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

[dissentowner]

Be it an accident, paranormal, seeing somebody's grandma naked, if it scared or frightened the bejesus out of you I want to hear it.

[Regulator75]

Being responsible for a new born baby.

[jamoro]

When I was in sea cadets I was a lucky guy to be chosen to sail on a tall ship the maple leaf (Picture below) Well, we all had to take turns setting the jib. Its the small sail on the front of the ship.
So, while the ship is cutting through the water, you had to shimmy out on the wooden pole sticking out on the front of the boat and untie the jib so we could set it. I am already afraid of heights and doing that while the boat is moving was scary as ######.
But it was a once of a life time experience and I still remember it fondly

edit: We sailed on it for a week, it was duing spring break and it was off victoria island. I also remember dolphins swimming at the front of the boat, they said that the dolphins surf on the pressure the boat makes on the water while its going forward.

NSFW!

[Sliver]

I lacerated my spleen snowboarding and was bleeding internally. The scariest part was when I was in the ambulance and passed out just as I heard the paramedic yell to the driver: "full lights and sirens!"

I thought I was a goner.

[Danijam]

I was once in a film camp and we had permission from the Subway on 4th to shoot a movie at their store. It was a robbery scene and we shot it several times. Before anyone knew what was happening the place was crawling with cops, guns drawn and pointed at us. They said, 'Drop your weapon' and the young girl dressed in all black with a black balaclava accidentally lifted her replica gun in the air. The cop didn't shoot her, thankfully, but once things were sorted out he was really shaken up. So we're we.

Also, I once found a dead body in a truck stop.

[Russic]

My kid fell down the stairs once. Without too much detail, not really the type of stairs you want a kid falling down. Thankfully he suffered nothing more than a small bruise, but at the time it was damn scary.

[metallicat]

I had to jump out of the way of an SUV to avoid being hit by hit after it was involved in a collision. This happened last week, and I don't know how I avoided being creamed.

[Rathji]

My son falling in the kitchen as he was learning to walk and stopping breathing.

That's when we learned about breath holding spells or silent cries. Scary stuff the first time you experience it. Now it happens, and you just need to make sure he doesnt hit his head on the way down or have any food in his mouth.

[MacDaddy77]

Once while lobster fishing on "setting day" (that's the day the boats are full of traps and the boat captain can't see) I had 4 of 7 traps pushed into the water when the rope wrapped around my foot. I was pulled overboard and about 20 feet underwater while the guy helping got the rope caught in the hydraulic ripe hauler and I was able to cut the traps below with my knife. And get pulled to the surface

This all happened in a matter of 1 -2 minutes but they were the longest of my life. I always wore 2 knives for setting day but after that I wore 4

[Northendzone]

Accidentally walking in on the mother-in-law while she was in the bathroom. Fortunately I did not see much more than what a bathing suit would reveal.

Other worst things....my son was learning to skate and he was crawling on the ice, my skate blade was tilted up and unbeknownst to me, his fingers got under my blade, I then bent down to pick him up and I dropped my blade on his fingers which were in mittens. I slowly pulled the mitts off to find that all was where it should be.

Lastly my daughter was playing on a metal play structure, she was on the second level watching some other kids and backing up right towards a spot on this level that was open, I screamed at her to stop and she did not. Herad an ugly thud and ran around to find her lying there crying a bit.

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

I was about 16 years old and I was sleeping over at my buddy's house on a weekend with a few friends. He lived on an acreage on the outskirts of Cranbrook.

We eventually got pretty drunk and felt really brave. About 500 metres from his house was an abandoned house that nobody had been in for two decades. At about 3 am we went out there with flashlights to check it out.

We break the door open and it was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. It was like walking into an abandoned Fallout 3 house. Everything was still there but covered in mold, dust, and cobwebs. It was basically like stepping into a time machine because everything was late 70s decorated.

We found the door to the basement and we all went down there. In the basement was four elementary school-style desks surrounding a well. When you look down the well there was an iron cage that locked a few feet down so no one could fall in, but beyond that was pure black except for a baby's shoe at the very bottom of the well that you could barely see.

I thought we stumbled across the scene of a creepy baby/child murder scene. Probably the scariest, eeriest thing I've ever seen. My words don't do that abandoned house justice.

[PIMking]

I've had a gun pointed in my face once but the scariest thing was when the tornado came withing 1/8th mile of my house on April 27. It was a life changing ordeal thats for sure.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Longsuffering invited me out for a beer.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by Danijam

I was once in a film camp and we had permission from the Subway on 4th to shoot a movie at their store. It was a robbery scene and we shot it several times. Before anyone knew what was happening the place was crawling with cops, guns drawn and pointed at us. They said, 'Drop your weapon' and the young girl dressed in all black with a black balaclava accidentally lifted her replica gun in the air. The cop didn't shoot her, thankfully, but once things were sorted out he was really shaken up. So we're we.

Also, I once found a dead body in a truck stop.

A CCW would have made that shot

[Yasa]

Getting my first call. Pure terror.

[Hans Landa]

9 years ago I broke my neck in a freeride mountain biking wipeout.

From waking up from unconsciousness, to being strapped to a stretcher for 16 hours, to having a doctor pull me out of the CAT Scan to say "You broke your neck, son" and then off to the OR (all without anyone knowing... I was too scared to tell my family)... that was, by far, the scariest thing that happened to me.


Jumping out of a plane at 15,000' is a very close second, considering flying in general is terrifying to me.

[Puppet Guy]

Proposing to the woman who's now my wife. Oddly enough, it was also the easiest thing I've ever done.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by PIMking

I've had a gun pointed in my face once....

Thankfully you were unarmed or that situation could have really gotten out of hand.

[shermanator]

Originally Posted by jamoro

When I was in sea cadets I was a lucky guy to be chosen to sail on a tall ship the maple leaf (Picture below) Well, we all had to take turns setting the jib. Its the small sail on the front of the ship.
So, while the ship is cutting through the water, you had to shimmy out on the wooden pole sticking out on the front of the boat and untie the jib so we could set it. I am already afraid of heights and doing that while the boat is moving was scary as ######.
But it was a once of a life time experience and I still remember it fondly

edit: We sailed on it for a week, it was duing spring break and it was off victoria island. I also remember dolphins swimming at the front of the boat, they said that the dolphins surf on the pressure the boat makes on the water while its going forward.

NSFW!

I like the cut of your jib.

[Ben_in_Canada]

A lot of scary moments with my daughter, like the day she decided to go to town on herself with a red marker she found.

And this: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...14#post3828114