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!

Clowns amd chalkboards, also the sound of hand driers....eek .

I am also freaked out by Children of the Dust (post apocalypse nuclear children's book of the 1980s), Mark Gatiss' adaptations of M.R.James (and the original stories), and a children's horror thing on Netflix DD made me watch with sentient headlice.

Brrr.

My brother (now 56) still talks about being terrified by this! Having seen it I am not surprised

I wasn’t planning to don’t worry 😂 thanks for the heads up! No thank you.

This.

And four poster beds that tower up to the ceiling,especially dark wood with red velvet curtains. I can have the same panic in a very ornate cathedral. I remember panicking one night when I walked past the cathedral in Barcelona, just the monstrosity and the never ending height of it.

Me too, but I've bought it again as an adult and still love it.

Bricked up old windows and doors. They always make me shudder. Also the opening credits of Call The Midwife where you see the massive ship at the bottom of a street.

I loved Worzel Gunmidge as a kid! I used to watch it with my Nan, I was an early 90s baby so bit before my time but I found it hilarious.

Mine is perpetual motion- things that go around and around (the blades of a fan) and things that go side to side, gathering speed (park swings)

I feel like they are going to explode of fly off or just go higher and faster than we can comprehend

I’ve just googled this and I do not like the look of that either!

Same for me. I pretended I understood it but I didn't really.

My childhood nightmare fuel book was Beatrix Potter's, "The Tale Of Mr Jeremy Fisher." Although I used to look at it on the bookshelf and take it out from time to time, open the pages and give myself the shivers with it.

I also used to sneak a peak at, "National Geographic" Surely men didn’t have such things? Looks absurd. (Didn't have any brothers - but even so.)

My mum used to have some fur coats from goodness knows when - or even my grandma's - that she never wore but I used to scare myself with touching them in the wardrobe.

In adult life, I have completely rational fears of clifftop paths, edges and sheer drops. Again, I almost like scaring myself with these things so I watched a bit of a true crime podcast last night about an, "Alpine Divorce."

An Alpine divorce is pushing your partner over a cliff. Luckily, both people survived and I concluded that they were both as bad as each other. I couldn't root for either Gerhardt or Arielle in Hawaii.

I’m not scared of allotments generally, but I do have a recurring nightmare that I’ve buried a body in one.* The whole dream is me being terrified someone will dig it up / point the finger at me.

*I haven’t. All my bodies are under the M6

The book When Marnie was There - scary!

The original illustrations from Alice through the Looking Glass ( any illustration in that style actually)

Hopefully you werent alive to see the test card in the 70's and early 80's cos that have both a clown and a chalkboard!

Yes to wallpaper and curtains! I always saw patterns and faces that creeped me out.
My grandma also used to make us watch Peter and the Wolf and the music now still makes me feel sick I hated that

Industrial machinery scares the hell out of me. Ironic given my job but the machinery I operate at work has both skinned a person alive (he lived) and quite literally blended another (he didn’t survive, was turned into minced human)

The good news is that engineering are planning on installing a safety isolator.
The equipment in question has been there since 1974.

That creepy as fuck alien ET. Creeps me out that you can see its HEART beating THROUGH its chest. Might have something to do with being forced to watch it the night before I went in for major heart surgery….either way, everytime I see the thing I get a full blown panic attack.
Most of my family get it, but my husband occasionally thinks it’s hilarious to do the voice and that freaks me out too.

Peacocks. They give me the creeps. I even remember being unnerved by some tail feathers that my gran and grandad used to have. I didn’t know why at the time but looking back I think they freaked me out even then. Those tiny feathers on their heads, and the sound the tail feathers make dragging on the ground. And their beady eyes and nasty claw feet. Shudders!!

Mine is large flightless birds. They are awful. The skinny legs, tiny head, beady eyes, then massive feathery body. Shudder!

I don't like Bearhunt, there's a feeling of menace to it. And I dont know how Michael Rosen is down as an author, im sure we 'sang' it when I was in Brownies. I hated hearing Peter and the Wolf music and Puff the magic dragon

Cackling at some of these, I’m so glad to know I’m not alone!

Also, sharks but I’m obsessed with them. Like I love them, the fiercer the better (great whites/bull sharks/tiger sharks etc) and I will watch anything to do with a shark attack but open water is not my thing! I’ve been fascinated by them since I was very young. Top of my bucket list is to do a shark cage dive with great whites but I’m not convinced I’d actually do it, when they show close ups of great whites when they breach the water with their jaws open and teeth out it makes me feel sick but I just love them. It’s really bizarre.

Spent a lot of time in Florida growing up as my Aunt and Uncle are out there and I’d never swim in the pool alone especially at night as I’d imagine a shark in there with me!

They used to make us watch this in primary school when it rained at lunchtime. Why?? Decades later and I still can’t go near it. Terrifying.

The movie or the book?

I had the book of the movie (stills with one or 2 lines) and the whole section where the Warren is gassed and all the rabbits are blue with red eyes on a yellow (gas) background - fuck that was horrific.

In the novel the story about the black rabbit of Inle (rabbits version of death) calling your name shit me right up and gave me nightmares!

A book called “ A Handful of Thieves” by Nina Bawden. It was our reading book at Junior School and I couldn’t stand it. Children creeping around where they shouldn’t and scary old people…terrified 8 year old me!

Cant bear the sight of fresh fish (alive - or dead on a counter) makes me want to cry. Don’t even mention eels, crabs, lobster, octopus, squid, crayfish… oh Dear God, no!