What's the most TERRIFYING Experience of your Life? - Reddit Podcast

what was the scariest creepiest or most unsettling experience of your life 15 years old I just got home from work so I went to my bedroom to change out of my work clothes and get ready for bed I'm in the middle of undressing When I Look to my bedroom window to catch my reflection and I see a man's face I drop to the floor and turn off the lights scrambling to get dressed still watching the window the face is gone but I'm still watching then a freaking camera no face just a camera pointed at me sitting on the floor I Bol from my room and tell my mom and brother my brother went outside and our ladder from the backyard was just laying there but nobody around couldn't sleep for a year after that just stared at that window haven't thought about this in years until now when I was around 16 my rapidly growing family finally moved from the house I'd spent my entire life in as you'd expect we spent a lot of time fondly remembering things we used to do in the house as we were packing everything up at some point I decided to go into the downstairs closet with a flashlight and read something that I'd used to do when I was younger to to get some peace and quiet now this is one of those very deep closets that goes under the stairs it went back about 8 ft and then had a left turn into a very low maybe 3T High space the space was largely occupied by a mountain of old blankets and stuffed animals of course this is the most fluffy spot to sit in and read about an hour in I shift a little to get comfortable and I hear a low slow warped horar voice say you'll always make me happy I flipped my crap hit my head on the low ceiling and practically broke the door down getting out after hyperventilating and explaining to my family why there was no color left on my face I went back to see what it was it was my stuffed little bear from when I was 3 or 4 years old that I happened to lean on just right to press his belly but when I pressed on his stomach again though nothing that poor bear I hadn't played with since I was a toddler used the last of its power used its dying breath to tell me I made it happy you make me happy too little bear when you're not making me wet my pants when I was a teen I worked at a cable access studio and made mini movies my neighbors gave me their father's old video camera they told me he never used it but it didn't seem to work anymore and had a tape jammed in it I fixed it up and on the tape was hours of him driving around at night and filming people through their Windows there was nothing overly adult rated on it but there is something unsettling about seeing peeping Tom footage of a guy eating dinner with his family or over 20 minutes of some girls dancing around in their room that is incredibly creepy and I can't help but wonder if any of the footage was from the person from our first story probably not but crazier internet coincidences have happened I was watching scary movies and I got hungry so I decided to go out for a late night Taco Bell run I lived alone at the time so it was quite a shock as when I opened the door a hand was reaching in after me I slammed the door on the offending arm and ran and grabbed a butcher knife after closing all the blinds and sitting in the dark for an hour I worked up the nerve to look outside I was shocked to find a a bunch of Chinese food menus for a new restaurant scattered all over the ground my brother and I were probably about 7even and five respectively we used to wake up every weekend and play computer games before my parents woke up one day we turned on the computer and got an eerie message that was directed to us it said hello Sam and James this is your computer talking and I am alive do not run and tell your parents they cannot help you now turns out my dad had programmed the computer to say that upon starting this was mid99s when I was about 7 to 8 years old my family rented a house close to the beach for a week the drive wasn't very long but as an 8-year-old by the time we got there I really had to feed the porcelain stallion a brown bone we pulled into the driveway and met by a middle-aged woman who owned the house and showed us the place and told us about the town and what to do my first instinct is to find the bathroom so I ask and she tells me it's the second door on the right after the kitchen go inside and open the bathroom door to an older guy just standing there looking at me I kind of duck my head down say sorry and went back outside they noticed I was back pretty fast and I told them there was someone in the bathroom already that's when it got weird the lady looked at me confused and said there's no one else in the house I explained that I definitely saw someone in the bathroom and after searching the house we find no evidence of anyone else being in there after a while the lady told us her dad owned the house and lived there and recently passed away she inherited the house and wasn't sure what to do with it so she' started renting it out I'm pretty sure I saw her dad this is the story of how a creepy encounter with a scary man at a Harbor Cafe saved me from something even more terrifying it was in the Autumn of 1994 and I was 19 years old at the time my dad had been working for almost 6 months abroad and I was planning a surprise visit my dad and I have always been close I'm an only child and my mother passed away from cancer when I was still a baby so it was just my dad and I a really tiny little family but he made up for it by being the most awesome parent ever now that I wasn't a little kid anymore I appreciate apprciated that more and more I had booked the ticket and was ready to go it was going to be great fun to surprise him