Do you believe in fate? Luck? What about miracles? No?  Well, your mind might change after reading these stories of incredibly lucky people who cheated death and lived to tell the tale. Scroll down to read them for yourself, and don’t forget to upvote the ones that creeped you out the most. Image credits: ayosteph Click here & follow us for more lists, facts, and stories. #1 My neighbor locked me in a water tank.I found a piece of metal at the bottom and used that to create a hole, I don’t know how I managed to make it bigger but I got out of there with a broken pinky.Ran like h**l, my family didn’t even notice I was missing.The next day I found out, he k****d himself the night he took me.If I didn’t escape, my body would of been found inside the tank.oh i actually feel a relief putting this out. 😅 I never told anyone, I guess I was afraid to get in trouble for accepting a torta from him. © Photo: User #2 i grew up in syria during the civil war. by 13yr old i had ran from snipers,and managed not to get blown up. actually one of my biggest traumas was about a kid who was running behind me that got blown off. i seen him in pieces and cant forget the way his face looked in the aftermath. im 27 now © Photo: lilducky2.0 #3 First time in America. Went to an outdoor zoo. An Ostrich escaped its enclosure, attacked the worker and chase me down. AN OSTRICH. AN OSTRICH. © Photo: Catalixia #4 My dad- blackout drunk yanked me out of bed, dragged me into his truck, drove me for an hour and a half to the middle of nowhere, kicked me out of the car in front of an old RV, threw money at the man and said "get rid of her" .. the man let me use his phone and I got back home.. no one ever said anything about it just acted like it never happened. © Photo: User #5 My aunt and uncle planed a trip to Aruba and was going to take me with. My mom told them i wasn’t aloud to go. Years later found out he was on the dark web posting inappropriate pictures of me and planning to sell me to someone in aruba. © Photo: ariana #6 My roommate’s girlfriend was a psychotic m******r and nobody believed me she was dangerously and crazy. I moved out in the middle of the night after I began to believe she would p****n me. She is now serving a life sentence for unaliving him and putting his remains in multiple suitcases. I was right all along. Her name is Melanie McGuire. Happy googling. © Photo: Ella #7 my “friends” left me in the side of the road at 4am with NOTHING. not even my phone & i had a bikini on. went to the first house i saw and asked to use his phone. his name was nick. he let me use it ,gave me a hoodie and got a ride somewhere. a year later he was on the news for r**e and m****r of two girls my age. guess i wasn’t his type © Photo: Big Mama #8 My schizophrenic ex lit his kitchen on fire and insisted we both had to die so he wouldn’t let me escape.. he got distracted by a “demon” on the other side of the kitchen so I ran while I could. Whoever that demon was really pulled through © Photo: Bella #9 I visited Morocco with my friend. We met these local guys on the beach that owned horses. We rode on them for free and they asked if we wanted to break their fast with them. They they took us on their horse to their village which was 15 miles away from our hotel. We had no service. We just trusted these men. Happened to be one of my happiest memories and learned so much about the culture but could have gone terribly wrong. © Photo: Isabella #10 Was waiting alone at the bus stop late one night in 2008. Ariel Castro (yes, I recognized him at the time like the other girls did) stopped and asked if I needed a ride, said it was too dangerous for me to be out there alone. I declined, he kept trying, but the light turned green and he had to go. Meanwhile, my friend was missing for nearly 5 years at this point Christopher Jarrett | CEO replied: Omg I am from Cleveland, we were so afraid to go on the west side after the 3 women disappeared. People were disappearing left and right in the 2000s. Glad you trusted your gut © Photo: Andre Bri Thousand #11 Choked on a jawbreaker at a friend’s house as a kid. I thought her parents would know what to do. They did nothing, both froze.😳Realized it was up to me to save myself—or die. It came over me to do a handstand & cough out what little breath I had. It worked. No one said a word. I left. © Photo: Milk and honey #12 Working night shift alone at circle k. 2-10pm man came in near the end of my shift got a pack of cigarettes and talked to me asked me a bunch of weird questions (I payed no mind too it I worked a block away from the jail in Georgetown Tx we got people from all over. I always had weird men coming in all the time so I brushed it off ) before he left he asked me “you over night” I said “no sir im almost outta here” he just chuckled and proceeded out the door opening his cigarettes . I vape so I would walk to the door and half way stick my body out and blow the smoke out. That same man kidnapped a women in my parking behind my building took her off in a field down the road and rped her. The next day the police showed up and asked me questions and pulled video footage from my cameras. Needless to say I quit circle k shortly after because they wouldn’t hire anyone else to work nights. We were always calling the police for crazy stuff but that incident shook my soul. To think I walked to my car that night alone… nu uh. Currently going to court as a witness for this incident in August © Photo: Natalie Mendoza #13 My uber driver kept me locked up in his car by gun point for 3 hours. trying to convince me to go to a hotel with him. i finally convinced him to let me go home and change first. had him drop me off on a different street and ran 5 blocks away. called the cops and they told me there’s nothing they could do except put a warrant