When I was a kid (I’m guessing 5), there was a house nearby where my grandma lived which had a statue of a small dog outside their house. The eyes on this statue were made of glass, and looked incredibly real. I remember standing there staring at the thing, extremely tempted to try and touch the eyes just so I could convince myself that the thing wasn’t alive 🤣. I probably stood there for about 5 min before I finally got the courage to touch it and realized it was just glass.
I was convinced that thing was going to bite me when I touched it.
The cover art for the Ghoulies movies freaked me out, like I would make a big deal about checking the toilet for those little goblins & needing the main light on in the bathroom so I could be sure they were not hiding in the toilet shadows. I was fine with a lot of other spooky stuff (and love horror now) but those goofy af toilet goblins were a major concern for years.
Robot voices! No clue why. Loved Portal as a kid, but had to play it muted because GLaDOS freaked me the hell out.
Sink Holes. I was an early reader and somehow picked up a book on sink holes and for years I thought any hole in the ground would suddenly open up and swallow me and my family whole.
Really, a better question would be what didn’t frighten me as a kid, but my most disruptive fear was of construction equipment (excavators, backhoes, etc). When I was in kindergarten, I refused to get out of the car to go to school for nearly a week because there was construction being finished on the school grounds.
As a boy I was allowed to watch the movie „The fearless vampire killers“ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers) but I didn’t understand that this was comedy. The movie scared the soul out of me, I couldn’t sleep that night and have trouble falling asleep with my neck not covered since then.
About 20 years later I talked about that movie with a colleague and she was like „yeah, that’s funny“ and I was „no, that’s a horror movie“. She convinced me to rewatch it and I realized how funny it is and that it’s not scary at all.
But I hate vampires now. Forever.
When I was in 5th grade, I was worried about vampires, so I started wearing a cross. But I was an atheist and I didn’t want anyone to think I was a christian, so I also wore a star of david.
That took a turn! And what did people think about you then?
I always tried to avoid letting the water heater see me. I thought it would kill me with its flames if it spotted me.
My uncle jokingly told me.that if I farted and hiccuped at the same time I’d die. I was like 7. I fell for it. Bad. He had to call me at like 11 at night to tell me it wasn’t true and just a joke so that I could stop crying and actually go to sleep that night. All because I got the hiccups and started to feel gassy…
This is definitely the best one so far 🤣
Thomas the tank engine theme. I have no freaking idea why
To be fair, the original had some pretty disturbing scenes. I still remember the one where a train refused to leave a tunnel. So they bricked him in, left him there, and that was the end of the episode!
