Come On, Be Honest. What really scares you?

[Lindsey]

You can say ANYTHING you want, but it had to scare you, or scares you. Movies, or in general. What are you afraid of? What movies scared you? Be honest. We all get a little scared sometimes!

[Hypnotic Eye]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ripley Butt scares me. Ewww...

But seriously I'd say syringes. Whenever anyone gets a shot in a movie a bit my lip, especially on close up shots of the needle going into the arm. achk. creepy s**t.

[Green]

Anything around the eyeball, or close to puncturing it.
THE HITCHER scene where the hitcher holds the knife to Jim's eye and says "Do you know what happens when an eyeball is punctured?"....
Freaks me out.

[kerryanne]

Ya know...sometimes I walk outside in the dark, when its foggy, and the first thing that comes to my mind is zombies. What if it isn't really fog, but the mist from the Return of the Living Dead? And they are right behind my garage? That really creeps me out.

[Lannay]

Suspance and a good eerie feeling that you get while watching some movies.

[Lannay]

The unexpected. Like things that pop out at you when you least expect it. but honestly really big dogs. [ I was attacked by one this year] and big dogs give me the creeps until i get to know them. I guess i am just a wose but tell me something i don't know!

[the night watchman]

Ghosts. I think they freak me out so bad because I don't believe in them, and the concept violates my sense of normalcy. Also, like I told kerryanne in another post, whether or not ghosts exist, it is beyond a doubt still possible for people to see them. Somehow that seems worse that seeing a real ghost ... seeing one that only exists in your mind.

[Hypnotic Eye]

Hmm.. I once drove by a cornfield on an EXTREMELY foggy night.. All you could see to your right and left was the first row of corn and the fog inbetween it... Remind any one of anything? Anyway, no evil children attacked me, and I made it home fine.

[Snert]

Chase scenes usually freak me out. (Not always, sometimes they suck). For example, in Halloween when Jamie Lee Curtis is trying to get the kids attention and Michael ic crossing the street...Tense!

[Femme_Fatale]

Well im a claustrophobic, so enclosed spaces scare me, movies with space rockets (cos u cant get off) always get to me (still i wanna see Jason X- crazy, huh?)

and this is my silly fear: spiders, hate the little 8 legged bastards....lol

[zombiejason]

Moths...Butterflies distant cousin. Those muthas scare me shitless. I really cant say why,but when I see one,I get the fuck outta there. I am such a loser.

[A.J. Hakari]

Bees. More than anything on this Earth, more than the thought of Madeline Albright in a Speedo, slow-dancing with a covered-in-grease Strom Thurmond, bees scare me.

[!MorganOnyx!]

Bees?! ha ha aha aha ahhha ha ha!!! That is funny shit!

THE WOMAN IN BLACK scared the shit out of me for about 8 years. She still gets to me a bit now!

[Gore 4 All]

I hate creepy crawling things. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom still gives me nightmares from the scene in the catacombs with the hallway full of bugs. YUCK!!

I hate spiders the most and defenitly am freaked out by any scene with an aracnaid.

[Seph]

My house. Everyone that comes over at night tells me it's "The Scream House," and it really does resemble Drew Barrymore's in the movie. Plus on my street there's absolutely NO lighting outside (it's kinda fun making people wait in the dark when they stop by and start freaking out). Plus I'm always hearing and seeing weird shit. I keep telling myself it isn't real, but I don't know...

And remember those illustrations in those old "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" books. That was creepy stuff.

[HorrorGuy]

I've never seen a film that scared me. Oh apart from misery! Annie Wilkes was freaky in the dark

[Gore 4 All]

Seph, those drawings were some of the scariest stuff I ever remember seeing. Reading those books for fun in like second grade was cool till I had about a thousand nightmares. Really good imagination on the authors part I must admit.

[BeatPhreak]

The thing that scares me is retards. No seriously they do, when they come around i get all tense and can't move and feel like i am gonna throw up. You know how some people are scared of clowns, well that is me with 'tards. Please don't make fun of me....

[lockedoutfilm]

I've got two words for y'all - ERASERHEAD!!!

[the night watchman]

Yeah, the illustrations in the "Scary Stories" books are pretty unsettling.

And, BeatPhreak, I know what you mean by being creeped out by certain types of people. When I was between 15 and 21 old people really freaked me out. I had to deliver newspapers to the Seniors' club for a couple years, and it just gave me the willies to walk in there. I kept half expecting them to jump on me and eat me alive like a bunch of geriatric zombies.

[teenkiller]

I can honestly say that I don't really know of anything that scares me. It certainly isn't a movie or book or videogame. It would have to be something real to scare me but I don't have a fear of heights, or water, or closed spaces or anything like that so I don't really know. By the way this isn't an attempt for me to try to look like a tough guy I'm just being honest. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Mojo67821]

I'd hate to get too heavy on you guys but...

