When you were little, you were afraid of:

[GreenPartyVoter]

The T-Rex that stood outside my window, waiting for me to get out of bed so he could eat me.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. I was also afraid of Marc Bolan.

:scared:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. *lol*

[Zuni]

56. He still scares me, even though he is dead

[CottonBear]

3. the monstors under the bed

and when the wicked witch got melted and the evil flying monkeys.

:scared:

[MercutioATC]

13. Speaking of flying monkeys...

I just bought this shirt for my ex-wife:

http://www.northernsun.com/cgi-bin/ns/8007.html


I thought it was hysterical.

[CottonBear]

21. Aieeee! How nice of you to buy that for the ex missus!

:sarcasm: :scared:

[MercutioATC]

28. It's cool. We get along pretty well now.

We can be friends. Apparently, we just can't be married.

I'm betting she likes it.

[CottonBear]

40. Hey, that's great!

Good for both of you! :)

[MercutioATC]

4. Clowns and dark basements.

...I still am :)

[Debi]

11. Pennywise from Stephan King's IT....ohhh scary!

[MercutioATC]

25. I thought the book was much scarier than the movie, but I agree.

Pennywise sounded like a homeless drunk in the TV-movie. He was much scarier in my mind.

[Debi]

45. When I saw him in the movie all I could think about was

Rocky Horror. Tim Currey will never live that part down.

[texas1928]

67. Blood Red?

:shrug:

[Lavender Brown]

5. Ghosts

I thought that my house (which was built in 1972 and never lived in by anyone but my family) was haunted.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Musta been built on a burial ground, then.

[Debi]

6. Gorilla in my closet...

My dad would send me to bed, turn off all the lights and tell me if I tried to get out of bed the gorilla in the closet would get me. (I told him I'd never forgive him for that one :P)

I'm pretty sure that's why I'm afraid of Bigfoot now. :scared:

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. YES! I had a gorilla thing too.

[Debi]

14. Are we related?

:hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Must be. :^)

[texas1928]

69. What you do not love me anymore?

:cry:

[texas1928]

68. That was just the gorilla suit they hung in there to scare you.

Like my parents used the floating head of death.

[Bzzzz]

8. Those damn...

toilet seats that would drop about 2 inches when you sat down and then flush when you got up. My whole 1st grade year I would hold myself until I got home, because I was afraid it was going to bite me. Not to mention the restrooms were in the basement of the old school I attended and they looked like you were entering dungeon!!:silly:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. The dark.

Actually, this one never went away.
And for some reason, my parents thought it would be cool to let a 5 year old to sleep in a bedroom which happened to be the room that has the most windows in the house. I used to sleep with the covers up to my chin because I was afraid someone was going to see me. I sweat a lot. Oh, and they had sheer curtains on the windows, but there was 6 inches in the middle with NOTHING. I still shiver just thinking about it.

Duckie

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. I still use a nightlight. And feel no shame.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Thunderstorms.

[Debi]

19. My son is afraid of thunder

He wears his earmuffs when there's a storm.

[Midlodemocrat]

30. My son goes into the windowless downstairs bathroom in a storm.

He is absolutely terrified. Despite having gone through a hurricane, several tornadoes and an earthquake.

[mark11727]

37. Lightning never really bothered me...

...until I saw a neighbor's house get hit. Whoa.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. These worry me slightly, but tornadoes and earthquakes featured in my

nightmares quite often.

[Duncan Grant]

31. oops! wrong place to respond...

:hi:

[Southsideirish]

15. FIre trucks. Whenever I heard one I had to run back home to be sure my

house wasn't on fire.

[liberalitch]

16. I grew up where I live now, norfolk, va..... so

I was afraid of nuclear holocaust.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Yeah. We watched "The Day After" in fifth grade. Yikes!

[liberalitch]

35. By the time that was made I was 18 and living in LA, but...

It was still terrifying because we had a warmonger in the whitehouse then too.

[blm]

18. Werewolves and Nazis.

I watched Curse of the Werewolf and Diary of Ann Frank at a very young age.

I took them both quite seriously.

