Repost but edited for brevity and sense
I used to walk back from my job cleaning pots in a hotel in the lakes to my parents house not 5 miles away. This would be done at all times of day and night but usually it involved at least one midnight saunter. I would cut along the lake and through some woods/campsites and along a disused railway track. Along the disused railway line, in the deep dark shadows of overhanging trees was the most terrifying thing in my world:

THE GOAT HEADED POST!

This evil pagan symbol used to loom out of the gap in the trees just in time to give me the utter frights. I mean the whole jump/eep/noooo!/spreading sinking fear, fighting the urge to run (everyone knows if you give in it gets worse) etc. Every bloody time. In the daylight, however, it was simply an old sheep skull on a fence post. At night it was the face of the Beast come to rend me asunder. Who put it there in jolly humour one day not thinking about the poor soul who might have to face it nightly?

Me.

I never moved it in the daytime as i always laughed at my silliness from the night before AND YET STILL got scared stupid later that very same day. FFS I'm such a dickhead. :/
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 9:39, Reply)