Things you were scared of when young.

Glico Man · 23-02-2010 01:37AM

Water. And there's a very good reason. When I was five I caught the final scene from a Friday the 13th film

where Jason jumps out of the lake to grab someone in a boat

....Still gives me the shivers

*spoiler in case no one has seen it

And one that has already been mentioned.... "It" the clown. Pure evil

Saibh · 23-02-2010 01:37AM

Clowns - after my first time going to the circus.

Midnight_EG · 23-02-2010 01:38AM

aaronh007 wrote: »

Water, thanks to Friday the 13th. Still gives me the shivers

Is that cos the water was cold?

Novella · 23-02-2010 01:39AM

When I was young, I was scared that if my foot or whatever was sticking out from under my duvet when I was asleep, a monster would eat it!

ejmaztec · 23-02-2010 01:42AM

Rushden wrote: »

The smiley at the end really helps express your fear

Perhaps he became a masochist, and developed a fondness for travelling in ambulances.

psycho-hope · 23-02-2010 01:42AM

Richard O'Brien, the guy that presented the Crystal maze:eek:

brummytom · 23-02-2010 01:43AM

Actually, thinking about it more, throughout all of my early childhood (pre-teens) I was terrified of being attacked/killed in my room. I had so many dreams about he or a family member being killed in the house.

I used to wrap myself so tightly in the quilt, to shield me from a knife. The window had to be double checked. The door had to be open so mom and dad could hear if I screamed. I couldn't lie on my front in case they came up and stabbed me in the back. I couldn't lie on my back because I'd look like a was a body being laid out.

Thinking about it, I was absolutely scared stiff of it. Obviously, everyone worries about getting hurt, but my fear was obsessive

Midnight_EG · 23-02-2010 01:44AM

brummytom wrote: »

Actually, thinking about it more, throughout all of my early childhood (pre-teens) I was terrified of being attacked/killed in my room. I had so many dreams about he or a family member being killed in the house.

I used to wrap myself so tightly in the quilt, to shield me from a knife. The window had to be double checked. The door had to be open so mom and dad could hear if I screamed. I couldn't lie on my front in case they came up and stabbed me in the back. I couldn't lie on my back because I'd look like a was a body being laid out.

Thinking about it, I was absolutely scared stiff of it. Obviously, everyone worries about getting hurt, but my fear was obsessive

Excellent, rigormortis has set in.

IvySlayer · 23-02-2010 01:45AM

brummytom wrote: »

Actually, thinking about it more, throughout all of my early childhood (pre-teens) I was terrified of being attacked/killed in my room. I had so many dreams about he or a family member being killed in the house.

I used to wrap myself so tightly in the quilt, to shield me from a knife. The window had to be double checked. The door had to be open so mom and dad could hear if I screamed. I couldn't lie on my front in case they came up and stabbed me in the back. I couldn't lie on my back because I'd look like a was a body being laid out.

Thinking about it, I was absolutely scared stiff of it. Obviously, everyone worries about getting hurt, but my fear was obsessive

My bro did the exact same thing, except he slept like a vampire, arms crossed and hands on shoulders to protect his heart from a knife

jen- · 23-02-2010 01:45AM

My evil older sisters inlicted alot of my fears on me!! we used to have to go to strandhill in Sligo for our summer holidays, and stay in a mobile home ( we went all out) and the weather was always awful and they would tell me that the wind and the rain was the sea crashing in ontop of us!

they also told me dracula lived in the upstairs window of this really spooky house beside my grandparents house.:mad:

lion_bar · 23-02-2010 01:48AM

Injun Joe. Scariest character on TV ever.

brendansmith · 23-02-2010 02:02AM

Killing the wrong nonce.

seanybiker · 23-02-2010 02:08AM

I used to love the show but sometimes that wurzle gummage used to scare the bejaysus outta me. I remember him getting one of his heads(the thinking one possibly) from a black sack he had tied to a rope and dropped in a canal, what the crap like.
That and he was the spit of me grandfather.

