Scariest Experiences

[Mr. Scratch]

 

Being 'stabbed' slashed in the back.

Details

 

Weasel used to be a cop, if my memory serves me right. Either that or a librarian who likes to bicker.

[make total destroy]

Having police officers pointing a loaded gun at me, and threatening to "blow my head off" for not immediately raising my hands when ordered.. Upon asking why they had their guns drawn on a few teenage kids who were trespassing, I was told to "shut the f*ck up".After I was brought to the station for questioning, one of the officers told another officer to leave the room. With just him and I in the office, he looked me in the eyes and said "My finger could have slipped on the trigger--'oops' (he said sarcastically)--and honestly, I wouldn't have lost an ounce of sleep over it."

 

I will never forgot that. The only silver-lining is that those pigs inadvertenly made me an anarchist.

[The Leviathan]

Having police officers pointing a loaded gun at me, and threatening to "blow my head off" for not immediately raising my hands when ordered.. Upon asking why they had their guns drawn on a few teenage kids who were trespassing, I was told to "shut the f*ck up".After I was brought to the station for questioning, one of the officers told another officer to leave the room. With just him and I in the office, he looked me in the eyes and said "My finger could have slipped on the trigger--'oops' (he said sarcastically)--and honestly, I wouldn't have lost an ounce of sleep over it."

 

I will never forgot that. The only silver-lining is that those pigs inadvertenly made me an anarchist.

F*ck the police!

[make total destroy]

 

Having police officers pointing a loaded gun at me, and threatening to "blow my head off" for not immediately raising my hands when ordered.. Upon asking why they had their guns drawn on a few teenage kids who were trespassing, I was told to "shut the f*ck up".After I was brought to the station for questioning, one of the officers told another officer to leave the room. With just him and I in the office, he looked me in the eyes and said "My finger could have slipped on the trigger--'oops' (he said sarcastically)--and honestly, I wouldn't have lost an ounce of sleep over it."

 

I will never forgot that. The only silver-lining is that those pigs inadvertenly made me an anarchist.

F*ck the police!

 

 

[Melech]

When my classmate told me: "Hey, have you studied for today's History of Art exam?"

 

I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD AN EXAM!!!

 

The exam was an our later, so I pretended to feel bad, that I had headache and stomachache and told the teacher if I could do the exam the next day. He said it was OK.

 

That was one my scariest moments in my life.

[headmetalbanger]

Almost run over.

[Eminem!]

Nearly deleting my Pokemon save file

[Aaron030792]

Getting caught in a pretty big thunderstorm on my way home last year, during the heatwave of July 2013.

 

I was walking back from my friends house at about 11.00 at night. I was about a quarter way home (15 minutes out of about a 60 minute trip) walking down the road when I saw a bolt of lightning in the distance.

 

I'm very scared of thunderstorms and up until then had always been lucky enough not to get caught in one while walking home. Carried on and tried to ignore it, but of course the lightning got nearer and nearer...then the thunder started...bit eerie when you consider that this patch of road was right near some woods and being so late at night, hardly anyone was about on the streets. Not ashamed to admit that I actually started to run at that point in my haste to get home.

 

The scariest moment was the 'pants crapping worthy' clap of thunder, funnily enough just as I got home and was at my front door, practically trying to kick it open.

 

I know it doesn't sound too scary, but when you have a severe phobia of thunderstorms it's a whole different story.

Edited April 19, 2014 by Aaron030792

[SolidSnails]

Not my most scariest expierence but a Few days ago was dreaming about drowning woke up choking on my own vomit and my fingertips bloody and scratches everywhere then decided somebody somewhere hates me and went back to sleep.

[ExtremoMania]

When I was watching this scene of the movie, it gave me a hell out of creepiness. Best horror movie I've watched.

