50 Internet Users Reveal Horrifying Things That Happened To Them And Scared The Life Out Of Them

3.5 year old daughter hid from us in Best Buy for almost 20 minutes. Thought she was abducted. I can’t describe the fear/panic it caused. The employees were phenomenal about it. The second I alerted one of them he was on his ear piece/walkie talkie thing telling everyone else. Anything making noise- TVs, stereos, whatever- were silenced and security manned every way out- not just the exit but all the doors to the back rooms. They all deserved raises.

Christmas a few years ago. My wife and I were cooking as usual when she got abdominal pain. I'm a doc, I examined her and thought she had diverticulitis. Dragged her to the ER "Let's go after we eat" "Nope, we're going right now."

At the hospital, CT scan showed a large ovarian tumor that was starting to undergo torsion. She had emergency surgery. There were times I thought it was our last Christmas together.

Sweated until the pathology came back benign. We had our 31st anniversary a couple weeks ago.

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My first ever job was a retail assistant at a big clothing brand. I was only 19. It was just before 9pm and everyone was doing cleaning up/tidying duties. Me and another young guy (Kel) had to take all the recycled packaging out. Basically you left the building, crossed a small square, and there were these huge dumpsters.

I left the building and was walking to the dumpsters. I dumped the cardboard and walked back and then realised I had left the door fob inside. It was dark by then and I knocked on the door a couple of times and just kept pressing the buzzer as I knew Kel was working and would come out with more packaging any second.

Out of nowhere. I swear I did not see him before, this massive guy is standing next to me. He was smoking. He said something super creepy like "what's a pretty girl like you doing standing next to a strong man like me?"

I froze and all I managed to say was that I work here, and that I am taking the rubbish out.

He looked me in the eyes. He said: "I'm going to do you so hard. You are going to wish you weren't alive." I can't even remember what I thought I was just in complete fear.

Literally at that moment, I heard the door buzz, and Kel comes out and he's like laughing "why were you buzzing so much?".

I'm crying and screaming and run straight into him. I turn around and the guy is gone.

Kel grabs the manager. He calls the police and they come. We made a report but there was no CCTV back then and that was it. To be honest, I think some of my colleagues thought I was just making it up.

I often think about what would have happened if Kel had come a few minutes later.

Childbirth. 20 hour labor for her to get stuck and have to be pushed back inside for an emergency c section. She didn’t cry for 3 minutes and I kept asking my husband to slap me to keep me awake because I could feel myself dying. My uterus wouldn’t contract and I was hemorrhaging.

I ended up with a staph infection that caused me to have an open wound on my c-section scar that lasted over a year too. Hard to navigate all that with a brand new baby. 0/10 will not do again my husband got snipped we were both so scared.

My newborn son being rushed to the NICU immediately after being born

He made it. Turns 11 next month and is doing great. Thank you modern medicine!

Had multiple UTIs that weren't going away with antibiotics, had lots of worrying symptoms in that region, then after coughing at many trips to the doctor, was sent to have a chest x ray, they found a large mass.

I put two and two together and figured i had stage 4 kidney/bladder/prostate cancer that spread to my lungs. After another scan they gave me 3 options for what the mass could be: TB, sarcoidosis or cancer. I googled and there's no way i had the others so i spent weeks knowing was probably gonna pass away while i waited for a biopsy.

Turns out I did have cancer but a much more treatable cancer (hodgkin lymphoma). I never though I'd cry tears of joy hearing news that I had cancer. After a summer of chemo i got to remission and fingers crossed it stays that way.

I was 17, my boyfriend woke up from a dream that I cheated on him. He woke me up and screamed at me for what felt like an eternity, then punched a hole in the wall right next to my head. He then proceeded to have very rough intercourse (yes, I know what it was) with me and went back to sleep. The next day, he claimed to not remember any of it and got mad at me for making a hole in his wall.

I truly thought I was going to pass away that night. It took me another 8 months to figure out how to leave him.

To resuscitate my own dad and didn't succeed😓.

Just being a dumb kid, I impulsively dived into the 3ft. deep shallow end of the YMCA pool before a swimming lesson and took the impact of the pool floor on my chin.

