What is the scariest thing you've come across or can think of?

[Gender Affirming Surgery]

I'll bite.

Spoiler: Spooks

I've had a few NDE, but the scariest one was getting stalked by a big Stingray while out diving.

I'm also petrified of losing someone close to me, like a girlfriend or wife. I occasionally have Nightmares of Hell, which does play into this fear.

Happy HalloWEEN

The Station Fire gives me chills. Not being burned to death—if you’re stuck in a fire and there’s no hope, suck the smoke and suffocate, it’ll suck less—but being trampled to death. Actually, can I change my answer? One of my very first fears was being trampled to death, and I won’t go into small spaces with a lot of people for that very reason.

 

[Muttnik]

When I was around 5 years old, me and my then-infant sibling were almost kidnapped.

My dad, who bless him was kind of an idiot in his early parenting years, forgot something in the mall and left me and my sibling in the car to wait for him. Car was locked and not running and it was the middle of the day but I remember this strange dirty guy knocking on our windows and trying to bribe me into unlocking the door. He had a blankie and some toys and was putting on this creepy shrill cheery clown voice in an attempt to lure me. I remember being a little shit and repeatedly shaking my head at him while pointing to the lock and telling him to fuck off but in truth, I was ready to piss my pants. He looked like he was ready to break the windows.

I don't remember how it ended. Either he ran off or my dad arrived in time to scare him away. My sibling was only six months old at the time and slept through the whole thing. But I've always been wary of Stranger Danger ever since.

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

there is a cool documentary where filmmakers reenact sleep paralysis night terrors. it's pretty good, but this is the absolute spookiest part

really glad my brain isn't broken/haunted when I try and sleep

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The ocean itself is cool as shit. But the things it does when it's pissed off cause me distress. Tsunamis, whirlpools (but like saltstraumen sized), and fucking water spouts.

I’m pretty interested in the ocean but the depth of it terrifies me as an idea.

 

[murgatroid]

I didn't think it was possible for a film to do this, but the dutch film Spoorloos (The Vanishing), 1988 literally disturbed me for months when I would recurringly think about it every so often.

I'll throw this out here too, found it kind of creepy while coming across it. One of the earliest UFO sightings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg

 

[Recoil]

a 3 foot pile of cocaine in a project apartment

 

[Grand Omega]

Torture via a spotlight being shone at eyes with eyelids that are forcefully pried open, slowly leading to blindness. Then there's locked in syndrome, where perhaps insanity may be the only path to freedom. However, reality would prove itself inescapable, as medical personnel would catch on and administer a hefty depot shot of invega, leaving you as a soulless husk forever.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Agree with this post if you have fears you don't want to share. I'm not going to give away my glowing red weak-points.

 

[Henry Wyatt]

once i had a dream where shadman drew chris chan unclit vore and it has haunted me to this day

also being buried alive seems pretty scary

 

[skellig58]

During my STNA/nursing student days. Having to bathe a morbidly obese man, and turning him over only to see an avalanche of maggots fall from his necrotic asshole. Don't see how someone could use that against me... Like, bitch I seen some shit at Shady Acres Retirement Home, decomposing corpses, fighting giant ass bugs and rats (with a shovel) breaking up old dementia ridden fights (not with a shovel, but I had to deal with ripped out colostomy and piss bags).., some gross shit happens at these places.

Edit for the bazillonth time: Thanks for the ratings guys No, I mean it! Some horror stories are visceral and gross!

 

[queerape]

During my STNA/nursing student days. Having to bathe a morbidly obese man, and turning him over only to see an avalanche of maggots fall from his necrotic asshole.

