What was your most terrifying experience?

[Mixedupworld]

For me it was being winched up into helicopter after I fell and injured myself.

Followed closely by me and a friend aged 12 getting cut off by the tide and having to be rescued by RNLI. We didnt have phones so had to scream for help and were eventually heard. It was pitch black.

Walking toward Manchester Arena and hearing the bomb., knowing it was a bomb and knowing my girls where inside and being convinced they were dead.

Thankfully they were physically unharmed but we didn't know for 10 minutes (which felt like a lifetime).

I can't even comprehend some of the terrible things on this thread

3 for me.

1. When i was 11 on holiday in Turkey with my family walking through a market i was daydreaming and walking behind my parents and brother when i was grabbed by two men who dragged me into their shop. I bit one of the men and screemed and luckily my dad heard and got me

1. I was in miami with a group of friends and one of my friends suggested we look for a dive bar and only I agreed. Walking for what felt ages we found one but there was only the owner and his friend there and we got a really bad feeling about it. We ordered a drink and i noticed that one of the men went to the door and was behind us and i noticed it looked like he was trying to close the door on us. I ordered another drink and said to my friend i needed the loo and we both went and luckily there was a fire door we both ran out of it and tried to flag a taxi but it refused to stop and ran until we found a main road. Got in a taxi explained what happened and said another taxi wouldnt let us in and he told us that it was a terrible neighbourhood and we are lucky we made the decison to run

1. Both me and dp had missed calls from my brother when we got up and they were chilling. Histerical crying and we could barely make sense of what he was saying until the end where it was clear he was saying goodbye and sorry. Called my mum who had missed calls as well and got in the car starting a 6 hour journey to his house. Rang the police and couldnt get hold of my brother. We were an hour into the journey when the police called to say they had found him safe. He had got too drunk and had fallen asleep without doing anything. 5 years on i still have my phone on loud im case i ever get a call in the night

Having an emergency appendectomy. The muscle relaxant kicked in before the anaesthetic and I was aware as I went under that I couldn't breathe...I came round as hysterical as I had been as I'd lost consciousness...

Was then told a couple of hours later that I'd need further surgery at a later date for an ovarian cyst they'd randomly discovered while removing my appendix.

Ended up having a debrief with the very apologetic anaesthetist and CBT prior to the next op.

sanity

You grew up with a psychopath? I can't even begin to imagine. I hope you've found peace.

On a hand built zip line at a summer fair (it probably wouldn't be allowed now), kids were climbing the A frame, sliding down and then someone on the ground would use the attached rope to pull the zip handle back to the next kid who would grab the rope, pull the handle in to get hold and slide down, on repeat. There was an excited Q up the A frame, I was at the top, one kid in front of me, waiting to go down.
The rope was flicked by the person on the ground to the waiting kid who happily grabbed it and set off down the zip. But the rope had wrapped round my neck. No-one noticed. It was whizzing round my neck getting tighter, I was trying to grab it but it was hard as it was moving quickly. I luckily just managed to grab it, but didn't know if it had wrapped round clockwise or anti-clockwise, if I guessed wrong I would double the coil round my neck or I guessed right I would get free, I guessed right. Very lucky. All this took absolute seconds but if I hadn't managed to unwrap it I would have been yanked off the (very high) A frame strung by my neck.
As it was I had an horrendous rope burn across my throat which was agony to the slightest touch, even gentle breezes, for weeks, my skin was frayed so it was fuzzy like velvet. My parents didn't believe me anything had happened.

@96315id

sanity

You grew up with a psychopath? I can't even begin to imagine. I hope you've found peace.

Not really. My mother and both my sisters (nice one and psychotic one) go on holiday regularly without me. I was also forced to invite my psychotic sister to my wedding as it was my dad's "dying wish" (he'd had a massive heart attack the year before) that we got on!! I did invite her to keep the peace, but one of my bridesmaids was my body guard and didn't let her within 10 feet of me!!

@Bagelsandbrie It was awful and my other ds who was 6 was there watching it all and now I have the added awful guilt that I just ignored him and left my mum to deal with him.
He is a very accident prone child, and has had many since but nothing like that.

Coincidently there was another little boy in the hospital at the same time, same age same first name, had done the exact same thing but their burns were on opposite sides of their body, and they had their accidents 1 day apart. I thought that was very odd.

sanity

Bonkers. Utterly bonkers, the lot of them. But I did wonder what your mum was like, allowing that to go on without protecting you. So toxic.

I'min

What a terrible experience. This is unfortunately a common accident and you shouldn't beat yourself up. It has also happened in my extended family.

When I was 11 I got caught up in a shop robbery. A masked man entered and threaten everyone with a knife. I just stood there paralyzed with fear and I'm ashamed to say I even wet myself quite badly. When it was over some kind woman took me home as she could see I was in a state of shock. I don't believe the guy was ever caught. The whole incident scarred me for a long time. I hated going into shops without an adult after that.

I've had a good read of some of yours and my God have you all had some awful things happen to you.

