This troper has always been sympathetic, and slightly amused, at the fears listed in {{Nightmare Fuel}}. But she has never really been afraid of any of them. She doesn't really think that things that aren't meant to be scary, well, are. However, that all changed when she recently saw a commercial featuring a talking pothole! It was quite unnerving! And for some reason brought to mind the horrifying oil monster from 'The Raft" part of Creepshow 2.

This Troper has a rather strange fear of whales. Our stations have started playing those damn Pacific Life commercials with the whales swimming. ''Those freak this Troper right the hell out.'' She gets a mini panic attack whenever she sees it and her parents warn her whenever it pops up, although they don't have the courtesy to change the channel (or just not mention it, because she probably wouldn't have noticed it if she was doing something else). This Troper thinks her mother gets some kind of sick pleasure out of seeing this Troper jump back in fear at something admittedly ridiculous. (This Troper always gets her back with a plastic snake or toy mouse, though.

This tropette has serious issues with any commercial where there is no background music, just a singular person's voice talking. For some reason the utter silence other than the voice just creeps her the fuck out. She scrambles for the remote to change the channel as quick as she can. It doesn't help that those commercials gave her nightmares either...That's not normal, right?

I always expect this to occur on TV every now and then, having grown up watching Billy and Mandy, but never in a ''phone commercial!'' I was watching the ad for some new phone plan with the story of the commercial being that this crazy (possibly wannabe) girlfriend sitting on a tree branch looking at some dude, saying how with her phone, she can check his Twitter to see if he talked about her, blah blah blah, forced-and-canned-scare-attempts, blah, saying how the phone deal was crazy. Then, a strike of lightning occurs, the girl disappearing away, and the small print for the details of the phone plan showed up. At the very last minute, '''''THE GIRL SHOWS UP, HER FACE RIGHT IN THE CAMERA, GIVING A POSITIVELY EPIC SLASHER SMILE!''''' I freaked out so badly, I had my mom come to my room asking what was the matter. That face would've put to shame ShockSite worthy last-second-scary-pic variety videos.

This troper saw the ending of DeathNote just before she went to bed. Needless to say, seeing all that blood at the final scene before shutting her eyes and letting her subconscious pray on her phobias wasn't a good idea...

I love DeathNote, but it gave me some of the most ''unsettling'' nightmares. Surprisingly enough most of them weren`t about Kira, but about Demegawa. His greed for money and attention and his Quisling-status are so ''damn'' creepy. I had nightmares about him wanting to kill grade schoolers live on TV or brainwashing people via television. However the most scary Nightmare about Death Note, was about me figuring out, that Death Notes were real. (No, I do ''not'' actually believe this, it was just a dream.) I wanted to post it on the internet, but just before I got around to press the Submit-button, I suddenly felt a horrible ''real'' pain in my chest and fell to the ground. When I looked at the door, I saw Light standing there, with his Death Note in hand, grinning and saying: "Wow! You`re so smart!" Then he looked at his watch and added: "Oh, and by the way: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..." Then I woke up. The next day I saw the doctor, because I thought, that the pain I felt in my dream could be the result of a real heart issue. He found that my heart was perfectly ok. Seems like I just have a ''really'' vivid imagination...

I've had moments like that too. I've never watched Death Note, but Higurashi was the cause of that for me.

Oddly enough, the more nightmare fuel an anime has, the more this troper enjoys it. It might have something to do with the higher maturity level, but she can't deny that seeming a well drawn freakish monster or utterly bizzare scene pleases her immensely.

This Troper wasn't bothered by that, but instead only mildly freaked out by that look in Ryuk's eyes in the very final scenes.

I'm a big fan of the anime, "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni", but sometimes, I make the mistake of watching it at night, causing me to be scared shitless that I'll be murdered in my sleep. Well, obviously that never happened, but something I never thought would scare me happened; I hallucinated that red-eyed Hanyuu was standing right in front of the recliner I sleep in. She's a good character, not evil whatsoever. But damn, that scared me. I mean, imagine it being like, 1am, all dark in your room, save for the computer and TV, and someone who is supposed to be fictional pops up at the end of your bed, staring at you with glowing red eyes. And the hallucination didn't end right away, I had to blink and stare for a few moments before it finally faded.

