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I remember when I was little, I went to the toilet after watching an episode of The X-Files and while I was sitting on it, I was convinced a monster might emerge from the pipe, grab my bottom, and take me with it.
One reason we consume horror is to invigorate ourselves. Exposure to terrifying acts, or even the anticipation of those acts, can stimulate us both mentally and physically in opposing ways: negatively (in the form of fear or anxiety) or positively (in the form of excitement or joy). Watching a scary TV series can simultaneously activate both types of stimulation, with the most pleasure experienced at the most fearful moment. The biochemical level inside our bodies changes; fright can trigger the release of adrenaline, resulting in heightened sensations and surging energy.
But sometimes it's the horror that finds us. Interested in these cases, Reddit user Noahs_25 made a post on the platform, asking everyone "What is the scariest story you know that is 100% true?" And the replies came pouring in.
Continue scrolling to read some of the most chilling ones, and don't miss the talk we had with photographer Alicia Rius, who loves exploring abandoned places.
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#1
I would call it creepy more than scary, but my mom's friend had a small house and lived alone. She noticed weird things: a batch of soup depleting faster than usual, missing eggs, damp towels in the hamper when she hadn't used any, extra dishes in the dishwasher, etc... This went on for months, she thought she was just being forgetful. One day she heard some thumping around in her attic and went to investigate. She found some make shift living quarters. Small radio, hot plate, sleeping bag, pillow, food wrappers, etc... She called the cops who came to keep an eye on the place. They ended up catching a homeless man climbing a tree, trying to sneak into her attic window. He had been doing this almost daily. He would wait for her to go to work, then go down stairs and help himself to food and amenities. The funny part about this story is they got to know each other throughout the ordeal, and the guy was actually very respectful, just down on his luck. She didn't press charges, instead, let him move in, helped him get a job, and he lived in the attic until he got back on his feet. Creepy s**t with a happy ending.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Now that's more of an ending that we need with the world being one giant, never-ending horror movie.
Erin E 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah… too bad I wouldn’t want to take the chance on a stranger being a murderer.
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Kathryn P. Schmitt 3 years ago
wow! yes, a happy ending, but i don't know if I could do the same.
ERIKA H. 3 years ago (edited)
I couldn't. I would feel too violated and scared
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ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
Creepy not scary? Freaking horrifying. Somebody living in your home that you don't know is there. This is the stuff of horror movies not friendly neighbor. Seriously the fact that she says she didn't notice and such, That's just not paying attention. This is nuts
You could say Rius got attracted to the unknown during her childhood, when her curiosity pushed her to see other people's houses. Now, she enjoys visiting everything from deserted medical facilities to closed places of worship; sites that some of us would dread even from a distance.
Of course, that doesn't mean that the photographer feels at home in those places. "A few things creep me out [during these trips]," Rius told Bored Panda. "The first is the fear that someone is already in the building. Someone that can hurt me."
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#2
Two off duty US soldiers were on a train in France. When walking past a toilet they recognised the loading noises of rifles coming from inside. They waited outside and jumped the guy when he came out. He was a terrorist who was about to go through the train killing people.
zububonsai 3 years ago (edited)
Thank god..., or rather these soldiers for knowing how loading weapons sounds like a n d acting accordingly (non-religious non-American here).
Gabriela 3 years ago
I’m sorry that there’s a need to clearly clarify your non-offense. I appreciate your gesture and I wish there wasn’t a need for it, but even in my sector of religion, I know there are those who go way over the top.
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Lee Macro 3 years ago
They made it into a film called The 15.17 to Paris. The soldiers involved were the actual actors in the film
Alexandra Davis 3 years ago
I just watched the trailer, don't think I'll be rushing to watch it anytime soon
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Ace 3 years ago
Not quite right, but at least this is based on a real incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Thalys_train_attack
Gabriela 3 years ago
Loosely based. Bored panda makes it sound like there were zero injuries, as they stopped the attempted attack before it happened. Thanks for the link.
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Jen 3 years ago
not the point, obviously, but that's Manchester Piccadilly station (UK), not France
Virginie Michaud 3 years ago
It was a train going from Amsterdam to Paris. Different incident.
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glowworm2 3 years ago
Two of the guys who helped stop the terrorist, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler appeared on the 33rd season of the Amazing Race, but ended up being unable to return to the show after filming had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
R.E.O. Speedwagon 3 years ago
it would've ended a lot diffrerently if they weren't there. Thankfully it didn't
Marek K (mkk3a) 3 years ago
This story sounds so fake. But it's true, I remember reading about it in every newspaper couple of years ago.
Then, there's the environment itself. "The state of some of the places I've been is really decayed. They are very dangerous to go into. From falling ceilings to holes in the ground," Rius continued.
"And last, the feeling that there are spirits or energies floating around. I get a feeling of weight in my chest when I photograph abandoned homes that are still full of personal objects. It feels like I'm not alone. I never get this sensation if I take pictures of an empty factory, for example."
#3
When my aunt was about 16 she was working at a grocery store and had a boss in his mid twenties. One day he called the house and was begging her to sneak out and hang out with him. She was considering it because it was her boss and she didn’t want to say no. My mom, who is two years younger than her, always gets these incredibly spot on “gut feelings”. She had one that night and begged my aunt not to go out with him.
Thankfully she listened to my mom and told him no which made him really angry. He ended up going out that night and meeting another girl. He took her out to some cliffs and r*ped her and pushed her off. Somehow she lived through this and was able to get him sent to prison. I feel so sorry for that girl and so thankful for my mom and her gut feelings.
Always trust your gut.
KnightOwl 3 years ago
About 20yrs ago, my brother had made plans to go out with a couple of friends, just as he was getting ready to leave I suddenly got a horrible feeling that he shouldn't go. I begged him not to go, even blocking the door to stop him leaving, we argued for a while before I managed to bribe him by telling him I'd order his favourite food and give him £30. Later that night he got a phone call from his best friend who was in the hospital. His friend hadn't been happy when my bro cancelled their plans but decided to go out anyway, he'd met up with 2 female friends and they decided to just go for a drive. (He'd recently gotten his licence and his first car, so loved going on long drives) after driving around for a few hrs they got into a serious car accident. My bro's friend broke both his legs but somehow managed to drag one of the girls from the car which was leaking petrol, it burst into flames killing the 2nd girl. The surviving girl was paralysed and never walked again. Trust your gut!
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Woah. I'm glad your brother is okay and I'm glad at least the girl and the friend made it out alive. I feel awful about the other girl though. That had to be a horrible way to go out.
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radioactivecandy (they/them) 3 years ago (edited)
Becky Brown and Amy Burridge? (true crime case, it's very sad)
Solar Raven Echo Arson Phoenix Null 3 years ago
I dunno if I should feel thankful or not that the girl survived, honestly
Tamra 3 years ago
Why, because it's so hard to believe that men rape women?
Load More Replies...But these difficulties make Rius's explorations and the shots that she brings from them all the more worth it. She sees abandoned places as time capsules, waiting to tell forgotten stories about our past to anyone who dares to step inside.
And that's the thing with fear. We can fight it. With gradual, controlled exposure to the thing we're afraid of through repeated and prolonged contact (maybe with the guidance of a professional as well), we can develop an ability to cope and even get past our petrifying experiences.
#4
I spent my first 10 years in New Delhi. Back then, we would find dead women (burnt with acid or set on fire) and it used to be so "normal". Like oh look, another one of those dowry cases where her family didn't pay the husband enough money so they killed her.
Many years later i revisited those memories and realised how insane that actually was! I'd totally forgotten about all that.
Sarah Parker 3 years ago
That's horrific. Humans are far worse than any fictional monster could be.
Tamra 3 years ago
I don't give a damn what country, what culture, what religion it is...WOMEN ARE NOT PROPERTY! You are not owed a woman, you are not owed anything from women. F*****g disgusting behavior.
Mulberry Juice 3 years ago
This ain’t religion. This is misogynistic and classist f***s going on power trips
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Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
Property is returnable, so these women were treated worse than that.
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Acid attacks, honor killings, gang rapes, etc. Anyone doing these things do not deserve to live
#5
Was working the evening shift at a gas station. Man comes in all disoriented. I go to help him out. he has a gash on his head and doesn't know where he was. I couldn't see any crashes around so assumed he had fallen or something. Normally we are supposed to stay inside the glass shielded register area whenever anyone is in the store. I, being a nice human being, went to help while calling the police/EMS. They got there and checked him out. They thought his head may have been fractured. Took him to the ER. I went back to work. Cops stopped back by for some coffee a few hours later. They told me the guy got hit by a baseball bat trying to break into a little girl's bedroom and was wanted for r*pe and murder in two other states. I never left the register area at night again.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago (edited)
From reading all these stories and looking at the news, I am getting the feeling there are millions of men in the world just going around assaulting people, especially female people. I hope I'm wrong.
gotham-panda 3 years ago
Thing is, with a skull fracture, he was in no condition to r*pe and m*rder anyone, so helping him really wasn't a problem. Skull fractures are no joke.
#6
The story of Mary Vincent always stands out to me.
In 1978, 15 year old Mary was hitchhiking. A man named Lawrence Singleton picked her up.
He brutally r*ped her, and eventually made her get out of the car. She planned to run, but he noticed, and cut both her arms off. He threw her into a ditch/ravine and left her to die.
She packed her stumps with mud to stop the bleeding and spent all night crawling out.
She eventually makes it to the highway and starts walking, naked and covered in blood. The first car that saw her sped away in fear. The second car was a couple on their honeymoon. They picked her up and she survived.
Manomnomnom 3 years ago
This was one of the most tragic and horrifying stories I've ever heard, but I would like to add a happier note to this. Despite losing both her arms, Mary is now a professional artist (painter).
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Later, in court, the attempted murderer hissed at her that he was going to get to her and "finish the job", but she testified anyway. The courage of that girl/woman is astounding.
Xenia Harley 3 years ago
And he got out of jail on good behavior, and ended up killing another woman. Always thought this young woman is remarkable for her courage and everything she has done with her life.
Sherman Von Gee 3 years ago
Dude. The "I survived" episode of this where she tells her story is.... unbelievable. She is one of the strongest, most incredible human beings I have ever laid eyes on. The strength & perseverance it took for her to survive... like... she's super human. I feel so sorry for her though. Idk how you can ever truly move past that. But on a positive note she hasn't let it stop her from being an artist. She's wonderfully talented.
Andrew Vince 3 years ago
I remember reading (With horror) about this when it happened (I live in Australia). In a Bill Bryson travel book he mentions driving through a town where the populace was angry that a guy who had done this to a girl was being released from prison. Same guy I imagine.
Rebekah 3 years ago
I JUST listed to this story on my favorite podcast (My favorite Murder) this AM, driving into work. It is horrible story with one kick-a*s survivor. He only received a 14 year sentence, which was the max at that time. And he got out after either 7 or 8 years. And he killed someone else.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
i was a teen when this happened and i lived in the area. one of the reasons she survived was because the guy used an axe which basically sealed the arteries and prevented her from bleeding out. i used to hitch hike sometimes and after this story came out, never again.
#7
Alright, so my pre-school teacher who also ended up somehow changing jobs and becoming my 11th grade english teacher had a super interesting life. Her mother had some super famous book, her father worked high up in the government, but enough about her family. First, let me describe her to you, she had dark hair and blue eyes (you'll see why this matters in a minute). She told this story every single year to the new students in her class...when she was younger, she was driving through Arizona on a two-way road while her boyfriend at the time was following behind her on his motorcycle. For those who don't live in Arizona, certain stretches of it can be quite isolated and deserted. She said that they were on a long drive (it's been about 6 years since I was in her class so details are fuzzy), but basically her and her boyfriend both knew the destination where they were heading by memory and eventually got separated by a few miles. A man who was behind her in a Volkswagen beetle kept pulling up beside her into the other lane (no one was coming) and motioning at her to pull over. She somewhat ignored him the first few times, but he kept doing it and began getting more frantic each time. She said that she believed that he spotted something wrong with her car, so she saw a parking lot off the road for a deserted gas station and pulled over. Once pulled over, she said that she instantly got an eerie feeling. The man was suspicious and kept telling her that he saw something wrong with her headlight and insisted she get out of the car so he could show her what he meant. Her boyfriend who was a few miles behind her, eventually caught up and spotted her car at the sketchy gas station. Right as she was out of the car, her boyfriend began to pull in. As he did that, this man got into his car and SPED off like his life depended on it. They later were able to identify that the man was Ted Bundy. She said she cannot imagine what would have happened to her if her boyfriend had been even another 3 miles behind her on the road.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
She is lucky her boyfriend had just pulled in. He for shore would have murder her without a seconde thought. Poor women. And don't stop for anyone . Even if it's a cop try to get to a well lit area and kinda close to public. Even cops have been known to do bad things. Not saying all of them. But I've heard and seen documentaries about a couple. Be safe. Carry something to protect your self Incase it you and someone and your life.
Potato 3 years ago
I live in the US, and growing up we were always told to find an open gas station if we were hailed by cops on a deserted road. And I'm white, too, so this isn't just racism. It's not just a "cops are bad" mentality (but it is wise not to assume they have good intentions) but also because people have impersonated cops. And recently, in Texas, a teen was shot several times by a cop who misidentified him and didn't identify himself. Kid was just eating a burger in a McD's parking lot and probably thought he was being carjacked. He's still fighting for his life. Another instance, though, a cop flipped a pregnant woman's car because she didn't pull over "fast enough" (she was looking for a safe spot). I'm scared of cops. The few times I've been a victim and called them, they treated me like s**t.
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Anony Mouse 3 years ago
I’ve literally been told versions of this story by three different people who claimed it happened to their moms. Urban myth.
Penny Kemper 3 years ago
If he was behind and said he noticed something wrong with my headlight.... I would of said how could you from behind? Duh!
KOTLC_Fan 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Maybe they meant the ones in the back and just said it wrong?
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grafxgal60073 3 years ago
I had my own super strange experiences concerning Ted Bundy. One of my high school friends was killed by him in Utah. My dad went out every night and every weekend looking for her body. She was eventually found, but yeah. Then, when I lived in Aspen in a small house on Bleeker St. (right behind the courthouse where Bundy was being arraigned), Aspen Sheriff's deputies knocked on my door and wanted to search our house for an escaped prisoner ... none other than Ted Bundy. I didn't put two-and-two together right then about my high school friend and this until much, much later on. Then I found out watching a documentary that he assaulted a woman in Washington named Margaret Bauman ... that's also the name of a very good friend of mine in Alaska (two different women), but yikes ... all so coincidental.
corgiobsessed00 2 years ago
my parents went to viewmont around the same time he kidnaped your friend sorry for your loss
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Justme 3 years ago
A high school friend of mine said his mom was hitchhiking and got picked up by Bundy. She said he was nice and dropped her off without a problem. Must not have fit the description of his type.
Frederick Schulkind 3 years ago
I don't recall reading anything about Bundy in Arizona. Washington, Colorado and Florida were states that he haunted. He did use a Beetle. Did you get the state right?
ItsJess 3 years ago
Same, like the story Debbie Harry tells about "almost" being a victim of his...in Manhattan...And let's not forget she was the opposite of his physical type.
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An acquaintance of mine sent his son to triathlon camp in Texas.
A week later, his son came back from camp. The next day, the son was complaining of a headache. Four days later, he was dead. Healthy, happy, fit 12 year old one week, dead the next.
Turns out the lake had [Naegleria fowleri], the brain-eating amoeba. Nothing scares me as irrationally as already being dead and waiting for your body to catch on.
pink_panda 3 years ago
This brain-eating amoeba is making me reconsider ever getting in a lake again.
Chich 3 years ago
The wee beastie may be present in any freshwater body, especially during the warmer months. So, wanna head down to the ol' swimmin' hole?
Darling 3 years ago
In the name of science! Let’s find out if I can die twice!
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idrow1 3 years ago
Reason #211 why I don't swim in anything other than a pool. I've seen too many eps of Monsters Inside Me.
Cin 3 years ago
Glad I’m not the only one. There was one episode that made me feel sick.
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Laura Ford-Everett 3 years ago
Awe a youngun just passed from this in the news last week. That's so very sad :( Our lakes here are monitored quite regularly so here's hoping no amoeba eats what little is left of my brain :( lol
#9
From when I was delivering pizza I walked up to a trailer park house and knocked, dude answers the door wearing a swastika armband and he’s bald, I tell him the total and he invites me inside while he gets the money there’s 10 more dudes all bald all wearing arm bands, sitting in a circle in metal chairs guy gives me the money, I go to leave, he grabs my arm and gets in my face and asks “do you like n****rs?” I don’t want to be murdered so I respond “nope not at all hate those f*****s” and leave as quick as possible. The scary part is every other delivery driver but me that night was black and they might have never been seen again if I didn’t take the delivery.
Kales 3 years ago
Whoever downvoted this is in denial about how atrocious and hateful our country STILL is
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Grant Barke 3 years ago
Imagine having pic related on your tee shirt when that nazi opened the door. 1659689375...27d593.jpg 
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
All of them should. I really think they should follow their leader like that pic.
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Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Please tell me you informed everyone at work and warning notices to put up for future employees.
Jean Jacket 3 years ago
I hope that driver made a note of that place so no other drivers were sent there. Nazis don't deserve pizza.
rorschach-penguin 3 years ago
How stupid do you have to be to enter the home of someone who is wearing a swastika armband?
#10
My friend's boss bought an Audi A4 convertible, back when they were new and interesting. One of the talking points was the pop-up roll hoops that were hidden unless you rolled it.
A few months after buying it he got to test those roll hoops out, as he lost control and skidded down a steep bank about 10m (~35ft) deep.
The roll hoops did their job, and he survived with just cuts and scratches from the bushes he'd plowed through. The car ended up the right way up and he got out, walked back up the bank to the side of the road, then got on the phone to the police to report the accident. While he was standing there a driver from a car that had seen the accident came over to speak to him.
Approaching from behind the other driver asked if he was okay. My friend's boss turned around to reply and dropped dead. His neck had been fractured, but was in one piece right up until he turned his head, when it severed his spinal cord.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago (edited)
Dang!!! Talk about sudden death after surviving the odds :-O
GoGoPDX 3 years ago (edited)
My dad was a paramedic firefighter for 35 years. He went on a call similar to this. Guy rolled the car and had only a couple scratches and cuts but that seemed about it. A witness called 911 right after the accident and my dad was on the call. The guy did not want to go in. He said he felt fine, and didn't think it was necessary. Normally if someone is insistent and the assessment is good, they will explain the risks and have them sign a AMA release. But my dad said something didn't feel right. He spent about 10 minutes convincing the guy to go and the guy finally agreed, but refused to be stablized (C collar) . Well, the guy gets x-rays and about 15 minutes later Dr's and nurses swarm the room and tell him to not move a muscle. The guy had a full C3 and C4 fracture and all he would have to do was sneeze, cough, turn his head a little to far in one direction and he would have been dead. If you are in a roll over or bad accident, always get checked out!
