What was the dumbest thing that scared you as kid?

Similar to the above stories. At about age 10 the concept of Hell was explained to me in sunday school with every gory detail about being in agonizing pain forever and ever with no hope of it ever stopping and I asked if you would get used to it and was told no. Thinking about that concept scared me really bad. What a thing to tell children. It did not scare me into compliance and I am not religious and I do not believe in an afterlife.
 

Interesting that the Wizard of Oz creeped some of us out as kids. For me it was Alice in Wonderland. Too many weird scary characters for me, even before they got to the Queen of Hearts.
 
Furryanimal said:
Similar with me except I turned atheist at 14. I'm still amazed my devout Catholic parents accepted it!!
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I began questioning the existence of God when I was about that age, and considered myself a closet Agnostic. I *came out* to my mother (as Atheist) about 6 years ago and she's been praying for me ever since. :)
 

My dad's army coat , that used to be hung on my bedroom door in the summer months, my imagination used to run riot when it was dark , I swear that coat danced in the shadows. I was ok with it in the winter , it sat on the bed and kept me from turning into an ice cube .
 
Sitting on Santa's lap scared the heck out of me, like this little girl, I was reaching out for my mother to come get me and crying my eyes out.

 
My mother sent my sister and I to elocution lessons when I was a kid. In order to speak my vowels correctly my tutor had me continually reciting the following exaggerating every syllable/

In the corner of my bedroom is a great big curtain

Someone lives behind it, but I don't know who

Perhaps it is a brownie but I'm not quite certain

Nanny isn't certain too

The stupid poem frightened me to death, I kept pulling the curtains off my windows so no one could be behind them

Oh and the daft elocution didn't work either, well it did on my sister , she sounds just like the Queen but I never lost my Yorkshire accent.
 

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