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Bizarre thing you were afraid of as a child.

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #33
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Worzel Gummidge :(

    Aunt Sally was worse, terrifying!


  • #35
    horslips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭horslips


    "Murphy agus a Chairde"!


  • #36
    thomasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭thomasm


    wooden spoons


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  • #37
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Worzel Gummidge :(
    I believe he's a politician these days


  • #38
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


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  • #39
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,423 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,489 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    The Whirlygig Witch.


  • #41
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,065 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


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


  • #43
    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    This....music used to freak me out



  • #44
    abbir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    Shinbin223
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭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.


  • #46
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    The Mafia


  • #47
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #48
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    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


  • #49
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


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


  • #50
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,065 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #51
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


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


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  • #52
    Four Phucs Ache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    There was a pair of runners hanging off a telephone line near our local shops.

    Dad told me God sucked a fella up to heaven but he got caught on the cable !

    Never walked past that pole till I was about 13


  • #53
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    Pinocchio when he turns into a donkey and Charlie and The Chochlate Factory, the whole movie.


  • #54
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,687 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    The attic door being outside my bedroom after watching the episode of the simpsons where Bart has an evil twin who lives in the attic.

    I'm well over it as the attic door is inside my room now!


  • #55
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    Mars Bar wrote: »
    The attic door being outside my bedroom after watching the episode of the simpsons where Bart has an evil twin who lives in the attic.

    I'm well over it as the attic door is inside my room now!

    Haha! I always thought that the attic was a place that contained old toys and stuff. I couldn't wait for the day to be tall enough to finally be able to climb up.

    Any time I seemed to ask my mam where something was like, say my old baby clothes, she always seemed to say "oh theyre up in the attic".


  • #56
    vintagecosmos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭vintagecosmos


    The MAN. If i was bold the MAN would come after me.

    Never knew who he was but he was everywhere....


  • #57
    razorblunt
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    Ghostbusters 2 when the baby is on the ledge and the ghost comes with the pram. I still can't look at Peter Nicol/McNicol, whatever his name is, I am NOT googling him.


  • #58
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Not bizarre but...



  • #59
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    The children's cartoon Mighty Mouse, I couldn't bear to have it on tv, it terrified me. I have no idea why!

    I had an odd thing about going upstairs at night on my own if the light wasn't on. Not sure what the exact fear was, something "other worldly", a ghost, they devil etc, that it'd get me if I didn't run. Once I got past a certain point on the stairs I'd believe I was safe and could slow down then.

    Oh and the ghost of Christmas past that I believed would take the form of Goofy from Disney's A Christmas Carol.


  • #60
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    vintagecosmos wrote: »
    The MAN. If i was bold the MAN would come after me.

    Never knew who he was but he was everywhere....

    he was going to take me away if i didnt behave:(


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  • #61
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Freddy Krueger, watched NOES when I was 6 :D Every night when the lights went out I would be petrified he was going to come out of the wardrobe. Even the adverts or theme tune for Freddys Nightmares would scare the absolute **** out of me.


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