What scares me absolutely shitless is the thought of myself as an old man regretting all the things in my life that I never did.

I just think that has to be the worst feeling in the world knowing you're coming to an end and there was something you missed out on that you will never truly know.

Also, I'm scared that I'll never really know the truth. Are there really aliens? Is there really a God? Did NASA fake all the moon landings? Who is right? I want to know everything, and I'm not sure if I'll be happy with my life unless I know everything before I die. As you can see I"m probably setting myself up for my own biggest fear here.


Anyways, hope I didn't get the mood in the room down, the question just made me a bit introspective for a moment

[Duke Nukem]

"The Amityville Horror" scared me when I was younger and it still does.

[The Claw]

http://slayerized.dreamhost.com/mjj/pictures/2002/close/02-bambiteppich04.jpg

That is what scares me down to the bone.

[JivaFox]

LMAO @ The Claw

Yeah, same here! :D

Wasps scare me too. I act like a right pansy if a wasp is anywhere near me or even in the same room.......I'm so ashamed. But I hate the little buggers. :(

[Lindsey]

Sweetness, look, it's my thread I made 2 years ago!

The thing that scares me? Spiders and the ending to The Blair Witch Project. *shudders*

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by The Claw
http://slayerized.dreamhost.com/mjj/pictures/2002/close/02-bambiteppich04.jpg

That is what scares me down to the bone.




Yeah! There is something really sinister about him. Even though he replied against the Martin Bashir interview, there was no way even Maury Povich could sugar-coat the truth - especially when addressing the plastic surgery question. Yeah, the fact that he had to get surgery because of a burnt head, but how did that alter his cheekbones, add a bum-chin, etc?

[masknslasher86]

He would be good for a Planet of the Apes sequel.

[Kaos]

Job interviews. You get all dressed up, try and convince the person who's hiring that your the best person for the job, and then wait for them to call you. And if you don't get the job(assuming you tried your best), you end up wondering "why wasn't I good enough?" If this fear seems silly to you, then you've never applied for a job at a large company and/or been in front of a promotion board in the Armed Forces. Or you just have balls of stainless steel.:D

[teenkiller]

Claw please put a warning over that picture. He is downright hideous (still hilarious though). Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Jewbo]

drowning scares the fuck outta me. the thought of breathing in and not having any air just water cummin in.

[DoubleDown11]

I have quite a few things:

1st - Canals
Okay I was always told that if you fell into one that, it would pull you down and then drag you along the bottom until you drowned. Plus they're always pulling corpses out of the canals...

2nd - My Attic
I once wrote a scene for a movie where a kid has an encounter with a demon in his attic. Ever since then, I've been terrified of my attic! I always just hope (and pray) that I WONT see a pair of glowing red eyes.

3rd - Mirrors and the Dark
If you have a mirror and it's dark in the room...count me out.

4th - The Fiend
The Misfits mascot. Sure it's my Avatar. But hey, he's damn scary. But you should still definitely check out The Misfits. They rock!

5th - Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein
The Misfits lead guitarist.

[KaMiKaZ3]

The idea of waking up during surgery scare the shit outta me. The idea that you are awake, but you have no way of communicating with the surgeon cos of the paralysis just freaks me.

[Duke Nukem]

What scares me is being in a serious situation and being innocent or right, when everybody makes you out to guilty or wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it. What also scares me is wrongly being placed in a mental hospital. You could be sane, but the doctors would figure that you're only saying that to get out. Then, after a while, the atmosphere would effect you or the doctors would psycho-babble you so much, that you would think that you were insane!

[Donnie Darko]

Carnies

[Dignan]

- Bad teeth, smell like cabbage:D


Heights. If I get up in a tree or somethin, I freak out. Funny how comfy I am flying though....

[Gregorious8]

Public speaking. Holy shit do I hate this fear, and I'm in debate where I have to speak in front of the whole damn class.

[Cyclonus]

There are a couple of things that really scare me.

First of all, (like Greg said) I hate getting up in front of the class for a presentation, which I have sometimes been forced to do because it's part of my grade. In these situations, I feel like a complete retard. :o What makes it worth the effort? One time I showed clips from Hellbound: Hellraiser II for a film class.

But you know what bothers me the most? Getting old and dying. It's something that I've always dwelled on. I remember when I was a kid I'd cry myself to sleep because I was so scared of death. Even worse is the prospect of dying alone and unloved. I get really depressed whenever I think about it. :(:(:(

[Cronos]

Anything to do with eyes, i cant stand anything like that, it just unsettles me and makes me even more paranoid

[Masterbrain]

CLOWNS! I hate those creations of evil! Sometimes when I go to the McDonalds and the fucking clown is there. There I sit at my table just waiting when that creepy smiling bastard will kill me... And Im not joking... I saw IT when I was about seven and it scared the hell out of me, ever since I have been afraid of clowns.