There was that one black lady on my 600 lb life named Lisa something who had that happen. She always argued with Dr Now and quit. Apparently she's dead now which wouldn't surprise me

 

[exhausted]

most of my fears are realistic ones: car accidents, family dying,

but i'm a bad insomniac, and sometimes when i dont sleep for a while ill get this sense of dread wash over me, and it feels like if i sleep then i'll die.
i have a feeling i actually will die in my sleep eventually

 

[skellig58]

most of my fears are realistic ones: car accidents, family dying,

but i'm a bad insomniac, and sometimes when i dont sleep for a while ill get this sense of dread wash over me, and it feels like if i sleep then i'll die.
i have a feeling i actually will die in my sleep eventually

I get that overwhelming feeling of dread too: Like something bad is just around the corner and you can't stop it. Lots of insomniacs and those with an acute anxiety disorder feel this. Been there, my friend. Am there, so you have nothing but sympathy from me.

Now back to the scary/gross stuff!

 

[Muttnik]

but i'm a bad insomniac, and sometimes when i dont sleep for a while ill get this sense of dread wash over me, and it feels like if i sleep then i'll die.
i have a feeling i actually will die in my sleep eventually

I actually suffer from the same thing. I've had times where I'd go days without sleeping/getting only a few hours and I'd start feeling really creeped out for no particular reason. It's really strange and I'd mostly chalk it up to paranoia from not letting my mind rest.

Good luck with your insomnia, dude. Find the method that best helps relax you. Hot showers at night work decently for me.

 

[Pissmaster]

This one sounds kind of silly, but if you ever wanted to freak me the fuck out, get me somewhere where I'll be off-guard enough to fall asleep and wake me up by putting an octopus on my face.

Thank goodness I never hung out with the Jackass boys.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

This one sounds kind of silly, but if you ever wanted to freak me the fuck out, get me somewhere where I'll be off-guard enough to fall asleep and wake me up by putting an octopus on my face.

Thank goodness I never hung out with the Jackass boys.

Spoiler: WAKEY WAKEY

 

[Titty Figurine]

Fucking quarries and particularly quarry lakes. Heights are fine, deep lakes are fine, but the sheer walls and cold water give me a big spook.

Some kids died at some point jumping into one and it must have been on the news a lot because my grandma used to put the fear of god in me as a little kid about staying away from quarries and mines. As an adult it just kind of soaked in deeper, thinking about treading water above all the submerged machinery without being able to find any holds on the sheer walls. Just slowly cramping and getting exhausted like a Sim in a pool. I don't like looking at them. The ocean is big but quarries scare me more.

Other than that the whole Gwinnett Place death really weirded me out for a while. Decomposing bodies are just an unpleasant natural occurance but the fact that it was unnoticed for so long in a place that's supposed to be full of life and activity is a melancholic kind of morbid. Didn't help that even though I got obsessed with the actual details my mental image of the whole thing was initially a rotting woman wrapped in a blanket sitting in the shadows at a dark food court table and FUCK that.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

For me it's a couple of things. Mainly heights. I'm absolutely terrified of heights. I can't even ride a ski lift because it's too high off the ground. It's a full-blown phobia for me, my mind and heart are racing, I break out in a cold sweat and completely freeze and can't move. Also, the idea of becoming a quadriplegic and not having control of my body.

 

[Distant Stare]

1) Stuff coming at me in the woods
I was hunting once and something run at me through the grass. It turned back at the last moment. Where I live bores are very common and they can gore you if they want.

2) Open water, being alone swimming in the ocean

3) shit involving child abuse
Deep web stuff, that one Sargon video on that girl who was a child sex slave, ect

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

I'm alright with most gore and bodily functions (there were a couple of doctors in my family so I grew up hearing gross stories from the operating theatre at the dinner table), but pregnancy really scares me. I can't understand anyone ever wanting or trying to go through that, though I'm happy for my friends who did. I like kids fine, it's just the idea of having another person growing and living inside me, and then having to go through labour, that terrifies me.
The book and TV show Bodies by Jed Mercurio scared the absolute piss out of me: it's about an incompetent obstetric surgeon and his colleagues' attempts to save patients from him while dealing with bureaucracy and hospital management. It's not really supposed to be scary, it's a hospital drama and satire of the healthcare system, but it really got me.