Higurashi is an easy source of NightmareFuel. This Troper made the mistake of watching all of Onikakushi-hen just before bed. The resulting nightmare, of course, featured the killer janitor brigade, beating friends to death, and clawing out one's own throat. FUN.

Ooh, sounds like a fun anime. Do you know where I can watch it?

When I was little, I used to be very scared of an episode of Kimba The White Lion called "A Friend Indeed", which I had on video. In that episode, there was a blind leopard that lived in the sewers underneath Paris. The leopard looks very creepy. He had greenish-yellow eyes, and his roar sounded very scary. It sounded like it was going right through you. I couldn't sleep for months after watching that episode, and I kept having nightmares about that leopard for a really long time afterward.

Even though it may not be scary, Never watch Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z. It's Nightmare Fuel to your childhood. BUTTERCUP IS A F**KING LESBIAN!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Yeah, lesbians are terrifying.

No... Buttercup is more "Even the girls want her" than lesbo. must be her bokuko-ness.

This troper had a nightmare when is was 8 there was some creepy guy in my house in a black cloak who ran at me and started attacking me. i was yelling "DAD HELP" in real life even though i was asleep, the creepy part is, i felt it.then i woke up....

Not sure if this fits here, or in the SlenderManMythos Troper Tales page, but This Troper once had a brief but terrifying Slender Man dream. It started out with me getting out of bed for a glass of water, thus leading me to believe I was actually awake. As I approached the kitchen, passing by the living room, (all of the lights were off, by the way) I saw a shadowy figure. Moving closer I realized "Oh, Fuck! It's Slendy!" He proceeded to throw me across the room without lifting a finger, and I swear I felt the impact of my body against the wall. He started advancing towards me, and as he raised his arm up preparing to strike, I woke up. Needless to say, I did not sleep at all for the rest of that night.

I once had a dream where I was hiding behind a couch for some reason, suddenly 2 feet appeared and the bottom of the couch. I stood up and Jason Vorheese from Friday the 13th was standing there, he suddenly raised his machete and it cme down on my head, it split my head in half. That disturbed the living hell.

This troper has been haunted all her life by dreams of being trapped as nothing but consciousness inside a huge rusting machine with huge gears that turned ever so slowly and making the most godawful noise that could ever be imagined. Hell Is That Noise. Between being trapped in the hell machine were scenes of a sunny green garden, a single white daisy growing out of the grass. The normality of that, in contrast with those gears grinding and pistons pumping, made me want to scream. Except I couldn't.

HOLY S--- I have a similar recurring dream. Except, instead of a machine, it's a huge... castle/volcano thing. That is slowly growing bigger. There is a quiet clicking noise in the background. And with each click I see a single white daisy... No idea why it's so scary, but it is.

This troper once had a dream about having to fight off a whole gang of werewolves who had somehow gotten entrance into his house. The worst part of it was watching them transform and having to fight them off while knowing that if even one of them bit or clawed me, that would be the end of me.

The same troper has had nightmares about being overrun or eaten by rats, including monster-sized rats. He HATES and fears rats in real life and can't stand to be within five feet of them, for fear of their disease-carrying and their potential aggressiveness.

This troper recently had a dream: you know the demoman from TeamFortress2? His funny 'Kah-bewm!' taunt? Not so funny when you hear and see a massive explsion in your face right after he does it, making you wake up with a jolt so big you fall out of bed and hit your head against your bedside drawers, almost knocking you out. I was afraid to sleep incase that happened again. What made it worse was that the explosion sounded so damn realistic, and rung in my ears for minutes after.

Exploding head syndrome?

