Bizarre thing you were afraid of as a child.

21-10-2016 10:28AM #1

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 · 21-10-2016 10:30AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:32AM

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

The Backwards Man · 21-10-2016 10:33AM

Wonder Woman.

Always hid behind the couch when it was on.

CJmasgrande · 21-10-2016 10:36AM

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

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

tupenny · 21-10-2016 10:36AM

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

DrumSteve · 21-10-2016 10:37AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:37AM

Miaireland wrote: »

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

That's always a bad idea.

Jimbob1977 · 21-10-2016 10:37AM

The children's TV show 'Chocky'

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

Tazio · 21-10-2016 10:38AM

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

philstar · 21-10-2016 10:38AM

my mickey,

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

chakotha · 21-10-2016 10:38AM

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

my3cents · 21-10-2016 10:38AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:39AM

philstar wrote: »

my mickey,

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

Used too:eek::eek:

GBX · 21-10-2016 10:40AM

Jimmy Saville. Everyone else loved him.

Rubberlegs · 21-10-2016 10:41AM

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

21-10-2016 10:41AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:42AM

Mr Proper.

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

Boom_Bap · 21-10-2016 10:43AM

Green foods and red foods.

The bogeyman.

Banshe's.

Dot Cotton.

My grandmother.

The Nightman

Slimer in the origianl Ghostbusters

Winterlong · 21-10-2016 10:44AM

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

Zaph · 21-10-2016 10:46AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:47AM

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...

21-10-2016 10:48AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:48AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:49AM

Worzel Gummidge

DrumSteve · 21-10-2016 10:49AM

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

cml387 · 21-10-2016 10:50AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:54AM

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.

21-10-2016 10:54AM

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 · 21-10-2016 10:56AM

o1s1n wrote: »

Worzel Gummidge

Especially when he switched heads

Gunmonkey · 21-10-2016 11:07AM

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.

Bizarre thing you were afraid of as a child.

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