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28 people share stories that sound like a lie but they say are absolutely true.

We&#39;re all just basically living in &quot;The Twilight Zone.&quot;While fantasy and science fiction stories are always interesting, the cold hard truth can often make for a far more entertaining tale. The best art is always a reflection of real life and our existence is already so complex that we don&#39;t even need to make anything up. Unexplained phenomenons happen every day and now that we have the wonderful world of the internet, wild stories can spread beyond the last call at the local bar...When writer Aiden Moher asked people on Twitter to share a story that is so unbelievable, wild or unheard of that it&#39;s hard to believe it&#39;s actually true, it instantly went viral. Between ghost stories, kidnappings, and funny coincidences--this thread is a journey.Tell me a story about yourself the sounds like a lie but is absolutely true.&mdash; Aidan Moher (@adribbleofink) January 4, 2020  1. This is INSANE.Growing up I never liked my Mother. We fought viciously. At 6yrs old I wud scream &quot;How r we related? I&#39;m nothing like u! I want 2b w my real parents, in my real house, w my boat &amp; my dog!&quot; 😁 My &quot;real house&quot; was fancy btw lol!&mdash; Jolie Blonde (@JolieBlondeLA) January 7, 2020 She wud call me a spoiled brat &amp; say &quot;Well, where r they? Go ahead go back 2 them! You have quite the wild imagination.&quot;I wud even tell my friends that I had a boat &amp; a dog 😆 &quot;She&#39;s lying, we don&#39;t have a boat or dogs&quot; my Mom would embarrassingly explain.&mdash; Jolie Blonde (@JolieBlondeLA) January 7, 2020 In college I got a job taking photos of homes 4 real estate listings. One day driving around, I saw the house from my wild imagination. I wasn&#39;t sure if I was awake or dreaming. How is there a house, detail by detail exactly like my imaginary one 😟&mdash; Jolie Blonde (@JolieBlondeLA) January 7, 2020 I felt sick 2 my stomach as I lightly knocked, not knowing what I was even going 2 say. A nicely dressed lady answered &amp; screamed out my name.&mdash; Jolie Blonde (@JolieBlondeLA) January 7, 2020 She sat me on the sofa &amp; brought out albums full of photos of my wonderful life with my beautiful family, my boat &amp; my little white dog before I was kidnapped at 3yrs old.It wasn&#39;t a dream It wasn&#39;t my wild imagination.I wasn&#39;t lying. pic.twitter.com/GFpe2gv96j&mdash; Jolie Blonde (@JolieBlondeLA) January 7, 2020 2. Damn.I was hit by a car on Bicycle Safety Day in third grade.It was also Friday the 13th.&mdash; Ceci Mancuso (@mancusoscifi) January 4, 2020 3. Love at first sight!I agreed to marry my husband six hours after we met, after only having talked to each other for less than half of that, entirely in public places. I had been trying to hit on his (already partnered) friend, to no avail.&mdash; Julie Broczkowski (@TheMagicFridge) January 4, 2020 It&#39;ll be 24 years in May.&mdash; Julie Broczkowski (@TheMagicFridge) January 4, 2020 4. Oops.I stopped a drunk man from entering the sailing docks at the yacht club and it turned out he was the King of Spain.&mdash; Sandy James Planner (@sandyjamesplan) January 6, 2020 5. Just stay home.On my 3rd day in New York... the two towers fell.On the 3rd day after visiting New Orleans... Katrina came.On the 3rd day after leaving Nepal... the hotel was bombed by rebels.&mdash; Jessica Chavez (@HProtagonista) January 4, 2020 6. Magic!My girlfriend years ago wrote a quick thank you in a $10 bill for tip and months later that same bill ended up in my hands as change. I still have that bill because of the coincidence.&mdash; Harry Balczak (@lookmahvelous2) January 7, 2020 7. They were having a work meeting.I was driving home one night and saw 3 raccoons standing on their hind legs on the corner of my street. 