Reddit Users Share Scariest Neighborhood Experiences, And It's Pure Nightmare Fuel

We have another banger of a Reddit thread, and this one might keep you up at night.

As we often talk about here at OutKick, I'm a bit of an addict when it comes to going down Reddit rabbit holes.

There's usually at least one or two golden threads a week. Whether it's Las Vegas or something else, it's an entertaining time.

Enter one about scary neighborhood experiences.

Reddit thread about scary experiences goes viral

A thread titled "What is the scariest thing you've seen in your neighborhood?" is drawing some very interesting answers.

Check out some of the stories below if you don't mind not sleeping much tonight, and hit me with your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.

• Me and a couple of friends were going to head out to get some lunch and step out in the porch immediately hear "get back in the f*cking house!" and there's a swat team storming into my neighbor's house.
• Guy with a large crowbar zig zagging between houses, breaking fences, trying front doors to get into the houses. He was 6’ 2", heavily muscled, wailing and growling and completely out of his head. He was next door when my son asked me to talk to the guy. I have experience with people who have mental illness. He didn’t answer me but after some calm words from me he did put the crowbar down and sat on the neighbor’s front porch. When the police arrived they were very quiet and talked him into going with an ambulance crew for psych help. I’ll never forget the sounds he was making. I thought it would end badly.
• I was laying in bed one night and heard a gun shot so loud that it made my ears ring. It had to have been right outside my window. We (and other neighbors) ran outside but didn’t see anything. Cops didn’t find anything. Cut to a few days later and I was hanging out with my neighbors kid - he was like 12 and liked to come over and help us with yard work and just generally be around stable adults, and we fed him a lot. He told us that his mom was taking a selfie with her shotgun in her kitchen and it went off. Her kitchen is literally fifteen feet from my bedroom window (city living)… that sucked. We’re surrounded by sex offenders, trap houses etc. but that was the closest I’ve ever felt to being personally harmed, and it would have been by a dumb accident.
• Drunk old dude dressed as a chicken, stumbling around, chugging tequila at 6 a.m.
• I once walked out of my bathroom into my kitchen, which had 2 large windows facing our backyard. Window shades open, window cracked and I hear a noise outside...about 6 or 8 heavily armed police officers creeping through to the side alley. I said 'oh f*ck' and one of them heard me. Pointed at me, gestured to get down & then pointed to my front door. I hauled ass out of my apartment so fast. I never found out what was going on but jfc it was shocking.
• Me getting robbed by three guys at gunpoint.
• Not really seen, but heard. A few weeks ago, I was painting with my window open in the late evening. Suddenly I heard repeated screams for help outside. It was dark, I couldn't see anything, and when I called out, I got no response. It continued for minutes. I called the police and told them what I heard. Shortly after they left, it started again.
• Dec. 31st 1999. Numerous neighbors loading lots of long guns into cars and driving off to their doomsday bunkers for the weekend.
• I live in the hood. Last night 4 cop cars arrested a guy right in front of my house. I barely noticed until I heard a bunch of car doors slamming. Just a couple months ago I saw a different guy following, catching, and beating up some chick (who was actively yelling and trying to avoid him). I'm gonna assume it was domestic violence from the things they were screaming at each other. But he was beating the sh*t out of her. She was on the ground. I was actively telling 911 what was going on, but when he beat her I opened my door and yelled as loud as I could that the cops were on the way. He scurried off but the cops caught him within minutes - 911 operator told me. I just couldn't sit by and watch him kill her.
• Thank you for saving that person. Yesterday was the 6 year anniversary of my daughter being murdered. Her neighbor saw her being kicked and dragged by her hair into her apartment and didn’t call the cops or anything. To me, you are a hero.
• I have since moved... But a woman in my old apartment building, her boyfriend and 2 dogs were stabbed to death. She had dated a maintenance worker, and 2x he came in her apartment in the middle of the night, so it was probably him that killed them. My son watched out the living room window when the coroner was removing the body bags.
• Single car accident ending up against the tree in my front yard that killed both occupants of the vehicle. I was in the garage working and heard the car sliding on the asphalt and looked up in time to see the car slam into the tree and debris go flying. I opened the door to the house and yelled in for my wife to call 911 and tell them there was a bad accident at our address, and then ran across the field. They were both dead when I got there. Car was literally wrapped around the tree.
• It’s either between the neighbor kid getting shot from the other side of a wall by some guys shooting at each other or the lady who had an episode and stabbed her husband who was wheelchair bound then proceeded to have a standoff with SWAT.
• Guy on bath salts running naked through our community talking gibberish and jumping on parked cars. Super random in a quiet private community.
• Bunch of roadmen having a daylight machete fight at a bus stop just a few stops down from where I lived.

That's just a small taste of the thread. There are some examples that I chose not to include because I don't want to ruin everyone's day.

As for me, there are a lot of stories I could tell about some insane things I've seen and been a part of over the years. There's the infamous Mississippi Miracle, but as I've written before, as long as the other members of that whispered about the situation hold their government positions, I can't really discuss it. Someday. Someday I will share that story.

One I can talk about on the record was a massive shooting last Memorial Day. I was on my back balcony enjoying a Corona just chilling with the dog when a vehicle rolled up, two shooters got out and opened fire at a group down the street. The sustained rate of gunfire only lasted for about 30 seconds, but it felt like a lifetime. Due to the fact I'm probably not playing with a full deck of cards, I thought it was awesome and rushed outside to see if anyone had been hit. There were rifle and pistol casing literally everywhere in the intersection where they'd fired from, and the cars had been shot up like it was "Black Hawk Down." Miraculously, nobody was hit that we could find. The cops quickly showed up, and honestly, didn't do anything.

Below is a photo of one of the vehicles that had a bunch of bullet holes in it. Not sure why I just zoomed in on this one.

A look at one of the bullet holes. (Credit: David Hookstead)

Again, the wildest part is that even as the bullets were flying within probably 20-30 yards of where I was, I felt an insane rush. I've only had that adrenaline spike a few times before and since. There's nothing like it. Granted, if someone had been killed it probably wouldn't have been nearly as cool. Don't get me wrong. It was scary but also exhilarating. I guess you can't really understand it until you've been in it, and trust me when I say that was NOTHING compared to the Mississippi Miracle. Someday, folks. Someday we can talk about it publicly. That day is just not today. Have a scary story? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.