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#1

I was scared that one day I would use the toilet and a rat or snake would bite my butt 🍑🐀🐍

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the cool cat
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hehe i thought i was the only one

Night Owl
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Depending on where you live, it can happen

Ian Bartels
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing! It's because I remember watching Steve Irwin and he pulled a snake out of a toilet, and I remember checking the toilet before I would sit down.

Friedlander Rosenzweig
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My nephew was on a student exchange in Australia and he was warned that could happen. He didn’t know if they were kidding or not. I just know he wasn’t bit.

Hailey Scullen-Miller
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my sister was scared to use a port-a-potty. she thought the "Peepee monsyn" was gonna get her (pee monster)

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    #2

    Clowns. I don’t f**k with clowns. Also used to think quicksand would be a much more prevalent problem as a kid.

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    PeachthePan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    me too, man. i also hate dolls. so creepy ;w;

    White Paper Tsuru
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never ending story convinced me about the quicksand

    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude the old Cabbage Patch dolls. I had to sleep over at my cousin's (I slept in her bed btw, super comfy) and there was a Cabbage Patch Doll on her nightstand. I swear it was staring at me. I swear by it

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah they are lol. And I read It by Stephen King a lot younger than I probably should have.

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    Michelle Geiger
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Saw the movie ‘Poltergeist’ when I was little. Ruined clown dolls for me too.

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    #3

    I was afraid to look at the house on my block of the man who molested me. I always turned my headed and squinted my eyes while walking by it (even after he moved away).

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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m elderly now. He was my brother’s best friend’s father and one day the family moved away- poof, suddenly. Just gone. I never told my parents about the molestation- I was too ashamed. I found out later that he died pretty young- the bastard. I saw our BF when I was 15 and was shocked he was only one suburb over. He pretty much REFUSED to speak to ME. I did hear that the molester’s nuclear family imploded, somewhat.

    Jayna Shin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    GIRL WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOT CALLING THE COPS OR TELLING YOUR MOM AND DAD?!

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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    J, it was half a century ago and I was 4 or 5 y.o./ I would burst into tears and run away from my parent’s acquaintances- different men growing up for no apparent reason. I was told I once kicked a 23 y.o. male cousin-law so hard in the knee he had trouble walking for a week. I had very vague, fuzzy memory of it and for 30 years this story was told in family lore “proving” I was an untamed hellion as a kid. Finally, I had enough and loudly declared: “what the hell was a 23 y.o grown man doing to small child; alone, unsupervised in a room; that she felt she had to kick him hard enough to get away” Never heard that story brought up again. All this nasty stuff still haunts my nightmares.

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    #4

    That the ceiling fan would fall and decapitate me in my sleep.

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    Blizt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glad to know I wasn't the only one with this fear lol.

    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a bunk bed where the top bunk was literally inches from the spinning fan blades. I'm so happy to know that I wasn't the only one like this ;-;

    Baby Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh samee especially since i was in a bunk bed and if the fan was spinning fast enough it would make rattling noises because a screw was loose

    #5

    well im still afraid of it but im afraid of my family

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    the cool cat
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if your comfortable sharing why?

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ....because when i was younger they would to abuse me because i was a tomboy they would make me look like a spoiled rich brat but i really wasn't they would even make me date some bratty rich guy and i didn't like him. they started to abuse me even more when i told them i liked girls, they said ¨eww we aren't going to raise a gay kid like u¨. and thats when i had enough and i tried to commit suicide.......... that's why im afraid of my family. (btw that was what my parents did to me, im not comfortable enough to tell u what the rest of my ¨family¨ did to me)

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    4 years ago

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    Friedlander Rosenzweig
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Saesha, I’ve found friends who are better family then the ones I got rid of by voting them off the island. I hope you do that, too. Btw, my best friend’s Dad wasn’t tolerant when “D”came out, and he cut himself out. Too bad, he missed out on a wonderful son-in-law, two gorgeous grandchildren, and his son refused to go to his burial and say the Jewish prayer for the dead. Committing suicide means they win. Don’t let them win. You win by having a fantastic family and deciding whether or not to go to their funeral the night before. Either way, you’re the winner.

    ILOVEBAMBOO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    #6

    You know that cliche that kids fear monsters under their bed? Well, mine had a unique twist to it. I had a "snakes under my bed" fear.

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    Imtiredandiwannagotobed
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish there were snakes under my bed, little noodles need warmth too.

    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    amen. I'd love to have a boop noodle near me when I sleep. I'd feel safe since my entire family hates snakes ;-;

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    Phoebe Carter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine was crocodiles, now it's a hand grabbing my leg when I go up the ladder (high sleeper)

    #7

    I am still afraid of the dark

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    Hailey Sayers-O'Neill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    same, not really of the dark, but what could be hiding in the dark.

    the cool cat
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    me too #afraidofthedarknation

    #8

    I used to be very afraid of ghosts, demons and anything else paranormal. I was so scared, I always kept the lights on in the whole apartment and would stay awake until morning light.

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    Friedlander Rosenzweig
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had something make the foot of my mattress sink down one night and gave me the ‘ole “hairs on the back of your neck stand up” feeling. I said aloud “get the f**k out, my (late) Father was protecting me, and for some reason I started praying in Hebrew (I only knew the prayers for wine and bread, but that seemed to do the trick). Seconds later, the bed seemed normal and the presence was gone. I really hope I was asleep, but I just know I was not.

    Hailey Scullen-Miller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    aw man all the stuff ive seen while i was younger and still do.... at least one of them had felt really good! (and i felt/saw it near where i lived which theres rumors of a demon hanging around, so that one was really comforting)

    Game_Lover
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I USED TO DO THAT TOO!!!

    #9

    I grew up scared of being watched or followed. For no real reason, I just was.

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    Brielle DeSenneville Freano
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    same here i will always change in the bathroom bcs it has no windows

    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to do that all the time, and I had a relatively large family so everyone hated me for hogging the bathroom lol

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    Noah Merrill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had the same feeling so much, and I know this sounds fake but, I can feel a wave on my back when someone is looking at me. It's weird.

    JennyBee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always feel like someone is watching meh. Like right now oh meh gawd

    Stack o' Pancakes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there's clearly a reason it just never made sense to you

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm sure that there's SOME rhyme or reason to it, I just don't know what is wasツ

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    #10

    Obviously that when you swallow a watermelon seed, it'll grow in your stomach and you'd become pregnant with a melon baby.

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    Blizt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha.....My mother said her grandfather would tell her that the vertebrae in your back you can feel were the watermelon seeds that you accidentally swallowed.

    Jayna Shin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol... my dad used to joke that if i ate a watermelon, then it'd grow into a watermelon... when my brother was like 6 or 7 he still believed that so I explained stomach acid and photosynthesis.

    #11

    Mirrors. I'd always thought if I stared at myself long enough in a mirror, my reflection would come to life and start attacking me. ah...the good old days.

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    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still feel that way though ;-;

    JennyBee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm horrified of meh reflection. I dont think it'll attack me it just looks horrifying. It takes me a minute to realise I look like dat

    #12

    One time I was trying to sleep and my cat crawled on top of my face and lay down. I thought there was an ax murderer in my room covering my mouth and I literally sat there and tried not to move for an hour until I felt that fluff of my cat. When I tell you I though I was gonna die

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    D e p r e s s e d
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whenever I lay in my bed on my face my cat will literally jump on my back until I wake up

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol now I would love that, just don't touch my face and we're good

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    #13

    That I would fall off the couch and die (i was 3)

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    JennyBee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *falls off couch while reading this* X-X

    TheWickedOne
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    4 years ago

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    No, you have no memory from when you were three.

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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well I certainly have a memory of my 3 year old self with the fitting hair (back then super curly and short, now less curly and long), falling off the reddish couch that we gave away when I was 4 1/2 and my younger brother staring at me falling and dying with the scars that he had when he was one but around 7ish faded away ___________________________________________________________________________ Also who the f*ck are you telling me that I don't have memory when I was 3. I happen to have a great memory and can remember some memories when I was 2 and can remember the most inconsequential thing ever like the exact words my teacher said or the exact thing my friend texted me before she deleted it.

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    #14

    At night, it was the monster in the closet. Of course, adults didn't believe it was there. Years later, when I babysat children with the same fear, I would tell them to keep the door open a little so that the monster could get some air. "It'll relax and it won't bother you." One girl was nervous even in the daytime. I gave her the advice, then watched her get brave enough to run in and out of the open closet.

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    #15

    My child hood fear is whats in the woods at night (yes i know im almost a teen scared of whats in the dark i know its dumb)

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    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same, but I also live next to the woods ;-; One night I was sleeping at there was a gunshot directly outside my window. I sh*t you not, my Mom came downstairs, grabbed a huge knife, and just stood next to me while we waited to hear anything else. There wasn't anything out there

    Kwj
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 32 and I'm still not ever going near a forrest when it's dark.

    BananaAnna
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fear of the dark and its unknown contents is not totally irrational. Depending on where you live, some fearsome animals may reside. Not all of them have four legs. This is a healthy fear, deeply embedded in our minds for our safety.

    #16

    Well I’ve always thought are house was haunted my dad never talks about it but he said something about a ghost named Tony. Tony’s a little boy dressed in striped pajamas who tortures your dreams. At night if I can’t slip into my room fast enough I’ll catch a glimpse of him in the hall Mirror.

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    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I honestly get the same feeling in my house, but it's different. Like right now, I swear I can feel someone staring at me. But when I turn around, the feeling is still there. I'll randomly get that feeling when I'm trying to sleep at night. And one time (I think it was about 2 am) I was trying to sleep, and almost was, when a huge crash came from my bathroom. At the time I had no idea what it was and I literally sat there for about 5 minutes, calmed myself, and then got up and sprinted to the kitchen. I seriously grabbed the biggest knife I could and snuck into the bathroom, only to find that the mirror on the back of the door fell off and the chain that was holding it snapped. I was so terrified ;-; I guess gravity just does what it wants (that or there is a poltergeist in my house)

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was taking a shower when there was this un human scream and the whole bathroom shook , s**t fell but no one heard the scream only the stuff falling

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    -OldCarnival-
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once saw a ghost, only for a few seconds when I was about 5-6. I was terrified, it showed up after I looked out my window and then I looked next to me and there was a little girl with like a bob haircut, brown hair, green eyes, green PJs with teddy bears on it. And this sound's a bit weird- but she- burped and then it looked like she swirled around like a portal and disappeared. After that, my eyes were dead open and I couldn't sleep on that side of the bed because I was terrified. But now I'm scared of absolutely everything because it was so incredibly traumatizing. :D

    Hailey Scullen-Miller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i wish there were more stories of the not-so-scar ghosts that hang around; we have on in our house that we named Casper (because hes not mean) but hes actually an annoying pranker. we have a crawlspace with a little latch thats supposed to keep it propped on the cieling and he decided for a few nights he was gonna rattle that constantly but he stopped when i promised him id show him a new movie tommorow, which i did because he actually stopped. we also know its more of pranks then actually trying to scare us out because multiple people in my family can feel when something evil is around (me, my step-mom, step-sister, and step-brother)

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My great uncle died in my room now he has fun hiding things from me, his brother also likes to chill with me his favorite song is savage love by Jason derulo. Even my uncles are afraid of tony.

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    #17

    i was always afraid that if i clenched my hands too hard, my knuckles would pierce out of my skin

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    Sage Roe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You just gave me a new fear.

    -OldCarnival-
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that except with my teeth instead, I thought if I clenched my teeth to hard my teeth would break.

    JennyBee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well thanks im gonna have nightmares for years

    #18

    To this day I’m scared of mirrors and cardboard lol

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    Ella Greenman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hava a weird fear of scraping my nails on papaer or cardboard it feels disgusting and if you rip the tape off cardboard it gives me the heebie jeebies oy vey grow up me

    #19

    I used to be afraid of spiders and avoided them at all costs. To the point that one time when I was home alone, watching TV in the living room I saw a spider coming at me from the ceiling (well, it was not coming at me, it was actually a few metres away, but still way too close). I left the server (the living room) and ran to the kitchen. I spend a few hours by the window waiting for someone to come home and take care of the spider.

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    saesha has depression
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    spiders r cute wdym gross they have feelings to, the only reason they bite u is because they r scared.

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    H.L.Lewis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Turns out I'm allergic to spdr bites. All of them have venom to disolve their prey. And I have reactions to it. Even the "harmless" ones. My fears have been vindicated.

    #20

    there was this book called "The Tailypo", and it was a ghost story. the "tailypo" was this thing that was furry with creepy eyes and it was so scary.

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    Noah Merrill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I looked it up and most of the pictures make it look like a possum.

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    #21

    I was afraid that a monster would crawl out of the toilet and kill me. (-‸ლ)

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    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol same. And I take it you're a Wings of Fire fan?

    Jayna Shin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG YUSSSS WINGS OF FIRE IS THE BEST. I totally ship Sunnyflight, Moonbli, Starspeaker, and Sunlow.

