What's the scariest thing to ever happen to you in real life?

Several years ago, can't remember exactly how old I was, but while at my uncle's house and in the pool, a son of a friend of his thought it funny to jump on me while in the pool. This caught me by surprise, and before I knew it I was under the water and probably breathing it too. For me it seemed like several minutes, but I finally regainedconsciousness thanks to my uncle. Seems I came that close to death, but I don't remember much other than the blurry image underwater.

My uncle's friend was sorry for the whole incident, but he was forced to fork over a small sum to avoid any legal actions (don't ask what he would've done, to this day I think my uncle bluffed to squeeze some cash out of the guy). I received some of that money over a period of about a year afterwards, so in the end it was more or less worth it, specially considering I hardly remember much of the incident.

I almost throw up remembering this.

Its so stupid i'm ashamed but thats not why it sickens me.

I was working on a power saw and it stopped. My dad went to the power source in our basement to try to get it back on, but i thought that it was the saw that had the problem. I was messing around with it and thought it was jammed so i picked it up and was looking at it and while i was holding it i noticed it was getting old and i felt the tips of the blade. Incredibly stupid. I didn't even think about what i was doing, and as soon as i ran my finger across the tip I put it back on the table. Literally, 5 seconds later, my dad fixed the power and the blade starts whirring at its 500 rpms or whatever. I was 5 seconds away from losing a hand cause of my stupidity and our carelessness of not turning the saw off.

That just makes me sick thinking about how close i am to typing with one hand today.

[QUOTE="AquaMantor"]

[QUOTE="BEAN_LARD_MULCH"]
Anything weird about the house you live in? Unexplained things? Notice anything unexplainable about pictures with you or the hosue you live in that you have? Did you ever see it again?cool_baller

Like I said, I think I've seen it more than once.

There are multiple times when I've been totally freaked out in my house for no reason at all, and I've seriously thought about the possibility of it being haunted. However, the fact of the matter is that this house was BUILT FOR me and my family. We literally moved in once the construction workers were done. It doesn't have any history other than us. Even if haunted houses existed, ours would be out of the question.

Native American*.

I'm Indian.

Not them. :P

[QUOTE="syorks"][QUOTE="seedeater"]

That whole nearly fainting experience happened to me once after having physical training(Marines)I sat down and once I got up I felt really cold sweat and all I saw was white...I had to hold on to my chair in order to keep myself up.

Hehe imgaine the wierd faces I must've made.

seedeater

No but you had a reasonable explanation on passing out. I mean u probably just worked out for hours and a lot of people can faint aftwer doing that. Mine have no explanation. All the sudden when i'm just walking around everything goes all black and i get really dizzy. And then after a few seconds it clears up and i just do the same thing i was doing and completely ignore it.

Maybe it could be something serious?Like a blood clot.

You should check it out or it might get worse.But if it doesn't happen frequently then don't worry about it.

You guys are pretty dumb. When you stand up quickly blood is forced down out of your head leaving you lightheaded.

[QUOTE="seedeater"][QUOTE="syorks"][QUOTE="seedeater"]

That whole nearly fainting experience happened to me once after having physical training(Marines)I sat down and once I got up I felt really cold sweat and all I saw was white...I had to hold on to my chair in order to keep myself up.

Hehe imgaine the wierd faces I must've made.

zombiefruit

No but you had a reasonable explanation on passing out. I mean u probably just worked out for hours and a lot of people can faint aftwer doing that. Mine have no explanation. All the sudden when i'm just walking around everything goes all black and i get really dizzy. And then after a few seconds it clears up and i just do the same thing i was doing and completely ignore it.

Maybe it could be something serious?Like a blood clot.

You should check it out or it might get worse.But if it doesn't happen frequently then don't worry about it.

You guys are pretty dumb. When you stand up quickly blood is forced down out of your head leaving you lightheaded.

Yeah I was going to post that.

I don't feal fear, or pain, or anything I don't want to feel. I am in control of my body and emotions completely.

I won't let myself feel fear.

But, if I have to think of something, when I was younger, the old RE games.

This one time my brother was playing RE2, and there's a way to get a bunch of zombie arms grab you. We didn't see it coming are weren't paying attention, and when it happened I nearly crapped my pants.

Several times in my life iv had the crap scarred out of me here is my scariest

A few years ago I was with my friend Shane at a bar near the shady part of town (Drugs, some gangs, a murder every once in a while) we were drinking and playing pool for a few hours and everything was cool. We then got bored and said lets get out of here so we walked out and were just walking around the neighborhood talking about were we wanted to go, unaware of what we were doing we walked into an alley that had a vacant parking lot with just a few street poles. We stood there for a few seconds going "Dude look were we are, were are we?" so we stand there looking around and all the sudden we hear absolutely nothing and that doesn't bother us but all the sudden a trash can just crashes and makes us a bit jumpy so then we decide to move towards these buildings and the streetlight goes out.

At this point were sort of power walking and we hear "What you doin her mother ****r !" and a rock comes flying out of the darkness right at us we look at each-other like oh $*** and start moving fast and then this black woman comes out and yelled "there they is!" and we started to see more shadows and steps coming towards us at this point fight or flight kicks in and we start running but some raggedy decrypted person hops right in front of us and I just kicked him square in the chest as hard as I could. It fell down and we kept running, stuff was being thrown at us and several people were shouting "Come on get em!" and "there right there!".

We eventually run to a street with a few lights and at this point im mad as hell and so is Shane so we go to the other side of the street to this sort of diner and I shout "Whats up mother *****!" "Were are you!" and Shane said "Just stop it and lets get in here"

So we go into the diner and tell the person in there that we were attacked and the guy said "its bums again" and he proceeded to tell us about these homeless people who come out at night to beat people and take everything they have and that he carries a gun because of them. I was so mad but at the same time scared for my life because I wasnt at my fighting best and they intended on beating/maiming

Probably this one time (about 4 years ago) when I was swimming in the ocean with my brother he decided to play a prank on me, he snuck up behind me while I was swimming out where the water gets pretty deep and pulled me under and held me there, I had no idea who it was or even if it was person and the water was really murky and dark and I seriously freaked out, I literally thought I was gonna die. I tried fighting him but he's a lot bigger and stronger then me and I was outta oxygen, having expelled it all in surprise when he pulled me under. He finally let me go, I dunno how long I was under for but it felt like ages, when he let go I sorta didn't move and I think he freaked out so he pulled me up above the water, it finally hit me that I wasn't going to die so I started gasping for air and then I started crying and shaking all over and my brothers like "are you okay" and then it hit me who was holding me under the water.

So I socked right there straight to the nose, unfortunately my arms were all weak from shock and lack of oxygen so I just started screaming and yelling at him then I started crying again and he hugged me and said he was sorry then pulled me back up to shore, he's really a sweetie, minus the whole trying to kill me thing.

Then last year that same brother had an accident riding his motorbike, we found him lying in the middle of a dirt track and seriously thought he was dead but then he started to move so we were like thank god. So we called the ambulance thinking he was just a little concussed, turns out there was bleeding and a blood clot in his brain, so he was rushed to hospital and put in the ICU, the doctors told us there was a chance he wasn't going to make it and if he did he'd most likely have brain damage, he was in a coma for about 2 ½ weeks and we wouldn't know how extensive the damage would be until he woke up. Seriously they were longest 2 ½ weeks of my life, I was so scared he was going to be a vegetable or not remember who he was and I hardly slept and cried for pretty much the whole time, one of the worst times of my life. Any how it turned out he was completely okay, thank god, he couldn't remember the week before the accident or the accident itself but other then that he was completely okay with a couple of fancy new scars to show off.

Then there was another time my brother (same one again) locked me in our cool room when I was really little. There was all frozen meat everywhere and lambs hanging off hooks, I was scared out my little patch-worked overalls, not to mention cold, I was banging on that door screaming and crying for ever, until my mother finally heard me and let me out and boy did he get, he couldn't sit down for a week and mum broke about four wooden spoons on him and then he was confined to his room for a coupla days. That's the reason I am claustrophobic to this day.

WARNING: This is seriously freaky. I'm getting shivers just thinking about it. I strongly recommend NOT reading it. The good news is that it's also the inspiration for one of the most F'd up characters I ever made.:D

This actually happened more than once to me. I was lying in my bed, all alone, middle of the night, trying to go to sleep. It was really dark, and completely silent. Then, I heard a voice in my head. It was bizarre because it wasn't a usual thought, I could practically hear it, very clearly, and it didn't feel like it was MY thought. It didn't feel like it was coming from me. It was a girl's voice, and it sounded very soft. The voice said, once again, very clearly: "Look at me..."

