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By *ea monkey OP Man
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

What random thing used to scare you as a kid?

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

My mother

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

Bumping into Santa if I needed to go for a wee on Christmas Eve

. I was terrified. Had to shout my mum or dad to take me to the loo

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Lots of children’s TV including that googly eyed bugger, Zippy from Rainbow.

Also some of the illustrations in Ladybird books - most notably the depiction of the troll in The Three Billygoats Gruff

(it was a bloody terrifying looking bastard!)

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By *ellhungvweMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham

Lifts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Burglars. Used to be scared if I got up in the night that I’d catch them and they’d [redacted] me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The look" I used to get if I pushed my mother's buttons to far

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Windows with curtains not drawn and mirrors x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Other children.. still the same now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scooby Doo

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Dark stairs in the house and ticking clocks.

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By *ustamanMan
over a year ago

weymouth

Cybermen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to have a record of Larry the lamb and the voices and music scared the poop outta me

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

The Hulk. As soon as his shirt started ripping I’d be off!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When the powers at be would test the flood warning siren it would invoke absolute terror in me as it was the same as an air raid siren from the movies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Earwigs i thought they ate your brains

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

The attic hatch always gave me chills. Even now I always keep a wary eye on them, wherever I be.

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By *eardedvillainMan
over a year ago

Bangor N.Ireland

The magic roundabout theme tune

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaws - I flat refused to use the bath for weeks afterwards because I feared the shark getting me. I was a smelly kid.

I still fear the open ocean to this day too. I refuse to wade any further than my ankles at the coast.

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple
over a year ago

letchworth

Going upstairs at my nans house and mirrors…..always felt I was being watched lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a He-man book when I was little that had shadow people in it that could appear out of any shadow. And it used to freak me out in the dark.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got sent away to a Bernardo home at three everything scared me new people places

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The magic roundabout theme tune

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also for me it was tales of the unexpected music used to really sh*t me up

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

A folly on the way back from my grans house. Happened to tell my teacher as a kid it was lit up (not normal back my way in the 80's) and he said it was ghosts. I was blinking terrified for years, used to have to close my eyes as we drove past in winter.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

"Cybermen

This ^

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By *valanche1001Man
over a year ago

Leeds

Ghosts, used to love reading ghost stories but scared myself silly

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

"The Hulk. As soon as his shirt started ripping I’d be off! "

My mate used to be scared of him as well so we used to hum the soundtrack to him, the one at the end were Dr Banner is always trying to thumb a lift home from somewhere. He used to see his arse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The school bullies.

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By *NL Social SpurschickWoman
over a year ago

Social Zone

Dolls - hated them then and still do

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Dr who

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By *ophie199Couple
over a year ago

Leeds

Frank Sidebottom, that head still freaks me out now!

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By *ophie199Couple
over a year ago

Leeds

Oh and Planes I was convinced they were going to drop a bomb

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cybermen

This ^"

This, used to watch from behind the sofa when those fuckers came on....

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

Earwigs

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

I don't recall being particularly scared by anything. I wasn't (and am not) keen on swimming in the sea if there's jellyfish but when I saw a girl on holiday when I was about 11, who'd been stung by jellyfish, it made perfectly rational sense to me and still does. Her leg was a horrible mess and she spent several nights in hospital.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going in a lift I always thought I’d crash straight to the bottom

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

"Earwigs

One bit my youngest son, left a fairly decent mark on him

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

"Earwigs

One bit my youngest son, left a fairly decent mark on him

One fell from my shed roof and down the back of my T-shirt

now I just call them crawling fuck nos

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

"Earwigs

One bit my youngest son, left a fairly decent mark on him

One fell from my shed roof and down the back of my T-shirt

now I just call them crawling fuck nos "

My kid calls them his mortal enemies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just Doctor Who

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just the guy in the mask that use to stand at the bottom of my bed, I think he was a butcher because his knife was always dirty?

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

People staring in windows at night from outside

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ghosts"

Miss S x

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

Zelda from terra hawks ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Zelda from terra hawks .."

Fuck, had forgotten about her! She still gives me the creeps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The hulk changing

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

"What random thing used to scare you as a kid? "

Chocolate not stored in the fridge.

Still freaks me out to this day

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Zelda from terra hawks ..

Fuck, had forgotten about her! She still gives me the creeps

And that decidedly bloody creepy, German accented, pineapple haired ‘baby’ thing

Side note: Is it just me or did Dr Tiger Ninestein bear an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Sorbo?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People with guns

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By *akingMemoriesMan
over a year ago

Toronto

Getting injections at the doctors. Cried like a baby.

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Pretty much everything

But for this thread what comes to mind is the opening titles to dr who moving through space freaked me out how small and insignificant we really are - still does!

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By *etLikeMan
over a year ago

most fundamental aspects

Jim’ll Fix It

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By *rispyDuckMan
over a year ago

Chinese Takeaway near you

Saw that film 'Predator' when I was round 6-8

traumatised me to this day haha

still can't watch that film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nightmare on elm St, Freddy, then I saw the scene when he's running through the alley and it ruined it. Hellraiser got me too but never scared like I was of freddy!

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By *ildmanYorksMan
over a year ago

Doncaster & Bembridge

Dogs. When I was about 7 years old I was walking home from school across a field when a group of 5 dogs were running wild on the field. They ran into me and sent me flying. I wasn't bitten but I'm still wary of dogs to this day!

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By *urvyBiUnicornWoman
over a year ago

dundee

"Jaws - I flat refused to use the bath for weeks afterwards because I feared the shark getting me. I was a smelly kid.

I still fear the open ocean to this day too. I refuse to wade any further than my ankles at the coast. "

This.

I love swimming, but even now I get this overwhelming fear that a shark is going to pop out of a vent in the swimming pool! I'm funny about the sea too, need to be able to see the bottom! Sometimes I would get brave and venture further out, until something (prob sea) would touch my foot and then I'd nope it all the way back to the shore!!

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