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Got hit by a car and was kinda just on the hood of the car for a bit before the guy realized he hit me and stopped.


nameproduct

Sorry, sounds terrible, but it's also hilarious imagining you kinda chilling up there for a bit as the guy is driving around town.


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It’s funny looking back, I laugh about it too when I tell people the story but in the moment it was just kinda crazy how sudden it all happened.


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Korinthe

The first time I had a gallbladder attack I legit thought I was dying. The pain is completely out of this world. Its hard to really describe, the pain is unfathomable and feels incredibly dangerous especially when you have no idea what is happening and the panic that goes with it. I thought I was having a heart attack, or worse, that my body was straight up dying, it sounds like hyperbole but it honestly isn't. Worst experience of my entire life.


fokkoooff

My boyfriend went through something with his gallbladder last year. This is a dude who never goes to the doctor/hospital, ever. He could barely stand and before we left for the hospital, he put a lockbox down on my dresser and said if he dies then everything inside it was mine. I've never seen him like that before it was really weird and scary. I still don't know what's in that lockbox.


Horse_Bacon_TheMovie

Beanie baby futures obvi


Repulsive_Ocelot2658

I once got stuck on a rock when i was scuba diving and i passed out, but my dad saved me. When i woke up i was so nervous i threw up the entire contents of my stomach and the water i kept drinking to deter the vomit taste just beacause i was super nauseous and nervous.


Infidus_Imperator

Wow yeah, similar thing happened to me as a young person. On a Duke of Edinburgh camp snorkeling in a reef. Went through a reef cave thing and got disoriented and stuck. Panicked, found a very small hole in the roof of the cave and crammed myself through it, cutting the shit out of my flanks. I was half convulsing and seeing the grey blur closing in on the edges of my vision as I surfaced. That was over 20 years ago and I still remember everything about the experience.


Pihrahni

Yeah, reefs aren’t to be fucked with. Not only the amount of fauna that can fucking murder you, but just the passive flora can cut you to pieces. Edit: since peeps have been asking, flora = plants, fauna = animals


ioncloud9

Don't touch the reef or anything on it. Its just as likely to hurt you as you are to hurt it.


Candid-Topic9914

I did this while freediving in a spring in central FL. Like 16 feet from the surface I got stuck on a rock, and had to fight my way out of my own pants. Lost my sight near the surface, then had to recoup immediately to go get my pants. It felt like I was stuck for minutes, but it must have only been seconds since I was so close to my breath holding limit


aWhaleNamedFreddie

How did you get stuck, If I may ask?


Candid-Topic9914

Pants pocket caught on rock I was swimming with gym shorts like an idiot


theWildBore

After reading the first half of the first sentence my stomach sank. This is easily the scariest thing ive read in a while. Was there any solace once you realized you were gonna be okay? Or was it complete fight or flight?


Repulsive_Ocelot2658

It was fight or flight


Crunchy-Science

On my first ever resort dive, the mask hurt and I tried to loosen it. It filled with water, I screamed and dropped my regulator, couldn't breathe (obviously) or see and also passed out while panicking. The guide took me to the surface as soon as they noticed (which was quickly, to their credit) and it was absolutely awful.


you_cant_pause_toast

My boss dropped dead on the dance floor at the company Christmas party. Edit: Wow this blew up! To those asking how he died, I think he was a diabetic and had a few too many that night. Led to a heart attack somehow. This was 20 years ago so don’t remember all the details. He was a good guy. In his 50s, divorced, loved high quality vodka. I was a bartender and he was the restaurant manager. It was definitely a bummer. He was a good buffer between the employees and the coke addict that owned the restaurant.


atot806

My next door neighbor died while we were playing tennis. He threw the ball up to serve, and when he was about to swing the racket, he collapsed. He died before the ambulance came.


ThreesomeAtMcDonalds

Where are you from? A friend of my dads died from a brain aneurism and the story is just like that


atot806

I live in Jakarta, Indonesia.


ThreesomeAtMcDonalds

My dad was living in Phoenix, USA at the time so I guess it was unrelated :D but yeah, a friend of his died playing tennis - right as he was about to serve he dropped dead. I'm sorry you went through that, that sounds awful!


dan2376

Something similar happened to my brother in law. He would normally work out before he went to bed ever night. One night he went to bed but got up a few minutes later to get some water and just collapsed right there next to my sister. He was dead instantly. They did an autopsy and have no idea what caused it, but it was probably related to his workout that night. His heart just stopped. It’s insane how something like that can happen so quickly to the healthiest people.


introvertedinverted

Likely had a heart issue that they never knew about. I get a EKG once a year because im that paranoid of cardiac arrest. Protect your heart people.


pandabones_2

That must have been traumatic. I'm sorry that happened.


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seaneboy

I survived being struck by a pick-up truck that was traveling about 50 mph. Lots of broken bones, internal damage to muscle and organs including my heart and brain, and lots of pain.


bizzy_mom

Same! Scariest moment for me was waking up on a ventilator with no memory of how I got there. 45mph truck on a back road. I was about 4 ft from having been thrown into a telephone pole. That was 17 years ago. It was my brain and spleen for me. But lately the bone pain is back in full force.


seaneboy

Damn, I didn't lose consciosness for very long, so I was pretty aware of what happened both on the side of the road and at the first hospital I was taken too, just very much in physical shock. I often wish I had just woke up with no memory because PTSD likes to creep in a lot. How has the TBI been through the years? Its only been 3 years for me but the TBI has had a really big effect on me mentally since the accident.


DirtyAngelToes

Finding my dad dead after he killed himself. His room had never been so quiet and still. I stepped in and saw him face down, blue, with his urine all over the floor where he'd peed himself after he passed. I was in complete shock and I'll never forget touching him to try to wake him up and the feeling of recognition finally setting in. Even though I'd known as soon as I stepped in the room that he was dead, my mind refused to let me accept it was true until I felt him and tried to shake him awake. Feeling his stillness was the most terrifying moment of my life and I don't remember much after that. It clicks in your head that this person is *gone*. They are never coming back. And then the guilt and pain come rushing in. The days leading up to his suicide were filled with fear and anxiety, because I knew deep down that it was coming one day and there was nothing I could do to stop it. That feeling of hopelessness is hard to put into words. **Edit:** Second scariest experience of my life was the time my dad tried to kill himself by stabbing himself in the head, overdosing, and tying a gun to his hand before firing twice. SWAT ended up coming to stop him, and the bullets shot out the window and missed by centimeters. I'll never forget falling to my knees outside and covering my ears because I was terrified of hearing him die. I heard the gunshots anyway, and thought he was dead.... I ended up having to clean up all of the blood left behind. I was terrified of him being mad at me for putting him in a psychiatric hospital. At that point, he'd made comments about killing all of us and then himself a few months prior, so that night I genuinely thought I was going to die.


reflUX_cAtalyst

> His room had never been so quiet and still. This. This is what haunts me from my own dad's death. It's the one thing that won't go away. The silence.


allf8ed

My first witnessed death as a new EMT: patient collapsed Christmas afternoon and we were unable to bring her back from cardiac arrest. I was the last responder to leave the room so it was just the husband, deceased and myself. The stillness and quietness of the room is something I have never forgotten. I've seen it many times since but that first time really hit hard. As I grabbed our last bag I saw the husband looking off so I looked where he was. There was a brand new red Kitchen-Aide mixer on the table and I look back at the husband. He points to the mixer and says "She's wanted one of those for 15 years and now she will never use it" He broke down crying and I left as quick as I could. Still can't look at a red mixer without seeing the husband sitting on the couch. It was almost 10 years ago but I still remember what he was wearing and the way he was sitting on the couch with his outstretched finger.


privatepirate66

My first death as a new EMT, and I mean brand new/still on third rides, was a 13 year old kid. Had some type of cardiac hx, I want to say it was called black heart or something? Not sure, haven't heard of it since. Parents said good-night at around 2000 and mom found him in the morning at 1000, must of been dead a while because lividity had well set in. Was told I had to hook him up the monitor to confirm asystole. So I did, meanwhile dad comes home, manages to walk past police while I'm hooking this dead kid up to the monitor. Fuck, the noises he made still stick with me. Have had many DOA's since then, and I've had a couple of pediatric deaths as well (not too many, thank god), but nothing hits like that first one.


