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Post by peasapie on Oct 29, 2017 19:05:27 GMT
It's Halloween and a time for scary stories, and I started thinking today about things that scared me when I was little. I was a pretty anxious kid, so that list is long, but the thing that scared me most was my closet, at night.
It had sliding doors, and one of them was slightly off balance. Even if you slid each door tightly closed, sometimes one of the doors would creep open a little bit -- or maybe even more than a little. When that happened, I was sure it meant that some ghostly presence was in the closet trying to get out. The light switch was far from my bed, on the wall near the doorway, so I couldn't turn a light on to make the room safe again.
I took to sleeping with my head under the covers and with my giant collie next to me at night.
What scared you the most?
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Post by malibou on Oct 29, 2017 19:08:45 GMT
Quicksand.
I just knew I was going to randomly come across all the time. FTR, I've never seen quicksand nor do I know anyone that has.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 19:19:54 GMT
Quicksand. I just knew I was going to randomly come across all the time. FTR, I've never seen quicksand nor do I know anyone that has. Ive seen quicksand, and been in it. So now you can say you know one person! I used to be scared of the hole in the floor under my bed that opened up in the dark and a monster lived there. He would wait for the lights to go off then could grab any hand or foot hanging off the bed and pull the person into the hole. He couldn't come out from under the bed and he couldn't reach up on the bed. So I would turn out my light and run then Jump as far as I could to get on the bed before I got grabbed. I have no idea where I came up with this monster. Mom tried to convince me it wasn't real by moving the bed so I could see there was no hole in the floor. What she didn't understand is the hole moved with the bed And the hole didn't exist in the day time. Since I had an antique bed that sat up high there was lots of room under it to be a play fort but only during daylight hours!!
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Post by birdy on Oct 29, 2017 19:19:57 GMT
The witch from the Wizard of Oz. The movie would be on once a year around Easter and I'd watch it even though it scared me to death. If I had to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I was convinced she'd be hiding in the toilet waiting to poke me with her pointy fingernails (I didn't put it together that she couldn't be in there because of the water, haha!)
I was also convinced she'd then move to under my bed, with a variety of other creepy thinks, so I'd take a running start and jump from my bedroom doorway into my bed.
I still don't like to stand near my bed in the dark...I'm weird!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 19:20:18 GMT
Quicksand. I just knew I was going to randomly come across all the time. FTR, I've never seen quicksand nor do I know anyone that has. Yes!
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Oct 29, 2017 19:21:31 GMT
Ive loved horror movies since I was little. So I think I was always a bit desensitized to them. But what did scare me was alien abduction movies. I had awful nightmares after watching some made for TV movie about a mom and daughter who kept getting abducted. I was always scared I’d see that bright light out of my bedroom windows. Little green bastards.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 19:26:23 GMT
Oh so many things.
The evil shithole monster that appeared out of nowhere. It took a very long time for me to sleep stretched out.
The huffalumps. Disney movies. They were truly terrifying.
The sun dying Russia Nuclear bombs.
Foxes Bears Woodchucks Bobcats Cougars
Deer. Crows
Everything.
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Post by georgiapea on Oct 29, 2017 19:28:09 GMT
The calla Lily growing beside our front steps. The neighbour lady and my mother would stand, staring at it and talking about it. Like it was some mythical being and my 3 yo self developed a fear of the thing. Then it bloomed (that was why they were keeping an eye on it, watching the progression of the bud) and I ready got scared. Big white hood, looking at me with its single eye on a yellow stick! Took me a long time to appreciate calls lilies.
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Post by Skellinton on Oct 29, 2017 19:51:42 GMT
We had a wooden door off the family room that due to the grain of the wood looked like it had a woman in it. Imagine an outline of a woman with her long hair standing up and that was the wood grain on the door. It was terrifying. Couple that with watching "Watcher in the Woods" every weekend and it was a wonder I ever slept. At my gramma's house there was a small door in the bedroom I slept in that led to a crawl space, my brother used to tell me stories about things that lived in there. Again, it is a wonder I ever slept.