with a visit I had to take the ferry though and had just gotten my driving license and felt really unhappy about having to drive my little car on board the ferry and decided not to bring the car at all and just rent one once I got there having time to spend I decided to have coffee at a nearby cafe since I was early and they hadn't started telling people to go onto the ferry just yet at the cafe there were lots of truck drivers and I soon realized I was the only woman there one man a 40-ish bloke with ice blue eyes and Tattoos all over him was eyeing me from across the room something about him made my skin crawl I got up to leave feeling suddenly very uncomfortable and to my utter horror he followed what do I do now I asked myself this was before everyone owned a cell phone I might said I decided to try and look busy and maybe he'd leave me alone so I pulled out my ticket and tried to look like I was reading it carefully when he suddenly snatched it from my hand and said I'm on the same boat I'll have hours of your company then how lovely in a voice that was an absurd combination of jovial flattery and hidden hostility I felt very strongly that if I got on the boat with this man who now knew my booking details I'd be in grave danger I can't explain why the feeling was so overwhelming but it was and I decided then and there not to get on the boat the ticket had been cheap anyway I could get on the next one instead I hid in the lady's room until I knew the fery had left and then I went to rebook my ticket the story could have ended there a creepy encounter with a stalkerish man but it doesn't I was right in the assumption that getting on that Ferry would have been unbel ably dangerous have you figured out the date yet the date was September 28th 1994 and the name of the ship was the MS Estonia and that cold night she sank in the Baltic Sea taking 852 people with her resulting in the worst Ferry catastrophe to strike Sweden to this day I still recall that day with horror and wonder what would have happened if this creepy man had not taken an interest in me if I had not listened to my instinct and gotten on board instead of waiting for the next boat would I have been among the survivors or would my dad have seen my name on the list of lives lost in the Baltic Sea I worked at a movie theater selling concessions and this older man approaches the counter and orders I ask him would you like anything else and he looks at me and says every time I ask for the thing I want they keep telling me it's illegal I'm quite creeped out by this guy so I just sort of chuckle and then he proceeds to ask me do you want to know what I ask working in concessions part of the job is making the movie goers feel welcome so I say sure and then what he says to me was the most disturbing thing I've ever heard he says you wouldn't have any young girls in the back over there locked up for me he said as he's pointing to the closet he then continued because that's all I really want a young girl I mean I wish I could just bring them back here and you'd keep them locked up so I could just pick them up whenever I wanted you know at this point a line had already started forming up behind him and it's still not paid yet so I told him the total of his order and then he asked me you understand right and I didn't know what to say so I just chuckled and agreed then he pulled out a a $10 bill and said I like you and put it into the tip jar and walked away G not to me but to my sister she and her first husband had just had their first child a few months prior my brother-in-law was working the graveyard shift at his job as my sister stayed home taking care of my nephew around 2: a.m. she heard loud knocking on her back door she went to go check it out and saw a lady banging on the door asking for my sister to let her in the lady told my sister that her husband had just beaten her down the street and was looking for her my sister was hesitant to let her in since she had a newborn in the house and didn't want to interfere she told the lady that the best she could do was call the police for her the lady told my sister to not call the police and to let her in this is where my sister got suspicious she went to get her phone and called 911 when she went to the back door the lady was gone the police arrived a few minutes later and they told my sister that the same situation happened a few streets down apparently the couple would do this act to get into people's homes I'm sure this is very common but having it almost happen to my sister and nephew just creeps me out some real Clockwork Orange crap thank God for your instincts on that one the gormless narrator who can't say no to people would probably have let her in no matter how worried he was cop here I've posted this story before so it might sound familiar I was dispatched to a house at about 1:00 a.m. for a Prowler we get there and talk to the residents long story short they saw two people wearing masks one Jason Style hockey mask and I don't remember the other they'd seen them in the yard across the street it was about 2 weeks past Halloween so it seemed believable we check the area and don't see anything 10 to8 it's worth noting the residents don't seem drunk or high or crazy at all a few times you'll get a similar call and get there to find the resident is strung out on Crystal and seeing things however back to the story an hour later we get called back this time we have our dispatcher on the phone with them while we're surrounding the area we about five of us are in a perfect position and dispatch tells us they can see the Prowlers in the next yard we start to move in dispatch says the resident saw the two Prowlers wave and move into the sh shed guess where I