out. © Photo: sierra #14 I saw a girl arguing with her boyfriend and he kicked her out of the car in front of a Kroger. Seeing it all happen I felt terrible and she only had a small bag of personals with her. I offered to take her to a safe location. It was a set up. I drove to her a c***k house. Was trapped in by two vehicles that pulled up. She got out the car to allow them to come into my vehicle and rob me and I drove the h**l off barely fitting in between the cars that trapped me. © Photo: merpppppmerppppp #15 84 hour labour. Enough said. © Photo: MoePancho #16 Was spending a night at my Aunt's house, stayed up later than usual watching a movie. Wanted to lie down but my conscience said not to. There was a couple arguing in the apartment above us and next a bullet came through the ceiling into the bed where I was about to lay. I'll never forget that. © Photo: User #17 Definitely not as bad as some of these responses but I came fave to face with a massive 600-800 lb mama bear and her cubs fresh out of hibernation near their food source © Photo: Samzak #18 I was gay in Jamaica. In the ghetto where I grew up. I made it out alive #19 I woke up at like 3-4am feeling like something was wrong. Smelled a weird electrical smell. Woke my husband up and told him to check the dryer…opened it up and it looked fine. I told him to pull out the lint trap and it literally went up in flames. Zero smoke or fire smell before that. My house filled with smoke so fast. I got my kids & dogs outside & called 911 while my husband carried the dryer through the house and threw it into the snow. Still have no idea how or why I woke up. © Photo: authorcharleighrose #20 I was working at McDonald’s, an angry customer pulled up to the window shooting into the drive through window!!! I thought I got hit, I quit that night! © Photo: Eva lashee #21 Postpartum depression. I was so so so close. © Photo: tempuuuuura #22 I survived the Astroworld festival 🥲 my story was on the Netflix documentary ｡ .ᐟ 𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙖 𓍢˚꩜.｡ .ᐟ replied: I remember during the opening everyone said that it was satanic and i LAUGHED. THEN IT GOT SATANIC © Photo: Arturo #23 I was 22 and was repeatedly calling the place where I waitressed so I could call out of work the morning. No one answered..my friend called me and asked if I was working that day. She told me to turn on the TV & I saw on live TV that my Manager was shot execution style along with other staff..I still can’t believe that I was supposed to be there too #24 in 2007 I had a 100lb Ovarian Cyst Tumor with a large fallopian tube that had to be removed. It was a 7 hour surgery that took doctors from all over the country to help me / study me. My surgery helped with alot of PCOS research #25 Was living alone 2 hours from anyone that I knew bc Covid and housing issue. Started a new medical treatment. Contracted chemical meningitis and serotonin syndrome. Was in psychosis. Had no idea because I was alone. Many things almost went really wrong © Photo: User #26 My dad, who couldn't swim, took me out into the ocean & threw me in thinking I would just instinctively know how. A lifeguard did cpr on me & I lived. #27 When I was like 5, my mom told me she was at Walmart with me and then she lost sight of me. Once she noticed, she panicked and started looking for me. She looked everywhere in the store and couldn’t find me. She said something told her to walk outside of the store. She saw me walking, holding some random lady’s hand. That lady almost kidnapped me for real. © Photo: love_diana7777 #28 Me and my wife got chased by a woman that wanted to [end] us in a sundown town, she looked something out of the conjuring #29 I lived through many episodes of horrible depression. #30 I was 10 feet away from everyone that was killed in the Route 91 Las Vegas Music Festival shooting. 58 people died right behind me…all because I wanted to get close to the stage for the last artist. #31 Getting car jacked and shot at 10 times. Thanks to his bad aim I only got hit twice but I survived. #32 I was 4 and I woke up to the sound of noise coming from downstairs. I thought it was my brother getting snacks so I went to go get some too. when I went downstairs I saw the window moving and someone was climbing in. I just stood there and we were looking at each other. lights on and everything. his foot got caught in the cord and he couldn’t get through because he was making too much noise. he climbed back out. I went back upstairs and went back to sleep. #33 Got stabbed on my head, my skull 💀 stopped the knife from going all the way in! The tip of the knife was stuck on my skull had to get surgery to remove it. DR said a few CM more and i would of been a goner! #34 A rocket flew past the tower I was on guard in, in Afghanistan. It completely destroyed the tower next to mine, and no one was in that one. #35 I had carbon monoxide poisoning. I told my grandma I didn’t feel good and she mad me lay down we both were found unconscious and if we went just 5 minutes longer we would’ve been *gone* #36 Got hunted by a mountain lion backpacking in New Mexico with Boy Scouts. We shrieked the lyrics to bohemian rhapsody to scare it off. For some reason we started at the beginning with the slow parts?? #37 Astroworld 2021 Relic replied: There was a crowd crush, many people died © Photo: Amelia #38 Walking from bar to bar guy stepped out from a doorway in front my friend and myself pulled out a gun told us to give him our purses and got visibly annoyed all I had was 5$ and chapstick #39 My sister got kidnapped in a uber and literally by the grace of God the child lock wasn’t on. She jumped out and ran away. #40 I had extreme serotonin syndrome and couldn’t stand for 3 days. Couldn’t eat, sleep or anything. Idk how I didn’t pas away © Photo: Memphis Temple #41 got caught on a kayak in the middle of a thunderstorm 40 minutes from the car. Huge waves and lightning everywhere. You Might Also Like: Managers Asked To Share The Weirdest Complaints About Employees, Here’s 24 That Didn’t Disappoint 41 Times People Met Pure Evil And Lived To Tell The Tale Reviewed by New Viral Feed on 12:53 Rating: 5

