While avacationusually means fun adventure time or relaxing at a beautiful location, one unexpected accident can quickly make everything turn sour. And while some occurrences are nothing more than an inconvenience, others can be seriously terrifying.Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently opened up about the latter type of experiences when the user ‘ujin-’, also known as Sebe, started a discussion about it. They asked fellow netizens what was the scariest moment they’ve had on vacation and they had plenty of spine chilling stories to share. Scroll down to find them on the list below, but bear in mind that some of them might be rather disturbing.Below you will also findBored Panda’sinterviews with u/ujin-, the redditor responsible for starting the thread, as well as a Professor in the Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management at the University of Florida,Dr. Heather J. Gibson, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about safety and traveling.This post may includeaffiliate links.

While avacationusually means fun adventure time or relaxing at a beautiful location, one unexpected accident can quickly make everything turn sour. And while some occurrences are nothing more than an inconvenience, others can be seriously terrifying.

Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently opened up about the latter type of experiences when the user ‘ujin-’, also known as Sebe, started a discussion about it. They asked fellow netizens what was the scariest moment they’ve had on vacation and they had plenty of spine chilling stories to share. Scroll down to find them on the list below, but bear in mind that some of them might be rather disturbing.

Below you will also findBored Panda’sinterviews with u/ujin-, the redditor responsible for starting the thread, as well as a Professor in the Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management at the University of Florida,Dr. Heather J. Gibson, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about safety and traveling.

This post may includeaffiliate links.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

I was with my family in Jamaica when I was 16. I was swimming in the ocean with my younger brother when a local man literally grabbed me and started swimming me out to sea towards a boat with other men on it. He kept saying I was going to be his “American girl.” He got pretty far out before my brother was able to get help from other adults. It was terrifying.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

In a recent interview withBored Panda, the OP admitted being quite surprised about the amount of responses the thread received. “People’s answers were so interesting and cool to see,” they said, adding that they loved how much interaction everyone had with each other.“I was surprised to see how many responses there were, a lot of people had some crazy experiences,” u/ujin- continued. “The most surprising thing to me was the community responses, and how most people respected and showed care to those problems.”

In a recent interview withBored Panda, the OP admitted being quite surprised about the amount of responses the thread received. “People’s answers were so interesting and cool to see,” they said, adding that they loved how much interaction everyone had with each other.

“I was surprised to see how many responses there were, a lot of people had some crazy experiences,” u/ujin- continued. “The most surprising thing to me was the community responses, and how most people respected and showed care to those problems.”

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

My appendix ruptured while on vacation in England. Full perforation. I was on a school trip and my classmates had to continue their trip, so I got left behind. Day 2 in England and I spent 13 days alone in hospital before getting out and I had 2 days left and flew home. I was puking my guts out, s******g my brains out. Tubes down my throat, oxygen in my nose, catheter down my pipe. I was 15 and my parents didn’t have passports so I just had to handle it all myself. Had one amazing nurse who we are still friends with to this day (19 years later) and that alone made the whole ordeal worth while.

The OP shared that they came up with the question after thinking about something many people haveexperienced, but don’t speak about that often. “Vacations are memorable, but bad occurrences are even more memorable. So combining those two together makes a really good attention grabber. But other than that, I was also genuinely curious because I’ve had a couple bad vacation experiences myself,” they said.

Went vacationing in Mexico with my family when I was 9. Lost my parents in a marketplace in Cancun and tried to tell a guy I was trying to find my family. He told me he’d find me a new one, moments before my father arrived.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

On an overnight bus from Delhi to Dharmsala. (I am female and was 26 at the time.) We stopped at a gas station in the night so we could use a restroom. I was the last in line, and when I came out, the bus was taking off and headed back onto the highway. I sprinted after it screaming “No!” over and over at the top of my lungs. Someone must of heard or seen me and the bus stopped. I truly do not know what I would have done had I really been left behind.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Woman next door to me in a hotel was murdered.I heard her screaming “Get out of here” a lot. Called the cops first and then the front help desk to tell them the situation. Cops show up and start questioning me, asking if I knew her, was in the room, or if I saw anyone else. I didn’t know her, never left my room except to answer the door for the police, and never saw anyone else.Turns out she was running from her (ex) boyfriend as he was a known abuser and he finally tracked her down. I didn’t learn any of this until I saw a news article about the hotel about a week later. F*****g crazy.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

“I was somewhere around 14 years old, and was playing on the beach with my brother. We met a couple other boys from our cruise and decided to play with them. They decided to build a ‘water fort’ with large rocks to make a circle around us. These rocks were sharp and heavy, and they were very rowdy.

My brother left to help my mom, and that’s when they decided playing baseball with the rocks was a good idea. Turns out my head was going to be the bat… because they threw the gigantic sharp rock straight at my forehead. For a second, it hit me and I didn’t feel anything. I even asked if I was okay and they said I was fine, until the blood started to pour out.”

I was at wedding in Mexico and the groom leaned on a railing and it broke. He fell 30+ feet and survived with a traumatic brain injury. It was so awful. He is an entirely different person now. Don’t ever trust a railing! Ever. .

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Be me. Five year old on a beach vacation w family. In a typical gift shop in a tourist trap beach town. Was looking at the novelty license plates w kids names. See mine, and for once, it’s spelled the way I spell it!!!! Freak out. Ask mom for it. She agrees (I think). The novelty wears off, and I get bored as they look at the stuff and I ask if I can wait outside. On the steps this old guy comes up and using my name said, “hey, X. Your parents said to come w me and we’re going to meet them later. Come on X. Let’s go”. I’m super confused. Cousin comes out seconds later, and the old guy disappears as I am distracted talking to a cousin. I realized later that he had gotten my name off the license plate display exchange—this close.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

“It started bleeding out like a waterfall and everyone ran away so fast, so I was alone bleeding out on the beach. I remember running into shore screaming for help from random beach goers while trailing blood all over the sand,” the OP continued.“Eventually someone nice took me to see the paramedics, because I couldn’t see at all from the blood. When I got there, they tried to wash and stop my bleeding but the wound was pretty deep. Not to mention the medical bills in a foreign country were going to cost a whole mansion if I needed anything.“Hours had passed when finally my parents showed up, finding me when my brother tracked down the teens that abandoned me to ‘die’. By that time, the bleeding lessened quite a bit but I was woozy and had a gauze on my face. My mom was rightfully mad at those kids for ditching me after injuring me, and immediately scolded them and their parents; I love my mom. It turned out okay but I needed to leave the gauze on for the rest of the cruise, and have a scar on my head from it to this day.”

“It started bleeding out like a waterfall and everyone ran away so fast, so I was alone bleeding out on the beach. I remember running into shore screaming for help from random beach goers while trailing blood all over the sand,” the OP continued.

“Eventually someone nice took me to see the paramedics, because I couldn’t see at all from the blood. When I got there, they tried to wash and stop my bleeding but the wound was pretty deep. Not to mention the medical bills in a foreign country were going to cost a whole mansion if I needed anything.

“Hours had passed when finally my parents showed up, finding me when my brother tracked down the teens that abandoned me to ‘die’. By that time, the bleeding lessened quite a bit but I was woozy and had a gauze on my face. My mom was rightfully mad at those kids for ditching me after injuring me, and immediately scolded them and their parents; I love my mom. It turned out okay but I needed to leave the gauze on for the rest of the cruise, and have a scar on my head from it to this day.”

Was backpacking on Catalina island with a girls group. Set up camp for the night, then huddled in a tent while a herd of buffalo stampeded right to our spot, ran around the tent, then settled for the night. Just about pooped my pants.Apparently the males are kind of aggressive as they are on birth control for population control on the island. Poor horny souls.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

