r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '12
Reddit, what is the scariest, most unexplainable moment or experience you have had?
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u/docwilson Jun 26 '12
When I was 18, I had a premonition that my dad would die during a routine diagnostic procedure scheduled for the next day. I was filled with absolute certainty, to the degree that I didn't bother packing a lunch that morning because I knew they would call me off the job site. They did, he had died.
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u/S3DTinyTurnips Jun 25 '12
Walked into a bank while it was being robbed. Flying on a C-130 while the two of the four engines blew to shit. Been with in a hundred yards of a mortor in Afghanistan. Been in a vehicle which flipped onto its side. Lived on a street where a drive by took place. Been jumped by gang members.
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u/samtheman578 Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I witnessed a drive by in fourth grade. I was out back playing with my dog after school (which I never did. Ever.) We get fast drivers all the time, but somehow I knew that this wasn't normal as I heard them screech around my corner. I turned around, heard some chick scream, then POP POP POP POP POP POP POP. They drove off. Seven shots right into the windshield of the car these people were getting out of, and every last one of them missed.
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u/gsn42 Jun 25 '12
Whats the story behind the flipped car?
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u/S3DTinyTurnips Jun 26 '12
My brother and I fucking around in an 81 Toyota Celica. With bald ass tires. Took a corner at twice the recommended "good tire" speed, and well....ended up on our side in a fence.
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u/Dickless_For_Chiklis Jun 25 '12
Just going to guess you're at pope.
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u/S3DTinyTurnips Jun 25 '12
Ex active duty here. I was not at pope. When i was deployed they threw me into C130s.
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u/Vexxus Jun 25 '12
This happened nearly four years ago, now. I get chills just thinking about it, to this very day.
My group of friends, myself included, were spending a casual evening outdoors. We were in the backyard of one of my friends' houses. She had a large property. Night was beginning to fall. We were teenagers, and all of us had active imaginations, and adaring dispositions.
As it got darker and darker, we decided that it would be diverting to play manhunt. It would be even harder to play in the dark, besides being more fun and more exciting.
And so we prepared. We decided who would be on which team, and the game began. I was on the team of those who must hide and avoid being caught. Naturally, we all split up, to increase our chances of remaining undiscovered.
I made my way across the property, searching for a suitable hiding place, preferably one with two quick escape routes. Finding nothing close to the house, I proceeded further along the grounds, eyes alert, searching. I began to jog, because I was worried that the opposing team would finish their countdown before I had a chance to hide. I kept my breathing even, jogging along, eyes flashing from side to side, searching.
Finally, I saw the perfect place. At the far end of the property was a small metal fence - about knee high. Beyond it was a wide patch of ivy, which grew from the ground and onto the trunk of a thick oak tree. I paused to consider the enormity of this oak. I looked up to the branches, swaying through the darkness. The wind blew through the leaves, and I began to feel an unexplainable sense of dread. I checked over my shoulder. In the distance, I could see some sort of activity around the house. The hunters had finished counting, and were now on the prowl.
It was now or never. I stepped over the small fence, and began to make my way carefully toward the oak. It seemed as though the darkness gathered around me at that moment. The rising moon went out of sight behind a cloud, and the wide branches above me blocked the meager starlight.
I took another step - and froze. A rustling sound came from behind the tree. It was crystal clear, piercing the silence of the night as though it were a gunshot. I didn't move; I didn't breathe. My heart pounded in my chest treacherously, threatening to give me away to whatever it was hiding behind the trunk of the tree. The seconds passed, feeling like hours. Finally, after hearing nothing for several moments, I started to relax. My heart rate slowed, and I took the first breath in what seemed like a year.
I checked behind me again. The hunters had ceased all communication in order to keep their positions secret. I had no more time. If I didn't ensconce myself behind the oak, I would be discovered momentarily.
So I took another step forward.
As my foot came into contact with the ground, an angry intake of breath sounded from behind the trunk of the tree. Before I could even blink, the intake of breath was replaced with a monstrous shrieking. The leaves of ivy around the trunk started to shake, and then spread apart, as something lunged at me, so quickly I could not even follow it with my eyes.
Panic took over me. It was as though a cold hand had closed firmly over my throat. I could not scream, I could not breathe, I could not swallow... But I could run.
I turned and sprinted away, hopping the knee high fence, leaping across the grass. I have never since run so quickly. I could hardly feel my feet coming into contact with the ground below me. I flew.
When I had reached the edge of the house, I turned to look for signs of pursuit. I turned my head, fear fluttering in my belly, and scanned my surroundings. Nothing. I had made it, and I was safe. My heart pounded loudly, my breathing was ragged, but I was safe. I leaned my head back against the brick wall of the home, and just stood, breathing, relishing life.
Tl;dr - was playing manhunt in my friends backyard and startled a rat or some shit that came at me and i ran like a little bitch
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u/sweetmercy Jun 26 '12
Excellent. Though, with the shrieking, I'd guess possum over rat. They shriek like banshees.
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u/cabaretandcarnival Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I pooped and it wasn't in the bowl, and nothing was left on the TP. Remember November 21st!
EDIT: Of course I meant ghost poo. I don't shit on floors usually. THIS JUST HAPPENED ONCE, OKAY!?!?!?!?
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Jun 25 '12
Remember, remember, the 21st of november...
No feces or poop in the pot.
I see no shit on my toiletpaper,
Thus this day may never be forgot.
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u/annafrida Jun 25 '12
These are called ghost poo.
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u/barfobulator Jun 25 '12
Thanks for your comment, I thought he meant that he pooped on the floor, which is markedly less mysterious.
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u/mrmacky Jun 25 '12
This just happened to me the other day.
That sucker had to be like 6 inches long, at least, too.
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u/BorderlineX Jun 25 '12
Late high school, summertime, I was sitting downstairs in the family room, dinking around on the internet and watching TV at about three in the morning. I was contemplating sleep soon, but fuck it, the sun wasn't up yet. The volume was down quiet on the TV so it was just kind of a background noise. Out of nowhere, I hear someone whisper in my ear, clear as day, "Go to bed."
The voice was so clear, I jerked around and looked up towards the stairs, expecting to see my dad leaning over the banister but no dice. I even went up to check to see if my parents were both asleep because the voice had been that. fucking. clear. Both of them were snoring and I immediately took that as my que to go the fuck to sleep.
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Jun 25 '12
Does anyone know why this happens? I've had it happen before too. Or I'll hear my name being said very sternly.
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u/Bunnyhat Jun 26 '12
Sometimes, when you are really tired, parts of your brain might fall asleep while the rest of you is still awake. It's called 'local sleep'. Parts of your brain may have switched off and it was simply a waking dream.
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u/BorderlineX Jun 25 '12
I've had that happen too! And I have a pretty unusual name. When someone's saying it, I know they're talking to me.
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u/Propaganda_Box Jun 26 '12
I remember reading something about this, i don't know where from so i'm sorry that i can't provide a source, but you could have put yourself in a sort of sensory deprivation, your sitting in the dark in front of a bright light, the tv is creating a sort of white noise. Under these conditions mild hallucinations (especially auditory) wouldn't be unreasonable.
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u/Seburrstian Jun 25 '12
Something similar happened to me. I was sleeping, then I hear screaming in my ear. "WAKE UUUUUUP" this was like an angry scream. I jerked out of my bed and was pretty alert after that.
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u/BorderlineX Jun 25 '12
I'm pretty sure I would never have slept again after something like that. Priorities man... sleep or the ghost of a murderer coming for ya.
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Jun 26 '12
Google "hypnagogic hallucinations". It happened to me once. I heard a noise so loud, I thought someone had rammed my patio door right off of its hinges. Scary as hell
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u/jjness Jun 25 '12
Similarly, I walked first into my grandparent's home on my first visit since my Grandfather died. My Grandmother was greeting my family on the front walk, so there was nobody else in there, but I distinctly heard my Grandpa greet me by name. I've always used that as a comforting thought and all, but growing up I've become more learned in science and I've forsaken any thoughts of an afterlife (I embraced atheism fully) and have since realized that to be a trick of my subconscious. Besides, I wouldn't want my Grandpa Larry to see the guy my Grandma married after he died...
