This feels like the beginning of a horror movie...

[Apple]

Inspired by a friend going geocaching.

Imagine a photo of a Raggedy Andy doll, face down, fluff guts coming out the seat of his pants, on a stack of fire wood, in the middle of the forest. 

She posted a photo and said they didn't touch it, because she didn't want to end up getting haunted by the weird creepy doll and ending up in a real life horror movie.

So, what situations have you had where you just felt like you could be in the beginning of a horror movie?  

[Rob Base 2.0]

Personally I don't know. But I had a friend who "slugged" in DC and I told him I thought every time he "slugged" it was a potential horror movie waiting to happen.

For those who don't know "slugging" is where you wait at a stop and a random person drives by in their car and stops and if you are going the same general way you can ride with them for free.  That person driving gets to drive in a HOV lane so in theory it's a win-win......

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

DH and I went on a freak show/haunted house themed ride at the State Fair.   It was a piece of crap so naturally it broke down when we were half way thru the tunnel.  As we were sitting there I told DH that this is where the real monster comes out and kills us if we were in an episode of Supernatural.

[Lizard Queen]

The current US political climate feels like a horror movie to me.

[Apple]

Mine is from when I was in the early stages of my training program.  I was in the program with one other trainee.

It was our last night with the night shift crew.  We'd been with them for eight weeks, and usually (mostly to keep us out of their hair) they would give us some kind of "assignment" to work on (study this procedure, memorize this schematic, etc).  On our last night though, they told us to go wherever we wanted-- "you have the keys to unlock everything, nothing is off limits".

There was a set of shafts that led to a tunnel 120 feet down.  One shaft held a one-man cage elevator, and the other shaft had an embedded ladder.  I'd been in that tunnel before, but the coworker hadn't.  It was pretty cool down there, super clear water where you can look down for a long ways, chalk drawings that were over 50 years old, etc.  I knew the elevator was somewhat touchy, so we didn't feel comfortable using it without a maintenance crew available to get us out if it stopped.  So, the ladder it was.

Now, there were no lights in the ladder shaft, but hey, it's just rungs, straight down to the bottom.  So, we start heading down.  We both have flashlights and radios, so we're all good.

After a very long decent to the bottom, we test one of the lighting circuits.  Only some of the lights work.  No big deal, we have flashlights.  I reach for mine, and it's not there.  We didn't hear it fall, and I checked for it before getting on the ladder.  Coworker shined his flashlight up the shaft, and there it was, hanging one one of the rungs about halfway up.  Too high up to climb up and get it, just to come back down.  No big deal though, coworker just happens to carry two flashlights, so he hands me one.  We start walking through the tunnel, and just as it starts to get really dark, my borrowed flashlight flickers and dies.

So now, we're in a deep tunnel, only some of the lights work, down to one flashlight.  Around midnight.  Only one way out.

We keep walking, but start joking about how it feels like a complete setup for a horror movie.  We find the chalk drawings, and some other drawings on the walls.  The jokes start to feel a little more real, so we ended up not exploring quite as far as we'd wanted, but decide to head back.

It was one hell of a climb up that ladder.

A few years later, we found out that no one had climbed that ladder in probably 40+ years.  On top of that, when they went in to expand the shaft and put in real stairs to replace the ladder, the workers were able to just tug on several rungs and pull them right out of the concrete.  Rungs that had held my weight, 100+ feet high, just a few years earlier.  I felt pretty lucky that we made it in and out of that tunnel quietly and safely, and no one was the wiser.  It was over 10 years before I told anyone at work about that adventure...

[Waffle]

Years ago - before gps and cell phones - I got lost while driving. The only thing I could see on either side of me for miles was tall fields of corn. For some reason that just freaked me out.

[suesinfl]

About 5 years ago during the kids' Spring Break, I had to have the transmission replaced on my car. So I rented a car for a week and decided that we would do some day trips. One of the trips we took was to a large city north of us and a scenic county drive. We came to a sign saying the town of XX is to the left.

I remembered reading about this old country town and the oldest post office/country store in our county. I wanted to explore, so we went to the town (pop. 40) and found the building. It was indeed an old country store/PO, so we went in and it was OLD stuff that I remember seeing in old magazines, signs advertising products that are no longer made. It was pretty cool.

