Welcome to my annual 12 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS!
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1. Each day from December 1 through December 12 I will put up a new giveaway HERE on my website with instructions on how to enter, a detailed description of the prize, and some stuff about the book or series. Each giveaway is different and each has ONE WINNER. MY GIVEAWAYS ARE ALWAYS OPEN INTERNATIONAL
2. Each giveaway runs UNTIL DECEMBER 13.
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4. Winners have 24 hours to respond, then another winner will be chosen.
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IN EACH POST I WILL HIGHLIGHT A BOOK
TODAY’S BOOK HIGHLIGHT IS SICK WORLD
TWISTED & SPICY ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS & FORCED PROXIMITY
DESCRIPTION
DARK-DARK ROMANCE!
NO ONE ESCAPES SICK WORLD
BOOK 1 – SICK HEART
BOOK 2 – SICK HATE
SICK HEART IS A STANDALONE BOOK!
“This book will STUN YOU SILENT!”
“Brutal, Brilliant, Beautiful!” – You will NOT stop turning pages.
“Unique story and Top Read 2021”
A selectively mute woman, offered as a prize in a brutal death match, finds herself claimed by the one man more broken and dangerous than the world they’re forced to survive, the undefeated MMA death-match fighter known only as Sick Heart.
Cort van Breda has won 35 death matches as a fighter in an MMA circuit so deep underground there are no rules and only the winner gets out alive.
They call him the Sick Heart.
They say he’s a shameless monster.
They say he’s a ruthless killer.
They say he’s as twisted as the man who owns him.
They say a lot of things about Cort van Breda.
But in our world violence is money, and money is winning, and winning is life, and life is the only thing that matters.
Except… he wasn’t meant to win that last fight.
And I wasn’t meant to be his prize.
But he did.
And I am.
And now his sick heart owns me.
WARNING: This is a sweet love story adrift in an ocean of evil. It is about two survivors dealing with their darkest secrets while they fight to change their lives. It is for mature readers only and has descriptions of deeply disturbing situations. There will be pearl clutching.
INSIDE THESE SICK PAGES…
🥊 Underground MMA DEATH Fights
🤫 Silent Hero AND Heroine
💔 Damaged Alpha Heroes
⛓️ Won as a Prize
🏝️ Forced Proximity & Isolation
🫂 Found Family/Band of Brothers
🔥 Polyamorous / Why Choose Romance
💪 Touch Her and Die
🔐 Secrets & Lies
👑 Criminal Underworld
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BOOK 2
SICK HATE
A retired child assassin, a vengeful ex-fighter, and the trainer who lost them both collide in a world of sick hate where their only hope for survival is to trust the one person as broken as they are.
Irina van Breda escaped the hopeless life she was born into and started a brand new one in America all by herself. She has everything she needs—a condo in South Beach, a new accent that doesn’t betray her dark origins, a brilliant best friend, and an easy life of walking the beach and feeding the gulls.
But she is merely existing—until Dead-Eyes Eason Malone appears, asking questions. He knows who she is, he knows where she came from, and he’s got a plan for her. A plan that could help him get over his own tragic beginnings.
Irina and Eason are on a collision course with the truth—and when they finally come to terms with what really happened to them as children, it just might shatter them both into millions of pieces.
Sick Hate is the second book in the Sick World Series. It is a standalone but new readers should start with Sick Heart first if they want the whole story of Irina’s past.
INSIDE THESE SICK PAGES…
🔪 Morally Grey Hero
💔 Trauma Bonding
🔐 Slow burn
🥊 Underground Fighter Romance
🏝️ Forced Proximity
😥 Hurt/Comfort
🔥 Steamy Scenes
⛓️ Revenge plot
🫂 He Falls First
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GIVEAWAY #11
SICK WORLD GIFT SET
WHAT’S IN THE SICK WORLD GIFT SET!
- Signed Copies of SICK HEART and SICK HATE!
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- Scrunchie!
- Shower Steamer!
- Fuzzy Socks!
- Organic Cotton Tea Towel
- 2026 JA Huss Swag Bag (Sticker Sheet, Sticker, Lip Balm, Pen, Drawstring Bag)
AND HERE’S HOW TO ENTER TO WIN TODAY’S GIFT SET!
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What’s something that scared you as a child that seems funny now?
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I was INSANELY afraid of THE BLOB! I saw that movie when I was like 6, or something. In the Cleveland area we had this local UHF channel 43 and this guy called Superhost who dressed up like superman and showed B Horror Movies every weekend. So I saw ALL the 50’s and 60’s horror movies as a kid and THE BLOB haunted me! Everywhere I went, I made an escape plan from the Blob. I think I did that until I was like 12. lol
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Ladybugs
Being scared to turn the hall light off and dead sprint up the stairs before the ‘shadow monster’ got me. Now I prefer the darkness, I can get away with more there 😜
I remember that sprint well. I could avoid the shadow monster but not my mom, LOL!
I was scared of the dark, so at night time if I heard the least little noise, I’d think something was after me. Now I look back and laugh.
quicksand
I just assumed it’d be such a big deal throughout my life, yet I’ve never seen it up close
When I was little I was terrified of Freddy Cruger, Jason and Michael Meyers… yes I am that old.. now I just laugh at them
I was scared of Spiders and most creepy crawly bugs now that to me seems kind of funny
Books look like an intriguing read
Clowns. The porcelain ones. I now use them to torment the neighborhood on Halloween.
Dracula! I was sure a vampire was going to come get me. I made my mom sit up and watch the late night scare-a-thon with me. I think she was as scared as I was.
I was terrified of Freddy Krueger from when I saw the movie at 2 1/2 until a few years ago. Now I have a magnet of his face on my fridge because I’m proud of myself for getting over my fear 🤣. I also still have to have my feet covered so the monsters don’t get me. My kids laugh at me.
Children of the Corn…
So every time I watched that movie ? My Mom ended up in the hospital… it happened twice and I refused to watch it. I watched it with my Mom and we both laughed because(we thought) it was a horrible movie, but I finally watched it without her going to the hospital…
I have no idea why but I use to be scared of mirrors in my bed room I use to cover them over with a towel at night . I have no idea why and dont remember the reason . But subconscious there must be one because although I’m not scared of them anymore I have come to realise that I’m now 43 and still NEVER had a mirror in my room . Lol.
As weird as that is I think my husbands is weirder he will under no circumstances allow a ticking clock in our room , he believes when you fall asleep your heart will begin pumping the the rythem of the clock and if the batteries die your heart will stop 🤣🤣🤣
I had the mirror fear too. What if you look in the mirror and it’s not you looking back? The Ticking Clock would make a great horror movie though!
I was terrified of belts and paddles (for good reason). Now, well 😏
Saying ‘bloody Mary’ into the mirror
Crocodiles. I’ve only had one bad dream, it’s the same one on repeat. It used to keep me up for hours as a kid!
Metal slides at the park!!! If you’re an early 80’s child you know 😳😅 but looking back on that now I think it’s kind of funny that whoever decided it was a good decision to do that may think how horrible that was for us children 😒😅
My friends & I were monkeying around with the photocopy machine at the library. Then, I noticed a sign near the machine that said “Machine Collected Daily.” Instead of knowing that they meant the change was collected, for some reason I thought they would see that day’s images. I spent weeks thinking the librarians would see our photocopies – no bueno. At least my face wasn’t in the pictures….
Indian Joe
As a kid the boogie monster scared me. I was convinced he nobly came out at night and that if I had my feet covered , that i was safe and he couldn’t get me.
My mind was drawing a blank at first until I read your answer about the Blob. It reminded me of watching The Creature from the Black Lagoon when I was a kid. That creature was scary! Then, when the boys were in their teens, we were scrolling on the TV and Svengoolie was playing the movie, so we started watching it and I was regaling the boys about how bad the creature scared me when I was a kid. But when the creature came lumbering on the screen, they both started cracking up so I asked what was so funny and they both said, “you can see the zipper!” so, I rewound it, and sure enough, there was this big zipper running up the side of the creature’s costume. We all got a good laugh out of that.
This may sound ridiculous but I was scared of balloons!
Not anymore they are just celebration things full of air.
My dad was always jumping out at me and my sisters scaring us when we were growing up, I use to jump at every little sound, peek around corners before moving, but now when he does it I just laugh, my kids try to jump scare me and get disappointed when they can’t.
I was scared that the (non existing) hampsters in out water pipes would rebel and not let is have water .I have no idea why. My family still clowns me for it.
As a child I was afraid of spiders. I mean really bad. My brothers would put rubbers spiders in my bed, paper spiders taped to the ceiling. Now as an adult I’m the one that is called to kill them
I was scared of monsters under the bed. I only felt safe if the blanket was completely covering my head. I don’t know how I breathed at night as a child! 😂
School & vegetables 🤣
So silly to think about that now.
I hated clowns a child as I saw poltergeist at 8, way too young and would scream every time I saw one.
Now I just laugh at them: even at scare fests!!
I was afraid of the dark and now I loved the dark. I walk around the house in the dark and hope that I do not run into anything.
I hated clowns a child as I saw poltergeist at 8, way too young and would scream every time I saw one.
Now I just laugh at them: even at scare fests!!
Quicksand.
It was a huge threat !!!!
Butterflies! At our city zoo we have a giant butterfly atrium that is FULL of butterflies. I remember as a child (6? 7?) going there with friends and absolutely freaking out! All those wings flapping in your face, little legs landing on you. Ugh ugh ugh. Totally creepy. I haven’t really outgrown it, though. To me, butterflies are just more colourful moths. If I see one in my vicinity, I’m outta there. Other people find my ‘phobia’ hilarious (thanks, sis).
I used to be deadly scared of driving. When I became of age to get my permit, I didn’t want to get them but my mom made me and I will say I think for the two years that I had my permit I maybe drove 30 minutes and that was it I absolutely hated it, it terrified me to drive and I have no clue why I was never in an accident or anything I don’t know what it was I just refused to drive. Well then I had to get a job after I got out of school and my mom told me that she would not drive me everywhere I finally got the courage to get my license and now I drive all the time I don’t know what it was that terrified me of driving when I was younger but now I do it all the time. I didn’t get my license until I was 21.. And I’m glad I did I’m glad I got over that fear but I don’t know why I had it in the first place.
Having sharks come out of the grate/filter thing in hotel swimming pools. Even then, I knew it was illogical for a shark to be in a chlorine pool and thanks to a book I had about sharks, I also knew that humans aren’t in their food chain. I still had that slight fear though, lol
I was afraid of the dark, would sleep with the covers over my head!
Teachers! Lol as I got olderi realized they werent as scary as I thought they were. Some were just mean because they were not happy with their life and took it out on us kids. But as a kid you dont understand that.
Okay so when I was a kid, I watched Nightmare on Elms Street. Let me tell you i couldn’t sleep alone for a lone time. I was so terrified of of Freddy. Now not so much….
I was deathly afraid of frogs. Still am.
Horror movies lol 😆 now they my favorite and pretty much all I watch.
As a young child it was going into a dark room and as an older child, it was the movie the house on Green apple Lane or it was called something like that.
So, I was at an event when I was a kid. I honestly can’t remember what was going on, but they wanted the kids to go into a room to watch The Never-ending Story. I refused to go in because I didn’t want to get stuck in there forever. To this day I have never seen that movie.
I used to be deathly afraid of clowns as a kid. I still don’t like the but can tolerate them more so now.
Ok, let me preface, I spent A LOT of time with my grandparents as a child. My grandfather had an over abundance of skin tags. He called them “wormies”
Throw in the movie Tremor’s. I spent an ill fated day in my mom’s bed sick with the flu. I watched Tremors. I was convinced that the “wormies” on my grandpa were baby worms from Tremors. Both horrified and scared, was I.
TBH….still not totally convinced
🤣😁
Spiders and clowns and heights….I still don’t like them but my fear has eased up
When I was a kid, I thought my stuffed animals would come to life and kill me if I didn’t give them kisses before I went to sleep every night. But that’s what happens when you watch horror movies. When you’re not supposed to.
Love this storyline!! Thunderstorms scarred me but now relax me.
