Disclaimer: This post includes mentions of sexual assault and harassment. Reader discretion advised.
Scientists have been insisting for years that “female intuition” is basically built-in radar, apparently up to TEN TIMES more accurate than whatever men are operating with. And look, as a woman, I get it. My gut has solved mysteries I didn’t even know I was part of.
But don’t go by my word alone because I know it sounds like I’m hyping up my own team. Instead, let’s dive into the wild, weird, and almost spooky stories of women who listened to that little internal alarm… and ended up being scarily spot-on every. single. time.
1.
“Went out with friends many years ago, got home fairly late in a major city. As I was walking down the street toward my front door, there was a normal looking man walking from the other end of the street. A shiver ran down my spine and I automatically calculated that he would reach my door around the same time that I was unlocking it with my key. So I sped up and rushed to unlock my door and get in before he was further down the street. I make it inside and turn around to push the door shut and he was RIGHT behind me trying to get inside.”
2.
“A friend and I “broke up” and didn’t talk for months because I was over it. One Sunday night at 8pm, she unexpectedly showed up at my house. My mom informed me she was outside and wanted to talk. I finished eating first, which took a minute or two. She wasn’t at the front door. I couldn’t see her, but probably by car on the road. I’m like “I don’t know about this.” But my lizard brain told me “don’t be a fucking idiot and go out in the dark where no one else can see you.”
3.
“My grandma was in the hospital, not doing well at all. My mom was with her. I get a thought in my head that I needed to take lunch to my mom, so I did. My mom ate and not a few moments after that, my grandma passed. My mom definitely needed someone with her with everything that happened afterward.”
4.
“I kept waking up in the middle of the night hyperventilating, crying and saying my ex (bf at the time)’s name. it would happen every night, but i didn’t know until months later that it started the night he cheated on me.”
5.
“Few years back when I was in the dating pool a man hit me up. He was conventionally attractive and looking for something casual (same). My friends thought I was crazy to block him just because something didn’t seem right to me. Long story short, a few months down the road I find out that not only did he cut the breaks to his ex wife’s car, he also confessed (but was still acquitted) of a rape and murder in 2003 at a college campus the next town over (accomplice got life and snitched). We (victim and I) even shared a first name.”
6.
“I had already been broken up and was in no contact with a toxic ex for a few months when this happened. One day while I was out with my sister I suddenly felt sick to my stomach, like actually nauseous. I could tell something was wrong but I couldn’t explain why. 10 minutes later I got a chain of emails from my ex begging for me back. I had blocked him on everything but somehow he found another personal email of mine. That’s when I realized that feeling in my stomach was fear and disgust. Disgust that I allowed him to be in my life for so long without reward.”
7.
“This guy came to hang out with some of us for my friend’s 18th birthday. While we were waiting to leave, he asked me out. He wasn’t saying or doing anything weird but my alarm bells were ringing and I declined. Later that night he SA’d the birthday girl.”
8.
“All of my exes have cheated on me and I’ve always had nightmares about the cheating right before finding out.”
9.
“I was hanging out with my friend at his cousin’s house and the cousin just gave me the heebie jeebies. I told my boyfriend I was creeped out by the guy and didn’t wanna go over there again. We found out a couple months later that he was molesting all of his nieces, nephews and our friend’s kid.”
10.
“I was about 15, just got a new babysitting gig for a lovely lil 5 year old girl in my neighborhood. I met the mom, babysat the kid once, but I remember feeling something really uncanny about their home. Like it was kinda sterile or something that gave me bad vibes, but I don’t remember exactly why. I told my mom I didn’t want to go back, and my mom was cool with that. A few weeks later we found out the dad held the kid and mom hostage in their own home with the closet full of weapons including guns, knives, and a crossbow (!!).”
11.
“I was at a kickback with a bunch of good friends and was having a perfectly normal time until suddenly I felt a severe wave of anxiety wash over me for zero reason. I sat there quietly until I couldn’t anymore and went home and cried on the couch, still unable to figure out what even triggered it. Two days later, everyone was sent home bc COVID-19 broke out.”
12.
“In my early 20s I lived in a small inner city apartment. My neighbour was the same age and we hung out a lot. We both usually took a cab to work and sometimes we’d share. She was a reporter covering criminal court and I worked in an office building on the same block. There was a taxi driver who kept responding to our calls. Outwardly nice and charming, my neighbour thought he was cool, but something seemed off to me. One Saturday night I was going out late and his cab showed up. Something told me not to get in the car so I told him I’d changed my mind and called a different company.”
13.
“I was 21 and a cute guy came into my job and left his number for me. I decided to give him a chance and he turned out to be pretty nice. We went out a few times and started hooking up but then I started to get this feeling as soon as we were done hooking up that I wanted him OUT. He slept over a couple times and I’d wake up at 6am thinking of ways to get him to leave and not linger. He seemed nice so I felt bad for feeling this way! I decided I needed to cut him loose. When I did, he confessed he had a girlfriend and had been cheating on her with me. 🙃”
14.
“My son went to a bday party 4 houses up from ours. He was around 4 years old. My partner wanted to do grocery shopping, but I felt a bit hesitant. We went anyways. Suddenly about an hour into shopping I looked at him dead in the face and told him we needed to go home right now, screw getting lunch. He was super annoyed but agreed to go home. I had this terrible awful feeling that something was wrong with my son.”
15.
“My boyfriend at the time left to go somewhere. A few hours passed and I got a bad feeling. I called his phone several times and no answer. I called his mom and she said he got into a car accident (he was hit by an intoxicated driver) and the car was hit hard enough to push it onto the side walk when he was on the far left lane. Luckily he came out with minor injuries.”
16.
“I bolted straight up out of a dead sleep, ran downstairs and found my daughter laying on the floor gasping for breath. I had no idea she was downstairs, but I was compelled to go there anyway.”
17.
“My entire body began vibrating and for some reason felt the need to look this girl up on Twitter, she was subtweeting me about my bf at the time cheating with her lmao it was insane.”
18.
“Idk if this counts but before I moved abroad I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen. Even told my friend about it. A week later, my brother was killed in a wreck. The last time I saw him, I had a feeling that it would be the last time I saw him. And when I got the call, I felt like I already knew.”
19.
“Couldn’t get to sleep for 5 hours because a little voice said “he’s lying about his degree”. Confronted him the next day… yes he was lying for 2 years to me about what degree he was studying. God women’s intuition is amazing.”
20.
“My ex partner of 10 years had a 2 year affair which resulted in the end of our relationship— during that time I had a dream he got someone else pregnant —which just happened to coincide with the day he actually found out he’d gotten someone else pregnant. I only know this because when it all came out 8 months later, he told me that when I rang him to tell him about my crazy dream, he was on his way home from finding out his other girlfriend was pregnant.”
21.
“I worked with a woman who I was fairly close to, and I knew she had been seeing someone new for a few months and she really seemed to like him. One day she started helping me empty the office dishwasher and I asked how she was doing, and she just had this smile on her face that for some reason made me think to myself, “Oh she’s pregnant”. And like a week later she told us she had found out recently. And there had to have been other context clues I had picked up without knowing it, but the thought came so clearly to me because of her facial expression.”
Text has been edited for length and clarity.