To want to know a light-hearted childhood fear?

[GeorgeAndTimmyTheDog]

What I mean is you can possibly laugh about it now.
For instance because of reading the Unexplained magazine growing up I was convinced I was going to "Self human combust" as that was an article in there.
Also an adult told me that bleach "Makes things smaller" so I was petrified to sit on the loo if I could smell bleach as I thought my bottom would disappear.

I had an irrational fear of the colour mustard, a house in our street had a mustard coloured door and I used to sprint past it with my eyes closed.

Alien abduction was a huge thing amongst my peers and did not turn out to be as much of an issue as the Fortean Times TV show would have had us believe.

I was scared of heffalumps.

I was irrationally concerned about the Bermuda Triangle being a much bigger problem than it was, I feel like it was explained as something I would encounter and must fear! Every flight / boat journey was met with serious consideration about what I would do if we did encounter issues 😂

TV screens, specifically ‘off air’ screens and any error messages. I was born after the millennium so watched CBeebies in the early 00s and they used to have a pink screen after the bedtime hour and the TV picture would cut really quickly and it would just be that. It was really eerie for reasons I still can’t explain to this day. The static noise in the background didn’t help. I was genuinely terrified, and the stranger thing still is that I thought I was unique in this but I saw a Tiktok the other day that had over 100k likes / people saying they were also scared of it. How odd. I’d love to know the psychology behind it.

I was scared that birds would fly out at me specifically out of kitchen cupboards for some reason.

There was a ghost in my neighbours house. It used to sit in their window watching me... a white blob. (My parents house and their neighbours house having landing windows facing each other, about 4m away from each other)

Its the odd reflection between the hallway lights and windows... but I was TERRIFIED of that ghost!

How strange - I was also afraid of the colour of mustard

I was afraid of anyone wearing any clothes of that colour

the toilet flushing. We only had an upstairs loo and I would only go if I was desperate . I would flush it then belt down the stairs at breakneck speed.

When I discovered I was to be christened at the age of four or five, I FREAKED out because I thought it meant the priest was going to paint a permanent red cross on my head.

Wolves in one of our bedrooms (not even sure how that fear originated).

I liked Bill and Ben the flowerpot men when I was young and my auntie thought that telling me that they would appear outside the patio window when it got dark was something I would be excited about. I was terrified. I shut the curtains before it got dark every night for weeks.

There was a wardrobe in my bedroom that used to creak open randomly during the night, I was terrified beyond measure, convinced there was something very malevolent in there.

Volcanoes. Obviously very common in Surrey so totally a rational fear.

Weird isn’t it? I still feel a bit unnerved if someone is wearing it.

The sound of the modem! My dad worked in computers so we had very early internet access and when I asked my dad what the ‘xxxxxx ding ding blerrrrrp xxxxx’ noise was he said it was computers talking to each other, which really freaked me out. I couldn’t be in the same room as the modem for ages 😂

That an apple tree would grow from my stomach when accidentally ate a seed

That a witch would hear me flush the chain after having a poo and come get me.. I always left shits in the toilet and creeped around quiet as a mouse

That the rich and famous people on cribs would run out of money

That Gareth Gates wouldn’t love me back (I met him aged 12.. he didn’t.. shooketh!)

I was odd (vivid imagination).

I was petrified of going to the hairdresser. Didn’t have a proper haircut until I was 15! No idea what I thought might happen, it was just a terrible sense of dread every time the subject came up.

I was also really afraid of flour because once some weevils got into my mum’s flour tin and it was the most gross thing ever. My mum cooked a lot, and I was always terrified of being asked to get the flour tin out in case there were bugs in it.

I had a bizarre fear of being tickled by a wolf. Ridiculous to say this now but I even to this day cant lie with my arms up because I was so afraid of being tickled by this wolf

Sinking sand. Never a big issue in South Wales in the 1970s but there we are 😀

I was convinced that someone/a monster was hiding under my bed and would grab me by the ankles as I got into bed or by my wrists whilst I was sleeping. I used to jump into bed from near the door and would sleep with my arms tucked under the covers.

@HelloDaisy i still do this!!! 😲

Trevor McDonald 🤷🏽‍♀️

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The honey monster.

Petrified.

As in, couldn't even go down the cereal aisle.