Silly things you used to be afraid of when you were younger

stacexD · 03-07-2011 7:38am #1

When I was around 8 watched a movie (not sure of the name of it, basically a couple took pictures of their 3 or 4 year old daughter jumping on the bed and playing with just a vest on and the guy developing the photos reported it as child pornography) it was also around the same time I found out about copyright.
I had a disposable camera full of loads of pictures that I really wanted developed then I also took a couple of pictures of Sabrina on TV. I convinced myself that this was some sort of copyright thing and that I was gonna be locked up for life so i spent weeks trying to figure out what to do before hiding the camera and never telling my parents.

Theres loads of other less dramatic things but I cant think of any atm

Oh on the topic of jail my brother waned to be a garda and he told me he'd put me in jail for life because I tried to skate in his 7 sizes too big roller blades.

melb · 03-07-2011 7:42am

Priests.

jurahnimoh · 03-07-2011 7:46am

Old wrinkled ladies looking to pucker up while their false knashers are dangling outta their mouth

stacexD · 03-07-2011 7:53am

melb wrote: »

Priests.

That was probably more smart than silly! :P

Irish Guitarist · 03-07-2011 7:55am

I was afraid of those grates on the footpath outside pubs. I used to think I would fall between the bars.

sh1tstirrer · 03-07-2011 7:58am

When I was 3 years old I said that when I grow up that I would never walk to our local pub as there was a hill on the way there and I though that if I walked up the hill that I would fall back down again

Lapin · 03-07-2011 7:59am

Fianna Fáil

mattjack · 03-07-2011 8:12am

Bats, the flying variety...I thought they turned into nuns...I wasn,t particularly fond of nuns either....

**Timbuk2** · 03-07-2011 8:23am

When going to bed, I'd turn off the lights downstairs and sprint to my room as fast as I could to avoid being attacked in the dark.

Cicero · 03-07-2011 8:23am

mattjack wrote: »

...I thought they turned into nuns.......

naw...that's penguins ...

mattjack · 03-07-2011 8:37am

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

When going to bed, I'd turn off the lights downstairs and sprint to my room as fast as I could to avoid being attacked in the dark.

I had another version of that...when I used arrive home drunk ,I,d stand at my bedroom door and jump on my bed as it spun by me....

FesterBeatty · 03-07-2011 8:39am

My massive shlong. But since then ive learned to manouever it, live with it and love it.

Mickjg · 03-07-2011 8:53am

I was afraid of Mickey Mouse, whom I believed to live upstairs in the dark.

Tipsy McSwagger · 03-07-2011 8:55am

stacexD wrote: »

When I was around 8 watched a movie (not sure of the name of it, basically a couple took pictures of their 3 or 4 year old daughter jumping on the bed and playing with just a vest on and the guy developing the photos reported it as child pornography) it was also around the same time I found out about copyright.
I had a disposable camera full of loads of pictures that I really wanted developed then I also took a couple of pictures of Sabrina on TV. I convinced myself that this was some sort of copyright thing and that I was gonna be locked up for life so i spent weeks trying to figure out what to do before hiding the camera and never telling my parents.

Theres loads of other less dramatic things but I cant think of any atm

Oh on the topic of jail my brother waned to be a garda and he told me he'd put me in jail for life because I tried to skate in his 7 sizes too big roller blades.

When I read the thread title I thought it would be the banshee or the dark but bloody Copyright:D

Edit - I was afraid of being sent to jail for taping songs off the radio.

stacexD · 03-07-2011 9:01am

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

When I read the thread title I thought it would be the banshee or the dark but bloody Copyright:D

Edit - I was afraid of being sent to jail for taping songs off the radio.

I know! Well of course I was afraid of ghosts and all the rest of it but I just remembered the copyright thing and how stupid it was but I remember being really scared about it.
Thought maybe there were some other nutters out there too

Joe10000 · 03-07-2011 9:03am

When I had to sleep in the other room I wouldn't stretch my legs out in the bed because of what lived at the bottom......

FortuneChip · 03-07-2011 9:37am

I was watching the Late Late Show once, I was about 5/6. There was something to do with Thomas The Tank Engine around the time, anniversary or something.
Anyway, they had a special guest; The Fat Controller. But he moved!
Having been an avid Thomas The Tank fan (Not masturbation, yet) I had never seen any of the characters "move" per se, so this terrified me, and I had nightmares of trains and fat people moving for the following few weeks

03-07-2011 11:06am

The wooden spoon.

I was never hit with it, but I always knew that when my mum took it out and put it on the table in front of me it meant "if you're not good I'm going to beat the daylights out of you". Don't know how I knew, but even now she says it was a life saver every time I was misbehaving at dinner.

While I don't think children should ever be hit, I think it's a real pity that you can't really threaten kids anymore.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 03-07-2011 11:07am

Tales of the unexpected!.

Super-Rush · 03-07-2011 11:10am

Mike Murphy off Maibag used to scare the ****e out of me.

GSI · 03-07-2011 11:17am

falling down the plug hole in the bath

AnamGlas · 03-07-2011 11:27am

Headless mannequins. Freaky shít.

