What's the scariest thing that ever happened to you?

[mvd]

For Halloween. :)

Honestly, when I knew that Dubya was going to be President - I think that was the scariest.

[JohnKleeb]

1. When I fell in the creek lol

No that was more embarassing.

[7th_Sephiroth]

39. when

a guy showed up dressed up like john ashkroft

[dorktv]

2. when I found out that I was not adopted.

[rbnyc]

15. LOL. That's funny. (nt)

[dorktv]

17. You would laugh more if you saw my parents...Ewwww!

[Aristus]

3. When I was robbed at gunpoint while working in the banking industry.

It lasted five minutes, felt like five hours, and I was more scared during that short time than during my whole time in the Gulf. :scared:

[dorktv]

5. Hi Scott, when is the next Dilbert book coming out?

;)

[Aristus]

20. Huh?

I'd love to see the blank look on my face right about now.

[dorktv]

27. Scott Adams was robbed at gunpoint when he worked

as a teller at a California bank. No one ever gets my references.

[Aristus]

33. Oh.

Sorry.

[MisterP]

47. I did

[La_Serpiente]

4. When my mom found my porn

When my mom found my porn...She's a true red conservative too.

[dorktv]

6. So she yelled at you and then used it herself?

[La_Serpiente]

7. LOL...no

She set up a fire and burned it in the fireplace. But she didn't talk to me for quite awhile.

[dorktv]

10. Is that a bad thing or a good thing?

[La_Serpiente]

19. bad thing

bad thing...she burned my porn and she was pissed off at me for weeks

[dorktv]

30. Well that does suck...

[Lars39]

8. Got trample in a haunted house.

The haunted house was a reeeally good, being held in an old jr high. I was in the front of my friends, going on to the next exhibit, they saw something I missed. Whatever it was caused them to go berserk, knocking me down and literally running over my body. Horrible feeling.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

9. when I got jumped by 6 LA gang members and fought for my life

(I'm a dude by the way)
Walking to my car with some friends---they ran--I was not so lucky-
-I got a few of them pretty good before they pounded me into the pavement. The friends I was with were hiding across the street(we were at a loft party in a ?able neighborhood)--they told me that when I was down they gang members were kicking me in the head and they took my wallet.
I was out cold and don't remember that part.

Can anyone say E mer gen cy room?

[mvd]

12. Those kinds of things really are the worst

That and the post about the robbery. Glad you were ok. :hi:

[rbnyc]

29. Yikes!

That's serious. So glad you survived.

[Blue_Chill]

43. Your friends suck.

Same thing has almost happened to my friends and I but since we all stand our ground when attacked the criminals usually take off then risk injury. Not saying we could beat up a group of gang members, but even a stupid thug can figure out that whenever two groups fight people on both sides get seriously hurt.

[Lady Freedom]

11. Finding out that I am to make a new Republican poster!

ewwwww!

[rbnyc]

13. The scariest thing that ever happened to me.

I've woken up in a burning house. I've seen a ghost. I've been attacked on the street in the middle of the night. I've heard sirens and known they were coming for me. I've been homeless and unemployed, both separately and at the same time. I've had a crazy person 3 times my size pin me against a wall and hold a lit cigarette up to my eye. I've had my phone ring, just half a ring and stop every day at 2:22 a.m. for almost a year. I've had my bedroom broken into by a drunken assailant who chased me out of my apartment with a knife.

But the scariest thing that ever happened to me was waking up in that mangled car this past July. I didn't understand where I was at first. My mouth was full of glass, little pieces of glass that I'd first thought were my teeth. I was twisted in the most painful position. It was dark. There was a paramedic beside me telling me not to move. I was in the most pain I'd ever been in my entire life. They put a blanket over me while they cut off the side of the car. In the emergency room I was flat on my back with a neck brace, and I couldn't move my right leg. My lower back hurt so much, I knew something was broken down there. Then the doctor came and told me to be prepared to lose my baby.

That's the worst and scariest thing that has ever happened to me, and it's still the biggest part of every single minute of my life. I have pain every day. I can still barely walk.

