What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you? n

If you mean fun, spooky scary (as opposed to traumatic scary), it was the day I worked alone in an old building that made weird noises. If I had believed in ghosts I wouldn't have been able to deal with it.

Waking up to Katy Perry without makeup!

I saw an elder gay naked.

Any ghost stories? I wish I had one to share.

A bout of endocarditis, an infection of the lining of my heart.

Someone followed my friends home from a concert after they had stopped at 7-11 first, well after midnight. The car was going slow behind them and when they turned onto the street where my friend lived and my friend parked, the people in the car behind them got out with ski masks on. My friend backed out of the driveway so fast. She drove around the neighborhood until they saw someone coming home late at night, and ran into their garage. Later said friend(s) came pounding on my door to call the police. The police didn't come until 5 am. We heard later that the Jack in the Box down the street from our neighborhood had been held up by people matching the car and the ski masks. I wonder if she avoided a home invasion by leaving the driveway. (This was in the late 80s before cell phones)

I've shared before: in the Yellowstone back-country, I went backpacking solo to a lake deep in the wilderness. I did everything right -- kept a tidy campsite, strung up my food and all odorous items from the designated pole, ate my meals away from my tent -- only to have a grizzly enter my site and pace around my tent. I didn't sleep a wink that night!

I've always loved that "Mame" poster because it's clearly trying to show that it's going to be fun and glamorous, and yet all it shows is how dreary and dismal the movie actually is.

Finding a dead body when I hiked off trail.

A man dressed in 19th century Jack The Ripper clothing followed my friends and I while we were trick-or-treating on Halloween night in 1984. I was 5 and my friends were 8 and 9. We hid behind a tree in a schoolyard and he was definately looking for us. Then we ran home.

A man tried to pick me up at a roadside rest. I said no and left. He followed me down the highway honking, pulling up next to my car and licking his lips. Nearly ran me off the road.

I kid you not.

R12, were wearing your short shorts and showing ass, you coquettish thing, you?

r13, come on now, no means no.

[quote]A man tried to pick me up at a roadside rest. I said no and left. He followed me down the highway honking, pulling up next to my car and licking his lips.

Did he also say "Yum!"? Did he ask you to present hole?

Let's just say, caftans were lifted.

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I tried to fly a light aircraft when it was extremely windy out and I had a moment where I thought I was going to lose control of the plane and crash.

I found a dead person - a guy in a wheelchair was slumped over behind a gas station. I was driving through the night to get to my mom's In Connecticut. I was so sleepy that I pulled into a gas station parking lot to take a short nap. It was closed, and I had to pee really bad. I walked around the back to go pee, and I spotted the guy leaning forward. I turned on my phone light to see and it scared me so bad. I ran back to my car for a minute (Mary!) to think. I called 911 - this was rural Connecticut - they took almost 30 minutes to get there. It was so horrifying.

Do you know what he died of, r19?

I got on a roller coaster at Six Flags but I was having trouble with the mechanism latching over my wide shoulders. I couldn’t get the attention of the attendant and I was scared shitless I was going to fall out while in the air.

Just then there was a lightning strike and a downpour. Everyone was ordered off. If that thunderstorm had not popped up when it did, I probably would have died.

r20 No, I don't. I wish I did. This was about 10 years ago. I've searched a few times for information, but never found anything. I wish I had thought to stick around, or even call the county sheriff's office the next day or something. I regret it, because I am much nosier now than I was back then!

Seeing my father in his car driving around town after he died.

I guess I was seeing a different version of him from another dimension.

When I was an altar boy, there was a statue of St. Paul that would move on its own. I didn't believe it until I walked past it, kept walking, looked back, and I swear it had shifted positions.

r19 gave me chills

[quote] Seeing my father in his car driving around town after he died.

Seeing my father driving around before he died, suffering from Parkinsons and also intoxicated was pretty scary.

My mother eventually persuaded him to hand over his keys.

Two years ago my uncle died from Alzheimer's. The day before he died, I was watching tv and all of a sudden, birds started crashing into my window. Hundreds of birds and this lasted for almost an hour. Some of the birds died and others flew away. I was living in a 4-plex and one of the neighbors came outside to see what was happening. It had never happened before and I had been living there for 7 years. Then I had the idea to look online to see what this could mean and it said that someone in your family will die soon. The next day, my uncle was dead but strangely enough, I was the only one who was warned with the birds and not his wife or children.

Then a week later, his face would appear in my bedroom window every night. Initially, it creeped me out but then I just went to sleep and forgot about it. This strange image went away after a couple of weeks but it was definately the face of a man and my uncle's face. Again, this only happened to me and not his wife, children or brothers and sisters. I think it's because when he started getting sick, I tried to help him. I sent his wife some documentation about coconut oil for Alzheimer's and how a doctor treated her husband with it. Maybe his soul didn't forget about this.

If a dead man’s face was at my window, I don’t know that I could go to sleep and forget about it.

Supposed slerp paralysis. I was awake in my bed and unable to either shout or move. There was this terrifying demon like cresture sitting on my chest, with red eyes glaring at me I perceived at least 2 other creatures to the side. Eventually by force of will, I managed to move and they seemed to vanish. I left the lights on till sunrise and headed to the nearest Catholic church to get a bottle of holy water. In my best Max von Sydow voice I drenched every room with holy water shouting " the power of Christ compels you!". I have not had an experience like that since then.