What were your worst fears as a kid?

[Sawyer]

That the earth's gravity would stop working and I would fall up, up, up into the sky above and end up in the vast, infinite space until death. You know, pretty typical stuff.

 

[Mangle77]

Heights, Freezing to death, small spaces(but only if I can't get out right away),* getting caught in won of those "trampled by panicked mob" scenes(I'm afraid of both trampling, and being trampled), sharks/water deep enough to have sharks in it, and antique dolls. The rest of my fears were pretty well covered in the movie Lights Out.(Something moving in the dark that won't be there when I turn the light on, things that don't want to be seen, not being able to trust my mind/senses)

*Imagine what it was like for me the day I got stuck in a walk-in freezer at work.

Not afraid of ghosts, flying, spiders, or public speaking.

 

[Sawyer]

Oh, and I also forgot: Multicolored comic sans.

 

[Mangle77]

oh, and i also forgot: Multicolored comic sans.

Ooogggaa-boooggaa-booogggaa!!!

 

[Golgo-13]

The boobieman....

And...the gates of hell.

LOL! Never heard of this..thing.......

 

[blueharvest]

The boobieman....

And...the gates of hell.

Boobieman. A person who dresses in a Blue Footed Boobie costume in order to terrify children.

 

[Boom]

Not gonna lie. E.T. scared the **** out of me. Got to the scene where Elliott first runs into him in the cornfield at night and I was done.

My brother and I had a bunk bed when we were little. I had the top bunk, and I'd always have a nightmare where I'd see E.T. extending his neck and peering at me from the foot of my bed. Or I'd see his silhouette in the hallway.

 

[terry78]

Not gonna lie. E.T. scared the **** out of me. Got to the scene where Elliott first runs into him in the cornfield at night and I was done.

My brother and I had a bunk bed when we were little. I had the top bunk, and I'd always have a nightmare where I'd see E.T. extending his neck and peering at me from the foot of my bed. Or I'd see his silhouette in the hallway.

That wasn't no nightmare, mother****er.

 

[boocherhix]

Tornados. But then I saw Twister, and it cured me...

 

[Boom]

That wasn't no nightmare, mother****er.

 

[Maddie234]

• That aliens would invade our planet, take all us earthlings hostage and inject us with some of their own blood-like liquid so that we become a part of their ilk.
• That there was something lurking underneath my bed every night waiting to jump out at me the moment the lights went out.
• That the world would be washed away whenever there was a major thunderstorm and we would all drown in the torrential rains and flow away into the oceans.

I asked my son the same question today and here are his present worst fears:
Halloween costumes - he thinks they might become real monsters and run after him. (Understandable.)
A world without tablets - he can't go a day without the online games he loves (I mean, seriously?)
A visit to the dentist - it totally freaks him out. (This one is to be added to my list of childhood fears too. There was pretty much nothing worse than going to the dentist.)

 

[Enriquespy]

Moths. still.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Witches creeped me out thanks to a couple Tales from the Darkside episodes.

I still have a problem with heights. It becomes very obvious when I'm on a rollercoaster.

 

[LEOZZTT]

Sigourney Weaver.

 

[terry78]

Sigourney Weaver.

Weaver is hot in that scary way. She has like a very surreal beauty.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

I was a scaredy-cat when i was young, since tender age (or so i'm told).
When i was 1 or 2 year old, i was scared of flies (don't remember, i was too young).
Until i was 12 or something, i would get scared watching movies, scared to the point of hiding behind a chair or covering my eyes (but i never screamed, i'm not a screamer). Horror movies were a big no in my book, i would refuse to watch them.

I would be scared as all hell of the music video "Thriller". I would cover my hears when the monologue started, when the zombies start to come out of their graves. That voice chilled me to the bone. Whenever the music video started, i would just get out of the room and just return when it was over.
I remember one day, i was not paying attention, i was in a room with a tv and the music video started. I looked at the tv...and i can swear my heart skipped a beat. I go up and left the room. LOL

Then, i arrived to my 13 and i remember having a VCR. I really wanted to watch horror movies, but i was scared of doing so. So i recorded the movie "John Carpenter's The Fog", that was on tv. My brother (who wasn't scared of much) saw the movie and i asked him "is it scary?".
He said no, and i went to see it.
It was my first horror movie, and i didn't got scared once. After that, my fears of movies stopped, and i spent the next 2 to 3 years watching every horror movie i could find.
Today, i watch anything, with no problem, but every time i watch a scary movie and get myself thinking "if only my 12 year old self could see me now" LOL


But then another fear appeared, when i was 16 or so...alien abductions.
That was the fear that took the longest to overcome, i'm not proud to say it took me more than a decade.
I was scared that i would wake up and be surrounded by bug-eye creatures looking back at me and doing all sort of experiments.
That fear stayed with me for a quite a few years....until i "grew" a brain and arrived to the conclusion, by logic, rationalization and a bit of investigation, that is all BS...at least i'm 98% sure of it (i keep 2% for...maybe i'm wrong).

I never saw anything that made me go "ufo", i never dreamt that i was abducted....it was all because of movies, books and my wild imagination.
My fears always came from my wild imagination, because i always expect the worst.

Today, i don't quite remember anything that i can say i'm scared of.
I get startled by this and that, here and there, like everyone, but fear.....nah.

Not gonna lie. E.T. scared the **** out of me. Got to the scene where Elliott first runs into him in the cornfield at night and I was done.

I have an amazing story about ET.
I was 7 or so. My parents wanted to see that movie, my father knew it was a movie about friendship and so he tricked me into seeing it.
We arrived at the movies and just by looking at the poster, i started to freak out and refusing to leave the car.
After a while, i got out and we went to the theater. Me, my father, my mother, and my brothers.
When the cornfield scene appeared, i jumped to the floor, covering my eyes.
As time went by, i would became more at ease with the movie and sat back up.
When the movie was over...i was crying my ass off. My parents even bought me the toy the next day.

It still today one of my greatest moments in life, from fear to panic to pure amazement and adoration.
I LOVE that movie.

 

[Muze]

AIDS and being Gay seemed like a top priority, at one point.

 

[Muze]

Witches creeped me out thanks to a couple Tales from the Darkside episodes.

I still have a problem with heights. It becomes very obvious when I'm on a rollercoaster.

was it the first episode Trick r Treat? that one ended with a witch flying out through the roof (or chimney); while cackling wildly.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

was it the first episode Trick r Treat? that one ended with a witch flying out through the roof (or chimney); while cackling wildly.

That one and the Seth Green episode where there are monsters under his bed. His drunken, abusive father gets pulled into the bathroom by a witch at the very end.

Dark bathrooms still creep me out.

 

[Muze]

That one and the Seth Green episode where there are monsters under his bed. His drunken, abusive father gets pulled into the bathroom by a witch at the very end.

Dark bathrooms still creep me out.

true story, that used to be dad's favorite way to scare me; waiting for me to walk down the long dark hallway and yanking me into the bathroom. he had a sick sense of humor. but he also let me watch all of those Tales from the Darkside episodes; that was a lot of fun. I remember the Seth Green 'Monsters in my Room' episode. his mom's boyfriend had it coming.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Tales from the Darkside may have given me a very mild form of PTSD but it was totally worth it.