Solar Raven Echo Arson Phoenix Null 3 years ago
THIS IS WHY WE DONT MOVE PEOPLE IN CAR ACCIDENTS
Glass Ghost 3 years ago
Now I understand why they braced my neck immediately after the wreck I was in. Thankfully nothing was fractured but it's better to be safe than sorry.
Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
I was in roll over accident - fixed roof though - got out of the car and was just walking around, tried to get some stuff out of the car. Ambulance arrived as there was some traffic and people stopped. Medics asked me few questions and right away put me on stretcher, head and neck fixed. They explained to me I might not feel anything due to adrenaline rush, but to be safe I needed go to hospital. I was given, not even a scratch, but around 3 hours later I could feel energy just drained. Lesson learnt - now even I had some parking lot bumps, stay in car for few minutes.
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
I thought whiplash was a scam. Husband & I were rear ended on the way to work while at a stop waiting for the car in front to turn left. Kid driving was doing 55+ in a 35 and driving on a restricted license. We got accordioned Happened right in front of a funeral home. They joked that they were afraid they were about to get new business. We felt fine. Went on to work & told our boss (who was pushing us to get checked out) that we were fine. *Narrator: They were not fine.* Couldn’t move by late afternoon. Three months of physical therapy for my husband; six months for me. Thirty-some yrs later, I still feel the effects when I overdo it.
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Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
My husband’s younger brother was in a car crash and, instead of getting checked out, went to his friends’ place to play poker. My husband tracked him down and made him go to the ER to get checked out. He had a broken neck. Ended up in a body cast with a halo. Dr. said the only thing that saved him was the fact that his neck muscles were so strong from wrestling and weight training that they held things in place. Had he laid down and gone to sleep they would have relaxed and he’d have been lucky to survive as a paraplegic.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
That last sentence brought chills down my spine
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That's creepy as hell. Just when it seemed like he had fought death and won, death had a reverse Uno card up their sleeve.
Kainaath Khan 3 years ago
He wasn't suppse to die in that car, but on the road. His time was up then not in the crash.
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A female friend in college disappeared from a party at another university in the city town 25ish miles north of our school. She had arrived with another friend who I believe had driven. At some point she split off to play corn hole or something and was later inexplicably gone. Phone calls went to voicemail, police were called, but she was simply missing. About 10 days later she was found by a homeless man who witnessed her crawling up to a bus stop in the city, begging for help. She had broken a leg and an arm, and was in very bad shape. At the (quite large party) she had her drink secretly drugged and was then led off by a group of men into their vehicle. She was taken to an apartment where she was drugged, repeatedly r*ped, and locked in a small room in between with a bucket to use as a bathroom. At one point after being injected with heroin and r*ped, she somehow managed to convince one of her captors to allow her to use the actual bathroom to clean herself up. This bathroom had a small window to the outside, and with the shower running, she managed to squeeze out and fell from the third story into a large hedge/bush. From there she crawled from the apartment complex to the road and bus stop, where the homeless man saw her and called police. Many cars stopped upon seeing her, making her captives unable to recapture her. Three men were later arrested for the crime after surveillance cameras allowed police to locate the apartment which she jumped from. She returned to our university almost two years later, graduated, and became a nurse. She was obviously traumatised, never "partied" again, carried a gun everywhere she could, and somehow moved on with life. It was a terrifying tale none of us ever forgot. She was an 18 year old freshman when the incident happened.
Kales 3 years ago
She sounds like a badass. I can't believe the hell she went through. I hope she's still doing okay.
MeMosabe 3 years ago
There was a time when rape carried a death sentence. It still should.
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TheHalloweenTeen 3 years ago
I'm kind of confused about the last sentence, freshmen can be 18? I don't want to sound rude or anything, but I'm genuinely confused.
Avery August 1 year ago
This is why you NEVER trust anyone, unless you ACTUALLY know them. She learned the hard way.
#12
There was a woman who worked in a science lab who spilled two drops of organic mercury on the back of her gloved hand. Those two drops destroyed her entire nervous system and brain.
Camilla Koutsos 3 years ago
She's a cautionary tale. She was wearing gloves that were dimethylmercury-permeable. She told medics what her prognosis was five months later, and was proven correct. She was a poisons expert and professor of chemistry. Standard PPE for handling organic mercury changed as a result.
Susie Elle 3 years ago (edited)
So if she was a poisons expert and a professor in chemistry and knew what was going to happen to her, why did she work with the compound wearing the gloves that she wore? Even if there were no alternative gloves, why work with the substance at all? EDIT: I read the article posted below, it seems to me she didn't know what was going to happen as the gloves were believed to be sufficient. So she didn't tell medics what was going to happen because she was unaware she made a spill and later died from it.
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Ashley Schriber 3 years ago
Her name was Karen Wetterhahn. I read that story in university as a science major myself; it was featured in one of my textbooks. Particularly scary is she felt nothing wrong and went about her life for 5 months after her exposure. https://www.science.org/content/article/mercury-poisoning-kills-lab-chemist
Purplescales 3 years ago
Makes me curious how my aunts and uncles would play with the mercury from broken thermometers. Maybe that’s a different kind of mercury.
Coleen 3 years ago
I read the article, because I was thinking the same thing. In the 60's and 70's we played with the mercury from broken thermometers and also handled it in science classes. This is not the same thing. This stuff is colorless, not silver, for one. And clearly significantly more dangerous. The other stuff just rolled around on your hand like liquid silver. You could "break" it into tiny little balls and then push them all back together. We thought it was awesome.
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Tiffi 3 years ago (edited)
When i was little in the late 60s, my mom would put a glass mercury thermometer in my mouth and tell me if i bit down and broke it, it would kill me. All I could think was if it will kill me, why are you putting it in my mouth? 🥺 I would lay there like a statue till she took it out. The fear was real and I still have vivid memories of it. 😳
Jorie 3 years ago
My friend was an organic chemistry teacher at a local college for 40 years. She handled all kinds of dangerous chemicals and occasionally got some onto her person. She died this past January, at age 67, of a very rare and aggressive form of uterine cancer. I often wonder if her profession had something to do with her suffering.
Adira Bennett 3 years ago
Unfortunately people who do organic chem careers do seem more likely to die of various cancers, especially liver cancers.
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Stephanie Barr 3 years ago
When I think of how I played with mercury (like everyone in my class) as a kid. ..
Carol Storm 3 years ago
That is complete nonsense. I'm a lab tech and have handled mercury many times. Alive and well at 80.
Jordan Miller 1 year ago
Its not elemental mercury, its an organic mercury compound.
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#13
My mom was driving, and a guy ran out in the road, so she stopped so she couldn’t hit him.
It was night time, so it was pretty dark out, and 3 other men emerged from the forest around, all trying to use the door handles of her car to get in. She locked them luckily, and gassed it to the nearest town.
Remember to always lock your car after you start it, because if it wasn’t unlocked who knows what would’ve happened to her.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Locked car doors saves live. Which is why I insist on doing so up to today, moreso when I got my new car.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
Thankfully all of my vehicle locks engage as soon as it's taken out of park, but if I'm in a questionable area I'll engage them immediately 😅.
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Full of Giggles 3 years ago
Sounds similar to something that happened to my friend while in Mexico. He was driving down the highway at night and sees a young woman standing next to a car with the hood up and emergency lights on. They were in cartel territory so it wasn’t safe for the woman to be out there alone. He decides to pulls over to help. As he approached the car, a guy jumped out of the back seat and another from the trunk. Both men had their faved covered and were holding a gun. My buddy ran back to his car and booked it outta there. The guys shot him four times as he drove off. Thankfully, he survived. He later found out that those kinds of incidents aren’t uncommon in northern Mexico.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
I aways lock my car when I get into. Expecially at dark and in the early morning. Cause some people will do stuff in broad daylight. But for the people that think about it and don't, that just might get brave enough when there ant a lot of light and a lot of people out. Seen too many documentaries about people being killed to know to aways be safe. Or at least try to be wise about things like that.
Potato 3 years ago
Yep, I do it the moment I get in my car. Every time. Even in "safe" places. Because then it just becomes a habit and I'm less likely to forget when it matters.
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Stephen Lyford 3 years ago
My car doors are always locked, and my house is always locked, even when I'm home.
marianne eliza 3 years ago
Yes, lock them. We had a crime wave of gangs surrounding a car stuck in traffic at a stoplight, each breaking a window to reach in and get what they want, then running off in different directions. You're a sitting duck when stuck in traffic.
Spannidandoolar 3 years ago
I was always taught NOT to lock your doors because if you are in an accident it would be harder to get you or any passengers out of the car?
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
Not locking a door won't guarantee door will open in an accident. Possibilities are always there for a Door or/and frame to bend on impact and get jammed. I personally lock my car doors as soon as I get in regardless of day or night, known or unknown neighborhood.
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I wonder if they were drunk, if they weren't they probably would have been smart enough to break the windows and open the door. Just saying, they were probably drunk.
somnomania 3 years ago
my car locks as soon as the car is on and taken out of park the first time, it's lovely
#14
This is a hometown story that stayed with me. It happened literally right around the corner from where I grew up, maybe a two minute drive away.
Judy Kirby murdered six children and one adult by intentionally driving the wrong way on a divided highway in an attempt to commit suicide. She had been hospitalized for depression, but had also just ended a relationship with her ex husband's brother and was by some reports involved in drug trafficking and fearing an imminent arrest.
She picked up her sister's son, who was celebrating his tenth birthday that day. She then loaded her three children into the car, supposedly to pick up a gift for the nephew. Instead, she went missing with the carload of kids. A short time later, calls started coming in to 911 about a car going the wrong way down the highway at a high rate of speed. They made it about 90 seconds before a head-on collision with another vehicle, driven by a father with two children and another child along for the ride.
The crash annihilated both vehicles. The only survivors were Kirby herself, and the child who was along for the ride in the other car. There were pieces of children all over the highway. She was sentenced to 215 years in prison.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Depression is one thing, but for literally murdering that many kids, may she rot in her cell forever til the end of her days.
Susan Raskin 3 years ago
as a nurse, we were always trained to know that suicide is one breath away from homicide.You must be very careful when dealing with a suicidal person. Their rationale for taking others with them? Only they know but it could be to hurt others to cause pain to survivors, because the suicidal person is in deep pain, or perhaps they feel the world is so horrible they are doing you a favor by ending your life too.
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Kathryn P. Schmitt 3 years ago
i don't understand why suicidal people want to take others with them.
Monday 3 years ago
Yeah. You really wana kill yourself? Fine, that's your right. It's your life and you can do with it what you want, but as soon as you involve someone else you're scum.
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
There was just an accident 3 days ago in my hometown where 6 kids stole a car and were going crazy excessively fast on a notorious highway. they crashed and 4 out of the 6 kids died horribly while, like this story, the driver and ringleader lived. It seems like everyone always dies except the one who "deserves" it.
K1tt3n 3 years ago
Unless the survivor is a soulless shell of a person, I'd like to think that the faces of those they so senselessly and stupidly killed will hang over their heads and haunt them for the rest of their miserable lives. I hope...
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Black Pearl 3 years ago (edited)
This is so f****d up. I can't believe someone would be willing to kill that many innocent children because they want to kill themselves. I hope the guilt from killing those children hangs over her head for the rest of time.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Why would you try to take a bunch of kids out with you. Like why even do that. That is so sad.
Mykidsartrocks 3 years ago
Andrea Yates... Killed her own kids but not herself because suicide is a sin and she killed her kids to save their souls. Her husband, Rusty, was never charged with a crime despite leaving her alone with the children after he had been told she was dangerous. It is sad really. So many messed up people in this world.
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Bubs623 3 years ago
Why do the drivers of these crashes or drunk driving always seem to survive??
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
Well, alcohol is a muscle relaxant. You're less likely to get injured in an accident if you're relaxed. So that might go some way to explaining why drink drivers tend to walk away.
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Billie Templeton 3 years ago
I'm an aunt. I would willingly give my LIFE for my nieces. I can't imagine anything more horrible than what this POS did. (And her poor sister! Having her son murdered by his aunt.) this makes me sick.
#15
Artimus Pyle the drummer from Lynard Skynard survived a plane crash and walked to a nearby house only to be shot by the homeowner. The homeowner saw a bloody long-haired man and winged him. Pyle survived that as well and made a full recovery.
Sarah Parker 3 years ago
The only thing I get from this is 'judgmental a-hole homeowner'. Sees blood and long hair and first thought is to shoot? People need in-depth psychological evaluations before anyone considers selling them killing machines.
(She/her)Introverted Potato 🥔 3 years ago
Or better yet, don’t sell killing machines!
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Karma Black 3 years ago
According to pretty much everyone but Pyle, Pyle wasn't hit. The homeowner thought that he was an escaped convict and fired a warning shot over Pyle's head; but once Pyle informed him off the crash, the homeowner helped him inside and ended up being one of the first people to help at the crash site.
Nelson Sturdivant 3 years ago
He wasn't shot. The appearance of Pyle alarmed the 21-year-old farmer Johnny Mote, who mistook him for an escaped convict and fired a warning shot over Pyle's head. Pyle would later joke he was hit in the shoulder, but his other accounts differ.[5] Mote also refutes the claim of Pyle being shot, when interviewed at the crash scene for VH1's 2002 documentary Lynyrd Skynyrd's Uncivil War.[6]
Foxes forever! 3 years ago
Probably going to get down voted, but I’m pretty jumpy and would have mad the same call as the homeowner, I would be fricken the heck out.
Madeleine 3 years ago
If you know you’re “jumpy” you should not keep guns around. Absolutely terrible combination.
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pinkytoes 3 years ago
and then he went on to molest 2 girls, but only got probation. he's a scumbag
Mason Kronol 3 years ago
Exactly what I was going to say. My husband used to be a Synard fan. Not so much anymore.
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Mark Kelly 3 years ago
Kind of hope the homeowner was charged with something cuz you can't just shoot someone without wanting even if they're on your property.
#16
Years ago when I was 8 my family lived in this big weird house kind of on the edge of a small town. The school district was in the middle of a big restructuring so even though we were only a couple grades apart my brother and I went to different schools and took different buses. This left me as the last person to leave in the morning and the first person to get home in the afternoon, which meant it was my job to make sure all the lights were off and the door was locked.
One morning I noticed the basement door was open and the light was on so before I left I turned off the light and closed the door. When I got home that afternoon the light was on and the door was open again. I just assumed that I’d forgotten to actually take care of it when I noticed it in the morning so I went over to turn off the light and close the door. When I got to the top of the basement stairs I looked and there was a big shadowy male figure towards the bottom of the staircase. I freaked out, slammed the door and pushed a bunch of boxes against it and then went and hid in my closet. For months I didn’t tell my family because I was positive what I had seen was a ghost and didn’t think anyone would believe me.
Then about a year after that incident my mom and her boyfriend realized that small amounts of money had been going missing for months (totaling around $800-900, but never more than $60 at once). So we all walked around the house with flashlights trying to figure out how they could have gotten in. Turns out some creep was climbing in through a small hole in the outside of the house, shimmying through a crawl space, then coming up into the house through the basement. Realizing I had been alone in the house with him on at least one occasion was one of the worst, most terrifying moments I’ve ever had.
Screen_Addict 3 years ago
And... now I'm locking everything I can, including my office drawers
pink_panda 3 years ago
If I'm alone and I realize I've somehow left the house unlocked while I was out, I'll grab a golf club and check every room before going to bed.
justme 3 years ago
That seems really dangerous. Probably better to call the cops just in case.
Load More Replies... Ari 3 years ago (edited)
EVEN WORSE!! I'd take seeing a ghost in my house than some random deranged guy In my house Nope!! I'm already scared of men too much.
K1tt3n 3 years ago
People are MUCH scarier than ghosts. I completely agree with you!
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Avery August 1 year ago
This is why you LOCK every door and windows in you house, and make sure there are no holes that lead inside your house. People are crazy these days.
Harris Good 2 years ago
There was a story of a lady who got murdered or something because people snuck in through her medicine cabinet
#17
One of my friends had someone following her home, hiding in the bushes so they couldn't be seen. She booked it to her house, got inside, and he was watching the house from the outside. She called the cops. They come along quietly and got the jump on him. He had condoms, handcuffs, and a knife. When they got his DNA, it turned out that he was linked to a half dozen r*pes in the area. She credits her regimen of running sprints to outrunning him that night and firmly believes she would have been r*ped if she couldn't outrun him then.
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
Why is BP censoring the word R A P E? It is a word that names a despicable deed, the word itself is not “guilty”.
pink_panda 3 years ago
I think because the word can be a stress trigger for some people who have survived it? Though it seems like the whole story would be a trigger, so I'm not sure how censoring the word really helps.
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Ashley Hardy 3 years ago
I went out on a first date with a guy and after we finished dining he kept insisting I sit in his car afterwards. I happen to glance in his back seat and saw what I’d call a murder kit. Heavy plastic drop cloth, zip ties, duct tape, a small axe, and other s**t. I never got away from someone so fast.
Ness1972 3 years ago
Why are people being "triggered" by someone showing consideration to others. Does it actually harm you to see a word with an asterisk in it? Are you unable to empathise with those who would be triggered by the use of the actual word.
KAREN 3 years ago (edited)
When you censor words the whole story and WARNING aren't explained to help others, like not talking to teens about sex its not knowing that causes the problem...Stop censoring important words Bored Panda.
DancingPanda 3 years ago
Read the things about sensitivity and triggers, censoring is there for a reason, though warnings in front of stories like this are a good idea, I like creepy things but this specific story was triggering and I didn’t know beforehand
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666Slay.Com 2 years ago
I had something like this happen to me and my 2 friends when we decided to walk to the corner store around midnight.
Rachel Benge 2 years ago
This is why we have to learn to run through all our education years!!! 🤔For once I think I'll willingly run in gym now
#18
Nutty Putty Cave in Utah was sealed up in 2009 after John Jones was trapped upside-down in a small crevice while spelunking. When rescue teams finally arrived he had been upside-down for so long that his legs were drained of blood.
The only possible way to have gotten him out was to break his legs, which would’ve sent him into fatal shock. He died after being trapped for 28 hours. His body’s still in the cave.
