Your Childhood Boogeyman

[Shadow Blade]

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This thread has got to be one of the weirdest threads that I have done so far. The question was just something that was floating around in my empty skull for some time now. I guess the main purpose of this thread is to convict my best friend Micheal, that no matter how old I am, I still get scared by my,'childhood boogyman'.
When I was a little kid I had a crazy, and I mean, a really brain dead crazy uncle, who use to terrify my siblings and myself (my younger sibling wasn't born yet so he was lucky and spared the torture) with a doll called Chuckie. Yeah, you know the little trooper in blue overalls, with carrot top, and would run around saying,"Hi I'm Chuckie." Anyway my uncle would force us little kids to watch these films, and literally ran around after us with an exact replica laughing his head off, well us kids were running around the house trying to get away, screaming with all the air in our tiny lungs. The crazy idiot went as far as to waking us up in the middle of the night with the stupid doll in our face. As old as I am everytime I see the doll my heart would beat faster, but other than that I don't run away screaming like I use to. To this day I try to laugh off the experiment.

At any rate I was curious whether anyone here at the OB ever had been scared of the 'boogyman' or any other 'thing'. In this thread you can pretty much tell your experiance, or tell about your younger sibling's fear (or if you scare them yourself and how).
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[Ryan]

[size=1] Whenever I was younger I always had the same nightmare: me walking throughout my house. Each room was lite up by candles and I was home alone. I would walk into my living room and leaning up against the glass door would be this black woman, with cuts and wounds all over her body and face. She was covered in blood and it was running down the door. She just stood there singing and staring at me.

My attempts to fall asleep whenever I was younger always failed because in the back of my mind I was thinking about that woman, just staring at me. It frightened me for many years.

Now that I am much older, it doesn't scare me anymore. Just something to look back and laugh about.

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[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.

My childhood bogeyman had to be Star Trek's Borg, I've never had a proclivity for scary things and never understood some people's need to frighten themselves. Anyway when I first saw First Contact when it came out on video, I must admit the idea of a cybernetically enhanced species bent on galactic conquest was enough to give me nightmares. I think it was their grotesque appearance and the appearance of their technology more so than their methods were what frightened me.[/SIZE]

[Guest kuroinuyoukai]

I was hoping Gavin wasn't going to say he was scared of leprechauns...

Anyway when I was younger about six I was in a summer day camp at a park. I had tons of dolls and stuffed animals. The camp counselor decided to tell me that they come alive at midnight and hurt little children. I went home and threw all my dolls in the closet and jammed a chair into the door. My mom came in and I told her. She went the next day and talked to the counselor's boss. I guess the counselor was fired because I never saw her again.

[DBZgirl88]

[COLOR=#004a6f]I never had any particular "boogey man" as you like to call it. My childhood was filled with many strange, interesting and scary dreams. Also, I would imagine things even when I was awake. I used to have these imaginary skeleton friends, who were nice to me, but really freaky at the same time. I always remembered being in a strange room with a green glow when they were around. But it was all in my imagination.

Many of my freaky dreams had me being trapped by someone, who would start tickiling me. Once, it was a panda that pounced on me and proceeded to lick my feet. Another time it was a person who cam out a mirror and started tickiling y armpits.[/COLOR]

[Attimus331]

Eh, no boogeyman for me really. Though i did have a reoccuring nightmare. It was the worst ever. It would be me running around my basement, running away from these slime monsters. I would just keep running, and my basement was also oddly lit. And everytime i tried to force myself to wake up i'd have an out of body experience and just see myself sleeping, unable to wake up. It was strange.

Nowadays i have a different nightmare. I'm driving, it's always in a different situation. But the one thing that's always the same is the breaks giving out. And i end up wrecking or something. It's a wonder i don't freak out when i drive.

Haha, later.

[Al-araaf]

My childhood fear was clowns. But now i'm a harcore juggalo (meaning I love ICP and bands associated with them) And I spread clown love to all my juggalo bretheren.

As for nightmare I just have horrifying, deominc, hellish, dreams. Or i'll astral travel
(AKA out of body expirience) and relive all the moments that make me the depressed lunatic I am today. And sometimes I cant get back into my body until I start paniking.

