Mine was once when i was little i was sledding(sleying? whatever) So I was sledding down the steepest hill in our town and instead of a sled I had a disc. If you don't know what that is, it's a plastic sircle with no steering,spins so you can't see where you're going, and has insane amounts of speed compared to a sled. So I was going down the hill and the disk did a 180. Now something you should know about this hill was, it's next to a park. So I'm down at like 20mph(sorry to all the Non-Americans out there, I'm guessing that's about 47kph?) so going down the hill and keep in mind I can't steer. halfway down i notice a bench about five feet away from me. So at about 1 foot i duck and the bench just scrapes my chin. looking back on it, if i hadn,t ducked or been a little bigger I'm guessing i could have completely busted my jaw or had serious head injury.

i think this is a thread already. but regardless. I had a guy almost break into our house. I was on the couch, half awake, when i heard noises from the window. I looked over to see a silouhette (however its spelled) of a guy trying to pry open the window. So i slowly turned on some lights, saw a dude in all black. He turned and hauled ass out of the yard. Apparently, there had been a neighborhood burglar who was hitting houses no more than 3 down from mine. Scary stuff.

Well, when I was very young, my brother and I were playing around a church. I fell over backwards and hit my head on the corner of the foundation. My head instantly began to expel vast amounts of blood. Mind you, this wouldn't be that bad normally, but we were in the middle of nowhere in Argentina, on the outskirts of a small town.

There was a water pump nearby, so the best we could do was rinse the wound a whole lot. Fortunately I am pretty much intact now.

This thread should be retitled "When Natural Selection Fails".

I'm pretty sure this is an original thread becuase i looked it up first...

One time my sister forced me to come along because some guy had gotten completely smashed at a party and was threatening with murder by knife. It was night and this guy looked like a psychopath there he winced, knife in hand and very shirtless (he had consumed a terribly powerful brand of alcohol, 60-ish% or something in a finger-sized glass). The moment my sister was trying to negotiate with this psychopath and she turned around and waved for us to drive off, the psycho was running towards us.

Imagine me right there in the back seat, thinking "I'm about to die...".

meatloaf231:
Fortunately I am pretty much intact now.

Pretty much?

It'd have to be when the plane I was flying stalled. We (me and the instructor) were doing loops and the engine just stopped. Christ. Thank god he was there to restart it, I was all over the place. We were below the cloud layer, 7000 feet. That doesn't leave much reaction time.
We landed after that.

Drowning as a 4 maybe 5 year old. I was gripped with fear and just as I thought "this is it" someone lifted me from the water.
I'm still not very fond of water.

khululy:
Drowning as a 4 maybe 5 year old. I was gripped with fear and just as I thought "this is it" someone lifted me from the water.
I'm still not very fond of water.

Seriously... that happened to me too but the scariest moment of my life was when i was falsely arrested i thought what the hell did they get me for

Danny Ocean:

meatloaf231:
Fortunately I am pretty much intact now.

Pretty much?

It'd have to be when the plane I was flying stalled. We (me and the instructor) were doing loops and the engine just stopped. Christ. Thank god he was there to restart it, I was all over the place. We were below the cloud layer, 7000 feet. That doesn't leave much reaction time.
We landed after that.

Well my shoulder never did heal quite right after I broke it one time. It's all double-jointy and weird.

Either being mugged by a clearly insane hobo, or being attacked by a shark while surfing.

As insane as this makes me sound, it was probably when I saw what the Cherokee call a "little person". They're these people from Cherokee folklore that appear to people every now and then. They're pitch black to the point of being blacker than the color black-even when standing in broad daylight. They're not dangerous or anything and they only appear when they want you to see them. I seriously thought I was going insane when I saw one and I thought up until recently that I had just had some strange hallucination, but I know several people who have seen them and I guess they're a regular occurrence where I'm from.

Needless to say, when I was standing on my friend's porch and I saw a pitch black figure with no identifying features other than it being short, run under the street lamp not ten feet from the house and grab onto the bars of the fence and just stare at me, I freaked out.

To quote myself from the other thread...

Ares Tyr:
Shortly after having sex with an ex-girlfriend of mine, she was nearly two weeks late for her period.

I was literally shitting bricks for days on end before getting the greatest phone call in my life "It started".

Thats probably the only time in my life I was happy to learn a girl was menstrauting. That was a little over a year ago.

