“Human Omelet”: 75 People Reveal The Scariest Things They’ve Ever Had To Witness

Watching myself become like my alcoholic mother and not being able to put the bottle down. 50 days sober today.

My 2 year old niece choking on goldfish crackers. No panic, just grabbed her, spun her around, and gave her the heimlich. She sprayed crackers all over my brother's living room. Watching someone gasp for breath and look at you with the look of pure terror in their eyes is absolutely horrifying.

Watching more and more of my family succumb to dementia. Knowing I’ll be in that same spot one day too.

Early COVID d****s. Air hunger is hard to watch. We didn’t have the equipment to protect us and we didn’t have effective treatments for the patients. Thought I was going to get it and give to my family up until I vaccinated. I Stood in line at our local AFB for 4 hours to get it- and I was happy to do so.

Walking at the base of a glacier outside of Anchorage by myself. Turn head and see a full-grown grizzly right in front of me. [He] had me if he wanted. Thankfully, he chose to respect my privacy.

Tornado hitting our house. We lost a window and our back fence. The street & house behind us got leveled.

A power line fell in our back yard and was jumping and sparking all over the place right when it happened. Then one of the guys from the electrical company that came to fix it was told it was no longer live (it wasn't jumping and sparking anymore). It was live. He flew about 20 feet right out of his boots. His son was there with him. He was a few days away from retirement. Luckily the boots saved his life and the current wasn't able to ground itself through him. He said it hurt [badly]. I thought he was d**d.

I was driving through a storm in Nashville and all of sudden the interior of my car lights up bright white. Then the loudest crack/bang I have ever heard. My ears started ringing so loud. Turns out lightning struck me. I thought I had got hit by a semi and died.

My sister belly up in a pool.

I actually pulled her out gave her compressions and the water came out of her lungs. She’s 16 now and a brat but I’m thankful I found her.

A tornado went right through my dad’s house in 2013. I was home alone and had two cats and two dogs. I didn’t have enough time to find my cats but I literally dragged my dogs to the bathroom and tried my best to hunker down in the bath tub. The noise alone gives me nightmares. All the animals were unharmed and the cats are both still alive today. I only had maybe 30 seconds between seeing the tornado and said tornado letting itself inside.

9/11 twin towers. I was barely 21 out of undergrad and moved to the west village. The months after 9/11 were probably more scary. It was a deeper type of scary. It got in your bones.

Had an escaped asylum patient come knocking on my door in the middle of the night, in the middle of the woods, while I was home alone at only 16. Very surreal and I kept expecting some kids to jump out of the bushes to tell me I was being Punk'd.

Thankfully I was able to call the proper authorities and they managed to bring her back to where she needed to be. She seemed very nice, but the very fact that she had been watching me from the woods for an unknown amount of time while I was in my barn and was then able to sneak up behind me to my back door without me noticing until she was knocking on it and peeping through the window still creeps me out. She was even in a cliche hospital gown and barefoot, walking/pacing on sharp gravel without so much as wincing.

I hope she is doing better now.

A kidnapping.

About 8 years ago, Cabo San Lucas. I'm at a resort. It's hella late at night and my wife and I are a little drunk, having a smoke on the balcony. 4th floor. Semi overlooking one of the resort's parking lots.

A car pulls in and parks, lights off, doesn't turn off the engine. Someone gets out and walks towards our building. We don't think anything of it. Then a couple of minutes later the same person comes running back to the car, but this time holding something wrapped in a kids blanket, about the exact same size as our 2 year old that's sleeping in the next room.

The driver gets out, opens the rear door to the car, the runner places the blanket wrapped item in the back seat, and they absolutely blast out of the parking lot.

We were both like "well that was really weird."

Next morning, there are armed officers surrounding our building on the resort. Ask them what happened and one of them flat out told us that a child went missing last night.

I've never held my kids tighter than I did that day. It still haunts me. And with how Mexican media is, I never was able to get any resolution to the story. Just hope that kid eventually got home.

And I know that when my kids were around 2-3. If they were tired enough, I could carry them from A to B without them ever noticing.

Long story somewhat short: I was involved in a flash flood with my Dad, we got trapped for a few days, helped some people and eventually made it to a better area to camp at least for a needed nights “sleep”. I remember being the most tired I have ever been after being out for so long with no sleep and little food and water and when I finally started to build a fire for us at last I only remember looking down and seeing that I had cut my left hand in half with my hatchet. I don’t even remember cutting wood or anything which is something I’ve done 1000 times without issue. I finally made it to a hospital that ended up being closed and had to go further all the way to Moab Hospital.

They didn’t do anything for me but Xray it and say “ we can’t fix that” so I got a expensive ambulance ride to the U. Only to be told the surgeon was dealing with people that had been in a devastating wreck, she gave me the choice to either “butt in line” or come back tomorrow. I chose to come back later and went home with my hand crudely taped, somewhat sewn and glued together. 2 days after I chopped it I had surgery, I had cut my hand clean all the way through from the right of my wrist up to the right of my middle finger tendons and all, all of it unattached. The surgeon fixed literally everything including the tendons and put screws in my hand and knuckle bones. And that was almost 2 years ago this month. It hurts sometimes since I’m an Auto Tech but I make it work.

Scariest part? My work messed my insurance up at my newish job. So the bills. Those were the scariest part which I’m still paying off to this day.

Sorry for the rant but I’ve never really talked about it much lol it’s hard to explain how we were trapped except for the fact we were on a mountain in the desert here and the storm came over the peak and surprised us quickly on the other side. We then were trapped on the mountain with Nile River looking sand washes all around it. I still have the scary scary insta360 footage but I can’t bring myself to watch it 🤣 all of this just so I could photograph a location I had tried to find for MONTHS. And yes, the photos were worth it.

My husband changing (quite suddenly) from the loving, caring soulmate I’ve always known for 23 years into a total hateful stranger, accusing me of crazy things due to s****ophrenia/psychosis.

Lived in oklahoma for three years and the sirens still make my stomach drop. the worst was watching a wall cloud rotate directly over my apartment complex while the news anchors tried to sound calm. you can prep all you want but theres something primal about seeing the sky turn that particular green, like the atmosphere itself is sick.

Walking the Old Rag Mountain trail in Virginia with my wife, we noticed a black bear cub climbing the slope about thirty yards to our left. My wife was thrilled to see it, but I immediately started scanning the woods for the mother. I spotted her about twenty yards to our right, which meant we were standing directly between the two.

My heart started racing as I kept my eyes on the mother bear and tried to explain to my wife how dangerous the situation was. She was still focused on the cub and didn’t realize the problem. I picked up a large branch from the ground and told her to start walking while staying ready to run if I told her to. She moved ahead and I followed behind, waving the branch and making as much noise as I could.

As we backed away, the mother bear ran to the exact spot where we had been standing, then stopped and watched us. Once we turned a corner and were out of her sight, we sprinted down the trail until we were safely away.

Mid-air dual Helicopter collision. Worst day of my life.

Watching a wildfire burn down my town last week. Being a first responder I’m used to crisis and emergency but this one hit different. Our house is in the evac zone and something that seemed a bit abstract suddenly became a reality. My wife frantically trying to gather important things for all of us and knowing anything we didn’t take would be gone forever. Heavy dope.

Got lost on a solo hike in Yellowstone. Stood toe to toe with a bison surrounded by burnt out trees from the 80s wildfires.

No one will believe me, but I backed away and sat on a ridge for a few minutes. When the bison walked past the choke point, he nodded towards me.