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Post by strykerdarksilence on Nov 12, 2010 19:15:50 GMT -5
Frogs.
It was because of a film I saw aged about 5 at my Dad's house, the name of which I forget. I think it was something like 'Little Bear'. It followed an orphaned Bear Cub as he made his way in life. At one point he encounters a frog and later on they simulate a nightmare the cub is supposed to be having about frogs and it scared the absolutely life out of me. I remember crying for my Mum every 10 minutes the night I got dropped off there for the week. She had to go and take the bins out before she went to bed, and I cried bloody murder until she had to come back in. The next day the neighbours were asking if I was ok. We lived in a thick walled detached house with at least 10 feet between us and our neighbours each side.
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Nov 12, 2010 19:40:33 GMT -5
The part in the original Superman movie, when his father's face was floating in space and talking to him, that scared me a lot.
I used to also be afraid of a painting my aunt & uncle had. It was some painting of a woman with long dark hair and one of those Asian fans like Kitana from Mortal Kombat 2. It used to scare me so much, that I would literally run past it on the way to their bathroom so I didn't have to see it, or so it wouldn't "get" me.
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Post by forgottensinpwf on Nov 12, 2010 19:41:53 GMT -5
Claymation/Stop Motion. I dunno why, it just creeped me out.
It was one of the main reasons that I didn't watch Nightmare Before Christmas until at least 2001.
This scared me for some reason when I was a really little kid, like at least 4 or 5. I actually vaguely remembered it for many years (I knew it was the _______ mind), but not until recently did I finally see what it was. Man was I a wuss.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Nov 12, 2010 20:06:55 GMT -5
- Christopher Lloyd....Yes the actor......It has a LOT to do with the fact that my first encounter with him was Judge Doom at age 4, because of that shit (and bad timing) I just saw the BttF Trilogy this past year (I'm nearly 24)
- Ursula.....Not in the movie, but because of the GIANT Ursula that came out with Disney on Ice that year.
- Live-Action Beetlejuice
- Fish, more specifically Angler Fish, and most large Saltwater Species
- Boris Karloff's voice, or rather KNOWING it was Boris Karloff's voice. I could watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas all day and never made the connection
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Post by turkeysandwich on Nov 12, 2010 20:22:18 GMT -5
Scarecrows, clowns, showerheads, and the old "Viacom V of Doom" that would play after classic TV like The Andy Griffith Show. That's funny because I was the same way about those logos at the ending of shows. I remember my Mom would watch I Love Lucy and I would close my eyes when the Desilu Productions logo came up at the end. I don't know what it was about them, but I know on Youtube there are compilations of logos that frightened people as kids, so in some ways it must be universal. Here's a youtube compilation I found. I don't know if was the abruptness or the disembodiedness of the logos be they really bothered me as a kid. One other thing I thought of is how at the beginning of VHS tapes there would be that sound of a phone dialing. That creeped me out, I would always try to fast forward as soon as I put in a tape just in case that sound was on there. I didn't know what that sound was until recently.
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Post by Kevin's Thorn on Nov 12, 2010 21:15:36 GMT -5
This:
Gave me ever so much more encouragement to avoid losing all my lives in Zelda 2. Anybody who says this didn't freak them out is a BIG FAT PHONY
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Post by Demented on Nov 12, 2010 21:47:13 GMT -5
A bear skin rug. Had a horrible nightmare about it. Mom threw it away because of said nightmare.
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Post by Young Game on Nov 12, 2010 21:48:02 GMT -5
Oh yeah...I freakin' LOATHED that Zelda 2 Game Over screen. It got to the point where I pretty much stopped playing Zelda 2 altogether. To this day I have no idea why, but tire swings used to freak me the hell out as a kid. Just an old tire, tied to a rope, and the other end tied to a tree, meant for amusement for the children ... scariest thing in the world to me as a kid. This as well. Every tire swing I remember as a child, they almost NEVER seemed to be tied to a strong branch. So many of my friends always ate it from a tire swing fall. People with missing arms, legs, etc. To this, I will add people with hooks for prosthetic limbs. As a little kid, I seriously used to think they were cyborgs.
