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Well to some lesser degree I have not necessarily a fear but a wariness of rounding corners. Its worse if I am the only one up and about which is ironic since I usually can’t fall asleep until 6am so I’m obviously the only one up and active for a good part of my waking hours.
In the day time I’m always a little cautious because siblings like to try and startle me, my brother tends to run the corner with a plate full of food at ramming speed and my cat just looovvees to scream down the hall and nearly get stepped on. I’m always afraid that for some reason I will turn a corner too quickly and someone carrying a sharp object will walk into me and I will gut myself. Wait, what?
But at night it becomes this wierd creeped-out feeling. Like when you turn out the lights and want to run up the stairs. I actually have to scout out the room on my way to the lights and strategically pace the walls, maneuver around furniture and peek around blind corners all while kind of dodging to the side. I’m always convinced that there is going to be a house intruder waiting in the kitchen ready to throw knives at me. -.- which I find kind of a specific and silly thing to think.

Then I have a fear much like yours Snowy and I usually don’t like to talk about it at all. Partly because I’m not sure how people would take it and partly because part of me is afraid it will “give them power if they know I’m thinking about them and they will find me.” This is kind of weird since although I like to watch the occasional paranormal investigation show for fun I tend to be very skeptical of such things. (I did see a lot of strange things as a kid that some would claim to be ghosts. Freaky stuff did happen but as I know for a fact I would sometimes hallucinate – usually if I was sick or stressed- I won’t jump to any conclusions. I haven’t “seen” anything in almost ten years.)
Anyways… I simply CAN. NOT. STAND the grays. Yeah. Those creepy, nasty, ungodly little classic style aliens with the gray skin and massive black eyes. The green versions of them don’t bother me but the gray ones just mess with my head. Just typing this now is creeping me out and giving me chills. I can literally not even look at them. I tense up if I see one on tv, can’t watch any video or even look at pictures or toys with them on it without feeling like I’m on the verge of a mini panic attack. Even more frustrating is if I come across a picture of one on the internet or the thought of one just pops into my head while I’m trying to sleep I automatically get into this mindset of “don’t look it gives them power. Don’t think about them or they will find you. Can they see me through the walls?” And then I get frustrated with myself for letting myself get so carried away over something as simple as a wandering thought.
The ironic thing? I freaking LOVE aliens. Movies, books, videogames, artwork, the very idea of life on other planets makes me all giddy. It’s only the grays that creep me out so much.
I think it may have something to do with an old movie I watched with my parents when I was like….3? 4? I think it was called “Mars Attack!” or something. It was a seriously goofy poor cgi movie where cheesy music made the alien’s heads explode but I had nightmares about them for months afterwards. Bleh!

Edit: I went and looked it up and found it, it was this one: http://img.dooyoo.co.uk/GB_EN/orig/0/6/6/6/8/666872.jpg Looking at it now I have no idea why I was so scared of it, it's a pretty goofy looking cat but I remember hating the front cover of it!

Did anyone ever read the Goosebumps books or watch the show? I read the books mostly, and there was one book I was terrified of, it was about a cat called RIP I think, and the front cover of it used to scare me so much that I used to keep the book under my bed to hide it so I'd never see it. I watched the show sometimes and I remember specifically this one episode where a giant green blob takes over an airplane or something and that didn't help my fear of planes much at all.

Oh man I used to love Goosebumps when I was young, I had the entire book collection at one point and I'd watch the show religiously.

The only episode that ever scared me was the one with the Halloween mask that started to meld to the girl's face/body. I've never been able to wear rubber masks since that, they make me feel like I'm suffocating and in the back of my mind I still have that paranoid fear of it melding to my skin.

Are You Afraid of the Dark was much creepier though, and I distinctly remember one episode that scared the hell out of me. It was a haunted swimming pool (I think in a school?) and there was a ghost that would try to drown people who swam in it. At some point the kids investigating figured it out and in order to make the ghost visible they poured some sort of chemical in the water that would have a reaction and turn red, so when the ghost showed up it was a blood red rotting skeleton type thing and oh god I couldn't step foot in a swimming pool for years after that episode.

Vephriel wrote:Oh man I used to love Goosebumps when I was young, I had the entire book collection at one point and I'd watch the show religiously.

