To ask what irrationally scared you as a child? *lighthearted*

[liverbird10]

My mother insists I was terrified of the Chef from Sesame Street as a toddler, I would howl whenever he appeared on screen.

I was also petrified by the 2ft Bugs Bunny my brother bought me.

A few years later, it was the Gorgs from Fraggle Rock. I seem to have got over that fear though, my fella resembles a blond one slightly.

Was anybody else round here equally odd?

Button moon.

Still terrified of it now and I'm in my 30s

My dad told me that if I started to get wrinkly fingers in the bath then I was turning into a mermaid and I’d never be able to get out the bath again. It still genuinely worries me now

Heavy rain and wind. My bedroom had a flat roof so very noisy, plus my single glass pane window had a crack in it so I became convinced the wind would get strong enough to blow the glass in

The song "Runaway" by Del Shannon - after the first verse and chorus, there's a really screechy organ solo, and whenever I heard it, I would be beside myself with terror! Not sure why. It still sends an unpleasant shiver up my spine when I hear it now.

Men with facial hair.....until I was about 12, absolutely terrified. My best friend's dad had a full beard and I refused to talk or look at him for approximately the first 8 years I knew him.

Still not a huge fan of facial hair now but it's more not liking the feel now rather than whatever scared me back then.

Billy Beacon - The talking Belisha beacon with a flashing orange face that used to be used for road safety lessons in primary schools. I was in reception when they brought it in to my school. I had to be removed from the school hall because I was in hysterics.

Weetabix

@CheckingOutTheQuantocks. That's funny, as I remember my older brothers and sisters playing that record relentlessly and although I wouldn't say I was scared of it exactly, I certainly found it a bit iffy.

I think it was the idea of someone running away and being alone as much as he slightly creepy music that bothered me.

I was scared that my mum would be taken away by a Triad gang. My brother told me that they "did away with people who they thought had done bad things." How I linked this to my mum, I have no idea.

Magicians. I was terrified. And as a child in the 80s there were a lot of them at parties. Not fun

Brackett the butler
Gabriel the toad
Fenella the kettle witch
my brother was terrified of Grandpa Flump

I never really understood the fear of dolls and clowns UNTIL I watched a drama series in the 80s as a kid - Maelstrom it was called - set in Norway with a deserted house on an island which had a room filled with the creepiest dolls you ever saw. One of them was a clown. They properly gave me the heebies - especially at the end of the series when the house got torched and the dolls' faces melted like candle wax in the heat. Scary! (Shudder).

But the Swedish Chef rocks.

A particular mask my dad had. He found that hilarious. Still freaks me out even now.
Going down on escalators.

A rubber spider that my friend brought back from a visit to the London Dungeon. It had a fur hood that lifted up the reveal 8 red eyes and fangs. To me it was horrific. It was often left in my lift up desk.

Without doubt the root of my ridiculous arachnophobia.

The Animals of Farthing Wood on tv.

Having my hair washed.

sunflowers! They still look a bit creepy to me

Incredibly outing but the film the dark cauldron

The Big Ben bongs on the news at ten. So ominous.

pigsDOfly it was on a 60s compilation tape that I used to insist on listening to if we went anywhere in the car. I loved all the other songs on it but Dad refused to fast forward through Runaway because he said it would ruin the tape, so I used to have to clap my hands over my ears when it started up. In retrospect, I was a complete idiot.

It was quite a sinister idea for a song. As a child, I thought he was singing about a little girl who'd gone missing, rather than hus girlfriend dumping him, so there was probably a fear of being lost going on as well. But it was definitely the screechy organ that made me lose my shit.

Clowns - do any. children like them?
In fact, any adult dressed up and you can't see their face. Still find that incredibly uncomfortable.
Dr Who - I can tell you it's the series called "Remembrance of the Daleks" and it was the first time they levitated up stairs. I was terrified. Dr Who was never really a kids show.
I agree about that Narnia kids TV show. I refer back to my fear of dressed up adults.
Big motorway bridges.
The dark.
Skeletons. My parents loved archaeology TV show. I found them petrifying.
Drains.
The built in cupboard in my brother's room. It was full of old blankets and somehow contained terror, though not as much as what lay behind the slatted doors of my wardrobe at night.

Loud, low flying, aircraft used to terrify me as a child.

The “Smash” robots. I used to scream and run behind the sofa!

Daleks

I remember the Phantom Raspberry Blower of Olde London Towne!

Dcs were very frightened by Miss Trunchbull in Matilda. Have s great photo of 2 dds and my niece all huddled up on the sofa with their hands over their eyes watching it

Oh, and also Colorado beetles. There was a public information poster about them in our village post office, with a big picture of one that was probably enlarged by about 10 times. But I thought that that was how big they were in real life, and that they would come out of the potato fields at night and "get" me. I don't think there were even any around any more (this was the early 80s), but the post lady had never got around to taking the poster down.

This still terrifies me!