Scariest thing you've ever experienced

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When watching a horror with my teenage son this evening, DS asked what the scariest thing I'd ever witnessed was and I simply couldn't think what my answer would be. I'm intrigued to know what other people's answers would be, I find it so intriguing

Flying to or from Michigan in 2004 and mid flight I noticed the hum of the engines completely stop. Nobody else seemed to realise. I couple of cabin crew had a strange look on their face and after what felt like an eternity the engines and hum started again, it may have only been 10-20 seconds but I don't like flying and found it very worrying

Head on car crash at 70mph. I wasn't driving.

Also dh almost being airlifted to a London hospital after a a accident at work. He was in resus

Quite scary how many people are responding with childbirth!

A full blown panic attack I had 15 yrs ago. My feet and hands started to go numb then my mouth and the rest of my body went numb. I was effectively paralysed for the 30 minutes it took to start to wear off.
I was terrified and thought I would die as had no idea what it was.
Unfortunately it was the first of many, but at least afterwards I then knew what they were.

A gunshot on a crowded bus in Brazil when I was living there as a student.

My mum conking out at the breakfast table after she'd been on a drinking binge, and we had to call an ambulance.

Working as a (non-ward) nurse on ITU during the last wave of COVID. Being responsible for a ventilated patient on dialysis and having to do it all myself and being so scared I would make a mistake and harm my patients.

DS2 being admitted to hospital with meningitis when he was 10 days old.

Being told I had a brain tumour and then seeing the biggest twat of a neurosurgeon who did nothing to allay my fears!

My heart goes out to every single one of you

Being taken to a side room and being told they had found a growth in my daughters brain when she had just had a scan for banging get head after a fall.

I have walked into an actual gunfight by accident and narrowly missed a billet but this was a million times worse.

Almost drowning as a teen

Dc1 birth, no sounds/cries, doctors and nurses flooding in giving him emergency CPR. Thankfully he is fit and well now.

Sleep paralysis

Mum huddling us all together as children in the middle of the night to tell us an asteroid was going to hit earth. She was literally convinced this was going to happen/very upset, trying to barricade things in front of us for protection.

Being chased and bitten by a dog that wouldn't let go.

I've been in a serious car crash too but weirdly it was very serene/peaceful/slow, like I'd accepted death.

Had a knife held to me before when play fighting with a lad who 'liked' me, I felt my knees give way beneath me, I am absolutely terrified of knives.

At a mass shooting with my 7 yo son.

Watching my mum die. She was terminally ill and had been unconscious all day but suddenly opened her eyes, had a seizure and then died. Horrific.

Realising I was going to have to give birth to my dead baby girl when I was 37 weeks pregnant.

Dh being diagnosed with malignant hypertension - his blood pressure was through the roof; top number well into the 200s, bottom number late 100s. And the few days, weeks, years that have followed now he has knackered kidneys.