Horrifying things that happened while travelling abroad (r/AskReddit - Reddit Scary Stories)

Travelers of Reddit what are some of the creepiest scariest experiences you've had abroad I was traveling in Nicaragua several years ago when I got lost and ended up having to take a taxi at 9:30 p.m. back to my hostel when the taxi pulled up to the curb the taxi driver locked the taxi doors and told me that I had misunderstood the fare he claimed I owed him 100 US dollars which was several times more than we had agreed upon I tried to pry the doors open from the inside but was completely trapped thankfully he let me out of the taxi after taking all the money I had on me the hostel workers told me I was incredibly lucky a few days earlier a taxi driver had kidnapped another young female assaulted her then dumped her barely conscious body in a field outside town thinking that she was dead a few local schoolchildren found her on their way to school in the morning LPT when travelling to Nicaragua only take taxis that have a red stripe on the top and bottom of their license plates they are the only legal ones and all others are fake on a train in Athens travelling alone a group of men tried to push me off the train with them at a stop three women started yelling at them and pulled me back it happened too fast I didn't know until the one that spoke English explained they were trying to take me they made sure I made it back to the hostel and told me not to wear what I was wearing shorts and a tank while alone in India our bus rounded a corner in the mountains and another bus was on the other side of the curve both buses skid to a stop about one foot from one another both drivers started laughing and poking fun at each other we saw a bus from the 80s that fell down the mountain about 15 minutes later hella intense in a three-hour taxi ride on the way to the airport in a rural part of southern India we were approaching a busy scene with loads of people standing around something then we saw a guy who'd been hit off his moped the bottom half of his body was completely mangled blood was running through the streets and we all thought he was dead but all of a sudden he lifted his head off the ground and started yelling I was on the verge of vomiting but our driver was just shaking his head like it was an annoyance as small as seeing a piece of litter on the road and drove right on by without even an ounce of concern it was my first time visiting New York City my aunt and uncle who both work in Phi D Financial District took the whole week off to show me and my family around Manhattan it was a beautiful Tuesday morning and we just had our photos taken around Wall Street when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center a handful of men in Thailand were vehemently trying to haggle with my friends to purchase me they kept pulling my arms to try and separate us and asking how much and offering different amount of money sister and a bunch of friends were travelling South America but didn't know Spanish too well enough to get around but that's about it a few of them were at a cafe and made friends with another group that did speak Spanish or maybe were locals I don't remember and when my sister's group was about to leave the other group told them to wait a while cause they overheard a few dudes talking about how they were gonna wait outside to grab my sisters group when they left bless nice strangers we went on a family trip to Croatia and on our way to the beach we pulled over to the side of a road for a pee break so we opened the car door and like always our dog jumps out first he ran into the field right next to the street then suddenly my mother starts screaming the name of our dog because ten meters away from our car was sign that said stay away old minefield thankfully nothing happened a cult behind several murders in China tried to recruit me for some reason my dad was traveling on business from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that day and was on the flight before mh370 his bag missed his flight and was put on mh370 for him to retrieve in Beijing needless to say it never arrived every now and then he still looks for some piece of clothing only to remember it's at the bottom of the ocean or whatever I was traveling by van through the mountains in the Philippines with a friend that is a really big guy we came up on a checkpoint with soldiers searching cars the guys were all wearing mismatched clothes and did not have any insignias on their uniforms or trucks they searched all of our bags and were asking questions of the driver in Tagalog which we did not speak we heard them say American and we were the only two Americans on the bus they talked for a little while and finally waved us through later we told the story to another American and he said we had gone through a guerrilla controlled area where Americans had been kidnapped for ransom lately they all agreed they did not take us because of the size of my friend I think we got really lucky that day was on a flight once going into Orlando that hit some unexpected turbulence this was no ordinary turbulence we went from zero to 100 in an instant people literally flew out of their seats luggage fell from the overhead bins people screamed like they were going to die there were several sudden drops in elevation strong enough that people's arms flew up in the air and my butt came out of a seat I've flown quite a bit and sometimes it gets bumpy this was the first time I seriously thought something bad was going to happen the first day in the Philippines when I landed in Manila a white Canadian tourist was beheaded by people who aligned with is so there was that when I was a kid my dad used to lead groups of college kids to Central and South America to build houses one year he decided that we should ride the chicken butt from Guatemala City to Mexico City long trip we got to the border and a soldier with a hell of a big machine gun got on the bus and looked around