Things that scared you as a kid that STILL scare you.....

[franksumatra]

For me it's the woods. For some reason, just being out absolutely alone in the woods at night is truly horrifying to me. A childhood experience when I got lost.

What's your's?

[alittlelark]

1. Fundie Mom.

[ooglymoogly]

18. pugs in general

[Kire]

82. Moms in General - NOT!

but, specifically my mom still scares the hell out of me - she's a fundamentalist Unitarian, it's kind of complicated

I actually think that the Bateson's Schizophrenogenic Mother theory was never properly discredited, it only became unfashionable.

[montana_hazeleyes]

44. Always been terrified

of being totally in the dark and I'm horribly claustrophobic. That's why I hate the dark. I feel enclosed in it.

And the worst of the worst-- Clowns--:scared:

[montana_hazeleyes]

48. oops

meant to respond to original post.

[Deja Q]

2. Bullies and death.

[ET Awful]

3. Stinging insects. . .

I'm a total wuss when it comes to stinging insects.

[franksumatra]

7. Any bugs for me,

If a grasshopper is in the car, I pull over and get out.
If one jumps on me, I scream like a girl.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. the "thing"

under the bed

sometimes it is in the closet eating peanuts

[franksumatra]

12. You shouldn't leave peanuts IN the closet

even I knew that.

[zann725]

79. Spiders! Ughh!

n/t

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. This sounds really dumb

But the light of a full moon streaming into my bedroom window has always freaked me out. I used to think the moon people would come through the window and get me. I'm 42 and no longer believe in moon people, but still find moonlight spooky.

[franksumatra]

8. You no longer believe in the Moon People? I still do.

and moongoats.

[Spacemom]

5. Sleeping with the closet door open

Can't do it. No way, no how.

:scared:

[cally]

34. Exactly..I always close the closet doors

Always.

[LizW]

68. Crap. Who would even think of sleeping with the closet door open?

Not even a crack. Nuh-uh. No way.

And of course, if you get in bed and then realize the door's cracked, you have to turn on ALL the lights before you get up and go over there to close it.

:scared:

[Cadence]

74. That's funny, I'd be scared to sleep with them

closed. If I closed my closet doors I would feel so weirded out that maybe someone got in there and is hiding, when they're open I can see there's nothing in there.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Dark creepy old basements.

And cocker spaniels. One bit me slightly when I was about 4, and I still think of them as enormous, terrifying Hound of the Baskervilles creatures.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

9. I'm so lame. Sleestaks! n/t

[Zomby Woof]

13. In the laaaaand of the LOST!

Ah, childhood in the mid-70's. :D

[BlackVelvetElvis]

25. God what a lame show.

I saw a few episodes since I became a so-called adult. Despite this, those sleestaks were still scary even in the absence of good special effects.

[Cadence]

75. Those WERE scary. It's not just you,

I forgot out about them but just now remembering I got a little wigged. I think it was the soundeffect they made with them, wasn't that a weird sound?

[franksumatra]

35. Oh yeah...the lizard guys

my bad...........

[franksumatra]

16. Ahhhh,...The Dark Crystal

What were those puppeteers smoking?

[yardwork]

11. That guy with a knife who lives under the bed

That's why I keep my feet and hands inside the bed.

[newsguyatl]

14. coffins/dead bodies

just the thought still makes me sick on my stomach.

when i pass a hearse on the road, it grosses me out.

and i loathe the idea of "open casket" :scared:

[DrWeird]

15. Ever see that movie Dreamscape?

With the guy with the big cobra head? I always thought he was lurking behind shower curtains. I still leave the curtains open while not using the shower.

[franksumatra]

19. Flying Blue Monkeys anyone?

Or Green S&M Witches?

[NYC Liberal]

17. The shadows on the ceiling when cars drive by,

and the headlights shine into the window.

OK, I'm not really "scared," but it's still kinda creepy.

[franksumatra]

20. The distant sound of a train whistle

Or cats messing around.

[OrwellwasRight]

40. Funny, I love both of those things, frank.

What scares me is when it is all quiet and I can't see or hear anyone and I think the rapture REALLY did happen and how could they leave me behind, I'm a good person (I was terrorized by a backyard bible study group when I was a child).

[Cadence]

76. The sound of a cat fight will shoot terror up my spine.

I have NO idea why, other than that it's such a loud, shrill sound. I actually start hating the cats that just got in a fight like they did something to *me*.

[AlienGirl]

87. Trains--though it's more complicated than just being scared

Ice ages, tornadoes, snow in large quantities, medical stuff, crowds/lines, airports, and paperwork.

Tucker

[Cadence]

21. The smoke alarm.

[MuseRider]

22. Clowns

I was terrified when I was a kid now they just creep me out, I mean there is really something very strange about clowns and they are NOT funny, ever. Pennywise was almost the death of me.

[Skink]

23. Reagan........................................

:scared:

[Lenape85]

81. Me too

[yardwork]

32. My son is scared of killer clowns now. He read about one on snopes.com

I sent him to snopes to learn about urban legends, and wouldn't you know it, he read all the horrible murder ones, and now he's afraid of killer clowns in his bedroom at night.

I outta sue snopes.

[MuseRider]

38. No shit?

There are killer clowns? I KNEW I was right to be afraid of them.

[yardwork]

42. There aren't really killer clowns - that's why it was on snopes

On second thought, that serial murderer in Illinois was a clown sometimes. Gacy, I think his name was. He was a murderous closeted homosexual torturing serial murderer. Yep. You were right to be afraid of clowns.

I thought pennywise was far scarier than the spider he turned out to be.

[MuseRider]

47. We all float down here.

Scariest line ever.

[yardwork]

63. ok, just knock that off! It's midnight!

[Left Is Write]

24. A sudden wind on an otherwise still afternoon.

[Sydnie]

26. Snakes -- any kind of snake

I take great pains to avoid even pictures of them whenever I can. Grew up in poisonous snakes area and just never got over that fear.

[maveric]

83. Me too. Even rubber snakes scare me.

Cant stand them.

[franksumatra]

27. How about that black and white Cat Clock with the moving eyes & tail?

I still have nightmares about that thing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. NOOO! I LOVE the cat clock!

[OrwellwasRight]

41. Me, too.

I love all things cat.

[AlienGirl]

89. Those are creepy!

[hickman1937]

28. Any thing covering my face when I'm

trying to sleep. I don't care how cold it is, the covers can only come up to my neck.

[HeatherG.]

49. covers

It is kind of the opposite for me. I sleep with my face half covered. Even if it is the hot summer I have to cover myself when I am sleeping in the dark. I don't feel secure otherwise. I don't know exactly what it is that I think I am hiding from.

[cags]

29. Fish

[franksumatra]

31. Now I don't feel so bad, being afraid of trees.

And moss.

[cags]

46. Hey trees are worse than fish. Fish move and they can get you

[LizW]

69. Do NOT watch "The Village" if you're scared of trees

The credits will kill you.

[franksumatra]

33. A big wet kiss from my big fat aunt Twalla

the horror, the horror

[MissB]

36. After a long Halloween night of watching vampire movies

I couldn't sleep without the covers pulled up around my neck.

I certainly don't believe in vampires anymore, but I still sleep the same way. Dark rooms spook me.

[Bok_Tukalo]

37. Tornadoes

Still freaks me out when one is close.

[fluffernutter]

39. big spiders in the sink

:scared:

[Cornjob]

58. spiders anywhere in my vicinity!

Hate them! Then I read that all spiders, regardless of size, have in common the ability to bite!

Truly my worst memory is of the day I killed about 30 black widows nesting around my home in East Texas (after I encountered a whopper in my garage). Even the local scorpions didn't give me that level of the creeps!

[fluffernutter]

59. ack. i hate it when i am all relaxed in the shower

and look over and *wham* there is a big one crawling right beside me trying to get away from the water. *shiver*

those black widows sound horrifying.

[ariesgem]

85. Spiders scare the shit out of me..

When I was a kid at summer camp we went on a hiking trip. We all sat down to rest in the woods. I sat down leaning against a tree not realizing I sat in a nest of granddaddy longlegs. They crawled all over me and I screamed blood murder. Today if I see a spider in my home, car or blocking my walking path with a web, he's gonna get a taste of RAID.

[Taxloss]

43. Balloons.

I hate them.

[nini]

45. bees

:scared:

[ChoralScholar]

50. Television test patterns....

[AlienGirl]

88. Those are scary!

They represent the absence of the normal. And they'll be the only thing on after the Bomb drops. :scared:

Tucker

[Revillusion1]

51. Snakes and Needles...

I've hated both, my entire life. :shrug:

[Seabiscuit]

52. Thunder

[Bouncy Ball]

53. Hmmm

The movie "Salem's Lot," things that fly AND sting, sudden movement that I see out of the corner of my eye, the backseat of my car at night (I always think someone is hiding there, waiting to kill me) and heights. Horribly horribly horribly afraid of heights. Scared to DEATH of them.

[montana_hazeleyes]

55. I'm with you on heights.

That's why I've never , ever flown. Heights and claustrophobia.
I though of another one:
~ Umbrellas~ I hate them. I won't use them and if I'm walking and someone has one I move away. And I just hate it when someone insists on holding their's over me.

[Mojambo]

54. Chickens

Don't ask...

[Shananigans]

56. Basements

[yellowcanine]

57. rats - particularly wet rats. I have no idea why. "1984" didn't help my

situation, either.

[latebloomer]

60. nuclear war

I remember as a kid, hearing some out-of-contest remark between my father and a friend, saying something like "There might be a nuclear war by October." And I remember the terror of the Cuban missile crisis.

Nuclear war still terrifies me, among other horrible possibilities.

