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

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.

Probably the septic shock incident.

Seeing your family gathered outside an ICU room while the staff are trying to save you is a memory that still makes me feel odd.

I was in my early 40s. My kids think that I have some PTSD from it.

Most recently, a totally blind horse spooked into me at a gallop. I remember hooves beside my head and thinking I was done for.

Luckily, I came to within 5 or 10 minutes with just a concussion and a back injury. It was a scary moment.

I've had too many bad scares to list. My aunt stroked out in our kitchen. She was 37 and I was 18. Horrible memories of the ambulance and my uncle and mom hysterical.

I'm beginning to think my kids might be right about some therapy after all. I think I probably do have some trauma issues.

Escaping domestic violence.

I spent 34 1/2 minutes trapped inside a vehicle, after a car crash, with the driver seizing on my lap.

First day in Australia, went swimming in a river and saw the top of a crocodile swimming a few feet away. My survival instinct told me to swim, so naturally my body gave me two spontaneous charlie horses. Then the next day an angry goat nearly hoofed me in the balls. Love that place.

A knife-wielding, schizophrenic uncle hell bent on attacking me and nearly succeeding.

Seeing a coworker being covered with a sheet after paramedics tried to resuscitate him.

My ex and I got into a heated argument one time. It escalated to shouting and the usual insults and gaslighting. It's all kinda blurry now but he got violent and grabbed me and got me in a chokehold from behind. Like his whole arm around my neck kinda thing. He squeezed for so long that my vision started to go black and eventually I started to feel wet because I'd peed myself. I believed at that moment that he wasn't gonna let go and that I was gonna pass away there in the floor but he let go eventually.

Nothing else in life has scared me as much as that did. The dumb thing is I stayed with that jerk for another 5 or 6 years after that. I'm out now though and mostly happier though I have my bad days.

I was out surfing when a fairly large wave caught me in the shallows and pitched me headfirst underwater. I ended up balanced on my head, pressed against the sand, the full weight of the wave bearing down on me. I could hear my neck making loud cracking sounds, and I was certain it was about to break. Then the wave passed over, and I managed to right myself. It was one of the most frightening moments I’ve ever experienced.

I thought I had lost my 3 year old son when i was using the bathroom. I searched almost the entire house, recruited neighbors to look for him, and after I finally called my wife and 911, I found him sleeping in the pantry.

I was almost attacked by wild boars on my first night-time walk alone in the woods.

Had a kid get his leash caught on the reef, crying for help and drowning in the surf, 100m away from me. When I got there, there was no sign of him.

Edit: you're probably wondering what happened to the kid, and the truth is... I don't know. I dived under the sets a few times and tried to find him, but all I grabbed was seaweed and granite. The feeling of not being able to help or find him really sucked. There were no reports of anyone dying out there that day, so I can only assume that somehow he managed to free himself and was washed safely ashore.

I had to throw myself in the grass to not get hit by the car that ended my best friend and seriously hurt a guy that stopped to help us when she ran out of gas.

A little over a year ago I got carjacked right outside my apartment after coming home from work at 2:30 am. I threw my keys and purse and ran away immediately.

Sleep paralysis.

Woke up in a burning house in the middle of the night. The smoke was so thick I couldn't see anything.

A tire flew over my car on I-75 south. It bounced about 10 ft in front, & flew over. We were all traveling pretty fast. I like to think there's a lot of math involved in me not dying there.

When my daughter went missing.

An older nurse at my school and I had a what I thought was a friendly relationship. We decided to go to a park and drink coffee. Instead he took me out of the city and tried to attack me.

I was in a car crash, driver was drunk, I was riding in the passenger seat. We hit a guard rail head on doing upwards of 50 MPH. He hit his head on the windshield, then proceeded to try to drive away. Thankfully the car stalled due to the radiator being smashed in the collision.

I became a truck driver during college and got a summer job driving a tanker full of hot oil. On my third day out by myself after training, this 90 year old man pulls out in front of me on a two lane highway, and I hit that dude going 65 mph. He took out my steer tire, so I ended up swearing into oncoming traffic and then came to a stop in the ditch. Ended up hitting my head on the window. Three years later I’m still sensitive to light, and I have trouble speaking at times. Idk whatever happened to the old dude. He should not have been driving at his age.