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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.