Lovely Encounters

[Ferg]

This thread was born to hopefully document the terrifying experiences you've had via a universally scary animal (such as spiders, small rodents and lions) that loves to suprise and scare.

Mine involves a large sneaky spider that enjoyed living in towls :D

After my morning shower I reached for the towel only to discover that it had a long legged hairy resident sleeping within its awesome softness. This caused the towel to be violently propelled at the wall and caused me to run back to my room minus towel (which wouldn't be a big deal but people hang around in the corridors of university halls) :p

Got anything worse??? (you must have! (even though the spider was fecking huge)

[TheMattfish]

I did four years in the Australian Army Cadets, so I've spent a bit of time walking around in the bush, and spiders are pretty much a given. I've walked through spiderwebs too many times in the daytime without having to do night exercises. They're the worst. Picture this. You're the scout for your section. It's an extremely dark night, no moon, overcast. You trip and fall over, and as you're falling you stumble straight through a spiderweb. You franticly get up and dust off as much of the spiderweb as you can. You start walking again and after about a minute you feel the spider crawl onto your neck and down your back. Yeah, we squashed it on my back and I ripped the shirt off faster than you can say "GET THAT FECKING THING OFF ME!!!!". The worst part about this whole ordeal is that earlier that night someone in our unit had been bitten and had to go to hospital. I hate spiders.

This next one didn't happen to me, but it happened to my brother and one of my sisters.

My brother (who's 10) went into our garage to get something and when he turned around he saw a huge hairy huntsman spider sitting on his side of the screen door he'd just walked through. He promptly screamed, alerting everyone in the house (and probably in the street) to the fact that something was wrong. My sister (who's 15) went to the screaming but from the other side of the screen door (the side of it without the spider on it) and pressed her face right up against the screen. Que dead raising scream number two. My brother ran out another door and back into the house. My sister pretty much collapsed. I reckon she had the worst bit, she put her face right up to it, urrrrrgh.

[Socks]

I was in Alaska.
I was fishing for salmon.
I caught one.
And I ate it RAW with rice (or ate it as sushi)

It's a virtually scary animal, because it may have had salmonella and I could have been in deep doo-doo with my intestinal-track.

[ThortheClod]

do lawyers count as dangerous animals?

[katt]

spiders get pretty big where i live. once i saw one crawling on an ottoman near me. it was like one of those magic eye pictures; it was initially background noise but suddeny became apparent to me as i sat there.

I screamed bloody murder because it was the biggest damn spider i had ever seen...prolly 3.5 inches long

i live in fear another one of that size will crawl on me as i am sleeping

[Pkhunter]

It's 1 in the morning, I'm coming home from a halloween party on a night MUCH LIKE THIS (dramatic artistic liscense) and i'm still sliiiightly tipsy. Much to my surprise, i suddenly found myself running as fast as i could from a fox... Now, i don't know if you've ever been chased by a fox, but what they lack in size, they make up for in stealthy visciousness. Fairly cacked my pants.


Woke up with a spider over my head hanging from the roof once too.. that wasn't pleasant.

[AngryPaul]

Had a skylight above my bed which was more like a hatch. It was mid-summer so I had it open and pinned a blanket over it to stop light getting in and waking me up.

3am. Something fell through it. Onto my face. Scared the life out of me. Sat boltupright to see a shadow running around my bedroom.

A cat.

Chased it round my house in my pants until it jumped out of a 1st floor window. I didn't push it, it wanted to fall around 20 feet.

I then couldn't sleep as my mind convinced my body to itch as if my bed was covered in fleas.

[Darkscull]

when we were redoing the bathroom in my old house when i was younger we installed an extractor fan.

several months later, with the bathroom half finished, and the hole in the wall around the fan not entirely sealed up, i was brushing my teeth using the mirror directly opposite the wall with the fan on.
i bend down to the sink, then look up, and see this huge spider right in front of my face!

except it wasn't, it was on the wall behind me (which means it must have been bigger than i saw it, since it was quite a way away), but i was already screaming bloody murder and running away.

it must have been a very old spider, since it was a common british garden spider (the round ones with orange and black striped legs that appear in childrens book), whatever they're actually called, but it was huge, so big you could see the hairyness of it's legs, which isn't usually visible on those spiders.

gave me the shakes every time i thought about it or went into the bathroom at night for weeks.

[ZekeyLizard]

I live in florida.

My friends and I like to jog at night to a small abandoned overpass we have dubbed the "Court of Miracles"

I dont like going down it the on the steep slope, so I went around it to get in. And I hear a crunching sound. I see what looked to me to be a pile of garbage.

"Oh it's a rat in some garbage" says I.

So I slowly walk toward it.

:trex: :trex: :trex: :trex: :trex: :trex: :trex: < (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


NO. FUCK. ALLIGATOR.

And it damn near bit me.

So I ran about 50 miles an hour until I found my buddies and we spent an hour flicking small rocks at it.

[GorillaBearBear]

I was in Alaska.
I was fishing for salmon.
I caught one.
And I ate it RAW with rice (or ate it as sushi)

It's a virtually scary animal, because it may have had salmonella and I could have been in deep doo-doo with my intestinal-track.

Someone doesn't understand salmonella...

[happy-go-lucky]

Mine involves a large sneaky spider that enjoyed living in towls :D

After my morning shower I reached for the towel only to discover that it had a long legged hairy resident sleeping within its awesome softness. This caused the towel to be violently propelled at the wall and caused me to run back to my room minus towel (which wouldn't be a big deal but people hang around in the corridors of university halls) :p


This more or less happened to me when I was 10. I went to the loo at night and halfway through drying my hands I realised a HUGE spider was about one inch away, lurking in the folds.

The funny thing about spiders is, I'm scared of all of them except the really diddy money spiders and tarantulas.

Also, lol at salmonella in a salmon.

[big-chip]

I once got attacked by a seagull that wanted my chips. Oh and once i was sat on a bench in Clacton and a rat ran past me.

And i got attacked by a dog that turnd out to actualy not be attacking me and just wanted to play. But it was a big dog and running at you and barking can easily be confused as hostile behavior to a human.

[GorillaBearBear]

I once got attacked by a seagull that wanted my chips.



I didn't meet you in Brighton this weekend just gone, did I? One of my friend's housemates told me a story almost identical to that.

PS I know it clearly wasn't you, I just thought it was a bit of an odd coincidence. Maybe sea gulls just have a thing for chips?

[doctor_fruitbat]

I was on my laptop late at night, and looked down just in time to jump on to the chair before a horrible hairy spider scuttled right over where my foot had been. Little bastard kept right on going in a straight line.

I tried putting a pot over it, but it was too fast and I ended up slicing five of its legs off. So I killed it. At least I tried to get it out alive. :(

[big-chip]

I dont think so, at least i hope not because i didnt go to Brighton this weekend.

Or did I....

No the event i am speaking of happened a couple of years ago while i was still at college.

[happy-go-lucky]

Maybe sea gulls just have a thing for chips?

You think?

[big-chip]

No the food bird thing stacks up like this.

Pigeons - chips
Ducks - Bread
Seagulls - Whatever the fuck you are eating
Pheasants - Too busy trying not to be run over or get shot to eat

[Mittwoch]

Ducks - Bread

I must smell of bread or osmething because I'm never carrying it and a lot of ducks like to hassle me.

A place near where I used to live with this big wide ford is the home to a few dozen ducks. My parents used to take me there as a chillun to feed the ducks and they were friendly to the point where the ducklings would waddle into my hand and I'd pick them up and squeeze them or whatever horrible thing it is children do when they're trying to be affectionate to animals. However the rest of them just stood at my feet and pecked and nudged me.

That seems to happen a lot now, I don't know what it is. Birds just seem to want my attention.

Including swans, I've started avoiding them because some of them are bigger than I am when they reach out.

[GorillaBearBear]

Birds just seem to want my attention.

I know the feeling.

What up!

[Swedey]

I woke up after lying down in the park and I was covered in ANTS.

Just thinking about it makes me itchy.

[Elbowman-iac]

I was on safari, and an elephant started running towards the truck. Fast :D

[TheMattfish]

I hate magpies. The whole swooping thing has got me really paranoid of walking around in my home town. The worst I've ever been swooped (I know I haven't had the worst swooping as I've yet to be actually hit) happened one afternoon when I was going for a cheerful bit of cycling. As I was riding along a main bike path two maggies flew for me, head on in some sorta game of chicken. I know they're only magpies, but THEY WERE FLYING FOR MY FACE!!! which, apparently is very odd behaviour.

Another story with birds is something which I can't remember but I've been told about sooooooo many times. It happened when I was about 3 years old. We were in the Toowoomba botanic gardens having a pick nick with some extended family. Apparently I'd wandered off to play somewhere. My dad noticed some kid being chased by a goose and everyone was having a little bit of a laugh until they realised it was me. Somehow they've managed to use that against me to this day.

[Mister Qwerty]

When I was about 2/3, I was at Flamingo Land with my mum, my dad and my auntie Donna. Now, my auntie Donna, back in the 90s, was a bit of a whore, so wore a hell of a lot of make-up and hairspray, etc. (mainly the hairspray), anyway, she went to put an ice-lolly wrapper in the bin, but it actually had a wasp's nest inside it, so they started attacking us. I've been terrified of them ever since. (Melissaphobia :eng101: )

[Broche]

I was attacked by a fox once. Well, not so much attacked as scared and made to scream very effiminately.

I was in Gartnavel asylum, it's old and abandoned, really interesting building. I had just walked the length of the building inside, only my phone light showing me the way. Got to a flight of stairs, thought I'd see the second floor. So, got to the landing and the room in front of me has fallen through. I'm standing there taking in the scene, when I hear a noise. I'm in an abandoned asylum, so I'm already pretty scared. I stick my head around the corner of the doorframe to look down the hall and there's a fox running towards me. You don't really expect to see a fox on the second floor of an abandoned asylum, so obviously I screamed really really loudly, scaring the two friends I was with.


Still haven't lived that one down:rolleyes:

[Ferg]

I once got attacked by a seagull that wanted my chips.

Yeh they're opportunistic bastards. I saw one eating a stolen donut once. It was a jam donut so at first I thought its beak was all red from the blood of some fresh eye pecking or other twisted seagul game :(



Originally Posted by Broche
I was in Gartnavel asylum, it's old and abandoned

How did you ever over come the fear of being eaten by the ghost of a dead and violently insane inmate???

[gembird]

A couple of months ago I moved into a house with some other students (mates of mine from halls) and I got the shitty ground floor room. It was warm and the house smelled funny- as student houses do- so we had the windows open. I went into my room to hear a really odd buzzing noise, then this fucking huge beetle thing came out from the net curtains. It was all hairy at the front and a sort of shiny gold/beige on its wing cases, and it was about an inch long. God, it was loud, and it kept trying to fly at me.

Needless to say, I ran round to my boyfriend's and stayed at his house down the road that night.

I still stay there most nights because the thing came back last week- or something like it anyway- and I'm scared it'll get me in my sleep or I might eat it or something.

[katt]

a very long time ago I was at a drive-thru wild animal safari park. They provide you with bags of feed to encourage the animals to come up to the car so you can see them up close (they were all herbivores; zebras camels and the like).

Anyway this big texas long horn waddled up to the van i was in and everyone in the van got a little bit worried because of how sharp and long its horns were.

While contemplating this we heard a huge crash against the other side of the van. Everyone sceamed because we had visions of another long horn smashing in the door/windows.

It turned out to be a small peevish goat trying to climb up the side of the van to peer in the windows for food

[Gabber-Baby]

I was attacked by a fox once. Well, not so much attacked as scared and made to scream very effiminately.

Im terrified of foxes. I dont really know why, maybe its cos when i was about 3 in my old house we lived near the woods and my mum used to buy meat from the butchers for all the foxes, she'd leave it outside on the grass (under my window) and about 15 of the buggers would swarm and have a mass orgy, screaming that god awful "little girl getting attacked" scream as they do. I guess its haunted and traumatised me.

I was also attacked by one of these chickens at the local animal park when i was about 2. I must have been chasing him but my mum said he clawed at my face, narrowly missing my eyes. Devil chicken. The chicken was one of these - with the afro and fluffly legs.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff10/gabber-baby/cottage20poultry20636.jpg

[Lucage]

I got attack by a dog when I was about 12 walking home from school. Little bastard had a good go at my leg. Only funny thing about it was when I limped away, I bumped into a mate and told him what happened. He was like "Oh shit, you can get babies from that". :D

[Jester]

To start off this story i must tell you all that i have some sort of...'Dent' in my chect because somethings missing or something...whatever. anyhoo.

i woke up and found ti was dark (because it was still night and Mr. sun doesnt like that time) and i felt a tickling in my 'dent' (lol) i turned on my lamp to see the biggest damn daddy longlegs ive seen in my live quite happily snuggled into my chest, i grabbed for the first thing a could, (my 800+ page book) and hit the area where the fiend was located...i had a lerge rectangular red mark on my chest and the remains of a daddy longlegs...yum.