After years of inaction, Pokémon GO finally stepped in to untangle itself from the infamous Epstein’s island. Players of the augmented reality mobile game came across a PokéStop, a critical in-game location, on Little Saint James, the Caribbean island formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Details were unearthed that hint that people have been catching Pokémon on Epstein’s island for around five years. It was only taken down last week, leaving many to wonder why it took so long for the location to be removed. Some speculated that the stop was added by one of the individuals who attended the island as Epstein’s guest. “I would find it difficult to believe no one ever logged in from there,” one user said. An influx of spoofers made Pokémon GO remove Epstein’s island stop Image credits: pokemongo After the recent revelations surrounding the Epstein files, many players “spoofed” or virtually visited the island once owned by the deceased financier and convicted offender. Spoofing allows Pokémon GO players to fake their GPS location and catch rare Pokémons at places they are not physically present at. It is an illegal move and users have faced temporary bans and permanent account suspensions because of it. Image credits: Unsplash (Not the actual photo) The stop on Epstein’s island was first noticed by players around a year ago. Over the past weekend, many of them noticed a “Sundial” PokéStop, an essential point of interest in the virtual world, located on the island. The discovery went viral and drew severe fire from the gaming community. Image credits: Getty/Miami Herald “Why would anyone even spoof there? Who cares? This man was a monster, and so were the people associated with him after they found out what he was,” one commenter wrote. However, the PokéStop soon disappeared after the backlash. Image credits: DOJ On Monday, February 9, Gaming Bible reported that they reached out to Niantic, the game’s developer, for a comment on the matter. They confirmed that they have removed the PokéStop from the game. Niantic was acquired by Scopely in May 2025 in a massive buyoff announced only 11 weeks prior. The $3.5 billion deal brought several of Niantic’s AR games, including Pokémon GO, under Scopely’s control. One user figured out how Epstein’s island may have been added Image credits: DOJ A Pokémon GO player did some digging and came up with details that showed the “Sundial” Pokéstop was submitted as a point of interest through Ingress around 2020 or 2021. The player also discovered that the image of the sundial used for the stop was taken from drone footage of the island posted on YouTube in July 2019. Ingress is another augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic which served as a predecessor to Pokémon GO. It was a proof of concept for other augmented reality games based on Google Maps. Its data was used to create the locations PokéStops and Gyms within Pokémon GO. Image credits: Youtube/Mente Alternativa “I would bet someone from the staff was an Ingress player, since originally most Pokéstops were just imported from Ingress,” one user speculated. Jeffrey Epstein was a fan of Pokémon GO, as per the recently disclosed emails Image credits: DOJ The controversial personality was no stranger to the AR game that took the world by storm in 2016. In one of the 3.5 million documents revealed as part of the Epstein files by the US Department of Justice on January 30, Epstein spoke with self-proclaimed alternative medicine expert Deepak Chopra about Pokémon GO. Image credits: Unsplash (Not the actual photo) “If you look at the new Pokémon GO app, the first of many augmented reality games, I think an app for you that allows people to look at their phone and detect an aura about each other, would k**ll the market,” said Epstein, suggesting the idea of a similar AR app. In another email to Sh. Fahad Bin Hamad, the half-brother of the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Epstein wrote, “Check out pokemon go if you have not already the first of augmented games.” That wasn’t Epstein’s only connection with the gaming industry. Image credits: Getty/Rick Friedman Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard who helmed blockbuster releases like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, was allegedly in Epstein’s address book. A week ago, eagled-eyed netizens floated an even more outlandish theory. As Bored Panda previously reported, a 2014 YouTube receipt in the Epstein files revealed his Fortnite, a popular video game among children, user name to be “littlestjeff1” and allegedly, the account is still active on the platform in 2026. Pirat Nation, an X account that reports on tech and gaming news, claimed that the username matches with a profile when searched on Fortnite Tracker, a third-party statistics site. “What are they covering up?” Internet users share their thoughts on the Epstein’s island PokéStop. Image credits: LioTheLion3 Image credits: Ezyrile Image credits: sharkmunky Image credits: RealClayDoh Image credits: SarrowGX Image credits: MementoEstis Image credits: uo2477206946771 Image credits: jceeclayton Image credits: THE__BILLDOZER Image credits: GrimZeroz Image credits: b0ssguy3000 Image credits: sentientapathy Image credits: curationsystem Image credits: ernestpeiris Image credits: Bigcake73 Mobile Game Players Were Catching Pokémon On Epstein Island Forcing Company To Remove It Reviewed by New Viral Feed on 11:53 Rating: 5