Page 2 | Have you ever given yourself the 'fright of your life'?

mineofuselessinformation · 2021-05-12T18:14:49+00:00

Shitting hell, I just went to out something in my household waste bin and glanced down. I'm not a huge fan of spiders, and thought there was a whole mass of them on a bin bag in there..... (shivers at the thought) Then I realised I'd pinched the shoots off an acer plant and thrown the bits in there. [grin]

EsmaCannonball · 13/05/2021 12:28

Not me, but when I was in the sixth form a friend took up scuba diving, with a view to becoming a marine biologist. Her first session was at the local baths and afterwards she was advised to thoroughly rinse her diving suit when she got home and hang it up somewhere it could drip-dry. She hung it and all the accessories in the family shower and went out. When her mum got home from work, she entered the bathroom and thought a balaclava-wearing, black-clad man was hiding in the shower. She ran screaming from the house and banged on the neighbour's door, begging them to call the police, who arrived with blue flashing lights.

Fortunately for my friend, everyone involved found it hilarious, although, in her mum's case, it took a while.

Deathraystare · 13/05/2021 13:30

This will sound really stupid but..... I had been somewhere that when you order a cocktail you get a little fluffy 'toy' clinging to the straw.

I got some little 'bees'. I thought it would be a good idea to put them up the curtains. Nope. Every time I entered the room I nearly shat myself that there were bees all over the curtain! They were much bigger than real bees and had cute features.

StylishDuck · 13/05/2021 13:39

I was sitting on the couch with the iPad in front of me a while back, it was sitting flat on my knee and I'd turned to ask one of the kids something, turned back with my hand hovering over the screen to find a massive hairy spider had come down from the ceiling and landed straight in the screen where I was about to put my hand. I have never moved so fast in my entire life 😱😱😱

Nowthereistwo · 13/05/2021 13:46

@Originalyellowbelly

Years ago when I lived alone I woke up to find myself touching someones hand in the bed next to me, I swear my heart stopped until I realised that I had been lying on my arm and caused my hand to go completely numb and I was holding my own dead hand.

I used to do this a lot, really hated the feeling of having to lift up and move my own dead arm.

hilariousnamehere · 13/05/2021 23:19

@StylishDuck

I was sitting on the couch with the iPad in front of me a while back, it was sitting flat on my knee and I'd turned to ask one of the kids something, turned back with my hand hovering over the screen to find a massive hairy spider had come down from the ceiling and landed straight in the screen where I was about to put my hand. I have never moved so fast in my entire life 😱😱😱

Who else immediately looked up at the ceiling to check for hairy spiders in waiting?!

WeatherwaxOn · 13/05/2021 23:28

Many years ago, out with DH, on biliday. We went for a walk in the countryside, along a deserted woodland path on a street hillside.
Part of the path was covered in sawn logs to keep people put of the mud.
I stepped on one, it flipped me up and I ended up sliding down the very steep hillside/ravine. Had to clutch onto a bush and DH had to lie on the ground and pull me back up over the edge.
That was quite scary.

onepieceoflollipop · 13/05/2021 23:29

I sit very near a window at work -first floor.
Window cleaner seems to clean the windows very vigorously so the mop/squeeze comes flying at force towards the window and then enthusiastically scrubs it.
I turned round one day and for a split second thought a big fat grey pigeon was flying against the glass (I hate birds)
Colleague had the same thought (we share a small office )
Both shrieked and practically ran into each other’s arms.

StormcloakNord · 14/05/2021 00:21

Many years ago I was quite young & excited for Christmas. I slept downstairs on the sofa after watching TV for a bit.

I had some strange, almost lucid dream, that the radio was on in the kitchen (it was pitch black in the dead of night so no radio on!) and someone turned it up... then I heard footsteps coming from the kitchen into the living room.

I must have actually woken up because all I saw was a man cloaked in chains about to kill me (it was actually just the Christmas tree) so I screamed bloody murder. Neighbours called the police and everything.

magicstar1 · 14/05/2021 00:31

@Speakingofdinosaurs the exact opposite happened here. I was a child and woke up to see my mother’s face an inch from mine. She was checking I was breathing okay! It was 40 years ago now and I still wind her up over scaring the life out of me lol.

Deathraystare · 14/05/2021 07:48

NakedBanana

Oh that is hilarious! I should stop reading these - I am at work! I would have been as scared as you but without (sadly) the light sabre. I watch too much paranormal stuff so would really scare myself stupid!

Speakingofdinosaurs · 14/05/2021 17:23

Just remembered another one. It was when I was 18ish, living at home with my mum & the cat. Mum had gone to bed & I’d stayed up late watching a horror movie on the television.
It was really scary, I had my arms crossed & was clenching & unclenching my hands.
Unbeknownst to me, the cat had been watching, & thinking I was playing with her, suddenly pounced on my hand!
Well you can imagine my reaction - I screamed & shot up off the sofa - nearly had a heart attack!