Ok so I was terrified of the movie Dantes Peak. Idk why but I literally had nightmares all the time of volcano erupting and us all dying. 🫣🫣
Omg I was terrified of the Blob too! But my answer is thunder. If it thundered loudly I would hide because I was terrified. Now as an adult, having lived through more than one F5 tornado it seems silly that I would hide, tear up and shake over a little thunder.
Crickets, frogs … they jump.
Even today I will jump back if I see one🐸🦗
How funny that I a also saying “Children of the Corn.” I saw it as a child and ran away home crying , then watched it as an adult thinking , I would get some kind of thrill and I was bored.
Yes!! It is totally a dumb movie…but i still get the heebee jeebees when near a corn field (which happens alot where I live)
What scared me the most when I was younger was the movie cujo by Stephen King’s still to this day it scares the crap out of me. Of course my family thinks it’s funny but it was pretty scary
Alligators. I am sooo terrified of alligators, and it’s still a fear, but here’s why it’s funny/ridiculous, I live in the Texas panhanlde….we don’t have alligators! Not even close to anywhere that does. But still very real fear. 🤣🤣🤣 I am so ridiculous. Not coyotes or snakes, alligators.
The only thing that scared me as a child was the movie Theater Of Blood starring Vincent Price and Diana Rigg as father and daughter going round killing his critics. I saw it when I was about 10 late at night with my grandad and it gave me nightmare because of the things those two did to kill the critics including decapitatetion with a nail file…that’s dedication to your schemes. Now it’s just a friggin great movie
Deathly afraid of the bottom of the pool! Not sure why but I imagined that sharks were on the bottom and I would refuse to put my feet down treading water the entire time.
Also, fav book! Out of all the prizes, I hope I win this one!!!!
Vampires and scary movies that I wasn’t supposed to be watching.
Similar to you I was afraid of the 1st jaws movie now I look at it and can’t tell that is all fake and now I love like watching shark week I now just find sharks fascinating.
I remember watching the movie Carrie with my cousins when I was 18 years old. I had never watched a scary movie before that. Being guys, they thought it was funny. I couldn’t sleep for months. I still don’t like horror movies. I rather watch funny or adventure movies.. I can escape real life and than can sleep. I know it’s all fake but I still don’t like them.
I cant think of anything that scared me thats funny now, im not scared of many things, I could say I dont like snakes, spiders, roaches etc, but not scared. Just get skeeved out lol but honestly I didn’t have fear of anything growing up I can think of. Had a pretty calm upbringing, good parents, they kept us safe, so wasn’t really scared of anything.
Clowns. They used to freak me out. Now I just don’t care for them.
That the stone in our yard I thought was a tombstone of a dead person that actually was just a stone.
I’ve always been a reader, I think because I could do things I couldn’t do for real. Anyway, when I was about 10 I picked up a suspense book that was probably a little old for me and it came to a spot where there was something under the stairs and I ran downstairs to my mom and told her to read that section and tell me what was there. She laughed and did as I asked. Yes, I finished the book but my mom would check what I was reading more often for a couple of years.
The movie Labyrinth.
My grandfather and uncle had this really scary mask hanging in the basement of their house. I was about 5 and every time I went downstairs, that thing scared the crap out of me even though I knew it was there.
People knocking or ringing the front door bell. I was always told not to open the door or let them see me in the house. Never worked out why till I was older. I must of been 3 or 5 around that age because we moved in the summer was coming up to my sixth birthday.
I was always super scared of Randall from Monsters, Inc.!
Before I read your comment I was thinking about a movie (probably just a made for TV movie) called “The Mudhand.” It was similar to the Blob in the respect of being able to squeeze under the door to get you. I started watching it in the middle of the floor. I kept scooting away from the TV until I was in my Dad’s lap. At the end I got scared and peed in his lap. I can still here him yell, “ugh!!”
I have always loved murder movies and I was scared to go into the bathroom because there might be someone hiding behind the shower curtain. After taking karate I would go into the bathroom and punch the shower curtain and peek behind it before sitting on the toilet. LoL
When I was like 7 I watched Jaws, and then was afraid to be in my backyard pool 😂 I’ve lived in beach towns for almost my entire adult life now and haven’t been afraid of sharks in the water once….but man, that pool sure got me.
Believing i could be invisible under the covers from monsters..lol
When I was younger I had a fear of mice. They terrified me. Kind of silly looking back but boy did they scare me.
The Incredible Hulk…born in ‘78 and Lou Ferigno (or however it’s spelled) was so scary to me.
Happy holidays 🎄❤️🎄
My dad has a Mattie Matel doll from the 70s. He used to put it on our beds and pretend that lil dude could walk on its own thru the house. He’s a jerk, but it’s funny now. Lol
I had a dream of being chased by big yellow dump trucks as a kid, not sure why they scared me so, but its silly now
As a chikd I had a dream of being chased by big yellow dump trucks not sure why hut they scared me so, but its silly now
Porcelain dolls my great grandmother had a spare room that was filled with old porcelain dolls. The kids were always made to go in there and play, I would refuse every time because those dolls scared me so much.
Being close to a door in a car. I was always afraid it would fly open and suck me out. Lol
A teapot that my grandmother had with people on it that I swear would come to life. Hilariously my grandmother gifted to me later in life as a joke.
Showers (for MONTHS)
I’d sneak back to the tv room to watch late night movies.
Saw “Psycho” one night .😱 I was so scared to shower I’d make sure the curtain wasn’t closed on either end ‘just in case’ lol.
Like either side would be a viable Escape Route!
The dark. I couldn’t sleep in the dark. It’s funny now because I can’t stand to have the lights on at anytime of day now
The movie Leprechaun. I was so scared of the creepy little dude. But now, it’s just a cheesy film.
Butterflies and moths! although they do still scare me. I was maybe 5 or 6 and wanted a drink, it was early in the morning so thinkinng I was a big girl I went to our kitchen and got the fancy new cup from the cupboard. Now this fancy cup was a black mug which had a gold eagle on it and was mamde by Portmeirion Pottery. I grabbed the milk from the fridge and poured it in, nothing seemed amiss, and when I went to drink out of the mug a moth flew out and scared me so badly. I’ve been afraid of butterflies and moths ever since. I know it’s irrational, I laugh often at myself, with others, but cannot get it out of my head.
Sleeping with the door open. Which is funny because I still won’t sleep with the door open but for different reasons.
Toilets flushing 🤣🤣 I was so terrified of loud flushing toilets and just toilets in general because of the sound and because of a few cartoons, like Bonkers and Aaaah Monsters. I was just afraid of drains and toilets in general.
Freddy Kruger and Chucky mostly. I had VIVID, reoccurring nightmares that they were after me. Sometimes I had dreams where I would wake up beside Freddy in a tent in the woods behind my house. I would wake terrified but knew I had to escape because once I made it inside my house I was safe. He always woke up to chase me but I always made it inside. But briefly also Puppet Master, specifically the one that spit slugs in your mouth. Gross. Fast forward years later, I tried to watch Freddy with my daughter and we both DIED of laughter! However, Chucky still makes me uncomfortable. I also think Slappy from Goosebumps is creepy as hell.
The movie Shining. I have to admit I still don’t watch it.
The wicked witch of the west from the wizard of Oz did it for me
Always scared of clowns.
Always.
The black hole in the bottom of the toilet. I always thought someone had a hidden camera taking pictures of me pooping. 😂
I was scared of anyone in a costume with a mask…. That included family, Mickey Mouse, everyone. I was terrified! Disneyland trips were a lot of work keeping the characters away from me. Luckily my family was understanding. The pure terror I felt was wild. I still don’t completely understand it.
The dark. I hated to sleep in a dark room even into my early teens. Now I hate to have even a little light in my bedroom at night and I keep most lights off in my house at night when we are sitting and watching tv.
Corn fields!!
My 1st boyfriend took me to the movie to watch “children of the Corn” and for years i wouldnt go near corn stalks or corn fields
Our basement, hated going down there as a child
Clowns. There just something not right about them.
I was scared when we drove on winding roads.
Scared I was going to get got by imaginary monsters when I turned off lights lol I’m talking high tail sprinting under the blankets because clearly monsters aren’t able to get you under a blanket 🤣🫣
I don’t remember being scared by movies, but I think I saw too much tv coverage of the Vietnam War when I was growing up. I remember having nightmares quite frequently that we were at war and our neighborhood was being bombed and helicopters and planes were flying outside my bedroom window!
I used to be so scared of failing as a mom.. but they are all still alive and seem ok so it has settled
I was terrified of people that dressed up in costumes!!! lol
I always felt like they were betraying me like I knew there was someone in there and I wanted them to show themselves!
When I was a teenager. We had a movie night where we watched blood valentine well my dad always got the kick out of scaring us especially if it was a scary movie and in the dark. Well he found one of his headlight and snuck back into the living room and grabbed my sister leg and took her down the hallway. We were terrified when it happened but now we laugh bout it.
When I was little there was a “Filipino tale” that pregnant women needed to stay indoors at night unless you wanted to be eaten by a creature who leaves his lower body on the ground, then fllies around looking for said women. So naturally I was terrified when my mom became pregnant.
Dogs! I’ve had a dog phobia since childhood.
It’s funny to others but not me 😭
I was TERRIFIED of birds… Like TERRIFIED!!!!
I snuck a peek through the bedroom door of the kids room while our parents were watching that BIRDS movie (1963 film) and GAME OVER!!!
The movie Jaws. I love learning about sharks but when I was a kid that movie scared me to death. Now it just looks funny every time I watch it
I still rip open the shower curtain and check to make sure the tub is empty and no one is there (hiding with a knife) whenever I have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night.
AND I hurry and jump (from several feet away) to my bed before the man hiding underneath can reach out and grab my ankle to yank me down.
I saw both movies when I was about 14 or 15, my brother liked horror movies and used to taunt me with them.
Fireworks! They were so pretty so every year I said I would be brave and not cry. So my sweet parents would pack us up in out truck and hear down to the CottonBowl in Dallas so we could see the show. The second they began, I screamed and cried! My poor parents lol
I was ridiculously scared of anyone dressed in a costume (Chucky Cheese, Santa!). I remember in kindergarten we had Santa come visit my school and all the kids sat on his lap to take a picture. I threw a fit, fought and cried when they tried to make me. They finally said I could just stand next to him, and I took the pic with plenty of space between us. I was at least in my teens before I would go anywhere near someone in full costume, lol!
Scared of snakes and anything slithering
I used to be scared of the Jurassic Park movies. Lol
clowns
People in mask and now it’s one of my favorite tropes 🤣
The hand coming out of the ground at the end of the original Carrie movie. For the longest time if I went to a cemetery I was afraid a hand was going to pop out of the ground to grab me.
When I was learning to drive I did not like driving a bigger car. I tested in a small car. But now I can drive any size passenger vehicle. Definitely not my husband’s big rig though,
Under the bed. I always did a run and jump. Never know what was going to grab my ankles. That didn’t stop me from hiding under my sister’s bed and grabbing her ankles. I was bad.
Walking on canal banks. Growing up always heard about people falling in and drowning and I would veer out of my way to avoid them
Santa clause. I only sat on Santas lap once and balled my eyes out. Never again. Lol. I still don’t like people that are dressed up in costume but I guess he wasn’t as bad as I was making it out to be
I can think of several things. First i was scared of the Blob too, but for some reason I had a poster from the movie, even though I wasn’t a poster girl. I found the poster scary so I put the poster in my closet to keep monsters from leaving the attic through a ceiling entrance. I hated having an attic entrance in my bedroom.
I forgot to mention my other fear which was instilled by my mother of stepping on the dead body/body part of someone who drowned, but was not found in any natural body of water. I know that statistically this really doesn’t happen, but this is a fear that is just very deeply ingrained in me.
Honestly I wasn’t a very scared kid… trauma maybe? I watched Misery with my grandma at 7 years old but that still scares me to this day 🤣 it’s like the only movie that scares me and I’m a horror fanatic! Lol so I guess that’s funny!
Literally any movie that could even remotely be considered horror 🤣🤣. My mom kept me extremely sheltered when it came to that kind of stuff so when I got a bit older and could choose what I wanted to watch even the tamer movies scared the shit out of me. I kid you not they gave me nightmares
Arachnophobia! I was so scared I had to watch it from behind a couch in another room. How could it be a comedy?! Now somehow I’m no longer as scared of spiders. I have no idea why. They just don’t bother me like they used to.
Clowns.
Hmm my father… haha is that too dark?? 🤣
I was also deeply scarred by one of those old movies. It was about little gremlin like creatures that would grasp your feet as you climbed the stairs and drag you through the slots, turning you into one of them. I was always spooked when I had to go up or down the basement stairs as a kid to do the laundry or get something out of the basement freezer. Even now (at 60), if I climb stairs that are not fully enclosed, I’m reminded of that childhood fear! Gee, thanks for the trip down memory lane, Julie! LOL.
Sharks in the pool lol
Gremlins. I was terrified of those little guys. Now they’re adorable
I can remember when Dr Who would be on, as soon as the Darlek’s were there I was straight behind the sofa as they scared me but looking at them now well it’s defo funny! Especially as you can tell someone was inside operating them. 🤣
Omg, I remember that movie. We had a similar station in New York and my sister and I would watch all of those movies too, we enjoyed them. 🤣
When I was a kid I couldn’t sleep with any door half open (closet or bedroom). I always thought someone was standing in the doorway watching me. Now, I still don’t like doors open when I sleep, but I know noone is standing there.
I was scared of talking on the phone to strangers. Placing an order for pizza was terrifying.
I used to have to put my arm around the wall to put lights on before I entered a room. Always thought something was going to be hiding in there so figured turn the light on first and I’d be safe!
Being alone. Used to think that was the worst thing ever. That I’d never have someone in my life on a day-to-day basis with. Thought that people would see me as a failure if I didn’t meet that “goal.” I didn’t want kids, but I did want to be married. I saw that as a sign that I was acceptable.
Indian Joe 😅😂
We had chickens as kids and I was scared of them pecking me when I fed them. They would all come rushing at me.I would throw the feed then run like crazy
I used to be deathly afraid of bridges, it took me too many years to get over this fear. Now I can drive, walk and am even considering jumping off them, bungee style.
As a kid I was scared of the dark. Now I want complete darkness when I sleep. Lol
Closets open and closed wasn’t just likes. Claustrophobic state but the whole room with a room thing and esculators moving stairs just creeped me out
Clowns. Still don’t care for them cause they’re too creepy.
I am not a fan of heights.
The never ending story freaked me the crap out.. and little shop of horrors…
The movie Psycho. Thought about it every time I showered for years! And another Hitchcock thriller, the birds. I recovered from that one, but I haven’t watched scarry movies since I was a kid!
I was terrified of stairs that don’t have a back riser I always thought I could fall through the gap. I used to up and down the stairs at the train station on my hands and knees. It was only getting older that stopped the fear and using the bridge a lot more.
Bumble, the abominable snowman in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.
Scary Movie 1. I was really young and watched it with my brother. I didn’t know it was meant to be a comedy. Scared me for years. Now I look back and laugh
As a kid, I had read some book about cryptids, and the wendigo suddenly became my childhood monster. To this day, I still get creeped out by wendigos. I played Until Dawn on PlayStation, and nearly didn’t finish it when I realized that the monsters were wendigos.
The music to twilight zone freaked me out…
The old Dracula and Frankenstein movies. I was so scared to go to bed.
The house I grew up in had stairs that were open, and I was terrified of falling through it. Older me knows I’m way to too big to fall in the little space now lol
Bridges because I always thought they were going to collapse while i was on them. And turning on the overhead light on in a car while driving because I thought it was illegal.
I used to be scared of the Haunted Mansion ride, but now it is one of my favorite rides.
Seaweed. I was convinced that a sea creature was grabbing my legs 😂
Quicksand, I though there was a decent chance that any sand or dirt could possibly swallow me up.
I was afraid of The creature from the black lagoon. 🤣 It’s very funny now because it’s so fake looking but as a kid it was very scary to me.
I was scared of the movie Scooby Doo on Zombie Island when it first came out. I couldn’t understand why it was my little sister’s favorite movie. Now, it’s up there with classic Scooby Doo movies and I watch it with my son.
The trees from the wizard of Oz
The thing that scared me when I was little was clowns and to be honest they still kinda do to this day!
Horror movies. I still don’t like them, but I know they aren’t real.
The monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
Clowns
When I was little I was scared of snakes and clowns. Now I am not afraid of snakes but I still have my fear of clowns. Thanks for the chance. Merry Christmas to you all 🎅 🧑🎄
Thunder
Haunted houses
Anything that has to do with haunted houses!
Diving into a swimming pool, can’t cope with the idea of my head going in first, never could and never will.
I was terrified of cats at a young age. It’s funny now because I live in a household with seven cats. Thanks for the chance.
All the 80s and 90 scary movies. They are just so funny to watch now
Big hills and corn fields scared me.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎄🎉🎄🎉🎄🎉🎄
When I was a kid I would turn out the light and run then jump before I got to the bed so the scary monster couldn’t drag me underneath it.
bridges
13 ghosts and the grudge… although the shower scene in the grudge still has me keeping my eyes open sometimes 😂
Eeeek. When I was in back seat of the car and we were going somewhere in the dark I always thought there were witches or demons or ghosts on the roof. Looking at the window was frightening. No as an adult I laugh cause it was just my reflection.
I was always afraid of the Halloween Movies so I could never watch them and because of that every horror movie would scare me. Until I decided I would watch the Halloween movies during COVID and now I laugh about it all.
Wearing socks to bed made me think I’d have abduction nightmares 😳🤨
Getting eaten by a shark, but now I think sharks are cool.
I was scared to swim in any water that wasn’t clear. Watched too many horror movies. I still freak out a little them remind myself that someone is not in the lake water going to pull me down or a shark by the beach in the ocean. Lol
Being afraid of the basement. Our dad told us one year (we were like 7-8 y.o.)there was a giant snake in our laundry room, which was in the basement. They hid our Christmas presents in there and didn’t want us digging through them.
From then on I was terrified of the basement.
It’s silly now to think there was a giant anaconda living in our basement in a small town in Ohio. But even at 33, I still run up basement steps, and don’t stay down there longer than I have to. Not even in my own home. 😂
The flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz!!!!
Definitely Clowns..thank you to the original Pennywise.
And my best friend used to collect clown masks..omg I hated her room!!
I used to turn the light off and run and jump on my bed so the “monsters” wouldn’t grab my feet 😂
I was afraid of the incredible hulk. Specifically, when his eyes change colors. To me that is really silly now but I guess when your six years old that would be scary.
I didn’t like walking from one end to the other in my childhood home when it was dark. Had to turn every light on. Especially when I was home by myself.
I never really liked the water and then as an adult I decided to learn to scuba dive.
Great decision!
Clowns… still not a fan, but no longer scared.
spider on my bedroom wall
Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. Geez to be 7 again!
I hid behind a chair and would peek around it to see what part the video was on. Gotta love MTV when it was good!
Dogs…I was terrified as a child, you’d never know that now with my love for dogs, and the number of them that I have owned. Dogs are the best babies ever.
UFOs and The X-files opening theme.🙈😅 My brother loved it, I was a terrified 5 years old.
Thanks for the chance!❤️
I saw chucky 2 when I was 5 by accident and to this day its the only one I cannot watch. I can watch all the others. Its silly but ever now and then I’ll have a dream and it freaks me out.
The movie arachnophobia made me afraid of spiders for a very long time. Not now.
My little sister! She was mean when we fought, she’d chase me w kitchen knives
Hobgoblins!!!!
Spiders
I don’t remembered being scared of anything when I was younger but I hate scary movies now at 50 and loved them when I was younger.
The Birds, we no longer have telephone booths to get into, like it would help. I still look at them like they may attack.
When more than 3 or 4 birds congregated together I assumed that there was a good probability they were going to attack Hitchcock style!
When I was younger, and we’d go to the Santa Christmas parades, they’d have a section of bagpipers. I was scared of them. Not sure why, might’ve been the noise. I’m fine now though, lol.
I was afraid of flying bugs. Now I have no issues with them at all unless they get in my hair!
The green wicked witch on the Wizard of Oz. When I was a child, it was only on tv once a year. We looked forward to it, but she scared me every year. Best witch ever!
OMG THE BLOB WAS TERRIFYING 😂😂😂
I was SO scared of Chucky
The only thing I can think of that scared me as a child was whatever was outside after it got dark. (like…I was always worried some scary dude would pop up outside of my window at night or something) That’s a weird one.
A silly thing I thought until I was like 12 was that I thought that LA and Los Angeles were two different places. (I’m a northern CA girl) I thought LA was maybe “ellay” or something. It was SO embarrassing when I figured out they were one and the same!
The Blob is hilarious!! 🙂
Marie
I don’t know if I was scared of something when I was little that seems funny now cause I think most of my fears are still here. lol.
My mom had us all fearing water so I didn’t learn to swim until I was in my 30’s and I am still a little scared of swimming where I can’t touch.
I was insanely afraid of the dark, never wanted to sleep with all the lights off. Now I can’t sleep with any lights on.
A lot!! Quicksand, chuckie, children of the corn, all the monsters in Hellraiser, the monsters in x-files, the drain at the bottom of the pool, ladybugs, Great Danes. I’m sure there is more I can’t think of. My dad use to let us watch all the scary movies and anything from those terrified me and I thought they were real.
The movie “Children of the Corn.” Living in WV, there were corn fields all over growing up. I never did finish that movie and tried to stay away from all corn fields.
I was terrified of earwigs. Like screaming, crying and running away scared. I still don’t like them; but I take solace every time I squish one.
I don’t like snakes. I was walking in a field with my dad and sister and something slithered under my foot before I put it down. I let out a scream that only dogs could hear. Baaahaaa. I’m sure that it was only a Garter Snake. But terrified me. I like snakes now as long as it’s a garter snake. I’m not sure how I would feel if it were a rattlesnake. Yikes, may still be afraid.
My mom would pretend to be a witch and say she replaced my mom. I was petrified but now looking back it was such a silly thing
Thunderstorms. I hated them as a child. Love them now
Welp… mustaches.. Now not so much. BUT really needs to trimmed nicely lol
Scary movies and being afraid of the dark it seems funny now when I think about it
I watched exorcist as a kid and Reagan scared me, now she doesnt. There also was the guy on poltergeist, Freddie Krueger, the clowns on killer clowns from outer space… all are funny now.
Walking up the stairs or down the hallway in the dark 🫣😂
My grandma’s neighbor.
I would cry and scream so loud if he came out when we were there, he always went back inside until we left. 😊
Monsters under my bed! I would pretend my quilt was a shield & as long as I was covered head to toe the monsters couldn’t get me.
I was afraid of going to the girls bathroom in elementary school because I was told by my friends that a killer clown would come out from inside the toilet so when I had to go to the bathroom I went to the far location one instead of the close one. I did that until I left elementary to go to middle school. Now that I think back it’s pretty funny.
The original Star Trek series.
Scared me as a child… My nightmare that these aliens were coming after me. I was in the backseat and we were driving past a football stand with a group of ‘musicians’ playing horrible music. I boo’d them and they stood up, transformed, got really long legs and fingers and skinny bodies with suction cups on the tips of their fingers. They ran to the car and I screamed. When they put their fingers on the rear and side windows every their suction cups removed the window. Eventually they were able to get hands inside and just before one grabs me I wake up screaming…
Now I chuckle and wonder what movie was I watching?
Sharks because of the movie Jaws. And it is hilarious, for everyone, because…I’m still deathly afraid of sharks. I know very logically the statistics and how shark attacks happen. But this feae is ridiculously illogical and so I am afraid because Jaws made me believe every shark is a man eater and I’m not going out like that… 🦈🦈🦈
To this day I can’t look at any body of water including swimming pools without hearing the Jaws music theme.
I have had a phobia about frogs since I was a child. I’m terrified of them! I have no idea where this phobia came from, but it’s real, and it persists. As an adult, I can see how ridiculous it is, but it doesn’t make me any less terrified of them unfortunately.
OMG, ANTS!!! Ants absolutely terrified me. It was horrible.
