What’s your weirdest childhood fear?

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My reflection walking out the mirror to get me.

The toilet. (I thought there was animals in the toilet waiting to bite my butt😭)

Walking up the stairs after turning the basement light off

No joke I had a whole sleep paralysis episode regarding my grandma’s elliptical 💀💀💀

despicable me 2. was absolutely terrified of those damn purple minions

When I was little I had a reoccurring nightmare that I would get eaten by an alligator, Florida people problems

I read the Maze Runner Series when I was 10, those of you who read the epilog in book one know about where the gladers are taken. So until we moved a year or two later I would swing around the corner of my bedroom door and punch the clothes incase there was a crank hanging in my closet 😂 10 out of 10 series tho, its a great read.

Death

the inevitable feeling of the elites coming to take away your human rights then censor all media across the country. I would love to tell 7 year old me that my greatest fear has commenced

butterflies… im still afraid of them to date but yk 😓

Other people

The earth exploding

a gum commercial

The “womp womp” sound effect 😭😭😭

Jello

I once had a nightmare about jello becoming conscious like minecraft slime, intentionally infinitely splitting itself in a blender and coming after me in my sleep as tiny slime bits

The classic "monster under the bed" scenario.

Thinking there is a witch in the front of window.

I blond woman coming into my household taking me away

I think everyone is afraid of "Whip My Hair"

birds, I always hated how they seem to fly so close they were so unpredictable

GOOGLY EYES

Cotton balls 💀

The TV show Bear in the Big Blue House

pocd

My life size doll was "watching" me at night.

Opening doors at night

Spoiler

I thought a zombie would jump out at me like that one scene in The Walking Dead after Carl and Rick escape the prison. Where Carl opens the door and a zombie tries to get through just when you thought nothing would happen.

Power lines lol

Just felt like they kept getting closer and closer when I was under them

My fire alarm was constantly low battery fsr so around every 30 mins it would beep to let you know its low battery and as a kid I HATED the sound of the fire alarm so for around 3 years every time I made my way up the stairs I would hold my ears as tight as I could (the fire alarms in my house were at the top and bottom of the staircase, the weirdest part I'd that as soon as I got into the bathroom or into my room I would let go of my ears even though the fire alarm was still right next to both the rooms

Peanut butter jelly time song and Taylor swifts “Trouble”

Dark hallways. But I thought if I stood in one for too long, a train was gonna come and run over me.

Dolls. Like any type of dolls. Especially the baby dolls where if you lay them down their eyes close.

((Still a fear to this day. I will literally throw any doll into a wall if I really "have" to.))

Falling down those street drains on the side of the road like Georgie got dragged into in the IT movie. Although I had this fear long before I saw IT and had countless nightmares about it from the ages of 5-8 that I still remember so vividly.

Still scared of water...not showers and baths but swimming..

That a shark was in every pool i went into. Despite the water being crystal clear

Doorknobs, the letter X

Mannequins

Commercials. Idk why!

that earth is gonna explode in billion years

Chewing gum in fear of swallowing it, I avoided it for YEARS

Monster in the closet lmao

Bigfoot 😭

flowers 💀

Asparagus

Talking to women

Bees/wasps

Luna Moths.

There was a pipe apparatus in our basement when I was around 4, and when I would run up the stairs, I imagined it coming alive and chasing me up the stairs until I got onto the main floor 😭

My house’s foyer had this silent motion sensor that would light up red at night when you walked by it. I was terrified of walking past it so much that I just wouldn’t go there if it was ever night time. I’d always need a parent with me else I would start panicking. I thought it would jump out and attack me like robot cyborg thing.

The sun exploding in a few billion years

The Gummy bear song when he would drive a car right into the tv screen.

koolaid man

would wake up in the middle of the night screaming STOP TOUCHING ME KOOLAID MAN spontaneously from the age of 6-7

The end in minecraft

Sometimes in family photos under the sma coffee table we had I saw and pointed out that there was a guy with no face just right in front of the small table (this happened only twice) I forgot about it till one day I saw the photo (this was taken back in 2009 or so) and I was honestly surprised how normal it was because it happened twice that I saw the man with no face just a normal looking dude just no face of hair first time I think it was just a plain white shirt and the second time was just a plain black shirt and the craziest thing is both my sisters agreed they saw him I have no clue where the picture is today but it scares me now thinking like "what if he pops up again"

the curtain closet we have in the bathroom cs i thpught bloody mary would kill me from there even tho i knew she only comes outta the mirror

Something running after me in the dark as I turn lights off behind me

I remember when we were learning the letter R in kindergarten, my teacher showed me a character that ripped rubber bands and that was scary for 6-year-old me

The Kool Aid Man. I was genuinely terrified of him.

