Hey Charlie! What's the scariest thing you've ever read/watched/seen in real life?
Fun fact: My subdivision/neighborhood/piece of Nashville suburbia growing up was built on a slave plantation. Not too deep in the woods around was an honest-to-god Slave Graveyard. It was CREEPY AS FUCK, and I visited it and did stupid kid stuff (not like desecrating the graves or that) most halloweens, and some other random dark and boring nights. SO, basically what I'm getting at is that these woods around the back of my house/the neighborhood are already kind of creepy.
So one day, a friend and I are exploring the woods. And we find what looks like an old house foundation. Not a structure, just the foundation, and a large stone chimney. There's some aluminum siding all put together looking into a shack. We get kind of scared, but go poking around, and it looks fairly lived in. Some random food stuffs around the area. Some clothes too. We get a little weirded out, feel like we're being watched or wandering into some sort of Jason Voorhees trap, but we can't see anyone or anything around us. We eventually scamper back home.
Not long later. Maybe a couple days, a week tops, we come back with 3-4 more people to show this to them. We get to the foundation thing, and the aluminum siding/pieces or whatever are all flat. All over the stone foundation. No clothes, no trash, no foodstuff or evidence of life like before. No sign of life. We're kind of weirded out now. The other friends don't believe us, and go to work playing with the aluminum things to make a secret clubhouse. First friend and I are kind of like uhhhh... looking around for any sign of whoever made the first shack, but there's nothing else. So we join in. We make a decent-ish clubhouse, and go there over the next couple days. A couple of us, including me, decide to spend a night out there. Until the day we showed up, and the shack was apart again. All the stuff flat on the foundation, not in a way that would have fallen down from wind or an animal or something knocking into it. Deliberately taken apart. This was enough to convince the other kids that something weird was happening and we didn't want to run into whoever or whatever was fucking with the shack.
Looking back it could have been shiftless, harmless hobos, or even more likely, another group of kids investigating the woods, but that scared the fuck out of me back then.
Charlie have you ever narrowly escaped DEATH?
I've been within a 1/4 mile of a tornado three times.