I was scared of thunder storms.
As a child I was always scared of the boogeyman/monsters under the bed. I slept with my light on at night til like 5th grade. My house was creepy anyways. My cousin even said she hated going to my house since it was creepy. I also didn’t like clowns growing up. But I’m slowly ok with certain ones.
Thunderstorms , I still don’t like them 🤣
bee’s since i am allergic to their sting i always had a scare for them and it got worser after seeing the movie My Girl.
Now i am older i am not that scared anymore but i will make a wide walk around places that has beehives 🙂
Silence of the Lambs! I walked out of the theater looking over my shoulder thinking Hannibal could be lurking at the theater!
When I was A girl I was so damn scared of the pool drains. I think someone said something to me to scare me and it just stuck. It’s like my mind thought I would get stuck on the suction and drown before pool drained. Lol
My mom took us to see the first exorcist movie, it didn’t bother me until a few days later when the idea of it terrified me. I made my bro stop listening to his scary channel on the radio and move into my room to sleep. This went on for a few weeks. I haven’t watched a scary movie since.
I really don’t remember being scared as a kid other than if say you set the vibe and told a scary story or watched a scary movie. Same feeling I get today if it’s actual scary but seems there’s less and less scare to things now.
Mine was the movie The Exorcist. My sister was pissed that she had to stay home and babysit me (4). She put on HBO and made me sit through the whole, unedited movie. Afterwards, she had me do my nighttime routine while she ran upstairs to our room. She could hear me come up our old wooden steps and when I got to the top, she started flopping around on the bed. She sat up creepily (mind you, my sister is double jointed), twisting her neck with a wicked grin, and said my name. I freaked out. She got beat when my parents got home because I couldn’t calm down or go to sleep. I could not watch that movie, any part. I got cold sweats any time I would see or hear clips. It wasn’t until I was married that I actually watched it. It still gives me goose bumps, but not like before.
The basement
The garage truck. For yrs as a child I would have a dream that they took my sister and I. Would always run inside when I would hear them in our neighborhood.
I had this dream as an adult yrs ago and wondered why it scared me.
And rope bridges or swinging bridges. There was one at our local park in the 70’s. My sister would jump on it to make it really shake and to this day them bridges scare the $h!t out of me.
Riding a bike. I was so frightened that I was going to fall off and break something. I avoided anything that might hurt lol
Vampires! Now I can’t get enough of them LOL
Vampires!
Quicksand. Definitely thought that would be more of an issue
When I was 6 or 7 I got a clown doll from my grandmother. It was a handmade doll, and I dont think she meant to, but it looked very similar to the clown in Poltergeist. I dont have a fear of clowns, but first getting it, yeah I freaked a bit….then I used it to my advantage as I got older and realized just how scared people were of clowns. My best friend when i was 15 was terrified of them and lived with me. I would randomly place it so she would see it. Leaving the closet door cracked with its head peaking out, or looking like it was looking up from under the bed..
Green vegetables. Seriously 😒
As a kid I used to break out in sweat, a crying mess whenever it was on my plate. I might’ve even passed out once. Lol Teen to 20’s I avoided them and always had an excuse ready. One day I thought this is just ridiculous. And I couldn’t keep hiding it so I trained myself to eat them. I recently told my kids, they were shocked but empathic. I just laugh at it now. But yeah I feared green vegetables as a kid. 😁
What i was afraid of then doesn’t seem any less scary now.
Talking to strangers.
As we moved every two years, figured that sh*t out, and can strike up a conversation easily.
Went with friends to ATL Olympics, and would talk to people in lines for food, buses etc. My friends were “do you know them”?. No, but they are from Australia/Africa/Tahiti and we have a common interest, and will be here another 30 minutes. I was great.
Thunder and Lightning however it isn’t really silly as I am still afraid of it. More the thunder, I find the lightning pretty. 🤩
Mice! Still don’t like them but not scared of them anymore!
Chucky from Child’s Play! It did not help that I had a My Buddy doll that looked just like him. I wàs convinced that I had the real Chucky. 😂
Large dogs
Sharks, alligators, crocodiles. Really, anything with big teeth that could eat me. What’s funny is I live in Minnesota and even as a kid I knew that we don’t have any of those here. I was still terrified of them.
Cows 😅 had a near-cow-experience when I was very little, there was a field behind our house and they escaped into our backyard when I was like 4 I was happily playing when I looked up and saw an enormous cow right in front of me, t e r r i f y i n g – dropped my toys and ran the fastest I have ever into the house and hid beneath the window, peeking out every so often to see if they were still there. Was scared of cows until I was at least a teenager. Now, I LOVE cows. Can’t get enough. Would welcome a cow invasion.
Watching the movie Poltergeist as a kid – the scene where the tequila is drank and the worm has a face. To this day, I will not touch tequila that has a worm in it. It’s funny to me now but back then, it terrified me even though I had no idea what the drink was.
Chickens. My grandma kept chickens and they loved her. They always pecked at the rest of us. I get it now. She was the great chicken whisperer.
Monsters under the bed!
It is so strange but guacamole. It was a texture and visual thing. Now it seems so ridiculous
Santa scared me to death. A weird fat man asking kids to sit on his lap….now it’s funny
So as a child a had a poster of Pinocchio hanging above my bed and it use to scare me and I would scream for my mom in the middle of the night that he was dancing on my head. Once mom figured out what the heck I was talking about she removed it. This story always cracks me up when i think about it not
I have always been petrified of birds. I’m still mildly scared of them, but can laugh at it now.
Clowns! LMAO
I never liked walking from a dark room to another dark room. I would turn on my bedroom light then go back and shut off the light in the other room. I didn’t like walking into a dark house.
Clowns. Those creepy fuckers still freak me out. I got a Bozo The Clown ventriloquist doll when I was 7 and I swear it was haunted! I would wake up in the middle of the night and his eyes would be staring at me. I realize it’s ridiculous but I DO NOT LIKE Clowns.
The DARK!!!! Now all these book boyfriends have me wishing for complete darkness. Plus….. I can’t sleep if there’s any kind of light now, I need absolutely quiet in the black darkness to fully doze off. lol
An open closet door used to scare me, I always felt like someone was going to grab me and pull me inside. Now I am always closing doors.🤣
I don’t know. I’m still a scaredy cat. A lot of things that I was afraid of when I was a kid still scare me. lol Heights, bugs/insects, getting in trouble (I was someone a goodie goodie… still am to some degree,) getting injured, creepy noises in the night. The list goes on. :O
The end of the world. 😏
Alfred Hitchcock. Scared to death. My mom was a huge fan and I would cover my eyes. His show was on late nights and the move The Birds was so scary.
The OG IT, made me so scared of clowns. Now I find clowns icky.
Since I grew up in the Soviet Union, what scared me when I was a child is still pretty scary. I was very afraid of the dark because all the evil things happened at night. I am no longer scared of the dark, but it makes me uncomfortable walking in a dark room or dark street.
Being the youngest of 10 my older siblings used to tell stories about a monster living under my bed and I should never put my foot out of the covers or they’d get me and pull me under the bed to never return. I never once checked under the bed
Not feeling like I belonged anywhere and that I was unlovable. Just because my mom didn’t love or want me didn’t mean my dad felt the same way. I wasted too much time feeling that way and distancing myself from everyone to make better memories to have when he passed away.
All bugs would make me freak out. Now it’s just the ones that can actually hurt me that I stay very aware of their location near me.
Somebody else saying Children of the Corn reminded me! I think it was called that, but it was a weekly series (in the U.K.) and I was most scared of the opening credits!
Dinosaurs. It seems silly to be scared of something that’s not even remotely alive anymore.
The dark used to scare.
Me but while i don’t think it’s funny, i like it now.
For some reason my parents let my sister and I watch Tales From the Crypt when we were younger and it would always freak us out. A lot of the times when I go back and watch some of the older shows it amazes me that we found that stuff scary.
Two things, My Mum telling how terrifying it was listening to Alfred Hitchcock’ The Birds on the radio, terrified me hearing about it and couldn’t watch the movie. The Trifids was scary and as for The Exorcist…. Well.
The ocean because you can’t see what’s in it lol and after the movie jaws it was a hard no for me to go into the ocean!! Now it’s no big deal but it’s much rather of home in the mountains.
The monster under my bed. I would sleep flat on my back, covers pulled up under my chin and make sure no part of my body was sticking out. Now, I love sprawling out with no covers. But….. my feet will not be poking out past the mattress. You never know!!!!
Strange and unknown noises in the dark.
I used to have the same dream about the same time every year for about 7 years. It always starts as a plague at the hospital and I am in the parking lot helping my Dad treat patients. The plague was the “eyes” that pop up on potatoes but they would pop up on people.
The thing under the bed or what I thought was under there but really didn’t exist.
Omg this is so funny but I was so scared of Children of the Corn and now it’s just so unusual and funny to me🤣😂
Freddy Krueger and Jason vorhees
I had the biggest irrational fear of freddy Krueger. Like petrified to even close my eyes in the shower because of that one scene. Still don’t watch those movies. I laugh at how dumb it was but man was I scared of him back then.
Avocados! *shudder*
I was raised in the church and I always remember being so scared to fall asleep because I would die in my sleep and go to hell. I guess it isn’t funny necessarily but not realistic to worry every night. And as an adult I’m not convinced that hell isn’t right here in earth
The big bug movies from the 1950’s
The monster under the bed. I used to stand in my bedroom doorway, shut my light off and jump to my bed so he couldn’t get me!! What’s funny is I had a trundle bed under my bed so he couldn’t be that big!
Oooooo this one is one of the ones I want to read the most for sure. Thank you for the opportunity and chance for all of us. Really hoping I get to enjoy this amazingly brilliant edge of your seat book, and really wishing I get the chance to do so.
Hi ya, when I was about 6 I used to think that where the thick branches of trees had been sawn off, was a door that was left behind. I thought that a witch lived behind it. It’s funny what you remember and what scares you as a kid.
As a child I was always afraid of walking down a dark hallway or going upstairs in the dark. I had to have a light on. Now, I prefer the dark.
I watched ‘The Blob’ on TV & was afraid it would get under my bed & slide up the wall & get me!! LOLOL
I was afraid to just talk to new people. Now I enjoy it.
Candyman! I covered my mirror with a sheet every night for at least 6 months. I was legit scared.
Thanks for the opportunity!!
Being attacked by a wolf/werewolf at night when I took the trash out. …..Now please give me a big strong Alpha any day or night.
Being near a cemetery always scared me. Now I find them very comforting.
When I was around 10 I read the book Poltergeist., which was much scarier than the movie. I’m old enough that every night the tv stations would sign off, and it would just be static. After reading the book that static totally freaked me out. 😂
I was always afraid of vampires/werewolves. I can think of quite a few I would like to meet in a dark alley now. 😏
The Wicked witch from Wizard of Oz. She always freaked me out as a kid. Now I just laugh at myself
Giants … I had a dream about a Giant that I thought was real for a long time during my youth..
Bloody Mary
I was terrified of breaking my mother’s back by stepping on a crack in the sidewalk. I used to contort myself in ways that would make Nadia Comaneci envious just to avoid them. Our town had terrible sidewalks. My mom had a clown obsession that eventually spilled into my room but I wasn’t scared of them until I saw Poltergeist. The very next day, her overflow was removed from my room. Except for the imprint on the wall left by the wicker outline of a giant clown head. We painted my room after that and I finally got the blue room that I always wanted.
The Headless horseman. Just like that I saw a glimpse of the movie and I was afraid to go even to the toilet after… like it could ride around in our flat 🤦🏻♀️
The movie Razorback. It scarred me so bad that i had to sleep with a light on for almost a year and i never turned lights out after me in case i got chased by that thing
Clowns! They absolutely terrified me as a child. Now I just ignore them.
Snakes coming out of toilet.
Anything I was afraid then, I am still afraid of. lol
Clowns… and now I read about sexy dark clowns
As a teen, I always had a Stephen King book in my hand. My Mom and Step-Dad would make weekend trips to Chicago. The house we lived in was built in the 1920s and had big old windows. One night, I was reading my Stephen King book in bed, and I was the only one home. We got a major windstorm, and all the windows in the house started rattling. It freaked me out! I slept with all the lights on in the house that night.
