What things irrationally scared you as a child?

[ckriley]

Spiderhead from The Thing traumatized me as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15hHUK1lIgk

 

[WorgenHunter]

Stuffed animals or deer heads hanging on the walls. I always thought that the animal was alive, but it was just holding its breath and staring at me. I can still remember the first time I saw a stuffed bear, up on its hind legs, I ran away screaming thinking it would hurt me or something. As for the deer heads... I thought their other half was behind the wall, and they'd just come careening through at any moment. I had a weird imagination when I was 3.

 

[sageoftruth]

Just about everything, really. The dark, the weird sculpture in my dad's office building, strangers, heights, anything with a menacing expression in movies, playing Midnight Rescue on the computer...

Nowadays, hardly anything scares me. Some things unsettle me, but that's about it.

 

[Lisker84]

Being homeless, because after the divorce our mom would always tell us how she couldn't pay the bills and start freaking out. God, my childhood was fucked up.

 

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[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I might regret admitting this, but the old THX intro.

You know the one... VVVWWWWWWMMMMMM!!!

I used to hide behind the sofa whenever I was watching something that had that at the beginning.

not sure if you've seen it, but simpsons did a great scene on this that embodies this: