10 Truly Disturbing Childhood Memories from Reddit Users

when I was about seven or eight years old there was this Creek in the middle of a forest behind my house that I used to play at all the time one side of the creek was bordered by a dirt wall about five feet high and I used to jump over the creek from one side to the other and it was fun to pretend I knew parkour then one day I went out to the creek and lying in the middle of it was a brand new football now I want to mention an important detail the creeks depth made it so that the top half of the football stuck out of the water the top half was completely dry so it wasn't like the ball was just rolled into the creek it was placed there written on the top of the football and black permanent marker were the words Johnny jumps and underneath that phrase was a phone number now this is weird because my name is Johnny I picked up the football and went home obviously very confused then kind of scared whoever put that ball there had been watching me they placed it directly where I would jump over the creek when I played by myself I grabbed the cordless phone and I called the number it was the number to Homeland Security yeah [ __ ] Homeland Security the [ __ ] number you call when you think a terrorist attack is about to go down it was basically super 9-1-1 there especially seeing as this was only a few years after 9/11 I quickly tried to explain my situation to the lady on the phone and she told me it was okay and to not call the number again I instantly ran and told my mum what had just happened and she was just as confused as I was my parents are divorced but when my dad came over later that evening to drop something off I told him what happened as well he asked me to give him the football and he said he was going to look into it I gave it to him and he left a few minutes later I kept asking him if he ever figured anything out and he would give me vague answers or try and dodge the question altogether this turned into a few weeks of me asking which then turned into a few months then he started acting like he didn't know what I was talking about that was about 10 years ago and if I ask him about it now he says that he has zero memory of this ever happening he doesn't remember the football at all my mum does but only vaguely to this day I have absolutely zero idea who was watching me why they put the football in the creek why they wrote Johnnie jumps on it and I especially have no [ __ ] idea why they put the number two homeland security on the ball I never really thought too much about this incident until I was older when I realized how [ __ ] creepy this whole thing was I continued to live by that creek for a few more years and continued to play and jump over the creek until I moved away there were no teenagers in my neighborhood I was the oldest kid all of my neighbors were very friendly and I knew them all personally none of them were ever creepy to me and nothing else strange ever happened in the 12 years I lived there when I was 5 years old and my sister was 4 I woke up on a stretcher in the hospital all I remember at first are incredibly bright lights and sterile white walls I think I may have been strapped down but I don't remember a pretty nurse with curly blond hair and bright red lipstick kept worrying over me I have no idea why I didn't put up a fight because I do remember there being a tube down my throat to this day I can't stand the thought of gagging or throwing up for some reason I couldn't understand why she was so worried I just wanted her to laugh so every time she would give me the next shot in my arm I would try to gasp look at her and then roll my eyes and pretend to pass out I'd open my eyes and let out a muffled laugh and she would smile my dad would randomly burst into the room he looked terrified I didn't understand why he kept leaving until way later when I was told they had my sister and I in opposite rooms apparently my heart stopped 9 times it wasn't long until my sister and I found out our mother had tried to overdose us on her pills it was another two decades before I realized she didn't have a psychotic break like I thought she was just mad at my dad for drinking and wanted to get back at him when I was a kid I saw a bunch of people get gunned down at a bus station in San Pedro Sula Honduras a few moments after a shirtless guy with a revolver jumped on our bus walked up about midway and then decided to take off from the side door just a few seconds later police came onto the bus with ak-47s looked around got off saw the guy run to another bus and started blasting holes through the buses windows with no care at all for the innocent people on board passengers were killed the shirtless guy was shot a couple of times and hobbled off the front of the bus where he was swiftly gunned down [ __ ] Honduras man when I was six I went on a week-long family reunion at a lodge somewhere I only have a few vague memories of this mostly involving candy like many of my early memories years later I had a couple of vivid nightmares about this Lodge and also about a man 60-ish and overweight with bright blue eyes and white hair that had vacated the top of his head the more disturbing details of these nightmares aren't important dreams after all are very unreliable sources but I do have one real memory of this vacation that is very clear I was lying in bed one night long after my siblings had gone to sleep I never had trouble sleeping as a child but this night I was wide awake when I heard something at my window I ran to my parents room crying hysterically and pounded on the door so hard that my fists hurt the memory ends there but years later when I started having the nightmares I asked my parents about it that was when I found out that when they checked out my room that night they found the screen cut open from the outside and a small ladder leaning against the window my parents had a sleep in their room and we left early the next day what would have happened if I was able to sleep that night I think I'd rather not know when I was about 6 or 7 I used to take swimming lessons in a local pool after finishing school twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays on Fridays mum would take me into McDonald's to get a milkshake as a treat afterwards I'd sit and drink the shake and then we'd head home no problems this day was different I'd finished my shake and wanted to use the toilet before we left so when I went into the ladies on my own as I usually did I noticed one cubicle was locked and thought nothing of it I went into the second did my thing flushed and noticed that the person in the other cubicle was unlocking their door too I hadn't heard them flush as I exited I could see that it was a man old disgusting and tall why was he there how I innocently said this is for the ladies only mr. he replied why do you think I'm in here little girl it's music to my ears where's your mummy he took a few strands