Eating the seeds of anything ‘cause they would grow in your stomach and come out of your ears.
Weed. Lol. I was the baby girl with two older brothers and my oldest brother was rather a delinquent. He’d smoke weed in the bathroom and I’d be so afraid the cops would come take us ALL to jail. That lasted a long time too lol!! I’m over that now!
Roots freaked me out when I was little. Thank you for the chance to win.
The Dark
Clowns 🤡
As a child ghost but I have always hunting them to show how not scared I was where I was very scared
I dislike clowns even as an adult!
The dark and monsters under my bed 🖤✨️🥀🎄
I wasn’t afraid of too much, but The Exorcist scared the bejesus out of me. Probably my Catholic school education. I had nightmares for a year.
I used to hate being alone now I just want the house to myself even just for a few hours
I was born to an unwed mother back in the 70s, my bio sperm donor told my mother to get an abortion, my mom said see ya… raised me on her own til I was 5. We lived with my grand parents and my uncle, also had an aunt and uncle that visited often, couple times a week… I was terrified of men, I have vivid memories of when I was about three I went to ballet class my mom dropped me off like normal, she didn’t know the regular teacher wasn’t there and went to run her errands like always, this tall man walked into the class and I LOST MY SHIT, started screaming like he was murdering me, he hadn’t laid a finger on me, front desk had no way to contact my mom I remember having to be removed from the class and calmed down ONlY when I could no longer see the dance instructor, was the 70s cell phones did not exist… couple years later my mother had been dating my soon to be stepfather for a while we did a lot all together, she left me home with him to go out with to dinner with ladies from work, once again I lost my mind ran from the front door to side door to front door and back and forth for hours screaming and crying… I just didn’t like men at all…
Seems so silly to me as once I became a teenager, it wasn’t a lust thing as much as it was a no tolerance of the drama of teenage girls I ended up with more guy friends than girls, I hated the whiney petty shit girls would pull..
I was afraid of the dark. Thanks for the chance.
I remember the first nightmare I had, it was so scary I had to run into my parents room crying because I couldn’t be alone. It was about bats mostly, but now I think bats are one of the most fascinating creatures. I think they’re sooo cute and are a very important part of the ecosystem too.
THE EASTER BUNNY! nothing seemed more terrifying than a normal sized bunny that hops around, but morphs into a giant human sized bunny one night a year, and comes in your house!
starting like a month before Easter every year , I would be on the look out for rabbits, and was scared to death if them!!!!
The movie evil dead the part where the woman is in the basement with the trap door chained locked. When the trap door pushed up and the possessed women popped up an all you see is her eyes through the small opening. I was unable to watch that movie by myself after that and I love my horror movies. It takes a lot for a horror movie to scare me but that one did.
The movie Trilogy of terror. The little killer doll scared me to death. I was in my late 30s before I got up the courage to watch it again and it was ridiculous. OMG there was nothing scary about it. I was very young when I watched it the first time and it absolutely terrified me. UGH It is so silly.
Vampires! Now I think they are hot LOL!
A recurring nightmare about house-sized spiders terrified me as a kid. Now, yeah, I’m still scared of spiders, but at least I no longer dream about house-sized ones! lol
Bloody Mary and Candy man
Thanks for the chance!
Ok it’s really dumb. When I was little we had an above ground pool. (Fresh water with chlorine) and I was scared of the shadow that my mom’s inflatable raft would make in the water. I was convinced there was a shark hiding there and was terrified to swim in ‘the shadow water’ because it would bite me. Even though it was a small above ground pool, with fresh water and chlorine, and the water was totally clear and you could obviously see there were no sharks, and I had this irrational fear until I was about 11. 🦈 I feel so embarrassed just telling you this so I really hope I win this prize, or any prize. Lol
The movie The Nightmare Before Christmas haha it wasn’t the movie itself but the claymation
I think its was and a little is still would be disappointing my parents. As a kid it ment eveything, but as I grew older I realized that they didnt really care about my achievements, only my other siblings and their spouses. After I relized recently really Im over trying to tell them about my achievements. I’ve had them tell me before that they never have to worry about me or where im going since I was the “smart one, and the one with a good head on my shoulder” . They stopped asking so I stopped caring. 🤷♀️
The movie The Hills Have Eyes. Something I shouldn’t have been watching when I was 10 years old, but I watched it again a couple of months ago and laughed so much.
I was always afraid of the dark. Now I can’t sleep in anything but darkness lol
Thunderstorms!! Now I absolutely love them!!
I was afraid of the basement when I was little, and now my current bedroom is in the basement. 😂
I had a clown piggy bank that terrified me. I swore it came alive at night and watched me. I tried to throw it away but my parents found it in the trash and returned it to my bedroom. I finally smashed it with a hammer.
Children of the Corn movie watched when I was little scared me so much.🎅🎁 I guess sometimes scary movies still scare me sometimes😊Happy Holidays to you and Merry Christmas🎄🤶
My grandma had this 2 foot tall carved wood old man with a Scythe. It creeped me out, and I used to hide it in the closet cause I thought it was gonna come kill me.Lol! She always had the most random weird things at her house.
As kids we went to see the original Exorcist movie without our parents permission and it scared us to death. But we couldn’t tell our parents why we were so scared and having crazy nightmares because we would get into so much trouble. We found out years later that they knew the entire time why we were so terrified because someone saw us there and told on us. So that was our punishment.
Laying my head on my pillow on my side, for nights I kept hearing the blind on my bedroom window going up and down. My mom kept telling me that it wasn’t happening. We finally realized it me blinking my eyes and my eyelashes were rubbing on the pillow case. True story…and I have slept in the dark or complete quiet since.
I have NEVER slept in the dark or complete quiet since.
I was afraid of dogs but not anymore. The loud barking always scared me.
The movie “the brain”!.and Santa clause.although some still scare me ..
I was scared of the ghost thing in the poltergeist movie, it was white and crazy. I watched it when I was older and thought, dear god it looks like toilet paper😬😂
As a child I was given the ‘Girls World’ make-up and hair styling model. I was convinced it was possessed and turned its head. I was so scared I gave it to a girl who lived a few doors away.
Rabies shots terrified all of us, I think, myself included. They became incredibly funny after having to have them twice and they were just a series of vaccines and a shot of immunoglobulin.
Not painful, not “in the stomach”, just boring routine injections.
OK, so I was afraid of Jack in the Boxes….. My Mom said I would wind that crank nice and fast through the the music until just before the “Pop goes the weasel” moment. Then, I would slow down to a crawl and inch up to that moment. When it finally popped up, I would cry. Now, it seems crazy, and one of my friends actually bought me a Sock Monkey jack-in-the-box as a joke!
My sisters were 9 and 11 years older than me and they took me to see “The Legend of Boggy Creek” and told me it lived in the river that runs through our town. I recently looked up the film and it is SO lame that I am embarrassed to have ever been afraid of that creature.
Being home alone
Storms
Sorry, I can say anything. I am still scare like when I was child😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️ Alien- you know the horror film series, dark in the room at night, snakes,…. and lot lot more things😅😅😅😅
My basement in the house I grew up in, it was dark and wet and had lots of spiderwebs!
I was terrified of our alarm system as a kid – particularly when “the man in the wall” would talk (e.g., “disarm system now” before the alarm would blare).
Thunder! Yes it’s noisy, but it’s harmless.
Escalators
Mice! When I was about 7 or 8 we lived in a rural area. My brother and his friends found a bunch of them, put them in a bucket and threw them on me and my friend. I still hate them and can feel them when I see one now. BTW the movie theater in the Blob is about 10 miles away from me.
I was scared to death of Freddy Kruger, I use to have nightmares and get sick from being so scared.
In the Philadelphia area there was a local show that had a scary Barbie-sized evil woman with red hair. In one scene, she was climbing up the side of the bed to do something bad to the sleeping person. I was petrified one night that she was climbing up the side of my bed. I was too afraid to get out of bed! Now, it seems quite silly that something the size of a Barbie could inflict that degree of terror.
The movie, “The Hand” still scares me to this day.
As a child I was scared of when people would walk closely behind me up or down stairs. My dad used to play hide & seek with me, turn out the lights & chase me. Now that I read this, I realize how messed up that was! Actually to this day if someone follows me too closely, it bothers me!
I was very scared of Jaws…. my older brother had convinced me that if my feet were ever outside of the blanket or hanging off the bed or couch that Jaws would chomp off my feet. I had to wrap myself like a burrito with the bedding even when it was hot for a long, long time. To this day whenever something scares me my involuntary physical instinct is to cover or yank my feet close to my body.
After watching the Wizard of Oz as a kid I thought every single storm was going to create a tornado and whisk me away. I was TERRIFIED of storms. Any time it would storm I would grab all of my favorite stuffed animals and hide in the basement until it was over 🤣I now absolutely LOVE storms and enjoy sitting outside on the porch watching/listening to them 🙂
My mom’s uncle. He had white hair. For some reason, I thought he would throw a pie in my face. 😂
The oil burner in my basement!!!!!!!!
I was so scarred of corn fields!!!! Because I watch the movie Children of the Corn.
Mice
The movie tremors 😂
Mice. They really freaked me out. Now I don’t like them but I’m not scared of them.
I must have been 5 or 6 years old when I watched the wizard of oz for the very first time, that night I woke up screaming because an early winter storm howled outside and the windows rattled: My sister has never let me live it down.
June bugs. Ok, so they still terrify me and make me squeeze, but I think it’s funny too (once they are gone). It’s their hook legs, and the sound they make. They freak me out. Plus… they are dumb and fly right into you
Freddie Kruger and the clown from It, actually can’t remember the name cause I refused to watch it ever since lol. My best friend convinced me to watch it and I have been terrified ever since
I was scared of everything as a kid, especially the curtains blowing in the wind and balloons.
Now I’m an adult with anxiety lol.
The lights in my elementary bathroom…of course now they don’t scare me, it’s just a sensory assault when the lights flicker or hum
Being alone. I feel like that’s pretty common as an adult but it was something that REALLY freaked me out as a kid.
I used to be terrified of clowns
Now that just seems ridiculous to me.
Huh, I was pretty fearless a a kid…. my only fear was a paper cut in the eye and I still have that fear 🤣😂
When I was a kid. My cousins and I watched a lot of horror movies. The movie puppet master scared me so much that I didn’t even want to buy puppets. I didn’t understand how puppets could talk by themselves and become possessed! Till this day I find puppets creepy. Especially clown 🤡 🙄 puppets!@
Horror movies
thing i remember is Freddie Kruger we were told at like 6 years old not to watch it and guess what my cousins and i did we watched it and freaked us out for months. now I’m like that is just a ridiculous movie
The teabag from the gingerbread man movie (pretty sure it was a UK thing) she terrified me but it makes me laugh now.
I was afraid of dolls with creepy looking eyes
I was afraid of the Daleks from DR,WHO ..its a UK tv time travel show…also scarecrows..and I was afraid of the dark..acually I am still aftraid of the dark..lol..I was easily scared as a child..Mind you I am easily scared as an Adult as well so nothing has changed.
As a kid, 13 or 14 yrs old, I watched Pirahana on TV when no one was home. I couldn’t take a bath or a shower for a week. I got a washcloth and got it wet in the bathroom sink then sponged off. I washed my hair in the kitchen sink using a glass I filled with water. I was so scared of those stupid fish.
I re-watched the movie with my husband in my 30’s and boy, did we have a good laugh about how bad and implausible the movie was and how I acted as a kid.
As a child I was afraid that something was hiding under my bed. I made my parents search every night.
Werewolves. Terrified of them. Now I love a spicy shifter romance. Showed my hubby a NSFW picture of a werewolf with a giant peen. Now he’s scared of them. 🤣🤣
I can’t think of anything. Still scared of spiders. Still not a fan of escalators or elevators. Still worry about missing steps and falling on my ass. Still scared of fire. Yep. Not much has changed.
