Real Stories From People Who Had a Surprising Gut Feeling That Turned Out to Be Correct

Stuff’s About to Go Down

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Iraq in 2006. We were going to be inserted for 48hrs. It was 2200 and past curfew. As we snake our way in our armored trucks down from a main avenue and just before my truck makes the left, a man smoking a cigarette and I lock eyes, he flicks the cigarette in my trucks general direction and walks away from our convoy. 

I leaned towards the center of the truck to look out the front windows and say “Stuff’s about to go down.”

The first two IEDs and shots were fired within seconds of me saying that. The ambush lasted for what seemed like hours, was only a few minutes. Story credit: Reddit / doneski

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