[ SECRET POST #2940 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2940 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Doctor Who]


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[Fire Emblem Awakening]


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[Sleepy Hollow]


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[Agents of SHIELD]


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[Babylon 5]


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[Sinfest]


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[Weekly Wipe with Charlie Brooker]


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[Sailor Moon Crystal]













Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

What has happened to you that sounds like it comes straight out of fiction? Can be sad, funny, just plain random happenstance.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm friends with someone who basically held the US version of James Bond's job. He has shit loads of stories.

Disclaimer: It's (obviously) not at all glamorous like film makes it out to be.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

I can imagine it might suck at times IRL, having to lie to people and stuff...

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of things, most of which I don't like to talk about, which makes it sound even more like fiction I suppose

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

Once had two Hells angels come to my house and play hot potato with a grenade (outside). That is sort of fiction-y? My childhood was sometimes fucked up.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

I once had an (apparently badass) Hell's Angel give me some of his Terry Pratchetts.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

Hell's Angels used to show up pretty frequently at the Mexican restaurant I used to work at. They tipped better than anybody else did.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

Jeffrey Dahmer almost ate my father, who was a Milwaukee cab driver in his late 20's at the time. He tried to get him to come up to his apartment, pretending to "have forgotten his wallet at home". He refused to get out of his cab and told him to go get the fare and bring it down. Creeps me out just thinking about it.

Re: This really happened!

[kallanda_lee]

That is so creepy.

Re: This really happened!

[lb_lee]

D: I'm glad your dad's okay, anon! That sounds terrifying!

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

We were in a Target buying stuff like grown-ups because mostly we are. Started screwing around in the kid's section, looking at toys and collectible cards.

My partner is hard into Adventure Time, so I pretended to be a mystic and carefully pulled out a pack of collectible cards for him to buy for the hell of it.

It had a signature from Neil Patrick Harris in the pack, on a cool Prince Bubblegum card.

Now he believes I actually am a mystic.

Re: This really happened!

[feotakahari]

Well, someone once flat-out refused to believe me when I tried to explain my early school experiences. (Basically, every grade had one student who was a free target for bullies. There was no official understanding, but it was an open secret that if they were bullied, they would always be punished instead of the bullies. The bullies would be punished if they targeted any other student, so that student effectively became the class pinata. I was one for three years, but after I left the school, my best friend took my place.)

I also have a distant relative who's some kind of badass bodyguard, but to be honest, I think he makes up half the stories he tells.

Re: This really happened!

[kallanda_lee]

I mentioned this before, but - you know that thing that happens in soap series where relatives you didn't know about suddenly show up, and everyone always says how unrealistic that trope is...
Yeah, guess who is the one sucker that happened to in real life.

But really, half of my life is a soap opera and the other's a bad Marvel plot. I also went to this special school founded b a weird bald professor. Sadly I still can't lift things with m mind, though.

I also had waaay to many "close calls", like the proverbial version of the bomb being defused one second to detonation.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

For our final project in English class one year in high school, we all had to do multimedia presentations about popular literary movements throughout history. My group's subject was the Cold War and apocalyptic themes it inspired in storytelling. For the video part of my presentation, we showed the ending of "Dr. Strangelove." Well, as we stopped the tape, one of us must have hit a button on the remote accidentally, because it took us to a TV channel that was showing what was probably a daytime soap opera. All we saw of it was a woman saying, "It's not the end of the world." There was a beat of dead silence on both the TV and in the classroom, and then the whole class burst out laughing.

That's the kind of story you'd tell on tumblr and could get thousands of notes, and about a third of those notes would be tagged "#shit that didn't happen." But oh, this did.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free beer

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

I had an idyllic childhood, with awesome parents whose romance sounds like something out of a storybook.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

Once in college I was spacing out at the end of class and thinking about a picture book my twin sister and I used to read when we were little. A few minutes later (once class was over), my twin, who was at college in a different state, called to ask me if I remembered this book we used to read when we were kids.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

I was writing a novel where one of the main characters is Death, and my grandfather died that same month.

I'm still really weirded out by that and I don't want to touch the manuscript.

Re: This really happened!

[herpymcderp]

The most insane piece of irl foreshadowing I have ever seen.

It was in maybe 1997 or 98'. I was a teenager, and my friend had an older boyfriend who ran a D&D group. I decided to play with them for a while. The DM (let's call him M) was a generally nice guy, kind of a tool, and was just enlisting in the Canadian Forces reserves. He liked to go on about it all the time and make out like it made him the toughest guy around.

Anyway, M was also the one with the driver's license (since he was about four years older than us) so every so often he'd pick us up or drive us home. I had other friends who played D&D at the time, and one evening I wanted to introduce one of them to the group since they were always looking for more players. I'll call her S.

Now, S and I lived on the side of a mountain at the time, but in S's case it was literally ON THE SIDE of a mountain. The road up to her house had, and still has, a sheer drop off the side at one point that's around 500-600ft straight down. This is a very dangerous spot because there's no way to put up any barriers and furthermore the road is steep, windy, and there's barely room for two cars to pass. There is one particular bend in the road that is a very sudden incline with a sharp, almost 75 degree turn with that cliff right on the other side.

Well, as usual M was acting cocky - trying to prove how tough he was - and as soon as he left her place I knew he was going too fast. I told him to slow down, twice, and he was just laughing and saying, "Nah I got this." just as we came up on that part of the road. All I remember is yelling at him to slow down, hearing my friend screaming, and expecting to feel an impact at any second. When we all opened our eyes the first two wheels of the car were hanging off the edge of the cliff. I opened my door and it swung out into thin air. Luckily, the vehicle was pretty well wedged onto the edge and wasn't going anywhere, but I can only imagine how it could have gone.

