12 True Stories That Put Blockbuster Plot Twists to Shame

We don’t always have to turn to Hollywood scripts or bestselling novels for mind-blowing tales. Time and again, real life provides turns of fate that outdo any fictional plot in surprise, drama, and suspense. The stories we’ve gathered demonstrate exactly that. As you delve into them, you’ll embark on a journey teeming with unexpected twists, revealing just how much more astonishing reality can be than imagination.

• I walked into a new job on my first day and introduced myself to the manager. He said, “No time to waste” and assigned me a few weird tasks, so I started on them. I had been working for an hour when my phone rang—it was from the job I had just started. I answered, and the person on the phone said, “You are aware today is your first day?”
  I said, “Yes! I'm actually here. David gave me some stuff to do.”
  He said, “Who's David?”
  Apparently, a complete stranger had started telling me what to do, and I didn't think twice about it. We had a pretty good laugh about it. © Unknown author / Reddit

• When I was 5 years old, I remember going to a wedding reception for one of my friend's older sisters. I vaguely remember that it was a scandalous that she was young (18, just graduated HS) and he was much older. That's all I knew, and it didn't come up much in conversation with my friend or their family.
  10 years later, I'm in high school on the debate team, just chatting with the coach about random stuff when we get to talking about the team before he was coach. He told me that before him, another teacher was the coach who got kicked out for having a relationship with one of the students on the team.
  He told me the names and my jaw hit the floor. That was the wedding reception I was at.
  © loungeboy79 / Reddit

• 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—to proclaim my love for him, you know how it goes.
  When I got there, I saw that he had everything set up: candles, rose petals, the NYC skyline—everything that would make a girl melt. I picked up a piece of paper he had placed on the ground, read it, and when I looked up, he was down on one knee, proposing to ME. © IZ3820 / Reddit

• I fell in love in high school and got pregnant my senior year. After much discussion and counseling, we decided to place our son in an open adoption with a family here in town. We became close with the family and get together with them a few times a year.
  After dating for 5 years and living together for 2, I married my high school sweetheart, with our birth son and his family in attendance. Life couldn't be sweeter!
  Plot twist: We've now been married for 11 and a half years and have been dealing with secondary infertility for 6 and a half. I'm pretty sure we can't have any more biological children.
  © TheGeeksWife / Reddit

• 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 fiancé and partner of 9 years. © HouPoop / Reddit

• My brother—we'll call him Steve—had a fiancée named Samantha, and they share a son together. One day, Samantha started locking her phone, coming home later, and showing all the usual signs of a cheater.
  One weekend, she said she was going to a work event about 250 miles away and would be staying in a motel there. My brother Steve got suspicious and called the motel room late at night, around 1 AM. A guy answered...it was our other brother. © Unknown author / Reddit

• I dated a girl for 4 years, and she basically lived with me. I ended up helping her build a million-dollar house on the water (she was a millionaire, and I did all the plumbing). The week I finished her house, Hurricane Sandy hit. As soon as the storm passed, she dumped me. Two weeks later, I found out she had a new boyfriend.
  It turns out she had been seeing someone behind my back for years and had several abortions because she didn’t know who the father was. So all that talk of us living together and having kids was empty promises. © Unknown author / Reddit

• I had been blissfully engaged to a wonderful guy, but he went to OCS this summer, got injured, came home early, and was changed. He returned as a different person. While he was away, I got really close to a classmate of mine. I was stuck at home recovering from jaw surgery, and he talked to me all day long.
  He became my best friend, but I never thought I was attracted to him. After all, I was happily engaged. To make a long story short, my fiancé and I drifted apart, broke up, and I got married to my best friend last month. I never, ever saw that coming. We barely knew each other until May.
  © temple_noble / Reddit

• We are 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 2000s. The doctor picks up a medical book on eye problems. He finds the same symptoms my Dad is describing. 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 1960s.
  My Dad looks at the picture and says, “Doc, that's me!”
  The doctor says, “Yes, those are the symptoms you are showing.”
  My Dad says, “No, really, that’s me in the picture!”
  It turns out my Dad had this eye problem when he was a kid, and it was so rare that they took his picture in the 1960s, and slapped him in a book of rare eye problems. He doesn’t remember much about taking the picture, but he did manage to get a copy of it to take home.
  © flouncymagoo / Reddit

• Back in seventh grade, I made a friend who was in two of my classes. One day during lunch, I was talking to him, and then I looked around the cafeteria and saw him sitting at another table. I was like, "What the heck?" and then I turned around and saw him sitting at my table.
  It turned out he had a twin, so I actually had one class with him and another with his brother. I didn’t find out for about two weeks. © SonOfTheNorthe / Reddit

• My girlfriend moved cities. We met regularly and seemed fine. In fact, we got even closer, doing things together, and either of us would travel to meet the other. On Valentine’s Day, I dropped in,
  to discover her engaged to someone I had no idea about. Absolute shocker. They got married and I got over her.
  After years, I bumped into her sister, who told me that my ex had discovered her husband’s “other family.” He had married my ex, while still being married to another woman, and had three children with her. My ex was now pregnant with his child, and filing for divorce. This of it as a karmic plot twist, she cheated on me, only to marry an even bigger cheater.

• I saw my father kissing another woman. I told my mother, she confronted him, but he denied
  everything. Things were very tense at home. A few days later, I spotted him with the woman again. Honestly, I was fuming at the point at all the lies and the drama.
  I called my mother. Crying, I told her that dad was out with that woman again, and I couldn't believe that he was a liar, given I was seeing him with the other woman right now. I was shocked when she said that my dad was sitting right beside her, at home.
  That's how we found out that my father had a twin, and that they were both adopted by different families. My uncle was in town to meet up with his online girlfriend. My dad still teases me about being so righteous, but thanks me for finding him a twin he had no idea about.
  

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