[Jessica]

22. Aliens ...

The ones with the upside-down triangle heads & big, black eyes. Saw them on Unsolved Mysteries when I was a kid & then slept with the covers wrapped around my head (with just my nose & mouth uncovered) for about a year. :scared:

[ashmanonar]

36. that sort of alien has always fucked with my head.

i can watch Alien, or Aliens, or any of that series: and i don't feel scared. i can watch any of the predator movies, and i'm not freaked out.

i'm a confirmed geek when it comes to scifi and aliens: but i don't like greys. they freak me out.

[XNASA]

23. Dogs.

I was afraid of dogs until I was around 7 years old. Good thing we didn't have any.

[cmf]

26. Everything!

I was a scaredy cat. But I was mainly afraid of ghosts, and I would do all sorts of OCD things to make sure the ghosts wouldn't come. I also was really afraid of nuclear war.

[edbermac]

29. Flying Saucers!

[Duncan Grant]

32. Did you ever see "Jason and the Argonauts" when you were a little kid?

After I watched this movie, I thought "the skeletons" could come after me - :scared: :D

[redqueen]

33. Pretty much everything.

[sniffa]

34. charLes manson - he was under my bed

i never shouLd have watched 'heLter skeLter' as a kid.

[luvLLB]

38. Old Ely. If you were out after dark, he'd get ya'.

[woofless]

39. Grandpa had a cabin on Beaver Lake in Derry, NH.

Water was supplied for washing, toilet flushing, etc. directly from the lake. The motor and pump were in the bathroom next to the stool. Every time you flushed the damn thing came on to fill up the tank. Scared the hell out of me. I refused to poop in there. Only time in my life I was ever bound up. Perfectly harmless thing that absolutely terrified me.

Woof

[Misunderestimator]

65. Sounds like a Steven King novel...

what with Derry and all... So many bad things happened there. :)

[Terran]

41. Moths

Not, like, during the day, but at night in my room, when one would get in and swoop continually around the light that was left on for me. That scared me. Go figure, I was a strange kid.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. Bare trees

After the rest of my family was in a car wreck when I was eight, I stayed at my grandparents' for several months. They were quite strict and made me go to bed at 7:00, long before I was sleepy. I used to lay awake and watch the bare trees outside the window and get totally creeped out, especially if the moon was shining and they made shadows on the wall. I also used to have nightmares of opening the refrigerator and finding my dead mother's body inside. It wasn't a good time for me.

[Bullwinkle925]

43. Count Dracula.

I would always go to sleep on my 'left' side - so that he wouldn't bite me. If you don't understand - go watch the movies.
All right - I was young, after all!

[Nikia]

50. I was afraid of vampires too

I slept with the covers around my neck or even over my head so the vampires wouldn't be tempted by the sight of my bare neck.

[sinkingfeeling]

44. Buster Brown's dog (on TV in the 50's) and snakes (still afraid of those).

[SOteric]

46. a) My older brothers shorts

(He used to break wind, then whip off his shorts and chase us 'round the house with them.) and b) Santa Claus (seriously, the dude is peeping and tomming on you all year round just to see if you mess up).

[InvisibleTouch]

47. Skulls. And nuclear war.

In the prosperous 90's I thought I didn't have to be afraid of nuclear war anymore. Guess I was wrong.

[GreenPartyVoter]

48. Yeah. Nuclear war has gone back up several notches for me too

[SamanthaJones]

49. I was scared of smurfs

a friend of mine told me some bizarre story about smurfs being evil (which I don't remember now) and she freaked the hell out of. I had to get rid of a huge Papa Smurf doll I kept in my room.

[deadparrot]

51. The ClayMation orange on Sesame Street.

Its face kept flying off to show different emotions. That was traumatizing.

I would scream and cry at the top of my lungs whenever it came on, and refuse to set foot in the TV room for hours.

[ikojo]

52. Thunderstorms and tornadoes

If there was a severe storm watch or worse a warning, I'd stay up until the end of the storm watch.

[SarahB]

53. The little gnome guy on the Calgon dishwasher detergent commercials.

:scared:

[MissB]

54. Vampires

I still sleep with the covers pulled up around my neck - out of habit now, not out of fear.

[Goathead]

55. This scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

Read this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3000510

[ghostsofgiants]

57. Grass (seriously)

Haha, I don't know why, but when I was little, I was terrified of grass.

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. Hmmm.. My youngest didn't like to be on grass when he was a baby, but I

don't think he was scared of it so much as pissed off that it was scratchy.