That kind of freaked me out. Three seconds later, I heard it again in my mind, "Look at me..." it sounded more agitated now, but it was oddly robotic, in a creepy way. Each word was kind of dragged out, if you know what I mean by that. Now I was really freaked out, I wanted this to stop, but it didn't, and it came again, even more agitated now, "Look at me...!" it seemed to be getting Po'd, and I really, really felt like, whoever it was, At this point, I was totally freaked out, and I thought I was ready for anything, but I really wasn't, because what happened next was just plain twisted.

I heard the voice, one last time, except it was completely different, now it was screaming at the top of its lungs, "LOOK AT ME!" I tossed and turned, and squirmed and I closed my eyes, hoping it would go away. When I did, I saw the freakiest thing ever. It was like a girl's face, but it looked like it was made of ash...but I saw it long enough to realize it wasn't. The skin was grey, and it was rotting. chunks of flesh were just falling off of it, the eyes were completely rotted out of their sockets and weren't even visible...the nose was two slits and the thing's face was disgustingly skinny with NO cheeks. I couldn't see the mouth, until the very last second, when it grinned at me. When I opened my eyes, it was gone. I turned the lights back on. I couldn't go to sleep for the next two hours, and I was terrified of blinking for the next ten minutes, because I didn't want to see it again.

I'm not making this up, either, I'm completely serious.

AquaMantor

I remeber seeing a U.F.O. Or at least I think it was. IDK, it was a metallic disk that was just floating there. My house is next to some empty fields and hills.

I could see it clearly out my window. I wanted to go outside and get a better look at it, but I was scared. It was floating a couple feet off the ground. I so badly wanted to go closer to it. I was amazed and yet scared stiff by it. It wasn't making any sound or anything.

5 minutes go past and it still stays there. All of a sudden I see a couple of figures walking under it. They were small. At first I thought they were children. So I finally pick up the courage and go outside. I open the gate and start walking towards it.

Thats when I get a good look at these creature that were under it. From what I can remember, they had very skinny legs and arms. They walked very gracefully. There was about three of them. I think one of them saw me because it seemed startled and sort of jumped a little. They all looked at me. They had large black eyes with big white pupils. After seeing their faces I fainted.

I woke up several hours later confused, wondering how I ended up outside. I remembered why and started to look around, but the creatures disappeared, and so did the disk. I walked to the are were they were before, and saw that the grass was cut and pulled out of the soil.

I called my brother later and told him the story. He seemed worried about me so he slept over at my house. The incident never happened again, but I still moved out a couple of months later.

I kind of wish I never fainted. I really wanted to see whatever they were doing.

I couldn't move my body and my eyes were halfway open and I aware I was awake and I couldn't move and in my dream, vision thing I saw someone being stabbed it and I woke up and there was someone on the floor with a knife through him, it was my bother I called the paramedics and police the person who stabbed my brother was a old bum who had some problems andhe got arraseted and my brother was fine. BTW we were home alone.

A guy at my school committed suicide right in front of me and 150 other people. You wanna see the article? Here it is:

http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1204971346173570.xml&coll=3

Basically, we were sitting in there waiting for the next class, and he came in the gym. He pulled out the gun, and the coaches ran at him and he screamed and cussed at them until they stopped. Then he put the gun in his mouth for about 10 seconds and pulled the trigger. It was not that bloody.

No I was not one of the traumatized kids.

Sometimes I get this messed up feeling that I'm not the only one in the basement at night even though I know eveyone's asleep. It's like this really powerful presence, it's really weird. I'm not scared of the dark but when I turn the lamp off I bolt for the stairs. it's been going on for years, I used to bring my friend Whitney to the basement to play computer and even she believed there was someone else down here.

And as for a single event that was terrifying, I don't know, I guess maybe when I was driving with my sister through unfamiliar neighborhoods and I turn my head and there was this barn that was for some reason shaped like a huge UFO, that almost gave me a heart attack.

Also man, that story where you said you saw the aliens was messed up, why'd I come here right before bedtime? :?

i almost die while traveling in a bus at night. We crash in a small dune that it was a ledge of a precipice (about 100 meters).

i almost die but nothing happened i'm still here alive and kicking

I once drove into the middle of a gang fight on accident. and I hear three gunshots. I got out of there like a bat out of hell

Sometimes I get this messed up feeling that I'm not the only one in the basement at night even though I know eveyone's asleep. It's like this really powerful presence, it's really weird. I'm not scared of the dark but when I turn the lamp off I bolt for the stairs. it's been going on for years, I used to bring my friend Whitney to the basement to play computer and even she believed there was someone else down here.

