Have you ever been truly terrified?

TheMilkyPirate

What i mean is have you ever been so scared where you can't move, your legs are shaking and you just about literally sh*t yourself. Genuinely terrified.

Me, I don't think i have fortunately. Most scared i can remember being was at work one day standing next to the teleporter when the biggest rottweiler i had ever seen (owner of the houses dog) came out from the other side and just looked at me, ran at me then and just jumped up on me.. Didn't bite or attack me but when he ran at me i was shaking like a vibrator..

andrew

hahaha shaking like a vibrator

once when i was younger i thought, for a split second, that there was a huge guy standing behind my bedroom door. There were clothes hung on the back of the door and the light was off, so it looked like there was a huge man standing over me. i was shaking like a vibrator on top of a washing machine.

Jesus Wept

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I was shaking like a vibrator on top of a washing machine during an eathquake.





did the last bit first.... I'll think of something...

AlmightyCushion

It was in sixth class and I was jumping down stairs for some odd reason that escapes me now. I did a couple of times no bother but then I jumped so high that I hit my head off the roof and then bounced my head off the bottom step.

I think I blacked out for a few seconds but when I came to one of my friends asked me if I was all right and when I opened my mouth to talk nothing came out. I nearly shit myself, I thought I had brain damage. Then I rubbed the back of my head and seen all the blood. :eek:

I was once in a room in a tall building reading an engineers report that stated that the building was unlikely to survive a major earthquake.......when the lights went out and the building started to shake! dust falling from the cracks in the ceiling etc, watching a "power fail" warning light (that's fixed to the wall) swing from side to side. :eek:


That was a bit scary.

Senna

I literally sh*t myself a few times, never cause i was scared, normally cause i was drunk.

TheMilkyPirate

The-Rigger wrote:

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I was shaking like a vibrator on top of a washing machine during an eathquake.





did the last bit first.... I'll think of something...

This is going to go on and on isn't it

AlmightyCushion

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Then I rubbed the back of my head and seen all the blood. :eek:

Banged me head on a car boot lid a few months ago, didn't think much about it, well apart from fúcking the car out of it! Later that evening had a shower, it was like the shower scene from psycho, blood everywhere.

Dub13

Senna wrote:

I literally sh*t myself a few times, never cause i was scared, normally cause i was drunk.

Thanks for that,does it feel good now you have talked about it with the group...?

The-Rigger

The-Rigger wrote:

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I was shaking like a vibrator on top of a washing machine during an eathquake.





did the last bit first.... I'll think of something...

While the builders are "jack-hammering" the floor

PS is the washing machine on!:p

AlmightyCushion

Deleted User wrote:

Banged me head on a car boot lid a few months ago, didn't think much about it, well apart from fúcking the car out of it! Later that evening had a shower, it was like the shower scene from psycho, blood everywhere.

At least you got to wash the blood out of your hair. I had to get stiches and wasn't allowed wash my hair. Walking around for a bloody week (pun intended) with dried blood in my hair.

Sarky

I once lost control of my buoyancy on a training scuba dive in Killary harbour and plummeted 40 metres below the surface (15-20 metres was the limit for training with CFT), into pitch black, freezing water, where I promptly panicked and forgot how to do anything except signal that I was cold and couldn't breathe. If not for the dive leader managing to find me and throw away my weight belt, I would have died. That was easily the most frightening thing I have ever experienced. Although getting to the compression chamber in UCHG from the arse-end of Mayo in 20 minutes by car runs a close second.

Flushdraw

Bad trip......nasty piece of sh!t

Dub13

Sarky wrote:

I once lost control of my buoyancy on a training scuba dive in Killary harbour and plummeted 40 metres below the surface (15-20 metres was the limit for training with CFT), into pitch black, freezing water, where I promptly panicked and forgot how to do anything except signal that I was cold and couldn't breathe. If not for the dive leader managing to find me and throw away my weight belt, I would have died. That was easily the most frightening thing I have ever experienced. Although getting to the compression chamber in UCHG from the arse-end of Mayo in 20 minutes by car runs a close second.

Now that sounds like something to be terrified about.Did it take you long to get over that...?did you ever dive again..?

TheMilkyPirate

Sarky wrote:

I once lost control of my buoyancy on a training scuba dive in Killary harbour and plummeted 40 metres below the surface (15-20 metres was the limit for training with CFT), into pitch black, freezing water, where I promptly panicked and forgot how to do anything except signal that I was cold and couldn't breathe. If not for the dive leader managing to find me and throw away my weight belt, I would have died. That was easily the most frightening thing I have ever experienced. Although getting to the compression chamber in UCHG from the arse-end of Mayo in 20 minutes by car runs a close second.

What does this bit mean..?

Gazza22

When i was in 6th year, we went on a trip overnight to glendalough. A few of us decided around 2am to go for a walk around, as we were walking though the old graveyard by the roundtower (with only 1 light on a mobile between 4 of us) we heard some guy talking about how he was going to kill us and watch out.

God i thought that was me done there and then. It was pitchdark and in the middle of nowhere tbh, after about 15 minutes of being chased around our teacher emerges with a flash lamp from behind a grave....

