I’d forgotten about this. That is horrible.
HIT THE WATER! HIT THE WATER!
Daniel Pearl being beheaded is absolutely the worst. I accidentally heard it when I left the radio on after the news and that asshole, Michael Savage, started his show with the sound of Daniel Pearl screaming. I cried.
It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it now.
Also, my mother’s sobs at my father’s funeral. 
The worst thing I’ve heard in person was the sound of a girl who killed herself by jumping off of the top of the dorm building I lived in during freshman year. She actually jumped off of that side of the building; there’s still major damage to the tree that she fell through as she plummeted downward. There are few things more disturbing than the loud, wet thud of a fall like that.
Worst things I’ve heard?
The final gasps of my premature son dying in my arms.
My 6 year old daughter telling me that the 14 year old neighbor boy had touched her.
I think you just “won” the thread, erie.
Walking by the Texas Children’s Hospital Emergency Room in the early morning. A woman screaming “Oh God, Oh God.”
I’m not sure what someone had just told her. But I have a pretty good idea.
On a lighter note, a large crash echoed throughout the Fine Glassware department in Bloomie’s, up in NYC. Sounded like a very lage piece of Steuben.
I cared for my bedridden mother in law for almost 6 years in my home. Her health took a turn and she began to decline rapidly, I’ll spare you the details.
Her breath became laboured. I was surrounded by professionals, who’d seen so much more than I, saying, “It won’t be long now,” it sounded so horrible.
I loved her so much and was so devoted to her, it was heartbreaking.
Weeks went by, they kept saying, “This won’t last much longer!”, palliative care nurses and doctors!
More weeks went by. The sound of it will never leave me, I’m convinced, it’s been over a year now.
It took, in all, ten weeks for her to die. It seemed like I spent all of it curled up in her chair listening to that awful breathing, shudder.
I’m not going to open any of the liked samples. This thread is enough to give me nightmares as it is.
My condolences to all who had to go through these in person.
The CBS 9/11 documentary by the French brothers. While they’re filming inside the tower there’s a thudding crash. Then another. Then another. The firefighters flinch and wince each time.
It’s people jumping from the top stories, knowing there’s no way they’ll be rescued.
Personally, my SIL calling me, asking to speak to her brother. I admit I stalled, knowing what was coming, and I said, “He’s gone down for a nap.”
She very quietly told me I had to wake him up. I took the phone into Ivylad, and sat with him as she told him their dying father had finally lost his batter with cancer.
My mother crying, followed by our principal’s voice breaking over the intercom as she announced the 9/11 attacks.
“old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like yu were”!-screetched at 120 dB, about 5 octanes out of tune! :eek:
Thanks :dubious: .
We’ve all seen and heard horrible things that rip us apart inside and are unforgettable. But when something happens to you, you can feel your soul tearing and your mind collapses. The sounds and images stay with you forever in a way far worse than events that happen to others.
I, too, heard the recordings from 9/11 and will never forget the images of people leaping from the towers. I saw the Daniel Pearl video and has horrified. I watched footage of atrocities in Rwanda or orphanages in Romania and my heart broke. But the effect of seeing or hearing something that personally effects you creates a psychic trauma on such a different plane. I in no way mean to minimize the horrors and sufferings out there, but events seem so much worse when you are directly impacted.
What happened to the 14 year old neighbor?
I had forgotten about that one, too. It’s so rare that we actually hear a real person in real, mortal danger, and the raw, naked terror that ensues. That recording of the guy in the collapsing WTC is another example.
The on-air DJ has always driven me nuts in the Dornacker crash. “Heh heh…sounds like we got some sorta technical difficulty, folks. Here’s some Huey Lewis!” :smack:
I just listened to the audio, and I think he was caught flat-footed. He had to stay calm and get the music playing so he could freak out off air.
When Chuck Scarborough of NBC news tried to go to their helicopter and got nothing, his face went white and he said “We seem to be having some technical difficulty. Let’s go to commercial.” The other people were looking at him with WTF? Turns out the helicopter had just crashed.
He pleaded guilty to sexual assault. He got 5 years probation and 300 hours community service and must attend mandatory counseling. BFD. Because he is a minor the only people outside of the families who will be informed about him will be the police and his school. His name won’t be online until he turns 18 so nobody will know about him.
During the time we were waiting to go to trial his mother began acting like they were the victims. They gave my son and wife the finger and called the cops on me (on my daughters birthday!) claiming that I had threatened their son. The cops talked to me, rolling their eyes at the absurdity of it. I told them they should talk to one of my other neighbors who was outside at the time of the alleged “incident”.
We told the DA about this and asked him to put an order in with the court that there was to be no contact between them and us. The judge put it in. Two weeks later the mother flipped off my son again. At the next court proceeding she was charged with contempt of court. She went and got a private attorney for herself. In the meantime her son was using the public defender!
As a condition of his probation he is not allowed to be with non-family children younger than himself unless he is supervised by his parents. His parents were never too observant of him before and I doubt that they will change. Our friends throughout the neighborhood have been warned about him and told to keep an eye out. When he messes up and violates the terms of his probation (and he will) we report it and he is sent off to juvie for 6 months. If his mother does anything to violate the no contact order from the judge (and we are sure she will this summer) she gets sent to jail for months.
I could go on and on about him and how much I hate him. I’m just going to stop now before I blow up.
As a fellow Canadian and major Neil Young fan, ya gotta be kidding!
The worst scream I ever heard was when I worked in a hospital and was in the emergency ward when a young mother was informed that her husbands heart attack had been fatal. “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”
Man, I can still hear it ~25 years later.
Oh, for sure. It’s just kind of funny and creepy to hear the Inhuman Broadcaster Voice never once falter, as though he hadn’t just very obviously heard the helicopter crash.
Oooh, I remember that one. I saw it when I was a kid, and it terrified me. As I remember, someone saw a videotape lying on the ground, popped it in, and there’s this horrible scene of a house burning down, and the guy holding the video camera keeps whispering “Look, Omar, look…!” in this deranged voice.
Yeah…here’s some more details. Looks like it may have involved a satanic cult! :eek:
I still can’t bring myself to watch that, much less listen to it. Thank God they caught the one’s who did it (or at least most of them…?).
This thread is ending up worse than I’d expected somehow. :mad: