BellaOnline Forums Books and Music Horror Literature What is the scariest thing you can think of?

I hate flying.

I am terrified of elevators.

And riding in a car with the windows rolled up, I have to have it cracked a little even in winter time.

my neighbors

Losing my kids.

Good answer. Anything involving our kids is scary.

I'm terrified of vampires. They are so scary and they can fly!!! I've seen Thirty Days of Night starring Josh Hartnett and it is good but equally scary. I'm so paranoid thinking what if that happens to me..lol

Stephen King - I think he is as weird as his books.

The idea of being in a room and finding a snake in there with me.

Snakes! I do not like snakes anywhere near me.

Roaches!!! Can't stand them - give me the creeps!

Being strapped to a table, naked, spiders of all shapes and sizes falling from above and crawling all over you.

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Being in a pitch black room and listening to the sound of something gnawing.

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yep me too moe.
Being all alone, with no God either.

The scariest thing DH can think of is being trapped under anything where you can't get out, like a collapsed building or tunnel.

Fire, Rats, Snakes

Falling.

Creatures (snakes, rats, etc.) I can deal with, but that "out of control" falling feeling I can't stand. So I guess I could say I'm afraid of heights as well -- but only ones that you could conceivably fall from (i.e., the edge of a cliff, but not an upper floor of a skyscraper).

being trapped in a car under water

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finding out first hand that freddie kruger is a real man

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knowing in the next 60 seconds you are going to die a painful, vicious death

Another one that I would like to put in a book.......driving in a car alone...down a long country road - no street lights or anything and looking in the rear view mirror and having someone sit up in the back seat.

oh, I hate that one. They always do that in the movies. I always check the back seat before I get in.

So the question asked was "What is the scariest thing you can think of?"

I only ask my next question because it happens that some people, in particular young people believe in vampires.

Erikae, you said "I'm terrified of vampires. They are so scary and they can fly!!!"

Can we take this as tongue-in-cheek because you realize the same as the rest of us that there are no such "things" as vampires therefore there is no reason to be afraid of them?

As for myself, although this is not a real "thing" either (at least not yet) yet, i am frightened of a succeeding Republican administration.

HaHa! That's a great answer!

Of course anything happening to my kids would be the worst. I am also afraid of disease.

Phyllis, I got to meet Stephen King years ago in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico!

Is that the Truth, Deena? What was he like?

Ahhh - Deena, I am so jealous! I have been reading him since I was in the 6th grade!

My boyfriend was sent to see Jaws and Towering Inferno at a young age and is now afraid of both situations. Both are "real" and could happen (although are unlikely).

Me? I admit that I get VERY afraid of "evil demon" horror movies like the Exorcist. I think that movie scarred me for life. That was a movie that was billed as "could kill you if you had a poor heart" when it came out and of course somehow I then watched it when it came out on brand-new cable. Big mistake. If I let myself start to think that there's an "evil presence" in the house I get absolutely petrified. I realize intellectually that there is no such thing, but there it is.

I can't watch a horror movie. Even commercials for them can get me really scared.

To me the most frightening horror movies are the ones that are based on real life situations. While you're watching it, you always think in the back of your mind that this has happened before and it could happen again.

"Night of the Living Dead", the original movie, scared the jeepers out of me! It was just too real when the lady was sitting in her car and I think she was lost and called to a man she saw walking across the field for help. That "man" was a zombie!

MAN! Wasn't that just the scariest movie ever Phyllis!!! I had to wake up my little sister to go to the bathroom with me at night for months after that! That little girl eating her mom and dad!!! Then that poor guy at the end getting shot...after all that he had gone through!!! Did you see the remake? The heroine was the girl this time. She was so tough. Very different from the lady in the original..."Johnny's got the keys!"

I couldn't stand that guy that wanted everyone to go to the basement...yet it turned out he was right!

Lisa - The Exorcist is actually one of the movies I refuse to watch. I watched when I was a kid and I've been scarred ever since. The bed scene... that seems to be the one they always preview on tv and I always pitch a fit when I see it.

I can take a lot but certain horror movies get to me. Movies with Grunge type special effects really freak me out physicially. I love the movie Poltergeist but have to look away when the Clown scene comes up (I hate clowns).

Pet Semetary has ruined me when it comes to getting into bed because of the scene where the kid is under the bed and slices Jimmy Smits tendon.

As you say, intellectually, I know these are silly fears but who is intellectual 100% of the time? (rhetorical question)

Today, the scariest thing I can think of? Being strapped to a table and burnt alive.

Good one, I think Moe said it...trapped in water in a car is a good one...I can't swim.

I'd have to say Stephen King's Salem's Lot made vampires sound real...as if they could be your neighbors.

But maybe more creepy is psycho thrillers, like Hannibal Lector (sp?). Because unfortunately there are real people out there like that.

Wow,

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one afraid of getting burnt alive on a table.

Yeah, I agree with "losing the kids" as being the SCARIEST thing I can think of. It seems like such an unnatural phenomenon...

Some great movie mentions, as well!

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large spaces (churches, business buildings, etc.) It wasn't the buildings themselves. I had this nagging feeling that I wasn't quite tethered to the ground, and if I let go of, say, a church pew, I would be swept up into the sky. When I would walk into a place with high ceilings, I would hang on for dear life!

Not exactly stable, huh?

Having people in my house without knowing it. Just thinking about it gives me chills! There's an old movie with a babysitter and the psychopath who killed the kids is in the house and calls her, that part I could watch many times a year and I still will freak out while watching it (the rest of the movie is awful). There's also people who just break in people's homes to take pictures of them while sleeping and they just leave without doing anything else !