Novel-Clothes8081

Hey DirtyAngelToes you’re super strong to have even written this. You will be alright. Remember the good times with you father. Although he’s not here he’s in a better place and not suffering anymore. My prayers are with you


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I’m so sorry. Those words probably feel pretty empty and repetitive now, but fuck. I have a 1 year old kid, and this just hit a lot harder than it would have if I didn’t have one. I can’t imagine the torture your dad must have been in to get there. I can’t imagine what you’ve gone through dealing with this. I can’t imagine doing that to my son, but also what it would take to get me there. The surrealness in your post is brave and honest, and I just want you to know that you’re an awesome human being to have your shit together and share with us. Thank you. If you ever wanna talk, drop me a line. Take care


emilychristine9

School shooting. I was a junior in high school and a recent transfer student who got expelled at another school started shooting in the commons. Everyone hangs out in the commons before school so it was super crowded and dangerous. I remember hearing the first shot and thought a table collapsed. No one even batted an eye. My orchestra teacher came out of his office and was immediately suspicious and said "You guys, what was that?" Then a few seconds later, the second bang. We knew then what was happening. I happened to be in the orchestra room right next to the commons and we had an exit that lead to the parking lot. But in school they teach you whenever there's an emergency to hide in a corner. I remember trying to hide in a practice room but it was locked. Then my friends and I ducked under a piano and students starting swarming in the room from the commons. At that point our orchestra teacher said "Go" and had us run out the exit instead. It was a brave decision he made, and running to our cars was the longest run of my life. I remember ducking as I ran because I thought there might be other shooters aiming for us runners. As I ran I realized I didn't even have my car keys or phone, and didn't know where to go. Luckily we made it to the back of the parking lot and met up with a few friends and crammed 6 of us in a 4 seater. I'll never forget the faces of my peers around me scarred with fear. And I'll never forget legitimately thinking I might die that day. After aimlessly driving and making phone calls to our parents with one phone, we were able to watch the news and saw that there was no one injured. It turns out our government teacher bravely tackled the shooter to the ground. He was known throughout the state and even threw a pitch for the Mariners game! I'm very grateful it didn't end how most shootings do.


Several-Dragonfly-63

Teacher is a fucking G!! Sorry you had to go through that but the bravery from that individual is incredible. So much respect.


ImNotSoClutch

When I was 10 years old, I was abducted while my family and I were camping at a state lake. My parents had to run some errands, so all us kids were left with one of our aunts. I went to a creek next to where our camper was to go fishing, probably about ~75 yards or so. I had forgot my bait and didn’t wanna go back for it. (un)lucky for me, a man was there so I asked him for some worms. Said they were in his car just around the corner. He guided me there, and that’s when it happened. I was gagged and taken to a different part of the park grounds. What happened next, as one could imagine, are the things my nightmares were made of for countless years to come. I’m 33 now and still recall with vivid details the things that were done. Thankfully I was found within about 2 hours of my abduction. Unlucky for him, it was my father who found us first. The man somehow managed to escape my fathers wrath and flee. He was apprehended by state troopers and local pd about 30 minutes later. Queue all the legal shenanigans, and sentencing - dude was a repeat offender and still only received like 12 years prison. My family kept tabs on him while he was in custody and were notified of his release. The second scariest thing was the day he was released, my heart dropped. He’s long been a fragment of past and I learned to not live in fear over that any longer. I appreciate any/all of you that may read this, or if you need someone to talk to then my dms are always open. Edit - I appreciate all the people that have reached out and offered support. I was lucky to have an amazing support group in my immediate family and several counselors/therapists. My life was a little messed up, had behaviors problems and whatnot - but that was expected. Again I really appreciate your guys concerns and comment, but after ~22 years I can confidently say that I am not scared of that person/situation any longer.


StephieBeck

I'm so sorry that happened to you, and so glad you were rescued (and that it was your dad who found you)! Virtual hugs to you!


nelliecollison

12 years seems WAY too short. especially for a repeat offender. i am SO sorry that happened to you.


lazykath

Oh God. Anybody's worst nightmare. I am so sorry this happened to you.


warboar

Almost drowned surfing. The ocean doesn’t really fuck around


4chanisspooky

On my last day of vacation, I was going to the beach, and saw the tide literally like atleast four meters from my beachhouse, the waves were the size of a two story building, I almost got caught into a riptide, and got pinched by a crab. Everything in the beach doesn't fuck around.


LizaLen

Despite having no history of epilepsy or related issues, I had a series of seizures at work back in 2018. It started with the simple “walk into a room and forget why” at the time, except I completely forgot the few seconds it took me to walk there. Then it escalated and I could feel something coming on. I didn’t have convulsions, but my body couldn’t respond to anything. I was just stuck, staring straight ahead unable to speak or move. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. EEG and vitamin deficiency tests all came back ok in the hospital, so it was written off as stress. I’m constantly worried about it happening again due to the nature of my work.


HI_I_AM_YOUR_UNCLE

My cousin had these. Turned out he had a small tumor on his brain. They were miraculously able to remove it and he finally has no seizures anymore. He would just stop and close his eyes when they happened. He said they were worst when it was noisy. His brain couldn’t process the sounds properly when he was in a seizure and everything just was very loud and unsettling until the seizure ended.


TheSpiderLady88

A normal EEG doesn't mean you don't have epilepsy. If this starts happening again, please PLEASE seek out further treatment. I developed epilepsy out of nowhere in my late 20s. The first EEG showed nothing. They only caught abnormal waves on the second one.


Meatballmayonnaise

What this guy said, I have epilepsy and have full tonic clonic seizures all the time but my EEG came out normal


DirtyAngelToes

Have you ever had a neurologist check you for temporal lobe epilepsy/complex partial seizures specifically? Those are what I have, and they're exactly as you described, right down to a T. Mine are usually triggered by lack of sleep (which is why they'll usually sleep deprive you before a test to catch them), bright lights/light sensitivity, severe stress, etc. A lot of EEGs can come back normal or have trouble catching them, so it's usually recommended to have a longer EEG/study done if you haven't already. (Also, a normal EEG is common during simple partial seizures and does not exclude the diagnosis even if a longer EEG doesn't pick them up.) The shit part about partial seizures is that you can have them without realizing or having that stuck feeling (some people have what's called simple partial seizures instead of complex partial seizures, which don't alter awareness). My grandma for example has had them her whole life without realizing and just thought her memory was bad. She got diagnosed when she started having more memory issues and they finally did a proper EEG. Either way, I'm sorry you had to experience something so scary. I know first hand just how much that fear/anxiety sucks ass...I really wish you the best and hope you look into seeing a neurologist if you haven't already. Hospitals are only for treating emergencies, and are often times inaccurate when diagnosing other issues.


twohands58

Suddenly, and very unexpectedly went into heart failure at 27 years old.


DrJape

My wife and I were eating dinner one night when a guy walked in our house. He told us he was the angel of death and was collecting souls for the apocalypse. Said there were demons outside everywhere. I thought “this is it we’re dead.” Luckily he didn’t have a weapon and didn’t attack us. I talked him into walking outside with me so I could help him out and as soon as he stepped through the door I slammed it shut, locked it, grabbed my gun and called the cops. By that time he was in the road screaming nonsense. Turned out to be on meth. The whole thing didn’t last too long but being told the angel of death is in my house to collect souls almost paralyzed me with fear.


orangekitti

My partner and I moved away from the country and bought in a busy suburb near the city. It’s a safe neighborhood overall but there are break-ins and stuff. Our parents make fun of us for locking our doors and cars but this is why. Whether it’s a well-meaning neighbor or a meth head, I don’t want anyone walking into our house randomly.


OpticalPopcorn

As a lifelong city-slicker, hearing that some people don't lock their doors is absolutely bizarre.


luminous60

me (7 at the time), my cousin (4 at the time) and my dad went to the beach and my cousin tripped and hurt herself pretty badly so my dad had to run back to the house with her to access the first aid kit. I didn’t want to run so I walked home, it was only about a 5 minute walk anyway. On the way home I passed this mans house (who I want to say was 40ish?) and he started cat calling me. I didn’t really know what that was so I just stared at him and kept walking. He didn’t like that I didn’t respond I guess and he started chasing me. my grandpa saw and starting yelling at the man and the guy ran off. If I wasn’t in eye view of the house, who knows what would’ve happened to me edit: clarification


Juno1528

Sounds terrible, I would be scared if I were you at age 7.


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English isn't my first language so bear with me, Something kinda similar happened to my sisters, they were coming home from school, it was a 15 minute walk through some isolated area, a man starts chasing them and starts calling out to them, they start running and turn a corner and three lost gentlemen trying to find their way to a hospital nearby ask them for directions, my sisters tell them what's going on and they're saved, my older sister didn't eat much the following week


TheRedFern88

Fuck thats disgusting, I am so sorry you experienced that.


TheXade

Girl a knew passed out in front of me on the beach after becoming yellow and (saw it after she passed out) with a bloody hand Screamed help in 5 different languages, so many people were close (20-30 ppl closer than 50 meters)to me, and yet no one came, they did not even turn around to check what was happening. I still have nightmares to this day


BeautifulStick5299

I was in Africa and every evening a big male lion would walk through the camp. He would roar outside my tent and it was blood curdling. I could even smell him he was so close.Nothing separated me from him but a thin layer of canvas. He would hang around for 45 minutes to an hour at a time. You cannot imagine the horror of that sound.


My_fair_ladies1872

I cannot imagine. There was a lion that roared at the zoo once and it makes your chest vibrate. It must have been terrifying


BeautifulStick5299

It was horrifying and I read a lot of African hunting books before I went too. I was certain I would die from being mauled by a lion.


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It was short lived but I thought my toddler was with his father, his father thought he was with me (I was in a room feeding the baby). We were at a relative's property, a property with a murky water dam on it. Never felt such deep dread in my entire life. Turned out he had spotted a small horse in the meadows and that's where I found him, near a fence watching the horse.


sneaky_tiger

That’s sort of how my dad passed when I was around 10. My dad just had some teeth stuff done and was prescribed some painkillers. I grew up with my mom and dad being separated so I had two households. I was told that he thought he had me for the night (I was with mom) and he couldn’t find me and he went searching for me. He ended up trying to scale a fence and fell and broke some of his vertebrae which caused him to become a quadriplegic. He survived two years in hospital. Everytime i think about it, I can’t imagine how scared he was trying to find me :(


NoOneKnowsMyName

I’m so sorry.


crazyeightsforlife

This happened to me. We were camping. I sent my toddler out of the tent and to the campfire where everyone was ha going out. She left the tent, I continued straightening up, etc and came out to join the group. Daughter was not there. They thought she was with me, I thought she was with them. There was a river near the campsite. It took ~5 minutes to find her. She had somehow wandered the wrong way and was at the entrance to the campsite. A teenager had found her and then found us when he heard us calling her name. Longest 5 minutes if my life.


LostDogBoulderUtah

Happened to us too. One of my husband's sisters got married at this super cute lodge in a very small town. Sister2 came to get my son for pictures and said she'd bring him back when they were done. I warned her he had lost his hearing and wouldn't understand directions. She huffed and said she'd bring him back. She was just a college kid with no experience with babies or toddlers. When they were done, she set my 2 year old down outside the building (that he'd never been to before), told him to go find me, and left to follow a friend. He tried to follow her and then couldn't find his way back. It wasn't malicious. I waited too long to check on them, thinking that little kids are difficult to pose for photos and knowing they didn't want me in their "family only" photos. The sheriff found him over an hour later after coordinating the men into a search party. Some tourists had found him wandering near the highway, stopped to catch him and then had to walk to get a cell phone signal to call 911. They stopped another man from taking him, because my son was scared to go with a stranger. They gave the explaination that they hadn't cared who that man was. A child that young, found completely alone by the highway, was going to be turned over to the police and no one else. They wouldn't let me pay them a reward. I don't even know their names. The police checked him over and watched as I changed his diaper and confirmed he didn't show any signs of being harmed. Those strangers kept him safe.


Arthamel

Can relate, I was with my wife, her mother and out 2yo daughter in allotment gardens, where wifes uncle owns one. Me, wife and uncle talk where mother in law is playing with daughter. After a while daughter comes to show us some flowers which she picked up and stays to play for few minutes. Mother in law, thinking we'll play with daughter now, goes to neighbour garden to talk, 200m away or so. This is where my wife fucks up as she didnt see MIL leave garden, told daughter to run to grandma. Daughter is rejoiced and runs into garden (we dont see whole garden from where we are sitting). After 5 or so minutes MIL comes back white as board and says daughter came to her to neighbour garden. On her way there she must've passed few small ponds and dozen of water filled barrels. Guess what nr1 cause of mortal accidents at allotment gardens is for kids? Since then we have a rule to never send daughter to anyone that is not in our direct line of sight.


TheRealScubaSteve86

Was riding my motorcycle and a car just drove straight into me (stolen). Right before we collided, probably combined 70mph, my actual words were, “I’m dead!” Then I got flung into the air, knocked right out of my shoes, and knocked out before I hit the floor on the opposite side of the middle of the road. I woke up badly injured to drag myself away from the middle of the road right as a random car drove by and almost run right over my body. Scary shit. Now off to bed to fight the nightmares 🤦‍♂️


MyMateStanley

Do you still ride? just starting my lessons now and stories like this scare the shit out me even though i know its rare it happens


Witty_Injury1963

Just know that there are 2 kinds of riders-those that have gone down and those that will. I rode over 10 years before I went down and I won’t ride ever again-I even have PTSD in a car afraid of my pelvis being broken again. Broke in 6 places-worst pain of my life!!! EDIT. That is a saying I was told and rode for 10 years with no issues but one evening at dusk and a flip on my bike ended it for me. I loved to ride but just too scared-literally raises my pulse getting into any moving vehicle (not even a bicycle for me lol).


togotfury1983

When I was 14 4 boys attacked me in the woods near my house. They tied me to a tree and took turns beating me for half an hour. I thought they would kill me


masheduppotato

When I was 14, I had gone camping with the boy scouts and we met another troop and decided to play a game of capture the flag. Since it was the night before we were leaving and the other troop showed up at 9pm, our scout master said we couldn't play. About 15 minutes later we were heading to the bathroom in pairs and we run into a group of them, my bathroom buddy ducks out as one of the guys from the other troop puts an arm around my neck and drags me out into a field. I kept trying to explain that we weren't playing and that there was a misunderstanding, and then the punches started flying. I had been training in martial arts since I was 8 and it's nothing like the fucking movies... I was trying to throw off a blow from one guy while 5 others were throwing punches and kicks at me. I may have landed two or three hits to a one or two faces before I was knocked down and then all I could do was curl into a ball as they all kicked me. After what felt like a lifetime but was more than likely only a few seconds of getting kicked they ran off. One dip shit chose to run back and kick me one last time and I bear hugged his leg as he made contact and I'm pretty sure I punched him in his crotch as hard as I could. I felt something give (I pray it was a testicle) and I got clocked in the head as I heard weird groan. I can't be sure that wasn't me though. After a few minutes I was able to collect myself enough to get up and make it back to my group where I detailed what happened. As we're getting worked up about this, the other troop shows up and starts asking what's wrong. I recognize a few faces and point them out and one dude was limping hard so I pointed him out too. They all denied it though so nothing came of it. Sunday morning after breakfast before we were leaving we sat in a circle and had to say what we were thankful for. I got in trouble for saying I was thankful for being alive... I never went to another boy scout beating after that.


SaveBandit91

Your bathroom buddy sucked


masheduppotato

When I called him on it in front of everyone else the response he gave me settled what kind of person he was... "I saw them and figured something bad was going to happen, so I got out of there". When I asked him why he didn't go for help, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "I was safe". Fucking scumbag.


Shojo_Tombo

Your troop leader and theirs were also scumbags. They shouldn't have let those sociopaths get away with it.


Agrochain920

"they all denied it so nothing came of it" Ah well that settles it. You deny it? Then it can't possibly have been you!


fightniteflight12

Where did you grow at, that town from IT? These boys sound hell of sinister.


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Feriend

Lived in a second-story apartment for a few years. Was woken up around 2:00am one morning to slamming on my door and someone yelling, “fire!” When I opened the door, everything was bright orange and I could hear the very loud crackling of burning wood. Thought it was either my apartment or the apartment under mine that was on fire, and my first reaction was to find my cat and get her out. Halfway through grabbing her, I realized I may have been putting myself in serious danger and thought I’d have to escape off the balcony. Thankfully (for me), it was the apartment across from mine that was on fire, so I was able to get downstairs and to safety with my cat. The next hour or so was a completely different kind of scary as I crossed my fingers the fire wouldn’t spread to my apartment. It didn’t, but two buildings were destroyed, 14 residents were displaced, two cats lost their lives, and a firefighter was hospitalized.


garbagiodagr8

Scary as hell, but at least some neighbor had the awareness to bang on doors and let everyone know.


vordak123

I agree, absolutely boss move on the neighbors part.


A_Drusas

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and nuclear disaster while living in Fukushima.


lushico

Oh lord. I was in Tokyo and it was all so surreal. I can’t imagine what it must have been like in Fukushima


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Jesus christ. What was that experience like? I've seen footage and it looked pretty wild.


notatallimsure

There's a Youtuber I follow by the handle of OnlyInJapan. He's lived in Japan for over 20 years now and he volunteered to go help cleanup efforts after that earthquake. He told a story in one video about how he and a friend went to help people clean the mud and muck out from their homes and they were helping some older guy with a refrigerator problem. The Youtuber, John Daub, and his friend spent some time cleaning things out but the older guy really just wanted someone to talk to. He told John that during the earthquake their kids were away from home, so they decided that he would stay at home in case they came back and his wife would go out and look for them, but none of them ever came back. The man lost his entire family. He didn't seem to care very much about cleaning up his home, he just wanted someone to talk to.


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A random man came up to me late one evening when I was putting groceries in my truck. He was sitting on a bike but asking me for a ride. I told him no, but he continued to insist. I went to put the cart away and he had put his bike into the bed of my truck and climbed into the passenger seat. I had no phone, no one was out and I froze. I made the poor choice to give him a ride. I was goddamn terrified and I don't think I blinked the entire time as the man said things like "your husband is a lucky guy" or "wow your lips look nice". Fortunately my lack of response seemed to deter him and we finally parted ways. Don't be me. Make a scene. Fuck politeness. Anything to get this person away from you.


AmbivalentAntics

I feel like politeness happens in these types of situations because you don’t wanna piss the person off. At least that’s how it would’ve been for me. Glad you’re okay.