As a child This Troper visited an aquarium where you could walk though a plexi-glass tunnel under the water, ''through the shark tank'', and although it could never happen in real life that experience combined with the BBC's ''WalkingWithDinosaurs'' means I ''still'' have dreams of being in one of those with ''Fricking Liopleurodons!''. In the dream, the tube is always about thirty meters under water and I have to walk right the way though to the other side to escape. And I am always ''exactly'' half way through when I notice the first crack... Heck! In some of them, and I blame ''{{Myst}} II'' for this one, the tube is a force field generated by Steampunk technology. Its all fine, until I'm exactly half way and look back and see a fin pass throught the tube and go right through. It only holds back the ''water''.

This troper saw WWD as a little kid and was traumatized for... I have no idea how long.

HATE YOU. HATE HATE HATE. I'll never be able to walk through on of those again.

ThisTroper wholeheartedly sympathizes with the troper above. In my hometown at the zoo there used to be a short boatride that took you through a dark tunnel filled with South American fishes...fine until I realized that one of the fish was somewhere in the neighborhood of a ton in weight and liked to swim RIGHT UP to the glass and stare at the boats. Creeeppppyyy.

This troper will see your shark tunnel and raise you a HIPPO EXHIBIT where you can do the same thing, only the hippos keep ''gnawing on the glass'' to try to get at you... This troper has been Hippophobic since the age of eight because of this.

It gets worse: In this dream, the one with the force-field tunnel, there is always a deep see ledge beneath me, with a shipwreck teetering on the edge of the huge, dark abyss. Shipwrecks, just shipwrecks, creep me out. They�re just so skeletal: and I'm an osteoarchaeologist by training, I LIKE skeletal. But for some reason the bones of ships have always scared me when the bones of men or bests could not. It�s the noise from the steel ribs as it teeters on the brink: the dammed creaking noise...

this troper's bro had a dream when he was 10 or 11. when he had saved my mum hey had this toy robot (which for some reason i picure it as R.O.B a NES tool even thoe it wasn't in the dream)while he was trying to go to sleep he hear's a noice he look the robot had red eyes and was walking towards him saying "your mum was surpose to die,now you will die"

I had this one sort of daydream once. People say the world will end in 2012. 2012 is also when the Presidential term ends. The thought was that, what if Obama had planted a wired system of bombs all through the underground of the country? And when his term ended... BOOOOOOOM...? And, yeah, the end. For America, anyway.

If it helps, his term ends in 2013. Or possibly 2017; you never know.

This troper was watching FoolyCooly before bed. All night, I had insane dreams and kept waking up every 30 minutes or so. These nightmares were bad enough to leave me physically ill the next day.

This troper had an epiphany moment when I realised that since I couldn't feel pain in a dream, dreams couldn't hurt me and nightmares need no longer threaten me. A few nights later, I had a dream where someone was about to break all my fingers. He never got around to it, so no pain, but the worst crippling, paralysing terror I have ever experienced (including in real life). The only time I've ever been scared to go back to sleep.

This Troper tends to dream frequently, and fairly realistically. To the extent where she can have trouble sorting out which events actually happened, and which came from old dreams. This will range from simple stuff-- like thinking a friend moved away, or adding incorrect details to her childhood-- to absolutely terrifying-- a very vivid memory of being drowned in a lake as a child by some unknown adult. By all accounts, these things never happened, ''but why do I remember them so clearly?'' (The idea of an unreliable memory is nightmarish enough. You have these thoughts, in your head, and you have no idea where they came from, or if they are even true...)

I have the same problem, always thought I was the only one! I often get mixed-up as to what was a dream, a daydream, or a real memory. I wonder if we're crazy?

I hope not, I have that too!

Count me in! ... although it was only one Fake Memory (?), but I will undoubtely get new ones later on. The one that I've already gotten is my dad punishing me by spanking. It might not count as terrible for you, but he's one of those people who never use violence... on the other hand, I sometimes doubt my sanity, so we might all be crazy...

This troper had a dream a few years ago where God told him he was going to die in three days. Obviously, he was very worried for the next few days. Wasn't much more careful than he usually was, because he was worried that he was going to drop dead. Then again, after he didn't die, he began to wonder if it was God's timescale and it meant he'd die in 6 billion years.