I shared this on here recently because it happened recently:Was snorkeling with my wife and son. My wife was actually free-swimming so she went ahead of us, while my son and I took our time gently paddling over to the main snorkeling area. So she was probably about 50 yards away, everyone else in the area was probably about 30 yards away. So I’m swimming and suddenly I feel something start pushing me down into the water. I recover and realize my son, who is 17 and bigger than I am, is holding onto me. He took water into his snorkel and started panicking, so he grabbed onto me. Well, I’m trying to tread water and hold up another full grown man and figure out how I’m supposed to get somewhere safe where we can stand or get to shore and I can’t manage two people. I start dipping in and out of the water because my arms and legs start getting tired and I’m treading for my son’s life (if I’m not trying to hold him up I can just dead-man’s float until I can catch my breath). Finally, I get the other snorkeler’s attention and call for help and a group of them come over. Someone with a paddleboard gets my son, and then I float and paddle as much as I can while a dude who’s there pulls me toward a boat.By the time I got on the little boat I just about passed out from exhaustion. I legit thought both my son and I were goners. The crazy thing is we’re both good swimmers. If he wasn’t panicking he could have just swam to shore, which wasn’t that far away, or just blew the water from his snorkel and continued swimming. And since he was pulling me down, I’m now panicking and not thinking straight to tell him what to do. One of the scariest experiences of my life.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

While foreseeing something as unexpected as kids playing baseball using your head as a bat might not be possible, some dangers can be—andshould be—anticipated and prepared for.According to Dr. Heather J. Gibson,travelrisk is multidimensional, so it can be divided into the macro risks, which are destination-specific and are likely to be outside of the control of the traveler (such as getting caught in a natural disaster—be it a hurricane, an earthquake, or something else—political unrest, or terrorism) and micro risks, which are more manageable for the tourist, such as health risks (getting the necessary vaccines for the country they are visiting, knowing if the water is safe to drink, being sun and heat safe, and taking similar precautionary measures).

While foreseeing something as unexpected as kids playing baseball using your head as a bat might not be possible, some dangers can be—andshould be—anticipated and prepared for.

According to Dr. Heather J. Gibson,travelrisk is multidimensional, so it can be divided into the macro risks, which are destination-specific and are likely to be outside of the control of the traveler (such as getting caught in a natural disaster—be it a hurricane, an earthquake, or something else—political unrest, or terrorism) and micro risks, which are more manageable for the tourist, such as health risks (getting the necessary vaccines for the country they are visiting, knowing if the water is safe to drink, being sun and heat safe, and taking similar precautionary measures).

My uncle decided to fk around on a trail in Yellowstone near some hot pools. He was walking backwards on the trail and f***g FELL OFF right onto the crust near the hot pools. By sheer luck, he didn’t fall through. It was horrifying. I thought we were witnessing a man die.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Struck up a convo with a man at the pool bar of the hotel I was staying at and accidentally told him I was traveling alone….later that night I woke up to knocks and the door knob shaking….I never got out of bed to check the peep hole I just called the front desk but I’m pretty sure it was him.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

“A lot of this is common sense, particularly for the experienced traveler,” Dr. Gibson suggested, adding that travel insurance—particularly to cover the unexpected costs—is also a good idea.

On our way to the New Orleans airport at like 4am, the vehicle next to us on the highway shot at us for no reason. The bullet went through the windshield and rearview mirror, lodging in the roof right between my wife’s and my heads.

When I was 21 my friend and I backpacked through Belize. Started a conversation with a local who eventually told us he was part of the crips and proceeded to show me all of his abdominal stab wound scars. He told us his gang likes to kill people for fun and then asked us if we wanted to go with him on a boat ride. I had to act like I was considering it for a second before I turned him down. Didn’t want to make him too mad.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

I slipped hiking in the Grand Canyon and ended up dangling chest down over a huge drop-off. I was 8.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Prof. Gibson suggested that some of the most common risks for people on vacation typically relate to theirhealthand well-being, whether it’s food poisoning or breaking a bone, which is why she advises familiarizing yourself with the local medical facilities in the destination you are traveling to and taking a basic first aid kit with you.“Petty crime is another common risk, as pickpocketing, as well as losing purses, phones, or passports is pretty common,” she said, adding that it’s beneficial to have a backup plan. “Know your credit card numbers and who to call. Carry a copy of your passport. Know something about the local laws and customs.”

Prof. Gibson suggested that some of the most common risks for people on vacation typically relate to theirhealthand well-being, whether it’s food poisoning or breaking a bone, which is why she advises familiarizing yourself with the local medical facilities in the destination you are traveling to and taking a basic first aid kit with you.

