A WOMAN who bought a lottery ticket after a spooky inner voice told her landed up winning £820,000. Wendy Hester – from North Carolina – was grocery shopping at when she was stopped in her tracks by the voice, she said. NewsflashWendy Hester has won a life-changing amount of money[/caption] “Something just told me to buy it, so I did. It was just meant to be, I think,” she said. So she bought a £8 VIP Platinum instant ticket and took it home, but was stunned when she scratched it off and saw the life-changing win. Wendy said: “I just kept looking at it thinking, ‘This can’t be right’. But it was right.'” The lucky woman then immediately called her husband to share the good news. She said: “I called him and told him, ‘I just won a million dollars.’ This is a dream. We can finally get our home.” Wendy revealed that aside from buying a new house she will also pay off her car loan adding: “This is a godsend. We really needed this.” She collected her prize at North Carolina Education Lottery headquarters in the city of Raleigh. She reportedly chose a one-time payment after being offered the prize as an annuity of £41,324 over 20 years and a lump sum of £493,896. She then took home a total of £353,331 following state and federal taxes. It comes after lottery winner who bought a ticket in the spur of the moment, won £41,000 after babysitting her grandson. Joyce Edwards been a regular lottery player for over ten years and was “dumbfounded” when she realised she had won. The 57-year-old said: “I just finished babysitting my grandson and stopped to purchase this ticket on my way home.” This huge win comes after a lucky lady from Maryland won £200,000 while running an errand in her local shop. The mum-of-five, Isabel Sandoval, was on a booze run for husband before purchasing three Lady Luck scratch cards on a whim. The warehouse worker, 35, ended up bagging much more than she bargained for when she scooped the top prize of £200,000 on the lotto ticket.