Hair Raising Experience - Have You Ever Had One?

Have you ever had a hair raising experience that scared you to Death? I have.

In my teens our next door neighbors breeded siamese cats. The sounds coming from the love making were excruciating to say the least.

In my late twenties I was working in Quito, Ecuador and living by myself in a three-bedroom house in an urban development on the side of a small mountain. One night, about 3am, I was awaking by the most horrendous sound of screeching and screaming coming from the room (it was a flat root). I wasn't quite focused but it was so loud I'm sure they could have heard it in Colombia. I went into the garden off my bedroom and looked up but it was a pitch black night so I couldn't see a thing but the noise continued and was reaching a very high pitch. I looked for some small stones, found one and sent it flying. The sound suddenly stopped but I was shaking so bad it made my teeth rattle and I still couldn't see what it was. By this time I was so shook up that I couldn't sleep.

The next day in the Embassy I told the story and someone said that it was probably a couple of cats going at it. For some reason the memory of the siamese cats next door never occured to me. And since I am not a cat lover even less reason for me to takeit into account. It was a real 10-
minute hair raising experience.

Have you ever had an experience which put you in overdrive in panic? Where? When?