Childhood Fears

[Shangas]

**Perks up**

Fiyah?

I LOOOOOVE FIRE! We have a fireplace in our living-room, and I love winter, where we can lay down a fire and light it and enjoy the heat and flames and smoke and steam...

 

[Lady Jessica]

Elevators, Spiders, Abraham Lincoln, Circus Tents, and um... Zombies.

I love Zombie movies though, but when I'm walking alone at night, I usually end up running to wherever I'm going, because I think Zombies will get me.

And don't ask about Abe, cause it's his face or... something. Not that I dislike him, just his face. lol And elevators... if the door doesn't open as soon as I hit the floor, I start to take deep breaths... and I don't ride escalators since I almost fell down one at Disneyland when it stopped. I take the stairs unless forced... If anyone's been to Universal Studios, the biiiiig escalators that take you down to where the Jurassic Park ride is, I'll walk them.

Also, I don't know what's up with Circus Tents. They just freak me out.

 

[Mike K.]

Without a doubt, it had to be those @$#&! flying monkeys!!

 

[lolly_loisides]

Without a doubt, it had to be those @$#&! flying monkeys!!

Aaaaaaaaaghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Forget the lions & tigers & bears, it was those blue monkeys that gave me the willies.

 

[Diamondback]

Incendiaries are fun...
Let's burn!--Firebat, StarCraft

This mean I gotta lockdown KARR's afterburners when in SoCal, assuming the project's ever built?

lol, I know who I'm finding and tagging along with. Now HE has a crazy plan.I just hope I can get to him, I'd make it a few months on my own probably.

Please tell us you mean somebody else--if the project reaches completion, hopefully KARR will dispense with the general distrust of organics held by both its creator and its fictional counterpart, but you never know with Artificial Intelligences...lol

Without a doubt, it had to be those @$#&! flying monkeys!!

What about 'em? Just means more challenging Skeet, that's all...

Elevators, Spiders, Abraham Lincoln, Circus Tents, and um... Zombies.
...
and I don't ride escalators since I almost fell down one at Disneyland when it stopped. I take the stairs unless forced... If anyone's been to Universal Studios, the biiiiig escalators that take you down to where the Jurassic Park ride is, I'll walk them.

Yeah, don't know what but there's just something creepy about Ol' Abe. Never caused me problems, but still seems just "not quite right"... especially considering the fact that he played with the paranormal too.

Stairs at Universal are quite the workout! I did 'em last time relatives and I were there (as an equalizer; I move a lot faster than them--imagine ~200lbs. of khaki and A-2 headed down 'em at "Flank Speed"--then imagine the folks I passed on the way!lol), and it was no picnic...)

Why am I getting the feeling I'm about to be bombarded with fellow Loungers asking me to consult or assist with builds on Zombie Guns? lol

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Now playing: Basil Poledouris - Main Title/Hymn To Red October
via FoxyTunes

 

[Barbigirl]

Still scared

Birds, hate them -- even worse after I saw the movie

water/floods -- petrified at the thought of drowning

tornadoes and hurricanes -- I have never lived anywhere that have them

 

[tuppence]

I for one, LOVED spiders, especially the Huntsman. I used to watch them start off sleek and skinny, and over the weeks fatten themselves up by munching through the bathrooms entire population of Daddy-long- legs.
I was even happy when one of the spiders gave birth and the babies were running around on the carpet.
UNTIL the babies(3) grew up and cornered me in the kitchen. They were probably just having a show-down between themselves, but to my eyes it appeared very strongly that they were going to close in on me and jump into my hair all at once. My only option was to open the cupboard grab the fly spray and destroy them.
I no longer let them live in my house.

I was scared of dust when I was a nipper.
I had asked my sister 'what happened to people after they die' and she had told me 'They turn to dust'

 

[Shangas]

I was scared of dust when I was a nipper.
I had asked my sister 'what happened to people after they die' and she had told me 'They turn to dust'

That's not too far from the truth, to be honest. Most household dust is actually dead skin-flakes.

 

[lindylady]

THese fears still hold true for now, I'm embarrassed to say: the dark, spiders, and crickets

 

[AmateisGal]

Moths. I have no idea why, but when I was a kid reading late into the night during the summer and those moths would come into my bedroom, I had to hunt them down. I'm sure I woke my parents up a few times with my bangs and screams as the dumb things liked to dive bomb me.

I also hated going outside at night at our farm. You just never knew what kind of creature you might encounter. And on those moonless, star-less nights, corn fields look REALLY creepy.

 

[JennyLou]

When I was a child I was afraid to look out of windows after dark because I thought that I would see a dead body, ghost or criminal.

 

[The Shirt]

Ricardo Montalban.
Ventriloquist Dummies.
Watermelon seeds.

Ricardo M. twofold. He was in an episode of Fantasy Island with Catheryn Bach and Annette Funicello where one was a ventriloquist dummy come to life. It scared me to death. I still jump out of my skin when I see them. I turn off the TV if they are on. hate hate hate them!!!!

The Wrath of Khan - Mr. M again - ear bug crazy scene. I still get sick to my stomach thinking about it. If a bug buzzes or lands near my ear - I am just short of a complete meltdown.

