A totally illogical fear you had as a child

Same here and still unsure if I understand it.

For me it was the boogie man. Not sure if that's actually a logical fear for a child to have though.

This, the Bermuda triangle and being kidnapped by some weirdo in a van!

Ants, I was convinced they would come over night and cover me up and giving me thousands of tiny bites that I could not do anything about. Really don't know where it came from but it tormented me for years.

Getting my feet measured for shoes. I thought they would chop my feet off. The Clarkes ad with the girl in the forest in the late 80's or early 90's freaked me out!

I still really dislike clowns and I'm 40. And mimes. And the fcukers can 100% smell fear.

The house I grew up in had a T shaped hallway with the front door at the bottom of the T, my bedroom to the right of the T & the kitchen, living room etc to the left.

After dark, I galloped from my room to the kitchen in case God knows what might be at the front door, coming through the front door or already in the hall. It probably didn’t really help that the only light on was in the porch at the front door though there was a switch right outside my bedroom door that would have turned on big ceiling lights in all arms of the T!

Although as an adult I didn’t run past the door at night, I had to make myself walk normally so I guess my irrational childhood fear stayed with me & I just controlled it a bit more!

House is sold now & I don’t feel the same way about other doors, halls or porches but I can’t check if I’d still feel the same way.

One of our neighbours had staird with gaps, I used to go through one of the gaps halfway up legs first and dropped to the ground

When I was 13 the 1980s version of The Blob with Kevin Dillon and Dale from The Walking Dead was shown on either RTE 1 or RTE 2 (then network 2), I watched until the attack on the boyfriend in the hospital office, got freaked out and then spent the next few nights with the cover over my head to protect me, this was 1991/1992

I saw it in full about 5 years ago and the effects in the rest of the film are really ropey, hospital scene doesnt freak me out now but its still pretty gruesome

Terrified of the noise from a flush toilet as a child.

Also was Terrified of a picture of the vergin Mary it was on the wall of my bedroom as a young child she always appeared to move her hand.

Quicksand.

Also death from a nuclear blast, totally irrational, I should have feared that I would survive but then die within weeks from the radiation poisoning.

Being abducted by aliens, particularly when driving at night. Maybe I was a bit young to be watching the x-files.

Being involved in a shipwreck.

Any time we went on a boat I always kept my T-shirt tucked into my waistband because I KNEW that anyone involved in a shipwreck had a T-shirt with frayed zig zag type thing going on, so I figured that if I kept my T-shirt tucked in, it couldn’t get frayed/ripped and the boat would sail safely

I used to be terrified that the school bus would overturn when the wheel mounted a high pavement turning a certain corner.

It worried me sick every morning and the driver never, ever managed to get round without doing it.

I should have walked.

My mother used say if I didn't behave a man would come and take me away.

Which lead to me having a fear of men coming to take me away. I'd have nightmare about a man driving me away in a van. Once he landed in a helicopter an my mother just handed me over.

Fear of creepie crawlies isn't irrational. It's ingrained because they can be poisonous, like being afraid of the dark because you can't see threats. Also in the dark the brain tries to make out faces from shadows, whether animal or human i.e. threats. One can't help being afraid, it's a survival instinct.

The x-files theme music

When I was about four I use kick up a massive scene if we had to get a taxi. I'd loose the plot, kick the doors, etc.

Had a poster for Nightmare on Elm Street 3 on my wall. Before falling asleep I was terrified Freddie would jump out of the poster and hundreds of minature Freddies would run towards me.

Eventually I had had enough and did the obvious thing .. I moved my wardrobe to cover the poster. It was still there years later.