25 of the strangest and funniest childhood fears shared by Internet users (26 photos)

Children are great dreamers. And sometimes this fantasy can give unpleasant results: obsessive fears, nightmares and hysterics. This is why young children should not be frightened by “scary stories”, horror films, etc. A child’s vivid imagination can take him very far!





It’s good that over time, fears usually disappear and remain only a childhood memory.

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“As a child, I had a very vivid imagination. I was sure that the rhythmic knocking under the floor of my bedroom was coming from the ghost of a long-dead slave beating a drum. I also found a broken chain in the yard and completely freaked out. My mother had to explain to me for a long time that The heating pipes are banging, and the chain broke when he and his father tried to attach the trampoline to the ground during a strong wind."

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"When I was a first-grader, I was told that there was a secret bunker near my school where they did all sorts of things to people. I was sure it was true, and I was afraid to walk around the area alone."

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"I had a fear that mirrors might steal my soul. It was very unpleasant to look at them at night."

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“When I was a child, I was sure there were skeletons under my bed and I was afraid they would come out at night and get me.”

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“There was a time when I believed there were snakes living under my bed.”

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“I was paranoid that if I got out of bed at night, a monster would grab me in the dark if the lights weren’t on.”

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"As a child, I believed that hell really existed."

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“I was wildly afraid that aliens would abduct me. And a fireman came to speak at our school and said that most house fires happen between 2 and 4 a.m. After that, I began to become paranoid that our house would catch fire in the middle of the night ".

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“I was afraid that a watermelon tree would grow on my head because I swallowed watermelon seeds while eating.”

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"I learned that there is such a thing as quicksand. And I was very afraid to walk on sand."

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"I'm afraid of demonic possession."

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“As a child, for some reason I decided that the toilet was a monster that wanted to eat me. So I constantly fed it toilet paper throughout the day to satisfy its hunger and save myself.”



“When I was 8-10 years old, whenever lightning struck without rain or the local radio station went off, I thought it was a nuclear explosion and a blast wave would soon hit, meaning I had 1-2 minutes to live. This was in the early 70s -X".

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“They told me that if I behaved badly, a monkey would get into the house and attack me. I was terrified of this.”

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“I believed that if you got stuck in an elevator, you would either die or be stuck there forever.”

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“I was afraid to go into the attic, and then just go up to the top floor of the house. It started after I read a thriller. And I decided that there was a killer mannequin and a couple of ghosts living in the attic.”

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“When I was 5 years old, I watched the video for the song “Thriller”, and for 4 whole years after that I had to sleep, curled up in a ball, in fear that I would suddenly turn into one of these monsters.”

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"I was afraid I might get sucked into a black hole."

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“I was afraid of Santa. After all, he climbs into the house at night through a pipe, like some criminal, and leaves you a “gift.”

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“When I was 3 or 4 years old, I believed that if I didn’t eat properly, I would start to disappear. Thanks to my dad and uncle, they were the ones who scared me.”

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“I believed an asteroid was going to hit Earth, and I lay awake at night wondering if I would die as a result of the impact.”

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"When I watched The Lion King, I became afraid of hyenas living in my closet. It only went away after we moved to another apartment."

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"When I was in second grade, I was afraid of my sister for weeks on end. I just had a dream in which she claimed that she was a ghost and had come to eat me."

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“In 1st grade, I learned that one day the sun would explode, and that day I swore that I would never go outside again. I broke that promise about 20 minutes later.”

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“I’m 64 years old. In 7th grade we studied Orwell’s literature and read the book 1984. After that, I was unconsciously afraid of the coming of 1984.”