Random Creepiest Experiences Abroad (22 items)

• (#22) A Horse In The UK Liked Their Pasta Pot

  From Redditor /u/hogger85:

  [We were] camping in the New Forest in the UK and woke up to the pans in our tent front area rattling. [We] opened the inner tent door and a horse's head had pushed under the front flap. [The horse] was licking out the pasta pot from the night before.

  Its eye was just looking to mine at head level and it pretty much filled the front area of the tent. It just nonchalantly removed its head and stood 6 feet from our camp staring at us for the rest of the morning.
• (#7) A Lightning Storm On Their Plane Ride In Canada Prevented A Landing 

  From Redditor /u/ClwNza:

  My girlfriend and I were flying into Calgary from Kelowna. It's a short flight, so [we were] in a smallish plane. When we got to Calgary there was a lightning storm... preventing us from landing. On our approach, we hit some severe wind and turbulence. We were being tossed around in the sky like a leaf.

  A couple of times we'd hit [still] air and just plummet. Or we'd hit a gust of wind that would throw us to one side. People were screaming. I have flown many, many times and experienced my fair share of turbulence, but this was something else. I had to brace myself to prevent myself from exiting the seat when we inevitably hit [still] air.

  Our first attempt at landing was called off because of how [brutal] the wind was. I remember thinking of how fragile life is. How insignificant we were to the power of nature. That we could so easily be thrown around during landing that we'd probably crash.

  The pilots eventually approached from a different direction and we landed successfully. Everyone applauded.

  It was the first time that I had ever truly felt that we were in danger while flying. It's usually so "just a normal day."
• (#20) They Endured An Earthquake And A Gas Incident In Tokyo

  From Redditor /u/pure2500:

  [I went to Japan] with my family when I was a kid. We were at one of the Tokyo Metro stations and there was a sudden evacuation. People were all panicking and running. Now when I think back, it's... like those zombie apocalypse movies.

  We got out all right and later we found out it was the sarin gas attack orchestrated by the Aum Shinrikyo [a Japanese cult].

  Many years later, I was working in Japan, in Fukushima. And guess what? I was there when the Tohoku earthquake hit...

  [I] guess Japan and I don't sit too well.
• (#15) A Driving Shortcut Called 'The Trap' Terrified Them In Guatemala

  From Redditor /u/intensive-porpoise:

  I was in Guatemala and traveling from Antigua to Guatemala City. Apparently there is a shortcut called "The Trap" that we took. It was absolutely insane. We plowed over rivers at about 45 miles per hour because bridges were out and were flung to the side of 1,000-meter-high cliffs... made out of sandstone.

  My buddy passed out due to the trauma. I asked after all of that why... we were going so fast, and the driver replied akin to, "It's a trap after the sun goes down." I didn't fully understand... was it vampires or something?

  He later stated while driving a bit drunk near sundown at 100 miles per hour: "No, no monsters in the trap... Only chicken bus. No lights. We would need to pull over and camp until daylight."

  Apparently on this stretch of road chicken buses run people off the roads at night without care. I was hesitant to believe it but saw the carcasses of several SUVs like ours along the river the road followed.
• (#10) A Cow Startled Them In Peru

  From Redditor /u/turnover13:

  Hiking in Huaraz, Peru, [we had] been told to watch our gear [because] locals (and apparently foxes) might make off with items left around the campsite. So we made sure to clean the campsite extra well, packing all our gear in the tent and inside the fly.

  [After] a long day hiking, off to bed. [In the] middle of the night our tent started shaking like crazy; I woke up freaking out thinking we were getting robbed. I started yelling and screaming. Part of the tent pushed in real far.

  I managed to get outside to start swinging and came face to face with the cow that had wandered into the tent ropes and got startled. [We're] pretty lucky that it didn’t step down into the tent and hit us.
• (#21) They Had A Creepy Reptilian Visitor In Mexico

  From Redditor /u/PUnitThugLife:

  We were in Tulum, [Mexico], in one of those fancy palapas [open shelters with roofs of palm leaves or branches] right on the beach. Unfortunately, it rained the entire time we were there, but I figured I would hang out on our little private patio, which included a hammock.

  I lay down in the hammock and looked up at the palapa roof only to see that a 4-foot monitor lizard had decided to hide from the rain under the patio roof.

  I totally froze and we locked eyes. His face was only about 6 feet away from my face and all I could focus on was the huge claws on its feet. He probably could have just eaten me and I would have... been paralyzed with fear.

  After our initial staredown he decided he should leave and slowly made his way down from the roof and casually strolled away down the beach.

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