The only episode that ever scared me was the one with the Halloween mask that started to meld to the girl's face/body. I've never been able to wear rubber masks since that, they make me feel like I'm suffocating and in the back of my mind I still have that paranoid fear of it melding to my skin.

Are You Afraid of the Dark was much creepier though, and I distinctly remember one episode that scared the hell out of me. It was a haunted swimming pool (I think in a school?) and there was a ghost that would try to drown people who swam in it. At some point the kids investigating figured it out and in order to make the ghost visible they poured some sort of chemical in the water that would have a reaction and turn red, so when the ghost showed up it was a blood red rotting skeleton type thing and oh god I couldn't step foot in a swimming pool for years after that episode.

I REMEMBER BOTH OF THOSE! QUEUE NIGHTMARES. UGH.

I also HATED HATED HATED the episode with the freaking ventriloquist dummy. UGH. NO.

When you go abck to watch those shows now you realise how cheaply they where made XD

I could hardly get through one eppisode of Goosebumps when I was a kid but man that stuff has not aged well

JonTron did a good halloween ep on the goofyest Goosebumps eps and it's worth a watch!

Zarai wrote:

Vephriel wrote:Oh man I used to love Goosebumps when I was young, I had the entire book collection at one point and I'd watch the show religiously.

The only episode that ever scared me was the one with the Halloween mask that started to meld to the girl's face/body. I've never been able to wear rubber masks since that, they make me feel like I'm suffocating and in the back of my mind I still have that paranoid fear of it melding to my skin.

Are You Afraid of the Dark was much creepier though, and I distinctly remember one episode that scared the hell out of me. It was a haunted swimming pool (I think in a school?) and there was a ghost that would try to drown people who swam in it. At some point the kids investigating figured it out and in order to make the ghost visible they poured some sort of chemical in the water that would have a reaction and turn red, so when the ghost showed up it was a blood red rotting skeleton type thing and oh god I couldn't step foot in a swimming pool for years after that episode.

I REMEMBER BOTH OF THOSE! QUEUE NIGHTMARES. UGH.

I also HATED HATED HATED the episode with the freaking ventriloquist dummy. UGH. NO.

I also remember these, oh man, my childhood!

I don't remember any Goosebumps episodes that ever made me uneasy, but that one episode (I believe it's called The Tale of Dead Man's Float?) from Are You Afraid of the Dark is notorious for scaring many, many people back then. I wasn't one of them, but the episode that DID scare me was The Tale of the Crimson Clown. UGH. I'm not afraid of clowns at all normally, but that friggin' clown doll in that episode gave me the creeps!

cowmuflage wrote:When you go abck to watch those shows now you realise how cheaply they where made XD

I could hardly get through one eppisode of Goosebumps when I was a kid but man that stuff has not aged well

JonTron did a good halloween ep on the goofyest Goosebumps eps and it's worth a watch!

Oh yeah Goosebumps was cheesy as hell and so campy, that was part of the appeal. Of course these days most of those shows wouldn't stand up so well, but I do think AYAOTD had some great episodes. That bloody corpse ghost had some great costume/makeup effects, even by today's standards (link to image) especially considering it was a kid's show.

Yeah I do agree. I still love them in all their cheesyness <3

cowmuflage wrote:Yeah I do agree. I still love them in all their cheesyness <3

Sorry I had to

I don't think I have anything that really paralyzes me with fear, but I do have a few things that have kept me up at night sometimes:

1) Tornadoes - I've never actually seen or experienced one in person, but for some strange reason, I frequently have nightmares about them. It's always really dark outside, my loved ones are nowhere around me, and there is almost always more than one tornado. It scares the ever living crap out of me in my dreams and I almost always wake up crying from it. So naturally, I'm terrified of them IRL. Whenever I hear a tornado siren go off, I start to freak out. If the sky looks too dark, I freak out a little. If there's wind, I freak out a lot. It's not the thunder and lightning that bother me as much, but dark clouds with wind. I'm always looking at the sky trying to find rotation and thinking that every little stirring cloud is about to turn into a tornado. Ugh. I hate them so much.