Snakes falling from trees. In all fairness, I’ve had this happen to me once when I was 8 years old The trees all had that Spanish moss hanging and I always thought it looked like snakes so I was terrified of it happening and always kept a lookout for them! Then one day walking home from school it happened! I took my eyes off the trees for a second and a snake landed right in front of me. I don’t know what the odds of that happening are, but it hasn’t since and no one ever believes me when I tell them so I feel like it’s ridiculous even though I know it can happen. 😂
The dark hole in the basement wall at my friend’s house. The older siblings told us there was a monster in there.
I was afraid I would never find someone to love me. Im now married 30 years!
Escalators scared the @#$& out of me. I remember having this recurring nightmare involving an escalator. 😳🤣
That’s too funny! The Blob was one of those things that scared the crap out of me and haunted me for a long time 🤣🤣🤣
Glad I’m over that now 😂😂🤦🏽♀️
Monsters under the bed.
Yeah I used to get bad nightmares. Then as a kid me & my cousin were sneaking into an abandoned house. It was on the end of my grandmas street. Anyway we saw a mob hit. The guy was shooting arrows into another guy tied to a chair. We were both under 10. My mind raced and well after the guys in suits saw us. I was oh wow you are playing cowboys & Indians. Im surprised I didn’t pee myself. But we got to my grandmas & I never wondered into another abandon house. Years later there was an excavation team looking for the dog, Unfortunately I said there’s no dog there it’s a man with arrows. I was you are digging in the wrong spot, Well they found the body by my directions. A friend of mine was the detectives will want to interview you. Umm not thank you. I ran back to my grandmas. It took years & years for those nightmares to stop, I thought I was going to be murdered. So to this day I despise murder mysteries.
BTW yes this happened and is true
When I little I loved the Wizard of Oz, but the Wicked Witch and the flying monkeys scared the crap out if me. Thank you gir the opportunity.
A coat stand that stood about three feet past the end of my bed. I don’t know if it happened more than once, but with multiple coats hanging from it, I thought someone was standing there. Scared the hell out of me. 😂
I don’t know as a child I was afraid of spiders, bugs, creepy clowns & loud noises but I’m still scared of all of those 😂 😨 😳 none of them are funny now 😂
Quicksand! In my adult life I have never come across quicksand in my life and I doubt that I ever will 😆
I honestly can’t think of anything right now. If anything things I wasn’t worried about as a kid now I’m scared/worried about as an adult. A lot of the things that made me scared as a kid, as an adult, I’m like – valid kid… lol
I remember watching JAWS in the theater, I think I was 7. I was absolutely terrified. I loved to swim, but would never go into the ocean. I might make it it my ankles and then I would scream and run back to shore. I can watch the movie now and laugh. And swimming in the ocean isn’t a problem provided it’s warm water.
The Joker from Batman Returns (Jack Nicholson). Whenever I have a high fever (still) I hallucinate him coming slowly towards me. It’s wild!
Mice. I was scared of them as a kid and still scared of them. As I think back about that I find myself laughing.
I was always scared of driving over a bridge with my parents. I used to hide behind the back seat so I couldn’t see the bridge. Not that that would help much if the bridge collapsed. But I still have that fear today especially since bridges have collapsed on occasion 😬
I was scared of when my dad would go to work. He was a police officer for 46 years. I would have a hard time sleeping till he got home from work.
there was this old twilight zone episode where this guy cuts off someones head in a picture and the guy in the picture actually had his head come off because of it and i terrified that that would actually happen.
Chucky. I hate that doll now.
King Kong
Having one foot out of the covers when sleeping. Monsters get you that way. It is silly now, but I still won’t do it unless having a hot flash.
Michael Jackson’s Thriller video scared me to death as we walked to the bus stop in the dark. As an adult I know the real monsters are scarier because the blend in.
Freddy Krueger. I was probably between 6 and 8 the first time I watch Nightmare on Elm Street. I had nightmares months. Was scared he would be under my bed and his hand would come through my mattress and get me.
Basement’s. It came from watching a movie (can’t remember what movie). One I probably shouldn’t have been watching, because I was around 5 when I had this fear.
At 52 I guess I am still a kid. Clowns, things under the bed, opened closet doors are still things I give me the chills. Except now I don’t look at anything clown related, still don’t hang my legs or feet over side of bed and I keep my closet doors closed.
Big huge horseflies
My Aunt had a Chuckie doll. It was so terrifying. She would prop it up around the house. Even to this day I still don’t like those dolls and will never watch the movie.
Growing up we have these two straw clowns the hung from the curtain rod ends, so they would move a bit if you touch the curtains. At night it was like their faces glowed in the dark. How silly is that.
ET! Yes from the movie! I was terrified I would open my eyes at night and he would be on the side of the bed waiting for me.
I believe it was bloody mary but me and a friend would try it anyway. I didn’t sleep very well for several nights after that.
I was scared to go to sleep because I had a water bed. And I had watched Freddy Krueger come and drown someone. I still fear water because I can’t swim.
I am scared of scary movies because to me they are real not make believe. I would go to bed and the movie would be running in my head on repeat.
Bees…I always stepped on at least 1 every summer while walking barefoot! Now I appreciate them for my garden (and don’t walk around without shoes!).
Of the dark, kind of still am.
The dark. As a kid I used to prop the door open with a chunk of styrofoam. Now I have the room as dark as possible.
I was terrified of the animal that was part of cabbage patch kids. I don’t even remember what they were called. My mom bought them for my brother and he’d chase the girls with them and tell us he was going to eat us.
When I was young, I was extremely creeped out by a painting my mom did of a clown. I had a nightmare that the painting jumped off the wall and was heading down the hallway to get me. Not as a fully formed humaoid clown, but as the painting, rocking from side to side on the corners of the frame.
I’ve never been a fan of clowns. 🤷🏼♀️
The Mothman. I don’t know why
Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. I literally used to run and hide every time it came on. It’s funny now, but at the time I was terrified. 🤣
Turning off the last light 🤣
I always felt like someone was gonna come behind me
When I was a Teenager I was still very afraid of the dark and one night I had to go outside because It was cold so I needed to put extra hay in the dog’s house outside. And the porch light wasn’t working. I did not realize that my dog, her name was Peaches, was not on the chain for the night. So when I went out the back door onto the back porch and I walked down the few steps as soon as I got to the bottom the dog ran past me real fast scared me so bad that I jumped all the way from the bottom-up the 4 steps never even touching the steps.
Fell over on my butt on the porch and then Peaches came up and started licking my face while I was still panting, laying there and trying to breath.
Monsters – but monsters don’t exist, at least not in the form I was scared of as a child. As a child they were horrible creatures with sharp teeth that would rip into my flesh. But now, monsters do exist, but they take a human form, that if you pass them in the street you may not recognise them as monsters, but monsters exist, they are not nice people.
The crayfish flapping on the bench I was only eye level with. Scared the living crap out of me. What made it worse was the fact I opened the fridge the next day to see the said crayfish on a plate in there. I screamed and slammed the door shut
Of course it’s funny now. Was very traumatizing at the time!
Ghostbusters – I know, weirdo right
So we lived in a house that was lifted up off the ground about 4 and 1/2 feet, it had an a nice size yard that had a brick wall that ran along the outer sidewalk and it had a driveway that’s sloped down. So people would walk up the driveway to the little path that went around to the front of our house and down the stairs. Well, we had two giant windows that were maybe like 5 inches off the floor and 5 inches from the ceiling. My parents had the old box TV that sat on the floor in front of it. I was terrified of that window I always felt like someone was watching me at night. My mother had those old sheer embroidered curtains that you could see through. Sometimes at night you’d see a shadow and it would be somebody walking down that path behind the window. It was about 2 feet away from the window. I was terrified watching t.v at night. A blanket covering my head peeking out to watch t.v. On top of that there was a window to the left that was the same ceiling to floor just not as wide and a window on the right. One of the ones you lift up to open. Those windows tormented me as a child.😂
Firecrackers as a kid
Something so simple. We used to have our school presentation nights late at night, for a kid anyway. We would then have to drive home in the dark and I used to freak out over the trees. Where we lived there were no streetlights so the cars headlights would light the trees up as shadows and creep me out because they looked like they had fingers reaching out to grab me. I would close my eyes the whole way home
I was scared of the dark but now as an adult i love the dark.
Definitely clowns lol I mean they are still scary to me today but not like when I was younger they were terrifying.
I was scared of Jason and Freddy. Now I just think they are so silly, but I was terrified as a kid.
My neighbor. She was an old lady and related to me somehow but my brothers convinced me she was a witch. We had to pass her house walking home from school. My uncle lived before her house and his dogs would chase me home and my brothers convinced me the dogs worked for her and were trying to herd me to her house so she could cook me like Hansel and Gretal. The dogs never chased my brothers just me so they would laugh. I was only 8-9 years old but terrified.
I was terrified of the characters at Disneyland. We went a lot and I just ran away from them all and begged my Mom to leave me at home…. It was the same for Santa at the mall etc….Finally, when I was 16 and got a job there I saw that they were just people in the costumes (which on some level I knew.. duh) And the exposure made me feel so stupid, lol I laugh about it still..
I was afraid of the second grade teacher in my elementary school. If looks could kill, hers would.
Cockroaches and I still am petrified.
I was always so scared of how people perceived me, physically and emotionally. I grew up wanting everyone to like me. Now, I could care less. Life is way too short to care what others think, plus, you find out that their perception of you doesn’t effect you in the long run nor does it change who you are. Once I grew up, matured, and stopped truly caring about other people’s perception of me, I became a way better person!
As a kid, I was so scared of the wicked witch and her monkeys in the Wizard of Oz i workshop watch it out would close my eyes when they were on screen and mom was watching the movie. Now it’s one of my fans movies and I love Wicked the musical.
The 5th grade teacher in our elementary school. You only heard bad things about this woman and how strict she was a things she did to other students. If she was around you were not . Then when I finally went into 5th grade I realized she was a fantastic teacher with a scary reputation because she was so old and never smiled and always carried a ruler
Walking into a dark room and shutting the door while it is still dark
the bath tub having the shower Curtin closed when in it.
When we used to come back to the UK and stay with my gran, I used to be terrified of the cupboard under the stairs..I think it was where they kept the coal, and would gang back and then hurl myself past it at a rate of knots!!
Some horror movies and now I married to a horror collector 😂
Chucky!! 🤣
My mom! I realized when I got older she just copied punishment and parent threats from Peggy Bundy
When i used to sleep over at my cousins house her 3 older brothers would always scare us by saying the boogeyman was coming to get us!
Dark stairways not all dark places just stairways
Those darn flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz! They were scary af but thankfully, I can now look them in the eye and laugh at how frightened they made me.
Cheers and thanks xx
When I was younger, I had an irrational fear of sharks coming up out of any body of water and attacking me. Of course I grew up watching jaws and well into my young adult life II would still have random panic attacks while swimming in my own pool and have to get out of the water..
Corn fields. 2/3 of my house growing up was surrounded by them.
I was scared of books and movies with vampires thinking that they were going to be watching through my window and of course what are my favorite movies and books. Vampires, lol
Sitting on the toilet in the dark. I was always afraid that something was going to come up and get me while I was sitting 😂
I would say nightmare on elm Street. I watch one and two
Then had sleep in basement room. It was be scary
Horror movies. Especially right before bed. I still don’t enjoy them per se but they don’t bother me anymore.
mannequinS
2025 for me has been a year of growth sorrow and pain.
Although this year has been a year full of good and bad challenges. I feel that I have learned a lot. Like 👍 family is the most important thing to me. Also its okay to not be okay. Its how you cope and act on your mistakes. Gratitude is attitude and kindness goes ✨️ 🙏 a long way. We don’t know what anyone is going through so don’t judge. Lastly do more of what makes you happy and love yourself most importantly. The year 2026 is going to be an even better year of more love health and joy!
The movie children of the corn i watch it now and don’t understand why it scared me
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – the original – i am that old
and swallowing fruit seeds!! Dear lawd I had nightmares they were going to grow out of my tummy
I still think Jaws is in any body of water I go into (except for my shower). It doesn’t matter if it’s a pool, river or pond. That movie still freaks me out.
