Thing's that Scare you when you was a child

[sexybicplinwv]

I went for my Morning walk. This Morning and a rain Dove was calling for rain I guest. But when I was a child that sound would Scare the life out of me. And I could not keep from laughing at myself about this.It funny the thing's that scare you have our a child.. :) :female:

[biwords]

There was an old Popeye cartoon (dating from the 30's I'm sure) in which Popeye's heart slowed and stopped while some long-bearded doctors stood over him making tsk-tsk sounds. Then his heart started up again, then slowed again...I think this was the first moment I became really aware of death (I was about 4 at the time) and it scared me silly...does anyone else remember, or can anyone else identify, this cartoon?

[deletetacount123]

Nothing really scared me.....

I saw Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday 13th when I was only 8 years old and didn't have nightmares.

However, clowns do scare me and to this day I still hate them. :)

Large dogs also do but theres a reason behind that.
As kids, I lived in this nice neighnourhood with other kids on the block and there was a house where 2 older people lived in with this wild UNLEASHED dog. No fence. It stayed on the porch but when you try to walk pass the house (you're on the sidewalk!!)
It would run to you barking wildly and acting as if its gonna attack you and bite you.

Owners never did anything about the dog... even after so many complants from the children's parents to put a leash on the dog or fence the yard.

I was just talking to a childhood friend about that dog, shes too hates large dogs cause of him.

Tasha

[DiamondDog]

I've never heard a rain dove's call.
I do like how morning doves sound though. :)
Even if one of my friends once told me that it's just a dirty pigeon and not a dove. LOL :P

[Fire Lotus]

However, clowns do scare me and to this day I still hate them. :)
Tasha

Clowns should be banished from this earth!!

They don't necessarily scare me, but they do give me the creeps!

[Herbwoman39]

When I was really little (5 or 6) I didn't like going down slides because every time I did I came off so fast I scraped my back. Well my mother thought that I should be like other kids and, one day, in front of a bunch of other people, forced me to go down one. Because of that, I developed a phobia of slides and down escalators. Yes, only the down ones.

I eventually overcame the escalator thing, but to this day I will NOT go down a slide...even a water slide.

[raistkit]

balloons, and i have no idea why. to this day they repulse me. the sight and smell of them literally make me want to toss my cookies. i also agree with the clown haters they creep me out as well. must be some bad birthday party incident buried in my subconcious. :eek:

kit

[Tygress75]

Tornadoes... especially when you're in a car with your family and one comes out of nowhere and starts to lift up the front of your car. :eek: Thank goodness it travelled in an opposite direction and we were left unharmed. I still am afraid of them to this day.

[darkeyes]

Me Grans next door neighbours parrot. It was an orrible green thing an jus seemed 2 hate me..had more pecks outa that bloody bird than ne person me eva went out wiv. Had nitemares bout it for days fore we went up ther the whole time we wer ther an for weeks afta. Now as ne 1 will tellya me hates 2 c ne animal treated cruelly or hurt an hav always been same..but wen that parrot wos attacked an scoffed by the owners cat....for bout only time in me life wept tears of joy an jumped up an down wiv glee bout the demise of that Damn bird!

[biwords]

balloons, and i have no idea why. to this day they repulse me. the sight and smell of them literally make me want to toss my cookies. i also agree with the clown haters they creep me out as well. must be some bad birthday party incident buried in my subconcious. :eek: kit

My older brother (who happens to be schizophrenic) has had a lifelong balloon phobia. The theory is that he had surgery as a child and that a balloon-like apparatus was used by the anaesthetist (this would have been around 1954).

[tinkslite]

The vaccuum cleaner, which I thought was alive. My sadist adoptive father, who was often abusive, figured this out and actually thought it funny to chase 4 year old me around the house with the damned machine. He told me it would eat me. I was absolutely petrified anytime someone would vaccumm.
Some people shouldn't be allowed anywhere near kids.

[TaylorMade]

Always been scared of the dark. Still am.

*Taylor*

[darkeyes]

...scared of lil ole me Taylor...surely not...but me is luffly.... :tong:

[bigbadmax]

the only thing that scares me now is.................

pull em up...this is a police raid

:eek:

[sexybicplinwv]

Thank You... To everyone that posted thing about this.. :) :female:

[Azrael]

Spiders, and for damn good reasons. My first week installing A/Cs a brown recluse bit me on the knee, putting me in the hospital twice.

