What horror experiences have you ever had?

[Eldoria]

Horror Experiences​

Horror experiences are subjective. I'm not trying to analyze them objectively.

I just want to share and hear your horror experiences. You're free to share them here, whether others claim them or just you.

Spoiler: My horror experience...

Well, throughout my life, I admit I've rarely had horror experiences, especially those related to the supernatural.

It's right, when I was a child, I was afraid to go to the bathroom alone and asked my mother to help me. But that was definitely not a horror experience, more like a common embarrassing experience for children.

If you asked me if I've ever had a horror experience, I'd probably answer: Yes, I have, but only once, and it was by chance.

At that time, I was taking pictures of my front yard at night. One shot. Two shots. Three shots. Nothing happened.

Then when I lowered the camera... suddenly I saw a black shadow that flashed very quickly before my eyes.

I froze, not blinking. But the shadow just disappeared. Instantly, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.

I don't know if the shadow was real or not. Maybe it was just a hallucination, maybe not.

The incident happened suddenly without me realizing it. And yeah, that's probably the only horror experience I've ever had firsthand.

What about you? What horror experiences have you ever had?

 

[Macha]

Seeing your messages becoming more casual.

 

[Eldoria]

Seeing your messages becoming more casual.

Well, I just adapt to the situation.

 

[ShrimpShady]

I've honestly lived a relatively horror-less life, though one kinda spooky experience happened when I was doing a semester in the UK.

I was on my way to a grocery store in a nearby part of town I was unfamiliar with, and Google Maps routed me through a forest-y area that just became more and more devoid of people the further I went. Still, it was in the middle of the day and I ain't no bitch, so I trudged further into the forest until I reached a clearing. Still no signs of human life, but there was a remnant of one: an empty wheelchair, turned away from me, in the shade of a tree with a smiley face painted on its trunk.

I just took a pic, continued on my way, and went back home another way once it got dark.

The next morning, I saw news of a guy who murdered his flatmate just a couple of blocks away from where I stayed.

Very likely had nothing to do with what I saw in the woods, but it certainly helped the memory stick out as more spoopy in my mind.

 

[L1aei]

Decades ago, my mother was in a really nasty car accident. She had struck a vehicle so hard, a T-bone collision, that the other vehicle had flipped onto its side.

She was nine months pregnant with my little brother. The collision had been so powerful that her foot on the brake caused her to snap her femur.

So when she woke up in the hospital, she had asked where her son was. The response she received was "He's in the nursery."

This confused her like no tomorrow. Then she realized they had performed a cesarean section. Okay, they were talking about my little brother and apparently he was fine.

But she was asking about me. Why?

I was in the passenger seat without my seatbelt on.

And I didn't lose consciousness like she had.

Now, let me give you a little backstory here: I used to be deathly afraid of needles. Shots were a no-go for compliance for me before this incident. I used to require nurses holding me down just to either get an injection or blood drawn. The reason for it was because I had been a kid during the worst possible time for any needles to be used; the 80s. HIV was a hot topic and I heard far too many horror stories of "sharing needles."

Well, the scene in my mother's totaled car wasn't much to talk about. I only saw red. I can't explain that one because my vision didn't change or anything and I doubt that the entire interior was redecorated. Let's chalk that one up to me braining myself headfirst over the dash and against the windshield, preventing me from being fully committed to experimenting with the Law of Inertia.

What makes needles relevant is past the point when the ambulance came, took us out, and I arrived in the hospital. They stuck a needle into my forehand and I didn't even flinch. I watched them slide that thing into my hand and I simply laid back and took it without batting an eye. I remember my neighbor in the cot saying something, but what he said, I couldn't tell you.

Here's why this is a horror story. My mother was talked to, my dad was talked to, everybody in our friends group and family had been informed of everything. But me? I was laying in a cot, thinking about my mother and about my unborn little brother, not knowing he had been born. I didn't know yet the extent of injuries or was even thinking about that. My mother was knocked out in the car, I watched her unmoving, not doing a thing after this wreck. And I know I was in pain, so I believed she had to be too, but nothing from her.

I also remember that I had wished for a baby brother. Someone that could grow up with me because I had been an only child then. I wanted a friend to always be around. Nobody said anything to me.

The one thought that kept going through my mind was this: she was taking me to school because I missed the bus.

