The scariest thing that ever happened to you?

Mutant13

I need creepy tales to keep me awake at work.

I'll start y'all off with mine.
I work in a police station as the night security. It's mostly uneventful but one night we had this guy come in. He came into the civilian area which is separated from my booth by a locked door, but I'm quite visible through a pane of glass in the civilian area.
Anyway this guy comes up to my window, he's about 45 very scraggly and vacant looking. He asks me if he's in the right place, and I tell him that he is but we are outside of operating hours. He says he wants to turn himself in for something. I have to stop him before he says what for because we aren't meant to be privy to that information, so I let him know he can come back in the morning. He gets pretty upset and says that he needs to be locked up NOW. This is actually pretty common and the people that say it are normally a little unhinged but generally also quite harmless.

However i still call up some officers from the 24 hour station and let him know they'll be with us soon. He nods and goes outside for a cigarette. The officers show up but the guy is gone. He must have bolted off after his smoke. The officers leave and write it off as one of the city homeless looking for a bed and a meal.

I leave work a couple of hours later, and start walking to my apartment. It's early morning and still dark out but it isn't far so I'm never too troubled about making the walk. Suddenly the same guy comes out from behind the bus stop near our building. He starts shouting about how he needs to be locked up and grabs my arm and starts pulling at me. I pushed him off and ran back into work, called the cops but they never got him. I wouldn't walk home myself for about a month.


Anyway, what's the scariest thing that's happened to you?

arghbowl

One time I got my **** stuck in my zipper. That was pretty scary.

KenziesFrenzies

I used to live in Florida, so I swam in the Gulf on the regular. One time though, and I saw a huuuuge dark mass coming toward me in the water, about 30 feet away. My heart stopped, I was convinced I was about to be eaten by a huge f#cking shark.

I put my snorkeling goggles on and poked my head underwater to check... it was a manatee.

Never been so scared in my whole life, though!

teresamwhite

I was deployed to Somalia in '94.

Mutant13

One time I got my **** stuck in my zipper. That was pretty scary.

I hate it when that happens

sizzle74

My newborn baby almost died.

sanderdejonge

I almost drown twice...

water sucks.

Water sucks..Say what?

fbmandy55

Thankfully, I've only had two close calls. One was when I was younger and camping with family and friends. A neighbor girl and I used to ride our bikes all over the state park trails and there was one kind of hidden trail along a ravine with a lake below. They are obviously meant for walking and not biking and she went down. I was sure she was going to die as it was a long way down to the lake below and too jagged and steep. Somehow she stopped herself and he bolted back to the park> Camped there several times and never went on that trail again.

The second scariest thing I've encountered was a dream. I lived in an old Victorian house that was haunted, the whole time I lived there I had a reoccurring dream that 3 Amish men (maybe they weren't Amish but dressed from an older time) hanged my brother in our barn. It was extremely vivid and real to me and though I was between 7-10 during the time I had that dream, I still remember it vividly. I haven't thought about that in a long time but I still remember it clearly! Would like to know what that meant or if I was being visited by past residents in my sleep. :frown:

Mutant13

My newborn baby almost died.

I'm glad your baby is ok

sizzle74

My newborn baby almost died.

I'm glad your baby is ok

Thank you! I am glad that man didn't make you put the lotion on the skin. (really, I am!)

seltzermint555

I went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant with my ex husband and there was a "big storm" and when we drove home (just a couple of blocks) a third of our city was totally gone including our home. It all just looked like a gigantic flattened corn field with smoke rising up from it. (Joplin, MO tornado in 2011)

gkwatra

When I was about 17, my HS had Spirit week (right around Halloween/Homecoming). One day was Toga day. I thought I had my toga pinned pretty securely so I only had my bra & underwear on under it but brought a shirt & shorts just in case. After 6 period let out I was walking down the hallway & felt a draft on my backside. I immediately put my back up against the wall of lockers trying to pull my sheet back together to fasten it until I could get to bathroom. Meanwhile one of the biggest jerk football players in the school came by with his friends & proceeded to say "Hey, nice toga!" While acting like they were going to rip it off of me. Finally they laughed & walked away. I went into the bathroom & cried then put my shirt & shorts on for the rest of the day.