[12voltman59]

I think what really scared me as a kid-I forgot the exact date-but it was this one particular day in April 1974 when there was the biggest outbreak of tornados in history---I lived very near Xenia, Ohio and the town got almost wiped off the map thanks to one of the biggest tornados every recorded

I still am afraid/fascinated by big storms to this day

[creach]

this is such a cliche but when i was a kid i was terrified of dalicks (from Dr Who) especially the boss one - behind cushions to watch it!

I was scared of bugs too used to think there was me size ones in my bed behind me but if i got the courage to flip over it would still be behind me jus on the other side! Child logic - go figure!!!

I'm still scared of the cupboard monster tho i can't go to bed leaving a door or draw open even a crack and i'm 33!!

Creach x x x
:tong:

[Vuarra]

When I was 4, Jaws had come out, and some moron had put poster in a store of the shark coming out of a toilet.

I'm surprised I didn't kill myself holding in a week's worth of shit, but them's the consequences.

I still flush before I sit down, just in case :yikes2:

[onewhocares]

I remember as a child, say eight or ten, there was a television show in American called Dark Shadows. I would go to my Grandmothers afterschool and it would be on. The characters were so scary. Even now, just thinking about it makes me cringe.

Belle

[gb11vt18]

As a child I hated the Vaccum Cleaner I still hate that sound to this day. Me and the dog still run away when that starts up.

[chook]

I hated not being able to feel something under my feet when I used to go swimming I was always petrified about something coming up from the deep and getting me.....But later on in life I took up scuba diving and low and behold diving to deapths of over 100 ft and more didnt bother me my biggest thrill was in Vanuatu whe I was diving in about 130ft of water and was told that the bottom was still over 1500ft or more away I felt like a prawn just dangling there and nothing but brilliant blue water all around me....and yes I have dived amongst sharks too ;)


Cheers Chook :bigrin:

[bearisbare]

Any kind of dog scared me, except for dachshunds, until I was 17. It took my younger brother's wish to have a dog that changed it for me. The family got a toy poodle named Pepper. It turned out to be the parents and big brother who took care of it.

[deletetacount123]

Spiders, and for damn good reasons. My first week installing A/Cs a brown recluse bit me on the knee, putting me in the hospital twice.

I like spiders.... but they usually end up dead when spotted by me. lol
The only times I let a spider go is if they are by the door.

In BC there are A LOT of Black Widow Spiders....
I almost backed into one that was on the wall in the garage. :( lol It was cool tho... never seen a Black Widow up close lol My neigbour got rid of it for me tho. :) (he saw I was looking at the wall and wanted to see what it was so he came into the garage.)

My sister is scared of spiders... show her one she'll scream like they do in horror films "EWWWWWWWWWW AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KILL IT!!! EWWWWW"
(she doesn't always tho... there have been times she'll just pick the closest object and smash it leaving a mess)

But ya, we're spider murders :( I let them go if they are by the door... but inside the house, my reason is "well, if it didn't want to get killed, it should have stayed outside!!" hehe

[deletetacount123]

As a child I hated the Vaccum Cleaner I still hate that sound to this day. Me and the dog still run away when that starts up.

lol Im the oppsite... as a child I thought the Vaccum Cleaner was the greatest toy!! I loved watching things get sucked up! lol
My mom used to get mad at me cause I would be trying to use it on objects that would get stuck such as a ball or some other toys that were around.

When I got older, she threatened me if I kept playing with the vaccum cleaner, that was gonna be my chore... vaccum the WHOLE house... and we lived in a big house so ya.... I learned to stop playing with it quickly lol I DIDN'T want that chore lol

[Skater Boy]

I like spiders.... but they usually end up dead when spotted by me. lol
The only times I let a spider go is if they are by the door.


But ya, we're spider murders :( I let them go if they are by the door... but inside the house, my reason is "well, if it didn't want to get killed, it should have stayed outside!!" hehe

I have a cat that does that for me. If I see a spider in the house, I just show it to my cat and she toys with it for a while then eats it. Makes loud "crunching" noises as she chews them. Its not a nice way to go for the Spider, but I guess its just nature taking its course...

I would NEVER kill a spider myself, unless I had to.

When I was young, I used to have an irrational fear of MOTHS. I'm kinda over it, but I still don't like them. Not keen on Mosquitos either.

[deletetacount123]

I HATE Mosquitos !!!!!!!!! Seriously, Im always the one to get bitten the most.. even if I have that anti-Mosquitos stuff on me.

