So I just had a moment, that afterwards made me laugh incredibly hard at myself and thought "what a good thread idea"

I'm pouring my coffee in kitchen and my utility room is just off the kitchen so anything that goes on in there you can clearly hear. So I'm pouring, and the flame kicks on for the water heater, and it sounds like a dragon breathing fire. So naturally my brain screams out DRAGON!!!! and I'm startled and spill coffee. The laughter ensues.


So share some of the dumb moments you were scared.

Roundabouts. Or traffic circle etc.

I can do them. I've done them yet still.....

Coming back off a deployment. Woke up one morning at home. Went total "Mental Freak Out" thinking I lost my weapons being I am use to waken up with my weapons within arm reach

Chickens.



Things are fething crazy.

 jhe90 wrote:
Roundabouts. Or traffic circle etc.

I can do them. I've done them yet still.....

My job is delivering all over my state, and the other day I came off the express way to a round about. I freaked out! I didn't know those existed here

People. They're dumb, and they scare me.

I used to be terrified of big hairless spiders.

Then I woke up with a scorpion sleeping next to my face (did you know scorpions sleep?) and I wasn't afraid of spiders any more.

When I was a tiny kid and played Warcraft 3, the undead part of the human campaign gave me nightmares.

To be fair, I was seven and rather spineless. I also sucked at the game which did not make it less intimidating.

When I was a kid I was terrified of the Sleestaks on Land of the Lost. My mom said I'd always ask my older brother "hey, you want to watch Land of the Lost?" and then I'd stand behind the couch and duck when the Sleestaks came on.

In my defense Sleestaks are legitimately terrifying.

Sleestaks were awesome

I was once scared out of my skin by an anamatronic horse.
I walked into a local toy store to get some 40k, and saw this horse, maybe 4 feet tall, and my first reaction was to be slightly annoyed they had replaced the awesome life-size Space Marine they had had in the spot previously.

And then it moved, and I nearly had a heart attack!

Now they have 9-foot-tall anamatronic dinosaurs, which are just fething awesome!

Kids my age at school...yeah, it's a problem...

For some reason I was terrified of the movie Jurassic Park when it first came out. Probably because the guy behind us in the theater looked way too much like Wayne Knight. I still have weird lucid dreams twenty years later where I find myself in a randomly located dinosaur park and I know I'm stuck in a dream.

When I was a kid E.T really scared me.

As a kid, the animated Sleepy Hollow movie terrified me. The new one wasn't scary at all, but the way the animated one was done always scared me because you never knew if Icabod Crane made it or not.

The brain of cuthulu in terraria, Jesus Christ...

Watching the Ring and the extra clip of the footage (7 days to live) on the dvd sets. I counted the days and I actually almost make tapes just to be on the safe side.

I live alone at the time, so I made sure that I was around people of the final day.

Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

But weirdest thing I have ever been scared of was blair witch project, i actually had to sleep in a housemates bedroom as it freaked me out so much. I may or may not have been doing drugs at the time.

 Bullockist wrote:
Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

But weirdest thing I have ever been scared of was blair witch project, i actually had to sleep in a housemates bedroom as it freaked me out so much. I may or may not have been doing drugs at the time.

I'm with you on this. The movie feels like you just witness 3 people who were killed by a witch. It is a shock or PTSD or something for me. It took a few days for me to shake it off. Damn...I know it was not real...but my heart keeps feeling sorry for the three. I still won't watch that film today, yet... I have no problem watching faces of death.

I freaking hate amusement park mascots

Picked up a skink tail that the cat had left on the kitchen floor. The tail curled over and touched my thumb.
I had a "arrgh!" moment and dropped it.

Bridges and elevators. (note, not phobic of heights, i love mountains)

Because when you work in the construction industry, and you think to yourself "whoever built this bridge / installed this elevator, it was the guy would could do it for the least amount of money", that's a sobering thought in an elevator that goes up 30+ floors, or a suspension bridge with a quarter mile drop to the water below.

Also glass elevators are the fruit of the Devil, an abomination unto man, and should never have ever been a thing.

Bridges too especially because lots of them are in a horrific state of decay. At least elevators in most civilized states have to be inspected and maintenanced annually.


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 Bullockist wrote:
Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

But weirdest thing I have ever been scared of was blair witch project, i actually had to sleep in a housemates bedroom as it freaked me out so much. I may or may not have been doing drugs at the time.

Blair witch... man that movie didn't freak me out, but as i was driving back my friend to her house that night after having seen it, in the backroads of rural massachusetts, the biggest fething goddamn owl i'd ever seen flew right in front of my car... fething thing looked like it had an 8' foot wing span.

The really freaky thing : i have never before, nor since, seen an Owl where I live. I hear them occasionally, but never seen one again.