MB_Positif

When I was young and stupid I was on a major drug bender and was pretty damn sure that I was going to get busted or killed for my stuff so I had a moment of clarity and flushed it. Nothing ever came of it, but we left right after that, so who knows. I still get completely tense when I think of that night or day. I'm not really sure if it was night or day.

And then, brain surgery.

Katbaran

Missed being blown up by terrorists by about a half hour. I took a friend to the Rome airport and we had coffee and sandwiches while sitting outside. A state police man told us we couldn't sit there so we went inside. My friend went to her gate, I hopped the bus to get back to the train station to take me 3 hours north to home. When I got there, my husband was pacing the platform. There was an explosion RIGHT WHERE WE HAD BEEN SITTING and the café owner on the inside had been killed by the blast.

iamanadult

I was walking home from a friends house early morning when I was in Jr. High. I was wearing a skirt and platform flip flops. It was snowing and I was freezing. A lady slowed down next to me and asked if I wanted a ride. I was tempted because I was freezing, but I hate small talk with strangers so I turned her down. She asked if I was sure several times.

A week or so later I saw her picture on the news. She was arrested for sexual assault on young girls! She had a gun and threatened to kill them if they didn't do what she wanted.

I've had a lot of close calls. I jumped out of a moving vehicle which I'm sure saved me from being raped before. I think I have a guardian angel

Inshape13

I used to work in a bank and was out in the drive thru booth with another girl working that line. A man sent in a fraudulent check and fake id and we confiscated it and refused to give it back to him. He then proceeded to pull his car up, get out of it and pound on the door screaming to let him in or give it back. We called security and they walked out there from the other building. Right before they got there another teller had just walked in the door to the booth and asked us "why did you all not lock this door?" We were a little freaked out because the guy had been turning the knob to get in, but somehow it did not open and he sped away. Don't know why the door did not open for him, but opened for her. Needless to say it was still nerve racking.

IPAkiller

One time I got my **** stuck in my zipper. That was pretty scary.

^Same as this but, I was 4, wearing Footie Pjs, no tighty whities and got out of bed to pee after parent's threatened to let the "Closet Troll" out if I got out of bed one more time.

AbbyCar

As a child, I lived in an old house(think 17-1800's) that was originally a log cabin. One night I woke up because I felt someone holding my hand. I remember seeing the sillhoette of a person beside my bed. I yelled, "Mom?!" and it disappeared. I asked my parents the next day and they had been downstairs the whole time.

Erin_goBrahScience

On my first trip to Vegas (21) I met a guy at a blackjack table (I think he was really cute but don't have the best memory from that night). I was completely s***faced and didn't want to go back to my room with my friends (also totally wasted). So when he offered to take me back to my room later I somehow thought it was a grand idea.

When we were walking to his car (yes car and not cab) in the parking garage...I totally thought I was going to end up a statistic and a cautionary tale told for years to come. As we drove though some really not great parts of Vegas I was like...yup...and my mom is going to think I'm a tramp.

Lucky for me, he actually was a gentleman. I think he sensed that I was completely freaked out.

MyChocolateDiet

I just had a scare this morning. I just came from the office in my building where they sent two guys to accompany me because I thought someone was in my apartment when I returned home. It turns out my husband and I did enough things differently this morning to leave some breezes happening and when I opened the front door that created enough of a gust/cross breeze to send some colored paper clipped papers flying from a high shelf that made enough motion that from my angle looked like someone might be in my apartment when I walked in. There was motion in what should be a motionless place and I took no chances. I sought some pretty easy to get help and they were more than kind enough to make sure it was all clear. I am pleased it was nothing but more pleased that I live in a place that takes things like this seriously and had a good plan if there had been an intruder. No one laughed at the fact that it turned out to be gusts and paper. I appreciated that.