Some laugh looking back on it now, we were all running as fast as we could throught he grave yard and a guy that was with us fell an went tumbling on the ground. He was screaming after the rest of us, almost crying shouting for help and we kept running....some bunch we were haha

Dub13

A compression chamber is a procedure divers go to when they come up to fast,its a process to stop the blood getting clotted.I am not expert but thats the jest of it.

limklad

I'm too to mention it.

baraca

baraca wrote:

What does this bit mean..?

here you go!

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote:

I was once in a room in a tall building reading an engineers report that stated that the building was unlikely to survive a major earthquake.......when the lights went out and the building started to shake! dust falling from the cracks in the ceiling etc, watching a "power fail" warning light (that's fixed to the wall) swing from side to side. :eek:


That was a bit scary.

They really need to knock those projects buildings in Athlone.

TheMilkyPirate

Deleted User wrote:

here you go!

Thanks to you and dub13 for clearing that up.. DCS sounds fairly nasty

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote:

They really need to knock those projects buildings in Athlone.

LOL

D

When I went skydiving. I was fine on the way up and when the people in front of me jumped out. Then it came to be my turn. As I moved forward my eyes were glued to the door, as I moved forward the ground just seemed to sweep away from me as I stood on the edge with nothing but sky below me. I was terrified.

I jumped.

When my body started to register the acceleration I was still scared but not as much, once I reached terminal velocity it felt like I was floating and it was so cool. A great experience I recommend anyone to do it.

One thing though, as it was my first time to jump I paid to have a video made of the event. The video itself is great, I still watch it. One thing that is embarrassing though is that just before I jump in the video the cameraman gets a real close-up of my face, look of terror and all.

Mrs. MacGyver

When i was attached by my uncles alsation when i was four years old, i could see he coming for me, ran and was pushed into a big pile of nettles, absolutely petrified of alsations/German Shepherd dogs ever since. If i see one on the street i just freeze.

When i was in a head on collision last year as a passenger, i could see everything in slow motion, the car pulled out of the line of traffic and kept going , then i realised there was no hard shoulder and the person was going to hit us. Felt frozen to the spot absolutely sh****ss. You could see it happening but you could do nothing.

tallus

Never frozen to the spot in real lilfe but many times in dreams. I used to have a dream years back where I was being chased by an american cop, used to wake up scared ****less.

Dun laoire

When i was about 10 or so i tried to set a coal truck ablaze while the poor fella was delivering a bag up a few flights of stairs to some auld one. He caught me in the corner of his eye and made chase. He chased me for about 20 minutes, he just wouldnt stop. Like the fukin terminator so he was. I'l never forget that let me tell ya.

bman

Dun laoire wrote:

When i was about 10 or so i tried to set a coal truck ablaze while the poor fella was delivering a bag up a few flights of stairs to some auld one. He caught me in the corner of his eye and made chase. He chased me for about 20 minutes, he just wouldnt stop. Like the fukin terminator so he was. I'l never forget that let me tell ya.

I'm that coal man and I still haven't forgotten! I just gave you a head start of a few years.

ROCKMAN

When my partner was six months pregnant with my first child, she was hit by a football right on the stomach, The journey to the hospital and the wait for test results than followed was the scariest time of my life. I was absolutely s**ting it.

esskay

If you want to feel a form of terror do a bungy jump/swing, but jump off backwards. All your instincts go in to overdrive as you fall and it is as close as you will get to real terror without having to actually put yourself in danger. Its an unforgettable experience.

Esskay

Terry

At least once a day, every day, for the past 14 years.

TheMilkyPirate

Terry wrote:

At least once a day, every day, for the past 14 years.

I take it your talking about shi**ng yourself?

KilbarrackBlows

yes...
Northside gang decided to hold up the place i worked one day
had a sawn off shot gun in my face a riffle in my back guy with a hand gun to his head securocore guy being kicked around then had the joy of being told i going to be shot in 20 seconds if the cash room door wasnt opend they actualy counted down backwards from 20 and got to 3 before the people inside the cashroom opend the door ..

good times good times...

TheMilkyPirate

KilbarrackBlows wrote:

yes...
Northside gang decided to hold up the place i worked one day
had a sawn off shot gun in my face a riffle in my back guy with a hand gun to his head securocore guy being kicked around then had the joy of being told i going to be shot in 20 seconds if the cash room door wasnt opend they actualy counted down backwards from 20 and got to 3 before the people inside the cashroom opend the door ..

good times good times...

What the f*ck took them so long??

KilbarrackBlows

Meh they said they didnt know they had anyone outside but there was a camera outside it and they had a little cctv thing inside the room so i guess they were to scared

Capt'n Midnight

.... but it turned out that neither of the twins or their hot mother were pregnant

great party though

Zaph

baraca wrote:

Most scared i can remember being was at work one day standing next to the teleporter

You work for Starfleet?

Trojan911

Many moons ago I was snorkelling in the sea when something soft slowly wrapped itself around my neck.

