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Watching a horror movie that makes your heart pound like a rocket is one thing. There’s an excitement and sense of thrill to it that many people enjoy.
But when things like that happen in real life, it’s a whole new story. You see, probably everyone has had an experience where their heart skipped a beat from just how scared they got. And some people felt the horror breathing right into their backs, making it the most spine-chilling moment they wish to forget. But it’s not that simple.
So, pull your seat closer, get a warm blanket and be ready to turn on the lights at any moment, cause this thread is not for the faint-hearted. “Have you ever been scared to the core of your soul?” asked one Redditor and stories started rolling in, each one more frightening than the previous one.
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#1
I was 11 maybe 12 years old. Dad worked late most nights so I was home alone per usual. Home however was a ranch house far out of town in a Florida pine forest. It was late and dark. The doors were all French style glass with no blinds or curtains. Outside those glass doors was only a hauntingly dark tree line, dimly lit by the moon. Leaving all the lights on and a TV gave some comfort but this meant it was much easier to see in than it was for me to see out..
On this night I had to get something out of the “back room”, this was our name for a garage that was absorbed into the house. The concrete floors and unfinished walls gave the room a cold air. As I’m searching for what I need, I glance up to see a large bleach-white figure standing outside the glass door. 6 feet tall with no head and no expression. Just white hair draped in front like a ring girl. This was the night I learned there was another option besides fight or flight. It was freeze. I stood frozen in fear, as if the blood in my body just drained. Unable to do anything until my brain recognized it was a horses a*s. The horse got out of its pen and was chilling under the carport, with its a*s against the glass door.
Tee with a Twist 3 years ago
In my on opinion, I will never understand why some people don't like curtains or blinds. The night gets spooky 👻
pink_panda 3 years ago
Yes!! I lived in a house with big beautiful windows for a while and it overlooked the trees, which was gorgeous during the day. At night, I was always wondering if someone was going to bust through those beautiful windows to murder me.
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François Carré 3 years ago
A horse with a white a*s can be of great help if you're lost in the dark with them, though. Once we (4 people, 4 horses) were coming back very late from a 2 day long ride, the night was falling and we had to find our way through the fields and woods - and even cross a river. Fortunately horses have an amazing sense of orientation. My little gelding Sabato knew perfectly where he was going, and all the rest of us had to do was to follow his white a*s that was shining like a full moon in the dark.
Welcome Welcome 3 years ago
Done something similar. Night riding is awesome.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
When I was a kid I was staying at a caravan park in the countryside and while I was wandering outside at night I saw a mysterious big shadowy clearly non-human THING moving around and making weird "scraping" noises. I was terrified, but found the nerve to venture closer and... it was a horse peacefully grazing. I felt like a right muggins.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I almost got killed by a horse's butt! Someone I knew at our barn was trying to get her horse to load on the trailer and he wasn't having it at all. When a 1000+ pound animal decides it doesn't want to do something there aren't a whole lot of options. So she asked me and one other person to be ready and close the ramp as soon as she coaxed the horse on. (The ramp serves as both the back door to the trailer as well as the way the horse enters. It's spring loaded, but it's still heavy) Well, the horse REALLY didn't want to go on a trip that day apparently, and as soon as we attempted to put up the ramp he flew backwards with all his weight and hit the ramp. We hadn't got it locked yet so the ramp went flying back down to the ground with the horse on top of it. I was literally an inch away from being underneath all that. I don't know how I moved that fast, but it saved my life. I would have been killed or very seriously injured if the ramp and horse had come down on top of me. So scary!!
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I ran out of space. :) After that I never offered to help anyone else with getting their horse on a trailer! Not worth the risk after seeing my life flash before my eyes.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Glad it turned out OK, but didn’t your parents believe in curtains and drapes?
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#2
I was about to fall asleep in my bedroom (I was 16 at the time so it's a while ago). Suddenly my dad calls me, which is weird considering it was 2 in the morning and my dad never calls me because we're literally in the same house. My dad tells me to come downstairs because he doesn't feel very well, so I do. My dad is rarely sick so I started worrying. When I came downstairs, he was drenched in sweat and held a hand clutching to his heart, making weird noises in pain. When I sat down beside him, he told me he called an ambulance. Then he went quiet, and around half a minute later he just said "Can you hold my hand"
It terrified me because it felt like he was making sure to say goodbye in case he died. It took longer than it should've for the ambulance to arrive, and my dads condition only got worse and worse. When they finally arrived, they were all very calm, but suddenly there was a change. They did an EKG on the spot and suddenly started hurrying around with bags of liquid and needles and monitors around my living room, and they even told me to hold stuff and carry things for them. I tried to keep my composure, but I was shaking in terror. I overheard them saying that he was having a heart attack.
They asked me to call my mom (I lived alone with my dad at the time), so I tried but she didn't pick up. I told them she didn't pick up and they basically said "Okay, take care of yourself" and left with my dad.
My dad was admitted to the hospital and ended up surviving the heart attack with minor complications, but I was left alone at home for 5 days straight. I was 16 ffs, and no one did the slightest effort to make sure that I was alright. I didn't sleep, I didn't eat. I just waited for my dad to come home. My dad is my best friend, he's the only one I have, and I catch myself going to check on him during the night just to make sure he's alive. I'm terrified every day.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
That's so horrible that no-one bothered to come and take care of the poor kid. :(
Bumble 3 years ago
Well, he was 16. I was living alone at 16. I know everyone is different and this guy was obviously worried about his father but at 16, you can look after yourself.
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Party Poison (They/Them) 3 years ago (edited)
They didn't even allow them to come with their dad or maybe provide a cab or something to follow and just left them there, wondering if he'll survive? WTF?
Anne Reid 3 years ago
Not sure where this happened, but I was an EMT in NY. Police were ALWAYS called if a minor’s parent was being transported. If they couldn’t respond before we had to leave, the kids came too. My ambulance had built-in car seats just in case.
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Robert T 3 years ago
I can only assume that they didn't eat because they were so worried. If a 16 year-old can't manage to make a basic meal for themselves, I'd be worried about the lack of parenting! I'm also puzzled why they didn't try to phone the hospital, who might then have been able to insigate a welfare check.
October 3 years ago
Conflicted about this one. They should not leave a kid alone in such an emotionally taxing situation. On the other hand: for all practical purposses a sixteen year old can take care of itself. I moved out at seventeen.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago
I was thinking the same thing. At 16, you should be able to take care of yourself for 5 days, even though it may be hard. Also, there was NO ONE that they could have called? A friend, another family member? Talked to someone at School ( if they weren't on break) a neighbor? I am sure the dad would have been able ti call them also. If he survived, and didn't have to have surgery, and was released after 5 days, he would have been able to call or have some else call. Plus, Paramedics are not supposed to leave minors, they can ride in the front seat. Tgis storey just seems a little off.
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$cagsy 3 years ago
I'm glad that your dad was ok in the end and you played a massive part in that. To say that you held it together for a week on your own shows a huge strength of character. No sixteen-year-old should be put through that alone and it's a real shame that no friends or family members thought to check on you. But you came through it. You probably saved your dad's life (ask for an allowance increase!). You did great.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
You poor thing. I'm so sorry you went through that. I hope you and your dad have many healthy and happy years ahead of you. On a brighter note, your dad knows exactly who he can depend on and is probably more grateful for you than you'll ever know.
#3
My healthy husband contracted sepsis out of the blue. In 24 hours he went from fine to multiple organ failure (all of them) and life support. He was given a 20% chance of survival. We had 2 very young kids at the time. I saw our future look completely different within hours. On a bright note, after shed loads of antibiotics, a month in ICU and other drugs and a years recovery, he is absolutely fine, all organs recovered! But the feeling of my world changing in a day has never left. Never ignore signs of sepsis! Also God bless the NHS
L1z4rd 3 years ago
So pleased your husband recovered completely. My husband's story is pretty much identical, except it's now been three years and he still suffers from exhaustion, a paralyzed leg and serious nerve pain in that leg. Funny thing is the site of his original infection wasn't in that leg and the Drs have no explanation for why his leg is paralyzed. So thankful to live in NZ, where his weeks in ICU and hospital, multiple operations and skin grafts, plus time off work for recovery were covered. Sepsis is a super scary thing!
JNo3277 3 years ago
Glad he’s ok and it was all covered. Here in the US that would cause bankruptcy.
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The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
That happened to my cousin’s husband. He was slightly sick with what they thought was the flu. My cousin decided to pop home to check on him at lunch. If she hadn’t, he would have been dead when she got home at 5pm. He was in ICU for nine days with the nurse never leaving his side. Fortunately he recovered but his doctor told him later that she was surprised to see him because most people don’t survive.
Lola Atkinson 3 years ago
It's scary to think there are so many illnesses that can go on and on without a cure even when tests show nothing, or just having to live with the after effects of a period of illness. Neurological issues and fatigue, dizziness or pain. I know that it's debilitating and I want to send my cyber hugs to everyone suffering from illnesses.
Izzy 3 years ago
couldn't agree more! i've got a degenerative autoimmune disease that manifests the worst in my digestive tract, but impacts my entire body in one way or another. had the worst flare of my life in may/june 2020. over 2yrs on, i'm still suffering so much. 2 types of morphine for the pain, 3 antiemetics, chemo-fam infusions, NG tube, nothing but nutritional liquids for the 2yrs etc etc. my scans and bloods show the disease is managed and no longer flaring. i have a strictured, withered area in my intestines that needs removal and colostomy bag. but the level of agony, sickness etc i feel isn't proportionate to the remaining probs, or located in those areas either. e.g. i have a terrible, constant pain in my stomach even though there's no sign of active disease and the withering is in my intestines. i'm 23 and in limbo w my whole life bc i can't get better bc no one knows what's wrong in the first place. can't tell u how much i've cried and the intensity of the unalive thoughts:(
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Wes Nishi 3 years ago
Sepsis can happen out of the blue. Normally your body can take care of any bacteria intrusion into the body. Generally, you are at a higher risk if you are unhealthy, overweight, immunosuppressed etc., but just like cancer, sometimes it is random. This is why it is scary, and important to see the doctor when you have symptoms.
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John Murray 3 years ago
Here in the US, that would've cost you your life savings and put you into bankruptcy.
Bored Panda reached out to Redditor Scuzzball666, who shared his scariest story in response to the thread. “Years ago, when I still lived at my parents' house, I was sleeping on the couch in the unfinished basement with my girlfriend at the time. I woke up to her shaking me awake with absolute panic in her voice whispering that there was a very tall man across the basement watching us. Hearing that made my blood run cold so I slowly peeked over the back of the couch and sure enough, I could just barely make out the shape of an EXTREMELY tall man facing us in the darkness. He was so tall that his head was close to the ceiling,” he wrote.
Scuzzball666 said that he can’t remember much of what went through his head at the time, but added that mostly it was that they needed to get out of the basement as soon as possible. “When I found out it was a scuba suit, I kinda just started laughing out of relief. I realized it would be a funny story some day,” he recounted. After the scuba incident, Scuzzball666 said that he started checking to make sure it wasn’t hanging up before he turned off the lights.
According to the Redditor, “our minds are prone to playing tricks, especially when we’re in a state of fear, but I also believe that people have seen some truly spooky stuff with their own eyes.” He added that he has never believed in ghosts, but he “definitely believes in UFOs.”
#4
Went into my then 2 year old nephew's room to wake him up for the day. He was in his crib laying in a kind of weird posture, with his eyes wide open staring off at nothing. I figured he was awake already and thought "haha he looks dead..." to myself, and said "Good morning Matthew!" and his eyes didn't move to look at me. I said "Matthew?" and got closer to the crib and the way he looked was worse up close, just unfocused dead eyes looking at nothing, body limp. I shook him gently, then harder, saying "Matthew? Matthew?! MATTHEW?!" and when I yelled his name his eyes suddenly focused and he smiled at me and stretched like he often does when he first wakes up. Little f****r was asleep with his eyes open! It was only a few seconds but I swear my blood turned to ice, was never so scared in my goddamn life. No idea what caused it and he never did it again!
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
My niece used to also. Plus, she would sleep talk (not walk, but talk). You couldn’t tell at first is she was awake or not—-until she said something odd, or just gibberish, then rolled over and started sleeping like a normal person. First time I experienced it, it was so spooky I swear my blood just drained from my head down to my feet. Once I realized what was going on, it went from spooky to kind of interesting.
Load More Replies... Sandeep Patel 3 years ago
Apparently i sleep with my eyes open, My friends first told me this but i thought they were just joking and then my wife told me this.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
Apparently I used to sleep with my eyes wide open as a baby, freaked out pretty much everyone in my family at some point.
Stephanie 3 years ago
I sleepwalk, sit straight up with my eyes open and talk and everything else. the worst was I sleep eat, I started trying to hide stuff but sleep me finds it. I'm scared I'll choke or something. my three year old sleeps in my room and I don't know how many times I've woke up sitting straight up and his little hands on my back or arm and he's saying lie down mama it's ok. he's not scared by it thankfully it's normal to him
MyCatsTheRealPanda 3 years ago
Awl! Sounds like you have a little sweetie!
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#5
When I was about 10-11 years old, my best friend (still best friends) and I walked across our neighborhood about twenty minutes or so away to go visit the large pond nearby. We took bread to feed the ducks. At some point a white pickup truck pulled up and remained parked by the pond for quite some time. There was a man inside by himself that remained watching us. I knew something was wrong and pointed it out to my friend. She told me not to worry and said he might be waiting on someone. We tried moving to the other side of the pond, to which he slowly followed us in his truck. We continued to play but both became increasingly nervous, and eventually decided after him following us a few times and continuing to watch us that we needed to make a game plan to get home. We both agreed walking back to her house was not an option. Obviously this was at a time children did not have cell phones, so that was off the table. We agreed to make a run for it when the timing was right. His truck was right in front of where we’d need to get to the nearest house. The man began to roll down his window to speak to us so we jolted and took off running as fast as we can. He could definitely sense we were on edge I’m sure. He followed us and stopped the truck as we banged on a stranger’s door. He was full on in the middle of the road watching us. Once a man answered he sped away. At that point we were both sobbing hysterically. Luckily this was a father himself and was incredibly kind to us. We waited on the front porch while he called my father and explained the situation. My dad flew over and picked us up in what I’d like to call record time lmao. Both he and my dad called the police. Come to find out a man in a white truck had been reported in the area for several weeks trying to pick up young girls. They put out a neighborhood watch for months in my neighborhood. I never saw him again but hope he was caught. So thankful for that random dad that helped us and took us seriously! I cannot imagine what would have happened had he not answered or we had tried to walk back on our own.