I know I was very lucky, and I've been healing very fast. And I've had such wonderful support. But I'm very, very upset. I want my life back. Or a million dollars. Whichever is quickest.

[mvd]

16. And you are such a nice person..

You especially do not deserve all that. Very sorry. So glad you are ok! :hi:

[rbnyc]

23. Thanks.

I just wonder sometimes, when am I going to get a break? I work hard. We worked hard to have money for our wedding and honeymoon. And we were so happy. We're still happy, but we deserved a vacation, and we deserved to have our baby. Why do we have to struggle so much? I'm ready to learn my lessons through love and abundance. I'm done learning lessons through deprivation and pain. DONE!

Thanks for letting me vent. It helps.

[mvd]

28. First of all, best wishes for a complete recovery soon

And if you don't mind me asking - tell me about the ghost you saw.

[rbnyc]

31. Ghosts, actually.

Once I was living in this very weird (and old!) apartment building in downtown Galesburg, Illinois. There was a story I heard about a woman who was raped and murdered in my apartment in the 1920's. A lot of creepy things happened in that apartment. I've written about it in threads like these before. I saw a ghost in there once. I was asleep and the sound of breaking glass woke me up. I sat up in bed with my heart pounding, and looked around. Right at the side of my bed there was a man leaning over me. I was wide awake, and I saw him clearly. I didn't think I was looking at a ghost. I thought I was looking at an intruder. I stared at him, totally horrified. Then I realized that he didn't look right. It wasn't that he was see-through, but he somehow didn't have any mass. It was the creepiest thing I ever saw. He gave this very weird smirk, and I screamed my ass off. And he just disappeared.

I later found out that my crazy neighbor had dropped some kind of glass orb out of his window just to watch it break and that's what woke me up.

Another time, actually a couple years earlier, I was living in a dorm room with my best friend. We had bunk beds, and I had the top bunk. I was taking a nap and I woke up to someone calling my name. I turned, and there was a woman, her face right at my eye level. I thought it was my roommate. She looked a lot like her. Then I realized it wasn't her. Again, I had been sleeping, but I woke up. I was awake. And I was staring at this woman for about 30 seconds, which is a long time. And I had the same kind of realization, that she wasn't right. She was visible, but somehow didn't seem to be made of anything. Again, the realization made me scream, and she disappeared. Then my suite mates came running, and I had to explain what happened.

EDIT: typos

[mvd]

35. Thanks for telling

Very interesting.

Also, very weird about your phone!

But it's the live ones we really have to worry about. At least in almost all cases. :hi:

[rbnyc]

37. The phone rang like that...

...for almost the whole first year we lived in the apartment we live in now.

I do get the creeps when I'm here alone at night. But that's the only thing like that that's happened here.

[mvd]

38. Does it..

still ring like that sometimes?

[Lars39]

21. {{{{rbnc}}}}

:( Time/healing moves so slowly sometimes.

[rbnyc]

34. yep, that's the truth

I know it will get better. I'm just tired.

*hugs*

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

22. wishing you a speedy recovery

and comfortable ness
pain sucks.
good luck with all that.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. When a woman in a minivan cut me off

at an intersection as she suddenly switched to my lane (I was on my motorcycle)-- I was in the inside lane, it was rush hour, and the only place to go was down, and into the oncoming traffic lane. I still remember lying there watching the oncoming car speeding toward me. He stopped with his front tire about three feet from my head.

I don't think my helmet would have saved me, although it did save me from a concussion as my head smacked the pavement. Ruined a $200 leather jacket (it died doing what it was meant to do). I ended up with a few bent bike parts, and a nice bit of road rash on one knee.

[rbnyc]

18. That's scary!

People need to take driving more seriously.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

24. What they say about your life flashing in front of your eyes

is VERY VERY TRUE.

Hope you conquer your troubles. You've had way too much put on your plate!

[rbnyc]

26. Thanks Six.

And I'm so glad there wasn't a worse ending to your story.

[dbt]

25. Working in a radio production studio one October night.

I was quite alone, or so I thought. I would start the tape recorder, open the mike and attempt to record a commercial. Then I would turn around to find that the tape had stopped about five words into the script.