My older brother and sister used to tell me if I swallowed watermelon seeds they would grow in my stomach until I was huge and pop. To this day I am extremely careful not to swallow them, even though I know better. This is one of the many things I believed that they taunted me with.

 

[Edward]

As a very young child, I was afraid that if I was up alone in the dark - and downstairs, it had to be downstairs for some reason - the "boney men" (skeletons) would get me. [huh]

Later on I developed a fear of ghosts and so on. Maybe a fear of the supernatural is part of growing up / being religious to some degree, as Christinity teaches that such things are, to a large degree, negative and not to be meddled with. If so, it is balanced, I think, by the sense that there is also something bigger protecting you, I guess.

I remember as a late teenager seeing It for the first time, and Tim Curry's Pennywise giving me the absolute willies. Never been afraid of clowns in and of themselves, but there was something very powerful about curry's performance in that.

Nowadays, well.... most of the things that scare me come from what appears to be a mild empathic tendency (yeah, Auschwitz was really fun to visit... never been as badly creeped out anywhere, I think). An office building I used to work in had a presence in it which was determindly, I believe, malicious and did not like us in there. I'm not the only one that sensed it, either. [huh] Hated being in there on my own, or after dark.

My sister used to be absolutely terrified of Santa. Every year we would get dressed up & go to Grace Brothers (big department store in Sydney) for the annual Christmas photo & every year she would cry & refuse to sit on Santas lap. Looking at the old Christmas photos it seemed like I was an only child.

lol There's a great book that sells as a novelty here at Christmas, lots of photos of terrified children freaking out on Santa's knee. Schadenfreude as it might be, it does make me laugh.

Who knew that truly disgusting horror films could be therapeutic for childhood fears?

I find it encouraging to think that, if I did lose a hand, at least having a chainsaw fist would be some small compensation....

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_L0A3PUoY[/YOUTUBE]

^ Grace Brothers?
Did Santa happen to be one of these fellows ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/content/images/2007/08/03/areyoubeingserved_4_396x222.jpg

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPUVNIgG-vY[/YOUTUBE]

^Head shot. Once they've changed, They're dead.

In my group of friends it's "If I've been infected, wait until I'm starting to slow the group down, and head shot while I'm asleep." [huh]

Dammit, if I was the one got bitten, I'd administer my own headshot immediately. No way would I hand around to risk becoming one of those things. Ugh.

I'd be looking for a decent longbow, and a couple of pistol crossbows in the event of the zombie plague. Guns are all very well (if not readily available over here), but you do have ammunition issues. At least arrows / crossbow bolts could be fashioned with available tools in such times. Bladed weapons don't require reloading, but they do unfortunately entail getting reasonable close to the creatures, something I would prefer to avoid.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

When I was a child I was afraid to look out of windows after dark because I thought that I would see a dead body, ghost or criminal.

I agree ever since I saw "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" with William Shatner and that moment when he pulls the blind up.

The actual pictures were just a bit too creepy post...

 

[Caity Lynn]

Don't worry Diamondback, I did mean someone else! Someone in my area.

 

[HadleyH]

I was terrified to the bone by "Maleficent" the evil witch in Sleeping Beauty.
I don't know what was it about that character that affected me so profoundly... i can still remember vividly those sleepless nights....:cry: :cry:

 

[Spiffy]

Escalators, frogs, heights, deep deep ocean water, stairways without railings.

I've also been afraid of an old building in a nearby county for most of my life.

When I was quite young my parents took us all on one of those historical reinactment tours, and one of the sites was an old courthouse/jail building. First we all tramp up two flights of steep, creaky stairs without any railings at all that wind around and around the building. We finally get to the top and all press against the outer walls, trying to get as far as possible from the two-story drop in the middle of the lofted area (hardly even a real floor). The tour guide comes up last and stands with his back to the huge open drop, and gestures to a noose hanging a few feet away, dangling in the open air. This, he tells us, was where they sometimes hung prisoners, by pushing them off the loft, past the stairs, and into the space below.​

At this point, according to my parents, I flipped out and started shaking, and they had to guide me down the stairs step by step until we were outside. Once we got outside, I was fine. Ironically, I remember the rest of the tour being very entertaining and having a great time.
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I'm sure that the whole incident was merely a combination of my worst fears at the time, heights, stairs, scary stories, etc. It seemed hugely traumatic to a child that loved ghost stories and always felt slightly cheated that nothing supernatural ever happened to her.
Anyway, that's my ridiculous story.lol

 

[lolly_loisides]

I was terrified to the bone by "Maleficent" the evil witch in Sleeping Beauty.
I don't know what was it about that character that affected me so profoundly... i can still remember vividly those sleepless nights....:cry: :cry:

She looks like Hellboys Mummy!

 

[HadleyH]

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Side by side with Maleficent .... Hellboys looks not so bad! lol

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Escalators, frogs, heights, deep deep ocean water, stairways without railings.

Frogs, I've never looked at them in the same way since seeing the 70's movie of the same name. Something didn't quite add up there.