Finding DS ( 8weeks) unresponsive and purple in his Moses basket. We managed to bring him back. Well dp did.
He's 11 yo now.

Waking up after a drunken night out in a room floor to ceiling egg boxes. No idea how I got there. Flat empty.

HR 240bpm. Arrythmia. Being told I was going to have a heart attack unless I accepted cardioversion.

Ironically I was in no danger at all but I didn’t realise and I have never felt such an instinctive terror before or since.
My parents too me to see jaws age 4 and since then I always had a bit of a phobia about the sea despite being a string swimmer. Before me and DH were married we went to Barbados and encouraged by DH I went snorkelling. It was fine but I was a bit nervous when a large mass rushed towards me from the deep water- it was a shoal of fish and someone has thrown some bread near me to they were going for that BUT all I saw was a large gray thing coming towards me at speed. I literally stopped breathing and had a panic attack, luckily I was wearing a life vest. I was pulled abroad the boat and lay crying and shaking on the floor for about 10 minutes unable to explain. Even when I knew what had actually happened I was very shaky all day.
It’s kind of funny now I suppose but it was over 20 years ago and I can still remember exactly how I felt

@Beck30 weirdly, i also had a very funny experience on acid about 25-30 years ago that went very wrong when we went for a walk. the worst 15 hours of my life!

i also once went on a work trip and flew into a tiny Lithuanian airport. transferred to the hotel in an equally tiny port and it was terrifying. there was a bar full of drunk men, my room was occupied by someone else and they then put me in the ‘suite’ which was on a semi-abandoned top floor with a door that didn’t lock. i slept in my clothes that night!

Sat in the high dependency unit in the middle of the night willing dd age 7 to fight for her life with all that she had. She was critically ill with sepsis. Never felt so scared and so alone.

When i was 15 and home alone a man walked past the living room window and looked in i got a horrible feeling, walked back and gestured to me to open the front door.

I didn't and went into the back of the house, looked out the back window & he was in the garden.

Called police and he disappeared. Was scary tho and stuck in my head.

Waking up to find my (born a few hours ago) daughter blue in the face. Screamed for the midwives. Lots of staff rushing in, her being rushed down to NICU. The seconds felt like hours.

Turned out she was breathing, but her body temp had dropped, hence the blue. She was treated for Sepsis and was totally fine, but fucking hell, it was horrific.

When I was a teenager, my Mum was regularly violent towards me, but there's one occasion that stands out.

I was short and very skinny, she is 5"10, for context. I managed to escape her and ran upstairs into my bedroom. I sat with my back against the door, my feet against my bed (which was up against the wall), and I thought she wouldn't be able to get in. Wrong. After around 5 mins of her kicking the fuck out of the door whilst screaming at me, she got one of my Step Dad's tools and smashed a hole in the door, reached through, grabbed me by my hair and dragged me up, shoved the door open.

Came in, threw me on the floor, kicked me repeatedly. Then trashed my room. Everything was thrown at me, including my TV (pre flat screen era, so despite it being a small one it was heavy).

I really thought I was going to die.

My crime?

Dropping a towel on the floor as I was bringing my laundry down.

She had been drinking heavily that day (nothing new there) and doing coke (nothing new there either).

Bloody hell higher, she sounds awful
I thought of a time when I went on a school trip with my son who was 6, to Noah's ark zoo farm, and we were in the maze and I lost him and couldn't find my way out, I kept ending up back where I was as you had to answer questions to go the right way and I didn't know the bloody answers! I took my ages but luckily I found him and all he said was where did you go mummy?

The horrific night when an ex strangled me (thankfully he didn't kill me but I will never forget the feeling of his hands cutting off my airway as I fought him) - I managed to get him out of the house later and he smashed through my front door and was trying to get into the lounge where I was on the other side of the door trying to stop him pushing the handle down - I'd managed to call the police and thankfully they came within about 3 minutes, I genuinely think he would have killed me.

Oh my god I hope you're away from him now and ok!

Some awful experiences on this thread
Waking up to strange banging in the night, opening the curtains to see flames licking at the window. The flat downstairs was on fire, luckily it was empty during renovation and I managed to wake the other neighbours in the block so we all got out safely.
DS choking aged 3.
Me choking on a chip aged about 20.
Wondering what was wrong during a scan when I was having DD, I could tell by the sonographers face there was a problem. Thankfully it was with me and was corrected by surgery, we are both fine now.

getting stranded on the slopes at dusk after taking the wrong ski lift, I was with two family members and a friend and we were screaming for help, luckily someone who worked on the lifts found us on their ski home and guided us down the mountain.

seeing my dad soon after his admission to the hospice. He was a young 65, but his cancer aged him overnight, I've never seen my 6'3" strong father look so vulnerable. Also watching him take his last breath 10 days later.

Finding out by way of an online neighbour forum that a cat who matched our cat's description had been found dead at the side of the road. That almost ended me after a series of awful events.

My car being hit by a train on an ungated level crossing