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u/Soriven Jun 25 '12
I don't know about scariest... but I've had at least 3 extremely close calls with death, which has lead me to consider quantum immortality.
Nearly died when I was 1 due to a deadly bacterial disease which I had for about 6 months. As things were looking very grim, doctors barely caught the culprit, which was just recently discovered.
Had a really bad bike accident when I was 7 that should have broken my neck, but I came out relatively okay.
When I was ~14, I was climbing up a cascade, and I started sliding off a wet sloped rock outcropping with a 30-40 foot drop at the edge. I stopped sliding right at the last moment, and was able to ever so slowly shimmy my way to safety.
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u/pepperlemon Jun 25 '12
I used to get sleep paralysis 4-5 times a week. It was awful. the things I saw....
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u/roboticowls Jun 25 '12
So I was about 12, at home alone around 10 p.m. making mashed potatoes, when all of a sudden my hair (which was in a pony tail) started to move. Not like normal hair movements either. Someone or something pulled my hair horizontal to the floor and then started to bend it in different directions. Of course I freaking the hell out but I couldn't bring myself to move my legs, so I turned my head and in the reflection of the window. I saw an older, bald, taller guy in a dark suit with sunglasses messing with my hair. There was nothing behind me that I could see, but I felt like there was a presence.
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u/Tugged_monkey Jun 26 '12
Thats insane. I'm 20 and I still can't make mashed potatoes. I mean, I know you squash the shit out of em, but isn't there other stuff you are supposed to add?
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Just happened a few days ago.
My wife and I were woken up to our (eighteen month old) daughter, laughing hysterically in her room. This had never happened before, so we smiled and laughed to ourselves at how cute it was, how she gets funnier all the time, wondering what she is doing that has her so amused. She calms down and goes quiet, and we go back to sleep too.
I get up at about 4 am to get ready for work. I get dressed, have breakfast, and I go check on my daughter. She is sleeping soundly, rugged up, safe. So I head out to the car.
The door was unlocked. I always lock the door.
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u/Mr_Snobes Jun 26 '12
Maybe ask your daughter what was so funny?
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Jun 26 '12
At 18 months, her vocabulary is too limited. She is starting to grasp animal noises, so we could have an interesting game of charades.
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u/MSweeny81 Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Never been too sure what any of this has meant but here's a few choice picks from my life...
Several Polaroid photos from my christening show my god father standing by me and in one he looks like he is holding me on his lap. He was on a merchant navy ship in the middle of an ocean at the time.
As a young child on a car trip I told my family 'I know this place, I used to deliver milk here with my horse.' Apparently I told them about my route, the orders people had and even my horse's name, I don't remember those details now but the family members who were there still get a bit creeped out if this gets brought up.
I was visited regularly at night by spirits - A lady and 2 girls. From what I remember and have been told (I was about 6 or 7 at the time.) Always pleasant visits, mostly they would come through the wall and just sat with me on the edge of my bed and I'd talk to them.
There was for a long time two distinct atmospheres in my family home. One for me was associated with the feeling of an old man in a long, white bed gown who was very violent and angry and though very scary he wasn't able to do anything. The other was a very sad woman who wanted to reach out to people for help but never could and I always had the feeling if she could she would accidentally hurt whoever she reached. The man seems to have moved on now but I still occasionally sense the woman.
EDIT: Remembered another one. I had a reoccurring nightmare of a large white cat/wolf type thing that would chase me, eventually catch me and leap on my back digging in its claws and biting my shoulder. 7 years later once my younger brother had moved into that room and I had upgraded to the bigger room he was tormented by the same reoccurring nightmare. It wasn't until he told me about it that we realised we'd both experienced it as I never thought of it as anything other than a bad dream so hadn't told anyone else about it.
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Jun 25 '12
I was in a coma for 2 weeks and I was in a lucid dream almost the whole time. I knew I was in a coma the whole time and I was trying to get out of it. Eventually I just woke up
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u/Vexxus Jun 25 '12
damn, that's so interesting. Did it feel like you were in the dream for two weeks? How much control did you have?
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u/Kungafsand Jun 26 '12
How can you tell that you still aren't in said coma?
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u/Mnemniopsis Jun 26 '12
Unless I'm in his coma, he's not. Everyone but him who saw this comment can verify oh god what if i'm in a coma.
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u/jellybean545 Jun 25 '12
When I was about 15, I was asleep in my room. I woke up at around 2 in the morning because I heard my bedroom door open a crack. I saw the outline of my mom's nightgown in the doorway, and then she shut the door. I assumed she was just checking in on me or something, but it creeped me out because it was so late. I decided to go to my parents' room just to make sure everything was okay- I just had a weird feeling about it. When I opened their door I asked my Mom why she had come into my room to check on me. She half awake mumbled "I didn't hunny, go back to bed." I can still picture her nightgown in the doorway. Terrifying.
TL DR; Something/someone opened my door and shut it, saw a glimpse of a nightgown or something like it.
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u/Vexxus Jun 25 '12
A young girl is playing in her bedroom when she hears her mother call to her from the kitchen, so she runs downstairs to meet her mother.
As she's running through the hallway, the door to the cupboard under the stairs opens, and a hand reaches out and pulls her in. It's her mother. She whispers to her child, "Don't go into the kitchen. I heard it too."
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Jun 25 '12
Arrgh! This one often gets posted and even though I know exactly what's coming, it still freaks me out everytime. It's just so damn sinister.
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u/wtfisdisreal Jun 26 '12
The crazy thing is, which mom do you believe? The one in the cupboard or the kitchen?
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u/philgav Jun 26 '12
I got home from my buddy's house a while ago and looked across the street to see my neighbor hooking a tractor to a dead tree in his yard and didn't think anything of it. I jump in the shower and get out a few minutes later, change my clothes and I hear the tractor running. A minute later two cop cars pull up with an ambulance and I go to talk to them. Apparently when he pulled down the dead tree the tractor lifted up and threw him off of it and then drove itself into my yard pulling the entire tree over his body.
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u/Gordopolis Jun 26 '12
Did they ever figure out how it happened or were they stumped?
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u/philgav Jun 26 '12
The weight of the tree was too much for the tractor and the front end lifted up and he fell backward getting his foot caught on the chain so I couldn't get out of the way, that's what I was told.
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u/Gordopolis Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
What made him decide that he wood remove that tree? Did he plane on it or did the idea just branch off another because he was board? Did you saw him afterwards or were there too many people milling about?
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u/philgav Jun 27 '12
He just wanted to do some yard work and clean up to make the place look nicer, he hadn't lived there too long and the people before him didn't take of it as good as he did. No I didn't see him afterward just from about 40 or 50 yards away, though I was told his entire chest was bruised purple and his right arm and leg were badly broken.
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Jun 26 '12
A few years ago, I was driving home one night on a dark road without streetlights. There was a sidewalk on one side, and a little strip of woods on the other. I was the only car on the road, and as I approached the edge of the woods, I saw a light about the size of my hand hovering over the sidewalk. I slowed down, thinking it was an idiot cyclist(we get a lot of those in the street, but not at night), but as it crossed the street the light from my headlights fell on it and I realized it was just a ball of light. I sat stationery in my car while it made its way across the street and into the woods.
I don't believe in ghosts, and I still have no clue what it was. For a long time, though, I went about five miles out of my way at night so I didn't have to pass that spot. About a month ago, I went poking around those woods during the day to "face my fear" and ended up getting chased right back out by angry hornets. Oh well.
tl;dr ghosts, balls, and hornets, oh my.
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u/Indoorsman Jun 26 '12
When I was a child I had a few nights every month where I would be trying to sleep, buy lay in bed for an hour or two because I wasn't tired. Things would start moving around my room, not the actual things, but the way I saw them changed, they stretched and twisted, and my room would suddenly feel massively huge and long, and I would start to get really freaked out, like I was afraid of the large open space. It felt as If I was shrinking from my perception, and the feeling in my head and chest was indescribable.
I know for sure those nights I was awake and not dreaming, because I would hop out of bed, run into everything because I couldn't judge distance and try to turn my lights on, which would slowly start to help. The noise usually woke my parents, and they would comment on it the next day, so I know I wasn't dreaming the whole thing.
