Scariest Moment You Have Ever Had?

[JAD94]

With Halloween approaching I feel like getting into topics about horror 

What is the scariest moment you've ever had? This could be anything scary. Have you ever seen a ghost? Near death experience? Anything scary that has happened in your life. 

For me it was when hurricane Sandy hit. I live rather close to the beach and areas near the ocean were hit the worst. My neighbors have a huge tree in their backroom which practically overlooks my entire bedroom. During the whole storm (while there was a blackout), all I could hear was the huge branches of the tree scrape and slam against my roof and windows. At one point I had to stay downstairs because two of my windows had caved in, so there was a lot of glass in my room. I didn't sleep through the night, paranoid if I was going to have a room in the morning. Thank God when Sandy did eventually tire down, the tree nor any of its huge branches did not crash through my roof or walls. Like I said, there was a lot of broken glasses everywhere but it could have been a lot worse.  

Now, with that said. What was the scariest moment you have ever had? 

 

[Chester]

Mew had a question in the MV page and some of nya forum members thought it would be funny to troll my page and place me in a bag. It was dark and scary meow! I was soooo scared meow! and and they laughed!

 

[Sharm]

I tried to come up with something and realized that my scariest moments have all been nightmares.  That isn't to say that I haven't been in some real life situations where being very scared would be the rational response, it's just that in those situations I tend to be really calm.  I'm a really creative person though, so I can come up with some really horrible things to be afraid of in dreams.

 

[mlogan]

Sharm, from a "horror/scary movie" kinda view, mine have been nightmares as well.

Otherwise, one day when my daughter was 2, I'd put her down for a nap. At that age, you put them in bed and hope they go to sleep. When I went to check on her later, she was gone. I searched everywhere in the house, outside... I was about to call the police when I decided to search her room one more time and discovered she'd fallen asleep under her bed.

 

[Sharm]

Disappearing child wins.  Can't think of anything scarier than that.

 

[JAD94]

Oh don't get me started with nightmares, I used to keep a dream log but I stopped. I'd have some horrifying dreams especially as a child which I still remember to this day.

@mlogan I don't have children but that's quite terrifying. But thank God your daughter was alright.

 

[taarna23]

Finding out my mom had a heart attack. Second place; finding out my grandpa had a stroke. Third place; finding out my friend had a stroke.

 

[bandkanon]

I can list like.. five incredibly scary things off the top of my head, and I can't really rate them by shock/scare level.

- Being chased by hornets. I got stung five times.
- Learning that my father had Type 1 diabetes, and learning what that is. It was actually as soon as I could comprehend words that they told me (about 4) but I was 7 when I realized what that entailed. That's when I really got scared. Then it took years of conditioning myself for his inevitable death in 2007.

- Similar to taarna23's first one, getting a call from the er department telling us that my mother was being rushed by ambulance from her workplace. Her heart had literally stopped. We spent the entire Christmas that year without her. Well, now she can say she's been dead before.

- My sister nearly burning the house down because she left a candle on in her bedroom during a snowstorm. This was a week before our mother was supposed to return from the hospital. She was not pleased.

- VERY recent, and because of this, I'm glad this thread is here so I can say how scared I am: Realizing my nervous facial tic, which I've had for about three years now, has been causing my lower left molar teeth to bow inwards within a timespan of 4 days. I only just realized today what had happened, and realized that the intensely agonizing pain over the past week has not simply been from muscle spasms, but my bone structure being warped by a nervous tic. 

 

[JAD94]

Finding out my mom had a heart attack. Second place; finding out my grandpa had a stroke. Third place; finding out my friend had a stroke.

I'm sorry to hear that, my prayers go out to your family and friend.

I can list like.. five incredibly scary things off the top of my head, and I can't really rate them by shock/scare level.

- Being chased by hornets. I got stung five times.

- Learning that my father had Type 1 diabetes, and learning what that is. It was actually as soon as I could comprehend words that they told me (about 4) but I was 7 when I realized what that entailed. That's when I really got scared. Then it took years of conditioning myself for his inevitable death in 2007.

- Similar to taarna23's first one, getting a call from the er department telling us that my mother was being rushed by ambulance from her workplace. Her heart had literally stopped. We spent the entire Christmas that year without her. Well, now she can say she's been dead before.

- My sister nearly burning the house down because she left a candle on in her bedroom during a snowstorm. This was a week before our mother was supposed to return from the hospital. She was not pleased.

- VERY recent, and because of this, I'm glad this thread is here so I can say how scared I am: Realizing my nervous facial tic, which I've had for about three years now, has been causing my lower left molar teeth to bow inwards within a timespan of 4 days. I only just realized today what had happened, and realized that the intensely agonizing pain over the past week has not simply been from muscle spasms, but my bone structure being warped by a nervous tic.

I was also chased by a swarm of bees about three years ago when my family and I went out to PA for a hiking trip. I was stung about 5 or so times.

And have you gotten that nervous tic checked out, are you taking care,of,it now?

 

[bandkanon]

Yeah, I have no choice now that it's actually causing visible damage (if you look into my mouth it's visible at least). I don't wanna let this little body horror of mine to go any further. Pretty sure it's from nerve damage from a dead tooth or something. in other words, this is what I get for avoiding the dentist for so long. It's my own fault.

Still kinda unnerving to know that my body's able to destroy itself without my consent.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

Waiting to hear back on a biopsy to find out if my wife had cancer. (She did not. She is fine. Thankfuly).

 

[Scythuz]

^ Similar deal with my best friend, life was bad enough back then.

 

[Alexander Amnell]

@Touchfuzzy: I'm sure that's got to be extremely frightening. I was to young and sheltered to get the severity of the news when my dad found out he had cancer. don't think I actually got how frightening cancer can be until well after it killed him, all the uncertainty and helplessness fighting something so terrible that the very means to treat it can kill you. I long for the day when that particular disease (in all of it's many forms) goes the way of the human plague and becomes no more than the notations in medical journals.

    Scariest moment I've ever had... hmm, probably talking to my wife after the first time my then newly adopted daughter got hurt on my watch. I was teaching her to ride horses and she fell and hit her head on a root after something crossed the  horse's path and spooked it. It just knocked her out for a few minutes, scaring me but not unduly so, but on the ride of the hospital even as she talked excitedly to the paramedic looking her over for signs of injury or shock I was terrified knowing that as soon as we got to that hospital Samantha would be there and I'd have to face her wrath.

   It's funny to think about now, with the parental experiences of how often both she and her sisters have bounced back perfectly fine from injuries as bad if not worse than that, but by the time that ambulance ride ended I was fairly convinced I was going to be divorced. The situation may not have been the most frightened but I can't remember anything actually scaring me any more than that.

   Runner up: Getting shot by a man I didn't know as one of three bystanders caught in the crossfire of two idiots drawing guns on each other in a parking lot. Ironically, neither gunman managed to hit the other in the encounter, which as I've been lead to understand was caused by nothing more than an unpaid loan between the two. It is scary to think how quickly fools can intrude upon the civilized world and turn it into a killing field, my two compatriot bystanders didn't come out of the altercation half as well as I did, unfortunately. Faster than anything could be done to prevent it, and over before anyone realized what was happening, the indiscriminate actions of a fool are truly a terror of their own.

 

[bandkanon]

@Alexander holy cow, that really is scary as hell. I'm bad enough that if I see a person with a gun, even if they're cops, I completely try to avoid them. It's good to see you survived the encounter though. That's something that makes even my medical/dental terror seem trifle, because it really does happen much more suddenly, with barely any window of time for prevention at all.

 

[Fernyfer775]

I frequently experience night-terrors / sleep paralysis, and a few weeks ago, I had a REALLY bad one. It was maybe 3 or 4 in the morning, and I felt myself wake up mentally, but my physical body was still asleep. I could hear the fan in the my room doing it's thing, I could hear my partner next to me breathing, and I could hear my own thoughts, but no matter how hard I tried to move, I couldn't. I could feel myself start to panic in my head, but my body would still not move, and I felt as if the room itself was shrinking in on me until I finally fully woke up screaming bloody murder. Scared the living hell out of my partner, and even my neighbor's asked me the next morning if everything was okay.

I tend to have these maybe 3-4 times a month, sometimes more, but honestly, that was probably the worst one, because I feel like it lasted for so long before I finally woke up.

 

[Chester]

I also forgot to mention the time....I was chases by dogs....it looked just like my signature.

 

[GeorgeTheUnseen]

Flying on a plane for the first time was probably the scariest thing I've dealt with so far.

I have an extreme fear of heights. So when we took off I started freaking out and wanted to get off the plane so badly. I was also dumb enough to look out the window when we

were high in the sky. .-.

 

[Sharm]

@Fernyfer775:  I have a cousin with that same problem.  It sounds terrifying.  It's not a night terror though, those are different and usually something that happens with small children.  It's called sleep paralysis.  When you sleep your body puts out chemicals that prevent you from moving in your sleep so you don't hurt yourself.  Sleep paralysis happens when you wake up abruptly during REM and your body gets stuck in an in between state.  You're also a lot more prone to paranoia in that state.  My cousin can't move again unless she falls back asleep, which she finds pretty difficult to do because it's so scary.  Having less stress, better sleep habits, and cutting down or out stimulants from your diet is supposed to help reduce the number of episodes you have.

 

[JAD94]

I frequently experience night-terrors / sleep paralysis, and a few weeks ago, I had a REALLY bad one. It was maybe 3 or 4 in the morning, and I felt myself wake up mentally, but my physical body was still asleep. I could hear the fan in the my room doing it's thing, I could hear my partner next to me breathing, and I could hear my own thoughts, but no matter how hard I tried to move, I couldn't. I could feel myself start to panic in my head, but my body would still not move, and I felt as if the room itself was shrinking in on me until I finally fully woke up screaming bloody murder. Scared the living hell out of my partner, and even my neighbor's asked me the next morning if everything was okay.

I tend to have these maybe 3-4 times a month, sometimes more, but honestly, that was probably the worst one, because I feel like it lasted for so long before I finally woke up.

I had this once in my life, and I have a friend that used to experience it nearly every week. It was the scariest experience of my life, I don't know what triggered it to happen to me and why it only happened once. Im thankful I havent had a night terror since though. 

 

[Ellie Jane]

I thought some kid was trying to kill me once.


I was cycling down the canal when I hit a group of 20 scumbag teens. I carried on riding through, until two kids on a motorbike ride head first into me, sending me flying and wrecking my bike.


Only as I was limping away trying to get away they chased after me and hit me again from the side. With the 20 kids chasing after me chanting SNITCH SNITCH SNITCH SNITCH because I was trying to call my mom. I'm 24.


It killed the thing I used to get away from depression and stuff. Which just made things worse of course.