Things That Scared You As A Child- Page 3
Things That Scared You As A Child
#50re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 1:56am
For some odd reason, I was scared of the fuzz at the end of a VHS?
Along with that, I was also scared of:
The dark
People outside my family (until I turned three, anyway)
Enclosed Spaces
The Haunted Mansion ride at Disney (funnily enough, I love it now)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#51re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 9:08am
Poltergeist (especially when Heather O'Rourke said "they're heeeeeeeeere")
Chucky and over-sized demonic looking dolls. We had an old Betty Big Girl doll and by the time she got to me, girl was BEAT. She was in AWFUL shape and spooky as hell. Of course, she didnt bother me when I was little.... it wasnt until I was much, much older that I realized just how demonic she looked and was terrified of her.
As for the white 'fuzz' at the end of a VHS, my mother says I used to stare at it as if I saw something in it. Creepy! Ditto the black, dead air in between commercials.
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
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#52re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 11:35amAs a child I was always afraid of dogs. They just always seemed so ferocious to me. Also, I was deathly afraid of our pediatrician. He was the sweetest man yet I was always afraid of him.
"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.
#53re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 11:39amCount me as another kid scared by static at the end of tapes.
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#54re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 11:41am
Headless mannequins, which I called "Dummy Dolls." I always hid in department stores, saying the dummy dolls were going to get me.
And the cartoon version of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown." Right before "Suppertime," Snoopy has a dream sequence in which he turns into a skeleton. That terrified me for some reason, and my sisters used to queue up the tape and play it when I walked into a room to torment me.
Updated On: 3/8/07 at 11:41 AM
#55re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 11:42am
The Exorcist
Cockroaches
Ghosts (we lived across the street from the cemetery)
UFOs - it was the 70s after all
1999
Celebrate Life
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
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#56re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 11:51ambeing kidnapped, quicksand, the mummy, caterpillars, waterbugs, snakes
peach
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#57re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 11:58am
From what my parents tell me, I was afraid of:
butterflies
facial hair (would run like mad from any man with a mustache or beard)
Updated On: 3/8/07 at 11:58 AM
#58re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:01pmThe glass breaking sound effect at the end of Mungojerry and Rumpleteaser on the CATS OBC Album. My dad bought the LP when it came out and I always used to plug my ears at the end of the song. Seems foolish now but it terrified me as a 4 year old.
I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them
#59re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:01pm
Oh, and AIDS.
I'm not saying that flippantly. Remember, I was growing up in the early 80s, and what I saw on TV terrified me. I was too young to understand how it was transmitted, so I didn't believe my parents when they told me there was no way I could catch it just by walking around outside. There was one TV movie that really scared me, but I don't remember which one.
#60re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:04pm
grabage trucks
Having my closet door open even a little
Michael Jackson's Thriller video
some scenes in Beatlejuice
the JABBERWALKY
Sunchips: Best Kept Secret in the chip aisle!!
#61re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:05pmThe prayin' closet that Mama made me go to when I got my period.
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#62re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:07pm
Due to Regan era b*llsh*t and Red Ribbon Week(aka Drug Awareness Week) my sister was terrified of drugs. She would have nightmares about a witch trying to make her drink drugs and wake up crying. Which goes to prove those programs did nothing as she didn't even know names or anything. It was just a word, but a terrifying one.
Oh oh and old haunted house sound effect records and tapes scared the piss outta me.
I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them
#63re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:08pmI remember having nightmares after watching the movie The Blob! It really made an impression. Also Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds was very scary!
"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends." - Shirley MacLaine
#64re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:10pm
CM, I had the same experience. I just knew when I got to middle school, there would be shadowy figures waiting around every corner wanting to throw cocaine down my throat, which would make me freak out and jump out a third-story window.
Man, the 80s sucked.
#65re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:14pmHm... the 80's was great to be a teenager. All that makeup, music...
Celebrate Life
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#66re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:16pm
Not to be a kid!
On top of all that, we had Reagan with his finger on the nukes button.
But we also had Nu Shooz, so it all balanced out.
Updated On: 3/8/07 at 12:16 PM
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#67re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:25pmand dont forget, we had slap bracelets. Which are, I think, the coolest bracelet possible.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
#68re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:26pmAnd Showbiz Pizza. Before that rat took it over.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#69re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 12:34pm
I forgot to mention dogs. I was deathly afraid of dogs. That fear still pops up every now and then, depending on the dog and how big and/or intimidating it appears to be.
We had a doberman that attacked me when I was three.
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
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#70re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/8/07 at 1:59pm
CJR's boobs.
But then I learned to love them.
And now I can't get enough.
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#71re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/10/07 at 11:02am
Ruth Roman in The Baby 
Anthony Hopkins and "Fats" in Magic
FeelingElectric
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#72re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/11/07 at 7:40amThe Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again with Vincent Price. Those movies are just creepy, and I still can't watch them to this day.
Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
"Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield
#73re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/11/07 at 9:17amCarol Channing in Alice in Wonderland. I recently saw a clip and there was nothing to be afraid of, but I just couldn't see the woman!
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#74re: Things That Scared You As A Child
Posted: 3/11/07 at 9:59am
As a child:
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (the scene were the people underground are worshipping the bomb, and they remove their "skin masks" to reveal these bald, vein-covered faces. I had nightmares for weeks, but I was about six or seven at the time.
My dad used to play opera music for me all the time as a child. And I was fascinated with Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street," but when she has the stigmata and the vision of Jesus being nailed to the cross... and you can hear the hammer hitting the metal spikes in the music... I was scared sh*tless. I was probably five years old. It was the first time I realized how powerful music can be. My dad said I came back the next day and asked him to play it again for me.
Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West. Still the best movie villain ever.
Any really dark hallway, where I couldn't see what was lurking in the shadows beyond.
Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows.
Night Gallery
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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