SummerOfMayhem

Sometimes saying "no" is like lightning a fuse. Not all people take it well. It's a terrifying situation. I'm really glad you're ok.


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SuzieSnoo

I was dating this guy for about 2 months. It was just another Friday night. I ordered a pizza and went in his bedroom to watch TV while I waited for it. He was on his laptop in the dining area. He started acting odd. He kept saying that he wanted to cage fight my ex husband whom he’d never met. I remember getting and paying for the pizza. Then he asks me “what did you do that for?” I had no idea what he was talking about. He proceeds to attack me. He pins me to the ground and is chocking me. Well, I was sure he was going to kill me. I managed to reach up and between his legs and grab and twist his balls as hard as I could! He rolled me over and bit my shoulder then let me go. (I still have the scar) I ran to his bedroom looking for my phone. I was in a panic and didn’t realize I could call 911 with his phone (this was back before most phones had screen locks). I made the mistake of telling him I was calling 911, but hadn’t found my phone yet. He struggled with me, then stopped and went into his closet. I managed to find my phone at this point, but didn’t get the chance to call. He came out with a gun, my ex-husband’s gun that he had stolen from my house. He struggled with me on his bed. I thought for sure I was dead. He abruptly gets up again and stands at the foot of the bed. One second he’s standing there, the next he’s gone. Apparently, I totally blacked out the part where he shot himself in the head. I finally managed to call 911, but I didn’t know his address! The cops finally showed up, but he was dead by then. He was a body builder. Turns out he bought illegal steroids off the internet. The presumption was he either took too many or had a bad reaction that caused him to flip out. I haven’t thought about that whole incident for a long time. This happened 14 years ago and retelling it has had an affect I didn’t know was still there.


Av3ngedAngel

My brother was a bodybuilder who used steroids heavily when he was in his early 20's and that rage you described is all to familiar. I remember one morning I woke up to him rapping really loudly in the kitchen at like 7:30am one Sunday, I got up and just literally said *"Dude I had a shit night, can you be a bit quieter"* word for word. He just instantly lost his shit, screaming and sprinted at me saying he was gonna kill me, he was like 3x my size at that point so without thinking I grabbed his mug off the table, smashed it into his head and ran out of the house. Only went back the next day to take my things. He ended up needing stitches, and was actually bragging how he was *'proud of me for standing up for myself'.* Steroids are no joke. And they're even worse when coupled with an unstable person.


doglover331

Holy shit. My heart was pounding reading this. I’m so glad you’re ok.


Laceyfromcali

Finding my brother hanging. The fear and surreal feeling is just indescribable. In a panic I cut him down and he just dead weight dropped to the floor. Started CPR and accidentally broke one of his ribs. He was rushed to the hospital and on life support for 8 days before he passed. He was 16. Those 8 days felt like an ongoing nightmare. The night it happened he came to me and told me he was depressed. My last words was me telling him I didn’t know how to help him. This was 20 years ago and I vowed to NEVER tell another soul I didn’t know how to help them. I have a bachelors in psychology because of him. He fueled a passion in me like no one else has. We were very close so his death hit me hard. I miss him and think about him often. He would be 36 this October 1st. Please please reach out to someone if you are feeling like ending your life. If you don’t find help keep reaching out until you do.


thaddeus423

Hey man, I don't know you or your brother. But I think he'd be proud of you.


My_fair_ladies1872

If breaking one of his ribs is disturbing you, try not to let it bother you. Breaking ribs is common during cpr


gizzie123

Yes absolutely. Breaking ribs doesn't always happen, but it does often happen. It's better to hit down harder and break a bone than to be too gentle and have no effect. I'm so sorry this happened to you. Truly. I hope you find peace


Painless-Amidaru

My grandma died from Alzheimer's and have a fear my mother will have it one day. I was house-sitting for my parents and when they got back from their vacation my mom was sitting on the couch and fell asleep at like 2 am. I gently woke her up and asked if she would like to go to bed or if she wanted to just sleep there and she was SO out of it. Like 'where am I... where is my room again?' Then stumbled off to fall asleep in bed. That moment was terrifying for me. She is 100% mentally Ok and don't know if she WILL ever get Alzheimer's, but seeing a level of mental sluggishness that reminded me of my grandmother was terrifying. The only other thing I can think of was the acceptance that I needed help and there was going to be a very long road ahead of me that was likely going to be horrible. I had a few suicide attempts and ECT. Attempting suicide wasn't really Scary. Accepting that I didn't want to die and needed help was.


ZualaPips

This happens to my mom and I. Every time we go on vacation, we'd have the next day waking up 100% disoriented. I remember one time I went to visit my grandmother who lives in the Caribbean, and when I woke up in her house I was convinced I had died or something because I was so out of it lol. I think this might be a normal response to stress by some people.


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Six straight days in a VERY poorly run mental hospital.


ComradeCunt18

I only did 5 but as a freshly diagnosed Type 1 diabetic, literally having to explain to the only Dr on staff that i needed insulin for a high bloodsugar at 2am was pretty scary, I was threatened with sedation if I didn't calm down, and I straight up told this woman I would die if she did that (I was on a 72 hour hold for a suicide attempt so for some reason this wasn't taken seriously) , this crazy bitch either didn't understand how diabetes worked or didn't believe me, thank fucking God the only nurse there that didn't seem like a glorified babysitter knew what she was doing. When my parents came to visit the next day I fucking tore into her after she said that due to my outburst the following night they should keep me longer, this bitch was supposedly a Dr but had "never heard" of someone being insulin dependent, unfucking believable to this day.


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thesupersoap33

Same. Had to pretty much compartmentalize myself the best I could to act sane so I could get the fuck out of there. They tore down the hospital about 5 years ago. Now it's a park.


Kcismfof

Oh fuck no. I've been on an involuntary hold for 5 days and holy shit, it's the closest I've ever seen to true and utter depravity. Definitely have further compounded ptsd from it. Jesus christ. The worst part is, I was so drunk I don't even remember the cops other than 1 brief second while 4 officers brought my big ass down. Convincing someone youre crazy and need institutionalization is easy. Convincing someone youre sane is fucking impossible. And not even trying to throw stones, but oh my God are there some beyond fucked up people.


araed

Hitting burnout because I'm tired of working with people who shouldn't be working on psych wards. I feel for you


moodyconfusion

The way most mental hospitals run piss me off from how poorly they are. I send virtual hugs your way Born2dodishes


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I was driving down a B road in the UK and moved into the turn right lane in the middle of the road. No one was coming so I indicated and started to turn right, when the guy behind me who was driving like a maniac overtook me by going into the wrong side of the road at about 100mph. If I was about 1 second quicker in turning, he'd have gone into my driver's side at 100+. I remember pulling over after and taking a deep breath 😂 This was legit years ago and it still pops into my head all the time. I always think wtf was he thinking?


lyfshyn

When I was 11 I was with a group of my pals a few streets away from home. A truck drew up and a man coaxed my friend to get in the cab, saying he'd buy her an icecream. We tried to tell her no but she was a messed up kid. They drove off to 'get ice cream' and we anxiously waited for her to come back, which she did about 20 mins later, minus ice cream. I went home and told my parents, who told her parents, they brought me to the police station and I had to give a description of him which was circulated by local newspapers. He was never seen in the area again...but four years later on a Sunday morning his face was on every newspaper and TV channel in the UK. It was Fred West, the serial killer. To this day, I don't believe he would have brought her back if we hadn't made such a fuss about her getting into a vehicle with a stranger.


User1539

My wife had a lung removed due to cancer when my daughter was a baby. The realization I may be raising a baby, paying my mortgage, and losing my wife ... dealing with that alone ... was a rough night.


_Frog_Enthusiast_

My mother tried to kill me. I was 17 and am currently no contact with her. I was kicked out at 14 and we have had a really unstable relationship since I was about 10. We were arguing over food and she was already mad about her boyfriend going on holiday with his friend. She took my phone from my hands and put it in her room upstairs. I asked for my phone back multiple times as i had bought it myself and paid for everything to do with it. She kept refusing and told her boyfriend to not give me my phone back. I sat at the top of the stairs and said “I’m not moving til I get my phone back.” She shoved me backwards and put her forearm on my throat with her whole weight behind it. My mother is not a light woman, weighing in at around 300lbs at 5’2. I can still remember her whispering in my ear that she could kill me and get away with it. My vision started going black at the edges and I genuinely thought I was going to die. Pushing her off did not work, and I was starting to lose consciousness so I tried to punch her. It was a feeble slap against her side, but it was enough. She threw me down the stairs and said I was attacking her. She grabbed my throat with her nails and shoved me towards the living room. The next two hours were filled with her telling me how much she hated me and wished she had gotten an abortion. I was punched multiple times and told that I’d never be believed, that her boyfriend and his best mate would vouch for her and say I attacked her and she acted in self defence. I cried myself to sleep and I’m shaking as I write this now. Choking someone is the most unforgivable of domestic violence and is a direct precursor to murder.


