The Silent Stranger Who Left a Man a Winning Ticket

A homeless man sitting outside a convenience store was approached by an elderly stranger who handed him a lottery ticket without a word. Days later, the man checked the numbers and realized he had won a significant prize. He searched everywhere for the stranger to thank him, but no one in the area had ever seen the man before.

My Take: There is something poetic about this one. It feels like the kind of story you would expect in a fable. A mysterious benefactor giving someone a second chance, then disappearing. Maybe it was luck, maybe it was fate, or maybe the stranger knew exactly what he was doing.

The Man Who Knew the Future

A businessman received a phone call from an unknown number. The voice on the line told him to cancel his upcoming flight. The caller gave no reason. Feeling uneasy, the man decided to listen. Hours later, the plane crashed, and there were no survivors. When he tried to trace the call, there was no record of it ever being made.

My Take: This one gives me chills. There are so many stories of people avoiding disasters because of strange warnings. Where do these messages come from? Are they from the future, from a parallel reality, or something else entirely? Whatever the source, the man survived, and that is all that matters.

The Unknown Soldier Who Carried a Wounded Man to Safety

During World War Two, a wounded soldier was stranded on the battlefield, unable to move. Bullets flew overhead, and he was certain he would not survive. Then, out of nowhere, another soldier appeared. Without speaking, the stranger lifted him onto his back and carried him through enemy fire. The wounded man passed out from blood loss and later woke up in a medic tent. When he asked about the soldier who saved him, no one knew who he was. No one matching the description had been seen by the other troops.

My Take: Stories like this make me wonder if some people are sent by fate itself. Maybe this was a soldier who had already fallen in battle, lingering for one last act of heroism. Or maybe it was just a man who knew his own life was less important than saving another. Either way, it is a story that sticks with you.

The Man Who Beat a Chess Master in Five Moves

At a chess tournament in Moscow, an old man sat down at an open board and challenged one of the top-ranked players in the world. The game lasted only five moves before the master stared at the board in shock and resigned. When reporters tried to find out who the old man was, he had already left. His name was not recorded, and no one knew where he had come from.

My Take: Some knowledge seems to exist beyond time, passed down through unknown means. Maybe he was a forgotten genius, or maybe he had played that game before, in another lifetime.

The Old Man Who Knew Everything About People He Had Never Met

A group of friends traveling through Malaysia stopped at a roadside tea shop run by an elderly man. As they sat down, he greeted each of them by name and told them details about their lives that he could not have known. He spoke as if he had known them forever. When they asked how he knew so much, he only laughed. A week later, they returned to the shop, but it was closed, abandoned, as if no one had been there for years.

My Take: There are people who seem to exist outside normal time, slipping in and out of moments as if they already know how everything will unfold. Maybe he had seen them before, not in this lifetime, but in another.