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!

I’ve posted about this before but when I was a kid I had a VHS adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I think it was a BBC version. There were so many terrifying things in that, for me the worst was a werewolf called Maugrim who worked for the white witch. It was literally just a man in a wolf costume but he scared the shit out of me for years.

I was terrified of the bear and lion from Teletubies as a toddler, especially how they rolled around the mountains and their voices.

Similarly, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly song. We had to sing it when I was in reception. Terrifying.

Proper, old editions of fairy tales - especially Brueder Grimm, where in Cinderella step-sisters are driven away with the Prince first, and the voice (don't remember whose) sings outloud - look back, look back (the Prince is sitting in the front), blood is leaking from the slipper- the first stepsister cut off her toes to fit into the slipper, the second one cut off her heels. Still pissed off with my gran for reading it to me!!! Why?????

They are still there, and biding their time. Big fan of Alan Garner.

me to scared me silly as a child. That and some educational tv that we used to have to watch in school - there was a creepy knight - i hid in the loos.

My friend has this, but her phobia is founded on the terror of being strapped to one of the rotating blades and imagining how awful the G-Force would be. Every time we drive past one, she shudders.

Octopus. Even if I see octopus in a photo in a cookbook it makes me feel sick and want to cry!!!

OMG, and remember that freaky TV version in the early 90s?

I remember being traumatised by a Look and Read series broadcast in the 60s, called Len and the River Mob. The story itself wasn't particularly scary as it was about smugglers, but there was one cliffhanger in which the main character, Len, fell from a height and lay there unconscious while the credits rolled. Small me found that very upsetting! Funny, the stuff you remember.

Me too - haven't heard of them for ages but loved the Weird Stone of Brisingham

Maugrim is utterly horrifying! It's that frightful scene where they discover that the faun has been taken prisoner and his head appears on the letter 'long live the queen, raggghhhh!' 😂 it's all on YouTube if you wish to relive the fear!

Episode of Space 1999/UFO can't remember which. They come across a lot of space ships all linked together. Somewhere is this awful creature that if you see it you are mesmerized by it and you walk into it's mouth and then spat out like a mummy out of its mouth. One one of the crew had come across it before but managed to escape but now sacrifices himself if I remember rightly and willingly walks into the room where it is and into it's mouth, Terrifying. Similar with Night of the Demon where the hieroglyphics are passed and that means the demon will come for you and there is no escape. My DD's laughed at the remake but I'm still scared of the original black and white

Rewatched the Singing Ringing Tree recently, it's on Youtube - it's very disturbing, I saw it in black and white as a child but in colour it's even worse

That old Metz advert with the judderman, it terrified me for years. Even thinking about it makes my heart start pounding.

Oh yes another one.

The wings under the outer shell ones on ladybirds. And preying mantis are v creepy.

Oh and don't get me started on vile yellow (!!!) slugs...

That reminds me of that awful horror book called Slugs where I remember reading about how a man is eaten from the inside out by a slug crawling down his throat...😫😳😱 It still makes me shiver thinking about it! Utterly horrible.

When I was a child there was a cartoon called Rubard and custard. It was the theme tune . Gave me nightmares. I once a few years ago went to YouTube to listen to it and it brought the horror back

Bats coming in the house.

Jesus Christ - he's terrifying 😱

Ooh I love this! And I had the theme tune as a ringtone once lol 😆 😂

Also the Elm Chanted forest was fucking terrifying.

The animation style of SpongeBob and also, to an even greater degree, Beavis and Butthead repulses me. I can’t look at or watch either of them.
also agree on Watership Down, but I think that’s more normal - it was meant to be a bit scary.

Yeah my toddler has recently come back from nursery singing this one. I detest too, it massively gets on my nerves. I'm baffled by how popular it is.

These two are not uncommon but the the things that scared the shit out of me in childhood (I'm in my late 30s for context) were:

• Fungus the bogeyman: argh just horrible, my big brother had the book and really liked it
• The re-runs of Month Python shown in the 90s that my dad loved to watch. It was specifically the Terry Gilliam cartoons which were unbelievably sinister. I was so scared it made me feel physically sick.

Rupert the Bear was always horrible, and I didn't even know that creepy character existed until tonight. It's his hands FFS, what bear has fingers anyway?! It's uncanny valley...

I don't like any big structures under water. Like sunken ships or those creepy Jesus statues.

Also agree with pps who said humans crawling on all fours. Shudder.

I’m terrified of quick sand, and walking over the bit on trains that join the carriages together.

Omg, I get this from seeing dried up bubbles from washing up liquid on a surface, or tiny holes in my clothes, or so many different things. I get actual goosebumps on my scalp which is a really horrible feeling. Just reading your post gave me that feeling.