I remember going to the State Fair one year and having a really fun time in "The Haunted House" with my Sis and her friend. Well, for weeks after that, WITHOUT FAIL, the Grim Reaper stood by the side of my bed, always in a black hood with a scythe!! Talk about horrifying!! I wasn't even in my teens yet! I slept with my head buried under the covers for many a night, that's for sure!

Just thought I'd share...

Tina (~!~)

Never really had any phantoms from childhood...

But I always used to get this freaky feeling I was being followed whenever I walked around outside at night by myself.

clowns

minneapolisgenius said:

I could never figure out why some people find clowns so scary, my brother was scared shitless of them when he was little.

Paisley said:

I had a scary clown doll when I was little, and it hung in my bedroom from the ceiling, just spinning and spinning...

LaVisHh said:

Errr...I thought you knew I was there.

The Elephant Man. He still comes by to scare me every now and then.

After watching a pantomine when I was little I used to think the Old Man from the Sea was under my bed..cant remember which panto, maybe Aladdin..but I was freaked out for a bit



Hens too

REDFEATHERS said:

Hey! Look above you. I think chickengrease is coming for you

The child-catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang used to live behind my bedroom door.

althom said:

you are right!

REDFEATHERS said:

Boogity - Boogity

I used to share a bunk-bed with my sister and I had the bottom one. My sister told me that once I had fallen asleep a witch would come from behind the wardrobe and wait for me under the bed and that if I ever needed the toilet in the night the witch would drag me under and eat me.

So I used to piss the bed.

Cloudbuster said:

ROTFLMAO!!!
sounds like me...

I just thought that Freddy Kruger was under my bed.

I was a boring little kid.

I always thought there might be some serial killer hiding out under my bed, so I always used to be very careful about getting on and off. I figured the second I got too close, some hand would jut out and grab me and kill me...

...so I used to get a running jump to get on my bed, and I'd jump off too, just out of arm's reach.

Pitiful.

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Awww...how cute.

althom said:

Leave me alone.

althom said:

Shouldn't you be out catching your shadow or something?

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Same thing here!

My brother told me there were cannibals under my bed. I used to do the same run and jump routine. One night afer the lights were out and I was in bed for a few minutes, a hand came from under the bed!

My brother was grounded.

And it was years before I stopped running and jumping on and off the bed.

CarrieMpls said:

!!

I woulda kicked his ass!!

CarrieMpls said:

I think I saw what I did in a movie, and it terrified me. I stopped doing it just several years ago, when I started storing things under my bed - I now know no one can fit under there.

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Even Alex!

althom said:

No. bkw keeps him tied up under his bed...

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

There's a silver bridge deep in a big public park near where I live. When I was young my mom would pass over it when driving me home. In the fall it got dark early. So my mom, being the sick twisted woman she is, decided to tell me about the ghost that haunts that bridge.

Aparently the ghost of some headless woman pushing a baby carriage passes over the bridge, and her head is in the carriage with glowing red eyes.

So I would scream my head off every time my mom drove over that bridge at night, and she would deliberately slow down and laugh.

Samara (Sadako) from the The Ring

the cries of children SHOULD NEVER b ignored...
their eyes R not yet CLOSED as r the eyes of adults.
they still blieve...easily, and they CAN c what we no longer choose 2.

as a child eye could not only c the spirit n things, like Stephen King dpicts, eye could hear and converse with it.

our kitchen mop, the loose cotton kind on a pole, it had glowing red eyes.
the door knob, like n Disney's Alice n Wonderland, could talk, and would not unlock itself even though we had a key.
we didn't own a tv, by the way, and eye had never seen Alice until eye was an adult.

lady bugs n the garden came and took grubs, which were souls, 2 hell. eye did not no a ladybug could carry a grub! not an aphid, a grub about the size of rice grain.
eye could hear the grubs scream horribly.
the garden was not a fun place sometimes.

eye call beetles, beetles bcause they told me that is what they r called.
eye was only 4 and had not yet gone 2 kindergarten. the bug was the big black bumbling kind that u don't c often any more n the states.
eye was digging n the grass and found one, and simply asked what r u? the bug replied we r called beetles.
recalling this as an adult amuses me, these r the source of horror stories. but they r true.
eye once saw the grim reaper on my wall as a shadow, eye was nine or ten, eye KNEW what the shadow was and stood screaming n the hallway, and would not go n2 my room.
daddy came and told me U DIDN'T C NOTHING...naturally, cause eye think eye scared him with my adamancy, plus the fact that he said he would BEAT me if eye didn't shut up, but eye still didn't, and daddy could do some serious beating...(joe jackson type). mom came and prayed and nstructed me how 2 pray on stuff like that and from then on no surprise shadows on the wall, but eye still kept a wary eye out.

hey, eye understand the Sci-Fi writers, some write from their own xperience.
eye guess eye never needed validation on what eye could c, but eye was very pleased 2 find that my brother, 2 years older than me, could c the same things eye could, our older brother, by two more years, could as well, but talked himself n2 not blieving he saw what he was c ing.
mom, bless her heart, never scolded us. but eye ragged her when eye was an adult, when she finally said, eye never yelled at u children, cause as a child, eye really saw some awful stuff...sheesh mom, y didn't u say?
she said eye never wanted u kids 2 no about scarey stuff or ever c any of it, eye didn't no u already could.

eye documented nearly all the stuff eye could remember clearly, and it reads like a list of who's who n the scarey world.
when kids talk eye listen...and generally take off running when they do! LOL!
eye Trust God, but my own human frailty may make me run my silly self n2 a wall, running and not looking where eye am going! LOL!

Tom said:

NICE...

This sounds a bit strange, but one night I thought a bread loaf at the foot of my bed was going to eat my leg..

Stupid, scary toast..