scary memory

One of mine was seeing a dead body floating in the Schuylkill river when i was like 6 .
It was a mob hit in the early 70's.

My family was going to the Franklin institute (I think) in Philly and we parked the car kinda nearby and were walking over a small bridge, i looked over and saw him face down floating..

What scared me? Lighting hit a tree about twenty feet away as I rode my bike home from school when I was 10. Had stitches in my eyelid the same year, but what scared me that was just nature...

On a double date as teenager we had gone up to a place called Poet's Seat. There is a small open tower there and a place to park and it overlooks the town I was living in. We had climbed the tower and once bored, retreated to my friend's car. We were just all talking at the time and as we watched lights began to disappear on the far side of town as the fog rolled down the mountain.

Slowly, but surely as we watched, light after light began to disappear as the fog crept over the town. It was getting darker and darker until the fog began to drift over the guardrail in front of us and started to surround the car!

We had seen enough bad horror films and we all said let's get the hell out of there! WE had to drive down our small mountain and the fog was so thick we could only see a few feet in front of us!

Until we got down to the bottom and all the lights where there. The fog layer was above the homes and if you didn't know it was there, you would have never noticed it. The dated ended shortly after as no one felt like making out that night.

i had lighting hit a huge pine tree abt 10 ft away from me once, it blew the top 20 ft off the tree, my ears were ringing, loudest thing i ever heard.. wood all over the place, tree was burning, luckily the rain was hard and put it out

Me and my friend once rode bikes across our town when we encountered a dead cat on the road. We we both scared shitless.

Usually, though, it is me who scares and frightenes other people.

Probably when hurricane Hugo came through. I was 4 at the time, and I remember my dad had cleared out his closet which was under the stairs in the middle of our house, safest place if anything were to happen. He said if we had to we could all shelter in there if there was a tornado or if the wind got too bad. Just the thought that we might have to take shelter in our own home from something like that scared me, and the wind from the storm was stronger than anything I had ever experienced. None of us slept. Luckily, no real damage was done and we never had to run to the closet.

I was like five and our car got towed away

It was probably the time when my brother and I (we were respectively 6 and 5 years of age) and had watched some movie where a kid sneaked into a car trunk to take a trip to see friends. So bright us begged our dad to put us in the trunk of the family car to see what it was like. He obliged. We surely weren't in there more than 30 seconds, but it was dark as heck and very hot.
Naturally, we were terrified and started screaming. Daddy opened the trunk and took us out. He didn't fuss at us or try to make us feel bad, but he couldn't help laughing. It got us laughing, too, but we never asked to be put in the trunk again!