We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community who have ever experienced a premonition of something that later came true to share their stories. These are people's very personal experiences, so we cannot confirm or deny the claims in their stories. We can only share them with you and let you draw conclusions for yourself.
1. "When I was a young girl, I had a dream my mom fell down the elevator shaft in our building and died. When I was a teen, we had recently gotten a dog, even though we were not supposed to have dogs in the building. She went out to take the dog for a walk and came back almost as soon as she'd left. I asked her what happened, and she told me the dog saved her life. She said she went to get in the elevator, even though it was dark in the interior, because she thought it was the kids breaking the lights again. She went to step inside and could not understand why the dog kept pulling her back. She turned and told the dog to come, but the dog would not budge. She turned again to look and see what the issue was, and saw there was no elevator at all. It was just the wires. If she had not had the dog, she would have stepped into the space and fallen seven stories."
—Anonymous
2. "The most intense premonition I've ever had was also the one with the shortest amount of time between the premonition and actual occurrence. I had gone to bed on the night of Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, like any other night. However, into the early hours of the next day, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 (between 4 and 5 a.m.), I had a disturbing premonition. My older brother's car was parked in our parents' driveway. It was not moving, but the car had been turned on, and only his four children were sitting in the vehicle. Right off the bat, it was odd because they were behaving as if they were on the road. It looked as if they were all playing pretend. They were playing around and goofing off as they usually do, but instead of going up to the vehicle happy to see them (I hadn't seen them for a few weeks), I walked up to the outside of the car, very concerned."
"I began banging on the windows of the right side of the vehicle, specifically the back passenger side of the car. I was aggressively banging on the window, asking if the children would please get out of the car. They became aware of me but kept on with their casual, silly behavior. The eldest child said he didn't want to come out, but the second oldest leaned over the youngest child to look at me through the window and agreed to come out. Before they could exit the vehicle, my dream quickly shifted. I was now standing in the middle of an unknown road, hugging a housekeeper that I had grown up with. She was an extremely sweet woman from a much older generation, but in the dream, she was stronger than ever. Her spirit and physical form were enhanced, which I thought was odd. After the hug, I abruptly awoke from my dream. Although the hugging moment in the second sequence of the dream was sweet, I was still very concerned for my brother and his children.
"At 8:30 a.m., I texted him and told him the strange dream in detail. He immediately replied back, informing me that his children had just gotten into a car wreck that morning (Nov. 2, 2017), riding with their mother on their way to school. The car had been totaled, and the youngest child had received a bloody nose, but there was no other physical damage. I believe the housekeeper had a purpose in the dream, and my hug was a thanks to her for watching over my family that day."
—Gosh J.
3. "I had the same dream over and over. A psychic once told me that I was from the days of Atlantis in one life, and in another, I burned up as a little girl. Driving to Sacramento, I saw the house that I had dreamed about. I stopped, and it turned out that an older woman and man lived there. I explained that I'd seen that house in my dreams. They showed it to me. I did not know how or when, but I had been in that house and played on their stairs. My parents had never even been to that town. The people told me their little girl died in a fire at 6 years old. I haven't had another dream about the house now that I've seen it."
—Anonymous
4. "Once, I woke up from a dream and swore I could hear someone yelling my name. As I lay in my bed half asleep, I looked toward the door. Standing in the doorway was an ethereal-looking version of my brother. He was grayed out and looked lifeless except for his eyes, which were glowing red. My heart began to race, and that's when I actually woke up. I lay in bed for the next several minutes staring at my door with nothing there. The dream felt so real, and my heart was pounding in my chest."
"Fast-forward a few weeks: I was in my room playing video games after work, as usual, with my headphones on. I started to hear a faint noise that sounded like someone calling my name. I took off my headphones, and I could hear it coming from my door. I got up and opened the door, and lying on the floor was my brother. He was begging me to take him to the hospital because he thought he was having a heart attack. I got him in my car and rushed him to the nearest hospital. Luckily, it wasn't a heart attack, and he has since recovered and is in very good physical health. I didn't make the connection between the events until a few weeks later. I wonder if the dream was trying to warn me about my brother needing my help, or if it was just a mere coincidence."
—Anonymous
5. "I had a dream that my grandfather had cancer. I called my mom and told her about it, and she told me my grandfather had just been diagnosed with kidney cancer. Another time, I was watching TV with my then-boyfriend. His phone rang and he said, 'I’m gonna go answer this. It’s my dad,' and went to leave the room. I replied, 'You should stay here and answer that.' He asked why, and I said, 'Because your grandma died,' without taking my eyes off the TV. His father was, in fact, calling to tell him his grandmother had passed away."
