21 everyday people share the extraordinarily scary situations they've survived.

No one gets out of living in this chaotic world without a few scary and terrifying stories, but some people truly take the trophy when it comes to close calls and horror movie level situations.

In a recent Reddit thread, people shared the scariest things that ever happened to them, and each of these situations could easily be a central plot point for an Oscar winning movie.

Read these at your own risk, since most of them are pure nightmare fuel.

1. HopefulHyena ran into an attempted murderer, TWICE.

"In my old job, I used to cycle home from work along the country backroads just before midnight. There were no streetlights along those roads and I hated cycling on the main road because I was anxious about being in the way of traffic. I had an LED light that was fixed to the front of my bike, though. Anyway, I was on my way back home from work one night, and after turning a corner, my light shone on someone who was sitting with their legs crossed in the middle of the road."