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Weird things you're scared of Page 2
One of my mates said he used to be scared of going upstairs, to use his toilet, when he was a little kid, because his older brother had told him that the monsters from the Monster Munch adverts lived in the attic.
I used to be terrified of Worzel Gummidge, and that muppet on Sesame street, who used to bang his head on the piano, whenever he hit a wrong note.
I used to be scared of being swept down the plughole in the bath. And of the noise the hoover made. And that my belly button might come undone. And that my house might be knocked down to make way for a new motorway.
But I'm a grownup now and not scared of any of those things anymore. No siree...
I can agree with the 'people in costumes' thing
The mascot at Huddersfield Town Football Club gives me the creeps. It's supposed to be a Terrier but it's a moth eaten shaggy raggy mess - and I sense evil when it comes near.
'shudder'
Theres an ad on Tv at the moment and a man has a beard of bees, I cannot bare to look at that
Michael Gove. Very weird and extremely scary.
Quote: catskillz @ May 10 2011, 7:09 PM BSTOne of my mates said he used to be scared of going upstairs, to use his toilet, when he was a little kid, because his older brother had told him that the monsters from the Monster Munch adverts lived in the attic.
I used to be terrified of Worzel Gummidge, and that muppet on Sesame street, who used to bang his head on the piano, whenever he hit a wrong note.
Years after the Sesame St. thing, I had a terrifying Geography teacher, who looked exactly like that piano-playing muppet, with the same glasses, the same hair and the same-shaped head. He was actually one of the most intelligent/cultured teachers at my school, eg he would tell us about how he went to the Proms every year, and how he loved going Potholing, but there was something about him that just wasn't right. He eventually got married to one of the female teachers, and I remember one week, she came in with a black eye, and rumours started flying around, about the muppet look-a-like having given it to her. I also remember how, when I was in the Second Year, he told our class that he was 38, then, two years later, when we were in Fourth Year, he told us he was 37!
Quote: catskillz @ May 10 2011, 7:09 PM BSTOne of my mates said he used to be scared of going upstairs, to use his toilet, when he was a little kid, because his older brother had told him that the monsters from the Monster Munch adverts lived in the attic.
I was the same when I was a kid - although Monster Munches hadn't been invented then. I had to rush downstairs before the flush had finished.
I was also frightened of Chimney sweeps.
Chimney sweeps?!
Where you born in the 1800's?
He must have very hairy toes.
Oooh I've lived on one floor for so long that I forgot my other weird fear!
The Stair Monster. He can only live in the dark, so if the landing light is on but the hallway light is off, then the bottom half of the stairs is unsafe, and vice versa. If there's a reason I have to go over the dark half of the stairs, I have to run so the Stair Monster doesn't get me.
It's not a literal fear, but it is now a compulsion.
I'll get me straightjacket...
I remember during the 90s having my drink spiked & eventually lying on the floor watching the Shining upsidedown. (thought it was the Australian cut). In the midst of this, Jack Torrance Nicholson came storming into my grans front room and embedded a huge axe/guitar thing in my back.
I have had a pathological fear of LSD ever since.
Maybe not weird, but doctors. Bringers of bad news ( as well as saints). My GP says I have 'White Coat Syndrom'.
A fear of doctors must be difficult to treat...
He doesn't get the chance - even my attacks of bubonic plague are self-treated with paracetamol.