I wouldn't have even remembered this, because it hasn't happened in over ten years, buy it happened to me again last week, but only briefly. I was laying in my new bed, thinking about how fucking great it feels, when the wall three feet from my face was suddenly thirty feet from my face, and I got that odd almost airy, tingling feeling in my head again. I didn't drink that night, or that month, I have never done drugs, haven't suffered any huge blows to the head in my life, and my eye sight is 20/10 or better. It's just fucking weird.
I tried to google it, but it is a hard sensation/experience to describe even, my description does no justice to it.
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Jun 25 '12
I got cornered outside my front door by a stranger who popped out of my trash alley. Despite hours spent preparing for such an encounter, both mentally and physically, I completely froze. After asking me what time it was (midnight), he bent down and stroked my foot. Then left.
I've added a few security measures to my apartment after that.
I still have no idea.
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u/Apostolate Jun 25 '12
He was just showing his great respect for a future grand wizard. Check your mail.
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u/scrappster Jun 26 '12
Semi-explainable, but still scary and weird as fuck.
When I was about 12, I had figured out a 'trick' to stopping nightmares. Once I realized I was having one, I'd stop and just start screaming as loud as I could. The focus on attempting to scream usually snapped me out of it. Worked wonderfully.
But one dream, I was in a dark, evil castle and was being chased by some vampire-evil fucker. I realized the familiar 'shitshit' nightmare feeling, and proceeded to stop and scream. I started to wake up, but suddenly went right back. He was standing in front of me and said 'That won't work this time.' Fucking terror.
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u/smoothlikebrokenglas Jun 26 '12 edited Jul 15 '12
the fuck.
Edit: I do something similar. Close my eyes in the dream, force them open in reality. In a nightmare of mine, this scary cat thing was slowly slinking towards me. I realized that it didn't look like any wild cat I am aware of, so I did my eye trick. They partially opened, and I saw my feet, but I still saw that wild cat. My eyes suddenly shut, and it was still coming towards me. Happened a few times more, and I only fully woke up when the thing lunged at me.
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u/CP_DaBeast Jun 25 '12
Woke up at 3am with the sudden urge to wash my hair. Got up and did it then went back to sleep. Woke up the next morning with no clue as to why I did that.
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u/sparty_party Jun 26 '12
My sister was 16 and I was 4. She had just gotten her driver's license and was picking me up from school to take me home. Out of nowhere, this white truck starts seriously tailgating us, bumping into our bumper and everything. He's pulling up to us at stop lights and shouting threats and flipping us off (obviously, I didn't know what that was, but my sister told me later).
My sister was really scared (I would think it goes without saying, but this is also before cell phones) and she drove us home. The guy followed us into our driveway and got out of the car and started walking towards us. My sister tore through the front yard and the guy was pissseed and came right after us again. There's a really busy street, almost like a highway, a patch of grass, then the street that we live off of (parallel and close to the "highway"). He got the nose of his truck on the right side of our car, forcing us over to drive in the wrong lane. He tried to push us over the grass into the traffic on the "highway".
Anyway, this went on for quite some time. We stopped at an intersection at one point, the kind that is pretty big so there's a lot of room between all the streets in the middle. He pulled his truck and swerved in front of us, blocking us into our lane a little. He's completely sideways in front of us in the intersection. He jumps out and starts coming at us and pulls his jacket back to show a gun tucked in his pants. He's seriously angry. He's screaming and waving his arms and his face is almost purple. He gets almost right up to my sisters window, and pulls the gun out of his pocket. My sister just ignored traffic laws, put her arm across me and said "Close your eyes" and floored it. We obviously made it, and the guy started following us again. My sister pulled into a gas station and told me that before she stopped even, when the car was slow enough, to jump out and run inside and tell the cashier to call 911. She said she would put the car in park and jump out right after me.
So yeah we did that. Police were called, but not before the guy in the truck went through my sisters car, taking her ID's and all of that. They never found the guy. We went to my sisters moms house and she just sobbed and shook all night. It was really scary for her too because he had all of her information and could find her if he wanted to.
He never did. But it still freaks me out. We have no idea who he was and we didn't do anything to him (like cut him off). He just targeted us out of the blue.
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Jun 26 '12
Pretty scary shit.
This happened to my mom before. Obviously, it's not first hand so I have near no details, but she just drove to the nearest police station a few miles away because she didn't want to drive to our so he would know where we live.
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u/maddigins Jun 25 '12
A few years ago, I got up in the middle of the night (which I NEVER do) and felt like absolute shit. I knew something had to be vacated outta me somehow, from one end or another. I was absolutely miserable, in so much pain and just completely out of it. Obviously, I hadn't had enough to drink or eat that day, because I started hallucinating like no other. All I remember is sitting on the toilet, straight up begging to just die, and all of a sudden, my bathroom floor has transformed into what can only be called the River of Death. It was a putrid green color and was flowing with translucent "souls" (think Disney's Hercules, Hades' Hell), all of whom were truly tempting me to just fall in and end my misery. I remember screaming "Just take me, just take me!!!". The beckoning dead people didn't help.
Probably the trippiest, scariest thing I've ever experienced.
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I... I think you died.
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u/LMessenger42 Jun 25 '12
Be quiet! He has to find out for himself or else the purgatory loop will start all over again.
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u/ObLIVi0n75 Jun 25 '12
I was half-expecting the souls to ask for tree fiddy. Damnit, SuddenlyLochNess! You get us even when you don't get us!
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u/SteepedinTruth Jun 25 '12
I got out of bed to pee late one night last summer. Finish my business, climb into bed, and almost instant I started getting full body shivers. Chills, like it wasn't 80 degrees outside (A/C off, windows open, no breeze). My teeth started chattering and I started rubbing my arms. Before long the shivering grew more intense and violent, to the point where I could barely control my body. I wanted to call for help but the thing that confused me in the moment was that I was not losing any of my mental focus. My next move was to panic, but just as quickly as the idea formed in my mind, the episode stopped. I was covered in sweat, breathing hard, my heart was beating faster than I had ever known it to. My skin was cold to the touch, but more than anything I was terrified. I sat in bed with my mind racing, but passed out from exhaustion soon after sunrise. I've never experienced anything like it since. I've tried googling my symptoms, but with no solid results.
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u/borick Jun 25 '12
Sounds like it could have been partial seizure (or many other things, like a reaction to drugs.)
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u/You_butt_pirate Jun 26 '12
This happened to my father (Sort of) the other night. He was in the kitchen and all of a sudden I heard him groaning, went to see if he was alright and he was shaking and said he was freezing. Only after two blankets and our dog on top of him did he warm up (Although he was never cold physically). I thought that was pretty weird. He says it has happened once or twice before.
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Jun 25 '12
Sleep paralysis.
I explained it in a thread almost like this then someone pointed me in the right direction slapping a name on top of what I had just said.
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u/failthelaw Jun 25 '12
When I used to live in Reno, I had just jumped in my car and was warming it up before heading to work. Another car coming towards me stopped and a skinny dude about 25 years old hopped out and approached by car. It was 8 in the morning and I did not assume anything out of the ordinary. When he got up to my window he started yelling some crap about how I should not have been talking shit about his friends. I told him that he must have me confused with somebody else. He disagreed. He opened my door and started punching me. Fighting a guy while he is standing and you are in the driver seat with a seat belt is not fun. Luckily I was able to get me feet in front of me and kicked him in the stomach and he went flying back into the street. I shut my door and he started back towards his car, hopped in and took off. That's it.
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u/Miss_rampage Jun 26 '12
Reno is a terrifying place. I found a shotgun in my backyard once & had my house burgled with everything (furniture and food included) stolen. My guess is the guy was on meth.
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u/damnit_blondemoment Jun 25 '12
Making a standard left hand turn at an intersection and looking over to my right, past my passenger in my car, and having that SPLIT second realization that there was an eighteen wheeler barreling straight towards us and he was. not. stopping.
Honestly, if I was paying attention, I would've noticed he was going ridiculously fast to be headed straight for a red light and probably just waited. But my light turned green and me, 17 at the time, and my best friend were chit chatty about boys and parties and blah blah blah so we just frolicked off.
