Here's one I still have (And someday, I want to make a horror movie using this as a scene) - Snakes in the toilet. Think about it - you are sitting there, you can't see what might have crawled into the basin while you were there, and (for guys) there are certain very tender spots just within reach....

I've known people who got RATS that way.

I'm terrified of moths, caterpillars and butterflies.

And they hate me. They target me. They hunt me.

I need to go hide under the covers now.

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Geeeze, I still don't like driving over open grate work bridges... it doesn't terrify me, but it gives me the willies (and I don't like that my car hops around with little traction on them). LOL

I used to be afraid of Elmo.
My sisters and I had this Elmo doll and my sister painted his eyes with glow in the dark nailpolish or something, and it used to freak me out so much. I didn't really have a fear of monsters until I was about 7, when I got my own room (I used to sleep in the same room as two of my sisters so the dark and monsters didn't exist to me).

I have a really horrible fear now of things grabbing my limbs if they dangle over the bed (which is really silly as my bed does not have space under it) or things reaching out to grab my feet on the bed and I have to have the covers completely over them.
I'm also afraid of having the doors open (closet mainly but sometimes the main door), I guess they are a kind of barrier for me, as with the blinds on my window.

I was never afraid of clowns though, or serial killers because my sisters used to watch horror movies all the time and sometimes I'd watch with them (though the ending of one of the movies we watched terrified me enough to run out of the room screaming )

oh sweet childhood fears i had a few too...

like many in here i couldn't leave my feet or hands dangling out of the edges of the bed. I also never slept uncovered, in my mind i thought that my bed had an invisible protection around it, so i made sure i was covered and all my limbs were inside 'the protection area'

I also had a huge fear of portraits and statues, especially religious ones. When i was a child i spent alot of time at my grandma's and i remember that all around the house there were these religious portraits or statues, in one room there was a huge crucifix with Jesus on it, and i remember i couldn't stand it, i was terrified of it, same goes for the bust of a flagellated Jesus, i would just pass super fast in front of those or if possible avoid them completely. Also i remember that there was a room on the roof and it had a smaller room which had some really old things my grandma used to keep. and there was this huge portrait of the virgin Mary and it would freak me out, i always thought she was looking at me all the time. This house was really old so all these stuff made it even more creepy i still hate religious statues and portraits, they give me the creeps.

another of my fears was the shadows at night, i remember starring at the ceiling at night and the street light coming in from the window made some strange shadows against the ceiling, and i would think they are ghosts/ or monsters looking at me.

Santa Clause. At christmas I was afraid to go downstairs, not because I thought Sanata wouldn't give me presents if caught him but because the idea of an old fat man in my house didn't sit well with me. One year I peed my pants cause I didn't want to go downstairs to go potty. I was afraid of the reindeer too...because I assumed they bite. Luckily I only believed in Santa for like three years.

It can't just be a coincidence! He's here to get us all, I tells ya.

& Welcome to the forum.

When I was younger, I couldn't sleep unless the room was completely black, OR it was light. In the half light, you can see the shadows of completely normal things, but then the more you look at them they sort of change inside your own head and become monsters or something. Well I used to anyway.
Also, one night when I was nine, I was watching telly quietly with my parents, and they sort of didn't realise I was still up and watched The Exorcist. I didnt get a wink of sleep for MONTHS!
I was scared absolutely sh!tless, but the plus side is I haven't found any movie as scary since, so when me and my friends are watching the 'scariest movie of the year' and they're crapping themselves, I'm laughing!

This tale might have had its genesis in W. F. (William Fryer) Harvey's famous British horror story "The Beast with Five Fingers," which was made into a motion picture around 1946 or 1947.