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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)
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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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365 Responses
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!
Saying ‘bloody Mary’ into the mirror
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
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
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.
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 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 🤣😂
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.