I was not scared by any aspect of PathwaysIntoDarkness, but I ''did'' have a horrifying nightmare in which I (attempted) to play a sequel of it. In the dream, [=PID2=] was highly realistic, and started with the player in a helicopter outside the pyramid. I went down the ladder, stepped into the pyramid, and immediately two giant hands started climbing at me. I ran out of the pyramid, climbed the ladder, returned to the helicopter, quit the game, sold the CD and ''then'' woke up.

When I was 5-6 years old,I had nightmares. A LOT of nightmares. So I decided that I just wouldn't sleep any more. I still remember laying in bed staring at my night light, closing my eyes every few seconds, then forcing myself to open them. I was extremely scared of falling asleep without knowing it. That was the worst. Especially when I started having dreams that I was AWAKE and in bed and then the bed would suddenly fall through the floor. Eventually, I gave up this habit. The memories still haunt me however.

This troper was scared of the flashing Medusa head boss in the original {{Castlevania}}. He had many nightmares of it and was afraid of seeing it show up in front of his bed in his room. He even had a dream where that head was hiding under the table, and he could only fight back by taking his dinner plate, peas included (this feature in particular sticking out in the dream), and shoving it in the Medusa head's face.

This Troper loved to play the game Animal Crossing for gamecube all the time when she was little. It's an innocent little game that's fun and easy to play. I stopped playing after I beat though, it and one night I dreamed that I was inside the game. I went into one of the houses and was transported into another dimension or something. That wasn't the scary part though; their cute anime eyes were replaced with empty sockets, and they followed me around, just trailing me, whispering "you abandoned us"...

This Troper (Icalasari (for some reason, the page link template does not work with my username)) has seen those faces. Made me stop playing for a few days, terrified

I had an Animal Crossing dream in which I was running around, and spontanously all the animals around me fell to the ground, the leaves fell off the trees, and the grass turned brown. ''All in about a second.'' I ran up to one of the fallen animals (it was Walker the dog, who was in my town at the time) and tried to talk to him, but his face was frozen in a "shock" expression and he just said ".... .... ...." Cue a Game Over screen and a refusal to play the game for some time afterwards. My hands are shaking right now, actually...

Closed, unlocked doors. Stems from a weird dream involving an animated Jackie Chan. Ended with me opening a bathroom door only for a werewolf to burst in and devour him in a few seconds. Oddly, I am now a furry and voreaphile, so I guess I am also a NightmareFetishist...

TMI.

This troper recently had a two part dream that made her glad it wasn't real. One part had it where everyone I knew was slowly being converted into pod people like in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The thought of having the people you love turned into emotionless drones and no one around to believe you was only offset by the second part of her dream, where I watch a car holding my grandmother (who died a few years ago) jump off a two-story parking lot and crash into the ground. When I tried to look inside, I was instantly aware (though I never saw it), that grandma's head was no longer there. She had been decapitated.

This troper doesn't have nightmares often, or even remember dreams for more than a few minutes most of the time. That said, I once had a nightmare where I was apparently some sort of forensic detective, investigating a possible murder in a train yard. Upon inspecting the body, I found a binder in his backpack. This binder was in my own backpack in real life at that moment. This apparently signaled that this man was my father, and I had only not yet realized this because ''he, too, had been decapitated.'' I saw everything though. This was the only dream from which I have ever woken up crying. - Yamoryu

Made worse by the fact that he died 3 years later, though under no similar circumstances.

I have once dreamt about a (completely fictional) arcade game BossFight against a spider that was slowly inflating. Eventually, it filled the whole arena and ended the game. The spider itself was only mildly creepy, but the dream itself helped me realize something: I am truly scared of {{Game Over}}s.