Celtic Danika 3 years ago
I had a similar experience at about the same age, but I was walking alone while the neighborhood was quiet. Long story short, a guy passing by in a truck with a shell offered me a ride. I kept politely telling him no and stayed yards away from him. He finally gave up and drove on, but I was terrified, especially since I told him my destination. I went to the store as if nothing happened. I took another route home, looking for the truck the whole time. I burst into tears the moment I saw my mom. I don't think she entirely believed me, though. It wasn't until I saw a true crime show while in my 30s that I knew my fear was justified and how lucky I was that day. It was good to have that validation.
Cranky Pants 3 years ago
In 1965 this happened to my moms best friend. She was walking home from school. A man tried to pull her into his car. She ran away and banged on a neighbor's door. Sadly it did not end well their either. She was horribly R***d and m****red by the man inside that house.
MyCatsTheRealPanda 3 years ago
How horrible. Literally sickening to think that there are so many people out there like this.
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Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Who are you talking to. It was posted on Reddit and copied here.
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Daffodil 3 years ago
I assume op meant "drove over really fast" or something along those lines, not literally flew
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#6
When my mom called me in the middle of the night telling me to get to her house- that the police were there and something happened to my twin sister. My initial thought was that she got arrested or something. I lived down the street from my mom at the time and the feeling of absolute terror driving there was something I cannot explain. I kept saying she’s dead she’s dead I can feel it. It was a mix of absolute panic/shock/dread that I cannot put into words. I arrived at my moms house and saw a cop car with just their lights flashing and heard my mom scream from inside. I was right. That night replays in my head often and I can still feel that horrible feeling.
K O 3 years ago
That's horrendous. Definitely have PTSD from it too, not surprising. The day my brother died I also got that feeling hours before being home or knowing anything might have happened. You just know
Sowieso 3 years ago
Hi K O, my condolences with your loss. I hope you have some support for your PTSD and are a bit better every day!
Load More Replies... Lola Atkinson 3 years ago
I've had very strange experiences foreseeing the deaths of family members, as well as foreseeing a bombing that could have killed me. I got on the bus with one leg, hesitated and stepped off. It was not my time. I've also foreseen some other things. It's real.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I can't even imagine losing my little sister. She's annoying most of the time, but I really do love her and I don't know what I would do if she died. I'm so sorry for your loss ❤️
GlamourGhoul 3 years ago
Condolences to the OP and K O. My little sister died in a drunk driving accident in 2003, and I remember a strange visceral pain and sadness coming over me, and doing everything i could to shake it off. Eventually, I just smoked some weed and went to bed. The next morning my mom called and told me what happened. It's absolutely true in my experience that you just know...somehow your body and brain just know.
Kiss Army 3 years ago
My mother's sister (my aunt) passed away this past Sunday night and my mother said she knew that she could feel it was going to happen. My cousin called my sister to be the one to tell my mother and when my sister walked into my mom's house she said "(Sister's name) passed away didn't she?" My sister asked her who had called her her and she said no one she just knew.
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Jill Pulcifer 3 years ago
Im so sorry, I know that feeling. My mom was killed while on vacation (hit by a truck) I got a call from my cousin telling me to go home that my grandma was coming over. I just KNEW, I even said "my moms dead" my cousin just tearfully told me to go home and hung up. The whole way to my house I panic dialed her phone but I knew she was gone. As I arrived, my grandma and aunts pulled in behind me and I could see my grandma was crying, she told me. My legs gave out and all I remember was her face trying to be able to comfort me after losing her daughter. That fear never goes away, its been nearly 20 years and ever since I just cant disregard that rising panic of not being able to reach someone because I KNOW it won't always be alright, that the worst thing can just happen and you wont even know until someone calls you in tears and tells you to go home.
K O 3 years ago (edited)
So sorry for your loss, Jill. There's definitely more to the world that we can see, for sure. I'm the same if I can't get through to someone. If my best friend does anything where her phone will be off for a day she let's me know as she knows I'll be thinking she's dead lol
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#7
When I was in sixth grade, we were in choir one day when out of nowhere an announcement comes over the loudspeaker. “WE ARE GOING INTO LOCKDOWN, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, THERE IS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER IN THE BUILDING.” We all panicked, switched out the lights, and packed ourselves into the furthest corner of the room away from the door, all 110 of us. Some people were crying, others were praying. My hands were shaking and I was just whispering, “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.” At some point, someone came by trying the door and pounding on it, and I had never felt terror like that before and I haven’t felt it like that since. After the longest five minutes of my life, they got on the loudspeaker and said, “Thank you for your cooperation during the drill, students. You may resume class as normal.” We went from utter terror to relief to rage in a matter of seconds.
K O 3 years ago
It is vile that these drills are even needed. Sort your country out, USA. Boke
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
We're trying, but the Supreme Court is engineering an insurrection from the bench.
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Dirk Daring 3 years ago
That's [fouled] up. Telling you THIS IS NOT A DRILL JUST KIDDING IT WAS A DRILL only teaches you to ignore it the next time, when there could be an actual active shooter. Don't cry wolf.
YinzerGhost 3 years ago
If anyone outside the US wants to adopt a hard-working, middle aged man, I'll fill out an application. I'm sick of this place.
Harlan Bleiler 3 years ago
This is one of the reasons my wife and I have been having serious talks about moving out of this country. Besides the multitude of other BS, my child shouldn’t have to worry about that at school. And I shouldn’t have to be at work and hope my daughter comes home from school today. So sick of it and it’s true that we have no control over it.
May light defeat the darkness 3 years ago
Come to Canada. If you miss your family in the US it’s pretty close to cross the border.
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Eoin Chak 3 years ago
Hello US people - genuine question: do you wonder why active Shooter drills only exist in the US?
Flare 3 years ago
From the US. Yes, I wonder why there are more active shooter drills than natural disaster drills.
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Glitterati 3 years ago
I’m heartbroken for the US kids and for the parents/guardians who have to send their kids to school knowing they could be killed,injured or traumatised by an active shooter. It must be a daily torment.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
It's not necessarily a daily torment but it's bad enough, especially after another rampage occurs. The scariest thing is knowing it's just a numbers game at this point and contrary to what K O thinks, there's not much we can do. We can try to vote out the idiots who support gun rights but that's like throwing a deck chair off the Titanic. I've told my boys for years to be nice and compassionate to all the kids they're in school with, but I never fully explained to them why. They think it's because it's good to be kind and compassionate (which is very true), but my real reasoning is that I hope and pray their kindness to some other child might save their lives if the unthinkable happens and the child they were kind to ends up being a shooter.
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Bee she/her 3 years ago
I had the exact thing happen to me in middle school. I was in the hallway and I had to run back to class and hide. My teacher was holding a screwdriver and ready to kill. She was livid.
Celeste Grant 3 years ago
Breaks my heart that both children and teachers have to go through this fear. I can't imagine how terrifying it must be. I'm also so sad that your government doesn't do anything to stop it.
pink_panda 3 years ago
No, our government does try to stop it. By proposing barbed wire, moats full of alligators, police officers around every corner, and filling the school with guns! Ahhh, safety and tranquility. Good for young minds to flourish.
Load More Replies... James G. Currie 3 years ago
The parents should have been up in arms over this F-up! If it is NOT a drill, it is REAL. Someone should have been fired for this, or at least, demoted!
Autumn Artemis 3 years ago
How to give kids long lasting trauma and ptsd BEFORE the real thing gives them trauma and ptsd. Great.
#8
My ex-girlfriend had a psychotic breakdown. Went from perfectly normal to insane within a week. One night I took her to the hospital during one of her episodes and the doctor pumped her full of sedatives and said to bring her back in the morning as they had no beds. I didn’t feel comfortable about leaving the hospital but he assured me she’d be fine until the morning.
When I woke up the following morning I opened my eyes and saw she was lying on her pillow staring at me wide-eyed and grinning. It scared the hell out of me. As we got up to get ready to go back to the hospital she came at me with a knife and tried to stab me. I was able to get away from her and calm the situation long enough to call the police and paramedics. She later said that she had to [end] me.
I shudder to think what might’ve happened if I had stayed sleeping for longer that morning.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
I recently had a terrifying experience with my daughter's 12 year old friend who also lives in our neighborhood :( She's been going through a lot..very ugly divorce.. bullying... I've known her since she was 3. During a sleepover, my daughter asked me for some bandages.. I asked why...she said the girl needed them. I went to the bathroom and she had been cutting herself :( I hid all of the sharp objects I could find and slept on the couch so she couldn't get into the kitchen. I told her mother, who is informing the girl's therapist. It really broke my heart.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Had a roommate who was on lithium, but in denial about her condition. This was back in the mid-eighties. She ended up killing all her fish (had a beautiful tank chock full of stunning tropical fish), then killing all her plants (which were also beautiful, full, and lush). When I walked in the door that evening and saw her, she was haggard and unkempt, and when she saw me, she looked me dead in the eye, while repeatedly stabbing the dirt left in a planter, and said, in a real creepy voice and the f*****g scariest look on her face, “You know, I could kill you right now and not feel bad about it at all”. I turned right around and got TF outta there. I drove to a nearby mall (wanted LOTS of people around me), found a pay phone (way way before affordable cellphones), and called her mother to tell her what was happening. Her mother and brother raced to town, and got the girl committed, so she could get back on track with her meds. You bet I moved out that very night, once the coast was clear! Her mother was so mortified about it, and so incredibly sorry for what I had gone through, she refunded me every month’s rent I had paid (it was a house she owned, so she could), and I had lived there a little over a year! Poor woman. Hope the girl got back on her meds—-because she HAD been an awesome roommate before this—-stayed on them, and has had a normal, productive life.
Ela 3 years ago
FYI-Everyone should know, you can refuse to leave the hospital in these circumstances. You can say you will wait for a psych bed to be available. You may end up waiting in an ER bay for days, my record so far is three and a half days, and I have slept in little plastic chairs or on the floor but DO IT. If your loved one loses it the professionals are right there and you don't have to try to get them help while they try to kill you or jump out of a moving vehicle. I've done those, too, before I learned better.
Ian Taggart 3 years ago
Whether you believe in God or not, we can all agree that OP waking up is a miracle. And I hope that the girlfriend recovers from whatever gappened.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
Meds can make psychotic breaks so much worse but the medical community is so hush-hush about that.
Ela 3 years ago
That is why they need to be hospitalized. You have to find the right medication combination and every case is unique. The only option is to do trial and error until you figure out what works. And yes, the person you knew before may never come back. A psychotic break can permanently alter personality. But they can be sane and safe again.
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Oddly Me 3 years ago
This reminds me of one of the saddest #911 calls I heard. Actually was 3-4 calls from a guy who's wife was acting weird (1st call). Second call, he is more paniced. Cops stop by, and she behaves rationally, so they leave. The last call, the guy wakes up to his wife straddling him with a large knife. She wanted to kill him. She then tells him that she killed her daughters. Finding both girls dead, and knowing that his wife that he loved did it; he calls #911 again. Such a sad call. The guy just lost his (not biological) daughters in a horrific way, and his wife who lost her mind, and likely her freedom.
#9
Sucked farther and farther out to sea on my bodyboard after sunset while surfing triple overhead waves, just as the fogbank rolled in obscuring the coastline- and the direction I needed to swim to get home.
Took a couple hours in near dark open ocean to land a couple miles up the coast, guided solely by the faint, faraway string of a few streetlights and headlights that broke though the fog.
Every splash I heard behind me was *definitely* a great white shark. I'd panic paddle whenever there was a big splash behind me (again, I was in 20 foot seas. this happened *constantly*) until I could regain my calm center and try to drop my heart rate, the whole while thinking about how all that fast paddling I did probably just attracted a shark.
This was near San Francisco, lost at sea in great white breeding grounds while looking like a seal on a winter night, in horrendous conditions. It's not easy landing on a tiny strip of beach when twelve foot waves are dumping onto dry sand and the current is ripping at a decent pace... two miles away, I landed safely.
Slept like a baby, waking up screaming every two hours
Wilko Lunenburg 3 years ago
We were always told to swim parallel to the coast for a while until you saw that you didn't got further from it, only then try to swim back. You cannot win from the sea. Having a fog bank surely made this more difficult.
Rage Of Aquarius II 3 years ago
I've been dragged out and stuck before, but not like this! And I still have nightmares!
Ela 3 years ago
You get caught in an outgoing current, and you don't really have a choice! You can end up way out there, real fast.
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Gary Sansom 3 years ago
All very well saying ooooh never go alone , but not always practical, is it! I don't have any friends who sea swim anyway. I did text a friend to say I was going out, nothing unusual. I know the tides here, but about years ago, I went out and got caught in a current that's not usually there. I got really tired, was about 300 metre off shore. I just could NOT get back in! I floated, swam along parallel, but was getting no where! Beach was deserted. Took me an hour to get back, a very long way. Thought I was going into Davy Jones's locker for a while. Was really scared!
Isabel Care 3 years ago
Never go into the water alone without letting someone know when to expect you back. So they can call the Coastguard to look for your body. Having someone else on the shore means they can phone for help sooner
#10
I was almost murdered. It's a long story but I'll try to paraphrase it.