 

[WTFThisIsntWii]

During a deployment in Afghanistan we were travelling in a 5 vehicle convoy, rougly 25 soldiers, maybe 5 US Soldiers the rest Australians. We had just finished a rotation in a COP and were travelling back to a FOB. We were all looking forward for a nice warm meal in the DFAC. As the OIC I was pretty nervous the region we were travelling through is one of the most kinetic areas in the Ghan.

 

About halfway through our trip we get a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot over the radio from the lead vehicle, the convoy halts, we scan our sectors for any enemy. All clear I give the order to dismount. There's a pile of rocks/freshly dug dirt in the middle of the road roughly 100 metres away. Obviously someones been digging. Without any proper gear we radioed it in.

 

No possible way to get around it as the region was too rocky and steep, there's a chance a vehicle will get stuck. After spending 2 hours parked in the middle of the road, we were informed by HQ that they couldn't send out an engineer squad to assist us and we were to use the EODs (guys who are trained to defuse explosives) in our platoon. I know what your thinking if we had EODs why didn't we do it ourselves earlier. It is because we simply didn't have enough equipment such as a robot or bomb suit. I didn't want to ask any of my soldiers to walk up to an IED without proper equipment so I grabbed a simple toolkit and walked up to the IED in full battle rattle. Lie down in front of this bad boy, once your close its not as scary because if it detonates you die instantly. It's walking to/from the IED when you're still in the blast radius but not quite in the kill zone. Because if it detonates remotely via phone or trigger switch you may not die but you'll be seriously f*cked.

 

I'm lying in the middle of the road trying to gently dust away the rubble and expose it. One of my soldiers back at the convoy spots a bunch of men on a hillside sitting watching us through binocualrs not more then 80m away from me. This is scary as sh*t because it's common for those who place the devices to wait until a military convoy roll up before remotely using a phone to explode it. Anyways a few boys peel away towards them at a sprint, any sign of a cellular device and those locals would be eliminated without question. They eventually get to the men and give them a quick pat down before giving them a move along order. We ended up disconnecting the circuitry of the device and got back to the FOB without incident. But those few seconds where I was literally lying on top of enough explosives to destroy anything within a 25m radius, watching these suspicious blokes show up and start monitoring me through binoculars. Knowing that if any of them pull out a phone and quick dial I'm history. Pretty scary.

 

One of my fellow officers and I at the FOB.

 

 

During a deployment to the Solomon Islands, which is a low-threat deployment, I was still pretty fresh faced it was to prepare me for Afghanistan. I was patrolling down a narrow street in a shanty type town/village. Walked past a doorway and this guy comes out of nowhere and tackles me to the ground, ended up dropping my rifle during the fall. Whilst I was on the ground he had somehow acquired a machete and lunged at me, managed to chuck my arms up to protect myself. But he was angry. I eventually managed to draw my officers pistol which was GP35. Eliminated him from point blank but it was scary as hell.

 

Some cool photography of my me and my unit in the Solomon Islands.

 

[RiaJay21]

So, I just got back from a sailing holiday (not as glamorous as it may sound), and apparently, had a near brush with death.

 

May take a little explaining. We were on a series of rivers, which are split into northern and southern 'broads' by a large stretch of water that leads out to sea. To cross this stretch in either direction, you have to go under two low bridges (the boat we were on has a bridge clearance of approximately 6'6''), which have a clearance of under 6' at high tide, 8' or 9' at low tide. Unfortunately, Neap tides last week meant very awkward times for low tide when taking into account travel time and daylight hours. We managed to cross to the southern broads without much trouble, but coming back, we timed it badly. Ok on bridge clearance. However.

 

This large stretch of water (Breydon Water, if anyone knows Great Yarmouth) has large silt deposits either side, and a set of red and green pylons you have to navigate between to avoid running the boat aground. There's also a yellow pylon before the first low bridge that you have to navigate to the right of.

 

The time of day we were crossing meant that there were three alternate currents converging at the same spot in the water. We hit this spot as we were trying to navigate past the yellow pylon, which meant that it sent the boat heading straight towards it.

