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When I was a kid (I'm guessing 5), there was a house nearby where my grandma lived which had a statue of a small dog outside their house. The eyes on this statue were made of glass, and looked incredibly real. I remember standing there staring at the thing, extremely tempted to try and touch the eyes just so I could convince myself that the thing wasn't alive 🤣. I probably stood there for about 5 min before I finally got the courage to touch it and realized it was just glass.

I was convinced that thing was going to bite me when I touched it.

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[–] ZKtheMAN@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Robot voices! No clue why. Loved Portal as a kid, but had to play it muted because GLaDOS freaked me the hell out.

[–] MothraCultist@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The cover art for the Ghoulies movies freaked me out, like I would make a big deal about checking the toilet for those little goblins & needing the main light on in the bathroom so I could be sure they were not hiding in the toilet shadows. I was fine with a lot of other spooky stuff (and love horror now) but those goofy af toilet goblins were a major concern for years.

[–] HawkXero@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

My uncle jokingly told me.that if I farted and hiccuped at the same time I'd die. I was like 7. I fell for it. Bad. He had to call me at like 11 at night to tell me it wasn't true and just a joke so that I could stop crying and actually go to sleep that night. All because I got the hiccups and started to feel gassy........

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I always tried to avoid letting the water heater see me. I thought it would kill me with its flames if it spotted me.

[–] thegiddystitcher@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

You know that bit in Aliens where Bishop gets attacked and all the...white stuff...comes out?

Yeah I was allowed to watch that a bit too young and even though I know it's silly I still can't watch it comfortably to this day!

[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a boy I was allowed to watch the movie „The fearless vampire killers“ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers) but I didn’t understand that this was comedy. The movie scared the soul out of me, I couldn’t sleep that night and have trouble falling asleep with my neck not covered since then.

About 20 years later I talked about that movie with a colleague and she was like „yeah, that’s funny“ and I was „no, that’s a horror movie“. She convinced me to rewatch it and I realized how funny it is and that it’s not scary at all.

But I hate vampires now. Forever.

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I was in 5th grade, I was worried about vampires, so I started wearing a cross. But I was an atheist and I didn't want anyone to think I was a christian, so I also wore a star of david.

[–] schreiblehrling@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

That took a turn! And what did people think about you then?

[–] msmidlofty@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Really, a better question would be what didn't frighten me as a kid, but my most disruptive fear was of construction equipment (excavators, backhoes, etc). When I was in kindergarten, I refused to get out of the car to go to school for nearly a week because there was construction being finished on the school grounds.

[–] Debaucherella@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thomas the tank engine theme. I have no freaking idea why

[–] alehel@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

To be fair, the original had some pretty disturbing scenes. I still remember the one where a train refused to leave a tunnel. So they bricked him in, left him there, and that was the end of the episode!