Page 7 | What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you? (NON WOO)

FlyHighLittleBee · 2016-09-16T18:51:38+00:00

Enjoying the woo thread so much but I've finished it now so thought I would reenact another of my favourites. So what's the scariest, non-woo situation you've even been in?

SpinningTotem · 17/09/2016 11:45

He enjoyed it OhTheRoses.

LouBlue1507 · 17/09/2016 11:51

When I was 10 years old, I was on holiday with my family in Gran Canaria. We were visiting a large shopping centre and I was trailing behind, hating every minute of it...
As we passed one shop in particular, I was grabbed from behind and dragged into the shop, being pulled through the shop and towards the back... I screamed like I've never screamed before and luckily my grandad heard me and got me back! (After decking the fella)...We all hurried in a taxi and didn't leave our hotel resort after that! Scariest moment of my life!

Lovelongweekends · 17/09/2016 12:13

When I was 17 I worked at a place that did residential riding holidays. One night the owners left me alone in charge of 30 children and 60+ horses. The stables caught fire that night (due to a discarded cigarette one of the owners flicked out the car on the way out), I had to get all the children and 20 of the horses that were in the stables at the time to safety. Luckily no person or horse was injured.

20hrs into labour with dd1 I was suddenly surrounded by people and rushed to surgery for an emergency c-section. She couldn't breathe so the first I saw of her was being was her being whisked off to nice with someone pumping air into her.

vladthedisorganised · 17/09/2016 12:14

Lying on a trolley in a hospital corridor for six hours, having been told I was experiencing an ectopic pregnancy and if an operation wasn't carried out soon I would die, and bleeding heavily.
Apparently there was a 'bit of a slip up and everyone forgot about me'. Fortunately I'm still here.

Close second is having a man with a knife trying to force his way into my bedsit.

FurryLittleTwerp · 17/09/2016 14:47

I was driving up the A19 in North Yorkshire late one winter's evening. It was cold, around freezing but the road was fine.

Suddenly I drove into mist & the outside temperature on the car gauge dropped to minus 10, & I realised the road surface was slick with black ice. The car ahead of me just started spinning in the road, coming to a stop facing towards me at an angle, across both lanes.

I braked as hard as I dared & managed to drive round the front of the car, somehow without losing control. It was awful & I'll never forget the terrified look on the driver's face as I zoomed towards him!

LoisEinhorn · 17/09/2016 15:05

The police turning up and telling us that a parcel addressed to us had blown up in the sorting office and did we have any ideas why. Were we into anything dodgy. Interviewed our son in case it was something he was into behind our backs.
We were told to call 999 if any other parcels arrived. We're in a small market town where these things don't happen.
Turns out it was a badly packaged seat belt that hubby had ordered off Ebay. Apparently they use some sort of small explosives to make them work (or did back then)

VanellopeVonSchweetz99 · 17/09/2016 15:18

I nearly choked in my sleep alone in a hotel room in the middle of the night. It was acid reflux/sick and I woke up in a total panic which turned to overwhelming sadness when I realized this could be it and I didn't have long at all before passing out.
In desperation I threw myself over the edge of the bath tub and somehow it worked.

Crispyturtle · 17/09/2016 15:29

SpinningTotem they are the most chilling three words I've ever read, I'm so sorry that you were treated so cruelly X

The scariest thing that ever happened to me was cave-tubing in Belize (sit in big rubber ring & float along river through a cave system). There was a group doing it but I was travelling on my own and only met the others that morning. We got to the start point, the guide said to everyone to get in their rings on the river, I did so & the current took me very quickly towards the mouth of the cave. I turned round, only to see everyone else standing chatting on the bank. The panic I felt when I realised I was shooting into a pitch-dark cave on my own with no idea if there was a particular route to follow or if anyone had noticed I was ahead, I could feel my throat closing up I was so scared I'd disappear into that blackness and not come out! Thank god, about 50 meters into the cave the currents slackened right off and I was able to paddle on the spot til the others finally caught up with me. It's nothing compared to some of these stories but I was terrified at the time.

Also the time I was in my teens, in a car with two boys, one of whom I knew well & the other had only just met. We were parked up down a country lane. The one I'd just me turned to me and said 'we could rape you now' and the other just laughed and said 'yeah!'. I realised they were right. Nothing happened, but it scared me nonetheless. I never got in the car with that weirdo again, and told all my friends to steer well clear.

MermaidTears · 17/09/2016 15:34

Psunami in Thailand

user1465335180 · 17/09/2016 16:32

My brother killed himself with an overdose. When the ambulance men tried to give him CPR he didn't respond but he brought up a lot of blood. The police suggested we didn't see his body because of the bleeding so we agreed to wait until after the post mortem. Sitting in the Coroner's office waiting to view his body all I felt was fear- I was so scaried of what I'd see, that it wouldn't look like him anymore.

Spinningtotem- your Father sounds vile, so sorry you had to live with such a sad excuse for a parent

ayeokthen · 17/09/2016 16:35

Swine flu six years ago, I remember being completely out of it, drifting in and out, and them telling my dad that my organs were shutting down and not to leave just in case. The scariest thing looking back, is that I was too ill to give a shit. I genuinely didn't care. Obviously I'm glad I didn't die, but I've never felt so awful.

ayeokthen · 17/09/2016 16:37

Sorry I should clarify that "they" were the doctors in A&E.

ImperialBlether · 17/09/2016 17:15

This thread is the saddest I've read on MN. My heart goes out to so many of you.

Dancedog · 17/09/2016 18:13

I was shot. I was volunteering in a third world country for the summer. I was stopped in the street by two young girls. As we were talking when we heard gunshots. We tried to take shelter in the nearest shop but the wouldn't let us in. So we ducked down into a corner. He shot me which was already scary but the scariest part was arriving at the local hospital which was in an awful state and I was sure that I was going to die there either from being shot or catching something from the hospital.

