20 people share crazy stories they don't normally tell because they're hard to believe.

Some stories are so crazy they're hard to share because people simply won't believe them.This is a sad quandary since the wildest stories are often the most interesting, so it's ideal when you find an audience that will believe and marvel in the wonder. Luckily, people struggling to find good listeners in their real lives can find plenty of corners online to spill the juice.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the crazy experiences they often don't share for fear of judgment or disbelief.These stories truly deliver.1. From throwaway89289043459: I once spent a few nights in Yosemite, basically just hiking and getting drunk from time to time. One night myself and a group of friends hiked to the top of this little mountain near camp Tawonga. I distinctly remember all of us seeing this meteorite fall into the atmosphere and briefly light up the sky. But thats the last thing I remember, it's as if I blinked and it was late afternoon. I got off the ground, nobody was around me anymore and my ribs were in a ton of pain. Scared the sh*t out of me I started running down the hill following the path hoping it would take me back to people, I still remember running and it feeling like I was in a nightmare, like a twilight zone where everyone disappeared. Luckily I got back to my camp and my buddy was freaking out asking where I went and that he was "this close" to calling 911 to put out a search party for me. I tried my best to just wave it off but it freaked me out so much to just lose (15 - 16 hours) like that. The part that scared me the most was to this day I have this "thing" in my rib where the pain was. No scar, went to the doctors about it, doesn't show up on an x-ray, non-cancerous etc. Edit Video Proof: https://imgur.com/a/yzfP8CA Edit 2: https://imgur.com/a/eKtEY4v Edit 3: Ok so this whole thing is weird enough where I've decided to move the whole thing to r/aliens, so follow that if you want updates.https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/dlinzx/soi_might_have_been_abducted/ Someone messaged me and had a pretty good idea of putting a flashlight under my skin, sadly the only flashlight I had was on my phone and taking a photo was impossible. I just bought a flashlight and posted the original photo, but I swear if you tweak it around a bit you see something that doesn't look like part of my rib, or a cyst, a fat deposit etc. I am posting the original photo, and not any altered photos where I change brightness and contrast because I'm trying to be the best OP I can be and avoid any accusations of this being a hoax. I'll be honest guys, I'm actually a little freaked out right now. And I'll keep you updated on my doctors appointment this Thursday. 2. From PerilousPeach: I used to sweat blue for a few months. My clothes, nails, and phone cover all got stained blue. It went away after a while on its own, which was good because the doctors couldn’t figure it out. 3. From Artikay: One day completely out of the blue my daughter (8) started telling me she wanted to look out the window to see shooting stars. I told her it's very rare to see any shooting stars where we live (Yonkers, NY.) She was really adamant that we should look and try to see one anyway, so I walk with her over to our living room window and look out with her. I swear not 10 seconds had passed before a meteor went streaking by, closer than any I had ever seen. You could see the trail it left in the sky and it glowed bright red. She got so excited and ran to tell my wife that she saw one. My wife does not believe that me or my daughter saw a meteor that quickly, I swear on my life it happened. 4. From drewhunter1981: When I was younger I worked at a popular theme park in the UK as a ride assistant. One of the rides I worked on was the River Rapids. Two young scouse lads who had obviously been drinking got on and it was clear they were going to be a pain in the arse. As their Raft came towards the end, they both were running around the outsides of it. The raft hits the wall and they both fell in. This is near the lift section of the ride which if they'd been snagged would have torn them up badly. I ran down and god knows how, managed to pull them both out. They were both swiftly escorted to the medical center and I'm assuming off park. The same day, after i finish work, I went to go and see a friend for a few hours and on my way home I follow a car that is all over the place. The car hits a curb and flips onto its roof. I stop my car, run across, yank the doors open and pull both the occupants out. Same two lads I'd pulled out of the water at work earlier in the day. 5. From Suburrbia: My father was adopted and he died when I was a toddler. It was a closed adoption but my grandparents who adopted him were told some things about his birth parents (occupation, the country they were from, etc.). The occupations sounded made up to me and I always thought my grandpa was just trying to make my dad feel better about the people who gave him up. Earlier this year my aunt (also adopted but from another family) and cousins were doing Ancestry DNA kits, I decided to google the occupation and country of origin that my grandparents had been told about and within 45 seconds I found a man who looked exactly like my father. My entire family