am that's right next to the shed I give verbal commands bang on the door and nothing screw it fine I'll come in after you doors open and empty I even think to check for a trap door nothing it's raised about 4 in so there isn't even a possibility of a door leading out again check the area and find nothing I talked to the residents they said as I was moving in on the shed the two put their fingers to their lips giving the shush sign and then they both waved they moved into the shed as I was next to it we went over every possibility trying to come up with an explanation if the caller was just messing with us they had no prior history of it as in repeated calls for service at the address I'm not much of a believer in paranormal stuff but I can still appreciate a situation where I can't logically explain what just happened you can submit your own stories to be featured here on the channel the story submission link is in the description below and if you want to listen to some viby music in the background check out easy mode also linked below and subscribe one night about 10 months ago there was a pretty heavy snowstorm in my area all of the roads were closed and a curfew was issued for everyone except emergency medical personnel I'd been shoveling snow for most of the day and was dead tired come Nightfall didn't have energy to do much of anything besides eat dinner and lay down I fire up some OG Star Trek and begin to doze off a couple of hours later around 1:00 a.m. I hear the sound of a door rattling and a slight whisper saying my name I sit up a bit and realize it's coming from my parents' room becoming faint with the passing time after 10 minutes or so I gather up the courage to see what the heck is going on crappy folding knife in hand I peek out into the hallway and I don't see anything the noise is still coming from the room next door the rattling becoming more rushed as I approach cautiously I open the door and sneak inside it's pitch black and I can't see anything my eyes are taking entirely too long to adjust to the darkness I'm Shuffling forward and all of a sudden something grabs and pulls on my leg at this point I was so freaked out I jumped back as The Whispers continue continued I recognized my dad's voice he was asking me for help he had a stroke while walking to use the bathroom around 1:00 a.m. that night after he fell he was able to use his left foot to Rattle a door to his bathroom my mom fell asleep on the couch in the living room and wasn't around to help or hear I was able to grab the house phone and call 911 and despite the weather the police and an ambulance ared within 10 minutes that was the scariest night of my life the doctors told us there wasn't much hope for my dad before going into surgery since he had had a hemorrhagic stroke and there was a massive amount of internal bleeding fast for 10 months and my old man is cognitively the same just paralyzed on his right side he had every infection under the sun while in hospital but he saved them off and is still with us today he was my best friend before the incident and my hero after in conclusion heard some rattling in Whispers freaked out found my dad lying on the ground after a massive stroke I was visiting my hometown and decided to pick up my old high school friend from his house and take him to dinner and a drink to catch up he's kind of stressed and tells me that his ex with with whom he'd broken up with over 2 years prior has been stalking him and harassing him I drove him home afterwards and it starts to drizzle as I drop him off at his house the neighborhood was dark and quiet by now we both noticed a bag tied to my side view mirror it was likely attached when we were at the restaurant we open it to see a poorly taken photo of a tree taken at night with a flash there was a brief letter obviously written from his ex that said I buried our first Love Letter under this tree 3 years ago this tree is growing from our love I made sure my friend got into his house all right and got the heck out of there when I was 16 in the mid90s aka the I know everything I'm invincible and you can't stop me age I got in a fight with an acquaintance while a whole bunch of us were hanging out at his house stupid fight can't remember what it was about but decided screw it I was going home I lived about 5 miles away but I didn't have a car and since it was 2: a.m. there were no buses I was going to walk home in the middle of the night through a not as safe as it seems neighborhood as a tiny 16-year-old old girl so I did I think in hindsight my friends either didn't believe I was going to do it or too startled by the sudden argument to realize what I was doing I left the house and started hoofing it about a mile out the Suburban housing neighborhood melted into a main street with Highway access I started to notice a grayish minivan following me it would follow me pass me turn a corner and about three blocks later it would do the same thing I mean really really obvious what it was doing I crossed over to the other side of the street so I was walking the opposite of the traffic flow and thus no car could come up behind me I kept doing it on the other side of the street about a mile later there was a 24-hour Fred Meyer West Coast USA chain Grocery and allpurpose night store its lights were bright but parking lot empty is I immediately crossed the parking lot and went ah head inside just before I got to the doors the minivan that had been following me pulled up into one of the parking spots a guy called out from the driver's side and said I don't want you to walk over here just stay there and listen I just wanted to let you know what I was doing I saw you walking a while back but I also saw a dark car that was