saw that we had about 15 college girls on the bus and then when and talked to someone on the phone about two minutes later a bunch of guys with machine guns got on the bus and informed us that all the males had to get off the bus and line up in front of it I remember that we did it but there was a hell of a lot of tension in the air as we did soldiers crammed into the bus we waited finally they got off the bus and we got back on and away we went it was a whole lot of nothing really but I remember my dad the leader of the group looking very pale and sweating bullets almost definitely interviewing the females to make sure they weren't being trafficked volunteered for AI and Mexico for like a year and this is not uncommon at all I have mostly traveled through Europe and the only time I've ever really felt uncomfortable was when I was groped on the metro in Rome we were packed into the car and I felt a hand against my back no big deal I live in New York City it happens but then the hand slipped between me and the next person and around 2:00 near my stomach oh maybe a pickpocket well I had a money belt so I was okay there the hand grabbed my breast we were so tightly packed that I couldn't turn around and I just froze I wanted to say stop or don't or anything at all but in the moment every word of my Italian fled from my brain and I felt like a bucket of scalding water had been dumped over my head the ride felt like it lasted forever at the next stop I forced my way out of the car and out into the fresh air Rome is so beautiful but it felt pretty darn ugly that day the first time I ever visited the London Bridge was the day the terrorist attack happened where they drove a van through the crowd after being sexually harassed for a good half hour by a guy at Roma termini I boarded my overnight train just to wake up to the sight of a lovely red-eyed man in my door with the words I'm from Morocco do you want me eloquent Lee leaving his lips as he proceeded to point to all the beds in the coop and sitting next to me in the bed I've big male backpacked many places around the world with almost no issues nearly every solo female traveler I've talked to have had at least one story about nearly getting raped one our PCV returned Peace Corps volunteer I've dated told me about how she actually was raped by several locals she had befriended they were normal and friendly but took advantage of her months later when she was recovering from a car accident and unable to move / defend herself I would never recommend any of my female friends travel solo except for one who is a competitive power lifter and extremely jacked I was stopped by a guy while walking through the tier garden in Berlin I was walking a path enjoying the park alone I saw this guy standing on the edge of the walkway just looking off into the distance I passed him and when I was about 20 feet away he turned and followed after me keeping pace I started to take a very meandering path even leaving the park and entering again the guy stuck with me the whole way eventually I got to a place with some sharp turns and heavy greenery I was able to lose the line of sight and put myself up against a corner I just been in Switzerland and had bought a pocket knife so I opened the blade and held it inside my jacket pocket I stood there waiting and then this guy comes walking out of the path confused and obviously trying to see where I went when he finally spotted me he jolted and since I had the drop on him he played it cool and continued walking as if he hadn't followed me there he stopped a little ways ahead and I kept watching him I wanted to confront him to find out why he'd followed me but since I was a visitor in the country I thought better of it instead I waited until I saw a big group of people leaving and felling with them he started to follow me but I finally lost him outside the garden it unsettled me because to this day I have no idea why he was following me I'm a guy and at the time I was in my early 20s pretty fit and had a sour disposition so I didn't seem like a prime mugging target but maybe he thought otherwise oh boy tear garden is known gay cruising area he was into you not into your wallet he wanted to share his bratwurst with you I witnessed a creepy old man groping a teenager on a crowded train in Osaka the girl was just enduring it and you can tell that she was holding back her tears I whipped my phone out and started filming the guy which made him use his other hand which was blocked from my view so I asked my guy friend to switch places with the girl after that on the next stop the creepy guy got off I asked the girl if she was okay she thanked us and her friends also expressed their gratitude I think all of them all teenage girls were aware of the groping but I read somewhere that it is not the Japanese culture to make a scene I was aware that this kind of thing was prevalent in Japan but I'm still shocked to see it in person that creepy man and the poor girl's face will be forever etched in my mind I was walking around in a town in Algeria I wandered into a neighborhood and noticed there were hardly any people out a little further and there were literally no people out I started to feel a little uneasy and then I see an extremely tall man walking towards me straight towards me obviously with intent he gets closer and I see an older gentleman with a long gray beard and wearing a grey tunic I stop he comes right up to me and says in pretty good English you're not safe here we need to get you off the street I say okay and he says follow me we walk a few blocks and we come to a door he says wait here a minute and he goes inside he opens the door again and invites me in when I get inside there are maybe a dozen men they are all dressed in black and they are staring absolute daggers at me gray beard lays into them start shaking his fists at them gets really worked up then one of the younger guys goes into the kitchen and brings out some tea and cookies and offers them