She locked them luckily, and gassed it to the nearest town.
My friends boss bought an Audi A4 convertible, back when they were new and interesting.
One of the talking points was the pop-up roll hoops that were hidden unless you rolled it.
Jakayla Toney
Approaching from behind the other driver asked if he was okay.
My friends boss turned around to reply and dropped dead.
My moms friend had a small house and lived alone.
This went on for months, she thought she was just being forgetful.
One day she heard some thumping around in her attic and went to investigate.
She found some make shift living quarters.
Liat Aharoni
They ended up catching a homeless man climbing a tree, trying to sneak into her attic window.
He had been doing this almost daily.
Creepy shit with a happy ending.
Her injuries were so horrific the jury at the guys trial had to get counseling.
For example, her eyes were missing and there were stab wounds in the sockets.
Baby P, a British toddler whose mother let her boyfriend torture him to death.
His back was broken in his last days of life.
The homeowner saw a bloody long-haired man and winged him.
Pyle survived that as well and made a full recovery.
I work at a Max security prison and we have several inmates who are severely mentally ill. On top of this we also do visual inspections.
The inmate would not answer where the blood was from.
The inmates HR monitor never alerted and the inmate never screamed.
Paramedics said the inmates vitals were normal and the inmate was fully responsive.
Now here is where the story gets interesting and he told this part with absolute dead seriousness.
He has no doubt that his entire team would have been wiped out on the spot.
Red Tom was my Great Great Grandfather.
He was know for carrying two pistols, a Spencer rifle and a Creek warclub into battle.
Neishabur train dissaster is something that reminds me how death can come at any moment.
There were no humans on board.
Chemical leaks ensued and authorities tried to extinguish whatever fires broke out.
At one point, the whole thing explodes.
And it really explodes.
The wreckage continued to explode for several days after.
Around 300 people died and more than that injured.
One day he called the house and was begging her to sneak out and hang out with him.
She was considering it because it was her boss and she didnt want to say no.
My mom, who is two years younger than her, always gets these incredibly spot on gut feelings.
She had one that night and begged my aunt not to go out with him.
Thankfully she listened to my mom and told him no which made him really angry.
He ended up going out that night and meeting another girl.
He took her out to some cliffs and raped her and pushed her off.
Somehow she lived through this and was able to get him sent to prison.
I feel so sorry for that girl and so thankful for my mom and her gut feelings.
Always trust your gut.
I spent my first 10 years in New Delhi.
Many years later i revisited those memories and realised how insane that actually was!
Id totally forgotten about all that.
This is from South Africa.
The woman is called Alison Botha and she was abducted, raped and then choked until she blacked out.
She survived the attack and now does motivational speaking I believe.
On this day, I hear frantic knocking on the door.
Im there alone still so it kind of startled me.
I look and theres a women, completely naked, covered in what looks like blood.
I called the cops and grabbed one of the moving blankets and went out side to cover her up.
She smelled really bad and was a mess.
Ended up being blood and her own shit she was covered in.
It was just a fucked up and surreal situation to be involved in.
Guy goes into a small building and dies.
Later, investigator shows up and sees the body, calls 911 and then dies.
Paramedics show up to help them, then die.
Oxygen levels at head height were normal.
Oxygen levels went bent over was basically 0.
Bending over in this room killed 4 people by asphyxiation.
I was in a crappy motel.
the room had bedbugs.
i was too exhausted to go to the front desk.
i just needed to make it until the morning.
i slept in the tub.
hours later i hear someone breaking through the window.
we stared for awhile at each other in shock.
i think we both were scared.
then he says, is this your room?
im like, yes, this is my room man!
motel on watt ave, sacramento.
Old janitor from high school, friendly Ecuadorian man who went by Ping.
Will I be electrocuted?
I think the 3rd rail turned on seconds after his face came off of it.
My buddy caught his throat on it and saw the dude steal his dirt-bike.
Woke up in the hospital with a lacerated throat and a broken larynx.
Pretty crazy what somebody will do for something so cheap.
The story of Mary Vincent always stands out to me.
In 1978, 15 year old Mary was hitchhiking.
A man named Lawrence Singleton picked her up.
He brutally raped her, and eventually made her get out of the car.
She planned to run, but he noticed, and cut both her arms off.
He threw her into a ditch/ravine and left her to die.
She packed her stumps with mud to stop the bleeding and spent all night crawling out.
She eventually makes it to the highway and starts walking, naked and covered in blood.
The first car that saw her sped away in fear.