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    #22

    When I was about 6, I had a really vivid dream that I went into the basement and there was a pink and orange octopus living behind the clothes dryer. Never went near that thing until we moved several years later.

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    Ella Greenman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a dream yoda came out of the showerhead and ,my couch for the living room you could see the shower, and so I positioned myself so I did not see it and never went in that bathroom for three years

    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol *I'm a SW fan so I would just find that really weird, but I wouldn't be scared. But I do see where you are coming from. Yoda is freaky*

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    #23

    When I first learned about killer bees, I spent a lot of time worrying about them. Being stung to death sounded horrific.

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    Easily Excitable Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's any comfort, we've got murder hornets now. Wait, that's probably not a comfort, is it?

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    4 years ago

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    #24

    this is pretty weird, but i had this big fear of the sky or ground falling, and like falling into nothingness....

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    Mpkfighter Plays
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... HOW RELATABLE 𝕀𝕤 THAT YESSIR I ALMOST CANT LAY ON THE GRASS face UP

    #25

    i was scared of my refection off the tv... not the mirror, just the tv

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    #26

    I used to fear the clouds. Reason: They had eyes, I saw faces. But also I had an overactive imagination. I still do. How I got over this fear: Had a dream that I was in the middle of the Africa and the clouds started falling. At first, I panicked. Than I remembered that clouds are soft so I wasn't scared anymore. Plus, if you could make anything out of these clouds and it would come true. That is how my friend got in a submarine accident.

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    #27

    Pain, needles, and the dark.

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    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm cool with pain, hate the dark, and I will kill the next person that stabs me with a needle.

    #28

    Being buried alive, with spiders.

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    ILOVEBAMBOO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're buried alive, you're always buried with a body...your body.

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    #29

    i was afraid of the dark and thought that a horror movie character would kill me when i sleep... i was 7 OK!

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    The weird one!
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    7 whatever its fine your frears happen anytime

    ILOVEBAMBOO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 8 and not scared but I don't judge you.

    Hailey Scullen-Miller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i mean i was loving my horror movies when i was 7 and ive never had nightmares then (my first was when i was 13)

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    #30

    I shared a bed with my Bro when we were 5, and he had long hair. We lived in a really rural area and every time his hair brushed my face, I thought it was a spider on my neck. So, I had terrible Arachnophobia for a bit, but it's all good now!

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    #31

    Not mine, but my brother's. One day, he was so spooked by the Bloody Mary paranormal game that he refused to look in a mirror for months. We even had to remove the mirror in our bathroom for a while.

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    Doggo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ok im sorry but i have to say a not-so-fun fact: if you look into a mirror long enough then you start seeing fake scary things

    ILOVEBAMBOO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, that's not true, maybe it's true for you but that's a myth.

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    Easily Excitable Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like to think of myself as a scientifically-minded person, but even I won't say Bloody Mary (or Candyman) into a mirror. Some things you just don't risk.

    #32

    I'm still a kid, maybe not a child, but I'm still terrified of getting shot at school.

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    hydrostatic joints
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same. It's really sad that's something we have to worry about.

    #33

    Rats and mice.... When I was about 10 or 11 years old I went to my aunt's house to spend the night there. It was all fun and games until a rat ran across the Tv me and my aunt were screaming so loud that we couldn't even kill the rat because it was that bad. Now everytime I see a rat, I would literally call my dad to come kill the rat...

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    Melanie King
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh one time i was at my grandma's house and she asked my sister to go get the ketchup out of the fridge in another little building they had, and she got the ketchup out, set it on the counter, then after shutting the fridge went to grap the ketchup and saw a f*****g rat on the counter.Not a small rat either, like this fat ass rat was terrifying. My grandpa came and it ran into the sink and he shot it.

    Jayna Shin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom hates, absolutely HATES rats and mice.

    #34

    The deep end of swimming pools. I overcame it by making myself swim in the deep end, and go all the way to the bottom. When I returned to the surface I wasn't scared anymore.

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    Ella Greenman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was too I thought Jaws or something would eat me and my Uncles (Not real uncles but fram friends, my dads buds- in Texas you are related to anyone you hang with) said it was true so..

    hydrostatic joints
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to be scared that if I went in the deep end something would grab my ankles and pull me down to the bottom.

