I have an irrational fear of people dressed up in mascot or promotional costumes. As a teenager I was out shopping alone and minding my own business when a guy dressed up as a bowling skittle tried to hand me a flyer. I declined the offer (politely, too!) and he started to follow me. I walked faster and so did he. It got to the point where I was almost running through the shopping centre with a skittle chasing after me.
Now, as an adult, whenever I see the guy who dresses up in a chicken costume and stands on the street corner where I live, I have to cross to the other side of the road. (There's a joke in there somewhere.)
Small towns and rural highways.
Basements - the cold, dark, damp, coal cellar type found in victorian red brick houses. Grew up with them beneath me as a kid and hated, hated, hated having to go down to fill the coal bucket.
"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English." - Korben Dallas, from The Fifth Element
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience?" - George Bernard Shaw
Pirates! F*cking hate the c*nts.
When I was young, I lived on a farm with my folks.
The house was a small farm, set back maybe 400 yards from the main road and it was pretty isolated.
At the end of the drive, there was a big steel 5-bar gate.
I had the task of closing the gate and locking it, most nights.
Now, we had loads of dogs and they pretty much had the run of the place, they'd follow you all around and accompany me as I went about my daily chores.
Generally, they'd come with me as I walked down the dark driveway to lock the gate, but, sometimes, they would just stand at the top of the drive as I walked down.
On nights like this, as I put my hands through and around, to grab the chain, pull it round and lock the padlock, I would have visions of a dead, zombie hand thrusting out of the ground and grabbing my wrist.
I would perform the chore as quickly as possible and run like fuck back to the house!
So, for me, it's zombies... Damned zombies... Eeek
(remind me to tell you about the time with the guy who'd just hacked his parents to bits... true story)
Thunderstorms-they still scare me especially at night
As much as I love water, being in a boat, swimming in a pool or pond, I hate swimming in the ocean. I'll surf, or water ski but not swim. I know what lives in there and when I'm swimming, I'm on it's home turf. Wonder if that's because of the movie Jaws? One of my favorite movies but, no swimming.
- creepy dolls that look like their eyes might move and follow you around and then become animated at night with evil plots to kill you while you sleep
- sharks
- a dark closet (which is why my closets are jam-packed with clothes and shoes so no scary monsters or evil serial killers could fit inside them ~ see, I *have* to keep shopping to ensure my safety!)
When I was at primary school we were constantly being told about the plight of the "black babies" and how hundreds of them where starving to death every day. On a Friday we were supposed to "bring a penny for the black babies". I grew to fear hunger and I still do.
I've never really questioned it much until now, but why after all these years, and more, are black babies still dying in their hundreds every day?
jeepers creepers... dah! i'm still scared of that creature though its just a movie
being buried alive : freaks me out just the thought of it
Alone at night or in the dark going up the stairs, I always have to run as fast as i can, because someone could be chasing me! Still happens dammit!
When I was around 10 or so I think it was some of the then Dr. Who episodes would give me terrible nightmares and I always remember one in particular which I can still picture in my head some 40 years later.
The CYBERMEN !! .. story was a human base on another planet and these aliens would in the midle of the night enter the complex un-noticed and steal people and leave a sack of well I dont know think sand in their place. The Cybermen had full length silver suits and like horns from their shoulders to their heads .. the episodes really freaked me out !!
Perhaps I will leave my landing light on tonight when I go to bed !!
I was afraid of being kidnapped.
Had a dream I was king, I woke up still king!!
Creepy dolls always frightened me.
Almost every horror movie especially movies like the grudge movies.
Being left alone in the dark was one of my biggest fears as a child and still sometimes is.
These little bastards freak me the fuck out. I can watch Jeff Dunham all day every day, but if I'm in a room with one of them....