When I was a senior in high school a girl in my neighborhood went missing and about a month later was found dead. During that time her adoptive father was contacting people left and right. Apparently he had his suspicions about my ex boyfriend of 3 years who dated the missing girl in middle school. Adoptive father comes to my house to talk to me about ex and never really asked me anything about him but he talked about himself the whole time and how he was in a white supremacy gang and [eliminate] 12 people a year. After he left my house he kept trying to get me to meet with him alone without my mom present to talk to me more about my ex because he felt like I was leaving stuff out in front of my mom. I told him no, I wasn't comfortable and he just kept insisting. It got to the point where I had to have security walk me to and from my car at work and school. Adoptive father ends up getting arrested on unrelated charges and the detectives come and talk to me to figure out what he said to me etc. They told me to stay away from him and that he is dangerous. They pulled my mom away to speak privately to her and I didn't find out til I was in college that they told her that they think he murdered the girl and that he was planning on murdering me and blaming it on my ex that he went crazy and started murdering all his ex girlfriends.
It's been 7 years since this happened and the adoptive father was just convicted of murdering his daughter in February. But, I'm always terrified that one of his "brothers" are watching me since I testified against him.
#11
Ok I'll tell it. It was in April of this year, and you can guess by my nik that I'm Ukrainian so I was in my backyard talking with my friend when suddenly half of the sky turned red (it was at night) and the only thing that I managed to do is say "Holly s**t !" and start counting. After 29 seconds I heard explosion after simple calculation turned out that our AA shooted dawn russian missile 10 kilometers away from me, but s**t that few minutes was f*****g scary !
Atrociraptorous 2 years ago
I am a native Russian but am absolutely disgusted by Putin! I cry for both Russia and Ukraine. Peace in Ukraine, God bless. Russia, get out!
#12
I was home alone (off sick from school), and a paedophile hacked my computer. He had access to my webcam (which I didn't know at the time), and said he could see me. Described everything around me. I thought he was in my backyard, panicked and locked all the doors while crying and shaking. I called my dad and he came home straight away. It was a whole ordeal and the police did an investigation. Turns out he was a known paedophile in the US (not the country I live in). Nothing they could do. To this day I cover all webcams on laptops/PC's as soon as I own them. All doors are locked when I'm home alone and all windows have curtains on them you can't really see through. Yes, I've had therapy. But some paranoia just sticks.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
I used bandaids on my iPads and my webcam has a built in shudder
Skara Brae 3 years ago
Wow, that's the most appropriate misspelling i've ever seen: shudder for shutter. (No, i'm not ridiculing)
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
A jack with its wires cut off in the microphone port is a good idea too. It's what one of the most intrusive people on the planet did to his laptop: Screen-Sho...74-png.jpg 
Lo Christianson 3 years ago
It's not paranoia. It's ptsd. You were once safe in your home and that was stolen from you
Matt Tyson 3 years ago
I cover all of my webcams and turn all access to them off in the security settings.
James G. Currie 3 years ago
Nothing they could do my heiney… They just didn't WANT to do anything. They could have filed Criminal Hacking charges in your Jurisdiction, or traced his location and contacted the Authorities in his in the US. If he was a *known* Offender, he would have Breeched his Conditions, and been jailable.
#13
My 3 year old being diagnosed with leukemia. She had been sick for months and the doctors kept blaming it on reactions to getting some vaccines, then “anemia”, then a UTI, etc. My mom instinct one day told me if I didn’t take her to the doctor again she would die. She had labs drawn and her hemoglobin was 2.3 (that is almost no blood in your body!). I knew something was way off for months but knew it was cancer when her pediatricians’ office called and usually a nurse gives simple lab results over the phone and it was a physician telling me she needed to go to the hospital immediately and to pack bags to be there for awhile and that she had a room in the ICU ready for her. The most devastating and terrifying day of my life by far. My ex husband/her father had just left for rehab the day before and I received all of this info and had to process it super quickly on my own. I had to smile and comfort her while they poked and prodded her repeatedly when all I wanted to do was break down. She went through chemo and all that comes along with it for 2 1/2 years and she finished treatment on Halloween last year. I feel so blessed our story has a happy ending and that she got to ring that bell, but that moment felt like I was living in an actual nightmare. I was so scared that I was numb, you truly never expect something like that to happen to your baby. It’s amazing the cure rate for her type of leukemia (Pre B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) is now 97% curable. Prayers and good vibes to all of you who’ve shared experiences of trauma or terrible things that have happened.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
You're not talking to the OP Karla, it was posted on Reddit and copied here. And despite what other people say, I'm pretty sure you hasn't realised that.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Guthrie 3 years ago
What a strong, AMAZING mother you are! Having to deal with this by yourself and still holding it together for her! What an inspiration you are!
beesechurger elite 3 years ago
It’s on Reddit they can’t see your comment but you could comment there maybe theyll see it :)
Load More Replies... GlamourGhoul 3 years ago
Holding a good thought for you and your daughter OP! It's wonderful she's in remission!!
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted on Reddit. You're not replying to the OP.
Load More Replies... James G. Currie 3 years ago
Damned doctors that can't be bothered to actually do their jobs! After the first couple of weeks, the doctor should have ordered some tests!
Michael Isaacson 3 years ago
I was at 8.1 g/dL of hemoglobin when I had babesisois. My previous baseline from other tests was 16, so half the red blood cells were gone. I was as white as snow and was barely able to move around. I can't image what 2.3 g/dL would be like. As noted, that's almost no blood! 9.5-14 g/dL is the normal range for a three-year old.
#14
We were at the beach and my son needed to use the washroom. I took him and my 2 year old daughter into the washroom, my son went into the stall to do his thing. Because his swim trunks were wet, he had trouble pulling them up. I went in the stall to help him for literally 15 seconds and when I came out my daughter was gone. I ran out of the washroom, looked to the beach, she wasn't in sight. I started screaming her name and i couldn't find her anywhere. Then someone said "I think I saw her at the playground".
I ran up a grassy hill and saw her on the slide. That minute she was missing was the scariest moment of my life.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
It always is. Little sneaky kids. Give you heart attacks all the time.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Until I had a daughter I never understood why any parent would put their kid on a leash.
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Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago
When I was around 6 I wandered from my mom in a crowd and for a minute I couldn't see her. I was lost in a sea of strange adults and it was terrifying I was crying but then somehow my mother came to me and I didn't let go of her all that day.
Robin Roper 3 years ago
A friend lost her son at our state fair. Regularly, there are over 50,000 in attendance on any given day. She quickly found a state highway patrol officer who took her to a building set up specifically for this purpose. There were SHP and a chaplain there. They asked basic information including size, age, what he was wearing and then asked where she parked her car. While they were soothing her SHP officer went to the location where she had parked her car, and there was her son. He got a ride in a cool SHP souped up golf cart and that day, we and all her friends learned the vast majority of "lost" children, go to where the parents parked their vehicle - good information to know.
Karen Violette Cubbison 3 years ago
I chaperoned a field trip for my son who has Downs' when he was about 6. I had a group of 5. Bent down to tie one of the little girls' shoes while telling everyone to stay put. Looked up and my son was gone. Omg the scariest 5 minutes of my life. Found him in a vendor's stall. My heart beats faster just thinking about it.
Unaffected 3 years ago
My daughter used to hide inside those round clothes racks at the shops.Scary times
Caroline Starr 3 years ago
We lost ours at a carnival (funfair in the UK) in the US at the facility where my husband worked. Had police, security from facility, and carnival security looking for her. I put out a call on both the facility PA and the carnival PA. I had a feeling she had fallen asleep somewhere. An hour later I got a call on the walkie-talkie that she had been found. I hurdled the turnstile into the facility to find a very confused and sleepy little girl. She had indeed fallen asleep under a booth. The bruises on my shins where I hadn't quite cleared the turnstiles didn't fade for months. I didn't even notice them at the time.
Dana Ondráčková 3 years ago
I did simmilar thing to my parents but not my fault. I was on our Village play ground surrounded by trees. My friend invited me over. When we were at his house a Storm rolled over. We were happily playing when my panicked mother called the house hold (no cellphones) asking if I am There. Turned out all trees around the play ground fell down like matchsticks. Nobody was Hurt And I Felt guilty for worry Ing my mom for days
#15
When I was new to teaching (HS), I was being observed by a principal. The class was being mostly good, but this one student was head down sleeping. I called his name, no response, so I went over to wake him up. I touched his arm and he just fell over, yellow foamy drool everywhere. He had overdosed, thank God the principal was there with their walkie to call for help while I did what first aid I knew. The student survived- but I was so scared because I wasn’t sure how to help, or if my helping was hurting. Its the feeling of being utterly powerless and incompetent when someone’s life is in your hands.
Katie Andrews 3 years ago
Had something like this happen too. Head down, kid normally did not sleep in class at all. Called his name, touched his arm, then jostled him a little, and he fell out of the desk, all 6'1" of him. He was having a seizure, and had forgotten to take his meds that day. Called main office, evacuated other students to a nearby classroom. Ambulance called, and administrators called his mother. He was okay, just a lesson to remember always to take meds.
Isaac Harvey 3 years ago
I once seized during my Spanish class at the end of the school day. I don’t remember much of anything, but looking back, I do know that I hadn’t taken my medicine that morning.
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Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
All teachers should be supplied with Narcan. Actually, it's not a bad idea to carry some yourself. I keep the spray in my purse, and have had to use it twice--once while walking in the park, and once in the bathroom of a Barnes and Noble.
Powerful Musk Ox 3 years ago
I always carry it with me as well! Check with your local health departments and online programs in the US; training and a free narcan are typically free!
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BrookeBT 3 years ago
I worked in a store and one day a regular customer came in then after a moment collapsed and started having a seizure. I was so scared. I tried to help by making sure he didn't hurt himself anymore, my co-worker called the paramedics. I didn't really like the customer, but I didn't want him to die - plus I'd never seen a seizure before. (He's still okay, I go back to that location and check on him every once in a while) I still think about that moment all the time. To top it off, some jerk who was also in the store actually asked me while I'm helping the person on the floor, "Can I get some service over here?" People can be such jerks.
Dana Ondráčková 3 years ago
Just Last month my coworker fell like a log, having a seizure. I sat in spilled drinks with his head on my lap, being vomited on. Since that I cant smell his cologne, it reminds me of that panic
#16
I was driving early in the morning one summers day on a rural highway and rolled up to an overturned car. It was one of those accidents that made you grateful that you weren’t there when it actually happened — rollover cage severely dented, front windshield cracked, several windows gone, and rear door was open. Then I did a double take. The car was still on, the front window wipers were skating over the shattered glass, and there was a man in a fetal position 5 feet away in the grass. I pulled the f**k over immediately and called EMS. I ran over to the guy whose head was cracked like a porcelain doll. He didn’t know the date, his name, and at several points tried to get up before his legs gave out.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
These are copied from Reddit. You're not replying to the poster.
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LittleWombat 3 years ago
From someone who endured a very bad car accident, this description gave me shivers - THANK YOU to this good Samaritan for helping this person! I can't imagine the terror of suffering those injuries AND not knowing if anyone will come to help you! The OP must have felt like an angel to this car crash victim.
Pixie 3 years ago
The redditor didn't add anything, and since I'm not on reddit I can't ask
Load More Replies... Karen Violette Cubbison 3 years ago
You were his guardian angel that day. Thank goodness you took the time to look!
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
This was posted on Reddit. You are not replying to the OP.
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years ago when I still lived at my parents house, I was sleeping on the couch in the unfinished basement with my girlfriend at the time. I woke up to her shaking me awake with absolute panic in her voice whispering that there was a very tall man across the basement watching us. Hearing that made my blood run cold so i slowly peeked over the back of the couch and sure enough, I could just barely make out the shape of an EXTREMELY tall man facing us in the darkness. He was so tall that his head was close to the ceiling. I whispered to my girlfriend at the time that I was going to jump up and turn the light on which had a string that you needed to pull to turn it on, and right when I did that she needed to use the light to run to the stairs and get out of the basement. So after a second of psyching myself up for whatever came next, I counted to 3 and jumped off the couch and turned the light on. I finally got a proper look at the guy. It was my dads f*****g scuba suit that he hung from the rafters to let it dry. My hands were shaking for a half hour after that but we both got a good laugh out of it….eventually.
Rage Of Aquarius II 3 years ago
My wetsuits have done that to me too! I had an Irish cap hanging on top of it, so it had a head! Terrifying!
Supergummyman17 3 years ago
Lol, same experience happened to me. I was out in my garage putting the garbage in the garbage can, when I turn around. I the. Find myself, face to face with a demon, from the depths of hell. I then realized it was my dads scuba suit.
Tired_Panda 3 years ago
When I'm in the dark, I always seem to find really creepy faces. It's usually clothes in my chair 😂
Roxanne D'souza 3 years ago
I can't even count the number of times this has happened to me. I have a dummy dress form in my room from when I used to practice sewing. Now it's stashed in the corner, unused. Sometimes when my mom or housekeeper cleans, they move things around and I've been in a cold sweat multiple times, thinking someone was watching over me. The worst time was when my mom stacked some of my hats and placed it on the headless dummy's neck. I was so scared to even turn on the light.
christie lowe 3 years ago
My husband and kids had gone to Seaworld during the week while i was working, and he had won them a spiderman. Well, they got home after i had already gone to bed since i had to wake up very early. When i was walking to the kitchen in the dark, i noticed a huge man hunched over like he was trying to hide in our living room, and i screamed bloody murder and ran back to the bedroom. It was just the 7 foot crouching spiderman from seaworld!
Isabel Care 3 years ago
I used to hang my one piece bike waterproofs from a broom handle and bungee in the empty unit at work so they could dry. Scared many work mates as the breeze when the door was opened made the suit move
#18
It’s a strange one, because I had no actual, logical, reason to feel scared, yet I was terrified.
