What Scared You?

amIblue? · #1 06-22-2012, 04:39 PM

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?

PiKA2001 · #2 06-22-2012, 04:53 PM

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

AlphaFrog · #3 06-22-2012, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by amIblue?

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?

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

KKGCaroline · #4 06-22-2012, 05:13 PM

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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!!

33girl · #5 06-22-2012, 05:23 PM

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.

SWTXBelle · #6 06-22-2012, 05:45 PM

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.

carnation · #7 06-22-2012, 06:35 PM

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

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.

WCsweet<3 · #8 06-23-2012, 01:20 AM

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

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So glad I wasn't the only one!!

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.

amIblue? · #9 06-22-2012, 05:48 PM

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

Oh yeah. Those things were full of evil.

KSUViolet06 · #10 06-22-2012, 05:53 PM

Are You Afraid of the Dark? on SNICK (Saturday nights on Nickelodeon.)

pshsx1 · #11 06-22-2012, 05:59 PM

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Are You Afraid of the Dark? on SNICK (Saturday nights on Nickelodeon.)

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.

KSUViolet06 · #12 06-22-2012, 06:11 PM

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Ditto! I would immediately turn the TV off when it came on.
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See, I would watch it, then be scared when it was time for bed. lol.

Tulip86 · #13 06-22-2012, 07:33 PM

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Are You Afraid of the Dark? on SNICK (Saturday nights on Nickelodeon.)

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.

KDCat · #14 06-22-2012, 07:31 PM

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.