10 True Stories With Endings So Wild, Hollywood Couldn’t Write Them Better

Sometimes you hear a story that’s so shocking you can’t help but wonder if it’s made up. However, that isn’t necessarily the case. In this article, we will have a look at 10 true stories that seem like they come straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster.

• I quit my lawyer job to work at a fast food place. My law school friends mocked me at our reunion. “A Harvard law grad flipping burgers?” I smiled and kept taking orders.
  Six months later, those same friends went pale when they found out I was actually researching for a class-action lawsuit against the fast-food industry for labor violations. I’d documented everything from the inside. The case settled for several million. My “embarrassing” job had built an airtight case.

• Waiting for a city bus one day, near an intersection. Perfectly normal day. A normal-looking car drives past. As it approaches the traffic light, I notice there are around 30 crows flying behind the car (like, one car length UP in the air and one length behind). The car turns left at the traffic light. The crows turn left and follow it.
  Weirdest thing, and I couldn’t get my phone out in time to take a video. It’s like if the crows were balloons on a 15-foot string. That’s how tightly they were following that car. And it drives me crazy because I will NEVER know what happened. © OneGoodRib / Reddit

• I worked overtime to buy my daughter’s wedding dress. When I showed it to her, her MIL laughed, “That cheap thing? She’ll look like she shopped at a thrift store!” I said nothing.
  On the wedding day, when my daughter walked out, her MIL’s face went white. Turns out that “cheap dress” was an antique designer gown. We had it refurbished to its original state and now it’s worth over $5,000.

• My wife and I went away for the weekend to a friend’s wedding and left our dog at a kennel. So it’s about midnight, we’re having a good time at the reception, and I suddenly started feeling really weird. Super anxious, shaky, just generally bad. Never felt like it before or since.
  Went to our room to lie down, checked my phone, and noticed a missed call—from the kennel. Right when I started feeling bad, our dog had a stroke and died. © Mollygrubber / Reddit

• One night my neighbor let his daughter drive a lawnmower in the pitch black on a summer night. The girl lost control of the lawnmower, drove it off the street, and had the lawnmower end up on top of my mom’s car in our driveway (which was private property and considered trespassing).
  The police didn’t believe it until they saw it. The front bumper and hood had to be fully replaced because of the damage the lawnmower did.
  When filing the claim with the insurance company, my mom had to call the company, as the situation was too strange and their website did not have a claims category for the type of damage that was done to the car. It took 15 minutes and 3 representatives to help my mom file the claim, as they did not believe it happened. © Unknown author / Reddit

• I live in North Dakota, where the winters are cold. One particularly cold night while I was out shoveling the driveway, the back windshield of my mom’s car exploded all on its own. Nothing hit it at all. There wasn’t anything touching it. It just happened.
  Understandably, it took Mom and Dad a while to believe me. For years I assumed it must’ve been struck by a micrometeorite (yes, that’s a thing), but then someone on the internet suggested it might’ve been contraction from the extreme cold combined with microfractures. © ***-and-love / Reddit

• I was playing with my friend’s drone in a small field. The drone had lost connection from the controller and fell down, so I ran to pick it up. I picked it up, and fog started rolling in. I didn’t think anything of it and started walking towards my friend.
  What set me off that something was wrong was that I didn’t run into anything after walking for about a minute. Like I said, it was a small field. On top of that, I would’ve hit a picnic table, play structure, or gone down a hill after walking for that long in any direction, but there was just nothing.
  I couldn’t tell which way the sun was because of the fog, and it was just me, fog, and a bit of grass at my feet. It was also remarkably quiet. I started running, and after about 2 minutes, I still didn’t see anything new.
  Suddenly, out of nowhere, I see my friend, and he asks if I’m ok. The fog dissipates, and he said that I was standing in place for the past minute. © placeholderNull / Reddit

• I got a hole in 1 playing golf... While that in itself isn’t exactly unbelievable, it was honestly like something out of a stupid comedy movie. I completely mis-hit the ball and it went down into a ditch, bounced off a rock, hit a tree, then landed on a hill next to the green and slowly rolled down and into the hole. It was so ridiculous I almost don’t believe it myself. © superfinecanine / Reddit

• I was peeling hard-boiled eggs, and my two girls (ages 3 and 4) came up and begged to peel some on their own. They have a hard time starting the peel, so I rolled the eggs on the counter to crack them first. I made sure they both had a couple of pre-cracked eggs and went back to peeling my own eggs.
  A little while later my daughter asked me to start her egg for her, and it was whole again. No cracks at all. The first thing I thought was, “No one will ever believe me.” © littlesunbeam22 / Reddit

• I was in college, playing guitar outside. This was my first guitar, and I was using my only guitar pick. It was given to me by my girlfriend at the time, as she played too. I was strumming a few chords, and somehow I accidentally let go of it, and it flew into the grass.
  I couldn’t find it anywhere. I looked for about 15 minutes. I was sad and decided to go back to my room on the 4th (top) floor. Once I finally got back to the room, the guitar pick was sitting on my desk. © charmor13 / Reddit

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