Eevi 3 years ago
He didn't, he had his brother with him. It was just impossible to save him from that cave, and after he died from cardiac arrest it would be really dangerous to try to take his body oit of the cave. That's why his family decided he should have his final resting place in that cave. The entrance is now sealed.
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pocwaddler 3 years ago
I remember when this happened, it was a big thing on the news. He wasn't the first one, either. There had already been several people trapped in that cave, which has now been closed off totally.
Ada Hunter 3 years ago
my parents used to take my older brother in there when he was little and their only kid. so imagine two BYU kids with a two or three year old in these caves. they were not the smartest people back then
Avery August 1 year ago
Don't go into caves wIthout making sure that they are safe first. It's called," Common Sense.'
Jacqueline Quackenbush 2 years ago
Imagine The Toll This Must Have Taken On The People Trying To Save Him
#19
My wife arrived at her Parents house that she was currently living in due to health issues of her Fathers. She got into the house (no one else was there at the time) and instead of going further in, stopped in the first room that held the computers which was right by the door. She went into the room and was messing around on the internet when one of the cats came into the room. Her cat to be precise. Well this cat was super laid back. Loved everyone and never picked fights or got aggressive. He would literally lay down and let squirrels throw pecans at him from trees and do nothing but take it. Not tonight however, tonight he was growling and hissing intermittently while standing between my Wife and the entrance to the rest of the house. A laid back sweet old cat was acting like he was going to rip out a throat. Turns out they found the back door wide open (super bad, her parents and her NEVER leave the door unlocked much less open). She came to find out later from those cops that they were hunting down a serial rapist that had been spotted in the area and that was why there were rolling down a safe (normally) residential street. Super spooky. Life pro tip? Always trust the cat.
Xenia Harley 3 years ago
Yes, I had two cats who would growl like dogs if someone came to the door that was unfamiliar. Cats can be protective like dogs.
Chrissyfox 3 years ago
Years ago we lived in a small house on a hill (22steps up from the road). At the back was a ramshackle glass porch that looked over into our neighbours' back garden. I'd think I was pregnant at the time with a toddler. We had two cats, who liked to lay out in the porch. One afternoon during a heavy rain storm, the two cats were acting very strangely; they were watching my neighbours' back door - very wide eyed with their fur bristled. I thought it weird but that's all. Later, my neighbour came round to say they had been burgled. Thieves had broken in the back and casually walked out the front door with a load of stuff including a huge tv. I'm so glad I didn't go and investigate although I did feel for my friends. But kudos to the cats.
Bill Swallow 3 years ago
I get the feeling that there's a paragraph missing in this story, but it seems easy enough to fill in the gaps and get the gist of it. Glad you (apparently) survived it unscathed!
Phil Boswell 3 years ago
Yesl there's a whole extra paragraph between the second and third shown here: «Well my wife decided that this was really f*****g weird so she picked up her cat and left the house. Lo and behold she sees a cop car patrolling down her street and flagged them down. She explained the situation and they told (demanded) that she stay in their cruiser while they both checked it out.»
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I'e had cats get between me and what they saw as a threat to me. And attack. Good kitty!
Michelle Carlson 3 years ago
I always pay attention to my cats' behavior! They don't like strangers and if they don't come out to greet us when we get home, I get instantly suspicious.
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
well maybe this works in this case but there was this one person i knew who i thought was nice and my cat who's usually super shy liked them, but they turned out to be a dirtbag with the iq of a baked potato if baked potatoes were dumber than they already are. maybe the baked potato was baked in more than one way. so yes, if you happen to be reading this, i'm calling you a high baked potato with no brain. you know who you are
Mary Payton 3 years ago
My cats always let me know if something is out there, like dogs or someone, little watch cats.
#20
My friend tripped and fell onto the tracks, landing his face onto the 3rd rail. We kinda stood there in absolute shock because we thought he was dead, but then he said, "can I move? Will I be electrocuted?" We told him to move instantly and he did, we got him off the tracks, and no less than 2 minutes later a train went zipping by. I think the 3rd rail turned on seconds after his face came off of it. I know that's not scary to a lot of people, but to me it was because I would have lost a close friend back when I was about 12.
Booklover<3 3 years ago
I don't live in a place with subways or train tracks, but I've heard things about this third rail, can someone please explain??
Scott Andrews 3 years ago
Some areas do not have overhead power lines. Instead, electric trains get their power from a third rail alongside the main rails.
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Upstaged75 3 years ago (edited)
A friend of my brother's was electrocuted and killed after accidentally touching the 3rd rail on the NYC subway. He was walking across the tracks at the time. Really awful. He was only 26. https://gothamist.com/news/third-rail-death-at-nassau-g-stop
Jae 3 years ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I don't live in an area that has a subway, but just hearing about the 3rd rail gives me anxiety. I'm sorry for your and your friend's loss.
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TheElderNom 3 years ago
I'm a train driver, to me it's super scary. Please for the love of everything stay off the tracks!! This includes non electric tracks as well. Trains are silent and deadly.
Su Boddie 3 years ago (edited)
The third rail is always "on" in most rail systems. A person standing on the rail is "safe". It is only when a person touches the third rail AND one of the other rails (called ' the running rail') that electrocution occurs. This happens because touching another rail causes the circuit to be closed. See the following. From Quora: "Because your friend didn't ground himself by touching another rail. Most people are electrocuted when they step on the third rail and the running rail at the same time. Depending on where your friend did this, in NYC, the third rail is protected by wood a or fiberglass covering above the rail. Death is still a danger if someone is on the running rail and touches the side of the third rail, which is exposed. Chicago’s CTA system’s third rail is exposed and uncovered. ANY CONTACT WITH the third rail and the running rail WILL RESULT IN DEATH!"
Narwhal Blast 3 years ago
When I was little, we were in the country going to visit my grandmother. It was faster if we crossed a bridge with rails on it and underneath the bridge. I was playing with my older sister when her leg slipped and went in between the wooden slippers and was inches away from the electrical wires underneath for the other train rails... I got so scared for her, I couldn't walk at the time. I was five. I literally thought I will see my sister toasted like in cartoons...
#21
A guy i worked with was riding his dirt-bike through the woods and somebody hung a cable between two trees. My buddy caught his throat on it and saw the dude steal his dirt-bike. Woke up in the hospital with a lacerated throat and a broken larynx. Pretty crazy what somebody will do for something so cheap.
Bella10 3 years ago
Unfortunately a lot of the world don’t have a childhood that is able to provide them with safety and ethics. They view life as a dog eat dog world and you take what you can get to survive. That dirt bike was probably not at all cheap to them, and they would have had no empathy for the person they had to steal if from.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
It's sad but some people really are very callus towards others. Some just don't care and others didn't have a childhood that enabled them to learn how to function in normal society, as Bella 10 says in essence.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
It could have been even worse. People have been decapitated outright by traps like that.
Paul C. 3 years ago
My Grandad was a despatch motorbike rider during WW2, his bike had a special curved spike from the frame over his head to divert these type of wire traps.
Falcon on Dizzy 3 years ago
yeah, this was a common thing in ww2. Germans would put up thin strings just at neck height for a person in a jeep, so the Americans put bars on the front of the jeeps to snap the wires
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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
A young guy who worked at the golf club my parents belonged to died that way too.
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Something similar happened to my dad years ago though I don't think it was to steal anything. He was on his skidoo and someone had strung a chain across the trail, it caught my dads helmet and forced it backwards, the chin strap almost took his nose off. He had to have reconstructive surgery and is fine now.
Jane Cortez 3 years ago
We were driving on the highway and a car whizzed past us, doing perhaps 140 miles per hour, it was astounding. We pulled over, ate lunch in a restaurant and continued on our way. A couple/few hours later we pull into a gas station just off of the highway and there is this car, mangled off to the side, with blood. This was in the 1908’s, Southern States, so guess it was mangled, then towed. No one could have survived how flattened and utterly squashed this car was. Really eerie to think we saw them hurtling towards their death and they were oblivious to their fate.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This also happened in my city (decades ago)...but the rider was decapitated.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
I had a dentist some years ago who had a scar across his neck. This had happened to him when he was a young teen. Guess it's more prevalent than one might think. Crazy world. Crazy people
Stephen Lyford 3 years ago
There's no excuse ever for putting a cable between trees like that, but it begs the question: were they riding illegally on private property? I've seen plenty of videos online where dirt bikers ride on private property until the land owners just get too pissed off.
Patricia Stilwell 3 years ago
"Begs the question " does NOT mean raises the question or poses a question. It refers to a logical fallacy that uses a circular argument.
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Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
I met a guy in VT who'd had the same thing happen to him on a snowmobile. Not the stealing, the almost getting decapitated. His voice was gone from severed vocal chords.
#22
Ex girlfriend at just under 18 years old had her father attempt to r*pe her in her sleep. Woke up to him attempting and struggled endlessly until finally he got up and left. Few days later he tried to offer her money for sex. A few weeks later she turned 18, packed up her stuff and I got her out of the house while he was at work. Over the course of the next 3 years I stayed in a relationship with her while she lashed out and completely let loose. Cheating, partying, lying, fighting, etc. It completely ripped the girl's life apart and she lost all inhibition. I stayed so she had a constant to come "home" to, we're both in agreement that if I didn't stay she'd probably be dead. We split up about 5 years ago, but are now best friends and she's living a great life. It was hard for me not to do something to that dude....
Alice In_Hell 3 years ago
He should have been reported. This happens waaaaay too much and these disgusting vile excuses for a human being need to be castrated and jailed for the rest of their lives, with the general population prisoners.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
With out you she wouldn't of had no one. Without you she probably would have died. Thank you for what you did.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
I personally know so many women who were sexually assaulted by relatives including fathers and grandfathers. It’s not actually rare at all. We just don’t talk about it.
Mario Strada 3 years ago
Been there. The damage these men do is incalculable. They are also unable to understand it.
Adira Bennett 3 years ago
It's her decision, not his, and it's not an easyor simple decision to make.
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#23
Happened to me, have posted about it before. I was around 11 years old and I woke up in the middle of the night to a man straddled on top of me with his hand over my mouth and nose. He told me to roll over and not scream. I rolled onto the floor and tried to scream bloody murder ( I say tried cause when you are truly terrified it can take a second to find your voice) my mom heard me screaming and came in and fought with the guy, he was at least 6' she was 5'3" and scared him enough with the fighting and screaming that he took off out the window he had come in through. Never did catch him.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
The most dangerous animal in the cosmos is a mother protecting her offspring. I learned that any mother can be fierce the time when I was around ten and menaced some ducklings, and the mother duck flew right in my face and scared the pants off me.
Stylishsidewaysbird 3 years ago
Always fight. Always scream. Cause a scene. Never let yourself get taken to a secondary location. Don’t believe the threats against your life or your family. Your are more likely to survive if you fight than if you comply.
Sathe Wesker 3 years ago
That’s a mothers instinct for you. Mother hen to mother bear in a nanosecond
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
That was a good mom. I know moms are suppose to save there kids. But some people theses days ..........yeah they end up doing the opposite. Which is sad. But this is a hero mom
Misty-Dawn Amayi 3 years ago (edited)
I'm a little 5'3" middle-aged and crippled mom. If I heard/found my son screaming under any assailant of any size, said assailant would be enduring the rest of their life with more impairments than I have. Not a boast. A fact. Never provoke the mama bear, and never mess with her babies.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
I know someone whose nighttime childhood abduction was interrupted by her sister waking up and screaming bloody murder. This s**t happens.
#24
This is from South Africa. The woman is called Alison Botha and she was abducted, r*ped and then choked until she blacked out. She was driven into a secluded area, stabbed 30 times in the abdomen and 16 times in the throat and left for dead on the side of the road. She had to use her shirt to keep her organs inside her body and hold her head up because of a damaged muscle in her neck and proceeded to crawl to the road where she was eventually spotted and rescued. She survived the attack and now does motivational speaking I believe.
Potty pagan panda 3 years ago
Humans. All the evil insanity in the world come from humans. So very terrifying
ItsJess 3 years ago
But think of the incredible resiliency and courage were capable of...
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Ryan Massey 3 years ago
She spoke at my school many years ago. The most bad a*s person you've ever met. She speaks openly on how she mentally survived the rape and then had the will power to live. This was in the early 2000s and as a young boy it stuck with me. Most amazing person.
Noelle R 3 years ago
South Africa is like number 1 on a list of most dangerous places for female tourists and my cousin still wants to go there smh. I never will.
Ryan Massey 3 years ago
Well then you missing out. It is dangerous, no doubt, but there are much worse places in the world. I honestly think there are areas in the US that are much worse than SA (exceptionally after reading some of these posts)... SA is one of the most beautiful places in the world, the people are AMAZING, the wildlife is unreal, the food is delicious and many areas surprisingly 1st world... Definitely worth a visit, just have to plan it properly and be street wise...
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Jackie Calisto 3 years ago
https://allthatsinteresting.com/alison-botha I've read her book, it's terrifying that there are people out there capable of doing this to another person.
Jessica J. 3 years ago (edited)
I worked with someone from South Africa...they used to talk about how bad things were getting there; he said things had been deteriorating for awhile, but after Mandela died, they completely lost their way. When U.S. companies started recruiting for his profession from outside the U.S., he took it.
#25
I've posted this before, but mine: When I was a baby, my dad played on a softball team. Typical social team, out for beers and pizza after with the guys, family event-type-thing. My parents were good friends with 2 of the other couples, both of them had young kids as well. On this occasion, the other 2 couples had left their kids at one of their houses, with a baby sitter they were splitting. They invited my parents back to the house to have some more beers that night, but I was being fussy and my mom nixed the idea (though they would 100% have normally gone back to hang out) Well, it turned out my fussiness on that day saved our lives. When the other parents got back to the house, they walked in on a home invasion. Two men had broken in, tied up the kids and the baby sitter (and her boyfriend), and were waiting for the parents. Took the parents hostage as well, and made the dads drive with them to banks/a grocery store where one dad was manager and clear out accounts/a safe. They then came back to the house, and slaughtered both families, the baby sitter, and her boyfriend. Kids included. They caught the 2 guys later on. My dad attended the trials, and said it was the first time he had ever had thoughts of supporting the death penalty. It still gives me chills to know how close we came to getting killed that day, too.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
I seriously hope both those scumbuckets eventually end up being flayed or get their miserable skulls bashed in while in prison!!! Then, may they spend their eternities on Purgatory's flaying board!!!
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
My friend does professional ballet, and a girl on her dance team was slaughtered (like actually disemboweled) along with her mother, by her (the girl's) father, who then killed himself
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I hope these f*****g scumbags die the most painful, torturous death possible and then burn in the depths of hell for the rest of eternity. That's not even a bad enough punishment tbh. I hope they're dead and I hope the pay for their crimes somehow. Monsters.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
There are 8 billion of us. We can just do without some people. Lock them up and throw away the key if the death penalty is off the table.
🌵 Drazil 3 years ago
Were they caught?! Are they still in prison??! I was opposed to the death penalty until I realized that these monsters play at being "good" in prison. What have they got to lose?!? Then "good" lawyers take the case and persuade the attorney general and the courts that he's been rehabilitated and no longer a threat to the "good" residents. Well..... too many walk out and start over! Even one more death caused by one of these "good" men (who just made a mistake when they were young, found god or was pressured into committing this) is one too many. There's too much recidivism to allow these "good" men to wander the streets. However, there are 18 million people serving sentences in the US public and private prisons. Maybe Elon Musk could use them for his space adventures. Any others brilliant ideas floating around???
Jacqueline Quackenbush 2 years ago
Psychopaths And Sociopaths Actually Do Very Well Within The Prison System. The Precision + Order + Repetition Seems To Regulate Their Emotions
Load More Replies... Coleen 3 years ago
Do the names Victor or Lodi sound familiar to you? I was in Jr. High when this happened. I remember it well.
andrewacton 3 years ago
The Parkin family, friends of my parents. Willie Steelman and Doug Gretzler were the killers. Horrific.https://saddlebagnotes.com/willie-steelman-and-douglas-gretzler/image_1d3fd82e-6c89-5061-b3e6-6c7570701c66.html
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The Lake Nyos Disaster. The lake periodically belches a cloud of invisible carbon dioxide gas that suffocates everything within a 16 mile radius. In 1986, over 1700 people and all their livestock died without even understanding what was happening to them.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
By Wikipedia: "A degassing system has since been installed at the lake, with the aim of reducing the concentration of CO2 in the waters and therefore the risk of further eruptions."
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Thanks! Phew! Just read another article on the fatal event from Smithsonian with this chilling line: “"On that day there were no flies on the dead," says Che. The flies were dead too.” I’m glad we’re trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again :)
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Rigor Moreno 3 years ago
Install carbon dioxide indicator in the area. Abandon the 20 mile radius...
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Both these things have been done. And a valve has been installed to vent the gas safely.
Load More Replies... Penny Kemper 3 years ago
Yeah funny that didn't try this degassing until 2001... 15 years later.
Freeasabird 3 years ago
Its a planet thing, we can't fix everything the earth does naturally. This planet isn't ours to play around with. If its a risk to live near it then move.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
They DID. "A degassing system has since been installed at the lake, with the aim of reducing the concentration of CO2 in the waters and therefore the risk of further eruptions."
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#27
Tough to pick just one because there is true evil in humanity out there. Stuff like the blood eagle ritual is pretty awful.
But in terms of really scary...probably stuff that just kind of happens on accident. Like the story of Kyle Plush. Just awful. He was in a minivan that has one of those back seats that you can push backward to lay flat in the trunk for extra storage space. He went to grab something in the trunk, leaning over the seat, and it tipped backward and pinned him, upside down, against the back of the car in a position such that he couldn't get himself out.
He called the police TWICE. The second time he called and gave them a very clear description of the car.
"Plush called 911 again at around 3:35 p.m. Police said this time he provided a description of the vehicle as he desperately pleaded for help but couldn't hear the dispatcher. Isaac said the information didn't get relayed to officers at the scene.
"This is not a joke," the teen said over 911. "I'm almost dead."
He asked the dispatcher to "tell my mom I love her if I die."
Just a horrible, random accident that could have happened to anybody. This kid didn't go looking for trouble, like he didn't try and go down a chimney or go caving like other people who have gotten stuck and suffocated. He was just reaching for something in his trunk, got pinned, and then was not found in time. Nightmarish for the kid and his family.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
This is one of my worst fears. Dying by some freak accident without anybody there to help and not being able to say goodbye to anyone. It just seems like such a terrible way to die.
️ saturn the furry (she/they) 3 years ago
It was kinda the polices fault though
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Stephen OHara 3 years ago
This happened just down the road from my house. Truly a senseless loss.
