Things which freaked you out as a kid

by **Four-sided Triangles** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:46 am

Ovisterra wrote:Oh, I forgot to mention huge pieces of moving cloth.

by **Ovisterra** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:51 am

Four-sided Triangles wrote:
Ovisterra wrote:Oh, I forgot to mention huge pieces of moving cloth.

No, not those. At age 5 I had never run into the KKK. My first encounter with them was in 'Nam in '86.

by **Bottle** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:54 am

According to my parents, I was terrified of the vacuum cleaner, and would dissolve into helpless sobbing if either of them even opened the door to the closet where it was kept. They solved this by convincing me that the vacuum was actually a dinosaur and it was just roaring because it was being a dinosaur. For some reason, I found that comforting, and stopped being scared.

by **Ovisterra** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:56 am

Bottle wrote:According to my parents, I was terrified of the vacuum cleaner, and would dissolve into helpless sobbing if either of them even opened the door to the closet where it was kept. They solved this by convincing me that the vacuum was actually a dinosaur and it was just roaring because it was being a dinosaur. For some reason, I found that comforting, and stopped being scared.

Personally I'd find your average dino much scarier than a hoover.

One of my siblings used to be entertained for hours at age 2 or so by being placed in front of the washing machine and allowed to watch it spin.

by **Beringovia** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:18 am

Snakes. Actually they still freek me out. Also decayed or decomposing human bodies. Actually they still really freak me out as well.

by **Miasto Lodz** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:43 pm

People in uniforms. No matter if they were boy scouts or police officers.

by **Farnhamia** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:04 pm

Miasto Lodz wrote:People in uniforms. No matter if they were boy scouts or police officers.

by **Ende** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:06 pm

Miasto Lodz wrote:People in uniforms. No matter if they were boy scouts or police officers.

You should come to my school. You'd love it there. </sarcasm>

by **Mavorpen** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:07 pm

'Nuff said.

by **Hittanryan** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:21 am

WHAT'S YOUR OFFER?!

Am I really the only one who doesn't find King Ramses scary in the slightest? Hell, Freaky Fred was creepy, but not brick-shittingly terrifying. Everyone in Courage the Cowardly Dog just comes back next episode anyway.

by **Achstadt** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:30 am

Hittanryan wrote:WHAT'S YOUR OFFER?!

Am I really the only one who doesn't find King Ramses scary in the slightest? Hell, Freaky Fred was creepy, but not brick-shittingly terrifying. Everyone in Courage the Cowardly Dog just comes back next episode anyway.

I thought King Ramses was "cool." But that ghastly giant floating white head completely terrified me.

by **Banaruma** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:21 am

Oh yea i forgot Judge Doom from who framed rojer rabbit. nuff said :shock:

by **Galla-** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:29 am

The lava monster from Star Trek: TOS:

Mavorpen wrote:(Image)
'Nuff said.

The vacuum cleaner episode was worse imo. >:

by **Mavorpen** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:02 am

Galla- wrote:
The vacuum cleaner episode was worse imo. >:

Mainly because of the music, the music fit amazingly well to increase the creepiness factor.

by **Libete** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:14 pm

AETEN II wrote:
Libete wrote: Me too. My brothers loved it though so it was an ongoing thing.

Ouch.
See, after I sneakily woke up and caught it at six when I was ironically six, I quickly started to like the fact that my parents attempted to censor me.

Yeah. My mom didn't know my brothers watched it. In fact, they got in a lot of trouble the one time they were caught, but being boys, they continued to watch it when she wasn't home. I had learned long before that to not tell on them and to just suck it up... But that didn't help me at night when I tried to go to bed. I felt like Courage. :oops:

by **Giovenith** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:58 pm

Mavorpen wrote:(Image)
'Nuff said.

THIS.

by **Azrael** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:11 pm

Mavorpen wrote:(Image)
'Nuff said.

by **Auburn-Newcastle** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:10 am

I remmember the boat ride in Charlie and the Chocolate factory scared me (it still does), so did heights (never got over that) and some stuff in Courage the Cowardly Dog.
EDIT: and a ghost in scooby doo it was the one that looked like a white sheet with black eyes and no mouth, It still sends a shiver down my spine

by **Pottslande** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:21 pm

God from Time Bandits, at least, when he first showed up as an angry disembodied head.

by **Sociobiology** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:34 pm

the movie "the fly" (the one with Vincent Price)the scene with the fly crying "help me", woo still a little shiver.

by **Mosasauria** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:37 pm

Yelling. Thanks to my parents, I was and am still frightened by intense yelling.
Also, I was heavily afraid of fungi. And I was(and still am) afraid of things(or people/creatures) touching me when I do not want them to.

by **Viritica** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:11 pm

There's also this from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

I'm still afraid to watch that episode again. Courage must have balls of steel.

by **Jagalonia** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:41 pm

The Cummunist State wrote:I've had many phobias, and have a large interest in them. The most prevalent phobia I have is Kenophobia, the fear of wide open spaces, and Thalassophobia, the fear of the ocean.

I think you mean Agoraphobia.....>.>

by **Mosasauria** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:43 pm

Viritica wrote:There's also this from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

(Image)

I'm still afraid to watch that episode again. Courage must have balls of steel.

What episode was that in?! :shock:

I remember the one with King Ghidorah, but not that.

by **Bafuria** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:46 pm

I was scared of escalators when I was a kid.

Stairs that move? Deathtraps!

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