“Petty crime is another common risk, as pickpocketing, as well as losing purses, phones, or passports is pretty common,” she said, adding that it’s beneficial to have a backup plan. “Know your credit card numbers and who to call. Carry a copy of your passport. Know something about the local laws and customs.”

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

“Know the rules about photography,” the expert continued. “In some countries, it is against the law to take photos of certain places or peoples, which may also be cultural. Ask before you take photos of children or local people. Check out the safety credentials of any operators you are using; this is particularly important with adventure sports such as paragliding or bungee jumping.“You need to do more research than just where you are staying and what tourist sites you are visiting,” she emphasized.

“Know the rules about photography,” the expert continued. “In some countries, it is against the law to take photos of certain places or peoples, which may also be cultural. Ask before you take photos of children or local people. Check out the safety credentials of any operators you are using; this is particularly important with adventure sports such as paragliding or bungee jumping.

“You need to do more research than just where you are staying and what tourist sites you are visiting,” she emphasized.

Fell asleep on a pedal boat, woke up a few hours later in the middle of nowhere, completely dehydrated with no water with me.Luckily enough i was wearing a watch so i was able to figure out where north was, and there was a sticker on the pedal boat with some sort of map of the area, so i managed to figure out how to get back to land, and i got back to the resort at sunset after pedaling for a little over an hour.First thing i did was break into the restaurant where the personnel was getting things ready for dinner, only wearing my swimsuit, and yelled (not really cus i was exhausted and dehydrated) “WATER!!!!!!! I WANT WATER!!!!!”.Absolutely loved the fact that nobody asked questions or came up with “sir you can’t be here now” and the receptionist/manager immediately realized something was wrong and she ran to the fridge and brought me some Gatorade equivalent.There were a couple times that i was pretty sure i was going to die, i kept thinking “dude i can’t believe i’m going to die like a fg ae”. It started getting scary towards the end because it was getting dark and there were no lights on the beach, and i was pedaling so slowly, so i was afraid i would lose track of where i was going.

Me and my mom were driving cross country, 3k miles. We stopped off at a motel that backed up into a forest and got a room.Now I’m a compulsive people pleaser. I don’t like to make a fuss. But I only got a few feet into the door before turning around and telling my mom we needed to go somewhere else.What did I see, you ask? SPIDERS. EVERYWHERE. It was like a scene from a f*****g horror movie. And they weren’t the good kind of spiders, either. Black widows.The room was clean so I assume that it had simply been left for a while.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Sitting around the fire pit in camp before sunset, I scooted my lawn chair back and heard a noise. I said what was that to my mom. I turned around and there was a bear about 10ft. behind me on the other side of a picnic table. We grabbed some pans and started clanking them and it took off.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

According to Dr. Gibson, it’s really important to follow local guidance, signage, laws and customs. “You are a guest in the other country, so being a responsible and respectful visitor is of utmost importance. This is getting more important as communities around the world push back against tourism,” she told Bored Panda.“Put the shoe on the other foot; how do you feel if visitors to your community come and disrespect your laws and customs? Responsible tourism is key.”

According to Dr. Gibson, it’s really important to follow local guidance, signage, laws and customs. “You are a guest in the other country, so being a responsible and respectful visitor is of utmost importance. This is getting more important as communities around the world push back against tourism,” she told Bored Panda.

“Put the shoe on the other foot; how do you feel if visitors to your community come and disrespect your laws and customs? Responsible tourism is key.”

When I was 12, my dad took me to the Grand Canyon. He had bad arthritis and couldn’t walk well, so I asked if he wanted to walk down a trail and he said he’d stay put but I could go.I walked down the trail, like a switchback, only a little ways. Then I turned to see if I could see my dad, and was waving to try to get his attention. I kept waving and backing up and waving, then turned and my back heel was right at the edge of the grand CANYON. I was not the smartest kid.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Faced an earthquake of 6 magnitudes in the mountains. Horrific and harrowing.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Riding a travel bus along a narrow cliffside road in the Cordillera Central mountain range in the Philippines.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Survived a tornado while on vacation with my grandparents in 2010. Path of the tornado was within 100 yards of my location. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but it reached its peak EF2 intensity right near my location. Considering the damage it did it’s amazing nobody got hurt.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

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Montana - Glacier National Park.My husband wanted to climb down to get a closer look at a steep, rushing gorge. I mean, this wasn’t just a stream - this was immense amounts of powerful crashing water that would’ve taken him away in a second. I warned him not to go down there but he insisted. I watched him while holding my breath, and sure enough his foot slipped and he almost went down. I seriously thought for a moment I was about to lose my husband.Thankfully he caught himself but then looked up with the eyes that said “oh s**t, you were right.”.

Almost died last year. Halfway through vacation I started having pain in my groin/colon after taking my morning dump. Thought it was just something I ate. Several bloody poops and pain like I’ve never had before later and I’m in the ER at 12:30 am being told they thought I was septic and I had a 104.5° fever. After taking pain meds stronger than morphine apparently I passed out for like 30 min and they thought I was gonna have a seizure and die according to several doctors. Turns out I had several infections from unchecked leukemia.Weird thing is we were vacationing in outer banks NC when I got my cancer diagnosis. Back when I was a kid my dad was diagnosed with cancer after vacationing there. Safe to say my family is avoiding it like the plague from now on.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

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My sister died of a brain aneurysm while on vacation in Ireland in November. We had to get emergency passports and last minute plane tickets to go see her. Getting her back to the US for burial was a clusterfuck.

Found a huge scorpion on my bed in a hotel in Acapulco Mexico.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

I was mountain biking in Bolivia (on the death road) and stupidly wiped out on some loose gravel. I slid out and stopped right at the edge of a gigantic cliff… so close to going over the edge. I badly bruised my knee but was otherwise okay and able to finish the ride. I am a lot more cautious about my mountain bike trail surfaces now.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

A tie between the time I got lost in Florence, before cell phones and the time they stopped our plane on the runway and pulled all the luggage off, and then came onto the plane with guns to arrest two guys. Ohhhh, and the time I was on a plane and the whole damn thing shut off and just fell. Like it, fell straight down, everyone and everything not tied down hit the ceiling. Complete with the masks coming out and an emergency landing at the nearest airport.

When I was studying abroad in NZ, I took a solo trip to the South Island. I was supposed to go with a few friends but they ended up cancelling last minute. This was my first solo trip ever and I booked a few hostels along the way. There was a French man who I immediately noticed upon arriving to my hostel in Queenstown. I remember him saying something odd to me. Then after a day of being at the hostel he gets moved into my room. He then spends an entire afternoon in the room staring at me while I watch you tube in my bed. Then later when I went to grab dinner in town, I spot him off in the distance as if he had followed me. Then later that night when I finished showered he was waiting in the room and again wouldn’t stop staring. I told him off and had a worker at the hostel change me to a private room. Gathered my s**t and booked it out of there the next day. I was 20 and it was my first solo travel experience. Sucked.

We were actually on our way back from a small trip. My mom had texted that my kiddo was sick so we were doing our best to get home fast.  It was only about a 3 hour drive but all back roads but with few places to actually pass.   We got stuck behind 2 semis. My partner just kept insisting I go past them. But something tells me not to. He kinda pushes it for about 5 minutes but I just will not. Something in me just says No. Suddenly the first semi stops to turn and the semi behind it has to slam the brakes and swerve to stop in time. You could see the smoke coming off the tires.  If I had tried to pass like I normally would have done and my partner had said, we would have been hit. I fully believe we would have died.  It was a silent ride home.t.

Drove up a famous Turkish mountain with my dad, mom, grandma and cousin. After a couple of hours we drive back down and my dad realized the brakes don’t work anymore. If we drove straight down we would probably fall a whole kilometer and die in a wreckage/explosion. My dad just calmly drove into the mountain wall and the car flipped completely and came to a halt with the tip of our car dangling down the edge. We somehow all got out safely and waited for the police. I was 6-7 and was frantically searching for my lost sandal. Even got a picture of me holding up the sandal, doing poses. What a memory.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

Our son used to have seizures when he was young. We were visiting the mini Grand Canyon at Yellowstone park when out of the blue he had one and fell literally 1’ from tumbling 1500’ feet down…. Still makes the hair go up on my neck.