As we were looking around this old man came out from a room and asked if we needed any help; no we did not, just looking. Then he started following us and I started getting a creepy feeling. So told the kids to buy a soda and we would head out. As he was ringing up our order (old casher register that you pulled the handle down) he just keep giving us weird looks and wouldn't engage in conservation.

We left, noticed the drinks were out of date by a couple of years, but there was no way I was going back there. I started laughing and the kids asked what was up and said it felt like we were in a really bad "B" horror film. Imagine, woman, 2 kids, rental car, nobody knows where we are or where we are headed to. In a very small town, and lots of farm land and woods. Just stopped by a little store to check it out, and the creep man inside.

I laugh about it, but it seriously could have had a bad outcome.

[milee]

When I was 6 or 7 years old, my younger sister (about 5 or 6 years old) was a Brownie.  She had to sell Girl Scout Cookies but was too shy to talk to anyone.  I told her I'd help her and we loaded up the wagon with as many cookies as it would hold and we walked about 1/2 mile down the road to the nearest small subdivision.  We were both very tiny for our age, so had to pull the wagon together.  Things were going pretty well at the first few houses.  At the next house, a man answered the door, listened quietly and said that sure he'd buy some cookies, come on in.  He held the door open, my sister and I stepped inside and he closed the door.  And locked it.  He turned a deadbolt with a key, took the key out of the lock and slipped it into his pocket.    

My thoughts only took 1/2 second and were:
-  My mom wouldn't be home until late and had no idea where we'd gone.
-  Most of the time when mom got home, she would go straight to bed without seeing us.  It might be days before she even knew we were gone.
-  This guy was going to do awful things to us and then kill us.
-  I've just killed my little sister.

He must have seen the horror on my face because he explained he kept the door locked so his toddler son (who we never saw) wouldn't get out.  The guy quickly paid for the cookies and we ran out of there.  I feel very lucky we didn't pay for my error in judgment.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Might as well contribute my lucky stars story.

When we were engaged DH worked nights.  I am sitting alone in our house at night when there is a knock at the door.  Thinking DH forgot his keys I get up to look out the window.   There is this strange man I don't know standing there.  He claims he has some of my mail and would I open the door to look.  I said no I would not open the door and that if it was my mail he could put it in the mailbox.

He kept insisting and held up the letter. . .which did not have my name or address on it.

My land line is two rooms away.  My cell phone was on the couch.  I was starting to reach for it when he gave up and walked away. I was so freaked out I stayed up until DH arrived home at 3 am.  

I should have called my dad right away (he lives across the street) to stay with me until DH got home.  I also should have called the police because I sometimes worry I may caused another woman to end up being a victim because I didn't call 911.

Now I keep my phone on me at all times.   DH also taught me how to use the shot gun in our bedroom, I have no problems blowing a guy's skull off to protect me and the girls.

[weltschmerz]

I was taking a long walk out in the woods up north. I came across an abandoned old house in the middle of the forest. The tree canopy was so dense and high that no light was getting through....everything was black and white. There were poisonous-looking pale mushrooms growing everywhere. I heard a  noise and looked up, to see about 60 vultures nesting in the treetops.


It was creepy as hell. I hightailed it out of there.

[WholeLottaNothin]

Jun 7, 2017 11:57:58 GMT -5 Waffle said:

Years ago - before gps and cell phones - I got lost while driving. The only thing I could see on either side of me for miles was tall fields of corn. For some reason that just freaked me out.

Children of the Corn?

[Chocolate Lover]

Jun 7, 2017 13:53:24 GMT -5 WholeLottaNothin said:

Jun 7, 2017 11:57:58 GMT -5 Waffle said:

Years ago - before gps and cell phones - I got lost while driving. The only thing I could see on either side of me for miles was tall fields of corn. For some reason that just freaked me out.

Children of the Corn?

what was it they called their god? He Who Walks Behind The Rows or something like that. He was watching Waffle

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

We live at the end of a dead end road.  There are only 6 houses on this road totally, and we live far enough out of town that an emergency call is going to take someone 15 minutes to get here (depending on weather).

Not long after my first excision, I was home alone.  TD had gone back to work after dinner, and it was about 10 pm.  I had all the lights off, but the one over my chair and had been watching TV.  I get up to go to the bathroom, walking very slowly with my walker.  My cell phone was back on the side table by my chair.  As I walked up to the front door, there was a silhouette of a man outside the glass front door.  I stood there, waiting for the doorbell to ring, but nothing.....just a guy standing in front of the door.  I was not about to turn my back on the door to hobble to my cell, so I opened the door of the gun safe in the back of the closet and pulled out the Glock.  Guy is still standing in front of the door, not moving.