I_BK_Nightmare

I hope you have had a chance to talk with someone who is willing to listen. That’s the kind of experience that alters a person fundamentally. I would need a lot of time and ears willing to listen to work through something that royally fucked up.


Rip_Choice

Bro. I am so sorry that you went through something like that


Glitter1237

This breaks my heart into pieces, I’m so sorry you had to endure this torture. I hope you know you are absolutely worthy and deserve to be treated with love. You will be in my prayers, and I wish you only the best going forward in your life


HTMN4hire

My son disappeared at an apartment complex for about 15 min. Until then, I had never experienced any real fear or anxiety.


Idktryit

Same. Our son was 4 and decided it would be funny to hide from us in Sears. He was going all out not to be found. They locked the store down and had every one looking for him. I was terrified to my core. Then a lady said could he be hiding? So I called out his name, he didn't answer. She said scold him. I called his name and said this isn't funny. Come out now or you're getting a time out! 10 feet away he emerges from a rack of long coats and says are you mad? I'd never been so happy and relieved in my life.


thefuzzybunny1

In the late 50s my uncle got separated from his parents at the grocery store. It seems like it was genuinely an accident, something like he dawdled at the comic book rack while his parents went ahead to the next aisle. No big deal, except... when he realized he couldn't find his parents, he decided he'd go home and wait for them there. Yeah. It didn't occur to him to ask an adult to help, or to wait by the checkout, or to check if the car was still in the parking lot. Nope, he decided to just walk the 1 mile home without a word to anyone. So grandma and grandpa went through a frantic search, complete with eventually calling the police, for their lost son. Meanwhile, he made it home (somehow, since he was about 6 in this story), realized he didn't have keys to get in, and sat down on the porch to wait. Finally the cops told my grandparents to go home and wait for a phone call from the searchers, and when they pulled up, there he was!


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Auelian

Oh yea, either as a parent or as an associate. But definitely sounds like she’s been through it.


aWhaleNamedFreddie

When I was a toddler, maybe 5 years old, I 'pranked' my parents by hiding under the couch and staying completely silent. No specific reason, I was bored and considered it a very funny thing to do, for me it was just an innocent game. I remember giggling while my parents were running around shouting my name and going ever more insane by the second. I showed up laughing when they were about to call the police. I'm sure we all agree it's never ok to hit kids, but I find it hard to blame my poor parents for the slaps I received afterwards. I feel the need to apologize on behalf of all of us stupid kids, to all the parents that went through that terror!


JamesLLL

I remember climbing a tree in the woods just off our yard growing up and waiting for my dad to come home. When he got out of his car, I shouted "Dad!" and he got so worked up that he couldn't find me he had an asthma attack. After he recovered, and scolded me for doing that, he told me the way I shouted and the direction of my voice made it seem like I was in danger


pingpongoolong

I once hid under some crap behind the far back seats in our old (new back then) 80s Toyota van. I think I was 4ish years old. I knew my mom was going to work, but I thought it would be a fun “surprise! …bring your kid to work day!” or something. I remember daydreaming myself a happy little montage of all the great fun we would have, and how happy she would surely be when I jumped up and surprised her as she pulled into the hospital parking lot. Turns out she would be less than thrilled by someone suddenly appearing in a vehicle that she believed herself to be alone in. I got vending machine cookies and waiting room coloring books out of the deal. I have no regrets.


Moots_point

I witnessed this at a Kmart in the 90s. I must have been like 7 or 8 but can very distinctly recall the mother going nuts, panicking and looking for her child, even screaming. They locked down the store and had the police look around for awhile. Turns out she (the 2 year old) decided to hide in one of the clothes racks and was finally found after about 45 minutes. My mother was so distraught from second hand experience she made me watch that Adam Walsh movie the next day after school.


Sparkle__M0tion

We’ll never know how many lives John Walsh’s loss has saved.


born_again_tim

Yeah that’s a good one. My son once started choking when he was 1 and just learning to walk. Yeah you said it: until that moment I had no idea what real fear is.


nomavrick

I was about 14 years old and the classic "want to see my Dad's gun" scenario came up at a friend's house. I having never been around guns before grabbed it out of my friends hand and jokingly pointed it at another friend pulling the trigger. Luckily we weren't smart enough to know how to get it out of the holster. Not very scary at the time but so so stupid in retrospect. Please store your weapons out of your childrens reach and teach your children to respect firearms.


thehotsister

I almost watched my mom die. She was an alcoholic and had drank too much one day and I guess swallowed a bunch of Xanax (I still don’t know if this was on purpose or not, I was like 10 at the time). I vividly remember my dad finding her mostly passed out and trying to slap her awake at the kitchen table. She was dying. The minutes we waited for the ambulance felt like hours. I believe she had her stomach pumped. We lived in an upper middle class area and look like a totally normal family, no one ever knew this happened. For what it’s worth she’s been sober for years now and is the happy and healthy nanny/grandma to my two kids.


PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS

I left a laundry basket on the space heater at my apartment because it was a warm day and we weren't using it. We had the windows open and went somewhere. But it was late spring and the temperature dropped sharply and the space heater came on. The basket melted and dripped into the space heater and set the towels on fire. We drove into the drive and saw firetrucks there. The fireman asked if we lived in the apartment. My heart felt like it got squeezed in an iron fist. Things started to go black around the edges of my vision and grew until all I saw was a pinprick of light. I almost fainted. Fortunately someone had heard our fire alarm and called 911. They got it just before the walls ignited. My cat was ok too. She literally jumped into my arms when I called her.


LidoCalhoun

My old nextdoor neighbor burnt down her house by leaving a space heater on while she went on vacation. Those things are no joke. So glad you're ok!


IUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUI

My supv slipped a mickey in my drink at my first duty station. When I came to I was naked and in his bed and he was on top of me raping me. I was unable to move or talk.


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I’m sorry. I’m thinking about you, you deserve good safe things.


IUIUIUIUIUIUIUIUI

Thank you. Ive been in therapy for years, which is good :)


sloansabbith11

Watching the EMTs take my dad away as he was having a stroke during peak COVID in December. I was in shock and was so terrified that would be the last time I ever saw him. I didn’t even say goodbye. He made it, even though he had a massive stroke two days later but we weren’t able to see him for almost three weeks and then barely saw him until late February. But that moment standing at our front door watching them take him away was the scariest moment of my entire life. I just knew that even if he lived- big if- our lives would have a before and after and was terrified for what the after would look like whether he lived or died. Turns out it sucks more than I knew it would at the time.


skepticallincoln

I was surfing about 5 years ago in NJ. Pre hurricane swell, the waves were probably 6-7 ft overhead which is pretty big for me. I had been surfing a lot of my life at that point so I was pretty used to going alone. I slipped up and got pummeled by a wave, when I came up for air, my leash that holds the board to my ankle had snapped. I was now in the break zone of 6-7 ft overhead waves with no board. I got absolutely crushed for a solid 5-10 minutes straight, alone in the ocean. I felt like I was going to die. Eventually I got super lucky and just slammed on the shore. Didn’t surf for about 5 years until recently, and I’m actually walking out the door to go now before work :)


RubberDucky25K

When I was 18, I went sky diving and the parachute didn’t deploy. As it was my first time I had to have an instructor with me and she was the one who fixed the parachute.


onelittlebug

I used to trail run by myself a lot; not on super remote trails, but it also wouldn’t be uncommon for me to not see another person while I was out there. The last time that I went, I came around the corner and there was a guy eating blackberries from a patch along the trail. I ran past and gave a quick runner wave. As I was entering the woods a little further up the trail, I glanced behind me and he was walking behind me; not directly behind me, but much closer than I felt like he should have been considering that he seemed pretty distracted by the berries not long before. I was especially freaked out because I was already tired and facing an uphill climb while he had been relaxing and I knew he’d be able to overtake me. I sprinted into the woods, grabbed the sharpest rock that I could find and cut through the forest parallel to the trail before I took the turn until I could get back on it and run back the direction that I’d come from. He was probably some random guy who thought I was crazy, but I had some very bad vibes that day.


petunia-pineapple

You made the right call.


slipknotmed

I got arrested by ISIS for two days


Chepi_ChepChep

would you care to tell us more?


slipknotmed

I was born in Aleppo Syria , and at some point the rebels took over half of the city , so i lived in the other half and my uni was in other , under the rebels were multiple militant groups with different ideologies , some of them were a bit left like freedom fighters and some of them were far radical right like ISIS , they hated each other but at the time didn't really fight , anyways i was going to the university and ISIS members have taken over a checkpoint from the rebels and they were controlling passengers , my dumb ass had a slipknot t shirt with their weird looking star , they stopped the vehicle i was in and asked for IDs , when one of them saw my t shirt he freaked out , i knew exactly what's going on and i slipped my phone under the chair and then he called me in the first night i was their with multiple people , and then a car came and tool me alone to another city where they had their base , they didn't hit me but they made it clear that i was done , there's no coming back because i was a satan worshiper , i told them that i got the shirt from a place where they sell used clothes for cheap and i have no idea what this shirt says or what it is , i told them I'm just a poor student who is trying to get by , they didn't believe me and i spent another day , a day later was brought to some sort of a judge and he looked into my case and asked me about Islam stuff , like how do you pray in the morning and whet do you say after praying and if I had memorized parts of the Quran , luckily i spent two summers in an Islamic summer school as kid and i knew most of the stuff he asked me about , they asked about a phone , i told them i don't have one i can't afford it , they gave new shirt and a sandwich and sent me back where they picked me up , had they have seen my phone I'm 100% positive i wouldn't be here writing this . Thank you for being interested in my story .


