Fear of Puppets

Apr 23, 2010 17:21

I'm sure there's an official scientific name for it.

I watched the Dark Crystal far longer ago than I care to remember and it gave me my first proper, all-out, phobia-inducing, spook.  For YEARS, every time I had to flush the loo I would flush it and RUN.

It didn't matter where; I just had to not be in the bathroom.

Because I knew for a fact, a ( Read more... )

jim henson, phobias, tentacles, puppets

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sacramentalist April 23 2010, 16:59:26 UTC
Oh the things kids pick up.

I used to have nightmares over a monster on Space 1999. It had one eye and tentacles. It would hypnotise people to come to it and then it would eat them, leaving a charred corpse.

I had nightmares about this thing for years and years.

A couple years ago, I found it on YouTube (Dragon's Den), and it was a fucking FLASHLIGHT and RUBBER HOSES

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Also, when I was a kid, I HAD to sleep with my legs folded. Otherwise Bloody Mary would get me. I hated mirrors.

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kibbles April 23 2010, 19:11:10 UTC
Pupaphobia.

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