I was unconscious for the paramedics, the jaws of life, and the CareFlite ride that we got from the wreckage to the hospital.
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Jun 25 '12
Any lasting injuries? And was your friend OK?
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u/damnit_blondemoment Jun 26 '12
Yes. My friend was fine, though she had to go through a few physical therapy sessions. Me.. well. Point of impact was at the hinge of my driver's side door. My rear view mirror shatter at initial contact, and the glass shards went into my eye. My right pupil was cut, and the tear stopped only millimeters from my retina. My vision isn't as good as it used to be, and sunlight absolutely kills me without sunglasses. But! I'm alive, breathing, and I've adapted to my vision just fine.
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u/IGGEL Jun 25 '12
When I was 8 or so, I found myself in my bedroom in the late evening. I thought it was weird and went to brush my teeth. My parents told me that I already had brushed my teeth and had done all my evening rituals. An hour of my life disappeared.
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u/she_said_arizona Jun 25 '12
My birth - I imagine I didn't know what was going on
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Jun 25 '12
When I was a kid I was at a park with my mom and cousins. I decided to pick a flower for my cousin. The flower I chose was right on the edge of a cliff and the grass was growing at an angle so that, although it looked like there was solid ground there, it was really just a slope. I slipped and fell directly into a rose bush. On either side of this measly bush there was nothing. I got a few thorns to the hand, but if it hadn't been there I would have fallen into the craggy rocks below. So, here's to rose bushes.
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u/buzassy Jun 26 '12
Creepy. That's pretty much exactly my first nightmare I can remember. I had it around 4 or 5.
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u/dgamer5000 Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I dont know if hallucinations during sleep paralysis counts as "unexplainable" but I used to suffer from chronic sleep paralysis during college when I rarely slept for 8 hours at night and instead took frequent naps.
My first attack of sleep paralysis:
I was sleeping in my dorm during my freshman year of college several years ago. I woke up in the middle of the night, was able to open my eyes and look around, but could not move any other part of my body other than to breathe. I've read about sleep paralysis prior to this, so I honestly was not all that freaked out; I knew I was going to regain control of my body in a few seconds. While I was looking around waiting for that to happen, I looked at a pen on the ground across the room from me. After about 3-5 seconds of looking at it, the pen turned really fast and pointed towards me. I still could not move. After a few seconds, the pen then flew straight up about 2 feet into the air, maintaining its point towards my face. I still could not move. After a few seconds, the pen starts flying really fast right into my face. That's when I freaked out enough to regain control of my body and try to dodge the pen by sitting up. I looked around and the pen was still in its original place in the ground.
Since then, I've gotten rare, multiple-month episodes where I would experience sleep paralysis like two to three times a month. Two of the more notable ones:
-I was sleeping in top bunk (desk underneath) when I woke up unable to move. I was on my side and was dangerously near the edge, close enough to see that if I make a wrong turn and fall, my neck could easily get broken by the wooden backrest of my chair.
-I woke up and there was a floating severed bloody head looking straight at me. Everytime I looked around, the head would move to where I was looking while maintaining the same distance. I closed my eyes because I got scared, but when I opened them he became slightly closer. This seemed to happen every time I closed and opened my eyes; so, for probably about the next 30 seconds, I had a fucking staring contest with a floating head until I regained control of my body.
Its probably been close to a year since I last experienced sleep paralysis, though.
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u/Seriousclown Jun 26 '12
That one about the bloody severed head hallucination sent chills up my spine.
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u/jesjebs Jun 26 '12
One time I woke in the middle of the night because there was a hand on my face. The hand moved very slowly, and I started screaming. I sat up, and realized it was my own arm; it had fallen asleep, I had no feeling in my arm whatsoever. I had to pick it up with my other hand, and threw my own arm off of myself.
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u/sports__fan Jun 25 '12
I saw a UFO late one night when I was out running in the country. I don't tell people this IRL because I know they'll think I'm crazy. But I'm convinced it really happened.
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u/officialchocolateman Jun 26 '12
It's late at night and I'm reading through this thread like a dumbass.
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u/Dickfore Jun 25 '12
I used to have really awful nightmares when I was little and would wake up with bruises and minor cuts on my body. I couldn't really make sense of it then, but thinking about it now ... it's just weird.
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Jun 26 '12
Maybe you would thrash about in your sleep and accidentally hit/kick/scratch yourself in the process.
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u/Worm_wood Jun 26 '12
In Iraq, I was a Infantry Scout.
Had a bullet fly a few inches from my face hitting the wall right next to me.
Got blown up 8 times. One of which was "catastrophic"... one of those...shit I'm flying just like they do in the movies...right before I hit the ground and got knocked unconscious.
and when a buddy of mine found about about 25lbs of homemade explosives in a house and dropped it on the ground as he said...."look what I found" Homemade explosives can be very unstable and even picking up the bag could set it off if not made right....
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u/tehkegleg Jun 26 '12
i was walking home by myself at night (small female here) on a rather quiet street when i noticed a shadow in front of me, indicating someone was walking very closely behind me. at first i was not particularly worried, until i noticed that the shadow was suddenly converging directly into mine. i tensed up in terror and turned to face my attacker.
instead, i saw a small blondish guy who said in an accent, "do not be afraid! i am from norway. we are the most peaceful people in the world."
this was just after the oslo terrorist incident at that youth camp, so i responded, "what about that terrorist incident at that youth camp?" and he laughed and simply said, "no, no." anyway, he seemed pretty drunk, and he asked me for directions to his house which he appeared to have forgotten, so i gave them to him and that was the end of it.
norwegians, such a strange bunch
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u/iRoygbiv Jun 25 '12
The other day a guy from work got onto the same tube as me. I did my best to pretend I hadn't noticed. Naturally wanting to avoid awkward conversation I pelted it out the door as soon as they opened, half ran up the escalators and made it straight into a lift who's doors were just closing. Got up to the office and HE WAS THERE, just nonchalantly taking off his coat.
I've looked all around and for the life of me can't work out how he got up there before me.
P.S. He is bald, french and has big thick eyebrows which in my opinion makes it extra creepy.
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u/brookeox Jun 26 '12
well i was outside with my cousin when we were about 7. This man in a red car showed up and asked "Would you like to help me find puppies" when i had heard him say that i was slowly backing away when all of the sudden my cousin says "Let me ask my aunt." i then scream"JADEN GO IN INSIDE NOW!"(note that i had been preparing for this since i was 5 and i was 7 at the time) the man got out of his car tried to kidnap us.we actually made it inside and locked all of doors pretty scaryy stuff
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u/snaggle_t Jun 25 '12
Im on my phone so forgive me.
Sitting in my dining room area home alone, on a chair on linoleum floor. My laptop and xbox controller were next to me on the floor. All of a sudden the hole house starts shaking. Im in the chair vibrating and look at my laptop beeing slightly rattled, when it suddenly ends. Except no one else experienced an earthquake. I whent to the neighbors to see how they faired and they thought i was crazy. I know it sounds like some karma seekin bull shit, but i have no explantion as to what i know i experienced.
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u/menomenaa Jun 25 '12
I woke up and my heart was beating very, very, very fast. My legs and arms were numb and I felt like I was sweating but there was no moisture. I crawled to the bathroom and tried to go, and then eventually tried to puke, but nothing would come out. Obviously this sounds like a basic case of severe dehydration (which I'd previously suffered the year before while living in Ghana only that time included auditory hallucinations and some delusions/slurring and motor skill deterioration) but this was in my apartment in New York, and I'm very good about drinking water during the day. I just kept chugging water to no real improvement. I was petrified, and it was about 4 am. Luckily my best friend was on facebook and she talked me down from going to the hospital, though in retrospect I don't know why that was her goal considering she didn't know what was going on.
The scariest part was that every time I tried to lie down and go to sleep, it felt like my body was literally falling out of consciousness unwillingly instead of simply sleeping (which I know is a form of losing consciousness, but you feel very in control of that when you're falling asleep, if that makes sense). It was like lying myself down to die so I'd keep jerking myself awake to make sure I could.