[arto_j]

What scares me? Fuckin' spiders, man...I couldn't move for hour after I finished Arachnophobia.

[Duke Nukem]

I also have slight phobia (if that's what you call it) about public speaking. When I go up in front of the class, I'm at my best when I don't look up very often. That way, I'm able to stay calm and not nervous. It's when I do look up at the class, that I become nervous. I lose all my train of thought and I stammer.

[studlyhorrorbuf]

A mirror in the dark because I believe that Bloody Mary exists and that she can claw, maybe even kill you. Studly Horror Buff out.

[tvmorbid]

spider. and clowns. My worst nightmare is a archniclown

[Kaos]

Originally posted by tvmorbid
spider. and clowns. My worst nightmare is a archniclown

Have fun watching(or reading) Stephen King's IT :eek:

[tvmorbid]

Done both. Couldnt sleep for a year afterward and i tended to scream a bit when i saw balloons... (still do actually)

[Kaos]

Originally posted by tvmorbid
Done both. Couldnt sleep for a year afterward and i tended to scream a bit when i saw balloons... (still do actually)

Just be careful of one of our mods., Jason Vorhees. His avatar, and his location might creep you out. Also, don't ask if he floats.;)

[tvmorbid]

Already seen it. I run ran away very fastly.

[KillerKlown]

Like these??

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[psycho path]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
Like these??

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FUCKING GOD!!! I wasnt expecting that! I just scrolled down and the scariest thing on earth is right before me!!! The middle one is the scariest. Come to think of it,that's the scariest scene off the movie(along with Georgie's picture and the begining)

[Corporal_Hicks]

What scares me is rats.
I hate those fucking animals so much I'd kill one on sight.

Dying a virgin also scares me.

[the night watchman]

John Ashcroft.

[Kaos]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
Like these??

http://members.home.nl/egbert.drenth/Pennywise/it11.jpg

http://members.home.nl/egbert.drenth/Pennywise/it40.jpg

http://members.home.nl/egbert.drenth/Pennywise/itb1.jpg

HOLY *@%#$! This was not what I expected to see when I scrolled down! On a related note, I'll be sending you my therapy and dry cleaning bills KillerKlown75.:eek: :p ;)

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by studlyhorrorbuf
A mirror in the dark because I believe that Bloody Mary exists and that she can claw, maybe even kill you. Studly Horror Buff out.

I chanted "Bloody Mary" in a mirror several times, and nothing happened.

Don't worry. It's an Urban Legend so unbelievable (at least to me) that it would never happen. I even have proof: me.

[Jon Lyrik]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
Like these??

http://members.home.nl/egbert.drenth/Pennywise/it11.jpg

http://members.home.nl/egbert.drenth/Pennywise/it40.jpg

http://members.home.nl/egbert.drenth/Pennywise/itb1.jpg

Dammit, KillerKlown! Those are pretty creepy. Like your avatar.

What scares me: darkness, unknown, dirty houses.

[angelinwhite]

Ghosts and spiders.

Whenever I watch a movie or show about ghosts, I have a hard time being in my house by myself. And once I go to bed I start hearing everything that sounds like thumps and stuff moving downstairs.

Spiders, can't handle them. I'm truly arachnaphobic.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by Kaos
HOLY *@%#$! This was not what I expected to see when I scrolled down! On a related note, I'll be sending you my therapy and dry cleaning bills KillerKlown75.:eek: :p ;)



Muhahaha....I got the required response then! ;)

[the night watchman]

ONE MORE TIME!

Ladies and Gentlemen ... Pennywise.

Originally posted by KillerKlown75


http://members.home.nl/egbert.drenth/Pennywise/it11.jpg

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[thirdeye]

Enough allready i want to sleep well tonight.:eek: :eek: :eek:

[Jason Voorhees]

Originally posted by Kaos
Just be careful of one of our mods., Jason Vorhees. His avatar, and his location might creep you out. Also, don't ask if he floats.;)

:D

You're the man, Kaos.

As for what scares me...Heights, bees, and drowning are all high on the list.

[the night watchman]

Giant squid. I'm terrified in an almost phobic way of giant squid.

Ashcroft still scares me more though. Doubtless he'll have a negative effect on my life greater than any cephalopod of enormous size. I mean, a giant squid would only be able to eat me.

[electriclite]

Originally posted by Masterbrain
CLOWNS! I hate those creations of evil! Sometimes when I go to the McDonalds and the fucking clown is there. There I sit at my table just waiting when that creepy smiling bastard will kill me... And Im not joking... I saw IT when I was about seven and it scared the hell out of me, ever since I have been afraid of clowns.


So then your avatar is what? Some kind of twisted therapy?


My sister actually has the official clown phobia. Probably cause my dad scared the shit out of her when she was a baby by bringing her to a clown at the circus..... or cause I recorded IT when I was younger and let her watch it with me repeatedly.......