Grace Noyes 3 years ago
This story haunts me to this day. Just a young high school kid who went back out to his car to get some equipment he needed for an after school activity. He knew he was dying and so he told the dispatcher to tell his mom he loved her. Horrifying.
DancingPanda 3 years ago
I was once threatened with a gun when I was 12, had my friend give me his phone because he was too afraid to call the police, couldn’t go home because the guy said he’d follow us home and shoot us in the night, I told the dispatcher what was happening with an exact location (it was in my neighborhood so I knew the zip code of the building and the streets and which highway it was off of) there was a police station a mile or two away, I hung up like an idiot, 15 minutes later I called again, same thing, same location, said I can’t go home because he’d follow me, 30 minutes later the police finally showed up, and we’re surprised it was actually happening, the guy was still there waiting for us to go home so he could follow us, luckily he was just a troubled 17 year old who was too scared to actually kill someone, but it was terrifying and the police took so long not because they were far away, but because they thought it was a prank because I was a kid, all calls should be taken seriously
Load More Replies... Laura Ford-Everett 3 years ago
That's a weird one. Cops didn't get info relayed by 911...press conference said changes were to be made to their 911 but it never was. Still understaffed...that's a super sad one :(
Esme love and squalor 3 years ago
This is terrible. I’m sorry but what is the blood eagle ritual? 😯
Lia Salvatore 3 years ago
i googled, all i can find is it was thought to be a viking ritual
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Brian Droste 3 years ago
I remember this incident. I believe the dispatcher did not give the police all the details so the police could not locate the vehicle propetly, when they did it was to late. The boy already was dead. I believe he either told the dispatcher or the police to tell his parents that he loved them. Also I believe the dispatcher was fired.
Brian Droste 3 years ago
I remember this incident and why the police couldn't find the minivan if I remember right the dispatchet didn't give all the details to the police do the police couldn't find the vehicle. All the child told the dispatcher that he lived his parents.
#28
This may just horrify me more than others: Dude was working on a tuna steamer and they closed him in and steamed him. I can't help but imagine that as anything but a truly terrifying and painful way to die. One of the main reasons I never could bring myself to do real factory labor is because I don't trust people enough to not tuna steam me. EDIT: Thanks for the gold. RIP Jose Melena.
Jaaawn 3 years ago
That's why I prefer jobs that vary day to day. As soon as you give in to monotony, you can slack off a bit and become less aware/careful (albeit unintentionally.)
pink_panda 3 years ago
Oh jeez, I'm way too absent-minded to work on heavy equipment on the regular. Terrifying.
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Sharkbait1313 3 years ago
Same.... not a good post to read before bed as a single mama at home alone with her babes.
Load More Replies... blankman 3 years ago
Way back when I had a summer job working in a plastics factory - one that made the meat trays you find in grocery stores. The machinery worked like the kid's toy called a vacuform (basically heats a sheet of plastic and then the two halves of the machine come together and a vacuum on one side sucks the plastic into the mold. Thing is, our US plant did the same thing but for tool cased - the sort of thing you might get an electric drill or some such in. And one of the mechanics went into the machine to adjust something without locking it out - as you might guess, the machine cycled.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Yipes! This is why you drill safety protocols into people and make sure they are followed to the letter!
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Veri Rockt 3 years ago
People love animal cruelty and hate to talk about it
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Bored Trash Panda 2 years ago
When I was in elementary school, a friend on mines dad worked at a plastic factory in Tacoma WA, he fell into the vat that churns the colors into the molten plastic.
#29
The 1904 Cincinnati Privy Disaster. In 1904, nine schoolgirls drowned in an outhouse after the floor collapsed. They literally drowned in human waste.
Accalia 3 years ago (edited)
You're telling me! I grew up in that neighborhood! (Edit: This was my elementary school! I played on the grounds where those girls drowned!)
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Something similar happened in Erfurst, Germany, in 1184. The floor of a church collapsed while the son of the Holy Roman Emperor was having a meeting to solve some local noblemen land dispute. Over 60 noblemen died in the disaster, and nearly changed history for Europe.
Arian Arian 3 years ago
Still happens in Russia. Several such deaths every year. A lot of people in remote country areas here never saw a flushing toilet (only in pictures probably).
Liv harrison 3 years ago (edited)
It’s sorta like the scene in saw where the guy is in a tank of rotten pigs that were ground into slush , very sad though that sounds awful
Ari 3 years ago
I- I could never handle that. I would want to die at that point (RIP 😔 im not trying to be disrespectful in any way.)
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Yeah, I've showered in it but haven't had to swim in it...yet.
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i was in a c**ppy motel. the room had bedbugs. i was too exhausted to go to the front desk. i just needed to make it until the morning. i slept in the tub. hours later i hear someone breaking through the window. i had a big knife with me and ran out into the room to find a man halfway through my window. we stared for awhile at each other in shock. i think we both were scared. then he says," is this your room?" im like," yes, this is my room man!" more staring. then he slowly starts backing out while cursing me for leaving my window unlocked and not expecting him to break in.
motel on watt ave, sacramento.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
*stares at each other, long silence* “Is this your room?” is what got me 😂 “well you shouldn’t leave your window unlocked, look how easily i can just break in! Idiot!” Hahaha
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DS 3 years ago
I grew up in Sacramento. High crime. I didn’t even go on walks without a knife, pepper spray and a taser.
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#31
My long-term partner decided to end his life suddenly and unexpectedly a few years ago. He was the happiest person I knew and even with 20/20 hindsight, videos, poring through old messages etc I wouldn't be able to identify any warning signs.
KnightOwl 3 years ago
The fact that we never know what's going on in other people's minds is both terrifying and incredibly sad. So many people get so good at hiding their pain that no-one around them has any idea they're struggling. I know a few people who've committed suicide and most of the time it's a huge shock to the people around them. Always check in on people around you, even if they seem happy and 'normal' sometimes all it takes is one person reaching out and showing some kindness to save a life.
Marleinah Smith 3 years ago
Another terrifying aspect of never knowing what people are thinking is that they only pretend to care about you when, in fact, they are against you behind your back. I have lived a lifetime of this, starting with my own parents, so please...do not downvote this.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
A local man here who was the happiest, cheeriest, friendliest person you could possibly imagine went missing not that long ago. Turns out he had really serious depression and by the time they found him he was gone. Nobody saw it coming. RIP, Sam. :(
Harvey Vostrejs 3 years ago
My partner attempted a couple months ago. You know logically it's not your fault, but you still blame yourself. I still feel like I should have known.
Pink_Boba22 3 years ago
I hope you are doing well now. Sending all the love in the world to you and your partner. ❤
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BoopBoop 3 years ago
There are certain medications that seem innocuous that can cause suicidal thoughts in some people, seemingly out of the blue. There's at least one allergy medication and a smoking-cessation drug that have been linked to suicides in people who had not been previously treated for depression or suicidal thoughts. Sometimes the reason is just that a virus has unwittingly been downloaded into the brain's software and it suddenly crashed.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
A very dear friend's husband hung himself in the local park. The entire 6th grade soccer team saw him when they showed up for practice.
#32
In my town in the early 90's there was a notorious killer that had all of BC, Canada on watch. My wifes mother (years and years before I knew them) had been home alone while her Husband was in England doing tree surgeon work (arborist)
She was in her laundry room when a man walked up from her basement, completely scaring her, she freaked out and said what the hell are you doing here?
He said he was friends with her husband and was just coming to see if he was here, apparently he told him he could just walk in. Which she knew was b******t.
She was smart enough to tell him that he was just at the store and would be back any minute. He said he would wait outside for him, as soon as he left she called the police, but he was long gone by the time they got here.
Two weeks later, the killer was caught, his mugshot put on TV and it was the guy in her house.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Wait I'm confused. Why would he not just kill her and then wait for the husband?
Fathia Baroroh 3 years ago
Because she said he would back any minute... The killer didn't wanna risk getting caught.
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3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
90s killer in BC - not Robert Pickton eh? (My boyfriend’s dad worked on the pickton case and that’s the only one I can find on Google!)
Elladine DesIsles 3 years ago (edited)
He's the only person I can think of, too. But Pickton was known as a killer of sex workers and addicts, not housewives. He targeted vulnerable women, at least some of whom visited his farm voluntarily, unaware of the danger they were in. I know the daughter of one of his victims. The story here does not fit his known behaviour.
Load More Replies... Avery August 1 year ago
Are you serious, she said in these exact words," My husband is at the super market and will be back any minute. He will wait outside and call the police."
Hammond Chiez 2 years ago
Serial killers usually have a certain way they like to kill their victims. It's like a ritual to them, and they don't want to be interrupted.
#33
My dad and some friends got drunk and went for a drive on some back roads and were going as fast as the truck would go as teenagers. My dad was slightly less drunk than the others and eventually demanded they let him get out. They pulled over and he and one other girl got out. He and the girl started walking to town while the other three sped off in the opposite direction.
Well less than a mile up the road from where they got out is an extremely sharp turn, which they missed and hit a tree going pretty close to triple digits (miles per hour). Two of them died on impact and the only reason the third survived is because they crashed in front of a house that two doctors lived in. The survivor was paralyzed and lost his leg and part of his arm and was in the hospital for eight months before dying. This was in the ‘60s so medical care wasn’t what it is today.
When I first got my permit my dad took me to that corner to explain the importance of safe driving. It gave me goosebumps about how close he was to being in the truck. He said that the dad of the driver got what remained of the truck to be hung up in the center of town for months after to be a warning to all.
Jaaawn 3 years ago (edited)
This happened to my mother when se was a young woman, although in her case they wouldn't let her out. Car took a very sharp turn which it couldn't handle and ended up rolling over 5 times. Was a miracle she was uninjured. Seatbelts and pure luck.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Depressingly, just a few weeks ago right here in my home city some idiot teenager crashed a car with two teenage girls in it, probably while drunk. He then ran away from the scene of the accident, leaving the girls to die.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
What a douchebag. Was he caught and did he get in any trouble?
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
Back in the 80s, my mom and uncle were driving back to their farm (VERY rural area), and they came up on a small hill. Uncle made sure to get over because you never know if there's farming equipment or whatever else on the road and sure enough, a couple idiots who were drunk and high flew over the hill and hit mom and uncle head on before fleeing the scene. Uncle was killed instantly and mom, being all of 18 years old, walked half a mile to the nearest farm for help. She knew the other drivers, but they were never charged. She's still scared to go down that road.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
About a month before we graduated high school, 4 of my classmates (who were drunk) were driving from one party to another. They even had a keg in the car with them. The car drove off the road in to a tree, which killed one girl. Her boyfriend was the driver. The dead girl's best friend broke her neck and the other boy in the car ended up in a coma. I'm still shocked it happened. These were smart kids and we had been taught all our lives that drinking and driving was deadly. Such a waste of a young life!
Jacqueline Quackenbush 2 years ago
Where I Am (Quebec) Automotive Accidents Are The Number One Killer Of Youth
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DumYum 3 years ago
I think this happens frequently in towns and cities across the USA and in every generation. 2 best friends—both young men—partied every week in the summer before college. Both were drunk and high, and when the driver couldn’t negotiate a turn they crashed. The passenger died. The 2 families that had always been close were split. The dead son’s parents never forgave their son’s best friend. The survivor did time. Meanwhile, it could have easily been the other son driving that day. Both sets of parents knew the boys ran wild and what they were doing. Luckily, they didn’t kill anyone else in an accident.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
I know a surprising number of people who lost family members to cars being hit by trains. For the love of god watch out when you cross railroad tracks.
Teresa Spanics 3 years ago
I knew some people from high school who died due drinking and driving including one guy who thought his vehicle was faster than a train.
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Yvette Desmarais 3 years ago
This happened with four Seniors in my high school. One died. The car ended up well above the road, up a bank, on the side of a tree. The marks were there for a long time.
Crissie Laugesen 3 years ago
So unlucky, hitting a tree that was, it seems from the above, moving very fast (triple digits)...
#34
Amateur rugby. Guy gets hit pretty hard and dislocates his hip. While waiting for the ambulance, a guy runs up saying he's a physio and can at least relocate the joint.
He cracks the hip back into its socket and the guy SCREAMS.
One of his testicles had been jolted out of place in the accident - and had been chilling out in the empty hip socket.
Squish.
Indosidius 3 years ago
As painfull as that sounds, what hurts me more is that rugby is a completely different game from what is depicted in the photo, which is American football.... But PickleRick had an awesome reply.
Mora Chilis 3 years ago
I know. This is made up. Absolutely not possible LOL Do they even fact check before posting article?
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Black Pearl 3 years ago
What did they do??? Did it just stay in the socket after that or did they somehow get it out of there??
Mora Chilis 3 years ago
Down vote. This is anatomical;y impossible. So stupid. Jolted a testicle out of place? Chilling in an empty hip socket. This is not how bodies work LOL I am laughing so hard...remove this c**p/
#35
[The Toy Box Killer] and his [transcripts.] If you absolutely want to have your day ruined, this has to be one of the most disturbing, creepeiest things ever. Serial killer David Parker Ray would play these tapes for his victims, so they had an idea of what was coming and to also mentally break them. Here the start of one tape to give you an idea: >"Hello there, b***h. Are you comfortable right now? I doubt it. Wrists and ankles chained. Gagged. Probably blind folded. You are disoriented and scared, too, I would imagine. Perfectly normal, under the circumstances. For a little while, at least, you need to get your s**t together and listen to this tape. It is very relevant to your situation. I’m going to tell you, in detail, why you have been kidnapped, what’s going to happen to you and how long you’ll be here. I don’t know the details of your capture, because this tape is being created July 23rd,1993 as a general advisory tape for future female captives. Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to wake up in a place you didn't know and have someone play these tapes for you telling you what horrible things were going to happen to you before you died?
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
I think that I'd hope to dîe of a heart attack before he could get started.
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Melissa Hollowell 3 years ago
And he had a female accomplice. How can a woman stand by and allow another woman to be brutalized like that? Thank goodness for Cynthia Vigil-Jaramillo.
Stylishsidewaysbird 3 years ago
His lady friend accomplice was paroled and ended up moving to a small town in Montana (Hamilton, MT) recently. I think she was even living near an elementary school. Someone found out and put her on social media blast and she ended up leaving.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
when i read about this guy it seems that he had a fascination with the colleen stan aka 'the girl in the box' case from red bluff california. stan was the woman who was kept in a box for 7 yrs on and off and was basically brain washed into thinking that she was part of a slavery 'company'. the reason i remember the stan case is because after my mom retired from a career in government she got bored and decided to get a job to just keep busy. the job? the same motel that stan was allowed to work at. my mom said she was a quiet woman stayed to herself but she just thought she was shy.
Melissa Hollowell 3 years ago
That case really shows the power manipulation can have on a person. And again there was a female partner involved who just stood by while it took place.
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Humans are worse monsters than any supernatural entities we make up.
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JJ 3 years ago
Not to be confused with the Tool Box Killers which was a whole different breed of evil
Melissa Hollowell 3 years ago
Two of the worst examples of what humans can become.
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Esme love and squalor 3 years ago
Jesus Christ. I hope I never have to listen to that. So disturbing. And I can’t imagine the effects of listening to those tapes, randomly say, as a teen who maybe found them online. Ugh
MarcyParlomerNerdGirlsRock 3 years ago (edited)
I would probably swear at the guy for half an hour before I would let him kill me O_o that is so goddamn horrible
#36
A bunch of girls in my friend group decided to have a night out and ended up at the local gay club (I can’t remember why I didn’t go but I’m sort of glad I wasn’t there, however I also wish I had been so I could’ve helped). Anyway, they noticed a girl on the dance floor who looked super out of place. She had sweatpants and a t shirt on and wasn’t wearing makeup and had her hair in a ponytail. She also had a backpack on. Basically, the exact opposite of typical club attire and not at all what someone would usually wear to this place. They said that she seemed very dazed as well, and more importantly, there was a very large man grabbing her and grinding on her and she was just kind of standing there letting it happen. One of my friends tried approaching her to ask if she was alright but the guy spoke for her and insisted that he was her boyfriend and that she’d just had too much to drink but that she was okay. Everyone was suspicious but at that point there wasn’t much else they could do so they just kept an eye on the two of them. Eventually the guy left the dance floor to go to the bar and my friend was able to talk to this girl again. She said that she was EXTREMELY out of it and that it seemed more likely that she had been drugged rather than just drunk. The girl managed to convey that she didn’t know the man she was with and wanted to leave. So my friend grabbed her and made for the exit, but not before this guy came back. He IMMEDIATELY flipped out, got right in my friend’s face and started screaming at her. It escalated to the point that he eventually swung at my friend who just barely dodged the punch. Thankfully, someone else had went and found a security guard and they were able to prevent this guy from hurting anyone, meaning that my friends and the girl were all able to leave safely. She was still super messed up when they left so nobody could get the full story out of her but she did say that the guy had been following her around town all day. The really scary part is that the bar staff couldn’t technically do anything other than throw this guy out after my friends had left. One of them called the cops and gave them a description of the guy but they said they couldn’t really do much other than be on the lookout for him. So chances are that he’s still out there somewhere and may do this again.
Alice In_Hell 3 years ago
Let's watch out for each other ladies!! We have to stick together in this volatile world. Sending y'all hugs! We may need one after reading all of these terrible experiences.
Tamra 3 years ago
Not on suspicion alone. They'd need evidence that he did it.
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Connie Hirsch 3 years ago
If you ever see someone in that condition, call 911 or take them directly to an ER. It might be drugs or alcohol, or it might be poisoning or other medical conditions.
Gypsy Lee 3 years ago
If you have to resort to drugging women to keep them from running from you, perhaps you need to think harder about the possibility that YoU are the problem, & not their response to your advances. - To any man that has done this to any human, ever, may this very thing happen to you every night for the rest of your life.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Of course they can do something. The creep has committed physical assault on the girl, and on the man who intervened. The bar staff could have done a lot of things, but chose not to until it was too late.
#37
That there's a guy casing the bar that I work at literally right now, and I can't do anything to stop him.
He's been in asking what time/days we're open, and what days we have security. Caught him feeling the corners of our windows and doors too. Unfortunately, until he breaks in and robs us, the police won't do a thing.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Sounds like booby-trapping the place might be in order, or at least arming the staff with tasers in case things get nasty since law enforcement is so ineffective.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
It's generally illegal (in the US, at least) to booby-trap your own property. If someone is injured or killed, you'll be held accountable.
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Michael Largey 3 years ago
Hire a detective. The next time this guy shows up have the detective shadow him home. Then the detective knocks on the door and says "We (bar's name) now know where you live."
