Bare your souls .

An old high school buddy, Jeff, didn't have a bed frame. The box springs sat right on the floor. When I asked about it Al told me the story. When Jeff was young, right after Poltergeist came out, his older brother hid under the bed with a clown mask on. When Jeff went to get into bed his brother grabbed his ankle and started to pull him under.

A movie that freaked me out was Event Horizon, actually gave me a nightmare. Something fundamentally wrong about that movie. The first time I ever watched it I wouldn't turn out the lights and go to sleep afterward.

And spiders terrify me for some reason. I've had more nightmares about spiders than any other thing.

Frank
 
If animals could talk I wonder if sometime out roaming the woods I wouldn't overhear the following conversation; "Holy crap, did you see that monster, I swear it was looking right at us", "I know, scared me so bad I think I just soiled my fur", "Let's get the he&& outta here", "You got that right".

I chuckle when folks admit to being too scared to go out in the forest alone. When I'm out there, I try to be as quiet and unobtrusive as possible, fully cognizant that to some "people" I am the boogeyman. ;)

Sarge
 
When I was a kid, seven years old, some drunk idiot broke into our house. My dad heard the noise he made and came out of his bedroom with a 12 ga. double barrel. The drunk had a .22 single action and fired twice in my dads direction. Dad blew him out the big plate glass window in the living room. Both barrels in the chest from about 15 feet. For many, many years I was afraid that his ghost was haunting our house. He seemed to only appear when I was almost asleep, after a seemingly long tiring day. I was the only one that thought that he was there. I never really saw anything, the trees made strange shadows on the curtains, and the branches rubbed the side of the house near my bedroom. I just knew he was coming back for revenge. Way over active imagination in those days.
 
Bill,
Dear God. What a horrible thing to happen. I feel so bad for you.
I know, the good guy won, but that doesnt make it any less horrific, does it?
Man, talk about nightmares.
I worked for the medical examiner in my town when i was in college.
After three months I was having such horrible nightmares I had to quit.
Nothing is as horrifying as reality.
 
As I meant this to be an entertaining informative thread some of my responses may have been too jocular .

Childhood fears may seem childish to some . They are just childlike to me . Maturation is different for us all . Influences , hindrances , they are what help mold us .
 
I grew up in a Christian (Baptist) home. My parents- perhaps my mother, especially- talked too much about demons and the devil to their child.

When I was four or five, I told my mother the devil had talked to me in the night. Instead of suggesting that it might be one of my two older brothers, who shared a room with me, and enjoyed scaring little brothers, she said, What did he say?

"He said, 'Jooooooohnny'!"

Well, the next time he talks to you, say... I was scared of the dark until I was 16.
 
When I was a kid I saw Poltergeist and was terrified for a while of shadows, trees, clown dolls, and TV static. Jeez. What a great thread.

Also got scred as heck when I saw the Exorcist. As a Catholic, religious imagery, such as demons/the devil really got me going. Something about those Jesus statues with him holding his chest open and a wreth of thorns around his heart all over the church. Dang. The Exorcist scared the hell out of me.
 
The movie "C.H.U.D." scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid. I had no business watching something like that at that age.

I have nightmares frequently but the really impressive ones stay with me; just about all of my present fears revolve around these. Nothing does a better job of frightening me than my own imagination. (It has an unfair advantage if you ask me.) The specifics are probably better left unmentioned.
 
Kevin the grey said:
As I meant this to be an entertaining informative thread some of my responses may have been too jocular .

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...I'm afraid of my cat. Guinevere (who answers to "Evil") is a big, old, grey tabby that was pull of piss and vinegar as a tiny kitten. She hasn't mellowed any over the last decade. Somewhere in her vet charts is the word "CAUTION" in big red letters. Even Rook, our Shar-Pei/Lab mix, is reluctant to get too close.

Frank
 
When I was about four years old we lived out in the woods and one evening my Dad was working late and I was in the cabin with my Mom. A black bear tried coming in the front door which was latched shut, tearing the screen door off in the process. Mom kept flicking the lights on and off and banging a couple pots together. Eventually the beast moved off, but not until the front door was messed up enough it had to be replaced.

My Dad shot that bear the next day, but I was waking up with nightmares about bears for a couple years. Then I got over it, but to this day black bears have been my "hypothetical enemy."
 
"The Thing" 1951.
I wasn't no more than 11 or 12 when I went to see this movie with my friends Dennis Reuter and Bobby Shafer(sp) in '51 or '52 and was very impressionable with a very active imagination.
Dennis's mom dropped us off and picked us up when the movie was over. This was one of the first horror/SciFi movies I had ever seen. Dennis lived in a regular house while Bobby and I lived in the trailer park across the road. Dennis's mom dropped us off at the drive into the trailer park and we walked from there. Like a damned fool I let Bobby talk me into walking him to his trailer and then I had to walk alone in the dark among all the trailers and trees to get to our trailer.
I saw "The Thing" in every flickering shadow and was scared enough by the time I got home.
To top it off my half brother Jack had moved in with us for a while and he and I had to sleep on the couch in the living room.
Jack was just the opposite of me and 12 years older so if I was 12 he was a full grown 24 and stood 6'2" about 180 and hairy as a damned dog while I was short and of medium build and never have any body hair to speak of.
I didn't get much sleep that night because every time Jack moved I woke up scared poopless.
I had nightmares for a long, long, time because of that movie.:eek: :(
 
Dave Rishar said:
The movie "C.H.U.D." scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid. I had no business watching something like that at that age.
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CHUD Scared me as a big kid/adult. It stood for

"Contaminated Hazard, Urban Disposal"

--- radioactive waste that was stored in the sewers that turned the

Homeless into "Canabalistic Human Underground Dwellers." Really scary movei!

anybody ever see the daschunds dressed as rats? That was really funny. Don't think they were trying for comedy.
 
are members of the same internet forum:D The odds of that are astronomical to say the least. It didn't scare me in the least.
I saw a Bette Davis film late one night as a wee lad. A head fell out of a hatbox and bounced down the staircase is all I remember. Freaked me the hell out for a long time after that. Always been a little leary of hatboxes since.
 
I had two. The first was a common one, spiders. If I saw one, I'd just leave the room and let someone else deal with it. Fine with em now, actually like studying them.

The other one was kind of weird. I've never been afraid of water, I've swam in both pools and natural bodies of water my whole life. With certain videogames though I just absolutely did not want to play the underwater levels. I remember when Mario came out for the Nintendo 64, I'd skip all the levels where you had to do things like battle giant eels underwater. When the Gamecube version came out I still didn't like doing the underwater levels, but I made myself do them that time. It doesn't really get to me, but if I go play Mario 64 and do the water levels I still just feel uneasy for some reason. I never understood why I'm uneasy in an underwater level of a videogame, but anything involving water in real life never once phased me.
 
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