The second car was a couple on their honeymoon.
They picked her up and she survived.
The case of Elizabeth Smart.
The reason she was rescued is because her sister was awake during her kidnapping and pretended to be asleep.
The police didnt believe her because of the elapsed time, but pursued it to appease the family.
When rescue teams finally arrived he had been upside-down for so long that his legs were drained of blood.
He died after being trapped for 28 hours.
His bodys still in the cave.
100% true as it happened to me.
Its probably more spooky than scary.
Ill let you be the judge….
Many years ago, before there were cell phones we had these things called pagers strapped to our hips.
Although I was always busy I rarely if ever got 911s.
This takes maybe 3 minutes tops.
I pop my quarter in and dial the number displayed on my trusty pager.
It rings…….. and rings…… and rings……. and rings.
Im thinking to myself WTF ?
Who would page me with a 911 and not answer their phone?
its just about then that I notice another ringing sound in addition to the one in my ear…..
I hang up my the handset and the ringing stops on the other phone.
She said I was the the only person in the store in the last hour.
The whole episode probably took 15 minutes, but man, I was freaked out!
The hair on the back of my neck was standing straight up and I just wanted out of there!
Those two drops destroyed her entire nervous system and brain.
The 1904 Cincinnati Privy Disaster.
In 1904, nine schoolgirls drowned in an outhouse after the floor collapsed.
They literally drowned in human waste.
There are some really big houses in the woods in my hometown.
So he decided to just climb the gate.
He was hanging there but too afraid to call for his wife.
Just imagine hanging from your own gate all night not being able to call for help.
When I was a baby, my dad played on a softball team.
Typical social team, out for beers and pizza after with the guys, family event-key in-thing.
When the other parents got back to the house, they walked in on a home invasion.
They caught the 2 guys later on.
It still gives me chills to know how close we came to getting killed that day, too.
When I got home that afternoon the light was on and the door was open again.
So we all walked around the house with flashlights trying to figure out how they could have gotten in.
My wife called me while i was at walmart one day.
She had a broken ankle and had just had surgery on a hernia.
Her mobility was like 5 out of 100.
And of course someone tried to break in.
Her saving grace was yelling through the door that she was on the phone with cops.
Im on the way home.
And i pass the guy.
To the exact description my wife gave me and the cops.
Guy had a gun, rope, lock tools.
It couldve been bad.
Luckily though he ran.
And with even more luck we crossed paths.
I used to trigger the boilers in a DOE building.
In the boilers I was in charge of operating and maintaining.
But that wasnt what gave me the real Heebie jeebies.
(Im reasonably sure these people were dead before getting put in the boiler though.)
Definitely creepy experience, considering the history of that boiler room.
The Lake Nyos Disaster.
The lake periodically belches a cloud of invisible carbon dioxide gas that suffocates everything within a 16 mile radius.
In 1986, over 1700 people and all their livestock died without even understanding what was happening to them.
She picked up her sisters son, who was celebrating his tenth birthday that day.
She then loaded her three children into the car, supposedly to pick up a gift for the nephew.
Instead, she went missing with the carload of kids.
The crash annihilated both vehicles.
There were pieces of children all over the highway.
She was sentenced to 215 years in prison.
My grandfather was an engineer/architect for US Steel through the early 70s.
They lived on some properties with large front lawns and long driveways.
His neighbor had a couple derelict cars parked up near his garage that he took parts from occasionally.
This neighbor of his started hearing noises while sitting in his living room, coming from his front yard.
Every time hed go to the window, there would be nothing there.
He assumed it was a raccoon or a coyote or whatever.
He kept hearing the noise so hed go outside to look around but would find nothing.
Hed put out traps and occasionally catch something, yet the noise persisted.
Soon, he started claiming that he was hearing voices coming from the front yard, like whispering.
Hed go outside and look around the perimeter of his property but would find nothing.
It was persistent so hed started calling the cops.
Every time the cops came and looked around and would find nothing.
So this guy thought he was losing his mind.
One summer evening he couldnt sleep, so he went to the back patio to smoke a cigarette.
Suddenly, he heard voices coming from the front of his house.
The police arrived and approached cold (i.e.
Dude was working on a tuna steamer and they closed him in and steamed him.
I cant help but imagine that as anything but a truly terrifying and painful way to die.
The Navy knew they were there, but couldnt get to them.
My dad was slightly less drunk than the others and eventually demanded they let him get out.
They pulled over and he and one other girl got out.
He and the girl started walking to town while the other three sped off in the opposite direction.
