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What's the SIMPLEST, SCARIEST scenario you can think of?

March 20th 2008 22:46
Spider nightmare
Nightmares are made up of all sorts of nasty, horrendous elements. They play upon your deep-rooted fears. They thrust you into the realm of violent death. Torture you with the prospect of serious pain and anguish. Sometimes there’s no blood whatsoever; instead they can simply consist of a normal reality where everything seems right, but something is intrinsically and very distressingly wrong.

Horror movies eat nightmares for breakfast.

So what would be the scariest situation you could find yourself in? What basic scenario would be the one you’d crap your pants in? Where shivers would ripple up and down your spine? A cold sweat would break out upon your brow? Goosebumps of terror would run along your arms?

I know I’d lose my marbles if I was thrust into a dark dank pit about 2mx2m which was filled with enormous tarantulas. I know tarantulas don’t possess a deadly bite per se, but I’m arachnophobic when it comes to the hairy spiders. Tarantulas are huge and hairy, and yeah, the bite would definitely hurt, so if there were a lot of them and they felt threatened … Add a few dozen funnelweb spiders and the game is over grover.

I know I’d shit myself something chronic if I was set adrift on the ocean on a small makeshift raft 2mx2m pitching and lolling on a huge swell, and surrounding me were several large hungry great white sharks, and the raft’s wooden surface was slippery.

Get my drift?

What would yours be?

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Comment by Damo

March 20th 2008 23:48
I think that Acid is pretty scary stuff.
Of all the things that I have worked with in the past Acid was the one that had me most wary.

Two incidents that I know about that occurred in Albion some decades ago.

A worker at the Albion explosive factory was walking over the to top on an underground acid tank when it gave way.
He dropped through until his armpit stopped him. Yet his legs were dangling in the concentrated acid. When he was pulled out what was left of the legs just dropped off on the ground.

Another worker told me about someone who recently (at that time) hooked up a hose to pump acid into a truck. The man was standing with large diameter hose between his legs when he turned on the pump. He had not fixed the hose properly and raw acid gushed out onto both legs. I was told that the bone was expose by the time the ambulance arrived.

My foreman at the time got his job when his forman list an eye to one single drop of acid drip from a leaking joint.

I also saw my foreman get a permanent scar on his neck from a single drop of splashed acid.

I hate acid and never liked working with it.

Comment by Morgan Bell

March 21st 2008 05:24
i always thought the urban legend of the kidney heist was a pretty scary concept, drinking a cocktail at the bar and then the next second you awake in a bath-tub full of ice with a fresh surgical wound on your belly with crude stiching and the rusty scalpel on the floor next to you . . . similarly for women being used medically to "farm" babies, drugged and wake up chain in a hospital and impregnated againt your will (im thinking sci-fi series battlestar gallactica) . . . i think waking up from groggy from an aneathetic and finding your body had been mutilated or tampered with in some way would be most horrifying! (oh also uma thurman in a coma at the start of kill bill . . . you get the idea)

Comment by Anonymous

March 21st 2008 22:40
I feel, that the concept of falling from a plane with the world's biggest spider crawling up your chest biting you and staring at you with those eyes hungrily and all this while having your veins injected with water and being skinned with hot wire seems to be my utter and worst nightmare,

Comment by DM

April 8th 2008 09:44
i think being in a large corridor (about 20m by 2m) with doors on both ends and this corridor is totally dark....and i mean pitch black....that's not all.
The corridor is full of water up to your waist and this water is full of garbage....but every few minutes something slithers by your feet...
By the way the doors at the ends of this corridor are both locked...

I think this thought is truly terrifying....

Comment by Bryn

April 9th 2008 04:27
Greta concepts everyone! Keep 'em coming!

Comment by Damo

April 9th 2008 07:42
Actually I am writing a script now.

Now that is just scary.

Comment by Starstruck

April 13th 2008 13:48
Home alone and you know when you locked a door or closed a window and then its not, you freak out because you think someone is in the house.

Comment by Bryn

April 15th 2008 01:12
Starstruck ... yeah. Or the kitchen knife you left out has suddenly vanished from the bench.

Comment by Starstruck

April 15th 2008 14:13
Actually this one just came to mind a couple of nights ago.

The whole fad about losing weight nowadays is outrageous. So I'm thinking your a person who takes their health and looks for granted by being anorexic, even though they are perfectly normal size. So then you are taken captive by an obese person who never had the same opportunity to enjoy the slim life and he says he will set you free if you drop 30 lbs by the end of the night. If you can't he'll liposuck you bone dry.

Sort of a punishment for taking granted the normal size your body can be. Plus the sick twisted irony is involved because people become anorexic so willingly but now its backfired on them when their put on the chopping block.

Comment by Bryn

April 16th 2008 00:26
Starstruck ... very intriguing. Have you read/seen Stephen King's Thinner ...?

Comment by D. Armenta

April 28th 2008 23:14
I'm late in this game, but I couldn't resist-you do come up with some good ones, Bryn!

Being used as a living host to something--like botfly larvae.

Ughhhhhhh..that would get me screaming for sure, and I like bugs as a rule....

Comment by Bryn

April 29th 2008 00:50
Armenta, nice. Ugh. UGGGH!!!

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