My fear is cockroaches. And I'm not talking about those little, wussy ones, I'm talking about the big waterbugs, especially the ones that can fly. I saw ones of those yesterday and did a sprint from the room that would've made Jesse Owens himself go "DAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMN!!!"

[electriclite]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
Like these??

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WHAT KIND OF TWISTED FUCK ARE YOU??!! ;)


And I've been meaning to say this for a while too: Jason Vorhees, wtf is up with that avatar man??!!


(shudders)

[Tagia_Romero]

Super-viruses ala "The Andromeda Strain", "The Stand" and "Outbreak". I mean with a virus, it is hard to find a cure and if there is no cure you can only hope and pray...

[Five Years]

The fact that a guy was arrested in a mall in the US for wearing a t shirt that said: Give Peace a Chance. That really freaking scares me. Other than that, movie-wise. I've always been scared by invasion of the body snatcher-type situations. Things too powerful and large to be fully taken care of. One thing I'e learned from my screenplay endeveours: It's always scarier in a crowd.

[robot717]

Being locked up or finding myself in a situation where I can't get away.

Mirrors ESPECIALLY in the dark.

and you're going to laugh your asses off...Dolls.I'm not afraid of them to a point where I'll run out of the room pissing my pants.But they do make me uneasy.I know there's no way I could sleep with one staring at me.

[Deathnote]

Spiders and Sadako (original Ring)
Still, she could be one hottie under all that hair ;)

[Fly Girl]

Sadako,
Clowns,
Dark spooky houses like the one out of Psycho/The Haunting/House on Haunted Hill.
Big hairy spiders,
Scenes of rape.

[psycho path]

Clowns are second on my list next to REALLY big fish. Even sturgeon get to me,and the Lochness legend actually scares me,cause some guy said he saw what looked like a giant frog down there. Now to clowns. I was in McDonalds and they have their kidtoy display,and over it is that clown just staring at you and smiling. I never thought of their clown as scary,but for some reason,that cardboard cutout of him gave me shivers down my spine. Pennywise is funny and scary. I ussually cant watch the parts where he is scary(in the opening where he kills the little girl)before I go to sleep...

[rikimaru187]

"The Ring" (2002) :eek:

[Jason Voorhees]

Originally posted by electriclite
And I've been meaning to say this for a while too: Jason Vorhees, wtf is up with that avatar man??!!


(shudders)

Hehe. I decided to change it. What do you think now?

:).

[tvmorbid]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
Like these??

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YEEEEEEAAAAAAAA!!! Hna. Hna. Nothing is as godamned, pant crappingly SCARY as clowns!!! g-g-g-g-g-god almighty. Brrrrr

[jackson13]

I gotta be honest, retards scare me as well. I work in a grocery store and every wednesday they come in from whatever house they live at and buy groceries. The problem is, the lady that supervises them doesnt, she just pretty much ignores them and they walk around drooling and screaming and slapping themselves and it just freaks me out. One guy is really nice though, everytime he sees me he's like "HOW YA DOING! IM GOOD!" and hes smiling and its cool, but one guy scared the fuck out of me friday night. He comes in with some girl and he doesnt really talk, he just stares at people. Well they went to the lane behind me and I turned around to help the cashier where they were at and he was just staring at me, and I made the mistake of looking at him and when I did he screamed out "YOU!" and I just about shit my pants. I seriously turned around and had to catch my breath. Theres another guy that comes in with his mom and he just walks around the store going "unh unh unh unh" (like the young Forrest Gump did when he was imitating his mom having sex) at people and he walked up to me one day and got like right in my face and just kept going "unnh unnh unnh" and it freaked me out too. He went over by the door one day and sat on the bench and just sat there doing that and every person that would walk in he would literally just scream at. He'd just go "unn unnhh unnh AHHHHHH! unnh unh unh" at them. I was dying laughing though because everybody would freak out when he screamed, but retards seriously scare me, you can never tell what they are thinking.

[thedarklamb]

John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" Wonder if that situation was real? There would be no escape. The woman who had the mark on her arm that becomes the chosen one scares/freaks me out seriously! Can you imagine yourself being there, watching her pull Satan through that mirror?

Deff the theme of The Rules of Attraction. Not really knowing anyone.

-Feeling Hopeless & Invisible. Dying alone.

I just saw the video Bum Fights, and that really scared me.

People who lie all the time and you never know if what they are saying is the truth. It's very tiring trying to decipher from what's real and what's false. Very scary.

[the night watchman]

Here's a neat trick for all you coulrophobes: scroll backward (upward from bottom to top) through a post on this thread with Pennywise; it looks like he's getting closer, closer, until he's right on top of you and ready to take a bite.

