WHAT SCARED YOU AS A KID?

(October, 2023) Reddit asked, “What scared you as a kid?” Some of the responses:
– “Going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I sprinted back to my room, and jumped the last two feet so a hand under my bed wouldn’t grab me.”
– “Turning my back to the basement coming up the stairs.”
– “The damn truck driver woman in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.” (Large Marge!)
– “The busy tone when a call went dead.”
– “Automatic flushing toilets.”
– “I grew up thinking sharks hid in the deep end of my local swimming pool. I also knew it was stupid and impossible but I still stuck to the shallow end.”
– “My sister had a fire safety lesson at school once and excitedly shared with me some of the things she’d learn to do in the event of a house fire. Suddenly a new fear had unlocked in me and I was terrified our house was going to go up in flames.”
– “The Wizard of Oz flying monkeys gave me nightmares for weeks.”
– “The loud THX sound that used to play before a movie in a theater.”
– “Thinking that at night at any time if I looked out the windows there would be a T. rex eye looking in.”
– “The tree and the clown in Poltergeist movie.”
– “Ceiling fans. Sleepovers. I was convinced it was going to drop and I would be chopped into pieces.”
– “Turning into my mother.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What thing scared you as a kid?