What Scared You?
 

Disney's Sleeping Beauty came out when I was a child. Maleficent scared the holy crap out of me, far worse than the Wicked Witch of Oz, the witch in Snow White, or anything on this earth, and my parents had to keep pointing out that the prince killed her in the end. It's still a running family joke.

Now she has returned.:( She's featured in Disney's Kingdom Keepers books and online games and on all these pins and I just now read that Angelina Jolie is starring as Maleficent in a new Disney movie about the green witch's early life. I thought she was dead. :(

What scared you when you were a child? Or still does?

Wrote this in a different thread a couple years back

The Riki Tiki Tavi TV movie scared me to death when I was a kid.

"Very few mongooses, however old and wise, care to follow a cobra into its hole. You never know when the hole may open out and give the cobra room to strike"

I had the same problem with the Watership Down movie. My kids don't get to watch that until they're at least 12.

"Can you run? I think not."

Movies: The Rescuers, the animated Robin Hood, Fox and the Hound, Bambi, and the fat guy who sang that "Mine" song from Pocahontas. I don't know what it is but some of the older Disney movies that were animal-only just creeped me out. Maleficent scared me too, Carnation.

Also, public toilets and flushing toilets in general.

The lane lines on the bottom of the pool creeped me out. I always thought they were going to turn into Jaws.

Did I mention that I was extremely nearsighted from an early age?

Dumbo's pink elephants on parade (scene where Dumbo trips on acid) scared me when I was a little kid.

This scene from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure would scare the crap out of me too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Pdlxd_rro

Mine were the grates of the filter - there had to be sharks down there, hence the iron cage bars.

So glad I wasn't the only one!!

When I was 8, we had a book in our "free reading" bookshelf at school that had a picture of (this is how I remember it) an ogre robbing a grave. I don't know why but it scared the crap out of me, and I remember having a dream about it. After that, and ever since then, I have to have the curtains completely closed when I sleep - if they don't overlap in the middle and there's a sliver of light coming through, I'm afraid that ogre from the book will be able to come into my room and get me. This has gotten better since I have a nice big cat who sleeps on my bed or somewhere in my room and who will undoubtedly protect me. :)

The other scary dream I used to have (when I was 9-10) was that I was trapped in a car that was going backwards down the hill on the main road by our house. I'm guessing that meant I felt like I had no control in my life. I sucked in my breath for a long time when we went up that hill.

Maleficient scared me when I was youn, but I now think she is AWESOME.

One of the original "Wizard of Oz" books featured creatures with pumpkin heads who threw their heads at Dorothy -scary, scary picture haunted me.

Oh yeah. Those things were full of evil.

Ditto! I would immediately turn the TV off when it came on.

Also, I used to have 2 recurring dreams as a kid. In the first one, a giant snowman chased me. In the other one, a trolley car chased me on subway tracks. So, in certain situations, I was afraid of snowmen and train tracks next to raised platforms.

^^ Y'all are losers lol That show did nothing to me

Well, you were like 16 when that show was airing! :P

I once put this somewhere else on GC but when the Disney Kingdom Keeper books came out, I emailed Ridley Pearson and told him about my horror of Maleficent over the years and asked him why he resurrected her anyway. He wrote something to the effect of, "I have this THING for Maleficent!"

Aggh. I better get used to her being back, it seems. Soon after Sleeping Beauty came out, my mother put these sweeping black curtains in one of the bathrooms and commented, "Hey, they look like Maleficent's robes!" That was it, I was out of there, didn't go back in that bathroom for months.

^^ I love Disney villains, and Maleficent is one of my favorites :)

I was flat out terrified of riding a bicycle. Refused to learn until about 4th grade.

(I'm a triathlete now.)

My sister dressed up as Maleficent for Halloween a few years ago. She loves Halloween and she went all out...the creepy tinted skin, the horned head, everything. Sounds like she could have gotten a lot of candy at some of your houses, when you dropped the bucket and ran away screaming!
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1) Yes, you are losers. Tales From the Darkside - now THAT was a scary show!

2) WTF?!!!

Pool grates!