I worked in a shop a few years ago and was tidying up at the front of the store near the windows and the entrance. I saw a man walk in, but I only saw his back when he came into the store. He had long hair and wore a leather jacket or leather trousers or maybe both, can’t remember. I thought nothing of it at the time. A few minutes later the same man was walking back towards the doors and I looked at him casually. He was looking at me too so we ended up making eye contact. Instant goosebumps, shivers. Whatever vibes he was giving off it scared the sh*t out of me to the point that I couldn’t move or even take my eyes off him. He slowly walked towards the doors while maintaining an eye contact. When he walked past me, he had this smirk on his face that was just purely evil. He proceeded to walk out of the store and turned right and for a few moments he was covered by a huge sign in our window. Every cell in my body screamed at me to go. Run. Even though he was actually leaving clearly, I still felt the need to get as far away from him as possible. But at the same time I felt like I didn’t want to lose him out of my sight until I knew for sure he was gone. As he came back into view he was still looking at me. When he finally walked past our window I almost cried from relief that he was gone. He never said a word. Never even approached me. All he did was looking at me and it scared me more than anyone ever. I never saw him again and I hope I never will.
Isaac Harvey 3 years ago
I’ve thrown up so many times by now (for differing reasons- altitude, motion sickness etc.) that I can kind of just sense when I’m going to nowadays.
Load More Replies... Flash Henry 3 years ago
I've had that exact same experience. I think some people are just that evil, it's like you can smell it.
Alejandra Lima 3 years ago
Probably one of those weak male idiots who enjoy to spread fear and make women get scared, because they don't dare to do that to another man.
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
Your sixth sense was warning you! Hopefully that creep will mess with the wrong person or group of people and get what is coming to him!
#19
Then girlfriend [took her own life] while being on the phone with me. (To be exact - the part where she is non-responsive)
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
You are not replying to the OP. These are copied from Reddit. Do you read the article headlines when you click on them?
Load More Replies... James G. Currie 3 years ago
Not me, but the family of some friends when I was growing up... The eldest (a daughter) decided to take her own life for reasons unknown, as she seemed happy. She took a c**p load of pills and went down to watch TV with her parents, bother, and sister, thinking she would simply pass out and pass away. She started seizing, and scared the bejeezus out of everyone. Quick trip to the ER and a psych eval (after her stomach was pumped) later, and she was held for observation for a couple of weeks. Last I heard (more than a decade ago), she was doing well, and had *profusely* and honestly apologised to her family. That being said, while they made it though it, none of them were ever the same again.
Jen T 3 years ago
I’m trying to get that too. Maybe she was unconscious, but not quite dead yet?
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Milena B. G. Rosa 3 years ago
Maybe she called them because she had thought about it before, and hearing a loved one voices made her think better of it, but that time it didn't work and realizing that even her partner couldn't make her feel better was too much... Or she wanted to feel like she was not alone when she did it
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Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
i had an ex bf {and this was the reason} that would act like they were killing themselves and just not talk for a day then act like they didnt remember telling me they slit and acting out dyeing....t hey also pretended to be there sister when i hung up on them and called there "sis" and they said "oh yeah im taking care of him now" when i know it was like an hour away and she was actually at work {it was thought text}
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Both Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S Thompson shot themselves while on the phone with their kids. I don't believe in an afterlife but if a Hell did exist...
#20
When I had a psychotic break and I left the hospital I was afraid of f*****g everything. I couldn’t leave the house without feeling like someone was about to murder or kidnap me. I’ve never experienced such fear and paranoia to that level before. Which is saying a lot bc I suffer from paranoid delusions.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
Having a psychotic episode is absolutely terrifying. Because of the psychosis, you don't have any frame of reference to discern between what is real and what isn't.
Anna Tribe 3 years ago
My ex was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia while I was 6 months pregnant with our 3rd. He had been out drinking with his dad and when he got home our eldest daughter aged 2 was crying and complaining that her 1 year old sister in the crib next to hers had a dirty nappy and it smelled bad. I was in the bathroom and when he opened their bedroom door I thought he was going to change her nappy. Oldest stopped crying but youngest started screaming. I ran in and my ex was strangling our eldest. I managed to get him off her and luckily my neighbours heard my screams to call the police. One came in, huge bodybuilder bouncer was able to subdue him until the police and ambulance took him. In his delusion he thought her screaming meant she was trying to kill him so tried to kill her first. I kicked him out and he was never allowed to be alone with them again.
Max M 3 years ago
I know how you feel to some degree. A lifelong depression, anxiety and some paranoia, have made me more calm about death. If you think about it everyday at some point for me atleast, i just stopped caring for it. In the paranoid times at feel i am being watched, and no matter how strong my logic thinking is, i im still convinced i am being watched.
#21
I went to go stargazing with a friend at a nearby field in Pennsylvania, near Collegeville, around 1995-1997 ~~1998.~~ We were laying down in the tall grass and looking up at the stars and we heard a rustle in the trees nearby...and then then the nose of a gun poked out of the bushes maybe 15 feet away, pointed in our direction. It was a hunter who thought we were deer, because he couldn't see us, but he heard & saw the movement of the grass. We knew if we moved, invisible (as humans) in the tall grass, we would be shot. We even saw a deer earlier, as he probably did.
I felt pure terror in that moment and without even realizing I was doing it, I found myself raising my hand slowly while singing "You are my sunshine"; I just wanted to be as NOT DEER as possible. I kept singing until I was standing up and the gun retreated and I heard twigs snapping as the hunter walked away. I honestly don't remember what happened after that, adrenaline and all, but I assume we must have walked back soon after. I have no idea why that song came to mind, as I was on total auto-pilot survival mode.
Probably the bravest thing I have ever done and i'm glad it was just a hunter hoping to bag a deer. I'm glad I was able to convince him I was not a deer.
EDIT: this was along the Perkiomen Trail near Ursinus College; and it wasn't hunting season so we were not expecting to need precautions.
Diz 3 years ago
A hunter should never aim at something they don't see! You cannot be sure what you are shooting.
James G. Currie 3 years ago
Even more importantly, the reason Night Hunting is illegal, you can't see what is going to stop the bullet *behind* your target!
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M. William Bell 3 years ago
Hunters should carry binoculars with them at all times so that they don’t need to use their rifle scope to see objects at a distance. I started using something called a “bino bag” recently. It’s basically just a chest pouch for binoculars that keeps them handy at all times. Highly recommend one.
James G. Currie 3 years ago
Resource Officers in my Jurisdiction will go out into the bush to find hunters. If they see the hunter using his or her rifle to try to find their prey, they will (while visible against the background), allow the hunter to scan over them, then ticket them. Use either a monocular, or a set of binos to find your prey, THEN bring-up the rifle!
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Carlotta Müller 3 years ago
And then hunters get angry when called murderers..... and I always hear stories from the US from people who have to wear orange vests to not get shot by hunters and being it an accident if a hunter shoots a person instead of an animal. I can't wrap my head around this.
pink_panda 3 years ago
Interesting choice to sing a song to alert that you weren't a deer. Glad it was a case of mistaken identity, not some sicko looking to bag a couple of star gazers.
#22
When I was little I had sleep paralysis. I thought I was getting kidnapped by aliens until my wonderful mother convinced me it was actually demons trying to take possession of me. I had it pretty frequently and it was terrifying "waking up" unable to move, completely helpless, and convinced something evil is trying to destroy you. I was convinced at the time if I could just start praying out loud the demons would have to leave, but I couldn't speak often for what felt like minutes at a time. Nowadays sleep paralysis is a favorite topic on the internet, but I didn't understand what was actually happening to me until I took a course on the neuroscience of sleep in college.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Wow, thanks for nothing, Mum. I've had sleep paralysis several times and it's horrible.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Agree. The combination of some eldritch horror leaning over you while you're utterly helpless is terrifying. The hallucinations that are closest to human are the most frightening, imo.
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Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
Happened to me too! I would see these shadowy figures standing and leaning over me. Each time was terrifying but back then there wasn't a name for this nor did anyone really understand what was going on. I really thought I had lost my mind.
Grudge-holding Treefrog 2 years ago
I’ve only had sleep paralysis a couple of times, and I am VERY nearsighted. I feel like it makes it worse now that I can’t see exactly what the hallucination is, just that it is some blurry Belos-goo looking monster
Jill Pulcifer 3 years ago
I used to have the same thing. For me it was always aliens floating my paralyzed self out of my bedroom window. For years even as an adult I refused to sleep alone and spent nights trying to stay awake on the sofa.
Mary ey? 3 years ago
The first time I remember having sleep paralysis I was 5 and I felt if it was something evil. For me if I even think "Jesus" I start waking up, but I understand that is definitely not the case for everyone. I realized what it was after the Internet because more useful to me.
Rhonda Wandler 3 years ago
It is called "old hag syndrome ". Suffered by people world wide, approx. 3 billion at a time. Most people grow out of it after adolescence.
Timothy Leung 3 years ago
I had sleep paralysis for a few years, happening a couple of times every month. I keep hearing and feeling kids playing on my bed but could do nothing. In the end, I shouted in my head for time to go away because I had to go to work in the morning.
The lavender Fox 3 years ago
I only had sleep paralysis once and i was in my room with my hampster,and there was a man behind me with a mask that was white and had three black circles making a 😮 face and had a knife,i woke up and just started hyperventalating. I couldnt move,or speak,just breath hard and fast.
#23
Snowpocalypse last year. I'm from Texas and have lived here my entire life. I've seen snow maybe 10 times. My power kept going out buy I wasn't too worried. It would be off for 5 minutes then back for an hour but by that afternoon it turned off completely. My mom had been offering to come get me and my cats all morning but I didn't want any of us driving after I read about all of the wrecks that had already happened but once I'd been without power for a few hours and started shivering I realized I couldn't stay. I spent the next hour so scared for her driving but also for us if she couldn't get to my side of town. Luckily we made it back home safely and I will always be so incredibly grateful because my apartment lost power and water for 5 days. I had a full blown panic attack once we made it there safely. People made fun of us for "not being able to handle a little snow" but it was terrifying. Our houses are built to keep the heat out so it very quickly dropped to freezing inside for a lot of people. We had 6 adults and 10 pets staying with my folks by the second day because they are on the same grid as a hospital. We lost water but had prepared for that. So many people died just trying to keep warm any way that they could.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Our infrastructure in this country is so developed that we forget how fragile we actually are.
M. William Bell 3 years ago
I’m not suggesting that YOU asked for that, but Texas did. All states could have joined the greater grid, but Texas choose to be “free” from the rest of the power grid rather than pool resources. This is the result.
Izzy 3 years ago
situations like this always make the ppl crying for texas to secede even more pathetic and funny. their independent infrastructure is so weak and their own production cld never sustain the entire pop alone. it wld be hugely dependent on importation (which wld be taxed, dependent on expo/payment etc) on a whole other level compared to the ease and facilitation they get w the US. when u actually hear secessionists speak, it's evident v quickly that they want all the fed securities, benefits, assistances, free movement, tax free exchanges etc while being a completely independent of any fed responsibilities/governing or outside influence of any kind. the snowpocalypse disaster just from trying to run grids independently is a tiny snapshot of what texas wld devolve to w independence. those ppl r so entirely absorbed in ignorant, baseless sentiments and propaganda that they're drunk w delusions. they'd happily run themselves into the ground to achieve it. cut their nose to spite the face
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ChickyChicky 3 years ago
Thank GOD Texas made restrictive abortion laws to save the babies, so important! /s (that means sarcasm)
Izzy 3 years ago
right!? who cares about the actual living ppl when we can control women's bodies and give greater "protection" to parasitic clumps of cells indiscernible from congealed marinara! screw stable infrastructure! what's that? u want us to actually follow pro-life ideals and make schools safe? LOL don't be silly! next drill is 2pm tmw! we worship at the alter of the gun. it's our right to build arsenals of magazine-run autos in our homes! yes we know we said it's not the guns it's ppl, but that doesn't mean we'll enforce gun restrictions and keep weapons out of teen, mentally unwell, racist, xenophobic, homophobic hands! god said make raped kids give birth, same for women, ruin women's mental/physical well-being, put the financial burden of prenatal care/birthing process/natal care on them when they don't want it. put the kid in our broken, overloaded adoption system if u don't want it. ewww no we won't be adopting any:) they're all target fodder for gun-toting maniacs anyway♥️ USA USA USA!
Load More Replies... Nikki Hilton 3 years ago
Thanks, Greg Abbott, you useless fecking excuse of a governor. And the power grid is STILL not fixed. It's alllll about the money.
YetAnotherSarah 3 years ago
for what it's worth, most of us weren't making fun, understood that your homes weren't (and shouldn't be) prepared for that weather, and knew it was the state government's fault for sacrificing its citizens' lives in the name of "independence."
Melissa 3 years ago
Is this when Ted Cruz went on vacation to Mexico and left his constituents to freeze?
KittyMommy 3 years ago
Yes, yes it was. He then blamed his daughters for him going to Cancun, because "they wanted him there "
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Grownnutkid 3 years ago
Also a Texan, it was terrifying. We're rural and have a tiny cooperative power company, so we were very blessed and never lost power (but were warned by company to reduce power usage drastically) but our well froze and had no water for 5 days, and obviously couldn't drive anywhere. We seriously ended up melting/boiling snow to drink and cook. It was such a messed up time. The wait for plumbers/well repair was months out so my family of six (4 kids age 7-17) pulled and replaced our 200 ft deep well by hand. It was a euphoric moment of team building for us.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Because the 'wise' government of that state decided that oil company profits were more important than being connected to the surrounding electrical power grids. I guess the OP couldn't get to Cancun like their Senator.