Tee-hee-hee. Other people's fears are fun.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by the night watchman
He's a neat trick for all you coulrophobes: scroll backward (upward from bottom to top) through a post on this thread with Pennywise; it looks like he's getting closer, closer, until he's right on top of you and ready to take a bite.


LOL, although that was purely coincidence that the pictures were put in that order.....Perhaps the hand of Pennywise was involved? :eek:

[Kaos]

Thank you sooooooooooo much, now I'm gonna have to buy a night light.:p

[DescendingAngel]

Originally posted by DoubleDown11

4th - The Fiend
The Misfits mascot. Sure it's my Avatar. But hey, he's damn scary. But you should still definitely check out The Misfits. They rock!

5th - Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein
The Misfits lead guitarist.

love the misfits...but sorry, doyle's not scary. i dunno, met him a few times. he's real quiet, likes to keep to himself. not all that friendly, doesn't seem to be too fond of people. but overall, a nice guy. and the "fiend"...isn't he the crimson ghost?

[Santa Claus]

Gray Aliens

That witch and those headless women from "Return To Oz"...they scared me as a kid anyway....

Mrs. Hardbroom from the 1986 movie, "The Worst Witch". Another person who scared me as a kid.

[Scythemantis]

Corporal - there is NOTHING negative about rats. Everything people think bad about them is untrue. Wild rats are no dirtier or more dangerous than any wild bird or rabbit and domestic rats are wonderful, wonderful pets. Rather than clutter here with a tangent I'll just PM you on it.

I fear nothing in nature except ticks. Yep, ticks, I love bugs and find ticks as cool looking and interesting as any other, but a single one has me running like the stereotypical old cartoon housewife sees mouse routine (I'm male, by the way). When I was little one tick would have me screaming, crying, and terrified for the rest of the day. It's so bad, I absolutely CANNOT and will not walk through tall grass or bushes and freak if I brush up against foliage.

The movie ticks didn't scare me a bit though...they were cool.

[adamjohnson]

SOCKPUPPETS!!!!!!!!!

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by Scythemantis
Corporal - there is NOTHING negative about rats. Everything people think bad about them is untrue. Wild rats are no dirtier or more dangerous than any wild bird or rabbit



Ummm didn't rats carry the Bubonic Plague in the 14th century? ;)

[MacReady]

I'm terrirfied of the idea of being attacked by zombies but what scares me in real life is lobsters and crawfish. Their faces' look like dissection tables and they have such tiny souless black beaty eyes.:(

[radikill]

The one thing that scares me more than anything else in the world:

Failure.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by MacReady
but what scares me in real life is lobsters and crawfish. Their faces' look like dissection tables and they have such tiny souless black beaty eyes.:(


Yeah, but they taste GREAT! :p

[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
Ummm didn't rats carry the Bubonic Plague in the 14th century? ;)

Another case of a myth/exaggeration being almost universally accepted as a hard fact. Rats were no more a significant carrier than any other mammal, in fact, they were right the first time when they blamed cats, which would have brought the bodies of rats, mice, moles, shrews and all manner of more timid animals out into the open around people. That aside, it was fleas that actually had it in them anyway and only their bites, not the bites of their hosts, could pass it on.

Rats continue to be no more diseased and dirty than any other wild creature. Almost everything people think about them is wrong...they aren't even scavengers. A million movies have shown them creeping around dead bodies when rats won't eat anything too spoiled for a human to eat. They will hunt smaller rodents but will not feed on carrion. An exception would be that they consume their own dead, but this is common in social mammals and is an instinctive measure to prevent the spread of disease on their home turf.

Domestic rats have been bred in captivity for centuries (millenia in "their" time...their usual lifespan is only two years, the one downside to having them) come in breeds like siamese, dalmation, manx and hairless and unlike most rodents, they're actual "companion" animals that require regular handling and quickly bond to their owners. They are easily trained and can be taken outside or carried on shoulders/in pockets without a chance of them wanting to run away and many will know to hop off of you when nature calls. Other rodents like hamsters/guinea pigs never grow that friendly and are pretty vicious compared to rats (cute, but dumb as a brick)...and yet they're the ones everyone loves and rats get bred as python food.

Bleh, I wound up babbling and babbling anyway.

More sentences to a drawn-out boring post can't really hurt so I must add to the severity of my tick phobia - it's truly irrational, because no other bloodsucking animal bothers me. I have no problem whatsoever with leeches or even lice (not that I would enjoy having lice, I just wouldn't freak over it any more than a common cold or something) there's just something about the way ticks look and the way they feed that gives me chills.

I think lobsters/crawfish/other crustaceans have pretty cute, expressive eyes actually. They look "bewildered" all the time, and those churning mouthparts are awesome.

