50 Of The Wildest “We Need To Leave Right Now” Experiences

Probably any given seizure, since I have a history of epilepsy, but there was one time I was able to give my parents warning. I was 17 and in the middle of a bad series of episodes. This time, however, not only did I realize what was happening, I had enough presence of mind to mumble, "Call an ambulance" and basically throw myself against my mother so I didn't smash my head on the kitchen tile again.

It's hard to describe how it feels to feel your body shutting down, recognize what's happening, and hope against wild hope that you're able to actually set things up to be safer this time. It's a level of terror I thankfully haven't had to experience more recently.

I was longboarding back home after being at a friend’s. It was like 3 am and i was slightly drunk.
I’m in the middle of my city, longboarding my way peacefully.

I saw four guys walking together in front of me coming my way, and spreading to I assume let me go through (like 2 on each side of the street).

Before i have time to think i’m passing the 1st guy, who hits me in the back of the neck with a telescopic baton.
I never went that fast in my life.
I guess they were surprised i didnt fall, they threw few glass bottles at me and ran after me, but i was luckily faster.
I had a huge bruise on my neck for a few weeks.

Dont want to know what would have happened if they got a hold of me.

I was living in Europe and was walking down the street at night, not very late maybe 8 PM, with my bf at the time. He was talking rather loudly and clearly in American English. A guy walking down the street ahead/perpendicular to us looked over at us and kept eyeing us. He had something baton-like in hand and was swinging it around by his side a bit. I quietly told my bf to shut up but of course he still loudly asked “why??” I said that guy is giving me seriously bad vibes and he brushed me off. We turned down the same street that guy was walking on because my bf insisted on picking up some food and it was the only street with restaurants still open. I made us walk on the far side of the street. Sure enough, that guy had stopped and was waiting in the shadows. When he saw us, he started following us. We went into the restaurant, and he followed us in there too and went and sat at a table without ordering. By then my bf believed me but insisted on still getting his food. I could see at that time the guy was carrying an umbrella, but the way he was holding it suggested he intended to use not use it for rain (it wasn’t raining that evening even). We got my bf’s food to go and left, and of course that guy followed us. Luckily, a large group of people came out of a bar/club a couple doors down, so I grabbed my bf’s hand and wormed us in the middle of them and then dashed down a small cut-through street and we ran to get around the curve so we couldn’t be seen. Thankfully we lost the guy at that point, but I have no doubt we were very close to getting jumped, beaten, and robbed. And I’ve since dropped the dead weight that ex was!

European tourist in New York. Took a taxi to the wrong neighbourhood without knowing. When we got out of the taxi there was a group of men sitting on a staircase in front of a house, they noticed us and immediately started nodding their heads like 'nope, you're at the wrong place'. So we left immediately.

This happened to me last weekend! I was driving home from work at 3am and needed some gas. I pull into this gas station that's closed (but pumps are on), and immediately see a car pull in from the other side of the gas station.

They slow roll by me, I look in their car, and they're both staring me down. They stopped at one of the pumps and I'm like, nope, and I leave without gassing up.

I think my gut was right because as soon as I started driving those guys just drove off.

They were not there to get gas.

Wasn’t so much as we but me. I was early elementary waiting for the school bus in my driveway. I lived in the country so they picked you up at your house and I always waited halfway down my long driveway until I saw the bus crest the top of the hill.

While I was waiting that classic p**o, windowless, unmarked, utility van pulls into the bottom of my driveway. A man pops his head out the window and waves at me and says he lost and needs directions. I instantly get that bad feeling about the guy and start slowly backing up my driveway shaking my head no at him. He says he can’t hear me and asked me to come closer. I refused and kept backing up the driveway.

My mom saw this from the kitchen window and came out to see what was going on and he backed out and left. Not long after that a girl was grabbed by a man in a van that matched the description of the one that stopped in my driveway. Thankfully she wiggled out of her backpack and got away but I don’t think they ever found the guy.

Driving in Mexico, north of Monterey. I was in a big suburban and suddenly feel this bump from behind. Look over to see a 'taxi' with two guys in the front. They were waving for me to pull over. I noticed there was no back-seat. I immediately thought 'nope, not pulling over to end robbed, r***d and shot in the desert. I floored it and left them behind.

Lived in Maine.

Went into the grocery store for a few items and saw this....very very very off looking individual walk down the ice cream aisle where I was. I got an insanely weird and panicked feeling, and told my girlfriend that we needed to leave immediately. It made no sense at all, but we quickly went through self checkout and left.

5 minutes later the person that I saw took out a knife and slit the throat of an elderly woman on the same aisle I was on, k*****g her. Apparently, the lady "looked at them funny."
They looked unhinged and I've always wondered what would have happened had I not bailed as fast as I did.

Was chilling in the back yard in San Diego with my wife and 2 year old daughter. All of the sudden I hear my wife scream and yell “GET IN THE HOUSE NOW!” Suddenly I heard a loud buzzing sound and started seeing bees everywhere. Once we got inside there were bees all over my house crawling on the windows. Apparently there was a migrating hive and my house was in the way. Never seen anything like it.

Wont be as bad as some, but was driving in remote Cambridgeshire fens, 40ish miles of terrible roads, sun was going down, and we pulled into a dodge flatroof pub to use the bathroom.

Went in, the bar was completely full of blokes silently watching the tv. Not one of them moved, said anything, or acknowledged me in any way, not even the barman. Got to the bathroom, light wasnt working, had to p**s in the pitch black. Blokes were in the same positions when i got out.

