I would always leave a nightlight on in my room and would always sleep with my head under the covers. I still do I don't know why but I'm scared to be all alone in a dark room.
When I was younger the attic would freak me out It doesn't anymore though

I was afraid of someone being in my house. My parents and my oldest sister used to do janitorial work at night and would leave me alone in the house by myself from about 2:00 till morning. And they took our attack dog with them... so I was totally alone at night and I was only in 4th grade when they started this. I would have to get up to my alarm clock and get myself ready for school and get the the bus stop with no help at all. Well one night when they were gone, a neighbor lady that lived two doors up was murdered. My friends older sister used to babsit for this lady and her kids went and go their babysitter when they couldn't wake up mommy on the livingroom floor. So I got a full account of the claw marks on her neck and all. I was at home alone that night and as far as I know they never found the killer. So needless to say I was scared to death from that point on. I slept with my whole body, including my head, under the covers. I only left my nose out so I could breath! lol And I would lay as flat as I could. I thought it would look like no one was in the bed. When I would have to get up I would turn on every light in the house on and check every closet. Then when I was in the bathroom getting ready I would lock the door and push the rugs up against the door so that no one could open it. Then of course I would have to check the whole house out again. That and I used to hear a radio playing in my ceiling. lol

Several scary things that I thought when I was little that aliens were attacking my house, scorpians lived under my bed, dogs were robots, we were under attack by killer babies, dinosaurs ate all the trees by were I lived (praries), and when I was 6 I was told by an older kid that Canada was a boat that was sinking every day

Man, I was scared on alot of stuff. But these are the tops
*I always hated getting laundry outta the basement when I was little, I would run up and down the steps as fast as I could to get it done and over with. (now I live in that basement, not too bad now that it is finished)
*Clowns (still hate them thanks to IT)
*I really was scared to poo at other peoples houses. (I still run water if I gotta go but not as scared)
* CHRISTOPHER WALKEN!!!!! (he still gives me the heeby geebies!)
*shiver* *shiver*

What scared me most when I was a kid was the thought of getting kidnapped. It's about all I can come up with, seeing as not much got to me.

I was scared of my grandparents basement. It always felt like someone was following me up and down the stairs and that someone was staring at me. It was also very cold down there. When I was little I had a bat fly at me there.

I love that show,

for some reason i HATE clowns theres just something about a pale face and huge feet *shutters*not cool

When I was really young I was scared to death of Sleeping
Beauties evil queen with the dragons and all (disney's old
animated one). Also the wicked witch in the wizard of oz.

Then I got a little older and started reading Fate magazine,
I knew most of it was b.s. but the way people discribed
mothman creeped me out a bit, it was a bit too real...

Oh yeah, that and school.

Clowns......They are so bad

Dark, grew up with glasses - poor eyesight form all sorts of unsightly things.

Now I have contact lenses. Still hate the dark though.

i was scared of the dark. my cousin would tell ghost stories that would scare me so bad, and i couldn't sleep alone or without covering my head and a light of somesort.

This is going to sound odd, and i probably will not be able to explain it in a way that you can understand, but here we go...
When i was a kid, i would lay in my bed at night and all of the sudden i would have these odd feelings like the whole world was getting very large, then very small, then large and round and bulbous, then very small and thin agian... But not the physical world, the world in my mind. I would have a feeling of, whats the word im looking for, time and space shift. I would try to understand what was going on in my mind, but then i would open my eyes and everything was back to normal. It used to worry me. i just coldnt understand what was happening. It was all in my head, nothing outside... And only when my eyes were closed. sorry, i cant explain any better than that.

Those weird shapes and shadowy figures that my little mind played on me while in the dark

Used to be this commercial when I was a kid , had this vaguely pyscedelic them to it, it was a public service announcement to be careful with poisonous items . . I think it was called Mr. Yuck or something . . something about it just gave me the creeps

It was the window(s) that frightened me ,especially at my grandmothers. I would think about sounds of the wind on the other side...can I say more?

i used to be scared of arnold schwarzeneger as the terminator, he scared the crap out of me! and many other things

MM I couldn't get the intro clip to work, but that is a cool site

I loved that show especially baby sinclaire!