following you a couple of times you went to turn around or stopped so it started following you down a parallel side street when I saw it I started to follow you both just to make sure you were safe go inside the store and call someone to pick you up please I haven't seen the car since you headed across the lot he waited until I was inside the store and then pulled away I didn't have anyone to call so I just let the night cashier know what was going on and I hung out with her for about an hour and a half then I finished the walk home I've never forgotten the incident or that man whoever he was during the walk I never saw the dark car he mentioned but I've always been convinced he saved my life that night I like to think that in this scary night there was a comical situation of the van driver and the dark car driver seeing each other thinking the other car was shady and being equally protective about the kidden question until the dark car driver lost track of them not as scary as the others but it creeped me out nonetheless I was out of town on business and my security camera went off in the middle of the night I checked it and I saw a blurry white light moving erratically in my room now I'm half asleep in the hotel hundreds of miles away from home and I don't believe in ghosts so my first thought was that someone was shining a flashlight into the house to case it not knowing what else to do and not wanting to call the police and look foolish I used the two-way sound on the camera to yell get the F away from my house I'm calling the police the moving light didn't seem to react to that so I just sat there in my hotel room watching it until it stopped the next night it happened again and the next I've shown the footage to my colleagues and they're convinced I have a ghost I asked the petsitter to look around the house for Prince in the snow and they found nothing I finally got home and nothing is out of place but now I realized that I have to sleep in this house with the weird moving light so when the sun went down I was desperately trying to figure out what it was 2 days later I did this is kind of hard to explain but bear with me this was a very bad winter and I'd taken the internet's advice and thrown panty hose filled with rock salt up into my gutters to prevent ice dams the string hanging down from one of them had an Ice Crystal in it so that little Ice Crystal was blowing in the breeze and reflecting the driveway lights back into the house so absolutely not creepy at all but when you're away from home and see a floating orb in your house it will give you the Willies for sure back when I worked night shift as a security guard I'd experienced mild hallucinations due to my poor sleep schedule I was doing my patrol and I was feeling particularly out of it so I kept getting those flashes of movement in the corner of my eye but I was convinced it was just my brain messing up at the site I was working there's a large Warehouse filled with chemical w face that has only one light on in it as I'm going along I see a pale shape on the ground and quickly recognize it as a body my adrenaline spikes and I nearly pass out upon closer inspection it turned out to be a CPR dummy the workers left out for training I was sitting in our office room home alone when I was 19 I was typing a paper for one of my college classes the office room used to be my sister's room before she moved out so a lot of her decorations are still there she had a photo of a mountain range an oval-shaped mirror and three different hangings that read faith hope and and love this makes five total things hanging on the wall in the room suddenly I got random chills which happens all the time it was pretty cold there but this time as soon as I got the chills everything in the room hanging on the walls fell off simultaneously this really freaked me out but it got a tiny bit worse I got up and walked out of the room only to notice everything hanging on a wall in my house had fallen besides the television in my room all the pictures in the living room and the other rooms all of the trophies in my room from the Little League Sports and even stand that held candles I wasn't sure what to do I picked up all the stuff and hung it back up which actually took me around 15 to 20 minutes then I drove to campus to finish my paper never told my parents it's also worth mentioning this happened around noon on a sunny day three Winters ago on our way to a camping trip I passed by an old painted up car with decorations of Muppets and stuff on it obviously owned by a crazy person who couldn't drive over 50 mph without stopping we then passed the same car 40 minutes minutes later I work for an engineering college and frequently have to go up to the industrial floor to find old projects and materials that had been stored years ago this is the floor with the HVAC unit steam pipes and stuff and it's not very well lit in the evening the year before I'd started working there it was discovered that a homeless man had broken in and had been living up there the cops had to be called because he had some kind of mental instability and kept coming back fast forward 2 years later and I'm up there looking for some pressure gauges when I see one of the fluorescent lights begin to flicker my attention is drawn to that area where I see the Silhouettes of a body laying on the floor in the most uncomfortable position and another one crouched in the corner against the wall I nearly crapped my pants before booking it in the other direction but then the light came back on and I saw it was two test dummies that the mechanical engineers must have stored there recently I keep a length of pipe with me every 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