Katherine Forest 3 years ago
Take a picture of his face. Start asking HIM questions. Follow him to the door (not outside) and try to get a picture of his car. Let him know you are on to him. Kick him out and tell him you will call the cops if he ever steps foot inside that bar again. You do not have to have any excuse to start yelling and screaming like hell at him.
Annie 3 years ago
Try to get some pictures of him without him seeing you do it. If you can't, write down as much detail about him as possible: height, build, hair color, eye color, what kinds of questions he's asking, etc. If you can watch him leave without him seeing you, try get a description of his vehicle & maybe a license plate (though the plate and/or the car may be stolen). If the bar has cameras, have the owner or manager make sure they're working.
Connie Hirsch 3 years ago
Take his picture every time he does it, and film any verbal interaction he has with you. The last thing he wants is for the cops to have a positive ID. Better yet, get his fingerprints on a glass of water. If he objects, invite him to call the cops.
#38
On September 20th, 1987 in Bellingham Washington, a Georgia Pacific paper mill worker was sent to inspect a heat exchanger system in the steam plant. Inside the base of the stack, he spotted a charred skeleton. To this day, no one is certain who the victim was, how they wound up in such a horrible place, nor why.
Party Poison 3 years ago
I live in Bellingham, am a huge true crime junkie and I just found out about this?!?!
#39
Neishabur train dissaster is something that reminds me how death can come at any moment.
A train with 51 wagons of sulphur, fertiliser, petrol and cotton wool somehow broke loose and rolled down the track about twenty kilometers until it derailed in the town of Khayyam, Iran. There were no humans on board.
Chemical leaks ensued and authorities tried to extinguish whatever fires broke out.
At one point, the whole thing explodes. And it really explodes. The whole town of Khayyam is literally demolished, 3 nearby towns are badly damaged and it was heard 70 km away. The wreckage continued to explode for several days after. Around 300 people died and more than that injured.
An earthquake of 3.6 on Riechter scale was produced
Kevin Sutton 3 years ago
How did someone think loading a train with the ingredients for a fertiliser bomb was a good idea?
William Tinsley 3 years ago
That's what I was gonna say... the thing was just basically a giant bomb moving at high velocity. Basically a crude and much larger version of what Timothy McVeigh used
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Frederick Schulkind 3 years ago
Not the only time for something like that. Look up Lac Megantic, Quebec. That was also a runaway situation.
Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
I live in Canada. I remember when it happened. It was horrific and never should have happened. I can’t remember what the cause of the disaster was, but I believe the railroad was found culpable.
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Alaina Bleakley 3 years ago
I hope this made people realize you shouldn't carry all of those things at once
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Yes it dose truly show at any moment in someone's life things can change. You can be alive the next moment and be near death the next it is truly scary. So aways tell people you love them. Take as many picture of someone you love and hold dear. And aways remember the good moments. Remember what is most important to you.
ButFirstCoffee 3 years ago
Something similar happened in Lac Megantic in the province of Quebec in 2013. A train's brakes defaulted when it was parked on top of a hill. It went down the hill and smashed in the city killing many people. The train carried oil... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaster
#40
I'll tell you one that happened to me, or rather, I was witness to.
One night, I was out at a bar with a friend I was visiting in New Rochelle, NY. We went outside for a cigarette, and a car came flying past the bar. The car burned through a red light, and started going up this hill that was on a curve. We watched as he veered over the double yellow, and smashed head on with another car coming from the other direction. Both car's hind ends lifted up, then slammed down. The car that was driving correctly burst into flames. I ran inside and grabbed the fire extinguisher, then yelled to the bartender to call 911 and say there has been an accident.
My friend, a few other patrons, and me ran to the cars. Now, I used to think this was a fictional trope, but I was pretty drunk before this happened, and I swear it sobered me up instantly. I tried spraying the fire, but it did nothing. The fumes and heat were awful, and all we could do was stand back. The worst part was, and this will haunt me forever, was that the woman in the burning car was screaming as she died. My God, it was the worst sound ever.
The fire department came and put the fire out. The police took us back to the bar and took statements.
I found out the next day in the news, that the car that was not speeding was being driven by a young woman coming home late from work. She was a block away from home, and I think she was either newly married or a new mother. The rotten m**********r driving the other car was some rich drunk c********r. He lost a leg, but otherwise was physically unharmed. I have no clue if he did time, as I left to go back home a day or so later.
I'm trying to find a link for the news story, but I can't, as this was maybe 6 or 7 years back. I remember it being reported on Lo-Hud and Channel 12 News.
Chich 3 years ago
Was on highway rescue for years. Drunk drivers should just be shot and left to rot in the ditch. They seem to often come out of the mess they created better than their innocent victims. Definite proof there is no god.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I despise how the drunk drivers ways seem to survive rather than the innocent person. They deserve to die. Even in a drunk state I feel like they should know not to drive.
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I've seen a burning car, and it's a horrible sight. (Fortunately, in this instance the family who had been inside were also standing by watching the flames, because they'd gotten out before it went up). I don't even want to imagine what it would be like to be inside one. :(
Alexandria Tyme 3 years ago
Sadly the drunk will often come out less injuries as alcohol relaxes the body and their reaction isn't to tense up or brace for the impact as a sober person would. This relaxed posture allows the body to move with the force of an impact instead of against it leading to less injuries.
Jane Cortez 3 years ago
I knew an acquaintance- a neighbour actually who fortunately lived a few streets over. One day we got to chatting and he told me of how he was driving drunk with his brother in rural Canada, in a very remote area. He slammed into a tree. His brother died. He ended up a quadriplegic and got insurance money. How you might ask? This was at night and they weren’t found until the next day. By that time his blood alcohol levels were normal he said. I do recall that I thought, ‘must have been karma.’ I mean, that he ended up paralyzed after killing his brother while drunk driving. After he told me that story, ( don’t know if it was true, either), I never spoke to him again.
Sleeping Solipsist 3 years ago (edited)
Stupid zebra's replying below.. apparently bored zebras can be overly reductive and naive. Of course you'd question your whole friendship about someone who seems to show no remorse that their crime caused the death of a sibling.
Load More Replies... Patti Vance 3 years ago
in some states drunk drivers are given so many chances with little punshment. even though taking their licenses away permanently wouldn't keep them from driving and higher insurance or no insurance wouldn't make a difference they should at least be thrown into jail for a minimum of six months if no accident or forever if they take a life. and, one of the reasons the drunks tend to come out of an accident with less injuries is because their bodies are relaxed while a sober person becomes tense and rigid.
JuniorCJ82 3 years ago
If he was rich like you said, he never served a day in his life. Disgusting.
MeMosabe 3 years ago
Another case in which the death penalty would be acceptable: drunk driving. Alcohol should be more controlled. It is more dangerous than weed.
Jacqueline Quackenbush 2 years ago
An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind
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For instance, unintentional visual disruptions in panoramic photography can create images reminiscent of nightmare scenes, much like horror stories that captivate our imaginations.
#41
Before my Dad died, he once told me a story from when he was in Vietnam in the 1960s. He told me about a mission where he and one other American with five CIDG strikers (South Vietnamese villagers turned fighters) were tasked to emplace seismic ground sensors along a trail network deep in the jungle. He said they were about two days into the mission when he and two of the strikers split off from the main group to go watch a nearby trail intersection. He said the jungle was pretty quite that day, just the sounds of birds and bugs and an occasional monkey. He said they had been watching the trail intersection for about three or four hours and were deciding on whether to move further down the trail or to turn back and link up with the rest of the patrol. Before leaving the cover of the brush my Dad said he checked the trail ahead of them one last time and prepared his men to move. Now here is where the story gets interesting and he told this part with absolute dead seriousness. He said just as he started to step out onto the trail he sees a light skinned Black Union Cavalry Soldier in full battle gear laying alongside the trail just shy of the intersection. My Dad said the Union Soldier had two pistols, a Spencer rifle and a short curved club at his hip. As my Dad was trying to process what he was seeing, the Soldier looked directly at him and smiled. Then the Soldier slowly placed a finger up to his lips as if to tell him to be silent and then motioned my Dad back off the trail. My Dad said he signaled for his men to remain hidden and he recalled that as he slipped back into the jungle on one side of the trail, the Union Soldier did the same on his side of the trail. Less than 10 seconds later he said the lead element of a group of NVA (North Vietnamese Army Soldiers) walked right through the trail intersection some 30 feet away. My Dad estimated that the group was comprised of some 70 - 80 Soldiers equipped with automatic rifles, light machine guns and rocket propelled grenade launchers. He has no doubt that his entire team would have been wiped out on the spot. He said as soon as the enemy Soldiers had passed, he and his team beat feet out of there as fast and as quietly as they could and rejoined with the rest of the patrol. He reported the enemy Soldiers his team had encountered, but decided not to say anything about the Soldier he had seen. My Dad kept this secret for many many years; only telling me just before he passed and earlier only telling his Grandmother on her death bed in the 1970s. He said when he told his Grandmother, she smiled and without opening her eyes told him, “you saw Old Red Tom”. Red Tom was my Great Great Grandfather. He was a half Black / half Creek free man who was a scout for the Union Army during the Civil War and later served with the U.S. Cavalry in the American West. He was know for carrying two pistols, a Spencer rifle and a Creek warclub into battle.
Jonn Thundergun 3 years ago
Nice sentiment and all but 70-80 soldiers don't just appear up the trail all of a sudden. 70-80 soldiers makes A LOT of noise even when trying to be quiet. Couple that with them being armed with RPGs and other heavy arms and I'm sure a recce team would've known their position long before seeing them. This one seems rather far fetched. I won't even bring up the civil war ghost.
#42
In 3rd grade a guy came to our school and held our class hostage. He had already killed his wife and was there to kill his kid. The administrators convinced him the kid was not there and to take one of their cars and leave. After threatening to kill us multiple times, tying up the gym teacher, and dragging someone's grandma around with a knife at her neck, he finally left about 30 minutes later. The police caught him in Indiana on his way to kill his parents. He was convinced the world was ending and he was killing everyone he loved to spare them. The school did worse than nothing, they lied to parents and no assistance was given to either the kids or teachers involved. The gym teacher never came back and every time she would see one of the kids at the store or whatever she had a breakdown. Several of us have PTSD, undiagnosed, for decades. We just thought it was normal. In the 70s the Chicago Public School system was more concerned about their jobs and lawsuits, so they covered it up.
Penelope Orange 3 years ago
I too am a product of 1970's CPS (Chicago Public Schools) and lost huge chunks of education because my mom had to move around the city a lot to try and hide from my Dad. (Long story of drug and alcohol abuse with violence) Anyway, if I stayed at the same school for a year that was a long time. One school wouldn't have covered some material while the new school already covered it. I limped through K-8 losing out on important educational foundations. CPS didn't notice nor care. I know how CPS works and it's terrible this traumatizing incident was glazed over. I'm not surprised, typical '70's CPS.
Ami 3 years ago
I am so sorry, I believe that everyone should have a right to education.
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Zingalicious 3 years ago
Something needs to be f*****g done about these buildings "covering up" s**t. Like seriously. Excuse my profanity and all, but who the f**k cares about their imaging more than the lives of people? Humanity makes me gag.
#43
Carol DaRonch was at a shopping mall in Salt Lake City in 1974 when she was approached by a man claiming to be a police officer. He said that someone had tried to break into her car and asked her to come with him. He then said he would drive her to the police station and she got into his car. However, this guy was not a police officer and he did not drive her to the police station but rather, pulled into a parking lot. He then cuffed her, pulled out a gun and threatened to kill her if she resisted. Only, he messed up. He meant to cuff both of her wrist but only managed to cuff one. She escaped and fought him off despite being hit over the head several times. Her kidnapper was Ted Bundy. He killed another woman just four hours later. Her escape also helped identify Bundy and she is part of the reason he was eventually arrested.
Nicola Roberts 3 years ago
If I do nothing else today I will learn and remember the name of Carol DaRonch. Ted Bundy should remain a footnote in her story not the other way round.
#44
The case of [Elizabeth Smart]. She was kidnapped, repeatedly r*ped, psychologically tortured, and then brought around in plain sight in heavy religious garb. She had brushes with people who could have helped her, but her kidnapper claimed she wasn't allowed to speak in public or reveal her face for religious reasons. The reason she was rescued is because her sister was awake during her kidnapping and pretended to be asleep. She knew she recognized the voice, but it took her nine months to remember is was a guy that used to do yard work for the family. The police didn't believe her because of the elapsed time, but pursued it to appease the family.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Thank goodness they actually went ahead with the investigation. And saved her.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I read Elizabeth's book. It's horrifying. She's an amazingly strong woman.
#45
Last week I would have said the Japanese War crimes or the R*pe of Nanking, but frankly, for me it's the fact that absolutely nothing is going to come of the Jeffrey Epstein arrest and connections, that some of the most influential people on Earth are totally and visibly able to manipulate the system to cover the fact that they're rapists, pedophiles, and murderers.
Olivia Dean 3 years ago
Prince Andrew has fallen, and has a large settlement. But that's about it really. Nothing has stuck to Trump or Clinton or other celebrities.
Kellie Whyte 3 years ago
Trump has nothing to do with it though. you all assume that because you've seen the two together in a picture that they were friends, but they were not. Trump has stated several times that he didn't like him.
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Years ago my now husband worked for an industrial laundry company in their head office when a PR disaster happened that also mentally screwed up a number of people. Their company collected laundry from large hospitals and medical type businesses eg care homes etc and cleaned them - you can imagine the sort of heavy duty cleaning, bleaching, boiling etc needed to remove those sort of biological contaminants. One day a laundry cart went through the usual bleaching, boiling cycle before it dropped out into a conveyor belt to be sorted for drying/pressing when there was a horrid scream. A small newborn baby’s body had been discovered tangled up amongst the sheets, it had been “cooked”. The laundry workers were distraught, the whole place had to be shut down, police called and the laundry tracked back to the hospital to discover what happened. It turns out a (thankfully in some ways) stillborn baby had been left in the cot waiting to be taken down to the hospital mortuary after the parents had said their goodbyes and covered it with a blanket but somehow one of the nurses hadn’t realised (just on shift was the best guess) so just grabbed up all the linen out the cot and off the bed in the delivery room with the body bundled inside and emptied it into the laundry hamper/trolley thing. The other nurses/parents assumed the baby had been collected by the mortuary to be stored awaiting their funeral decisions. The laundry was found not to be to blame but the parents were devastated and the hospital took a lot of flack. The poor laundry workers who discovered the body ended up being given counselling before eventually quitting. The laundry did amend its practice to individually emptying each laundry hamper into the industrial machines instead of just tipping them in to stop anything like that happening again.
Mary Bricklin 3 years ago
God... I feel so bad for those workers. Thankfully the baby was stillborn though. I imagine things would've been worse for the workers at the laundry and the hospital if it had turned out to be alive before being run through the machines.
Lamont-rules-the-world 3 years ago
So basically stillborn baby is taken by a laundry worker by accident and is cooked but by some chance the baby was alive so it was cooked alive. R.I.P
Kellie Whyte 3 years ago
The baby was a stillborn and the scream came from a worker. If the baby were alive, don't you think it would have screamed when the sheets went through the boiling process, and not after that when the sheets went for drying???
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My brothers ex-gf had two older sisters (they died before she was born).
One day they decided to play hide-and-seek or something, so anyway, they both climbed inside a chest and accidentally locked themselves in. They suffocated.
Jaaawn 3 years ago
This can also happpen to children playing in old fridges and freezers that have been dumped outside. So if you feel the need to make such a selfish, inconsiderate action as disposing of your old appliances in public property, at least take the door off (or at 'best' tape it shut very securely.)
Kellie Whyte 3 years ago
How is it a selfish action though? Here in Australia we have pick up days where you leave stuff like that out, even stuff that is still working that you don't want, and people actually drive around and pick up things that they want and then whatever is left over, gets picked up by the council and disposed of. A lot of people really don't think of the possibility of what you're describing. A lapse in judgement, perhaps. But selfish? I think that is a bit extreme.
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swasti mukti 3 years ago
Omg this is heartbreaking ☹️ same thing happened here a few years ago, kids played hide n seek in an abandoned old car. They got locked in & died
Emmydearest 3 years ago
Oh my God the exact same thing happened to four kids in my town in the seventies. They were three siblings and a cousin. It was some sort of cautionary tale in my family: when we were kids we'd been told many times to not climb inside wardrobes or stuff like that and every time we were been told the unfortunate story of those four children.
#48
The driver one of the Semis we took in on trade died in the truck. The sleeping area is a "bunk" with a mattress that can be flipped up and under it is a seat and a table. So during the day it's a Dinet set up. And at night, you pull a lever and pull the bunk down to sleep. Well something happened and the bunk flipped up while the driver was sleeping and it pinned him against the wall. He couldn't get it to drop back down and suffocated. He was stuck there for somewhere around 12 hours. Someone had noticed that he was parked for an unusually long amount of time for the kind of deliveries he did. The company that built the sleeper did something to the bunk so that couldn't happen again and supposedly recalled all of that sleeper style.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
I can't have anything above my bed, and I sleep with my door open every night. Lights on door open
Load More Replies... Bored Trash Panda 2 years ago
When my oldest Aunt and Uncle were kids, long before my mom was born, they were on the way back from Germany on a ship. My Grandma couldn't find my uncle anywhere and everyone on the ship was looking for him, they searched for like 2 hours, all this time my grandma thinking he went overboard. They finally found him stuck between the bed and wall. It had flipped up while he was laying down. Luckily it didn't suffocate him.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
Volvo made a series of trucks like this, but it's possible that another manufacturer had a style like that too.
#49
Various torture murders are probably the most horrific things I've read about: Junko Furuta, who was a perfectly normal girl until she was kidnapped off the street by a gang for no reason (purely wrong place, wrong time, according to Japanese sources) and unimaginably r*ped and tortured to death over 44 days. Kiki Camarena, a DEA agent in Mexico who was kidnapped by the Guadalajara Cartel and tortured to death over about three days. His story is the central focus of the show Narcos: Mexico, but from what I've read, his death was even more brutal than what they make it out to be. A detail consistent in both is that they brought in a doctor to revive him numerous times when he got too close to death, and keep him conscious so he couldn't pass out from the pain. Kelly Anne Bates, who was groomed from a young age by a scumbag who eventually killed her slowly over the course of about a month in their apartment. Her injuries were so horrific the jury at the guy's trial had to get counseling. For example, her eyes were missing and there were stab wounds in the sockets. Sylvia Likens, whose parents left her in the care of a woman who both personally and with the help of her children and their friends degraded, tortured, and killed over over several months. The Hello Kitty murder in China, where a man and his about-13-year-old girlfriend kidnapped a prostitute who had supposedly stolen from him (even though sources say she had paid him back with interest), tortured her to death, and then stuffed her corpse into a Hello Kitty toy. Baby Brianna, a newborn whose mother, father, and uncle tortured and r*ped her from the second they brought her home from the hospital until the second she died. Baby P, a British toddler whose mother let her boyfriend torture him to death. His back was broken in his last days of life. Honestly, there are just so many horrifically on par with each other, you could list them all day.
pink_panda 3 years ago
It's hard to believe these are real. Utterly inconceivable that people can do this to other people.
