[Closed] things that scared you as child and still do being an adult

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

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Girls.

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

Have long since got over my teenage dread of nuclear armageddon (was an 80s teenager so understandable I guess).

The one fear that's stayed with me though is verticality. Don't mind heights or edges per se (although both make me a tad uneasy), but looking down (or up) tall vertical surfaces still sends me mighty wobbly.

That, and slugs.

tories and poor people

Big objects like bridges, wind turbines, pylons etc. Ok with buildings though!

But yes, Salem's lot

Water that is dark or black looking

Also massive victorian engineering, things like waterwheels, reservoirs, that huge bloody plughole thing at Derwent, Tower Bridge

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