Things that scared us as kids...

[ilikemonsters]

I also acquired a rubbery toy lobster on an elastic loop as a kid.  I smelled awful and felt WORSE.  It felt oily and was like a dead person's rotten flesh (not that I knew at the time what that felt like).  I hated that thing.

You know what that feels like now?

[typhooforme]

Being in a room which has bare, uncurtained windows--at night--and seeing that pitch black mirrored reflective surface where--SOMEthing or SOMEone may loom close and LOOK IN at any moment.  Same sort of effect as the Wm Shatner TWILIGHT ZONE with the gremlin on the wing of the plane!  Or the Shatner HUNGRY GLASS episode of THRILLER. 

[long live kong]

When I was very young my family and I lived in an old terraced house which had a small downstairs bathroom at the back of the property. If I woke in the middle of the night and needed to spend a penny I would have to creep downstairs and pass an old pantry that was now used as a cupboard for coats, shoes and other assorted junk. The cupboard seemed to be literally filled with coats from years ago that were draped on top of each other to the point where the door actually would not shut, and instead permanently hung ajar as creepy closets are want to do. As I ran past the cupboard I would imagine the coats reaching out to grab me and pull me inside where I would be buried amongst the dusty old garments that hung like faceless, shrouded figures in the darkness.
I remember one night having a dream in which I woke up from a nightmare and ran to the safety of my parents bed, only to be suddenly confronted by a particularly large and manacing looking coat which floated towards me with it's arms outstretched as if worn by an invisible man. As it grabbed me and rose up with me in it's arms I looked down at my parents who were sleeping soundly. I then woke up and ran to me parents room for real!

[Elisabeth]

For me, it is STILL bugs!  Probably 95% of critters won't bother you, if you don't invade invade their space, but spiders and ants?  Here in SOCAL, they seem to have an FKU sort of mentality.  I have a spider bite that STILL acts up after 15 years.  I didn't invade the spider's space...IT INVADED MINE.  Yes, it was defending itself...but if it didn't want to be squashed, it shouldn't have camped out on my pillow in the middle of the night!

PS.  We got quarterly TERMINIX the very next day!

"E"

[long live kong]

As well as dusty old coat cupboards these two used to scare the crap out of me, and oddly enough they or both named Zelda. I was and remain terrified of crazy old ladies....


                   

[Most Horrible]

Spiders (thanks, Dad) and 19th C. porcelain dolls. Their big eyes, wild eyebrows and their little mouths that are ever so slightly open to reveal those little, bitty white teeth that just want to chew on you.

[Most Horrible]

Hay! I seen something suspicous about this post. Is there a secret club going on?  Charp, Scatter and Sean are all sporting the mayor of Amity as their avatars. Cool. Me ponders as to what is up? Besides it being a perfect time to watch the movie Jaws . Just in time for the 4th of July. 

[Sean]

Hay! I seen something suspicous about this post. Is there a secret club going on?  Charp, Scatter and Sean are all sporting the mayor of Amity as their avatars. Cool. Me ponders as to what is up? Besides it being a perfect time to watch the movie Jaws . Just in time for the 4th of July. 

There is no such thing as too much Larry Vaughn.   

[Mego73]

Skulls scared me and there was a tile design in our bathroom that to me looked like a scary face. It always got to me when I had to go.

[RICKH]

Vampires!  I would lie in my bed at night with the covers pulled over my head clutching my glow in the dark crucifix.  I thought they were just outside of my window like Danny Glick from 'Salem's Lot. 

[frankenstein73]

Great White Shark (Jaws Music)
JAWS SCARED ME TO DEATH! I couldnt even swim in an interstate lake  for years without thinking he was below me waiting to bite me in half and create a manbouy out of me! still to this day it crosses my mind while in the water. and it is by far the scariest movie score ever made! Oh yea and F***ing CLOWNS!

John Wayne Gacy.

[Wicked Lester]

Just thought I'd post a couple pics for those of you that get creeped out by clowns and dolls.





Notice something about the eyes? They follow you around the room. He watches everything you do.





You lie in bed, you shake with fear.
You see it's eyes ,it's coming near.
You scream in terror , you dread for your life.
Because of the doll ,with the butcher knife. HAHAHAHAHAHHHA-AAAAAAH!

[CreepysFan]

   

  Your one evil sick puppy W. L., good one.  That's why we like you so much.  Well, maybe not Sean since he hates clowns.   

[Sean]

   

  Your one evil sick puppy W. L., good one.  That's why we like you so much.  Well, maybe not Sean since he hates clowns.   

I don't LIKE Wicked L., I LOVE Wicked L.-----------the clowns that TRY to look scary AREN'T the scary ones.   

[frankenstein73]

I don't LIKE Wicked L., I LOVE Wicked L.-----------the clowns that TRY to look scary AREN'T the scary ones.   

EXACTLY! Its the ones trying to look happy and innocent that fool the adults into letting them get near their children so they can swallow their souls!