Anne Reid 3 years ago
Baby Brianna’s mother is no longer in jail despite never stopping the unspeakable abuse her infant was put through.
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Esme love and squalor 3 years ago
Fuckimg hell. Way to just blast us with the worst! Newborn baby abuse!? Those stories are beyond the pale. Tho they all are, really
Snorma Ray 3 years ago
What happened to Baby Brianna has to be the most horrific thing I have ever heard of and her garbage excuse for a mother is currently walking free after serving like half of her sentence if not less.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
Addition: Elizabeth Short, a starlet in Los Angeles who was brutally murdered in the 1930s-- first raped horribly, then her mouth was slit ear to ear, then beaten to death, then cut perfectly in half, drained of blood (blood was put into bags along with organs), washed with gasoline, and then her corpse was posed in a rural neighborhood.
#50
Junko furuta. See it wasn’t just a murder that victims experience for maybe 5 minutes before passing. Or r*pe that victims experience for 10 before being left alone. 4 monsters kidnapped a girl and not only r*ped her, but tortured her as if she was play dough for(if I recall correctly, check me on this tho) 40 days. They r*ped her, lit fireworks inside her, used her as punching bags, burned her skin off, left her out in Japanese winter on her balcony, dropped dumbbells on her stomach and so many more terrible things. She literally begged them to kill her so she could escape the pain. How low does one have to go where your victim sees death as a heaven. And when she did die, they put her mutilated body up in a cement container(again check me here my memory is kinda foggy). It’s not even a simple case of r*pe and murder, they quite literally took her as close to hell as possible and literally destroyed her will to live. There simply aren’t any words to describe how vile this act was. I highly recommend reading her story anywhere. I have quite a tough stomach but this story made me sick to my core.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I've watched a documentary about this one, and it gets so much worse. I'll spare you the details, but the saddest part is that she almost escaped at least twice. And when they found her body encased in concrete with just a bit of hair poking out, the autopsy revealed that she was pregnant.
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
While I agree what happened to Junko Furuta was horrifying, those two opening sentences are kinda scary in their own right. “Oh pff 5/10 minutes on the floor and it’s over.”
keighterz 3 years ago
Yeah that is extremely disturbing, I agree. Whoever wrote this is messed up if they think being raped “10 minutes then you’re left alone” is no big deal. Sounds like something a rapist would say. I don’t even want to get into this because I would write paragraphs, but what the actual f*ck.
Load More Replies... olx 3 years ago
wasnt she a highschooler who rejected one of the guys or am i thinking of someone else
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Yes, that's correct. Supposedly he had Yakuza connections so nobody dared intervene.
Load More Replies... Java Addict 3 years ago
You forgot to mention that the house this was happening in, the one guy's parents lived there and did nothing. Only one of those guys got any serious time and he was let out early.
Sleeping Solipsist 3 years ago (edited)
I don't know why anyone would recommend reading further info her story.. that poor girl. The anon who posted worries me.. it's like they were describing something they found vaguely fascinating or exciting..
#51
John List killed his whole family-wife, mother, daughter and two sons. He meticulously planned the whole thing-cancelling all delivery services, excusing the kids from school, and even turned the air conditioning as low as possible to preserve the bodies for as long as possible.
After he killed them all, he placed the bodies in sleeping bags and lined them up. He then wrote a letter to his pastor explaining why he had to kill them.
He then leaves and isn’t heard from again.
18 years later he’s remarried and doing the same job as before but this time he doesn’t have any children. He’s finally arrested after a tip was given to the FBI.
Crazy thing is that because he planned it so well, the bodies weren’t discovered until a month after the murders so he had a huge head start and essentially started a new life in the same career and was heavily involved in a new church down in Virginia. Took 18 years to capture him.
Leslie B 3 years ago
He allegedly killed his family due to financial difficulties. It was later found out that the house's stained glass ceiling was rumored to be a signed Tiffany original and worth about $100,000 in 1972. He was caught after America's Most Wanted did a story and had an age-progressed clay bust done that was nearly identical to List. He died in 2008.
#52
Guy goes into a small building and dies. Later, investigator shows up and sees the body, calls 911 and then dies. Paramedics show up to help them, then die. The reason? Oxygen levels at head height were normal. Oxygen levels went bent over was basically 0. Bending over in this room killed 4 people by asphyxiation.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Probably it was some sort of gas leak, with the gas being heavier than oxygen. It happens in nature sometimes as well, when a fissure has opened up in the right place.
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Yosua Kemicho 3 years ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lack-of-oxygen-killed-4-at-b-c-mine-report-1.582325
#53
I moved in to another town. I was surprised by people who looked as they knew me, even though I saw them for the very first time. And everyone around was so rude, despite of all other sources telling how friendly people there were. I was also greeted by "oh no, you again?" in one place where I went for the first time. I was looking for a room for rent, and one of the owners told me that he won't rent it to me, because "my co-tenants saw me following and stalking them". I was like "what the f**k? Am I doing things and forgetting? Is something wrong with my mental health?" Then, I went abroad for 3 months. No such thing was happening there. Everything was normal. I thought "Guess it's just a local culture, they do that to get rid of newcomers" Once I returned, I went to a fast-food to leave my CV - the guy said "You were here a month ago, and it hasn't changed. We aren't recruiting". Right, I was on another continent. I couldn't have just bought 2 airplane tickets, spent several days, and just forgetting about it. And my bank account wouldn't forget, anyway. That's when I started to understand what's going on. And then one day, I finally saw myself on the CCTV, trying to steal something. Right. Stealing, following people and stalking, and being disliked, makes sense. There was some thief who looked exactly like me, even had similar hairstyle (which was in fashion around) As of now, I already know of 2 guys who look identically like me.
Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
I had this when I moved to a city I'd never been to before. Thankfully my doppelgänger wasn't a criminal
pink_panda 3 years ago
This is why it's important to personalize your avatar before being born.
ThatHuskyStorm 3 years ago
I thought this was going to be an I didn’t know I was a twin story.
Sleeping Solipsist 3 years ago
I think the OP is just glad they aren't a crim'.
Load More Replies... Alice In_Hell 3 years ago
I was riding the bus one day and saw myself walking down the road....in a very similar skirt and shirt I had owned, but i dont think i was wearing that day. I wanted to get off the bus and say hi to myself, but alas, i didnt.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago (edited)
I know someone with my exact hair color (i have blond hair, almost white so this was a shock)
Load More Replies... Esme love and squalor 3 years ago
As a kid I played a school sports event against a team member who was my doppelgänger. I was a tomboy and wore my hair a certain way and it was eerie to see someone looking just like me
#54
one night about 2 years ago i believe it was spring and it was about 9 or 10 at night ( a bit of context my mother is a photographer and she has one of those big expensive cameras) now i was just sitting in my room playing xbox with my buddies and i heard the commotion of my family in the doorway to the backyard the kind of commotion of people gawking so i went out to see what it was all about. i go to my dad and ask what it is and he says there's something in our backyard and my mom is out there trying to get pictures but her flash isn't working, and she's right at the fence trying to get pictures and all of a sudden the flash goes of and lights up the pitch black yard and right in front of my mom is a bear stood up on its back legs just standing there. by the time the flash was done my mom was nearly in the house.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago (edited)
I was still living with my parents and was home with our dog one night when my dad called to say that he was out the front and that there was a kangaroo on our driveway - which was blocked off from the back garden by a fence. Naturally I went outside to investigate, and the next thing I knew Oscar the dog was tearing around the garden in an absolute frenzy, chasing this big dark shape around at top speed. The damn kangaroo had somehow jumped over the fence, and being a terrier Oscar was completely blind to anything except the need to catch it. Which meant we couldn't open the gate because he'd follow it and never be seen again. The poor kangaroo was so terrified it actually ran into me at one point and smacked me with its tail. Dad arrived and somehow managed to grab Oscar, and the kangaroo made its escape. It was clearly the night of Oscar's life, and for a long time after that he'd keep hopefully watching to see if his friend would come back for round two.
JoJo Anisko 3 years ago
In an emergency, people can do phenomenal things. During an earthquake, I was outside the 4 story building I worked in. A coworker was on the 4th floor when the quake started. He was outside the building before it ended. Official reports stated the quake was approximately 45 seconds long.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I'm sorry, but this was a nightmare to read. There are valid reasons for capitalizing sentences and using proper punctuation.
#55
Well, I'm a bit late, and I'm not sure if anyone posted this already, but the story of Hisashi Ouchi. He suffered radiation exposure so thorough his DNA was destroyed and he probably would have died in a matter of days or even hours, but doctors kept him alive for almost 3 months. He was conscious and begging for death as his body literally fell apart. Here's a video about it but be warned it is very disturbing and graphic.
Marleinah Smith 3 years ago
You know, here's something in another BP post...we have our beloved pets euthanized so they don't have to suffer. Shouldn't people who are suffering, and their loved ones who hate to see this suffering, have the same rights?
Upstaged75 3 years ago
What's awful is that they kept him alive just so they could study what was happening to him. So gross!
Load More Replies... Chan Heng Li (Zhonghuass) 3 years ago
Its another nucleur accident, the Tokaimura nucleur accident
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#56
A family friend was cleaning her bus before the bus run. She had two small kids who were strapped into car seats in the bus. She swept the floor and was standing outside the bus leaning in, using a dustpan and brush to collect the dirt she had swept up. The auto doors on the bus kicked in and closed on her neck. She suffocated while her two young children looked on, unable to do anything because they couldn’t undo their car seat buckles.
#57
I worked for U-Haul when I was 18 and it was located in front of a club that was known for being really sketchy. I came in to open one morning and it was common for people to knock on the door hoping to get in early and get their truck. On this day, I hear frantic knocking on the door. I'm there alone still so it kind of startled me. I look and there's a women, completely naked, covered in what looks like blood. I called the cops and grabbed one of the moving blankets and went out side to cover her up. She smelled really bad and was a mess. Ended up being blood and her own s**t she was covered in. Found out later she was drugged at the club that night/early morning, r*ped and left blacked out in the alley. It was just a f****d up and surreal situation to be involved in.
#58
Ed Kemper murdered college women because his mother worked at a college and he claims he wanted to destroy everything she loved. Then, he murdered his mother and decapitated her, r*ped her head and her body, set her head on a shelf and screamed at it for hours. (That is the part that terrifies me.) Then he murdered her best friend and turned himself in. Relaying the whole story in detail, crying. Edit: “It hurts because I’m not a lizard. I didn’t crawl out from under a rock. I came from my mother’s vagina. And in a rage, I went right back in.” -Ed Kemper quote from a police interview. FREAKS ME THE HELL OUT. Edit 111 days later: I’m still getting comments on this so I’ll add another thing that makes him creepy. He would bury the heads of the women he killed in his mother’s backyard (he lived with her). He angled the head to where they were pointed upward facing his mother’s bedroom window. He would later say he did this purposely because his mother “always wanted to be looked up to.”
Aubry 3 years ago
I had to do a project on this guy for my forensics class. Dude also used his mom's head as a dartboard, killed his grandparents and learned how to convince mental hospitals he was sane and be let out, and was such good friends with the local police that when he confessed, they thought it was a joke.
Java Addict 3 years ago
The Netflix series Mindhunters featured Kemper in a few episodes. Highly recommend if you can stomach it, the actor who played him is phenomenal.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I just saw an episode of Cold Case that was obviously based on this crime. A guy murdered women and buried their heads in his mom's back yard. He had killed her (his mom) as a teenager but no one caught him. Lily ends up shooting him to death after he catches and holds her at gunpoint.
#59
3 sailors survived the sinking of the USS *West Virgina* at Pearl Harbor, only to die 16 days later, due to the lack of air. The Navy knew they were there, but couldn't get to them. [16 days to die]
Spiritastray 3 years ago
They were stuck in the sunken ship and no one could reach them.
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During WWII, an American airplane crashed near the Japanese island of Chichijima. There were nine servicemen on board. One was rescued by an American submarine. The other eight were taken in by the Japanese. Don't want to go into all the details, but through some time and events, the Japanese ended up EATING those servicemen. But that's not the weird part. The one serviceman who was rescued? That was George H. W. Bush. Google "Chichijima incident" for more details if you'd like.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Apparently, one of the Japanese commanding officers had thought consuming human flesh was medicinal. Oh, how wrong could he be...
Ursula S. 3 years ago
Details are not quite correct. George H. W. Bush and his two crew members (who both died during the attack) along with several other planes were sent on the mission over the Japanese island called Chichijima. Nine airmen survived being shot down only to be captured. I read he didn't learn of their fate until he was president because it was so horrific, it was classified so families wouldn't learn the horrific truth.
#61
[On May 31, 2014, two twelve year old girls lured their friend into the woods and brutally stabbed her in an attempt to summon or appease Slenderman, a fictional internet villain who is said to inhabit wooded areas and stalk his victims among the trees]
Zingalicious 3 years ago
Morgan Geyser has schizophrenia, just like her father. I read and watched a video on it! Luckily the victim survived. Morgan is staying in a mental institution, and Weier has to be supervised (back me up my memory is a bit fuzzy) until her late thirties.
Java Addict 3 years ago
Listened to the 911 call. Girl managed to get to a road and a passerby called for help.
#62
I remember this poor kid who went missing while I was at Purdue: He was trying to come home to his dorm after a party and either wasn’t able to get into the building or perhaps wanted to bypass the check in desk (just a guess based on my experience as a student there) since he had been drinking. He entered the building through a door to an electrical closet that should have been locked and was electrocuted and killed that night. He was last seen January 13th and the body was discovered March 19th after reports of foul odors at the dorm. Edit: the body was found at Owen Hall, year 2007. I remember talking with friends about theories of what happened when he went missing. How terrifying it must have been to find out there was a dead body in your dorm for months. Update: Thanks for the silver! And thanks everyone for contributing the memories and other details/lingering questions. Sorry if any current Purdue folks are feeling weirded out. Be safe and stay outta the maintenance closets!
Monday 3 years ago
If I remember correctly the kid in question didn't live in Owen Hall, he actually lived in a different dorm but had forgotten something (his jacket I think?) in a friend's room. He tried to call his friends to let him in but they weren't answering and nobody else would let him in (since he didn't live there) so he tried sneaking in through the electrical closet. He wedged himself behind some machines in such a way that even when they looked in the closet during the search for him he went unnoticed.
#63
100% true as it happened to me. It's probably more spooky than scary. I'll let you be the judge.... Many years ago, before there were cell phones we had these things called pagers strapped to our hips. Someone would page you with their phone number and you would call them back when you got to a phone. As an "on call technician" working in the Audio Visual field, my pager would go off all the freaking time. Like most people who used pagers, our clients knew that if you followed up your number with a 911, that would indicate to the technician to stop what they were doing and call right away. Although I was always busy I rarely if ever got 911's. One afternoon traveling from Orlando to Saint Petersburg via Interstate 4, my pager goes off with a number I don't recognize, followed by the 911. I find the first exit, and pull into a little truck stop looking place outside of Plant City, to use the pay phone. This takes maybe 3 minutes tops. I walk in, ask for some change and head to the wall where there are 4 pay phones to choose from. I pop my quarter in and dial the number displayed on my trusty pager. It rings........ and rings...... and rings....... and rings. I'm thinking to myself WTF ?!?! Who would page me with a 911 and not answer their phone? it's just about then that I notice another ringing sound in addition to the one in my ear..... I pull the handset from my ear and two phones over on the wall another pay phone is ringing, but with an incoming call. I hang up my the handset and the ringing stops on the other phone. I walk a few paces over, pick up the handset and look at the phone number printed above the buttons , I look at the number on my pager, I look at the number on the phone, I look at the number on my pager again, I look at the phone AGAIN..... except for the 911 they are identical. I kinda loose my breath for a second and then I make my way over to the girl at the counter and ask if she saw anyone use the pay phone. She said I was the the only person in the store in the last hour. The whole episode probably took 15 minutes, but man, I was freaked out! The hair on the back of my neck was standing straight up and I just wanted out of there! I get about 10 miles down the Highway and come upon a scene that looked like a bomb went off.......4 car pile up involving a tractor trailer hauling a load of steel that had come loose, State Troopers and Paramedics just arriving. I pulled over to the side and helped the best I could, but it was all pretty much over once it began. I have no idea why I got that page or from whom or what but I'm convinced that if I hadn't, I would not be alive to write this today.
Indosidius 3 years ago
Some people would say it was the hand of God. It happened to me so many times that something delays me, making me leave later, only to arrive on a nearly fresh car accident, or a tree that fell over the road or something that would have ended bad for me had I been on time.
Victor Trejo 3 years ago
Plot twist: the time machine was invented and someone went back in time to make that life-saving phone call.
#64
Have you heard of the Nazi so bad that other Nazis, in particular fellow SS Nazis, constantly tried to get him and his unit disbanded and arrested? No?! Well his name was Oskar Dirlewanger, and his unit was nicknamed "The Black Hunters" or the "Dirlewanger Brigade". Oskar Dirlewanger was an early adopter of the Nazi party. He had been thrown in jail before for being a pedophile. Eventually when World War II broke out and healthy *ideal* Germans were dying in droves on the Eastern Front, Oskar's old pal Heinrich Himmler (Head of the SS) granted him a command of a unit made up originally of German poachers, and eventually German criminals being held in civilian jails / camps, and military criminals. His unit was essentially designated as a rearguard unit meant to hunt down enemy partisans (or in most cases civilians in occupied countries). Oskar Dirlewanger SS unit was responsible for many atrocities. Some atrocities so barbaric and bad other SS units reported him and his unit for atrocities. A few examples, which have been popularized in film, include taking an entire village in Belorus and putting them in a church, locking the doors, and setting the church ablaze. Anyone who tried to escape was shot by machineguns and rifles. This unit r*ped, tortured, and murdered its way through Eastern and Central Europe. During the Warsaw Uprising they were sent to help squelch the uprising. One of their atrocities committed was going in to a children's hospital, telling the nurses and staff that they were there to secure the church. Ok. Once the church was secured they r*ped the female staff, and some of the wounded and sick female children victims, and then went around shooting everyone. If anyone was found to have survived they were bayoneted. These guys were so horrible that other Nazis looked down their noses at them, and constantly filed complaints and reports against them, but with no real success. Thankfully by the end of the war this unit was destroyed and its leaders and criminal soldiers were hunt down like rabid animals.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago (edited)
I hope his soul is still rotting at the Althausen Prison Camp, Purgatoryville chapter!!!
