I am terrified of images of dancing skeletons.
Always have been. Don't expect anyone to care, just wanted everyone to know.
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While dancing skeletons strike me as amusing, I want to offer sympathy to you. Being terrified of them can't be pleasant, given how they can show up, especially this time of year.
Hang in there, friend.
whenever I encounter them, and I must add that I have black widow spiders where I live and so I kill one or two each week, sometimes more, I'm not afraid, I don't freak out, nor do I dread them.
So on one hand I do have sympathy, on the other I'm sort of puzzled. What's so bad about the fake spiders of Halloween? But you don't need to respond, because no response is needed. You dread them, period. Unfortunately, they are more or less everywhere during Halloween, and you'd notice them far more than someone like me who doesn't at all mind the spiders of Halloween.
Hang in there. 
I was hoping an especially bright Du-er would get the hint.
easy to avoid, yes? 
I like to be scared! 
I get unsettled by a lot of motion in the car yet I'll not think twice before I hop on a roller coaster 
They're not dancing. They are just doing Ed Sullivan impersonations.
freaked me right the hell out. Not so much when they were walking, but when they suddenly screamed and sped up...
(No link, in deference to your phobia! )
The 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon The Haunted House reused some footage from The Skeleton Dance, both to delightfully creepy effect.
The Mickey cartoon, in fact, features a particularly chilling (to me) moment when some anonymous specter forces Mickey to tickle they ivories. "Play," the specter commands him, a single ghastly syllable that terrifies the mouse protagonist into compliance.
Actually, I think that's the one that originally terrified me. There is another where I skeleton takes off it's skull and then they play with it. Those were very scary for a toddler!
Then later in life, my best friend was cast as one of the deadites in the movie 'Army of Darkness'. I can't escape skeletons
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