6. "When I was in middle school, I had a dream in which I was sitting in an empty classroom with a test that had already been filled out. I looked through the test at the answers, then I woke up. About a week later, we were given that exact test in class. I finished the test in about five minutes. I double-checked all the answers because I recognized them from the dream, but I wasn't sure that what I remembered was right. It turns out that the test in the dream was exactly right. I got a 100. The teacher even asked me how I had finished it so quickly. Unfortunately, I can't remember her reaction when I explained that I had seen it in a dream."
—Anonymous
7. "Christmas night 2004, I had a nightmare I can still remember so vividly. I woke up in the night absolutely convinced the world was ending and something horrific was happening. I had visions of a disaster on a huge scale involving water. I screamed the house down and can remember being awake but still in this terrified state. The next morning, we woke to the news of the Indian Ocean tsunami."
8. "My friend’s daughter has a genetic disorder, and we have always said she has a special sense because of her medical issues. There are many examples, but the most prominent was last summer (when she was 4). She pointed at my stomach and said I was having a baby. My husband and I were secretly trying for a baby, but I had tested negative earlier that day. Two days later, I had a positive pregnancy test. She predicted my second pregnancy as well."
—Anonymous
9. "I started working at my city newspaper after being fired from another job. On my first day, I noticed a very tall, handsome man who worked on my floor. After being there for some time and making friends, I started referring to him as my 'future husband.' My friends all laughed because he was super shy and introverted, and they thought there was no way he would go for someone as wild as me. Turns out, I knew the moment I saw him. We've been married for eight years, and we have two beautiful children and a very successful life together!"
—mabd
10. "I used to meditate a lot. A lot, a lot. I started for 20 minutes a day, which progressed to 30 minutes, then to an hour a day. Soon, I was meditating two hours twice a day, sometimes all day. Well, after about four months of this, I started having déjà vu a lot. One day, it was very creepy. I had déjà vu for like two or three minutes straight, and I predicted everything that was going to happen before it did happen. For example, sitting in the living room with no view of the kitchen, I predicted my mother in the kitchen dropping something, then I predicted my dad and brother walking in while my dad laughed at a joke my brother told him. I predicted my sister walking out of her room to tell us something 'cool,' and a few other things. It was extremely creepy. I stopped meditating after that."
—Anonymous
11. "I was in bed taking a nap around 2 p.m. one day. I had a very realistic dream about being at my mother's house visiting her. My mother lived only a couple of miles away, so it wasn’t really far. In the dream, I was sitting on the couch, talking and visiting with her. She had a live-in boyfriend at the time. My mother’s boyfriend started to come down her hallway toward the room we were in. When he saw me, he asked what was I doing over. Right at that moment, I felt a pulling and I woke up at home in my bed. I sat there for a moment thinking that was the weirdest, most lifelike dream I'd ever had. After a couple of minutes of me trying to wrap my head around what had just happened, the phone rang. It was my mom asking me where I'd gone. She said one minute we were in the living room talking, and the next minute I was gone. Her boyfriend had seen the same thing, and I heard him in the background asking where I was as well."
—Anonymous
12. "I have only had one premonition in my life, and of all things, it was about a turtle! I was getting ready to drive to my dad's house when, while still in the garage, I heard a voice clear as day say, 'You're going to see a turtle in the road!' It was extremely strange because I've never heard anything like that before; nor am I prone to any kind of premonitions. About 20 minutes later, as I approached my dad's neighborhood, what did I see but a GIANT snapping turtle smack-dab in the middle of the road! I was absolutely stunned! I got out and moved him to the side with the help of a shovel, and I presume he went on his merry way. So apparently I'm a turtle psychic...?"
—Anonymous
13. "I used to drive the same winding road day in and day out. There was a part of the road where you had to go up a decent hill with curves, blind spots, and a steep drop-off on one side. The town had a pretty healthy deer population. You almost forget how flighty deer can be because you are just so used to seeing them everywhere. I was driving down that hill one day when, suddenly, all of my internal alarms went off — almost as if someone on a loudspeaker with flashing lights said, "SLOW DOWN." So I immediately slowed to about 10 mph, and then BAM, about 10 or 15 feet in front of me, several deer launched out of the woods, leaping and running across the road. If I had stayed at the same speed, they would have absolutely plowed into my car and I could have gone off the edge of the road."
14. "I went to university in a neighboring country. At the time, my mom had two sisters, both of whom had kidney issues and were on dialysis as outpatients. Sister 1 had more severe kidney issues than sister 2, but both of them were relatively healthy despite the dialysis. One night, I decided to go to bed early. I said my nightly prayer as usual, mentioning both of their names as I asked God to keep them healthy, particularly sister 1, whom we were all usually more worried about. I mentioned sister 1 by her name, and then almost as an afterthought, I said sister 2's name. A very, very strange feeling came over me the moment I did. It was the most intense goosebumps I've ever felt. I paused, then carried on, finished my prayer, and went to sleep. The next afternoon, I was told that sister 2 had been taken to the hospital the night before and had died around the same time I was saying that prayer."