David H 3 years ago
The Ukrainian SS Auxiliary were so horrible the head of Einzazgruppen D (The German SS Special Jewish Extermination Death Squads) complained to Berlin that these axillaries were so sadistic and brutal it made his men puke and have nightmares and requested they get rid of them. If the SS special death squads found you too sadistic and brutal, that is really bad. And there are statues to honor this SS unit in Canada, one that gets public funding.
Lord Rimuru 3 years ago
He got justice by the French guards who were watching him when he was arrested letting a Jewish boy whose family he recently killed punch him in the face until he got tired
#65
A woman named Joyce Vincent died alone in her bedsit/apartment in London and wasn't found for **two years**. She was only discovered because bailiffs came to evict her from the property and instead found her decomposed body in half-skeleton form. The TV had been on, and the windows had been open, for two years. Despite the smell and the noise emanating from the apartment, no-one had come sooner and found her. Because of the state her body was found in, they could only identify her through matching her teeth to a photograph of her smiling. Because there was basically no body left to study, no-one knows how she passed. Her friends guess it was anything from murder to an asthma attack but no-one can ever know. It's not the most scary story in terms of its gruesomeness (some tales in this thread have made me nauseous), but to think someone can die alone and not be found by their family or friends for so long, especially in such a densely populated city, f*****g terrifies me.
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
Our neighbour died this way and I still feel guilty about it, she was mummified when they found her. We used to visit/check up on her regularly until she got admitted to a mental hospital for a while. We thought she was back home but she never opened the door anymore, we contacted police and family and got told she was under hospital care and they would check it out. It’s a bag of mixed feelings but I still think we should’ve pushed harder.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago (edited)
I'm so sorry you had to go through that, that's scary
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I had a friend who went missing in May a couple years ago. We tried going to his apartment but no one answered, we put up missing flyers, asked everyone we could about him. No luck. We had a massive heat wave that summer, broke several records for high temperatures, the whole summer was just miserable, and I normally live hot weather. Fast forward to October, there's a terrible insect infestation in all the apartments surrounding his, including the ones above and below. The apartment manager had left notes in all the doors letting people know when they would be fumigating. The day the fumigating was supposed to begin, they noticed that the notice was still in the same position, meaning the door hadn't been opened since it had been placed there. After knocking several times they finally used their master key to unlock the door and had to push the furniture he'd barricaded it with out of the way. They finally got into the apartment and realized why they had such a bad infestation: he'd hung himself and no one had discovered him for almost 5 months. Between the heat and the insects he was pretty much just soup at that point. :(
Jude Corrigan 3 years ago
I saw a documentary about Joyce Vincent's death. If I recall correctly bills were automatically taken from her bank so it took a long while for her bills to go into arrears. Even though, after examination, it was determined that she had died over two years before being discovered neighbours describe hearing someone walking around in the flat during those two years. They also heard windows being slammed shut even though they were open when Joyce was discovered. Police even did a welfare check many months before finding her body and claimed they had spoken to Joyce herself, she was fine and they hadn't noticed a smell or anything strange.
#66
Well this one was quite dreadful for me at least. Whilst I was working back in 2006, I was working inside of a multi storey car park. I came down in the lift from the top floor where I was working at the time. As I got out the lift there was a woman in her late 40's I would say with greying hair and a maroon handbag. We brushed shoulders as I got out the lift. I apologised, she gave me a very blank look. I walked out to go get some food not thinking at the time much more than that. Although, when I think about it the lady appeared to look quite sad. I returned with my noodles around 20 to 30 minutes later. At this point I got back and Police were everywhere. The lady had jumped from the top floor.I knew it was her from the handbag laying on the floor. Gosh, If I had stopped and spoke to her or left for lunch a little later I may have been able to stop her Jumping.
Harvey Vostrejs 3 years ago
Don't blame yourself. You couldn't have known. I know saying that doesn't mean much, but please believe me when I say that you are not in any way responsible.
Kellie Whyte 3 years ago
When I was about 11 or so, I had cancer so would go to the Children's Hospital all the time. Well the children's Hospital had a big multi storey car park and next to it was a mental hospital. One day my mother takes me to the hospital and we got there and heard noises coming from below, so we looked over the railing and a guy had jumped from the top of the car park and was still alive and making loud moaning noises.
#67
This one terrifies me. I’m going to be purposely kind of vague about this since I’m figuring the events in this story are rare. (Edit: The stories told in the comments have now made me realize this happens fairly often and that’s very tragic.) The events are also mostly speculative, since there weren’t any witnesses. I say this to spare you all the multiple “probably”-s and “most likely”-s that would otherwise be in this post. This is how it was told to me: A family member of mine is friends with a man (middle aged) whose wife sadly died while taking their dog out for a walk through a rural area they where visiting. They had driven up to a farm along the road and gotten out when the dog tore from her grip and ran off. She ran after it to the back of the barn (where the huge open dung-cistern was). The farmer wasn’t home, so when he came back later in the day, he found her car and thought it weird that a strange car had just been left there, doors open, with no people noticeably near by. He went around searching for his unexpected visitors and eventually found them. What he found was something I had never even imagined before hearing of this. The dog had fallen into the cistern of deep, liquid waste from the farm animals. The edges on the cistern where way too high up to reach from liquid surface level and the woman must have panicked, because she had jumped in after the dog to save it and that’s where her life slowly and brutally came to an end. The fumes that accumulate from that much dung are very toxic. The woman, after being unable to get back out, had lost consciousness and drowned, along with her dog, in a pool of cow s**t. I can’t imagine a worse way to die. I think about it now and then and hope that no one will ever die like that again. Poor souls.
Chich 3 years ago
We used to be given derelict houses that were to be torn down to use as practice for the Fire Department. Two of us would go out and do a site inspection a few days before the training took place. One house had tall grass all around it and we found an open septic tank hidden in the weeds. House wasn't off the beaten track so anyone could have fallen into it cutting across the yard. Some people just don't care.
#68
It happened to my mom's friend a couple of years back. She was driving on the highway in the middle of nowhere (as in far away from any town). Suddenly a car that is passing on her left steers fully to the right in front of her causing her to brake and steer very rashly. This obviously causes her to lose control and crash against a tree. She passed out and sometime later (she couldn't really tell how much time passed) a group of Brazilians (all of this happened in Portugal) came to her rescue and told her things like: "don't move", "We're calling an ambulance", "just hang on there" etc... She eventually passes out again and about two hours later someone else comes and starts helping her again and eventually the ambulance and her husband arrive. She tells them that some other people have been there before but the guy that found her says no one was there. When they checked the trunk everything had been stolen including computer, camera etc... She later said that she remembers thinking the car that made her crash had been following her for a while and driving a little too close. Make of that what you want. Sorry for my English.
The Radio Demon 3 years ago
Car crashes are terrifying, I've been in about six or so car accidents (all minor, mostly rear-ends) and each one leaves a mark.
keighterz 3 years ago
There’s this thing called travel where people can take planes, trains, and automobiles to different countries and continents.
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Personally, when I was detained by the Nicaraguan military while filming a documentary abroad. I seriously thought we were done for, because they had our team separated and we mixed our stories up. My legs were sharking. The main officer guy was a full fledged Bond villain too. He had a jet black mustache, sunglasses and a golden canine tooth. He spoke broken English, so when he told us he could go, it sounded sarcastic and that we were going to be mowed down in the ditch as we left in our bus. [It was an insane story.]
#70
Probably the one about the guy at a local factory who went inside one of the welding machines (I think that's what they are called) to clean or do some kind of maintenance, and somehow despite all the safety protocols another employee kicked it on. Apparently the moment it happened the employee that did it realized his mistake but there was no way to stop it once it started the firing cycle. Yes, the man inside died pretty quickly, but I can not imagine being the person who made such a horrible mistake.
Purplescales 3 years ago
This is why lockout is such an important thing, tag out is good but lockout is your life
#71
Told this here before but once more: My friend had this neighbor who was a retired mechanic. They lived on some properties with large front lawns and long driveways. His neighbor had a couple derelict cars parked up near his garage that he took parts from occasionally. This neighbor of his started hearing noises while sitting in his living room, coming from his front yard. Every time he'd go to the window, there would be nothing there. He assumed it was a raccoon or a coyote or whatever. He kept hearing the noise so he'd go outside to look around but would find nothing. He'd put out traps and occasionally catch something, yet the noise persisted. Soon, he started claiming that he was hearing voices coming from the front yard, like whispering. He'd go outside and look around the perimeter of his property but would find nothing. It was persistent so he'd started calling the cops. Every time the cops came and looked around and would find nothing. So they told him he needed to stop calling them for this, and perhaps get a security camera or whatever. So this guy thought he was losing his mind. One summer evening he couldn't sleep, so he went to the back patio to smoke a cigarette. Suddenly, he heard voices coming from the front of his house. He put his cig out and snuck around to the front and got there just in time to see the doors to his derelict conversion van silently shut. He ran back to the backyard and went inside his home and called the police to tell them what he had seen. The police arrived and approached cold (i.e. without lights/sirens) and when they approached the van, the doors swung open and a bunch of people ran out in every direction. Upon searching the van, the cops found syringes and paraphernalia and determined that people were shooting up in there.
keighterz 3 years ago
People were sneaking into the unused vehicle to use drugs.
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#72
My mom didn’t tell me this story for the longest time, I think just so she wouldn’t unnecessarily worry me when I was younger. But my parents split up when I was about 4 years old and my mom and my sisters stayed in a small town house for a few years before moving in with my step dad. Anyway, while we were at the town house for I think less than a year, my mom heard something in her room in the middle of the night and when she woke up to go look there was a man in her room. She audibly gasped and got out of bed either to fight or run to our room - she couldn’t really decide cause she was pumped full of adrenaline. The guy ended up running out of our back door and when the police came they found signs of forced entry. She never told any of us the full story cause we were still sound asleep the entire time but she ended up explaining more of it the older we got.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
OP added that the police never discovered who broke into their house and assumed it was just a random burglar who was just as surprised as the mom to find someone inside.
#73
A colleague of my dad's went on holiday to a small cottage in Wales (in the middle of nowhere in the UK's winter time) with his wife. They were found by the owner of the house after the week they rented it for was up, completely insane, clawing at their skin and the whole place was a wreck. The full story was never found out, but the guy and his wife both were rambling about a red knife that followed them wherever they went that they found in the bed of the cottage. They are both still alive and as far as I'm aware under psychiatric care.
#74
The guy who predicted the Great Recession now exclusively invests in Water.
#75
The people that bought my childhood home were murdered. The man that killed then snuck in and out of the house for a week. He would often slip into the house and be there for hours. He would hide in places that I knew. I knew them because as a kid those were the best spots to hide for hide and seek. My favorite hiding spots were a killer's hiding spots.
#76
The Battle of Osowiec Fortress - 1915, German troops attempted to gas the Russian defenders out as the fort had been a thorn in the side of the Germans since the outbreak of war, the gas succeeded in killing almost three whole companies, the Germans then advanced across the fields, expecting the fortress to be empty and an easy victory. From within the fortress, Russian troops emerged, coughing up blood and lung fragments, covered in bandages made up as improvised gas masks as well as chemical burns, they returned rifle and light artillery fire at the advancing Germans, the German troops didn't bother firing back as they just ran back to their lines, their commanders claimed "they're already dead, give it twenty minutes and go take the place" to which the soldiers remarked "it is not men protecting that place, but the devil" Osowiec Fortress never fell during the war, as when the German troops went back months after there was already fresh defenders. I know this story is much different to the ones other people have said, but it's the one I could think of as truly terrifying.
Taryn Bailey 3 years ago
Swedish metal band did an AWESOME song based on that battle, called 'Attack of the Dead Men'. Freaking awesome song.
#77
In 1972 a uruguayan plane carrying a college rugby team fell in the Andes Mountain Range, of 50 people, 13 people died in the crash or the following hours, and by the next day the survivor count was down to 27, which with little food had to resort to eating the bodies of the dead, rationing how much each ate. After that, the remaining survivors made a pact stating that if they died they would be the next in line for consumption, and that the only bodies that would be used would be the families of those who voluntarily accepted to. They spent 72 days in the hostile enviroment, by the end only 16 survived. The most terryfying story (IMO) is when one of the survivors, who had broken his leg on the crash, which made him feel useless, noticed that the corpses up for consumption was running out. He secretly stopped eating to die of hunger and "become of use" for the survivors. Thankfully, one of them realized and managed to convince him to keep himself alive for two weeks more. The rescue team found them within those two weeks. I highly recommend you read the book "viven!" Or "La Sociedad de la Nieve" to get more details. Bonus: a candidate for the Communist Party told one of the survivors (Roberto Canessa) that he didn't know what being hungry was like
pinkytoes 3 years ago
there's also a really good documentary titled Stranded: I've Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains
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#78
A headless, limbless torso was found in the bushes at the rest stop in the town where I grew up. They never found the rest of her body parts or the murderer. She wasn’t even identified until about a decade later (she was a prostitute that had been estranged from her family). My mom’s theory is that a truck driver from out of state did it. Dismembered her, dumped her torso at the rest stop, and scattered the rest of her over state lines. Could have been an isolated incident or it could be a serial killer. We might not ever know.
#79
H. H. Holmes and the hotel he built specifically to murder people. Like something from a horror movie but completely true.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
He is the person that they based Evan Peters' character 'James March' and the hotel was based on that season. The true story and that season of AHS: Hotel are both very interesting.
#80
The Donner Party, a group of American pioneers that had to resort to cannibalism to survive being stranded in the Sierra Nevada.
Alex (she/they) 3 years ago
I once read a book about that, and they had the meat bits labeled by family so someone wouldn't end up eating their own kin.
TheHalloweenTeen 3 years ago
Omg, so I'm a history fanatic and I can explain this really quickly, so: The Donner Party (a train of wagons featuring children, animals, and adults) started out in Illinois and started to go to California. The party was led by George Donner and James Reed (I believe) and called the Donner-Reed party (mostly known as the Donner Party). The Reed family had a fancy asś castle wagon so that their grandma had a comfortable journey. She died a few weeks in. During the journey the lost cattle (who were pulling the wagons) died due to dehydration, overwork, and being shot by the Native Americans. Also during the journey there were several murders. And I believe James Reed also stabbed a man for whipping his wife in the eye so he got banished- But comes back later. When they finally got to the Sierra Nevada mountains, they started going into the mountains. Overnight they got snowed in. They build cabins, eat their cattle (but some cattle were spooked off by an attack from the Native Americans)
TheHalloweenTeen 3 years ago
(It cut me off, so imma continue) They also boil down leather and eat that, there are many seperate camps and people don't share food yet. They send out a patrol to find help which fails at first. Second time one or two people make it through and beg the village for help. But the folk can't help yet because of a snowstorm. Meanwhile people are dying from cold, depression, and starvation. It's about now that they start eating the bodies of the dead- However no one is killed for their flesh yet. That happens later when a man (I forget his name) is left with a group of other people while others go for help. They come back to him looking well-fed and no one else around- The man claims they died to sickness. And a bunch of other stuff, they eat the dogs and ponies, they survive, some other stuff happens. You should really read Patty Reed's journal or a graphic novel called The Donner Dinner Party.
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Shine Chisholm 3 years ago
They thought they were dying of hungry, but they were actually dying of hypothermia
#81
I used to run the boilers in a DOE building. Apparently at some point in the eighties, three people were murdered over involvement in a big vcr theft- vcrs meant for the school system had apparently been stolen out of this warehouse, it was an inside job, something went wrong- the head custodian was found shot to death, and later the bodies of the other two were reported buried in Monticello- but word is, they had first been incinerated. In the boilers I was in charge of operating and maintaining. There were three operational boilers, and one that wasn’t in service- no clue which one was supposedly used, but when you’re firing them up, you’re typically the only person in the building- not a single day went by that I fired them up and didn’t wonder which one was used. But that wasn’t what gave me the real Heebie jeebies. You have to clean the interior of these boilers really well, otherwise the fire won’t transfer heat to the water very efficiently- especially with #6 oil, these boilers would build up a lot of soot. You have to suit up in a Tyvek suit, wear a mask, and climb right into the firebox- I found myself staring down the business end of that burner many times, wondering what that panic would feel like. (I’m reasonably sure these people were dead before getting put in the boiler though.) Once, I was actually in one boiler while another one was running- the valve that isolated my boiler from the main steam line wasn’t holding, and by the time I realized how warm it was getting, it was enough to panic- trying to lift myself up and belly crawl through the small opening, the metal was almost too hot to keep my hands on for long. Definitely creepy experience, considering the history of that boiler room.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
A little too close for comfort for me. I don't think I could get inside one if there were any possibilities that it could come on.
#82
In the late 1950s the Soviet Union spearheaded a campaign to convince the World Health Organization that Smallpox could be eradicated. Smallpox is a highly contagious disease that is specific to humans. Insofar as we know, no other species on earth can get or carry smallpox. In 1977, the last case of Smallpox was identified and snuffed out. The disease was eradicated. However, rather than destroy the final genetic samples of the disease, the cold war super-powers decided to store it. Some went to the Soviet Union and some went to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta Georgia. The Soviets began a weaponization program. This means that they tried to make a stronger, more contagious, more lethal strain of smallpox. They tried to cross it with other diseases like Ebola, creating entirely artificial "chimera" diseases. They grew smallpox in the lab *by the ton* and kept it loaded, ready to be fired on missiles into the United States. But it's not a missile that's frightening. A single glass ampule of the stuff, smashed against the wall of a subway station in New York or Chicago or Tokyo could spark a global outbreak. Very, very few people alive today have been vaccinated for smallpox and there are but a scant few doses of vaccine available. In the event of an outbreak our ability to manufacture vaccine would be rapidly outpaced. If the wrong person got their hands on the Soviet Smallpox Bioweapon, billions could die. Nuclear weapons are bad enough, but they, at least, require a general war to break out in order to bring about an end to human civilization. A smallpox bioweapon doesn't require a war; just one security breach.