#24
I'm pretty sure these two old dudes were going to kidnap me once when I was 16. When I tell this story, people think I'm overreacting to some typical "harmless" creeps who weren't seriously going to do anything to me. But you would have just had to see their body language and hear this man's voice for yourself to get it. Like most women, I have heard my fair share of creepy comments from the usual men that cat call women in parking lots and stuff. This was very different. I was browsing cds alone in a store. The cd section was completely empty, aside from me. While I was looking, suddenly these two middle aged men materialized out of nowhere. They had me corned up, standing so close they were almost touching me. I looked up into the face of the one on my left, and he just had this completely blank face. With no inflection in his voice, he said, "Hey gorgeous, what are you doing tonight?" I remember being surprised by how normal he looked, because he looked like he could have been one of my friends' dad's or someone my dad knows. Very typical looking man in his mid to late 50s with completely gray hair and glasses, and a buttoned up long sleeved shirt tucked into his jeans. He looked clean and well kept. But he was giving off major serial killer vibes. His cold, expressionless face, his monotone voice... I just knew he wanted to do some Ted Bundy stuff to me. I didn't look at his friend's face, but I remember that he had a huge beer gut. I didn't reply, I just quickly darted between him and his fat friend and ran away.
Danni 3 years ago
Never underestimate your gut feeling. Especially when your alone. If you feel like running and or screaming, do it. Worst case you'll have a funny story, best case you've just saved yourself.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Who cares what people say, always trust your gut when it’s screaming at you
#25
Got lost when I was out skiing and almost dove off a cliff. Wound up hanging on the edge of a tree branch off like a 100 foot drop.
It was 25 years ago and I still can feel that almost hollowed out feeling in my chest. Almost like a vacuum.
Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
More info from OP: I was able to scoot/seal back up. Halfway some people came. I heard a “Whoa! There’s tracks here!!” and I saw a guy peeping over the edge. He reached down with a pole and helped me. The area was roped off but the rope was probably 100 yards from those cliffs. But I heard the ski patrol have started putting ropes by the actual cliff as well. I hope not because someone actually went off it…
the_anonyMrs_Mir 3 years ago
Thanks for the update!! I was wondering if he got back up somehow or just let go and hoped for the best lol
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Met a bear cub walking through the forest. It was 10 ft away from me, and was curious so was walking towards me. Couldn't see it's Mom. Just slowly backed away and kept walking backwards for probably half a mile.
Kelli Girouard 3 years ago
Same thing happened to me in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, but there were 2 cubs and no mama to be seen. My husband wanted to stop and take photos. I said, "Nope. Don't need a photo to remember this" and backed my way out of there, heart pounding in my chest.
Charlotte Eitemiller 3 years ago
the cub dont you want to boop me i promise i dont bite well my mom does
Ava Alternative 3 years ago
We dont have wild bear in my country but if i meet one my dumb a*s prolly try to hug the little fluffy thing
Robin Roper 3 years ago
Smart. I lived in the Smokey Mountains for a while. Tourists would a brown bear cup up a tree and would stop and get out of their cars to take photos. The resulting back up on the roads were fondly called "bear jams." Those idiots were standing at the base of a tree between a bear cub and that cub's mother who was somewhere; it's astonishing no one seems to get killed by this very common antic.
Izzy 3 years ago
i know the tourists' hometown/country prob doesn't have wild bears so don't realise the danger of approaching a cub w/o its mama near. but that's why it's VITAL to do ur research, read up on the wildlife/nature of where ur going and any potential dangers. or have a local w u who can tell u what to do, what to avoid, and how to approach/act at times like this. so many accidents and problems cld be avoided if visitors weren't so cavalier and ignorant in foreign places and took the time to learn abt where they're going. not to mention the arrogant, imperious behaviour of so many tourists that causes headaches, nuisance and probs for locals like u said. their ignorant self-centred disregard, acting like the area doesn't have locals they're inconveniencing w their stupidity and attitude, aggravates locals against visitors in general and puts them off welcoming/assisting. u ABSOLUTELY want locals on ur side. respect the laws, ppl, nature + land and u'll have a fun, incredible, memorable time
Load More Replies... Ela 3 years ago
Met a cougar cub while hiking. My dad's service dog at the time loved cats and was sure she wanted to play with it. Kitten took off up a tree hissing very cutely, and dad and I took off down the mountain dragging the dog yelling 'No you cannot play with that kitty!' I am sure we looked insane.
#27
I was home alone when there was a knock on my front door. A man I’ve never seen before. I peeked through the blind and shook me head no and pointed to go away. He drove off a few minutes later. I’m standing in my kitchen when I see the car back in my driveway again and I see him walking around to my backyard. I immediately go upstairs to try to get a better view of where he is and what he’s doing. I went to go downstairs to grab a knife when I hear my front door open and he’s inside. I locked myself in my mom’s bathroom frantic, tried to open the window to jump out but the window got stuck. For a good 5 minutes I genuinely thought I was going to get murdered. I’ll never forget the feeling. Turned out to be a new rennovation man who was sent over for the first time that day and had a key.
Dani M 3 years ago
Guess the parents just forgot to tell the child about the repair man?
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#28
I was sick at home lying in bed when I got the news that my cousin’s school was now in lock down do to a active shooter. I texted him and got no response for awhile. I’ve never felt more cold in my life and I can still feel the dread crawling up my spine if I think about the memory. He’s alive and ran away since he was outside but he had his phone taken away at the time but god damn I’ve never simultaneously had my heart pounding at the speed of sound while the world was moving slower than any slow mo camera will ever be
Perry Sologia 3 years ago
If you and your country were a relationship, people would be saying: "Get out of it - it's toxic". It is ..
Daffodil 3 years ago
Yep. Found out from my mom recently that my elementary school went into lock-out a few times a year (I only remember 2 incidents from my entire time there, I guess they just didn't tell us every time it happened) (idk if they do these everywhere but a lock-out is just where they lock all the kids inside the school, but class continues as normal, as opposed to a full on lockdown. Usually happens when there's maybe danger nearby in the neighborhood but not on campus). Then more recently when the shooting happened in that high school in November or December, (blanking on the name rn) there were shooting threats all over my county and a couple schools didn't open for a few days cause the threats. Love the US *insert major eye roll*
Svenne O'Lotta 3 years ago
"he had his phone taken away at the time" THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T DO THAT SHÍT
Demon Darlin 1 year ago
If someone is in lock down for an active shooter-DO NOT CALL OR TEXT! If they forgot to silence their phone, you could be giving away their hiding place, or drawing attention to them.
#29
Hit a mountain on a submarine at 250 feet and 6 knots.
Hit it a second time with the rudder and emergency blew to the surface.
Port side ballast tanks check valves froze shut until I hit them with a rubber mallet.
My fifth day at sea.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Damn! Also damn glad you tried the old-fashioned “hit it with something to get it to start working again” method—-which worked!
Marcel 3 years ago
Made me think of thr USS San Francisco. My dad was on that ship when it crashed. Hit the mountain going maximum speed. The ship was almost lost. The guy who died and my dad were close. Every year around the anniversary he has a hard time, having to take that day off of work. I was really young when it happened but man did it scare my family so, so badly hearing about it.
Superninjatiger 3 years ago
Oh god, I'm terrified of submarines, this picture just gave me an anxiety attack. Read the text and got chills all over my body. Jeez how horrible.
#30
Tornado sirens blaring at 11:30 at night
Speedgoat 3 years ago
What's worse is hearing a tornado before the sirens go off and knowing you don't have time to take cover.
Nikki Gregerson 3 years ago
What's worse than that is not being close enough to have any sirens to hear.
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Autumn Artemis 3 years ago
3 am and I’m swearing at my cat trying to pull him out from under the couch so we can go to the basement. Ah, tornadoes.
Izzy 3 years ago
wait there's literally a tornado happening as you type? do u ever get used to this sort of thing? doesn't it destroy the whole area like is the area just constantly in repair mode bc tornados keep destroying them? how do u live w any security if tornadoes keep ripping ur house up? sorry for the questions. i live in the UK and thankfully we don't get them here but i've always been extremely terrified of them. i hope you're doing okay and are safe w ur cat♥️
Load More Replies... Stephanie Guthrie 3 years ago
It is a terrible, helpless feeling. Same happened late one night and I hear the siren and then somehow over a loud speaker that it was a warning that a tornado was imminent. Waking my daughter and grabbing her dog we ran to the neighbors unfinished basement, and waited but somehow it missed us.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I remember my family visited my grandparents in Arkansas one year and I was making a cake when the tornado sirens went off. There were so many. I'd never heard them before and it was absolutely terrifying. I'll never forget the feeling of impending doom as I waited for a tornado to come sweep us up. Luckily it never happened, but I still am super scared of tornados.
#31
There's two. At my best friend's house, shortly after she had her first kiddo, we were hanging out in her room. I left to go to the bathroom, and saw a dark shadow move across the hallway from the living to my niece's room. My best friend was in her room behind me, so I knew it wasn't her. I grabbed the first thing I could find, which was a cup or a vase, and screamed my best friend's name that there was someone in her kid's room. By the time I got there-- not even five seconds-- my niece was awake and alone, but her bedroom window was wide open. Cops searched the house, never found the person. Was probably a robber, but still. Second was when my partner and I were driving to dinner, pulled off the highway and saw five cars pulled to the side of the off-ramp. We stopped because I saw someone waving their arms, and then I noticed a car down the embankment. A couple dudes were looking through the passenger windows, there was smoke coming from under the hood, and there was a woman absolutely screaming bloody murder, "She's burning, she's burning, oh my god, she's gonna burn to death." Turned out there was still someone trapped in the front seat, and no one was able to get her door open. Between me, my partner and another man, we got her back window broken, but by the time I climbed into the backseat, and they got the passenger door open, there was fire pouring through her dashboard and up along her windshield, coming through the floor. And her foot had gone through the floor and was stuck at an angle that made it impossible to pull her free. So I had to lean into the front seat to grab her leg and maneuver her foot free while we were seconds away from the car going up in flames and killing us all. We managed-- the sole of her foot and my hands got pretty badly burned, and her leg was broken severely, but we got her out and over the road to the other side of the embankment. We had barely cleared the asphalt when her car exploded.
Stephanie Guthrie 3 years ago
I'm speechless! She is only alive because of you all! You're scars are a hero's medal! Thank you for sharing the Good.
#32
I was in a prison in an African country with a septic wound in my back and malaria made me see things
Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago (edited)
Ok, here you go: I was an aid worker in Nigeria. There was an Ied explosion, I ducked and covered but some of the sharpnel hit me in the back. We were forced to flee and in so doing crossed the N***r Border where we were accused of being terrorists. My assumption is that they thought we were arms dealers/ smugglers supplying the insurgents. We were arrested and taken to a prison. Conditions at the prison were sub par to say the least. Somewhere in there the mosquitos got me and I contracted malaria. The fever dreams still haunt me to this day. When we were finally released I was 30 pounds underweight severely dehydrated septic and probably days away from death.
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Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Even without any medical issues, being imprisoned in an African country sounds pretty scary.
Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
Regarding the fever dreams, OP said: Imagine the worst things that have ever happened to you in your life being experienced repeatedly on a time loop and then exacerbated by every bit of guilt, anger, and anxiety that you've repressed. It's like you're stuck in this loop and you can't make it stop. It's not like you're watching a movie more like all the bad stuff and anything that you feared in your unconscious mind is actually happening to you. After a while you start to have difficulty discerning what is a fever dream and what is reality. You want to cry, but the malaria has you so dehydrated that you can't produce tears
Victor Botha 3 years ago (edited)
Oh come on go away censors, I live in Africa and am born and bred dyed in the wool Africa. Africa in general is a shithole in comparison to just about anywhere else on earth. Bribery, corruption, lack of accountability and virtually zero service delivery from any government department not to mention human rights abuses and extreme gender basedand infant violence and you mean to tell me this place isn't a shithole???
#33
When I was about seven years old, an older "friend" I had named Mikey locked me in my pitch black closet, and for some reason, my parents weren't around(which was highly unusual). I literally did everything I could to beat that door down, but I couldn't. I was screaming to the top of my lunges, and crying hysterically, and it must have went on at least five full minutes before he finally decided to let me out.
To this day, I'm a Claustrophobic, and I still blame it on that incident.
M. William Bell 3 years ago
When my sister and I were about eight and six, we thought it would be funny to “hide” on my mum to surprise her. The problem was that we did it inside a closet in a holiday camper. For those of you who don’t camp, I’m the old days, those all locked from the outside so that they wouldn’t open during travel. It was probably only fifteen minutes before our mum found us, but it felt like hours. We were panicked and screaming when she found us. 35 years later, we are both still a little claustrophobic.
Isabel Care 3 years ago (edited)
I have older brothers. They would throw my toys in the coal hole and lock me in when I went to get them. They stopped when I stopped reacting to getting shut in
#34
The birth of my son. Wife started having contractions, but wanted to keep waiting because she is in the medical field and didn't want to be that woman that gets sent home for false labor pains. Gets to the point where you are supposed to go in and she's still arguing with me. But then the pain gets so much my Wife, who has a high pain tolerance, almost collapses. And now the contractions are starting to run into each other. I put my foot down and say, "We are going NOW." I grab the prepared bag and my Wife understands I'm not taking no for an answer. We drive to the hospital. The contractions went back to a normal pattern and we're in the check in. Everything is looking good, but the nurse notes the baby's heart beat is a little low. We get checked into the room. After we're all in the room and things are progressing, the door bursts open and about a dozen doctors and nurses fly into the room. They have my Wife move into different positions, as I notice the lead doctor is worried about the baby's heartbeat. Lead doctor says, "We're going to the operating room now, where's the father?" I pipe up that I'm the father. "Ok, come with us and KEEP UP." The team then grabs the bed and RUNS to the OR, with me trailing. As we're running one of the medical people is telling me they're going to do a cesarean section, and once they get setup they'll come and get me to scrub in. We get to the OR and have me wait outside, across the hall. Now begins the scariest half hour of my life. They don't come get me. Once and a while I see people running in or out. My mind is racing. What if we lose the baby? What if I lose my Wife? What if I lose them BOTH?? It was only a half hour, but it was a brutal half hour. But this story has a happy ending. Eventually they come out and tell me my Son has been born and he and my Wife are doing good. They bring out my Son and I hold him in my hands for the first time, and I feel a joy I cannot describe. A couple of weeks later, in the follow up appointment, my Wife's doctor explains we very nearly lost them both. If I had been 10 minutes later, things could have been bad. But we're all happy and healthy now. All is well that ends well. But that half hour was easily the scariest moments of my life.
