Whats the scariest thing that ever happened you?

caitmb

Im hoping this hasnt been asked before but...it probably has! Whats the most frightening thing to have happened to you?

On a regular thurs afternoon early this June I was driving my mother from Portlaoise towards Cork on the motorway. As she is an ultra nervous passenger I was taking it a lot handier than usual.....I was behind a petrol tanker thing and went about overtaking it. As I was halfway through overtaking what do I see coming towards me on the wrong side of motorway only a red Opel Corsa being driven by an old Lady!! Needless to say minor heart attack ensued.... The tanker driver made a move to pull onto hard shoulder only to see that there was a car parked with a driver on the phone,all the while I was standing on my brake! I got back in behind the tanker with millimetres to spare.The shakes didnt stop for hours after.

Ps yer woman driving the corsa gave me the evils as if I was in the wrong....

caitmb

caitmb wrote: »

Im hoping this hasnt been asked before but...it probably has! Whats the most frightening thing to have happened to you?

On a regular thurs afternoon early this June I was driving my mother from Portlaoise towards Cork on the motorway. As she is an ultra nervous passenger I was taking it a lot handier than usual.....I was behind a petrol tanker thing and went about overtaking it. As I was halfway through overtaking what do I see coming towards me on the wrong side of motorway only a red Opel Corsa being driven by an old Lady!! Needless to say minor heart attack ensued.... The tanker driver made a move to pull onto hard shoulder only to see that there was a car parked with a driver on the phone,all the while I was standing on my brake! I got back in behind the tanker with millimetres to spare.The shakes didnt stop for hours after.

Ps yer woman driving the corsa gave me the evils as if I was in the wrong....

:eek: Jebus that would make you **** your pants alright. You did ring the guards though right??

Car incident was my scariest thing. Car came straight for me, wrong side of road. It was all in slow motion....trying to swing into the side of the road, jamming on the breaks, watchin the airbag smack me in the face, feeling the seat belt cutting into my neck and then seeing my bonnet were my windscreen should be...Yup, just about the scariest thing I've ever had happen to me!

cjmcork

same road - different time of year

Jan 2010 in the snow, heading from Dublin to Cork that Thursday when it was very heavy, windscreen was in sh!te from the articulated trucks kicking back muck onto it, so I pulled into the hard shoulder to pour water from a milk container I was keeping in the footwell for just an issue.........anyway, skidded into the hard shoulder and ended up facing the oncoming traffic.......absolutely bricked myself while waiting for a break in the traffic to rev the arse out of her to a) get her back facing the right way cos I was in a bit of a dip aswell; and b) get back out on to the road............

rarely in life does my adrenalin pump, but by christ, driving in the snow doesn't half make up for the lack of it during the rest of the year (buying snow tyres for the winter this year)!

Cill Dara Abu

I swallowed a chewing gum once..

mickydoomsux

caitmb wrote: »

Im hoping this hasnt been asked before but...it probably has! Whats the most frightening thing to have happened to you?

On a regular thurs afternoon early this June I was driving my mother from Portlaoise towards Cork on the motorway. As she is an ultra nervous passenger I was taking it a lot handier than usual.....I was behind a petrol tanker thing and went about overtaking it. As I was halfway through overtaking what do I see coming towards me on the wrong side of motorway only a red Opel Corsa being driven by an old Lady!! Needless to say minor heart attack ensued.... The tanker driver made a move to pull onto hard shoulder only to see that there was a car parked with a driver on the phone,all the while I was standing on my brake! I got back in behind the tanker with millimetres to spare.The shakes didnt stop for hours after.

Ps yer woman driving the corsa gave me the evils as if I was in the wrong....

I've encountered that more often than i'd like.

If you're found driving the wrong way on a motorway that should be it for you ever driving again. Someone like that is clearly too stupid/oblivious to be in control of a car.

colinod0806

When I was 17 I was was working renivating a pub. There is a funeral home out the back and the van was parked outside that. I was wrapping up the tools and putting them in the van at the same time the funeral director pulled up in the hearse and he asked me for a hand to lift the coffin from the hearse onto the wheely thing.

I asked if there was someone in it and when he said yes I told him I wasn't really comfortable lifting it. His reply was that she doesn't mind who lifts her:D

Anyway, I didn't want to seem like a pussy so i helped him. It only took about 10 seconds but they were the mist terrifying 10 seconds of my life.

I can't imagine the nightmares i would have had if i let it fall and it opened:o

Gandalph

Went off a cliff skiing once, landed in powder stuff so only smashed myself up a bit

KamiKazeKitten

Got followed back to my hotel in Spain one evening by 3 guys - I was only about 14 or 15 at the time. I'd been swimming at the beach with my friends, and we'd noticed these men just staring at us non-stop. I'd say they were Morroccans, aged about 30-35 or so.
Anyway, it was our first day there, so we weren't really sure of the way back. We accidentally turned up a side street, and were lost! So we decided to just walk in the general direction of the hotel, and all was going well until we glanced behind us and saw those guys. They were right behind us with really creepy smiles on their faces. We were so scared and legged it up the street (they followed us), luckily we ran into a nice English tourist couple, who told us where the hotel was and walked us back part of the way. The guys were behind us when we were walking, but just before we entered the hotel they turned up a side street and I never saw them again, thank god!
I get the shivers thinking about it now,it wasn't tourist season so there weren't many people around - pure luck we ran into that nice couple when we did!

caitmb

Starla_o0 wrote: »

:eek: Jebus that would make you **** your pants alright. You did ring the guards though right??

Car incident was my scariest thing. Car came straight for me, wrong side of road. It was all in slow motion....trying to swing into the side of the road, jamming on the breaks, watchin the airbag smack me in the face, feeling the seat belt cutting into my neck and then seeing my bonnet were my windscreen should be...Yup, just about the scariest thing I've ever had happen to me!

Yeah,rang the guards and kept an eye on the news but no word of an accident thankfully. Still get a blast of nerves even now going to overtake.....

Did the lad you met on wrong side even stop??

amacca

riptide..nearly drowned tried for about 20 minutes to get back to shore...when I eventually did I was exhausted...the feeling of sheer panic during the event is something ill never forget

parachute failed (lineover - exited the plane incorrectly) on a solo jump - was spun around like a childs toy for about 20 seconds before I cut away and opened reserve - was strangely calm during this but a couple of minutes afterwards on the ground I was white with the fright

thats about it

py2006

I lost my virginity once!

Thankfully, I have found it again!! Phewww!

caitmb

amacca wrote: »

riptide..nearly drowned tried for about 20 minutes to get back to shore...when I eventually did I was exhausted...the feeling of sheer panic during the event is something ill never forget

parachute failed (lineover - exited the plane incorrectly) on a solo jump - was spun around like a childs toy for about 20 seconds before I cut away and opened reserve - was strangely calm during this but a couple of minutes afterwards on the ground I was white with the fright

thats about it

Mother of God,drowning is my biggest fear.....Thats 2 of your 9 lives gone though so Id lay off the extreme sport stuff for a while!

inkwell

I was once o my own in the lake house (never again) during very hot summer -it was impossible to sleep with windows closed, so there was one open and when I almost managed to sleep (after drinking almost all bottle of wine of my own) I heard that voice -like from other world...just behind window -it made me paralyse -I couldnt move for few seconds. I was 100% sure it's some mad man trying to scare me or something really evel from nightmare (like demon or something) It was crying like that for few minutes and with my heart beating like mad I walked quietly to the kitchen for knife - went upstairs and looked down - it was two cats in the garden...

amacca

caitmb wrote: »

Mother of God,drowning is my biggest fear.....Thats 2 of your 9 lives gone though so Id lay off the extreme sport stuff for a while!

thing is the near drowning one wasn't extreme sport related at all...it was more extreme stupidity related.....was on a J1 a long long time ago...didnt have enough money to go to San Diego Zoo with some of the others so went swimming/body boarding (tame not extreme) instead with some of the other paupers....we read the flags wrong

we thought the flag denoted the end of the area where it was dangerous to swim rather than the start - was quite funny in one sense, proper baywatch type lifeguards came along and waved my friends out of the water a couple of minutes after I made it back...I had tried to get them come in but they were ignoring me (we had two body boards between three so they were floating on top oblivious).......closest I've come to a Darwin award..that I'm aware of.

hdowney

1 i remember driving the n11 from wicklow to dublin, on the way to college when i was 19. was driving in the glen of the downs when all of a sudden this big hunk of concrete comes flying toward my windscreen (not the foggiest as to where it came from). thankfully it went under the front of the car (and didn't do any damage). the heart.

later that evening i went to the gym for one of them evaluation thingymabobys, yer wan took my blood pressure and told me it was high, and i'd have to get a note from the doc before i could join the gym!

cjmcork

inkwell wrote: »

I was once o my own in the lake house (never again) during very hot summer -it was impossible to sleep with windows closed, so there was one open and when I almost managed to sleep (after drinking almost all bottle of wine of my own) I heard that voice -like from other world...just behind window -it made me paralyse -I couldnt move for few seconds. I was 100% sure it's some mad man trying to scare me or something really evel from nightmare (like demon or something) It was crying like that for few minutes and with my heart beating like mad I walked quietly to the kitchen for knife - went upstairs and looked down - it was two cats in the garden...