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Post by Princess Kendall on Nov 12, 2010 22:05:11 GMT -5
When I was little, I used to think that if I didn't sleep with all of my stuffed animals, the other ones would wake up and kill me for being jealous of me only sleeping with one. So I always slept with ten teddies piled on me.
I was scared of the Emergency Alert System noise. Still am, actually.
And those signs that you see that warn about dangerous neighborhoods with the guy lurking behind the collar of his trench coat with a hat on. That guy scared me so bad.
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Post by Predator McBroski on Nov 12, 2010 22:42:12 GMT -5
Seeing the scene in Pet Sematary when Gage gets run over when I was 5.
It took me many years to get over my fear of anything Stephen King.
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Nov 12, 2010 22:44:23 GMT -5
beards
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Nov 12, 2010 23:13:32 GMT -5
And those signs that you see that warn about dangerous neighborhoods with the guy lurking behind the collar of his trench coat with a hat on. That guy scared me so bad. I love that guy.
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Post by Yami Daimao on Nov 13, 2010 5:09:02 GMT -5
The X-Files theme.
FFS I still get chills when even thinking of the intro theme. Hell I just got them now.
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Post by TromboneMan on Nov 13, 2010 6:27:08 GMT -5
When I was realllly little, I found an old sewing bead around the house. When I asked my mum what it was, I misheard it as a "bee". For a few years afterwards when I came into contact with any kind of bead I'd throw it away immediately for fear of being stung out of nowhere.
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Post by Mozenrath on Nov 13, 2010 7:32:36 GMT -5
I used to be scared of the Quaker Oats guy.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2010 7:39:33 GMT -5
My mom said I was scared of Guy Smiley from "Sesame Street", the puppet who was always the game-show host. I had to tell her, "It's not Guy Smiley." It was the blue guy wearing glasses with the wild yellow hair singing an opposites song that scared me, because he'd end the song screaming out of nowhere, and it freaked me out.
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Post by Ash Kingston on Nov 13, 2010 8:57:25 GMT -5
-When I was around the age of 5 or 6, on Sunday nights the radio station I listened to at the time (a country music station) would do a half-hour block of this religious-based radio-drama, followed by some reading from the Bible. One night, during either the drama or the other part, something started laughing on the radio, and the sinister tone of it all just terrified the crap out of me, and every Sunday night it kept bugging me.
-Moths in general, but especially dead moths; when my folks and I used to regularly go up to stay with my aunt for the summer, she would always have at least two or three sticking to both of her screen doors, and they were both quite dead. I'm not sure why, but they always just creeped me out - a feeling that wasn't helped by my cousin throwing one down the back of my shirt in the second grade. It got to the point where one night, after going into the house to take a leak, that I tried to sneak out through their balcony door (with no balcony!) because there were three of the creepy little things on the screen door and one on the door frame. Even now, they really get to me...
-Wasps, after one stung me behind the knee in the fifth grade. Seriously, between the wasp sting, the chicken pox, and whooping cough, Grade Five sucked. >.<
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 13, 2010 9:23:01 GMT -5
Heavy metal album covers, paticularly the ones by judas priest, quiet riot, iron maiden, megadeth, and w.a.s.p.. Ironically, im now a fan of all that stuff, but when youre 6-7, guys like eddie, vic, and even blackie lawless are pretty scary.
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Post by Young Game on Nov 13, 2010 10:30:21 GMT -5
Heavy metal album covers, paticularly the ones by judas priest, quiet riot, iron maiden, megadeth, and w.a.s.p.. Ironically, im now a fan of all that stuff, but when youre 6-7, guys like eddie, vic, and even blackie lawless are pretty scary. Definitely. As much of a metal fan as I am now, I will never...eeeeeever...forget the day I was at a county fair and saw this: on some guy's shirt. Pretty freakin' terrifying to an 8-year old.
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Nov 13, 2010 11:19:38 GMT -5
We had a sticker on our refrigerator of this menacing looking thing (at least to me.)
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