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1. John Carpenters The Thing. Don't watch if at 11:00, even if you're cats, dogs, and a fellow human are watching. That base music, just made me crap everytime it happened.
2. Signs. Tense as all hell.
3. My brother when I pissed him off.

Here's a good one, the most scared I've ever been in my life. I've always thought it was an exaggeration... "too scared to move" ...its no exaggeration.

Back when I was in the Navy, we were in the gulf during "Operation Desert Storm" I was a deck seaman and part of our duty was to stand watch on deck watching for surface and air contacts at sea.

Now, if you've never been at sea before...its a different kind of dark, sort of like when you're in the country and there is no light pollution, but worse. This night, no moon, overcast, and a gentle breeze so that the surface of the ocean was very calm. A quiet night....BLACK.

Anyways, the lookouts share a radio system (the old sound powered phones) with another enlisted on the bridge...other than that, noone, just a bunch of us 18-22 year olds on the network together...the night was creepy so we started to tell ghost stories and basically tryed to creep each other out. I didnt know they were all about to play a practical joke on me. I had at that point gotten worked up by ghost stories and creepy tales for the last 2-3 hours.

It was about 2 in the morning, still black as hell, when my rotation came up to move from the starboard bridge wing to the aft deck. You're pretty much alone back there at that time of night with no chance of anyone dropping by, you're isolated for your 1 hour or so rotation. Everyone knew where everyone sat...on a firebox right underneath some decorative bell, and I didnt disappoint. I sat down there right on schedule. Funny thing was, everyone stopped telling stories by the time I got back there, I checked to make sure I had a good connection, I did, its just that everyone got tired of talking that early in the morning apparently....so there I was. Alone on the firebox sitting, listening to the rush of the water, in the pitch darkness, with noone talking on the phone system and thinking about all the creepy tales that we told each other over the last couple of hours. Then, all of a sudden, the clapper on the frigging bell 4 feet away from me started banging HARD with noone on the deck but me. I was so scared that I was literally unable to move a muscle. If I could've moved I would've ran inside, but I couldnt even move.

...later, at breakfast, the guys tryed to laugh at me a bit about how badly they scared the crap out of me. I told them I had dozed off and slept thru "whatever they did", one of the guys called me a liar and said there was no way I could've slept thru that. At the time I didnt think the whole thing was very funny because it scared me so badly, AND I was embarrassed for the way I was tricked. Nowadays though, I think its all pretty darned funny.

Those jerks scared the bejesus out of me.

Well ... its sort of agitating when people makes fun of others for stuff they are individually scared of. ( everyone have their form of phobia , not scared of one thing doesnt make them tough imo.... )

Im scared of spiders ( people laugh at me )
Im NOT scared of ghost ( people dont believe me )

So far i have been forced to watch countless japanese ringu and that type of films / walk in part in pitch dark ( i think the homeless are more threat than ghost... ) walking in cemetary in middle of night ( sigh sorry to disrespect the dead )

Deadshane1 wrote:Back when I was in the Navy, we were in the gulf during "Operation Desert Storm" I was a deck seaman

durr hurr, seaman.

When I was twelve or so, I was laying on the floor and my sister was on the couch. We were watching "Carrie". It was the scene at the end when somebody is laying flowers at the site where their house burned to the ground. Just as that hand reach out of the ground to clutch at her, my cat walked by and just brushed my arm with his whiskers. I jumped up and screamed, the cat freaked out, jumped up and yowled as loud as it could and my sister screamed, because she was half asleep. All of that created sort of a self-perpetuating cycle of screaming and freaking out for about a minute until we figured out what was going on, then we thought it was pretty funny. The poor cat never trusted either one of us again, though.

Anytime I hear about a doctor's appointment and my mom. Its scares me to death. I get panic attacks about it.

Other things but not putting on the intranets.

One time, I was on the toilet during an earthquake, I realised later that that was in actuality a good place to be to avoid... embarrassment...

