What's The Scariest Moments During Your Travels

STORY 1

I was traveling in Nicaragua several years ago when I got lost and ended up having to take a taxi at 9:30pm back to my hostel. When the taxi pulled up to the curb, the taxi driver locked the taxi doors and told me that I had misunderstood the fare. He claimed I owed him $100 USD which was several times more than we had agreed upon. I tried to pry the doors open from the inside but was completely trapped. Thankfully, he let me out of the taxi after taking all the money I had on me.

The hostel workers told me I was incredibly lucky. A few days earlier, a taxi driver had kidnapped another young female, assaulted her, then dumped her barely conscious body in a field outside town thinking that she was dead. A few local schoolchildren found her on their way to school in the morning.

STORY 2

Driving through absolute bumfuck northern Ontario (7 hours north of Toronto) in late fall 11 years ago.

This was about 2am, I was driving with my friend in the passenger seat but by this point he had fallen asleep. The roads up there are mostly well maintained but it is extremely dark and there is nobody else out there on the roads at that time in those parts. In addition there was about 20km of nothing in either direction before you would hit a town of maybe 200 people.

So I'm driving down this road, high beams on, the trees are mostly barren but some leaves left, and off to the side of the road I see a dude with his hood up walking along the shoulder of the road. His back was to me but he had no flashlight or anything, and it is PITCH BLACK and also freezing cold out there.

I was driving about 80kmh (50mph) so I only noticed him for a couple seconds before passing by (he was on the other side of the road).

There was no way in fuck I was going back to check but there is no reason anyone should have been walking there alone at night along an empty road surrounded by nothing by trees for 10s of kilometer's in any direction.