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Post by uksue on Oct 29, 2017 19:52:24 GMT
The calla Lily growing beside our front steps. The neighbour lady and my mother would stand, staring at it and talking about it. Like it was some mythical being and my 3 yo self developed a fear of the thing. Then it bloomed (that was why they were keeping an eye on it, watching the progression of the bud) and I ready got scared. Big white hood, looking at me with its single eye on a yellow stick! Took me a long time to appreciate calls lilies. That sums up how children get scared about random things lol
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Post by gar on Oct 29, 2017 19:55:00 GMT
Dr Who!
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Post by Zee on Oct 29, 2017 19:57:18 GMT
Quicksand. I just knew I was going to randomly come across all the time. FTR, I've never seen quicksand nor do I know anyone that has. That and whirlpools (like in the ocean). Cartoons and movies had me certain I'd die a victim of one of these two things!
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Post by muggins on Oct 29, 2017 20:02:45 GMT
Yes! I was terrified of the daleks, the Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the shadow of my dressing gown hanging on the back of my bedroom door!
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Post by padresfan619 on Oct 29, 2017 20:11:49 GMT
The heater in Kevin McCalisters basement! Duh!
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Post by anniebygaslight on Oct 29, 2017 20:14:24 GMT
Dr Who. The cyber men scared me witless.
Punch and Judy.
Clowns.
Dolls.
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Post by SabrinaP on Oct 29, 2017 20:15:10 GMT
Sharks. The OKC zoo added their Aquatics exhibit when I was young. They put dolphins and penguins in it. For some reason I got it my head that they were adding sharks. I had a million dreams of falling into the shark tank at the zoo. So crazy!
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Post by miominmio on Oct 29, 2017 20:19:46 GMT
The foxes that lived under my bed at night. I was terrified of them. These days I can only find dust bunnies there....
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Post by Merge on Oct 29, 2017 20:22:43 GMT
Mostly my own imagination.
But also my 5th grade teacher who played a record of someone reading The Cask of Amontillado and The Monkey's Paw around Halloween. I was a young 5th grader, only 9 at the time ... and I had the bejeezus scared out of me.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 29, 2017 20:23:52 GMT
Lots of things, because I had a whole raft of older siblings that loved to scare the living crap out of us littler kids. I remember being afraid of monsters in the dark that would get you if you weren’t *totally* under your covers. One finger or toe or arm out—it would get you. So in the summer when my dad refused to turn on the A/C unless it was a hundred degrees, there I would be, baking under the blankets so the night monsters wouldn’t get me. I also had a recurring nightmare about a witch that would get me at night too.
The funny thing was, I shared a room with my two older sisters for years and the three of us all slept in one big bed with me in the middle so the only reason I can think of for being afraid was that I had to go to bed by myself earlier than them because I was the youngest.
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Post by piebaker on Oct 29, 2017 20:24:42 GMT
Fire.
Going into the basement since the light switch was at the top of the stairs.
My brothers frightened me by showing me a snapping turtle they brought home from the park.
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Post by katlady on Oct 29, 2017 20:33:55 GMT
I still remember this so it must have scared me. I was around 9 and heard on the news about a boy that was dying of that disease that ages you. He was around my age at the time and his body was the equivalent of an 80 year old. I was so scared that was going to happen to me.
I always had to check under the bed and in the closet before going to bed. To this day, I do not like the closet doors to be open.
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Post by scrappyesq on Oct 29, 2017 20:37:15 GMT
Nuclear war. Godzilla. And sleeping without a nightlight. I was well into my twenties before I could sleep in a dark room. Even now I pull the curtains back when I go to bed so I get light from street lamps.
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 29, 2017 20:52:23 GMT
The witch from the Wizard of Oz. The movie would be on once a year around Easter and I'd watch it even though it scared me to death. If I had to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I was convinced she'd be hiding in the toilet waiting to poke me with her pointy fingernails (I didn't put it together that she couldn't be in there because of the water, haha!) I was also convinced she'd then move to under my bed, with a variety of other creepy thinks, so I'd take a running start and jump from my bedroom doorway into my bed. I still don't like to stand near my bed in the dark...I'm weird! I have still never seen that movie from beginning to end. That witch and this monkeys were awful. Having seen Wicked, I realize how sill of me it was to be scared of it!
