What were the Most Frightening experiences you have ever had?

Radrook

Radrook

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This should be interesting!

Some of mine were the following:

1. Feeling myself gradually sliding headfirst from a fifth story window down towards the pavement below.


2. Being on a seemingly interminable roller coaster ride at age three and having to hang on for dear life.


3. Seeing my aunt Felicita gradually approaching me with arms extended while making clutching motions while claiming to be Jesus Christ in an unnaturally deep masculine voice, running out the house to get away from her, and encountering what appeared to me as a three three-horned human form ahead of me in the darkness.
 

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Having a guy run a red light and pull out right in front of us on a highway when were were going about 65.

Also, on a highway in a hilly rural area and having a kid on a go cart come out of a side road right in front of us.

Both of those were disasters that were missed by a split second.
 
Radrook said:
This should be interesting!

Some of mine were the following:

1. Feeling myself gradually sliding headfirst from a fifth story window down towards the pavement below.

2. Being on a seemingly interminable roller coaster ride at age three and having to hang on for dear life.

3. Seeing my aunt Felicita gradually approaching me with arms extended while making clutching motions while claiming to be Jesus. Christ.
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you must tell us what happened with the 5th floor window fall.... :eek:
 
hollydolly said:
you must tell us what happened with the 5th floor window fall.... :eek:
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At age three, I was leaning out a 5th floor apartment window trying to get a better view of the distant elevated subway train as it clattered by. Below me was the 5th Avenue, NYC Manhattan sidewalk pavement. Well, as the elevated train passed by again, I carelessly leaned out too far, and found myself gradually sliding out the window head-first.

Frantically, I tried to stop it by flailing my little legs. Yet the slow sliding continued. Soon, my head was aiming straight down as my belly scraped against windowsill and my legs were finally tilted upwards. I desperately wanted to scream for help to the adults in that small room who seemed strangely oblivious to my plight, but I found myself voiceless from fear. I wondered why couldn't see me? All I was hearing from a few feet away was their enthusiastic conversation about other things.

Then, just as I had finally lost all hope, and was waiting for the horrible plunge and impact, I suddenly, felt my lower body gradually, and seemingly magically tilting me back up.

Well, once safely back inside, I slumped on the floor with my back to that terrible window in shock. I sat in silence gazing at the adults in that small room who still seemed totally unaware of what had just happened. After all, there they all had been, just few feet away still enthusiastically engaged in their conversations with a perfectly clear view of the window, yet still seemingly totally oblivious to the potential tragedy that had just almost occurred right under their noses.

In any case, I have always attributed that very narrow escape from what seemed to be certain death to a divine intervention. Why when others are permitted to die? Only God knows.
 
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Paladin1950 said:
Getting bit by a rattlesnake the day before my 13th birthday in Florida, and having to spend the night in a hospital. Getting mugged in Brooklyn back in the 1970's.
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So what symptoms did you experience from the snake bite? Also, were you hurt during the mugging?
 
Was walking across a beaver dam when I sensed something at my feet. Was the largest Cotton Mouth Water Moccasin I'd ever seen in my life ... and I grew up "in the country" roaming woods starting when I was 6 and there were two ponds and three creeks in the woods behind the house.

All I could see of the snake as it slithered between branches of the beaver dam was a black scaly skin shimmering in the sun as it undulated. In that instant, I could not tell which direction it was moving. Only that it was moving between and around my feet and the snakes body was as thick as my young calf muscle.

I jumped straight up in the air and moved horizontally about six feet off that beaver dam as if transported. The movement happened so fast ... I don't know how it happened. Had to catch my breath as my vision was very narrowly focused and my heart pounding about a years worth in two seconds.
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Used to hit old golf balls into one of the ponds and when I sliced a shot off to the side of the pond, decided to go find that ball way off over there in tall grass and mud. Walked right up on another Water Moccasin hidden in the grass. Full grown but not nearly as big as the one previously mentioned. I knew I was in a bad spot with the snake at my feet and I was standing in tall grass with mud up to my ankles. So I decided to try and kill the snake with the golf club rather and muck around and get bit.

