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

Richard Hillman · 03-07-2011 11:12PM

Dogs. One chased me when i was very young and i was afraid of them right up to my teens.

03-07-2011 11:13PM

needaname wrote: »

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?

Anything to do with this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9dbAQJIu1o

madmammy · 03-07-2011 11:16PM

michael jackson....seriously my sister had me tormented
after thriller i was terrified (i was 3 when that came out i think)

monsters under the bed and in my wardrobe.....again blame my sister she'd hide under our beds and push the matress up, or jump out of the wardrobe

GoldFour4 · 03-07-2011 11:18PM

The cookie monster from sesame street used to scare me ****less ! Had to leave the room whenever it came on, big bird was my savior !

WoollyRedHat · 03-07-2011 11:19PM

I was scared of the garbage trucks because when they went to pick up the bins, I used to think that the people who picked up the bins to bring them to the back of it, would then jump in and get grinded up with all the rubbish.. it was then that I decided that I defintely didn't want to be a binman

The King of Moo · 03-07-2011 11:20PM

Any scary film I managed to sneak my way into watching as a kid.
Some that stand out:

Poltergeist II, especially this dastard, Rev. Henry Kane. Still creeps me out when I see him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF9JKjYVXb8

Poltergesit III was less scary, but it had a recurring mirror motif, when monsters'd jump through mirrors, or move in the mirror but not in real life. Was terrified to look in a mirror for days afterwards.

Saw a clip of the first transformation scene in An American Werewolf in London when I was about five or six. Absolutely terrified of the werewolf coming to get me for a long time afterwards, especially as it was such a realistic scene.

An embarrassing one was Ernest Scared Stupid (one of the series of Ernest comedy films for kids).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_MHeHZ9d8Y

It was clearly meant to be a comedy, but I was terrified of the troll in it. I remember watching it around Halloween and having to go to the shop around the corner to get some things later the same evening when it was dark (I wasn't that young!) and being terrified on the way there and back that the troll'd jump out of the bushes I had to walk right past.

Was also terrified of royal jelly for a long time after watching an episode of Tales of the Unexpected when a guy kept eating it and eventually turned into a big bee! The scariest thing was seeing him gradually transform and knowing he could avoid it, if only he'd stop eating the stuff! I guess I was too young to understand addiction

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After any horror film I'd hate to be in the dark, or open my bedroom door with lights off (would open it as quickly as possible and switch on the light straight away). Hating walking upstairs too.

I'd always get terrified about nuclear war, the hole in the ozone layer and headlice whenever they were mentioned in school.

Like lots of people, I often got scared of leaving my feet over the edge of the bed, or sometimes if I'd already seen something scary, even leaving my arms out over the duvet when it was warm in case I felt something touch them.

For some reason where I was very young, I always expected to find The Joker in the upstairs bathroom waiting to kill me when I went to use it at night. It's very strange as I'm sure it was before the Tim Burton films, so my only experience of the The Joker would've been from Cesar Romero's decidedly non-threatening performance in the 60s TV series.

One last specific thing that freaked me out, was one time I remember we got a free copy of a newspaper that I don't think ever took off (but...but...The King of Moo...there was no such newspaper! I've checked all the records!).
I remember they had a story with big pictures about a frozen prehistoric body found in the Alps. He looked so bony and withered and leathery and horrible! From then on for a long, long time, I was convinced that every night when I went to bed I'd find him under the sheets waiting for me, especially if the sheets were a bit crumpled up and it looked like there might be a tiny, shrivelled body under them...

Cool_CM · 03-07-2011 11:21PM

Crimestoppers ads. The music used to freak the shyte out of me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_a517rxg9U

Hersheys · 03-07-2011 11:25PM

Crimewatch UK used to scare me, while the Irish one didn't. I always just asdumed all the baddies from the English ones would come to Ireland

pragmatic1 · 03-07-2011 11:28PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_MHeHZ9d8Y

It was clearly meant to be a comedy, but I was terrified of the troll in it. I remember watching it around Halloween and having to go to the shop around the corner to get some things later the same evening when it was dark (I wasn't that young!) and being terrified on the way there and back that the troll'd jump out of the bushes I had to walk right past.

Yes. That scared the hell out of me too. ANd it was supposed to be a kids film.

madison2011 · 03-07-2011 11:29PM

JELLYFISH!!
Was swimming in the sea the last two days. Beautiful weather and the scary monsters were lurking everywhere.Arm in the water and they swoop in. Seriously terrifying. Just googled them to allay my fears and read..IRISH JELLYFISH DO STING. Sweet mother of God, whats left in this world to enjoy for free

Bring back the monsters in the wardrope.

Duggy747 · 03-07-2011 11:33PM

I'd seen alot of violent films as a kid thanks to having an older brother and none of them really terrified me.

