What is the scariest thing you ever saw?

[LordOfThe5Rings]

Could be in real life, a movie, on tv or even read about in a book and gave you bad imagery. Anything at all.

Anything haunrted you like that from childhood? If so, what?

Oh my god how horrible

MyDog that's scary.

When they told me they though the cord was round his neck I just shut down which is ridiculous because it's a really common thing and most babies are fine. Sadly, of the 3 babies I know who this happened to one has CP, one has severe SN and the other died.

I'm so so lucky, I got my happy ending. When I get the flash backs that's what I focus on.

Some of these stories are horrific. I don't know how you would even start dealing with that kind of thing, I mean to know what you heard was someone being murdered or committing suicide. Just awful

On a lighter note The Candyman scared the beejayzus out of me when I was 12

So glad your baby is OK.

In real life.

Was walking to a firework display at about six pm, and had tagged behind my friends to light a cigarette. A man in a balaclava stepped out from behind a tree and aimed a fucking crossbow at my head! Not a larp one, made of wood etc, a real one, made of carbon fibre and very very sharp bolt!

He wandered off soon after, but she scared the shit it of me. I just froze.

Holy crap

I went on holiday to Ireland with mil, her friend, and ds who was 3 at the time. We were walking along a huge beach one day, DS fell in the sand and suddenly where he fell and all the surrounding sand started moving like waves and I realises he had fell in quick sand and was sinking really fast. I lay on the sand that was stable and quickly grabbed his body and pulled him out with one hand, it was the scariest thing that's ever happened to me and I still feel a bit sick thinking about it, he was lying on his belly sinking and could have went under so fast.

When DS1 was born DH couldn't cut the cord. it was because it had a perfect double knot in it-they showed us.. All the midwife could say was 'lucky boy' and say it should have been picked up on the scans.

Definitely lucky Sparkling that's so dangerous.

I never really asked much at the time MyDog. I gather it's to do with the knot maybe pulling tight? He's 13 now so I don't mind a bit of detail.

But, if it had been picked up on the scans, what would that have been like?

Bloody hell mrsdv.

Scariest thing I saw was a huge fire in Ilfracombe in 1983 when I was 5. My gran worked as a chambermaid and she took me to work with her - it was early in the morning, and the sky was bright orange and full of smoke. I just remember sirens, crackling and smoke. It was terrifying and I am still unnerved by house fires now - a factory near us burned down a few months ago in the middle of the night and the sound of the fire crackling woke me up and scared me to death. God knows how people can be firefighters - I can't think of anything worse.

True, the waiting would have been a nightmare.

A man who used to walk down Mare Street in Hackney in the early hours of the morning...pretty regularly. I lived on Mare St and would wake up now and then to hear this God-awful howling noise....the first time, I looked out of he window (3rd floor) and saw him.

A big Rastafarian man...tall and with lots of dreds....he would walk slowly along making this desolate noise....like he'd lost everything or something....it was so sad but so scary...always about 3.00am.

In fiction - the bloody girl from the Exorcist.

I remember Pipes, the girl started to speak funny with scratches on her body. I was home alone when I saw that.
Craig Charles presented it. I was 14 I think, so 20 years ago.

Yep, Pipes was 20 years ago this year. I was in my first year at uni. Perhaps they should show it again!

I don't remember it - but my Mum was held up at gunpoint while pushing me in my buggy in the lift in her building.
She had the nouse to go to a flat that had builders in and he ran away

actually I've been in the office when a shotgun was pulled but we knew that gy was bluffing

and DH watched two of his colleagues in a building that exploded (non army) - he was a tad wired that evening

The Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds. I was so terrified, it took me a few hours to stop shaking afterwards. I had no idea there were going to be real zombies (people) who would jump out and grab me. I couln't walk forwards or backwards, I just froze and had to cling on to strangers to get out. You probably could have heard my screams from Buckingham Palace.