was floored. Turns out he is famous in his country and won some very well-known awards. I messaged him on LinkedIn and he confirmed that his child was put up for adoption without his consent, the dates matched, and the resemblance to my father was uncanny. He always thought that his son would come looking for him due to his fame. He introduced the parents of a very, very famous celebrity that almost anyone would know. We talked for a month or so but now we don't. He has other children and I don't think his wife liked the idea of a random grandchild coming out of the woodwork. I really just wanted to meet him as I don't have any memories my father and have always had questions about my heritage. He seemed very sweet and was devastated that my father had passed away so tragically. But yeah, the TL;DR "I found my dad's biological family despite a closed adoption. My grandpa is famous and incredibly wealthy but we've never met and he doesn't want to talk to me anymore" sounds pretty unbelievable to me. 6. From MrKennefff: When I was a teenager I almost got run over by Robert Pattinson in my hometown. It’s a smaller city between Bruges & Ghent. He was driving a Mercedes, probably on his way from Brussels to the hotel he was staying in on the coast. I’m 100 % sure it was him, he was in Brussels for a premiere for the latest Twilight movie at the time. Only told my dad. 7. From 1992vapor: I was crossing the border at the golden triangle from Thailand into Myanmar. I had a heat stroke due to dehydration and passed out in the middle of the street right after the passport control. Woke up to 5 armed soldiers pointing rifles in my face. Don't speak a word of Thai or any other Asian language. I signaled "I need to drink water" with my hands and they gave me a Coca Cola and helped me sit down in a nearby chair. 8. From paperconservation101: I like watching wild birds at my work. I watched a young magpie steal bread off a raven. The magpies family then attacked the young magpie, took the bread off and gave it back to the raven. They were bird yelling at the young bird. Then called to the young magpie and kinda forced it to the front of the pack to the raven. The adult magpies gently pecked at the young magpie until it sung at the raven. Then the magpies all waddled away and went back to hunting for bugs. I feel like I watched some sort of family magpie discipline to prevent an interspecies bird war. EDIT: These are Australian birds so they are the size of footballs. Magpies are smart and a bit c*nty if they dont like you. 9. From AssassinxMC: I was on a train and this train had one of those chains which you pull in case of an emergency and it stops the train and if you pull it for no reason you can face up to two years in prison and a huge fine. So I was just sitting and when I decided to get up to go to the washroom, I was kind of stuck so I used the nearest thing to help me get up and what I pulled was the chain. Suddenly the train stopped and I was like o-crap here I go to the prison. When suddenly people started running out of the train (P.S the train had no doors you would understand if you know what an average local Indian train looks like I don't know about other countries) and what I realized was that a compartment of the train was on fire. So...that's how I survived from going to prison and accidentally saved the train. I told this story to a friend but he would not believe me so I just let it go. TLDR - I save train and didn't go prison. :) 10. From smithsonian_95: One time after school I was emptying my bag on my bed. I had a sandwich wrapped in cling wrap from lunch that I didn't eat. I dropped the sandwich on the floor and I went to pick it up. I couldn't find it anywhere. I checked under my bed, in my bag, all over the floor and under any items. I never found that sandwich. 11. From hellevator_ride: Once when I was 8 I was climbing out of the bathtub after showering, since I was wet and s**t, my mom wrapped me up in a towel so my hands were wrapped as well. I ended up tripping over the edge of the bathtub and face planted onto the ground, where I just laid there kinda comatose for a second. So I tried to get up, blood flowing down my face from a cut in my head and my nose, and my bucket of crabs nearby (this was a seaside resort) toppled over and went all over me, and they were like in a blood frenzy or something because they pinched me all over so I started rolling on the ground. (lovely experience btw) my family kinda just stared at me. I bled from my nose for three hours after being rescued from the crabs, and got sent to hospital, where my nose actually wasn't broken. My family refuses to acknowledge it ever happened even though I have a hospital bracelet with that date. Oddest thing ever. 12. From JustCrits: Opened the fridge and a jar of mustard came falling down. It hit the ground and I already thought: “Great, now I have to clean all of it up.