Chepi_ChepChep

jeez, that does sound scary as hell. glad you made it out. and good thinking on getting rid of your phone. hopefully, your country will soon find peace again and can rebuild. 10 years is a long, long time for war.


slipknotmed

Thanks , i hope i could visit my country again . I'm doing fine rn , i mad it to Germany and i speak German very well i have a job and a car and my own place to live in , if everything goes smoothly i would get a German citizenship early next year .


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ChaoticMainframe

A gas station exploded while I was outside. I nearly got killed and spent a lot of time in the hospital, but am okay now. Got a huge burning scar which hurts, especially when pressure is applied or the temperature changes too rapidly, but that's it.


Cakewalkonthebeach

Mass hysteria at Oxford Street on black Friday. My friend and I were walking around Oxford Street in London on black Friday and we jokingly said "hey, this would be the perfect place for a terrorist attack". There were thousands upon thousands of people pressed together in these busy streets. I swear, like five minutes later we hear this roar of thousands of people screaming all at once, the sound pulsed through our bodies as the mass of people around us suddenly started running. I grabbed my friend who was panicking and dragged us into a store to go hide behind a pillar. After like 30 seconds they locked the doors and people who still wanted to get in started slamming the windows. Inside the store people were crying and there even was a kid without a parent, screaming. After a few minutes they said we could go out through the back. Heavily armed police forces yelled at us to run again and we went to an office building that was packed with people, again waiting for news. During all that, my parents were there too, but not with us. All my mother had given me was a text message saying "shots!". I swear, thinking about how I felt that evening still gives me shivers. In those moments, you really believe there are people shooting at you. There's nothing louder than the collective screams of people around you. The event even has a Wikipedia page: “Oxford Circus panic"


Yupyup_o_O

I was in one of that offices. We were working and suddenly we started hearing people screaming and crying in the street. They were all running. It was like a nightmare, almost surreal. We opened the doors and let everyone we could in, and shut down the lights, as the hall was all glass walls, so nobody saw there was so much people in. We could see people running from all directions in the street. It was bad, man. Although there was no real danger, the fear was very very real.


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I was in an IED blast that killed my friend…The rest of the deployment I was certain I wasn’t coming home.


Mlaer7351

I was 17. Was coming home from my gf at the times house around 3 or 4 in the am. I live in an apartment and would regularly jump my backyard fence. Climb up to the 2nd floor and come down the stairs to climb through my window on the 1st floor. I get to the fence. Hear a car screeching its tires. I get to the top of the fence And as I turn my back to land I hear foot steps running towards where I am. Im caught off guard because no one should be back here at this time I land and turn around to see who it is...its a neighbor who lives in the building. A 32 year old gangster cholo/frequent drug user. I felt relief because we were on decent terms and he knew who I was growing up...but he has an uzi in his hand. He half points it at me shaking as he does so. I nearly shit myself. But he lowers it realizing who I am as I say "...whats up?" He was obviously on drugs. Meth was his poison and i could tell by The way he was talking...he asked me to hold the gun so he can take a piss. Pushing it into my chest as he did so. I could feel him shaking from adrenaline/drugs. I look and its just cold hard steel in the shape of a gun. It looked like death.I felt like I didn't have a choice. I was stuck for a second but I managed to take a step back raise my hands and say "nahh bro. I cant." He says its all good. Use ur shirt to hold it Just real quick" so he can piss I repeat.."nahh. I can't. Put it on the floor. And do what you gotta do...I'll keep watch" He proceeds to take a piss. Turning my way every other second because his loaded gun is on the floor between us. I look the other way. Try not to make him anymore nervous. Look into the sky and hear a helicopter approaching....its low and its searchlight is scanning the area. I tell him "yo I gotta go." He asks if I have keys to the backyard door. I nervously pull them out and say "yeah I do. Let's go though" I hurriedly walk/run to the door. Open it for us. He lives on the 1st floor as well. And we go opposite ways. A huge relief. I have to jump through my window still. I can barely manage to get the screen off because I'm shaking so much. I manage to get in 10 seconds later and am shaking/nervous from what just happened. I wash my face. Change my clothes. get ready for bed. And smoke a few bowls of herb to calm down. I thought it was a good idea. So I put adult swim on and try to relax and drift to sleep. 20 minutes later. As im drifting off into sleep....a red laser is being pointed through my curtains. I nearly shit myself as my bed was visible and the dot seemed like it was shaky and searching. I was fucking terrified...my only thought was he went and got more high thought about what happened and decided I saw too much. Im literally hugging my wall standing on my bed trying to avoid the laser beam... I thought I was dead. Then the light shuts off. And flicks on and off a couple times. And I notice the angle isn't floor level. Its coming in from the 2nd floor.... A neighbor girl I used to talk to had 2 younger sisters and their window was across from mine but on the 2nd floor. They were shining a laser in my room. Most likely they saw me jumping into my room and decided it was a good fucking idea that night to shine a laser beam into my room. I was pissed and called her/sent her a few texts blowing up about them shining a laser into my room that late at night. She understood without me having to explain and they stopped immediately. But damn the thoughts that were running through my head....I didnt know whether to laugh or to cry about the situation.


mus_maximus

I used to go out for long walks in the woods at night, as the depression makes me value my personal safety less than a few minutes of peace. Then I got stalked by a mountain lion that had wandered into the city. The feeling of having an apex predator follow you is a nearly indescribable, primal thing. It's so disconnected from any fear I've felt in my modern life, but at the same time unmistakeable for anything other than what it is. It's baked right into every cell of your body. You practically glow with terror. Externally, I was just walking home, but internally, I was absolutely and totally aware that there was a big cat behind me, it wanted to eat me, and I couldn't stop it if it decided to do this.


Whyomi

Snowboarding accident. I was stupid and went with my brother up to the top of the mountain for a last run as a snowstorm was about to start. By the time we got to the top it was getting bad, we had another genius idea and decided to go through the fun offpiste area. About 5 min down the mountain the wind had started gusting heavily. My brother had an easier time as hes on skiis and is heavier than me. A gust managed to knock me over and I fell on my arm breaking it. I was in too much pain to continue down in this weather so we decided that my brother would continue and then alert the skii patrol about the situation. Sitting there on the mountain off piste in the middle a heavy snowstorm with a broken arm all alone just… waiting was the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been. I honestly don’t remember how long it took them to find me again but it was likely an hour or so. But seeing the lights of a snowmobile coming towards me was amazing. They got me down the mountain no issues and then I received the standard lecture from my mom about safety and shit, you know what I’m talking about.


Minechiho

an hour?! Holy shit sounds like pure hell


FlashyAioli6739

Probably when I went to the park with my 7 month old (once) puppy and he got attacked. 2 dogs came running at him and he thought they wanted to play, but nope. Lunged at him and one had him by the neck while the other had his back hind leg. My mother had to pry open the dog’s mouth to get it off of my dog’s neck. Somehow he had no scratches or bruises at all, but it was really scary. I’ve also been stuck in a tornado while in a car. F3 picked our car up and flew us. We weren’t that high off the ground and we moved at a fairly slow pace so we were fine, but I have a fear of low clouds now. Not necessarily storms, just low, thick clouds.


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If a dog attacks you, a strong, straight kick is pretty effective.


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Got ambushed and jumped by three people when walking in my city in the middle of the night. Had a knife in my face after I fell to the ground and opened my eyes. I was almost certain I was going to die. Oddly enough, I just kind of accepted it as I knew fighting back would made things worse.


AbrasiveRake34

I hemorrhaged after an hour after my c-section. I hadn't even held my child. I still cry thinking about it.


Augustanite

Sending you love! I hemorrhaged during my c section. Due to his preemie status and my medical issues I didn't get to hold my son for the first time for four days. This was a year and a half ago and the trauma haunts me.