[Morgan-Chan]

Well, for me it was always the fact that when I was younger my closet never really closed all the way...it always came off the track and whatnot...and there was always this sort of crack that made it look like someone was trying to peek out of it!

What a weird thing, eh? :animeswea :animesmil

[Lotica]

As a child, I lived in a enormous old victorian house that looked as if it were haunted. On the second floor were huge closets (the size of most modern rooms today) that connected with other closets and other rooms. There were strange tiny doors in them that led to an enormous windowless attic that looked as if it had been inhabited once upon a time. Even though the little doors in the closets all had locks on the outsides, they frightened me terribly, but the hideous creature with long arms living under my bed frightened me more.

[Shadow Blade]

[QUOTE=Morgan-Chan]Well, for me it was always the fact that when I was younger my closet never really closed all the way...it always came off the track and whatnot...and there was always this sort of crack that made it look like someone was trying to peek out of it!

What a weird thing, eh? :animeswea :animesmil[/QUOTE]

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Aw, yes the closet and under the bed. Classic place where childhood monsters dwell.
When I was a toddler I thought that there were skinwalkers (A navajo witch in native beliefs- believe to have the power to transform into animals and cause trials and torment) lurking in the closet and under the bed. To this day I laugh about my foolish fears.


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[Shwa]

I guess it would have to be my closet, nothing coming out from it but just the whole thing in gerneral. I saw a tv special with my brothers about facts and myths and there was one where a boy was pushed into his closet by a couple of his friends even though he didn't want to go in there. When they opened it it was completly empty. At the end of the show they either reveil if it was a fact or myth and this wa a Fact!!!

The police and scientists couldn't explain what happened to the boy since there was no possible way of escape except for the closet doors. Since then I close my closet before i sleep and make sure its closed as tight as possible :animedepr

[Raquel]

Zombies. I've always been an avid reader and one day I got into my stepdad's book collection. The book I read had green glowing people on it. It was somthing about zombies in the dump. O.o' It scared the living crap outta me. I coulden't sleep for a week. I'd wake up and stare real hard into the shadows and faces would form in the discarded clothes. >.< Gah. I still have nightmares.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]Oh El how do I explain myself without being laughed at.

Let's see, I never watched horror movies so I never got one of those scary boogeymen/woman. I never got freaked out by the guy on the Quaker Oatmeal box, or Lucky the Leprichan (It would have been funny though considering that I'm Irish) Heck I didn't even spaz over clowns or Santa Claus (my brother was afraid of both)

Nope I was (and still am) haunted by this foot deep hole in my parent's basement where the sump pump (weird little thing that helps keep the basement from flooding) is. Yes folks, Chibi Horsewoman is afraid of a hole that's less than a foot deep at the tender age of twenty-four! Beat that![/color]

[Her Black Wings]

[color=maroon]Actually, when I was younger my father always made me watch the hellraiser movies, nightmare on elm street, the jason movies, ect. But none of them really terrified me like candyman did.

I still don't quite have the gall to stand in front of a mirror and say "candyman" 3 times. Believe me, i've tried. I get to two and i'm like "This isn't a good idea," and then can't sleep for a few nights. =[ [/color]

[Guest The Eighth Sin]

I didn't really have one. I had a strange dream twice that freaked me out but it doesn't anymore. Mostly I scared other people, like my aunt and my sister. :animeswea I guess the closest thing that comes to mind was that I used to have nightmares about going to school and not being able to see. I'm pretty over that though too.

[Gavin]

[quote name='kuroinuyoukai']I was hoping Gavin wasn't going to say he was scared of leprechauns...[/quote]

[SIZE=1]Heh I must admit I'll never get used to the idea of people being so interested in the concept of Leprechauns. Most Irish people either find the idea of a Leprechaun as being immensely funny due to the interest it generates among non-Irish people, or they find the concept to be somewhat insulting as it represents a kind of backwardness associated with it. I myself belong to the former rather than the latter as I will never ceased to be amused by how many people think Irish people actually believe in Leprechauns nowadays. [/SIZE]

[IceRose]

When I was little I saw in a dream a zombie come out of my closet, I was so scared that I always jammed a chair up against the closet. I'm scared of the living dead I swear I always shiver to the idea. Still don't like closets though :animeswea

[Starwind]

When I was a kid, my aunt showed me this movie, I wish I could remeber the name. Anyway, it was about this kid who had the ghosts of these dead murders or some stupid crap like that living in his closet and killing people off. Now in retro spec I realize how stupic it was, but for a six year old, watching a guy get decapitated by a closet monster is pretty traumatizing, esspecial since at six you already think something might be in your closet.