This was in the 60s so medical care wasnt what it is today.
It gave me goosebumps about how close he was to being in the truck.
We went outside for a cigarette, and a car came flying past the bar.
The car burned through a red light, and started going up this hill that was on a curve.
Both cars hind ends lifted up, then slammed down.
The car that was driving correctly burst into flames.
My friend, a few other patrons, and me ran to the cars.
I tried spraying the fire, but it did nothing.
The fumes and heat were awful, and all we could do was stand back.
My God, it was the worst sound ever.
The fire department came and put the fire out.
The police took us back to the bar and took statements.
The rotten motherfucker driving the other car was some rich drunk cocksucker.
He lost a leg, but otherwise was physically unharmed.
I remember it being reported on Lo-Hud and Channel 12 News.
John List killed his whole family-wife, mother, daughter and two sons.
After he killed them all, he placed the bodies in sleeping bags and lined them up.
He then wrote a letter to his pastor explaining why he had to kill them.
He then leaves and isnt heard from again.
Hes finally arrested after a tip was given to the FBI.
Took 18 years to capture him.
Which she knew was bullshit.
When my parents were in college they went on a trip down to Florida.
They had met through mutual friends and were down there together but hadnt gone on a date yet.
Everything seemed fine until the driver asked them if it was okay to stop for gas.
My dad and his friend shook their heads vehemently because what else do you do in that situation.
He took one look at her picture and instantly recognized her as the driver.
He told me to roll over and not scream.
Never did catch him.
My brothers ex-gf had two older sisters (they died before she was born).
Was working the evening shift at a gas station.
Man comes in all disoriented.
I go to help him out.
he has a gash on his head and doesnt know where he was.
I couldnt see any crashes around so assumed he had fallen or something.
Normally we are supposed to stay inside the glass shielded register area whenever anyone is in the store.
I, being a nice human being, went to help while calling the police/EMS.
They got there and checked him out.
They thought his head may have been fractured.
Took him to the ER.
I went back to work.
Cops stopped back by for some coffee a few hours later.
I never left the register area at night again.
A small newborn babys body had been discovered tangled up amongst the sheets, it had been cooked.
The other nurses/parents assumed the baby had been collected by the mortuary to be stored awaiting their funeral decisions.
The poor laundry workers who discovered the body ended up being given counselling before eventually quitting.
He said that someone had tried to break into her car and asked her to come with him.
He then said he would drive her to the police station and she got into his car.
He then cuffed her, pulled out a gun and threatened to kill her if she resisted.
Only, he messed up.
He meant to cuff both of her wrist but only managed to cuff one.
She escaped and fought him off despite being hit over the head several times.
Her kidnapper was Ted Bundy.
He killed another woman just four hours later.
Her escape also helped identify Bundy and she is part of the reason he was eventually arrested.
My long-term partner decided to end his life suddenly and unexpectedly a few years ago.
An acquaintance of mine sent his son to triathlon camp in Texas.
A week later, his son came back from camp.
The next day, the son was complaining of a headache.
Four days later, he was dead.
Healthy, happy, fit 12 year old one week, dead the next.
Turns out the lake had Naegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba.
Nothing scares me as irrationally as already being dead and waiting for your body to catch on.
She had arrived with another friend who I believe had driven.
At some point she split off to play corn hole or something and was later inexplicably gone.
Phone calls went to voicemail, police were called, but she was simply missing.
She had broken a leg and an arm, and was in very bad shape.
Many cars stopped upon seeing her, making her captives unable to recapture her.
She returned to our university almost two years later, graduated, and became a nurse.
It was a terrifying tale none of us ever forgot.
She was an 18 year old freshman when the incident happened.
The driver one of the Semis we took in on trade died in the truck.
So during the day its a Dinet set up.
And at night, you pull a lever and pull the bunk down to sleep.
He couldnt get it to drop back down and suffocated.
He was stuck there for somewhere around 12 hours.
I dont regret many things in my life.
But I regret this one deeply.
I had stayed late on day (only reason I feel as bad as I do).
As I was leaving, I was the only other car in the lot.
I drove past her, turned the corner, and went home.
This was on a Friday night.
Come to find out, she didnt put her car in park.
Our dumpster was not visible from any main road.
Had I been 30 seconds later in leaving, I would have seen it happen.
Being elderly, the low impact still pinned her and broke some bones.
Even though she was found alive, she didnt make it at the hospital.
And I cant imagine her mindset.
Which Im sure she did, many times.
