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

Last summer I was hit buy a wave and dragged under, the sea bed was pretty rocky and it ripped an earning out. I had my first panic attack a couple days after. Crazy how something so small and inconsequential in the grand scheme of things can shake you up so much - it took be a couple months for my nerves to get back to normal.

I got kicked by a horse in the gut and went into shock because my duodenum disconnected from my stomach and my gallbladder exploded. Then the hospital thought I was med seeking and put me on the back burner. They didn’t take me seriously until my vitals crashed.

As scary, in a totally different way was falling off a horse and getting to brain bleeds. I derealized and lost consciousness. I forgot months of my life and came to consciousness in an entirely different location. It took months to regain my full mental capacity. I still forget words.

My 6 month old stopped breathing while I was driving (she has a heart condition unknown at this point). I had to give her CPR while we waited for the ambulance.

She's alive and doing well and graduating high school 2 years early this year. Get your CPR certification people, I only had gotten mine as an extracurricular in college and eternally grateful I did.

Kayaked across 5km of open ocean at night in the rain, the waves were so big that when I was in the trough between two waves the water on either side of me was over my head.

Spinning a car in front of an oncoming 40 ton truck.

Driving a boat full of drunk men across Lake Kariba in the pitch black, never having driven a boat before, knowing that we'd seen hippos and crocodiles bigger than the boat in the area earlier that day, and knowing that the whole area was full of petrified trees that could easily hole the boat or knock the propeller off.

Had a close call with a driver who ran a red light and missed me by inches.

It’s wild how a single split-second decision by someone else can completely rewrite your timeline. Those near-misses stick with you because you replay the milliseconds where everything could have gone wrong. It’s not just the adrenaline in the moment, but the quiet, haunted realization later that you were that close to not being here. Glad you’re still around to tell the story.

Being charged by a bull whilst trekking in Burma. I learned when it comes to fight or flight responses, mine is freeze!

Cannabis induced psychosis. For about 4 months I got to experience what it’s like to be The Main Character Of Reality, and it was the single most traumatic thing I have ever experienced. I’m still recovering from it 3 years later lol.

Realizing my (now ex) husband and I were not in love with each other. Amicable divorce, still keep in touch occasionally. The hardest part was that we were fostering three boys, but we were able to cohabitate long enough to get them adopted together.

6 months later I got a teaching job on the other side of the country, packed up as much stuff as I could fit in my minivan, and left. I met the love of my life out here, made all the right decisions, but that first realization that this white picket fence dream that I worked so hard to build was a lie was the scariest day of my life.