Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: It won't compare to some of the "big" stories here (like watching a plane hit the twin towers) but... When I was 11 I watched my father pick up a glass coffee pot full of near-boiling hot coffee. He slammed it into my mother, across her back. The sound she ....


Comment preview: Craziest and perhaps scariest story: We interviewed an old woman who described in detail how she drove a "stake" through the heart of a corpse when she was a little girl. The corpse then apparently spoke with the voice of Satan and blood flowed out of its ....


Comment preview: *It's the most wonderful time of the year With the ghosts that are roaming-yelling And all-the-scouts telling you "Need a Dispenser here!" It's the most wonderful time of the year It's the sca-scariest season of all With those haunting costumes and the wel ....


Comment preview: The scariest thing I ever witnessed was the birth of my daughter 17 years ago. Not only was I just a kid myself, and the prospect of becoming someone's "dad" daunting and overwhelming, but there were complications during labour (through the fetal heart mon ....


Comment preview: Scariest? Some years ago I was staying at my parents place looking after their cat while they were away on vacation. At a little before five am one morning I was woken to the sound of the glass on their front screen door shattering, followed by pounding on ....


Comment preview: Fox News doesn't have shit on every single local news station in the United States. I can't watch local TV news anymore because in a 30 minute span, there are at least 5 stories that are presented as "information that could save your life." If something ba ....


Comment preview: This really makes me think because a common excuse I see defending the constant flow of similar questions is that "different people come to askreddit every day and even though the questions are the same, the answers are all different." But really, that's n ....


Comment preview: My great grandfather was the first head range of Yellowstone national park. That dude had some crazy stories about bison, as imparted by my grandfather. The scariest was the story of old grumpy, when my ggf was driving home with my ggm, and they were stopp ....


Comment preview: I've been on a tour at an old prison and some of the scariest shit i've ever experienced has happened there. I'm not convinced in ghosts and what not but if there are, they're deffinetly there. every other person who works there has their own creepy story ....


Comment preview: I have a similar story. Two of my friends and I were walking around our neighborhood. It was probably the summer after 4th or 5th grade, early afternoon. A guy pulls up next to us and starts talking to us. All I remember him saying is "I just moved into th ....


Comment preview: Rob, It is an honor to be able to ask you a question on this AMA. The House of 1000 Corpses is one of the greatest movies of all time. Devil's Rejects is equally as awesome; these are some of the scariest movies that I have ever seen. My friend was telling ....


Comment preview: I must admit I've been lucky in many ways when it comes to this subject. I don't have any shocking horror stories. Most of the men I have known have been good to me. But one of the scariest moments I was ever in was when my bf at the time blocked the door ....


Comment preview: Story time. My aunt worked in the locksmith for the building in 93'. Most of you might not know this but the van with the bomb was parked next to the lockshop. Had my aunt not been on a coffee run, she would've died. All her friends did. In 01', she was th ....


Comment preview: Very close to what my own grandma used to tell me. Every night they would flee to the cellar, hoping not to get hit. Many times when they came up after an air raid, somebody else's house had been blown up. The scariest thing, however, according to her was ....


Comment preview: The scariest thing about the story was that you were heading to Terre Haute. But yeah being from Greencastle that area is pretty spooky. There are a couple back roads around Spencer I've got lost on that got real creepy real fast. Edit: Coming home from a ....


Comment preview: >THIS IS THE STORY OF A DAY WHERE THERE WAS ALL THIS BLOOD. A MAN WAS WALKING AROUND AND BLOOD STARTED COMING OUT OF HIM EVERYWHERE. THERE WAS SO MUCH BLOOD THAT IT FILLED UP AN ELEVATOR. HE WENT TO THE STORE AND THERE WAS JUST BLOOD ALL OVER THE PLACE! ....


Comment preview: Hi there. The scariest part about that episode is that is pretty accurate. I went to elementary school in what was once a small Texas town. They taught us about the alamo, but they skewed the results and told us that we won. My teacher even showed us the m ....


Comment preview: Story time! My friend and I had just gone paintballing, and we were driving back. We still had our paintball guns with us, and it's worth noting that our paintball guns resembled actual weapons. So I'm driving my friend back home, and on the way, some car ....


Comment preview: i imagine you are probably looking for stories from commercial pilots, but this is my scariest story. my first flight at a part 141 school (UND) which happens to have a lot of foreign students almost resulted in a mid-air. i was parallel to the runway (d ....


Comment preview: This story is an amazing example of how two well-meaning points of view can clash in horrible ways. It's also, obviously, a strong argument for marijuana decriminalization. Replace cannabis oil with meth and this story becomes somewhat reasonable to most p ....


Comment preview: An internet hug from me, too. I think it is pretty common for people to be in a shock when they find out something like this *did* happen to them. You never *really* expect it to happen to you. (And there are also a lot of psychological mechanisms in place ....


Comment preview: I have the same story, but opposite. In 1st grade, for one week we switched teachers with another class, and my new teacher was Mrs. Ward. She was known as the meanest, scariest teacher a first grader could ever encounter. One day that week, I had these ....


Comment preview: Good luck in your recovery. Be very, very cautious of any Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome. You may need to be put on an SSRI to balance the serotonin. Not every needs it, but it can be triggered even a year after stopping use, leading to extreme depression ....


Comment preview: I am a seafarer and when I was still a deck cadet, I saw a huge waterspout about 24 miles away from our ship. This happened in the South China Sea and it was the biggest fucking waterspout i ever saw. I wondered if it has the capability to suck our ship if ....


Comment preview: **How were you feeling at the beginning of each year of the war?** "Like it was never gonna end, we always felt that the new year would bring new feelings that would end the war" **When you were flying over Europe, how did you feel both before and after th ....