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25 People Reveal The Terrifying Things That Scarred Them For Life

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The aftermath of a drunk driving accident. Dude decided to fly down the road at ~90mph, hits another car head-on. The person in that car was killed instantly. The drunk driver wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Flew out his windshield, his car kept traveling and ran over him. Not a pretty sight.

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Early in the morning of 9/11 I looked out the window of my school a few blocks away and saw one tower on fire. Later, I watched the towers burn from a science lab. They evacuated us just as they were collapsing completely and we walked up the highway in air that was black and full of ashes.

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My mother giving my brother CPR on the beach after he broke his neck and almost drowned. He was in the water for about 4 minutes. Then watching the helicopter take him away not knowing if he was dead or alive. He defied the odds and went on to live another 36 productive years as a quadriplegic. I was with him when he died a few years ago.

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A 12 year old’s beating heart and breathing lungs. He blew his chest wall out with a 20 gauge shotgun from a distance of 8 feet. He propped the gun against a fence post to cross the fence. The gun fell and went off. He was hunting.

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I saw a 5 year old girl fall about 30 feet from a chairlift while skiing. When she landed I was about 15 feet away. She landed on her stomach. I called ski patrol immediately but the time it took them to get there felt like an eternity (it was probably not more than 5 minutes). I had no medical training other than very basic “do not move the injured person,” since her face was directly in the snow, I took my jacket off and I held her neck/head still and had a nearby person slide my jacket under her face. It was shortly after Christmas, so I tried to distract her by asking her what she got from Santa, and I sang her favorite Christmas song. I kept holding her neck still until ski patrol took over and sent her in the ambulance. Later, I found out that although she had some bad bruising, she walked out of the ER later that day.

Written by Laura McNairy

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.