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FrozenWasteland · 61-69, M
Big leaves. Kids would wear rhubarb leaves on their heads and it completely freaked me out.

Kinda still does. If I was stuck in a jungle, the snakes would be the least of my worries. I'm a conifer-type guy.

Thodsis · 51-55, M
Seeing Jimmy Savile on the TV.

A kindly but eccentric man who raised lots of money for charity was clearly not someone to be afraid of...
@Thodsis Wasn't he later accused of being a pedophile?
@Thodsis Stranger Danger
SpectralMourning · 41-45, M
I was very nervous around dogs as a kid, simply because my parents never had dogs around. I'd be a bit on edge even around the cutest tiny puppies.
TheRealBarbossa · 36-40, T
I was once convinced I was a robot for a few hours as a kid.


I was about 6 years old, nd playing outside in the snow with my friends. After sitting in the snow for a while I got up, and saw what looked like oil leakage in the snow where I had sat.

After checking if anyone else had that same marking in the snow, and checking my clothes for anything that could make such markings, I came to the only logical conclusion: I was in fact a robot who up until that point thought it was a regular human child.
exexec · 70-79, C
Tornadoes. I was in two tornados as a child, and for a few years I hid in the closet whenever there was a bad thunderstorm.
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exexec · 70-79, C
@NativePortlander1970 I lived in Georgia and we had no warning sirens or anything. Our tornadoes were usually small ones with little damage, but I didn't know that when I was a kid.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Many things. Dreams of ghosts even.

You can only comfort in such cases during childhood. Hard to explain such dreams rationally to a child under certain ages.

The concepts are just not there in the child.
WanderlustCat · 36-40, M
Stayed up late with dad after i lost a tooth and watched an Unsolved Mysteries episode about alien abduction. That had me scared at night for years.
Sidewinder · 36-40, M
@WanderlustCat I remember Unsolved Mysteries.

Back in the 90's, I used to watch it and Rescue 911 back-to-back.
tobynshorty · 51-55, F
My grandmother had a coat with a real fur collar and and she would hang it on the back of my bedroom door and i would watch it until I fell asleep. I thought it would get me.
YoMomma ·
Probably my dad finding us at the movies.. i was scared.. my mom took me to the movies but we weren't allowed to watch tv and i was scared my dad would find us.. so i cried.. he was out of town tho so..

The other silly thing was my brother told me if people kissed they would have a baby so i got scared i was going to be pregnant because i ate a donut that they said had some other guy’s germs on it.. no wonder i was such an extreme germaphobe as a kid
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Pictures of things like trees with faces on them. After seeing a children’s book with the story situated in a cedar forest. The story had the wind blowing and twisting the trees around and they started dancing. Every one of them had faces. It weirded me out a lot.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
Hot lunch.

At first, I insisted on bringing a sandwich from home, because I thought "hot lunch" at school consisted of something like burning coals!
Horok · 31-35, M
Read about sun's life span and got scared about what would happen to me after it disappears 5 billion years later.
@cherokeepatti Then there is the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming, that if it blows, most of the upper North America will disintegrate.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativePortlander1970 yeah. And what about the Canary Islands. One of the islands has a volcano that they say could cause such a horrible tsunami if the dome collapses in the ocean. It could take out most of the East Coast of the USA, the island countries and Morocco, Spain, Portugal etc.
@cherokeepatti I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, smack dab in the ring of fire, Mt. Hood, Mount St. Helens, Mount Ranier, Mt Adams, Mount Tabor sits smack dab in the middle of the Portland city limits.
Fluffy white teddy bears. Up until I was 26 actually (don't give me that look!😠)
lissah · 36-40, F
@lissah I always found comfort in the dark
supersnipe · 61-69, M
Th coathook on the landing wall at the nursery school I attended when I was four years old. I was reluctant to go to the toilet upstairs because of this thing. It was kind of big and menacing and I had to walk past it to get to the toilet.
Pretzel · 70-79, M
There was this announcement they used to make back in the late 60s at 10:00 p.m. on TV

"It's 10 o'clock - do you know where your children are?"

Don't know what it freaked me out but it did
Kiesel · 56-60, M
Being alone
Reject · 31-35, M
The walls of my old home were made of wood, and I got scared because I looked at all the knots and patterns in them and I could see faces.
Pretzel · 70-79, M
there was the pair of fisherman overalls - like they use for fly fishing - sort of like rubberized overalls - used to freak me out.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Pretzel those type of overalls look like they could stand up by itself and start walking.
Pretzel · 70-79, M
@cherokeepatti THAT'S what I kept watching for!!! :)
FemSteps · 26-30, M
Loud noise. It’s inexplicable but loud noise frightened me.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Ferric67 Your mother has quite the imagination…what a character.
HumanEarth · F
The Dentist

I still have that fear today
Fertilization · 36-40, F
Ocean waves
Belly button lint.
Ferric67 · M
@MsSwan I, so have you beat
The Dark.

I find comfort in it now 🖤 💤
chuck7882 · 61-69, M
I was convinced there were ghosts living in our attic
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
I was afraid the ceiling light would fall down on me.
The typical...spooky shows ( Robert Stack & the Unsolved Mysteries theme music); bumps in the night, etc.
DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F
The bath tub drain
DDonde · 31-35, M
Flashing digital clocks.
MellyMel22 · F
Not waking up from a dream if I died in it.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Stuff and characters from TV shows like X-files or Fantaghirò. 😆
PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F
I would say clowns but that’s warranted. So, dolls.
My Grandma Yetta. Her pendulous breasts could take out a small city.
Adrift · 61-69, F
Something creepy under the bed that will reach out and grab your ankle at night.
JackDaniels · 46-50, M
People with pumpkin heads
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Quicksand.

 
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