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 29, 2017 21:02:49 GMT
I used to play / hide out in my bedroom closet during the day, but I hated the slit of blackness that showed at night because the doors didn't shut all the way. And I still don't like sleeping when it's totally dark; I open the blinds just enough to have some light come in, and have nightlights all over the house. I don't like walking into a dark room, either. (probably more because I'm afraid of tripping over a dog than of demons, but still...)
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Oct 29, 2017 21:25:06 GMT
Rabid dogs and crocodiles.
I grew up in Zambia in the rabies years and we had to collar and tag our dogs very securely. Any dogs found without a tag were shot. My childhood dog failed to come to the Land Rover when called one Sunday night and his collar was found in the stomach of a huge croc about a month later. Then a rabid dog came through our gate when I was playing in the sandpit. It was stopped, our houseman (this was the colonies in the 60's) called my brother and he shot it.
FTR I saw "old Yeller" a year or so later at boarding school and that brought the rabid dog trauma and the loss of my dog trauma together in one horrible twisted experience.
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 29, 2017 21:30:43 GMT
When we were kids we all loathed walking home after dark because we had to walk a dark path that connected the road to the school and our house on the other side. The path was unlit, a block long and had houses backed to it on one side and a wooded area on the other. If we were lucky, it might be partially lit by a light from one of the houses, but half the time you be halfway down the path and the light would turn off, pitching you into deeper darkness as your eyes tried to adjust. After dark we never, ever walked the path, we ran it like we were being chased by zombies. We weren't supposed to watch TV until after dinner, but if mom wasn't home, we couldn't resist Dark Shadows. We were forbidden to watch it specifically after my poor parents had to deal with their older kids suddenly afraid of the dark and waking up with nightmares.
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Post by MorningPerson on Oct 29, 2017 21:39:29 GMT
Add me to the quicksand list. I'm surprised to see others here. I wonder if that came from an episode of Lassie? Which would totally date us if that's it! So tell us about your quicksand experience voltagain!
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Post by jumperhop on Oct 29, 2017 21:41:02 GMT
Pirates..... come to think of it I am still afraid of Pirates. Jen
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Post by StephDRebel on Oct 29, 2017 21:51:50 GMT
The dark.
We loved at the end of a mile long, dead end country road that was an old farm with just two houses for acres. There were lots of critters, strange noises, and 3 graveyards. Every time something weird happened my mom and uncles would say "must be great uncle buckshot is mad about yall being too noisy and moving on his land"
We used to leave our cousins backdoor and be in ours almost 1/2 Mile away in about 3 seconds. We ran like our rear ends were on fire.
I missed curfew once and had my boyfriend drop me off at the road. My mom never got mad, she just locked the door and went to bed as I completely panicked. She finally let me in because my sister was so scared buckshot was going to get me she was sobbing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 22:40:38 GMT
Add me to the quicksand list. I'm surprised to see others here. I wonder if that came from an episode of Lassie? Which would totally date us if that's it! So tell us about your quicksand experience voltagain ! My first encounter was on my granddad's farm. The quicksand in one spot was over a large flat rock formation so was limited in depth to about waist deep on me before hitting the rock underneath. My dad would take us kids there to play in it (supervised!) and learn how to survive it if we found deeper quicksand pits. People die in quicksand by suffocation. If you lay on it, spread your body weight out over as large an area as possible you will float in it. The surface tension of the water will hold you up just like in open water. But if you attempt to walk "on" it you sink deeper and deeper. The play of water tension and sand pulls you into an ever deeper and ever tightening grip. The danger of quicksand is the deceptiveness of how it looks like sand but is actually more like water. If you try to treat it like sand you will drown in it if it is deep enough. If you treat it like water you can float on it and gently wiggle your way out of it with careful swimming motions or until a companion can provide something to hold onto and be pulled out. Oklahoma has lots of broad seasonal river/creek beds that only have water part of the year. They are prime spots to find quicksand and of course those river beds were places we liked to explore as kids/teens. So recognizing quicksand before we stepped in it, and knowing what to do if we did step in it because we weren't' paying attention was an important life skill.
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