kill for a Job

u/sanquhar: “I was head of HR for an answering service company at one point in my life. Staff turnover was atrocious and most of the resumes that came through were from people that had zero job history or were chronic job hoppers. Imagine my surprise when Renee's resume crossed my desk. With the exception of a ten year gap on her resume, she appeared to be an ideal candidate. And then I found the articles from a newspaper about two hours away. That ten year gap? Serving time for kidnapping and murder...with an axe. A f------ axe murderer. I hired her and as far as I know, she's still there. Model employee. Strong work ethic. Positive attitude. 10/10. Would hire an axe murderer again.”

Getting Catfished

u/stereoman88: "I live in Europe. A close friend of mine met an American guy in some online game and fell in love with him. He tells her he's black and his name is... let's call him Jeff. Eventually things progress into a intercontinental long distance relationship. I get to know the guy over Skype and stuff, everything's cool. After two years of dating my friend finally has the means to visit him in the US. About a week before they were going to meet in person for the first time, Jeff breaks to her that he's not black and his real name is Scott and several other things. This dude had hijacked some black guy's facebook and sent my friend his pics to keep up his b------- story. I laughed for 10 minutes straight when I first heard this."

Kids Always Know

u/stanleythemanley44: “My mom told me this story the other day and it freaked me the f--- out. When my oldest sister was little, like 3, she asked my then pregnant aunt to pick her up to hold her. My mom said she was like 'she can't pick you up, honey, she has a baby in her tummy.' And then my little sister was like 'that baby is dead!' My mom freaked out, but my aunt and grandma were fine and were telling my mom it was all good, she was just a toddler and didn't know what she was saying. Well lo and behold my aunt goes to the doctor the next day for a routine pregnancy checkup and the baby was dead.”

Sensitive to Rejection

u/Goldfishguru: “Worked as a {waitress] at a [establishment]. One night I rejected someone who attempted to get my number. Not unusual and he didn't seem that bothered…After the b-- closed I went to leave through the back door into the car park like usual when I saw the sensor light outside was on. Someone was stood just outside the door. I felt uneasy so went out the front and asked one of the bouncers to walk me to my car. As we rounded the corner we spotted this guy lurking outside the door holding his belt like a makeshift garotte. When he saw us he started screaming that I...should die. He scampered off into the road and never came back.”

Weeding Out the Bad Employees

u/anon_admin_1: “I was promoted to VP of my company. The company was in trouble, and the CEO had asked me to figure out why and fix it. I arranged for a random drug test. All employees, the CEO, me, everyone. All on the same day, and everyone went down at the same time. Even said I would ignore weed, but anyone with anything stronger would be gone. We get the results back and I fired everyone who had tested positive...The CEO and myself were the only two people left working for the company.”

It’s Your Funeral

u/GaryNOVA: “When my dad died, the Associate Pastor of my mom’s church spoke and talked about how devastating cancer is. That pastor use to attend a different church, but had to leave after she faked cancer for two years. Her husband left her and her daughter disowned her after they found out. My mom was the secretary at that church. So she knew, and had already told me. And my dad’s funeral was only like 2 years after that. I would have walked up to the podium and punched her in the face were it not disrespectful to my parents.”

Trust Your Gut

u/mysterysciencekitten: “Took my two babies to an in-home daycare run by a lovely woman. About nine days in, the woman’s teenage son was home when I picked up my kids. He gave me a super creepy vibe. Pulled the kids from the daycare and placed them elsewhere. Maybe 10 years later that kid murdered two people then killed his mom.”

Hit the Nail on the Head

u/harperjefferson: “ER nurse here; man comes in after a car accident, we do a brain scan for safety and find a 3 inch nail imbedded in his brain. Ask man about it, he says he has no idea. Admits he was once shot with a nail gun but HAD NO IDEA A NAIL HAD BEEN LODGED IN HIS HEAD. Had been there for well over 4 years.”

