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!

Oh god, I hated this little git too - I made myself read the pages with him on, but I wasn't happy with it 😀

Oh yes, I remember the Ugly-Wuglies! What a memory! I agree they were terrifying.

Oh no I'm scared even now after finding that horrid witch!

The Rest and Be Thankful road in the Highlands. It's just such a wide and deep expanse below. Makes me feel sick. And then you've got all the tourists at the top abandoning their cars to take pictures. So you've got rage and nausea.
Oh and polo necks. The head can literally roll off the neck at any point.

Puff the Magic Dragon. All felt very final and remember sobbing in the ‘listening corner’ with a huge pair of 90’s earphones on as a five year old. The whole concept creeped me out

In a dark dark wood- nursery rhyme gave me the creeps from day dot

When I was a kid, I was the a lake with my friend and her family, feeding the swans. Her little sister leaned in too far to try and feed a slice of bread to a swan and fell straight in. It was horrible trying to get her out because this massive swan started freaking out, beating it's wings and hissing.
Anyway, they eventually got her out and into the car but there was nothing to wrap her in so she sat in between us, sopping wet, dripping manky pond water all over us, and for some reason, still clutching the same crust od bread which was of course, soggy and disintegrating.
So soggy bread always makes me think of falling in lakes and angry swans 😂

Things sticking out of the water, like odd bits of wood etc. I remember in Exmouth Harbour there was this bit sticking out, looked like an old anchor. Shudder

Yep, I have so many questions.

Liminal spaces

I get so freaked out when people play with their eyebrows, especially when they pull on them. Ugh 🤮 🤮 I have to look away if it’s someone out in public. My family and friends know not to do it near me 😂 😂 I think it all started when I used to have to attend a work meeting and a bloke there used to pay with his disgusting wirey eyebrows and every now and again, he’d pull one out. I’m practically urging just thinking about it.

Oh, my daughter is the same!

I recently discovered I'd put a bag of new potatoes in a rarely used cupboard some months before and when I opened the door it was a cloud of roots. I shut the door and am psyching myself up to remove the potatoes but I haven't dared yet...

Me too. Just reading about it again has made me wobble!

My husband and my DM both have a habit of playing with their eyebrows (their own, not each others'! Lol) It irritates me so much and they both have an even more annoying habit of pulling out the odd one or two at times... the rage I feel is always repressed lol 😆 😂

I thought I was quite niche with this one!! I’ve clearly found my tribe

I'm more worried about the bear having a massive hole in his neck...

Google earth. When it's on satellite view of the vast ocean, and you cant see any land. It gives me the right heebie-jeebies! Sometimes I have to quickly close the window/app because I cant cope with it. I also have a fear of very deep water anyway, but it seems so silly that it even affects me when I'm looking at a satellite view of the ocean on a device.

Do it now before they start rotting and turning to putrid liquid.

That happened to me and I've never smelt anything like it in my life, it was absolutely horrendous.

I have never once on my life ever seen anyone play with their eyebrows. Is this a thing people do?

Ashens managed to cure me of that one 🤣

Bindweed - can’t go near it and if I see it all twisting around itself in a hedge or something I feel horrible.

I can totally relate to feeling freaked out when the bear gets to the unlocked door, a bit of a phobia to me in my dreams and films.
Sloths freak me out ,not too keen on pandas either, stairs with gaps in them i absolutely hate, people crawling on all fours low down on the floor- usually in a horror film, levitation.

How are you with flying over ocean on a plane?

It's hours and hours of nothing but ocean if you fly to Australia

The Jabberwocky (the poem)

Mirrors on the floor/bed facing upwards, childhood terror feeling I would fall in.

The brick wall in the 1960 movie Village of the Damned.

@Squirrelsnut I watched Children of the Stones on YouTube a few years ago, definitely would have freaked me out if I'd seen that as a child.