For me it was clowns and still is.
Dying young...
Being sane in an insane situation, or being the only one telling the truth in a situation where everyone around me is lying.
Prison.
T-Rexes
Ermmm! Nope sorry can't think of any.
Being an adult.
Fatcha.
Russia.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Horrendous. Scared stiff of it still now in my mid 40's....
Silly I know but I simply can't watch a moment of it.
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Snakes. Slithery little buggers
Moths.
Death. Terrifies me.
Idiot car drivers
American werewolf in London
I know it's supposed to be comic. But I can't watch it without lunging for a pillow to hide behind. Shouldn't have watched it when I was 10.
as in, feeling quite uneasy?
This book - or really, the cover - have never forgiven my dad for reading it with such glee. Maybe comes of being a bit spectrumy but found it horrible..
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Dogs. Beans.
hmmm ... can't think of any ... Height I guess.
Those fillums about nuclear armageddon from the cold war.
Charlie says...
mattbee - MemberMoths.
TESTIFY, BROTHER!
Heights too. Had to get over this a bit for chairlifts/gondolas and the like but even then the vanois express made me want to curl up in a ball on the floor 😆 I've still never ridden the chute at the end of mcmoab, not because of the feature itself, but because I get the fear even just climbing up to it or standing near the top.
Being the last person to post on a thread
Polystyrene wig blocks.
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Getting caught
The tories
CFH wins the thread. Noseybonk is the scariest thing ever. Fact.
Dentists.
& prison. I work in one & it scares the crap out of me every day.
Bananaman.
Rollercoasters. Cried my eyes out on some rickety old thing made out of old pipe-cleaners or something when I was a kid. Can barely look at one now without my heart rate going up.
That face at your window
CFH wins the thread. Noseybonk is the scariest thing ever. Fact.
I'd never heard of Noseybonk, but holy shit yes. That's terrifying!
Rollercoasters. And heights/exposure.
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Edges
Such as edges of cliffs, buildings, quays etc. ever since I almost fell down a large open manhole on a buildings site as a six year old. Still have nightmares about falling over edges.
One of the many good things about mountain biking is that It is helping me overcome my fear of edges but there are still some drop offs that I can't do because they just spook me, and some traverses that are too cut away to one side freak me out.
After taking months of getting the Nosey Bonk theme out of my head recently it's now back.
Ooh! Salem's Lot yeah that freaked me out.
as above dentists trained by the Marathon Man film dentist.
Drowning, nearly drowned when i was a kid, still afraid of deep water
Cows: Big, horrible, dead eyes. Taste nice though
Stop posting that picture of the girl/ghost thing at the window. Now I can't revisit this thread!
Flipping terrifying that. 😯
Heights and women with hairy armpits 😳
Girls.
For some reason caving. Something was on over the weekend that had someone crawling through a small cave. Not for me!!
To quote from the film featured on page 1.
"spiders and women...........and spider women"
I'm with Stonor, "that" film. scared the shit out of me. still shapes my nightmares
Stickle bricks
There was a fire safety video at school, showing how quickly to could burn to death in a living room, one of the things they focused on was the melting stickle bricks.
What was the main kids toy in my (not very friendly) dentists as a kid? Yep, stickle bricks....
My parents
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Edges always have been my greatest fear, doesn't need to be a great height over the edge either.
Dry foam sponges. Absolutely hate the feel of them can just about cope with them when they are wet!
Drowning, nearly drowned when i was a kid, still afraid of deep water
Me also.
I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie and I try not to have irrational fears because they're, well, irrational. But something that can kill you with impunity (probably quite sensibly) gives me pause.
But something that can kill you with impunity (probably quite sensibly) gives me pause.
Geoff Vader? He could kill you with a single thought....or a tray.
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This, East Germany's attempt to leave the entire population of the West a quivering wreck of fear.
Having my feet stick out the bottom of the duvet. Just in case, you know, something attacks while I am asleep.
Werewolves. Yes, I know they're not real, but ever since a teacher told a particularly scary story in primary school they've scared me.
For jimw and giant _scum:
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^^^ avdave2: I had forgotten about it, until I saw your post. I found the Singing Ringing tree terrifying as a child. Over 50 years later I still remember some scenes vividly - never realised it was in colour though! BW telly until about 75 in our house
For me, definitely Werewolves.
For Mrs Squad, she has a clown/mask phobia which is getting worse as she gets older.
Halloween time is a blast in our house.
I wouldn't say terrifies me, but gives me the shivers.....
Vic and Bob's interpretation of Lloyd Grossman doing Masterchef.
No sacrifice is too great for Jesus.
Reheated rice
Moths.
Deep water. I blame those public information films from the 70's for this one.
The gremlin on the wing in Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000ft (the later Movie version)
http://twilightzone.wikia.com/wiki/Gremlin
and the Twilight zone Rabbit.
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Girls
Sharks, and deep water, but only if I start thinking about it.
I can relate to werewolves and the like, but only when I'm riding my mountain bike in the dark. Fine the rest of the time, and films dont bother me.
People have taken over all of my other fears as I've grown up.
Slurry pits and electricity.
Myopic I thinks that's where the East German plan failed, they assumed us decadent westerners were watching in colour and would be exposed to the full horror of it. I think the only thing that saved us from complete collapse as a nation was our B&W tellies.
Winston Churchill said he never worried about the Battle of Britain, it was the Battle of the Atlantic that kept him awake at night. Well it might well have been the Singing Ringing Tree that finally finished him off.
Deep water where you can't see the bottom.
And the edges of high (I guess over 20m) things. But I'm fine with Chairlifts etc.
I remember watching Jaws when I was about seven, and I was doing okay(ish) right up until the head popped out of the hole in the hull of the fishing boat. Nearly crapped myself, reflex switched the telly off. Wasn't allowed to put it back on. I'm a big boy now so try not to have irrational fears, but I've been snorkelling in the sea and suddenly gotten spooked more than once... Cue top speed exit
Glue sniffing. Lots of terrifying videos at school about that.
Strangely walking on railway tracks was never a fear despite heavy 80s propaganda
plumslikerocks - Member - Block User - QuoteGirls.
That explains your username.
Deep water, unless I'm wearing a wetsuit (I sink like a stone), also edges/drops/exposed heights, general falling
Being buried alive, a friend tried to smother me with a bean bag when I was wee and I still have a fear of being smothered and unable to move and breathe, except under bewbies, which is just fiiiine.
Trees that come alive in thunder storms (what was that 80's kids show?)
American werewolf in London
Every time I go down one of the deeper tube escalators I expect to see a wolf at the bottom...
Dentists, sadi
sadi
You mean this guy?!?
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Nothing came to mind until browsing the internet and something mentioning Leprosy. Eurrrghh. 16 million people have been cured of it in the past 20 years apparently. Didn't think it was still about. Eek.
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Ah bigjim what was that tree, i think it was destroyed by a statue. Scared the hell out of me.
Weirs can still give me panic attacks, no idea why.
The dark.
Oh, and clowns.
Would also like to add deep water to my list, especially when I can't see the bottom. Strangely enough I do a lot of open water swimming and have swam across the English Channel as part of a relay team, spend most of my time whilst doing these swims thinking WTF!
spiders as kids they seemed to wait in hiding until we were sat on the floor playing then make a break for it mrs g has to get rid of them, I do the moths/ butterflies/daddy long legs.
Stephen Kings 'it'
especially when I can't see the bottom. Strangely enough I do a lot of open water swimming and have swam across the English Channel as part of a relay team, spend most of my time whilst doing these swims thinkin
To be fair, the English Channel is only something like 30m deep, so not that deep at all..
west side story