—Anonymous
15. "About 20 years ago, I had a very realistic dream, which is already out of the norm for me. In the dream, my brother, who was just two years older than I was, was dead somehow. We knew he was dead for sure, but nobody knew where he was located. It was so real to me that I woke up crying uncontrollably. I had never before and have never since experienced anything like it. Well, that morning, I couldn't wait to call my brother and make sure he was OK. I called him, just to hear that he couldn't wait to tell me what had just happened to him the night before. We live in Ohio, close to Lake Erie. When the weather is cold enough, the rivers feeding the lake will freeze, making a nice route to ride snowmobiles and four-wheelers on the ice. We never ride alone."
"My brother decided to go down and try to meet up with someone to ride with. He did, and they rode for a few hours before they decided to get a beer at a local bar. Having not traveled there together, they separated and made plans to meet at the bar. The other rider took off, leaving my brother on the ice alone. Just as he was approaching the edge, the ice broke. He could feel the water under the ice pulling him down. His snowmobile, still running, hung by the skis on the edge of the hole in the ice. With all of his might, he was able to pull himself onto the ice and crawl to his truck, soaked and frozen. Sensing something was wrong, the other rider came back to see my brother's sled hung on a hole in the ice, and assumed he had fallen through and was under the ice on his way to the lake. But as he got closer, he saw my brother in his truck trying to get warm. The guy was able to pull my brother's sled out of the ice, using his sled and a rope. He loaded it for him and sent him on his way. Never knew his name. Had my brother fallen through the ice, we would have known he was dead, but we wouldn't have been able to find his body until the spring thaw."
—Anonymous
16. "I had a recurring dream about a car crash. It would be raining and I would be driving on an undivided road, and a pickup truck would veer into opposite traffic and crash into me. At that point, I’d wake up. Several years later, I was hit by a wrong-way driver in a pickup truck in the rain. The only difference was that it was on a highway, and the opposite side was separated only by a dirt median. As in the dream, the moments after the impact are blank. I do have some flashes of memory right before the impact and moments after I was hit, but I stopped having the dream after that night."
—Anonymous
17. "When I was in my late teens, I had a dream that I was in a car wreck with my biological father. I didn't actually meet him until I was 21. In this dream, we were taking a left at an intersection when a blue Suburban sped through the red light, hit us, and rolled our vehicle over, killing us. So a few months after I met my bio father, we were working on a friend's vehicle and heading home. We got to an intersection, and I got a déjà vu feeling and remembered the dream. I immediately asked my father to stop. I told him that we forgot some tools, so we needed to back up and turn around. As he did this, I saw a blue Suburban plow through the intersection, and I knew it would have hit us, just like in my dream. This occurred four or five years after my dream. I've had other dreams like this, and I keep an eye out for their events to happen."
"The dreams are very realistic and vivid. You don't forget them after you have them. You can feel the air on your skin, the pain you're in, and so forth. I call it déjà vu, but it's more realistic than that when the moment is upon you."
—Anonymous
18. "When my mother died in 1983, I also had an aunt with terminal cancer. I had a dream about my mother in which I told her how sick my aunt was. She told me she was going to die on Friday at 11. I told my grandmother and my sister what she told me, and sure enough, my aunt died that Friday at 11."
—Anonymous
19. "I woke up around 3 one random night in 1994. I felt very unusual, as if there was something wrong. I didn't know why or what it was. After sitting up for a while, I went back to bed. Later that same day, after getting up, I received a telephone call from my father. He told me that he had bad news for me. A very dear friend, Jack, an elderly man who had been part of our hunting camp for many years, had passed away at about 3 a.m. that day, the same time I awoke feeling as if something was wrong. I don't recall what month it was, but later the same year, in November, we were all gathered together at our hunting property. The four of us were all in bed sleeping in my camping trailer."
"The next morning, as we sat at the breakfast table, my father mentioned that he'd woken up earlier that morning because he'd heard pounding on the side of the trailer. Oddly enough, I had awoken to the same thing around 5 a.m. Both of my sons then said they, too, had awoken to the sound of pounding on the side of the trailer. We had all awoken to the same thing. It clearly sounded like someone pounding their fist against the side of the trailer.
"Before Jack had passed away, he came to our hunting camp and stayed in his own camper. He valued his privacy, and he always got up around 4 a.m. During World War II, he had been a cook on a Navy battleship. He was an amazing cook and he drank a huge amount of coffee. He would make a huge pot of coffee, and every morning during our hunting trips, he would come over and pound on the side of our trailer to wake us up around 5. Every one of us felt that this was Jack, his last message to us after he passed away, to say hello and to let us know that he was still with us and he was still a part of our camp. I miss that guy to this day and think of him often, especially when I'm at hunting camp."