Got back in the car, my gf said she needed the loo to. Told her to put her seatbelt back on, cuz we were leaving now before we're burnt in the wicker man. I know it sounds silly, i just didnt want to be there when the sun went down.

Drove like the clappers until i reached the motorway, then we pulled over again.

Not sure why, but one of the creepiest and most unnerving experiences i ve had. Something just told me to scarper.

Not terribly terrifying, but led a group of students (boarding school) to a roller skating rink. We pull up and there's a KFC next door... kids always want fast food so I said OK, I'll get a coke and then go to the rink. When I got to the register, the cashier said 'Those seem like nice kids' Always nice to hear that they are being polite. I say something like 'Thanks, yeah, they are nice kids.' She replies 'You probably don't want to be here after 9.'


Thankfully, the kids figured out that a metal detector at a roller skating rink is a good indication we don't want to stay long. We were gone at 8:15.

This isn’t as terrifying as others, but it’s my most terrifying moment. You know when you hear on tv/radio “This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is just a test.” Well, I was living on a spit of land with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and a river on the other, and a nor’easter was barreling up the coast. It was just me and my baby at home at the time. Suddenly I heard on the radio the familiar buzz of the emergency broadcast system, then “This is NOT a test. Repeat, THIS IS NOT A TEST.” Then the electricity went out. This was before cell phones and computers. I didn’t know what to do because it was very much a flood-prone zone and I didn’t want to drive into a flood with my baby. About an hour later the National Guard came banging on the door and evacuated us in a big army truck. That was scary. Wish I had a cell phone back then because I’d have taken a photo of the soldiers holding my baby while I was climbing into the truck.

4th of July out in the wilderness. Me and my ex-gf figured we'd sit at the base of the foothills and take in the town fireworks. picnic-style, the whole 9 yards. We're sitting there around dusk, with no one around, and then I look about 125 meters away and saw that something was in the tall grass with it's head popped-up (it looked like a mountain cat at the distance.) I didn't think to much of it - thought my mind was just playing tricks on me. so I looked away. A min or two later I look back over in the general direction and this cat is a little more defined and making a direct line for us. I ask the ex-gf if she sees what I see. and she says "O, my god. That's a mountain lion." We didn't wait to ask questions, We noped the F out of there.

Was in a busy public square in France, and a car drove by, slowed down, and someone threw something out of the window that landed with a metallic "plink" sound about 20 feet from me. Lady sitting on a bench next to where it landed jumped when she saw it - it was a small Propane cylinder, wrapped in duct tape. I picked up my kid and ran. It didn't blow up, and police who arrived a few minutes later didn't make a big fuss, but it sure as hell looked like an IED to me. 

Decades ago, I was walking home alone through Shepherd's Bush in London a bit after midnight. Two gangs of men suddenly appeared outta nowhere and charged at each other, screaming taunts in rage. When I saw a few guys whip out knives, my brain pretty much screamed, "RUN THE F**K AWAY NOW" and yeah, I never sprinted so fast in my life and did not look back. 

Hiking with my now-husband on a 10,000+ year old indian trail now called El Camino Real de los Tejas. We came to a pond that was eerily quiet and I felt a twinge in my gut that it wasn't a safe place to be. He thought I was crazy when I told him it was too quiet and not to stand close to the water's edge. I soon started hearing alligator calls and across the water was a huge gator coming right for us. I told him to get out now. We ran back to the ranger station and as we were leaving, I asked about what I saw, she nonchalantly says, "oh yeah, that's just Snappy." As if it happens every day.

Not terrifying, rather lucky..

I heard of a house party after a local concert. It was at my friend's house who was under 21, I was just over 21. I figured there would be more people my age because of who attended the concert. I showed up with a case of beer and realized I was the ONLY of age person there. I said, yall keep the beer, I'm out. As I was leaving, just out of the driveway and on the street I saw 2 cop cars coming up with their lights off to bust the party.

2am walking home drunk with a friend. Since we're both plastered from the bars we don't realize we've walked the complete wrong direction to a bad street. Just as we realize this, a kid on a bike starts circling around us, harassing us. I'm super affable when s**t faced, my friend, not so much. So he's starting to get riled up as the kid continues. I keep it friendly, because I still have enough awareness to realize this kid has people watching from the shadows. My friend keeps asking why we don't kick his a*s and I just keep repeating he's not doing anything to us. Well, the little s**t then throws an empty plastic bottle at me. I immediately grab my friend and just say keep walking. "But he hit you."

"Yeah, but it didn't hurt. We're good, right kid?"

At that point I'm guessing the kid and his friends decided kicking the a*s of someone like me would have made them feel like s**t, because he circles us one last time and says, "Yeah.... Sorry I hit you with a bottle..."

"All good little dude."

I then grip my friend's sleeve even harder and speed up our pace to get the f**k out before they changed their minds.

2 AM or so, driving in an unlit road.


There was a guy laying on the road perpendicular to the road. The person driving slowed down and started to take off his seat belt, to move the person off the road.


Something felt off, so I told him not to stop and drive around. The body wasn't there anymore on the way back. 


Could have just been a drunk guy, or it could have been a trap. I'll never know

Shooting in the parking lot of a mall. Everyone b*m rushed in the opposite direction which for me and about two dozen people was inside an Apple Store. We all ran into the closet of the store until we got the all-clear. Apparently it was a couple of idiots fighting over a parking space and not some mass shooter. It was scary though.