It’s easy to think that mysterious tales are just for the movies, but real life often delivers situations even more captivating than fiction. Some of these puzzling events eventually find explanations, but many stay unsolved, heightening their mystery. In this collection, we present a series of exciting real-life incidents that are bound to get your pulse racing.
- Around 2004, when I was a kid, I was with my cousin playing with some miniatures of Brazilian players from the 1998 World Cup. We were playing at home, and then we wanted to go play football on a field near my house, and my grandpa agreed to take us there. When we got back home, the house was robbed. It was a mess, clothes on the ground, all drawers open, purses, jewelry, and shoes spread out, but our toys were displayed in a circle in the middle of our living room with Dunga in the center. During the action, one of/the robber(s) stopped and organized the toys this way.
This was bizarre on its own, but 2 or 3 years later, Dunga became the head coach for the Brazilian national team, just like the way my toys were displayed. - My grandmother had 3 siblings and my grandfather had 6 siblings. They got married, then my grandma’s brother married my grandpa’s sister, then my grandma’s first cousin married my grandpa’s other sister, and then my grandma’s second cousin married my grandma’s third cousin. So there’s no incest but I have a whole, whole lot of double or triple cousins.
- I placed my newborn for adoption (open adoption, chose the family myself). A few years later my sister got pregnant and placed her newborn with the same family. So the children are growing up as siblings and are cousins by blood. (This was over 20 years ago.)
- An 18-year-old daughter arrives at the ER in the midst of a hysterical episode. As she’s being attended to, her pregnant mother suddenly begins experiencing contractions. Before long, both mother and daughter are hooked up to monitors side by side. The situation is initially absurdly comical, but the mood shifts dramatically when it’s revealed that the daughter’s hysterics stem from the shocking truth—she’s pregnant by the same man as her mother. Welcome to small-town hospitals.
- My dad’s last name is Black, my mom’s last name is LeBlanc (french for “the white”) and they live in Grey County.
- My aunt on my dad’s side is adopted, and never knew her parents/family. She did one of the DNA tests and found her biological sisters, who then told her who her mother was, a woman named Shirley. Shirley had been my maternal grandfather’s girlfriend late in his life. We all have a feeling that she was dating him to keep an eye on the daughter she gave up 50+ years previously.
- I turned to the other person in the room, who I barely knew, and said, “My sister is getting engaged right now,” without having the intent of speaking at all. He politely asked why I said that, and I had to shake my head and say, “I don’t know.”
A few days later, I found out that, sure enough, at that exact moment on the far side of the world, my sister had said “yes” to Mr. Right. I hadn’t even known she was dating.