Well, there was mud beneath that snake too, which greatly softened the blows at the end of that now seemingly very VERY short golf club. What I did was make that snake very angry. I had NO idea a snake could stand up so tall on its tail !!! And just when the snake was fully extended into the air and a split moment before falling onto me with deadly fangs, I somehow managed to swing the golf club like a bat and strike the snake before it struck me, driving it away from me enough to get the heck out of there.
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Had to sneak off to fish on the best pond and never had permission from the owner to do so. Caught crickets that were in the grass up next to the house, knocked down wasp nests for larvae bait, used little balls of bread dough for pan fish. Had sneaked off to the pond when I didn't think the owner was around. Was having a wonderful time as any boy would ... pond fishing without a care in the world.

Then movement caught the corner of my eye. Coming down the hill and toward the pond was a grumpy old man in rubber boots, carrying a shotgun. The look on his face was not of happiness. He'd grown tired of this trespassing game. Thankfully I spotted him just far enough away and was fast enough to instantly put distance between a grumpy old man in big ole rubber boots or I may have felt the sting of some bird shot. There sure were some good fish in that pond though.
 
I was standing on a public sidewalk talking with a close friend of mine who was well-known to the San Francisco Police Department for shooting criminals. He was an expert with firearms and a strong believer in the right to bear arms and defend oneself. He was also a man who should have been born a hundred years earlier. Anyway, not every police officer liked the idea of him carrying a firearm. So when a police car pulled up next to us while we were engaged in conversation, I immediately became uneasy. The officer in the front passenger's seat rolled down his window and asked my friend if he was carrying his gun. My friend, cold as ice, told the officer that it was none of his business, whereupon the officer immediately started to reach for something. My friend saw this and immediately advised the officer, 'If you pull that hog leg, your brains are going to end up all over your partner.' The officer at the wheel immediately drove off, and I was surprised to look in the mirror and see that my hair had not turned snow white from fear.
 
I went over a waterfall at age 14, and learned that the church people I was with couldn't care less about me being up to my neck in running water. I ended up saving myself, and that was the last time I went to that church.

At age 28, I was on a "friend's" boat and suddenly found myself in the middle of the DesPlaines river. I could stay afloat but needed to be rescued. I still have flashbacks of that instance, and it is truly frightening. Just writing this has been a bit difficult.
 
In the 1970’s, I was a passenger riding in a car traveling on an expressway nicknamed the “Sure Kill” near Philadelphia. A car headed in the opposite direction skidded against the guardrail in a shower of sparks before flipping over the rail and going into a barrel roll in the lanes that I was traveling. I saw the driver as a black silhouette pitch out the window before the out of control vehicle rolled over him.

I screamed to my driver “Watch out!,” and they shifted from the right to the left lane, driving over some glass and metal wreckage but avoiding the main body of the wreck that by then had come to rest in the right lane just a few dozen feet ahead. I was shaken up like I’d never been before or since. The driver and I would talk about the day we’d nearly ended our lives together…

…and horribly, that driver, my first fiancé, was killed by a drunken driver just three months into the future from that time…
 
I was working at local law firm back in the late 70's,one morning I was in a elevator by myself going up to another floor. It stopped all of a sudden,I couldn't open the door.I started pushing the emergency red button.I kept thinking to myself 'when will I get out of here' 10 min later it started working again. I decided after that I would took the stairs.
Yesterday, when my friend,Mary&I came out of Target we're walking towards her car. All of sudden, this driver starts backing out obviously didn't see us,I started screaming 'What the hell are you doing,you****** idiot,are you blind'. Mary was stunned,I was shaking,I thought for sure we both were going to be hit. Mary told me as we got to her car, the driver apologized, I didn't hear it
 
Riding with two drunk drivers, neither of which I knew, one had stopped for me when I was hitchhiking I begged him to pull over and let me out the fool just laughed at me and I was genuinely scared for my safety. Another one my buddy was talking to they were going to another bar and dragged my drunk self along, this fool came close to three serious wrecks before we got to the next bar. When we got there I dropped a dime on him.
 
