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?

My lack of pension

@Eastereggfan

Small holes in a pattern

I have that too! Tryptophobia (learned on MN).

Just the horror movie posters were enough to scare me as a kid in the 80s.

Large, empty expanses devoid of humans, like the Arctic or Siberia

Spiders crawling on me

Plane crashes

Touching a slug

Serious misfortune befalling my daughter

@Chicchicchicchiclana three people? That actually is terrifying

Getting buried alive

I used to live horror movies, watched one called THEM and had to sleep with the light on for days after that. Awful film

I used to be fine with things like serial killer documentaries but can't watch them now: they terrify me. Paranormal stuff doesn't scare me as I don't believe in ghosts or anything but anything 'real life' that is scary stops me sleeping.

Yes to PP who said mannequins and life-like puppets: hated them since I was a child

Underwater machinery

Getting stuck in tight spaces. I have a recurring dream where I have to squeeze thru narrow openings and the space is getting smaller and smaller....aaarrggghhh

Fascinating reading all these, people contorting their bodies also scares me (probably stemmed from that bloody awful film where he crawls in all bent out of shape) usually interested in ghost/woo stories but on the odd occassion have felt actually frightened by strange things in real life. That thread on here about the forrest sat with me for ages can’t remember the name of it!

Yes, 3 people - a colleague in his 60s, the wife of my boss at another company and most sadly a very good friend in her 50s a couple of years ago .

Large dogs.
Spiders.
Extreme close-ups of insects.
Anything subterranean - YY to potholing.
The thought of being on a submarine for weeks on end (likelihood - thankfully zero).
Balloons, although that goes back to a childhood incident where lots were deliberately burst behind me.
Anything to do with missing faces, face transplants, etc.

I do like a good old fashioned public information film, though. But the most unnerving of these is Apaches.

I have automatonophobia. Weird humanoid puppets make me feel sick.

I'm also not keen on people acting as a character around me. Acting on stage or in a film - fine. But where you visit somewhere and a woman is dressed as Anne Boleyn or someone comes to greet you and you are expected to interact with them. Weirds me out rather, like my head can't cope with the reality/fantasy thing at the same time.

You wouldn’t be comic cons biggest fan then haha

Its funny, for me there's a very fine line between what scares me and what fascinates me.

For example, I'm very uncomfortable with deep sea. But at the same time, two of my favourite movies are Jaws and Das Boot.

Scared of radioactivity but went to Chernobyl and Hiroshima.

I'm scared of dictatorship and loss of free will, and will watch any documentary about USSR, Stasi, WWII etc...

I'm a big horror movie fan. And love extreme rollercoasters. I think somehow I just love to be scared whilst knowing I'm perfectly safe. Like, I would NEVER NEVER do anything like skydiving, scuba-diving, caving and other -ing stuff.

However, I'm scared of slugs (and many other common creatures) and have no interest for them whatsoever.

Vomit
Getting cancer

Dream of a witches sabbath classical music piece really unnerves me, probably from the panic I felt watching sleeping with the enemy

Dentists. As a child I had a terrible experience where the dentist drilled a tooth without freezing it. I was in agony. Ever since the sound of the drill, going down in the chair, the uniforms, the smell etc are all triggering for me.

@Ginger89

You wouldn’t be comic cons biggest fan then haha

No, probably not.

Something happening to DS or a fire in my house.

That's about it though, movies and stuff don't bother me at all, in fact there are some I've watched based on comments people have made on threads like this on MN, without fail they all just make me go "meh"!

When I was pregnant I had two very specific fears; the ridiculous one (gruesome!!) was a zombie outbreak and me not being able to run fast enough to stop me and/or ds being eaten whilst I was pregnant.

The second was being frightened of being stabbed in the stomach, I used to ccasionally subconsciously work out how ds was lying so I'd know which was to turn to avoid him being gotten.

Nowadays, other than loved ones being hurt or dying I don't think I'm scared of an awful lot that's unusual. Home intruders, someone harming or taking my ds (James burger style, I cannot bear to consider what that poor child went through, or what his parents continue to go through), I hate spiders but have found I deal with them better if ds is there for me to put on a brave face in front of...

I do hate the number 6 and have to touch wood to certain things though, and I have like a prayer I run through in my head every night before sleep to make sure everyone is safe, but I think that errs on the mild old side and superstition.

Any horror type films

Cellars in houses (the fear that you could be halfway down the stairs and someone would deliberately lock the door, aaargh!)

People in character masks (I'd be fucking terrified at a Disney resort!)

Daddy long legs

Weirs. Can just about manage small ones but there's one near where I live which is really long. Can't cross it.

I have problems with large bodies of water too and couldn't walk across the top of a dam. I'm OK on the beach looking at the sea but have problems with walking along a pier.

I saw a 'worlds weirdest bridges' buzzfeed-type thing a while back. Had to go and have a lie down.

Not scared of anything else really. Just those.

Clowns and dolls.