Also, i cant quite remeber the whore thing but i was 7 or 8 years old, in spain, walking to some deserted park, it wasnt a park really just a wall and a slide. and as i got there i noticed my sister screaming, i turned rouind and found a praying mantis, atleast 6 inches high standing all tough like "piss off or ill 'ave ya" style towards my sister. we ran back to the hotel, i came back withmy bike and ran the bugger over, only to fall off of the wall.

[shadow6677]

I was also attacked by one of these chickens at the local animal park when i was about 2. I must have been chasing him but my mum said he clawed at my face, narrowly missing my eyes. Devil chicken. The chicken was one of these - with the afro and fluffly legs.

same thing happend to me at the isle of white donkey sancuary still have scars to this day but fade alot

also once me and some of my friends were playing man hunt in some feilds/woods near where we lived at night and we were heading back home and i went for a tinkle in a hedge and when i caught up with my friends about 20 feet away they all say some man in the hedge next to me we all think hes some rapist or something

[Hydralisk]

It's a near pitch black night. I'm walking my dog up next to some fields, and I stop for a bit to appreciate the night sky. I lean against a fence for a bit. The dog has ran off somewhere, probably looking for rabbits, and all is utterly silent, save the wind in the trees: and then I feel a nudge against me.

Now, there are too kinds of horses, Big horses, and FUCKING BIG horses. The one that was gently nudging my shoulder was one of the latter kind. Ironically, the bigger they are, the harder it is to see them in the dark :/ It's teeth were bared (probably surprised at my presence to be fair), and I was like "fuck this for a game of soldiers", and promptly dived to the other side of the road in what must have been the best display of acrobatics I have ever done. I power-walked home that night.

I still hate horses.

[Gabber-Baby]

It's a near pitch black night. I'm walking my dog up next to some fields, and I stop for a bit to appreciate the night sky. I lean against a fence for a bit. The dog has ran off somewhere, probably looking for rabbits, and all is utterly silent, save the wind in the trees: and then I feel a nudge against me.

Now, there are too kinds of horses, Big horses, and FUCKING BIG horses. The one that was gently nudging my shoulder was one of the latter kind. Ironically, the bigger they are, the harder it is to see them in the dark :/ It's teeth were bared (probably surprised at my presence to be fair), and I was like "fuck this for a game of soldiers", and promptly dived to the other side of the road in what must have been the best display of acrobatics I have ever done. I power-walked home that night.

I still hate horses.

I dont like horses for some reason either, that would shit me up though. Ive never had an encounter like that with a horse, i just dont like them cos they're so big. When i went to Belgium they had the HUGE shire horses in the street and they were big black buggers, everyone was going up to them stroking them and going "Awwww." I wanted to cry :(

[Ferg]

It's a near pitch black night. I'm walking my dog up next to some fields, and I stop for a bit to appreciate the night sky. I lean against a fence for a bit. The dog has ran off somewhere, probably looking for rabbits, and all is utterly silent, save the wind in the trees: and then I feel a nudge against me.

Now, there are too kinds of horses, Big horses, and FUCKING BIG horses. The one that was gently nudging my shoulder was one of the latter kind. Ironically, the bigger they are, the harder it is to see them in the dark :/ It's teeth were bared (probably surprised at my presence to be fair), and I was like "fuck this for a game of soldiers", and promptly dived to the other side of the road in what must have been the best display of acrobatics I have ever done. I power-walked home that night.

I still hate horses.


Oh horses can turn rouge as well which makers them more scary.

I was reading this case once (not boring promise!!) where a nasty farmer kept a 'savage' horse in this field to stop people walking across his land. It basically chased people around and 'savaged' them repeatedly.

Ever since reading that horses have looked slightly more sinister, like they're capable of being complete monsters if they wanted to be...

[shoopieshooz]

well I was in Portugal and I put my foot in my shoe and waddya know, a dirty great scorpion was in it and it stung my toe and it bloody hurt, it turns out that it had a really big sting and i had to go to hospital lol:ultra:

[l4rd]

Oh horses can turn rouge as well which makers them more scary.


