Things You Were Terrified Of As a Kid

[Pike]

I'll start: The vacuum cleaner. I was convinced it was going to suck up both myself and all of my toys.

[Futan]

I saw Stephen King's It when I was like 6 and for years and years after, I was afraid of drains. What? Were you expecting clowns?

[Lonely Paper Star]

MIRRORS. ESPECIALLY IN THE DARK.

At family parties, we kids would gather around for ghost stories and someone ALWAYS brought up Bloody Mary, Candyman, and other various kinds of mirror ghosts. I was a gullible kid (maybe I still am? lol) and totally believed in that trout. Alvin Schwartz' blurb about it in one of those Scary Stories books didn't help any.

Neither did hearing about ghost ladies when I was in the Philippines. Those can appear behind you in the mirror, too. D:

[krissy]

basement
going from the bathroom to my bed at night
graveyards
mansions
clowns
pigs
pig guts
bulls
bull guts
satanists
goats
villains from captain planet
skeletor
teachers
needles
doctors
dentists
cauliflower
prophylactics
older kids
drama movies
big dogs
small dogs
chickens
fat rabbits
bees
wasps
lice

[Agent Proto]

When I was living in England back in the 80's there are these commercials that featured this horrifying cereal mascot. Mostly, it was kids turning into the monster whenever the cereal's name was mentioned. I just had to do a quick google to find out that this was for Sugar Puffs. Most of the commercial scared me as a kid. I was so afraid I would turn into a monster if I ate Sugar Puffs.

Sugar Puffs - Boyscouts - YouTube

[Sephex]

[Jowy]

the first thing i remember actually fearing in my life were these scary looking orange chairs in the kitchen when we lived in the tiny little beach cottage. they were just chairs but something always seemed unsettling about them. i still hate orange! the nightlight's reflections off of my sesame street chair always made it look like ursula from the little mermaid was going to come down from the wall and swallow me whole too. and then after playing FFIV i couldn't sleep away from the wall for a few years because I didn't want the demon wall to come attack me at night and squish me like a pancake. hearing cats hiss always puts me on high alert too, to this very day.

and the "this is a test of the emergency broadcast signal" thing on the radio/TV. also "now we end our broadcast day." super unsettling.

[DMKA]

Back in the late 80s/early 90s there was this anti-drug PSA that used to air while cartoons were on when I was like four and five years old and it scared the living crap out of me. It consisted of some dealer gradually transforming into a snake monster creature as he was directly addressing the audience. I had nightmares about it, and I remember him sticking his snakey tongue out at you at the end. I would assume I dreamed it up if not for the fact that I so vividly recall how much it freaked me out as a kid.

EDIT: Nope, I didn't dream it up. Thanks YouTube.

[Lonely Paper Star]

Back in the late 80s/early 90s there was this anti-drug PSA that used to air while cartoons were on when I was like four and five years old and it scared the living crap out of me. It consisted of some dealer gradually transforming into a snake monster creature as he was directly addressing the audience. I had nightmares about it, and I remember him sticking his snakey tongue out at you at the end. I would assume I dreamed it up if not for the fact that I so vividly recall how much it freaked me out as a kid.

EDIT: Nope, I didn't dream it up. Thanks YouTube.

OMG. I never saw this when I was a kid, but if I had, I would've freaked the smurf out as well. T_____T

[Freya]

Earthworms. Infact, they still scare me.

I'm convinced that if I step on them that they'll get mad at me for killing on of their friends and then destroy the very ground I walk on. Didn't help that my mom loved the movie tremors when I was a kid. Worms xP ICK!

[escobert]

Flushing the Toilet. I would always run out of the bathroom after flushing.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

Aliens abducting me at night, while I was sleeping or otherwise.

Staring out of a window when it's dark outside. Thinking that if I stared for more than a few seconds I would see something come out of nowhere and stare back.

[Mirage]

That dark place under the stairs down to the basement.

[Clo]

Squirrels in the attic.

[Chris]

I saw Deep Impact, and I was scared to hell about meteors smashing into Earth.