Freaky gak.

When I was a kid. Was scared of anything that resemble a body of water, fresh or salt water. After watching Jaws when it first came out

Jihadin wrote:Coming back off a deployment. Woke up one morning at home. Went total "Mental Freak Out" thinking I lost my weapons being I am use to waken up with my weapons within arm reach

This. So much this.....

Bullockist wrote:Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

This as well... God, they have those giant gnawing teeth on them on one end... and the other end, with those deadly kickin' legs.... Feth that!!! we have internal combustion engines for a fething reason!!

I always get a little nervous when I have to walk down a flight of stairs. Hear me out, I used to never care at all, and even walked up and down stairs while reading books without even looking up all the time. Then one time I was walking down a set of stairs I had walked down hundreds of times before when I suddenly put my foot out and there was no step. I fell flat on my face and slid down half the flight, my book went flying, it was in a public place with people all around, in short one hell of a scene that wouldn't have been out of place in a slapstick comedy film. Ever since then it's been one hand on the railing and looking at my feet.

Also, I get irrationally nervous whenever I stand on something tall or have to climb anything. It's not being afraid of heights, because I absolutely love flying and have even ridden in a stunt plane before (amazing experience, loved it the whole time), but feeling an office building swaying in the wind underneath me is one of the freakiest experiences I can have. Buildings shouldn't move darn it!

david choe wrote:Watching the Ring and the extra clip of the footage (7 days to live) on the dvd sets. I counted the days and I actually almost make tapes just to be on the safe side.

I live alone at the time, so I made sure that I was around people of the final day.

Oh God, the Easter Egg! Had no problem watching the movie alone in the dark in the middle of the night (especially having already seen it in theatres), but when I was done with it I naturally went looking for more. I was watching it on my PS2, and when the video kicked in and none of the controls worked anymore I jumped up just as quick as I've ever moved and ripped the movie out.

Possibly the silliest thing though was a praying mantis. I was lying in bed reading when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Looked up and there it was, barely a foot away, standing on my pillow and brandishing its claws like it was about to tear my eyes out and eat my sweet, sweet eye juice. Jumped so high I fell out of the damn bed! Worst part is, I love the little buggers so once the shock of it appearing out of nowhere was gone I rescued him and put him back outside where he belonged.

 Jihadin wrote:
Coming back off a deployment. Woke up one morning at home. Went total "Mental Freak Out" thinking I lost my weapons being I am use to waken up with my weapons within arm reach

That happens at least once to everyone.

Horror movies freak me out, pretty much any of them, so do spiders.

A stupid thing that always makes me jump is our front door. The handle makes a loud rattling sound when its opened, when I'm sitting quietly playing a game or reading or lost in though and I hear that metallic rattle I always jump a mile.

I was creeped out by the monster from Forbidden Planet as a kid. That movie was scary.

Nowadays, nightmares, mostly. Apparently my brain feels the need to make up things to scare the gak out of me.

 daedalus wrote:
I was creeped out by the monster from Forbidden Planet as a kid. That movie was scary.

Nowadays, nightmares, mostly. Apparently my brain feels the need to make up things to scare the gak out of me.

I had to go check out that Forbidden Planet monster clip. Done. LOL

You mean that cartoon energy being from the "gate" was scary? I keep laughing when each soldier keep running up to the monster and get killed. They could have stay back and just keep shooting the laser gun. The 3rd guy... let me run closer and ahhhhh dead.

For what it's worth, it's a lot different when you're 6 or 7, particularly before you got exposed to the horror movies of the 80s/90s.

Also, you did yourself a disservice by just looking for a clip. The rest of the movie really worked up to the creepy factor. Maybe not "scary" by today's standards, but it was there.

I feel the same way about modern splatterporn though. True horror movies actually climb into your head for a while before they drown the camera in fake viscera, if they do it at all.

 daedalus wrote:
For what it's worth, it's a lot different when you're 6 or 7, particularly before you got exposed to the horror movies of the 80s/90s.

Also, you did yourself a disservice by just looking for a clip. The rest of the movie really worked up to the creepy factor. Maybe not "scary" by today's standards, but it was there.

I feel the same way about modern splatterporn though. True horror movies actually climb into your head for a while before they drown the camera in fake viscera, if they do it at all.

Damn.. now I feel bad. It was that good of a film then.... I should have just watch the whole film. I do enjoy 50s scifi stuff.

But I understand....my 5 year old can't watch Beauty and the Beast cartoon by Disney because of Beast scares her. I keep telling her... It is a Disney Cartoon!

Exposed Edges, not height but edges without handrails/barriers. Not sure if its fear or professional caution.

I'm fine with height, I'm building two 24 storey towers and often to be found on the roof on many on London's high buildings but an edge without some form of protection sets bells off in my head.

I refurbished the Strand Palace Theatre many years ago and all elevations had a lovely parapet wall covered in carved stone sculpture and cappings above a 25-30m drop. I'd happily hang over that and inspect exiting state of repair etc, but I wouldn't go within 10' of an internal lightwell that had a 2 storey drop next to it because there was noting to hang on to.

Oh and anything near my kids scares me, cars, animals, tables, duvets, tissue paper, string, ANYTHING! Parental paranoia + Professional Heath and Safety awareness training = one enormous headache!

 notprop wrote:
Exposed Edges, not height but edges without handrails/barriers. Not sure if its fear or professional caution.

I'm fine with height, I'm building two 24 storey towers and often to be found on the roof on many on London's high buildings but an edge without some form of protection sets bells off in my head.

I refurbished the Strand Palace Theatre many years ago and all elevations had a lovely parapet wall covered in carved stone sculpture and cappings above a 25-30m drop. I'd happily hang over that and inspect exiting state of repair etc, but I wouldn't go within 10' of an internal lightwell that had a 2 storey drop next to it because there was noting to hang on to.

Oh and anything near my kids scares me, cars, animals, tables, duvets, tissue paper, string, ANYTHING! Parental paranoia + Professional Heath and Safety awareness training = one enormous headache!

I'm the same way with my kid, but the thread is really dumb things. This is not a dumb thing. I don't think so anyway. If you are not scare, you are not a good parent

david choe wrote:

 Bullockist wrote:
Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

But weirdest thing I have ever been scared of was blair witch project, i actually had to sleep in a housemates bedroom as it freaked me out so much. I may or may not have been doing drugs at the time.

I'm with you on this. The movie feels like you just witness 3 people who were killed by a witch. It is a shock or PTSD or something for me. It took a few days for me to shake it off. Damn...I know it was not real...but my heart keeps feeling sorry for the three. I still won't watch that film today, yet... I have no problem watching faces of death.

The wife and I laughed and laughed at that movie.

1. No Texan goes camping unarmed. Its against the Cowboy Code.
2. Dude this is the East Coast. Just walk in a straight line. Camping is not difficult. We kept joking that if they panned the camera up they'd see the sign for a Piggly Wiggly...

King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog. He scared me shitless when I was a young'n.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog. He scared me shitless when I was a young'n.

Oh man I remember this. I had a cousin who refused to watch Courage the Cowardly Dog because she was scared of all the episodes XD

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Bullockist wrote:Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

This as well... God, they have those giant gnawing teeth on them on one end... and the other end, with those deadly kickin' legs.... Feth that!!! we have internal combustion engines for a fething reason!!

It's because cars don't crap on the street, they're ''cleaner" - that was what they said back when the car first appeared. Take that greenies.

I'm young, but a few years ago I lived everyday in fear at the thought of my belly button unraveling.
That, and I stood up to late once with my uncle and watched the remake of night of the living dead.
I could not sleep for days.

Don't feel bad, I was terrified at the cop from pet cemetery 2 when I was a kid. Dunno why, but the dude just scared the bajeezus out of me.

One of my earliest memories involves watching that episode of "In Search Of..." -my grandpa loved that show- about the Hindemburg disaster. A couple days later, my parents made a crucial mistake: They took me to an airshow where the main attraction was a Goodyear blimp.

Don't rush to put the blame on them. Up until that day, they must have thought their kid was virtually fearless. Unlike my sister, I wasn't scared of monsters, aliens or ghosts. Rather, I showed a precocious interest in topics that would have scared any other four-year-old dead. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was my favorite movie. My grandpa -who shared with me a fascination with all things morbid and paranormal- used to tell me folk tales about vengeful ghosts, deals with the Devil, covens of witches and gigantic man-eating wolves. I learnt to read with Charles Berlitz' "The Bermuda Triangle" and Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember". There was no way on Earth they could have known that just being close to (or, God forbid, ABOARD) a hydrogen-filled death trap would make me snap.

I just can't remember what happened. I still have vivid memories of watching that particular TV show but none of the airshow and the epic panic attack that -apparently- followed. I must have freaked out so bad I lapsed unconscious or something. All I know is from my parents' recollections of the event (that became an item of coffee table chit chat for years to come). That and some vague memories of my father buying me a helium balloon to help me cope with the fact that bags filled with lighter-than-air gases can stay aloft without necessarily bursting into flames and sending dozens to a fiery demise. Well, these probably weren't my father's words, but you get the idea.

I watched the original Amityville Horror on cable when I was 8 or 9. That scene where Margot Kidder is walking up the stairs, hears a noise and pulls up the window shade to see the glowing red eyes of the pig demon. That did it for me. I still keep the blinds closed at night.

When I was staying at my friend's house, I awoke to two eyes staring straight into my face. This triggered the first shot of adrenalin, which startled me awake. Then a couple of milliseconds later as my brain processed more of what I was seeing, it registered that the face was covered in hair had fangs and not human. This is when my body basically switched to DEAFCON 1, my blood must have literally saturated with adrenalin at that point. Everything suddenly went into slow motion as I gasped, dragging air into my lungs though clenched teeth. I must have looked like someone pulling about 5Gs on a roller-coaster as I prepared to fight for my life. Alarm bells ringing in my head "Monster Alert! This is not a drill!!"

That is probably the closest I've ever come to punching a kitten.

 KingCracker wrote:
Don't feel bad, I was terrified at the cop from pet cemetery 2 when I was a kid. Dunno why, but the dude just scared the bajeezus out of me.

He was just so weird. Pet Cemetery 1 and 2 were both creepy. Cujo was also pretty creepy.


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Also, Tim Curry as It. Feth that.

The pool sharks.

Took swimming lessons when I was 5 and when we were learning to jump off the diving board I saw the drain at the bottom of the pool which had a grate over it. I asked what it was for and the lifeguard told me that's where we keep the sharks during the day, but don't get too close in case they get out. I was terrified that there were actually sharks behind the grate and I would freak out because when we were on the diving boards we'd end up going deeper towards the bottom (and closer to to grate) I was afraid I'd get too close and it's pop open releasing the sharks.

Fear from a combination of a sadistic lifeguard and my dad letting me watch Jaws when I was 5 so I was already terrified of sharks, bastards the both of them.

I'm still afraid of supernatural movies. I can watch movies with excessive gore, thrillers, sci-fi horror like Alien and slasher films like the old Jason movies. I have to avoid stuff that has to do with demons and ghosts though, like the Grudge or the Conjuring, otherwise I'll spend most of the night just staring at my door. lol

 BlaxicanX wrote:
I'm still afraid of supernatural movies.

No walls can keep him out...





I'm in the same boat with supernatural horror movies. Blood, guts, gore, hook handed maniacs, aliens, psycho clowns no problem. Demonic elements or witchcraft NOOOPE!

 jreilly89 wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Don't feel bad, I was terrified at the cop from pet cemetery 2 when I was a kid. Dunno why, but the dude just scared the bajeezus out of me.

He was just so weird. Pet Cemetery 1 and 2 were both creepy. Cujo was also pretty creepy.


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Also, Tim Curry as It. Feth that.

Yeah Tim Curry does creepy extremely well.

Chickens. Weird walking motion, small dead eyes, vicious temperament... Brrrrr...

Saw War of the Worlds '05 for DVD release in fifth grade with my family.

It left me with mentally running through a lot of what-if scenarios whenever we went skiing up to 2008

Also the thought of having to drive in the state of Califonia still gets me on occasion

 Smacks wrote:
When I was staying at my friend's house, I awoke to two eyes staring straight into my face. This triggered the first shot of adrenalin, which startled me awake. Then a couple of milliseconds later as my brain processed more of what I was seeing, it registered that the face was covered in hair had fangs and not human. This is when my body basically switched to DEAFCON 1, my blood must have literally saturated with adrenalin at that point. Everything suddenly went into slow motion as I gasped, dragging air into my lungs though clenched teeth. I must have looked like someone pulling about 5Gs on a roller-coaster as I prepared to fight for my life. Alarm bells ringing in my head "Monster Alert! This is not a drill!!"

That is probably the closest I've ever come to punching a kitten.

Can't..... Breath....


When I was young I was often freaked out by undead imagery. I couldn't look at the cover of the Goosebumps book: The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, without nightmares. SOme of the things in lost I saw when my dad and I watched it on wendesdays were truly nightmare inducing

2 PC related things:
I was gaming and had a YouTube playlist running, an ad for godzilla (the film) came on and scared the life out of me.
Recently, I was playing a game (I do that a lot) and it bugged out and crashed, making a load screeching noise, I had my headphones off but my heart was racing because of the shock.

This is pretty common but... Santa Claus.

I was 6 years old, was at my aunts on Christmas Eve.
They had some neighbor down the road who was some 6' 4" ringer for Santa, full beard and everything, pretty wide too.
So out of nowhere he seems to almost kick in the front door, brandishing a 3' long strap of 2" diameter jingle bells yelling HO! HO! HO! MERRRRYYYY CHRISTMAAASSS!!!!!
Sounded like the end of times was upon us, worse than getting hit with a flash-bang.
The family says I dove head first under the coffee table and screamed my guts out for a solid hour which started at ear-bleed intensity as he got closer and learned to veer away.
Death-grip on legs of table and would not come out to see "the nice man" who would then always be viewed with suspicion and a locked bedroom door on Christmas Eve.
Needless to say sitting on Santa's lap was out of the question and involved a good footrace if anyone tried to force it probably until I was old enough it did not matter.

So, I usually have a talk with these helpers and ask they keep things pretty low-key so my kids can have a slightly more pleasant memory of the "Jolly old Demon...er... elf".

Things that scare me? I have a phobia of zombies, not the ones off of walking dead, the superhuman ones like off of CoD black ops 2

As a child, I believed that you would die if you were still in the room when a bathtub finished draining.

I still am not comfortable in that situation now.

I got attacked by feral chickens in Iraq. It was a one sided fight. Thank Gawd for body armor and ACH. Buggers are eeevvvviiiiiillllllll

OK, in my area, there's been a few robberies several weeks ago where the MO of the criminals is that they cut to the power. Then when you walk outside to check the box, they smack you over the head with a bat/beat you up, then rob the house.

So around two weeks ago, it was 2:45AM, couldn't sleep, so I was on my computer. Then all the lights went out. I can't even describe how high I jumped, and what it felt like immediately going into fight-or-flight mode.

Puppets. Especially ugly puppets.

Spitting Image scares the gak out of me.
I don't like the Muppet Show either.
And what's that disgusting film with puppets. Adult orientated. About a concert show or some such. I think there's a big walrus that's a gangster or something?
Dark Crystal.
Labyrinth is a great film, but at the beginning when those ugly trolls come for the baby....Jesus. And those skinny pink one's that pull off their own heads...*shiver*
Gremlins traumatised me.

meet the feebles, the best puppet movie ever.

"Sodomy, you might think it's very odd of me that i enjoy the act of sodomy,-dun dun dun dun dun dun dun- SODOMY"

It's a classic.

The IT clown did it for me. Saw IT when I was 4, had nightmares until I was a teenager.

Also the movie Maximum Overdrive, after seeing that at a young age, I still have a fear of all electronics becoming "alive" and trying to kill us.

when my family still lived in California, my mom (she had me at 18, she was around 23 at the time) loved to mess with me. the spoon full of soy as a baby, just to see my face, chasing me across my grandpas house with a scary mask on when I was 4, she wasn't terrible, but she was just having fun, I mock her for it now, but it was all in good fun. Anyway, when I was around 5, she had been "training" me to be terrified of trees and bushes. Picking me up, holding me to the tree yelling "they are gonna getcha" And it was terrifying. silly looking back at it, but that's my story.

The Sixth Sense in theaters scared the crap out of me when I was 11. Now I just think it's a B+ movie.

However, Kanye West's leather jogging pants still scare me to this day.

Event Horizon - that movie still freaks me out.
And Gerald's Game, by Stephen King. The only book to have ever scared me. Mostly because of how Death was portrayed (the Space Cowboy?) and at the time I was reading it I was going on day three of no sleep and unpleasant hallucinations were starting to set in. That long shadow in the corner of my room would twitch and my heart would skip a beat. I didn't try to make it for day four.

chaddwick2005 wrote:
The IT clown did it for me. Saw IT when I was 4, had nightmares until I was a teenager.

Also the movie Maximum Overdrive, after seeing that at a young age, I still have a fear of all electronics becoming "alive" and trying to kill us.

"Honey? This machine just called me an donkey-cave" I just watched that movie again a few months ago, it still holds up.

Essentially as a 6 year old i had a phobia that dog-people (of all things) would come out of the toilet drain if the light in there was ever off. That and always sleeping with my eyes toward the door of the room. Silly me...

I still have an unreasoning terror of hypodermic needles. I dislike pins more than a reasonable person should. I have no problem with sharp knives, nails, screws, saws, power tools of any kind... injure myself pretty regularly and have no fear of blood per se, but the only shot I've had since I was old enough to say "No fething way, you get that hell-spawned pig-sticker away from me!" was when my kids were little [er] and couldn't get vaccinated themselves. There was an H1N1 [or something like that, very serious] flu going around, and my wife works at a hospital. So the only voluntary shot I've had in the last 15 years was to protect my very little kids from a serious disease.

I cried while I was in line waiting. I was in line for almost an hour. I considered telling the nurses, that were giving the shots, that my kids were older than they were. Very shameful. I might have tried if my wife wasn't there. I still wonder if I made the right decision.

I'm also on board with Event Horizon from when I was a kid. We rented it, thinking it was a Sci-Fi movie about whatever and my brother and I watched it by ourselves. He went to bed before the "freakshow" part started, and I couldn't stop watching. Nightmares, for sure.

Only two things scare me, and one of them is nuclear war....

 Easy E wrote:
Only two things scare me, and one of them is nuclear war....

Is the other one Carnies?!