Spencer's slave 3 years ago
With regard to the "very, very few" people alive today who are vaccinated against smallpox - absolutely not true. I'm in my 50's and I am vaccinated against smallpox. All people in the UK up until the late 1970s were routinely vaccinated against smallpox. It's no secret that so called developed nations keep a "library" of eradicated diseases, viruses etc, it's well documented. The so called Soviet Smallpox Bioweapon is a conspiracy theory. Western nations could easily do the exact same thing and if it were true, why hasn't Putin used it in Ukraine?
PandaPanda 3 years ago (edited)
putin hasnt used it because it could end humanity which includes him
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TuesdayDangerGirl 3 years ago
I have also been vaccinated against smallpox. Also through the 1970's here in the USA. Additionally, the 2015 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recommended vaccinations for populations at high risk of occupational exposure to orthopoxviruses so it is still being given today. And while the smallpox virus is most likely stored away, there is also a stockpile of the vaccination.
roses are red 3 years ago
Anyone 50+ has more than likely been vaccinated...but the numbers get less every year. Monkey pox is said to be related to small pox, (not the right term), but there are now others being vaccinated against small pox. If they did release a small pox virus, it could mean the end of the human race as women who are vaccinated are to old to have children...hope and pray the 'Russians love their children too' Damm Putin, evil and demented...sorry hate useless wars fighting for land and power
#83
Not as scary as some of the stories here, but I was pretty horrified when my dad told me the story. There are some really big houses in the woods in my hometown. One of the owners went out drinking with his buddies and realized he forgot the key to the gate when he got home. So he decided to just climb the gate. While climbing in his drunken state he slips and his leg gets pierced by one of the spikes on the gate. He was hanging there but too afraid to call for his wife. Since he was sure she would just open the automatic gate from inside the house and since it was one of those gates that slides to the side it would just rip his leg off if she did. He was hanging there the entire night until his wife woke up, saw him and called the fire deparment. My dad (who is one of the firefighters that showed up) said they had to saw of the spike to get him off. Just imagine hanging from your own gate all night not being able to call for help.
#84
Japanese war crimes in WW2. That is my real answer, but it does remind me of that movie with Paul Rudd where they’re talking about scary stories around the campfire and he says something like: “Everyday children like you are kidnapped and sold into child sex trafficking rings.”
HangryHangryHippo 3 years ago (edited)
Just in case, "Role models" is the name of the movie, I don't get why you are getting downvoted. Seonag, take my up vote to compensate for them
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A pub in Colnbrook, Berkshire in UK has a pretty terrifying history: >The Ostrich has seen it’s fair share of murders and they say that over 60 were committed here. Most famous of all were those committed in the 17th century by the landlord of the time, Jarman, who with his wife made a very profitable sideline by murdering their guests after they had retired for the night. > >They had a trap door built into the floor of one of their bedrooms and when a suitably rich candidate arrived Jarman would inform his wife that a fat pig was available if she wanted one! She would reply by asking her husband to put him in the sty for till the morrow. The bedstead was hinged and they would tip the sleeping victim into a vat of boiling liquid immediately below, thus killing him.
Hammond Chiez 2 years ago
I wonder if they got the idea from H.H.Holmes, or if he got it from them.
#86
Couple years back, there was a dude doing his national service. One night on roving sentry duty, past midnight, he asks his buddy (as in, battle buddy. military dudes should understand that better I'd think) to wait for him a couple of minutes, he wanted to go to the toilet; Note that as sentries they weren't supposed to do so during patrol, you have to go before or after. As his buddy was waiting outside, he suddenly heard a gunshot. The dude had used his service rifle to blow his brains out, trouble with the girlfriend and at home. My dudes in the army, voluntary or not, speak the f**k up before you do something stupid.
#87
I made the mistake of reading about the Ant Hill Kids cult at night. I don't recommend it. Here's the article I read: https://www.cvltnation.com/ant-hill-kids-break-legs-sledgehammer-go-hell/. Don't read it while you're eating. Starts of like a typical hippie/apocolypse type cult, ends with a LOT of mutilation and murder.
(She/her)Introverted Potato 🥔 3 years ago
WHAT HAPPENS?! (I’m scared to look so can someone please tell me )
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#88
Somebody bought a house where a murder-suicide took place and found a $5000 cheque in the walls alongside a letter written in Vietnamese that was addressed towards the killer.
Dark Deer 3 years ago
A slip of paper that allows the cheque holder to withdraw the specified amount of money from the cheque giver's bank account.
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Ada Hunter 3 years ago
no, it’s spelled differently in different places lmao
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Every year thousands of children go missing all over the world and at most you hear about a few per year in your area. Noone seems to care. It is literally a nuissance to many to have a "have you seen my child" add pop up on their social media.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Uh.....I care and if I seen one I'd say something. Because if my child was to go missing I'd want someone to do the same. And who knows what the child has experienced. If you think you see a missing child or do see one, do something. You could save there life.
Don Williams 3 years ago
One problem is the Amber alerts. There are so many and for such little things that I had to turn off the alerts on my phone. So, when a valid alert is sent, I never see it.
#90
Old janitor from high school, friendly Ecuadorian man who went by Ping. Worked at the school for 20+ years and nobody had a problem with him I guess his wife was leaving him and in the process of moving out He caught her in bed with her new man. Next day, in the middle of town, he opened fire on her, the man and then killed himself before any cops had time to respond
#91
My cuckoo clock, that is broken for more than 20 years, made weird sounds two times in a row in the middle of the night.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Once my mum had a very very old, broken cell phone in a drawer, and it suddenly turned on and started going off one day….but the ringtone was duck sounds. Scared the c**p out of my sister and I - we thought there was an intruder taunting us like a duck. Still have no idea why it was going off years after my mum stopped using it. Random bird noises can be scary 😁
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Magda_lena 3 years ago
This is just a story I heard but my sister's friend she used to go to high school with worked as a camp animator for small kids. One night they had this night play where they woke up the kids in the middle of the night gave them flashlights and afterwards they gave they them pens and paper and told them to draw the most interesting thing they saw in the forest. One 6 yo (?) kid drew a hangman. The animators got creeped out a little and asked the boy about it then went to the forest and they did actually find a corpse of someone who committed suicide. Called the cops and everything. I would never work as an animator after hearing that.
Hugo Farr 3 years ago
I was working as a jet aircraft mechanic. Me and another mechanic were doing some wiring. One of the wires hit him in the face and went through the eye. He didn't realize the wire was through his eye. He just did a reflex action to pull the wire out of his face and pulled his eyeball out.
Kat Min 3 years ago
I'm surprised the Bhopal tragedy (thousands dead, mostly children - all preventable but corporate greed led to costs being cut, warning systems not working and noone really giing af) and the Aberfan desaster (hundreds dead almost all og them children, again: preventable. The children died a terrible death due to costcutting and negligence) are not in this list
Chich 3 years ago
Guy working at a mill. Grabbed a D handled shovel and contrary to the rules put his hand through the D and was gripping the shaft while trying to dislodge something that got caught in a drum de-barker. Shovel got snagged and he was pulled in - to a large rotating bladed drum with logs bouncing around.
Via Hawk 3 years ago
Here's one I witnessed firsthand. And this one was entirely my fault. I was working on a professional play, with cool professional actors and everything, and I had a role as a serial killer. I had this awesome combat scene where I attempt to kill someone, she stabs me, and I get hauled off to jail. Well I kept being paranoid I was going to accidentally hurt my acting partner, so my choreography director put me through some "training" to help me get in character. Well it worked a lot and my partner and I were doing great. My character had this badass scene where he grabs a hatchet from the shed and raises it above his head, and smashes it down onto the poor teen's head, but the teen holds a shovel above her head and blocks it, her brother walks in and stabs to killer, and there's a happy ending, that was the play directions. Well, we were presenting our play, in front of a hundred strangers, and I felt so in character, we were doing great and everyone seemed to love it. 1/2
Via Hawk 3 years ago (edited)
2/2 up until I grabbed the hatchet, and I swung it down to her head, I have no idea what happened, but instead of grabbing the shovel, she just stood there kind of wide-eyed and sleepy looking. I noticed right before it could have sliced through the top of her head and been fatal, and I couldn't stop my arms, but managed to move to the right. So it cut a big chunk off of her cheek, and It was SP CLOSE TO HER EYE TOO. I looked at her and she just sat there, and I broke character and screamed SO LOUD "addie are you ok?!" And me and one other actress rushed her offstage and he called someone to clean her up. The next day she informed me that she straight up couldn't feel anything when it happened. It sort of scabbed over the next time I saw her, and it was swollen and blue. I felt really bad, but mostly I was glad it caused minimal damage. She kept telling me it was fine even though I kept apologizing and I didnt know what to do. The other actress on the other hand, was PISSED at me.
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Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I don't know if this is scary or just horrible. When I was a teenager, I used to go to this church with my parents on Sunday. The pastor there had 5 kids, all older than me. The youngest kid was a boy close to my age, and we became really good friends even outside of church. The only weird thing about the family was that the pastor often sort of 'talked down' to what he called 'youngsters' during his sermons. He seemed to think that teenagers/young people were the number 1 source of sin and stupidity in the world. I remember thinking this was pretty offensive (me and my entire extended family were all girls who basically never did anything wrong.) But out of his 5 kids, only 1 was a girl, so I thought maybe that had something to do with his opinion. Maybe his boys were rowdy at home. Well, a few years go by, and the 1 girl gets married.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
She was a few years older than me, so I didn't know her just real well, but I was at her wedding, and another time she gave me one of her hamsters as a pet, since we both loved animals. She was super sweet, and she and her new husband were a cute couple. A year goes by, and there start to be whispers that she and the husband are dabbling in witchcraft. I remember the pastor (the dad) meeting at my parents' home with a few of the other churchgoers like he didn't know what to do. He'd found these letters written by the girl and her husband, which he showed us. Let me be clear that there was nothing in these letters about witchcraft. But there were things in them that were confusing, so I guess everyone jumped to the conclusion that obviously it must be something bad. Tbh, the pastor seemed more like a concerned father, even if his reasonings were misguided. Well, one day not long after these letters appeared, the girl went over to her parents' house for a visit. One of the older boys was there, and it was found out later that he'd taken a bunch of drugs. Nobody else was home.
Load More Replies... Choco 3 years ago
Notice how how all the cases with girls they are raped and tortured...its not all man, but you can see why its scary af
Ari 3 years ago
YUP ^^^ I've been told so many terrifying stories that I get so anxious whenever a man makes EYE contact with me. And I'm 14!!!
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Queenie G 3 years ago
Many years ago, I had a guy come into my salon to have his beard and moustache colored. We didn't do a lot of those so it was a bit strange but I did it. A couple days later the headline in our newspaper was about the arrest of the man who came into my salon. Seems he was on the FBI's most wanted list. They found him staying at the KOA. Weird stuff.
Samara Morgan 2 years ago
So many of these stories prove that we, women, shouldn't be the ones who have to avoid scary situations and dress modestly. Men should wear shock collars and metal locks on d***s because so many of them are f*****g mental.
Sarah Matt 3 years ago
This one is close to home. My boyfriends good friend docked his boat in the canal less than a mile from us. We walked over to hang out for a bit after dinner. He got talking to his buddy and I was chatting with a girl about legal age but younger than me. She is cooked. She tells me her friend she came with left and her phone is dead. She was stressed about her phone being dead and misc 30+ year old men kept coming over trying to get her to dance with them. Small boat. Maybe 8 guys plus me, my bf and this one and only young girl. There was no way I was leaving her there, like that, in a boat full of older dudes totally comfortable with her being totally out of it. I convinced her to come with me and my bf. It took some convincing, that alone felt weird like I'm talking her into something she doesn't know but thank God she did. She had a safe place to stay, we charged her phone and fed her. She was on Molly and was zipped so I talked to her til she was tired and eventually slept. Bf was understanding but perturbed because our monthly date night consisted of me caring for a spunion whilst also putting his buddy's friends in a bad light... to this day I see no positive resolution for that young girl in that situation other than getting out of it. The scary thing now, is how in your face it can be without others noticing.
Hugo Farr 3 years ago
This story has been floating around the internet for years. Probably hundreds of people have posted it on various websites by now.
Load More Replies... Magda_lena 3 years ago
This is just a story I heard but my sister's friend she used to go to high school with worked as a camp animator for small kids. One night they had this night play where they woke up the kids in the middle of the night gave them flashlights and afterwards they gave they them pens and paper and told them to draw the most interesting thing they saw in the forest. One 6 yo (?) kid drew a hangman. The animators got creeped out a little and asked the boy about it then went to the forest and they did actually find a corpse of someone who committed suicide. Called the cops and everything. I would never work as an animator after hearing that.
Hugo Farr 3 years ago
I was working as a jet aircraft mechanic. Me and another mechanic were doing some wiring. One of the wires hit him in the face and went through the eye. He didn't realize the wire was through his eye. He just did a reflex action to pull the wire out of his face and pulled his eyeball out.
Kat Min 3 years ago
I'm surprised the Bhopal tragedy (thousands dead, mostly children - all preventable but corporate greed led to costs being cut, warning systems not working and noone really giing af) and the Aberfan desaster (hundreds dead almost all og them children, again: preventable. The children died a terrible death due to costcutting and negligence) are not in this list
Chich 3 years ago
Guy working at a mill. Grabbed a D handled shovel and contrary to the rules put his hand through the D and was gripping the shaft while trying to dislodge something that got caught in a drum de-barker. Shovel got snagged and he was pulled in - to a large rotating bladed drum with logs bouncing around.
Via Hawk 3 years ago
Here's one I witnessed firsthand. And this one was entirely my fault. I was working on a professional play, with cool professional actors and everything, and I had a role as a serial killer. I had this awesome combat scene where I attempt to kill someone, she stabs me, and I get hauled off to jail. Well I kept being paranoid I was going to accidentally hurt my acting partner, so my choreography director put me through some "training" to help me get in character. Well it worked a lot and my partner and I were doing great. My character had this badass scene where he grabs a hatchet from the shed and raises it above his head, and smashes it down onto the poor teen's head, but the teen holds a shovel above her head and blocks it, her brother walks in and stabs to killer, and there's a happy ending, that was the play directions. Well, we were presenting our play, in front of a hundred strangers, and I felt so in character, we were doing great and everyone seemed to love it. 1/2
Via Hawk 3 years ago (edited)
2/2 up until I grabbed the hatchet, and I swung it down to her head, I have no idea what happened, but instead of grabbing the shovel, she just stood there kind of wide-eyed and sleepy looking. I noticed right before it could have sliced through the top of her head and been fatal, and I couldn't stop my arms, but managed to move to the right. So it cut a big chunk off of her cheek, and It was SP CLOSE TO HER EYE TOO. I looked at her and she just sat there, and I broke character and screamed SO LOUD "addie are you ok?!" And me and one other actress rushed her offstage and he called someone to clean her up. The next day she informed me that she straight up couldn't feel anything when it happened. It sort of scabbed over the next time I saw her, and it was swollen and blue. I felt really bad, but mostly I was glad it caused minimal damage. She kept telling me it was fine even though I kept apologizing and I didnt know what to do. The other actress on the other hand, was PISSED at me.
Load More Replies... Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I don't know if this is scary or just horrible. When I was a teenager, I used to go to this church with my parents on Sunday. The pastor there had 5 kids, all older than me. The youngest kid was a boy close to my age, and we became really good friends even outside of church. The only weird thing about the family was that the pastor often sort of 'talked down' to what he called 'youngsters' during his sermons. He seemed to think that teenagers/young people were the number 1 source of sin and stupidity in the world. I remember thinking this was pretty offensive (me and my entire extended family were all girls who basically never did anything wrong.) But out of his 5 kids, only 1 was a girl, so I thought maybe that had something to do with his opinion. Maybe his boys were rowdy at home. Well, a few years go by, and the 1 girl gets married.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
She was a few years older than me, so I didn't know her just real well, but I was at her wedding, and another time she gave me one of her hamsters as a pet, since we both loved animals. She was super sweet, and she and her new husband were a cute couple. A year goes by, and there start to be whispers that she and the husband are dabbling in witchcraft. I remember the pastor (the dad) meeting at my parents' home with a few of the other churchgoers like he didn't know what to do. He'd found these letters written by the girl and her husband, which he showed us. Let me be clear that there was nothing in these letters about witchcraft. But there were things in them that were confusing, so I guess everyone jumped to the conclusion that obviously it must be something bad. Tbh, the pastor seemed more like a concerned father, even if his reasonings were misguided. Well, one day not long after these letters appeared, the girl went over to her parents' house for a visit. One of the older boys was there, and it was found out later that he'd taken a bunch of drugs. Nobody else was home.
Load More Replies... Choco 3 years ago
Notice how how all the cases with girls they are raped and tortured...its not all man, but you can see why its scary af
Ari 3 years ago
YUP ^^^ I've been told so many terrifying stories that I get so anxious whenever a man makes EYE contact with me. And I'm 14!!!
Load More Replies... Queenie G 3 years ago
Many years ago, I had a guy come into my salon to have his beard and moustache colored. We didn't do a lot of those so it was a bit strange but I did it. A couple days later the headline in our newspaper was about the arrest of the man who came into my salon. Seems he was on the FBI's most wanted list. They found him staying at the KOA. Weird stuff.
Samara Morgan 2 years ago
So many of these stories prove that we, women, shouldn't be the ones who have to avoid scary situations and dress modestly. Men should wear shock collars and metal locks on d***s because so many of them are f*****g mental.
Sarah Matt 3 years ago
This one is close to home. My boyfriends good friend docked his boat in the canal less than a mile from us. We walked over to hang out for a bit after dinner. He got talking to his buddy and I was chatting with a girl about legal age but younger than me. She is cooked. She tells me her friend she came with left and her phone is dead. She was stressed about her phone being dead and misc 30+ year old men kept coming over trying to get her to dance with them. Small boat. Maybe 8 guys plus me, my bf and this one and only young girl. There was no way I was leaving her there, like that, in a boat full of older dudes totally comfortable with her being totally out of it. I convinced her to come with me and my bf. It took some convincing, that alone felt weird like I'm talking her into something she doesn't know but thank God she did. She had a safe place to stay, we charged her phone and fed her. She was on Molly and was zipped so I talked to her til she was tired and eventually slept. Bf was understanding but perturbed because our monthly date night consisted of me caring for a spunion whilst also putting his buddy's friends in a bad light... to this day I see no positive resolution for that young girl in that situation other than getting out of it. The scary thing now, is how in your face it can be without others noticing.
Hugo Farr 3 years ago
This story has been floating around the internet for years. Probably hundreds of people have posted it on various websites by now.
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