Don't ever read Stephen King's Secret Window, Secret Garden..............:eek:

Intensive Care Bear

I used to go out with a girl who had a violent, abusive bully for a father, basically she couldn't take it anymore and decided she was leaving home and coming to live with me and my family, as you can imagine he wasn't too pleased and went mental when she broke the news, fast forward 10 minutes and we have a psycho with a shotgun driving after us trying to run us off the road and kill us, i have never experienced such fear in my life, only some seriously dangerous driving by myself saved us. We broke up about 5 years later but stayed best friends, still 10 years on there is hardly a day goes by that we don't talk. On a lighter note when he dies im going to blast his gravestone with piss.

Chuck Stone

Had a pretty terrifying experience as a child of 7 or 8 yrs old. Thought I was being kidnapped.

Was walking through an estate and next thing I new a man had his hands around my neck and had thrown me onto the bonnet of his car rambling something he then threw me into the passenger seat of the car.

I was bawling and terrified and screaming 'where are you taking me' I genuinely thought I was being kidnapped and the fucker took his time telling me that he was bringing me to the police station for breaking his window (which I really hadn't I was going to the far end of the eastate to meet friends).

Anyway I end up in the RUC station and the cops were sympathetic. When I'm being brought home the Police ask me what school I went to (catholic or protestant). So I walk into the house crying and tell my Dad that the police are at the door. Well my Da leapt up and was kinda like WTF do ye want? (many catholics didn't consider the RUC as their police). So anyway it all gets explained and my Dad is fucking fuming.

About 3 nights later there was a power cut and my Dad went up to my would be 'kidnappers' house and beat the living shite out of him.; the bastard is lucky he didn't get his legs broken.

My father got fined for assault but he was happy to pay it.

inkwell

cjmcork wrote: »

Don't ever read Stephen King's Secret Window, Secret Garden..............:eek:

I think I've seen a movie with Johny Deep "Secret Window" , but I cat remember what is has to do with scary sounding cat?

Cillian13

I saw a man get shot a couple of years ago in my etate.
Also had a knife pulled on me in work one night but the bouncer was onto your man like a ninja and had the junkie on the floor before I could even react.

The House Of Wolves

Sleep paralysis. The night after I had it for the first time, I had a nightmare where I had it again. :rolleyes:

ProudDUB

Swimming in waist high water in Florida. Saw a fin go by. Cue Jaws music. No idea what kind of a shark it was, or how big it was, or even if it was a man eater (about 50/50 given that it was almost the tropics) but you never saw someone swim those last 20 feet back to shore as quickly as I did.

Joe10000

Was robbed at knifepoint when I was 16, I'm no hero but was strangely calm during it. Innocence of youth maybe.

I knocked a cyclist down one time and she disappeared under the car, thought I had killed her but she was up and limping in no time.

Being on a tail boat in Thailand that got caught in bad weather, no life jackets and 20ft swells, nearly **** me cax.

Joe10000

The House Of Wolves wrote: »

Sleep paralysis. The night after I had it for the first time, I had a nightmare where I had it again. :rolleyes:

Sorry forgot that one, sleep paralysis happened me once and I could hear someone coming to get me. Was without doubt the most terrifying few minutes of my life.

eilo1

+1 sleep paralysis is awful! looking at a white goastly figure rush towards you and feel wind swirling around you whilst unable to even move your little finger is horrible!

Iv had a few knocks and neer misses in my time but sleep paralysis is the worst.

Fozzydog3

not the scariest but a recent one:

Went over to a friends house for a smoke up with some other not so close friends trying to bond with them sort of ,

everything is going great , great conversation , great atmosphere everything .

until a friend whose a bit odd shows up out of the blue ,and we dont really like this friend so haven't seen him or invited him to parties over the summer and he walks in looking real uncomfortable then starts to recall all the times he seen us on the street and going different places and parties that he wasnt invited to and his lips start trembling and hes speaking in a really wierd sarcastic tone and laughing , it mightn't seem scary but i was quite stoned and paranoid enough to go to the jacks and text my mate to watch the other guys hands

TL;DR drugs are bad mkay ?

inkwell

The House Of Wolves wrote: »

Sleep paralysis. The night after I had it for the first time, I had a nightmare where I had it again. :rolleyes:

I am surprised how many people experience this! Was there thread on boards about it? I had it twice and once some hairy ball with teeth was flying around my room and was trying to call somebody but couldn't -it was too real!

