Your Scariest Event/Story

[SilverSergyon13]

I figured this would be a good post for us all to share our scariest real life story. This means something that really happened to you, but scared the heck out of you! You can have more than one story also.

One scarey event happened just after school started. I had gone down to feed the animals and it was already getting somewhat dark. I noticed something wasn't right, because my dog was barking like crazy and growling at something in the woods. So I look around before getting any closer and I notice Sonny, my dad's horse is missing. One thought goes through my head as I run over to my dog "This is definitely not good". I had known Sonny to have an escapists' streak, so I could only imagine what he had gotten himself into this time. I get there and he wasn't hurt, but I realized he had knocked down the wooden fence on our property and totally jumped over the barbed wire fence on the farmer's side. I check him for cuts and call my mom.

There was no way back to our property, so my mom had to drive to the farmer's house to ask him if we could walk through his property. My mom tells me to go to the road with Sonny and wait for her. So I get the lead, and start walking with him over towards the road. As we are walking, he is acting up and whinnying because he wants to go back with his girlfriend, Shanya (Sha-nye-a). He's wouldn't walk straight and kept running around me in circles. (Now mind you, this is an old horse and he is usually very laid back.) So I finally get to the road and as I am standing there, he gets really wild. Suddenly, he rears up, comes down on my foot, and knocks me to the ground. I'm now laying underneath him and the lead rope is still in my hands. He goes to rear again and just as he's about to run from me (I'm still under him) I roll out from under neath him, as his hooves come crashing to the ground and he takes off. I swear, my whole life ran before my eyes...literally. It's amazing the things that go through your mind when you think you're going to die. Luckily I came out of the whole ordeal with just a bruised toe and Sonny was fine also. I just hope that next time I am just as lucky....

So I'm interested to hear all your stories...

[Eomer Kenobi- Gaara fan]

woah that would really scare me, God was looking out for you Silver. Hmmm I have to say the scariest moment for me was in a car trip. This dude was in the middle of both lanes and was literally only inches from crashing into us!. another time I almost fell off the roof of my house. I was trying to get my brother's frisbie and I slipped and grabbed the front of the porch just in time and climed back up It reeeeally scared me.

[SilverSergyon13]

Eek, cars are a scary thing indeed! One night when my dad, my brother, and I were driving home late at night, a deer was right in the lane we were driving in. We had been driving on a highway, doing about 65-70 MPH and we could not swerve. We were heading straight for the deer and there was nothing we could do. As fate would have it, at the last minute, the deer stepped into the next lane and the lady there hit it. Car parts went flying everywhere! She was fine, but her car was not. We were very lucky, but we felt horrible for this lady because her car was pretty much totalled and the deer had been killed.

Also, once when my dad was driving home from work late at night in our 13 yr. old Jimmy, he realized smoke was coming from the engine. Thinking quickly, he pulled over and jumped out of the car, grabbing only his collection of cassetts and pushing the trailor away from the car. As he was finished pushing the trailor a safe distance away, the car exploded in a burst of flame. Everything burned and he had had all the Christmas gifts in the car that we had given him. The cops, the fire department, and the towtruck company were called, but when the flames were put out the only thing left was the charred car frame. We were extremely lucky that we had taken the saddles out of the car the night before, other wise we would've been out of anothe couple hundred dollars.

Oh, I've got another story! When I was really little, my family was driving home from Washington DC where we had gone to the police memorials. As we were driving home, we got stuck behind a car with a couple ppl in it. As they were driving on the highway, they would stop short and would swerve all over the highway (this was late at night again). We could not pass them and it seemed as if they were trying to make us crash. Luckily my dad has quick reflexes from his job and we were able to avoid crashing, but we took down their license plate number and my dad began speeding up the car. We floored the car past them and when we could see through our window into their car windows, my dad began flashing his badge. After that we called the county police, but I'm not sure if they ever caught the ppl. When my dad looked up their license plate number he found out these ppl were really odd and they were probably trying to commit suicide by getting us all into a car accident. It was a really strange situation.