A rusted, dented shopping trolley, which had been at the bottom of an algae-filled pond, being dragged out like some horrible metal skeleton.
It's a weird one, but it was involved in a dream I had when I was about 7, and I still don't like remembering that dream.


Also, I tend to find people with serious mental illness very unsettling, something to do with not being able to predict them or understand their thought processes - not sure if that counts as a dumb thing to be scared of or not?

dumb things that scare me...

My ex-wife.

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:

Also, I tend to find people with serious mental illness very unsettling, something to do with not being able to predict them or understand their thought processes - not sure if that counts as a dumb thing to be scared of or not?

Nah, I think that's something smart to be scared of. There's a certain group that try to tie profiling to racism, but in actuality it's an innate human quality that helps us discern danger. Of course someone with a serious mental illness has a greater chance of being dangerous, whether they mean to be or not, therefore you should be more weary of them over someone who is acting within the normal realm.

 greatbigtree wrote:
I still have an unreasoning terror of hypodermic needles. I dislike pins more than a reasonable person should. I have no problem with sharp knives, nails, screws, saws, power tools of any kind... injure myself pretty regularly and have no fear of blood per se, but the only shot I've had since I was old enough to say "No fething way, you get that hell-spawned pig-sticker away from me!" was when my kids were little [er] and couldn't get vaccinated themselves. There was an H1N1 [or something like that, very serious] flu going around, and my wife works at a hospital. So the only voluntary shot I've had in the last 15 years was to protect my very little kids from a serious disease.

I cried while I was in line waiting. I was in line for almost an hour. I considered telling the nurses, that were giving the shots, that my kids were older than they were. Very shameful. I might have tried if my wife wasn't there. I still wonder if I made the right decision.

Nahh, it isnt shameful really. I think of really bad things of getting out of situations I dont like, especially If I know I cant avoid it. Its a coping mechanism, fantasy really is.

Pregnant women with sick children. They're like a rolling, gak-flinging, hormonal hell-storms that will, without fail, get me twitchy within seconds.

When i was a kid, i was afraid that the zimperumpazoo was under my bed at night and would bite me. Those mustaches kinda creeped me out.

 Torga_DW wrote:
When i was a kid, i was afraid that the zimperumpazoo was under my bed at night and would bite me. Those mustaches kinda creeped me out.

The what?!?

Getting an F on anything. At on point I had a dream about just that, getting an F on a paper

 KingCracker wrote:

 Torga_DW wrote:
When i was a kid, i was afraid that the zimperumpazoo was under my bed at night and would bite me. Those mustaches kinda creeped me out.

The what?!?

It was from a children's book, and the last line was: goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the zimperumpazoos bite. Really put the fear of god into me at the time lol. Again, there was just something unnatural about those mustaches!

The scariest thing I've encountered are black bears that wander into your campsite, fethers even come into your tents to sniff at you while you're just lying there.

Brian2112 wrote:
I watched the original Amityville Horror on cable when I was 8 or 9. That scene where Margot Kidder is walking up the stairs, hears a noise and pulls up the window shade to see the glowing red eyes of the pig demon. That did it for me. I still keep the blinds closed at night.

Yup. Lucifer's silhouette in the glow of the portal of the basement is probably the single freakiest thing i've ever seen in a movie.

... well maybe 2nd most. The tentacle demon from Jacob's Ladder made me lose several dozen sanity points if i were a Cthulhu RPG character. LOL.

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
The scariest thing I've encountered are black bears that wander into your campsite, fethers even come into your tents to sniff at you while you're just lying there.

Yes but that's not a dumb thing to be scared of. It's a freaking bear!


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 Torga_DW wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:

 Torga_DW wrote:
When i was a kid, i was afraid that the zimperumpazoo was under my bed at night and would bite me. Those mustaches kinda creeped me out.

The what?!?

It was from a children's book, and the last line was: goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the zimperumpazoos bite. Really put the fear of god into me at the time lol. Again, there was just something unnatural about those mustaches!

Spoiler:

And I get this, that's a bit on the wtf side

I was scared of vents and cracks under doors when i was 5. Watched "The Blob" and the idea of a killer monster that could go anywhere and fit anywhere scared the heck out of me and accounted for many a sleepless night.

Did I mention Deer?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Did I mention Deer?

You press further down on the gas pedal and not the brakes

 conker249 wrote:
I was scared of vents and cracks under doors when i was 5. Watched "The Blob" and the idea of a killer monster that could go anywhere and fit anywhere scared the heck out of me and accounted for many a sleepless night.

I know that fear too. That crap freaked me out

 Jihadin wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Did I mention Deer?

You press further down on the gas pedal and not the brakes

No, I got attacked by a buck when I wondered to close to his doe and baby.

