As a person who writes horror stories I’m always curious as to what scares people.
I guess it’s me just studying and finding new ways to scare people…
So, that’s what this thread is about! Share what scares you the most… lets try and avoid “heights” and “spiders”.
Try and go a little deeper.
It’s appreciated, thanks.
PRISON, the idea of being in prison keeps me in check.I would not fare well in the joint.
Other things like burglars or regular shit dont bother me, getting sent to war would suck but good people do that all the time so I think I could handle that.
Prison scares me.
That’s a very good and timely response… prison. Hmm…gives me something to think about. thanks!
any more?
Drowning…
Being lost in the amazon would suck, the idea of parasitic anythings… especially those little fish that’ll swim up your urethra if you’re peeing in the water.
There’s something freaky about people in those costumes where you can’t see their face. You know, the bunny costume for Donnie Darko.
The quiet psychotic type. Like Anton Chigur from No Country for Old men.
The type of person who would murder their own family member. Example would be a wife poisoning her husband.
Clowns.
All very good responses, but Clown’s is totally expected. 
I’m definitely scared of looking out the window of an airplane and seeing a mega shark about to bite the plane in half.
For serial.
Squirrels, Satan’s spawn.
I scare myself everytime I look into the mirror.
Nearly had a heart attack this morning.
My worst nightmare, And I actually thought about making this into a story or book or movie, is that i’m blind, I just come to from whatever, sleeping or something and I can’t see anything. I mean absolute pitch black lack of vision. The smell is bad, it does not smell like my bedroom or my house or anything I am familiar with and I don’t hear much of anything except some low pitch humming. I’m naked and sitting on a hard cold surface, maybe concrete.
I sit tight for a minute hoping to get my vision back but after a while I’m freezing and try moving around a bit. I crawl around on my hands and knees and feel nothing but hard and cold concrete. As I roam around a little I start to hear whimpering. I move towards it coutiostly feeling my way around and eventually I come across another human, I feel them and they are squatting in a fetal postion shivering, shaking, whimpering.
As I touch them they do not respond. I say hello as I feel my way up to thier shoulder, they don’t respond. I am fearful to shake them as I don’t know what would happen if they were to respond to my presence. Can they see me? what is going on.
I wander for what feels like days, I have not been able to feel anything other than cold hard concrete under my feet and I walk fairly briskly now as I have lost the fear of running into anything. I have come across several other people, all naked, all huddled into a ball on the ground, shivering, shaking, whimpering. I can only feel them and they do not respond to anything I do.
Then it happens, a tiny speck of light. I see it, it grows, is it growing or is it moving? Coming closer? and then like a flash, it zooms by me, breifly illuminating my immediate surroundings in a soft glow. I can see, but what the light revealed makes everything 10 times worse. All around me are creatures. No more than 10 ft away in all directions.
I saw another human nearby, in the fetal position on the ground, a ring of creatures surrounded them. The creatures were hideous, but they were not moving. I am now frozen solid.
Did the light bring the creatures? Were they here all along, moving in unison all around me? I don’t know what to do, I don’t know anyting, what has happened, what the creatures are, what the light was. I decide to sit, I squat down, the fear of the creatures consumes me and I just sit there and shiver, with cold, with fear, unable to move.
V
Prison is my greatest fear also, that and wet tile floors because I hate slipping. Prison sucks because even if you can kick the first guys ass, he is probably in a gang…
This may be more abstract than what you’re looking for, but things that are unknown scare me the most. I have an active imagination, and so when I’m watching a horror movie I tend to be more scared by the ominous beginning than by the actual monster or whatever. It’s the feeling that something is wrong without knowing what, and the fact that you’re sitting there on the edge of your seat knowing that something will happen but not knowing when.
For example, when I watched “The Exorcist” I was pretty scared by the beginning when there were weird sounds in the house and the daughter making cryptic comments and behaving a little strangely, but I laughed during the later scenes where she started getting really whacked out. I wasn’t scared of the demon-possessed girl, especially since she could be physically restrained.
Another example would be “The Shining.” I’m not big by the standards of this site, but nevertheless the prospect of an axe wielding Jack Nicholson doesn’t particularly frighten me. I’m confident that I would have had a reasonable chance of finding an implement to fight back with or escaping in some other way.
However, those two little girls terrified me. They never posed any specific, overt threat and yet I knew that there was something wrong and dangerous about them. The fact that they were never really explained got to me in a big way. The scariest part of “The Shining” for was the scene where the tennis ball rolls in front of the kid in the hallway. There’s nothing dangerous about a tennis ball, but its presence in an unoccupied hotel was very frightening to me because of its inexplicable appearance and the ominous nature of the setting of scene.
Of course there is much more, I don’t just sit there for eternity, I eventually gain courage and find answers, but that is going to be a rather long story, and I’d like to write it in much more detail than the idea above. I just wanted to share with you the only thing I really fear.
