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!

Owls. They have hidden long legs and it makes me feel weird!

Anything with more than four legs. I can’t even look at pictures of them.

I’m still traumatised by watching that 41 years later

Photos of insects close up make me feel sick, those eyes and all those legs. Same as @ChocolateCinderToffee can’t even look at them.

Suspension bridges scare me, can’t drive over them. They loom above in a really scary and oppressive way!

The Owl Service is a brilliant book. You will love it. I saw a few plates with the owl on it at a car boot sale once. I wish I had bought them.

Have you read Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury? I'm not sure it would help 😂, but perhaps it would make you feel justified in your apprehension about fairgrounds. And it's a great book.

Aha ha! Thank goodness for owl trousers.

The Coloseum (Rome) - even pics of it give me the terror (recurrent childhood dream). Other such structures also give me the willies but not quite as much.

Stonehenge - sinister.

Reading this I think I was as hard as nails as a kid. Noseybonk, Raggety - no problem.

However Tufty was terrifying. As it was so cute and lulled you into a false sense of security. Ah, lovely cute squirrels. Oh no, what has happened to Willie Weasel? I used to run out of the room when it came on.

Which bit scared you the most? For me it was the page where Jeremy is sitting on a lily pad dangling one leg into the water and you can see the trout beneath. I was exactly the same with that book.

Rainbow, I used to hide when they zipped Zippy’s mouth up, he had no nostrils so I thought he would suffocate.

Poor Zippy was a pain in the arse but he didn’t deserve that.

They showed it to us at school when I was about 8. There was carnage.

No, not those. Along those lines though.

Animals with those milky brown eyes, that are otherwise really cute, but the eyes just creep me out. Like sloths.

Was also terrified of The Dark Crystal as a child and I think there was a puppet with the milky brown eyes.

Me too, though I do also enjoy it (brings back fond childhood memories of us all sitting down in front of the TV). I started reading the book recently, too. My sister had a black rabbit once and she made me think of Watership Down every time I saw her.

Me too!!

You’ve just triggered my PTSD 😂

I literally bought this exact thing for my 10 month old son for his first plane trip last month 🫣 he loves it!

Your structure examples are more modern (and a bit alien looking) and mine are very old and more ornate (spooky). I dont have the same level of panic with the modern stuff but I do feel it and I totally get why you do. I think what is shared is the oversized element, like its just too huge to be...safe.

When Marnie Was There was my absolute favourite book as a child!
Growing up,i shared a room with my Irish Catholic grandmother. She had a glow in the dark crucifix on the wall and one of those Sacred Heart pictures with, as I remember it (maybe incorrectly?) a red, pulsating heart visible in Jesus's chest. It used to freak me out when I woke up in the night. I still find those shops full of Catholic statues etc really unnerving!

Canals. Still, deep water. What might be in there? Also I get an irrational urge to jump in. Also, Morris dancers.

@Crudd99 don't suppose you know the name/number of the episode. I want to make sure I never see it again. So disturbing

Edit: fortunately I don't use ITVX but I was watching some re-runs somewhere else. Just want to be safe

Oh my goodness Calm, how did that happen? I can't imagine the trauma both of those incidents must have caused to the victims whilst it was happening to them, anyone who saw it happen, the medical people involved and anyone involved in the clean up. That's horrific. How are they still trading, something must be seriously missed there, and not having isolators is ridiculous.

the Safety at Work Act didn't even exist until 1974, so Ibet those machines are death traps for that reason as well. What industry do you work in if you don't mind me asking?

I hope you are ok 💕