47 Terrifying Real-Life Events That Survivors Will Probably Never Forget

Many years ago I was kidnapped by my ex. 😬 He drove me to the woods telling me he was going to bury me somewhere no one would find me. I jumped out of the moving car & ran in front of a logging truck waving for help. My ex told him he was “just joking” & the trucker told me to get back into the car & told my ex he’d better take me back to town & he’d follow us. I got in & my ex turned the car around & drove so fast out of there laughing because the trucker couldn’t keep up.

On Valentine’s Day 2025, I had a seizure behind the wheel of my car. No history of seizures. Later found out I have a mild form of temporal lobe epilepsy. I hit the median, and ended up the wrong direction in opposite lane of traffic. Very lucky to be here!

I had a hemorrhagic miscarriage and lost >30% of my blood. I had to have four blood transfusions and an emergency abortion.

The ER doc said, “If this was a different time or place, this story would turn out very differently.

While pregnant with my daughter I had bad heartburn. One day I leaned down in the bathroom, no one else was there, and started choking on my bile. Then while choking I vomited and had not taken a breath so I hopped in the shower, peed myself, and popped a blood vessel in my eye.

I slid out from under my seatbelt as an improperly secured six-year-old in a rolling van. I flew out the window and shot seventy-five feet before landing on my back in a field. Got blood on the scene, life-flighted to a children’s hospital, had a broken right arm with nerve and tendon damage in my left, and never did finish kindergarten.

I was jumped by some skinheads h**h AF and they nearly slit my throat. Only reason I was saved was someone inside the house party heard me screaming.

I bit an extension cord when I was three. The scar remains at the corner of my mouth at 52

My family stayed in a place in China with a coal fire and we all got carbon monoxide poisoning. Luckily I’d just read a book about it, so when my dad collapsed on his way to the bathroom I got everyone else up and out of the house before it was too late.

I accidentally poisoned myself with carbon monoxide when I was 16 in a snow storm warming up my car. My dad kept me alive with CPR for at least 30 minutes after they found me until the EMT’s took over. I had 42% carbon monoxide in my blood stream when I finally got to the ER and they told my parents I’d either die or be brain dead. Luckily they were wrong, but I did get out of having to take all of my finals junior year 😂

I have epilepsy; when I was about 12 I had a pretty long tonic clonic (grand mal) seizure. I stopped breathing my face went purple an ambulance came and I was about to be shocked, but my sister screamed “just wait one second please…she just needs a second!” Right as they were about to shock me I started breathing again.

I drove up to a lookout on the mountain and downed a bottle of pills with vodka. Sat on the hood of my car and closed my eyes.

Someone coming back to their car called 911. I didn’t die. I’m forever grateful for it, and forever regret scaring my parents and brother.

My horse and I got hit by a drunk driver when I was 15. Had the car not hit a sigh post a Range Rover would have rolled over my head. I broke my back, collarbone, dislocated my knee, damaged my thigh bone and snapped virtually every ligament in my foot. Unfortunately the horse was too badly injured

"Fell into a spring river got hypothermia, was stung by a bee just after and found out I was allergic.

The only reason the bee sting didn’t k**l me was the hypothermia"

"I had a seizure on I-10 with cruise set at 80 mph. (Stupid, I know) I rolled my car 11 times according to the girl behind me. I was ejected, they had to cut trees down to tow the car out, and I wrecked so hard that they couldn’t find my shoes.

I walked away without a scratch, bruise, or a concussion."

"I dropped a ceramic bowl full of meatballs when I pulled it it out of the microwave and it shattered and a piece sliced my foot open near my ankle.

I didn’t notice, but my then 10 year old did. I wrapped it with a dish towel but I was 🩸-ing so heavily that I duct taped the towel to my foot, threw the kids in the car, drove up to my grandma’s front door, yelled out the window what happened while dropping the kids off.

Drove myself to the ER, left a trail of 🩸-y footprints up the"

Stung by a box jellyfish when I was 2, had to be resuscitated.

I have Wolff White Syndrome. It's supposed to be rare that it k**ls you. One day while walking in my hallway, I just felt a terrible pain in my chest and fell to one knee. I couldn't particularly feel my hand itself but it was clutching my chest. My kidneys felt ice cold in my spine. Then my mind started yelling at me "No, you're not dying. You have a little girl to raise. Get up. She needs you. You are /her dad/ so get up" and I slowly recovered and stood back up.

I survived a carbon monoxide leak that lead to weeks of being on life support while I was in a coma. I died and the doctors didn’t think I would wake up.

1) Became septic after the dr left a surgical sponge inside me during my c-section
2) Got pancreatitis after my gallbladder surgery. 0/10 would not recommend

"I also choked on food. Home alone during covid. That’s the one I remember.

I did a couple of somersaults and got tangled up in my umbilical cord and was born dead though. I just (thankfully) don’t remember that.

Honorable mention: I stood on the edge of a cliff in Ireland. And, while I didn’t come close to falling over, I’m extremely lucky my clumsiness or a sneeze didn’t take over. So, didn’t almost die but death would’ve been so accidentally easy."