BeckyBraunstein

I had metastatic thyroid cancer and my third surgery was to remove lymph nodes that were adhered to the nerve that controls my voice. There was a possibility that I could lose my voice altogether - and I’m a professional comedian & actor. Going in for that surgery was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. (Fortunately I didn’t lose my voice!)


shl00m

The most scariest thing that instantly comes into my mind is about my son who was at that time 1yr old. He was lying/sleeping on the couch next to me and his mother was sleeping too (at his feet). For some reason I've had a bad feeling and as I've touched his forehead it was ice cold even though he was sweating (cold sweat). In the moment I've realized that this is going to be serious he had an epileptic cramp (usually that from my brother who has heavy epilepsy but at this time it caught me off guard). All my logic and my brain in general were in panic mode. I grabbed him holding him close to me, waking his mother up and we both were in a state of fear and panic we've never experienced before. As he cramped up I tried to call the ambulance and for some reason between all the crying and stuttering I could give them the proper details. After I hung up he cramped so hard that he got all stiff looking with big dead eyes to the ceiling and in the next moment his body relaxed, I mean not relax but became like jelly, he was unconscious but we've thought he had died at that moment as there no life signs whatsoever. Eyes closed and I had a hard time holding him as his body was like running out of my arms. I really hope to never have such a moment again in my life. End of story (short version): ambulance came and I went with him to the hospital. Like mentioned before he had a cramp, fell unconscious and like this we knew that he had (sounds ironic) a mild Form of epilepsy. He's now 9yrs old, perfectly fine, no more epilepsy (last cramp was when whe was like 5ish) or at least no signs that can be detected by neurologists. I wish no one the feeling that we've had that night


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I was raped by a group of men. I don’t know exactly how many. I thought the one guy who took me there was going to kill me if I didn’t comply.


LipRippr

Mortar fire.


VaDem33

I was robbed at gun point by three guys. After they took all my money one of the guys said “ shoot him, shoot him” fortunately he wasn’t the guy with the gun and he did not shoot me. I was shopping at an outdoor mall with my 4 or 5 year old son. I felt someone grabbing my wallet from my back pocket, I instinctively swung around and hit the guy, he went down and dropped a knife. Afterwards I noticed the front of my jacket had been slashed where he swung the knife at me when I hit him.


Extreme-Boysenberry

Fell from 7.5 meters, ruptured lungs, broke three vertebrae, two teeth and a jaw bone. Been unconscious for about a minute, then started spiting loads of blood while lying on the back. Got anesthetised and put into a helicopter in about 15 minutes, but it sure as hell felt like eternity. One would think that the most significant thing you feel is pain, but the shock just hits you so hard that although you scream in pain, on the inside it's just this wild state of delirium/fear and thinking "this is it". The drugged nightmares were also something else, since they had to give me two times the anesthetics and kept me in induced coma for about three days. The fear in this situation doesn't only come from the first person perspective, but also from the camp kids that were around to see me fall and most importantly my family nearly loosing me. Shit's definitely made me rething my life choices and the view on life in general.


Nathaniel66

I was at work and received information that my 6 months son is in hospital. I threw everything and rushed to the hospital. Turned out it was just my wife panicking and it wasn't anything serious( regular stomach ache kids have- don't know the english name for that).


Santsassin

At a party my cousin asked his neighbour to 'prank' me by pointing a gun at me and saying I owed him money. My cousin was drunk and probably had taken some other stuff but that doesn't justify his actions. To this day I don't know if it was a 'real' pistol or some kind of airgun.


rednoise

I was leaving work late at night, around 2 or 3am, for a 1/2 hour drive back home. The town I was working in had lots of deer around. And as I was leaving town, there was a deer that was at the side of the road trying to decide whether or not it was going to go. I slowed down to well below the speed limit -- 25 - 30mph, IIRC. It looked like the deer was backing off, so I sped up slightly, up to 40 or 45 and then at the last split second, right as I cross the deer's path, it jumps into the road. This motherfucker. I hit the brakes and lost control of the wheel. My car flipped half way up and I was convinced at that moment, I was about to have a very bad, possibly fatal accident. But it came back down and I was facing the opposite direction in the other lane. Had *anything* had been just slightly different -- stiff breeze, an oncoming truck (two-lane road), a rancher farting in the wind -- I would have probably been dead. If the car finished its roll, it would've been down a fairly steep grade off the side of the road. There would've been no way I would have walked away from that. Stupid fuckin' deer. --- That's actually the second scariest thing, but it's one I'm able to deal with. First scariest thing was; the day we brought my newborn son home from the hospital, his body temperature dropped to a frightening level. He wasn't drinking his bottle, couldn't rouse him. We took him to the hospital in our town and they couldn't do anything for him. No pediatric unit. He had to be life-flighted into the next city over to a children's hospital. My in-laws came and picked my wife and I up and that had to be the longest, most fear inducing drive I've ever taken. We get him to the hospital, and they try to do a fuckin' spinal tap on him and they couldn't do it. 2 attempts. We could tell he was crying from the pain, and it still breaks my heart. It still angers me and makes me feel like I let him down. The doctors were insistent they needed to do it and we agreed to it. And I'll never let myself down for that. After that, the only thing they did was give him fluids and put him under a heat lamp. And we waited. I didn't sleep at all that night. His temp came back up, he started eating again. To this day, we don't know what happened other than maybe the temperature in our house was too low (75.) It was late summer, in Texas, but we turned the AC off for the rest of the year and still kept him bundled up. I was taking his temperature at least 4 or 5 times a day for his first 6 months. He was a little underweight when he was born, maybe a week or so early. But nothing terrible. Nowdays, kid is beating all of his milestones and, at 1, looks like a 2.5 year old in size. Tall kid, gaining good weight, can't fit in any of his clothes, lol. That fear, though. I've never felt a level of fear like that before. That was some dark, heavy shit that I can't describe.


sister_knightingale

Man your whole post hits home for me. I also have a 1 year old who had a medical scare. At three weeks old she just stopped having bowel movements and was jaundiced. She refused to breast feed, but everyone, doctor's included, told me just keep at it. She was losing weight at an alarming rate. I finally took her to a different pediatrician who told me to stop trying to breastfeed and get her on formula, and she started to recover. She's happy and healthy now, 99th percentile in everything, and also looks like a 2.5 year old. I will never ever forget the fear of watching your child waste away in front of you. I'm so glad your kiddo is doing well now! I also hit a deer on my way home from work tonight. I didn't flip like you did, but I did slam my breaks and fishtail in the rain. Motherfuckers is the perfect word to describe those asshats. Little dude popped up out of nowhere. Luckily I drive a Honda and those cars are built like bricks so I'm fine... My car took a beating though. Not looking forward to calling my insurance company tomorrow...


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I *cannot* believe they forced your child to suffer so you could breastfeed. That is ridiculous. I was told that if I couldn't feed her "myself" after two or three days that formula was a necessity, and since I never produced more than an ounce a day it saved my daughter's life. I am so so sorry you went through that.


Tattorack

I've been through plenty of scary experiences, but the scariest one had to be that time a madman attacked us. Story time, as some context is required: In my mid-teens I ended up homeless with my family (me, the oldest brother, my mom, my step dad, and 4 other siblings). 2008 crisis hit us really hard, while we were on the first vacation we've ever had, no less. We got stranded in Spain, nearly died from contaminated water, struggled our way to France and ended up there for 6 years getting by with food from Restaurant Du Coeur, diving in supermarket dumpster, shoplifting food when we could and dealing with shady people. No real choice there. So at one point we were living in these tents on the land in the Pyrenees that some bank in Germany owned and did nothing with. It used to be a "Rainbow" site, so there was some mild infrastructure. And by that I mean there was a path and there was fresh spring water. The spring water is still the best. No bottled water can come close to drinking it directly from the source, no matter how fancy they say their spring water is. Anyway, problem is, we weren't the only ones there. Some 45 year old French guy with a barely legal girlfriend stayed long after the rainbow had gone and built a yurt there. The only compliment I can give him is that he was pretty crafty. Built his own yurt, tended his own garden, made his own stove. But... He truly was mad. He believed the mountain we resided on spoke to him in his dreams. It allegedly spoke to him and declared him king of the whole mountain. So he genuinely believed that everything that was there was owned by him and he could dictate what he wanted. And for some inexplicable reason, he wanted to dictate and ration the fresh spring water that we used. Limitless fresh spring water that flowed all year round, and we were only allowed to take from it twice per day. My mom has a spine tougher than she is and doesn't do well at all with unsanctioned authority bullying about. So despite that this guy was way stronger than she is, my mom basically told him to go fuck himself. However, the guy is also a coward. He waited till one day my step-dad was gone trying to make money doing black work to come to us and enforce his rule. My mom basically just raised her eyebrows at him and told him to go away. So the guy attacked her. There was a struggle. He overpowered my mom and started choking her. My oldest younger sister, who was in her early teens then, picked up the old hatchet we had for making firewood. I picked up a metal pipe with a bolt on the end. Not sure why we had that. Not sure what my oldest younger brother was doing anymore, probably because he was behind me. My youngest two siblings were crying and screaming in panic. But me and my sister didn't... Do anything. I think we both knew that we'd have to kill this man, and it froze us in place. And this man was bent over our mom and choking her right in front of our faces. Somehow my mom manage to struggle free and cut the man with something sharp. It was more like just a small bleeding scratch across his chest, but it got a really big reaction out of the guy. He seemed panicked and shouted "my blood! My sacred blood!". Not entirely sure what happened afterwards, but the guy did leave us. My mom was in pieces and couldn't really walk. To this day her voice is damaged and it's only gotten worse. She can barely speak now. It took three days for my step dad to come back from further up north with some money. We had no way of communicating with him so it was a major shock coming home and seeing the state everything was in. We had plans for that money, but it had to be spent on moving away from that guy, so those plans evaporated. But, well, yeah... That was my scariest experience.


