scary childhood memories

yearofthenick

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When I was 5 years old, I used to have a babysitter who would take me and some of the other kids she watched to a private community pool. We were usually the only ones there. One day she decided to terrorize me... I would get into the pool, step by step down the stairs... and whenever I would get chest-height in the water, the babysitter would scream at the top of her lungs over and over "SHAAARRRKK!!!!! Nick get out, he's coming to eat you!!!!!"
I am 25 years old and I have not been able to get into a pool alone ever since. I figure if two people are in the pool and I'm one of them, I have a 50% chance of being eaten by a shark, but if I were alone, a 100% chance is something I'd never roll the dice on.
The weirdest thing about all this is that I'm a surfer. I stopped surfing about a year ago when my wife had our first child, but before that I would surf almost weekly. I've even seen sea lions and dolphins when I've been surfing and I wasn't afraid at all... in fact it was awesome.
I'm not afraid of sharks in the ocean and I'm not even afraid of lakes... but the second I see a swimming pool, the hair still stands up on the back of my neck... there's a shark in there, and he's going to eat me if he gets the chance.
I need counseling.
 

bigarn

Active Member
hey! I just noticed our avatars have a connection ... no problem.
consider yourself safe in any pool.
 

nw2salt08

Active Member
Clowns! They freak me out. When I was 7 my mom had me watch Stephen King's It.....I was traumatized!!! I hate going to the circus or seeing clowns on the tv. Just freaks me out.
 

gliderjohn

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being alone in a thunderstorm. Bad experience when I was 4. My brother and cousins left me alone in a supermarket in the worst storm I had ever been in. they thought it was funny. I ran around the store looking for my mom, but COULDN'T FIND ANYONE IN THE STORE!!!. Eventually found her in frozen foods.
Scarred my for life. I still have difficulty being in a thunderstorm alone
. Just one other person with me and I'm ok.
 

jennythebugg

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Originally Posted by Nw2Salt08
http:///forum/post/2816919
Clowns! They freak me out. When I was 7 my mom had me watch Stephen King's It.....I was traumatized!!! I hate going to the circus or seeing clowns on the tv. Just freaks me out.

i am terrified of clowns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXo4P...eature=related
my uncle served in okinawa when he was in the marines and when he came back he took a whole group of us to his friends house to watch this movie... that christmas he gave us a replica of this doll that he got while he was over there.. we were terrified of it, it lived in the hall closet till he took it back
 

alyssia

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When I was around 6 or 7 our neighbor's super mean german shepard jumped the fence and chased me around our back yard. Luckily he didn't get me but he was later put down after he bit 2 people. I am now terrified of any dog that isn't tiny, no matter how nice it is. They are all going to rip my throat out!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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