As an adult what scares you?

[Ginger89]

I’m 30, not scared of anything (apart from something happening to my child or myself leaving my child motherless) but any pointy fingered creature, the plague doctor bird mask really terrifies me, I watched a movie once called the poughkeepsie tapes & was so scared I actually threw up! (I was led to believe it was real footage at the time) as an adult what things scare you?

People
Losing a loved one

DishingOutDone
I suppose deep swirling water is a very reasonable fear, so dangerous.
I also hate robots, that unnatural movement.

This is going to sound crazy but...whales. Especially killer whales with their grins. I think it’s the thought of their huge bodies hidden under water...I am shuddering just typing that. Never met anyone with the same fear though

Love scary films but really hate seeing the scenes where limbs contort in weird ways... like that scene from The Exorcism of Emily Rose where she's laying on the floor.

Flying
Heights

Spiral staircases
Spiders
Wells - or any deep hole
Cliff edges
Attics

Pitch black
The hulls and propellers of large ships underwater
Clowns
Overtaking big lorries/juggernauts on motorways

Don’t laugh.
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In fairness I had major heart surgery as a child. You can see the damn aliens heart beating through its chest.

Thinking of the ocean scares me. Not at the beach but thinking of the Atlantic halfway between Ireland and New York for example. ugh it's a terrifying thought, just cold, deep water for miles and miles and miles

Slugs and vomit.

Spiders
The film Ghost
A particular town in the Lincolnshire Fens

Radiation/ nuclear power stations
Mirrors. So much that can go wrong. You see something in the mirror that isn't in the room. There's something creeping up behind you but you don't see it in the mirror. Something comes out of the mirror. Something pulls you into the mirror. Your own reflection does something that you don't, or is weird, or just slightly off. Mirrors are very bad things.

I've got noticeably wimpier between the ages of 21 and 31 - at university I did some pretty hair-raising outdoor-pursuit related stuff. Now I am scared of heights way way more than I ever used to be (sometimes I even get vertigo when skiing or walking a footpath with no proper drop), plus also have increased my fear of animals when out walking (cows and horses) which is mighty inconvenient as I live rurally. I'm at the point that if there is a field of cows I feel very very nervous indeed walking through it, especially if I'm alone, and have on occasion turned and gone the whole way back rather than done it. Also spiders, but I've also been scared of those.

Clowns - Its the concept of the happy cheery makeup hiding whatever is going on underneath.

Dolls/Mannequins - lifeless, soulless human forms, frozen and staring with unseeing eyes.

Water I can't see into - Not just unseen sea creatures, but the idea of broken glass, rusty metal and other things able to cause you harm. My Dad made me wade across a river once to retrieve a fishing rod that a large fish had managed to pull out of my hands. I had watched Piranha the night before. It was an awful experience.

Groups of urban youths of any ethnicity - I'll admit to having very little empathy for whatever aspects of their lives have sent them down this path. I was attacked and hounded by them far too often as a youth for being a soft target, and there are far too many instances of muggings at knifepoint round my Mums area now. When I see a group dressed in certain styles now, my hackles go up. An unfair judgment? Absolutely.

Clowns - creepy fuckers same goes for human puppets. I don’t scream with fright but they make my skin crawl. Uncanny valley I guess.

The x-files episode with the guy who can squeeze himself though vents and small gaps. The rest didn’t worry me but those 2 gave me the creeps.

I had to stop watching luther as terrified me .Also couple of episode's of whitechapel freaked me out,cant remember which ones .
Clowns , dolls .,fancy dress masks .
Driving past rivers if roads are wet or it's raining. I'm terrified car will go into them.
Other peoples feet

The current government absolutely terrifies me.

I'm still scared of the dark (have to sleep with lamp on if DH away).

Horror films are a no no, even ones things like Halloween.

Falling down the stairs. I knew 3 different people who died from falling down the stairs so it plays on my mind a lot. I go slowly and I hold the bannister like an old lady.

Heights - anything I might fall off, not going up tall buildings in a glass lift, which is thrilling, but hiking - can't do anything with a drop or steep downhill. Also have to take some stairs and down escalators slowly as I suddenly find I can't feel my legs.

Did watch that one episode of Luther, switched it off part way through and never watched again. Hate tv/films that deliberately play on women's fears of rape etc, especially if done in a titillating way for entertainment. So that rules a whole lot out.

I enjoy a good spooky ghost story but generally hate gory horror (see above paragraph for one reason). I can easily scare myself into insomnia though.

People without empathy for either humans or animals - they terrify me.

Horror films
Ghost stories/'photos'
Sleeping alone
Going to the loo at night

Basically all the same things that terrified me as a child!

@M4J4

I'm still scared of the dark (have to sleep with lamp on if DH away).

Horror films are a no no, even ones things like Halloween.

Oh yes. I'm 45 and have a nightlight. It's a bit of claustrophobia thing for me (which I otherwise don't have). If it's pitch black, you have no sense of whether you are trapped in a tiny box or in a giant room.

Potholing I think would be my worst ever activity. Combining heights with possible drowning, getting stuck in tight spaces etc. Plus dank, freezing etc. Horrible. I don't fancy it much, safe to say!

Sorry to hear you have it too! For me it's because we saw some horror movies as children and they affected me badly. Also, I am very thin skinned/sensitive, so a bad combo.

Ships in dry docks (eg seeing the bits that should be under water).

Small holes in a pattern