Tell us about your spookiest and scariest encounters!

One of my scariest experiences was entering the Thargoid surface site... it was a very dark place, and it was very strange to enter this base, because it has organic walls and it felt like you were entering the interior of a living being... As well as some drones that I wasn't sure what they were going to do with. It was scary!

The first time you deal with thargoid encounter is very scary, you're flying along peacefully and simply your screen starts flashing, the screen shakes and an extremely frightening sound echoes and the ships appear, incredible and frightening at the same time the incredible immersion the game puts you in.

I don't have a recording of my first encounter, so I'll use one from youtube to exemplify, feel free to go to the link and give prestige to its creator:

I've had a couple of scary encounters with black hole systems with a neighbouring star. Jumping into the system, I didn't realise the primary body was a black hole and I've smacked right into it. Then, when attempting to exit the hole's influence after aligning with the escape vector, my ship's heat would skyrocket. That in turn would cause heat damage and further degrade the FSD. The excess heat may have been from the hole but also with the neighbouring star being so close, I wasn't sure.

On one occassion, I already had a badly damaged FSD due to excessive neutron boosting and the fear of an FSD restart and heat damage eating away at the hull made for a stressful experience. There was nothing quite like the early days of exploration, jumping around without a clue. The game might have Thargoids running about, but being out in the black and on the brink of death is one of the scariest things to deal with I think.

Here's a creepy element of Elite Dangerous - the Thargoid Imprint Sites.

Beside the spooky story that we've been reading from this year's scav hunt ship log, Thargoids in genereal and their Spire Sites are one of the most spookies spots you can find in the bubble.

A friend of mine and myself, we're both aspired AX hunters, though that wouldn't make the goids less scary for us, we have decided to push forward and build us some ships that are effective to destroy the Titans. We heard about how good Guardian Shard Cannons could be against them, only if they were engineered with Ram Tah's "Anti-Guardian Field Resistance", and in order to obtain them, we need to fetch him some Thargoid's Tactical Chips.

We did our study and find out they can be obtained from Thargoid Revenant. "A piece of cake" - we said as those are just small little baby goids, and headed to the site.

As we were approaching, the spire towers look terrifying, you can even spot them as you are in orbit, like giant spooky skyscrappers. And when you get close, all kinds of eerie noises can be heard from them.

As we're approaching the ground, hiding from the scouts and interceptors, other things started to show up on my radar. "Must be our targets", I said, as I started deploying my landing gears.

Suddenly I heard a "boom" sound, and a screech, my ship was turned off.

It was a Banshee.

Now I knew that Banshees aren't a threat either, they are also smaller goids, also I have seen their bobble head models, they look a bit... scary, but I guess they aren't not that dangerous.

My ship turned back on, and I boarded the SRV. And that when I saw the Banshee upclose for the first time.

It was bigger than I thought.

It looked way scarier than the bobble head model I saw at those livery stores.

And it's not harmless.

It only took 20 seconds for it to deplete my ship's shield, and 20 more seconds for it to blow up my explorer ship. I knew I was a fool to go in here without a proper AX combat ship, I thought without the interceptors, these guys are not really something to worry about. I was wrong.

I started blasting the Banshee on my SRV, it took forever, it seemed to just scratch it a little bit. The revenant started to show up as we're getting closer to the towers. And one more time I was wrong for underestimating the Thargoids.

5 minutes later, we're in our SRV trying to run away and shooting them at the same time, hoping they would die so we at least could get the chips, even if we came back without a limb or two. The laser they shot melted down my shield in seconds, and there were only two of us. One combat SRV, one exploration SRV, I was on the latter, as I was too lazy to get a combat SRV, now I know that I should have gotten one.

Somehow we escaped, as my friend was smart enough to dismiss his ship as soon as we landed. We boarded it, and boosted away and engaged supercruise as soon as we heard the "beep" from mass lock indicator. "How is this an SRV activity?" My friend said. We got no chips, but at least we got to keep our bodies intact.

Since that day, we'd never leave our ship when there's a Thargoid near to us. Even the Scouts look gigantic when you are on your feet without some multi cannons. We're lucky we didn't get destroyed, but that was one of a kind spooky experience.