This Troper was terrified by this creepy-looking carving of an apple with a happy face on it which his great aunt used to have hanging over her kitchen door. I think she eventually removed it, but my childhood was forever tainted. The Mott's Apple Juice commercial from circa 1975 with the singing apples ("The finest apples in Apple Land make Mott's Apple Juice taste grand!") was a source of nightmares. In it, I'd be riding in the car with my family to a street behind our housing tract, where in real life there were no streets, to a drive-through refreshment stand with a mural consisting of nothing but various fruits (apples, oranges, pears, etc.) with human faces. They'd come to life and leap out at me. This was the only recurring dream I ever had, and would force myself awake any time I saw that * ^(&$# refreshment stand!

I'm not so sure this belongs in here, but once I had a nice dream about my dear grandmother. She was living in a beautiful house, and seemed really happy. Here's where the scary part comes in. The next day, when I came home from school, mom was on the couch, crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said that my grandmother had passed away.

When this troper was a young child, they used to experience one recurring nightmare. Around the age of four or five, she had her own bedroom. Every night when I went to bed, I would eventually witness my window flash with an orange light and this ENORMOUS FLOATING, TRANSPARENT SKULL would materialise in front of me. It had a circle of smaller skulls twirling around it constantly... and it would talk to me. It wasn't particularly mean or malevolent, it just talked to me and tried to make pleasant conversation. It even asked me politely to please NOT BE AFRAID of it and that it didn't mean any harm. This dream was so realistic that this troper genuinely assumed that she didn't sleep at night and spent the entire twelve hours watching this giant floating skull chat with me. It certainly didn't help when my own mother, in response to hearing about this dream, told me that the previous inhabitant of that room died of cancer at an early age. The dream stopped when I moved rooms, but there have been some dreams where it reappears and tells me that I can't escape it.

Thanks to it, this troper has been terrified of ghosts for life.

This one had several nightmares at her granddad's creaky old house. The worst was when I was sleeping in the living room on a sofa bed and I dreamt that there was the silhouette of a freaky, scarecrow-like ''thing'' with a pumpkin head creeping towards the back door... And I found them scary at the time, but a couple of times I dreamt that I got abducted by Flash Gordon-esque bad guys in a spaceship while I was playing out in the garden.

This troper once dreamed that there was a corpse somewhere in his house, and he was trying to find it before the police came and presumed that he had killed its previous owner. The smell got worse and worse as he got closer to finding it, until he finally did find it - under his bed. At which point he woke up. And for many long, LONG, terrifying moments of perfect wakefulness, ''he could still smell it''.

This troper has a similar experience with a dream involving one or more of her teeth falling out. Even after she wakes up, she can still feel the gap between her remaining teeth with her tongue. It takes her several minutes to convince herself that all her teeth are, in fact, present and accounted for.

This troper has long surreal dreams that usally are forgoten by mid afternoon but their are some nightmarish ones that stuck with her, one involed her eyeballs beings ripped out of her sockets with a drill at the doctors office, another one involed a bunch of creepy people trying to live in her grandma's house, one where she and her family turned into ugly werewolves, one where her soul and her body was seprated for an nightmarish operation, and the scariest one involed a evil canivirous pink teddy bear that puts Lotso to shame.

This troper recently had a dream that I was on a school bus with a huge group of people, including my ex-boyfriend. Everyone on it started getting really rowdy, and eventually the bus tipped over. No one was hurt, so we all got out. We were in this strange, desolate little town, surrounded by abandoned stores. My ex-boyfriend suggested we all split up to go look for help, and I went off with him. We stopped at one store that looks deserted, but the front door is open, so we go inside. It's incredibly tiny, like the inside of a broom closet, and dark and dusty, but there's an opening leading into another room that looks fully lit. I, however, got freaked out, and told him we're leaving. We went back outside, and started walking toward the next store, which was really more like a stall, and full of dingy, dusty clothes. We looked over to an open door, and saw this guy with a cat head working at an old-fashioned sewing machine. I asked him if he can help us, but he just looked at me, meowed in a weird way (like a human trying to meow), and ''elongated'' his neck past the both of us. I shivered so hard that I woke myself up. I didn't fall back asleep for about thirty minutes because that freaking cat-man bothered me so much.