One of my earliest memories actually! I was like 3 years old I had just seen one of the Michael Bay Transformers films, and had a nightmare about a roomba turned evil spiky mini transformer with buzzsaw hands, and I thought this shit lived in my closet 'cause that night something shifted in there and I was so scared to go into my closet all the way till we moved outta that house like 2 years later.

When I was a baby I had stranger anxiety:/

(Does that count?)

I was always scared and had doppelgänger nightmares before I even knew what the word meant and what they were/are. I thought it was just a me thing but guess not after a couple years of reflecting

there was nothing I feared more than mirrors, I always avoided mirrors at all costs, the thought of seeing something standing behind me or my reflection smiling at me when I'm not was terrifying.

Getting sucked down a pool drain.. still kinda scared of drains lol

That there was a little man playing the trumpet in the bathtub drain bc it made a funny noise when I was in it, I used to cry when my mom said I had to take a bath

My grandma's old cat was so chonky that i was afraid it would eat me. (even saw nightmares about being eaten by it)

Wasn’t weird but my only fear was death, I know it’s bound to happen but I don’t think there’s anything after death, like it’s just nothingness.

Fish actually I'm still scared of fish.

when cars with loud speakers went by i thought an alligator was coming for me, like when the music plays in horror movies before smth bad is gonna happen

Homeless people

Front flip 4x then power ranger destroy all

It's so weird I'm willing to win. Hahaha

That rats would come out of the toilet while I'm sitting on it and then attack me

Going out of the room and the earth would crumble and I would float into space and enter Neptune

bloody marry

large letters. why are you so big??

The ape from Toy Story 3 scared the shit out of me until I realized I was bigger and stronger

That one day I would spontaneously combust

that i was going to be put in a box and mailed to mexico

I'm not sure if anyone else had this happen but in the dark, objects I had in my room looked like animals and scary things. For example, I was in the room and it was dark and there was a blanket on my bed that I thought was an alligator and I had to build up the confidence to check it out and touch it. Did this happen to anyone else?

Elevators

Fucking stickers god damn

Never being enough for those around me.

Quicksand.

when i was like six or seven i was scared of tanning in the sun cuz i thought i would turn into a black person LMFAOO

monsters

mine was the the thought that there were bugs in my toilet that could bite my ass, so i had to check every time i sat down for a shit

I thought for sure there were things in the darkness that would get me if any part of me was out of the covers.

I thought my dolls would crawl out of my toy box and try to kill me, i read too many scary stories as a kid.

My dad😎

Any Dead Celebrity really. I was mainly scared of Micheal Jackson though for some odd reason. I know it sounds weird but after watching thriller as a kid I was always scared of him and ghosts of dead celebrities haunting me. No longer scared though 😂

My siblings convinced me that Medusa lived in our attic.

No one had it as far as I know, but up until I was around 8, I was scared of those buzzy, dusty bathroom ventilators on ceilings 😭 I’d run out crying and screaming if I saw one in the bathroom

Sharks in the pool 😅

Tail lights on dark nights. I blame the movie Little Nemo because they made me think of the nightmare king

Had a recurring dream for half my life that a woman in a white gown came and took my brother who is my closest friend. Could never see her face and he never looked sad to go with her but I was so scared to live life without him.

The toilet flushing bc I thought that something would come out of it and chase me so I would run out the bathroom before it could get me

Toilets

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Absolutely terrified. Had recurring nightmares about these two f*ckers.

Bloody mary coming out when i turn off the lights in the bathroom

My reflection making one wrong move- I’d stand in the mirror for hours doing weird quick movements to make my reflection slip up lmao

The sun was going to blow up in 5 billion years.

frogs frogs frogs

I was afraid to shake whipped cream bottles because I saw a 911 lone star episode where a chef shook one and it exploded.

I'm still slightly cautious about it, but now knowing it's 100% fake and the chances are low I'm not deathly afraid.

TOUCHING THAT FUCKING ELF ON THE SHELF I STILL TODAY DONT LIKE TOUCHING IT

The thx sound effect 😭

Trees....I just knew those things had souls in them.

Everything is a camera.

it was Stewie Griffin saying "Mommy, Mommy, mom, mom, mom, mom, Lois, Lois, Lois" and I always got scared whenever Lois said "WHAT!?!!" (I didn't even watch family guy 😭😭😭)

Eating in front of a crucifix. Catholic households have em everywhere, including the dining area. Just the thought of eating in front of Jesus' corpse made me naseous.

Windshield wipers. Flinched and cried whenever they popped up bro :(

Old people.

It was so bad in like 3? grade we went to a nursing home to sing Christmas carols and I refused to sing because old people scared me.