[Zuni]

58. demonic possesion

scared me to think about it.

[chickenscratching]

60. spiders and the typical monsters under my bed

that would swipe at you when you went to the bathroom, (unless you could perform a flying leap for the door)

[Aiptasia]

61. Tornadoes, bad storms

When I was two, a tornado chewed up a neighborhood about two streets (city blocks) away from mine. I can remember riding out the storm with my parents in our Virginia basement, having to listen to it as it roared by. Two people died.

Since then, i've had a mad obsession with tornado documentaries on the weather channel and the like, but i'm scared to death of them. I still get wiggy in bad storms. I still have nightmares about tornadoes to this day.

[Solly Mack]

62. I had night terrors as a child

I was afraid of what sleep would bring...

[Patiod]

64. I got those as a young adult

very "Nightmare on Elm Street" - went through a period where I'd read until 3-4 in the morning to avoid falling asleep (not a good way to keep your 9-5 job). Occasionally woke up screaming or wandered into the living room and stared at my roommate without speaking (neither of which is a good way to keep roommates, either)

Thank God I outgrew it.

I did a lot of research at the time, and part of the syndrome is that things in your body which should be paralyzed/shut down during sleep are still active. Therefore, you're experiencing your dreams/hallucinations on a different level then those who are properly paralyzed by sleep. You probably sleep-walked, too, Solly Mack.

I firmly believe that this is the root of a lot of folks' "alien abduction" and "ghost" beliefs - I remember clearly "seeing" people in my room - but when I turned on the light, they were gone.

[Solly Mack]

66. I sleep "ran"...not walked

I was so terrified at what was "coming to get me" that I would run for safety.

I only did it twice though.

Once I just knew if I could get to the berm at the back of the property, I would be safe....nevermind the berm was snake infested. I ran out of my room, through the hall, and down to the kitchen to hit the side door in a bee-line for the berm. I woke up only after my brother grabbed me heading out of the kitchen...

The time before that I ran from my room to my sister's room, seeking safety.

the night terrors totally exhausted me and I slept beautifully once an episode was over..can't say the same for my family though. They usually needed to calm down before going back to bed.

Sometimes I thrashed around on the bed and without fail I screamed. I was damn near 20 before they stopped.

[bridgit]

63. omg that's freaky...

i had a dream about a t-rex & lucille ball turning into a witch and chasing me on my tricycle that wouldn't peddle cause the sand was too deep straight off a cliff and into a gorge that had no bottom.

thanks alot...now i need a drink...

:beer:

[Seabiscuit]

70. Bucky Beaver and Tony the Tiger

[UrbScotty]

71. Thunderstorms and helicopters.

I guess it's easier to understand a fear of thunderstorms than a fear of helicopters.

[pres2032]

72. the evil puppets under my bed

seriously. my dad had the one puppet master on where the puppets hide under a bed and kill the couple on it. freaked me out and i wouldn't go near the bottom of my bed for a long time. I would jump onto my bed from a distance away.

[sakabatou]

73. Heights, the dark, the giant horse shoe crab...

[Akoto]

74. Aliens.

I recall watching a show on television about aliens. For a while, it was hard not to imagine that they were outside my window. :p

[El Fuego]

75. Spiders spiders spiders.

I liked T-rexes. As a kid, I always hoped I'd find one.

[RevolutionaryActs]

76. Every damn thing.

Mostly the dark.... and the evil monsters under my bed, of course.

Oh also when I was really little I didn't have an actual room, more like an alcove area(mostly I slept in my parents room anyway) and we had, not an attic, but a storage area above the bedrooms that was open and I knew a vampire lived up there and he was going to come down and suck my blood while I was sleeping. :P

[borlis]

77. The Garbage Truck and Garbage Man

When I would hear them down the street, I would close the drapes and shut and lock the doors.

[Bouncy Ball]

78. My mother, my stepfather,

life, the world, everything.

Horribly fearful child.

When I was a teenager, add the menace of nuclear obliteration from the USSR.

:eyes:

[BeatleBoot]

79. Sharks and Satan

"Jaws" and "The Exorcist"

That should date me nicely.


:crazy:

[Gyre]

80. Me too!!!!!

Also that mummy that walked around in the hallway outside my bedroom. But the T-rex was way scarier!

Gyre