This was my fault.

 

[MFontana]

Horror Experiences​

Horror experiences are subjective. I'm not trying to analyze them objectively.

I just want to share and hear your horror experiences. You're free to share them here, whether others claim them or just you.

Spoiler: My horror experience...

Well, throughout my life, I admit I've rarely had horror experiences, especially those related to the supernatural.

It's right, when I was a child, I was afraid to go to the bathroom alone and asked my mother to help me. But that was definitely not a horror experience, more like a common embarrassing experience for children.

If you asked me if I've ever had a horror experience, I'd probably answer: Yes, I have, but only once, and it was by chance.

At that time, I was taking pictures of my front yard at night. One shot. Two shots. Three shots. Nothing happened.

Then when I lowered the camera... suddenly I saw a black shadow that flashed very quickly before my eyes.

I froze, not blinking. But the shadow just disappeared. Instantly, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.

I don't know if the shadow was real or not. Maybe it was just a hallucination, maybe not.

The incident happened suddenly without me realizing it. And yeah, that's probably the only horror experience I've ever had firsthand.

What about you? What horror experiences have you ever had?

So, do you mean like "Paranormal" stuff, or just "something scary" that I've experienced?"
Just asking to help narrow down what I should bring up and the tone of the kind of experiences you're curious about.

Incident 1: Paranormal - Happened when I was young, in the basement of my old house, and wasn't just something that happened to me.

Incident 2: Likely mundane (but can't be certain) - Happened to me when I was alone walking home from the nearby shopping center late one night.

Others are from when I was working security, and some far more recently as well, where I'm living now (which is a hotbed of paranormal activity).

 

[Worthy39]

Yeah I've never had a horror moment in my life (score one for 18 years of overprotective parents). And I don't really go out much unless I have to, so still haven't had any real moments like that.

The closest I got to a real life experience (had way scarier dreams) was when I was about seven or eight, I was swimming in the lake, my grandparents had a boat, so we all took it out to the middle of the lake, and I was swimming by myself with a life vest on. Everyone else was eating, and I noticed something skim the surface of the water.

Whatever it was, it was thin and looked like it was coming towards me, so I said I saw something, and my mom told me it was just the anchor. But it wasn't, because the anchor was on the left side of the boat, and that thing was on the right. So, I started swimming closer to the boat because I wanted out.

Well, in the end, my mom looked over the side of the boat, and it turned out I was swimming almost right next to a nest of water moccasins. So, she scooped me out as soon as I was close enough, and thankfully, I didn't get bit.

 

[Eldoria]

So, do you mean like "Paranormal" stuff, or just "something scary" that I've experienced?"
Just asking to help narrow down what I should bring up and the tone of the kind of experiences you're curious about.

Incident 1: Paranormal - Happened when I was young, in the basement of my old house, and wasn't just something that happened to me.

Incident 2: Likely mundane (but can't be certain) - Happened to me when I was alone walking home from the nearby shopping center late one night.

Others are from when I was working security, and some far more recently as well, where I'm living now (which is a hotbed of paranormal activity).

Well, I don't limit horror experiences to anything. Supernatural phenomena, near-death experiences, sudden danger—horror (feeling scared) can come from anywhere.

 

[MFontana]

Alright then.
I'll start with the second one then.
Dates and Times are approximate, because I can't recall the exacts. It's been a long time since then.

This happened in the spring, or summer, of 1994-1997. I was walking home from an outdoor shopping center one night; somewhere around 8:00 - 9:00 pm, and decided to take the shortcut across the school field that separated the shopping center from the backroads where I lived.

I can't remember exactly why I had gone out in the first place; best guess was either to get a slice of pizza from the pizzaria or rent a movie or two from the Hollywood Video across the way on the far side (from where I lived) of the shopping center.

When I had made it roughly thirty feet or so into the field, I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing on-end, and what I could only describe as the feeling of "being watched". So I stopped cold in my tracks, turned around and didn't see anything at all. No shapes, no people, no animals. Only the sparse trees I had just walked past. It was roughly around that time that I heard what sounded like the rustling of a large animal in some bushes coming from my right, just against the fence of the field.

