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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: MNDude

“Crawling hand” movies. Scared me witless. Of course, my Dad exploited it to the greatest extent possible.


81 posted on 03/30/2015 4:25:27 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: MNDude

Missing supper - played so hard and long (unsupervised) that calories were a necessity.


82 posted on 03/30/2015 4:26:59 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MNDude

Nocturnal visit from Frankenstein.


83 posted on 03/30/2015 4:28:45 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: MNDude

During the Wizard of Oz, when the talking tree came on, I freaked and ran out of the living room. Couldn’t watch the rest until I knew that part was over.


84 posted on 03/30/2015 4:49:04 AM PDT by reaganbooster (The democrat party symbol should be the grim reaper instead of the donkey.)
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To: MNDude

Not afraid of much after about 4, but was afraid the escalator would flatten out (like in the cartoons?).


85 posted on 03/30/2015 5:13:17 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: MNDude
Jaws.

I'm not kidding, I lived in central Indiana and I was terrified of Jaws getting me. After I saw the movie, I didn't even want to get in the bathtub for a while. Then the fear sort-of morphed into a fear of any hole with water in it. And it wasn't just childhood, I carried that around for years. If it was full of water and I couldn't see the bottom, I wouldn't go near it. Even to this day when I water ski or anything like that, I have to force myself. And yes, everyone completely makes fun of me.

I also thought there was a ghost living in the storage room connected to my attic bedroom when I was young.

86 posted on 03/30/2015 5:14:42 AM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: 21twelve
Well - he deserved it. For killing The Duke and all.

Once in a while, I receive a text from my oldest friend that says "Bruce Dern is a dick!" I don't have to ask what's on television. Before we had texting, the same message used to be delivered via voice message / answering machine.

I told my friend that if I outlive him, I'm going to work this subject into his obituary. He heartily concurs.

87 posted on 03/30/2015 5:18:50 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: MNDude
Biggest childhood fear.


88 posted on 03/30/2015 5:24:53 AM PDT by petercooper ("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
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To: Sequoyah101

I used to dream about falling and always landed on my feet. I also dreamed I could fly. Flew over our house and saw it from above. Love to fly. With a sane pilot.

After I saw jaws I didn’t go to the beach for 20 years. I hate sand. I did touch a baby shark off Emerald Isle, NC. Hope to move back soon.

http://bogueinletpier.com/


89 posted on 03/30/2015 5:28:43 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

My memory must be wacked. I keep reading posts and remembering stuff. One time, must have been around 10 or 11, watching a movie with my mother. A crazy lady popped out of a hatch from the CEILING in a big old victorian house. We both screamed. Don’t watch horror flicks or read murder mysteries. I read the news.


90 posted on 03/30/2015 5:41:51 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: MNDude

The question — what is the universe contained in?


91 posted on 03/30/2015 5:43:14 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: MNDude

The Flying Monkees in the “Wizar of Oz”


92 posted on 03/30/2015 5:44:51 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Ellendra

evil and dark. I had a 2 week period when I thought the demons were after me. It ended after laying in bed paralyzed with fear and the foot of the bed rising about 6 inches? Not sure how high since it was dark. Never felt that way again.


93 posted on 03/30/2015 5:49:15 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: stylin19a

That’s a rough one.


94 posted on 03/30/2015 5:55:24 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Don W

Nah, not armstrongism, but a completely different group.


95 posted on 03/30/2015 6:36:44 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: EternalVigilance

Know what you mean.

When you grow up with “Duck and cover and kiss your ass goodbye” there’s not much else that will really scare you.


96 posted on 03/30/2015 6:39:17 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: MNDude

When I was little? Under the bed.

Now? Leftists.


97 posted on 03/30/2015 6:41:26 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: MNDude

clowns


98 posted on 03/30/2015 6:46:53 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: huldah1776

Must have been THE HAUNTING.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_%281963_film%29


99 posted on 03/30/2015 6:48:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: MNDude

Paying for air.


100 posted on 03/30/2015 6:48:13 AM PDT by onedoug
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