“Overhearing my dad and his friend planning out the murder of my mother, sister and me.”
I had just turned 17, back in 1986.
He was going to burn the house down while we slept that night he worked midnights.
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I wasnt supposed to be home.
He left to take a load to hide at his friends house.
Thankfully my mom and sister came home before he got back from his friends house.
My sister and I had to plead with our mom to leave but she did.
He abused her for 25 years.
getaduck11
2.
He kept pointing the gun at me and saying he was going to kill me.
He has 5 class x felonies now.
Trial starts in a month.
applejellyclouds
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Two inmates attacked me inside of the laundry room
I was working as a Correctional Officer.
These were both inmates that I had good rapport with, so I wasnt really paying attention too closely.
One of them pulled out a little piece of copper wire that hed taken from his television cable.
Obviously this wasnt legal, and I was offended that theyd do it in front of me.
I thought we had mutual respect.
The mistake that I made was trying to handle it personally and alone.
I stepped into the laundry room to walk over to the inmates and take the wire.
The door shut behind me, and one of the inmates stepped between me and the door.
When I looked over at him, the inmate still in front of me grabbed me by the shirt.
I was pretty sure I was going to get beat to death in there.
Looking back, it is a good lesson in violence.
Ive been in martial arts since 2006.
I have done a ton of different styles, mostly Judo, Hapkido, and Taekwondo.
I was trying to break it, but I didnt hit it right.
Now he was in a super wide stance and way off balance.
He was also between me and the wall.
The cool thing about Judo is that breaking your opponents balance renders them almost entirely useless a striking platform.
I shoved him as hard as I could right into the wall, which does not feel great.
I pressed my radio distress button and started yelling for help.
The whole thing lasted probably 10 seconds but it felt like forever.
I had to be investigated for that, but was found to be clear of it.
That was the last time I actually feared for my life.
It certainly put things into perspective for me.
Judoka229
4.
I got caught sneaking out so we didnt go.
The next morning we snuck into it anyway.
There was 2 girls handcuffed and gagged in one of the upstairs bedrooms.
Absolutely spooked us the fuck out.
BLACKMACH1NE
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I worked at a bank during a robbery
When I was a bank teller and was robbed, definitely!
Then he came to the back to get me.
At the end of it he made us get into the vault and locked us in there.
Cops had to come and get us out.
Internetmomo
6.
My babysitter was murdered during a drive-by
A drive-by where my former babysitter was shot and killed.
I knew who did it, but there wasnt any proof.
He was finally convinced in 2012, my babysitter was shot in 2002.
TerraNikata
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Grimcupcake
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Merulanata
9.
These were Canaanite tombs that were thousands of years old.
I got a little too close to the edge and fell in.
I fell/slid maybe 10-15 feet and was stuck down there.
It was a vertical drop and the sides were loose stone and rubble.
It was the middle of the day in Israel in the summer.
I had no water and my cell service was kaput since I was below ground.
I panicked a bit and just squatted in the dirt and cried for a bit.
I was stuck for…maybe 15 minutes at the most before some sort of calm came over me.
The feeling of getting out of a grave was so relieving and personal.
I rarely share that story because I was such an incredible fool.
yo dont ever do what I did ever.
I am lucky I didnt just dehydrate, pass out and die or collapse a wall and suffocate.
Mr_Xorn
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I heard the front door open and assumed it was my mum home early.
I ran and hid in the bathroom and cried, there was no mobile phones back then or anything.
The police turned up and found the guy asleep on our couch.
CrayRaysVaycay
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It was a fast moving electrical fire.
The boy who lived there was 14 and he had a 9 year old sister.
I guess it was adrenaline or something.
All I knew was that the only thing standing between that kid and a horrible death was me.
The good news is that his sister wasnt in the house after all.
Shed gone to a friends house without telling him.
Redshirt2386
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Someone tried to carjack us at gunpoint
Foiled car jacking attempt.
Whole family was in the car.
We were both just standing there looking at him.
He was a few feet away, gun still pointed at him.
Then he backed away and got in a get away car that I guess was part of his crew.
I was grateful that day.
JEREMIAH33RN
13.
I went alone to a concert in a small club, and was approached by two sleazy guys.
Well, that was until the gig ended.
And thats when the band happened to walk out the exact same emergency exit.
But Ill never know now and I guess it doesnt really matter anymore.
GloriousFlower
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I yelled for my father but he wasnt around.
He had gone out to a bar with a friend after I went to sleep.
Turns out a cockroach had laid an egg in my ear and they were hatching that night.
The empty egg came out about a week later.
I had roach legs come out of my ear for years while cleaning it with qtips.
Jynku
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Later in the night, around 10pm I heard some noises downstairs and saw a light turned on.
I figured my parents had returned from visiting family.
We made eye contact for a solid 5 seconds just in complete shock he bolted back downstairs.
I told her what happened, she called the cops and within 10 minutes everyone was home.
Definitely scariest moment of my life, I thought I was going to die right there and then.
Growlibi
16.
I watched a man attempt to murder a woman
There was abarfight.
Huge guy, out of prison that morning, racist, unpleasant and very fucking drunk.
Hed been in the pub all day.
In walks a woman, apparently they had beef.
He grabs a glass and tries to smash it in her face, misses and glasses some random woman.
Now hes extra angry.
The staff call the police, but this guy is trying to kill the woman.
So I get in there and break it up.
generic_brand_cola
17.
Arriving at the border I realized that I didnt have the proper documents to get across.
So I bribed the bus driver to hide me in the cargo hold and smuggle me over the border.
That was a scary few minutes.
Definitely brown pants time.
mysevenyearitch
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I just knew I was dead and could not feel the wounds because of the massive damage.
13 points of impact in all and not an scratch on me.
We later joked that death must have been on vacation.
We were aware and pulled our our bear mace and kept hiking.
Not being able to see where the bear was in the woods we continued on the trail.
The grunting stopped, but before I knew it I was thrown on the ground.
A great weight was just crushing me and started throwing me around like a rag doll.
It began to tear into my hiking pack.
I stayed on my stomach as best I could and tried to cover my vitals.
The bear continued to tear into my pack, before my friends bear spray finally got to it.
It turned and ran off.
We left the area quickly and waited till the bear spray wore off and hiked out.
We got to a rangers station, where I was taken to a hospital to be treated.
My friend and a ranger went back to the attack site to recover what was left of my things.
Luckily I escaped with minor injuries and minor scarring (a few broken bones and deep gouges).
My stuff sadly didnt make it out alright, favorite coat and pack ruined…
But that is definitely the scariest situation Ive ever been in.
crimsoneagle1
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My husband dropped dead inside of our kitchen
When my husband died suddenly in our kitchen.
His heart was beating so hard, and so quickly that I could feel it.
He gasped, and said, Help me.
It all happened so quickly.
I still thought it was just a severe panic attack, and we were waiting for the ambulance.
I did chest compressions frantically, and puffed air into him.
The air just kept coming back out.
It made groaning noises as it did so.
I knew my attempts were not working.
The ambulance arrived, and I was shooed away, as they worked.
My husbands heart was restarted 2 times, but he officially expired at 5:02 am.
Scariest, guiltiest, most horrible thing I have ever experienced or seen.
BeezusTheRed
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That was the first time I went to see adoctorimmediately instead of letting my immune system do its job.
-LifeOnHardMode-
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I have two brothers, age 11 and 10, that were also there.
We made it onto the interstate and about 10 miles down the road before my dad started nodding off.
We were coming up on an exit, and there was a divider for the exit and the interstate.
He pushed my dad over to the passenger side and drove us home with my direction.