I don't think that tops mystical Cherokee gremlins though.

aswiftlytiltingreality:
As insane as this makes me sound, it was probably when I saw what the Cherokee call a "little person". They're these people from Cherokee folklore that appear to people every now and then. They're pitch black to the point of being blacker than the color black-even when standing in broad daylight. They're not dangerous or anything and they only appear when they want you to see them. I seriously thought I was going insane when I saw one and I thought up until recently that I had just had some strange hallucination, but I know several people who have seen them and I guess they're a regular occurrence where I'm from.

Needless to say, when I was standing on my friend's porch and I saw a pitch black figure with no identifying features other than it being short, run under the street lamp not ten feet from the house and grab onto the bars of the fence and just stare at me, I freaked out.

Sounds... spooky. Problem is, I would have just thought it was some dumb kid running around and thrown a rock at him.

I also just realized that calling ghosts of any kind "spooks" is pretty much awesome.

meatloaf231:

aswiftlytiltingreality:
As insane as this makes me sound, it was probably when I saw what the Cherokee call a "little person". They're these people from Cherokee folklore that appear to people every now and then. They're pitch black to the point of being blacker than the color black-even when standing in broad daylight. They're not dangerous or anything and they only appear when they want you to see them. I seriously thought I was going insane when I saw one and I thought up until recently that I had just had some strange hallucination, but I know several people who have seen them and I guess they're a regular occurrence where I'm from.

Needless to say, when I was standing on my friend's porch and I saw a pitch black figure with no identifying features other than it being short, run under the street lamp not ten feet from the house and grab onto the bars of the fence and just stare at me, I freaked out.

Sounds... spooky. Problem is, I would have just thought it was some dumb kid running around and thrown a rock at him.

I also just realized that calling ghosts of any kind "spooks" is pretty much awesome.

I would have thought that, too, but my friend's house and the house next door (their grandparents house) were the only houses on that street, which was a dead end off the turnpike. Plus, it was around midnight and the only reason I saw it was because it ran out from the trees on the other side of the street and stood under the streetlight behind this little fence that's about waist high.

So, around last summer, I was with my dad, sister, and brother, and my dad decided to stop at a hardware store. He told us to wait in the car while he went in the store. So about 5 minutes later I was reading some crap from a book I had just gotten, and someone got in the driver's seat. I thought it was my dad because he was wearing the same color shirt as him, but then my brother said, "I think you're in the wrong car," so I looked up and it wasn't my dad. Then the guy said, "No I'm not," and both me and my brother nearly pissed our selves. He started driving the car, and I was just about to open the door and jump out when he stopped crookedly in a parking space. He got out saying, "I needed to move your car to make it safer for mine."
Probably the scariest moment in my life so far.

i was 6 years and nearly choked to death, i was 12 and fell off the house and upon landing hit my head and went unconscious, i was 16 and rolled a truck down a 30 foot embankment (without a seat belt), i was 18 and spun around in several 360's and finally stopped about 3 meters off the road in a cow pasture, and finally i was 22 and had to get out of my car and fix a flat tire on a highway. (those jackasses on that road never even moved over) so at one time one would have hit me had i not jumped onto the hood of my car to dodge it.... fun times :P

I think it was that time I almost plummeted down a cliff in Crowsnest Camp. Fun time, the cave was awesome that we went to thereafter.

Nearly drowning in a river. I would hate to fall of a cliff. I mean, just the wait, knowing you're going to be in hell in a few moments (whether you live or not har-har)

I think its funny that of all the times I've came near death, possible teen pregnancy is still the scariest moment in my life.

Ha.

Ares Tyr:
I think its funny that of all the times I've came near death, possible teen pregnancy is still the scariest moment in my life.

Ha.

Hey, that's freaking scary. I think I'd cry if I had one of those scares and found out that I indeed had a bun in the oven. I'm not responsible enough to be responsible for another individual's livelihood.

aswiftlytiltingreality:

Ares Tyr:
I think its funny that of all the times I've came near death, possible teen pregnancy is still the scariest moment in my life.

Ha.

Hey, that's freaking scary. I think I'd cry if I had one of those scares and found out that I indeed had a bun in the oven. I'm not responsible enough to be responsible for another individual's livelihood.

Atleast my trust in the Lifestyle's brand is still intact.

I was a Junior in high school at the time, so that shit would've really crushed me. Now, the outlook isn't as scary, but at the time, it was one of the scariest things that could've happened.

Ares Tyr:

aswiftlytiltingreality:

Ares Tyr:
I think its funny that of all the times I've came near death, possible teen pregnancy is still the scariest moment in my life.

Ha.

