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Vastarien posted:When I was a kid, I was absolutely convinced that the scenes from the Tales from the Darkside intro were all filmed around where I lived, and it freaked me the hell out. The show itself never bothered me. Even as a kid I thought it was silly and cheesy, but man, that goddamned intro... Are you my older brother in disguise? Because I've never met anyone besides us freaked out by that intro. And I'm not goddamn clicking the link. Count me as another person that can't have curtains open at night. For me, I lived a few doors down from a large, old cemetary. If I kept my curtains open, the zombies would see me when they went by. (Or the ghouls from Night Trap, but that's less reasonable) I always have watched lots of scary stuff with little effect on me. However, after the craptacular Terrorvision, I had a long time hefore I was comfortable with a tv near me while I slept. Because I'm a big puss.
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Oh my god, I'm not the only one. Because of this craziness I'm now 33 and married with children and still sleep with my 25-year-old stuffed bunny tucked up behind me to create a "wall" on the side my husband's not on. It's not even a fear anymore, it's just so ingrained in my psyche to have something on either side of me when I sleep so I don't roll out of bed and die. Other things I was irrationally afraid of as a neurotic eight-year-old: ~ Falling into a vat of molten gold and becoming a statue - I made my mother get second-floor motel rooms when we traveled for at least a couple of years after that, on top of being terrified of anything that looked like the floor could potentially open up. Courtesy of Allen Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold ~ Mannequins (courtesy of Mannequin) ~ Robots (Short Circuit) ~ Escalators ~ Episodes of any TV show that end with someone alone in a void/alone in the world (Twilight Zone's Time Enough At Last still creeps me out). ~ Not so much heights as falling. Later this turned into an irrational fear of flying/swimming over spaces where I couldn't see the ground/bottom of the ocean in video games. This still makes me slightly nervous to this day. ~ nth-ing Scary Stories, that poo poo is -still- terrifying. It was one of those that made me go into small panic attacks when I'd read them but I couldn't stop; there was some morbid fascination with scaring myself half to death involved, I dunno. I've gotten over most of them as I'm not a complete crazy person anymore, but now I have panic attacks at babies/toddlers dying or getting hurt on TV. I have no idea why I like SVU so much, I can't even watch Walking Dead or Titanic.
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Grape/Watermelon seeds, in fear of them growing inside of me... I'd still eat them, but if i swallowed one i would silently freak out.
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The aliens on Sesame Street would send me running into another room to hide, I have no idea why they scared the absolute bejeezus out of me as a little kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_trSIBCgF0
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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:Pipes. Plumbing. I was in a sweaty panic when I went and got these pictures to show what I mean. And I'm 50 now. Holy poo poo, me too! I never thought I would ever encounter someone with the same phobia. I'm okay-ish if the pipes are white or chrome, but man gently caress black ABS pipes. What a strange phobia. I think for me part of it is knowing that there's this complex underground system of pipes and sewers and machinery and the pipes in my house are connected to this system that I can't see. Then again, the sump pump in my basement creeps me out in the same way, but it's not connected to the sewer, so I don't know. To add to the weirdness, here's something else I was petrified of when I was a kid, and I still don't like: exhaust fans. Like the kind that are on bathroom ceilings.  When I was a kid I would FREAK OUT if one was running when I was in the bathroom. I didn't even like to be in there when they were off. Part of it was that I was sort of scared the cover would fall off and hit me on the head, but I also just didn't like the look of them. I was terrified I would go into the bathroom one day and just see this:  Just a black hole with spinny, angry blades. I wasn't afraid of being sucked up into them, even. There's just something creepy about them and I still don't like it. To the point where even today, I can't stand directly under one. I guess to go along with that: machinery noises, like the whiny scream of motors starting up and stuff like that.
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I could handle the movie alien/aliens/the fly and "scary" stuff like that but goddamnit if Robert Stack came on TV with the Unsolved Mysteries theme I would be hidden in a flash. Okay now thinking back here I just a had a flash of memory...It didn't help that while I was super cynical about supernatural things from pre school age, my family believed in and told me demons would try to posses and rape me in the night so any weird demon story would be turned off then my sister and mom would be worried all night. I don't even know why that was allowed in the house if it was a demonic portal! I forgot about it for a decade or so until my husband brought it up. I was mocked mercilessly.
