The scariest thing you have ever seen in your life.

[Nemmeh]

Let's see:

When I was 14, I found a human skull in the basement of my house. It was in this tunnel that lead from the unfinished part of the basement (it was pretty much a boiler room). I was crawling along, when my headlamp caught something. I crawled over to get a better look, and found that it was a partially buried human skull. It had a hole in the back: upper and to the right (I'll spare you the medical terminology). Once I realized that it was real, I nope'd it the **** on out of there. Didn't tell my parents until a couple of months ago (we no longer live there, though we do live across the street from that house, now). That's nine years that I went without telling anyone.

When I was in High School, I saw one of my friends burn alive. We were welding in metal shop, and one of the sparks caught his pant-leg. The whole thing went up. He was running around screaming; I was screaming: "STOP DROP AND ROLL, MAN! STOP DROP AND ROLL!", everyone else was freaking the **** out, and our teacher ran off (we later found out that he was going to get our school's ONLY fire extinguisher (safety fail) and having the band teacher call an ambulance). Our teacher returned, but by the time he was able to put my friend out, all the skin on his right leg had burned off. I could see charred bone. God, there were bits of burned flesh and blood everywhere. The ambulance came and took him away, and that was the last I ever saw of him.

There are other things, too, but they are paranormal in nature and I don't feel like a bunch of "LOL GHOSTS ARENT TEH REAL! U R TEH STOOPID! LOL!" responses.

~Nimh

EDIT: Screw it: Some Paranormal stuff:

I'm putting it in spoilers.

    Spoiler:- House on Highway 78:

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When I was a little girl (2-6 years old), I lived in this house in the middle of nowhere. We literally didn't have any neighbors for miles in either direction. The house itself was a weird one (haunted as all hell, but I'll get to that later)--its layout was in a perfect circle. To either side was a large cow pasture, with a big forest behind the house. When I was about five, I used to look out the window a lot at night (I've always been a "night owl"), and I noticed these lights in the sky. This continued for quite a while (with my mom noticing them first--and they were always most prominent in the summer) until I started noticing that there would be these beams of light descending from the sky into the cow-pastures. These didn't "telescope out" like flashlight beams, they would just stay one solid beam, about the size of a pile of cow poop. I would sit there and watch as the beam would move from pile of cowshit to pile of cowshit all night. That's not the scary part--not the part that bothers me, though. I think I may have been abducted by aliens at some point. I have this hole in my chest that I was not born with. It is perfectly square and measures 8 mm by 8 mm. Doctors have examined it, and all it is is skin, then nothing, then my sternum (the bone in the middle of your ribcage). It just appeared over night when I was little--still living at that house. It is still here on my chest to this day (I am 23 now, going on 24). I've looked at old pictures, thinking that perhaps I am just mistaken, but it is not present in pictures before I was five years old. Weird thing is, I'm not afraid of aliens. I think that they are cool.


More on that house: I was too little to remember much of the ghosts, but I do remember a solid white cat running around the house at night (we didn't have any cats at the time). I would chase it into the kitchen, and it would just vanish. There was also an old man that would watch me. Turns out, he was the deceased father of our elderly land lord.
 

    Spoiler:- House on South Street and related incidents:

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Later, when I was 10-11 and we lived in a different house, I had other "scary" experiences. The first coming from the house itself. It was a three bedroom house--my parents taking one bedroom, me taking the second, and the third one served to house my toys (I was an only child, so I had toys to keep me preoccupied). I always remember that the air being really heavy "Like going into a submarine". I often would wake with large slashes all down my back, bad enough for there to be blood all over my bed (my pokemon comforter is still stained in blood--right over pikachu's face). I would black out in that house for weeks, and when I would come to, I had no recollection of the events that transpired during the black outs (at one point, during a black out, I wrote the word "VIATOR" on the calender. I later found out that "VIATOR" means "way-farer" or "traveler" in Latin). Eventually, I became fed up with this crap, and decided to confront the entity, demanding to know what it wanted. To my shock, I heard a voice respond "...life...". I got out of there as quickly as possible and my parents changed my room. Funny thing is, my dad knew the ghost. He was friends with him when he (the ghost) was still alive. Turns out, the boy killed himself in my bedroom closet after his girlfriend broke up with him. Still freaks me out a bit.

Not paranormal or scary, but weird. The house on South Street was in a rural area, and behind it was a thick forest. I spent much of my childhood exploring that forest with my dog. One day, we found an abandoned village. There were three houses that were identical to one another, two small buildings, and what I called "The Lord's Manor". "The Lord's Manor" was a huge, two story house with a basement and attic, while the other three houses were single-story and had one bedroom each. The weird thing is, when I went inside all of them, they still had furniture, plates, clothes, books, ect. scattered around the house. All the calenders said the same thing: "February 1929". It just struck me as odd, like they were all abandoned at exactly that same time and, from the looks of things, in a hurry. I often wonder what happened to make everyone just leave like that.
 

    Spoiler:- Happenings at the house wherein I found the skull:

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I don't want to write it all out again, and I have already posted it on the creepypasta wiki, so here: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/313_West_Main_Street

 

[ElectricPokeLover]

There are other things, too, but they are paranormal in nature and I don't feel like a bunch of "LOL GHOSTS ARENT TEH REAL! U R TEH STOOPID! LOL!" responses.

