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?

Another vote for doctor who, from the Tom Baker days (I was born early 70s), The theme tune used to freak me out before the programme even started and don’t get me started on Daleks......

To this day I can’t listen the music or watch it!

Dolls, clowns, the thing under the bed, and my bedroom door that used to seem to creep open at night without actually opening.

You lot make me feel better about my fear of Sesame Street's Chef.

I recall watching Jaws and being too terrified to go into the bedroom in case a shark ate me. Such logic.

The film Child's Play scared the cheap out of me. I hi d all my dolls in a drawer in my mum's room.

The bank scene in Mary Poppins. Was one of the few films my parents owned and I watched it over and over but they had to fast forward that me.

Oh and my kite escaping

There was a big green moving monster head thing at the seaside funfair in Hastings way back in the seventies. It would speak in a deep, scary voice and my 3yr old self was shit-scared every time it spoke.

See saws 😱

*crap, not cheap! Eff off, autocorrect.

Daleks, cybermen and sharks, obviously. Though that's not irrational. Rod Gull and Emu used to freak me right out. My DD was (and still is) terrified of the Numbertaker from Numberjacks.

Quick sand. I was led to believe this would be a much bigger problem for me as a grown up than it has been.

This spooky wee bastard from and episode of Jimbo and the Jet Set. He still gives me the creeps.

Big dead leaves.

I used to LOVE Boy from Space.

I have a clear memory of being spooked out by the moon as a child. Looking out of my window, watching the clouds scudding across in front of the full moon while hearing an aeroplane's engine noise somewhere off in the distance would give me butterflies!

Jack Frost! I had a very old Tingah and Tucker annual and within it was a story about the cold North, Jack Frost was depicted as a spikey blue character and he scared the crap out of me... I’m still not keen!!

David Bowie in Labyrinth.

Actually all of Labyrinth.

Nuns

scooby doo and Godzilla

Stairs with gaps between the treads

Driving over cattle grids and being near railway lines. Think the police safety talks at school may have been a bit too effective!

The wheelers from Return to Oz..

This. I can remember how scared I was in the cinema. I had a Return to Oz panini sticker book and refused to stick the ones of the Wheelers in. It’s their faces, their weird way of moving, and the fact they don’t have hands or feet, just wheels. And they’re mean. I’m still freaked out by them now.

The scene in the original Charlie and the chocolate factory film when Augustus Gloop goes up the pipe.

Terrified me. Used to hide behind the sofa until my parents told me it was safe.

Somehow, despite this, insisted on watching the film 3 nights a week for about a year.

Everything about The Dark Crystal terrified me. I still haven't watched it since I was a kid and I don't intend too.

Once when I was a kid I flushed too much tissue down the toilet and the water rose to the top and for some reason it scared the shit out of me. Still gives me the creeps now and I don't know why.

Holes in skin. Well holes in pretty much anything.

I've always been scared of the dark. When I was a kid I was convinced that as soon as the light was turned off that something or someone was watching me. Now as an adult I still have my moments where I feel uneasy in the dark but no where near as bad as when I was a kid.

All silly really.

RETURN TO OZ OMG!!!

Without a word of a lie, my parents were called in to school for what would now be a safeguarding meeting because I was traumatised by The Wheelers and, as I described it, “the chopped off heads” in Return to Oz. I spent a whole day at school crying on and off and shaking and when my teacher asked she thought I’d been watching an adult film. She hauled my parents over the coals for subjecting me to inappropriate material! My Mum had to bring in the video cover of Return to Oz to show her it was actually a children’s film and the investigation was dropped!

As an aside, I’d seen the Wicker Man and Children of the Corn at 3 years old .

I swear there’s a bit in Charlie and the chocolate factory, as they sail on the chocolate river into a tunnel, it gets all scary and there’s lots of creepy images, including a clip of a live chicken being decapitated.

Does anyone else remember?!

I thought there was a big thumb (around 3 or 4 foot long) under my bed that would grab me so I used to jump on to my bed from as far away as possible. I was also scared a crocodile would come up the toilet and bite my bum, I think it was an episode of Rainbow that was to blame for that!

Quicksand.

The wheelers in Return to Oz