You wake up at night to an alarm, what's the creepiest message you'll find?

[thatawkwardkid]

(Hopefully this is the right place.)

Original question: "It's 3:54 a.m., your tv, radio, cell phone begins transmitting an emergency alert. What is the scariest message you find yourself waking up to?" (It was too long)

From these Reddit threads: https://www.google.com/#q=site:redd...m,+you+receive+a+text+message+emergency+alert

I always thought this was an interesting question-- especially when I'm in the mood to read creepy stuff-- so I decided to post it here. If you were to wake up to an alarm/siren in the middle of the night, what would be the creepiest (for you) message to wake up to? For me, it would be any sort of doomsday scenario.

 

[Bcat]

Probably a zombie apocalypse because there's a cemetery like half a mile from my house

 

[BambieTheMayor]

A picture of someone living in my house/near my house with the words "Mass Serial Killer Alert!" written on the top.

 

[Bowie]

Today is Bring Your Daughter to Work Day.

 

[BambieTheMayor]

Probably a zombie apocalypse because there's a cemetery like half a mile from my house

Waving through a window oh my god Dear Evan Hansen

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

Probably someone saying "Oh I like that [color/design of my PJ's]" and seeing a shadow in the hallway (main reason I sleep with the door shut and having twinkley lights on

 

[Dim]

Time to wake up? .-.

 

[forestyne]

"it's own clothes day at school today"

- - - Post Merge - - -

jk it would probably be a zombie apocalypse. im very delusional, so sometimes i fall asleep, have nightmares and wake up thinking they're real and end up having to call multiple people to check if its really happening.

 

[Pyoopi]

When I used to live in the bay area, every Tuesday at 12PM, a test tsunami warning went off. The first time I heard the siren, it was spooky as heck. I'm from SoCal, and tsunami warnings appear only on TV saying the tide will be higher or w/e.

THAT noise at any other time/day would be absolutely terrifying.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

When I used to live in the bay area, every Tuesday at 12PM, a test tsunami warning went off. The first time I heard the siren, it was spooky as heck. I'm from SoCal, and tsunami warnings appear only on TV saying the tide will be higher or w/e.

THAT noise at any other time/day would be absolutely terrifying.

Yeah I can relate. I live in Hawaii and we have monthly tsunami testings on TV and for the sirens outside. Some months they won't go off because they weren't working properly or something so I would sometimes go months without hearing the sirens so I'd freak out when I did hear them. I remember back in 2010 we were woken up at 4am because of a tsunami warning (from the Chile earthquake IIRC)

 

[BambieTheMayor]

ALERT! ALERT!
Schools will now be opened year round to ensure top-notch education in all of America's children!

 

[Pyoopi]

Yeah I can relate. I live in Hawaii and we have monthly tsunami testings on TV and for the sirens outside. Some months they won't go off because they weren't working properly or something so I would sometimes go months without hearing the sirens so I'd freak out when I did hear them. I remember back in 2010 we were woken up at 4am because of a tsunami warning (from the Chile earthquake IIRC)

Oh, I didn't know the Chile earthquake affected Hawaii. What about the Japan earthquake in 2011? I know we got one for that but in the end I think some of our boats in the port toppled over?

It's just one of those situations where you're thinking where is the best higher ground.

 

[Corrie]

Yeah definitely something to do with a disaster of some kind and we'd have to leave home asap.

 

[casual.kyle]

Waking up to any sort of sudden environmental disaster would terrify me. I actually had a nightmare when I was a lot younger that a volcano erupted near my house and we all died. That dream didn't really make any sense though because there aren't any volcanoes near me in like a 500 mile radius.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Oh, I didn't know the Chile earthquake affected Hawaii. What about the Japan earthquake in 2011? I know we got one for that but in the end I think some of our boats in the port toppled over?

It's just one of those situations where you're thinking where is the best higher ground.

The Chile one was only a couple feet high haha, and I think the Japan tsunami was only ~5ft high here? I remember during both everyone was taking it very seriously though. Luckily during both I lived on a hill so we didn't need to travel.

 

[ApolloJusticeAC]

nuclear war.

i'd hate seeing that in the middle of the night, lol

 

[tifachu]

honestly it would just be some really vague, one or two-word message like "run." "you're next." "they're coming." must end w/ a period lmao

gets my imagination going

really i already get scared enough waking up in the middle of the night to thunder, trains, nightmares, even just the dark

 

[Drokmar]

Just about any kind of devestation on a global scale would do it for me, especially if it left me alive to deal with the after effect. That, or something like tifachu said, either really.

 

[nintendofan85]

"HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead."
JK, probably a hurricane, since I remember Katrina so well.

 

[Miii]

"F5 tornado in your area"although I'd secretly be kind of excited

That would be the second one I've been through There was one that hit Oklahoma when I was a kid.