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no_shit_columbo posted:Grape/Watermelon seeds, in fear of them growing inside of me... Pretty sure there was an episode of Rugrats where it involved watermelons growing inside of Chuckie's stomach. I saw that episode when I was a kid and for a short while was afraid of swallowing seeds too.
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This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__x8CYAVMbk Scariest parts being the very beginning(because of the music and impossibly idyllic landscape-perfect, non-cutesy fairytale environments like that still weird me out), and the staring painting at 1:30. Both me and my slightly older sister would run and hide behind the stairs when it started, and at other parts of kid's movies. Including this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-FUcrQhTBY The musical instruments replacing actual noises freaked me out, and the singing, especially from 1:45 onwards made it awful. Also was a little afraid of bits of Sleeping Beauty, mostly the hypnosis bit-the dragon part was okay because I had a crush on Philip and wanted to see him win and dragons are cool anyways.  Spergminer posted:Balloons. Nothing could freak me out faster than balloons. A few weeks ago I watched a documentary about weird fetishists, there was this couple who had a balloon fetish and I would describe it as anti-porn.  NO YOU'RE GOING TO POP IT AND IT'S GOING TO BE LOUD
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The X-Files intro put the fear of god into me when I was a kid. I bet at least a few people who read this post are suddenly going to feel VERY old.
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Cmdr Tomalak posted:bathroom fans An ex of mine was so afraid of bathroom fans, that when she went into a small business' single-occupancy, vintage bathroom with a fan, I would go with her and hold her hand while staring at the other wall. It's note quite so odd because we were both women, but the times a loud fan was on in a stalled bathroom and I had to go into the stall with her to hold her hand probably made some people confused. It was cute until she laughed at my misophobia or late-night existential panics. gently caress that. TheKennedys posted:falling out of bed, falling into vats, swimming where you can't see the bottom I've found few people whose fears are entirely solitary, and even then, I'm sure someone is creeped out by seed pods on the wind or bunnies with too-big ears somewhere. You're not alone, no matter what you love or fear; we humans are kinda predictable in what we latch onto.  That reminds me! I was super afraid of infection until puberty, so I wouldn't merely wash my hands a lot, I'd pick at cuts/blemishes and clean them over much or change bandaids too much. I have thin scars all over my arms and fingers and one or two on my face where I picked and, ironically, made a sore instead of "fixing" the wound. Gross, I know, but I couldn't stop.
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Oh! There's one I forgot: aeroplane toilets. I'd always make sure I had a quick exit planned before hitting the flush button because the sound freaked me out so badly.
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I don't consider any of my childhood fears 'unreasonable', but my unusual fear was when we found out that Jupiter's red eye is some sort of massive eternal hurricane bigger than Earth. To me that was basically describing hell, and I'd sometimes imagine falling into Jupiter and getting stuck in the storm. Even now I can't really look at a picture of it without getting the jibblies.
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This is massively dumb, but the Law and Order dun dun sound. I could hear my parents watching it at night and that noise would wake me up from down the hall. Scared the crap out of me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L242cl5WpTk This game. My dad bought it for me when I was about 5 and I was terrified of it. The health bar at the top scared the poo poo out of me (the weird happy face and the skull and crossbones ESPECIALLY) so if we played, I'd have him put post its on top of the icons to hide them. I was thoroughly convinced that the skull and crossbones in particular would come out and chase and eat me at night. The panther was also weird as gently caress too. "We're entering another time and place..." Just everything about that game made me freak out. I still can't play it, but I can play Silent Hill fine.
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I had an extremely irrational fear of a dolphins desktop wallpaper when I was little. I'm still afraid of 3D underwater graphics, it's almost impossible for me to play underwater levels in video games because of this.  It probably extends to all 3D creatures in real settings, for example this video from a brony was physically impossible for me to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2934giJ9oc I was also deadly afraid of a Goosebumps cover of a kid eating trash; my brothers would tease me extremely about it, even hiding it under my mattress before going to bed. For some reason I always knew it was there  I tried finding it but not I'm not sure if it's from Goosebumps? Does it ring a bell to anyone?