I'm absolutely terrified of looking at the moon when it's full. I have recurring nightmares about the full moon just being in the sky and visible through my window.
I run through the house in my dream, closing curtains and it would just be there. Not moving, growing, not that moon from the Zelda series. Just a plain ol' moon.

If I look at it, after a few seconds my neck hair stands on end and I genuinely panic.

Any other point on the lunar cycle, I'm fine with.

(I wish I was joking, it makes camping horrendous)

 Torga_DW wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:

 Torga_DW wrote:
When i was a kid, i was afraid that the zimperumpazoo was under my bed at night and would bite me. Those mustaches kinda creeped me out.

The what?!?

It was from a children's book, and the last line was: goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the zimperumpazoos bite. Really put the fear of god into me at the time lol. Again, there was just something unnatural about those mustaches!

Spoiler:

Ahhh, I loved that book!


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 Jihadin wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Did I mention Deer?

You press further down on the gas pedal and not the brakes

Yeah...buddy did that, the deer hit him and kicked his intestines out, fething him up horribly. The deer got up and walked away.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:


I'm absolutely terrified of looking at the moon when it's full. I have recurring nightmares about the full moon just being in the sky and visible through my window.
I run through the house in my dream, closing curtains and it would just be there. Not moving, growing, not that moon from the Zelda series. Just a plain ol' moon.

If I look at it, after a few seconds my neck hair stands on end and I genuinely panic.

Any other point on the lunar cycle, I'm fine with.

(I wish I was joking, it makes camping horrendous)

Wow that's kinda crazy...... yet the dream you're describing does make it seem creepy in a Hitchcock kind of way.

As a kid I used to think the Chinese were watching me. This is cold war era so I guess it was because of that? I was a weird kid.

I also had pretty bad claustrophobia from when my sister wouldnt let me out of a wooden chest when we were playing hide and seek with friends. She just sat on it while I had a panic attack.

I was over it for decades until me and the better half went to Egypt on holiday and we went inside one of the pyramids. When we got to the bottom of the first chamber I just froze. I could NOT go any further. My wife turned round and said I was flat against the wall white as a sheet.
There is this small, steep and loooooong entrance and people can only go up OR down,not both at the same time so I had to wait while a lot of overweight tourists shambled down this passageway which was barely being controlled by two locals at the top and bottom.
I thought my heart was going to explode. I could feel the million tons of rock above me bearing down.
Never again. I don't even particularly like large crowds of people anymore, it seems to have triggered it off badly.

When I was a kid I was afraid of going down open backed stairs. I thought my feet would somehow slip into the openings and I would fall and break my neck. I had no problem with going up them though for some reason.

 Pete Melvin wrote:
As a kid I used to think the Chinese were watching me. This is cold war era so I guess it was because of that? I was a weird kid.

I also had pretty bad claustrophobia from when my sister wouldnt let me out of a wooden chest when we were playing hide and seek with friends. She just sat on it while I had a panic attack.

I was over it for decades until me and the better half went to Egypt on holiday and we went inside one of the pyramids. When we got to the bottom of the first chamber I just froze. I could NOT go any further. My wife turned round and said I was flat against the wall white as a sheet.
There is this small, steep and loooooong entrance and people can only go up OR down,not both at the same time so I had to wait while a lot of overweight tourists shambled down this passageway which was barely being controlled by two locals at the top and bottom.
I thought my heart was going to explode. I could feel the million tons of rock above me bearing down.
Never again. I don't even particularly like large crowds of people anymore, it seems to have triggered it off badly.

The Pyramids are super cool, but I have NO desire to go inside the deep complex tombs.

Universal Studios, the Star Wars part of the tour.

Gamera for some reason.

Children of the Corn.


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When I was a kid, my brother and I fought over the bottom bunk.

I won, but that night he told me a story.

Dwarf people come at night to plant eggs in people's stomachs. They
are afraid of heights, and when the eggs hatch spiders grow and
crawl up your throat and out your mouth.

After I hid in the closet, he told me a story about what happened
to people who fall asleep in closets.

KingCracker wrote:

Wow that's kinda crazy...... yet the dream you're describing does make it seem creepy in a Hitchcock kind of way.

I get the intense, illogical sensation I'm being watched by it. Like when you're staring into space and realise you're actually looking at someone and they're mad. But times, I dunno, an irrational amount.
I'm not a werewolf, or trying to be funny...

Pete Melvin wrote:As a kid I used to think the Chinese were watching me. This is cold war era so I guess it was because of that? I was a weird kid.

Genuinely more common than you'd imagine. I have a dear friend who was growing up around the same time, who as a child tried to jump out of a moving car, because he was terrified the Chinese driver was somehow evil. I'm glad he failed, but such was the demonisation of the country at the time, especially in the mind of children!