    Hailey Scullen-Miller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i was scared of the deep end after i almost drowned...... for about a week 🤣🤣🤣 this was when i was getting over all my fears (at about 6)

    #35

    I was scared to go to school, interrogations from the teachers and i feared when other classmates talked to me because they usually insulted me.

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    Hailey Scullen-Miller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    who with social anxiety isnt scared of this stuff lmao all this stuff happens to me all the time and are my only fears that i still have (besides going to school; im aight with that)

    #36

    I read lots of books when I was a kid and there were a few that kind of impacted me. I believed that if I stuck my foot or arms out while I was sleeping, a pumpkin or something would bite it off. Or if I kept rolling around in bed, some monster would drop down from the ceiling and jump on me.

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    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now I'm afraid that a monster will jump on me from the ceiling ;-;

    -OldCarnival-
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You thought a pumpkin would bite your arm or foot off while you were sleeping- that's a new one. lol

    #37

    Hmmmm, I gotta say tornadoes, needles, a killer will be there when I wake up at night, I would have to compete in the Hunger Games, and my bed would collapse.

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    Ella Greenman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read the hunger games and was fine and I was seven, but I read Ms. peregrine's home in 6th and was legit terrified

    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude same. But when I watched the movie the fear went away

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    #38

    I was very afraid of the bat/Dracula. I slept on the bottom bunk bed, hung garlic from the top bunk slats to thwart evil. My sister detested the garlic smell. I beat her up every time she took my garlic down. Excellent youth times.

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    Ella Greenman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went through a witch stage. Garlic oml anyway I quit witchy stuff, long story short some logic and religious beliefs but now I am interested in ghosts.

    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I outgrew the fear of Dracula. When sound reasoning proved Dracula was nothing to fear I let my sister live another day. Funny, the things we once believed.

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    -OldCarnival-
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would cover my neck while i was sleeping because I thought someone/thing was gonna bite it- I don't even understand why.

    Hailey Scullen-Miller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    never feared Dracula instead from the moment ive heard about the story i loved it. read the book loved it even more ^^

    #39

    Quicksand, the Bermuda Triangle (esp. the disappearance of Flight 19), the Loch Ness Monster, and T. Rexes, because you never know.

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    #40

    my friends would tease me by telling me that if i ate to much watermelon that i would turn into a watermelon. (i stopped eating watermelon for 6 months lol)

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    Friedlander Rosenzweig
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother told me if I swallowed a seed by accident, a watermelon would grow in my stomach. I’d like to think that’s why I weigh so much.

    ILOVEBAMBOO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a fear of pineapples because years ago, when I was like 4 or 5, I had too much pineapple and my tongue hurt really bad, so now I hate pineapples and never eat any.

    #41

    bugs, bugs, hights, bugs bugs

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    #42

    The sound that wind makes when it blows through power lines in the street. It always felt worse when it was winter and late afternoon and I was walking home from school. One one else around made it scary. Every time I hear the noise I remember.

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    Ella Greenman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That noise calms me actually, I am Christian and when I was little I thought it was the Holy Spirit or my guardian angel protecting me and wooshing along

    #43

    I was afraid of lions, I never saw one in real life but I kept having this nightmare that would show a red eyed lion chasing me and I always woke up when it caught me and my back would hurt. So like whenever I saw a lion picture I’d freak out slightly.

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    #44

    I was afraid of dark. For many years I always slept in one place (eg corridor or night light) with the light on. Do you know what's interesting? I cannot sleep when the light is on somewhere right now. It has to be completely dark - like irony.

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    #45

    I thought bees would attack me if I went outside after eating candy.

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    #46

    I used to be really scared of ghosts. One time, I was at my grandpa's house and he was watching Ghost Hunters. I was super scared.

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    #47

    I also for the longest time feared sleep, idk why I just didn’t like the idea

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    Stack o' Pancakes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it is kinda scary if you think about it

    JennyBee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought if i fell asleep i would die cuz I heard that people could die in their sleep

    #48

    Went to The Neverending Story in 1984 aged 8/9 with neighbourhood friend unsupervised. Still traumatised till this day & have N E V E R been able to watch the movie since; I'm now 45! 😨🎟️🍿

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    H.L.Lewis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw it as an adult. Thought it was really boring. It felt like it really would Never End!

    #49

    ok i'm afraid of the dark. i sleep with a stuffed animal because it makes me feel safe, and i close my door. also afraid of heights. and anglerfish, which i know it makes no sense to be scared of, but they're pretty creepy and sinister.

