Silly things that scare you.

[Jodah]

Okay, I was laying in bed procrastinating sleep. I have my computer downloading something and all of a sudden it makes a sound over the speakers that surprised me. I almost shit a brick. So then my discussion question for everyone else who should be sleeping but isn't :

Have you ever had something silly scare you? Something that wouldn't normally make you jump but because of the timing or place you almost have a heart attack. Share your stories or I will slap you with a fish!

 

[Omikron009]

I'm afraid of the dark, so at night everything scares me, even things I would find funny during the day. I read the TVtropes article on Minecraft late at night the day I bought it and was too scared to go to the bathroom. I didn't have any torches.

 

[bluemistake2]

I am afraid of loud noises... yes its that stupid

 

[RazgrizInferno]

Every time I encounter a skeleton in minecraft.

The loud and unexpected sound of an arrow flying into my face always makes me jump.

 

[Mr. Grey]

Well there was this bird... but it tried to claw my eyes out so I think I'm given the right to be very afraid during that moment.

Hmmm...

Ah! Well, I was sleeping when this happened, but unbeknownst to me my house lost electricity. So when everything turned back on the fire alarm beeps a very loud beep and scared the crap out of me into being awake. Which is funny, because not even screaming metal can wake me up when I'm that deep into sleep.

Does that count? Because I'm very hard to startle since my father trained me at a very young age in the art of "SURPRISE!"

 

[Sassafrass]

In L4D, I can turn around and see a horde of infected about to punch my face off and not flinch.
However, when I 180 turn after I've finished shot-gunning that horde, there is always one infected who is right up in my screen, screeching at me. It always scares the hell out of me, every single time.

That and when I blunder into a Witch when they hide her around a corner. XP