Your weirdest encounters whilst on holiday...

Speaking of theme parks, I went to Port Aventura a few years ago and it was Halloween time and the staff were dressed up as characters from horror movies etc. I can remember a member of staff dressed up as Freddy Krueger suddenly appearing and then chasing a group of us down a path.

I got chased by pirates in Disneyland a few years ago at Christmas. Then last year while we were on the ride it broke down, and we had to wait 15 mins in our boat. It was dark too, and we were surrounded by the robotic pirates, scary stuff!

I was chased by the Queen of Hearts at Disneyland!

do i detect a theme here? Beware scary theme park characters!

We were on driving holiday in USA and we got lost somewhere in nowhere Utah, we eventually saw some sign of life as we came across this one street town, literally lke one gas station 2 houses and a grubby cafe, so we stopped into the cafe where we are the only customers - this creepy woman with only 2 fingers total and missing teeth starts chatting to us and gets us drinks. To my Mum's alarmance, she keeps telling her horror film stylee how she has 'such beautiful children' and keeps repeating this. My Dad asks the weird lady if she knows how to get to this town we are wanting to go to, she tells us we can stay here if we want (NO THANKS!) and after my Dad politely refuses she tells us some random way to a ferry that will take us over the lake.

So anyway, we take this way she says, and after almost 3 hours driving (up really dangerous upwards spiralling dirt roads & such) we notice that a car has been following us for ages (really far behind though) & there is absolutley no other traffic at all for the entire 3 hours. This lake or no signs of such have been in sight anywhere. We get a bit freaked out that this lady may have been a nutter and perhaps got someone to follow us?! We evetually see a winnebago stopped further down the road with some people sat outside on deckchairs, we ask if they know if there's the lake anywhere to cross or the town we are looking for, and they said no there definitely isn't. So my Dad does a prompt U-turn and trail blazes it back to where we came from and we just go somewhere else.

It was really scary at the time, my Dad kept joking that this woman had sent us in the wrong direction with this car after us so she could kill my parents and take us kids.

We were on driving holiday in USA and we got lost somewhere in nowhere Utah, we eventually saw some sign of life as we came across this one street town, literally lke one gas station 2 houses and a grubby cafe, so we stopped into the cafe where we are the only customers - this creepy woman with only 2 fingers total and missing teeth starts chatting to us and gets us drinks. To my Mum's alarmance, she keeps telling her horror film stylee how she has 'such beautiful children' and keeps repeating this. My Dad asks the weird lady if she knows how to get to this town we are wanting to go to, she tells us we can stay here if we want (NO THANKS!) and after my Dad politely refuses she tells us some random way to a ferry that will take us over the lake.

So anyway, we take this way she says, and after almost 3 hours driving (up really dangerous upwards spiralling dirt roads & such) we notice that a car has been following us for ages (really far behind though) & there is absolutley no other traffic at all for the entire 3 hours. This lake or no signs of such have been in sight anywhere. We get a bit freaked out that this lady may have been a nutter and perhaps got someone to follow us?! We evetually see a winnebago stopped further down the road with some people sat outside on deckchairs, we ask if they know if there's the lake anywhere to cross or the town we are looking for, and they said no there definitely isn't. So my Dad does a prompt U-turn and trail blazes it back to where we came from and we just go somewhere else.

It was really scary at the time, my Dad kept joking that this woman had sent us in the wrong direction with this car after us so she could kill my parents and take us kids.

I was chased by the Queen of Hearts at Disneyland!

do i detect a theme here? Beware scary theme park characters!

This reminds me, in Disneyland Paris in 2006 we were outside the haunted house and beacuse it was Halloween all of the characters were villians.
By the haunted house there's a gate which says staff only. All of the villains were kind of congregating there- obviously off to finish their shift/have a break so became really obnoxious and wouldn't even sign kids' books or anything.

Suddenly the Queen Of Hearts barged her way through these people to get to the staff door, knocking over a child onto the stone path, parents were really annoyed.

I witnessed this and shouted, 'Oi, watch where you're going, you've just hurt a kid!' to which the villian from Mulan stuck one finger up at me and followed the Queen into the staff gate

They are SO rude, it's not like Disneyland Florida