 

Now, at this point, I had no real idea what was going on. I just saw us heading towards a pylon, and ... my dad kicking said pylon. To try and push us away. Yeah. Wheel full lock in the opposite direction, by some miracle, we scraped past the pylon. However, I was told that it could have been very different. Had the boat hit it full pelt (and we were driving at full speed), the main 'spine' would have been shattered, causing us to sink. And, with the currents being what they were, we would have probably been dragged under/out to sea/drowned/any combination of the aforementioned.

 

While all of this is happening, I don't know, I'm as calm as you like. No 'life flashing before my eyes'. Just a vague 'oh, sh*t, it's a pylon ... meh.' Then a weird feeling of 'oh, we were close to death ... who knew?' but nothing resembling 'oh my god near death experience, I'm going to live every day as if it's my last!' Really. Even after knowing. Nothing ... hit me.

 

Tl;dr, nearly crashed a boat, nearly drowned, didn't, registered all of the above with dull surprise and nothing else.

[Killzone3265]

blackout while in an elevator of a 40 story highrise lol

[Wolf of Badenoch]

Nearly getting run over by a bus.

[Testarossa]

I almost got ran over by a scooter when I was a child.

[Xyn]

Having to deliver a newborn into the world by myself in my late night shift...

[Majestic81]

Dodging mortar shells in the early morning.

[sivispacem]

Hitting a deer on a motorbike at circa 60mph was pretty scary. That and being passenger seat in a track prepped car on a track day at Spa that rolled twice at ~110mph and landed straddling the Armco. If it didn't have a roll cage I probably would have been decapitated.

[EphemeralStar]

When I was younger, I thought it was a brilliant idea to put the plastic covering over top of the pool while I swam underneath it. It was super hot that day and I was alone in the backyard and I began to notice the tarp thing was starting to sink lower and before long I realized it was suffocating me and for my age and size it was impossible for me to push it off, I was being vacuum sealed inside my pool, running out of air and screaming for help but everyone was out front. I honestly thought I was going to die, but then, for some odd reason my neighbor randomly showed up and was heading past my backyard and heard me scream and she quickly helped me. I think that without her showing up I would have died. That saddest part is that when I went crying to my mom she didn't comfort me.

[Panz]

That is so weird (and terrifying)! I almost drowned when I was little, too, and it was terrifying. I was sitting on the edge of my pool with a pool noodle pretending to be a fisherman, and then I fell in and started drowning for what felt like forever. Luckily, my mom heard me screaming and ran over and saved me, but I felt like I was pretty close to choking and passing out during it all.

 

I asked her recently about it and she said I was barely under for awhile and that she was watching me, but I think she was just trying to cover her ass 'cause I remember coughing up water after it was all over.

 

Edit: Another one that was probably more terrifying was when one of the babies I take care of at work decannulated (trach and ventilator came out of the stoma), and I had to start bagging the baby with oxygen until the respiratory therapist could get it back in. The baby passed out and everything. I mean, it probably would have been fine considering I was surrounded by so many trained staff members, but the fact that I was responsible for the kid's life for those few minutes was crazy.

Edited April 21, 2014 by Panz

[make total destroy]

 

Some cool photography of my me and my unit in the Solomon Islands.

 

Imperialism never looked so pretty.

[Bansty]

When I was younger, I was playing tag with my brothers at my cousins birthday party and decided to run across the street (without looking both ways) and I got hit by a car. The car was going slow, so it didn't hurt that bad (just a few bruises)but it was still terrifying. My brothers both saw the car so they didn't run across the street with me, but neither one thought that they should pull me out of the way. And since I was at a birthday party, my entire family saw me get hit, so it was also super embarrassing. Always look both ways, kids!