Red Hand

Was driving along a country road, going round a bend when I encountered a patch that had had chips put down...no tar or anything holding to the road, just f8cking chips. The car spun 180 degrees and ended up in the middle of the road when I braked. I was lucky not have been killed.

inkwell

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Was driving along a country road, going round a bend when I encountered a patch that had had chips put down...no tar or anything holding to the road, just f8cking chips. The car spun 180 degrees and ended up in the middle of the road when I braked. I was lucky not have been killed.

How fast were you driving? :rolleyes:

amacca

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Was driving along a country road, going round a bend when I encountered a patch that had had chips put down...no tar or anything holding to the road, just f8cking chips. The car spun 180 degrees and ended up in the middle of the road when I braked. I was lucky not have been killed.

ah yes..the let the cars act as rollers method

this is much much scarier if you're on a motorcycle...trust me!

PinkFly

Whats sleep paralysis?

inkwell

PinkFly wrote: »

Whats sleep paralysis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Sin_J

Was bout 11 i think and home from hospital about 2 days after getting my tonsils out. Walk to the bathroom and spit out blood in the sink. Thought my gums were bleeding till it didn't stop and my mouth kept filling with blood.

The scariest part wasn't as much the blood itself, it was the sound. Everytime i took a breath it sounded like a large water pistol squirting as the blood came out of the back of my throat and filled my mouth. I was strangly calm while my mother was freaking out. Wasn't till the bloodloss start making me faint that it really got to me.

Red Hand

inkwell wrote: »

How fast were you driving? :rolleyes:

I was going round a bend and it was a narrow-ish road...I often travel that way so I know it can be dangerous as regards other motorists. I was going about 45mph.

Mint Sauce

Sleep paralysis ranks high here as well. I was literally shakeing after I woke up and eventully realised what had happened.

Smiley Laura

A few years ago, I used to hallucinate. I've blocked out most of them (I don't want to even remember some of them) but the most vivid I had was one of a solider outside my bedroom at night. Just standing there, kind of looking like Michael Collins or something. But then his head turned me and died a bit I was so scared. Hallucinations are horrific.

Red Hand

Smiley Laura wrote: »

A few years ago, I used to hallucinate. I've blocked out most of them (I don't want to even remember some of them) but the most vivid I had was one of a solider outside my bedroom at night. Just standing there, kind of looking like Michael Collins or something. But then his head turned me and died a bit I was so scared. Hallucinations are horrific.

Actually, yes. I had one or two hallucinations, though they were odd in that I was dreaming but had my eyes open. I actually woke my brother while having a dream in which I was in a war I was dreaming, but I had my eyes open and was actually thinking he was a soldier and had a knife. I was screaming at him and everything. Freaky! I was about 10 or so.

looky loo

Was working as a care assistant to the elderly in a home. One of the clients was very ill, myself and another assistant were helping the lady next door into bed when the t.v. in the next room came on and the song by 'The blue oyster cult' 'Don't fear the reaper came on'.

When we went to check on the lady she had died........freaked the hell outta me and the other assistant. True story.

Saila

on my bike? lots, off it? not so much..
anyway in the alps in hottest part of summer, after cycling up to snow line...it snowed there 2600m [its rare, Ive done it for years]
I had to descend, my hands were so cold, my hands kept slipping off the handlebars:eek: I was hypothermic by the time I came to the next town, and stopped a van to take us home....scared the **** out of me afterwards when I realised how close to dying I was up there and so far from home [base] I was

LittleMissLost

I found my mum passed out on the couch after overdosing on something in an attempt to kill herself. I was around 12 and there was only me and my 3 year old brother in the house. That was scary trying to figure out what to do.

Oh and when I was about 13 I woke up to mt grandmother (who lives 4 hours away) beside me telling me my mum had "gone" and they didn't know where she was. Turns out she'd driven out the road with a rope to try hang herself but couldn't so slit her wrists and drove off the edge of a cliff instead. That was pretty scary too.

She's still alive though

looky loo

LittleMissLost wrote: »

I found my mum passed out on the couch after overdosing on something in an attempt to kill herself. I was around 12 and there was only me and my 3 year old brother in the house. That was scary trying to figure out what to do.

Oh and when I was about 13 I woke up to mt grandmother (who lives 4 hours away) beside me telling me my mum had "gone" and they didn't know where she was. Turns out she'd driven out the road with a rope to try hang herself but couldn't so slit her wrists and drove off the edge of a cliff instead. That was pretty scary too.

She's still alive though

:eek:...Christ Almighty.

inkwell

We poor fragile human beeings... (I am serious)

theparish

Sin_J wrote: »

Was bout 11 i think and home from hospital about 2 days after getting my tonsils out. Walk to the bathroom and spit out blood in the sink. Thought my gums were bleeding till it didn't stop and my mouth kept filling with blood.