23-02-2010 02:15AM

People eating Clowns.
People eating Puppets.
People eating nuns.

See a trend? :P

Capt'n Midnight · 23-02-2010 02:24AM

The man

JayzuzHowiye · 23-02-2010 02:25AM

automated carwashes! When the spun around I was convinced they were possesed. Could never sit in the car while we got the car washed.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-02-2010 02:27AM

'The cross man'

When I was young and wouldn't go to bed the aul pair would warn me that the cross man would call over

Of course I wouldnt believe them until the aul boy would sly out of the room and ring the doorbell.

You wouldn't see me for dust after that

Run_to_da_hills · 23-02-2010 02:30AM

Rats, once corned a little fu*ker that jumped straight over my shoulder, my brother try to calm be down telling me that it was a big gerbil.

recylingbin · 23-02-2010 02:31AM

If you pass me a doll, I'll show you.

we'llallhavetea_old · 23-02-2010 02:31AM

having my feet outside the blankets, someone could grab them (still can't do it)

the fire thing in the basement of home alone (what an unnecessarly frightening bastard of a yolk)

and the people on my posters used to move in the dark, i would lie there, glued to the bed, smothering myself under the duvet absolutely petrified.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-02-2010 02:33AM

Oh I just remembered this

My grannies house is really old, over 200 years, and we always got fired into the same room as kids. I mean about 20 cousins.

And there was this painting of a mournfull looking girll in a communion dress (who you could tell by the picture was PURE evil) and it didn't matter where you went in the room.

Her eyes would follow you!

Luap · 23-02-2010 02:44AM

myrs.jpg

He still scares the sh!t out of me!

And elevators! Freaked me out!

Cupcake_Crisis · 23-02-2010 02:51AM

Pierce Brosnan.

recylingbin · 23-02-2010 02:56AM

Maloney_o9 wrote: »

myrs.jpg

He still scares the sh!t out of me!

And elevators! Freaked me out!

This > That

4zn76tysfajdxp · 23-02-2010 03:03AM

Moonbaby wrote: »

People eating Clowns.
People eating Puppets.
People eating nuns.

See a trend? :P

You don't like people who eat things?

Piste · 23-02-2010 03:03AM

The Dark
Fire (somebody showed my All Dogs go to Heaven when I was a toddler, left me with a deadly fear of fire. Wouldn't hold a lit match until I was 10/11)
Bombs
The IRA (or any of the cheap highstreet knockoffs- rIRA, cIRA, I-can't-believe-it's-not-the-IRA)
Fires started by the IRA
Bombs planted by the IRA

I grew up in the 90s in a peaceful Dublin suburb. The fear of the IRA was probably due to the fact that RTE blared in every room of the house.

Bec123 · 23-02-2010 03:05AM

Why were yous watching things like it and halloween when you were kids?? Jaysus, I couldn't even watch them now, I'd be too freaked out.

As for me, I used to be terrified of windows at night. I remember our old bathroom window had patterned glass and one dark night I thought I saw a face looking in. Scared the life out of me!

OutlawPete · 23-02-2010 03:10AM

When I was a ten my uncle held me upside down over a Frog pit, scared me senseless. All my other uncles (it was the morning after a wake) told him he was c*nt and I was scuppered off to be held against several women's (my aunt's) breasts and comforted.

Ever since I have hated Frogs, they freak me out.

On a plus side .. I love breasts.

Davidius · 23-02-2010 03:12AM

Feckin' wasps, they were out to get me.

I'm also fairly certain there was a point at which almost every dog wanted to kill me.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-02-2010 03:17AM

Oh man this thread is bringing loads back

Where I grew up there were lots of rivers, lakes and bogs so I was warned about the DogShark who lived in ALL of these places.

Head of a shark and body of a dog, the bastard would get you in or out of the water

They were dangerous dangerous times when you think of it

Things you were scared of when young.

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