[lol232]

Don't know if this counts but I got chased down by an angry neighbour's dog when I was 8 and it almost bit my leg off but luckily my older brother was there to chase it away. I've been haunted by this incident for years and everytime I see a dog regardless of its size, my body starts jittering

Tell me about it, some dog bit my leg when I was 4 and since then I've been f*cking terrified of dogs until recently.

 

But the scariest experience for me is finding out GTA V was delayed.

[THE GHETTO JEZUS]

 

Don't know if this counts but I got chased down by an angry neighbour's dog when I was 8 and it almost bit my leg off but luckily my older brother was there to chase it away. I've been haunted by this incident for years and everytime I see a dog regardless of its size, my body starts jittering

Tell me about it, some dog bit my leg when I was 4 and since then I've been f*cking terrified of dogs until recently.

 

But the scariest experience for me is finding out GTA V was delayed.

 

I also got bit by a dog when I was 13 walking to school on the first day of high school. Like this dog was playing catch and then it came towards me for some odd reason. So I was like ok its just a dog no biggie. Then this f*cker jumped on me and bit my upper left thigh. I was like fuuuucccck and luckily it wasn't that deep of a cut. I was got pissed at the dogs owner because he was like not giving a f*ck about what just happened. He ran away and got so chocked at him and told the school about what happened. Went to the hospital and got it checked out and got some stitches and got discharged later that day. But was that a good way to start off high school. I'm not scared of dogs completely but I'll get kinda nervous when one gets close to me.

[RedBull FM]

 

 

Don't know if this counts but I got chased down by an angry neighbour's dog when I was 8 and it almost bit my leg off but luckily my older brother was there to chase it away. I've been haunted by this incident for years and everytime I see a dog regardless of its size, my body starts jittering

Tell me about it, some dog bit my leg when I was 4 and since then I've been f*cking terrified of dogs until recently.

 

But the scariest experience for me is finding out GTA V was delayed.

 

I also got bit by a dog when I was 13 walking to school on the first day of high school. Like this dog was playing catch and then it came towards me for some odd reason. So I was like ok its just a dog no biggie. Then this f*cker jumped on me and bit my upper left thigh. I was like fuuuucccck and luckily it wasn't that deep of a cut. I was got pissed at the dogs owner because he was like not giving a f*ck about what just happened. He ran away and got so chocked at him and told the school about what happened. Went to the hospital and got it checked out and got some stitches and got discharged later that day. But was that a good way to start off high school. I'm not scared of dogs completely but I'll get kinda nervous when one gets close to me.

 

Yeah dog bitting is not good at all. I got bit last year "By my own dog" I was playing fetch with him at the park. I was about to throw the ball, but the f*cker jumped up and bit my right arm. I did not go to the hospital, because I hate hospitals. I went home, and ran it under the tap for a few minutes.

[Pavle]

My scariest expirience happened in January this year.Me and my brother were in a car and he was driving me to school.It was snowing and the roads were icy.And as we were going as slow as possible,some idiot rammed us with his Ford Fusion in the right side.Our car wasn't as damaged as his and we weren't injured but I'm still scared to ride in a car.And when I get in a car I always put my seatbelt on first.

[Rented]

During a deployment in Afghanistan we were travelling in a 5 vehicle convoy, rougly 25 soldiers, maybe 5 US Soldiers the rest Australians. We had just finished a rotation in a COP and were travelling back to a FOB. We were all looking forward for a nice warm meal in the DFAC. As the OIC I was pretty nervous the region we were travelling through is one of the most kinetic areas in the Ghan.

 

About halfway through our trip we get a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot over the radio from the lead vehicle, the convoy halts, we scan our sectors for any enemy. All clear I give the order to dismount. There's a pile of rocks/freshly dug dirt in the middle of the road roughly 100 metres away. Obviously someones been digging. Without any proper gear we radioed it in.