What scared me as a child is still what scares me as an adult. Spiders. Eww!

Oh...and my monster in the shadows

what scared me most was not being able to explain something. As a child i was a brat that had to have all the answers.

Someone must have read Darfall, by Dean Koontz?? Anyway, it involves these little creatures, in vents, killing people.


Seriously, to this day, I'm very wary of vents. Not like I used to be, but the thought's always there.

Also, UFOs.

When I was little, my grandfather was watching this movie about an alien abduction, and it involved the man lying on a metal table, and a sheet covering his body and tightening. *shivers*
I always thought that aliens lived in the basement of my old house. I'd always play down there, untill one day I was like "nooooo f-ing way".

I also hated sleeping with the bedroom door closed. I figured if aliens were to abduct me, I'd be trapped. THEN I became scared to sleep with it open, just incase I'd see a ghost/alien standing out there.


But honestly, a fear that's still as intense as the day it was founded, was the Thunderbirds. Not the cryptid. The show. With the puppets. There's something so...wrong.. about them. I cry when I see them, and people think its just a big joke, and always show them, but I get really weird feelings when watching them.

ME TOO!

It's gotten easier, but when I was younger. PHEW.
And him in Sleepy Hollow? My god, I thought I was gonna die.

My biggest fear as a child was what I would dream at night. I rarely had good or normal dreams. They almost always involved me having to fight and what I was fighting had really long claws or swords.

Elspeth

The dark and i still am, well it aint the dark i am scared of it's what is inside which is unexplainable.

My grandparents basement gave me the creeps. It was always cold down there. You would have bats flying at you while sitting on the toilet(the only toilet in the house). Noone wants to sit on a toilet and have to deal with a bat

I wasn't really afraid of snakes but when I was about 5 I lived in a small town in Saskachewan was when I had my first expirence with a snake, I was on my trycicle going to do laps around the driveway and I found a dead garter snake or bullsnake (I was 5, how the hell could I identify a snake?) and I thought I was the one who killed it, so I thought the police were going to arrest me for murder. So when ever a police car drove by my house I would scream and hide behind the garage.

i was afraid of moths cuz anytime they were around me they would always fly into my hair and get caught---it would freak me out....

Mirrors
I have aways had the fear that one day I would turn my head and suddently see "something" stand in the mirror. (Especially the scary girl from the ring.)

Plus I have always felt something bad about mirrors, so I generally don't like them.

When i was a young kid, i used to visit my grandma's house quite often in the summer holidays and she used to tell me these ghostly stories about the weird little ghost girl that lived upstairs. This story always gave me the creeps and when i used to go upstairs, on about the sixth step i used have a feeling of tightness and the air and atomsphere was very unwelcoming, it really made me think about her story as she claimed that the house was really haunted and that the ghost girl really existed. I never actually saw an apparition but i used to hear the most strangest sounds coming from certain rooms upstairs and right up to about the age of 9 the house scared me rotten

The movie Poltergeist did me in. To this day clowns scare the crap out of me.

BoJangles is scared of nothing, he's seen it all. BoJangle's trusty twelve gauge takes all the bad things away.

Don't be up in BoJangles beard when he gets scared.

I can't really remember being scared as a kid, I guess the usual open closet's, monster under the bed etc, but I do remember I could not sleep when my sister wasn't sleeping in the room with me, I would have to sleep with mum if my sis slept somewhere else for the night.

I was always afraid of the dark and still am but it's a fear that i like it's very exilirating

1. the dark!

2. sleeping with my cupboards partly open

3. scared of stuff under my bed, like if i put my feet on the floor like something would grab them.

4. and dead scared of having my feet, arms or shoulders uncovered when in bed, my whole body minus my head had to be under the covers! duno why...

5. oh ya and when i was like 4 i was really scared of Wee Willie Winkie! my dad would tell me the little rhyme

"Wee willie winkie runs through the town
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown..."

and he'd tell me that if i didnt fall asleep quickly, Winkie would come and take me away so id spend ages trying to fall asleep by holding my breath! (i thought you stopped breathing when you were asleep!)

1.zombies coming to get me.(spend enough time in a graveyard at night, you think all the dead are coming to get you.)

2.possession(I never wanted to be possessed ever....ughhh)

Hmm...First off I'm 14, so really I am still a child...I'm afraid of the whole situation of an outbreak...or another plauge...

I spent a good deal of my childhood in Hannibal, MO. Right on the Mississippi River. During the summer, my parents were on a mud volleyball team. It's what you think and twice as gross. Anyway, they would practice in the river on weekends. My mom always said never go too far out or the current would get you. Well, to a 7 year old who had no clue what currents and rip tides were, assumed it was a creature of some sort. One day, I was out playing in the water and I ventured just a little farther than I had before. Feeling quite brave, went a little further. Well, something underwater brushed my leg, it was probably a twig or some such, all bravery left the building, I screamed and quickly climbed to the very top of the first adult I slammed into. I was perched on his head like a bird. It took me years to go back into the water. The "current" got me and that was all she wrote.

Dark and windows... dark and windows still bother me.. but the windows only bother me in the dark just the thought of something on the other side being able to see in, while i cannot see out.. or the thought everyone has had from time to time, of seeing a window one second, and the next see a face in it illuminated by lightning .... eeeep

For me it was the dark. I used to jump onto my bed as well thinking that something was underneath waiting to get me! And cos i'm tall my feet would hang off the edge...i was always worried I would get dragged under!
Happy to say i've got over all that now!!

My whole life I've been afraid of the dark, but it was worse as a child. I'm not afraid of it because I fear what might be lurking in the dark, it is more a claustrophobia thing. I feel as though I am being swallowed up by the darkness. I only need a very small amount of light to get rid of that feeling. Nowadays I leave a low wattage (25 watts) lamp light on in the hall outside of my bedroom at night, and leave my door open a crack. This lets in a tiny bit of light. Just enough so that I can vaguely make out the dark shapes of the furniture. As long as I have this small amount of light I don't get panicky. As an adult I can now take brief periods of total darkness without getting too panicky, though my heart starts to pound. If, however, I am unable to find a flashlight or candle the panic sets in. When I was a child I had to have a night light in my room. If, say, during the night the power went out and I woke up while it was out I'd become hysterical. Even my parents holding me and comforting me didn't help.

I was never really scared of the dark... I am scared of falling down the stairs, or just falling in general...

When I was five or so I was freaked that when I'd go to bed at night, just when I would fall asleep, Freddy Kreugers blades would come out of the mattress I was laying on and skewer me. No freddy, just the blades...

well...

two fears i faced as a child are:
1) werewolves. my parents were naturalists and I spent a lot of time out in the backcountry as a child. I never feared the "natural" animals, but sometimes felt like something else was out there and that something was werewolves and they were going to get me and turn me into one!
2) cows. first time i got to see a farm and these beasts just raise their tail and poop. well i feared getting crapped on or trampled for a while after that experience.

I had and still do have a very active imagination so i scared myself more than anything else really. But clowns and dolls freaked me out and still do.

I've always been afraid of the dark, and my imagination didn't make anything easier, so just about everything could give me nightmares if I put it in the wrong context...
But clowns and especially insects scared me alot!

There were a few things I was afraid of as a kid. 1) Even before Jaws came out I had an irrational fear of great white sharks. Would dream of going camping and they would be swimming in river waiting for me. 2) Ghosts really scared me as a kid 3) and the dark. I use to turn the lights on to wherever I was walking, turn on the next light before turning the last one off.

Why do people find clowns so scary? I know the movie IT didn't help much but they're suppose to make us laugh...what's up with that? Anyone know?

hehe good question. I think cus they just look way too unnaturally happy and all and all have a creey feel about them. Oddly enough my fear of clowns went away when i was like 15 and seen marylin manson in concert. I dont know why that cured it tho. I think maybe after that i found freaks and oddities really cool.

Well, they do wear about the same amount of face makeup lol

When I was extremely little...the only thing I was afraid of were fish like these sons of b*****s:



I thought those things would be able to float around my room or something.

I'm still not really afraid of much...my main fear is dying before I get to do anything with myself or helping certain people out.