[Kirika]

Well, when I was little, and when The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was new, I was scared of those ReDeads. Almost every day at night, after playing a little bit, I'd run into bed with the covers completely over me, thinking that the ReDeads were out to get me XD

[Shadow Blade]

[quote name='Kirika']Well, when I was little, and when The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was new, I was scared of those ReDeads. Almost every day at night, after playing a little bit, I'd run into bed with the covers completely over me, thinking that the ReDeads were out to get me XD[/quote]
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Hmmm......

Kirika, as you already know my film fear is Chuckie. Yeah I know it's pathetic.But like you I was once afraid of one of my games which was the.....please don't laugh at me, but I was once afriad of the Ninja Turtles [head hung in shame]. You know the hard-shelled heros, Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael. I guess you could say I was cool with the rat, Splinter. But I eventually got over the fear especially after I learned to use Raphael really well. But what can I say, I was one paranoid little kid. LOL.

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[Guest kuroinuyoukai]

[quote name='Gavin][SIZE=1']Heh I must admit I'll never get used to the idea of people being so interested in the concept of Leprechauns. Most Irish people either find the idea of a Leprechaun as being immensely funny due to the interest it generates among non-Irish people, or they find the concept to be somewhat insulting as it represents a kind of backwardness associated with it. I myself belong to the former rather than the latter as I will never ceased to be amused by how many people think Irish people actually believe in Leprechauns nowadays. [/SIZE][/quote]

You can thank a B horror movie called Leprechaun for the ignorance. Hey you don't believe in leprechauns? Me neither of course I am not from Ireland either. The things you find out on these threads. Sorry a little off topic. :catgirl:

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]I never really had a boogy man fear when I was a kid. The thing that frightened me was lightening and thunderstorms. It was pretty to watch but I was convinced the lightening was going to hit me.

I do have a lot of nightmares, but they don?t keep me from sleeping either. I just think to myself ?that was interesting? and turn over and go back to sleep. And I?ve had some pretty wacky freaky dreams. Just imagine a Steven King Horror film and that pretty much sums it up. In fact I had one just the other night. I never tell my friends or family the details though since it tends to freak them out.

The one and only time I had a dream that freaked me out so much that I ran to my grandmother in the middle of the night was when I was 15. (I was visiting her at the time) My brother had died just a few months ago and I dreamed that he came back to life as a demon. One where he had a human torso but the rest of his body was a huge snake. Just thinking about that particular dream really freaked me out for quite a while.

Now that I?m older that dream of my brother no longer bothers me, but like I said, I still have nightmares, or rather what most people consider a nightmare, but I don?t lose any sleep or get freaked out by them. [/COLOR][quote name='Kirika']Well, when I was little, and when The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was new, I was scared of those ReDeads. Almost every day at night, after playing a little bit, I'd run into bed with the covers completely over me, thinking that the ReDeads were out to get me XD[/quote][COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]If we were to list Adult Boogy man type fears, I?ll admit those ReDeads in Ocarina of Time and The Wind Waker kind of creep me out. I know they aren?t real but my heart starts racing and I?m always relieved that they are dead. LOL!
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[UDen]

My childhood boogeyman? Swarms of flying insects. I went camping when I was 5 or 6 years old. My brother and his friend were jumping on a stump and a little twig jutting out from the side. That twig had a nest on it. Then I jumped on it. There were A LOT of them little suckers chasing us. THEY LOCKED ME OUT OF THE TRUCK. So I got the full brunt. Must I explain further? *shudders*

[Guest the.evil.god]

My childhood bogeyman was, I think (I HOPE...), a trick of the light...

I would wake up to get ready for school, turn my light on, sit up in bead, but just sit there for a couple seconds not wanting to get up. Well, my light was behind me and my shadow projected onto my closet (which was obviously located to my front). Sometimes though, instead of being me sitting in my bed like it should have been, it was my shadow getting up and walking around the room, making over exagerated laughing gestures at me, and as I started to yell for my mom, it would jump into my closet, which was always (conviniently for it) open slightly.