to me so I'm drinking tea and trying to smile and one of the young guys asks where I'm from and I say the states and he starts talking about the CIA and stuff and then I say you think the CIA is bad here let me tell you about Central America and then pretty soon everybody is warming up to me and we're laughing and talking crap about American foreign policy and drinking tea after a bit of that the older man invites me back to his apartment he has a huge library I gift him a book that I had finished and then he tells me what had just happened his little brother who was one of the younger men was the leader of a radical group all the other men I had met he had overheard them getting ready to kidnap me but he had shamed them for not being good hosts and for disrespecting him because it was his house he said that I would be safe from then on I have to first I was flying with my family I was young from Fort Myers Florida to Detroit Michigan on Christmas Eve or maybe Christmas morning and someone tried to set off a bomb in Detroit's airport fortunately they caught the guy before the bomb happened but that was pretty scary to get around second my friends and I were in the UK and we had met a group of guys from California I'm from Michigan we had fun and moved on we were in the same floor of a hotel later we were in Sweden and we saw the same guys we were waiting at the base of a mountain to climb up booked the same guy by chance then we were in Greece now my friends and I were all young women and these guys random Greek guys start grabbing at us and pulling at us it's the middle of a sunny day and we are almost being chased by these old men no one is doing a thing a car pulls up next to us and the guys try to shove us in we start booking at the other direction and as we get to the corner the California guys are there again by chance which was enough to deter the Greek guys and we basically cried to them for about two hours before they walked us back to our hotel the callee guys and ascended up going to a beach together the next day I never saw them again saw some refugees from North Africa beat up and stomp a guy to death at Rome central railway station in the wee small hours while I was waiting for it to open to catch my 5:30 train to see my grandmother I mean jumping on his skull until it popped like a watermelon this was in the late 80s I was walking to a pharmacy down a busy Avenue in Rabat Morocco it was the Feast of the king so most people had off work in school meaning the Avenue was empty myself and two volunteers all three young white females are walking and chatting when two guys on a motorbike passes the opposite way they drove over the median and pulled up beside us the guy on the back gets off and walks toward us then pulls a machete out from underneath his flannel girl one throws her purse girl two throws her phone and both go running guy comes after me and I wrapped my hand around my purse had my passport wallet phone etc and he holds the machete up to my neck I say a few choice words to him in Arabic essentially shame on you by Allah which is something I was taught by locals to keep the kids I was working with at an orphanage in line machete man promptly appears to crap his pants he goes after the dropped phone and purse and I start running the rest of the way to the pharmacy I wind up there crying and the other two girls meet me people are starting to congregate some witnessed it while driving by while others are trying to translate for us a woman says she will drive us home after speaking with the security guard at the pharmacy we agree and get into a minivan I provide directions in Arabic and the woman drives right past the house blowin stop signs and ignoring traffic lights it's then we realize we're about to get kidnapped one of the two girls reached forward open the door of the van and we jumped out while it was moving I was traveling in Costa Rica with too flashy businessmen who were there to possibly purchase a gentleman's club we were staying at the Radisson and asked the concierge to get us a cab to the club we got in the cab and made sure that the driver knew where we were going we were told it was a ten minutes drive about seven minutes and I realized that we were not in a touristy part of town at all the driver is whispering into his phone in Spanish staring at us in the rear view mirror I get uneasy and look at my companions who are clearly feeling the same way we asked are we almost there Oh si uno momento more whispering not good we are being set up it's been 10 minutes and we are in a sketchy residential area I'm sitting in the middle and my partner opens his briefcase and hands me a pen and tells me to stab someone if I need to what he passes another pen to the other man he's sitting directly behind the driver and takes his own gold pen and holds it to the drivers jugular and screams take us back to the Radisson right f'ing now the partner snaps the drivers phone and hangs up I'm just pledging the pen we did make it back to the Radisson the jewelry was deposited into the safe in the room for the rest of the trip and we eventually made it safely to the club I was young and naive I have had my passport for three days at this point and didn't really get that we shouldn't have been traveling there with that amount of flashy jewelry in 2016 I went to Brussels in a school trip we were at the train station and we left to Germany I believe several hours later all of our moms just start calling and texting us asking where we were and stuff turns out there was a bombing in the train station it's crazy to believe that the bombs were probably already planted when we were there friend of a friend went to Jamaica with her parents and sister when she was about 12 they came back to their hotel room one day to find a guy in there trying to rob them he stabbed the girl's dad he lived and escaped they had to go through family therapy after that [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sun Sep 01 2019