Now this is a weird one, I had a dream where I was shopping, fine enough, but then, a FREAKING CAN OF TOMATOES attacked me, with a demonic face to boot. Then it got MAD. It knocked me uncounscious, and could here it snarling. My eyes opened (In the dream)and it got its teeth and bit me. I woke up, and actually FELT the pain physically. Cue me going "Oh my god oh my god WHAT HAPPENED?" That day, I got knocked out by a joke}} TOMATO CAN.

When this Troper was about 10 years old, she had a dream one night about it snowing outside her house. Since it rarely snows where we live (we're talking once or twice a DECADE here), my sister and I got excited and ran outside. we played in the snow and had a snowball fight, your usual snow stuff. But then something weird happened. Suddenly, my sister and I stared coughing, with a {{Scare Chord}} in the back. As time went on, it only got worse and worse, to the point where we could barely talk or breathe. I'm not entirely sure what happened to my sister, but I was collapsed in the snow, wheezing, and everything started to go black. Then, complete darkness. When I woke up, I had NO idea what happened in the dream. Years later, I started to get it. It wasn't snow; it was volcanic ash. And we don't live anywhere near any volcanoes, which baffled me even more. But later, it finally hit me. My dream was about Of The World As We Know It}} the end of the world.

Almost ''all'' of this Tropers dreams are this way. This troper has been shot, stabbed, beaten to death, skinned alive, devoured alive, set on fire, locked in an Auschwitz gas chamber, raped, tortured on a rack (which has given me a fear of manacles - ironic, considering I like bondage. Just not with anything weighted ''and'' made of metal. Ever. This particular dream was quite traumatic, especially when you stop and realize that I woke up with my back covered in slowly oozing stripes and my face was badly bruised - I was struck across the face with a riding crop when I refused to answer questions. I may be a masochist, but this dream was not arousing ''at all''... *shudders*), stoned to death, drowned, and murdered. She usually wakes up, not screaming, but shaking and checking herself for physical wounds because the pain she felt in the dream ''is still there'' and it feels like there should be blood spurting from some place in her body, or intestines spilled all around. One of my dreams involved a depraved axe murder and small children. I did not sleep for ''days'' after that. I've also been locked in a basement (in a dream) and been raped for the hell of it whilst being whipped and told I was going to undergo an abortion (don't ask why, I don't know)...''without anesthetic''.

Has anyone else had that dream where all your teeth rot out of your face?

Oh my God. All the bloody time. At least twice a month for a few years now. I thought it was just me until I read somewhere that it meant you were ashamed of what was coming out of your mouth. In my case they started about the time that I began trying to break the habit of cussing.

Worst dream I ever had: I was going to Starbucks. I was inside the building, when all of a sudden, an armed madman appears outside. He shoots and kills two of the people on the sidewalk, and then a little girl standing next to me cries "That was my mother!" after a woman falls to the ground outside. The cashier hides us all behind the counter and locks the doors, the killer continueing to shoot people. Finally, the police show up, but the man gets away, escaping into the woods. But oh, ItGetsWorse. I go home, and walk into the door to find my father (who is a very confident, clean cut man, so this image was even more chilling) holding a handgun to his head, covered in bloody scratches. I go back outside, only to see the gunman walking up from the woods outside my house. I try to run inside, but he is faster, and slips into the door before I can close it. My father sits in the living room right by our kitchen, doing nothing, as I am curled up on the floor there, sobbing. The gunman points his rifle at me and...I wake up. I remember this dream vividly, only because it freaked the ever living daylights out of me.

Okay, so. Troper, in her dream, is a young woman who works at an art museum. She is working a night shift and goes out to get coffee. On the way, Troper sees a very menacing-looking woman watching her. Creepy, okay, but whatever. There are creepy people out there. Troper goes back to the museum and locks the doors behind her. She sets down her purse and turns back to the doors--to see an enormous, black, disgusting monster galloping toward the (glass) doors. Before she can move, it has crashed into the doors and is trying to get in. It tears one door off its hinges and pounces on Troper, crushing her to the point where she can't scream. It lets up the tiniest bit and Troper manages to get away, only to find the woman from earlier grabbing her in a chokehold and saying, "I can't imagine being you right now. I would hate to be ''tortured and killed.'' " Then I woke up, turned on the light in my room, and listened to Here Comes the Sun about a thousand times on repeat before closing my eyes again.