of my hair and twirled them between his grim fingers and reached a hand to grab me by the shoulder I shook out of his grip and ran as fast as I could to my mum I told her what happened she told an attendant but by the time they checked he had managed to slip out unnoticed and into the busy street I hope he never managed to get his hands on any little girls when I was younger maybe around 11 years old my family and I were on vacation in South America near the border of Ecuador and Colombia we were on a bus but we weren't moving at all because some drug lords were making an example out of some guy not too far in front of us three guys held him in place while another pulled out a knife and stabbed the man in the throat they wouldn't let any traffic pass until they were finished we were close enough to the border for some policia to see exactly what was going on they didn't do [ __ ] the look in his eyes as he realized he was slowly dying has haunted me ever since when I was younger I used to live by the woods and could see a cemetery from my back porch one Easter I remember waking up and seeing the Easter Bunny in my room it looked like one of those terrifying costumes you know the ones those Easter Halloween hybrids and what really gets me is that I distinctly remember smelling wet hay when I woke up I didn't tell anyone but there was an extra Easter egg in my house that my parents didn't hide years later when I was in high school this memory came back to me and I asked my parents if they ever dressed up like the Easter Bunny and came into our room they said no never they would never go through that much trouble my sister who I had shared a bunk bed with when this happened said that she remembers when the Easter Bunny came into our room and also made a remark about the hay smell I never told her that detail and there's absolutely no way she could have known about that smell without actually having experienced it as well I was terrified that we both remembered seeing a person dressed as an Easter Bunny in our room to make it even weirder I told the friends i sat with at lunch what happened one of the girls was my neighbor from across the street she told me one Easter a long time ago she looked out her window during the night and saw the Easter Bunny standing in her driveway I had chills even to this day I'm terrified of people in rabbit costumes my scariest childhood memory is being stalked through the woods by a cougar my aunt owns a nice big property out in the backwards and cougar sightings aren't all that uncommon her friends will frequently call her and report sighting so that she can bring her dogs in anyway I was about 6 or 7 and I was exploring some old overgrown trails near her house with my mum cousin and aunts we go pretty deep into the woods and it starts getting dark so we start heading back then we noticed everything was eerily silent and our parents were acting weirdly scanning the woods looking in all directions then we hear a low growl too close for comfort thinking back it was unmistakably a cougars growl then the house comes into view about 200 or 250 meters away one of our aunt's says guys we'll race you back go and she my cousin and I bolt for the house and we notice my mum and other aunt are still staring something down in the woods backing away slowly we eventually all get to the house they locked the door and told us we weren't actually playing a game but fleeing an angry cougar my father died when I was 3 years old I vividly remember walking to the bed where he lay after he died seeing his purple face with a dribble of the chicken soup my mother was trying to get him to eat still running down the left side of his face I remember not crying just being very confused then I walked out of the room and went to my bedroom and watch Power Rangers to this day my mother who never lies to me adamantly maintains that she had a neighbor take me to their house as soon as my father began to pass away and that I never saw him like that she says that by the time I got back to the house the room had been shut unlocked for quite a while the rest of my siblings attest to this but my memory persists nobody ever told me what he looked like when he died let alone that he was aspirating chicken soup when it happened I have no idea where this memory comes from I have a story that was a mystery until a few years ago when I was five I had a big bay window that faced into our backyard one night I was sitting in my bed with the curtains open reading when I suddenly heard a loud thump on the window I look up and there's a bucking zombie pressed up against my window staring at me with filmy eyes I immediately lock up not knowing what to do I was the kid who never had nightmares wasn't afraid of the dark basically I knew that monsters weren't real but there one was slowly sliding down the window screaming I ran out of the room practically gibbering in fear to my grandparents once they finally calmed me down and got me to talk they took me outside and showed me that nothing was there that might have been the end of it but when I woke up in the morning there was a greasy smear on the window and what looked like a little piece of flesh however when I pointed this out to my grandparents they said maybe a bird hit it and that was the end of it for years and years after this I was terrified of the dark had to have Night Lights everywhere and even wet my bed a couple of times because the hallway was too dark to get to the restroom I also started having really bad nightmares because of it so this was an unexplained mystery to me for almost 20 years when a couple of Thanksgivings ago my family was talking about weird things that had happened to us I told them my story and my uncle starts absolutely howling with laughter once he could breathe again he told me what really happened at the time it happened my uncle was living in the house next door to us he had a friend who worked in special effects for movies and had asked my uncle - let her refine the makeup look she was working on for a floating corpse it turns out he was coming home from that still had the makeup on because he wanted his wife to see it and noticed me in bed when he cut through our yard as a shortcut thinking it to be hilarious he slammed against the window to scare me then went home and promptly forgot about it the years leaving me traumatized and mentally scarred thanks uncle hey lazy legion wow I haven't called you that in a while I hope you enjoyed this video and if you have any scare your weird childhood memories of your own let me know about them down in the comment section below nuke the fudge out of that like button to avoid being kidnapped by a group of goblins and I'll have another video for you all very very soon stay spooky and remember the best things happen in the dark

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Length: 18min 4sec (1084 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 25 2016