..........except for this bastard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrojCw6amM

The King of Moo · 03-07-2011 11:34PM

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Yes. That scared the hell out of me too. ANd it was supposed to be a kids film.

I think it was scarier for me because it was a comedy, made the scary bits more unexpected I think, but it also made me feel like the film was both scaring me AND laughing at me, making it even more terrifying. That's how I felt about Gremlins. It was many years after I first saw it that I realised it was supposed to be primarily a comedy.

madmammy · 04-07-2011 01:38AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Poltergeist II, especially this dastard, Rev. Henry Kane. Still creeps me out when I see him.

Poltergesit III was less scary, but it had a recurring mirror motif, when monsters'd jump through mirrors, or move in the mirror but not in real life. Was terrified to look in a mirror for days afterwards.

Was also terrified of royal jelly for a long time after watching an episode of Tales of the Unexpected when a guy kept eating it and eventually turned into a big bee! The scariest thing was seeing him gradually transform and knowing he could avoid it, if only he'd stop eating the stuff! I guess I was too young to understand addiction .

Like lots of people, I often got scared of leaving my feet over the edge of the bed, or sometimes if I'd already seen something scary, even leaving my arms out over the duvet when it was warm in case I felt something touch them....

i had all 3 poltergeist moves the thing in the second one where he drinks the worm and it comes back up as that creature put me of drinking anything even water for awhile...my old headmistress looked like kane but a nun.....very freaky

i remember that episode of tales of the unexpected too...scared the life out of me...very creepy

still can't sleep with my feet near the edge of the bed they have to be covered too

lolli · 04-07-2011 01:45AM

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

No one has mentioned Beetlejuice?

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

I was terrified of that film. I wouldn't sleep on my own for months after watching it.

Ruu_Old · 04-07-2011 01:46AM

Slurry pits. Them farm ads worked. ;_;

lolli · 04-07-2011 01:47AM

The film IT - the clown that ate children.

Still to this day can't go near a clown, i'm terrified of them!

wandatowell · 04-07-2011 01:51AM

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Pennywise-pennywise-535051_800_600.jpg

lolli · 04-07-2011 01:54AM

wandatowell wrote: »

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Pennywise-pennywise-535051_800_600.jpg

I knew I shouldn't have opened that!!

Kanoe · 04-07-2011 02:46AM

trains, or just engines and trains have very large engines which made them doubly scary.

wandatowell · 04-07-2011 03:21AM

lolli wrote: »

I knew I shouldn't have opened that!!

HI YA LOLLI!!!!

Is the ham green too? · 04-07-2011 10:31AM

My mam was determined that I wouldn't be afraid of silly things like spiders - One night when I was about 6, I hopped out of the bath screaming crying after realizing I was sharing it with a ginormous spider - She made me get back in

it worked though! not afraid of spiders!! and it only turned out to be a piece of black thread

pickarooney · 04-07-2011 10:40AM

Lux23 wrote: »

AIDS, now that I have it I realise its not such a big deal!

That'll put an end to the PMs from the boobies thread.

I used to afraid of the mafia. I was convinced my doctor was a member and that it was only a matter of time before I got gunned down. I remember thinking I had to find a way to join up myself as the only way to get protection was to join an organised crime syndicate. I'm not sure how that made sense to me at the time.

Apanachi · 04-07-2011 10:45AM

mattjack wrote: »

I wasn,t particularly fond of nuns either....

Fr Jack, is that you???

I used to be afraid of The Incredible Hulk...:eek:

Son Of A Vidic · 04-07-2011 11:15AM

My older brother told me Dracula used to sleep in my wardrobe, it was one of those big old wooden monoliths. Man, the bastárd scared me for years.

Luxie · 04-07-2011 11:27AM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I was afraid of those grates on the footpath outside pubs. I used to think I would fall between the bars.

I'm still not that mad keen on them.

Birneybau · 04-07-2011 12:06PM

Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Oh yeah, Marjorie Proops (agony aunt in the Mirror donkeys years ago) too!

jme2010 · 04-07-2011 12:08PM

"IT" the clown. Still to this day I have not watched that film again.
It's still in my mind as the scariest film of all time. But Im sure if i did re-watch it, I'd prob laugh at the cheesy-ness.....right....tell me I'd laugh

Blisterman · 04-07-2011 12:39PM

This disturbing scene, in an otherwise sweet and innocent movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJv2Mugm2RI

Pighead · 04-07-2011 12:43PM

That scene in Superman 3 where the woman was turned into a robot. Used to scare the bejaysus out of a fragile young Pighead. Looking at it now it's not quite as terrifying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFKJ144Yg9I

Apanachi · 04-07-2011 12:44PM

jme2010 wrote: »

"IT" the clown. Still to this day I have not watched that film again.

Stephan King has a lot to answer for

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

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