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    Doggo
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anglerfish are terrifying, but don't worry unless you're traveling to the bottom of the ocean. (*^-^*)

    Hailey Scullen-Miller
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i dont sleep with a stuffed animal but i do sleep with a pillow that has layers of clothes put on it, it feels like a person lmao, not afraid of the dark but its comforting having it there

    Noah Merrill
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I sleep with a stuffed animal for the same reason. I am also afraid of heights.

    #50

    i was terrified of my little brother

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    Friedlander Rosenzweig
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I direct you to page five, paragraph six of the younger brother owner’s manual where it states: “They will try to steal your Mommy. You must stop them at all costs. If necessary, squash them like a bug, (figuratively, of course).”

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol yes that too, i was referring to the times he punched me or once made me get stitches 😂️

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    #51

    I don't think this is as funny as some of the other answers, but suddenly losing my ability to communicate with people close to me or losing contact with others.

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    daryl linn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As long as I couldn't see the closet, it wasn't there

    #52

    I'm also afraid of being alone in a quiet room, I haven't grown out of it.

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    #53

    I have a lot of fears with my anxiety but as a kid I was terrified of being robbed and I would leave my door open so if we did ever get robbed my dad could come save me. Now I leave my door closed. I'm still scared of getting robbed but it's easier on my mind now. Another thing I used to be terrified of is my best friends basement. I'm not since we turned it into our most awesome hangout space. Lastly, I used to be scared of the power going out but now I just nap when it happens because it's like a free nap invitation. How wonderful.

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    ILOVEBAMBOO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to live in a house that was THREE STORY because it had a basement and two floors above those. I USED to.

    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    omg my granny's house is like that and the basement there is terrifying because that house is well over 100 and has been moved from it's original spot because they were building a road and i swear that is haunted.

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    Noah Merrill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have to say I've never lived in a house with a basement or a two story house. Still don't.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither have I, my parents said that they felt too lazy to go up and down stairs lol.

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    #54

    Hearing the garage open when you forgot to do the dishes

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    #55

    The ghost head that lived in my parents basement. My brother told me it wanted to cut off my head and use my body so it can live again.

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    #56

    The dark because of “monsters,” eating/brushing my teeth because I thought I’d get poisoned, glow sticks because I almost died from breaking one in my mouth (does not taste good), dentists, bees/wasps, and ghosts/paranormal stuff

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    Kattie0530
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree fully with the monsters, dentists, and bees. But personally, I'm not scared of paranormal entities (just me?) But while I was at my camp I go to every summer, my friend Evan cut open four glowsticks and poured the glowy stuff down my shirt and my hair. oml I stank really bad for about four days lol

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No not just you I love the paranormal now. This said childhood, and I’m a teen

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    #57

    I am scared of pain, Sometimes I can bear it, but it worries me of other people

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    #59

    I was always scared that someone was watching me in the bathroom. So I would open all the cabinets, look in the closet, and look behind the shower curtain before I could go. And I was scared that someone was hiding in the bottom of those pit toilets they have at campsites. Also quicksand and black widow spiders

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    hydrostatic joints
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same. Also, I look under my bed and in my closet every night before I sleep. I could never get over that fear.

    #60

    Everything that was meant to be spooky. I was raised religious and had occasional night terrors, so I believed every campfire story was true. Constantly waking up my parents or too scared to turn off lights. I eventually got over it - and now I write and publish horror fiction. Go figure. I kind of miss being scared. Just fun scared though - like Halloween stuff. Not real stuff like murder and stuff. That's still scary.

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    #61

    I was scared to close my eyes in the shower- I thought a demon/murderer would kill me if I closed my eyes even for a second.

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    #62

    I was scared of the couch, I thought it would suck me into the cushions and spit me out like a wad of gum.

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    #63

    The green floating pants in a Dr. Seuss book. Freaked me right out.

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    H.L.Lewis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They turned out to be just as scared as I!

    #64

    Grasshoppers. My gran told me that grasshoppers could kick me and for some reason that just terrified me. I still have a grasshopper phobia to this day and I'm nearly 32.

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    #65

    I was deathly terrified of lilies, due to Season 5 of Lucifer

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    #66

    warning sirens and the guy on the radio if there is a storm warning and watch i liked the storms and not the alarmes that came along with them

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    #67

    When I was like 6, I thought there were 3 witches in my bathroom. I thought if I didn't turn on the lights, they would 'get' me. After i grew out of it. I had this fear that people were always watching me. Pretty dumb.

