To ask what scares you /freaks you out that you would not consider common? Mine is a children’s book!

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My 3 year old is obsessed with “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt” after having it read to her at preschool, she knows all of the words and we bought it as one of her gifts for her birthday.

We read a book every night at bed, whenever she reaches for this it gives me such bad goosebumps!

I don’t know if it’s the way it’s written, the pictures, I genuinely feel panic when they’re trying to get away from the bear and he’s in the background of the pictures and then at their front door and they’ve forgotten to lock it. I absolutely detest it 🥴 it gives me the right creeps!

This is baring in mind that all I read myself is psychological thrillers and I’ve watched so much true crime I could probably commit the perfect murder 😂 why do I have such a panicky/spooked response to a children’s book fgs!

Mine was another Beatrix Potter book; the Tale of Samuel Whiskers. The horrifying picture of Tom Kitten trussed up with string and pastry under the floorboards in the attic. T’was the stuff of nightmares…

Miniature things like dolls houses or miniature villages. I just can’t. They creep me out

I had this book and yes, the rocks (and indeed the whole story) were very sinister...

Uncanny Valley effect, very common. It's self preservation to survive the Zombie apocalypse 😂

Oh and Cabbage patch dolls when I was young - freaky things! Modern day toy I absolutely despise are those bloody terrifying Labubu things!!

The main on the Train in GHOST the Movie. “Get off my train! Get off my train!!” I can picture him right now and have whole body goosebumps. Absolutely terrifies me!

*Just to add, loved the same actor in one flew over the cuckoos nest!

Yes! He scared me as a kid. He's scary anyway, but knowing he's a ghost just makes it worse

Another freak out is watching factories making large batches of food. Or even canteens or relatively small scale operations doing pies or whatever.

I know, in my head, that it's exactly how it would be made in your own home but with much higher quantities and probably more hygenic and tastier with the big brat pan and the massive blender but best not to think about it.

"We do not want to know how the sausage is made "

This was made into a children's TV series called Escape into Night, which I remember being really scared by.

Is that the husband?

I’m normally very rational, but I get very frightened when I hear a car with a booming stereo.
This has been the case for years and I never understood it until I saw an episode of a detective drama (might have been Bosch) where a girl was abducted and driven off in a van and they cranked up the stereo to drown out her screams. Clearly my gut knew a bad thing when it heard it.

Dentures freak me out. I can't stand seeing them in any respect 🙈

On TV, on the phone, in real life if I know someone may be wearing them... I want to run a mile.

I don't know where this comes from. I remember as a child, my dentist had a display cabinet in their surgery of all types of false teeth, braces, etc.

None of my immediate family had them.

Wasps but that's totally understandable! Little evil creatures!

You see I don't get the feeling with either of those. Wonder why mine is turbines and those golf ball things?

When watching the Crystal Maze, the automatic lock in games; such as if someone has to climb through lasers: I couldn’t bear the tension of wondering if they would make it. Similarly, the game we played at youth group “keeper of the keys”, for which a child was blindfolded, and another had to try to creep up to them, everyone would be very silent, and tense. I remember how nervous I was when it was my turn to creep up, being afraid that I would be heard, and pointed at! But oddly enough, I didn’t mind at all when I was blindfolded and doing the pointing.

Those open backed lorries that carry orange gas canisters. Not sure you see them as much now. But I had an irrational fear that one was going to fall on me as it went round a corner, so I had to move away whenever one drove past.

Humans moving around on all fours, especially if done at speed.

I hate salad fingers. That freaky little metal.scraping weirdo. Ick

The illustration of a pig in a frock, peeling potatoes in Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes (another Beatrix Potter). Absolutely terrified me. But something made me keep looking at it. And it was always just as bad as I expected, and I just looked it up now, and it still is.

The Moomins. I’ve found them to be disturbing all my life

I totally get what you mean!

Whales, just the thought of them, if a picture pops up in a paper or internet I panic, and on TV, well I can't look it's crazy I know, sometimes in the shower if my mind wonders and I think of them I really panic, utter madness.

Mine was the moomins when I was a child. Not sure why, they just gave me the creeps despite being perfectly innocuous really.

I've got some..

Empty swimming pools
Holes and certain patterns (trypophobia)
Bumping into people I know unexpectedly
Pickles in jars
Spiders
Thunder

God, yes, Lazy Town was horrific - is it still on TV? All of those not-quite-real characters - I think this is another good example of the Uncanny Valley effect.

How funny, I literally just posted the same thing then saw your comment. Clearly we are both justified :-)