I worked in Mexico and went out drinking with some close friends/coworkers who live there. I got so drunk that I blacked out and was unable to basically function. Cue the next afternoon, I wake up in my underwear in a chicken coop covered in chicken st and feathers. I thought someone had kidnapped me. Nope. I just wanted to make chicken friends and they were too drunk to stop me. But the 5 minutes I thought I got kidnapped in Mexico was f***g terrifying.

My mom and cousin (her nephew) traveled abroad. He had a severe allergic reaction to a pill he took and suffocated/died. My mom had to perform CPR on him, go to the hospital after getting exhausted, then arrange to have him flown back to America for burial.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

I got really drunk in New Orleans. Phone died and I couldn’t get an Uber. Decided to walk back to my hotel. Could see it from where I was so just started walking. Two women saw me walking and asked if I needed a ride. I said sure. Told them where I was going and jumped in the back seat (obviouslyIdiotic drunk move). They drove me and I could tell we weren’t heading to my hotel. They were acting very strange, making phone calls, stopped at a gas station to “get some gas.” I was sobering up REAL quick as this was all going down. At the gas station, they said the station “wouldn’t take cash” and were just stalling. I managed to get $20 out of my pocket, put it on the center console and luckily got out of the car, ran inside the gas station, and waited there for 15 minutes. After a while I took off running toward my hotel and made it there safely.I only ever told one person about this and I wonder all the time what they had planned for me.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

In Vegas during the shooting. Walking down towards Mandalay Bay after a Knights/Kings pre-season game. My wife got a sudden ‘sick’ feeling (not like a cold or stomach issues just very uneasy.) We crossed over just after Tropicana and started making our way back to our hotel further up the strip. Went to bed after hearing about a shooting, but didn’t know until we woke up about the carnage we would have certainly walked through. Pretty certain her grandfather (who passed just months before this trip) was telling her from above to not continue on the path we were going. Still get chills about what may have been and feel so terrible about the innocent lives lost that night.

Semi vacation, summer college trip to Andres island in the Bahamas. Range Rover we were in flipped, almost ended upright, but slammed back down to 3/4. No seatbelts, one guys ear was in three separate pieces, I had some glass chunks in me. We were flown to Nassau to get x-rays and treatment without ID or money. I was just 18 and I was told “You have to go with this other guy because we think he might have a brain bleed and die and we need someone to bring the body back” 😳Spoiler alert, nobody died. At least not physically.

I was snorkeling off the beach at Club Med Martinique, close to shore. Suddenly it felt like I was caught up in a blender and thrashed all over the place. Dazed, I came up to see a small powerboat MUCH too close to shore moving away from me. It happened so fast! I had a lot of bruises all over me. Pretty sure I almost got caught up in the propellers. I was almost fish food.

Driving in Maui, I noticed a dump truck headed toward me getting closer and closer to the lane line. Kept watch and we passed each other no incident. Looked in my rear view 10s later and it collided head on with a car behind me in our lane.

I was taking the train in Milan with my gf at the time and this man sat in front of us and locked eyes with me. He took a photo of me and after a few moments on the phone, he hung up and he took out a knife and began gesturing to slit his throat, all while maintaining eye contact with me. He then began yelling in Italian and slammed the blade of his knife into the chair and the window behind him as he got increasingly angry at us for who knows what. We got up and sat at the end of the train. The guy stayed where he was but maintained eye contact.We got off at the next stop but in the moment I thought I was being mistaken for a person that had a hit on their head.

I was playing with a couple kids on a beach when I was younger, and they threw a giant sharp rock on my head. They abandoned me after I started to bleed and I had to run around the beach crying for help. They took me to the medical station where my family ran to find out where I was, real scare was the possible financial bill for my mom lol.

At a mid-tier resort in Cuba, my young son cut his leg on a rock. It quickly became swollen and infected. The resort doctor laughed when we asked if antibiotics were available. We tried to move up our flight home but it was not possible. The two day wait to get back to North American healthcare was a long one.

Nearly choked to death on a tortilla chip, I was 8 years old. To this day, I dont each chips.

Instead Of A Relaxing Vacation, These 30 People Were Left With Frightening Stories

My mom had a heatstroke and she fainted in a small town in Mexico, in the middle of nowhere.

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