Last story, I promise!

I was down at the barn one night feeding the animals. It was already dark because I had some other stuff to do before I could go out and feed them. Anyway, I was around the chicken coops bringing them water and feed, when I hear a growling in the woods. The only thing I though was "get out of here!" so I ran to the coop and closed myself in the cage area. I knew not many things could get in there and I hoped I would be safe. I had no idea what was in the woods since we have coyotes, bears, foxes, skunks, cows, wild cat, and mountain lion (and I swear we have werewolves too!) As I waited in there, I heard footsteps through the woods. I had no idea where my dog had gone, so I called out for him and eventually he came running. When he came, he just looked at me like I was nuts. I was still afraid that something was in the woods so I pointed there and he just kind of stared at the spot I had pointed. It was real strange. A few minutes later he looked back at me and I decided to make a run for it. I grabbed a bunch of eggs from the coop (to throw in case it came after me lol) and I ran into the barn, turned on all the lights, checked ouside, and ran up to the house. Man THAT was scarey. I still don't know what was in the woods, but I never go to the barn without my dog anymore.

[spaz]

That is scary! I don't think I should have read that right before bedtime.. Oh, well..

Last year my Dad was driving my brother and I home. We were in a F-550 and it isn't that easy to stop. Anyway, we were driving along and then, we noticed something coming towards us. As we got closer in both directions we noticed that it was a car headed straight for us going in the wrong direction. Well, we swerved out of the way and the car went back to the right side of the road.

When I was 5, my Mom was taking my brother to preschool. She put my sister in the backseat of the car and turned the car on. I went and sat in the front seat of the car. I went and shifted the car into reverse. The car started rolling back down our sloped driveway. My Mom was halfway outside and she threw my brother up into the air and started running for the car. She got the door opened as the car was rolling backwards down the hill but she fell to the ground. The car rolled all the way down our driveway into the road and it hit a snowbank. I was lucky that no one was coming down the hill because the people fly when they come over that hill..

Next one was when I was 3 and my Grandma took me to the Long Island Sound. She was sitting on the beach talking with her friend. I was playing with the rocks on the beach and then decided to go in for a swim. Well, I went in and I got out too far. I couldn't swim that well and I was drowning. My Grandma's friend looked around for me but couldn't find me. Then, she saw me way out in the water and she jumped up and ran out to get me. My Granmda didn't even realize what was going on. A few more seconds without anyone coming to rescue me and I wouldn't be here today.

One, last story and then I am done. My Mom told me this story of me but I remember bits and peices. I was only 2 and I was in the dining room. My Mom was sewing something and I was playing with some things in her sewing kit. Well, I was preoccupied with a sewing gage and decided to take it into the living room and play with it. So, I went into the living room and sat next to an electrical outlet. I took the sewing gage and put it in one of the holes in the electrical outlet. I ended up electircuting myself and all the lights in the neighborhood went out..

[Jandalf on Toast]

I went and shifted the car into reverse. The car started rolling back down our sloped driveway.

Eerie! That happened to me, too, at about the same age. Except I was waiting in the car with a neighbour kid whom my mother was babysitting at that time, and he and I thought it would be hilarious if we locked Mom out of the car. So I locked the backseat doors, and he locked the front ones. On his way over to lock the driver's door, he kicked the shifter...and we went rolling down the driveway, across the street, and crashed into a lantern pole. (winces) Mom was probably more scared than either of us for that one moment when she came outside, looked in the carport, and saw it was empty...

Oh, and being followed by a car while walking is not fun.

There was one week where we were staying up in my uncle's cabin near Wasagaming. It had a porch with a screened-in area off to the side, and we liked to eat inside it on some of the nicer days. Of course, on the day that we had steak, a bear came along. This thing was hefty. Not the biggest bear in existence, but a good size for a brown bear. It just trundled right along beside the deck while we sat there (not moving, I might add...), sniffed a little, took a dump beside a wheelbarrow that was farther off, and kept walking away until it disappeared back into the trees. We really did thank God the thing wasn't hungry...because it would have been able to rip into the screened-in part and intercept us before we could get inside, the open area being between us and the cabin's door.

