Karen Perrin has labeled herself a modern-day Andy Dufresne after she successfully broke out of a locked office bathroom.

An urban legend joined forces with a recurring nightmare and the worst case scenario to permanently traumatize a young mother who found dozens of the world's most venomous spiders crawling all over the banana she was preparing to consume.

A passenger with no flying experience was forced to land an airplane after its pilot suddenly collapsed at the controls.

Residents of Dallas and neighboring Metroplex cities awoke this morning to find the air filled with countless sticky, silky white strands of an unknown nature. "Relax," says CBS DFW, "it’s just spiders."

A man who spent the night with an eight-foot crocodile in his bedroom says he never thought to check underneath his bed for monsters.

Can you imagine living every moment of your day in constant, unshakable fear of running into a evil-looking red-haired clown holding a bouquet of balloons?

A Texas man with an admitted aversion to snakes was unpleasantly surprised when he encountered an unexpected serpent slithering out of the toilet while he was attempting to drain his own snake inside the bathroom of a San Antonio Starbucks.

The terrifying incident that took place over the weekend started as most nightmare scenarios often do: With strange voices coming from inside the children's bedroom.

The body of a man who had been missing from his Palatine, Illinois, home for several hours was found crushed inside his building trash compactor. Police say he had been searching for his lost phone at the time of his death.

A drowning teen was mere moments away from being rescued when a shark appeared out of nowhere and bit off a chunk of her leg.

An Ohio bank is refusing to reimburse a Vinton County woman whose house they unjustly repossessed while she was out of town.

A "writhing mass of maggots" was found inside the head of a woman after a fly laid eggs in her ear.

For over a year and a half, Joe Nagy of Arizona suffered from a severe case of runny nose.

Just under the wire for April, but a bit too late to make this month's news blooper reel, KHOU 11 Chief Meteorologist David Paul recently faced one of the worst case scenarios for any on-air news person outside of uttering the words "fucking shit" during the first two seconds of your very first newscast.

Jose Martinez's lawyer says it took the quadriplegic man three hours to medically stabilize after he was left stranded on Disneyland's infamous "It's A Small World" ride, with the ride's equally infamous theme song blaring in the background the entire time.

A 60-year-old woman undergoing dental implant surgery at a Swedish hospital learned the hard way that visits to the dentists never end well when the dental drill being used on her came loose and slid down her throat.

A psychiatric hospital in Western Australia is in the process of determining how a healthy man came to be held at the facility and injected with antipsychotic drugs after being mistaken for a runaway patient.

A woman who arrived at China's Changsha Central Hospital with an itchy ear received the worst diagnosis imaginable: A small spider had apparently crawled into her ear canal while she slept, and had been dwelling inside her for the past five days.

It was Halloween urban legend come to life for one Santa Clara woman who opened a sealed bag of Jolly Rancher-brand Crunch 'N Chew candies she purchased at a Safeway to find a terrible surprise inside: A rusty, three-inch "shank-like" blade.

Dylan Baumann of Omaha, Nebraska, says dozens of brown recluse spiders have made his house their home over the past several months.