Pffft!

Horses with blusher FTW!

:eng101:

[Undertone]

Sometime last crimbo I woke up and felt thirtsty, so drank what I assumed to be half a glass of slightly stale water I had beside the bed. Wrong! 'bout halfway through, this wet splutchy thing lands on my top lip. I look down, and it's a decidedly drowned spider, making me chuck the glass at the wall and bat it off my face, swearing about "eight legged hitlers". Had to go have a mince pie to recover. :eek:

[Roxsie]

This year my parents took me on a narrow boat holiday, very relaxing.

Anyways i was sitting in the front of the boat with a book and a cuppa tea enjoying the sunlight and you know how when you're engrossed in a book you block out the outside.

Anyway i hear this hh-hmm noise and think mum is trying to get my attention so i turn to my right and look to see if she's there. Nothing. So i got back to my book only to get hh-hmms each one more insistant. I turn to my right to get my cuppa and there is this HUUUUUUGE swan with it's beak about an inch from my face demanding food. I screamed due to the shock then went inside to get some bread. Did anyone know that swans like tea? If you pour a cuppa into the water they'll stay there for ages pecking at the water trying to drink it :D

[livewirekitty]

I was coming home from classes (it was around ten or eleven at night) and I saw a bear snacking on McDonald's at the end of an adjoining road. Needless to say I sped up to get by and thanked my lucky stars that I wasn't seen.

[katt]

today in the woods i came across an armadillo (it was about four feet from where i was standing) about to go into its tiny hole

as armadillos are strange looking creatures i screamed in surprise to see it there as i was startled. the poor thing was so numbed by my scream it stopped walking into its hole

[Mittwoch]

I'm unreasonably nervous around horses too. I used to like them as a kid but when I was about 11 I was at a friend's house. Her family keeps horses and we'd been mucking them out and stuff, the big shire horse had been fine all day and I'd been feeding it carrots and stroking it and whatnot. Then it all of a sudden decided to turn right around and kick me.

Thank god it only got my leg, if it'd been my chest or head I probably wouldn't be here today. I had a big horseshoe-shaped bruise on my thigh for a good few weeks.

Since then I try to avoid horses, things like that make you realise how unpredictable and powerful they are.

[Sebas]

This was a small one, but every now and then, we have a bigger brother of this little fellow in our house.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/SeaBassYeah/17-03-07_2155.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/SeaBassYeah/17-03-07_2153.jpg

It's funny cos most people in my house are anything between slightly scared and fucking terrified of spiders.

[happy-go-lucky]

Im terrified of foxes. I dont really know why, maybe its cos when i was about 3 in my old house we lived near the woods and my mum used to buy meat from the butchers for all the foxes, she'd leave it outside on the grass (under my window) and about 15 of the buggers would swarm and have a mass orgy, screaming that god awful "little girl getting attacked" scream as they do. I guess its haunted and traumatised me.

I was also attacked by one of these chickens at the local animal park when i was about 2. I must have been chasing him but my mum said he clawed at my face, narrowly missing my eyes. Devil chicken. The chicken was one of these - with the afro and fluffly legs.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff10/gabber-baby/cottage20poultry20636.jpg


My neighbours had a HUGE cockral like that when i was about 10 and it chased me round their garden twice before i escaped.

[carrotcake]

lol sorry, but that thought IS quite funny =P

[Sir Toad]

I was tidying my room (it's yearly clean) when I was about 9, and I moved a book and a HUGE spider promptly jumped out and ran across the floor. This thing was about as large as my hand, and when we finaly caught it, would not fit under a beer glass.

[big-chip]

This was a small one, but every now and then, we have a bigger brother of this little fellow in our house.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/SeaBassYeah/17-03-07_2155.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/SeaBassYeah/17-03-07_2153.jpg

It's funny cos most people in my house are anything between slightly scared and fucking terrified of spiders.

Oh dear god i hope i dont find a spider like that in my house.

Needless to say it would be dead pretty quick but the shock may kill me too.

[happy-go-lucky]

I almost stood on a HUGE spider just now. Made me scream. :(

[coffee republic]

I've got spiders living in the dashboard of my car because it's always parked under a tree. I was driving down a two-lane road when one crawled onto my hand and I nearly swerved into traffic. I took a styrofoam cup and trapped it on the shoulder of the road.

Probably still there.