There were houses beyond the fence and their backyards were against the fence of the field, but in the moment I panicked, turned on my heel, and sprinted the rest of the way home, just eager to put as much distance between myself and the sound as I could. The following day, mid-afternoon, I went back to investigate, and try to figure out what I had heard, or what could have been making the noise but found nothing to let me explain what happened with any degree of certainty. There was only about four inches of space between the field's metal grate fence, and the wooden fence of the house's backyard.

No signs of animals in the area. No barking or rustling again (to indicate a dog in the backyard, and there was no barking that night either, for the record). From then on, I had refused to cross that field after dark, even if it meant walking a much longer route home, and still have no idea what could have caused that. For my own peace or mind, I wrote it off as 'Caused by an animal' and a 'mundane' experience.

This is the most accurate recounting of what happened that I can manage from memory.
EDIT: Fixed the formatting now that I'm home.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

Half of my life has been different forms of horror.

My father.
Bees. I once was playing on monkey bars as a kid and a bee got stuck in my hair. I screamed bloody murder for all to hear.
Fell down a tree when little, split my leg open.
Unimaginable amounts of bullying.
Nightmares of crocodiles, tornados, tsunamis, zombies.
Hallucinations of Michael Myers or Sadako in my closet/shower as a kid.
Hallucinating a dead pet hamster was scurrying all over my legs at night.

Becoming an adult and aging.
Passing of my grandmother and sister.
Doing taxes.
Working in retail, being surprise harassed by random guys at night.
Spiders that disappear soon as you look away to grab something to kill them.
Living in the USA.

 

[Naravelt]

Well, I’ve never really had a horror moment in my life. I even slept in a hospital morgue for weeks. The rumors about that place weren’t true, and I wasn’t scared at all.

But my mother would occasionally see strange things. One moment I remember clearly from when I was a child. Her ear was suddenly struck by something invisible. I heard the sound of heavy wind blowing, but I couldn’t see anything that hit her. She claimed someone had blown into her ear.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

How about the last decade...?

 

[Eldoria]

How about the last decade...?

You are free to share any horror experience, anytime.

 

[Sylver]

One night I woke up past 3 am and found someone trying to break into my apartment they ripped off several window screens but luckily I keep the windows locked at night. Then they tried breaking through the back door. Idk if they had a weapon or not cuz their was banging going on.

I phoned the police and hid in the closet in my underwear with the kitchen knife in hand. I think the scariest part wasn't the loud bangs, it was when they stopped and things got silent for a while.

The police eventually got there and apprehended the guy, some dude high off drugs and homeless, and I called for the day off after. Luckily the windows weren't damaged but I had to fix the back door and later purchased some lights that turn on with movement and a ring camera. All's well that ends well

 

[Eldoria]

One night I woke up past 3 am and found someone trying to break into my apartment they ripped off several window screens but luckily I keep the windows locked at night. Then they tried breaking through the back door. Idk if they had a weapon or not cuz their was banging going on.

I phoned the police and hid in the closet in my underwear with the kitchen knife in hand. I think the scariest part wasn't the loud bangs, it was when they stopped and things got silent for a while.

The police eventually got there and apprehended the guy, some dude high off drugs and homeless, and I called for the day off after. Luckily the windows weren't damaged but I had to fix the back door and later purchased some lights that turn on with movement and a ring camera. All's well that ends well

I'm glad you're safe. Well, a real criminal is scarier than any ghost. Ghosts only make our hair stand on end, while criminals can kill without mercy.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

You are free to share any horror experience, anytime.

Nope, that's pretty much it. The last decade has truly been one big horror experience.

 

[Eldoria]

Nope, that's pretty much it. The last decade has truly been one big horror experience.

Well, I misunderstood... I get your point.

 

[Envylope]

There is one for me.

I would get sleep paralysis really bad a few years ago. I had some really bad experiences in my childhood, and there was this one time I got sleep paralysis a couple of years ago where one of those experiences manifested in some way. I didn't see anybody in the room, but with my eyes open, I could feel someone touching my body and speaking to me. This person whispered horrible things they would do to me in my ear and every touch of their hand was agonizing and went on for at least 30 minutes.

There are many more that I have, but I am not sure if I want to get super personal. After all, some of them involve attempts at my life.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Bees. Bees playing Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" as they raid my breakfast table.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Giving birth, though I've heard it's much worse for some people.