Tried it two more times, only to have the same thing happen. It was then that I noticed the studio had become VERY cold and the hairs on the back of my neck were trying to launch themselves into orbit.

Scared? Oh HELL yes! Then I said something like, "I don't know who you are but you better get out of here and leave me alone. I haven't done a thing to you!"

Oddly enough, it worked. That tape machine ran just like it was supposed to and I finished the spot in a very short time.

(A psychic later told me that AM stations tend to attract ghosts. No shit.)

:freak:
dbt

[nuxvomica]

32. This a difficult choice

I was in an automobile accident once when a large car (I think it was a Monte Carlo) crashed into my driver's side and lifted my much smaller car (1984 Sunbird) off the road and turned it 90 degrees. But then there was the time I graduated from college, the first day of my job, the phone call announcing a friend's death. All very scary but not in the more comforting, Halloweeny sense. The closest I ever felt to dying was when I was working out alone doing bench presses and suddenly my arms could no longer move. I had no way to get the weight back on the rack or even move it to the floor. It was as though I had no arms. Then, of course, I started laughing. I was sure I was a goner that time.
No. On second thought, there was a scarier moment. It was one of those rare times when I momentarily believed in the unbelievable. I was at work on a Saturday doing the systems backups, which in those days required moving disk-packs from one RP06 drive to another. One mistake and you could lose hours correcting it. So I was very focused at the time. The computer room had two large doors with windows high up, through which you could see someone's face if they were on the other side. I heard a tapping on them and turned up to look. There behind one of the windows stood what appeared to be a man's face but it was completely covered with fur. Judging by the height of the window, I figured the dogfaced man was probably about six feet tall. My heart skipped a beat. I was filled with dread. But within seconds I recognized the face. It was my girlfriend's dog, a cairn terrier. She was holding him up to the window.

[GregW]

36. Having my doctor call me and say, "They found a 'shadow' on the X-ray"

After sweating bullets for a couple weeks reading everything I could about abdominal tumors, it turns out the 'shadow' was my full bladder.

Sheesh!

[populistmom]

40. A few things

I also was held up at gunpoint at a little store I used to work at right before I turned 19. Scary, but nothing horrible happened. Ironically, it was the same day I moved in with my then boyfriend, now husband. I tried not to think it was a shitty omen. I've been in a couple of bad car accidents where the car was flipped over. One was when I was a baby and don't consciously remember, but I used to get really panicky in cars as a child (still can sometimes driving in the snow) because of it and the second when I was 17 and my friend was driving.
I've also had some creepy dream experiences, but I don't talk about them much because most people would probably think I'm nuts. Twice as a child I dreamed there was going to be a fire at a location nearby and there was one shortly after. Also, the night of 9/11/01, before it actually happened, I had this vivid dream of being huddled in the basement with my children as bombs went off in the near distance. I've always been fairly politically conscious and a Democrat, but after this experience and what followed, my consciousness increased a lot. I then began to actively seek out information in ways I didn't before. I don't know what it all means yet, but it got my attention and it's still kind of scary.

Sarah

[maggrwaggr]

41. I lived in a haunted house in Denver and

there were a lot of things that happened there ....

I didn't believe in ghosts until I lived in this house.

The scariest -- and the only time in my life when the hairs on the back of my neck have stood up -- was one night, very late, probably 3 a.m. after my roommate and I had been shooting a short film, and everybody had left and we were relaxing .... we both heard this horrible screaming. It was from a woman, and sounded like she was being killed. It went on and on. We both looked at each other, completely freaked out, and tried to figure out where it was coming from. We quickly moved through the house, trying to pinpoint it, but it was impossible. Opening doors to the outside the sound grew fainter. Finally it died down into what I can only describe as a death gurgle. Then it was gone.

It's the creepiest thing I've ever experienced. We didn't know what to do. We felt like we'd just heard a woman die. We thought maybe we should call the cops. But we couldn't tell them where the sound was coming from.

