She Had A Sinister Experience With A Lifeguard And A Sauna, And She Says She Was Nearly Cooked Alive
Sometimes there’s nothing like relaxing in a hot sauna after a workout at the gym. But one woman had a sinister experience in a sauna that almost makes us never want to enter one again.
Back in 2011, when she was only 10-years-old, she and her cousin were visiting their grandmother. One day, their grandmother dropped the two girls off at the local YMCA to have fun for a couple of hours.
The gym was fairly empty that day, and they were having a great time, playing games on the basketball court and shooting baskets.
They decided to swim in the gym’s new pool for the last two hours of their visit. They were the only two people in the pool, and a female lifeguard was on duty. The two cousins played around in the pool and decided to have contests to see who could hold their breath the longest.
They dipped their faces into the water for as long as they could over and over again until she felt a tap on her shoulder.
It was the lifeguard scolding them and telling them to “knock it off,” or else they’d have to exit the pool. Since they only had about an hour left of their visit and were getting cold in the water anyway, they decided to get out. That’s when the lifeguard asked them if they’d like to warm up in the sauna.
“The sign said ’18 years or older,’ so of course, we were super excited that she allowed us to do that,” she says.
The lifeguard led them into the sauna and started messing with the thermometer. The girls could tell she was turning up the heat and noticed the sauna started heating up.
There was a clock inside so they could see how long they’d be inside. Once she was finished fixing the thermometer, the lifeguard left and shut the door behind her.
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“I thought I saw her lock the door, too,” she recalls. “But I thought to myself, ‘Why would she lock the door when we might want to get out?'”
After 15 minutes of relaxing in the sauna, the girls were ready to leave. Their relaxing experience turned into a horrifying one when they realized they couldn’t get the door open. Each girl tried multiple times to get out of the sauna, but the door had been locked.
They waited a few more minutes in hopes that the lifeguard would remember they were in there and let them out. But when they looked out of the door, they could see the lifeguard sitting in her chair, staring straight ahead. They began screaming and banging on the door for help, but the lifeguard didn’t look in their direction once.
This horror continued for a whopping 45 minutes. They kept screaming and banging on the door between breaks to try and breathe properly under their damp towels. She remembers the air burning her eyes and lungs and became extremely nauseous. Her cousin could hardly stand and needed to lie down with her towel over her face.
Finally, they noticed a man trying to get into the sauna but couldn’t because of a locked door. He returned with the same lifeguard, who had to open the door with her keys. The girls tried to escape as soon as the door opened quickly, but they could hardly move past the man coming in.
If the lifeguard didn’t seem suspicious enough, she tried to close the door on them again. The man had to tell her that the girls were trying to get out! The lifeguard let out a sigh before opening the door for them, and they escaped to the changing room as quickly as possible.
“I truly think that that woman was going to let us cook alive in there,” she explains.
To this day, she gets extremely anxious and has panic attacks in small spaces or when she feels overheated. We understand why!
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