A totally illogical fear you had as a child

Quicksand.

Had a stairs with gaps in it and was convinced a hand would come out one day and grab my leg so I would boot it up and down the stairs like a mad thing.

As a corpseless-head negro lady carving with nipples, my main fear was children playing with me roughly. I would react by biting.

Spontaneous Human Combustion.

I was also beyond terrified of Godzilla. Yes, the cartoon.

Circus clowns and the dark. I remember being at the circus aged 3 - 4 I think, and the clowns were going along shaking hands with everyone at the edge of the ring. Jesus I was terrified as they came towards me. Can't remember how I handled it, but i know I was crying and terrified!

The dark. Mostly the fear of the unknown in the dark. Scarred the **** outta me.

Death, or more specifically corpses in coffins used to jilt me when I was younger.

I used to think giant sunflowers were freaky, funnily enough.

Paintings of old ships

I still really dislike clowns and I'm 40. And mimes. And the fcukers can 100% smell fear.

The house I grew up in had a T shaped hallway with the front door at the bottom of the T, my bedroom to the right of the T & the kitchen, living room etc to the left.

After dark, I galloped from my room to the kitchen in case God knows what might be at the front door, coming through the front door or already in the hall. It probably didn’t really help that the only light on was in the porch at the front door though there was a switch right outside my bedroom door that would have turned on big ceiling lights in all arms of the T!

Although as an adult I didn’t run past the door at night, I had to make myself walk normally so I guess my irrational childhood fear stayed with me & I just controlled it a bit more!

House is sold now & I don’t feel the same way about other doors, halls or porches but I can’t check if I’d still feel the same way.

One of our neighbours had staird with gaps, I used to go through one of the gaps halfway up legs first and dropped to the ground

When I was 13 the 1980s version of The Blob with Kevin Dillon and Dale from The Walking Dead was shown on either RTE 1 or RTE 2 (then network 2), I watched until the attack on the boyfriend in the hospital office, got freaked out and then spent the next few nights with the cover over my head to protect me, this was 1991/1992

I saw it in full about 5 years ago and the effects in the rest of the film are really ropey, hospital scene doesnt freak me out now but its still pretty gruesome

Terrified of the noise from a flush toilet as a child.

Also was Terrified of a picture of the vergin Mary it was on the wall of my bedroom as a young child she always appeared to move her hand.

Quicksand.

Also death from a nuclear blast, totally irrational, I should have feared that I would survive but then die within weeks from the radiation poisoning.