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: There are a few reasons to want to wait until you reach a well lit area. 1. You are worried, like OP, that it is not a cop. This is solved by calling 911 and confirming that it is an officer. If you do this then you have absolutely nothing to worry about. ....


Comment preview: There's a postsecret card that's pretty haunting. [Everyone who knew me before 9/11 believes I'm dead.](http://images.codingforcharity.org/ps/2005/5/29/postsecret_postcard_towe2.jpg) Another is the [Denise Amber Lee] (http://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/king-m ....


Comment preview: I'm a 911 operator and dispatcher for my local police and fire departments. While I've been there less than a year, one of the most intense calls we had involved a caller who called in on 911, and we could hear quietly sobbing in the background. I attempte ....


Comment preview: On the anniversary 3 years ago I heard some 911 calls played. Two stuck out in my head. One was a woman trapped in the building. She was terrified and was coughing a lot from the smoke. The operator was trying so hard to calm her down. Then she starte ....


Comment preview: I was at a park recently, taking my dog for a walk, just staring at my phone. I start hearing some crying in the distance and I see a little girl just bawling her eyes out. We made eye contact and she just starts blubbering, arms stretched out and starts w ....


Comment preview: This literally caused my blood to turn cold and my stomach to churn. I had to call 911 this year for a domestic dispute, and despite the fact that I was terrified and hyperventilating in my front yard, all the officers who responded cared about was "Where ....


Comment preview: > After shooting kyle, he told his wife he thought "it was him or me", maybe he had read Kyle's book. Eddie Ray Routh also stole his truck, killed Kyle's friend and threatened on the phone to his mother that he would harm himself and others. His sister ....


Comment preview: Reading the comments she was left by her mum and step-father for 8 months! So she'd of been early in her pregnancy when they left, but the strain of caring for an ill toddler, your own pregnancy, and probably being terrified of calling anyone for help due ....


Comment preview: Probably going to get buried. But heres one that gives me the chills. Not too spooky for those who are skiddish. A family friends grandfather passed away and her grandmother was on her final days. The family had hired an at-home care taker (20ish years old ....


Comment preview: Ooookay, gather round. I littered some of this through the thread already, but there's a serious problem here. You guys need some basic first aid / first responder lessons. The reaction of the guy in this video is **NOT** him being: - A baby - A momma's bo ....


Comment preview: The first night I did mushrooms. I was tripping with my younger brother at a friends house. (I was 19, he was 17). My bro claimed it was his third or fourth time. Since he was the one who knew the guy who sold them to us, he decided to take all the caps ....


Comment preview: I was a caller- A year ago.. My mom had told me to make sure to get to bed on time, which was a bit unusual, but she said she was going to bed early. Cue me walking by her bedroom to see her slumped over, face down, half on the bed. I was a bit worried, t ....


Comment preview: >a lot of Americans would probably appreciate the option due to how expensive a ride is. Absolutely. A couple of years ago I wasn't living the healthiest lifestyle (partying, not sleeping enough, not eating right) and started having what I found out lat ....


Comment preview: the tongue one kinda happened to me! i had a severe allergic reaction to indian food while i was house sitting by myself, by the time i found my phone and called 911 my tongue was so swollen i sounded like the teacher from Charlie Brown! i realized that th ....


Comment preview: I hope this gets to you in time. DO NOT BEAT BOB!!! Please stop. My cousin was attempting the same about 3 years ago. It consumed him. He stopped eating, he stopped sleeping, he only paused to sip water and apply lotion to his cracked and callused mouse ....


Comment preview: I was in the building that night, in fact, I was the room right next to Seevakumaran's, which was pretty terrifying to find out! It was already a disturbing story, but once I found out that I was right next to him, and he had a plan to open fire as people ....


Comment preview: I was in an armed robbery last week and that's what scared me the most. I was in a grocery store. They told me to get down. I ducked down and ran to the back of the store and called 911. Most terrifying thing of my life because I tried to run out the back ....


Comment preview: Reminds me of when I was working at a 24 hour Subway and at about 4 am when normally there was no one there at all these 2 guys pulled their car up right in front of the doors. They were basically blocking it (this was not a parking lot btw, just a sitting ....


Comment preview: Worked at King's Island on a ride called Diamondback. One day the train came back and this kid (~10 or 12 years old) was completely unconscious. He was slumped over in his seat being held up by his mother. (For those of you who don't know. The seats on Dia ....


Comment preview: When I was in 7th grade, an 8th grader at my small school went home on a Friday night. He exited the bus and walked into his home. Less than 10 minutes later, the 13 year old was lying in the laundry room, nearly decapitated from 65 slashes to the neck and ....


Comment preview: >We are mostly a good couple, and we have lived together for 2 years without any huge problems or anything. Success is not defined by a lack of failure. >She said she was going to kill herself and then tried to jump out of the car while I was driving ....


Comment preview: The first time I watched it, I didn't have the sound on. I thought it was nbd. The second time I watched, I heard the screams. When I found out that most of the screaming you hear is coming from the people inside the building, I was messed up for a few day ....


Comment preview: Watching people interact with the police on twitter is like having a front row seat to a terrifying train wreck of communication, problem solving, and human intelligence. At first it wasn't bad, but since the message is always the same to the same repeat c ....


Comment preview: WTF logic!?!? If a criminal JUST got done fleeing the police and theres someone banging on the door at 1:30am they are going to know its the damn police! Whats dangerous is having half wake people, scared to death, answering the door while armed because th ....


Comment preview: A similar thing happened to me when I was a little girl. I was about 5 years old walking down the road from my sister's friends house back to mine around 8 am when a man pulled up. There was a little girl in the front seat that looked scared and the man ju ....