Blisterman · 03-07-2011 11:33am

Quicksand.

geetar · 03-07-2011 12:51pm

i used to be terrified pulling off my jumper. in the 1 second with a jumper up over my face i was convinced there was some boogeyman behind me.

i also had the same kind of feeling flushing the toilet with my back to the door. :pac:

sh1tstirrer · 03-07-2011 5:23pm

super-rush wrote: »

Mike Murphy off Maibag used to scare the ****e out of me.

It was Arthur Murphy that was on mailbag if that was what you are talking about

Kimia · 03-07-2011 5:29pm

When the wardrobe door was slightly open, I was afraid of the monsters within. I was convinced there was someone in there looking at me.

Where To · 03-07-2011 5:33pm

Kramer v Kramer scared the living hell outa me!!

Chuck Stone · 03-07-2011 5:33pm

God and all that crowd.

dsmythy · 03-07-2011 5:34pm

Jumping into bed so my feet were not hanging around the bottom of it for too long in case I was dragged in.

Scary things in my room can't attack me if I put my head under the cover.

Lux23 · 03-07-2011 5:40pm

AIDS, now that I have it I realise its not such a big deal!

ball · 03-07-2011 6:37pm

Did this not freak the bejaysus out of anyone else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw0zZttfUaw

I had nightmares for ages after I saw that movie

karr3 · 03-07-2011 6:48pm

the theme music from Tales of the Unexpected frightened the bejaysus out of me!!

PK2008 · 03-07-2011 6:50pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga23iSxyXO4

D1976 · 03-07-2011 7:00pm

That's it i wont sleep tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdr0ZkiJyRY

star29 · 03-07-2011 7:03pm

A picture of the sacred heart on the wall in my Granny's house with the red bulb on the front. I used to run past it every time.

Superbus · 03-07-2011 7:03pm

The elephants in Jungle Book. I have no idea why.

pragmatic1 · 03-07-2011 7:22pm

Flushing the toilet.
The hoover.
The wardrobe in my room (thought a witch lived in it).

later12 · 03-07-2011 7:33pm

Snakes at the bottom of my bed. I think it must have come from watching too much Home and Away. There was one Home and Away episode where a snake crawled into Shannon's (Isla Fisher's) bed. I didn't get to sleep that night.

In retrospect, I think that snake/ Isla Fisher storyline was a durty australian metaphor.

pawrick · 03-07-2011 7:42pm

Floating in to the sky - used to freak out quietly when I'd accidentally loose a helium balloon, I'd get dizzy looking at it going up and could feel myself going with it and thinking what is holding me here but that if I think too much about it maybe I will go up like the balloon. No drugs were involved.

Our garden hedge - thought there were werewolfs in it

Posy · 03-07-2011 7:53pm

JCB's used to freak me out when I was younger. They were so big and loud and yellow. I was always convinced that they would plough into me.

And the dark, obviously.

Lorrs33 · 03-07-2011 8:14pm

Flies, or as I called them as a kid: creatures!

I also used to, and sometimes still do, flush the toilet and leg it back to my room during the night convinced I would be attacked in the few seconds when no one could hear me scream.

rwl826 · 03-07-2011 8:21pm

The Closet Monster was defintely the big one and of course the threat..."wait until your father gets home" which was the most idle threat ever, I discovered at the age of 16;)

Captain Darling · 03-07-2011 8:27pm

I thought they was a man with a blue face living in the bushes across from my house when i was very young. Dont know where that came from, but it was weird.

johnnycnandy · 03-07-2011 8:33pm

Worzel Gummidge used to scare the bejesus out of me.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/worzel460440.jpg

If I'm being honest, I'm still a little unnerved...

Sunnyisland · 03-07-2011 8:35pm

When i was 5/6 i was absolutely terrified of jcb bulldozers.

nicklauski · 03-07-2011 8:41pm

Unsolved Mysteries.

Was convinced any time I went to the shed to get fuel I'd never be seen again.

Said shed was 5 feet from the back door but we had no light so it sacred the beJesus outta me.

On second thought maybe I was just afraid of the dark

robman60 · 03-07-2011 8:41pm

I used to be afraid of putting my limbs outside of the bed for fear of an unknown hand pulling me into the depths of wherever.

boscoroxx · 03-07-2011 8:41pm

That Shakespeare Sisters video with the evil one all in black, haunts me still to this day!!

johnnycnandy · 03-07-2011 8:47pm

boscoroxx wrote: »

That Shakespeare Sisters video with the evil one all in black, haunts me still to this day!!

Haha, +1 for this. Hadn't thought of that in years.

dagdha · 03-07-2011 8:49pm

The Diceman!

That freaky freako creeped me out big time when I was really young.

hdowney · 03-07-2011 8:49pm

trying to remember others but spiders seriously used to when i was a kid. still not a fan but not quite as argh.

like there was a MAHOOSIVE one directly above the loo when i was a youngster. i couldn't go in the bathroom and sit down for a p as the damn thing woulda been overhead. now there was only the mother and myself and she is more arachnaphobic than me FOR SURE! so we were screwed

Silly things you used to be afraid of when you were younger

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