Things you were scared of when young.

SeanKev · 23-02-2010 12:44AM #1

List goes on.

Rushden · 23-02-2010 12:49AM

Nothing, I'm a real man:cool:

brendansmith · 23-02-2010 12:50AM

My fathers vicious beatings.

Sea Sharp · 23-02-2010 12:52AM

The witch looking woman in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eXw47qb4U0

Now she just looks kinda hot.

Michellenman · 23-02-2010 12:54AM

The snake under my bed. Where I got this idea from I do not know but for 8 years I didn't hang my leg out of the bed for fear.

AnonoBoy · 23-02-2010 12:55AM

Getting old.

Thank God that didn't happen, eh?

brummytom · 23-02-2010 12:56AM

Well I had a dream when I was about 7 - there'd been a murder on the road IRL, and in my dream there'd been another. Later, a man came to the door selling bicycles, and took out a knife.

"I use the little one for the little children" was the line he said. I've never forgotten it, I woke up screaming just as he went for me.

So, murderers

G2010 · 23-02-2010 01:01AM

Rushden wrote: »

Nothing, I'm a real man:cool:

do i Know you?? you seem like a bear

Dunjohn · 23-02-2010 01:02AM

When I was a wee lad, I loved porridge but my mum was always trying to get me to eat Ready Brek instead (I dunno, maybe it was cheaper. This was the early eighties). I absolutely refused, I would not eat Ready Brek under any circumstances. I remember one time I was about to have a bowl of what looked like porridge, but I happened to glance into the kitchen and saw a box of Ready Brek on the counter. I threw an almighty fuss and refused to touch the stuff. To this day I have still never told mum why that was.

You know the ads for Ready Brek? Where the kids eat it and they start to glow? They still use it in their modern ads. I was ****ing terrified that I'd start glowing like those kids.

Also, once the light went out and I was tucked into bed, I wouldn't move a muscle. I was convinced that, if I turned around, E.T. would be there in the bed beside me. That ****ing scene in the cornfield scared the living bejaysus out of me.

Bob Z · 23-02-2010 01:02AM

The Internet

IvySlayer · 23-02-2010 01:03AM

The drain at the end of the bath. My sister told me when I was younger it sucks people in. And when it's making the noise as the water is going down, it's getting ready to suck

Even to this day I can't put my foot near one in the shower, I know it's stupid.

Proxy · 23-02-2010 01:03AM

What are those first things with the wheels?

I was scared of those people that uses to call around to your house for trick or treat, I really thought they were witches and whatever. I also had a phobia of water that I got over on my 21st birthday when my girlfriend at the time more or less pushed me into a pool.

I lie, she didn't really push me, and it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. I miss her.

Rushden · 23-02-2010 01:05AM

brendansmith wrote: »

My fathers vicious beatings.

The smiley at the end really helps express your fear

Alessandra · 23-02-2010 01:05AM

When it was summer and I would have the window open and my light on reading before sleep lots of moths would come in through the window attracted to the light. I was terrified. Moths are horrible!

littlefriend · 23-02-2010 01:05AM

I was scared of not being a child anymore, I remember panicking about it before going asleep all the time.

cson · 23-02-2010 01:06AM

The old traveller woman that used to call to our house for left over bread and things like that; she scared me with the gypsy curse of god vibe coming off her :eek:

IvySlayer · 23-02-2010 01:06AM

Alessandra wrote: »

When it was summer and I would have the window open and my light on reading before sleep lots of moths would come in through the window attracted to the light. I was terrified. Moths are horrible!

Daddy long legs are worse. Spiders with wings *shivers*

Professey Chin · 23-02-2010 01:07AM

In 101 Dalmatians theres this movie on the tv a couple times in it with what I can only describe as a freaky evil cowboy in it.For some reason he used to scare the living sh!t out of me.And that deville mingbat wasnt doing any favours either

Super-Rush · 23-02-2010 01:07AM

Yer man Arthur Murphy who presented Mailbag on RTE back in the day used to scare the bejaysus out of me.

aligator_am · 23-02-2010 01:08AM

This terrified me when I was younger, it's still a bit creepy even now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbklTNDU2E

anucksunamun · 23-02-2010 01:11AM

http://media.crikey.com.au/Media/images/obama5-13a00e76-a1a6-41a4-8066-4d4589b423d1.jpg
Pennywise the clown.

Stephen King you bas*ard
I still get a chill when I see him..

'I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of'
'BEEP BEEP Richie! They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too'

scudzilla · 23-02-2010 01:11AM

Dalek's scared the shite outta me

:(

AnonoBoy · 23-02-2010 01:14AM

Dunjohn wrote: »

When I was a wee lad, I loved porridge but my mum was always trying to get me to eat Ready Brek instead (I dunno, maybe it was cheaper. This was the early eighties).

Nah, porridge is cheaper. Your Ma was just a rep for Ready Brek. She used to charge you for breakfast too didn't she?

myflipflops · 23-02-2010 01:17AM

I say the TV series of Stephen Kings 'It' when i was about 9. Scared the hell out of me for a few years.

ashyle · 23-02-2010 01:18AM

I used to be terrified of aliens landing outside cos the house that backs onto ours had this crazy bright floodlight out their back garden for a time, I would think it was the mothership landing.
Oh and my mam gave me this book on how babies are made when I was like 7, the illustrations in it gave me nightmares for weeks

(In fairness it still scares me!)