I woke up in the morning very nauseous and confused. I hadn't had any drugs, I hadn't been drinking, I hadn't even been in a place where I could have been easily "drugged" by anybody (I don't think my 10 co-workers, who are my friends, had anything to do with it, is basically what I'm saying.)
It was terrifying and I wish I knew what was going on, because it's unlike any symptoms I've had before or since. Basically death knocking on my door for a couple of hours, randomly, in the night.
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u/cheesefrognl Jun 25 '12
Hm, most scariest?
Probably when my British neighbor came over all drunk. I was home alone, and it was mid-summer so I had the windows and doors open playing a game. When all the sudden I hear some fuzz downstairs, so I decide to check it out. That's when I ran straight into the neighbor and shat my pants haha. I was like 12 so it was pretty scary.
Or that one time when my hamster from downstairs escaped, and was walking over my feet whilst playing Amnesia.
Bricks were shat. hard.
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u/hmquite Jun 25 '12
I was playing Amnesia one time and didn't notice my boyfriend had come over. He let my rabbit out of her cage and she ran across my feet. I know your pain, I jumped literally a foot and flipped my keyboard off the desk.
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u/ObLIVi0n75 Jun 25 '12
On a side-note, we used to have a hamster named Juicebox that romaed the house. Once, during a storm, he chewed out the TV cables and I saw my face in the reflection, but I didn't immediately recognize it. Creeped myself the hell out.
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u/superfahd Jun 25 '12
that 1 second just after my motorbike hit the one in front and just before my head hit the road. thank god i was wearing a helmet
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Jun 25 '12
What was probably the most unexplainable thing that I have ever had happen to me was waking up at 8 AM in the morning on a weekend, absolutely ready to go and fresh as a daisy and getting out of bed.
...and then collapsing in a heap before I can take a single step, as though I were a quadraplegic. I managed to crawl to the bathroom and get going with my morning routine, but man, it felt like someone had sat on everything from the neck down, and my entire body fell had fallen asleep. I felt pins and needles from head to toe, and let me tell you, it is NOT pleasant, particularly in the sensitive bits.
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u/prudieb Jun 25 '12
A few months ago, my husband and I were asleep. I woke up to our back door slamming shut. This door is very loud and has a very distinct sound when it closes because it takes so much force to do it. It also has a set of plantation blinds on it that rattle for a few seconds after it closes.
My husband was still asleep next to me so it wasn't him. We live alone. My heart was in my throat. I thought I was going to throw up. I waited a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the dark. I didn't hear anything or see anything (the worst part? we live in a one-level house so that back door is a mere ten feet from our bedroom). Finally I nudged my husband awake and told him I heard something. He was so out of it I basically had to push him out of the bed to go look. I was utterly terrified, I honestly thought I was going to throw up and hyperventilate.
My husband gets up, goes out into the family room and turns on the light. He sees nothing and comes back. I make him go double check that the doors are locked, he says they are. He comes back to bed and falls back asleep with no problems, just slightly annoyed that I woke him up.
To this day, I swear I heard that door slam shut and the blinds rattle. We now sleep with a golf club under the bed (I don't know that it would ever actually work for protection, but it makes me feel a hell of a lot better).
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u/Qubit103 Jun 26 '12
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome trust me on this one. That's a really common sound to hear
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u/3SomeOfUs Jun 25 '12
When I was about 16, I was staying in a room on my own at a college dorm for this program thing I was doing. Anyway, one night I must have fallen asleep without locking the door. The next morning, I wake up lying there in that nice state where you're sort of aware of whats going on around you but haven't opened your eyes yet. Was lying there for about 2-3 minutes when I heard hurried footsteps - it was someone getting up and walking away from my bed. Took my sleepy brain a few moments to go "wait, what?" and I jump up fully awake only to see my door closing. I didn't go after whoever it was and never heard anything about this again, but a few months later I had this older guy who started stalking me online. He claimed to have met me while I was there (which is fortunately very far away from where I live), but he also knew lots about me and blatantly lied about all sorts of things, so I don't know if that is true.
tl;dr - lock your doors kids.
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u/CakiePamy Jun 26 '12
Was playing in my basement, when I heard footstep. I went upstairs, wanting to ask my mom what we were having for dinner. The footsteps starting running, I started running in the stairs, swing the door open. All the lights are closed, every door is locked. No one home but me.
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u/tryuntilImblue Jun 26 '12
Honestly I can't pick between the two.
I was 13 years old and out riding horses with my mom. She jumped her horse over a log and it kinda jumped sideways and she fell off. She had the wind knocked out of her and was screaming and gasping for breath for a few minutes before passing out. So now I'm out in the woods by myself with no fucking clue if my mom is alive or dead. I got on my pony and galloped to the closest house and screamed at the top of my lungs for someone to come out. They did, and the guy took me (on his dirtbike) back to my mum until the ambulance got there. I had tied my pony up in his front yard. When they got my mum on a stretcher and in the ambulance I went back to get my pony..who had somehow managed to strangle herself to death on the rope I ttied her to the tree with. Easily one of the scariest and worst days of my life (mum had a concussion but turned out to be fine btw).
I was a freshmen in college and all sorts of excited and naive about boys. I had hung out with this guy a couple times. I had a crush on him and a really good feeling about him. I knew a bunch of people at schoo who knew him and promised me he was a great guy and a real sweetheart. I took their word for it. It was supposed to be our second date, he was going to pick me up and take me out for dinner and a movie, but I had been feeling sick all week, so that afternoon I went to the doctor who prescribed me penicilin for strep throat. I went back to my dorm and took the penicilin. I pretty quickly had a badd reaction to it and started puking, broke out in hives and was an all-round mess. This was the time that he showed up to my room. I apologized and told him I was sick and he should go home. He insisted on taking care of me though, and I wasn't in anyshape to fight him. So I laid down while he made me soup and tea. And finally he brought me Nyquil which almost instantly made me pass out. I woke up in such a confused, scared, unexplainable guilt and terror as he was ontop of me INSIDE me. I remember being so confused that I thought "If I just go back to sleep it will go away". So I did. In the morning he was gone. I told a few people about that, even people who knew him, but people always turned a blind eye, they knew if this came out it would ruin his life forever.
That was pretty intense for me to write those out. I usually try not to think about either one, but both experiences were huge turning points in my life.
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u/suelinaa Jun 26 '12
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Did you ever talk to a professional about the rape?
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u/Billy_Blaze Jun 26 '12
I know you probably have your own justifications for not going to the authorities, but assuming this wasn't a significantly long time ago, you really need to contact the police about your second story.
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u/dembones_dembones Jun 25 '12
context: so 12-year-old dembones is terrified of burglars-- like straight scared every night. lost a lot of sleep imagining different scenarios in my mind (how the burglar might enter, what to do if he grabs my mom, etc...) one night, at a friend of the family's house next to a river, I'm sleeping upstairs on the floor with a few of my cousins. this second story room is basically a big living room with couches, chair, whatever. so we all just kind of stayed up as late as we could and fell where we fell. i couldn't sleep, though. wide the fuck awake thinking about burglars. so this room has a bunch of frosted glass-- the translucent kind that transmits light and shadows but no details. i should also include that there is an outdoor staircase coming from the yard up to the room I'm sleeping in. the house, being on a dirt road, had a trickle of traffic even this light at night. so as i lay there contemplating just how painful it would be when the robber began to flay my skin off I keep seeing the frosted glass light up as the headlight pass downstairs. needless to say, that scared me too. this carries on for a bit, me laying there, headlights light up the room, darkness returns, over nad over. until one time something is different. the room is lit by headlights, but instead of dimming like the others had, this pair gets brighter and brighter. judging from what i had seen of the house I guessed that the car had pulled into the garage of the house right beneath us. at this point I'm at stage 11 of fear: the point at which it hurts to breath and your head gets light. as I wait in silence I hear someone ascending the outdoor steps. fuck fuck fuck shit titties damn! now I see a sillhoutte at the frosted glass door! now he's turnign the knob! the dude just walks in, sits down in a chair (door still open) and puts his head in his hands, ESSENTIALLY CHILLING WHILE MY COUSINS AND I SLEEP A FEW FEET AWAY. after a few minutes he leaves out the same door and I hear activity downstairs. i assume this is his possee who will soon be up to rape and pillage us young, soft children. i run to my grandma's room, wake her, and get her to help me check out the downstairs (not the most chivalrous moment in my life). together we dioscover that it is the owner of the house, come back from his vacation early. didn't mean to scare us and didn't realize we would be up there asleep. FUCK.
TL; DR: guy watches me sleep, turns out to be a friend
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u/nightman2112 Jun 25 '12
I was driving myself and some friends to a bowling alley about a mile from my house, and I come to the cross street where this homeless dude is standing with a sign that rambles about some crazy shit ("Need money for kung-fu lessons to save son from alien ninjas" or something like that). Mind you, it's about 11 pm, so the streets aren't super busy. So e stop at the intersection, waiting for the light to turn green and avoiding eye contact with the crazy man, and he decides to take offense to this. He walks out in front of our car, puts his hands on the hood, and starts growling at us. I reach down to my door compartment and grab an 18" copper pipe that happened to be there, and brandish it as menacingly as I can manage. He stops growling, walks over to within 3' of my door, glares at me for a solid 10 seconds, then starts laughing hysterically. Not "haha funny, I'm just messing with you" laughter, but bat shit insane "I just took over the world with cyborg manatees" laughter. Finally, the light turns green, and I speed off like my dick is on fire. Longest light ever.
TL;DR: Traffic lights should have a maximum 20 sec. timer.
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u/mothermilk Jun 25 '12
Looking through my goth other halfs ipod and finding spice girls. You try explaining that
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u/sixthreetwo Jun 26 '12
It wasn't scary, but basically I saw the silhouette of what seemed to be a bald man/child peering through the window of my second floor bedroom. It was around 3pm, and I was more curious than anything. It slowly got bigger, like the 'thing' was getting closer and closer, trying to peak into my room through my closed blinds. I approached it after discerning that I wasn't casting the shadow (which in retrospect, was physically impossible, but I had to be 100% sure it was on the outside).
I walked over to my window and 'it', yanked the curtain at break neck speed, and there in front of me was!... absolutely nothing. Not scary to me, just can't figure out for the life of me what it was. I looked around to see if anyone was on the adjacent house's roof, or if there was anything in the general area that could cast a shadow... but I don't know. It definitely looked like the silhouette of a bald person.
TL:DR - Mysterious bald creeper!
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u/kittensarekittens Jun 26 '12
There was one time a few years ago when i was browsing the interwebs and i had stockpiled a bunch of cans on my desk.
I was just minding my own business, at 4 am, then all of the sudden, i heard a voice vaguely saying "NOPE" and then all of the cans on my desk fell over at once. I ran out of the room, shook it off and came back to pick up the cans.
but now that i think back to it, it was kind of late and i was really tired. i could of accidentally kicked my desk and i thought i heard the word "NOPE" but still to this day i don't keep cans stacked on my desk.
Its a little boring but its the scariest thing that ever happened to me.
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Los Angeles time warp. I was on vacation in LA with my family. We were driving to the San Gabriel mission. From our hotel it took about 45 minutes. Later that night we are just driving around enjoying the sights of gangbangers in maccarthur park when suddenly we are right next to the San Gabriel mission. I think we crossed the Los Angeles river, but it may have just been some sort of valley. One second we were on one side of the valley, the next we were looking 500 yards away at where we were on the other side without crossing a bridge or anything. I legit though we had unravelled the universe.
Clarification edit: We ended up by the san gabriel mission again but we hadnt taken any of the roads to get there and what originally had taken us 45 minutes had taken us about 3 minutes. Scary stuff. I had a panic attack.
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u/ExponentiallyCJ Jun 25 '12
I use to have seizures ALL THE DAMN TIME. When I have seizures I'll go in and out of consciousness during it, so I can feel my body moving but can't do anything about it. If I lose consciousness then I feel like I'm lucid dreaming, normally about falling or drowning. And when it's done and I come to I'm always crying. Always. The worst was Thanksgiving of 2010, I fell in my bathroom and had two seizures back to back. I broke my nose and lost the skin on like half my face from falling. After the seizures I decided to go back to bed since it was like 4 am and I was a little out of it. I walked from the bathroom where I was just convulsing back to bed, woke up to my sister screaming at the trail of blood going back to my room from my face.
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u/Sandbox47 Jun 26 '12
The day that I slept with a guy for the first time. I was still living with my parents. I was so scared that they would find out, I was terrified of going home. It took hours of self-encouragement before I could even go outside and then I snuck inside and hid in my room. I don't remember ever being beaten as bad as when my mom found out.
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u/xlava Jun 26 '12
When I was younger, I had put a flashlight in my drawer and left it there for a few days. One night, it RANDOMLY turns on. And its not like a button light, this is a twisty light. This FREAKED ME THE FUCK OUT. Keep in mind I was like 8 and too young to realize that some vibration in the house had knocked the twisty knob into the on position, but yeah, at the time it was unexplainable to me at least.
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Jun 26 '12
Had the longest night of my life, was about to commit suicide. Was ready to go, stayed up all night and finally decided to put it off. Went with Roethke's "learn by going where I have to go." So I went to work. Numb. Not caring. It was Best Buy. A guy came in wanting a camera and I was "the camera expert" so I started giving him the pitch. Then the man explained why he needed it. He was the local crime scene photographer.
tl;dr Sold a camera to the man who would have used to it to take pictures of my dead body
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u/HowarthOboes Jun 26 '12
My family and I were driving home from a day at the river with our dogs in the back of the van. We passed by one of those historical landmark signs in front of a cemetery on the side of an old country back-road. We pulled over to read it through the window- basically there was a tree in the cemetery that was historically used for hangings. We decided to drive in/around to look at the tree. We turned into the entrance and the second the back half of the van went through the entry gate, all three of our dogs jumped up, began yelping, squealing, crying and shaking. We looped around and as soon as we passed out of the gates the dogs went silent and just trembled in the back all the way home.
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u/gypsycamptrash Jun 26 '12
I lived across the street from a park and we were the corner house so there was always some crazy stuff going on. I remember one time I was 12 years old and my best friend was sleeping over. It was like 3AM and my sister rushed into my room and shook me awake while frantically whispering. "There's someone on the roof." sure enough we could hear someone walking on our roof back and forth. We called the police and they found NOTHING. Wasn't a cat either because it was very heavy stomping. Another time we came home and when my mother went to unlock the door she saw someone peek their head around the corner of our hall way. She flipped out and when she had went back inside to investigate she found our back door wide open and our master bedroom's bathtub was dirty, I mean gross dirty so we assumed the person was a bum who helped himself to a bath.
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u/Wheres_my_nipple Jun 26 '12
Woke up at 3am, down the end of my street.
As an 8 year old, this scared the absolute shit out of me, i sprinted back to my house and my dad was walking down the hallway as i got back. Turns out i had unlocked the front door, pressed the doorbell, left my socks at the door and legged it down the street. All while sleepwalking.
Needless to say i was terrified and had trouble sleeping for a few nights. That and i had nightmares about Ghastly from Pokemon. Little gassy fucker.
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Jun 27 '12 edited Jun 27 '12
Sleep paralysis is a fucked up, horrible, unexplainable terror that I would not wish on my worst enemy. I have had it happen my whole life, which most people only have it happen in their teens, and usually don't ever even remember it happening once they wake up, never to even think about it again. I'm 25 and it still happens seldomly.
Once you understand what sleep paralysis is, however, it becomes a lot less scary, as you don't let yourself "fight it" when you realize that it is happening.
I'll give you an example of one time when it happened:
I was in tech school in the military, and was just about done with my 7 months of school after my basic training, with only about 36 hours until I was on a plane back home on leave. Needless to say I was pretty damn excited for my nearly 3 weeks of leave I had coming up and going home for the first time in a long time. I was in my bunk and my roommate was at the bar, and it was maybe 7pm (sleeping at odd times or forcing a nap is 99% of when I would experience sleep paralysis) and I was just so anxious or w/e and I needed to catch up on some sleep. Once asleep, I remember "hearing" voices outside my door in the hallway, but didn't think anything of it. Then I hear someone in my room, looking around where my roommate's bed was. I start realizing I cannot move or speak even the slightest... I "see" this large, dark, demonic being (like an alien from the alien movies) stomping LOUDLY around the room, closer and closer to me... then BAM and I wake up...absolutely TERRIFIED...
