Bizarre thing you were afraid of as a child.

This must have come up before. I remembered this yesterday.


I was afraid of Tarantulas specifically giant ones after watching a film where a tarantula was genetically changed after a leak from a nuclear plant and it make the spider huge. I was also afraid of tsunamis again after watching a film. It never occurred to me that the chance of getting bit by a tarantula or drowned by tsunami in Ireland we practically zero.

Its funny how you mind works as a child.

somesoldiers

my brother in law- 6ft 2 stocky lad is afraid of Ketchup since he was a young lad. Has a freak if he is out to dinner and there is a bottle on the table...I'm gonna dress up as a bottle one of these days scare the crap out of him

Miaireland

Lightbulbs and in particular lights being switched on while I am sitting under them.

The Backwards Man

Wonder Woman.


Always hid behind the couch when it was on.

CJmasgrande

Big water barrel at the rear corner of my grannies house.

I was convinced there was a giant snake living inside it.

tupenny

That jesus picture that was in loadsa people's houses.
Still kind of creepy tbh

DrumSteve

Gordon from Thomas the Tank Engine used to scare the **** out of me.

That and the music that started to play in Sonic 2 when you started to drown.

DrumSteve

Miaireland wrote: »

Lightbulbs and in particular lights being switched on while I am sitting under them.

That's always a bad idea.

Jimbob1977

The children's TV show 'Chocky'

Creepy intro and a ghostly shimmering light in the corner of the room

Tazio

The long flush-chain on real old toilets. Cistern up high making creepy water dripping noises.

philstar

my mickey,

it used to grow in size for no reason, weird yoke

chakotha

Passing trains that were mostly white. I was sure they were louder.

my3cents

Quick Sand. Saw some film on TV as a kid where someone got caught in quick sand and had nightmares about it for years.

sbsquarepants

philstar wrote: »

my mickey,

it used to grow in size for no reason, weird yoke

Used too:eek::eek:

GBX

Jimmy Saville. Everyone else loved him.

Rubberlegs

Red balloons.
Men with long hair.
Planet of the Apes.
The comedian Max Wall and his funny walk absolutely petrified me:(

CJmasgrande

CJmasgrande wrote: »

Big water barrel at the rear corner of my grannies house.

I was convinced there was a giant snake living inside it.

Omg my granny had a big Blue barrel at the front corner of her house and I was terrified of it. There was always massive spiders floating in the rainwater in it. Ugh.. I haven't thought of it years!

valoren

Mr Proper.

An animated bald muscleman who was the face of an all purpose cleaner.

Boom_Bap

Green foods and red foods.

The bogeyman.

Banshe's.

Dot Cotton.

My grandmother.

The Nightman

Slimer in the origianl Ghostbusters

Winterlong

Men with moustaches frightened the bejaysis out of me. Still do.

Zaph

Butchers. The noise of the saws they used to cut through bones and the sawdust on the floor (which all butchers used to have years ago) used to freak me out and I'd always wait outside when my mother went in.

Stealthfins

Deleted User wrote:

Omg my granny had a big Blue barrel at the front corner of her house and I was terrified of it. There was always massive spiders floating in the rainwater in it. Ugh.. I haven't thought of it years!

My granny had one too lol
There used to be an ad on tv about the danger of those barrels...

My sister told me a story when I was a kid about a spider crawling into a woman's ear and laying eggs. For years I slept with one ear on my pillow and my hand covering the other one.

philstar

Zaph wrote: »

Butchers. The noise of the saws they used to cut through bones and the sawdust on the floor (which all butchers used to have years ago) used to freak me out and I'd always wait outside when my mother went in.

and the raw meat smell

o1s1n

Worzel Gummidge

DrumSteve

Anyone remember the show Nightmare? Used to be on ITV... That was ****ing terrifying.

cml387

Lifts.
I was convinced they would crash to the ground.

What's that film that ends with a lift crashing.? Something about a hotel.

Andrewf20

The big monsters (gorgs I think) in the garden in fraggle rock who would run over and grab the fraggles. Scariest thing ever.

Flowery curtains where you could make out faces.

Automated Car washers with the big rolling brushes that would engulf the car. When they started to spin they would fire up like rotating barrels of death. Or that's how they looked to me as a kid anyway.

Those ads on to tv in the 1980s showing a house going up on fire due to a cigarette not being put out in the sitting room. It was an ad about smoke alarms.

White bouncing ball in the prisoner.

Zaph

Zaph wrote: »

Butchers. The noise of the saws they used to cut through bones and the sawdust on the floor (which all butchers used to have years ago) used to freak me out and I'd always wait outside when my mother went in.

Our butcher used to give lollipops to the kids so we all loved him but in hindsight.. lollipops in a butchers? handed to you by a man in an apron covered in blood!? Raw meat everywhere and saw dust in the air!? Must have a word with my mam about allowing that!

The Mulk

o1s1n wrote: »

Worzel Gummidge

Especially when he switched heads

Gunmonkey

ET, never saw the film and there was an advert for Weetabix at the time for some tie-in stuff so I ran out the room and peeked through the crack of the door until it finished.

The little match girl story, it use to upset and frighten me thinking about a little girl freezing to death and how poor her family were.

Rubberlegs

mariaalice wrote: »

The little match girl story, it use to upset and frighten me thinking about a little girl freezing to death and how poor her family were.

Me too, it absolutely horrified me, still does to be honest .

Sapphire and Steele scared me too, I have a vague memory abour an episode with a man in a mirror that frightened me badly.

Birneybau

o1s1n wrote: »

Worzel Gummidge

Aunt Sally was worse, terrifying!

horslips

"Murphy agus a Chairde"!

thomasm

wooden spoons

suicide_circus

o1s1n wrote: »

Worzel Gummidge

I believe he's a politician these days

Mr. CooL ICE

This ad:

Locker10a

Sheep, mainly the ones with black faces, I was absolutely petrified of them and wouldn't walk down a road that had fields of sheep either side.

beertons

The Whirlygig Witch.

josip

The universe. Just expanding, expanding. Uncontrollably. Into nothingness, where it could go on expanding forever.
Used to have nightmares about it constantly aged 8 - 12.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Ships with sails on them. Ships or boats out of water. Terrified. Still don't like them

Hercule Poirot

This....music used to freak me out

abbir

DrumSteve wrote: »

That and the music that started to play in Sonic 2 when you started to drown.

That still scares the crap out of me.

Shinbin223

The washing machine.
The big giant car wash with the fluffy washers on either side that filling stations have. I would lose my life with the panic if Mam or Dad decided to get the car washed in one of them with me inside.

pickarooney

The Mafia

FizzleSticks

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Shinbin223 wrote: »

The washing machine.
The big giant car wash with the fluffy washers on either side that filling stations have. I would lose my life with the panic if Mam or Dad decided to get the car washed in one of them with me inside.

i developed a fear of car washes as a child after the machine jammed on the runners and we were stuck for about 10 minutes with the fluffy washers on the windscreen and side windows going full whack

Didnt go into one until my mid 20's after that still not 100% comfortable in them:D

Ush1

The puppets from Spitting Image. Scared the furking sh*te out of me!

josip

Shinbin223 wrote: »

The big giant car wash with the fluffy washers on either side that filling stations have. I would lose my life with the panic if Mam or Dad decided to get the car washed in one of them with me inside.

You must have loved this

Cortina_MK_IV

The "head of Jesus" in a glass case in St. Michael's church in Inchicore. Terrified of it.