Hey, that's freaking scary. I think I'd cry if I had one of those scares and found out that I indeed had a bun in the oven. I'm not responsible enough to be responsible for another individual's livelihood.

Atleast my trust in the Lifestyle's brand is still intact.

I was a Junior in high school at the time, so that shit would've really crushed me. Now, the outlook isn't as scary, but at the time, it was one of the scariest things that could've happened.

Yeah, that would not have been pleasant.

khululy:
Drowning as a 4 maybe 5 year old. I was gripped with fear and just as I thought "this is it" someone lifted me from the water.
I'm still not very fond of water.

Same happened to me...twice, really put me off the beach.

I nearly drowned when I was around 3, my dad pulled me out of the water by my hair. How I didn't go bald from that is beyond me.

I've gathered from this thread that the average gamer is a horrible swimmer and is very prone to drowning.

khululy:
Drowning as a 4 maybe 5 year old. I was gripped with fear and just as I thought "this is it" someone lifted me from the water.
I'm still not very fond of water.

Me too, at the kiddie amusement park "Sesame Place". Oddly, most of my hobbies revolve around the water. My scariest moment would probably have been when I thought I was lost in the middle of nowhere while SCUBA diving.

Having an RPG zing arms-reach over my head while 2 other guys were spraying AK fire at me. Then speeding down a road for about 2 miles with several more ambushes waiting for us.

Seriously, one of those things I'd never thought would happen to me in my life. Like a fucken movie.

Ares Tyr:
I've gathered from this thread that the average gamer is a horrible swimmer and is very prone to drowning.

Not really, I swim quite well, and even a lot of non-gamers can't swim. (my class of 17-yr olds can't even keep themselves afloat, only one person and myself are the only ones who can swim!) plus most of the anecdotes above were when they were under 7 if you've read most of them through, not a lot can swim at that time. hydrophobia also is a pretty common fear too, like cynophobia(dogs), astrophobia(lightning), arachnophobia(spiders) and acrophobia(height... I think, I think I might be mistaken)

HSIAMetalKing:
This thread should be retitled "When Natural Selection Fails".

When Natural Selection Fails:

Native Australian attempts to break into my house (someone already has said something similar) - a house that has a reputation for... psychosis (there were four of us and we'd all been in and out of various detention facilities for violence related incidents). Said individual does so while I am sitting meditating in the front room. There is enough ambient light in there to see me, and the TV program I was watching.

...yeah... natural selection failure right there.

Scariest time for me would have to be me, tied to a cold bench, and some hot pokers.

Woah... just having a sense of deja-vu, as if I've posted that before...

Ares Tyr:
I've gathered from this thread that the average gamer is a horrible swimmer and is very prone to drowning.

In my defense I was wearing jeans and tennis shoes. Not exactly light weight when wet.

Ares Tyr:
I've gathered from this thread that the average gamer is a horrible swimmer and is very prone to drowning.

First time i was 3, second time 5.
Sorry if my infant swimming skills were not up to par.
Funny thing is second time wasn't my fault so again, ouch.

When I was younger, and a heck of a lot dumber, I had a distempered partner with a penchant for ceaseless criticism and minor physical assaults. Never hurt me, so I let it slide for a lot longer than I shoulda.
Until said partner made every effort to strangle me in an empty, dark parking lot one New Years' Eve with absolutely no rhyme, reason or warning. I have no idea what would have happened if the Ex hadn't showed up to drag him off me.

Gah.
Besides that, I'd have to say the time I was "mugged" in Toronto by the friendliest bandit you've ever met. He only took ten bucks, but he apparently REALLY needed it. Scary/intense sort of fella, polite but for the fact that he wasn't taking no for an answer.
It's a weird story.

Beyond that, I've led a very safe and prepared life. All's well.

I'd say getting lost in the forest when I was 8 year old... we were supposed to stick in a group, but somewhere along the way I lost my group and then you suddenly stand there. It was getting dark fast and you didn't see any sign of civilization anywhere. The ideas kicked in of having to spend the night in a dark forest on my own... the ideas of running in circles, every direction suddenly looking the same. I'm not sure how I got out, but I'm thinking I got lucky at a point.

I've never been that scared ever since...

Not too long ago, some guys attempted to rob a bank near my school, and got away i think. Anyway i went to go check it out and while driving there i didn't realize i had crossed into the perimeter of the crime scene (there wasn't any tape or anything). Once i figured it out, i tried to get out before anyone saw me, but a cop stopped me and screamed at me for like 5 minutes, and almost arrested me. probably one of the scariest couple minutes of my life