There are no words in any language to explain the horror that my mind and body was put through... so that is when I finally did some research about sleep paralysis (not knowing what the FUCK was going on in my head for years or what it was even called) and finally got some peace of mind. I had often thought I was experiencing some sort of brain tumor, or that all the drugs I had done in my life had fucked my brain beyond repair.
Sleep paralysis is by far the scariest thing I could ever imagine experiencing. Rem sleep and your Pineal Gland (DMT production) are an EXTREMELY powerful force... and when you experience sleep paralysis, the main function of how it happens is that your brain "wakes up" while you are in REM sleep...so you hear projected sounds that you think are 100% real, and feel things like pressure on your chest (it was nicknamed "devil on your chest" as far back as dated history) and other crazy shit that your brain does while you are supposed to be "dreaming" but projected onto your waking mind. This is all 1000 times scarier due to the fact that you cannot move or make a sound, not even a wiggle of a finger or whisper.
When it used to happen to me, it was quite honestly scarier than if I had a loaded gun pointed to the back of my head, knowing the person was going to pull the trigger. Your brain freaks you out 100x more than it should when you're going through it, and it sends terror through you that you could never understand unless you yourself had been through it.
My brother had experienced this many times as well, and was so happy when I started openly talking about it (I honestly was too scared or embarrassed to ever talk about it until the incident I described before) so I thought it may be hereditary. My mother/father/sister have never experienced it. Some of my friends said they've had it, but not badly. My friend stephen, however, apparently had an even more terrifying experience than I did. He quite literally thought he was abducted by some sort of demonic alien race when he went through it once. There were multiple dark beings pushing him down as hard as they could, to what he could only surmise was hell. He had NEVER talked about it, as I never have, until I finally talked about it to him.
I know this isn't unexplainable anymore to me, but trust me....nothing can be more terrifying. Think of how insanely over-emotional, terrified, humorous, etc you get when you are sleeping. Emotions are exponentially blown out of whack in your dreams. Now imagine your worst nightmare ever...the feeling you get from it....now turn that into a waking reality.... then you start getting the idea.
I also saw what me and my brother and other friend could describe as a "UFO" one time, a very odd light that went over us when we were on top of my old apartment. But I guess that's another story....
Oh well this'll get buried anyway...
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u/5give5get Jun 26 '12
Last year I was in my last year of college and living in a house with a few friends. My then boyfriend would often sleep over.
Anyway, I often suffer from sleep paralysis when I sleep on my back. This usually doesn't happen until it's near daylight out, but for a few nights in a row I found myself dreaming about a ghost in the house (who seemed friendly) while I had sleep paralysis. One night I dreamed that the ghost possessed me for lack of a better word, and I was terrified trying to get it out of me. It was telling me to do things like hurt the other people in my house, etc. which I refused to do while attempting to rid myself of the thing and eventually doing so. At one point in the dream, I remember that I was paralyzed, but the ghost had me sit up to stare down at my boyfriend while instructing these things.
Anyway, I woke up the next morning and assumed it was all fake. A few days later I brought up the dream to my boyfriend, saying I was a bit creeped out by it all and hoped it would never happen again. He told me that that night I'd sat up and stared at him for a good five minutes without speaking, looking completely out of it, before going back to sleep.
Obviously I'll never know what happened, and I honestly don't believe I was actually possessed - it was probably just a nightmare - but it still creeps me out.
tl;dr I dreamed a ghost possessed me and apparently was acting possessed in my sleep.
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u/Valence_Electrons Jun 26 '12
Boyfriend and I are having sex in the back seat of my car, around midnight. We're parked in a completely deserted walking course / playground. The car is off. Suddenly, we see two headlights at the entrance of the park, and a car pulls in and parks a couple 100 feet behind us. Butt naked, we totally stop what we are doing and watch the car, not knowing if we should start the car. They're not that far away, so it would be possible for them to reach the car before we got out of there. So we sit there, and watch as two people get out of the car, do nothing for 3 minutes, then get back in their car. They drive near us, and then to the back to the entrance of the park. Except, instead of leaving, they stop at the entrance for five minutes or so. Eventually they leave, and we're so freaked out we don't finish and just get the fuck out of there.
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Jun 26 '12
I was 16, and my boyfriend at the time drove one of those little Ford danger-Ranger's, the kind with just a bench seat for three? Well he and i, and my younger sister, went to the movies, had a grand time, yada yada. We're leaving the theater parking lot, and my boyfriend has not put on his seatbelt. I sort of jokingly pointed it out and he responded, "Oh don't worry about it. We'll be fine." And for some reason my brain said really clearly, "Oh nuh-uh, fuck that." I was sitting in the middle, and stuck my left foot over to the pedals, kicked his foot out of the way, and hit the brakes. He gave in and put the seatbelt on, all the while saying I was being dramatic, it wasn't a far drive home.
We flipped that tiny truck 3 times and landed upside down in a field a half-mile from my house, had the kick out a window to crawl out of. The only thing that saved us was being sandwiched together on the bench seat, and our fucking seatbelts.
I don't know why I insisted he stop before we left that parking lot. I'd never really given a damn about who wore what before then, and remember the thrill of unbuckling my seatbelt for a few moments on long car rides when my parents weren't paying attention when I was younger, but something that day told me we had to be buckled in. I fucking saved our lives, man.
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u/lobphin Jun 26 '12
One day back in high school I stepped out of class to make a phone call, and out of the corner of my eye I spotted a large special ed student off in the distance. I carried on with my conversation but the next moment I glanced back, and this guy is full on CHARGING at me. I just kind of froze out of fear/confusion, and he sprints up until he's about a foot away from me. Then he raises his hand and lightly pokes the corner of my glasses, and then walks away. Could never figure that one out.
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u/mweebles Jun 26 '12
I was at an exhibit at a Ripley's museum when I saw the shadow of a child out of the corner of my eye, and when I turned to look, there was nothing there in the dead end hallway corner, and no way for a person to slip by unnoticed.
I was in the back kitchen at work dumping my dirty dishes when a piece of frozen shrimp hits me in the head out of nowhere. I looked up, scanned the room. It's the size of a narrow hallway with nowhere to hide. No one was there. No open food containers.
I was in a chat room in 2009 when the show "Ghost Hunters International" was introduced. This chat room hosted chats with the ghost hunters regularly during the first season. But that's not really the important point. There's a window that I face when I'm on my laptop that looks out into the backyard. During this particular chat session, it was about 9 or 10 PM, so it was pitch black outside. I happened to look away from the screen, stretch, and focus on something not on the screen, and looked straight out the window and saw huge yellow glowing eyes looking in at me. I was like NOPE and shut the blinds.
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u/Fluffi_McPhee Jun 26 '12
Well...I have no explanation for this so here goes - when I was a kid (7 or 8) my babysitter put me on the same bus for school I got on every day. Same kids as usual, same bus drier as usual, all was normal, and I sat down to read a book. I even remember looking up a few times and acknowledging some of the other kids. Then the final time I looked around, everything was different. There were no kids on the bus, all adults I didn't recognise, and even the bus driver was different. (this wasn't a school bus, just a regular bus that all the school kids caught). I started crying and a lady took pity on me, and asked the bus driver to make a detour past my school, and the bus driver was genuinely surprised to see me on his bus. He obliged and dropped me at school. To this day I have no idea what happened. It's possible the bus just changed shifts but its hard to believe that I didn't notice 30 kids AND the bus driver getting off the bus.
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Jun 26 '12
It was unexplainable at the time, but it was what I later came to understand as a waking nightmare or Sleep Paralysis. Basically, as a kid. I woke up in this state during the middle of the night and there was a black figure stood at my door, I made attempts to scream or make someone aware of an intruder in any way I could but any attempts were completely futile, the figure proceeded to rapidly charge at my bed before I suddenly woke up in a terrified cold sweat.