QueenPaw · 14/05/2021 17:27

Not my cat terrifies me most evenings by slamming against the window (he jumps up on the windowsill) so all I hear is a giant bang and then see two eyes peering in at me

Accident wise probably falling down stairs that went stairs, platform, stairs and I did the lot in one go. It was like when you dream about falling except I landed sat on my ankle and heard the snap. Ligaments snapped, ankle snapped, foot snapped and facing the wrong way
I also missed hurtling through the glass door at the bottom of the stairs by inches

GorgeousLadyofWrestling · 14/05/2021 19:27

When I first started seeing DH, I was having a shower round his one night. I was twisting round, washing my lower back area and saw I massive fuck off tarantula on the back of my hip. I screamed blue murder, screaming at the top of my voice and trying to get it off me. DH ran up the stairs two at a time and burst into the bathroom to see me swiping desperately at my back but I couldn’t get it off.

Turned out it was my tattoo 🙄🙄🙄

vampirethriller · 14/05/2021 19:31

Took my wig off when I got home from work, put it on the bed and forgot about it. Much later I got into bed, put my hands on what felt like someone's head and nearly died of horror.

RiderGirl · 14/05/2021 20:49

When I was little I often used to stay at my nans with my sister. I can clearly remember waking up one morning in a box/cage, very small with bars right in front of my face and it was dark. I was obviously petrified and started screaming - until my nan rushed in and pulled me out. Turned out I'd fallen out of bed in the night and had somehow managed to roll right under the bed, and had woken up staring at the slats underneath the mattress. I think it frightened my nan nearly as much as me!

NewlyGranny · 14/05/2021 20:59

Doing some DIY in our first cottage, putting a new ceiling in the tiny second bedroom. I was standing on a chair, offering the plasterboard panel up and reached for the lighting wire to pull through the hole DH had cut for it, forgetting he'd turned the power back on to use the drill.

I got the full voltage down my arm and into my body. It seemed to slam from side to side through me. The yell I gave was heard by a neighbour, who asked DH later if we'd had a falling out!

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mineofuselessinformation · 14/05/2021 21:17

I'm enjoying reading all of the experiences here.
I might be the only one old enough, but dos anyone remember the spoof 'live seance' Ghostwatch?
It properly freaked me out, to the point where I went and fetched the only Bible in the house as some form of protection.....

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TheDramaLlama123 · 14/05/2021 22:35

Love this thread OP, yes! Often think about ghost watch! Was only about 10, scared the living daylights outta me, couldn’t sleep for a while after that at until my Mum told me it was fake! What on Earth made her think it was suitable for me and DB 7 at the time! She also let us watch the original IT movie in my early teens too, scared for life! But continued to rewatch on the VHS she brought us as me and my DB didn’t want to let the other know we was scared! A few years later I was woken by noises outside our house, looked out the spy hole to see red balloons 🎈 just floating, I thought Pennywise had come to get me - turned out was just my Mums BF decorating the front of the house for my DMs birthday!

chatnicknameyousuggested · 14/05/2021 22:54

A friend of mine went to a haunted forest, where the screams of the dead were apparently recorded in the souls of the trees.
He was a complete unbeliever, until he got on his motorbike and tried to ride off. The spirits off the dead caught him by the throat and made the wheels of his bike spin.
Or maybe his Dr Who scarf (it was the late 70s) had got caught in the back wheel of his Vespa...

JackieTheFart · 15/05/2021 01:48

@vampirethriller

Took my wig off when I got home from work, put it on the bed and forgot about it. Much later I got into bed, put my hands on what felt like someone's head and nearly died of horror.

My sister used to put her hair extensions in my bed

little bastard!

JackieTheFart · 15/05/2021 01:51

I was tidying out our bedroom the other day, there was loads of crap on top of the wardrobe, most of which I took to the dump.

I did leave a plastic box thing though, but I’m too short to reach well and too lazy to get a step so it was overhanging the top a bit. That stopped the wardrobe door from closing properly on one side, so it it would do it s l o w l y till it banged.

It must have banged at least 4 times, making me shit myself every time, until I got a step and pushed the bastard a bit further on! Honestly even when I knew it was coming it gave me a fright!

Ozgirl75 · 15/05/2021 02:56

I was at a fancy ball with my husband once, we were young and both pretty drunk. Suddenly my husband looks behind me, goes white as a sheet and says, deadly seriously to me “there’s a man behind you with two heads”. I whipped round and there are twins, with one standing behind the other .
20 years later and if we ever see twins I reassure my husband that they aren’t a two headed person.

HunterAngel · 15/05/2021 07:47

Stepping out of the bathroom in the middle of the night I thought I saw someone right next to me in the hallway. Turns out it was DS’ coat that I’d hooked over the door to dry off

Dustyhedge · 15/05/2021 08:02

I was at home, husband had gone to work so was just me and my 2 year old. I was tired and went down for a nap when she did. I then heard someone in the house and absolutely freaked out. Husband had come home early from work but honestly my heart was pounding for hours and hours.

TTCat39 · 15/05/2021 08:07

A friend and I were the first to arrive at a cottage for a hen weekend. We set about stocking up the kitchen and opened the fridge to see a couple of big fat spider's legs poking out from under the ice box handle. We were both flapping around squealing when the supermarket delivery man turned up. He offered his assistance while we cowered in the background. He had a look and then turned around bemused to ask if we were having a laugh with him - it turns out the handle was slightly broken and had been fixed with a piece of black cotton...