I stood there with the Glock aimed at the floor, waiting for someone to come though the door.  If they did, they were going to be looking at the business end of the Glock.  The guy turned around, bent down and left.

I have no idea why someone was on our front deck.  We are far enough off the beaten track that someone would have to make a concerted effort to get to the door, and not the first house you'd go to if broken down.

The Glock went back into the safe, I went to the bathroom.  Hobbled back to my chair and started shaking and crying.

[mamasita99]

DW and I were heading to a popular ski resort off season for a race. It was supposed to be a 4 hour drive. It ended up taking 8 hours. A huge storm hit the area and it turned into the trip from Hell. By the time we got there trees were down everywhere and no lights anywhere, for several hours. We slowly turned up what we thought was the road to the resort and suddenly a cop steps in front of our car with a gun pointed towards us. I guess they were blocking people from going up that road?! Scared the crap out of us. We finally made it to our resort through another entrance. We had to check in by candlelight, and the front desk man walked us to our room with a candle. We passed out in our bed fully clothed because we were afraid to move!

[Tennesseer]

In Mammoth Cave National Park (Kentucky) when the guide turned off all the lights in the cave.  While I knew we were safe, the same could not be said for the few bodies which have been found in the past of those whose torches went out and then ended up lost and alone in utter blackness.

[Virgil Showlion]

Decades ago, my mother was staying with a choir group on an international junket. The group had been put up in an old castle in Ireland. The restrooms were in a different building from the sleeping quarters.

In the dead of night, Mom had to go to the washroom but was too on edge to go alone, so she asked her girlfriend to come with her. As they were walking through the courtyard, a plume of thick orange fog oozed out from around a corner ahead of them. It slowly curled around into the shape of a hand.

I guess they ran back to the sleeping quarters in a blind panic and didn't leave until morning.

[NastyWoman]

There was that night decades ago in Hua Hin when I first saw fluorescent algae on the waves of the Gulf of Siam and overhead was the biggest meteor shower I have ever seen.  It looked like the Triffids were coming

[weltschmerz]

Jun 7, 2017 19:53:12 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

There was that night decades ago in Hua Hin when I first saw fluorescent algae on the waves of the Gulf of Siam and overhead was the biggest meteor shower I have ever seen.  It looked like the Triffids were coming

That sounds very cool!

[Tennesseer]

Jun 7, 2017 19:53:12 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

There was that night decades ago in Hua Hin when I first saw fluorescent algae on the waves of the Gulf of Siam and overhead was the biggest meteor shower I have ever seen.  It looked like the Triffids were coming

I am dating myself because I watched Day Of The Triffids at the movie theater when it was first released.

[NastyWoman]

Jun 7, 2017 20:12:48 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jun 7, 2017 19:53:12 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

There was that night decades ago in Hua Hin when I first saw fluorescent algae on the waves of the Gulf of Siam and overhead was the biggest meteor shower I have ever seen.  It looked like the Triffids were coming

I am dating myself because I watched Day Of The Triffids at the movie theater when it was first released.

And I am only a few months younger than you are --- we are from a fine vintage year

[Tennesseer]

Jun 7, 2017 19:54:51 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Jun 7, 2017 19:53:12 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

There was that night decades ago in Hua Hin when I first saw fluorescent algae on the waves of the Gulf of Siam and overhead was the biggest meteor shower I have ever seen.  It looked like the Triffids were coming

That sounds very cool!

I have only seen flourescent algae once and that was along the coast of Connecticut in Long Island Sound. The boat's engine blades was stirring up the water and the algae starting glowing.

[naughtybear]

I've been trying to find that Day of the Triffids movie for years.

[milee]

Jun 7, 2017 20:15:43 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jun 7, 2017 19:54:51 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

That sounds very cool!

I have only seen flourescent algae once and that was along the coast of Connecticut in Long Island Sound. The boat's engine blades was stirring up the water and the algae starting glowing.

We have bioluminescence here in SW Florida. Not all the time and not terribly predictable, but it's like a secret special magic. When I was a teen, I dated one of the local marine scientists who was good at knowing where it would be and I loved walking on the shore, seeing our footprints and the wave edges glowing. As an adult, I like to kayak in it - the fish below make streaks in the water - but I'm hesitant to swim in it because it seems to draw the bull sharks. Our few bad shark bites in the recent past were surf fishers or people playing in the bioluminescence.