Fearing it was a jelly fish or something worse I let off an underwater roar. Bubbles were flying everywhere (in fact there were more bubbles flying out the other end at this stage) and I started grabbing at this soft thing around my neck.

Swimming for shore at a rate of knots throwing women and children behind me, I then discovered it was a large plastic bag. Spooked the life out of me though...


TJ911...

doonothing

on a plane from new york to atlanta in 2000 during the big mad storms, ligthning crashing everywhere, bags falling out of the compartments, the pilot apologising on the speakers...
now that was scary.
and breaking into a haunted house! ****ing awful!
and the day before yesterday getting the tour of the freemason grand lodge. they are scary bastards!

lezizi

About two years ago it was about one in the morning and myself and my friend drove to the very back of the industrial estate for a smoke. We were in this car park at the very back closed in with only one way out. Befor we knew it we were surronded by 3 men in balaclavas. one tried to open our door and another one was on a motorbike circling behind us. My friend was screaming for me to drive but i just froze i was shaking, a hundred thoughts were racing through my head, i thought they were gonna rob my car then i was thinkng they would attack us and how no one was around to help. I never felt so terrified i got the car started and tried to reverse out but the motor bike was circling around me and the other two fella were trying to open the car doors. i just hit the accelerator and took off and burned down the road and your man followed us until we got onto the main road.
I'd say we drove into something we shouldnt, we were stupid two girls alone in a car in an isolated spot in the middle of the night. I wont be doing that again

MagicMarker

I personally would have ran them all over.

Latchy

Quotr Baraca -Me, I don't think i have fortunately. Most scared i can remember being was at work one day standing next to the teleporter when the biggest rottweiler i had ever seen (owner of the houses dog) came out from the other side and just looked at me, ran at me then and just jumped up on me.. Didn't bite or attack me but when he ran at me i was shaking like a vibrator..

What you should always do if a rottweiler mounts you from behind is .........fake an orgasim

TheMilkyPirate

zaph wrote:

You work for Starfleet?

LOL

Timmins

a friend of mine did that "american dream" thing, and didn't wake up for about a minute.. not good

Timans

Timmins wrote:

a friend of mine did that "american dream" thing, and didn't wake up for about a minute.. not good

What's the American Dream thing?

Conor108

What is that american dream yoke?

EDIT: Similar nicknames there^^ I thought the same person questioned himself!

delta_bravo

Getting vertigo while on a tightrope. Was so exhausted at the time I wanted to fall. It was "only" a 30ft drop so I thought Id only get reasonably minor injuries

andrew

the american dream is when you get someone to hyperventilate for a few seconds, then get them to hold their breath while you push their chest in (while standing in front of a wall or something.) it makes you black out, usually for a few seconds.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Once only.

I was upstairs getting ready for a shower when I heard my wife screaming downstairs. I ran out and all I heard was ''KEVIN IS AFTER GETTING KNOCKED DOWN" (my son, 5 at the time).

It was the most terrifying time of my life.

bronte

Mairt wrote:

Once only.

I was upstairs getting ready for a shower when I heard my wife screaming downstairs. I ran out and all I heard was ''KEVIN IS AFTER GETTING KNOCKED DOWN" (my son, 5 at the time).

It was the most terrifying time of my life.

Must have been awful

I fell in to the deep end of a swimming pool when I was five or six...and was terrified I was going to drown.
I remember going freakishly calm after a while and just accepting it...but had a lucky escape in the end. Scary though!

Quackles

bronte wrote:

I fell in to the deep end of a swimming pool when I was five or six...and was terrified I was going to drown.
I remember going freakishly calm after a while and just accepting it...but had a lucky escape in the end. Scary though!

That happened my mam when she was about 9 in a boghole.. she accepted the fact that she was dying and was quite happy that she was going to see her daddy again (died when she was 7), then a neighbour pulled her out by the hair. Lucky for mankind, eh? She did produce exceedingly good children.

As for petrified, worst I can think of was when my son was running around an electrical goods shop.. he's two, and all of a sudden, I couldn't see him anymore and I was convinced he'd run out onto the main Dublin road.. My stomach was so sick

Oh yeah, or the day the hospital told me my two week old baby was populated with MRSA but neglected to tell me what that meant. How I ever drove home that day, I'll never know..

metaoblivia

I've had a few scary experiences, but the absolute worst was one night a few years ago.
I had moved to a new town the year before, and was living a small place by myself. After a few months, I started receiving letters and 'gifts' - unsigned, no return address - on my doorstep.
One night, the phone rang several times with only heavy breathing on the other end. There were also some knocks at the door, and when I looked out the window to see who was knocking no one was there.
Finally, I went to bed. I wasn't quite asleep when I heard the doorknob of my front door jiggle. I was absolutely terrified, couldn't move. A few minutes later, the door opened and I heard someone walk in.
I got out of bed - my legs were shaking - and opened my bedroom door. A man I had never seen before was standing in the living room. Apparently, it was the man who'd been stalking me for months.
Needless to say, it was a really, really, terrifying experience, especially when I think of all the ways it could have been worse.