What irrational fear did you have as a child?

[JustRegularBlack]

me dying laughing the whole time

What's wild is this woulda been one of the crazy ways he killed someone in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Uncontrollable laughter resulting in death.

 

[the elastic]

Tornadoes and asteroids

 

[drederick tatum]

Mascots/people in costumes

 

[Ozymandeas]

House on a Haunted Hill had me convinced there were ghosts in my attic

Spoiler

I knew as a lil nikka I wanted to smash Ali Larter though

 

[LezJepzin]

The movie, Mississippi Burning

This had me fukked up too for a minute


Viacom produced a lot of shows my parents & watched . shyt actually looked and sounded different after other shows

 

[boogers]

i used to be afraid of the arm and hammer on the arm and hammer box

my mom said i would run from it and cry

i was a weird kid

 

[StackorStarve]

Riding with my parents from Jersey into NY using the Holland tunnel used to scare the shyt out of me as a kid. The radio would get staticky and go out. I thought the tunnels would collapse at any moment

 

[Shadow King]

Looking at this pic now, it’s probably a goose or something mundane, but as a kid I thought there were Lochness Monsters in every lake. Driving across bridges as a kid had me shook. Weekly World News at the grocery store had me thinking all kind of crazy shyt was real.

That last pic looks crazy even now

 

[blockburna420]

Birds being above me in trees, I was like 6 and a bird shytted on me when I was riding my bike.

 

[Crude]

I thought I was going to fall backwards in the toilet while taking a dump and drown until I was about 5 or 6 years old or so.

 

[Fill Collins]

I used to take the news literally, when I was 7 I thought China put lead in literally everything, I though I'd die if I used anything cheap

Just like the news planned

 

[jerzboy]

The KKK


My mom gave me this big book of Black American History and they started from Slavery in Africa up to the 90s

I was little child learning about how white people were allowed to do all these evil things to black Americans. I was low key shook to visit my family South of the border because I thought the KKK would get me.

It wasn't until I watched that episode of Jerry Springer, I realized how goofy they were



I love how you're all scared of actually things little kids should be afraid of lol

Same exact thing for me down to the South of the Border trips. Young kid used to think I was going to wake up with crosses burning in our front yard thanks to the movies X and Posse; mind you I was living in central jersey

 

[JoseLuisGotcha]

Eating pop rocks and drinking soda cause they said that’s how the “Mikey likes it” kid died

I always made sure to never mix the two

 

[DaylitoJames]

As a kid seeing Jake The Snake Robert pulling out a King Cobra snake so it can bite Macho Man had me shook

I never wanted to go to the reptile section of the zoo as a result

 

[Bonk]

Thriller, then return of the living dead had your boy for real concerned about zombies climbing out the grave since I lived about 2 miles from a cemetery

This.

I remember watching that & Zombie flesh eaters as a kid. Both scared the shyt out of me for a long time. From Dusk Till Dawn was another crazy movie that scared the shyt of me.

And The Undertaker in wrestlemania & his antics as well.