[Could Be Worse]

Mirrors in the dark, as many others have said, sometimes scare me, but I have an excuse. When I was younger, I wached Poltergeist 3, and got extemely creeped out (especially that Tangina-mirror scene..if you've seen in, you know what I mean) Anyway, it was Halloween a few days later, and I went to this haunted house that was set up in an old mansion. It was very dark, and everyone split up. I wandered around, and ended up in front of a mirror. Well, the attraction was, it's a normal mirror, until one of the workers thrusts his hands through an openign and pull you through. Well, they did, and I freaked out (I was stil just a kid) Usually, you get pulled out and exit, but I ran away from the guy and ran off,ending up trapped inside the walls. I eventualy found my way out, and have been scarred for life ever since. Luckily, my "fear" has begun to fade off.

[the night watchman]

Originally posted by Scythemantis
I must add to the severity of my tick phobia - it's truly irrational, because no other bloodsucking animal bothers me.

I know what you mean about irrational fear. What are the chances I'm going to encounter a giant squid? And yet the very thought of them out there, drifting in the murky depths, dangling their tenticles in the darkness, waiting for prey to swim into their grasp ...

'Scuse, me. I have to go hide for a few hours.

[Tyler Durden10]

"Little People" aka Midgets Dwarfs etc. Anytime I see them, I freak out and throw up. It's kinda odd but it happens everytime. So i avoid them at all cost.

[Dead Halloween]

I can't understand why people are afraid of clowns. They're just a bunch of morons with a dumb face painting to try to make you laugh.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by Dead Halloween
I can't understand why people are afraid of clowns. They're just a bunch of morons with a dumb face painting to try to make you laugh.



Yeah, but how would you feel if a fully dressed up clown turned up at your doorstep at three in the morning? Would you laugh then? I know that I would personally shit myself.

Scythemantis, thanks for the info on the rats! My friend once had a domestic rat (friendly little bugger it was), which used to run all over the room. I remember being fascinated by it's wee pink tail...

[hail]

The Exorcist
Halloween
Evil Dead

first time i saw them it scared the ever loving shit out of me

[Dead Halloween]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
Yeah, but how would you feel if a fully dressed up clown turned up at your doorstep at three in the morning? Would you laugh then? I know that I would personally shit myself.

Scythemantis, thanks for the info on the rats! My friend once had a domestic rat (friendly little bugger it was), which used to run all over the room. I remember being fascinated by it's wee pink tail...

Don't hate me, but I used to work half time as a clown.

[MacReady]

Originally posted by Scythemantis
Another case of a myth/exaggeration being almost universally accepted as a hard fact. Rats were no more a significant carrier than any other mammal, in fact, they were right the first time when they blamed cats, which would have brought the bodies of rats, mice, moles, shrews and all manner of more timid animals out into the open around people. That aside, it was fleas that actually had it in them anyway and only their bites, not the bites of their hosts, could pass it on.

Rats continue to be no more diseased and dirty than any other wild creature. Almost everything people think about them is wrong...they aren't even scavengers. A million movies have shown them creeping around dead bodies when rats won't eat anything too spoiled for a human to eat. They will hunt smaller rodents but will not feed on carrion. An exception would be that they consume their own dead, but this is common in social mammals and is an instinctive measure to prevent the spread of disease on their home turf.

Domestic rats have been bred in captivity for centuries (millenia in "their" time...their usual lifespan is only two years, the one downside to having them) come in breeds like siamese, dalmation, manx and hairless and unlike most rodents, they're actual "companion" animals that require regular handling and quickly bond to their owners. They are easily trained and can be taken outside or carried on shoulders/in pockets without a chance of them wanting to run away and many will know to hop off of you when nature calls. Other rodents like hamsters/guinea pigs never grow that friendly and are pretty vicious compared to rats (cute, but dumb as a brick)...and yet they're the ones everyone loves and rats get bred as python food.


Good lord you sounded just like Willard from the movie of the same name. I own a snake and yes, I do feed it rats (babies, but their already dead). I hope to own a rat one day myself, but my entire family seems to be terrified of em'.

[Scythemantis]

Yeah pre-killed is always important, I know they're babies so they're harmless anyway but I've seen photos of snakes stripped entirely of flesh from large live feeders that fought back. Owners who feed live say it's the "natural way" but I don't see people forcing their dogs/cats to actually battle their food. :p Kinda the point of having a pet is taking it away from the survival struggle of the wild, y'know?

Clowns aren't scary? I'm not terrified of them but I can easily see why many people are, it's a human being, but "off", unnaturally exaggerated and cartoonish. Very eerie.

I used to know names for a ton of absurd phobias, like fear of beards and fear of peanut butter, but I've forgotten them all.

I knew a girl absolutely terrified out of her mind (the way I used to be with ticks, i've gotten better) of cats, even newly born kittens. She would cry and freeze stiff if one was anywhere near her.

[the night watchman]

There's a list of phobias at this site http://www.phobialist.com/.

Like the bard said, people are strange.

