World of Childhood Fear
Long time lurker, first time poster. As a child I was scared of a wide variety of things , a partial list is

1) In my parents house the toilet is upstairs, after flushing it I had to run downstairs and into the lounge before the flushing sound die away or something would happen

2) Shop dummies, especially nude ones

3) Looking up at tall buildings

4) The start of the Snow Queen, in the 80's there was a cartoon version of the Snow Queen (Hans Christain Anderson story), and the start of it is was about Goblins making a mirror which would turn anyone evil who looked into it and they tried to get to God so he would look into it and become evil. This scared the bejesus out of me for months

5) Films if they became too exciting , I would have to run out of the film and into the cinema's toilet.

6) Caterpillars after looking at a cabbage infested with them

Nearer to the preset , I have a mate who is so scared of spiders that he would ring me up and ask me to come to his house to kill them for him, while he would stand on a chair. He's much happer now though, he has machine 'SpiderBeGone' that clicks and scares them alway
(Wurple, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 14:20, Reply)