I had this dream once where me and a group of people went to a hotel. We get to our room and there's a bloody body in there. Then the floor infront of use turns to spikes and the door closes shut.. It comes swinging at everyone but me. First off they cut off their legs and they fall face first into the spikes and their heads get split in half. I'm the only one alive and in the middle of the floor someone pops up and says "Your time has come." He takes out a saw, and I desperatly try to open the door open. The spikes disapear as he walks toward me. I try to kick him but he cuts off BOTH of my legs. As I lay there he slices my arms off. Just before he gets my head I wake with a start, and I was sweating like hell.

This Troper still gets tense when she thinks of a dream she had a couple of years ago: She was driving to visit a family member in another state, when she got lost, and had to pull over in a small town on the side of the highway. She got out of the car, and realized that the place was deserted. Suddenly, a young boy, with dirt all over his face walked past her, turned around, and said, "The funeral service is almost over." He started walking backwards, all the way to the door of a looming, and very obviously abandoned building. He then said, "I'll see you tomorrow." and closed the door behind him. Cue abrupt wakeup. *shivers* The creepy thing is, this troper has a nagging feeling that she knows the guy in her dream... somehow.

And it definitely doesn't help that she just saw SilentHill today, and realized that that's the vibe the town had.

I've feared 2 images. One was when i was Very young, a Rugrats VHS had a picture of Chucky with frizzy hair that scared me as much as seeing Cthulhu would. Later in life i was irrationally afraid of the picture on the Goosebumps book Creature Teacher. I hid the book in a closet for years, and feared cleaning my room because I may have to clean our messy closet. One of the few dreams I remember was filled with the THREAT of seeing the book. Yes, the picture scared me so bad that one of my scariest dreams was about worrying about seeing it.

This Troper has a series of recurring dreams from when she was very, very young until present day (she is eighteen) that update themselves from events within her life, and it takes the form of a town. There are three parts of the town, the new part - based on fairly resent life events, the old part - based on the past, and the haunted part. The haunted part contains a hotel that, whenever this troper 'visits', is normally overrun by zombies should you enter the Tower or the Red Bedroom (both locations in said hotel). It also houses the house which is identical to the house where she lived with her abusive stepfather in real life, which, when entered, often triggers a Silent Hill style siren which signals ghosts, which is only eerie when you consider that this has been going on since well before Silent Hill. However, none of this scares her particularly. What really scares her is that sometimes, when she dreams about it, it seems more real than her day to day life, and she can draw reliable sketches and maps of this town when she can barely remember to get lunch at 1pm in real life.

There's something in our house. It's terrifying and we don't know where it is or what it is, we just know we have to hide. My younger brother is crying his eyes out because he's so frightened, and we can't find my younger sister. We hide under the bed, I'm stroking his hair and telling him it will all be alright. The thing is in our room. We stop breathing, we try to be as silent as we possibly can. My eyes are screwed tight but I can still see it, and it's an EldritchAbomination from god knows where. It finds us, my brother is still sobbing. Then we're eaten and I jolt awake with tears running down my face. It was the most terrifying dream this troper has ever had, mainly from the fear of my family being killed.

I once had a dream where I was in RedDeadRedemption as myself. Blah, not so creepy. I was talking to Marston, and then suddenly Marston's voice changed. I looked at Marston's face, and it was bone-white, starved, and skeletal, with huge red orbs for eyes and absolutely no expression. Marston (can I really call him that anymore?) said something to the effect of "Come with me...it is your only hope to escape..." Thoroughly freaked out, I turned around, and...''something'' attacked me. Just to fuck with me a bit more, the dream suddenly gave me a Beretta pistol, which I immediately emptied at the...thing. ''It didn't do shit''. Then I woke up, sweating and filled with adrenaline. And the creepiest part is, ''I can't remember what attacked me.'' No, actually, that's wrong. The creepiest fucking part is that that hideous abomination that Marston turned into was trying to warn me. Yeah, he was trying to ''warn me'' about that EldritchAbomination...and so whatever it was, it was horrific enough that another abomination terrifying enough to be an SCP was afraid of it. Lucky I woke up.