[spaz]

Ack! I would have been scared with that bear I would have been screaming.. Well, I would have loved to have seen your mothers face when she looked and didn't see the car in the carport..

[Caffeinerush]

Well, I thought the bear wasn't really that scary, I thought it was awesome! First time I've ever seen a bear. Of course I was a bit nervous.

[Jandalf on Toast]

(cackles) I was looking at the bear for a moment like one might at a zoo. And then it hit me: Bear. And we have steak.

Hmmmm... (eats steak quickly)

Perhaps a thread of people's funny experiences would take off well... (jumps off to the Random Board)

[Dûncariel is Dead.]

Heh... *is reminded of many bear experiences* That's what you get for living in Montana. My older brother took the trash out one morning and found himself face to face with one -- literally all that was separating he and the bear was a pane of glass. Yeah, that's scary...

Hmmm, scary experiences... My youth group was staying at this camp up at a small lake that we use, and we all decided it would be fun to go swimming. Anyway, we were out for probably three hours when it started to rain, and there was lightning hitting a few miles away. So everyone started for the beach, but my brother and I. One of the innertubes we had been using had been blown a little ways out into the lake, so we decided to go get it. Neither of us are bad swimmers, so it didn't seem to bad. But, when we were probably three feet away from the runaway tube, the wind picked up, and blew it farther out. By this time, we were nearly half way across the lake. I don't know how we had gotten that far, but it was really scary. My brother had an extra tube that (luckily) we had brought with us, but the two of us couldn't fit on it at once. So we started back towards the shore -- against a super hard wind, one of us pulling the innertube with the other kicking behind. I don't know how long we were out there, but we ended up all the way around the point where we had been swimming before we finally got to a place where we could touch bottom. There were times when both of us were so tired that we could hardly move anymore, and our youth leader had to physically pull us out of the water when we finally got back in. I think that's the closest I've ever come to actually dying before.

[Jareth]

my scariest incident was 1:
On New Year's my dad was picking us up from a party, and we were right on the exit of the freeway, a really really biiiiig freeway. Anyway, it's New Year's, so people have been drinking. This SUV comes screeching through the underpass, and my dad ran a red light (*gasp*) and the SUV, almost tips over, and misses us by three feet.
We have mountain lions in our neighborhood at night.
I was petsitting for the people on the corner, and it was raining really hard, and there was a lot of lightning, where I live, we have really big storms called monsoons, and this was one of them, it was so bad, I actually drove to their house instead of walking and they're only two houses away. They're dog was still outside, and he hates thunder and lightning. Because he was so scared, he hid in their huge back yard, so I was looking for him for 30-45 minutes, when I eventually did find him, he jumped on me, and they don't clip his nails, so he gave me this cut on my leg, so I had to drag a freaked out dog back inside, in the pouring rain, with my leg hurt.
ok, this is the last one I swear:
my family and I had been taking care of an elderly woman with a lot of health defects, well, one day, we hadn't heard from her, when we should have, I was gone, so my sister and mother, went to her house, and found here, she had tripped and hit here had on her hearth, there were pools of blood all over, and her head was soaked, she had to get part of her head shaved to get it stiched up.
that's it.

[Master Warious]

My scarriest incedent was finding out my mortal enemy found my spot on Myspace and wanted to be friends.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Chelsegorn]

A scary story, hmm...
Ok I've got one.
This happened about a week ago. I was in my room, in the basement of our home, and had just turned out the lights. It was around midnight (because I'm a readaholic) and I was just getting comfy under the covers when a car alarm horn blasts three times. I look up at the window and suddenly a shadow of a person pauses right in the middle. I freaked! I ran upstairs and turned the porch light on and my mother looked out to see if anyone was there, but there was no one.
We were rather paranoid at the time as our car had just gotten stolen, and no one had found it yet.

[Lady Maeggaladiel]

Woo, this is creepy, you guys!

