What's the scariest thing you seen...

[Sam Ovett]

Scariest 'real life' thing was when I was around 11 and I saw a group of four really pale teenagers staring out of a top floor window with a large, what I assumed to be, cuddly tiger. Thing was the buildings hadn't been finished yet so there shouldn't have been anyone in that house. Creeped me out for a while.

 

[danish seagull]

The video of that Brazillian ref that was decapitated made for pretty uncomfortable viewing. I've no idea why I feel the need to go to LiveLeak and look at these things, but I do....

I'm usually 100% fine with any gory vids on the net and used to have a giggle at the apache's taking insurgents out. However I watched a video of some American being beheaded and it took like 3 mins where he was a big guy. I didn't go on for a few weeks after that haha

 

[Steve Foster]

Seeing Holroyd get within 10 yards of the penalty box really scared me. Obviously scared him, as was never seen anywhere near an oppositions half thereafter. Poyet freaked out too. No two Albion strikers were ever seen in the oppositions penalty box for many games thereafter!

 

[desprateseagull]

2 things-

1. my dad with shingles, nasty scabs all ove his face.

2. neighbours flat on fire. it spread so quick. everyone out safe though.

 

[LukeOwen]

Waking up in the middle of the night to realise a fire was burning under my bed...

 

[Nibble]

I fell asleep on the sofa downstairs one summer night about two years ago. I woke from a pretty generic dream and I was on the sofa with the same scene as I had seen before falling asleep, except that there was a dark figure in the door. I was petrified, but couldn't move even as this thing came towards me. It remained shadowed but for these sharp, white eyes with red pupils. As it reached the sofa, it started lowering itself until its mouth was next to my paralysed head and whispered one word in the most blood-curdling voice I've ever heard: "Soon"

With that I woke up sweating quite profusely in the same position sans the figure. That is the only time I've had sleep paralysis and it's not something I'll forget for as long as I live!

Apart from that I've had two dreams in the past two months that have caused me to wake screaming, without having this occur before. The first involved a 'dream within a dream' where there were these two twin girls that resembled the girl from 'The Ring' funnily enough causing me to wake screaming in my 'dream' where I was surrounded by a white sheet as if I was in a four-poster bed and I started hearing these noises and shadows from behind...ultimately causing me to wake screaming - the first time ever and I was in a tent with two of my uni friends

Second time I was about to shut an ajar door when a force smashed it off the hinges and a dark figure was visible. Both times they were as vivid as the sleep-paralysis dream. Thing is they terrify me but I also enjoyed the feeling of fear when I woke up as I regained calm and there was a huge sense of relief!

I have a similar thing. Succubus thing trying to bite my face and paralysing me. Terrifying.

 

[Mowgli37]

Waking up in the middle of the night to realise a fire was burning under my bed...

I once woke up with my feet on fire, wouldn't recommend it

 

[mikeyjh]

I'm usually 100% fine with any gory vids on the net and used to have a giggle at the apache's taking insurgents out. However I watched a video of some American being beheaded and it took like 3 mins where he was a big guy. I didn't go on for a few weeks after that haha

Yep, I saw a similar one with Russian conscripts being beheaded in Dagestan, I think we can cope with the idea if people being killed at long range but the sheer lack of humanity of some of these killings is difficult to deal with....

 

[LukeOwen]

I once woke up with my feet on fire, wouldn't recommend it

Mine started because my pillow fell on top of a electrical mosquito repellant. Which then got hot and started the fire

 

[Mowgli37]

Mine started because my pillow fell on top of a electrical mosquito repellant. Which then got hot and started the fire

Unlucky there, what are the chances of that happening? With mine I was on Explorer camp staying up at Colegate and for some reason we all had decided to sleep near the fire. I'm quite a restless sleeper so it appeared I must have somehow rolled into the fire as I woke up with the bottom of my sleeping bag ablaze and my feet, well...crispy would be one word for it!

 

[CT1]

Walking down the Crumlin Road, North Belfast, in my Celtic shirt to visit my granny in the matter hospital in 2008 was the most terrifying experience of my life. I was only 12 at the time so some of the things muttered at me and the looks I got were genuinely frightening. Having said that, I felt bloody brave when I got inside. Didn't stop my wearing my dads jacket on the way back up to Mountainview though!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

A few years ago, we were driving on holiday in France, following some friends, through a village close to the camp-site we were heading for. Coming up slowly to a cross-roads - our right of way - when a Fiat Punto shot out of the blind road we were intersecting and was hit by our friends car. The Punto went somersaulting in to the air and then down a slope to an area of grass about 120 to 15 yards below the level of the road, landing on its roof.

