Hey Pandas, What Is A Terrifying Experience You’ve Encountered Firsthand? (Closed)

Realizing that I was having a mini stroke as it was happening. With my history of a brain tumor and two brain surgeries I was in full on freak out because I had experienced a (thankfully temporary) loss of left side function after the second brain surgery and I did not want to be stuck like that. Not to mention this is America and I was uninsured so there’s the financial stress and mental stress.

I was driving 75 mph (speed limit 70) on a long flat section of a busy interstate when a vehicle pulling a trailer carrying a car passed me going about 80 mph. The trailer seemed a bit "lose" and was swaying far too much for my comfort so I lowered my speed a little to build a gap between it and me. After traveling about a mile, the trailer comes off the hitch with the car and its tongue and coupler nosedives into the pavement. This catapults the car off the trailer and into the air where it makes three full, sideways rotations in the air then hits the pavement at 80+ mph. Fenders, bumpers, door fly off the car as it is cartwheeling sideways down the interstate. A pickup with an enclosed trailer traveling directly in front of me, ran over a bumper which promptly blew every tires on both the truck and trailer. Both careened off the road barely missing a car that had hit something else that had flown off the now demolished car and was on its side between the breakdown lane and a ditch. Somehow, I managed to not hit any of the debris and in the end no one died or was badly hurt. The scene looked like something from a movie and played out in about six seconds but felt like six minutes. I still drive that stretch of interstate and every time, I think about how I dodged that death bullet.

Long story short, last week a very angry man was driving a semi truck, some how I offended him, he suddenly crossed in front of me, so I would crashed my car against him, I escaped but he tried to chased me few blocks, thankfully there was a lot of traffic that stoped him. A very terrifying experience.
Some folks are driving like spychos this days.

Let’s go back to 2019-2020, I was in eighth grade and in Spanish( I now feel badly about how we treated her and I talk to her every now and then). We were being particularly loud that day and our teacher, who used to be in the military told us “ I would rather be back in Afghanistan than to be here.” To this day that group of eighth grade teachers still tells their current students about our grade level.

waking up after surgery feeling like i was choking to death. also, my hands were restrained. a nurse came over to me and explained that the surgery went well but i wasn't breathing on my own; hence, the tubes down my throat. after realizing i wasn't choking i tried to calm down - not an easy task - and then was kind of freaked out seeing the machine that was breathing for me moving up and down in tandem with my chest. turns out the 'normal' stuff that is used is something that doesn't work well for me...something i let every one know if i have to be put under.

the other one was riding with my ex through the national forest when traffic comes to a halt. then, slowly it starts to move. that's when i see that all the cars were stopping to take pics of a couple of bear cubs on the side of the road. they were all so focused on the cubs they didn't see mama right behind them in the bushes. i started smacking my ex on the shoulder, telling him to go around or back; he gets pissed but does it. a couple of miles down the road he stopped to find out what my problem was. i told him that those people had a car around them - we were on a motorcycle.

Had been in a holding pattern over Boston airport for about 30 minutes due to fog. Pilot comes on to give an update but forgets to turn off his mic. We hear him telling his co-pilot, “They know we don’t have enough god damned fuel to last another 30 minutes up here!” We ended up landing at an old air force base and were bussed back to the city and put up in a hotel. I was 14 and by myself.

Hi.. COVID-19. A pandemic in 2020 that no one saw coming. Also, my family and I were on a road trip in a Chevy Van on a highway with no lights. Night caught us on the road. My older brother (17) noticed something off with the car and whispered to my dad: "the car is not working correctly is it?" My dad confirmed true. Specifically the Van wanted to turn off, but there is no shoulder on that 2 way highway. A greyhound type bus passed us and continued going fast (they're on a schedule.) My father noticed when he turned off the lights the Van operated well. He turned off the lights trying to tailgate the bus but it was too fast. Somehow the bus driver noticed so he suddenly slowed way down, permitting the Van to follow closely so we can actually see the road. After about 2 hours we reached the city, the lighted city, and the bus gunned it out of there (he was behind schedule). My father signaled him "Thank you" and the bus driver signaled back "you're welcome." I thank God eternally for that bus driver (he didn't have to do that,) and beg that He blesses him in the best way possible!!

Waking up and deciding to either stay in bed or get up.

Driving to work one morning and had to cross an intersection with traffic lights. The speed was 60km per hour as it was a small town. I had a green light. Next thing I know a dump truck comes barreling through the red light towards the driver's side of the car at what I estimate was about 80km with no evidence of even trying to stop. I was about 15ft away from it when it got to the middle of the intersection. Just a few more kms faster and I would have been killed instantly. I had to pull over. A person who saw what happened stopped and came over to check on me. I had to sit for about 10 minutes before I could continue on.

climbing a cliff side with no harness and losing my grip. (I did not fall, it was just scary)

A driver ran the red light while I was crossing a crosswalk. The car was inches from my face.

1)Was with a friend when my older sister suddenly called for me and said something was wrong with our mum,rushed to where she was laying and saw her struggling to breathe,trying to talk, we were panicking and didn't know what to do,she took her last breathe,looking us dead in the eyes,a tear fell from her eye and that was it,she died right in front of us.
(She was at the last stage of breast cancer)

2)I was about 7/8,in my room which was facing our living room,me and my baby sis heard this crash and we looked up to see these people in black,the leader was wearing a very scary masquerade mask,all holding knives with a bag and they started throwing things into the bag,our TV,decorations,art and everything. The leader stopped and looked straight at us like he knew we were awake and watching (we were peeping through our blanket)The absolute fear we felt made my sister pee instantly.Morning came and the whole living room was a mess,our windows were removed,found out it was our neighbour and his gang....Dude was a professional robber.

When I was a kid, my great grandmother had a neighbor that pretended to be her friend, but instead she was stealing from her. My parents told the woman to leave my great grandmother alone and to never come in her apartment again. One day, when we were leaving her apartment after a visit, my dad suddenly yelled for my mom, my sisters, and I to run and he ran in the opposite. Turns out the neighbor's boyfriend was pointing a gun at us because we upset his girlfriend. We called the police, but they didn't do anything because no one was actually hurt and because the guy supposedly had mental issues. The neighbor got evicted sometime later.

I was in a car accident where we literally spun on one wheel across the highway and we managed to not hit anyone. It was terrifying.

Rats inside your pant leg!!!! Had nightmares for years.
I was cleaning out a corn bin , which

My, then, 6 day old son having uncontrollable seizures.

My, then, 3 year old daughter being as limp as a rag doll, then being placed in the ICU and tended by nurses wearing, what looked like to me, hazmat suits.

My family and I were taking a nice calming bike ride to a creek and this homeless guy (we think, he came out of a tent) comes out with a 5 inch dagger. My mom and I saw it and tried getting us to go back home but we didn’t listen after a good 5 minutes. He was slowly waking towards us and I peed myself.

I was in the car and I put my sneakers on and the next I know, ants are crawling on my legs and shins and feet and I’m screaming and my unsympathetic uncle is there like, ‘Are they biting you? No? You’re being dramatic.’

this isn't bad compared to a lot of the ones on here- but one time i was at a farm, and i went to pet a lamb, and the great pyrenees dog made a funky snarly noise and tried to lunge for my face. i put my arm up, i was fine, but the owner seemed really upset with the dog so we just awkwardly left.
(by the way i wasn't trespassing or anything the owner invited us and i had already become acquainted with the dog)

Dogs and spiders