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Two times I have been scared observing:
1. Near Singleton, NSW, when I was 12 or so. It was a dark site and I was with my brother (17?) and his 4" SCT. Suddenly a MASSIVE meteor flashes across the sky and breaks up in view. Seconds later a massive thunder clap. I was really scared, but minutes later (when I knew the Earth wasn't going end) it was really exciting.
2. At night in rural Zambia - very dark (no electricity in the district at the time). We had lost two chickens to army ants the week before (our neighbours lost 14 chickens to the ants). We had had a snake inside the house a few weeks prior that passed under my legs (my wife got it with a cricket bat), scorpions in the toilet every day (how did they get there??) and kanyenye were about (huntsmen size spiders that charge humans on site). Suddenly while observing I remembered all the things of the previous weeks and I started feeling things go up my legs when nothing was there.... so I left the darkest skies in the world (no electricity for 250km radius) and ran back to bed and tucked in the mozzie nets REALLY tight!!
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