On a camping trip I can now barely remember...
I woke in the night with my hand in something cold and sticky on the floor of the tent. On closer inspection it was blood. Then I noticed my sister was missing. My brother was still there, but my sister had disappeared and been replaced by a puddle of blood. I went to tell my parents. They too had vanished.

I woke up my brother and, being little boys, together we silently panicked, incase a psycho was listening in nearby.

Then out of nowhere a car pulled up. The headlights beamed onto the tent. This was it. Whoever had taken the rest of our family had come back for us.

The lights went out. We could hear the footsteps approaching the tent. We were on the verge of screaming... but were too considerate for other campers.

Turned out it was just my mum. My sister had suddenly had a really bad nosebleed overnight and they'd rushed her to hospital, thinking we'd sleep right through.
( Butters and his titanium codsocket, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:49, 2 replies)

Brilliant!
Clicky!
(Tomble Underground, overground, Tombling free., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:54, closed)

oh, you poor thing!
you must have been terrified!
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Sun 10 Aug 2008, 6:32, closed)