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    #68

    I am terrified of sloth from the goonies.

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    marshmallo nat
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    haha... srry but this is to much... my sister, my poor poor sister, we watched the goonies and we told her it wasn't scary, yet she was about to cry at the part where the bad guys almost blend one of the kids hands.. her eyes were as big as saucers

    #69

    I used to be afraid that I was really in a coma and my whole life was a dream and that one day I would wake up and have a whole different life with no memories. I have no idea where I got that from or why I was afraid of it.

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    Hailey Scullen-Miller
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    eh i was the same except i thought i was dreaming (i was too young to know about comas)

    ILOVEBAMBOO
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know, that is a possibility! Maybe I'm just in a coma and I'll never wake up and eventually die! Wow, weird to think about...also sad. You would never know your mom.

    #70

    Im afraid of the dark,im scared of clowns,and spiders.

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    Duane Anthony Pangelinan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im not scared of that stuff, im just scared of freaking batman in my closet

    Noah Merrill
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG that's great I'm sorry but has he come out of the closet yet. Sorry I had to. XD

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    #71

    Unreasonable fear of sharks like the waterbed was a problem

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    #72

    Well, I am a child. But For a reason I can't explain, I haven't really been afraid of monsters or ghosts like other kids. I was more afraid of being kidnapped, murdered, held hostage, being imprisoned, etc. you know, normal kid stuff

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    #73

    Midgets. Especially Oompa Loompas. I don't know what it was, my mom even had a midget friend that was really nice, why was i so scared of them???? My earliest memory is literally me screaming and crying behind our living room couch because the Oompa Loompas came out to sing the Augustus Gloop song.

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    JLH
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't afraid of all little people, but I can definitely relate to Oompa Loompas. I had a dream of them dancing around on my bed one night and have never been the same since.

    ILOVEBAMBOO
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oompa Loompas? Those orange guys with green hair? I like them.

    #74

    At 9 years old I went to bed and the movement of my bed against the wall disturbed a spider's egg pouch and I woke up covered in baby spiders. Been terrified of them ever since. There are a couple other things thst scared me. There was a mirror on the wall outside my room and sometimes I would see stuff move in it that wasn't there. I had my first experience with sleep paralysis at 10 y/o and it terrified me for a long time. I still remember vividly being paralyzed in bed, looking at my dad and trying to scream as black whisps were pinning me down and passing through my lungs. I recently (am 30 now) had another sleep paralysis experience and it was even worse than I can remember. I was holding my wife's hand and I told her that if I felt weird I would squeeze her hand, and I did when I started feeling immobilized, and something that looked like my wife, but with no eyes and a wide black mouth jumped on my chest and laughed at me. I don't really sleep anymore.

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    ILOVEBAMBOO
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That didn't actually happen; you were hallucinating. I read about it.

    -OldCarnival-
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes it's hard to tell reality from hallucinations because the hallucinations can feel extremely real.

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    #75

    One of my childhood fears was freaking batman. he creepy. like the way he talks. and the fact that he comes out at night. so I'm just thinking, how much does this guy drink coffee? he's supposed to fight crime and somehow stay up during the day to run an entire company

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    Noah Merrill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the fact that he doesn't have any superpowers to help him with that it's terrifying.

    #76

    Ok so when i was really little i was scared of a lot of things, i dont remember exactly what, then for like a year i had a really bad fear of dolls, and now i have Spectrophobia, aka the fear of seing something in a mirror that doesnt exist, like a ghost, demon, etc. I WILL NOT GO IN THE SAME ROOM AS A MIRROR IF ITS DARK. YOU BETTER BELIEVE I REACH MY HAND AROUND THE CORNER TO TURN ON THE LIGHT BEFORE I GO IN THE BATHROOM AT NIGHT.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh and im kinda scared of some things but not others when it comes to like body parts and medical stuff. I make myself bleed all the time and im fine with the sight of blood, but like, anything that has to do with a disease or infection is a no, and ESPECIALLY IV's like I CANNOT stand the thought of someone putting a needle in my elbow.

    #77

    Honestly, I could list a few things. The dark, and when I was like, 4-present, I would stare into the darkest corner of the room when I'm sleeping and then 'see' creepy, red, glowing eyes... and I also didn't like eggplant. And... sharks. Monsters. Satan. Blood. Death. (Yeah, before I saw a post on Bored Panda I was afraid of death.)