The scariest part wasn't as much the blood itself, it was the sound. Everytime i took a breath it sounded like a large water pistol squirting as the blood came out of the back of my throat and filled my mouth. I was strangly calm while my mother was freaking out. Wasn't till the bloodloss start making me faint that it really got to me.

I have memories myself as a kid after the tonsils were taken out puking up blood 4 or 5 times around the ward I was in.Thought my number was up:D

pragmatic1

Joe10000 wrote: »

Was robbed at knifepoint when I was 16, I'm no hero but was strangely calm during it. Innocence of youth maybe.

I knocked a cyclist down one time and she disappeared under the car, thought I had killed her but she was up and limping in no time.

Being on a tail boat in Thailand that got caught in bad weather, no life jackets and 20ft swells, nearly **** me cax.

That would actually scare me more than anything in this thread.

Scariest thing would probably be a bad magic mushroom trip were I thought I died or a really bad does of the horrors that lasted for hours.

pragmatic1

Some scary stuff on this thread.

Superbus

At 7, seeing my usually docile mother break every red light and other conceivable road law in order to go from Dun Laoghaire to her dying father in Naas in under 25 minutes.

The whole ordeal was terrifying, and it didn't really get better once we were there.

Chuck Stone

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Scariest thing would probably be a bad magic mushroom trip

Very scary indeed.

Smiley Laura

Superbus wrote: »

At 7, seeing my usually docile mother break every red light and other conceivable road law in order to go from Dun Laoghaire to her dying father in Naas in under 25 minutes.

The whole ordeal was terrifying, and it didn't really get better once we were there.

Similar experience only a few months ago. Mam's sister, cancer, the desperate need for a goodbye, running out of time... Very scary.

milehip1

caitmb wrote: »

Im hoping this hasnt been asked before but...it probably has! Whats the most frightening thing to have happened to you?

On a regular thurs afternoon early this June I was driving my mother from Portlaoise towards Cork on the motorway. As she is an ultra nervous passenger I was taking it a lot handier than usual.....I was behind a petrol tanker thing and went about overtaking it. As I was halfway through overtaking what do I see coming towards me on the wrong side of motorway only a red Opel Corsa being driven by an old Lady!! Needless to say minor heart attack ensued.... The tanker driver made a move to pull onto hard shoulder only to see that there was a car parked with a driver on the phone,all the while I was standing on my brake! I got back in behind the tanker with millimetres to spare.The shakes didnt stop for hours after.

Ps yer woman driving the corsa gave me the evils as if I was in the wrong....

sorry, but if you were halfway trough overtaking, would it not have been safer to floor it and complete the overtake ,rather than standing on the brake? I realise this may not be the case with all the factors you've described, just wondering?

LittleMissLost wrote: »

I found my mum passed out on the couch after overdosing on something in an attempt to kill herself. I was around 12 and there was only me and my 3 year old brother in the house. That was scary trying to figure out what to do.

that's pretty scary .

I've been involved in a few scary moments like:
caught in a cattle stampede,thrown out of tractor,crushed by a cow,
chased by a 8 month pregnant tinker with a glass ashtray,
mugged by junkies with a broken bottle ,held to ransom by pirates and been to Croke Park when Dublin were playing:D
also held my grandmothers hand and puke basin while she was having a heart attack (that was probably the most scary)

Shelli2

Childbirth.....

Then being told the baby that just came out of your body weighs 12lbs.....

Then being told that subsequent babies are likely to be bigger....

Jaxxy

I hallucinate when I'm sick and/or have a high temperature. At least, that's what I tell myself!

The night two strangers came into my house was a scary one (turned out to be the next door neighbours' house-guests, their key worked in our lock, long story) and although I was dead calm at the time and had accepted that I was probably brown bread, afterwards I was in a lot of shock.

Got jumped walking through the city center one night by some scumbag. Luckily a good Samaritan intervened long enough for me to pull my little alarm (my Da gave it to me years ago, always used to carry it in my bag) and draw some attention to the situation. I remember being dropped home that night and just sitting on the front step for a while, not knowing what to do with myself and unable to locate my keys.

Was a passenger in a car crash and broke a few bones in my face. The wreckage was pretty horrific, the woman we'd hit had to be cut out of her car and everything. There was a babyseat in the back (with thankfully no baby) but seeing it there had to be one of the most terrifying moments of my life. Held it together until I got to the hospital and rang my folks and then just broke down and passed out. Still to this day cannot listen to the Counting Crows "Mister Jones", as it was what had been playing on the radio at the time.