The house was haunted. I realized that later. Many more things happened, but none that made the hairs stand up like that on my neck.

[AWD]

42. I shattered my elbow to save my own life

July, 2002 - Fixing the roof on my garage, on a ladder, when a hornet emerged from the pipe of my satellite dish. I'm allergic to their sting, so I backed off, and found myself falling backwards, 10 feet off the ground.

I spun around and tried to run down the rungs of the ladder, when my foot slipped. The fall forced my body forward, and I wound up head-first headed for the concrete.

At the last second, I put my arms in front of me, and my right arm locked. The impact as I hit the concrete sent a shock wave through my arm that shattered my elbow (the doctor said "into 400 pieces at least").

Within minutes, I realized that my skull would have had the same result had it hit at that speed. My elbow was the collateral damage that kept my daughter from burying her father before her 4th birthday.

And the worst part of it all....after the impact, I rolled onto that elbow, scraping it on the concrete. The scrape was over the only possible entry for surgery to replace it. Therefore, I had to wait NINE DAYS for surgery while the arm healed enough to make an incision. And trust me, on most nights the pain killers didn't do the job well enough.

Now, I have a titanium elbow, and I stay off ladders. In October of last year, I complained at John Wayne Airport in California that their metal detector was not working...I didn't set it off, and I was quite upset about it.

[Blue_Chill]

44. I can't decide.....

1- I asked out a girl. (The first time I was scared shitless)

2- Someone tried to kidnap me when I was 12. Luckily I was fast as hell from playing soccer since I was 5.

3- I got jumped and beatin by a group of angry baseball players. They didn't like my calling one of their teammates an asshole and hitting him with my history book in highschool.

4- I've seen a ghost and experienced some wierd events related to such things. (foot steps entering my room at night)

5- A fight broke out once and some guy started shooting. If you think you know how fast you can run, try going thru something like this. I felt like flash gordon.

[Solly Mack]

45. Car wreck-tires blew out-van flipped over 6 times

ended a few feet away from the south bound lane ...we had been driving in the north bound lane. ..flipped across the median and came to rest upside down. Just tumbling over and over, night time..lights flashing...people screaming...then it stopped.

I just wanted to live...

2nd place...falling off a mountain..hit a rock jutting out and broke my back.

I wanted to both live and walk...

[Interrobang]

46. I've had a lifetime full of scary things...

When I was quite small, I can remember these horrible vivid nightmares I had about people throwing me headfirst into a burning brick oven. I've talked about that on at least one other thread here, and I just finished writing a story/screenplay about it that I think is the best thing I've ever written. (When it gets published, I'll let you guys know.)

When I was about 18 or so, I was lying half-asleep in my bed, and suddenly I "lost" my lungs, and I simply couldn't breathe anymore. I thought I was going to die, but then I "found" my lungs again, and I was able to breathe, but I think it had been almost two minutes... (I periodically "lose" parts of my body because of my cerebral palsy. One time when I was in university, sitting in a lecture, my left knee began telling me that it was somewhere in the vicinity of my left ear -- no, the lecture halls aren't *that* crowded! -- and I had to keep tapping my finger on my knee until my proprioception caught up with itself again. My finger muscles also occasionally disappear, but that's only a minor inconvenience.)

When I had my gall bladder surgery, they wheeled me into the OR while I was still conscious and strapped me onto the table. A technician of some kind was standing off to my left, pawing through a deep tray of instruments, and it sounded like when I'm rummaging through my silverware drawer, looking for my carrot peeler. Then they shot the anaesthetic into my IV bag, and it burned like hell going into my vein, and then when it hit my neck, my throat closed up and I couldn't breathe!! (So here I am, terrified of hospitals because I'd already had four surgeries at that point, strapped to a table with a demon tech mixing up the silverware in the b.g. and all of a sudden I'm suffocating!! Yike!)

The fire safety film from Girl Guides shown by the retired fireman with only about seven fingers in various increments, the one that showed the burned-beyond-recognition bodies, yeah, that was pretty bad, too, and that's all I'm going to say about that.

