What things irrationally scared you as a child?

[sageoftruth]

Just about everything, really. The dark, the weird sculpture in my dad's office building, strangers, heights, anything with a menacing expression in movies, playing Midnight Rescue on the computer...

Nowadays, hardly anything scares me. Some things unsettle me, but that's about it.

 

[Lisker84]

Being homeless, because after the divorce our mom would always tell us how she couldn't pay the bills and start freaking out. God, my childhood was fucked up.

 

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[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I might regret admitting this, but the old THX intro.

You know the one... VVVWWWWWWMMMMMM!!!

I used to hide behind the sofa whenever I was watching something that had that at the beginning.

not sure if you've seen it, but simpsons did a great scene on this that embodies this: