Random Most Disturbing Childhood Experiences (16 items)

• (#5) Two Young Children Encountered An Unsavory Older Male

  From Redditor /u/pettysnowman:

  It was the summer before I started school, and I was 5-years-old. My friends and I in the neighborhood spent a lot of time outdoors running around and playing.

  One day, we were in the pool swimming and it felt like someone was watching us but we didn't pay much attention. My mom noticed too but the person she thought she saw was only there a brief moment. This continued a few other times where we felt someone was watching us.

  On the first day of school my sister who was a few years older than me walked with me to school just down the street. [...] On the way home there was a man crouching on the side of the path, [pleasuring himself]. He motioned to my sister and I and told us to come to him. My sister grabbed my hand and we ran all the way home, shaking.

  We made it home and told my mom what had happened, and she called [the] police who then came by and asked us questions. However, the man got away. Months later my sister (9 years old) identified the man at the grocery store one day. Turns out he was only 18 years old.

  My sister and I had a hard time feeling safe in our neighborhood after that even though we had a restraining order.
• (#13) The Babysitter Taped The Children's Mouths Shut

  From former Redditor [deleted]:

  I used to be babysat often by my mother's friend who had multiple children (I was an only child at the time). The two of [her] kids kept fighting and jumping around so my mother's friend got duct tape and taped their mouths and hands and made them sit on the floor for a couple hours. [My mother and the babysitter] aren't friends anymore, not for that reason though.
• (#10) One Teen Gave CPR To A Dying Woman

  From Redditor /u/kostykilla24:

  This was a little more recent but by technically it's still my childhood. I was 17 at the time and I was at the local beach with my family for the weekend, all was going great. We were just sitting on the porch of the cottage we rented and all of a sudden we hear a lot of screaming. We thought at first maybe it's just people screaming because the waters cold or the waves or something. [But then] my dad came running back from the beach and I'll never forget the way he looked at me.

  [H]e said, "I need you to come to the beach now. Get your shoes on and f*cking run." I, of course, was in shock and threw on my shoes and ran to the beach. I then saw a woman laying on the beach, completely unconscious surrounded by people attempting to do CPR, as I was a lifeguard I ran in and offered my help with the resuscitating. There was no defibrillator, and the closest hospital was 20 minutes away, I performed CPR for 45 minutes until the paramedics slowly made [their] way over.

  I just remember how blue her skin was [as] the life was sucked out of her. I screamed at the EMS people to come quicker because they were walking over instead of running. When we finally had her in the ambulance, I looked over and saw her grandson on his knees crying his soul out. It was one of the most haunting images I've ever seen.
• (#4) One Child Found A Pile Of Animals In A Neighbor's Yard

  From Redditor /u/0w1:

  There was this old man that lived a couple houses down from my childhood home. He and his wife seemed like perfectly normal people, and they were pretty sociable with the rest of the neighbors, and some of the neighborhood kids even called him 'uncle'.

  So for whatever reason, the girl who lived next door to me invites me over to 'uncle's place', where her parents were sitting in his garage with him drinking beer and BSing.

  I start wandering around his backyard, unsupervised, when I had the misfortune of looking behind his shed.

  In the little nook between his shed and his back fence was a pile of dead small animals.

  Squirrels, chipmunks, and little songbirds like bluejays were piled up almost a foot tall. Little kid me, I wasn't sure what to do about it, so I told my parents. They didn't believe me, so I dropped the issue.

  As an adult though, sometimes I wonder what the heck was up with that guy?
• (#15) She Was Choking But Couldn't Get Her Parents' Attention

  From Redditor /u/ayriana:

  I started to choke on a piece of steak or something when I was around 5 [or] 6. I couldn't get my parents attention so I went to the bathroom and managed to dislodge it myself, and threw up a bunch. Ended up developing a rumination disorder after, which is pretty nasty but I mostly have under control now.

  I was terrified for that short time I couldn't breathe. It felt like 10 minutes, but I'm sure it was less than a minute.
• (#1) Her Mum Chased Her Into The Bathroom

  From Redditor /u/angelarosewood:

  I was annoying my mother when I was around seven, kept pestering her for something which I can't remember now, probably something stupid. Then her demeanor changed. Her expression was of a different [person], and she became very still.

  I asked her what was wrong, and she replied 'You have ten seconds to run. You've made me very, very angry.' Of course... I was like, 'Mummy, what?' and at first she started counting down [...] very slowly, then she whispered [...] 'Run...' That's when I started pegging it up the stairs, crying my lungs out, and she started running after me [...] trying to grab onto my ankles.

  I managed to run into the toilet and lock it, while she was banging and screaming outside of the door. I have never been more frightened in my life. I stayed locked inside there for what felt like hours, until my dad came back home from work and softly told me to come out and comforted me.

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