[Tennesseer]

Jun 7, 2017 21:11:57 GMT -5 milee said:

Jun 7, 2017 20:15:43 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I have only seen flourescent algae once and that was along the coast of Connecticut in Long Island Sound. The boat's engine blades was stirring up the water and the algae starting glowing.

We have bioluminescence here in SW Florida. Not all the time and not terribly predictable, but it's like a secret special magic. When I was a teen, I dated one of the local marine scientists who was good at knowing where it would be and I loved walking on the shore, seeing our footprints and the wave edges glowing. As an adult, I like to kayak in it - the fish below make streaks in the water - but I'm hesitant to swim in it because it seems to draw the bull sharks. Our few bad shark bites in the recent past were surf fishers or people playing in the bioluminescence.

This place is world known.

Puerto Mosquito (Mosquito Bay), Vieques, Puerto Rico.

[Apple]

Jun 7, 2017 20:44:27 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

I've been trying to find that Day of the Triffids movie for years.

I always look on youtube...


 (ETA, replaced link with better quality link)

[mmhmm]

Jun 7, 2017 20:44:27 GMT -5 naughtybear said:

I've been trying to find that Day of the Triffids movie for years.

Google it on YouTube. It's there. 1962 version is the one you want, not the 2009 version.

[milee]

Jun 7, 2017 21:36:42 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jun 7, 2017 21:11:57 GMT -5 milee said:

We have bioluminescence here in SW Florida. Not all the time and not terribly predictable, but it's like a secret special magic. When I was a teen, I dated one of the local marine scientists who was good at knowing where it would be and I loved walking on the shore, seeing our footprints and the wave edges glowing. As an adult, I like to kayak in it - the fish below make streaks in the water - but I'm hesitant to swim in it because it seems to draw the bull sharks. Our few bad shark bites in the recent past were surf fishers or people playing in the bioluminescence.

This place is world known.

Puerto Mosquito (Mosquito Bay), Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Ours is similar.  Ours may be a slightly more greenish glow than blue, but same thing.  It's really beautiful.  

(But not sure I'd want to spend much time floating or swimming in it...  All these areas in the Gulf and South Atlantic have bull sharks and night time is prime feeding time for them.  And if it's Tarpon season, then the huge Hammerheads come to eat the Tarpon... The world record size Hammerheads are usually from this general area. )

[teen persuasion]

Jun 7, 2017 16:41:04 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

In Mammoth Cave National Park (Kentucky) when the guide turned off all the lights in the cave.  While I knew we were safe, the same could not be said for the few bodies which have been found in the past of those whose torches went out and then ended up lost and alone in utter blackness.

Reminds me of when one of my college professors wanted to demonstrate a Van de Graaff generator.  We all trooped off to the basement, to a windowless room they'd been using to create holograms, sealed so no light could get in.  We all gather around the device, the lights are turned off, and we wait for the charge to build up enough to begin to glow.  It takes a while, and you are left with time to realize you no longer know where anyone is around you in the complete blackness.  Then the prof asks if anyone has a pointed object, to demonstrate how the charge will be stronger around the point.  One of the guys (and they're all guys, I'm the only girl) said, "I've got a butterfly knife".

[naughtybear]

Well to be honest it has been about 15 years since I have looked LOL

[msventoux]

The house where I mostly grew up in wasn't on a road where a car could get to it, you either had to walk or take an ATV about a mile down a extremely rutted, muddy trail. We had been somewhere as a family and came back late at night. The rest of the family took the ATVs in, but as usual I chose to walk. I didn't have a flashlight, and it was fall, so it was pretty dark and rainy. I wasn't worried as I always walked and knew the trail well.

About a quarter of a mile from the house someone grabbed my arms from behind and threw me to the ground. I was pissed and rolled over quickly and repeatedly kicked them and started cursing them out. I think I was only 9 or 10, but had a pretty extensive knowledge of curse words. I then turned and ran to the house to tell my mom that one of my asshole relatives was being a jerk so she could curse them out too when they got back to the house. When I got in the house my entire family was there and supposedly had been the entire time. We didn't have any neighbors for miles, so we don't know who else was in the woods that night.