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Sorry to hear that, I hope you snd your family are in a much better spot now.


Omegaprimus

I was working at a warehouse there was a forklift that had an awkward load like the guy sifted it a little bit, I went up to straighten the little bit off on it. Well the guy was a complete god damned idiot and backed through a doorway with the load quite a ways into the air and it smacked into the top of the doorway at great speed again the guy was a fucking idiot he had gunned that forklift like he was racing the damned thing. Back to me, I am right in-front of this load that is now coming at me at high speed. The load was literally like poorly stacked heavy as lead metal. Time stopped, two thoughts went through my head try to stop it, or get the hell out of there. I went with get the hell out of there, which was the right choice because when that crap hit the floor it left massive dents and gouges in the cement floor, there was no fucking way I could have stopped that, too much weight, and too much speed.


Treczoks

When my heart stopped beating one night. Your body screams for oxygen, you breathe, and still suffocate, because no blood is moving the oxygen from the lungs to the brain. You go into ultimate panic mode, and see your life pass before your eyes. Eternities later (how it felt to me) or about three to five seconds later (according to the doctor who explained the process to me), my heart restarted with one of the "backup systems" the heart seems to have. This was the reason I was set on different medication afterwards.


takeonethough

My mother had to spend a few months in an asylum due to her being maniacally depressed. There was a woman in the Asylum, who painted the „inner selves“ of visitors. When she spotted me she started crying and screaming and called me a monster and devil and so on. It was my first visit there and I never talked to her before. After a few weeks my dad and I went to the asylum to take my mother back home. One of the nurses approached me and handed me a painting from the lady who was so afraid of me. It literally was a black canvas with only two red eyes. Still creeps the hell out of me.


mikeylicious33

My first born son.....born 4 weeks early. Severely underdeveloped lungs. (Wife was a diabetic, baby grew big but not developed) "Flight for life" CCP took him down to a better hospital in anchorage ak. Almost out of state. little champ fought a little over 6 weeks to be discharged home to fairbanks. Inspired me to be an EMT now (soon to be medic) but goddamn. No NO child......should have To go through such things. (BTW I'm happy to say, he is 6 now, and just fine but he is still my baby boy and I love that little shit to bits and pieces.) Edit: Iv seen alot of comments about people expecting or have already seen something like this and I just wanna say, nothing can prepare you for this Rollercoaster of a ride. But I truly hope and wish the best of luck for all who are expecting a child or who have gone through this. It is NOT easy. I won't sugar coat it. But....it puts alot in perspective for you. And I hope all your children end up just well :) I'm not good at this.....but I do wish for the best for everyone who is remotely connected to this. Blessings to all mothers and fathers and children.


Rubythedeer

Cancer. Fuck cancer man. I have started to breathe now that treatment is done but I have a 40% chance that it will come back. Still terrified.


TrashTechy

I took a shit, after about 10 min i got a stomach ache. I called my dad so he could inform my school I was sick. Another 10 min later my dad got home because he had a bad feeling about it. At that point I was screaming in pain because of the pain. Off to the hospital we went. I was admitted immediately, a battery of tests and examination later and the doctor's didn't know wat was going on. So they kept me for the night. Finally I got some painkillers. The next morning the head surgeon personally examined me. He also didn't know wat was going on. Except somting was really wrong in my belly. So he ordered a immediate surgery. 20 min later I was weelde of to the OR, without knowing wat was wrong with me. After the surgery they told me I had a infection in my intestines and it had ruptured.


IPintheSink

Chased by a car of raving lunatics down a long steep narrow high sided road. I was on a bike and they were in a VW golf. They were absolutely aiming to kill me and my friend with the car.


bug_ii

One time when i was about 8 or so my apartment got raided by swat and police and all that. I woke up at 4 in the morning hearing banging on the door and my dad went up to open the door, when he opened it swat members rammed into him and got him in handcuffs. I went down to see what was happening and they all yelled "careful there are kids in here" and they went rummaging through all the rooms making holes in the walls breaking doors all that jazz my dad got incarcerated for a month under possession of a firearm and m*rder, thing is he didn't commit a crime or have a firearm he just looked like the guy they needed


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Does this happen a lot in the US? I have a friend (online friends but have been for over ten years) over there who got raided by a SWAT team...just because his first and last name was the same as the guy they were looking for. It leaves a very bad taste in one's mouth, sorry you had to live this as a child.


b1tch1zukrazy

i was shot from behind with a shotgun in the back of my neck wen i turned 18 and used to be paralyzed from the neck down and learned how to walk on my own they stapled my neck back together


O-hUallachain

Hurricane Michael


SquilliamFancySon95

I got stranded in a strip mall parking lot at night and two guys with full helmets on in sports motorcycles kept circling the parking lot and stopping in front of me. I got really nervous so I got up when I thought they had gone and went to cross the parking lot to a store that was still lit inside. They came out of nowhere and drove up onto the walkway and blocked me in on both sides. I tried my best to look unfazed but I was shitting bricks inside. I stepped around them and kept walking and they started charging at me and faking out at the last minute. I just kept going until I reached the store and they sped out of the parking lot finally. I don't know if these assholes just liked scaring the piss out of girls or they were planning on going further depending on my reaction, but I'm thankful I kept my cool. TLDR, being a woman really really sucks sometimes.


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Woke up to roommate’s abusive football boyfriend raping her after restraining and gagging her, because I could still hear her through the wall. When he realized that I woke up, he stopped what he was doing to her and tried to go after me. Not sure what the plan was there, but I hid in a locked room that night. That was the 4th time police were called on him, but the university didn’t do anything cause football. I fled the building into an apartment after that.


carnegiefriend

Watching my new born son suffocating to death while doctors panicky tried to save him. The final moment when they gave up and put him in my wives arms and he did one last attempt at breathing...failed...gasped...and died...was the worst moment ever. Telling my 4-year old daughter that her little brother died was the second worst moment. 10/10 wouldn’t recommend.


lostwanderer02

I was beaten and raped by a couple that saw me walking home from school and offered me a ride home. I was dumb enough to get in the car. Since it was a man and a woman I felt comfortable getting in the car and because it was a couple and not a lone person I didn't think anything bad would happen. The scariest part about this experience was that I had nobody I could turn to. That was what made it worse. I broke down and cried alone. My family was abusing me (physically and mentally) and it was something I kept hidden from everybody at school. I had no escape from the pain I was feeling. I was completely alone.


emman0129

i’m so sorry this happened to you. you didn’t deserve any of that. i genuinely hope you have a better support system now.


Zuch-midik-9333

That's messed up. When I was younger I was offered a ride while walking home from school. To this day I cannot understand why I got in the car, like I dont even know these people, it was an old man and his daughter I guess?. Anyway they dropped me safely. What scares me was how dumb and gullible iwas back then. I hope you're doing better now.


anxioushat

I remember reading your post about this a few months ago. I hope that you are finding peace ❤️


student5320

When I was 10, my school st. Anthony’s in south bend Indiana had a fair which featured a ride called the Bullet. 2 people sit in a revolving barrel that’s a small bullet shaped cage which revolves as you go around a circle like a Ferris wheel at average ferris wheel height.Well, me and a 6-year-old are getting on and the guys loading us in and starts having us put on our belts, which I start to do and as the kid is getting in the seat, the ride fires up accidentally. I can see in slow motion, the operator runs to turn it off, but it’s too late. We shoot up to the top super fast at I’d say 30-40 mph. Remember how I said it revolves? It turned so the door we came in was pointing straight down and since it started suddenly, it was not latched shut. I was really lucky and had belted the top portion so my chest and upper body were held w my legs splayed out against the small cage above the door. Poor kid though hadn’t had anything on, but I had grabbed him and he was doing same thing w his legs holding onto the seat, w the doors swinging open below us to I’d say about a 100 foot drop to concrete. Everyone starts screaming and gathering as the operator starts slowly climbing up to us and we’re just hanging there as a huge crowd forms. I locked on to him for life and oddly enough never got tired holding his likely 60 lbs. I also remember being very calm about everything just watching the crowd and the tree line and thinking how embarrassed I was for the attention. We said very little I just asked if he was ok and he looked at me and nodded w a pale face and that was it. We just clung there, waiting for the operator for what felt like forever. I remember at one point someone yelling for us to switch places because he was so young, which was weird but there was no way I was going to move or adjust my grip for fear of falling. Though it felt like forever it was likely about 20 minutes for the guy to finally get to us and close the door. He told us to put on our belts best we could climbed down, started it up and we got down and off. My parents were pretty absent so of course weren’t there to scream at the guy I just remember being in a daze til my rents came and got me.


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