2) Fire - More specifically, a house fire. Camp fires don't bother me, fireplaces don't bother me...but I have this horrible fear that a fire's going to start at home when I'm asleep, and it's kept me up some nights. Part of the reason is because I sleep in the nude, and I wouldn't have enough time to put clothes on before escaping outside. Why not wear pajamas, then? I don't like how they get bunched up and they make me too hot. Underwear's about the most I can sleep in. Mostly, my fear is not being able to find my pets to get them all out in time, and I would absolutely hate that.

3) Burglars - Much for the same reason as #2. We have a home security system now, so I don't worry about it as much. But still, there is a gap between the time the monitoring station gets the call, sends it to the police, and they get to our house. We could very well be dead by then. My husband has a gun, but he'd have to load it first and he thinks he could kill them in one shot, but what if there are more than one? Actually, very recently I had a couple nights in a row that I laid in bed unable to fall asleep, because I was thinking of how we might escape if someone broke in. I was trying to come up with places we could hide, or if we could jump out of our window on the second floor. Oddly enough, a couple days later someone tried to break into our home while we were at work. They failed, thank God, but that's why we now have the security system. O.o Weird intuition? I'm not sure.

4) Centipedes - This isn't so much of a "fear" as it is a horrible aversion to them. I hate them. They sicken me. They move way too fast, they squirm too much, and even when you smash them they don't always die immediately. If my husband's home, I make him kill them. If he's not home, I freak out quite a bit, because I don't even want to be touching the thing that smushes it. I don't want to have to leave the room to find something to squish it with because I know when I get back, it'll be gone, hiding somewhere, and somehow end up on me when I'm not expecting it. Okay, so maybe it kinda is a fear? I don't know why giant spiders and tarantulas don't bother me (in fact, I LIKE them), but little house centipedes make me lose it.

5) Sandals - I'm trying to get over it, but I don't usually like wearing sandals that are open on the top. I've got this really weird fear that I'm going to mis-step, causing the front part to fold under my toe and make me fall, cutting open the top of my foot, exposing tendons. Every time I'm walking with them on pavement, I have to carefully watch how I walk. I don't think it would ever actually happen (or if it did, I'd get a scrape at worst), but I just imagine it happening to me (gory mental images and everything) and it makes me squirm.

6) Skulls - The rest of the skeleton doesn't bother me, but skulls freak me the heck out. I don't like how they're smiling. Or, at least it looks like they're smiling to me. They have those big empty eye sockets, and a full-toothed, morbid grin. When I was little and we lived in Arizona, we'd visit my grandparents frequently. They lived out in an area called Sun City West which, back then, was out kinda in the middle of nowhere. We'd drive down a road surrounded by orange tree groves on both sides. At night, heading home, I was convinced that a skeleton was going to casually walk out of those pitch-black groves into our headlights, and turn and look at us with that big freaking grin. In fact, I still don't like driving at night with forests and such on both sides because sometimes, I still half-expect that frigging skeleton to walk out of the darkness and look at me.

Rawr wrote:

cowmuflage wrote:Yeah I do agree. I still love them in all their cheesyness <3

Sorry I had to

I remember that one!

Bah well as cheesy as it may have been Goosebumps still creeped me out and I've never seen Are You Afraid of the Dark.

It's not a phobia or anything but I'm like my dad and I feel faint seeing my own blood. I'm fine with others blood and stuff but mine? Yeah I'm going to feel faint and yuck D:

Speaking of books....I wish I could remember the title. Ok, when I was probably about 7 or 8, we were at the "big library in town" (we lived in a tiny town with this little corner of a library and had gone "to town"). I was a real sheltered kid. Never allowed anything that even resembled horror, so of course I wanted to read the scary books. And I found one. Some big old, hardcover book of scary kids stories. So I hid while everyone else was looking for books and read as much as I could. And oh my god. My tiny self was introduced to "scary" writing and she was not a happy camper! There was one about some witch with these creepy minions...I can't remember the plot, but the image is still with me to this day. And so I was terrified for days, but of course couldn't tell my mom since I wasn't supposed to have read the scary stories anyway XD
I have never liked horror, to this day. But sometimes I watch or read out of morbid curiosity. And then get terrified for days. Some things never change.....