26 People Share Insane Stories About The Scariest Shit They’ve Ever Seen

11. I almost got run over by a drunk driver

I lived about 2 miles out of town on an oil-sand road and worked at McDonald’s in town. I used to walk to work when the weather was nice and this was one of those times.

I’m strolling along and I hear an engine on the road behind me, and it sounds like it’s topped out, just screaming along. I look around me and find a good spot to move off the road and wait.

The car gets about 100yds from me where I just passed an improperly banked turn that is deceptively dangerous. The car is rocketing along. It hits the turn and the back end swings out, they fish tail back the other direction and the car rolls sideways, coming straight for me.

As it rolls glass and bits of pavement actually hit me in the face and neck as the car comes to a rest about 6 feet away from me in the ditch right side up. I run over to see if anyone is hurt and when I pop the back door open a bunch of exploding beer cans come rolling out followed by a very drunk Mexican guy. There’s two more inside the car, both equally drunk, and the driver is slumped over with a nice cut on his forehead.

End of story: all three guys were fine with only minor injuries, all three were arrested for DUI and I was late for work because of it, which was preferable to how late I could’ve been.

12. A strange man walked into my bedroom when I was a child

My mom had just put me to bed. I think I was around 5 or 6. Lights out, only light is coming from the courtyard behind my room. Jehovah’s witness place behind my house has lights in their parking lot so I can still see in my room. 15-20 min go by and there is nothing awake in the house. So I sit up in my bed (bunkbed pushed up against 2 walls) and I sit in the corner. Someone or something walks into my room looks around for a minute, and walks up to the window. Turns and goes out of my room. I told my mom that morning and she didn’t know what I was talking about. It was like someone with a black morph suit came into my house, but this was around 2001. I’m getting chills thinking about it.

13. It felt like my entire body had been frozen

Before I knew what Sleep Paralysis was, I was just drifting off to sleep, on the precipice between consciousness and asleep, when the door to my room cracked open a tiny bit and I could “sense” an evil spirit coming into the room, it was invisible. As it moved toward my bed I wanted to scream, jump up, anything, but my entire body was frozen with my eyes open. I couldn’t move, couldn’t even make a little peep. Internally I was fighting my body to get up right now, but nothing, as this malevolent spirit came toward me slowly.

Just as it got next to me and was about to hurt me I finally was able to “snap” out of it, my arm shot out to protect me, I got out a little whimper (because my throat was basically closed off from the stress) and the thing seemingly vanished. I looked at the clock, realized I had only went to bed 15 minutes earlier, felt perfectly calm, despite what had just happened, and fell back asleep. Remembered the whole thing clear as day the next morning.

Happened one more time and then I finally learned about Sleep Paralysis and realized this happens to people all the time. The most I’ve ever been scared, but only for a few seconds (that felt like hours).

Holly is the author of Severe(d): A Creepy Poetry Collection.

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