One day in junior high a girl said she was going to break my arm for smiling at her boyfriend I was scared all that afternoon.
And one time a male friend I did not know very well took me for a ride in his car. We ended up in another state where he had me trek through some woods to a tiny cabin. We went in. There was no one there but it looked like someone had just left. There were drinks on a table with playing cards spread out and a revolver.
My heart skipped several beats but I pretended not to be afraid. I sat at the table, ignored the gun took up the playing cards and shuffled and dealt myself a hand of solitaire. After a couple of hands I told him I was
bored and wanted to go back home and he took me home. No argument. I was lucky but also handled the stress of the moment well for a teenager.
 
chic said:
One day in junior high a girl said she was going to break my arm for smiling at her boyfriend I was scared all that afternoon.
And one time a male friend I did not know very well took me for a ride in his car. We ended up in another state where he had me trek through some woods to a tiny cabin. We went in. There was no one there but it looked like someone had just left. There were drinks on a table with playing cards spread out and a revolver.
My heart skipped several beats but I pretended not to be afraid. I sat at the table, ignored the gun took up the playing cards and shuffled and dealt myself a hand of solitaire. After a couple of hands I told him I was
bored and wanted to go back home and he took me home. No argument. I was lucky but also handled the stress of the moment well for a teenager.
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I know how that horrible trapped emotion feels.. I experienced it four times.

1. When this dude who had recently killed another kid pulled out a kitchen knife on me.

2. When I was chased and found myself trapped in a project buildings stairway hearing the dudes who were chasing me trying to decide whether they should search the stairways or not. I was just two flights up trying not to breathe too hard.

3. When I stupidly confronted this gang leader on his own turf and there was an ominous silence in response.

4. Late one night at an isolated place I when I was drunk and those whom I had assumed my friends began threatening to beat me up.
 
I have had quite a few terrifying experiences in my life.. probably best not to write about them, either people will disbelieve one person could have them all...or I'd be boring people... so best not to....


..One I will mention is giving birth... I was in labour for 3 days... from the Saturday to the Tuesday... and I was so naive I didn't really know what was happening, I thought I might die...
 
Making a left turn and seeing a semi bearing down head first on me in "my" lane. Turned out that since I was last there this had become a divided road and making a "left turn" properly now meant extra gyrations.

Thankfully I was able to pull over far enough for the traffic to pass so I could make a U-Turn and get back into the traffic pattern properly.

Sadly there were no markings to indicate any of this. There was just a sign with an arrow indicating left turns from my original crossroad lane was proper. I hope they fix this before somebody gets killed.
 
hollydolly said:
I have had quite a few terrifying experiences in my life.. probably best not to write about them, either people will disbelieve one person could have them all...or I'd be boring people... so best not to....


..One I will mention is giving birth... I was in labour for 3 days... from the Saturday to the Tuesday... and I was so naive I didn't really know what was happening, I thought I might die...
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That birthing experience must be indeed terrifying, especially when it becomes prolonged.
 
Radrook said:
That birthing experience must be indeed terrifying, especially when it becomes prolonged.
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after my daughter was born and after so many pethidine injections my hip remained numb for 20 years... and stitches no-one wants to hear about... I mentioned my experience to my GP. and he said ''I don't believe you''... I was absolutely Astounded..!😧
 
hollydolly said:
after my daughter was born and after so many pethidine injections my hip remained numb for 20 years... and stitches no-one wants to hear about... I mentioned my experience to my GP. and he said ''I don't believe you''... I was absolutely Astounded..!😧
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My mother almost died birthing me. My former wife had a prolonged birthing experience with the first baby and felt at the verge of death and also had to be stitched up. So I am not surprised to hear that other women also underwent that harrowing experience. What does surprise me is your granddad's reaction.
 

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