[quoth_the_raven]

To quote dog soldiers- "The self-destructive nature of the human condition"

[*Escapade*]

Crazed backwoods-killer type people/movies scare the shit outta me. It's realistic stuff, and all throughout childhood, I believed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre really DID happen, which made me fear the woods even worse!
Funhouse/fair/carnival stuff also scares me. You never know what could be lurking in a funhouse. The carnies are also creepy folks.
The thing that really scares me is stuff where a person is completely surrounded by something (zombies, killer animals, trapped in space/underwater, etc) where all they can do it wait for the slaughter defenselessly. That's the most horrible situation to ever be put in.

[MacReady]

Originally posted by Scythemantis
Yeah pre-killed is always important, I know they're babies so they're harmless anyway but I've seen photos of snakes stripped entirely of flesh from large live feeders that fought back. Owners who feed live say it's the "natural way" but I don't see people forcing their dogs/cats to actually battle their food. :p Kinda the point of having a pet is taking it away from the survival struggle of the wild, y'know?

Um, I know this is gonna sound cruel but, the pet store that sells em' to me, they freeze them to death in a fridge. That's why I'm trying to sell my snake (that and the fact that it does nothing).

[gorysnoopy]

DAMN!Am I the only person who can't see those pics of Pennywise?!!?

[the night watchman]

Originally posted by gorysnoopy
DAMN!Am I the only person who can't see those pics of Pennywise?!!?

No, they don't appear to be there anymore. Maybe the Turtle is trying to protect us.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by the night watchman
No, they don't appear to be there anymore. Maybe the Turtle is trying to protect us.


Damn the Turtle! Anyway, here are some more: :)
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[sherimoon]

Im actually scared of a lot. Lets see: spiders, snakes, clowns, midgets, needles, animatronics, elevators, esculators, heights, public speaking, being buried alive

[Scythemantis]

I forgot about needles. I'm not terrified of them but I'm a wuss when I have to get one, I can't handle the pain at all. And the bastard doctors insist it isn't going to hurt this time.

Originally posted by MacReady
Um, I know this is gonna sound cruel but, the pet store that sells em' to me, they freeze them to death in a fridge. That's why I'm trying to sell my snake (that and the fact that it does nothing).

That's fairly normal but there are reptile supply companies that do it quicker/more humane with better equipment, petstore sounds real unprofessional. We have trouble finding good places for supplies (gf keeps rats, a chameleon and insects, I keep some other insects and we share a saltwater tank) because such a surprising number of petstores aren't even licensed to sell animals and have tons of health problems. One near here has freaking lice and hasn't done anything about it yet. Plus most of them use pine and cedar shavings for their rabbits/rodents which despite their wide use are extremely toxic (they cause cancer in anything put on them and some nasty, permanent and incurable throat/lung maladies in overexposed humans)

[radikill]

Originally posted by MacReady
I hope to own a rat one day myself, but my entire family seems to be terrified of em'.

I used to have a couple of rats as pets. They're fun, and quite smart. I used to walk around the house with one perched on either shoulder. Unfortunately, they're also a bit stinky, which is why my wife made me get rid of them.

And, like others who recently posted, I also have a bit of a fear of heights. But I'm only afraid of being in a high open space. Planes, for example, don't bother me in the least. But standing on a rooftop freaks me out. I never really understood why until I saw a movie (wish I could remember the name) in which a character explains his fear of heights this way:

"I'm not afraid of falling. I'm afraid I'll get the overwhelming urge to jump."

Yep, that's me in a nutshell.

[DemoNBeaR]

well let's see. In movies, stuff that really scares me is stuff that blows your mind. Like in Event Horizon, the scene where they find a video recording of the last crew onboard with that guy talking in latin i think and holding his eyeballs in his hands and you ears people screaming and being tortured. That kind of stuff makes you imagine what happened and i gotta admit, im scared to death every time i see that scene. And i love it!

But in real life, stuff that scares me... lets see.. i'm a really intuitive person so every now and then i got bursts of insctinct about stuff, and im usually right. " Example : I feel that something in particular will happen and it really happens ". THAT freaks me out sometime... to realize that you, somehow, KNEW... am i the only one here?

[Terror Australis]

The dark......and Martin Lawrence's acting.

[girl6]

What scares me....as far as movies usually anything thats based on a true story like Amityville or The Entity. Because after credits roll. I'm thinking ok that movie supposedly really happen to someone.Things like that scare me.

And I would guess in real life what scares me is sleep paralysis. Since I have it on such a regular bases. If you don't know what it is. It's when you awake from a deep sleep completely paralyzed. You can't move a muscle. I have a fear of getting stuck like that. And sometimes I fall asleep with my face in the pillow so when I wake up with sleep paralysis. My faced is smushed into the pillow. And I have trouble breathing. And then sometimes the nasty hallucinations that accompany it.