We all got out safely, and while M called for a tow truck and S tried not to cry, I told him these exact words: Your driving is going to get you fucking killed someday.

Now, I've never considered myself particularly prophetic, and I lost touch with M soon after (he broke up with my other friend and was deployed)... but I was shocked to learn that around 3 years later, he was killed in Iraq when the car he was in struck an IED. What did seem a little bit spooky, and what still bothers me from time to time to this day is the fact that M had been driving.

I was right. His driving really did get him killed.

Re: This really happened!

[lb_lee]

Pffft. Where do I even start? I'll stick with something minor.

I first came out almost eight years ago, and the family didn't take it well. Younger brother took it the worst; he would castigate me, mock my speech patterns, tell me I was lying, and generally be an ass. I put up with his bull for a couple years, but after one major blow up where he hung up on me, I said fuck it and stopped talking to him.

A couple years pass. I'm still (just barely) associating with my parents at the time, and I hear from one of them that my brother is doing very poorly. Very depressed, barely able to function, that kind of thing. They say that if he just worked more he'd be fine. Trololol, yeah sure.

So I call up my brother, figuring he's depressed and using alcohol to cope. I was half-right; he was using weed. I talk to him, recommend some books and coping skills, tell him that I love him, and if he doesn't fucking call me when he's feeling bad I will fucking kick his ass, and generally do the best I can from a thousand miles away.

I don't actually expect him to become any nicer; I'm mostly focused on just helping him, because just because he's a douchebag doesn't mean he deserves to be MISERABLE.

But now it's three years later. He's the only relative I keep regular contact with, besides my grandmother. He's apologized for all the douchebaggery. He may never really understand, but he does his best, and he cares about me.

I'm really glad he's okay now.

Re: This really happened!

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

So I used to be in an anime club when I was in undergrad. We would start out every semester by showing single episodes of new and interesting anime, and then vote on which ones we wanted to see. So, in about fall of 2009, we previewed an anime where my exact reaction was "well, I don't know if it would be more interesting if this guy was hallucinating or if he wasn't," so I didn't vote for it and we watched something else.

Fast forward to 2011, I'm in grad school and once again in anime club, and we start watching the same anime from undergrad (I remember making some dumb comment to a friend about how I wasn't sure about it the last time I saw it). Anime turns out to be pretty good, so I go online to maybe talk about the show, figuring there might be some dying livejournal sites--only everything was weirdly active and had tons of people.

Turns out the show started production in 2011, a full year after I graduated. And the kicker? The show in question was Steins;Gate. Which is, in part, about a guy who can remember previous timelines after someone changes the past.

(Hilariously enough, I also at about the same time insisted to a friend that she had brought blueberry muffins to club the previous week, whereas she was pretty positive that she had made the muffins but didn't bring them to club.)

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

When I was a kid a man jumped over our quite tall fence when running from some guys (he got into an argument at a nearby house party that got very out of hand) and fell into our yard and broke his leg. Our dog got freaked out but didn't attack him and eventually calmed down and waited with him. This was in the middle of the night so basically in the morning there was a strange, injured man just hanging out in the backyard with our dog.

Also just some other stuff that people tell me is odd, like when a homeless girl lived with us and she attacked my dog, who was a puppy at that point, like a couple of days before she was planning on leaving, and then years later I saw her at a bus station with a skinhead.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

I used to occasionally catch a ride home from work (at a comic and games shop, for the record) with this big, loud, boisterous, crude, amiably sexist, scary-looking bearded-and-tattooed dude who hung around the shop and was into Magic the Gathering and furry comics. (In spite of how this makes him sound, at the end of the day he was actually a fairly decent sort.)

Anyway, whenever I'd get in the passenger seat of his car, he'd remind me to watch where I put my feet, because somewhere under the assorted character sheets, snack wrappers and such on the floor, there were supposedly a couple of live grenades rolling around. I honestly don't recall now whether I ever saw one or not.

Also, not me but a good friend of mine's father was a bit of a kook, always doing bizarre, dangerous and probably illegal (but amusing) things. He once had a nosy neighbor who liked to drive by his house and peer into his yard, and he got tired of being spied on. So he drove a length of pipe halfway into the ground and when the neighbor drove by again, he lit an M-80 and dropped it down the pipe.

The pipe exploded into two pieces. One of them flew into the air and hit the neighbor's car when it came down, scaring her half to death. (In this respect, the experiment was a success, as she never spied on him again.) The other half was driven so far into the ground that it struck water, and my friend now has a pond in his yard that wasn't there before.

My husband likes to tell the story of how in his misspent youth, he and his buddy were goofing around in the hayloft of a barn, and his friend accidentally kicked open the latch of the haydrop door. When my husband ran across the door, it fell open and he fell through...right onto the back of the nasty-tempered bull in the room beneath. He then got the ride of his young life while the owner was furiously chasing them around, yelling at him for messing with the bull.

Re: This really happened!

[(Anonymous)]

I saw ball lightning! It was green, and shot overhead before disappearing.

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[(Anonymous)]

In a neighborhood near where I live, someone lifted up a manhole cover and found a pipe bomb glued to the underside. It was all over the news for the next two days. The bomobsquad showed up to deal with it. They made sure it was inert, and after examining it further they determined it was glued to the manhole cover sometime in the '20s.

A friend of mine's dad and his buddy would build pipes bombs and glue them to manhole covers so when they exploded they would flip the cover way up into the air. Sometimes they wouldn't go off, for whatever reason. I don't know that they ever investigated the ones that failed, I just know they happened a few times. Guess where they lived?

The part I find astonishing is that NOONE picked up that one manhole cover for 90 years.