Bizarre thing you were afraid of as a child.

CPSW · 21-10-2016 01:46PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Worzel Gummidge

Me too, especially when he used to change heads, was freaked out by it!!

my3cents · 21-10-2016 01:58PM

Escalators, my wife still tries not to use them and will always use the stairs if available because she got her cloths stuck in an escalator as a kid and thought she was going to be dragged into the machinery.

Winterlong · 21-10-2016 02:10PM

The Specialist wrote: »

Freddy Krueger, watched NOES when I was 6 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.

6?!! I saw it at 26 and was scared!!

HensVassal · 21-10-2016 02:41PM

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

This....music used to freak me out

Nah, that dancing girl used to give me the horn.

mimimcmc · 21-10-2016 02:48PM

The Gremlins

...and butterflies (still scared of them now):(

o1s1n · 21-10-2016 02:52PM

vintagecosmos wrote: »

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

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

You know you're getting old when a mother points at you when speaking to her child about 'The man'.

CINCLANTFLT · 21-10-2016 02:52PM

Why has no one mentioned Clowns... they still freak me out!!!

o1s1n · 21-10-2016 02:54PM

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

Why has no one mentioned Clowns... they still freak me out!!!

I was always too afraid to go to a circus in case I was pulled out of the audience by a clown and made a spectacle of.

Jesus I worried a lot as a kid :pac:

Hammer89 · 21-10-2016 02:55PM

Orange trains used to scare me to death when I was little. It was the noise, combined with the horrible dark orange and black combination which just terrified the sh*t out of me.

I also remember being afraid of the bad guy in Dennis the Menace, not the cartoon but the real film.

gimli2112 · 21-10-2016 03:01PM

my3cents wrote: »

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

Saw someone saying before that when they grew up they were relieved quicksand wasn't as big a problem as they thought it was going to be.

uch · 21-10-2016 03:14PM

Hammer89 wrote: »

Orange trains used to scare me to death when I was little. It was the noise, combined with the horrible dark orange and black combination which just terrified the sh*t out of me.

I also remember being afraid of the bad guy in Dennis the Menace, not the cartoon but the real film.

Haha, my young lad was the same, he'd shít himself if we were in the park and an Orange train was going by, Green ones never bothered him though,

cml387 · 21-10-2016 03:22PM

Hammer89 wrote: »

Orange trains used to scare me to death when I was little. It was the noise, combined with the horrible dark orange and black combination which just terrified the sh*t out of me.

I also remember being afraid of the bad guy in Dennis the Menace, not the cartoon but the real film.

Somewhat similar but we had to pass a railway depot going to mass (in the UK years ago) and I was scared by the pattern on the shunting engines that they used (a sort of zebra stripe if you know it).

FanadMan · 21-10-2016 03:34PM

Used to be scared cutting things in case I split an atom and caused a massive nuclear explosion. Didn't really understand nuclear physics when I was 5 or so.

MagicIRL · 21-10-2016 03:50PM

Mr. Blobby.

He's still creepy as fuck.

my3cents · 21-10-2016 04:27PM

gimli2112 wrote: »

Saw someone saying before that when they grew up they were relieved quicksand wasn't as big a problem as they thought it was going to be.

They did a piece about it on Mythbusters - MYTH BUSTED, "quicksand" is denser than water so you can't sink into it never to be seen again.

miezekatze · 21-10-2016 04:56PM

vintagecosmos wrote: »

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

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

Apparently he will cut off your ears if you say something bad to your granny! ðŸ˜² I was hiding under the kitchen table every time the doorbell rang for a while afterwards and slept with the duvet pulled over my ears for years.

I was also scared that there was something/someone I couldn't see hiding under my bed and wardrobe.

andekwarhola · 21-10-2016 04:57PM

Pylons, horses and moths.

The Princess Bride · 21-10-2016 06:54PM

Sneaky Snake on Wanderly Wagon- just so sinister and sadistic.
Also wasn't too fond of Jimmy Sommerville the first time I saw him on Top Of The Pops.

Didn't take a lot to scare me.

toptom · 21-10-2016 06:56PM

The Russians, used to fear a nuclear attack from them.

Sam Kade · 21-10-2016 06:58PM

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Sneaky Snake on Wanderly Wagon- just so sinister and sadistic.
Also wasn't too fond of Jimmy Sommerville the first time I saw him on Top Of The Pops.

Didn't take a lot to scare me.

Before I read your post wanderly wagon was the first thing that came to my mind, the whole thing was some scary sh1t for young children.

21-10-2016 07:15PM

The Count from Sesame Street.

RayM · 21-10-2016 07:17PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1RsgSBySXk

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKP8acqDtMs

Tauriel · 21-10-2016 07:17PM

Seaweed :eek:

An episode of Scooby Doo is responsible for that bizarre one. I remember watching an episode were a glowing yellow zombie diver would come out of the sea and he would use the seaweed to conceal himself.

Never trusted or liked the look of seaweed since :rolleyes:

ButcherOfNog · 21-10-2016 07:19PM

Poorly lit spaceships ....

I watched Alien when I was way to young to be watching it.

Turtyturd · 21-10-2016 07:20PM

Crimewatch...or pretty much any show with those reenactments.

Sam Kade · 21-10-2016 07:24PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The Count from Sesame Street.

I learned how to count to six in Spanish from watching Sesame street

Olishi4 · 21-10-2016 07:27PM

My friends mam use to mind me the odd time after school and she made the worst mashed potatoes. There were lumps in them. She wouldnt have given out because she was lovely but i was too scared to say it to her.

I remember telling my mam "I don't want to go there because she makes horrible potatoes"

Turtyturd · 21-10-2016 07:33PM

o1s1n wrote: »

I was always too afraid to go to a circus in case I was pulled out of the audience by a clown and made a spectacle of.

Jesus I worried a lot as a kid :pac:

I was pulled out of the crowd at the circus when I was younger along with 2 others. Clown gave us each a sweet and then asked us to say a nursery rhyme. 1st kid says it and everything goes fine, second kid says it and everything goes fine. Comes to me and as I start to speak the mic is altered to make my voice squeaky and high pitched much to the crowds amusement.

30 years later (give or take) I am still terrified of being picked out of the crowd at anything.

The flying mouse · 21-10-2016 07:51PM

JCB and other giant earth moving machinery, they looked huge and were so loud, when I was growing up there was lots of land getting cleared for houses, I was petrified....

Bondaje007 · 21-10-2016 07:59PM

train toilets. the noise and seeing the tracks below terrified me.
i was convinced id get sucked into the hole!

Bizarre thing you were afraid of as a child.

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