Sometimes, airport travel can be your worst nightmare…
1. Check-in Horrors
Ever arrived at the check-in desk to discover you’ve forgotten your passport? How about being told that you need a visa to travel that you haven’t signed up for? To top it all off, the bag drop line is so long you’ve nicknamed it the bag drop-dead line. Better yet, your flight has been canceled and there isn’t another til next week!
Scare factor: 👻👻👻
2. Security Fears
Did you accidentally pack your pocket knife? Does that bag of flour you stashed look suspicious? Does the scanner alarm keep going off even though you’ve turned out your pockets??
You may be headed for a security pat-down or worse, carted off to the dreaded secondary interrogation room!
Scare factor: 👻👻👻👻
3. Frightful Food
There’s nothing worse than finally getting through security and feeling your stomach rumble. Where do you turn?? Half-dead salads, crime-scene sandwiches and ominous containers of slushy goo haunt airports everywhere. Look at this ghastly sight above, found not toasted and barely avocadoed for $7 at the ATL airport. Yikes!
Scare factor: 👻👻
4. Ghoulish Carpets
There’s nothing that can scare the living daylights out of you like airport carpets. Airport carpet makers are the horror film directors of the interior design world. Devilish colors and jarring patterns come at you with a dizzying quantity of nightmare fuel.
Got a headache? There they are again! Just need some rest? Not this time! There’s no escaping the terrifying expanse of poorly designed airport floors.
Scare factor: 👻👻
5. Scary Souvenirs
Wait for a second, you say, as you do a double-take…
…Is that a severed kangaroo body part attached to that keychain? Try and unsee that one.
…and I don’t even want to know what they fill these $98 bottles with. Just please, whatever you do, don’t breathe it in!
Scare factor: 👻👻👻
6. Lost Souls
Run, traveler, run! You’ve got less than 5 minutes to go before they close your gate. Just your luck: you’re 5 minutes too late! You must now join the hoards of lost souls forced to face an uncomfortable fate: doomed to wander the darkening halls, bereft, abandoned, and nowhere to rest your weary head.
You’ve missed your flight on Halloween of all days. It’s a cruel world!
Scare factor: 👻👻👻👻👻
Got an airport horror story? Scare us in the comments below!