Diz 3 years ago (edited)
Now thanks to Roe versus Wade being reversed many women might lose their life in horrible birth situations like this needlessly when they didn't even want the child.
Rabbit-Of-ill-Portent️ she/her 3 years ago
It sickens me to my very core. My heart dropped when they announced it.
Load More Replies... JNo3277 3 years ago
That happened to me with my first son. His heartbeat dropped to 50, his normal was 150. Placenta abruptia, blood everywhere, emergency c-section. He then wasn’t moving the left side of his body so spent a day in the NICU. My Dr said we almost died. He’s a healthy happy 23 year old man now!
Liana 3 years ago
I am happy it ended well. I understand your fears. After giving birth, I couldn't even hold my daughter, they took her immediately, because she's got stuck somehow and did not get enough oxygen. I was with her for two weeks in hospital, with all of those pipes and everything. It's still haunting me after four years. My son was born exactly one year later. And my husband took me to hospital (first time he wasn't home and my dad took me). He drove like a formula pilot 😂 and I could see he wants to be with me, but at the same time he doesn't want to. He looked like he had seen a ghost while I was in labor 😂
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
That was pretty much my first child's birth... She was pushing to get out and I wasn't dilating..her heart rate dropped by half, very scary. I don't remember the emergency C-section... I woke up in recovery convinced she had passed but no one was telling me. She ended up being totally fine..they just wanted to observe her for any trauma.
#35
When my daughter was 4 she was in an accident that broke both of her legs. A wind storm blew over a wobbly equipment shed at a sports arena that she was sitting next to to avoid the rain. When the wind picked up I was distracted by banners being ripped off fences when I heard the equipment shed fall over. I heard someone yell a kid was under and I started panicking looking for her. It took two of us to lift the shed and there she was. Her legs were absolutely f****d and it looked like she was bleeding from her mouth (turned out to be candy). I have never felt that level of fear in my life. I panicked and to this day I wish I had held my composure. I’m so f*****g lucky that she’s alright (for the most part) but that day is engrained in my psyche as the scariest day of my life.
#36
Long story short, I had a family member who suffered a psychotic break and threatened to [end] certain family members and make others watch as well as [end]my mother, kidnap my sister and me and raise us as his own. From the time that he was released from the mental hospital until the day that he died I was terrified. Used my phone to watch behind me while I walked home from school and never answered the door while I was home alone.
#37
Took mushrooms and wandered into jacks peak park in Monterey CA. Just as I'm starting to peak I hear a pissed off mountain lion in the distance. I was frozen in terror for about five minutes, eventually I said f**k it, if it's my day, it's my day, and continued down the trail. About 15 minutes later I see something tan coming from behind a pine tree just off the trail. I nearly pissed, s**t and puked at the same time. I'm tripping really hard now and my feet are frozen to the ground as a doe and her fawn come out from behind the tree. We stood and looked at each other as tears rolled down my face from the beauty of the moment and the fact that I wasn't going to die.
RK Barbo 3 years ago
Similar thing. Was camping by myself. Woke in the middle of the night to sounds and rustling outside my tent. I could hear snapping twigs and such. I was freaking out. Was convinced it was a bear, or worse, a crazy psychopath going to gut me Jason style. The weirdest thing my dog wasn't making a sound. Not even growling. This freaked me out more. Finally, I got the nerve to stick my head out. 3 deer were feeding around my tent.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I was camping once, sleeping under a plastic sheet with absolutely NO protection, and all night I heard these scary growling noises all around the campsite. But nothing came and ate me and next day I asked someone what the hell that noise was. ...it was kangaroos. Frigging kangaroos! I've lived in Australia my entire life and until that day I had NO IDEA that kangaroos growl.
Load More Replies... Rage Of Aquarius II 3 years ago
Hello! Please don't shroom alone in the woods! It's incredibly stupid!
#38
My twin girls were born prematurely at 28 weeks and were in nicu. One of them contracted e coli somehow and they had to test every single inch of the nicu to see how it was contracted. Doctor said to prepare for the worse because she wasn't doing well. Worst day of my life. After 3 days she was able to fight it. She is now 4 years old and perfect and strong.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
My husband who is now 50 somehow got staph infection when he was born.. he was in the NICU for several days and they feared he wouldn't survive. He had a super strong immune system and rarely ever gets sick.
#39
I went into psychosis in the car on a family road trip. we had to stop at a stress center (mental hospital) halfway for me to be evaluated. unfortunately, they had no beds and it was labor day so they couldn’t admit me, but they sat me down with my parents and doctor. I remember hallucinating and seeing angels in the hallway and on the walls. I looked at a fire alarm box thing on the wall for 20 minutes just trying to figure out if I was alive, or if I was just imagining myself.
My mother is not the best. So after all of this, she decided we still needed to go on the road trip. She sat in the back of the car with me while my dad drove, and I remember drinking a McDonald’s smoothie (the best damn smoothie, may I add) and still feeling like I wasn’t real.
The whole trip I was completely out of it. I remember totally feeling like I was in outer space. Like genuinely, I did not believe I was on earth or human.
I’m better now, but those were the scariest moments of my life
#40
My 3 year old woke up, opened the door, and walked out of our apartment at 10:00 pm while we were asleep. We didn’t realize he was gone until an hour later, couldn’t find him anywhere close by. I was so terrified. I’ll never forget. I was screaming and crying while on the phone with 911.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I checked the original post but it doesn't say, which is frustrating. I assume they found the kid, though.
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That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
This happened to someone near us when I was in grade 6. I knew his sisters, too, they weren't at school for a few days. They found the kid in a ditch. We had baby blocker things on the door because my brother was a toddler...
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
Note: he was alive in the ditch, he was fine
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#41
In grade 8 I had failed a French test and forgot to get my mom to sign it (parents divorced, mom was super strict); teachers wanted parents signatures so they knew students weren’t doing well. So I tried to forge my moms signature, handed it in and sat down. I watched as the French teacher picked it up, looked at it and set it off to the side. Halfway through the class a knock on the door, my mom had come to the schools because I forgot my house key. Before she left my French teacher asked to have a word with her in the hall, took my test out there and showed her. They talked about and were pleasant with each other, however before she left my mom gave me that glance you get when you know you severely f****d up. My teacher walked back in and started teaching as if nothing had happened. For the rest of the day I dreaded going home
pink_panda 3 years ago
They probably never went home. That incident began their life as a drifter.
#42
I pissed off my father. I want to preface, he was a great father. I was supposed to be getting ready for school the next day, and I was being a brat. No two ways about it, I was being a little sh*thead brat. As my mother was standing at the bottom of the stairs to my converted attic bedroom, I threw my school pants down the stairs at her, not to her, and hit her in the face with them. My mother took a step back and looked to the living room where my father was sitting in his recliner and just gave him a glance. My father sat up, walked over to the bottom of the stairs and glared up at me. I had made halfway down the stairs, when he came around the corner to glare at me. In my intimate wisdom (sarcasm), I looked at the glare he gave me and knew I done f****d up, turned around and tried to run back up the remaining stairs and into my room thinking it was my sanctuary. How very wrong I was. Before I even covered two steps he was already halfway up and grabbed me by my ankles. He dragged me down the stairs, out to the living room, flipped me over, grabbed the scruff of my shirt and picked me up, slamming me into the wall. He got in my face and said, “if you ever do that again, I promise you will regret it, and I will be in jail.” He didn’t yell, but used that low, angry dad voice. From that moment on, I had a fear instilled into the very core of my soul of that moment. God rest my pops. I miss him. I have a tattoo of stairs on my arm to remind me of that night.
Will I Will-Ham 3 years ago (edited)
You are right 100% child abuse. Doesn't matter if the op owned it his father can't be a good fater when he does such horrible things. "From that moment on, I had a fear instilled into the very core of my soul of that moment" thats called ptsd and it's because of the massiv abuse. Please try to do therapy before getting own children so u don't pass that horrible behaviour one generation further.
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#43
I live in Mexico and it's really safe where I live. However, one day me and my friends went on a work road trip that took us through one of the most dangerous places in the entire country. All went well and just as we were heading back, we decided to buy some beer for the road. It was getting dark and we were partying our way back, when suddenly a black SUV cut us off in the middle of the highway and six armed men get out pointing automatic rifles at us yelling. Couldn’t wrap my head around it and all I could think was, "Oh man, this is it; goodbye family and friends, they are never gonna find our bodies now". They took us to this old half-destroyed Hacienda looking building in the middle of some ranch. Told us the reason that they stopped us was because we were speeding through their town and almost ran over a woman and a child who turned out to be family of them. Anyways, we were on our knees with a ditch in front of us, absolutely the most mind bending, soul crushing, all-hope-lost moment, staring at death right in the face. Worst 3 minutes of my life. Suddenly one of the guys recognizes one of my friends. He says "Hey aren't you Juan who works for this company?" My friend trembles a yes. "Do you still work for Jose?" Another yes. So the guy calls Jose and they exchange a few words. He said "we owed him a favor... so you're free to go" And just like that, they let us go because of my friend. Not before before beating the c**p out of him, since he was the one driving. They also stripped him of his clothes and had to ride back butt naked. We drove back very carefully this time and with a very awkward silence, made it home safely. We only talked about what had happened a year or so later. TLDR; six armed men pulled us over in the middle of the road at night and held us at gunpoint
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
🤣🤣🤣 call the police? Yeah that wouldn't have ended well for them if they had. It was Mexico and though a lovely country, cops can be bought especially in areas with high presence of mafia/cartels. It's sad but had they called the police they could've ended up dead anyway.
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#44
I actually had this happen to me yesterday. I was driving home through the mountains and drove into a freak May snowstorm. I was on a road with a canyon on my right side, mountain on my left, and my wipers weren't doing a damn thing to help me with the snow. I couldn't see a f*****g thing. My heart was beating so hard and I wanted to stop, but there were cars behind me and I couldn't so I had to keep just crawling forward. Finally got to a scenic overlook and was able to pull off. It was terrifying.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
That is pretty terrifying. I remember being on a regular, usually very busy, highway when we got a freak whiteout blizzard like fall of snow. It hit so quickly causing blinding conditions and i could barely see past the front of my car. I was scared driving more than 15 mph; would've crapped myself if a canyon was on one side.
Rage Of Aquarius II 3 years ago
😰! Got caught in a drizzly fog storm on the Canc, couldn't see three feet in front of me. Terrifying, but gorgeous once we got below the fog line..
Libby Tailor 3 years ago (edited)
This happened to me in Alaska several yrs ago. The difference nis there was noone on the road but me -it was the Haul road. If you don't know what Haul road is, it is a dirt "highway" which goes from Fairbanks to North and in wintertimeusually used by only trucks, one or two trucks a day. So I was driving to Fairbanks from Coldfoot, a f*****g blizzard, the wipers didn't work well enough, the road is slippery because of the ice. Two of my children were with me in the car. I can't tell how happy I was when I got home in Fairbanks.
#45
I’ll preface this by saying those actually in the building who were hurt and first responders will have trauma I can’t even imagine and I know this doesn’t compare but: I was downtown the day of the OKC bombing, about 4 blocks away. I was going to the Civic Center on a class field trip. The explosion happened and it was like an earthquake. I thought something like a gas explosion; all the glass on one side of the street blew out and luckily away from me and my friends. The teachers were screaming at us to get back on the buses. On our way out, we couldn’t move very fast so my entire class was treated to the chaos of bloody and broken people, cars on fire, and general wreckage. I can’t even remember any one specific horrific thing, it just all blends together. I remember being afraid we would never get out and my dad would never find me.
Ms. Human Being 3 years ago
Just because some one else might have more trauma, it doesn’t discount yours
#46
When my daughter was still a brand new baby, her dad woke me up one morning, with this awful look on his face and said "somethings wrong" honestly, I thought she was dead, it was the most terrified I have ever been. Turns out our pet bunny had died. I've never really forgive myself that my first thought when I heard macaroni was dead, was an absolute overwhelming wave of relief.....
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
The proper order of that conversation is, "The baby's fine. Something else is wrong."
James G. Currie 3 years ago
Forgive yourself. A pet is/can be special, but your *child* is more special...and at that point, still one of the most important things in your life!
#47
Got into a head on collision when a dude swerved into my lane. When I came to I saw smoke coming from the engine and my driver side door was smashed in so I couldn’t open it. Was so scared I couldn’t think straight to try another door so I pulled myself out of the broken window in my drivers side door. Terrifying to think you are trapped in a burning car.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Twice while driving to work (night shift). (1) Pretty heavy snowstorm. 3 snowplows came onto the highway and fanned out into all 3 lanes...right in front of me. I had to slam on my brakes, and almost got control of the ensuing spin. Ended up facing backwards at the bottom of the median. Self and car fine. (2) I suddenly see lights coming at me on MY side of the highway. Starting flicking my high beams on/off and leaning on the horn, but the driver ignored it and kept going. Behind me, all 3 lanes had traffic, and the highway entered a sharp turn. I never did find out what happened.