Otherwise I'm cool!:D

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by girl6
And I would guess in real life what scares me is sleep paralysis. Since I have it on such a regular bases. If you don't know what it is. It's when you awake from a deep sleep completely paralyzed. You can't move a muscle. I have a fear of getting stuck like that. And sometimes I fall asleep with my face in the pillow so when I wake up with sleep paralysis. My faced is smushed into the pillow. And I have trouble breathing. And then sometimes the nasty hallucinations that accompany it.


Thankfully that's only ever happened to me once and I did not like it one bit. I didn't hallucinate, but I could hear a sawing noise and I knew that someone was trying to break in through the balcony door. Have you had the hallucinations with the old hag sitting on your chest and the like?

[the night watchman]

I once had an experience that might have been sleep paralysis. It wasn't unpleasant, or accompanied by visual or auditory hallucinations. I remember opening my eyes, and looking around my room, but knowing that I was still "asleep," or that my mind was in sleep or dream mode. I couldn't move, and I could hear my breathing, which was shallow and regular, like a sleeping person's. Very unusual experience. I’m fairly certain it wasn't a dream; my dreams tend to be very abstract, and the room I saw during this experience (which probably lasted about a minute or two) was plainly my room, with no dreamy accoutrements.

[girl6]

I have had to deal with the old hag who plants her behind right on your back. I have also hallucinated a dark figure laying in bed with me playing with my hair. I could feel it touching me which was kinda freaky. I have awakened like that to see a bedroom door I had shut wide open and things walking in and out my bedroom. Then when I finally pull myself out of it everything is just how I left it. I have woke up feeling like I was being held down and one of my hands being squished. And when I pulled myself out of it that time my right hand was swollen and I couldn't make a fist for days. It really creepy how some people have maybe once or twice in their lifetime. And some people never. But I can have it every night for months. One of my good friends left me with food for thought. It was something I was actually trying not to think about. She asked a simple question. What if you're not hallucinating? Damn her to hell for putting that thought in my head. :mad:

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by girl6
I have had to deal with the old hag who plants her behind right on your back. I have also hallucinated a dark figure laying in bed with me playing with my hair. I could feel it touching me which was kinda freaky. I have awakened like that to see a bedroom door I had shut wide open and things walking in and out my bedroom. Then when I finally pull myself out of it everything is just how I left it. I have woke up feeling like I was being held down and one of my hands being squished. And when I pulled myself out of it that time my right hand was swollen and I couldn't make a fist for days. It really creepy how some people have maybe once or twice in their lifetime. And some people never. But I can have it every night for months. One of my good friends left me with food for thought. It was something I was actually trying not to think about. She asked a simple question. What if you're not hallucinating? Damn her to hell for putting that thought in my head. :mad:



Christ, I would shit my shreddies every time before I went to sleep if anything remotely like what you have experienced happened to me.

[girl6]

Believe me sleep does not come easily to me. I have been dealing with this since I was about 5 or 6. So you get used to it eventually. But it can still be very freaky no matter what. I researched it on the internet a bit. The dark shadows I see some times are called shadow people. What I see sometimes is very similiar to this picture on this website:http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Shadow_Person.html

The scientific explanation is very good. They say when your body falls into a deep REM sleep your body goes into paralysis during that state to keep you from hurting yourself while dreaming. I guess a kind of body defense mechanism. But some people wake up before they get out of this state hence they are awake and and still paralyzed. But it still does not explain the hallucinations. Because I am wide awake and aware of my surrounding when I see these things or images or whatever.

[the night watchman]

Originally posted by girl6
But it still does not explain the hallucinations. Because I am wide awake and aware of my surrounding when I see these things or images or whatever.

You are still in a REM state. Your mind is fabricating images and sounds that coincide with the sensations you are feeling. To a certain extent you are experiencing waking nightmares.

[Scythemantis]

I have the rem problem too, I wake up thinking the room is full of dogs or spiders (odd, because spiders don't scare me in the "real" world, I love them!) or ticks (duh) or sometimes things I absolutely cannot put into words and can't fully explain even to myself in afterthought...totally surreal stuff.

I enjoy it, though. It inspired my imagination after I've woken up. Nightmares are cool the weirder they are.

Girl6 - rest easy, Amityville was never a true story. Like the blair witch project, that was just a gimmick to promote it.

[J.Estacado]

My biggest fear is what happens when we die?

[Donnie_Darko]

i've been called a "homophobe", so I guess I'm afraid of gays? :rolleyes:

You know, not to sound like a "tough guy", but I don't have any actual phobias. I'm leary of a few things, but no real "fears". I can't swim, but I'm not afraid of the water. I respect the power of the sea (billy), so I don't go out into it... no biggie.

The single STUPIDEST fear is the fear of dying. Hate to break it to everyone but, it IS gonna happen, so how can you be afraid of the inevitable?

Oh well...

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[Wayne]

Shit I'm afraid of STD's and myself.