ETA: Oops that's not the scariest thing that ever happened to me though. The scariest thing was when an ex BF tried to kill me. He was very strong and well trained and it took me by surprise. Quick wits and ruthlessness saved me though. It's too long and ugly of a story to tell here though, but yeah, that was pretty scary.

ElliottTN

I was held up at gunpoint while walking home from a bar blitzed drunk a couple of years ago. Instead of just throwing my stuff and running I decided to try to be billy badass and talk **** and mock them. A car pulled up as it was happening and they ran off. Wasn't until the next morning when I woke up I realized just how incredibly stupid I was for doing that.

bacitracin

Thankfully I've lived a pretty charmed life, but www.reddit.com/r/creepy+nosleep+creepypasta are good for when I want to freak myself out.

mrslcoop

Almost drowned and got hit by a train. My mother pulled me from the water and my cousin pushed me off the tracks and we went tumbling just in time.

Lisa1971

When I was 12 my brothers and I were walking on what we thought was a frozen pond. My one brother fell through and as I tried to rescue him, I also fell through. My other brother started screaming for help. A stranger came out of the woods (the pond was in the middle of the woods) and pulled us all out to safety. He told us to go home immediately and then he disappeared. I have NO idea who he was but he saved our lives. Later on I learned that several kids had drowned in that pond doing the same thing we did. Very very scary!

tequila09

A few years back i was in a club in Tijuana Mexico and it got shot up by cartel people. We were sitting in a booth and all of a sudden i see sparks and loud noise which were the gunshots coming in. At first i had no idea what happened while everyone else was ducking for cover then i ducked. I was fairly certain thats how i was going to die. Thankfully the shooter did not go inside the club but one of the security guards out front got shot and later after we were allowed to leave the club my moms car had a gun shot hole. The whole thing was so surreal though i wasnt really scared at the time and thinking back it still feels like it was a dream. A friend who was with me though is scarred for life and will never go back to anywhere in Tijuana ever again.

tmm_0127

My parents dog got really sick this past weekend and choked on his vomit. His tongue went dark blue in a matter of second, he went stiff, and fell over and evacuated his bladder. My mom was super quick to pry his jaw open and stick her hand down his throat to make sure he was seizing and swallowing his tongue, and it was enough to let the vomit out and he revived (as I ran screaming for my dad). I have -never- witnessed anything more terrifying, I thought we were losing him then and there.

Oscarinmiami

I was 17 and home alone, I heard some noise coming from my parents room...I went in to investigate the noise and there were two guys digging in my parents drawers, I went up to the first guy and kicked him in the face as i turned to go to the other guy he pulled out a gun. As he was raising the gun i grabbed his hand and the gun went off...I was shot in the leg, i continued struggling with the second guy for a few seconds and the first guy hit me in the head with the gun...then i had two guns pointed in my face. they started yelling at me, where is the money, i know your dad has money...I told them both that they were too late! That I had deposited the money that afternoon. They searched around for a few minutes and they left...I called 911 and they never found the guys...that wasn't scary at the time, but i think of it once in a while and think I was very lucky!

Mustgetbuff

I got into a car accident this past Sunday with my husband. We were all very lucky and everyone involved was unharmed, but I can't stop thinking about how close my husband was to ending up in the hospital. Had I been in a different lane, or the vehicle had struck my passenger door rather than my passenger wheel, I don't think we both would have gone home that night. We've only been married for two months and I'm terrified by the thought that I could have lost him so soon.

On a less serious note, when I was young and dumb I got stupid high around the campfire. I become ridiculously paranoid and was confident a bear was in the bush next to me and I was about to die. I don't know if I sat by that fire for hours or minutes, but I ended up making my peace with God and accepting the fact that I was a goner. Finally I pried myself away to bed and slept it off.

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Hadabetter

Gunshot to the groin when I was in high school.

the_oncomingstorm

Saw two people get struck by lightning about 20 yards away when I was 12. Lightning still freaks me out.