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    #78

    I am also scared of the woods because that is where the slenderman live.

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    #79

    I was terrified that the budding pine cones would suck me up 😬

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    #80

    Vampires! Might have something to do with my dad thinking that Salem’s Lot was a good bedtime story for a 6 year old!!

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    #81

    if you've ever read ghost girl you understand my fear of the spirits of the snow.

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    #82

    I was scared to sleep because almost every time I slept, in the middle of my dream my body feels like it's falling off of something really tall like a skyscraper or something.

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    #83

    Posting twice here but I was also scared for a bit of the Old Lady. My stepmom told me when I was younger that if you stared out the window at night she would come and twist your face like her's. Don't think that my dad tried to comfort me, he went along with her.

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    #84

    I was scared that anything could be poisonous. I once saw a ketchup stain on the table, asked my mum for the hundred time if it was poisonous and she didn’t even LOOK at it before saying no! I was so distraught and while crying I dipped my finger in the sauce and put in in my mouth... awaiting death... (still don’t get why I HAD to taste it though).

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    #85

    being alone with a noise i dont know where is coming from, toilet noises, toilets, big dogs (my mom had a german sheperd that killed a yorkie that we had, the yorikies name was sophie) we then gave the shepered to our grandma. im also afraid of anything that scares me also people

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    #86

    Fire ants. I just knew that fire ants were going to invade & kill us all. And Orville Dunworth from this really bad horror flick called Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things.

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    #87

    dolls horror movies

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    #88

    evil gremlins under my bed. The movie Gremlins was scary for me

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    #89

    Not me but my little sister , so when she was REALLY little like 2 or 3, we went to my grandparent's house and they have a big entryway with shiny (reflective) tile floors that I personally think are really cool. Understandably, she noticed and thought she was going to fall in so she would inch along the edge every time she came around to it. It was so funny!

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    #90

    Bridges and tunnels... every time we were riding in the car, I was quietly terrified that the bridge would snap, or the tunnel would collapse.

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    #91

    I was terrified of the swimming pool cleaner - that sucking thing with the long pipe - I was convinced it was going to suck me up!

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    #92

    Butterflies. Legit terrified of butterflies. They’re like spiders with wings. Flying spiders. Also, they have no flight plan.. flying spiders with no flight plan... I hate butterflies.

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    #93

    Butterflies. Legit terrified of butterflies. They’re like spiders with wings. Flying spiders. Also, they have no flight plan.. flying spiders with no flight plan... I hate butterflies.

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    Mildly Disturbed Cat Birb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm scared of butterflies too, probably because of their fluttering movements.

    #94

    Bugs. Like, any type. I just get a chill every time I think about them. Oh, and that creepy momo thing. It can actually make me cry. Idk why. It's not even the stories. I mean they're bad, but the face just makes me...uh

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    #95

    Oh and death. Someone might be able do relate, but when I think about dying, I just have like a mini panic attack

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    #96

    I am still scared that there is a slenderman in my house and if you do not go to sleep in time he will take you. Also I think there is a lady with no eyes sleeping under my basement stairs

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    #97

    I DIDENT HAVE ANY BWAHAHAHAH...only the dark though...BUT IM 12 AND IS THE DARK I'M NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING...except for spiders....

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    Demon Child
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so am I. that's a fear, my friend.

    #98

    Siren Head Axe Murderers Grey Aliens Chainsaws

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    #99

    The scene in ET with the Reese’s pieces made me flip out, ever since then I still have not watched the movie.

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    #100

    balloons, dentists, needles, sorta paranormal stuff, grey aliens (because i saw a creepy pic of The Greys)and bigfoot (because of a tv show that dumb 10 year old me watched and i had a VERY overactive imagination). Dentists because one time i was at a new dentists and they had to put a needle in my arm (already bad because i am deathly afraid of needles) to put me to sleep to take out some teeth. Well, they stuck it in, and then they were like "oops wrong place" so they started moving the needle around WHILE IT WAS STILL IN MY ARM. oh and at that time i had a wiggly tooth and my mom told me that while they were doing the procedure, they accidently knocked it out. Safe to say i've never gone there again.

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    #101

    I was afraid of everything. Scooby-Doo, the dark, nazis, life, spiders, rollercoasters, and well, ummmm, tomatoes.🙄🙄🙄

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    #102

    I used to be scared of trees with no leaves.i don't know why

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