Name 5 Things that Scare You

[Sean]

SEAN! You're scared of Lady Elaine?? King Friday will have your hide for that!

I would bash them all into a million pieces out of creepy fear.

[Ghost]

1.  The Child Catcher
2.  The sister from Pet Semetary
3.  Lady Elaine Fairchild
4.  The Bride of Wildenstein
5.  Adult male clowns

Wait a minute I sense a pattern here. Sean is afraid of big noses and deformed faces (and possibly red hair).

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For that matter Lady Elaine could easily be a puppet toy of the Child Catcher if you added a hat and black hair. She already has enough makeup to be a clown or showing severe frostbite. Sean congratulations you have Dysmorphophobia fear of deformity and Coulrophobia a fear of clowns.

[Sean]

4.  The Bride of Wildenstein

[Sean]

5.  Adult male clowns

[Sean]

Sean congratulations you have Dysmorphophobia fear of deformity and Coulrophobia a fear of clowns.

You're GD right I do!!

[Sean]

(1) The fear of clowns is limited to male adults.

(2) The deformity thing is no problem except when it's teamed with bad activities/ grotesque movements.  Jocelyn Wildenstein gets bonus points for doing the deforming to herself.

(3) I hate puppets and nuns and Lady Elaine Fairchild is a puppet with a nun haircut.  AND she's deformed.

[Ghost]

(1) The fear of clowns is limited to male adults.

(2) The deformity thing is no problem except when it's teamed with bad activities/ grotesque movements.  Jocelyn Wildenstein gets bonus points for doing the deforming to herself.

(3) I hate puppets and nuns and Lady Elaine Fairchild is a puppet with a nun haircut.  AND she's deformed.

Just because I am cruel, BOO!





Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets
Rhinophobia - Fear of noses

[Count_Zirock]

For the Broadway musical version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," they turned the Child Catcher into freakin' Nosferatu!

[Flower]

Ignorance ... it's not bliss

People with anger management issues.

People who do faulty research.

Lack of respect for others.

Mystery meat.

[marsattacks666]

5.  Adult male clowns

POGO: John Wayne Gacy. Pretty scary as a person,
and clown.

[charp13]

Sean- You've had a real breakthrough! Congratulations    I just wanted to add that my husband and I went to a local restaurant many years ago, and it was Children's Night- which consisted of a female clown names "Babycakes" who made balloon swords. She was obviously in her 70s and had white cracked makeup on her face with creepy smeared red lipstick circling around her mouth in a frightening smear! I could not stop looking at her- mostly because she disturbed me with her loud Paula Dean-like voice. I didn't have a cell phone or camera with me (I wish), but I can vividly remember her face.  I can also scare my husband with the mention of her name! I guess he has a clown phobia as well. I haven't bothered to ask him in the 33 years we've known each other..I guess I'm waiting til we run out of other stuff to talk about- which will most likely be very soon!

[ravenloft]

1. fear of human parasites (no I am not talking about drug/booze addicts with a cardboard "God Bless" sign by the freeway exit looking for a free handout from the gullible) I am talking about the dreaded Loa Loa worm. I cringe just thinking about this thing! It starts with a bite from a giant fly (which is a vector species) then you get largish worms in your tissues: lungs, skin, spinal fluild, blood and worst of all your eyes!  Google that if you dare and watch them pull worms out of a destroyed eye! Hookworm, round worm and tapeworm are nasty but the Loa Loa will keep you from traveling to Africa or India once you know about them. Yeah also I am not eating sushi ever! you should see the awful cringe-worthy thingys people have gotten from eating that stuff.
Parasitophobia. in general or 
Scoleciphobia fear of worms specifically

2. food contamination. I hate the thought of something unsavory possibly lurking in my food. I worked at a Frito Lay company once upon a time and they found dead mouse parts in the production line. They immediately stopped all machines not just the chips line involved, trashed all the food in the whole place not just on that one production line (couldn't be sure if it came from the potato truck or what,) threw out all the product bagged in the last 6 hours even recalling a few trucks that had left already. G-Damn right! Doritos are safe to eat, I now know that for a certainty. Great company, job sucked fierce though so I quit.
Mysophobia and Verminophobia nothing really specific about food contamination per se in the terminology

3. the deep blue sea (Blue Death.) holy piss monkeys! nothing will make one nervous like putting oneself totally out of their native element. I am a YODA master in the wilds, able to handle and identify any outdoors situation or animal, a veritable ranger out of the wild on solid turf be it jungle, desert or mountains. A true wilderness veteran. In the ocean it is a whole new ball game! not only can you drown, suffer nasty weather, get eaten, poisoned or get stung to death by myriad creatures but there is no utter isolation like getting stranded at sea, at least until some unfortunate gets stranded in space or on another planet or something. The ultimate irony would be to die of dehydration surrounded by ocean water. Plus you can't see very far and there is no telling what is eyeballing you from the depths. The more murky the water the worse the anxiety. In particular, sharks and salt water crocs can and have eaten many people alive. Jaws made me afraid to bathe as a small child. Talk about being vulnerable while treading water with your most tender regions exposed...shudder. The probability of having a fatal outcome skyrockets when you head out to sea compared to normal landlubber mortality factors. I have profound respect for Navy Seals who use this environment as sanctuary on difficult combat missions.  Now, given that disclosure I must counter with the fact that I swim like an Olympic athlete, I work with animals including crocs and I am scuba certified and CPR trained.
Thalassophobia

4. terminal wasting disease.  Something awful to make you immediately confront the fact that you have wasted large portions of your life and still have much you would like to do. Cancer, bubonic plague, AIDS, etc. something where you are forced to lose your health and watch your body fail until death becomes a mercy. Awful. Pity is not a strong enough word for the depths of anguish and sorrow I feel for the unfortunate who get some terrible disease.
Pathophobia
5. mother-in-law. I am seriously dating a woman where marriage is a strong possibility and her mother terrifies me. The thought of forced pseudo-friendship with her is revolting. Worse, what if my future wife turns into her in looks or personality? I stay awake at night over this one. terrifying.
Pentheraphobia

Now I know that all phobias are irrational because the danger or threat is actually very low statistically, but that doesn't prevent the fear.

most other stuff that is creepy or scary I actually love or am fascinated with.

[voodoodaul]

Why are redheads ALWAYS scary?!? haha

[Moonshadow]

Oh, so we're baring our souls here, huh? OK, what else have I got to do?

Things that scare me:

1. Failure
2. Clowns
3. Losing the people I love or seeing them suffer.
4. Losing my intellect, personality, or mobility.
5. Crowds.

[marsattacks666]

Why are redheads ALWAYS scary?!? haha

Was that a rhetlrical question? Red heads are never
scary.