Silly things you used to be afraid of when you were younger

karr3 · 03-07-2011 07:48PM

the theme music from Tales of the Unexpected frightened the bejaysus out of me!!

PK2008 · 03-07-2011 07:50PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga23iSxyXO4

D1976 · 03-07-2011 08:00PM

That's it i wont sleep tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdr0ZkiJyRY

star29 · 03-07-2011 08:03PM

A picture of the sacred heart on the wall in my Granny's house with the red bulb on the front. I used to run past it every time.

Superbus · 03-07-2011 08:03PM

The elephants in Jungle Book. I have no idea why.

pragmatic1 · 03-07-2011 08:22PM

Flushing the toilet.
The hoover.
The wardrobe in my room (thought a witch lived in it).

later12 · 03-07-2011 08:33PM

Snakes at the bottom of my bed. I think it must have come from watching too much Home and Away. There was one Home and Away episode where a snake crawled into Shannon's (Isla Fisher's) bed. I didn't get to sleep that night.

In retrospect, I think that snake/ Isla Fisher storyline was a durty australian metaphor.

pawrick · 03-07-2011 08:42PM

Floating in to the sky - used to freak out quietly when I'd accidentally loose a helium balloon, I'd get dizzy looking at it going up and could feel myself going with it and thinking what is holding me here but that if I think too much about it maybe I will go up like the balloon. No drugs were involved.

Our garden hedge - thought there were werewolfs in it

Posy · 03-07-2011 08:53PM

JCB's used to freak me out when I was younger. They were so big and loud and yellow. I was always convinced that they would plough into me.

And the dark, obviously.

Lorrs33 · 03-07-2011 09:14PM

Flies, or as I called them as a kid: creatures!

I also used to, and sometimes still do, flush the toilet and leg it back to my room during the night convinced I would be attacked in the few seconds when no one could hear me scream.

rwl826 · 03-07-2011 09:21PM

The Closet Monster was defintely the big one and of course the threat..."wait until your father gets home" which was the most idle threat ever, I discovered at the age of 16;)

Captain Darling · 03-07-2011 09:27PM

I thought they was a man with a blue face living in the bushes across from my house when i was very young. Dont know where that came from, but it was weird.

johnnycnandy · 03-07-2011 09:33PM

Worzel Gummidge used to scare the bejesus out of me.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/worzel460440.jpg

If I'm being honest, I'm still a little unnerved...

Sunnyisland · 03-07-2011 09:35PM

When i was 5/6 i was absolutely terrified of jcb bulldozers.

nicklauski · 03-07-2011 09:41PM

Unsolved Mysteries.

Was convinced any time I went to the shed to get fuel I'd never be seen again.

Said shed was 5 feet from the back door but we had no light so it sacred the beJesus outta me.

On second thought maybe I was just afraid of the dark

robman60 · 03-07-2011 09:41PM

I used to be afraid of putting my limbs outside of the bed for fear of an unknown hand pulling me into the depths of wherever.

boscoroxx · 03-07-2011 09:41PM

That Shakespeare Sisters video with the evil one all in black, haunts me still to this day!!

johnnycnandy · 03-07-2011 09:47PM

boscoroxx wrote: »

That Shakespeare Sisters video with the evil one all in black, haunts me still to this day!!

Haha, +1 for this. Hadn't thought of that in years.

dagdha · 03-07-2011 09:49PM

The Diceman!

That freaky freako creeped me out big time when I was really young.

hdowney · 03-07-2011 09:49PM

trying to remember others but spiders seriously used to when i was a kid. still not a fan but not quite as argh.

like there was a MAHOOSIVE one directly above the loo when i was a youngster. i couldn't go in the bathroom and sit down for a p as the damn thing woulda been overhead. now there was only the mother and myself and she is more arachnaphobic than me FOR SURE! so we were screwed

later12 · 03-07-2011 09:53PM

The little driver man you would get inside toy tractors.

He terrified the bejesus out of me. People just aren't meant to be that small.

slowburner · 03-07-2011 09:57PM

The Pope & Ian Paisley.

later12 · 03-07-2011 10:02PM

nicklauski wrote: »

Unsolved Mysteries.

Was convinced any time I went to the shed to get fuel I'd never be seen again.

Crimeline was terrifying too. My Mum allowed us stay up late to watch it 'as a treat', wtf kind of treat keeps children awake at night worrying about Sophie Tuscan du Plantier

ImpossibleDuck · 03-07-2011 10:11PM

No one has mentioned Beetlejuice?

That film was invented for the sole purpose of scaring the f*ck out of children.

03-07-2011 10:48PM

Drills, or at least the sound of them.

Reamer Fanny · 03-07-2011 10:54PM

Clowns.

cassiedoll · 03-07-2011 10:55PM

gremlins...that film scared the crap outta me when i was young and believed that they were under my bed...chuckie put me off dolls as well

loalae · 03-07-2011 11:00PM

The film The Witches.

I couldn't go upstairs in my house by myself for about 4 years after I saw it.

DanGerMus · 03-07-2011 11:10PM

My ma.

needaname · 03-07-2011 11:11PM

Trap doors. I was convinced one followed me around everywhere and was gonna catch me oneday and I'd fall into a neverending hole and nobody would ever know. Wouldnt leave my mothers side for weeks

Closed doors no idea why but would freak out if someone closed a door.... only grew out of this a couple of years ago actually and it still doesnt make sense why?

Silly things you used to be afraid of when you were younger

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