Watching someone fall to their death from fourteen stories up will haunt any normal human being for the rest of their life. As much as you might try to forget, to push down those difficult memories — you’ll wake up at night in cold sweats as the body hits the ground in your dream over and over and over again.
Maybe it was the puddle of blood that started forming around you as you came to after being hit by a car. The peace and serenity that came over you was the scariest thing because it meant that you were edging closer and closer to death. Thankfully, you made it, but the months and years and decades beyond the accident will still scar you for life.
So hold your loved ones close and remember to take in every present moment because you never know what horrible experience could be lurking around the corner. That’s not to scare the sh*t out of everyone, but people, mother nature, and physics can wreak havoc on the human body and mind.
These 25 people experienced some of the most terrifying things and it changed their lives forever:
1.
When I was younger I kicked a ball over the fence of my dads friends house and naturally I stepped on the fence and poked my head over to see how far it had gone. I saw a man a decent distance away in the backyard so I called out asking if he could pass my ball back over but he wasn’t responding so I asked my sister if I was seeing it right she looked and thought it was a scarecrow. I went to tell my Dad and his friend and they looked at it and called out but still nothing. They jumped the fence to check it out and it turned out I was calling out to a man who had hung himself to pass my ball back over.
2.
Waking up totally covered in blood. I was walking to class and got hit by a car. I’m not sure what was happened in the moments leading up to it, but I woke up in the middle of the road, cradling my head. I distinctly remember lifting my head and looking at my blood covered arm, thinking ‘I’ll deal with that later’, and putting my arm back under my head and going back to sleep.
3.
Suicide jumper was pretty unnerving. He fell from several stories up and landed on the curb. His body was rigid for a second, then just kinda melted around the shape of the curb. Then blood. Unsettling.
4.
When I was 8 or so, we lived on the third floor of an apartment building. I was walking out to the balcony a step behind my dad, I had one foot out the sliding glass door and before I could put my second foot down the balcony collapsed with my dad on it. There was broken wood everywhere. I thought he was dead. I almost died. Good news my dad lived, but his legs are messed up. It was the closest I have ever been to dying and I thought I was watching my dad die.
5.
Worked as a health care security officer in a rather large locked psychiatric ward. One day I was leaving dispatch and happened to catch on our old black and white monitor a man sitting in the middle of the main floor. Something struck me as “wrong.” Suddenly i saw a black puddle beginning to form under the man. I go running up to the unit, and there sat a man in a puddle of blood. I called for backup, but he stood up and ran at me. I fought this guy for about five minutes, both of us covered in blood. His eyes were dead, like a sharks. Turns out he had sat in the floor, and ripped out the stitches the ER had put in after a suicide attempt.
Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.
