Are you creeped out by something benign..something like clowns? Teletubbies?

[Greylock]

To whomever said bridges, I got the same thing when I saw this thread, after weeding out dentists and adulterers as not being entirely benign.

When I was young I thought my mothers fear of bridges and water was weird. The aquaphobia I didn't get, but the problem with bridges I did end up with.

Causes:

-The whole San Fran quake thing;
-An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; [joke]
-Driving across the unexpectedly looonnggg Tampa Bay Bridge just a few weeks after it was rammed, fell and many died;
-Ditto, many drives across the Highway 55 bridge over the Hatchie Bottoms after a collapse, in a fog, in which many people died;
-The bridge to Key West at night, first time, very tired;

And hands down, the worst bridge experience ever -

-The old Alton, IL two lane bridge over the Mississippi.

My first experience with it was an utter shock. It's been replaced, but I never could drive that old bridge without fear of my impending doom, white-knuckled pure fear.

 

[Torm]

Obviously, Torm isn't creeped out by anything..... being a god and all.....

Not so. I get kinda frantic about the people from the video for "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. They, and the situation described in the song, describe to me an ancient and powerful evil. I think someone in their group was planetouched, and not in a good way, if you get my meaning.

I'm also a little irrational about anything involving nuclear detonations - but that's one case where it may be pretty rational to be a little irrational.

 

[Torm]

And hands down, the worst bridge experience ever -

-The old Alton, IL two lane bridge over the Mississippi.

Oh yeah! I had almost forgotten about that!

Its that one, "special" part of crossing the bridge when you're going at a slight upward angle and become completely convinced the rest of the bridge is NOT there, right?

Used to scare the crud out of me when I was younger, and probably still would if I didn't cross the Mississippi at Wickliffe, KY\Cairo,IL whenever I go now.

 

[Captain Howdy]

I'm right there with you on the eyes thing. I can't even manage eye drops, much less contacts. I'll be wearing glasses 'til I die. Lasik eye surgery is way out (as I could afford it). Blood, guts, and gore in movies don't bother me put if someone gets stabbed in the eye...

In Minority Report, there's that scene about him getting his eyes replaced, I didn't know it was coming and wham! panic attack city.

Also when I was younger, I couldn't bring myself to swallow pills. It wasn't until late junior high that I could take two aspirin even with water. Although that is something I've grown out of.

And I haven't eaten cotton candy since I stayed up til 4am one night watching Killer Clowns From Outer Space.

The eye thing creeps out a few of my friends too. We were watching Lucio Fulci's "Zombie", and I knew about the famous eye scene, but none of them did...
If you have'nt seen the movie, a woman is holding a door shut because there is a zombie trying to get in. The zombie's hands break through and the wood splinters. Then the hands grab the woman and pull her ever so slowly toward the splinters. Well, basically she gets one in the eye, and the camera gets it all from a good angle in close-to-slow motion. They all screamed for a while, I couldn't stop laughing!
As far as what creeps me out, pretty much just the whole surgery/hospital/injection thing. Gore doesnt bother me, a person on a slab getting their insides picked at by three or four masked men does. Go figure.

 

[Greylock]

Oh yeah! I had almost forgotten about that!

Its that one, "special" part of crossing the bridge when you're going at a slight upward angle and become completely convinced the rest of the bridge is NOT there, right?

Used to scare the crud out of me when I was younger, and probably still would if I didn't cross the Mississippi at Wickliffe, KY\Cairo,IL whenever I go now.

Yep. That and the fact that it was about as stable as an old wooden roller-coaster. And the fact that the danged thing seemed to be about ten feet wide. Oh, is that a semi coming my way? [shudder]

Thanks the skies, they blew that bridge up in '93.

 

[BOZ]

hell, i tear up when i watch that scene in Clockwork Orange where he is forced to watch movies - Minority Report just reminded me of that but was worse.

 

[Ranger REG]

I don't mean to sound political but I'm creeped out by Al Gore and John Kerry.

 

[Knoxgamer]

Greys. The large black eyed, lanky aliens. I have a, completely irrational, fear of the image of greys. I used to have nightmares about them with great frequency.

 

[Dark Nemesis]

Balloons scare the hell out of me, particularly if they might pop. Which made it very distracting at our last game session, when the DM taped balloons to the ceiling fan to celebrate his son's birthday.

On the bright side, I long ago got over my fear of birthday cake!

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I have a friend who can't watch the opening of TriStar studios movies...the pegasus flying toward her freaks her out. I also happened to mention I'd be doing a Halloween reading at a local library of Poe's "The Premature Burial". She begged me to change the subject immediately.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of clowns; they make me pretty uneasy. I'm not afraid of wasps, etc., just allergic. I can't swim a lick, so I'm not comfortable in or on water. But my biggest one is fire. I don't run shrieking from the room if a candle is lit, and I can even light them myself with no problem. But if someone tries to bring one near me, or heaven forbid light a match or hold a stick taken from a campfire close to me, they better be ready for a beating of epic proportions.

Having said all this, my players have learned over the years to NEVER reveal to me their fears. I've had people leave the room when their PC's fell into a pit of snakes, or described spiders crawling in the beard of a dwarven PC. My sister once fled the room in order to avoid throwing up after I described carrion crawler larvae hatching from a corpse. Another guy had to walk out for some fresh air after his character stuck his head into a normal wasp nest.

Yeah...I'm proud of those....