Things that scared you as a kid

For me one of the biggest things was the car wash. I was screaming and crying as I sat in the car going through this dark tunnel and the brushes covered the car making it very dark inside as they pounded on the windsheild. That must be what it’s like to be eaten alive by a whale. Every time I was riding in the car and my mom said we were going to the car wash I would get tense and try to get her to go home or somewhere else. That place is like a haunted house ride but with a purpose.

@someguy111
 
Car wash? Really? That thing was AWESOME! I still love it to this day!
 
Also darkness, but that was a long time ago. Now I love it.

You know that laugh at the end of Thriller?  
Scared the shit out of me.

Hung-up clothes.

 
Nuff said.

Mannequins  
Maple leaves(Not Kidding. Still have no idea why.)  
 
Balloons  
curtains  
TV Static  

Oh, I was a pussy. So many things scared me.
 
-Leapfrog Scooby Doo books  
~~Windows “error” window  
-the dark  
~~“record” button on my cassette player (thought it was haunted and would kill me in my sleep)  
-chattering teeth

The elephant graveyard from Lion King. Disney seems to have a thing with messing with kids.

The Haunted Houses and Castles in Super Mario World SNES.

@SeraphimDawn  
The second Zelda for NES, I think it’s called Adventure of Link. Anyway the entire game was creepy but the temples especially made me scared. The music didn’t help either.

‘Kay, I just remembered one.
 
I remember this time we went camping with our old caravan; my parents slept outside in a tent, and I slept on the sofa inside. I fall asleep, life is good. Couple of hours pass and I groggily wake up from an awkward position. Suddenly I see these two big fucking red lights glaring at me from the other side of the caravan. I shit you not, I kicked the window behind me down (thank God it was plastic) and SWAT-rolled the fuck out of there.
 
Turns out the video payer turned on for some reason. Christ.
 
To this day, I fear waking up and seeing a spark of light where it shouldn’t be.
 
I also find it very hard (in a creepy sense) to sleep if I’m not in complete darkness.
 
Y’know what? I still kinda fear sleeping alone. Suffered an intense period of constant night-terrors over the course of two years when I was little, guess that scarred me a bit.

Skeletons scared the shit out of me as a kid. My biology class in high school of course had an entire wall full of animal bones and skulls and even in high school it was creepy.

@someguy111  
I avoided the Transylvania level in the Ducktales game as a kid.

crane flies/daddy long legs, stick insects and for some strange reason adverts

@muserock7997  
hey some commercials are scary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2vBJt1iG60  
Also, unlike many kids (and some adults even) I was never scared of clowns, I just don’t understand why they are so scary to people, it’s just a normal guy with some makeup on.

@someguy111  
well to be exact it was this ad in particular  
this one fucked me up too

@muserock7997  
I found neither of those disturbing at all.

Movies  
Pink Elephants on Parade and when Gandalf tried to pick up the ring.
 
Experience  
Chuck E. Cheese at my birthday

>The evil tree in The Care Bears Movie  
>The wild ride in Journey to Joke-a-Lot  
>Ceiling fans  
>Blue Screen of Death  
>Red Screen of Death (PS2)  
>Vomiting  
>Rollercoasters  
>Fake antivirus software  
>Report card day  
>Basement and attic  
>Loud dogs behind fences  
>Baths (and hygenic practices in general)

@Megalobronia
TV static hits close to me… I used to get startled. I still did later to a degree whenever someone forgot to turn down the volume on the CRT.

When I was really young I used to be afraid of spoons (I know weird right?)

Until I turned 12, first-person shooters.

Until I turned 8, cats.

Until I learned that only wasps are hornets are total a-holes, bees.

E.T. when I was under 5

Balloons, more specifically, the sound of it popping. Because of my Asperger’s, I have a sensitivity for sudden loud noises and it was especially pronounced when I was a kid so every time I heard a balloon pop, I would cry and cry and I felt scared every time I was near one. Even now as an adult I still get uneasy near balloons and even though I don’t cry at the popping anymore, it still puts me on edge and I hate it so much.