My wife said straight away of our friends "Their heads are moving, they're alright". I got out of the cart and walked along the road, looking down at the upturned Punto, thinking "nobody's going to get out of that without serious damage", only to see the driver - sole occupant - crawling out of the smashed rear window, virtually unscathed.

When the police arrived, I eventually offered myself as a witness - I speak good French. They were very good, told me I would not be needed because it was all seen by a family sitting on their veranda right by the Junction, and that they "knew this idiot anyway". The Pompiers (fire service cum rescue/ ambulance) came from two adjacent villages, and one of the funniest things was seeing the two crews greeting each other like long lost friends amid the wreckage, once they had ascertained there was no real nastiness going on.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Relating the experience of our next door neighbour, about five years ago there was an attempted security van robbery in Chandlers Ford, where I live. Two of the raiders were shot dead by police. Our next door neighbour was standing outside the estate agents next to the HSBC Bank that the security van was delivering to. She watched one bloke sitting at the near by bus stop take a sawn-off shotgun out of the shopping bag he had on his lap, run across towards the bank and get shot by one of 30ish policemen who were hiding in nearby bushes. The police had commandeered a flat in a block opposite as well for a sniper/specialist marksman.

She said it was just like being in the middle of a TV shoot, until she realised it was for real. The Police investigating it afterwards had her as a key witness for their internal enquiry. Their main interest is whether she heard the warning - "drop it or I'll fire" or whatever. One of the raiders was holding a shotgun to the head of one of the security guards.

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

Easy, watching Ashley Barnes place the ball on the penalty spot!

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Most recent was when I went to the protests here in Turkey. I was taking a photo with my iphone when one of the masked protesters came charging at me with a brick in his hand shouting 'cekme! cekme!' (dont take the photo!). Think he thought I was police and was taking a photo of him. I backed off pretty sharpish!

 

[Munkfish]

Intresting I have had the feeling of being in bed paralised, however i've never been sure if its a dream or if its real. They have always been quite calming and I seem to act quite rational in the dream/situation, the only time i got a bit freaked out was when I felt like I had my mouth wide open and i was struggling to breath or swallow so I began to choke.

very strange.

 

[we-8-brighton]

1)Walking back home in norwood down Albert road (toward the portmanor pub) just past st marks catholic school, I was on the road side of the pavement must have been close to midnight when I felt something tug my t shirt from the side near the back. When I turned round there was nothing/no one there that could have done that, so I picked up the pace a bit and got home quick.

2)I was at home alone I was about 16 my father had recently passed away, again very late at night I had gone to bed when the stereo in the front room come on, I jumped up shit myself (not literally) and rushed out the house and started walking down the road, I turned round and decided to go back and found out it was on a standby timer but was always turned off from the plug so never happened before.

 

[Sam Ovett]

1)Walking back home in norwood down Albert road (toward the portmanor pub) just past st marks catholic school, I was on the road side of the pavement must have been close to midnight when I felt something tug my t shirt from the side near the back. When I turned round there was nothing/no one there that could have done that, so I picked up the pace a bit and got home quick.

2)I was at home alone I was about 16 my father had recently passed away, again very late at night I had gone to bed when the stereo in the front room come on, I jumped up shit myself (not literally) and rushed out the house and started walking down the road, I turned round and decided to go back and found out it was on a standby timer but was always turned off from the plug so never happened before.

I love stories like the first one that have no explanation - do you have any idea what it could have been looking back now?

 

[we-8-brighton]

I love stories like the first one that have no explanation - do you have any idea what it could have been looking back now?

Nothing. Thought it could have been a bush but I was at the road side lamppost but I was well past it. I felt the tug like I say felt like someone did it but there was no one around, still miffs me to this day.

 

[Brian Fantana]

I visited the D-Day landing beaches with my family, back when I was a child. On the day that we visited Omaha, the weather was absolutely terrible (lashing rain, really poor visibility) and I was walking right along the edge of the shore. All of a sudden, I started to hear the muffled roar of an engine, accompanied by some cries for help. I looked out to sea, thinking that it might be a boat in trouble or similar but couldn't see anything.

When we returned to the beach later that same afternoon there was a tow truck recovering the wreckage of an American jeep, which had been buried in the sand and only dislodged by the poor weather. The location of the jeep was about 10 feet in front of where I had been standing earlier. Safe to say, I was pretty freaked out.