—Anonymous
20. "I knew my stepmother was pregnant before she did because of a dream. I was 13 and well acquainted with strange and vivid dreams. In the dream, I was pregnant and in labor, and my bio dad had taken me to the hospital. I gave birth, and then suddenly I was at my bio dad's townhouse and the baby girl was theirs. I was so shaken up when I awoke. I spoke with my stepmother on the phone that night and asked her if she was pregnant. She laughed and said no. Two weeks later, I was at their townhouse, and she told me she had just found out days earlier that she was, in fact, pregnant, and about three weeks along. When I had asked her initially, she had no clue. Eight months later, she gave birth to a baby girl."
—Anonymous
21. "I have been hearing a voice since before 2018 that tells me a person is going to pass. It only happens when I see the person's photo on a computer, tablet, or phone. The first one I heard the voice for was Stephen Hawking. Later, it happened with Rush Limbaugh, then with Betty White, and the latest was the Queen of England. She died months after I heard the voice. I even told a friend about this before she passed. Again, I only hear the voice when I see their photo. It's nothing evil or bad; it just started happening before Hawking passed. Interestingly, it only seems to happen with celebrities."
—Anonymous
22. "As a premonition, I saw my brother get into a motorcycle accident, so I begged him not to take his bike out that night. I was restless, and when his friend came to my door, I asked if my brother was alright and if he survived the accident. The friend asked how I knew. He had hit a cow."
—Anonymous
23. "In one of my journals, I wrote about a vivid dream in which I was shown a city I didn't recognize. I heard explosions and people screaming and crying. I saw a building on fire with black smoke in the air. Amid all the mayhem, I was shown a clock that represented the time this event took place. Two weeks later, on my birthday, I turned on the news and watched the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995."
—Anonymous
24. "I had a dream where all I could see was white clouds filled with black spots. I woke up in a cold sweat and sat straight up in bed. My wife asked me what was wrong, and I told her about the dream. I told her I didn't know what it was, but it made me feel uneasy. Five days after my dream, I had to go to my landlord's house because he was not answering calls and I knew that was not like him. I knocked on his front door and noticed the lights were on in the house, making me think he was home. No answer after I knocked, so I went around the house to the driveway, where his truck was parked. Making my way to the front, I came to a corner window of the house. The window was covered by white blinds that were closed and covered with flies! This still gives me chills to this day. Needless to say, my landlord was home."
"I've watched enough true crime shows to know I had to call and report a deceased person. There was a reason I had that dream. Someone wanted to prepare me for that day. I wasn't prepared, but the dream's meaning was instantly seared into my memory for as long as I live."
—Anonymous
25. "I was a young mother and was fortunate to have a wonderful babysitter about half a mile from my job. Out of the blue, I started having significant anxiety. I couldn't sleep or calm down. I had a foreboding feeling I couldn't shake. After two days of extreme anxiety, I walked by a coworker at the office and said, 'Something bad is going to happen.' He told me to stop, as my anxiety was making him uncomfortable and scared. At the same time my coworker was expressing his wishes to me, I heard an ambulance with sirens screaming go by. Everything in my body went limp, as I was sure the ambulance was heading to the babysitter's. At the same time the ambulance went rushing by, a call came to the office saying that there was an emergency at the babysitter's, which confirmed my worst fear."
"I jumped in my car and sped to the babysitter's. I flew up the entry stairs and through the front door. I saw the paramedics working on someone in a room off the kitchen. Panic and fear rocked me to my core, as I was sure my premonition had warned me about my son. Sadly, a baby girl had died of crib death. Although it wasn't my son, I will never forget that day, the extreme sadness felt for the family who lost their daughter, and the life-changing relief seeing my little boy asking to be picked up from his crib."
—Anonymous
26. "I had a horrible, horrible nightmare about a car crashing into a tunnel. Turned on the news the next morning, and Princess Diana had been killed. I broke down and cried immediately."
—Anonymous
27. Finally: "I had a dream that my grandfather was sick and lying in a hospital bed at home with pain in his back. I called my mom to check on him, and he was fine. A month later, he was diagnosed with cancer and was lying in a hospital bed in his house with tumors all up and down his spine. He died a few months later. I think the dream was supposed to prepare me for the first major death in my family, since I'm rather sensitive. These types of things happened to my mom all the time. She once had a clear dream when we weren't speaking that we would be reconnected at a funeral, and she even knew what I would be wearing and what I would say to her. It happened at her brother's funeral, exactly as she had dreamed."
—Anonymous
Well, I certainly have chills now. Have you ever had a premonition of something that later came true? Tell us your story!
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