1 was holding a styrofoam coffee cup. At the instant the lights caught them, 2 dropped to all 4s and ran. Coffee boy and I stared for 2 full seconds before he ran too. TRUTH&mdash; Autumn (@Honestly_A) January 5, 2020 8. Yikes.I tried saving myself from the embarrasment of having being caught naked at a house viewing by a realtor and a potential buyer, by pretending to be dead&mdash; Mireille Spooplander (@mimesatwork) January 5, 2020 9. No thanks.I was riding bikes with my daughter on Fri The 13th, &amp; a black cat scurried across the bike path in front of us. My daughter said something about bad luck, and I began to tell her that it was only superstition when a bee flew into my mouth and stung me on the back of my throat.&mdash; Fred. (@freeloosedirt) January 7, 2020 10. Oh my god!3 years ago I won $30,000 at the casino the day I was planning to kill myself&mdash; 𝔣𝔞𝔱 (@flesh_harvester) January 7, 2020 11. Amazing.I got hit by a cop on Friday the 13th when I was in the 7th grade. Broke my arm. Worked out well – same cop pulled me over a couple times in high school. He’d see me and say “oh, it’s you,” then let me go.&mdash; 𝙺𝚊𝚢𝚌𝚎𝚎 (@glyphwizard) January 7, 2020 12. Obviously witchcraft.Two summers ago, I went on a Very Strange Hike ™️. Very remote. I got weird vibes as soon as I got out of the car and my dog did NOT want to be there. Almost immediately, I came across the first bone altar. There were a lot more, spaced over a mile, made of bones, rocks, and 1/ pic.twitter.com/iJZRe24Iey&mdash; Min Grey⁷ (@MinMGrey) January 8, 2020 ... old rusted railroad scraps. Then I started finding bones scattered on the trail: scapula, ribs, a long section of spine, cracked vertabrae. I was good and spooked. Then I followed a curve in the trail and found a fresh pool of blood. I noped out of there fast, running 2/ pic.twitter.com/JyARy5T90O&mdash; Min Grey⁷ (@MinMGrey) January 8, 2020 ... the 3 miles back to the trailhead.A few days later I got really sick. Lots of lower back pain. It got so bad I collapsed in a parking lot and had to go to Urgent Care. They x-rayed me and then asked if I&#39;d been in an accident or had a serious fall. No, nothing at all. 3/&mdash; Min Grey⁷ (@MinMGrey) January 8, 2020 Are you sure, the doctor asked. Because two of your vertebrae are fractured. I still can&#39;t explain it. I have never been in a situation that would have caused cracked vertebrae. But I did take a strange rock from the trail. I threw it out and felt better immediately. ☠️&mdash; Min Grey⁷ (@MinMGrey) January 8, 2020 13. Learn to drive, Pence.https://twitter.com/michael_clj/status/1214647180448980993?s=2014. No Jay-Z for peasants.https://twitter.com/AlexWaterstradt/status/1214358810690764802?s=2015. Anything for Bey!I won tickets to a Beyoncé concert through a twitter quiz, used up all the remaining credit on my credit card and flew across the country to attend the concert in LA.&mdash; i said 🗣DO YOU WANNA REVOLUTION?? (@formerlyashley) January 4, 2020 When I got there they conveniently “couldn’t find my seat” and I thought I for sure had been scammed but the walk out stage actually was incorrectly measured and they moved my tickets from row 24 to row 8. pic.twitter.com/ACoJnd9CB2&mdash; i said 🗣DO YOU WANNA REVOLUTION?? (@formerlyashley) January 4, 2020 16. This is spooky indeed.My grandfather died the same minute I was born on a different ward in the same hospital. The time on my birth cert matches his death cert.&mdash; James Phelpstead (@Phelpsy78) January 5, 2020 17. Oh no!I was run over by a truck in the middle of the freeway.While I was in the ER my newly ex-girlfriend fell in love with my old Mormon missionary companion.