I was over it for decades until me and the better half went to Egypt on holiday and we went inside one of the pyramids. When we got to the bottom of the first chamber I just froze. I could NOT go any further. My wife turned round and said I was flat against the wall white as a sheet.
There is this small, steep and loooooong entrance and people can only go up OR down,not both at the same time so I had to wait while a lot of overweight tourists shambled down this passageway which was barely being controlled by two locals at the top and bottom.
I thought my heart was going to explode. I could feel the million tons of rock above me bearing down.
Never again. I don't even particularly like large crowds of people anymore, it seems to have triggered it off badly.

That's not dumb or anything to feel bad about. It's absolutely understandable. I hope you can still enjoy conventions.

I can sympathise - I wasn't claustrophobic until one day I was trapped in an elevator between floors in an unfinished apartment building. The intercom was not yet fitted, and of course my cellphone was effectively shut down by being in a big metal box. The fear was escalated by having absolutely no idea how long I'd be stuck in there- it was 7am on a Sunday. As it turned out, the Machine Spirit was with me that day, or rather a very dutiful security guard in the CCTV office had seen me enter the elevator on one floor, and not come out.
Ever since I've had scattered, acute episodes, often in very embarrassing situations. Imagine trying to explain to a spookhouse Leatherface with a revving petrol chainsaw that he is not frightening you, you're having a panic episode due to the width of his crudely built corridor, and would like to use an emergency exit. I can laugh now, but I'll be honest, I cried at the time and nearly passed out.

Conventions and the like are fine, as long as there is somewhere with space I can break out to if the crowds get too bad. Its shops I generally cant stand. Theyre already usually rammed full of shelves so when they're busy with people as well I often feel very uncomfortable.

 jreilly89 wrote:


The Pyramids are super cool, but I have NO desire to go inside the deep complex tombs.

I honestly wish I hadn't, I still get the sweats just thinking about it. They were letting too many damn people in there as well, it was muggy and the atmosphere was thick.

I just remembered a childhood fear.
Men who did not have beards.

My father was part of a group of folk musicians, going to school and seeing less hairy men was a bit of a culture shock for me.

"If your dad doesn't have a beard... you've got two mums! " Clearly you've been raised correctly.

Peacocks. My school's got 3 of them, and they are scary. Just... I scream when i see them.

When I was a kid (really young, I don't remember this it's just what my parents told me) I loved Thomas the Tank Engine, but there's one scene in an episode where one of the trains got covered in tar or something. Apparently, every time that scene came on I'd hide behind the sofa!

I am really frightened of falling. Yet I do parkour and a run up walls, but its harder to get down for me.

Scariest thought in the world: You need a license to drive a car, but any dumbass can have and raise a kid.

There was a mouse on the floor in my house when I was about 11 or 12, and for some reason I assumed it was a toy for my brother (although he was 8, and didn't play with toys like that) so I went to pick it up, and it moved. I was scared of mice for a while.


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 Matthew wrote:
Peacocks. My school's got 3 of them, and they are scary. Just... I scream when i see them.

I got chased by one before so I concur, they are pretty scary. Although it feels silly to be scared by a sparkly pretty bird!

 Pete Melvin wrote:
As a kid I used to think the Chinese were watching me.

lol totally reminds me of this: http://southpark.cc.com/clips/187263/olympic-nightmare#

Not scared but I get very anxious in cities, and like malls.

I live out in the middle of nowhere. No cable, no pizza delivery, no streetlights etc.

People ask my family and I if we're scared living out there alone. I tell them no. We know our land better than anyone, day or night. If anyone or anything comes and goes, we will know first, miles out.

And I get along really well with animals, ....and bugs too....

But cities.... I have no idea who's who. And there's too much to watch. While I still spend a lot of time in cities to do business, it still gives me a lot of anxiety.

But I guess it's opposite for most people. It's like the reverse Blair Witch.

I think it depends on the person. In more of a leave me alone type as well and also get a bit on edge in crowds. I'd rather be relaxing in the woods or near a fire.

 Matthew wrote:
Peacocks. My school's got 3 of them, and they are scary. Just... I scream when i see them.

The peacock is the symbol of the angel Tawsi Melek, worshipped by the Yazidi sect in Mesopotamia and believed by some to be an incarnation of Satan.

See, being afraid of peacocks is not that dumb after all.

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

 Matthew wrote:
Peacocks. My school's got 3 of them, and they are scary. Just... I scream when i see them.

The peacock is the symbol of the angel Tawsi Melek, worshipped by the Yazidi sect in Mesopotamia and believed by some to be an incarnation of Satan.

See, being afraid of peacocks is not that dumb after all.

Well if he didn't have a reason before, he certainly does now