People Share Their Horror Movie-Worthy Stories That Happened To Them In Real Life
When watching the latest slasher or thriller movie we often theorize our escape plans and feel frustrated when the main character runs in the opposite direction. Even though we think we could do better, nothing really prepares you to be in a truly terrifying situation.
These Redditors faced real life horror movie scenarios and lived to tell the tale.
Not As Bad As It Looks
My friend lived about 40 minutes away from this crazy woman he had been dating. One night, after four years, he decided it was time; he was gonna break it off. He goes over after class at like eight or so and says his business.
He tells her why he is no longer interested and everything, and she’s all sad and crying and begging him not to leave. It takes him two hours to get her calm enough to let him leave.
So he’s driving down the interstate at like 10-10:30 and these lights come flying up next to him. It’s her—she’s hanging out the window and screaming when, all the sudden, her car swerves across the median and she flips her car three times.
This is the point where he calls me losing his mind, thinking it’s his fault that she’s a goner.
It turns out she just ended up with a broken thumb and a new therapist.
Take My Hand
This happened when I was around five years old, but I remember everything like it happened yesterday. We had gone to a funeral for my mom’s cousin in another town a couple of hours out. We got to the house and my mom went to see her aunt. She gave her condolences and I followed, holding her hand.
I guess during the hugging and crying, my mom let go of my hand.
I started looking for her hand but not really looking up, just keeping my hand out for her to grab it while calling her name. There were a lot of people and the house was small, so I could only see the people standing around me. A couple of minutes later, I found her.
Or so I thought, because she took my hand and started walking towards the door to leave.
I thought to myself as I was putting on my shoes that it seemed weird to come such a long way just to be here for five minutes. That thought led me to look up at the lady holding my hand. I instantly realized it wasn’t my mom. I have no idea where the woman was planning on taking me.
I jolted my hand away from her and ran towards the room I had lost my mom at.
Everything Happens For A Reason
After I totaled my car, a man with burn scars all over his face and hands came up to my window. He asked if I was ok and then came and sat in the passenger seat. He said, “I need you to know that everything happens for a reason”. I said, “I know”.
The next thing I know, I’m talking to the other driver and the authorities, and the guy is just gone. No one else saw him.
A Very Strange Night
This one time when I was little, my dad woke me up at like 2 am said “Get ready, we’re going to McDonald’s”. I was so confused and kept asking why, but he wouldn’t answer anything besides, “because” or “to have fun”.
The rest of my family—my two brothers, my sister, and my mom—didn’t come with us and they were still asleep when we left.
The play place was closed, and we just kind of sat there for an hour or so eating, then went back home.
To this day, I still have NO idea why he frantically needed me out of the house, and he swears he doesn’t remember that happening, but the whole thing was SO weird that I kept the toy that I got from the Happy Meal to remember it by, and I still have it to this day…
It’s my only proof of this weird freaking night that my dad (almost scarily) hurried me to McDonald’s at 2 am. I have two guesses why. First, my sister pooped the bed and they were worried I’d make fun of her. Or maybe they somehow noticed something like rats in my room? Were they worried I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I knew that there were rats and they needed an hour or so to get them out???
Either way, a very strange night that my dad refuses to tell me the truth about, which only makes me think it’s something much worse. Like. I’m 23 now. If he said “Yeah, your sister pooped the bed and we didn’t want you to know,” I’d have been like cool, nice, good thinking.
But he REFUSES to believe that it happened at all. WHAT HAPPENED.