#48
Me and my friend went to America on holiday once and she decided to play the purge alarm while I was in the bathroom and I started freaking out thinking that there actually was a purge. I was really gullible at that time and would fall for nearly any prank.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
For those who are wondering, this story is referring to the movie The Purge. A siren plays to let everyone know all laws have been suspended and now everyone is allowed to run wild and commit murder at will. https://youtu.be/pLuNy8qfK9Q
YinzerGhost 3 years ago
I mean, give us a few more years and I'm absolutely certain it'll happen.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
It's from the movie The Purge. https://youtu.be/pLuNy8qfK9Q
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It's from the movie of the same name. https://youtu.be/pLuNy8qfK9Q
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I was 9, allowed to stay home alone in the evening for the first time. I read Edgar Allen Poe's *Tales of Mystery and Imagination* for the first time, and was so scared I ran over to the neighbor's house and asked him to check under all the beds for me. My parents did not let me stay home alone again for another year.
Joely King 3 years ago
Wha? I'd never leave my daughter home alone when she was 9. She's 14 now an I still wouldn't leave her home alone for more than an hour, even during the day!
LittleWombat 3 years ago
Every kid is different. At 14, some kids are mature enough to not only stay home alone but babysit other children. At 9, many kids can stay home safely as well. But it's definitely a personal matter of not just the kid's maturity but also the comfort level of the parent. At 15, my daughter could pretty much run a household by herself lol, but she has friends I wouldn't trust on their own for an hour. If they're afraid or can't follow rules or make good decisions though, they shouldn't be on their own, but they need to get ready to be full fledged adults at 18 and at 14, they're just a few years away.
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I was a life guard at a small water park and had been working there for about 2 years and never found the job scary or anything of the sort i had jumped in the pool many times to help kids that couldn’t swim and it was never scary to me i had the situation under control and knew that everything was fine i just had to jump in to save them. that was until one day on my first rotation of a shift i was watching my water and all the sudden i see this kid face down in the pool and normally i’ll just whistle at them and watch and they will jump up out of the water but this kid wasn’t moving at all and he wasn’t responding to a whistle from me and another kid in the pool even tapped him on the shoulder and he still didn’t move, immediately i did 2 long whistles (means someone’s is either unconscious in your pool or needs serious medical attention. this has only happened once while i was working but i wasn’t the one that did it) and jumped in the water right then is when the kid jumped up out of the water. i had legitimately thought a kid was possibly dead in my pool i have never been so scared in my entire life. i didn’t go back on duty at all that night and was shaking for the next 4 hours out of fear i guess that was still there. it turns out the kid had special needs and it almost felt like i couldn’t be angry about it but i still am. i never watched water again after that day and quit a week later i couldn’t do it anymore anytime i started i would just get so scared and that’s a feeling that still sticks with me 4 years after the fact
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
TLDR OP thought a kid was dead cuz he wasn't responding to whistles or taps on the shoulder or anything, jumped in and the kid decided that was the right moment to get up ;-;
#51
My dad and I gotten into a huge fight, we were screaming, it was physical, and genuinely one of the most traumatic things I’ve experienced. I remember, I was facing him across the kitchen counter. My entire body was shaking, but my legs were shaking so bad I could barely walk. I remember he screamed “Your mother [ended] your sister.” (She didn’t. My sister died of an OD.) As soon as he said that, I saw him glance at the knives. After that, I blacked out and don’t remember a thing. I ran out of the house. I ran faster than my legs could take me.
#52
Last year, the moment we were told my wife had breast cancer. The 2 weeks we didn't know how bad it was or what the outcome would be. I've never been so scared in my life.
#53
When I was 17 I was sleeping at my friends house her parents were away. I woke in the middle of the night freezing cold (Dec in South Africa!) and a figure was standing at the end of the bed . My friend and I were both sleeping in the double bed, initially I was literally frozen with fear, I thought I was seeing things. He was a tall man wearing white I just thought it was a burglar well at least a person, then the edges of him started to blur and become fuzzy and he became just like a blur of white shadow. Then in a flash he was there again clear as day this happened a few times then he vanished. During this I woke my friend saying there’s someone in the room, I think we starting saying the Lord’s Prayer - weird we’re not religious. Anyway felt like ages probably whole thing was minutes we jumped up out of bed ran out the house in our nighties in the middle of the night, left the house open ran / walked to her Aunties house about 3km away and then woke everyone up in the middle of the night and told them we’d seen a ghost. I don’t honestly know what they thought. When my friends family got back her gran said ‘oh the man with the dark hair” she had seen him often around the house! My dear friend died last year and I’m sad she’s not here to share this memory but it did change me as after that I knew ghost / spirits or something unexplainable existed as I had seen it with my own eyes.
LB 3 years ago
I think they were saying it should have been hot, but it was freezing cold because of the ghost.
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FYI I just read average minimum december night temps in SA are in the mid-50s Fahrenheit... For those who, like me, have no point of reference. So it would seem from context that OP shouldn't have been "freezing", making it an odd and noteworthy fact.
#54
Belarus KGB (yes, they are still called the KGB) breaking down our apartment door in Minsk at 2 am post-2020 presidential election. Balaclavas and guns pointed. Terrifying then after the few hours of interrogation, numbness.
El Dee 3 years ago
You can be taken off the street, held for a month with no access to lawyers nor anyone told where you are. You have no rights to anything. You could even be tried without access to a lawyer or if allowed the lawyer may not be allowed to hear all or any of the evidence against you. This is a 'free' country which I won't name..
Glasia van Duivels 3 years ago
I prefer summoning demons over kgb: demons knock at the door while kgb just storm in (writing kgb intentional in lowercase). About kgb: in Germany there was a licence plate for small vehicles (less than 450 kilos and less than 4 kw) with KGB-741 written. I was like: What?
#55
I'm born and raised in South Florida. No mountains. Not even really "hills". My husband and I bought an RV and took a trip to the top of Georgia to an RV park at the peak of the mountains. We started going up the actual side of the mountain and it felt (and looked like) we were going almost straight up. I started feeling panicky. The road was RIDICULOUSLY narrow, especially in our massive bus like rv so when i looked out the window I could see all the way down the mountain and zero road between it and me. I had a full blown panick attack. Started bawling. Nothing we could do but keep going forward. And for some reason they don't believe in guard rails up there. I actually thought that's how i was going to die. Tumbling down some mountain in a huge tin can. My dog was sleeping between us on a dog bed and I felt terrible that she was going to die with us. I wanted my mom. I'm not a dramatic person in general. I'm also not one to cry or get panicked about things. But I was sure i was dying right then. Made it to the top, still couldn't open my eyes until we actually pulled into our spot 20 minutes later. Had an absolute blast going over bridges and hiking to waterfalls. Even sitting on the "edges" of the mountains. But the entire time I felt panicky about having to go back down the mountain. Left at 4 am so i didn't have to look. But c'mon Georgia.... Invest in some guard rails🥹
Whippet With A Cheeseburger 3 years ago
As a kid I was also very panicky about heights. I always got an unpleasant fluttery feeling in my stomach and a tingling in my feet and hands.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Mt. Washington (NH, US) doesn't have guardrails either. Nor is the "road" wide enough for two vehicles to pass, so there are multiple tiny areas where one driver can pull off the road.
#56
Cleaning out an abandoned meat packing two-story celler that had been used as a brothel. Me and my coworker were opening this steel door that was bolted shut. It apparently led to the old boiler room. When we peeled it open, this high pitched shrieking, screeching noise started coming toward us in the dark like someone was dragging a steel chair on concrete. My blood turned to absolute ICE in my veins. I've faced down guns before and had my share of awful experiences, but the TERROR that grabbed my brain was unreal. We both turned and bolted up those stairs so fast there was probably smoke coming off our shoes. No idea what made the noise, but we didn't go back downstairs.
#57
I do outreach to the homeless. One night, I went into a parking garage to talk to some people I saw - give them some care packages/referrals for housing. I felt the energy change soooo fast - like this darkness and coldness. I turned around and walked out, but this lady came up to this fencing around the parking structure, and spoke in this guttural croak, "Staaayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!". I *felt* something her eyes (some of you might know what it is like to **feel** something you see). And whatever it was, was looking out from within her eyes, the same way her physical form was looking at me behind the fence. I have seen some scary and frightening stuff doing outreach for the past many years - but nothing like that.
#58
There are lots of trees and bushes near my home. One day I was doing some work a little bit away from my house when I heard buzzing near me I looked and saw a couple of wasps flying around, I didn't pay much attention to them. After sometime there were like 15 to 20 of them around me and they started attacking. I ran and they chased. I got stung eight times before they stopped chasing. One of the most horrifying experiences of my life.
#59
When I was younger and living at home we had a family computer. I was online early one morning when I was watching this short video with music being played backwards. As I have only one eardrum I was close to the monitor and listening really hard when the girl from the exorcist jumped into the screen..... My soul left my body and I made a noise like I was dying.
gila the night/sand 3 years ago
Yeah I did a pretty similar thing not too long ago. I was just watching a video of a horror game (maybe that wasn’t the best idea) and suddenly the entire screen went black and the music stopped. I leaned in a bit, because my brain was in the “what’s going on” mode. Then this weird demon thing appeared in a jumpscare. I swear I felt my soul leave my body, it was awful. It was also 3am, which meant I was verrry paranoid for a while. That was my “okay, that’s enough internet for today” moment
kcanded 3 years ago
This has happened a couple times to me too. After the second time I was more aware of the possibilities of a dull video where nothing happens the first minute or two, and I back away from the screen.
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When I had my ear syringed, the nurse complimented me on not flinching as most people twitch when having it done. I replied "Thanks, but can you help me off the ceiling?" My body stayed still, I leapt out
#60
I just realized my sons issues and behaviors are more than I can handle. I've been fighting for 3 years to get him back just to realize, days before court, that I can't take care of him. If I allow the courts to release him to me, then my boy friend takes out baby and leaves, my ex has our 9yr old and they have cut oldest from their lives because of the way he is. But If I release him to the state completely he'll go into a very specialized foster home, I'll get to have all 3 if my boys in my life but I know my oldest will never forgive me. He's 11. I have to call my lawyer tomorrow and inform her if this weeks events and then I have to repeat it all in court for the Judge on the 10th. Where my 11 year old will be in attendance.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
This sounds very painful. I hope you can do what is right for your child and for yourself.
#61
My son was almost hit by a truck on Christmas morning after he got his first bicycle. We were all so excited and forgot to tell him about the brakes. He ended up ok and after he got to the side of the road I squeezed him and both of our hearts were beating like rabbits
#62
Once when I was a teenager, a group of us were hanging out on top of the roof of a friend's apartment building. Out of nowhere, an angry man came up, pointed a gun at us, and started yelling at us to shut up. Turned out it was my friend's upstairs neighbor. I'm not sure if he thought we were intruders or if he was just angry that we were making noise, but either way, we're lucky that none of us got shot that night. He was just there for a minute or so, but it was terrifying.
#63
Three years ago, my son was on his bike and he was on the other side of the street from where I was. He decided to avoid running into a car parked between the sidewalk and the driveway he was coming up to. Barely a second later, another car was zooming towards him down the street. I screamed so loud, but the car saw him moving down the other drive way and saw it slowing down. My son never even finished going down the other driveway and waited for the car to pass by him before proceeding. We were literally just 4 house away from our house. I had never screamed or felt so scared in my life. I thought I was about to see my son get hit head on.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Leaving the mall after holiday shopping, my daughter and I were walking through the parking garage toward our car. Some idiot in a gigantic SUV started backing out too fast, sharply turning the wheel. He would have slammed into us. Somehow, I simultaneously screamed, shoved the shopping cart into the back of the SUV, and literally picked up my daughter and moved her behind me. At the time, she was 6cm taller and about the same weight as me. Also, I'm disabled. "Kid in danger" adrenaline is real. (And, yes, I did ream him out a brand new arsehole.)
James G. Currie 3 years ago
He's lucky you didn't rip the door off the hinges before you performed the surgery with your rusty saw!
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Iraq a year ago. I was getting ready for the day ahead of me, putting on my uniform, shaving, etc. All of the sudden, the base alarm went off with a creepy computerized voice that says “INCOMING! INCOMING! INCOMING!” Followed by a loud alarm. I immediately heard explosions, and they were getting louder and louder. I run outside to the bunker. Curiosity got the best of me so I stopped at the entrance and looked around. I could see the impact explosions getting closer, and closer, and closer. I realized that the enemy was “walking in” the rockets they shot. The last one landed about 50 yards from where I was standing, but at the time I didn’t know if there were going to be more. I about s**t my pants that day, and that was within the first month of the deployment. Went to work after we got base accountability about an hour later like nothing happened. It was a long 9 months.
Persephone 3 years ago
I feel for you. This is the version of PTSD we always hear... I would have felt the same way as you, but most cases of PTSD , are statistically women who were assaulted or raped; guess it's too common and trivial to study. And I apologize for using your story as an example, bc I'm not downplaying your experience whatsoever! There is just a lot of inequality where I live for women.
#65
I was visiting Australia with family. We were staying along the gold coast and decided to go for a swim. I was out maybe 50 feet from the shore paddling along on a paddle board. A giant dorsal fin emerged out of the water about 4 feet in front of me, circling me. I looked down and could only make out a large black shape below. Turned out it was just a dolphin but damn did I almost s**t myself.
Persephone 3 years ago (edited)
You played it safe; coulda been a bull shark. If you can't identify the movement or dorsal fins, dolphins typically swim up and down, and you will see or hear them breath when they surface.
#66
Regularly drove by an old timber house that served as the town museum. One time there was a mannequin in one of the windows dressed in old timely clothes. The split second I saw it I felt a fear I never felt before or since.
It’s hard to explain best way to explain it was that it was painful even. Shook me completely left me cold and I felt physical pain. Then the next second I realised it was a mannequin and it was gone.
I have hunted for that sort of fear and rush since then but never found it.
Persephone 3 years ago (edited)
Go ghost hunting! Sounds like that may work... make sure you have permission tho!
