Name a time when you have been scared.

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LuckyClover95

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Jeez, I've started a lot of threads recently. Sorry.
But yes, my question is about the time when you have been most scared, or if you can't remember, recall a scary time.
Was it a fight? Court case? Walking through a dark alley? Climbing really high? Name a few times, I want to know what scary things Escapists have been through (Not in a creepy way).
This wasn't the most scared I've been, in fact it wasn't too scary, but I was a bit panicked, I didn't know what to do, there was a lot of pressure, and it's all sort of a blur. I'll recall it how I remember it, I might be wrong on some details.
I was walking somewhere at night, when I saw a woman stumbling down the middle of the road. She was with a guy, who kept trying to hold on to her arm. I asked, "Is she alright?" He said, slurring his words and stumbling "Yeah, but she's taken ketamine and (insert other fairly dangerous drug that I can't remember)."
A car started coming over the hill. The guy went Woah and got to the path, and I assumed the woman would, but she fell over, hitting her head on the road and twisting her ankle. So, being an absolute hero, I got in the road and stopped the car. Then me and her other high friend carried her to the side of the road. I was pretty scared I think, she wasn't really responding any more and I'm no paramedic. I think at this point the other woman came along, also walking down the road this night. We got a jumper and put it under the woman's head, and I started calling 999, it was the first time I had to do this. They told us to put her in the recovery position, and kept asking questions - they asked "Does she have a history of heart problems?" so I asked her friend, who told me she blacked out sometimes. I repeated this to the person in emergency services, who repeated the question. I think I said something like "I don't know... fuck, I don't her!"
I waited with her until the ambulance got there, and I think she was ok. I went to the other woman and thanked her for her help. It wasn't particularly scary, just very unexpected and I had a lot of pressure.
Another time, more scary, me and some others we smoking weed in the woods. A police woman came along on a bike, and the girl with the spliff next to me quick shoved it into her lap, putting it out on the grass. The guy with the few he was rolling rolled it under his leg. We made friendly conversation with her until she went away, and it was very frightening. She cycled away, everyone mouthed "Fuck!" "Oh my God" etc, then when she was out of sight we were silent and the girl next to me said worriedly "Um.... can someone re-light this please?"

Tell me yours, Escapist crewage!
 

Lilani

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I worked at Disney World last summer, at the popcorn and ice cream stands in the Magic Kingdom. One night after dark, I was at a stand in front of the castle. There was a HUGE crowd there, as there always is at that time of night. But among the giant mob of people surrounding my stand, I heard a woman's voice. "Help me, help me please!" She was shouting, as she worked her way up to me from the side. "Help me, my daughter is having a seizure!"

I look up, and the woman is holding a baby in her arms. The baby's eyes were closed, and she was shaking and jittering out of control. According to the mother, she was just sitting in her stroller asleep and then she suddenly started to shake. I had only been working there a few months, and I had never had to call for the alpha unit (paramedics) before that point. Luckily, the other girl working there with me actually knew how to jerry-rig our radio to directly call 911 (we usually have to call our managers on the radio, explain what is happening, and then they call the alpha unit). So she got them on the way, and began to get information from the hysterical mother as best as she could. As far as I could tell, the poor woman was alone there with her daughter.

Lucky for us, there were a couple of guests who were also paramedics in line in the stand. They couldn't really do much, you never can with a person having a seizure, but they were able to put the baby girl in a safe position and check her vitals until the alpha unit got there.

At that point, there wasn't really much I could do, so I had to bring myself out of that shocked and worried mindset and get back to helping everyone else in line. Eventually the paramedics arrived, and the girl left the park stable, but I don't know what happened after that. Before the mother left, I did give her a water on the house, as I knew all of her crying and worrying would have left her dehydrated.

So...yeah. That was pretty scary. Knowing this lady was looking at me to help save her daughter's life, but knowing I could hardly do a thing to help her except call for more help. And then having to put all of that aside to cheerfully tell people sorry for their wait and ask them what they would like to eat. There's nothing quite like working at Disney World.
 

Drtfgf5

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Power outage when I was showering.
Right when I put shampoo in my hair all the lights went off.
That is all.
 

El Cookio

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When I was walking with a friend from his house to mine, we were about 11/12 at a guess. It was nearly dark and we saw a man in the trees, he saw us and ducked behind the bushes, needless to say we ran all the way home.
 

LuckyClover95

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Lilani said:
I worked at Disney World last summer, at the popcorn and ice cream stands in the Magic Kingdom. One night after dark, I was at a stand in front of the castle. There was a HUGE crowd there, as there always is at that time of night. But among the giant mob of people surrounding my stand, I heard a woman's voice. "Help me, help me please!" She was shouting, as she worked her way up to me from the side. "Help me, my daughter is having a seizure!"

I look up, and the woman is holding a baby in her arms. The baby's eyes were closed, and she was shaking and jittering out of control. According to the mother, she was just sitting in her stroller asleep and then she suddenly started to shake. I had only been working there a few months, and I had never had to call for the alpha unit (paramedics) before that point. Luckily, the other girl working there with me actually knew how to jerry-rig our radio to directly call 911 (we usually have to call our managers on the radio, explain what is happening, and then they call the alpha unit). So she got them on the way, and began to get information from the hysterical mother as best as she could. As far as I could tell, the poor woman was alone there with her daughter.