Unwelcome Surprise

u/Queenlmb: “Two sons of really wealthy couple go to the family lawyer to have the will read. Lawyer is super nervous—he has known them both since they were kids. One son gets the entire inheritance and the other gets nothing. The explanation was that it should be passed through to blood relatives only. So that was the day he found out he was adopted.”

Caught on Camera

u/alexmarie94: “My brother got a new security camera and he was having trouble sleeping. He lives in an apartment building with a couple other people in the hallway. He kept waking up to a person trying to open his door in the middle of the night. He eventually found out it was a neighbor who got d---- a lot and was trying to get into the wrong apartment. The neighbor eventually went away. A couple weeks later he came home to a bunch of cops outside of his apartment. Turns out that his other neighbor, who had also gotten harassed by this guy in the middle of the night, had murdered the guy who kept knocking on my brothers door. My brother caught it all on his security camera.”

Surprise, I’m Alive

u/kolaporian: “My dad is a physician. He tells a story about being on call…monitoring a patient with a severe cardiac condition. In the middle of the night the patient went into cardiac arrest and he pronounced him dead after they were unable to resuscitate…Later on he got a page indicating that there was a patient who had a bone to pick with him. He returned to the ward to find the 'deceased' patient upright in bed, alert and fully lucid. He was joking about the fact that he had been pronounced dead earlier that night. His return to health was remarkable, and possible only because his condition had [meant] that his body had slowly…become adapted to a low oxygen environment allowing it to survive approximately an hour without any cardiac function.”

Special Secret Plants

u/Low_town_tall_order: “I was about 8 or 9 and my parents were going to be out of town so they had me and siblings stay with a family from our church. Once we got to the house (which was really nice BTW) they had one rule, you can play wherever you want but the basement is off limits. Me being the little b---ard that I was snuck down there first chance I got and was supremely disappointed to only find rows and rows of plants growing under lights.”

Mommy With a Mummy

u/feetofire: “I was working in Africa and the usually very stoic Congolese surgeons called me in to theatre, gagging—the patient was an elderly woman with a protruding abdominal mass. When they opened it, they found that it was a long, long dead mummified foetus which as a result of an ectopic pregnancy, had somehow managed to both wall off after it died and somehow avoid killing the mother. Her body had encapsulted the alien tissue and over the years, it had slowly eroded her anterior abdominal wall to the point where it finally caused her to have enough symptoms to get something done about it. It was horrific and the smell was worse. Happily, though, the patient survived the procedure and just left the surgical team with…a memory.”

Mistaken Romance

u/mindovermacabre: "I was a Starbucks barista before the whole 'names on cups' thing was big- or at least, it wasn't really practiced in my tiny store. There was this very cute guy who came in maybe 4-6x a week. A little often, but nothing out of the ordinary. I flirted like mad. He flirted back. It was all great. Then he comes in with his fiance. I was betrayed and treated him coldly from then on. A month later, two of him come in together and I find out that he--uh, they--are twins and I'd shot down any chance I had with the single one."

Florida Man

u/Chad_Ostapuscat: “I was at one of my good friends wedding (She was marrieng a man she thought was a truck driver) and when the priest says does anyone object, this woman stands up and says i do. Turns out the guy wasnt a truck driver but was actually a married man from florida who had two kids and the woman was his wife.”

The Real Friends

u/Wilgaho: "A few years ago I was in a longboarding accident and got a pretty bad concussion. The concussion caused me to forget pretty much that whole day, but my friends had explained to me what happened. They told me that I had gotten scared of going to fast and tried to jump off the longboard. For two years they ridiculed me for jumping off, because jumping off a longboard is not the smartest thing to do when you want to get off. I lived with the ridicule until my best friend told me that I was pushed off by one of my friends. This isnt that big of a twist, but it really showed me the loyalty of my friends. I quickly left that group and became friends with kids that play D&D and look at reddit. I must say I like this group a lot more."