 

No possible way to get around it as the region was too rocky and steep, there's a chance a vehicle will get stuck. After spending 2 hours parked in the middle of the road, we were informed by HQ that they couldn't send out an engineer squad to assist us and we were to use the EODs (guys who are trained to defuse explosives) in our platoon. I know what your thinking if we had EODs why didn't we do it ourselves earlier. It is because we simply didn't have enough equipment such as a robot or bomb suit. I didn't want to ask any of my soldiers to walk up to an IED without proper equipment so I grabbed a simple toolkit and walked up to the IED in full battle rattle. Lie down in front of this bad boy, once your close its not as scary because if it detonates you die instantly. It's walking to/from the IED when you're still in the blast radius but not quite in the kill zone. Because if it detonates remotely via phone or trigger switch you may not die but you'll be seriously f*cked.

 

I'm lying in the middle of the road trying to gently dust away the rubble and expose it. One of my soldiers back at the convoy spots a bunch of men on a hillside sitting watching us through binocualrs not more then 80m away from me. This is scary as sh*t because it's common for those who place the devices to wait until a military convoy roll up before remotely using a phone to explode it. Anyways a few boys peel away towards them at a sprint, any sign of a cellular device and those locals would be eliminated without question. They eventually get to the men and give them a quick pat down before giving them a move along order. We ended up disconnecting the circuitry of the device and got back to the FOB without incident. But those few seconds where I was literally lying on top of enough explosives to destroy anything within a 25m radius, watching these suspicious blokes show up and start monitoring me through binoculars. Knowing that if any of them pull out a phone and quick dial I'm history. Pretty scary.

 

One of my fellow officers and I at the FOB.

 

 

During a deployment to the Solomon Islands, which is a low-threat deployment, I was still pretty fresh faced it was to prepare me for Afghanistan. I was patrolling down a narrow street in a shanty type town/village. Walked past a doorway and this guy comes out of nowhere and tackles me to the ground, ended up dropping my rifle during the fall. Whilst I was on the ground he had somehow acquired a machete and lunged at me, managed to chuck my arms up to protect myself. But he was angry. I eventually managed to draw my officers pistol which was GP35. Eliminated him from point blank but it was scary as hell.

 

Some cool photography of my me and my unit in the Solomon Islands.

 

Well you're in a magazine tho...

[WTFThisIsntWii]

 

 

During a deployment in Afghanistan we were travelling in a 5 vehicle convoy, rougly 25 soldiers, maybe 5 US Soldiers the rest Australians. We had just finished a rotation in a COP and were travelling back to a FOB. We were all looking forward for a nice warm meal in the DFAC. As the OIC I was pretty nervous the region we were travelling through is one of the most kinetic areas in the Ghan.

 

About halfway through our trip we get a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot over the radio from the lead vehicle, the convoy halts, we scan our sectors for any enemy. All clear I give the order to dismount. There's a pile of rocks/freshly dug dirt in the middle of the road roughly 100 metres away. Obviously someones been digging. Without any proper gear we radioed it in.

 

No possible way to get around it as the region was too rocky and steep, there's a chance a vehicle will get stuck. After spending 2 hours parked in the middle of the road, we were informed by HQ that they couldn't send out an engineer squad to assist us and we were to use the EODs (guys who are trained to defuse explosives) in our platoon. I know what your thinking if we had EODs why didn't we do it ourselves earlier. It is because we simply didn't have enough equipment such as a robot or bomb suit. I didn't want to ask any of my soldiers to walk up to an IED without proper equipment so I grabbed a simple toolkit and walked up to the IED in full battle rattle. Lie down in front of this bad boy, once your close its not as scary because if it detonates you die instantly. It's walking to/from the IED when you're still in the blast radius but not quite in the kill zone. Because if it detonates remotely via phone or trigger switch you may not die but you'll be seriously f*cked.