Also my dad dying of cancer when I was 11. He told me he was going to die but my nanna had cancer a few years before and she had lived. So I assumed my dad would too. I was convinced he would be fine until my nanna called me whilst I was staying at my mum's and told me I had to come immediately and say my goodbyes. I was suddenly terrified I wouldn't make it in time. I did make it but he died a few hours later and I was so scared as I suddenly realised my life was totally changed.

MollyHopps · 17/09/2016 18:27

I feel so sad for you all.

for your bravery and for carrying on after some of these.

Rollonbedtime7pm · 17/09/2016 19:21

Mine sounds like nothing in comparison but the moment my water broke in my lounge and it became very clear this baby was coming right here right now and it was just me and DH.

He delivered her and we felt superhuman! After being initially terrified!

chinam · 17/09/2016 20:16

Being told my father, the man who wouldn't hurt a fly, had been murdered after going to the aid of someone in trouble.

Mouikey · 17/09/2016 20:24

Wow, these stories are incredible and I am heartbroken that these things have happened to you xxx

Mine are are pretty insignificant in comparison. First I must explain that I have a total and utterly irrational fear of great white sharks (yep that specific), to the extent that swimming in a pool is very hard for me (I know they couldn't fit or survive), but my mind makes me 'see' them even though they are clearly not there!!!

So, my first scary event was on a cruise, we went to a tiny sand island called San Blas and the thing was to get a boat (I swear it was made out of coconuts!) to a beach... The waves were horrific on the way over and I thought we would sink and we didn't have life jackets - wasn't worried about drowning just sharks! Sadly I didn't enjoy the beach as j could only think about the journey back (worse than on the way if that was possible with massive waves!).

The second was in Australia, bearing in mind my shark allergy, for me to get in the water is s big deal... So I went snorkelling with a group at just before dusk. There was a beautiful shoal of fish that we were swimming through when I spotted something out of my eye. I calmed myself by thinking my brain was making it up, but swam through the open water to get out. The thing I saw was huge... When the others got back they asked if I had 'seen it' - yep a huge shark that was really there... Didn't get back in the water the whole time I was there!!

MyOtherLifeIsAFairytale · 17/09/2016 21:30

My DP and 7/7. He survived physically unharmed.

Deejeebee · 17/09/2016 21:55

Some of the things you ladies have been true you guys are so brave!
Being followed by a stranger in a 3rd world country I was convinced I was gonna be killed that day thank god we lost him.
Having a stalker that found out my school schedule and waited for me everyday at the bottom of my building.
My mother finding a dead body at the bottom of our building.

FamousGBBOGoOnAnAdventure · 17/09/2016 21:59

Mouikey we have the same shark phobia. I had a similar experience when swimming on holiday in South Africa.

rackhampearl · 17/09/2016 22:08

Being dragged into an alley and raped. I was 14 years old.

Leaving my 12 day old baby with her Dad while I got a bath for the first time since birth and coming back into the room at him shouting her name and she was stiff and not breathing. I just fell to my knees, never felt fear and pain like it. My husband save her life and she's now 4.

Watching my sister die. Indescribable fear.

My daughter needs a heart operation in January and I'm really scared about that.

paddypants13 · 17/09/2016 22:50

Some of these stories are terrible. You are all so brave. Mine is nothing in comparison but here goes.

I was doing a work placement in Germany via the Erasmus programme. I was in my early 20s. I went in one morning and one of my colleagues approached me and told me the computers were not working in our office and the boss had asked us to move to another office in the same building. I followed him to another office, which was accessed from a door at the back of the building. I went in and sat down but realised there were no computers. Colleague had already gone. I tried the outside door and found it was locked. I had been on my own for roughly an hour but no one else had turned up. My colleague reappeared and I asked him what was going on and he started to shout at me that I had to stay in the office. I started to scream at him in English and pushed my way past him. The door had been locked again. I stared to scream at the top of my voice for him to open the door and was shoving him and hitting him to give me the keys. After what seemed like an age he opened the door and let me out. I then ran round to the main door and went into my office to find my colleagues had been wondering why I hadn't turned up. It turned out my colleague was also on a work placement via his psychiatrist and had serious mental health issues. He killed himself a few weeks later.

I also had a man who used to follow me about from when I was about 7 to my teens. We vaguely knew him and he was harmless but he scared me to death.

WhatWouldCoachBombayDo · 17/09/2016 22:59

My heart goes out to so many of you

My scariest moment was when my estranged husband pinned me to a floor and attempted to rape me, I screamed get off me at the top of my lungs praying someone passing by would hear the commotion or a neighbour. I kicked and screamed as he tried to kiss me, eventually I summons street gut from somewhere and with all my might pushed him with my legs and kicked him in the sternum so I could get up and run. Ice never been so scared in my life.

Sn0tnose · 17/09/2016 23:15

to all of you.

The worst was realising that a loved one had switched his phone off and gone missing, and knowing that they'd previously attempted to commit suicide in an area where they wouldn't have been found for a long time. The same loved one had also been in a bad car accident and seeing the car that he'd been cut out of afterwards really did shake me up.

When I was in my 20's, I was chased by a man when I was walking home one evening. I don't know if it was fight or flight, adrenaline or knowing that there was no way I was outrunning anyone, but I stopped, turned and yelled 'Oi' at him and, thank Christ, he came to a halt, turned around and walked off in the opposite direction. I got to my flat about 5 minutes later and had to get my neighbour to open my door for me as my hands were shaking too much to get my key in the lock. The police had a drive about, but never found him.