OMG! I haven’t thought about The Blob in forever! I think I buried it in my subconscious on purpose because I had countless nightmares of that damn thing! That movie really did a number on me. I watched it decades later and laughed! I couldn’t believe how unrealistic it actually was compared to today’s horror movies.
I had a true fear about talking to strangers in public when I was a kid. I would became mute. I felt like I was too stupid to be able to talk to an adult. Thank goodness that changed!
I would have to agree with everyone else and say the dark. I would sleep with all the lights on and now I can’t sleep with any light.
Umbrella!s
My grandma had one of those umbrellas where you push the button and they pop open, but hers was broken so sometimes we need to open the coat closet, and the umbrella would just open on its own and scared the crap out of me I thought for sure it was possessed.
I was terrified of bridges
I was afraid that there would be a fox under the sofa at nighttime that would attack me. I have no idea why that was a concern of mine, we lived in an appartment in a city at the time. It feels silly now.
Horror movies
Turkeys! Those savages attacked me when I was really young. The whole gang went after me. I lay on the floor on my back, kicking and spinning in circles and crying. So funny!
Being home alone. When I would come home from school I would walk around the house to make sure no one else was in there that shouldn’t be…
Now I cherish being home alone for a little bit. I can eat, watch what I want, read a book and do as I wish.
Sleeping with my bed in front of the window. Was afraid Jason would jump through it and get me.
Adults, clowns, & the movie Edward Scissorhands
Chucky from Child’s Play. My older siblings would torment me all the time.
As a kid I was scared of ET and the things in Cats Breath. I mean I was fearful, running in my room and covering my head in the sheets.
I was terrified of frogs because one has crawled inside my shoe just outside of our house door and then jumped all the way to the living room. It took us almost two hours, two people, a tennis racket and a long brush to get it out. My heart was in my throat the whole time and I was scared of peeing in my pants the whole time but finally we got the frog out. Still today they are much worse than snakes because you can never know in which direction and how far they jump.
Hmm, I wasn’t really scared of anything to be honest, I’m just going to say the impending doom of the universe
I honestly have no memory of anything that really frightened me as a kid. I know spiders freak me out now but didn’t as a child. 😂
I saw the original Jurassic Park movie when I was 9 and my mom had to sleep in my floor for a few nights. Seems silly since dinosaurs obviously aren’t around anymore but there you go.
The movie Bambi, when the mom was shot, I couldn’t watch the rest of the movie. now I can ignore that part.
The snuggle bear from the commercials for fabric softener.
Walking through a cemetery….
Maine. I had an aunt who lived there. She would drive around a lake and I’d hear the music from Friday the 13th. Also any body of water that was not very clear. I’d hear the Jaws theme.
As of a child I was scared of the movie American Werewolf in London. I still can’t really watch it now but did sit down with a friend once to watch it. Its funny to me now because some of my favorite books are shifter books
The movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 👀
I was afraid the devil would come to get me in the middle of the night for misbehaving. Now I think if he looks like Lucifer lol come on over!
There was a mouth on the tv that used to sing it also had eyes but no face just a background called mully grubs. I was scared of it haha
Monsters in the closet. I used to have to jump up and close the closet door!
As a child I was terrified to ride the Pirates of the Caribbean. I closed my eyes every time I rode it up to the age of 13 years old. Now that’s my all-time favorite ride. It’s the reason I go to Disneyland.
As a child I was scared of going to bed alone. I would always have to have my little sister (younger by 2 years) come sit with me or my grandmother. Now, I can’t wait to go to bed and leave the world and everyone in it behind. Like, when I’m done with work and school, I don’t care who you are, I want my privacy and me time!
Something that scared me as a child that’s now funny…………..snakes. Used to hate snakes but now I love them for the photography aspect
Spiders. They’re such silly lil guys
I didn’t really have what I would call just scary things as a child. I had 4 older brothers, so they really didn’t let me “be scared” of something, including heights. I still do not like Spiders or crickets and I’m not really into scary movies, but I can read scary books. So I don’t think anything that I was scared of then (spiders and crickets) seems funny now. I do laugh at the antics my brothers let me do when I tagged along with them, because I would Never let me children do some of things I did back then. Haha
My grandparents let me watch the movie Piranhas when I was 12. Scared the snot out of me! I was terrified to stick my big toe in the lake! I can watch it today and laugh because it I’d so hokey and fake.
Drains/Manholes. After watching IT and seeing Pennywise I refused to pass near them.
Thinking that I would hear voices while walking around the cemetery
The movie Jaws….
My parents and I were living in Turkey at the time (military brat here). They in all their brilliance thought it would be okay to take me along when they went to see Jaws at the theater (1975). I was five…
I was scared to even take a bath – lol
When I was a kid, not a lot of things scared me. There were so many scary things happening all the time, at that time, that the “normal” scary stuff didn’t matter. My my was diagnosed with leukemia shortly before I was 7yrs old, so it was my job to help take care of my two sisters and the house (I’m the oldest by one minute and three yrs). The three of us lived our lives knowing that we could lose her and there wasn’t anything we could do about it. That was true fear, but we learned to live life around that fear.
As an adult, not much scares me, the only exception are my kids and grandkids. They’re the ones that have given me my silver hair! Lol
I was always scared of scary movies and the dark.
Oh my gosh, there were 2 movies that scared the crap out of me but now it looks so cheesy I just have to laugh. The Birds and those flying monkeys on the Wizard of Oz. As a child in that era it really was terrifying but now it just looks so fake. Oh how the times have changed.
We lived in an old house that creeped me out. I was positive there were ghosts. Wish we still owned that house now
Chucky. I was TERRIFIED of that stabby little brat.
Watched it as a teenager and was amazed at myself. Like, punt that b-stard. I’m giggling now just thinking about it 😂
I was afraid of the crawl space area underneath our kitchen and dining room. It was accessible through a small door in our basement and I really thought that there were scary monsters living inside there.
Driving in traffic. I grew up in the country and had been driving since I was 10. During drivers ed, we had to set up cones to learn to parallel park because cars didn’t park close enough together. We drove an hour to get to the closest city where I told the instructor I was scared silly to drive. He said to drive anyway. I turned the wrong way onto a one way street right into a cop. Didn’t hit him, but it was close. Instructor believed me after that.
I was scared of the fireys from the Labyrinth when I was young. They freaked me out, and I couldn’t watch the movie for a long time. Now, I laugh at it when I watch the movie.
I used to be super scared of my mom catching me reading when I was supposed to be in bed. She would say goodnight to me and I would count slowly to 10 and open the door and peak out to see if she was gone. Then I would grab my flashlight and read under my blanket. One night she tucked me in like always and I did my routine, as I walked to the door to check she was standing on the other side and goes “What are you doing?” Scared the crap out of me. It was a long time before I tried again. But when I did try again I would just hide under my blanket with flashlight and she caught me again
The crawl space in my parents house.
Sleeping without a night light as a little kid used to totally freak me out.
Cockroaches. But now I only find them funny when I squash one.
Vampires scared me as a child!
I can’t really think of anything. My fears were more spiders, bugs, needles. Better now but also not things I’d laugh at!
I wasn’t really scared of anything as a child, I was a pretty hardheaded kid. Lol
My dad! Lol he was just super scary but as an adult Idk why I thought that. Looking back, he never gave me a reason to be scared of him. Hes my favorite person, we are very close.
When I was a little girl I was terrified of the planet of the apes show even though I knew they weren’t real just the concept of talking apes scared me. I know it’s silly now lol
Spiders, and I’m afraid to say I’m still scared of them.
This is funny . I was probably 7-8 my sister took me on a date with her to see a scary movie. Dr. Phebs with Vincent Price. I had nightmares for months.
Now it’s funny. 💕
The movie Gremlins scared the crap out of me because my dad thought it was good for a 6 year old to watch it. I can laugh now
Reptiles but now I have one as a pet so I think it’s pretty funny indeed.
My dad told me a lion lived under the basement couch which was actually the back seat out of a car. He did do sound effects which I didn’t know was him.
The Chucky movies…I’m still not fond of dolls, but the movies are kind of hilarious
I was terrified of the basement stairs. Unless my mom or dad was already in the basement, I refused to go down the stairs. I also would have to go up the stairs before they did. Wasn’t afraid of the basement…. just the stairs.
There’s plenty of things I thought were scary that I don’t anymore. Anxiety has that on me 😂
Disappointing people
I was afraid of vampires in books and movies. Now I like reading books and watching movies with vampires in them.
When I was about 4 yrs old my Mom took me to see ET in the theater. So that Christmas they got me an inflatable ET that was as big as me. It was deflated in my closet and I can distinctly remember being scared it would inflate and get me. I don’t know why because I wasn’t scared of ET himself. But that inflatable terrified me. Lol.
There is nothing I can think of that I’m no longer scared of. I have some crazy fears but still have them all.
Michael Meyers
I was afraid of the clothes in the closet. In the dark at night clothing looked like people hiding in the closet. Closet doors always had to be closed.
After I saw Jaws in the theater, I had nightmares replaying the scene where the kids were all screaming. Just hearing the music associated with the approaching shark still gives me the shivers!
I was afraid of Ponds. I was afraid that if I went near one something would jump out and drag me under the water.
I was always scared of scary movies, but I don’t think I ever got over it. Still don’t like watching them.
Dogs like all of them small or big!!
Now I love them like give me all the puppies
Goosebumps (book series). I was convinced those stories were true.
I used to think Gremlins were under my bed. I would jump to my bed so they couldn’t grab my feet. That movie scarred me for life, I still don’t like it.
I was afraid of crowds. Sort of still am, I go to football (soccer) matches every other week and I’m surrounded by 50,000 other fans and I’m fine at that – hence laughing at it BUT take me to a busy shipping centre or a concert and I’m still shit scared!
I was scared of E.T. he creaped me out. Still not my favorite movie but it doesn’t bother me anymore.
When I was a child I was terrified of thunder and lightning.
Ghosts, scary movies (which I love now), & getting in trouble at school.
Getting a wrong answer…. now i realize I’m not perfect and you have to get things wrong to learn
Nothing comes to mind. I don’t like confrontation and would prefer to keep the peace now, whereas as a child my older sister claims I had a horrible temper. I don’t agree though, 😂 I’d argue she’s the one with the temper and our older brother agrees. (I’m the baby)
I told my kids this story not long ago lol. I was scared of the movies Freddy Krueger Nightmare on Elm Street. I was so afraid to sleep! My son loves scary movies so we watched this one and it seems so ridiculous now lol
Clowns and no it’s not funny
I remember my parents let me watch chucky when I was a kid and that show gave me nightmares when I was little I was always scared chucky was going to get me at night, totally silly now that I’m a adult but chucky traumatized me as a kid lol
The dark
Jaws, but I’ll admit I still jump at those startling moments. But still funny
The dark, spiders, the Lord of the rings (the Orcs scared the crap out of me😂😂) and yet now they’re one of my favourite movie franchise
I was also a turn off the lights and run up the stairs kid. And the movie The People Under the Stairs. Not a fan. 😆
I hated to be anywhere alone. Now I love it.
Scary movies use to scare me when I was little. Now that I’m older I think they are funny. Especially Friday the 13rh.
I used to be scared of lady bugs. Still don’t like them, but not scared anymore!
Birds because of the Birds movie & to this day I still am!
The Nightmare on Elm Street. So many sleepless nights 🙃
The Grudge (movie)
The furnace in the basement!
I was scared of things lurking under my bed. If I’m honest, sometimes I still am that’s why my bed sits on the floor. Lol!
I think I am more scared now of things that were no big deal back in the day. Heights – then go to the top without a blink of an eye. Now you are lucky if i go two steps on ladder. Scary Movies all day every day as a kid. Now just give me a Hallmark Christmas movie or Broncos Football. I can’t stand watching anything remotely scary.
The dark. But now I need complete darkness to turn my brain off and go to sleep
I used to be afraid of the dark as a child. I still kind of am as an adult. I grew up using a nightlight to sleep. I also liked to keep a flashlight by my bed. I still do for emergencies.
The proverbial boogieman under the bed.
Trying new foods.
When I was a child we used to have a full metal bed. I’m talking frame and headboard. I’ve no idea where this came from but someone said the bed was haunted. For years I was scared stiff to go anywhere near it. Luckily it wasn’t my bed. Eventually because of course nothing happened I grew out of the fear.
Hi! No matter where I slept from the time when I was pretty little there could be no open closet doors 🚪!! Didn’t want any of the monsters living in the closet to get me!! Thanks for the chance! Merry scarring!🎄😱🎄
I was TERRIFIED that if my arms or legs hung off the bed that something would grab me and pull me under.
Spiders – although I’m still afraid of them as an adult just now I have to handle them
A dark room. Now I have to explain to my own kids that there’s nothing to be afraid of
When I was little I was afraid of black birds thanks to Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds. 😆😂
Monsters under the bed.
Walking across the room to the bed after flipping the light switch off
Snakes.
The children’s movie Monsters Inc. I recently rewatched it with my mom and my son, telling my mom how much trauma I had from the movie. She thought I was insane! We were laughing so hard rewatching it because I realized it wasn’t a terrible or scary movie my kid self thought it was.
Demon masks totally afraid
A thunderstorm would have me running to my parents room so fast when i was little.🤣
I was terrified of elevators when I was a child. I could not ride in them. One of my parents would have to walk the stairs with me no matter where we were.
The dark… I love it now
I couldn’t touch or pick up a whole chicken. I remember when I would help my dad in the kitchen I would season one but not touch it or lift it.. I did one time and screamed it looked too much like a really alive chicken for me to be comfortable with. I know even being plucked and no head I just was too scared of it. Now though I laugh just thinking back on it.
Imaginary monsters, later it was The Exorcist which came out when I was in HS. Rewatching the movie decades later it didn’t seem as creepy.
The Huggabunch movie
The film, The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. I was scared of birds for some time & of that movie itself. Watched it not long ago & now I find it funny because it obviously doesn’t hold up with the times. It’s very silly
As a child I was scared of drowning. I learned to swim so that helped.
What is under the bed? Lol I had to sleep with my mattresses on the floor. As I got older… I was more afraid of bugs crawling into bed with me so I went ahead and got a frame. Lol.
Monsters in the closet!! Now all I think about is the Pixar movie Monsters Inc and it seems so silly. Noises always made it too real as a child lol silly things you remember looking back!
I can’t remember any. I’m still afraid of heights, being buried alive, spiders and snakes.
Scary/horror books. I had a very vivid imagination and would have nightmares of what I imagined. It’s funny now especially when I consider some of the dark themes I read regularly.
Candles. I had a nightmare about a candle that I still remember 50 years later…..
When I was younger I was laying on the couch and talking to my brother and I had my arm behind my head while I was looking at him talking. Next thing I know I screamed and jumped because I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It was my hand I saw and I scared the crap out of myself. My family still to this day will stick their hand behind their head and scream, then laugh at me.
I had a nightmare that a giant quahog (hardshell clam) came out of the river looking for revenge. Turns out Mom had to throw one back after she couldn’t open it, and it was kind of mangled. Apparently I was stressed that it suffered!
Motorcycles. I was 3 I think. I remember being sat on my uncle’s motorcycle, and pushed around the yard. They didn’t even start it, but I screamed and cried the whole time. Now, I’d go anywhere with my uncles and cousins on their bikes!
I watched IT the one with Tim Curry with my two other sisters. We were scared and once the movie was done our vcr rewinded the movie and it started to play it again and once we heard the music come on we three jumped to get to the stairs but my older sister pushed me and my younger sister back so she could be the first one up the stairs. It is funny that we can laugh about that now.
I was scared of elevators when I was younger but working in a high rise I got over that quick.
The original IT movie by Stephen King. Terrified me. Now its hilariously corny.
OMG—I was so fearful of the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz! I’m honestly not sure if I’ve ever even seen the movie past that scene! The only movie that had me willing to go to bed early and of my own accord.
Clowns – The Movie IT with the damn balloon coming up the grate with the clown – just no. Still don’t like clowns
Ha!! The basement!! I always scared of going down there by myself!
Zombies…. Night of the Living Dead and even Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video. I was so scared of zombies.
Sister Anne. She was the 8th grade teacher at the Catholic school. When I was in 1st grade I ran into her in the hall and she scared the begeezus out of me. He had very thick glasses and a patch over one eye. I think she must have had a stroke because one side of her face was kinda droopy. I was afraid of her all the way until I was in 6th grade and had to help her after school one day for a detention and found out she was the sweetest lady. She just looked scary.
Storms. I was absolutely terrified of them until I was 19 and got caught in a freak storm while camping (it sounds pretty stupid to think getting stuck in a tent during a major storm cured my fear instead of making it worse lol) I honestly still don’t know why it cured me except for the fact that I survived.
Ghosts
Watched the movie Nightmare on Elm Street when I was young and it terrified me. Watched it as an adult and laughed my arse off
Quicksand! I thought it was going to be a much bigger problem lol.
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Every horror movie
The dark – and I’m still not over it! 😂
For years I was always afraid that something horrible was under my bed at night. I’m not sure what caused those thoughts but they were so real. I remember crying and my mom coming in my room with a flashlight to prove to me that nothing was there. I guess.i just outgrew my fear.
🕷 spiders, because since my son was terrified of them, I had to put a stronger face and save him from them.
Not being what people want me to be. Took me a long time to realize I’m the only one that I need to worry about and not to be afraid of what people think of me. I am who I am.
Ghosts in the attic…
I was scared of the basement I hated when my parents would send me down to take or grab the clothes i would run up them stairs without looking back like if some one was behind.
I spent a lot of time alone growing up. I remember my best friend’s brother coming over to look under my bed once. Some times I was flat out terrified. Now it makes for funny stories but then it was so scary for me.
Clowns! I hated that you couldn’t see their real face!
I was terrified of climbing onto our bunk bed at night growing up because I thought octopus legs were going to reach out and get me 😂 and I was far too old to believe that, but we used to sneak and watch scary movies so I was paranoid.
Grass. Apparently the fear didn’t last long, but for awhile I wouldn’t crawl off a blanket into grass and would contort to avoid it if they tried to set me down in it.
I was afraid of worms and the dark
Clowns got I still hate them and all scary movies lol
I was scared of water violently erupting out of the toilets in my house. One day I came home from school and mom warned me away from the bathrooms. The doors were closed. I wasn’t allowed in. She needed to clean them. The city had “taken pictures” of the insides of the pipes, and sewer water had come out of the toilets and gone everywhere.
Now I’m sure it wasn’t “everywhere”. I’m sure it was a little overflowing, not some violent explosion of water shooting to the ceiling, but my 6, 7, 8 year old self didn’t know that. The fear/worry stuck with me for years.
We had a shed not even close to the house, but it was right by our dock. My stepdad had me convinced that there was a troll named Kentroll who lived underneath it. Once at night they made me go get something from inside of it.
I was fearless up thru my teens and then learned some life lessons and gathered some fears.
One of them was monsters under the bed. Always heard that if I was bad then the monsters would come out from under the bed and take me. I laugh at it now 🙂
A lady in my neighborhood … we used to sneak behind her house and steal her grapes and she’d yell at us. It was the only time I ever see her come out of her house. She would threaten to call the police. It was like any old woman in a horror film.
Reading these answers are great 🤣. I was afraid of the dark. I would always sing….i guess that would scare away the unknown…lol. Now I prefer the dark. It freaks my Mom out that I will sit in the living room with no lights and no sound. I find it relaxing and mind clearing. I’m such a night owl.
Underneath the bed at night. What creatures might have appeared.
The drain at the bottom of the pool! I was starting to get over that and started thinking how silly it was, then I came across some scary real stories of pool drains and children after having my kids and I’m terrified of them again.
Leaving a carnival without cotton candy!
Death. I used to be so scared and now I just see it as a natural consequence of life. I often chuckle over the sleepless nights I’ve spent worrying
Grew up with an immense fear of…. Frogs.
The movie IT. The first time I saw it at the ripe age of seven years old it scared the life out of me. Sewer drains, and all. Which is ironic because now I’d love that movie and I love clowns. I even have my own collection with clown statues.
My foot touching past the marked off swim area in a lake. Always thought it felt colder and like I’d be dragged away lol
It would have to be Silver Bullet about a priest who is the one killing people but not just killing people but turning into a werewolf!!! My family and I lived in the country in bum F*ck Egypt. We had trees that surrounded us to block the NW wind in the wintertime, these trees were about 10 feet from the backside of our house and then the perimeter got bigger as you went further out with about 3 or 4 layers of different trees for pines, Russian olive, and Ash plus then some type of shrub bush. (Meanwhile back at the ranch) After that night watching this movie, and the fam would come home in the dark, I thought this werewolf guy would come racing out of the trees and attack me and the fam. Looking back, it’s comical but back then it scared the Jeepers Creepers out of me.
To any and all ppl who wrote spiders or something similar I am unhappy that you now find them funny bc I still find them scary as hell! Please come here and kill them for me…
In any case, when I was younger, I couldn’t listen to Jesus Christ Superstar bc of the lashes in the music. It freaked me out!! I don’t particularly find it funny, I guess, but I’m no longer frightened of the score.
I mean, I watch Cabaret with the young Aryan youth singing Tomorrow Belongs to Me and honestly, that’s still creepy today.
Worms! Deathly aftraid of earthworms
I had an overactive imagination as a child. I was always afraid to walk home alone because I kept envisioning I would get lost and thinking things were more complicated than they were. Mind you, I lived in a small town. There was no way I was going to get lost going home. But my mind would make up these big stories are possibilities of what could happen and it would freak me out. To this day, I still have to rain in my imagination and not let it go running wild.
I was scared of the previous owner of our house. He was a dentist and I had seen the horror movie Dr. Giggles. As an adult, I now know he was too busy running from the IRS to be in my closet! Lol
Dogs.
I was always scared of frogs. Because we I was little my older sister stuck one down my bathing suit and it freaked me out
I used to be scared everyday on the school bus when we drove by the pond, I always feared we’d drive right into it and sink
The dark. I was always scared but now I prefer it. It’s comforting.
OMG! Same!!! I saw the same movie. I didn’t see the whole thing, just a portion of it. I happened to come downstairs to go to the bathroom and it was on TV and I was freaked out. Absolutely terrified. I am ashamed to say I have thought about it since then as well. I actually came across the movie a few years ago on TV again and watched a few minutes of it thinking it would help me. It didn’t. Also wow have movies come a long way. Lol
I was afraid of the dark. I thought if I ran through it I had a chance, but all i did was ban into walls and furniture.
I used to be so scared of dinosaurs, after watching Jurassic park it made me so scared, now of course I’m good lol
Vampires!! So terrified …LOL now I love them! Can’t get enough!
The movie “The Thing” now I laugh at that movie. 😂
I didn’t like rollercoasters
I was afraid of thunderstorms when was A child. We had a tin roof and it always sounded like 1000s of marbles hitting the roof.
Freddy Kruger ama now selling the special effects, I Elbert how this ever scared me lol
I will say be around people – I was extremely shy until I was 10.
Chucky had me freaked out about dolls. Not as much of an issue now. Haha
Freddy Kreuger.
Like, I feared his knife hands would come out of the toilet to grab me. Or he’d come up the shower drain for me. I was TERRIFIED. So ridiculous now that I look back! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Scary movies
I was scared of the dark.
The damn shower drain thanks to the movie IT!!
The 1997 movie “volcano”. I was terrified of volcanoes piping up everywhere.
Scary movies, the boogie man, when the real world and real people are scary sand evil
The exorcist. The head spinning around freaked me out, and he creepy eyes. Not like creepy Wendy. I do love Wendy
A hill that we used to ride bikes down. I drove up to our old home not to long ago, and it was nothing but a very small hill, and not steep at all🤪.
I was terrified of the guys that dress up as Santa. I mean from a small child until I was a teenager kind of fear and I have no idea why.
KISS the band! I was terrified!!
The Sixth Sense movie scared the hell out of me.
Being outside alone at night yes even at 31 lol
I was so afraid of the preacher from The Silver Bullet movie, I made my mom re-arrange my bedroom so my bed wasn’t close to the window. My older brother would sleep under my bed all the time after that to “keep me safe”.