What is one of the scariest things that ever happened in your neighborhood?

Years ago, a woman was screaming running down the street near a park I often went to. People heard her and no one helped. She was murdered. I don’t know if the murderer was ever caught.

I watched a hit and run outside my house which i found out later was to do with rival gangs in my city..luckily the man survived being hit by the car but i couldn't sleep for weeks afterwards

I was in my bedroom and heard bloodcurdling screams and I opened the bedroom window 🪟 the screams were coming from the street. I stuck my head out and some driver was trying to pull this women into a car. The car was in the middle of the road. I shouted out hey stop it and I started to call the police and I ran downstairs. I told the operator what was happening. When I came out the guy let go of the lady and drove off.
Some of my other neighbours came out too and we were all just shocked. She was legit being kidnapped. She was trembling and crumpled and all scared. We tried to pick her up but she was too scared and just batted us off.
She then grabbed her stuff and started walking down the street again. It was night. I continued talking to the police. My neighbour was like nope and started to follow her to make sure she was ok. Bless my neighbour she was in her dressing gown but she was scared for the lady too and just followed her down the street. I saw them turn the corner.
I went back in police came and then they went to look for her.
They came back later told me that someone had tried to pull her into the car.

9/11 when I worked in Manhattan

It never really caused me any fear but a neighbour was murdered in their home by a mentally unbalanced person they have befriended and taken in.. One of those cases of a good Samaritan getting killed for being so.. Part of the risks involved in life i guess..

A young man on my street who was a boxer (and had a boxer dog) was killed in his own home by someone he considered a friend.
The friend had gone to jail for drugs, and when he came out, the boxer was the only on who was willing to give him a second chance and be friendly to him.
Apparently one night the guy asked the boxer for money, and when he said “No!”, the guy stabbed him (killing him) and took some money.
A young lady who was working with me at the time had dated the boxer, and met his family at the funeral.
The other guy was caught a few days later, wasted on drugs....and headed back to prison, this time for murder.

British armed soldiers walking through. Not scary at the time, but in hindsight..? Yeesh...we're lucky we didn't get just one PTSD-stricken guy in a panic. That's all it takes - but it was a pretty nice neighbourhood.

We also had a chopper flying very low - so low as to I swear cause washing on the line to move. It was idling down vertically...trainee or equipment malfunction maybe? Probably got lucky there.

Tornado

Home exploded during the night.

5 people were slaughtered by two people that had been on a killing spree earlier in the day

They came over and said hi

Serial sniper when I was living in the DC area in 2002

Nothing but house fires in this neighborhood. There’s been several from various causes including one arson fire that burnt the home down.

a fire truck went by the house with the lights on - but that was years ago. Im OK now.

All the squirrels started dying on the thorn tree.

Idk something shocking tho is the lake is disappearing 😳

Parts of it flooded...

Had a few, hr the most shocking was a guy we heard Running and swearing down the street. We went out front and heade a beeline for us.

It wasn't till he was lit by the porch light wesaw him literally covered from head to waist in fresh blood. All you could see was the whites of his eyes.

He came inside, he was in shock and babbling, we didn't know if it was his blood or someone else's. We gave him some water and a fresh towel.

We called an ambo but he took off again.... I never knew if they found him.

spread out over a bit, but about 50k people were killed or wounded by gunfire.

Neighbor got high off meds and drunk and then started shooting at his gf cause she wouldn’t go to the bar with him. He drove off and ditched the weapon but I managed to find it later before some little wanker did.

People have been shot on my street before and knowing that, when someone pulled a gun on me, I thought I’d be dead, but it turned out to be frozen paintballs as I was shot at as they followed me home.

Double murder

one odd thing that happened just one street from here in a park: some crazy dude grabbed a child and ran away with her, oddly enough a famous hockey player (don't remember who because I don't watch sports) caught the guy.

Murder

My area is pretty quiet. Every once in a while, a drunk will show up wanting to shovel snow, even tho it's in the middle of summer

A guy killed his family and himself. Scary shit.