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Ginny posted:It probably extends to all 3D creatures in real settings, for example this video from a brony was physically impossible for me to watch: No, that's a normal reaction to that video.
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When I was little there was this mid 90's trailer for some re-release of Akira or something on VHS and the commercial absolutely terrified me. I'm talking bawling and running out of the room thinking I was about to die. gently caress Akira.
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My dad watched a lot of alien abduction movies when I was a kid. Fire in the Sky and Communion are the two that stick out to me. I was always convinced that I would be pulled out of my room by grays at some point.
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Always had to shut off my Super Nintendo before I got a Game Over in Donkey Kong Country III because the resulting screen would make me cry. The only episode of the Animorphs TV show I ever watched turned me off of oatmeal forever because there was a scene where somebody was eating a bowl of it and it turned into maggots or something. And my family got a kick out of watching me freak the gently caress out over hearing The Tales From the Crypt theme song, but I don't think that one's entirely unreasonable. Interestingly I could handle poo poo like The Thing or Stephen Gammel's Scary Stories illustrations, but gently caress the Cryptkeeper forever.
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When I was three, I somehow watched Treehouse of Horror III. The zombie segment made never watch the show again until I was eight. I think my general dislike of zombies came from that incident. When I was nine, my teacher read to us that story where a spider lays its eggs in a girl's cheek. That ramped up my phobia of spiders for years even when I knew that story wasn't real. Also, the Polygram video logo.
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Didn't care for balloons as a kid. Power tools like circular saws. It wasn't the threat of losing a finger or a limb if you weren't careful around them, it was the goddamned noise they make. I still don't care for them. Woodpeckers. When I was a kid we used to have this idiot woodpecker (or maybe it was more than one, I never knew) that would for whatever reason bang its fool head against the rain gutter right outside my bedroom wall. It sounded like machine gun fire and scared the crap out of me. And it would do this constantly. Halloween masks. Not the cheapo plastic ones that go over your face with a rubber band, but the latex ones that cover your whole head. Halloween in general terrified me as a kid. I don't think I even wanted to go trick-or-treating until I was about 6. But even today I still get creeped out by the full-head masks. It's a claustrophobia thing now, I think, what with your head being all covered and hot and hard to see and breathe.
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This heffalump dream sequence in Winnie The Pooh freaked me out. I still feel uncomfortable watching it. The animation is really good though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnADKgurvc
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Cmdr Tomalak posted:Holy poo poo, me too! I never thought I would ever encounter someone with the same phobia. I'm okay-ish if the pipes are white or chrome, but man gently caress black ABS pipes. What a strange phobia. I think for me part of it is knowing that there's this complex underground system of pipes and sewers and machinery and the pipes in my house are connected to this system that I can't see. Then again, the sump pump in my basement creeps me out in the same way, but it's not connected to the sewer, so I don't know. YES! That's it exactly... there are things that are all connected, and their purpose is murky at best... Holy poo poo indeed, I thought I was going to be the odd person with that! And yes, white PVC piping is ok. Have you ever been able to get over your fear enough to go to a waterpark? Two minutes for me standing near the wave pool and I had to go sit in the snack bar for the rest of the day...
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My grandmother's house is old, and in one bedroom, there's a setup like so: Next to the bed was a small closet...thing. Small as in, you wouldn't be able to stand upright unless your were a very young child, and it had a curtain covering it. I would not sleep on the side of the bed next to the door, and would try not to face it during the night. Why? Because I knew if I looked at it, I'd see it move, and if I slept next to it, my arm might drop in and I WOULD FEEL SOMETHING THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. I don't sleep in that room at her house anymore. Now I sleep in the other, room which just has scary old photographs. 