And as for a single event that was terrifying, I don't know, I guess maybe when I was driving with my sister through unfamiliar neighborhoods and I turn my head and there was this barn that was for some reason shaped like a huge UFO, that almost gave me a heart attack.

Also man, that story where you said you saw the aliens was messed up, why'd I come here right before bedtime? :?

Half-Life_man

Dude im the same way. When my parents got to bed and I am alone downstairs im fine. BUT when i go upstairs I have to turn of all the lights in the downstairs then I run up the stairs and hit the light switch at the top and im freaking out lol.

[QUOTE="BEAN_LARD_MULCH"][QUOTE="Kikouken"]

I saw a real gunfight. it was pretty scary.

I don't think I can ever run as fast as I did that day on a normal day.

Kikouken

I was downtown Toronto.

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[QUOTE="MountainDew77"][QUOTE="AquaMantor"]

Long freaky crap

MountainDew77

Sure it wasn't a dream?

In a sense, you could call it that. I usually dream before I even start sleeping. Right before I go to sleep I go into this state where I start thinking about really bizarre things, then all of the sudden I'm there, and I can only assume that that's the case. In this particular case, however, I'd say what I had was a nightmare while I was still awake, and it absolutely traumatized me, especially since I've always had very, very twisted nightmares in the first place. You don't want me to use an example...

No, not really. I'm already paranoid that I'm gonna turn around and the little girl from FEAR is gonna be right there thanks to your story.

:lol:

That makes me think of my sister after she watches the Grudge, or Grudge 2. For about a week she's scared of the dark and the noise the girl makes freaks her out. She's a junior in high school.

When I turned off her light and closed the door in her room at night, she freaked out :D

I saw this post on the Resident Evil 5 forum and it was a real nice read.

Just be serious and post your scariest moment...And no, seeing a fat chick naked doesn't count.

seedeater

You got thiss off of Offtopic.com forums didn't you...

Sometimes I get this messed up feeling that I'm not the only one in the basement at night even though I know eveyone's asleep. It's like this really powerful presence, it's really weird. I'm not scared of the dark but when I turn the lamp off I bolt for the stairs. it's been going on for years, I used to bring my friend Whitney to the basement to play computer and even she believed there was someone else down here.

And as for a single event that was terrifying, I don't know, I guess maybe when I was driving with my sister through unfamiliar neighborhoods and I turn my head and there was this barn that was for some reason shaped like a huge UFO, that almost gave me a heart attack.

Also man, that story where you said you saw the aliens was messed up, why'd I come here right before bedtime? :?

Half-Life_man

Oh man, that sounds just like my basement.

It's pretty nice with carpet and a pantry and a work desk in it, but whenever either my sister or I turn off the last light down there we bold up the stairs, same as you. Still the same high-schooler I'm talking about.

I saw a ghost once:

I saw a ghost once:

iwokojance

I loved that movie. Yes I did.

It was about 10 pm and i was over at my friend grants house. We were upstairs in his room playing Duck hunt we were both 13 yrs old. You could say he was poor but he was the nicest kid ive ever meet. Not all was swell in his life though. his mom had a habit of attracting the scum of the earth where ever they moved. they were originally from North carilona and had moved before because of his moms relationship issues. Now as were upstairs in his room his mom slammed the door open in a fluury and said dont leave the room grant it will be OK. now this was odd because she didnt know i was over and she didnt even acknowlege me he was freaked out because it was well past our curfew and she didnt even mind we were still awake so he just agreed and she left we continued on with our game not saying much because i could tell he was embarased so i didnt adress the issue. A little while later id say about 20 mins we heard some dialoge and it picked up soon it was screaming i could tell it was his moms voice and another male voice that was unfamilar to me. the screaming got louder and louder until i asked grant if we should do something. He said he would check things out and left the room. So there i am sitting with the duck gun in my hand just trying to make out the yelling. heres what i could pick up and remember

Moms voice: " I told you we would take care of the lawyer"

anonymous male: It was susposed to be handled. john is not going to take to this kindly"

and the situation went worse from there. grant came back in the room and said i might want to call my mom for a ride and handed me his house phone {which was on a cord.} and i began to dial my moms cell number and all of the sudden i hear a loud SCREAM. and then a quiet whimper. grant said stay here and quickly left the room i then heard one of the worst sounds of my life. it still haunts me to this day. after he went down the stairs i put my ear againts the door and heard this:

Mom? Mom?... MOM!? and then a loud bone chilling scream. next i heard footsteps and the loud scream quickly ended by two or three gunshots.

i was terrified i ran to the window and tried to unlock the latch which was the longest three seconds of my life i got it open and put a foot out and the gutter and quickly tried to get a good stance. i didnt know what to do i was in a state of shock and just as i lean the rest of my body out i feel two cold hands grab me from inside the house i screamed and quickly tried to bite, yank or grab anything to avoid the clutches of a certain death. I was forcefully pulled back into the room and on my way in i hit my head on the bunk of grants bed and started bleeding i stod up and looked into the eyes of one of the most intimidating male i have ever seen he looked back and said " your moving with your auntie and uncle to bel-air."