Seeing a pale face peeking through my window. This is still a legit fear of mine

Art from monsters inc. Like the purple arched guy. I had a dream where his name was evil jimmy and he would chase me around the neighborhood

When I was about 7, I was terrified of getting a concussion because I thought my brain would swell up and I would die. So every time I bumped my head, even just a little bit... instant tears/panic attack, because obviously I just gave myself a concussion and the grim reaper was on his way

the automated voicemail response when someone didn't pick up the phone- specifically a landline from vonage 💀

Herpes and tornadoes.

Wasps I was stung once on the monkey bars and I’ve never gone on any since

sleeping facing the outside of my bed instead of the wall i had sp a lot as a kid and i saw those fake sp demons which made me scared of waking up unable to move while this devil thing watches me

I always had dreams of a t-Rex chasing me through my town or school at least once a week. It was so bad for so long and I still had a dream about it like a year ago

College football mascots. I would picture them specifically the Georgia bulldog mascot and the East Carolina pirate mascot breaking into my house in the middle of the night, it would get so bad I would cry to my parents with fear of it. I had some fucking strange childhood fears

cafeteria tables at my school cause they looked like cheese

There's this road that leads to the grocery store that as a kid, maybe 10 years old, I felt like it was super steep. I had nightmares about walking up that road and it kept getting steeper until I slipped and started tumbling backwards until I was about to hit the bottom, then I jolted awake right before falling on my back.

That road has maybe half a meter of slope over a few hundred meters, it ain't even that steep.

i got burned by those outdoor heaters you would see at the patio of restaurants and i was afraid of them for years after that

definitely toilets

I had these doors in my old bathroom to hide the washer, water heater and dryer and I used to scared that someone was hiding in there trying to get me or just watching me, it didn't help that the water heater would make the weirdest most random noises😂

Being hunted. I was born with this fear that I was being hunted. I've always had dreams of hiding from someone, they find me then I wake up. It's terrifying. I got over the paranoia but the feeling still lingers.

That if I didn't keep my closet door closed all they way, before bed Freddy Krueger would come get me.

The elder god kraken that lives at the back of the wave pool. Those machines look alot like a dark cage.

Piranha swarm would make it's way through the sewers into the pool, busting through the drain and eating everyone. I couldn't go swimming without goggles because I had to keep an eye on the drains for structural damage being caused from the other side

The gorilla that lived inside my closet

Tv lights at night, once I happen to see a scene from a show (I think criminal minds) where a guy kill a mom and son and drowns the daughter in the pool, and and when he shots the kid it’s show as two quick flash of light. Ever since then if I saw tv lights flashing in the hallway I was convinced someone was out there killing my whole family while i slept. Still make me uncomfortable today

for some reason this video had 7 year old me shitting myself, i thought patrick was gonna come into my room and cut me in half https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_kdQEKww8

Aliens. I remember being so scared shitless some nights that aliens were going to land in my backyard and come into the house. Reading UFO books and alien documentaries did not help 😂

I used to be scared to take a shower because i thought mini versions of my teachers lived there

It's still my biggest fear, sentient moving intestines

Mine were chickens

A group of that slimy ghost from ghostbusters hiding in vents and plotting

I was afraid of crickets lol

I read “It” at way too young of an age. I think I was 12? Anyway. I feared Pennywise. (Well, until Tim Curry played him in the movie.)

Literally, when i was 4 I was scared because I knew Pennywise from the movie "IT" lived in the sewers so whenever i went to the bathroom, I was always so scared to sit down on the toilet, thinking that Pennywise would come up from the toulet and bite my ass! 😂

The basement after I turn off the lights.

When I was a kid my aunt always said she was going to cut my pecker off and my mom said I cried just at the site of her every time she came over. Which is understandable.

Ur joking, the whip my hair music videos 😭

Quicksand

The floor for abt a week , I was scared that the floor was lava (the game)

Alien "Greys"

Falling up into the sky

The dark

The movie holes. lizard surrounds you. I was always scared of getting surrounded my animals wanting to kill me

People looking at me in the window

Sharks in the pool

Toothpaste with fluoride, lmfao. I couldn't stand the mintiness.

The vacuum from the Teletubbies

My childhood fear was something looking in the window at me. I always kept the shades closed and slept upstairs to prevent it.

Don't let moths fly by your ears....they will fly in and scream and then you will be deaf

Earnings crawl in your ear and eat your brains

Shout out to my brother for my fears

Bushes

getting bullied

The fear of me not waking up the next day if I fell asleep 💀

I'm not lying.

Marge Simpsons hair rising slowly from the side of my bed.

I don't like to say Simpsons, I don't want to watch the show. Never did and still don't.

Falling down the stairs n it’s still an unintentional fear