My mother’s husband coming at me with a machete trying to kill me.
I stumbled and fell, it’s not a silly horror movie trope, it happens.
I still hear the sound of it hitting the floor inches away from my feet as I scrambled backwards.
Gabriel
1.Was a dog walker.
Opened the door to my most frequent client hanging by a slip-lead she had gotten from me.
She had been dead for two days.
That shit fucked me up for a long time.
2.I was surfing with a group of friends and while paddling back out came across a dead body.
3.A few years ago my family and I lived in a house with a rather large basement.
Our basement had a door which led to a smaller room where my dad mainly kept his tools.
This was about at 3 am.
I went downstairs and turned the light on.
Whoever was trying to fire up the door couldnt because the door was locked.
Then they banged on the door one time and stopped.
But just in case I went back upstairs to pick up my dads hunting rifle.
With my heart beating out of my chest I opened the door and no one was there.
This is impossible because there is no other way out of the small door other than that door.
My parents dismissed it as me hallucinating but I know what I saw.
Thankfully we moved out a while back.
By far the scariest moment of my life.
Once the shots rang out we hid under a car.
Im surprised they didnt do anything to us afterward.
5.The inside of a green sedan car when a guy tried to kidnap me when I was 18.
I bit, scratch and hit but Im thin and he was a muscular young guy.
So the inside of that car is the scariest thing ever.
6.My mothers husband coming at me with a machete trying to kill me.
I stumbled and fell, its not a silly horror movie trope, it happens.
I still hear the sound of it hitting the floor inches away from my feet as I scrambled backwards.
Did you know that machetes make sparks when they hit hard surfaces?
7.I got mugged once, so Id say my mugger.
I remember his face very clearly.
He stabbed me once on the side of my torso and I had to go to therapy for it.
8.Inside the barrel of a shotgun.
Shot at a kid with a paintball.
He ran home to get his dads shotgun.
Still dont know if it was loaded.
9.My sister with a needle in her arm and her head blown off in the garage.
I stop about 5 from the flames and cant backup because the traffic behind me.
I jumped out and ran.
11.A highway car crash at the front of my friends.
We heard the noise when we were in the house.
We ran outside to see what had happened.
He burned to death in front of my friend and I.
14.My mom being choked with a knife to her throat by my dad.
It didnt help that I was 7 and I had to make the call for help.
15.My brother coming home almost naked and beaten up.
Some people had jumped him, stripped him and ganged up on him over some girl, apparently.
The fact that he was beaten up wasnt so scary, but he was naked.
My mind immediately jumped to worse stuff.
17.I saw a young teenage girl sit on the edge of a 9 story buildings roof contemplating suicide.
Me and my work partner were on the ground watching a negotiator working with her to talk her down.
Im getting anxious just remembering it.
She was talked off the ledge and brought to the hospital.
(Didnt jump.)
And he responded I dont know, they told the dogs not to bark and wake me up.
I got him out of bed, hes telling me he saw someone, didnt hear them leave.
So I brought him upstairs to check the cameras.
Once upstairs waiting for the camera recordings to load, he went to the washroom.
I was immediately furious.
I yelled at him and called the police.
I waited with him while he rocked back and forth sitting on the floor for the police to come.
I wasnt sure what he was on but he wasnt aggressive towards me.
20.I had just finished watchingInsidious.
My son, who was around 6 at the time, was asleep in his room.
I was talking to my best friend on the phone and I see movement.
I stop talking turn my head to the side to see him.
He slowly sat up in his bed and slooooowly turned his head to face me.
His eyes were closed.
It was especially terrifying because the entire movie I was thinking about how it weirdly was like my son.
He had an unexplained coma for 12 hours, had night terrors and sleep walking… Hes normal now and has, to my knowledge, not murdered anyone.
Her body was dumped behind the local playground.
I move on only slightly shaken because I might need to up my medication.
Then a bunch of police officers come in and arrest him.
It took a few minutes for the dread and fear to really sink in.
One had a torch, like an honest-to-goodness Indiana Jones torch.
They all just kind of looked at me as I rolled past.
I noped out pretty fast.
As I was climbing up the bridge, I chanced a look down on the scene Id just passed.
All three guys were just staring silently up at me.
It was another big NOPE.
He wasnt, but a truly terrifying moment for a mother.
26.Once I had to get up really early in the morning to go on a trip for my job.
Anyways, I was pumping gas and then I got the weirdest feeling that I needed to move.
He was sneaking towards me when I got the urge to get away from my car.
I was completely alone and Im just a small girl.
I almost always have mace or something with me if I am by myself.
Then he started moving closer around my car to me.
I screamed even louder and an attendant came out who called the cops.
Definitely one of the scariest moments of my life.
He stood up, took a few steps and back down and passed.
29.Walking to my parking garage late at night.
Woman stopped me asking if I could give her a ride to buy milk for her newborn.
No way was I going to go that, politely declined but still felt kind of bad.
My parking garage stairwell had windows I could look out of, decided to watch where she went next.
They then walked down the alley together.
Still wonder what they had in mind.
Possibly planned to steal my car since she asked for a ride.
Either way, my stomach dropped when I saw them pop out from behind those dumpsters.
30.I watched a dude get shot and die in a road rage incident.
Messed me up for a while.