My sister used to tease me I just have good tasting blood and thats why Mosquitos perfer to bite me. *sighs* bad evil things lol

[Skater Boy]

Oh yeah, those Cranefly thingies with HUGE skinny legs... we used to call 'em "Daddy Long Legs"... they're perfectly harmless, but EVERYONE hated those.

Cockroaches were another one, but fortunately the're not so common where I live.

[darkeyes]

Me mums dad wos born Cumbria.. up ther they hav a thing called 'girnin' an its specially 'orrible if ya hav no teeth.. old guys wiv lotsa wrinkles do it best...girnin up ere means 2 whine whinge or cry but ther it means to screw ya face up an make the most ghastly moosh ya can... an me grandad wos the ugliest most frightenin an 'orrible girner me eva saw! An by far an way the scariest! His girnin (face pullin) used 2 make me girn (blub an whine) for hours outa fear wen me wos 3 or 4! Me grandad used ta girn (whinge an whine) 2 afta me gran clattered im for scarin the knickers off me!

[Mrs.F]

I have since a small kid going to the county fair HATED the ferris wheel. For some reason that UP and DOWN and being able to ROCK it freaks the hell out of me. However, there was also a ride called the umbrella's. Those went up down but at a different angle. I loved that ride!!!

I also was and still am freaked out swimming in a lake. As chook mentioned...if I can't feel anything under my feet and can't see through the water...I am NOT getting in. Plus I was bitten by a fish twice in the leg and that hurt like a son of a B****! :mad: It was probably the same fish both times. Screw the lake, I'm going to the pool!

My last fear which also will never go away is Turanchala's. I watched a movie as a kid called Turanchala and the spiders were everywhere and biting people and they were all dying and being spun into webs. It was just nasty. I skip the bug section at all Zoo's........ :eek:

[sammie19]

The rattle of the windows and creaks from the loft at home during a storm.

[chuck1124]

Tasha and I must have lived in the same neighborhood. I, too, had a neighborhood dog that terrified me, for the same reason. Even as you walked passed the house and the dog was way up on the porch, he would bolt toward me and bark and snap. Funny thing is, when a dog owner sees their dog barking and snapping at someone, they never seem to think to come out and get the dog, they always stand by the door and yell at the dog. Sometimes the dog pays attention, sometimes not.

When I was a child, Frankenstein and Dracula and the like, scared me silly. Funny thing is now, I love Halloween and costumes and especially love to dress as a vampire. I guess I grew up, but not too much..lol.

Chuck

[deletetacount123]

Im nervous about Zombies.... even tho I love graveyards lol
Its ME who tells people "don't walk on thier graves or they'll grab you!!"
Yet, I never want to see a zombie and won't go in a graveyard at nighttime lol
Yes I know Zombies aren't real.... but they COULD be!!!

I love Halloween... gives me an excuse to release my the dark side of me :)
That could be a whole new topic :)

I used to be scared of real looking dolls... I would think they would come alive and kill you. :( The only dolls I ever liked were my BARBIES :)

Tasha

[Skater Boy]

The only dolls I ever liked were my BARBIES :)

Tasha

I dunno, Barbie was pretty scary to me. For a start, when you took off her clothes, she had NO NIPPLES and NO PUBIC HAIR, which was a bit weird. I think I grew up thinking all women were like that for a while, and when I eventually saw one naked I was like: "Put your clothes on, y'freak!".

Action Man, on the other hand, had a pair of blue briefs, which DIDN'T come off, no matter how hard you tried... and don't pretent I'm the ONLY one who thought about taking Action Man's pants off as a kid... or hey... maybe I was.

Anyway... what am I on about?! :eek:

[Dagni]

I think it's race accidents. When i was kid my father had one horrible crash and i remember i was scared till death if he's ok or not. That fear has had me in his hands until he retired, and now history is repeating i guess: when i see my daughter in go-kart when she go over limit and watch her entering in curve on two wheels.

[deletetacount123]

Anyone ever think Barney was creepy??

[Fresia]

Bump it up, up, up!

[by~his~side]

This is a tough question.....there was so much that scared me. :) I'd have to go with Charles Manson. The heinous crime and those creepy eyes. I was probably 8 or 10 when those murders happened. I was afraid he'd come to Jersey. I guess I didn't realize how far California was. Plus, I'm-just-not-that-important.;)


dee

[charles-smythe]

I went for my Morning walk. This Morning and a rain Dove was calling for rain I guest. But when I was a child that sound would Scare the life out of me. And I could not keep from laughing at myself about this.It funny the thing's that scare you have our a child.. :) :female:...my mother...