Lucky for us, there were a couple of guests who were also paramedics in line in the stand. They couldn't really do much, you never can with a person having a seizure, but they were able to put the baby girl in a safe position and check her vitals until the alpha unit got there.

At that point, there wasn't really much I could do, so I had to bring myself out of that shocked and worried mindset and get back to helping everyone else in line. Eventually the paramedics arrived, and the girl left the park stable, but I don't know what happened after that. Before the mother left, I did give her a water on the house, as I knew all of her crying and worrying would have left her dehydrated.

So...yeah. That was pretty scary. Knowing this lady was looking at me to help save her daughter's life, but knowing I could hardly do a thing to help her except call for more help. And then having to put all of that aside to cheerfully tell people sorry for their wait and ask them what they would like to eat. There's nothing quite like working at Disney World.
Do you know if the girl was ok? Did she have anything wrong with her that causes siezures?
 

Lilani

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LuckyClover95 said:
Do you know if the girl was ok? Did she have anything wrong with her that causes siezures?
I never heard anything about her after they left the park, but I do know she left in a stable condition. The mother said she had never had any seizures before, so it could have been a lot of things. Head injury, chemical imbalance, or even defect she was born with. I really don't know, it is very sad though. And sad it had to happen right there in the Magic Kingdom :-\
 

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For me, it was when I went rock climbing. I hate heights, and climbing isn't an exception. I absolutely hated it and I will never do any form of climbing again in my life if I have to.
 

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When I was around 13 years old I was in my room and around 1 AM I heard the front door to our house open and close and the first thing I think is there is a robber/murderer in the house. and 5 minutes later the door to my room opens up, my heart stops, and it turned out to be my dad coming home from work a day early (he works out of town).

Also anyone who has played Amnesia the Dark Descent knows how scary that game can be, you start out thinking "It cant be that scary" then you play it and it turns out to be a very good way to keep you up all night.
 

Prince Regent

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For me it's a well rememberd childhood memory.
When I was very little, 5 I think, I got got lost in some woods near our house and found a dog's skull.I've honestly never been that scared before or after.
 

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9 years old. Mothman Prophecies.
Had nightmares for weeks.

5 years old, some book on tape in a car ride that had something called a Talon of Doom in a basement. Nightmares for almost a decade. I kid you not.
 

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Prince Regent said:
For me it's a well rememberd childhood memory.
When I was very little, 5 I think, I got got lost in some woods near our house and found a dog's skull.I've honestly never been that scared before or after.
You sure it wasn't a deer skull? They sometimes look similar.
 

King Toasty

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I don't actually have any scary stories, so I'll sit back and make popcorn.

Well, I mean, there was this one time me and my friends found a half-rotting puppy in the forst behind our school. It's eyes were leaking and the skin was bubbling, ugh.
More gross than scary, though.
 

Redingold

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When I was younger, I was seriously afraid of heights. I went on holiday in Barcelona, and my mum thought it would be a good idea to go to the top of la Sagrada Familia. I don't recall ever being more scared than that.
 

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I went to London with school once and we went to see grease. What they didn't mention though, was that we would be sitting on the highest balcony. I suffer from extreme acrophobia so I got a panic attack so the kind people of the theatre arranged a place on the tenth row for me downstairs.

It was a rare occasion where I was genuinely scared, but I got to sit closer to the stage free of charge and they gave me something to drink to calm down.
I think it was the Piccadilly Theatre, and really to the people working there you guys are great most excellent service I've ever had.

Oh and I lost my hat upstairs during my panic attack and one of the employees went back to pick it up for me, oh and the show was nice too so all and all pretty good evening.
 

The Apothecarry

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I was scared as hell when I watched The Blair Witch Project. I didn't scream once, but my roommate said I was shaking at one point. I did not sleep afterwards for a solid week.

Fuck that movie. Never again. I couldn't believe that my roommate called this his "most favorite movie of all time."
 

Prince Regent

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smearyllama said:
Prince Regent said:
For me it's a well rememberd childhood memory.
When I was very little, 5 I think, I got got lost in some woods near our house and found a dog's skull.I've honestly never been that scared before or after.
You sure it wasn't a deer skull? They sometimes look similar.
It could have been a Roe Deer's skull yeah. There are quite a lot of them in the area. I don't remember what the skull looked like though, just that I was really scared.
 

Scabadus

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Last time I remember being genuinly scared was nearly a decade ago; I'd gone swimming with my brother (we must have been about ten and thirteen) and this very fat kid, a total stranger, came up and started trying to bully us. I can't remember what he wanted, I mean it was a swimming pool so any violence would have been seen and it's not like we had our lunch money on us or anything, but I just stood up to him until he went away. Then the fear hit me, way too late to be of any use.

I'm really lucky I wasn't born in an era where humans had natural predators. My body: "Oh by the way, that tiger eating your face? Yeah you should probably have run from that. My bad."

A close second would have to be when I saw Scream 3 when I was nine. I don't care that it's a terrible film, I was nine! I was scared of the dark for weeks.
 

Temah

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Going to see X-men the last stand aged around 12 and watching the angel mutant (can't recall his name right now) carving his back open, that screwed me up for weeks afterwards.
 

ReservoirAngel

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I was walking home with my friends after we'd been to the pub and as we got to the corner where we part ways, we heard a big tyre screech sound down the road and all turned just in time to see a big van collide with an old lady.

It was fucking horrible and it scared the ever-loving shit out of me.