Ghosts, I guess. I had some... thing as a child after I stupidly read a book about Poltergeists, where for about six months I was so sleep deprived from sitting bold upright that I had hallucinations that just came when I got tired, even vaguely. It's very, very scary when you're six, and people with no faces lean over your bed at bedtime.

sA

After a 8 hour Left 4 dead session i crawled into bed behind my snoring other half and was just drifting off to sleep when my eyes caught movement on the ceiling. A lighter patch darted across the ceiling towards me and i screamed in total terror as loud as i could "theres a zombie on the ceiling!!" then i froze...well you can imagin the reaction from the sleeping bloke...and the wrath that came flying my way when he realised i had stayed up till 5am playing a computer game and had let the reflection of car headlamps through the window frighten me to the point of being totaly paralised. Now when i think about it its super funny...he still dosen't see the humour in it.

i totaly believed i was gonna die...so funny.

1. John Carpenters The Thing. Don't watch if at 11:00, even if you're cats, dogs, and a fellow human are watching. That base music, just made me crap everytime it happened.

Horror movies generally just anger me, but this movie will never not scare me.

After a 8 hour Left 4 dead session i crawled into bed behind my snoring other half and was just drifting off to sleep when my eyes caught movement on the ceiling.

During a 4 hour session of left 4 dead my dorm lost power, flickered a bunch of times, went dark, then had the fire alarm and flashing emergency lights flash on and off. We were all shuffled out into the darkness and herded into the pitch dark basement of the building next door. It was the coolest experience ever, it felt like an adventure. It was about 1 in the morning when this happened.



Not much scares me, I have to walk a pitch black forest path to get to my friends apartment 3 nights a week and sometimes deer will just sit still and then sprint away when i'm like a foot from them. It's pretty startling, but in general I'm difficult to frighten. I get angry instead.

*Hides from Shuma's angriness.*

I wish I wasn't scared.

Will you teach me, mister Schwuma?

On a side note, Deer at night are scarier if they are met head on at 70 MPH, in a car, while inebriated.

sA

I get scared by the small stuff. Stuff like a buddy hiding in my closet, turning off my lights, and jumping out and screaming 'BOO!' as i tripped over my cat.

Isn't that just plain shock?

I guess that's different to real fear, as in, FEAR of something, as opposed to just jumping.

sA

smiling Assassin wrote:Isn't that just plain shock?

I guess that's different to real fear, as in, FEAR of something, as opposed to just jumping.

sA

A big Cuban guy, screaming at you as you trip in the dark is scary, not shock.

I was coming back from South America on British West Indies Air, and about 2 hrs into the flight over the atlantic ocean we all hear "something" hitting the airplane. The plane was an MD80 I think. Then during this noise, the plane all of sudden dives about 1,000 ft in a few seconds. Talk about scared..

The pilot then comes on the intercom to tell us that the plane ran into some ice and he had to take evasive manuevers.

Needless to say I was thinking wierd thoughts of how I could actuially survive in the atlantic if the plane went down. When you go throug something like that your survival instincts kick in and you start thinking all kinds of iratitional thoughts like. "OK I'll jump up right as the plane hits the water and maybe I'll live"

GG

*Hides from Shuma's angriness.*

I wish I wasn't scared.

Will you teach me, mister Schwuma?

You probably don't want that. For the longest time I couldn't experience anger either, then it came back but started showing up disproportionately at the wrong times. I was a screwed up kid. I've gotten back to normalcy though, people undervalue things like being scared.

In the hospital at 9 years old. Coked up on some serious painkillers, started seeing gak. Remember Twilight Zone the MOvie? Remember John Lithgow in the last episode and his buddy on the wing? Yeah, saw him crawling DOWN the walls of the hospital outside. Screamed, was COMPLETELY unprepared b/c no one warned me about hallucinations as a side affect. Nurse comes in, goes to the window, didn't see gak, turns back to me. Of course he shatters the glass at this point and drags her out the building, me screaming like a 6 year old pissin-her-pants Nancy girl the whole time.

Worst part of the whole thing? Never "went to sleep". Never "woke up". This one influenced me for a long time, and yeah I jump at horror movies.

After the grudge, my buddy thought it would be funny to moan outside my door at about 1 or 2 in the morning. A little creepy to wake up to. I'm not talking scared senseless, but a little freaked out for sure.