It was only because I was such a bad little diver that my chin hit the floor and not the top of my head which would have crumpled my head into my neck. No one saw it happen, but my head was ringing all day. Got home and my mom asked me why my chin was all scraped up and I told her I fell while I was running. It was better that she never knew how close I came to being a quadraplegic.

Editing...since a decent amount of people are seeing my comment, please I beg of you to really reinforce pool safety warnings with your kids with the pool season about to get underway, I was very lucky that day!

When I had postpartum psychosis and heard a demon in my living room tell me to get off the couch and take my baby.

I survived a chainsaw accident to the throat.

2 weeks after my grandma passed, me and my brother were alone at home and I remember walking in the hallway when there was a very small empty space there where I could smell her perfume. The thing is, her perfume was very unique and she never visited this house because we moved in there a week after her passing. I called my brother to make sure I wasn't tripping and he said he smelled it too. This never happened again.

Went to the dermatologist for some really mild psoriasis as a teenager. It was my first time going to this particular doctor, and when my dad brought me to that office, I noticed a sign at the reception desk that said his office’s policy was that all new patients undergo a full body exam. Full body exam - meaning every inch of your body, pulling your cheeks apart - everything.

I saw this and immediately wanted to leave. I told my dad that I didn’t want to get naked in front of a stranger over a little bit of dry skin. He talked me into staying for the appointment anyway by giving me the whole, “he’s a doctor, you won’t be showing him anything he hasn’t seen a thousand times” speech.

To my complete surprise, because of that full body exam (and a couple of biopsies later), I found out I had two cancerous spots (Melanoma) on my back that I didn’t even know were there.

Made sense as I worked as a lifeguard that previous summer and never wore sunscreen. Lucky for me, it was early on enough that it hadn’t spread yet. Got scheduled for surgery the following week, right in his office. Had me lay on my stomach on a table and he cut these big, thick chunks of meat out of my back. Said he took a bit more than he needed to just so he could make sure he got it all.

I was out of work for six weeks for recovery, but everything turned out okay and I was cancer free. Had to continue going in for a full body exam every three months after that for a while, which sucked, but it was better than dying. He told me if I hadn’t come in for the minor psoriasis, I’d have been gone within a couple of years. Scared the stuff out of me. Always wear your sunscreen.

I had a random stroke. Everything feels slightly off and I’m a little bit different personality wise now. Every once in a while I wonder if I’m in a coma and I have just imagined my current situation. I also think about my past self dying and this is the new me with how I think and feel now. I can’t remember exactly how I thought or felt about things before my stroke. I remember them, but my wife says I talk about memories differently now or a new and different type of analysis. It can be concerning at times.

I tried to stop four guys from attacking this one dude. They stopped, then turned on me. I woke up in the hospital next day and the nurses told me I was brought in after the men had repeatedly stomped on my head. I am happy to be alive.

On my motorcycle, some kid comes around the curve in the wrong lane because he is on his cell phone. I see him clearly on it before I ditch the bike. It was either that or hit him head on.

Weird thing is, I wasn't afraid until after when I woke up in the ditch. During, my thought was "this is it".

Kid didn't even stop, just kept driving.

I've done lots of dumb stuff, but the most scared I've been is when I lost my 3yo daughter in an IKEA.

Almost choked once, I was trying to breathe and couldn’t, but luckily I was next to a friend who knew the Heimlich manoeuvre and dealt with the situation very well.

Last year, I got held hostage at my Airbnb in Croatia by two large guys. I was walking back into my building after a night out and then two men appeared behind me at 1am, forced me to open the doors to the space, talked to me for about 20 mins inside the apartment and then they forced me to go to an ATM with them to give them money. It was an outer body experience and I couldn't believe it was happening at the time. In the end, they only asked for €120. I was travelling alone and 100% thought they were going to end me.

Standing in the burn ICU when the doctor told me my husband had probably 70% chance of survival if he made it through the next two days. 


1 month in a coma, 3 months in the burn ICU, 23 surgeries, and one organ transplant later, he is still here. Life is different but i will never forget what it was like facing that level of uncertainty.