I was petrified of the men with wheels for feet and arms off Return to Oz, A poster of Darth Vader on my brothers wall and Freddie Cruger. What made you sleep with the lights on?
2006-09-13 09:40:34 · 34 answers · asked by Gypsie 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
the clown pennywise from the movie it. now that i think back, that movie had no business being on network tv. no stephen king movie should have. also the tv series v. that was some scary stuff. all of those made-for-tv movies scared me.
2006-09-13 09:54:26 · answer #1 · answered by Bubbles 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The dark at the top of the stairs. Till I was thirteen we lived in a typical Victorian terraced house with two downstairs and two upstairs rooms and an enclosed staircase between them. Whenever I was left alone in the house on dark winter evenings I imagined, no more than that, felt, the presence of something nasty lurking in the dark at the top of the stairs, just out of sight. Even with the stairs light on I could feel it, waiting its chance to get me. I never told anyone about it but one night when I arrived home with my dad I rushed straight to the bottom of the stairs and shouted at it to go away. I was fed up with it bugging me and wanted to show it I wasn't scared, though of course I still was. Dad asked me what that was all about but I just mumbled something and he didn't press me. As I got older I learnt not to be bothered and gradually the feelings went away, though even now when I think about it, I sometimes still shudder and wonder what it was that was up there in the dark at the top of the stairs and am glad I live in a bungalow.
I used to get horrible recurring nightmares when I was a child too and these were very scarry. Sometimes I still get them, though not the same scenes as before. I'm glad to say that during childhood, because the dreams were repetitive I learnt to recognise them for what they were and to escape by waking myself up at the worst moment, a trick I can still do. It's not nice lying there wanting to fall asleep again and wondering if you'll sink back into the same bad dream if you do, like going back into a film on tv after the adverts. Not funny at the time, is it? I've always felt cheated that sweet dreams don't seem to repeat themselves like that, or I might be inclined to go to bed earlier! Most dreams are bland B movie types anyway I find, and forgettable once the lights go on. Better that way, probably, but then that's a discussion for another day.
2006-09-13 11:15:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bin men - the noise of that truck coming up the road was like a humming sound and I hated it - I think I used to run up the stairs. When I started taking my own kids to school I used to drive home on a Friday and meet the bin men and the trucks halfway and I so still wanted to put my put down and drive home so I would be in my house and doors shut before they got there - gosh thats soo sad ha ha ha !
2006-09-13 09:49:15 · answer #3 · answered by kinnoishere 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son did that when he grew to become right into a million i think of with somebody that had a mask on we made that individual take it off to instruct him it grew to become right into a guy in a dress he nonetheless have been given slightly scared yet no longer as plenty now he's 3 and cant wait till Halloween in order that he can dress up.
2016-12-18 09:47:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old people, sharks (that's from watching "Jaws"), and Freddie Cruger (I couldn't even watch those movies, because then I'd be too scared to fall asleep)
2006-09-13 09:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by SweetPea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my oldest brother who was 14 at the time back in 1967 me and my sister were 8 and 9. what he would do was get a white sheet make holes for the eyes and get the old tin colander a tin lid and with the sheet over his head and body and the tin lid banging together on the colander and come slowly up the stairs shouting i am coming to get you this is the ghost of the house. we would be screaming and putting chairs at the back of the door and shouting ,he thought it was funny,and now my own shadow makes me jump.
2006-09-13 09:59:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A picture of Cruella DeVille in a comic book, dreams of lions being on the streets, and The Exorcist, when I was 22 or so (nearly crapped myself)
2006-09-13 09:49:37 · answer #7 · answered by ALAN Q 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some plants.
I had seen The Day Of The Triffids on TV and it really gave me a phobia about certain plants.
2006-09-13 12:12:45 · answer #8 · answered by Swampy_Bogtrotter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noises in the night frightened me. When I was 3 someone broke into our home, nothing happened to anyone in my family but from then on I was always afraid that someone else was going to break in. I am okay with the nighttime now but I was so scared as a kid.
2006-09-13 09:48:17 · answer #9 · answered by Atana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiders, the Devil, Clowns and the Thiller video by Micheal Jackson
2006-09-13 09:46:11 · answer #10 · answered by mellor3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