When I was little there was a flood near where My church was and it washed up all the graves (in alabama you can bury people 2 feet instead of 6) My folks thought it would be a good idea to take a 6 year old to that church while they re dug holes and such. AnywhoI got sick and spend a month in the hospital suffering from scarlet fever. Well my grandpa used to tell stories about little demons would come to watch you die, and sure enough one night I looked up to see a little squat something sitting on the counter watching me. I was to scared to move or scream all that night. The next day I told the doctor and me mom and they said it was just the fever, but this went on for the week I was at my sickest. It never moved or blinked, but was always there soon as it got dark. Now my biggest fear is getting sick and wasting away.

When the doctor told me the syringe I had stepped on tested positive for HIV. Thank god I did not.

Heh.
Scariest moment I ever had?
To give you an idea, I can sleep like a log when I actually sleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac. This has happened to me since I was a little kid, and still does at 21. This leads to me being awake most of the night, and then sleeping for a few hours and being a hyperactive git the rest of the day. Onto the story...



I was at the USS Yorktown for a school trip, where we spent a week on it and the surrounding historical sites. This was around age 10. Now, the chaperones were great and everything, but it's not hard to wait till they go to sleep and then go sit out on the flight deck and just zone out, watching the stars. What was nice is you could see the other ships in the harbor, and even the other historical ships, like the USS Laffey(DD-724).
Why is that important to this story?

Well, imagine being ten years old. Now imagine sitting up on an aircraft carrier deck, and then looking down at a decommissioned destroyer. Pretty cool, right?
Now imagine looking down, and noticing a figure on the deck of the destroyer wearing a tried and true, US Naval uniform standing next to one of the spots where the flakguns were mounting, frantically pointing out to sea.

That was the scariest friggin' thing I ever saw, but only because of the fact that the next day I asked the site administrator about it and noone is allowed on anything but the Yorktown post-closing time.

Well, that and the time that I got to visit Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky. That was pretty messed up, but it could have been a setup.

On a side note, Deer at night are scarier if they are met head on at 70 MPH, in a car, while inebriated.

Also, for reference. No. Deer are scarier at night from 2 feet away at 1 in the morning when you didn't know they were there because of the absolute darkness and a giant "thing" just jumps next to you and makes a ton of noise as it crashes through the forest.

Try it sometime, have a 180 pound animal decide its its terrified of you when you get close enough to touch it and you didn't even know it was there. And do it while walking through a starlit forest trail. It happened to me again a few days ago. Startling.

When I read that title I knew it must've been one of your threads, scout

But right now I can't think of anything I could add to the topic.

not usually scared of much, allthough going back to iraq again is one of the worsed things.

Anung Un Rama wrote:When I read that title I knew it must've been one of your threads, scout

But right now I can't think of anything I could add to the topic.

Is that good or bad Anung?

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:When I read that title I knew it must've been one of your threads, scout

But right now I can't think of anything I could add to the topic.

Is that good or bad Anung?

Well, at least you figured out how to post pics in the gallery, so I know this is not the only kind of threads you start anymore

I just about shat myself that time I got arrested. That sucked most hard.

But other than that, I don't really feel fear. Either through bravery or idiocy, it's just something I'm not familiar with.

Anung Un Rama wrote:

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:When I read that title I knew it must've been one of your threads, scout

But right now I can't think of anything I could add to the topic.

Is that good or bad Anung?

Well, at least you figured out how to post pics in the gallery, so I know this is not the only kind of threads you start anymore

I desperatly wish to know how to post pics in the threads, i can only get links, and it's annoying! I suck at using computers, and this is just one example of my
EPIC FAIL
with technology!

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:

Deadshane1 wrote:Back when I was in the Navy, we were in the gulf during "Operation Desert Storm" I was a deck seaman

durr hurr, seaman.

Poop deck.

Last time I was scared like that was involved me being behind the wheel of a heinously tricked out Eclipse.

I was involved in a race (non-legal) along the interstate and ended up going sideways through the median at 135 MPH because of a douchebag. I got control of the car less than 50 feet before an drop off into a creek which would have easily killed me.

I don't get scared behind the wheel anymore because nothing could be worse than that.