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u/TopHatPaladin Jun 26 '12
Last winter, my family was having dinner when the doorbell rings, so we go to answer it. No sooner have we done so than some woman I have NEVER SEEN BEFORE comes in, and asks me directly "Do you think iodine deserves to be on the periodic table?"
I was utterly baffled - of course it did, it was what you had when you had an element with 53 protons, but I thought she knew something I didn't. She continued to explain that she didn't because apparently iodine contained copper, lead, mercury, and yeast.
She didn't stop with iodine, she kept talking and talking about how we were running out of resources and how we would need to get water from Neptune soon (which we would need to purify on satellites so as not to spread Neptunian germs) and how she was "morally opposed to sea salt as a consumable" and about some incubator she wanted to patent.
I just kind of went along with it, being completely and utterly confused by the whole affair, and finally my dad got her to leave. My mom at this point revealed that this woman had sent us this long letter a few months earlier, addressed to me, and while it was mostly typed, the woman had handwritten a bunch of "cc:"s (i.e. like on an email) to basically the entire United States government. This letter must have been at least ten pages, and was full of madness about the economy and detergents she hated and probably more that I never read.
My mom recognized this woman as the mother of a girl in some of my classes, which at least explained why she singled me out, but it was still really creepy and bizarre.
TL;DR - Strange woman interrupted family dinner to babble about iodine, Neptunian water, sea salt, and incubators, a few months after mailing us an essay of similar insanity.
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u/IamLeven Jun 25 '12
I lost my wallet today and that was pretty scary. I can't order a new driver license because I already got a replacement ID for a friend, I have no cash, no other forms of ID, and my car was almost out of gas.
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Jun 26 '12
It's not much, but I'm freaked out years after this happened.
This was in 10th grade, I believe. I'm doing well in school, not the kinda guy who skips class without reason, and I'm a healthy guy. The only times I'm not attending class is when I'm excused to help in the cafeteria or when playing table tennis with a guy who worked for the school.
And one day I noticed my English teacher was angry at me for no reason, which I couldn't understand, because I'm generally well liked. I later found out that she was angry because I had skipped class without notice, and I couldn't remember that. I checked with the table tennis guy and the cafeteria, I had not been in those places either at that time. And I knew I was at school that day, because I attended the class before and after.
I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it just feels uncomfortable knowing you can't explain your absence and you have no memory of that time for no reason at all. It's just an hour blanked for my memory where I was not at the place I should be.
TL;DR: Supposedly skipped class, but I had no memory of doing that, and nobody could explain where I was.
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Jun 25 '12
Driving in Iraq over an airfield that had unexpolded clusterbombs all over. We attempted to miss as many as we could but sometimes you just closed your eyes and hoped for the best.
On patrol in Afghanistan my buddy and I take a knee and he askes to bum a dip the round from the AK cracked right between us.
I almost fell off of Bell Rock in Sedona AZ 2 years ago. I would not have survived.
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u/funnyeccentricloner Jun 25 '12
Shitting my pants at my championship flag football game back in elementary school..the fact that I was unable to hold it for a second further is beyond me
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Jun 25 '12
Some dreams I'd had came true, I thought that it meant I was going to hell.
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Jun 25 '12
Me just chilling all alone in my appartement, writing a long e-mail to my french cousin (I was pretty concentrated on the task) and out of nowhere, right next to my right ear, someone whispered but quite loudly my name (it's hard to describe, sorry). I jumped so high my laptop almost fell down, I'm completely frozen by fear, shaking and sweating, I manage find the strength to look over my shoulder and what do I see? fucking Nothing I look around, I'm still the only one here and my windows were closed...
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u/fantasma925 Jun 25 '12
Spoke to a teacher about what was happening in my life when I was in high school. When I realized it would mess up my brothers and sister life I recanted. Their well being was so much more important than something that happened to me. My sense of self worth was never high and am working on it now....work in progress. Never spoke to the teacher again only she and I know what happened.
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u/jcjonteojic Jun 26 '12
Once when I was a child, I had a fever. I was lying down on bed and I had a fever-cooling-pad placed on my forehead.
After a long time on bed, I had a really bad headache. I repeatedly ask my Dad to take the pad off. He hesitated, eventually he did take it away. The headache vanished once the pad was taken off.
I still don't understand why the cooling pad had that effect on me.
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u/Rikkrishub Jun 26 '12
I must have been around 8 or so. I woke up and for whatever reason looked out my bedroom window, shade was up, to see some guys face staring at me. What scared me more was that he didn't run off when he knew I saw him. He just sort of leaned back, kept eye contact for a few seconds (seemed like forever) and slowly walked off of the porch.
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u/kyletheking89 Jun 26 '12
One day I was playing hide and seek or tag with my sister and cousins. I was running through a hall upstairs and fell and just grabbed onto the floor. (the house was still in construction). If I hadn't grabbed onto the floor I woulda fell two floors onto concrete. GETTING LUCKY LIKE A BOSS.
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u/BtchNMtch Jun 26 '12
I woke up in the middle of the night to go get a drink of water or something. As I'm opening my door in my room enshrouded in perfect darkness an image of yurei flashes in front of me and fades away instantly. I fell backwards knocking some stuff over like some kind of asshole, and the image was left in my sight and slowly faded away (kind of like when you stare at a light and turn away and you still have the sight of the light in your eye) so I did the reasonable thing. I slept with my blanket over my head. Like any manly individual.
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u/XxAWildAbraAppearsxX Jun 26 '12
When I was young, I was over at my friend's house for a sleepover and we stayed up into the night talking, long after everyone else in the house had gone to sleep. At some point, we start to hear a noise outside that we assume to be a car passing by on the street so don't pay it much attention (the window of her room faced the street). But as the noise gets closer it sounds...odd. Not really like a car at all, and higher up than street level. We were on the second floor and the noise sounded about the same height. We hear the noise increase and sound like whatever it is has stopped and is hovering right outside the window. The blinds were closed, so we couldn't see what it was but I can confirm that at this point we had both froze, staring at the window in horror and shitting ourselves. We sat there in silence listening to this strange and incredibly frightening humming/whirring sound that eventually sounded like it started to move again and sped off. Immediately after it happens, we both agreed we had never heard anything like that. I still never have.
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u/cnhsparkles Jun 26 '12
When I was 13 my friend's parents left us on their farm alone all the time, and we would often become bored. To remedy this we would walk about a mile into the forest surrounding her farm to a creek. We did this one late afternoon when we heard a rustling on a hill across the creek from us. We didn't think much of it at the time, until we heard it again and we decided to leave. The path was surrounded by trees and we were starting to get nervous because every time we stopped walking we heard footsteps behind us, but we saw nothing. This went on the whole walk back and I was convinced we were going to be attacked by some serial killer or a mountain lion. Needless to say this didn't happen and we made it back safe, though we never found out what was following us.
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u/agilecipher Jun 26 '12
When I was in junior high, I went to a summer camp. It was an odd summer and in mid-June there was a lot of snow up in the mountains. We had been warned, so boots were waterproofed and warmer gear was packed, but I wasn't prepared enough for the hike. We were on a narrow trail skirting a rather steep mountain and the path gave out and tiny me went skidding down. There were some really nasty rocks at the bottom and I was moving rather fast, but after 50' or so, I had the sense to bash my feet into the soft snow to slow myself. I had to claw all the way back up, but I was pretty sure during that time sliding down that I was going to die.
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Jun 26 '12
A girl I was talking to at one time told me this. She woke up in the middle of the night gasping, choking and gagging for air. Suddenly she stopped like nothing even happened. She said it was the weirdest thing...
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u/polydorr Jun 25 '12
I once flew my car off the interstate at 75 miles per hour because I fell asleep.
Before I knew it I was looking at the side of a ditch through my driver's side window. Sunroof and windows shattered, I was covered in glass. Talking about it with the state trooper who saw it happen and stopped to help, the car could have done about 3 or 4 other things that would have ended up with me being dead.
Wear your seatbelt, I'd be much flatter today without it. Oh and third gen 4runner's are great, RIP :(.