I have a VIVID imagination. I don't need to be more than SUGGESTED at to have a really bad reaction, and I'm already the kind of person who has a hyperactive startle reflex (slight unexpected noises make me jump and say, "Aaah!" -- PTSD much?), so I spend a lot of time being frightened as is. Naturally, my life obliges me.

[AlienGirl]

48. Nightmares suck ass

I have been more frightened in dreams than when awake.

You mentioned PTSD, do you know what gave it to you?

Tucker

[Ridley Park 704]

49. Claustrophobic nightmares get me.

I wake up in cold sweats because in the dream I'm cooped up in confined places, like a coffin. A few months ago I became physically ill after I woke up from one of these, almost feels like the end of the world.

[noiretextatique]

50. a couple of things...

being caught in an undertow when i was about ten...i thought i was a goner. thankfully, i knew not to struggle, and eventually i got popped up to the top of the water. this was at cabrillo beach in so cal...i haven't swam in an ocean since :scared:

for about five years, i had a recurring nightmare about my deceased brother calling to me to let him in the house the night he was killed...this dream always ravaged me emotionally, in part because i couldn't tell if it was a memory or a dream. i first had this memory or dream the day after my brother was killed...it truly haunted me for a long time. finally, i think my mind learned a way to protect me from it, and as a result, i rarely (once a year or so maybe) remember any dreams. come to think of it...i used to have A LOT of disturbing dreams...thanks goodness for whatever mechanism i have in my brain that shut them off.

and finally, i had a stalker once. he was always rather harmless, just very creeping...always showing up at my dorm room late at night, and following me around campus during the day. one summer i stayed on campus, and very few people were around. i was sleeping in my bed one night, when i awoke to find this stalker in my bedroom, standing over my bed just looking at me!!!!! scared the HELL out of me, but something told me NOT to react in fear. so, in as normal a voice as possible, i said "hi _______" just like i would if he wasn't a weirdo who broke into my place in the middle of the night. i think my calmness diffused the situation...i got up, and talked to the guy for a couple of hours. he was basically harmless...just very, very troubled, and of course, quite creepy...still gives me the creeps.

and some other stuff i don't share with many folks.

[Ridley Park 704]

51. missed getting hit by a train by 3 seconds

As a railroader I drove thru an unmarked crossing within the boundary of the trainyard, and had no clue a train was close by. It was just a mental lapse to not look first. Anyway, mere seconds after nonchalantly clearing the crossing, here comes a reasonably fast train across those very tracks. I became numb thinking about what just happened.

[clar]

52. Also the dumbest thing I've ever done

Some years ago I was cross country skiing with my husband and another couple. We'd been out for about 6 hours and dusk was fast approaching. The shortest way back to the car was across a lake so we decided to take that route. About halfway across the the mile wide expanse we heard deep cracking sounds and then the sound of water. We had one headlight for the four of us. I was so frightened I was almost immobilized. We inched along, feeling the ice shift beneath our feet. Then we discovered a long crack in the ice. Just as we approached shore, there was a huge cracking sound and I fell through. Both the guys grabbed me and yanked me out. Granted the water where I fell through was shallow, but it was terrifying. In our defense I want to add that the lake had been frozen for weeks, and there were ice fishing shacks one it. Well, actually there is no defense; it was truly stupid of us.

[Throckmorton]

53. When they told me Mrs. Throckmorton had terminal cancer

This was last January, and was told that while they could treat her, there is no cure for Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer. She is still with me, and doing very well at the moment; but, she is facing another major surgery later this fall. We have two elementary school age children, and I was panic stricken for several moments upon hearing the news. She, with her terrific attitude, responded to the news with an “At least it is not one of the children” type rejoinder, and that snapped me right back into the groove. As it turns out, her treatment has been on the high side of the success curve, and I am grateful that she has survived this long. Time will tell where it goes from here.

At the moment we are indeed, enjoying every sandwich, to steal an idea from the late Warren Zevon. As, after this next operation, she may never eat solid food by mouth again.

Today is our 13th Wedding Anniversary, and I’m spending it at work. But, we did have a great time yesterday.