I'm glad you didn't O_O. If you did post it and if my curious self were to come along and read it I would spend the next couple of weeks with what you typed burned into my mind and well... I wouldn't want to go outside.

This is actually a difficult question for me. I don't think I ever seen anything too scary. My life is pretty quiet so far and nothing extremely bad has ever happened to me yet. I may see something horrifying when I'm older (though I hope not).

[AquaWarrior]

Let's see:

When I was 14, I found a human skull in the basement of my house. It was in this tunnel that lead from the unfinished part of the basement (it was pretty much a boiler room). I was crawling along, when my headlamp caught something. I crawled over to get a better look, and found that it was a partially buried human skull. It had a hole in the back: upper and to the right (I'll spare you the medical terminology). Once I realized that it was real, I nope'd it the **** on out of there. Didn't tell my parents until a couple of months ago (we no longer live there, though we do live across the street from that house, now). That's nine years that I went without telling anyone.

Dude, that is creepy. If I saw a skull in my basement, I would get the heck out of there. Literally, packing my things and leaving....

Btw you just told the entire forum of this.

[Lumino Lucario]

My friend getting hit by a car...Don't worry he is still alive!

[Toobworm]

The scariest thing I've ever experienced in my life was the terrifying silence that came when I begged for God to...well, it's not something I feel comfortable sharing...

After that day, my subconscious kept on giving me voices to listen to. One would claim it was God, another the Devil. They were either tempting me or guiding me or trying to destroy me. They'd call me worthless, and I would argue with them. I've never told my parents..

Anyhow, lately, I've kind of been feeling better. I haven't heard them for a few months, and I've learned to love myself a bit more..but still, that'll always haunt me, just how...desperately alone I felt, in this big, godless universe.

[Airi-Chan]

You will laugh after I say I am scared with mountain's looking

[sizida]

Essay. And I have no choice but to conquer it...

[dirkac]

I have never experienced anything scary persay, really.

Two days a go, I did find out the school PCs got viruses on them, and completely wiped three USB sticks full of school work, forum, data, fanfic chapters, and other random stuff. It was freakish.

Scariest thing I ever experienced was voices in my head saying my name, telling I don't know what, and how I should improve my life.
Oddly enough this only happened when I played Pokémon Link/Trozei, and it stopped around three years ago.
It also only happened on summer days in which I would sit outside and play it.

[Zigh]

It's a little gruesome but I work at a hospital and a little while back I saw one the of patients try to attempt suicide. Luckily we were able to stop him in the act and get him some help.

[NintendoCoke]

When I was in High School, I saw one of my friends burn alive. We were welding in metal shop, and one of the sparks caught his pant-leg. The whole thing went up. He was running around screaming; I was screaming: "STOP DROP AND ROLL, MAN! STOP DROP AND ROLL!", everyone else was freaking the **** out, and our teacher ran off (we later found out that he was going to get our school's ONLY fire extinguisher (safety fail) and having the band teacher call an ambulance). Our teacher returned, but by the time he was able to put my friend out, all the skin on his right leg had burned off. I could see charred bone. God, there were bits of burned flesh and blood everywhere. The ambulance came and took him away, and that was the last I ever saw of him.

Holy truck, that's the last time you ever saw him?! ;_;

Also, the scariest thing I ever saw was Jeff the killer. <___>

[Zwei]

Here comes Honey Boo boo!
No, kidding. That's a hard question :/
Maybe Slenderman after playing the game

[ParaChomp]

This bell pepper.

[Young Marmalade]

I was in third grade when this happened; I was playing outside the house with some toy cars when this lady drove up, opened her car door, and told me to get in. I sort of knew she was trying to kidnap me so I just ran inside. She drove off after that. That was scary when it happened. I could take her now though.

[Ryubane]

I used to get frequent night terrors when I was between 11 and 16. I'm sure some of you know what they are but for those who don't, essentially I would be in that weird state of almost-sleep when I would suddenly jolt awake mentally but be unable to move, breathe, or speak. This is called sleep paralysis and is basically the body staying asleep while the mind is awake. While unable to move, I would often have vivid hallucinations of dark figures with bright yellow or orange eyes like headlights walking around my room. If they began to approach me, that's when I would regain movement, and they would disappear. After they occurred I would be unable to sleep for several hours due to the adrenaline.

Other than these, the only thing that really shook me was Marble Hornets. For weeks after watching the series, I would see Slenderman out of the corner of my eye in all kinds of places. Obviously just an overactive imagination, but the way the videos are presented as being real just made me paranoid.

[Young Marmalade]

I've had a few of those night terrors too. Those are never fun.

[SherlockJones]

We had a power cut about a year or so back at the warehouse I work at, only a few red lights and torches to be able to see . Bear in mind that my warehouse is about quarter of a mile
squared, so it was pretty terrifying , I could have swore I was in Raccoon city if I hadn't know better.

Also I was down my local skate park and someone lost their temper with a skateboard , threw it and it smashed my friend in the head, he started throwing up blood, that was terrifying, although probably for a different reason.

(He's fine now though)

[-Espada-]

my friend made me watch the BME Pain Olympics... whatever you do, dont watch this!!!

[Hydreigon6507]

my friend made me watch the BME Pain Olympics... whatever you do, dont watch this!!!

Nope nope nope... *shudders*
I do not know what that is nor do I care to find out...

[ParaChomp]

This is from a kids' show.

[Hydreigon6507]

This is from a kids' show.

Arrrrrghhh! Not that scene! *cowers*