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One of life's most unfortunate moments is when we feel our lives are genuinely in danger.

These horrific moments can involve the behavior of people with malicious intentions or just being at the wrong place and time.

Even though many people live to share their harrowing stories, the trauma doesn't necessarily go away completely.

But all anyone who's experienced a terrifying ordeal can do to find peace is to count their blessings and be grateful they are survivors.


Curious to hear from strangers online, Redditor Fearless-surfur-ee asked:

"What was the scariest incident happened with you?"

These Redditors experienced heart-stopping false alarms.

Wrong Target

"Half a dozen masked men broke into my bedroom, threatened me and my girlfriend, realised they had the wrong house, apologised and left. Edit - I told the full story here a while back."

– The-Go-Kid

Witness At A Shopping Mall

"Similar thing happened to my Aunt. She witnessed an attack at a shopping centre (on going disagreement between 2 well known families) and was threatened. A few days later one of the older family members approached her in her driveway and apologised profusely for the younger persons behaviour and offered her compensation. She was so scared she just said no thanks and he left."

– pokerdotts

Sometimes, you gotta listen to your gut.

Unplanned Detour

"Wife and I took a dark exit towards out neighborhood. Whole backseat full of bags cause we went shopping at the mall. There’s a red light at the intersection once you get off the exit and we pull up to this tinted oldsmobile. They were in the right lane to go straight or turn right and we were in the left lane to turn left."

"Nobody is around, maybe 10 at night. I turn left and look in my rear view and it’s the car that was next to us a bit back. I pull in my driveway and just had a really weird feeling, so I told my wife I’m gonna reverse and drive around the block. She thinks it’s weird as hell, but as we are reversing, this dude is walking towards us from that Oldsmobile parked around the corner. I dip the f**k out and make it look like I was just turning around and drove like a mile away before heading back."

"Just had this gut feeling, man. Who knows what would have happened? But it was scary as f'k, nonetheless."

– One_pop_each

A Tragic Stop

"Friend borrowed dad’s Benz to take wife on anniversary date. He stopped for flowers and was followed home by someone thinking he was wealthy. He was shot dead in his driveway in what turned out to be a gang initiation; you did the right thing.​"

– busjockey

These Redditors looked down the barrel of a gun...and lived to tell their story.

Fearless

"Was at a train station that was empty and I was sitting down waiting for a train and a man walks over with a bag, opens it and takes out a shotgun and points it at me and I just stare at him, he then says 'you're not scared are you' then puts the shotgun back in the bag then walks out of the train station."

"Actually not sure if that was the scariest or weirdest or if I was even scared."

– XenomorphXx121

The Right Answer

"Reminds me of the time a guy put a gun to my neck and said, 'What would you do if I pull the trigger right now.'"

"I was in a completely apathetic state of mind at that time anyway and said, 'Not much I can do, but I'll haunt you.'"

– lazerchin

These Redditors experienced medical emergencies.

Lucky Patient

"Last week had a heart attack after almost recovering from chemotherapy."

"I asked the nurse if I was going to die and she said I’m in the right place and they will look after me. Then I got more scared then I ever have before"

"I should not have survived but I did."

– Fistandantalus

Urgent Appointment

"The scan came back and we found a mass. We'd like you to come in to talk to the doctor today or tomorrow. You should see if someone can drive for you as you may be upset afterwards"

"Can I come in next week, I have a trip planned?"

"The doctor says you should come in today anytime and we will clear an appointment for you."

"Luckily that doctor kicked a**. 3 years post-surgery. Scans are clean in August and I move into the "only 10% chance of reoccurrence" bracket."

– Meet_the_Meat

Mysterious Illness

"Felt sick, kind of like the flu. Felt completely fine in the morning, but got worse as the day went on. It was the middle of the night and I was up with my husband and our new 6 week old baby. I was pumping breastmilk."

"Next thing I know, I’m waking up to EMTs surrounding me on my bed telling me not to move or sit up. My heart rate was incredibly high and blood pressure incredibly low. They took me to the hospital and no one knew what was wrong with me for a while. They kept asking me what drugs I took. I kept telling them nothing (which is true). I just had a baby, the biggest 'drug' I was taking was Tylenol. They didn’t believe me for a while."

"I couldn’t remember a lot of things at this point. I could barely even remember my own kid’s name. I couldn’t tell them who the president was or what year it was when they asked. It was a weird feeling to have memory missing. Kind of like having lost some puzzle pieces. Talking was also kind of difficult."

"After a BUNCH of tests, turns out I had a UTI so bad that I went into septic shock and my kidneys were shutting down. Didn’t know I had a UTI because I was still healing from childbirth and I am pretty asymptomatic when it comes to UTIs. I don’t feel pain when I get them. Spent a few days in the ICCU. Was extra scary considering my brand new baby was at home and I wasn’t and there was a chance I wouldn’t make it home at all."

"In the end, I thankfully made a full recovery."

"Not as intense as some of these other stories, but please don’t sleep on a UTI guys. Sepsis is no joke."

– mxbear

The last time I truly feared for my life was when I was at a party and a fight between two drunk partygoers turned into a Swiss army knife fight.

I'm not kidding.

A couple of my friends and I jumped off the second floor balcony and got chased in the parking lot.

After some fumbling with the car keys, my buddy managed to get five of us crammed into his car and the perpetrator started pounding on the rear window with his fists and bloodying it up from smashing his knuckles onto the glass.

The police came just in time. Thank you annoyed neighbor who called the cops on us for our blood-curdling screams disturbing the peace.

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