Ha ha ha, the same. Jiggling merrily through a pasture at night with the sound of crickets in my ears when BAM butt munched by a saber tooth. I jumped out of my skin, the controller flew in the air and I squeaked like a skeever.

Pretty much exactly your experience OP. Turned around, *WHAM* Sabercat jumping at my face with jaws agape and claws bared. Didn't even hear it, and oooh boy....my language you can imagine.

The adrenaline is still wearing off.

first time using a sould trap enchanted weapon. there I was happily swinging away with my volume way up and BANG the ludest sound i ever heard drilling into my ears.
then because I was fighting two wolves it gave me a second scare

That Daedric worship horror house. Oh. My. Freaking. God. I panic-quit the game the second the lights went out, ghostly objects started levitating all over the place and that chilling demon voice began urging me to kill the man I was investigating the house with. Went on Google, looked up a walkthrough so I'd know exactly what to expect, gave myself a few seconds to calm down and then tackled the quest again. Phew.
Draugr and skeevers still freak me out occasionally, but they made me full-on jump the first time I encountered them. My first wolf sneak-attack spooked me, too. I'm heading for Whiterun when I hear the sound of frenzied panting approaching. Turn around - BAM! Thing's vaulting towards me, teeth bared and claws aimed for my face. I'd barely even drawn my sword when Faendal shot it down mid-lunge. Good ole elf.

It didn't make me jump, but the scariest ever moment was on the 7000 steps, when you ascend them for the first time. I was walking along, happily killing wolves and what have you, and suddenly I see a strange, ape-like creature. Still having the blind confidence of a new player, I charged towards it and hit it with everything I had, AND..

I noticed its health bar fill right up. Seriously, Bethesda, it was almost sadistic putting that Frost Troll on such an early mission. It did teach me to be a bit more cautious, however.

Rocking through this cave the other day and then all of a sudden this fkn light blue falmer with burning eyes drops out of the roof right infrton of my face growling & i kinda pooped alittle

Don't remember what dungeon it was. I came to the end of it, and entered a room which was very small filled with skulls. It appeared there was nothing else there and no way to pass through it so I had to turn around and backtrack. As soon as I turned around, I activated some sort of trap and a spike flew in my head which killed me in 1 hit.

I didn't jump, but my chair rolled back against the wall and I hit my head.

Walking down a path in the middle of the night with trees on both side. Suddenly I here a roar, and when I turn around all I see is teeth in my face then suddenly fire

The first time I was in a Dwemer ruin was for the Transmundane quest, the jump scare probably woulda hit me, but I read about the spiders jumping out of pipes in a book in an earlier part of the ruin and I pretty much used Aura Whisper every time I saw one of those pipes. Good thing that one can see robots.

*Spoiler sorta' kinda'*

Cicero's spike trap made jump a mile high. That (insert curse name here) is a stickler for details.

those damn falmer everytime :flamethrower:

Playing a DiD warrior on Master difficulty, definitely one of the more intense experiences by default. Running across the plain west of Whiterun, in an attempt to sack a bandit den for the Jarl. Suddenly, without warning or even a sound, my screen erupts in flames and I hear "YOR TOR SHOL" or something similar, as this random dragon literally ambushes me in the wide open. You'd think if I saw him coming anywhere, it would be there <_<

Anyway, I about flew out of my chair. Spilled my water on the floor as I was taking a drink when it happened.

First time I played after the midnight, I was loving the music, so I turned up my turtle beaches to listen some more. I'm looking at the great details and all of a sudden RAWR, it was so loud I jumped and whipped off my beaches. I've never turned them up that loud since.

the first time a dragon priest came out of the grave, and when my TV was turned up, almost maxed cause that damn amazing epic choir, holy crap I had a heart attack. when that guy decided to pop out

Also when i took a arrow in the knee

Sabre cats are the freakers for me.

The first thing that really scared me? The sound of my own raised zombie, right behind me. I killed it instantly.

What gave me the chills? I cast reanimate Corpse. I then killed it with a few swings of my mace. As it was vanishing to dust it says.."...thank you..." in a very disturbing way.

It will be awhile before I do that again...

I was up in the mountains at night time during a heavy blizzard when I heard a loud roar in the distance. I had only fought 2 dragons so far so I was still getting used to fighting them, much less near sheer cliffs. I scanned the clouds for any signs of large movement when something suddenly flew close to my face and made use fire off a Fus. Turns out it was just a hawk that I proceeded to zap with lightning for making me jump.



....damn birds. :angry:

The first time I faced a hagraven. I just cut her head off and leave the area. Then when I was back tracking and not paying attention to my surroundings. I find her standing headless in the same spot. She was still dead, but it scared the **** out of me.