One of my scariest moments happened about four weeks ago.

My family and I were going to the movies to see Kingdom of Heaven. (Orlandoooo!!!!) My sister, username Redrose, was in the seat in front of me, drawing a manga portrait of me. She turned halfway around in her seat to show me, and I leaned forward to look.

Then I felt it. The smallest little twinge of pain behind my right shoulderblade. A tiny popping feeling that I knew and hated.

I've got Marfan's Syndrome, a disease of the connective tissue that affects everyone differently. My main symptom is spontaneous pneumothorax, or collapsation of the lung. And I felt one happen just then.

I sat back in my seat, cursing under my breath. Normally pneumos were painful and annoying, but went away in a few hours. No use in complaining about it; Heck, I was on my way to see BUFF ORLANDO BLOOM!!!

But then I realized something was different. [italic]I couldn't breathe.[/italic] Normally in a pneumothorax, the opposite lung will overcompensate so you can get the right amount of air. I was told that if I ever had trouble breathing, something was very very wrong. Well, something was very very very wrong.

I told my mom I couldn't breathe, and she turned off the road at the hospital exit. By the time we got to the emergency room, I could only breathe in tiny gasps. I was so scared. My doctor told me about a week prior to this that shortness of breath often required surgery, and one of my greatest fears involves needles, IVs, and other pointed objects going where they shouldn't go (namely inside my body).

About two years ago, I had a minor surgical procedure to cure a large pneumothorax, which involved something called a heimlich valve being stuck between two of my ribs and having the exess air drained out from in between my ribs and lung. It isn't a major procedure; you're usually awake while they do it. Still, it wasn't my idea of a happy weekend getaway.

Okay, I thought to myself. One hour's worth of heimlich valve and then I can go home.

Well, the valve was put in, I was trying not to be hysterical over so small a procedure, and eventually I was sent to a room for observation. Enter the lady with the morphine, and I was out cold for a while.

When I woke up, they took another x-ray. The doctor and a man I hadn't seen before came in with the x-ray and told me that the heimlich valve wasn't helping. I was going to need real, honest-to-Galadriel lung surgery.

Two days later, I was ready (sort of) to get the surgery. I couldn't eat ALL STINKING DAY, and the combination of morphine and lack of food did not make me a very happy camper.

The scariest part of the whole ordeal (for me, anyway) was the fact that I would need multiple IVs. I had refused one during the heimlich valve surgery because they scare the living daylights out of me, but now I needed two. Wheee.

Well, to make a long story short, (thanks for being patient enough to read this entire thing. You get a cookie.) I was given one IV while I was awake, underwent a bunch of tests, and got the other while I was out cold in the operating room.

And that's why I haven't been online lately.

[sblomietheinsane]

Wow. Most of my excuses for not getting online are "I've been... uh, busy." I really hope you fell better soon!

[Joan Omnipresent]

Oh...poor Maeg! *sympathetic sniffle*

[Jareth]

Do I get a cookie now?

[Lady Maeggaladiel]

Yes, here's your cookie. In order to make it fit with this thread, though, I had to make it a SCARY COOKIE OF DOOOM!!!

[pepper]

I've never had surgery done before. It sounds inconvenient and painful.

[sblomietheinsane]

Um... ya think?

[Ech0 the Deathstar]

well.....my scariest event probably happened new years eve 1999/2000. I was living in Jordan for a year becasue of my fathers job in IMF, so we desided to spend the new years eve at Raddison SAS hotel in Aquaba(red sea). Probably 2-3 minutes before midnight, we were in the restaurant preparing to ring in the new year with a buffet, and thats when I noticed something a LITTE bit wierd *snicker*. I saw a "SWAT" type of police running through the hall outside the restaurant. They had obviously desided to keep a low profile so the hotelguests wouldn't panic. The next day we found out what had happened. The day before the police had arrested a terrorist, and found out that there was a bomb in the hotel we were in, that was suposed to blow up at midnight Lucky the cops hadn't wasted 2 minutes on the way to the hotel. Snrk...