V_Purity_V

That story was so awesome!! Too bad it was fake though. But seriously, you should become a writer or something.

Aight heres a couple ones that come to mind.

Well I was on my PC late at night just browsing myspace or gamespot or something. My parents were sleeping in their bedroom which is on the complete other side of my house. All the lights are off and all that lights the room is the glow from my monitor. So I was just sittin on my computer when I think I see something move across the floor, but it was practically pitch black so I couldn't really tell. I figured it was just my dog but then I realized I had just put my dog outside a couple hours earlier. So I'm too scared to go across the room to go flip on the light switch and I'm seriously paralyzed with fear. So finally I run and flip on the light switch and there was nothing there. I checked around the whole room and nothing. But man I've never been so scared in my life.

Also another time a couple years ago a couple friends and I decided were going to go climb this huge ass mountain near my friend's house and sleep on this kind of rock formation area. But it was pretty dark outside, in about 30 minutes it would be pitch black out. So we have some waters, food, etc. and so we start to climb up the mountain. About 10 minutes up the mountain were kinda gettin tired and so my friend tries to find this good spot to sit on. Well as he's walking he thinks he heard a rattle snake but my friends and I just sorta laugh at him because we just thought he was crazy. Well he starts running and asks us again if we heard something. Except this time we hear the rattles of a bunch of rattlesnakes and they're coming from all around where my friend was (he was about 10 feet away from me). So he's just standing there freaking out not knowing what to do and we thought for sure he was going to get bitten. Finally he just hauls ass to the closest rock that he could go stand on. But the rest of the trip up the mountain we were convinced rattle snakes were everywhere. Oh and I live in Arizona so we got a bunch of em ;[.

Sleeping in my basement.

It hasn't happened to me, but a friend of mine just told me tonight about his experience with a shadow person.

It was like 3 in the morning and he heard his cats start freaking out and hissing in the kitchen. Being afraid there might be a burglar, he grabbed a samurai sword and headed to the kitchen. He stressed the point that he isn't afraid of things including being hurt. He is not afraid of getting pummeled in a fight even if he knows it's going to happen. But when he got to the kitchen he saw one of those shadow people. he said it was reminiscent of a junkyard man. It was hunched over with its arms out in a very creepy pose he demostrated for me,

The second he saw the thing he immediately dropped the sword out of fear and he hunched over and started throwing up which scared the hell out of his GF which I guess was with him at the time.

Man if I ever encountered one of those things I might **** myself. They are some creepy beings and the consensus is that they are definitely malevolent beings. The craziest thing is that in the wikipedia article it mentions that they have actually been know to get right in peoples faces and stare at them for several seconds. That has to be one of the freakiest things a person can experience I am seriously shivering just thinking about it.

I tossed and turned and just hoped my Dad would of heard it from downstairs and would come up and stop whatever was going on. He never came so like 10-15 minutes later i told myself if I was to die today than I must at least know what killed me and so I wouldn't die a pansy. I got up and walked slowly toward my bathroom with my racing heart. I turned on the lights expecting something to pop out at me. Nothing happened but i noticed it was coming from the bathroom. GrandMasta69

I was home alone for the first time ever because my mom had to go to a party but she felt I was old enough to stay by myself. It wasn't very late at night maybe 8 or 8:30 at night. I was sitting in my room playing games when I heard the door open. I yelled hello because I thought it was my mom, but there was no answer. Being the stupid little kid I was I just decided to go see if it was her.

When I walked into the family room there was no one there, but I noticed that both the sliding glass door to the back yard and the door to the garage were open. I couldn't think of anything else to do but run to my room and call my mom. She rushed home along with the police. When they got there they checked for anything that was stolen, but everything was in its correct place except for an open cabinet. I have never been as scared as I was that night

A fist fight between some people but it wasn't really at all scary.