“ But I genuinely didn’t hear it hit the ground. When I looked down there was nothing there. No glass shards, mustard, nothing. Looked around for a good 5 minutes questioning my reality. Turns out it kinda repelled of the ground and landed in the wine shelf (next to the fridge, like 1.5 feet above the floor). Upright. Standing. It straight up did a bottle flip off the floor. It dropped a solid 6 feet on hard ground and just bounced. Still questioning the laws of physics to this date. 13. From WarriorOfTheWord: Back in high school a few years ago I had a photography class with my best friend and we went to NYC to take pictures for an assignment. We were walking through Times Square and there’s always people trying to hand out flyers or comedy club promos, bus tours, etc. This pretty girl got our attention and she was talking to us about a book, I can’t remember the name.. Anyway, she’s explaining this book to us and suddenly she’s like I have someone who can talk to you about this book in more detail, come with me! And she grabbed my friend and I by the arm and starts walking us somewhere down like 42 ave if I remember correctly. It ends up being a Scientology church. At the time I had no idea about Scientology and was just curious wtheck was going on. So she walks us through the door and immediately a small group of people approaches us. She tells them we want to join and their eyes light up. One of the leaders I guess comes over and the girl basically hands off to him. He leads us down a hallway and says something along the lines of “we have a special movie for you!”.. So we’re brought into a small ‘theater’ if you could call it that. Maybe like 20 chairs and a small screen. He says the video lasts about half an hour and leaves closing the door behind him. After 2 seconds my buddy and I finally go WTF and head for the door. Turns out it’s locked. We looked around the room for any other door but it was dark except for the light from the screen. I really did think we were gonna get gassed. The video was about how each of us all have untapped superpowers and this was more or less an instructional video of how to activate them. It was so absurd. When the video ended they opened the doors and asked us to fill out a contact form. Nope. We bee-lined it for the door and got out immediately. Headed to Midtown Comics to catch our breaths and then went about our day. I’ve told people before and they’ve been skeptical and dismissive by saying well why didn’t you just get out immediately or why didn’t you break free from the girl, etc. Idk tbh. In the moment I didn’t feel threatened or scared, I wasn’t even sure what was happening because it was so sudden and quick. It wasn’t until we got in the little theater that we both like opened our eyes and went dude wtf is going on. So yeah, kidnap might be a strong word but that was my one and only brush with Scientology. 14. From UpDownStrange: My friend and I once missed the last train home after a gig and wandered around a nearby harbour, killing time until the trains started up again. A drunk man (around 50-years-old, ~30 years older than us at the time) stumbled out of a building and invited us onto his boat. We sat with him drinking rum for a few hours while he regaled us with stories about all the sex parties he'd hosted on this boat. I didn't believe him but I was warm and had a drink in hand so I humoured him. He eventually pulled a lever near the front which opened a secret door to a sex dungeon, filled with all kinds of bondage gear and sex toys. We then added each other on Facebook and my friend and I went to catch our train back to London. EDIT: He would tell us about the numerous women that were half his age that would come from all over the country to attend these parties. He would also tell us that he was absolutely, unequivocally not gay, but would totally suck off the other guys in attendance because it was "the polite thing to do". A pirate hero. 15. From MrR08070: When I was much younger (pre-teen) I was outside watching shooting stars (it was that time of year where you can see lots of comets fly by). It was the middle of the night and I was laying in the grass just enjoying the stars and comets. My older step-sister had just gone inside to grab a drink. Out of nowhere, the entire night sky lit up bright blue for a nano-second. All that was left when it faded was a blue streak across the sky and what looked kinda like a ship at the front of the streak. I didn't know what I was seeing, but it looked like it was rotating slowly. It eventually disappeared, but the trail was still in the sky. Immediately I rushed inside to try and get people out to see it. By the time they got outside it had faded completely. Nobody believed me. I found out later it was just a Space-X launch, but I thought I had seen a genuine UFO for years. I know I saw it, but I didn't tell anyone because I'd sound crazy. Edit: Here's the video that made me realize what it was I saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2K96aY0tLw Edit 2: There weren't comets. It was a meteor shower. Got the words mixed up. Not an astronomer lol (edited) Edit 3: The video isn't of the launch that I saw, it's just the video I saw recently that made me finally realize what I saw due to its similarity. 16. From dogfood666: I saw a girl who contracted a rare African parasite shoot crack causing tiny worms to crawl out of the hole in her arm and from the corners of her eyes. It happened. I'm sure it did. I saw the worms. She held one up and said, "See, I told you, this is what they look like." I threw it on the floor and burned it with a lighter. I wasn't even on drugs because I had a drug test for probation in the morning. Its like my own brain is trying to convince me it didn't happen but I'm sure of it. 17. From TheEnhancedExe: When I was 9 or 10 years old, I was walking around in our flat and wondering what was itching below my foot. So I looked and I had a thumbtack sticking all the way inside my heel. I have no clue why but it didn't hurt at all. I had a huge shock though. Also interesting to note that the hole is still there 12 years later. 