What's scarier than zombies?

[Pike]

Giant moths. Spiders. Global-scale biological warfare.

[drotato]

Nothing is scarier than a zombie. I have a serious fear of the zombie apocalypse. It's not a joke to me. I have nightmares every other night about it, and sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night if I hear something, and think one is in my house or something. I freak the hell out over them.

Just thinking about a previous "human being" wanting to tear every single piece of flesh from my body as I lie there screaming, not able to do anything but die a slow painful death...... People can joke all they want about it, but that trout is scary.

[Sylvie]

Being taken away and tortured by the secret police and knowing that no one can save you is several million times scarier than any brand of zombie apocalypse imaginable. Bradley Manning's will has actually been beaten to the consistency of a white handful of play-dough and he has not been rescued. Zombie activity is still only active in popular culture.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Zombies aren't scary, shut up.

The ocean is scary, a crushing, black abyss where man was not meant to travel. Also, sharks.

[Sylvie]

The ocean is scary, a crushing, black abyss where man was not meant to travel.

This.

[Tigmafuzz]

Zombies aren't scary, shut up.

The ocean is scary, a crushing, black abyss where man was not meant to travel. Also, sharks.

I'm not that scared of the ocean. Maybe the deepest darkest parts, but I'm not ever planning on going there, so I'm not worried about it. Also,

Sharks aren't all that bad.

Pfft. Knife --> neck. No more problem.
There isn't a lot that scares me. I try to be prepared for nearly every situation. Impromptu traveling, car crashes, being mugged/robbed/burglarized, zombies, aliens, being stranded at sea, the flu, et cetera. I have a list of things somewhere that I try to be prepared for, with a myriad of likely (and unlikely) situations, which I cross off as soon as I find a way to overcome each situation. I only have two situations I have yet to cross off. Example: I have three of those tools that you place against your car window to break it in case of being driven into a body of water. One in the glove compartment, one in the little hatch in between the two front seats, and one that I keep in my rucksack.
Not that I would be able to fight off aliens, of course. If they arrive hostile, I usually have a suicide pill with me; I wouldn't want to put up with trying to fight off a civilization of intelligent beings more advanced than we are. If they can travel vast distances across space, I doubt we'd be able to do anything to stop them. But I'm not afraid of them, regardless. I'm pretty jaded.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I don't care how many people are actually killed by sharks every year, they're still smurfing scary beasts. As a human, if you're ever in the ocean, you're clearly in their domain and at a severe disadvantage. I'd rather face a smurfing bear.

[Tigmafuzz]

I'd take on a bear. It's on the list.

[G13]

Any other dangerous thing in the world. Zombies aren't any more scary than old people, which is essentially what they are.

[Freya]

But old people are terrifying o.o

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

They also smell horrid.

[TrollHunter]

They also have seriously decreased motor skills and crippled bodies in most cases.
So wait... old people are zombies. I KNEW IT
I'd say the kinda entities from my imagination that used to haunt me at night are scarier, a dark silent silhouette just waiting for you to close your eyes to strike. You can't see them, you can't hear them, but they're there.... waiting.

[Tigmafuzz]

Now that you mention it, the only thing I would actually be afraid of if I actually had to face them would be the stone angels.

[Rantz]

[Bubba]

Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher