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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


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


  • Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭madmammy


    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


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 5,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭GoldFour4


    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 !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    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.



    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).



    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 :).

    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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


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



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Hersheys


    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 :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1





    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭madison2011


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭madmammy



    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭lolli


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Slurry pits. Them farm ads worked. ;_;


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭lolli


    The film IT - the clown that ate children.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,173 ✭✭✭lolli




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    lolli wrote: »
    I knew I shouldn't have opened that!!

    HI YA LOLLI!!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Is the ham green too?


    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 :)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 974 ✭✭✭jme2010


    "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 :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭Blisterman


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    jme2010 wrote: »
    "IT" the clown. Still to this day I have not watched that film again.

    Stephan King has a lot to answer for ;)


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