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Pope Mobile posted:My dad watched a lot of alien abduction movies when I was a kid. Fire in the Sky and Communion are the two that stick out to me. I was always convinced that I would be pulled out of my room by grays at some point. I'm glad I never saw either as a kid. The abduction part in Fire in the Sky is gross, but it's also a movie that you can mentally file away as being just another creepy Hollywood flick. Sitting through the entirety of Communion OTOH is like having to endure an acid trip that's gone horribly wrong. Everything from naked Christopher Walken dancing with some noodle armed aliens, to the aliens jerking him off with a mechanical dildo hose or whatever the gently caress was going on in that movie, it's all utterly bizarre and disturbing. Edit: Here I am, I'm naked... Enjoy the nightmares! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma86zHqgg7k
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:
Now see, I'm the opposite. The cheesy crummy plastic style ones frome the seventies and whatnot have this creepy air to them that just feels so menacing. I can't explain it, but when I see someone in an old plastic mask I get uneasy.
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I'm the same way with old lovely animatronics and bad horror movie special effects. poo poo that clearly doesn't look convincing(ala Killer Klowns from Outer Space or w/e) but still affects people in-movie freaked me out as a kid and is still kind of frightening to me in a surreal way.
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I used to be really into astronomy and space when I was a youngling (star wars ref for the nerds in the audience) and I was terrified of all sorts of things I read about. Asteroids, gamma ray bursters, rogue stars, mini black holes, an early nova for the sun, or the universe just tearing itself apart all really deeply scared me. I sometimes had difficulty going to bed because I wasn't sure the universe would be there when I woke up.
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i was pants shittingly afraid of the old "Chinaman" that lived down on the corner. He walked by regularly to his restaurant a block from his house and every time i would have to hide from him, lest he try and steal me. He also conspired with the rest of Chinesefood, inc. for their food to make me sick. The day the ambulance rolled up to his house was a lifetime victory for me. I believed that all the monsters(mummy, werewolf, swamp thing, dracula, it goes on) would form a huge line around my bed so they could look at me while I slept. Their MO was take turns standing over me and if I woke up and saw them they would win or whatever and I'd be scared shitless. My daily goal was to punch the shower curtain whenever I went to pee so the Dracula hiding behind it couldn't get me while I took a leak.
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I was terrified of tornadoes because I was convinced they killed you by sucking you up to the top and then hurling you out so you fell to your death. I live in California, by the way.
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Violet_Sky posted:
This is actual out of the Scary Stories books series people talk about in this thread, if I remember correctly. The third one, maybe?
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When I was 12 I heard a scary story that involved a man who was haunted by an old hag. At one point he turns around in bed to find her sleeping next to him, and she hisses at him. I sleep on my side, so I spent the next few years with one of my legs bent to feel if anything was next to me. After reading the Shining, specifically the scene with the zombified old woman in the bathtub, I felt uncomfortable any time the shower door was closed in my bathroom when I walked in. I was 14. I've seen the movie three times and never had my eyes open for that scene, and I'm now 21.
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I had a really strong phobia of vomit for most of my childhood, and I couldn't stand listening to the song "What's My Age Again" because I associated it with a time I was sick and I threw up and it was stuck in my head the whole time. I got over it eventually.
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no_shit_columbo posted:I had a wander around Reliquaire today, a local antique shop. I can't imagine the amount of anxiety this would induce in some goons. let alone people forcing their children through 21 rooms of judgmental dolls. Oh jesus, that reminds me of this one time I had to stay at my great-aunts place and her guest room had walls COVERED in dolls. I ended up sleeping in the hallway because it just creeped me out too much.
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That scene in Ghostbusters 2 when that lady's mink coat comes back alive.
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no_shit_columbo posted:I had a wander around Reliquaire today, a local antique shop. I can't imagine the amount of anxiety this would induce in some goons. let alone people forcing their children through 21 rooms of judgmental dolls. I checked out the site and that store looks INCREDIBLE. I will never see it in person and that makes me sad.
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The VHS cover for the movie The 'Burbs. The movie came up today at work and all I could think was gently caress that cover. Not a bad movie though.
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Wallmasters from Ocarina of Time loving terrified me. I was convinced if I walked down the hall at night they'd jump at me and throw me out of the house.
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