As I sit here trying to keep my heart rate under roughly 3000 bpm, I recall the events that have just transpired:

I decided to watch the film Antichrist, which I had heard was brilliant, unnerving, and thought provoking. Turns out, yes it is. It's creepy as hell in a way you can't possibly imagine unless you've seen it.

The premise of the film is that a man and a woman go to a cabin retreat to try to rebuild their marriage after their son falls out of a window while they're having sex.

So a little while into the film, the mother is walking through the forest, and she hears the ghost/hallucination of the son moan "mooooooooom" as though it's crying for her attention.

Roughly three seconds later I hear, in a voice that could win any impression contest "aaaaaaannnnnnntoonnnnnnyyyyyyyy"

I nearly jumped out of my skin. Turns out it's my little brother, who is sick. He just wanted some tylenol for his fever and an icepack. Never before has such a common event caused probably ten years to be removed from my lifespan.

I turned the god damned movie off. **** that movie.

Tell stories of your greatest frights in life....

lol....

I got one.

Go to visit my grandma is Carson City. As we're all getting ready for bed she mentions in passing not to answer the door in the middle of the night. She claims the neighbors are "dopers" and therefore I shouldn't answer the door in the middle of the night. I was like...ok? Crazy old lady. I've slept countless nights there and she's never said anything like that before. Mind you this is a very sub rural neighborhood on the outskirts of town, acres big lots, etc. I'm sleeping on the couch in the living room, 20 feet from, and in view of the front door. Go to sleep fairly early, 9 or so. Then about 1 or 2 in the middle of the night when the ****ing door bell rings. I'm on the couch and I freeze. Completely freeze up. Never been so scared. Few minutes later my parents come in from the guest bedroom and ask if that was the doorbell. I said yes.

Grandma doesn't know why she told us not to answer the door. All 5 members of my family heard her give this "warning" and all 5 of us heard the door bell ring in the middle of the night that very night.

Baffles my mind to this day.

Wait outside in the bushes with a shotgun. Find out why.

When I was about 9 years old, I saw an episode of "Are you afraid of the dark?" at my neighbors. It was the one where the camera takes a photo of something gruesome happening to you, and shortly thereafter it happens. The show had a ridiculous cliffhanger ending, where they never truly get rid of the curse. They tried to get the camera to take a photo of itself, that only manages to curse the VIDEO camera on a tripod behind it. I forget what they did with the video camera, but it ended up cursing the computer in the room right at the very end.

That damn show had me scared of cameras in the dark for YEARS.

Haha, I heard Antichrist made quite a few people faint at film festivals. Truly a disgusting movie. I can't really think of a movie that scared me like that... Amnesia: The Dark Descent is probably the first time I got so scared I felt dizzy.

I don't know if this quite qualifies as fright, but I felt my heart stop.

I'd been looking up people I used to know on facebook. Ran across a girl I met when she was 5 and I was helping out at church camp. She's now 18, and her profile listed her as married with several kids. I nearly had a heart attack. I can still see that adorable five year ol, you know, so this was quite a shock.

Turns out her "kids" are friends her own age, and she was just intensely in love with her boyfriend. I don't know why teenagers do this sort of thing. Old geezers like me can't keep up.

I told her I was sending her my emergency room bill.

I played Amnesia

a girl i used to go out with one approached me 5 years after we stopped dating with a kid that looked to be about 5

HAHA holy **** that sounds scary