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What were you scared of when you were a kid?
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yingwenlaoshi



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:06 pm    Post subject: What were you scared of when you were a kid? Reply with quote

I was scared of the potato man:

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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

had several major nightmares about plane crashes (but eagerly went on those floater planes with my dad) and drowning (but swam in every river and seaside beach I could, even swam with whales, as I grew up on canada's west coast, where dolphins, seals, orca played around the bays we went to on Vancouver Island)

wait... yes,..., I was definitely scared at the thought of the cold-blooded great white shark

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JMO



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dracula..read the penguins children's edition when i was 8/9 and was terrified. Still have vampire dreams on an almost nightly basis although they dont scare me any more. Love Vampire movies, novels etc now also.
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krats1976



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spiders... specifically black widows. I watched some horrible movie once about a woman who turned into a giant black widow & ate her twin sister's boyfriends.

Had nightmares for years.



Didn't help that I lived in Eastern Washington where we regularly had black widows in/around the house.



Shocked Shocked
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VanIslander



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

krats1976 wrote:
Spiders... specifically black widows.

Didn't help that I lived in Eastern Washington where we regularly had black widows in/around the house.

Had several black widows under our home. They really liked climbing on the front porch! Southcentral B.C., Kamloops area is technically a semi-arid desert, with sagebrush and tumbleweed in summer even. Black widows thrive there, despite some know-it-all who informed me when I moved to another province for university that there were NO black widows in Canada. I slept with some of them in jars next to my bed. Never found one in the house, but collected some. Had a healthy regard for their poison but wasn't really scared of them. Sounds like you were mostly afraid of the gender idea: killing and eating their mates. They are such cute little things! Was morbidly afraid for hours after my cat ate a black widow. Was fine.
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Milwaukiedave



Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had the reoccuring dream about falling off a tall building and then waking up before I hit bottom. I'm not that afraid of heights though because I've gone repelling and gone on rollercosters.
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oneofthesarahs



Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh dear god the horror


Just googling that picture sort of made me want to jump on my chair and lift my skirt like a woman in the 50s seeing a mouse.
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Qinella



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was afraid of the dark for a long time because of having hypnogogic hallucinations. Also, I was raised to believe that demons are real and they are constantly working in partnership with Satan to torment Christians. So, I was scared of demons, too.
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SuperHero



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw this late night movie that I wasn't supposed to watch where a couple go skinny dipping in a pool. The thing was the pool was filled with pirahna's and they got eaten alive. I remembered that scene for years.
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gsxr750r



Joined: 29 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw that same movie. Maybe it was called "Pirahna!"

There was this big fat guy whom I remember falling off of a boat/raft and being eaten in under a minute. Also a few divers who came across skeletons under water.

My sister had this rubber skull that laughed when you squeezed its head. She used to chase me around with it.

Scared the hell out of me.
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pdx



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

by about kindergarten age we had had our home broken into, ran into with a car, and had our cars broken into a number of times. Combine that a year or two later consistently watching Matlock, Murder She Wrote, and Hawaii Five-O on a regular basis and my only concern and nighttime fear became intruders in the home. In fact, I was scared shitless about it until about 3 years ago when I lived in an apartment by myself in Mexico.

Also, in first grade, I spent the night at my friend's house, on the third floor, and she told me that the boogey man lived across the street. I thought he was a man covered in boogers.
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happeningthang



Joined: 26 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wasn't worried too much about creepy crawlies living in the outback. The first movie I ever saw, however, featured this....





And if that wasn't enough she was backed up by these...



Gave me my first ever nightmares
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SarcasmKills



Joined: 07 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The first nightmares I can remember featured the cast from "Today's Special"..

Mannequins, talking mice and old men puppets suck.
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yingwenlaoshi



Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't remember the name of the movie, but it was back in the early eighties on TV. It had an Egyptian style coffin (like King Tut), but it was a baby. It was breathing inside and the coffin, where the belly is, was going up in down in breathing movements. Freaked me out. Then my mother told me to go to bed. Upstairs. Alone. Oh man!
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SuperHero wrote:
I saw this late night movie that I wasn't supposed to watch where a couple go skinny dipping in a pool. The thing was the pool was filled with pirahna's and they got eaten alive. I remembered that scene for years.


That reminds me of a movie that scared me. I was about 4 years old when Ghoulies came out, and just seeing the cover in the video store scared me enough that my mom had to accompany to the bathroom for several weeks.





Scary!
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