Thread: Scariest Experience

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What is the scariest thing that you've ever experienced? I'll post mine, but I need to think about it first.

Probably my scariest experience was sleeping overnight in an old mine shaft when I was a kid! Now that's DARK and SCARY!

I was once on a weekend wilderness survival trip with the local Civil Air Patrol. When dark fell upon us we started to notice eyes in the tree line. Then one came out that looked like a coyote. So we spent the rest of the night trading shifts around a big fire, watching the tree line, and scaring them back. At one point, one had low crawled in and was only about 3 feet from my boot!

In the morning as we got our bearings on the compass and headed out we could hear them behind us.... following. When we got back home one of the leaders contacted the DNR. To our surprise, the timber wolves in the area had a litter of cubs that summer. So what we were seeing was the cubs sneaking in to check us out, while the rest of the pack must have been back in the woods.

During the night I don't think we were that scared. Being northern minnesota boys things like this happened. Especially since we thought they were coyotes, the danger was less imminate. But upon hearing the news of what they really were, the thought of what could have happened really put a chill down my spine.

Awesome story! Thanks for sharing it! That would freak me out for certain!

Well, there are different types of fear:

1. Asking the pretty girl out on a date in high school. (I was incredibly shy in high school and never really fit in. I was always the "friend" and I hated it. Actually summing up the courage to ask a girl out was terrifying.)

2. Fishtailing my motorcycle on an icy road in college and coming within inches of shooting right off the side of the road and over a steep cliff (about 50 feet down through boulders and trees).

3. Rushing my wife to the Emergency Room to find out she's having a miscarriage. (Very scary, very sad, but we had beautiful daughter #3 a year later.)

4. Hearing the fire alarm go off at two in the morning and smelling smoke in the house, knowing that my daughters are asleep downstairs. (Turned out to be a house up the street, but the smoke flowed through the open windows of our house.)

5. Hearing there will be layoffs in my department. (Always scary when you have to worry about your future and the future of your family.)

Sorry, no "jump out of your skin" scary moments that I can recall -- other than the motorcycle skid!

Those are some thoughtful scary moments. Thanks for sharing. Your stories really put things into perspective.

I live in Houston, TX.

Waiting for the direct hit from Hurricane Ike, after losing power hours before, huddled in the bathroom with my hubby and kitties (and MIL - who chose to come to our house uninvited instead of going to relatives who invited her that lived in a safer area - just snoring away in the next room ), thinking that any second the roof would be ripped off or the windows burst in.

The feeling of complete helplessness was horrific and I will never go through that thing again if I can help it.

Sorry, didn't mean to ruin the fun vibe!

If I had to think of a "scary then, but funny as heck now" moment, it would probably be . . .

Camping on the Olympic Penninsula in a thin tent in summer. About five in the morning I woke up hearing noises outside the tent. I was alone and freaked out. Weird shadows and noises. Breathing. It was freaky.

Turns out it was a couple of deer munching on clover.

#1Waking up to roommates shouting fire, opening the door to have flames shoot over my head.
2. Having my truck burn to the ground. 75 miles in the middle of nowhere Ariz. Having to walk out and go through a rattlesnake infested train tunnel.
3. Having my truck on two wheels, about to go off the side of a mountain.
4.Being trapped at least 1/2 mile in a cave with a dead flashlight.
5. being run up a tree by a bull elk
I could go on for days!

Originally Posted by TK421

Well, there are different types of fear:

1. Asking the pretty girl out on a date in high school. (I was incredibly shy in high school and never really fit in. I was always the "friend" and I hated it. Actually summing up the courage to ask a girl out was terrifying.)

2. Fishtailing my motorcycle on an icy road in college and coming within inches of shooting right off the side of the road and over a steep cliff (about 50 feet down through boulders and trees).

3. Rushing my wife to the Emergency Room to find out she's having a miscarriage. (Very scary, very sad, but we had beautiful daughter #3 a year later.)

4. Hearing the fire alarm go off at two in the morning and smelling smoke in the house, knowing that my daughters are asleep downstairs. (Turned out to be a house up the street, but the smoke flowed through the open windows of our house.)

5. Hearing there will be layoffs in my department. (Always scary when you have to worry about your future and the future of your family.)

Sorry, no "jump out of your skin" scary moments that I can recall -- other than the motorcycle skid!

is the layoff thing past or present?