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Your biggest childhood fear(s)?

Posted on 03/29/2015 9:07:05 PM PDT by MNDude

Almost everyone had something that freaked them out or downright terrified them when they were kids-- a neighbor's big dog, sleestaks on TV, or the monster in the closet?

Tell your story of what most scared you as a kid.


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To: amorphous

Definitely The Outer Limits!
Any show/movie about the end of the world because USSR nuked the U.S. UFO’s landing in the back yard.... etc.


41 posted on 03/29/2015 10:08:09 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: MNDude

After my family moved back to the States, and I no longer had a driver, an armed guard in the car with me, and a chase car with an armed guards to take me to school.


42 posted on 03/29/2015 10:09:06 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Larry Lucido

I had a terrible experience with nuns while little, I had either the measles, mumps or chicken pox and was in the small town hospital run by nuns back around 1950.

I was always crying and they would come in and scare me to hush me up.
Needless to say, after I got out I would always hit the floorboard of the car when I saw a nun walking down the street, they scared me so much.

BUT, years later, they no longer troubled me.


43 posted on 03/29/2015 10:17:37 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The Basement.


44 posted on 03/29/2015 10:41:41 PM PDT by Golfinsocal
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To: 50sDad

Yes, clowns are creepy.

One of my brothers hated them and wanted to shoot a clown with his BB gun when he was about 10 years old.


46 posted on 03/29/2015 10:42:51 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: House Atreides

Monster in the closet? Rubbish! When I was a kid all the kids knew that the monster was under your bed! Never let your arm dangle over the side of the bed or the monster will grab it and drag you under the bed.


One of my older brothers told me not to be scared of the monster in the closet because “As long as you are awake that thing will never come out of the closet”.


47 posted on 03/29/2015 10:44:51 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: MNDude

My evil older brother (who I was also terrified of) made me watch some awful movie where a detached hand crawled around and attacked people. I think I was five. That damned hand showed up in my dreams for the next twenty years!! Ugh.


48 posted on 03/29/2015 10:46:42 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: bonfire
Mutated radioactive creatures threatening the few remaining surviors scared me the most. :-)
49 posted on 03/29/2015 10:47:13 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: HerrBlucher

Saw this movie when I was three, scared the crap out of me. Thought the cyclops was going to come right out of the screen and gobble me up.


I was scared to death of that big monster and my older brother had to take me out of the theater.


50 posted on 03/29/2015 10:47:47 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Mygirlsmom

LOL.

Me, too. I’d run and take a dive onto the bed. And I never let my feet hang over the side of the bed, either.


51 posted on 03/29/2015 10:49:32 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Nuns smacked me with rulers.


52 posted on 03/29/2015 10:50:58 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: MNDude

As a young boy, I read a newspaper article about a woman who had a meltdown over a toothpaste tube left uncapped. She stabbed her entire family to death. I don’t remember what became of her. I couldn’t talk to my family about it, (I didn’t want to give them ideas), and spent years planning my personal defenses. Even today; I always have a perimeter, and my security sonar is always active.


53 posted on 03/29/2015 10:51:05 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: MNDude

I was afraid of shadowy figures looking at me in the dark. I later learned that my family members thought I was cute when I was sleeping, when I was four or five years old, so they were actually coming in to say “aw”.


54 posted on 03/29/2015 10:54:59 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: MNDude
Home alone, 11 years old on a cool summer night. Heard a noise in the back bedroom, window was open. Closed it. I then hit the light switch and heard the window being opened.

I tore out of that house so quick and ran to the neighbors for all I was worth. He got his gun and flashlight, went to his back yard.

Turned out it was my brother, playing a joke on me.

55 posted on 03/29/2015 11:04:15 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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To: Ellendra

“At the age of 26 I was diagnosed with a mild case of central sleep apnea, which might explain the fear.”

That’s actually very interesting in that the unconscious seemed to know what was happening to your body as you slept.


56 posted on 03/29/2015 11:13:19 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: laplata

A house we lived in in Saguache Colorado had an opening to the attic which scared me to death! I was always in fear of something grabbing me and pulling me into the attic!

Years later, the TULSA WORLD, had a cartoon strip (on Sunday) THE GOOD OLD DAYS, which showed the same fear in lots of kids, some ghostly arms coming out of an opening in the closet ceiling which would grab them and pull them up!


57 posted on 03/29/2015 11:15:02 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That’s scary.

I’ve been through Saguach many times.


58 posted on 03/29/2015 11:18:53 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: MNDude

Swallowing my tongue. My older brother told me stories of my cousin swallowing his tongue and he had to pull it back out, quite a common occurence really says he.. I used to bite down on it when I went to sleep at night so it would not fall in. Evil brother, I was about 7 years old. It took me a few years before I realized my cousin had epilepsy and you can’t really swallow your tongue.


59 posted on 03/29/2015 11:21:51 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: MNDude

The hands under the bed. Probably from Hitchcock’s episode on the pianist whose renown came from supernaturally—and evil—hands.

Turns out I was abused.


60 posted on 03/29/2015 11:24:41 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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