V
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
There’s something freaky about people in those costumes where you can’t see their face. You know, the bunny costume for Donnie Darko.
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Have you seen “El Orfanato” (The Orphanage"? There’s a character like that in it and even though it’s not that scary of a movie, that particular character is scary as fuck. There was one scene in particular where I was basically sitting there cringing while I watched.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
My worst nightmare, And I actually thought about making this into a story or book or movie, is that i’m blind, I just come to from whatever, sleeping or something and I can’t see anything. I mean absolute pitch black lack of vision. The smell is bad, it does not smell like my bedroom or my house or anything I am familiar with and I don’t hear much of anything except some low pitch humming. I’m naked and sitting on a hard cold surface, maybe concrete.
I sit tight for a minute hoping to get my vision back but after a while I’m freezing and try moving around a bit. I crawl around on my hands and knees and feel nothing but hard and cold concrete. As I roam around a little I start to hear whimpering. I move towards it coutiostly feeling my way around and eventually I come across another human, I feel them and they are squatting in a fetal postion shivering, shaking, whimpering.
As I touch them they do not respond. I say hello as I feel my way up to thier shoulder, they don’t respond. I am fearful to shake them as I don’t know what would happen if they were to respond to my presence. Can they see me? what is going on.
I wander for what feels like days, I have not been able to feel anything other than cold hard concrete under my feet and I walk fairly briskly now as I have lost the fear of running into anything. I have come across several other people, all naked, all huddled into a ball on the ground, shivering, shaking, whimpering. I can only feel them and they do not respond to anything I do.
Then it happens, a tiny speck of light. I see it, it grows, is it growing or is it moving? Coming closer? and then like a flash, it zooms by me, breifly illuminating my immediate surroundings in a soft glow. I can see, but what the light revealed makes everything 10 times worse. All around me are creatures. No more than 10 ft away in all directions.
I saw another human nearby, in the fetal position on the ground, a ring of creatures surrounded them. The creatures were hideous, but they were not moving. I am now frozen solid.
Did the light bring the creatures? Were they here all along, moving in unison all around me? I don’t know what to do, I don’t know anyting, what has happened, what the creatures are, what the light was. I decide to sit, I squat down, the fear of the creatures consumes me and I just sit there and shiver, with cold, with fear, unable to move.
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Sounds like a description of hell to me.
Dead Hookers
-drowning
-insanity
-wasting my life
[quote]jbumgarner wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
My worst nightmare, And I actually thought about making this into a story or book or movie, is that i’m blind, I just come to from whatever, sleeping or something and I can’t see anything. I mean absolute pitch black lack of vision. The smell is bad, it does not smell like my bedroom or my house or anything I am familiar with and I don’t hear much of anything except some low pitch humming. I’m naked and sitting on a hard cold surface, maybe concrete.
I sit tight for a minute hoping to get my vision back but after a while I’m freezing and try moving around a bit. I crawl around on my hands and knees and feel nothing but hard and cold concrete. As I roam around a little I start to hear whimpering. I move towards it coutiostly feeling my way around and eventually I come across another human, I feel them and they are squatting in a fetal postion shivering, shaking, whimpering.
As I touch them they do not respond. I say hello as I feel my way up to thier shoulder, they don’t respond. I am fearful to shake them as I don’t know what would happen if they were to respond to my presence. Can they see me? what is going on.
I wander for what feels like days, I have not been able to feel anything other than cold hard concrete under my feet and I walk fairly briskly now as I have lost the fear of running into anything. I have come across several other people, all naked, all huddled into a ball on the ground, shivering, shaking, whimpering. I can only feel them and they do not respond to anything I do.
Then it happens, a tiny speck of light. I see it, it grows, is it growing or is it moving? Coming closer? and then like a flash, it zooms by me, breifly illuminating my immediate surroundings in a soft glow. I can see, but what the light revealed makes everything 10 times worse. All around me are creatures. No more than 10 ft away in all directions.
I saw another human nearby, in the fetal position on the ground, a ring of creatures surrounded them. The creatures were hideous, but they were not moving. I am now frozen solid.
Did the light bring the creatures? Were they here all along, moving in unison all around me? I don’t know what to do, I don’t know anyting, what has happened, what the creatures are, what the light was. I decide to sit, I squat down, the fear of the creatures consumes me and I just sit there and shiver, with cold, with fear, unable to move.
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Sounds like a description of hell to me.[/quote]
Thats what I thought at first also, but it’s not. The christianity term “pergatory” might be closer to the truth, but it’s just a place. And it is a possible place to go after you die I guess, I mean after your physical body dies.
V
I do not approve of the last few days here in GAL. I demand more teddy bears and rainbows to balance out all this spooky shit.
my mind scares me.