I didn't think there were sharks in there, but every kid I knew from swim team was convinced that you could get a finger trapped in one and then drown. We'd dare each other touch them. The grate in the diving team's dive well was particularly scary because it was 12 feet down.

This, oh that was sooo scary! Especially the one about the doll houses.

I have an older sister (8 years older) and I always wanted to watch whatever she was watching. When I was 6 she was watching "IT" with her friends. Needless to say, clowns scared (and still scare) the bejeezus outta me.

This song. Still scares me to this day.
http://youtu.be/gMLPnk9-6MM

^^^ I'm not even going to click on that link. I'm too scared! (seriously)

Some of you mofos on GC scare the shit out of me LOL.

I have a distinct memory of being 3 or 4 years old, watching "Sleeping Beauty" from inside an empty laundry hamper (looking out through the holes). Maleficent couldn't get me in there!

Why my parents let my terrified toddler self keep watching the movie, I'll never know.

Anything with UFOs or aliens. It always led to bad dreams.

However, nothing is more anxiety-inducing for me than playing volleyball in gym class. I still REFUSE to play it to this day.

I'm right there with you. My brother had me watch Jaws a little too early in my childhood. I didn't learn how to swim until I was 20. I'm going to Hawaii this summer and am already freaked out about swimming in the ocean.


Also, spiders. I had a dream that one was big enough to cover my entire bedroom ceiling. Still get freaked out when one is around.

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Fires and tornadoes. The scene in the Wizard of Oz when the witch sets the scarecrow on fire was terrifying to me. I had recurrent tornado dreams. I still get pretty anxious about tornadoes when we have a warning but am also fascinated by them and watch all the tornado chaser type shows on The Weather Channel.

The Kiss faces. My brother had Kiss stickers on the outside of his bedroom door, which was directly at the end of the hall so you couldn't walk down the hall without them staring at you. When they finally went public without their makeup, I still found them all to be creepy!

I used to freak out about bad weather from like kindergarten to 3rd grade. I watched the weather channel all the time and storm warnings made me sick to my stomach.

I've grown of the weather thing but one fear I have not grown out of is electricity. LOL Okay, I know that sounds weird, both my parents work for the local power company (it's how they met!) and I've heard horror stories of accidents on the job site. That's the only rationale I can come up with for my fear, anyway.

The one that got me was the one where the vampire came out of the movie screen and terrorized the teens who worked in the theater. I couldn't sleep for a month, convinced he lived in my closet.
Stooooooppppp!!!! *covers eyes*

I was scared of just about everything so the list is pretty long. I'll give the abbreviated version:

*Ants (the only actual phobia I've ever had)
*Chucky from Child's Play
*The Crypt Keeper on Tales from the Crypt
*When Ursula dies on The Little Mermaid and you see her skeleton
*The Thriller video (I still can't watch this alone and at night)
*Ghostface from the Scream movies (again, cannot watch these alone at night)

Aaaaand finally, my fingers would often spasm as I was falling asleep but, being a little kid who knew nothing about muscle spasms, it was much more plausible that little dude from Leprechaun lived under my pillow and was trying to eat my thumbs.

As a young child, I was convinced that there was a monster in there just waiting to come out. And, flushing pissed him off. So, I'd flush and make a mad dash for the door.

I was raised on horror movies (read: My dad showed my 2nd grade sister and I the Hell-Raiser movies while my mom was moving the family from ND to NC), so none of the "horror" type stuff bothers me.

One of my childhood friends told us about "Mary Worth" & her legend. After that, I was always scared to go to the bathroom at night in the dark because I'd always think of the story.

Is that like "Bloody Mary"? Two of my adult daughters still won't look into a mirror at night!

I think that it is similar. I don't remember much about the story, but supposedly if you looked into a mirror in the dark she would show up. If you did it with a group of kids & chanted her name she always did (a bunch of kids could always imagine this). It was sort of like a seance, which we did a few times. One time the mother of one of my friends joined us & that time it was really scary.

My mom took me to see Wizard of Oz when I was about 3. It was in one of the old big theatres. It scared the beejeezus out of me and I cried all the way home.

I still don't like that movie.