Sisterly Love

u/intersnatches: “In grade 10 English class, the teacher didn't have anything planned for us to do one day. She pulls out examples of a successful essay written during a final exam, so we can learn what a good one looks like and how to build a narrative, etc. The topic of these was What was the most pivotal moment of your life? There's three examples. We read through the first two, and I volunteer to read the last one aloud. I start reading...and I stop. The essay was about...me. My big sister had gotten a really good mark 6 years earlier on her final exam essay which she wrote about the day I was born. I got pretty emotional about that one.”

Bad Grandpa

u/Halleaon: “When I was a kid I knew my grandfather was odd. He'd call me his grandson even when I was wearing a dress and clearly female, but my parents would tell me to ignore it. Then I found out that when my dad was a kid, grandpa sold my dad's sister Barbara to someone and kept my dad and his brother because he didn't want a girl in the family. My dad found his sister Barbara around the time I was in middle school via calling around to get records, they were reunited, she's my favorite aunt now. No one liked grandpa.”

Shoes Clues

u/Biomechanoids: “My uncle was driving on a scooter one afternoon on a country road when he was hit heavily by a car from the back. He fell of the scooter, flew through the windshield of the car and came to an halt on the backseat. The driver of the car steped on the break so that he flew from the backseat again through the windshield and ended lying on the road. Except from some bruises he was unharmed. When the police came both my uncle and the Driver of the car told the same story (which they didn't believed in the first place). However my uncle had lost a shoe in the back of the car so finally also the police got convinced.”

Pick The Other Sister

u/TemporalBreak: “I found out one of my aunts had an arranged marriage. She wasn't the one who was supposed to be in the arranged marriage, but her sister was adamant against marrying the dude, and I guess my grandma decided to persuade my aunt into replacing the sister's part of the marriage. Aunt and the dude got married and moved away, and had kids. They lived far away so I barely ever saw them but only as I got older did I learn that the dude was abusive to my aunt, to the point where she still had some intense mental breakdowns long after he died.”

Killer Job Interview

u/MysterionVsCthulhu: “When I showed up for my interview the hiring manager was not there. I was told he was 'out sick' but I could interview with his backup. Half way through the interview the office starts buzzing with activity. Whispers of an emergency were circulating and the 'sick' manager's name is part of the emergency. We wrapped up the interview early and I went home. Later that day I googled his name. He wasn't sick. He had turned himself in that morning for shooting/killing his baby's mother. The bullet also grazed the baby but didn't cause serious injury.”

Surprise Wedding

u/RockG: "A few years ago I got invited to a friend's engagement party. They were throwing a huge bash because they were planning on a very small destination wedding. Later in the evening, my friend's fiancé takes the mic and starts thanking everyone for being there. 'Sorry, Jen will be out to thank you guys in a minute, she's just having a wardrobe malfunction'. He goes on to tell the story about how they met, how they were best friends and decided to get engaged and finished along the lines of 'we wish you could all be there and that we could get married right now. So we're going to' Out walks Jen in her wedding dress. TL;DR: engagement party turned into a surprise wedding."

Trilingual Trouble

u/StanMarsh01: “Friend of mine divorced his then wife because she would only speak French when her family would come over. She was Spanish, as was her family.... To add, her family spoke English, French and Spanish, he could only speak Spanish and English, she got bored of being married to him, her family basically talked s--- about him whilst he was there. It was only when he recorded a conversation whilst they where there and got it translated he found out what was going on.”

The Lost and Found

u/dromedarian: "When I was a kid I went deep sea fishing with my dad and some uncles and cousins, etc. We had 2 boats out a mile or two, I don't remember exactly how far. Anyhow, I'm not very good at fishing - or holding things I guess - because I went to cast, and I threw my fishing pole overboard. Everybody had a good laugh, someone loaned me a different pole, and we continued fishing. A couple of hours later, we go back to shore. We can't get to the docks, though, because there's a boat race going on. We have to wait around for a while. One of my cousins decides to pull out his fishing pole to alleviate the boredom, even though everyone knew he wouldn't catch anything. Except he did catch something: my fishing pole."