18. From JamesWhitehead13: I was in Washington D.C. for a vacation. The hotel we were staying in had a conference going on that weekend and the lobby, as well as the elevators were packed. My cousin and I, bringing in our bags, did not wish to wait for an elevator and decided we would use the stairs. Now we didn't realize at the time that the doors in the stairwells are only supposed to let you out on the ground floor (i.e. in case of a fire everyone from the top can get to ground level, but someone cannot subvert the cameras by taking a stairwell up to a specific floor.) For whatever reason the door on our floor was open, we dropped off our bags in the room, and proceeded back down the stairs to make a second trip for the rest of our stuff. When we returned however, the door to our floor in the stairwell was now locked. We went down, floor by floor, trying each door with the same results. When we got to the bottom even the ground floor door was locked. It was then that we started to panic, we were locked in a stairwell with no cell reception to tell the people we were with that we were in trouble. At ground level there was a door (the only unlocked door in the entire stairwell) and an ominous set of stairs behind that door, that led into a level below with a sign marked "Staff Only". Out of options we ignored the sign and followed the stairs down in search of an exit. The stairs led to a corridor which 100 feet later turned into another stairwell going up. We again tried each door on each floor until one opened on about the 7th or 8th floor. When we walked out the scenery had completely changed, no longer was there a hotel, but office cubicles and ringing phones. Understandably we ducked back into the stairwell confused, went up a floor and saw the same thing (open door, many cubicles, phones ringing). When we reached the 9th floor and saw the same thing we figured we'd investigate. When we went further into the office area, I turned to my left to see a 10ft tall portrait of George W. Bush (This was circa 2005) and above it a sign that said "U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration Services." Now we started to really panic and figured let's just find the first person we can and explain what happened. That first person happened to be a large African American bodyguard who, when he saw two 16-year-olds in street clothes was visibly shocked, and took a step back. I look at him and I said "I think we're lost" and he said, "You absolutely are." He told us to come with him and he led us to another elevator that required a fingerprint, code, and key card to open and and another guard in it that rides it at all times. They took us down to the ground floor where there is a guard outside the elevator and a security checkpoint at the entrance similar to what you have at an airport. This guard freaked out as well, and they took us to a room to question us on how we had gotten into the building. After two hours of us telling them every detail of the escapade they let us go (I personally think they were embarrassed that two kids had subverted homeland security, and didn't want their superiors to know once they knew we were harmless.) When we left, we asked where the hotel was and he pointed halfway down the block on the other side of the street (That subterranean tunnel took us farther than we thought.) My grandparents were rather upset and thought we were lying when we finally met back up with them. TL;DR My cousin and I accidentally broke into the United States Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. while on vacation. 19. From InevitableRisk: It's not so crazy, but I feel like every time I've tried to tell it people don't believe me. I was driving around a city pretty lost (before cell phones w/ GPS) and was stopped at the end of an alleyway waiting for an opportunity to turn when a cop pulled up to my right. He rolled down the window and motioned for me to roll down my window. I was of course super nervous - thinking that perhaps I drove erratically due to being lost or maybe I'm somewhere I shouldn't be. Once my window was down he does a 'what's up' nod and asks - "Wanna race?". I'm now even more confused, but he repeats the question. I tell him no and that I'm lost. He asks me where I need to go and I give him the name of the restaurant. He tells me to follow him and I get to follow him all across the city going through stop signs and lights, stopping traffic every once in a while when he'd wave for me to pull over again and he'd park beside me and give me a heads up of what turns we'd be doing next. Led me all the way to the restaurant. 20. From July_Sandwich: I fell asleep listening to a CD one day and a little bit later woke up to it still playing and on at a part where they did a skit before a song. The skit was kind of funny but there was one part I couldn't hear so I got out of bed to rewind it and when it played back it was entirely in French. I don't speak French but could understand what they were saying clear as day a minute earlier. I don't know what happened.