[franksumatra]

92. I used to have that bomb dream back then

Standing in a field and here comes the wave of fire and I wake up sweating. I eventually learned to love the bomb, and figure there's worse ways to go.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

61. Looking into a mirror in a dark room

I was afraid of seeing someone or something standing behind me.

I used to be afraid of low-flying planes, because I imagined that they were Soviet planes carrying bombs.

[proud2BlibKansan]

62. snakes and motorcycles

I can handle a snake in a cage, like at a zoo, but no other way.

As for motorcycles, when I was a kid, my idiot teenage cousin took me for a ride on his and scared the shit out of me. As soon as he turned the corner and our parents couldn't see us, he floored it and I about fell off the back. I have only been on one once since then and I shook the whole time.

[Reverend_Smitty]

64. Bugs

It will always be bugs

[The Great Escape]

65. The Cow On The Elmer's Glue Label...

as a small child I didn't realize it was a cow...I thought it was a horrible devil...I would have horrible nightmares about this creature and would scream bloody murder if I saw it. I still don't like it much! I can at least post a pic of it now. Suppose that's progress.

[franksumatra]

90. I can recommend a good shrink for you....

You need to have that checked out pretty soon.

[buddysmellgood]

66. Interesting. My boy, 7, had a homework assignment to ask four adults

what they were afraid of as a child. My neighbor said clowns, I said nuns and helicopters at night.

[driver8]

67. Open water...

My biggest fear is being in the ocean alone and not being able to see what is beneath me -- it gives me the creeps to even think about it.

[chemenger]

70. THE BLOB!!!!

Saw it in the theatre when I was 8 or 9 years old. That was 44 or so years ago. Scared the fuck out of me then (I ran out of the theatre during the scene where the old man's arm is being eaten all the way home and hid under the bed)... scares the fuck out of me now!

[ariesgem]

71. Night of the Living Dead (the original)

That movie still scares the hell out of me! What actually made the movie scary for me was those news broadcasts being played in the background throughout the movie. Something like - "These zombie creatures are eating people alive, WILL NOT DIE and they're only 3 miles from Pittsburg!" EVACUATE! THEY"RE COMING!

[catzies]

72. Revolution No. 9 on The Beatles' White Album.

lalalala I can't hear you

[franksumatra]

91. numbanine...numbanine...numbanine...

What were those guys smoking?

[gardenista]

73. Clowns. They're even more scary now that I'm grown up. nt

[Vektor]

77. CLOWNS

I cannot stand them.

[InvisibleTouch]

78. The threat of nuclear war.

I thought we were done with all that, for a few years. Then Dubya popped up, and brought it all back....

[Withywindle]

80. Nuclear annihilation, spiders, firecrackers, and HEIGHTS

WRT to the latter, I've had an ongoing fight with my mother for 30 years over whether or not I could possibly remember rolling off the table she used to change my diapers on.

I DO, dammit, I DO!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

84. Interesting thread. Here are mine

I actually LIKE spiders, snakes, and a lot of the things listed. Guess I didn't have a traumatic experience with them and I was always fascinated with living creatures of all kinds, plant and animal.

That said, I really get creeped out by big millipedes and centipedes. (Long ago I lived in West Texas, and there are some nasty ones out there.) Also those big green caterpillars that eat tomato plants - tomato hornworms. Seeing them absolutely nauseates me and I have to get away from the area.

As for nonliving things, I had terrifying, recurrent dreams for years in three different series. Each remains extra-fearful to me:
1. Being lost in space alone and without the ability to get back to earth
2. Tornadoes, especially multiple ones that (inthe nightmares) would spring up in whatever direction I was trying to run in.
3. Worst of all - had this dream at least a dozen times -- a tsunami. This happened maybe 20 years ago, when it was an odd thing to dream about. In the dream, I would see the water recede far out from shore and knew what it meant. I would try frantically to warn people to get away fromthe shore, but either I could not speak or they would not listen. I would then try to drag my younger brother up a hill to get away from the coming wave while still yelling at people (when I had a voice). But the wave would come and pull and pull and fill my nose andmouth, and I would feel myself being pulled into the water....and then I would wake up sweating and shaking. VERY realistic. Got to where I was afraid to go to bed for a while.

Later, when I lived near the beach in California for a while, there were times when I seemed to sense a sort of "buzzing malevolence" in the atmosphere near the beach at night sometimes and I would get away as fast as I could. I think it was the memory of those tsunami dreams haunting me still.

[MrSlayer]

86. Roaches.

It's not really that I'm scared of them but they disgust me so much I am actually offended by their presence. If one sneaks in (I have a bakery on the corner of my rowhouse block, it's inevitable no matter how clean your house is.) I vacate the area and get my wife to kill it. It's quite embarrassing really but I seem to have this mental block as far as roaches are concerned. I simply cannot get over it.

[RadicalMom]

93. Clowns, especially this one......

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