 

I'm lying in the middle of the road trying to gently dust away the rubble and expose it. One of my soldiers back at the convoy spots a bunch of men on a hillside sitting watching us through binocualrs not more then 80m away from me. This is scary as sh*t because it's common for those who place the devices to wait until a military convoy roll up before remotely using a phone to explode it. Anyways a few boys peel away towards them at a sprint, any sign of a cellular device and those locals would be eliminated without question. They eventually get to the men and give them a quick pat down before giving them a move along order. We ended up disconnecting the circuitry of the device and got back to the FOB without incident. But those few seconds where I was literally lying on top of enough explosives to destroy anything within a 25m radius, watching these suspicious blokes show up and start monitoring me through binoculars. Knowing that if any of them pull out a phone and quick dial I'm history. Pretty scary.

 

One of my fellow officers and I at the FOB.

 

 

During a deployment to the Solomon Islands, which is a low-threat deployment, I was still pretty fresh faced it was to prepare me for Afghanistan. I was patrolling down a narrow street in a shanty type town/village. Walked past a doorway and this guy comes out of nowhere and tackles me to the ground, ended up dropping my rifle during the fall. Whilst I was on the ground he had somehow acquired a machete and lunged at me, managed to chuck my arms up to protect myself. But he was angry. I eventually managed to draw my officers pistol which was GP35. Eliminated him from point blank but it was scary as hell.

 

Some cool photography of my me and my unit in the Solomon Islands.

 

Well you're in a magazine tho...Yeah they weren't personal photos like I said it was photography. We had various media personnel and photographers with us throughout our deployments. There was no way any of us are capable of taking photos that good. And you can see in the article it matches all the facts I recounted. But I do find it weird that you would reverse search an image... Do you do that for everyone else to? Edited April 22, 2014 by WTFThisIsntWii

[BuyMeTheMoon]

I haven't experienced so much scary things, but there is one incident I remember like it was yesterday. I was run over by a horse. It was just a couple of seconds but it felt like minutes.. The horse was spooked by something behind us and I was in front of him so I fell when he jumped up. He ran straight over me. I was pretty scared when i lied there since it was a big horse(around 700kilos). I tried to cover my head as much as possible. Luckily he didn't even touch me with a single foot since he knew I was there. I was pretty shaky for a couple of hours after, it could have been so much worse..

[Shyabang Shyabang]

I'm not scared of the things that I was scared of in the past. Nevertheless, I was frightened out of my wits at those times, so I remember those like it happened yesterday.

 

I was 4 years old. I was watching an aquarium at a restaurant by the wharf. I was looking at a shellfish when I saw something long protrude quickly from it. It reached the top of the water. I thought it was going to get me. I screamed and ran to my mother. I still have no idea what that was.

 

When I was 12, I watched my cousin play the Gamecube version of Resident Evil. This version had very good graphics and looked realistic. The moonlight shining into a dark room and onto the main character was realistically creepy too. I was really scared. The strange thing was that when my cousin got near the clock in the game, the pounding of my heart matched the beat of that clock.

 

When I was 17, I was riding my bicycle down a mountain very quickly. The road was still wet. I applied the front brakes, but that made the front wheels skid. I turned left and right to keep balance. I was scared at first. Then I calmed myself down and managed to get my balance back. I used my rear brakes when going downhill after that.

 

When I was 18, the plane that I was riding in went through air turbulence. For about two seconds, the plane suddenly dropped altitude. I felt as if I was free falling. The flight attendant's arms went up and then she leaned on the wall. The wind was strong when the plane was landing too. Someone next to me said that the landing part was the most dangerous. Through the window, I saw the plane tilting left and right even when we were near the runway. My heart started to beat hard. I heard someone yelp when the plane landed hard.

 

The second time that I was in my college library, I didn't look out the window. When I walked out, I saw that the streets were very dark and there were very few people outside. I walked as quickly as I could. Nowadays, I feel safe at the downtown area late at night because I don't see anyone else and it's very quiet. I just make sure that I wear sneakers so that I could walk more quickly and quietly.

Edited April 23, 2014 by Shyabang Shyabang