What Scared You As A Child? General Chat

[Fraser]

When you were young, what were the things that scared you to death?

Monsters under the bed? The Boogeyman that lived in the wardrobe? The thunder and lightning on a stormy night?

For me, it was skeletons and skulls on particular. Mo matter how many times my mother or older sisters would reassure me as a 7-year old that skeletons were just our own bones and couldn't harm me, I simply did not believe them.

The sight of a skeleton would really frighten me. In my bedroom at night, I was terrified these evil figures were just around the corner of the room, ready to kill me.

So what frightened you?

 

[Birdman]

I watched an old black and white version of The Phantom of the Opera one afternoon when I was a kid. It scared the shit of me for years.

 

[Alex]

I was terrified of crows for a few months after watching Hitchcock's, The Birds, one afternoon with my gran. I was aged around 7 at the time.

Pennywise the clown from the original IT film.

 

[Janey]

The flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.

 

[Micro Dave]

The scene in Jaws where the kid on the inflatable mattress was sucked into the water and then blood sprayed directly up out of the water.

 

[Lee]

..... Growing up. It still does scare me ?

 

[Welshy]

Dogs. I was absolutely petrified of ALL dogs and that carried on until my mid-teens. Probably owned 9 or 10 dogs since then!!!

 

[Mouth]

Pennywise and the bath lady from The Shining kept me awake at night for weeks, slept top of stairs till parents went to bed

 

[Soffie]

For me it was the dark, well not really the dark more so night time I had a terrible fear around being the only one awake. I have no idea why or how that fear came about. My dad sorted it out when he drove me down to a nearby factory to show me all the night shift workers.

 

[Shelby]

I can't remember the author now but there was this short story about clowns. Whenever a child got lost at the circus they would grab them, take them to their tent and eat them. It wasn't just a few bad-eggs, according to the author, all clowns do it!

Another of his books was about a creepy circus and it had a horrible fortune teller/witch in it who was terrifying.