Scariest experience you’ve had

[Meruem]

Another thread reminded me of this. My story works better if you’ve seen the film “Hostel”

(Adult) DD and I booked a weekend break in Poland. Booked an apartment on booking.com. Arrived, tried to get a taxi to the place but he dropped us off kerbside with a vague “it should be here somewhere”. We looked, all we could see was a building site. So we asked in an office block opposite. Receptionist looked on google and told us the address was said building site. We walked over to see 2 big burly men chatting in polish. Showed them my crumpled print out and no one said a word but one of the men jerked his head in the direction of a rickety lift. Feeling a little nervous at this point but got in and the lift itself wasn’t even finished, just bare boards.

He took us to an apartment and a sinister man said “come in”. At this point, slightly shitting ourselves. I look at my DD and she mouths to me “I’m scared” I mouth back “me too”. We pass a bathroom with the shower curtain drawn around the bath. He gives us a key and tells us our apartment is on the floor below. We go there and realise literally the only “finished” apartment is ours and the one upstairs. Put the TV on to try and break the aura of dread and it works for one minute then goes onto static! Then we hear what sounds like something being dragged across the floor in the apartment above us! We later worked out that it had actually started raining and the sound was distorted due to angled windows! But we didn’t realise that at the time. By this time it’s 10pm and realistically too late to run and go elsewhere!

We ended up barricading ourselves in the bedroom with a knife block we’d taken from the kitchen. We woke up in the morning and looked at each other and said “yes! We’re alive”. At this point I did think maybe we shouldn’t watch so many horror films! I later found out that it’s actually not that unusual for odd apartments in unfinished blocks to be rented out in this way. But at the time, all I could focus on was the digger outside and how easy it would be to hide our dead bodies in amongst the building works!

What’s been your scariest experience?

18 years ago I put my baby into his cot, turned on the baby monitor and went downstairs and sat down with a coffee.

Half an hour later I heard a man shouting down the baby monitor. My sister who was visiting looked at me in fear, we both ran upstairs but nobody was there. I grabbed my son and ran out of the house.

It was more than likely interference but I was petrified at the time.

I've had life threatening injuries in a car crash. That was fairly frightening.

Aged 5 on holiday with DM and Dsis age 3. DM had took ill on the train, in a city hundreds of miles from home in south England . Totally alone . I remember the old couple across from us trying to calm me down . We ended up in an ambulance then A&E at the next stop .

Dsis and I were moved to foster care that night in that city , until DF drove down to get us from home .. drove us back - minus DM - to DGPs , which was another couple of hundred miles from home . Left us there a week as he had to work .

DM came home a week later, iirc - she had to sort of hitchhike her way up England as no money . In that time had no idea if she was ever coming home .

Day she got home DF took us back to family home and walked out there and then . Divorced within the next few weeks .

Have never discussed it with anyone in rl. DF and I get on well now as do parents, but all circumstances combined hurt me and left me a very scared and insecure child (and adult) .

Sat at uni in bed on my laptop (downstairs bedroom). Top off but bra on, covered by the duvet up to just under my bra.

Sensed someone watching me so I looked at the window and there was a guy looking at me through the window. He had bent down to spy through a few inches left at the bottom of the blind. My blood ran cold, I screamed upstairs to my housemate and they looked out of their window to see him still stood there. Banging on the windows but all he did was try to move around to my other window. Friend's bf opened the window and shouted so he got on his bike and rode off.

A week or so after I get a weird card addressed to the wrong name but saying they liked my bra. I think I got a second one too but cant remember what that one entailed (it was 2007).

Very, very creepy.

Being held hostage for hours by a crazed knifeman when I was a nurse. Managed to talk my way out of it unharmed and went on to work in prisons.

I had to have a procedure that stopped my heart. One of the worst experiences I've. had.

Years ago a friend and eye ended up going back to a flat with these two guys. They were pretty creepy to begin with but I thought she wanted to get off with one and she thought vice versa, so we both thought we were looking out for the other IYSWIM.

When we got there the flat was absolutely filthy, overflowing cat litter tray etc. She disappeared into a bedroom with one and I was left in the living room with the other. I suggested watching a film and he put on Leon. He said it was his favourite because he liked “watching people die”!
She appeared out of the bedroom and the Leon guy went off to make some drinks or something (). My friend and I looked at each other and without a word bolted for the door. When we were safely in a taxi it turned out the other guy had samurai swords in his room and pictures of his ex with her eyes scratched out. I’m 90% sure they were just filthy idiots but at the time we were convinced we had just escaped ending up on the front page of the paper.

@postermadcatladyforever that's great that you in a sense got something out of what must have been a truly horrifying experience.