#67
many years ago I was laying in bed trying to go to sleep. All of a sudden I saw this creature standing in my window. It was black and it looked burnt. From the knee down was thick black straight hair. It had hooves like a goat. It had bat like wings and yellow eyes. It tilted it's head at me and made a gesture with it's fingers. I jumped out of bed and grabbed the baseball bat and ran outside to [end] waht ever it was. My heart was pounding so hard my chest actually hurt and I could see my chest moving with every heart beat this creature slowly moved back in to the trees and disappeared. My late german grandmother also saw the same creature around 15 years earlier.
#69
Sat down to eat dinner with my grandfather, he was saying he had some chest pains, he went outside and we both sat on the chairs in the back patio. He leaned over and clutched his chest. I swear time want to so slowly, nothing else mattered and I was there just talking to him and he was in agony, told me not to grab the phone or anything. It passed and we went inside to finish dinner, made him drink a s**t ton of water cause I think he was dehydrated. He’s still here, but I know there’ll be a day and I’m trying to focus myself on being there during his final moments and know it’s soon.
#70
Flipped a car over going about 80 mph on the highway. It’s a scary feeling having the car slowly lose contact with all 4 tires on the road and go upside down. Crazy nothing serious happened to any of us
#71
I've been to Afghanistan, Iraq and a lot of other scary places. My one and only flat out panic attack? An Ikea store in Los Angeles. I could not breathe and absolutely had to get out of there. My wife still gives me c**p to this day. And for those wondering, this was not a reaction to any of the scary places. This was well before I went to any of those places and at a time when I had very little to stress about.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
Hold up. Your wife laughs at you having a panic attack? She does know that they aren't controllable, right? Jesus.
El Dee 3 years ago
'Panic' attacks are misnamed I think. Your body can react as though something is happening without any stimulous..
Persephone 3 years ago
I think the key words are combat related... the messed up thing about PTSD (which I have as well), is that enough seemingly unrelated stimuli, can have the same effect on your sympathetic nervous system (the flight part) to cause panic... when you experience extreme trauma, your brain can be rewired, especially in high empathy/neurodivergent people. Bright lights? Consuming crowds? Loud noises? Ikea would definitely trigger me as well. Your nervous system treats certain inputs as a reflex you cannot control after severely traumatic experiences. PTSD causes SEVERE panic attacks. After my assault by someone I loved after giving birth, I can't help but watch body language in crowded places and be aware of all surroundings in order to protect myself. This fear could be triggered at Walmart for me! Yelling, loud noises, etc...
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I have a number of sleep disorders but this one night really shook me to my core. I was sleeping on my side facing the wall when I suddenly woke and I had a feeling of complete terror and dread washing over me. I know it was just in my mind but my brain was telling something is standing behind me right next to my bed and it’s staring at me. I shut my eyes and just told myself that it was just a dream and that it’s going to be ok. I have no memory of anything after that I just remember waking up the next morning and thinking back on what happened. Thinking about it doesn’t scare me anymore but I remember at that moment in time I was absolute scared for my life and I thought I was going to die. Just apart of my sleep disorders I guess.
Susie Elle 3 years ago
I had something similar where I was SURE there was someone staring at my back while I was sleeping facing the wall, only to have the cat jump on my bed after a minute of blood-curdling terror. I nearly screamed :')
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
My hypnagogic hallucinations don't hide behind me. They parade themselves alongside, above, or actually in my bed. Bold af.
#73
around 2 years ago i was visiting my parents home for Christmas. I went to take a p**s when i heard i creaking noise in the bath. I didn't really notice it at first but when i walked past the bathroom i saw a bald, grey fully naked man standing in the bath looking down at his feet. I instantly shut the door and screamed for somebody to come upstairs. My brother rushed up the stairs and we went in the bathroom but there wasn't anyone there. I was a little drunk at the time so i could have just imagined it but it still scares the s**t out of me to this day.
#74
I was at Home Depot and I looked down for 30 seconds and my family was gone. I was like 7 and my heart stopped, I thought they were gone forever
#75
Went to meet a girl at her place or so I thought. Let’s just say it was a bad neighborhood. I knock on the door. Some shirtless tatted gangbanger looking dude emerges all angry threatening me. It went from like 0 to 100. It was dark plus a screen door but I could see he was pointing something. I froze for a few secs that felt forever. I could hear the door opening as I walked away. I am not that religious but just remember thinking ‘god please don’t let me get shot or get jumped can’t go out like this’. To this date don’t know what that was about. Either Wrong place wrong time. Someone high, or some crazy ex she didn’t tell me about
#76
First time I tried shrooms, I had a whole eighth on me, I took the first gram and didn’t feel anything fatter an hour or so, decided to take the rest, probably one of the biggest mistakes in my life. What started feeling like a basic acid like trip quickly turned into the biggest mental break down I ever had. Best thing too, I was alone in my apartment, hyperventilating in my blanket because it was about 4-5 am, and I didn’t want my neighbors hearing me through the walls of our building, which were like paper thin. Even though it was only October, and my appointment was probably around 60-65 degrees, I felt like I had to have all my clothes on and my blanket wrapped around me as much as possible, and was still shivering cold as if I was naked out in the middle of the winter. I was mainly freaking out because I had to go to work later on in the day but was able to sober up by then, still was dealing with the “after glow” affects. For anyone who don’t know what that is, they’re the aftermath feels you get in your body for the next few days after the trip.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Your first time should NEVER be alone. You need someone you trust to babysit.
Will I Will-Ham 3 years ago
First timw was with friends but i prefere them alone in the dark. When u want to learn something about yourselfe others are just disturbing. And controlling a bad shroom trip is easy just think of something nice like kittens. When i realiced that i could switch from total fear to total happyness within seconds.
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Sam Tiller 3 years ago
My best friend was recently murdered 30 feet from my house, at my friend's tree fort. She was missing for 2 days, and during those days, I had no idea she was missing. She was being raped and killed next to me while I listened to music, completely oblivious. Turns out it was random, she now has a memorial outside the fort.
#77
When I was about 12 years old a bat got in my bedroom. I heard scratching coming from between the head of my bed and the wall. I looked in the crack and saw a small bat on the floor. I grabbed my BB gun and prepared to shoot it while standing on the bed. I was so scared that my knees went wobbly (only time in my life) and that combined with the softness of the bed made aiming very difficult. I put my first shot right though it and followed it up with a second shot. After a long wait I went to remove it. It turned out I put 2 shots right through the electrical plug for my bedside light (there was no bat). The scratching sound that I originally heard was the wind blowing a tree limb against the outside of my bedroom wall.
What do you think ?
Mimouna 3 years ago
It's sad but I've been followed and harassed so many times on the streets and public transports (especially as a teen) that I can't even arbitrate which episode was the scariest one. Probably the one where a dude pushed me against a window in an empty carriage on the train told me he wanted to skin me alive for 15 long minutes
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Holy Mother of God. Your poor thing. I'm so sorry - you must have been terrified. I'm sending you a hug Mimouna.
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The IRS 3 years ago
I was on Tonle Sap in Cambodia on an old Soviet era hydrofoil boat which began to sink. Couldn't see land in any direction. I was at the very back with no exit, no life jackets, and the whole front end appeared to go under the water. Half the seats were submerged. The woman next to me broke the window and clambered out and jumped in the water. Without thinking I followed her. The water was maybe 5 feet deep there, the boat had run aground. Went from pure panic to elation. Then a fair of bit of annoyance at the captain.
Susie Elle 3 years ago
My boyfriend once tried to scare me by opening the bathroom door just a crack and whispering something. Because of some weird sound resonance going on in the small bathroom that I have, it sounded as though his voice was coming from directly over my shoulder behind me. I didn't see him standing through the crack in the door so for a moment it felt as though someone was spying on me sitting on the toilet, whispering into my ear from behind me and it scared me absolute shitless, almost literally.
go away censors 3 years ago
Here's mine. Walking right into a car hijacking. Hijacker had a gun and told the accomplice to "come here and shoot this guy". I ran. I never knew I could jump a 6ft wall but yeah, adrenaline works.
Becky Scherer 3 years ago
Waking up to go to the bathroom at 29 weeks pregnant but instead a huge gush of blood. I have never been more scared. Luckily baby was fine and waited until almost 34 weeks to make his arrival. He just turned 2 yesterday.
Rens 3 years ago
South Africa, early 90's. Walking home from bus stop, late afternoon but still light enough. Sudden downpour, no umbrella, ducked into covered entrance to a funeral home. Attacked by HUGE (taller than me, I'm 6ft1/1.86m, F 18) security guard who I always greeted as I passed on my way to and from bus to work/home. He pinned me against a wall in the corner. In those days I carried a spring blade knife; I'm left handed, he had my right hand pinned with my arm pressing into my throat. I managed to stab him twice before he let me go; could not get my blade out after 2nd stab. Ran home, at the time I lived with my granny. She called the police, in those days that still meant something. Long story short, he was found with his head caved in, my blade still in his belly. I never carried a blade again; left SA in 1998. I still lock car doors, close curtains, lock doors, sit with my back to a wall, know my exits, sleep with weapons within easy reach. I'm much more vulnerable now because I'm disabled.
Susan Thomas 3 years ago
Mine was the pathologist calling me to tell me I had breast cancer and hanging up. I had no idea if I was going to die in six months or if it was treatable for two weeks until I saw the oncologist. Thankfully after chemo, surgery and radiation I'm in remission.
Reilley Easton-Smith 3 years ago
Here's mine: One evening, I was outside doing some photography under the stars, when I felt something coming up behind me. It kept creeping closer, and then it jumped on me. The next-door neighbours have a chocolate lab who often comes over to ours. Scared the living daylights out of me!
C OnlyC 3 years ago
I had a clinical depressive episode. It was just like the paralysis limbo depicted in the film Get Out. I have never been so terrified and I am very scared it may happen again. Ive been taking better care of my mental health since then. I can't say that our common saying of "depressed" in any way describes what it's really like.
Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
Two moments when I knew something horrible nearly happened: (1.) When a patient drove her car into the building of the optician office I worked at. The wall where her car crashed through was where glasses/frames were displayed but thankfully no one was standing there when she hit through it. I would get incredibly shaky standing there for months after it was fixed. (2.) When a stalker type told me so calmly he enjoyed watching me work through the store windows. Yeah, no, my manager took care of that mess.
Mimouna 3 years ago
It's sad but I've been followed and harassed so many times on the streets and public transports (especially as a teen) that I can't even arbitrate which episode was the scariest one. Probably the one where a dude pushed me against a window in an empty carriage on the train told me he wanted to skin me alive for 15 long minutes
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Holy Mother of God. Your poor thing. I'm so sorry - you must have been terrified. I'm sending you a hug Mimouna.
Load More Replies... The IRS 3 years ago
I was on Tonle Sap in Cambodia on an old Soviet era hydrofoil boat which began to sink. Couldn't see land in any direction. I was at the very back with no exit, no life jackets, and the whole front end appeared to go under the water. Half the seats were submerged. The woman next to me broke the window and clambered out and jumped in the water. Without thinking I followed her. The water was maybe 5 feet deep there, the boat had run aground. Went from pure panic to elation. Then a fair of bit of annoyance at the captain.
Susie Elle 3 years ago
My boyfriend once tried to scare me by opening the bathroom door just a crack and whispering something. Because of some weird sound resonance going on in the small bathroom that I have, it sounded as though his voice was coming from directly over my shoulder behind me. I didn't see him standing through the crack in the door so for a moment it felt as though someone was spying on me sitting on the toilet, whispering into my ear from behind me and it scared me absolute shitless, almost literally.
go away censors 3 years ago
Here's mine. Walking right into a car hijacking. Hijacker had a gun and told the accomplice to "come here and shoot this guy". I ran. I never knew I could jump a 6ft wall but yeah, adrenaline works.
Becky Scherer 3 years ago
Waking up to go to the bathroom at 29 weeks pregnant but instead a huge gush of blood. I have never been more scared. Luckily baby was fine and waited until almost 34 weeks to make his arrival. He just turned 2 yesterday.
Rens 3 years ago
South Africa, early 90's. Walking home from bus stop, late afternoon but still light enough. Sudden downpour, no umbrella, ducked into covered entrance to a funeral home. Attacked by HUGE (taller than me, I'm 6ft1/1.86m, F 18) security guard who I always greeted as I passed on my way to and from bus to work/home. He pinned me against a wall in the corner. In those days I carried a spring blade knife; I'm left handed, he had my right hand pinned with my arm pressing into my throat. I managed to stab him twice before he let me go; could not get my blade out after 2nd stab. Ran home, at the time I lived with my granny. She called the police, in those days that still meant something. Long story short, he was found with his head caved in, my blade still in his belly. I never carried a blade again; left SA in 1998. I still lock car doors, close curtains, lock doors, sit with my back to a wall, know my exits, sleep with weapons within easy reach. I'm much more vulnerable now because I'm disabled.
Susan Thomas 3 years ago
Mine was the pathologist calling me to tell me I had breast cancer and hanging up. I had no idea if I was going to die in six months or if it was treatable for two weeks until I saw the oncologist. Thankfully after chemo, surgery and radiation I'm in remission.
Reilley Easton-Smith 3 years ago
Here's mine: One evening, I was outside doing some photography under the stars, when I felt something coming up behind me. It kept creeping closer, and then it jumped on me. The next-door neighbours have a chocolate lab who often comes over to ours. Scared the living daylights out of me!
C OnlyC 3 years ago
I had a clinical depressive episode. It was just like the paralysis limbo depicted in the film Get Out. I have never been so terrified and I am very scared it may happen again. Ive been taking better care of my mental health since then. I can't say that our common saying of "depressed" in any way describes what it's really like.
Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
Two moments when I knew something horrible nearly happened: (1.) When a patient drove her car into the building of the optician office I worked at. The wall where her car crashed through was where glasses/frames were displayed but thankfully no one was standing there when she hit through it. I would get incredibly shaky standing there for months after it was fixed. (2.) When a stalker type told me so calmly he enjoyed watching me work through the store windows. Yeah, no, my manager took care of that mess.
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