&mdash; Spencer Ellsworth wrote THE GREAT FAERIE STRIKE (@Spencimus) January 4, 2020 18. This is different.While driving to Philadelphia train station to pick up my husband to-be, I was pulled over by a police helicopter.&mdash; Jennie Ivins 🐉 (@Autumn2May) January 4, 2020 19. A Christmas miracle!My house burned to the ground on Christmas morning when I was a child. However, our Christmas tree was directly beneath my parents king size waterbed on the top floor. It popped and soaked all the presents preventing them from Catching Fire...&mdash; Logi B 513 (@Logi513) January 7, 2020 20. *Chills*I saw my neighbor lady who had recently been hospitalized walking in her backyard and told her I was glad she was home and feeling better. She smiled at me. When I went inside and told my mom that the lady was home, Mom told me that she’d died at the hospital that morning.&mdash; Laura Kaye (@laurakayeauthor) January 7, 2020 21. Cats are angels.When I was a toddler I babbled to my parents about “the angels” visiting me at night. One night they finally discovered the neighborhood cats would come in my open bedroom window to play with me in my crib.&mdash; CAT TEMPER (@cattempermeow) January 8, 2020 22. Wow.I was almost kidnapped via a car when I was 10 years old. I bit my would-be kidnapper in the face and crawled out the window at the traffic lights.&mdash; Jeremy Szal (@JeremySzal) January 4, 2020 23. Aw.Went to high school w John Bongiovi (Jon BonJovi now). Sat next to him in frosh English. I had to read a poem I wrote in front of class. As I slinked back to seat, I was rained with chorus of &quot;pu**y&quot;, &quot;fa**ott&quot; &amp; other clever insults. He whispered &quot;Neil, I liked your poem.&quot;&mdash; Neil Clancy (@ClancyNeil) January 7, 2020 24. No choice but to quit.First day, new job. Office manager asked me my middle name. I rant about how much I hate it and the cruelty of my parentsShe said: &quot;That&#39;s my son&#39;s name.&quot;Attempting a rescue, I say: &quot;Well, it&#39;s not as horrible my brother&#39;s middle name.&quot;&quot;That&#39;s my other son&#39;s name,&quot; she said&mdash; Martin McGrath (@martinmcgrath) January 4, 2020 25. Of course he is.Boyfriend didn’t want to come to my wine tasting because he wasn’t into wine. I fell in love with another man at party, dumped beau, married, moved. Recently moved back to hometown where I discover I live 5-minutes from a wine store. Ex-boyfriends wine store. He&#39;s into wine now!&mdash; Helene Taylor ✍🏼🇨🇦 (@procrastnwriter) January 7, 2020 26. *Crying*Once two strangers saw my then new born son’s cleft lip and palate and offered me millions to pay for corrective surgery for the next twenty odd years. Here’s a picture of them holding my son. pic.twitter.com/E8h7G5NNDr&mdash; Hillary Dabbs (@hill_dabbs) January 7, 2020 We had no idea who they were when we asked for the photo. Just asked for it cause they were dressed like Santa’s. They’re part of the Shriner family. Apparently it’s what they do. They offered right after the photo and I honestly cried for days. One of my best memories.&mdash; Hillary Dabbs (@hill_dabbs) January 7, 2020 27. YES.Saw my future wife on the subway but never asked her out. A week later I see her again. This time I approach her and go “I saw you once before and never said anything and if I didn’t say anything today, I’d be kicking myself forever! She then replies “Actually, it was TWO times.”&mdash; Cyrus McQueen (@CyrusMMcQueen) January 8, 2020 28. The dream!There&#39;s a pizza place in Los Angeles that gives me free slices every time no matter who&#39;s working... for the past 22 years!I have no idea why🤷🏾‍♀️&mdash; SkyQueen (@CalifiaDawn) January 4, 2020 

We&#39;re all just basically living in &quot;The Twilight Zone.&quot;  While fantasy and science fiction stories are always interesting, the cold hard truth can often make for a far more entertaining tale. The best art is always a...