You do remember the SA-X from {{Metroid Fusion}}, right? Super Happy Fun-Times, especially when you play the game the first time, not knowing when that thing pops up. I had several dreams about it, with me being in Samus' Fusion Suit, slowly walking in a seemingly quiet hallway. Then an explosion occured, with the SA-X standing at the other end of the Hallway, with me being unable to move. The next thing was an Ice Beam, followed by a Super Missile to the face, and me waking up in deep horror. Thinking back to this now, it doesn't seem that bad, but these days I couldn't sleep anymore.

This troper once had a dream of a cute old couple on vacation in Egypt. They were touring in a tomb of an ancient pyramid when the old lady realized that the souls of the statues in the tomb were being forever tortured. She was followed back to the hotel by one of the torturers and in the middle of the night she was dragged away. When her husband went to look for her he ended up in the tomb again and saw the statue of his wife with her a look of intense fear and pain forever on her face. Not to mention that this troper, the viewer, could hear the tortured screams of hundreds of people. That look of pain and fear still tortures me to this day.

This troper once had a terrible nightmare. It had a girl standing in the middle of ruins, who looked suspiciously like Miku Hatsune. She was under 13, and dressed in a bloodstained dress. Her entire town (which was underground, by the way) was wiped out by this strange disease that had to do with insects, tentacles, and other gory details which I won't mention for your sanity and scare me to this day. '''MORE GORY DETAILS''': All of a sudden, she was struck by the illness and a tentacle burst out of her side, spraying blood, slime, and other stuff everywhere. Cockroaches came out of her mouth, and maggots began to eat at her flesh on her wrists. She collapsed to the ground, and an ominous musicbox-esque like song began to play in the background. Wonderful dreams.

I had this dream about a huge polluted pond just suddenly appearing in the school field. There's a guy on a boat in the pond and warns us to not go in it. After that an electrical charge happened in the back of the pond. I knew we shouldn't go swimming in it because it was dirty, but I was wondering was where the electrical charge came from. All of a sudden a person jumps into the pond. I see a HUGE stingray (I mean like a 50ft one [I was really into Godzilla when this dream happened.]) And it stings the person through the heart and kills him. Oh the irony, because one day after this dream, Steve Irin got killed from a stingray's barb going through his heart.

This troper has a weird relationship with this particular nightmare because thinking about the content amuses him to no end but remembering the actual dream still scares him. My parents have never been too religious, so one day when I had to sleep over at my grandmother's house ( was about 5 years old at the time) I was confused when she did the symbol of the holy cross on me (In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit) because I never heard of it before. That very same night I had a dream that took place in the very same room I was sleeping in which a small trapdoor opened in a wall and from it came what appeared to be the Doorknob from Disney's AliceInWonderland, but it was looking at me very angrily, and then I go hold on to my grandma, who is next to me and tell her "It's the Holy Spirit! Protect me!" I always laugh when I remember that line but when I remember the creature staring at me I get a chill.

This recurring dream I have is super basic but always has me waking up in a cold sweat (that sounds so cheesy, but it's true) every night I have it - I'm just laying in my bed with the sheets over me, but there are bug crawling all over me and in every orifice (think, EVERY orifice,) and I'm trying to scream but they're filling up my entire throat so I sound like I'm gargling and crunching them inside me. The bugs vary from being cockroaches, maggots, big ants, crickets, those big black wasp/hornet things, or millipedes. Nothing leading up to all this, nothing after, just a few seconds of feeling them all over me and then I wake up. Anybody else ever have this??

Warning: You could be offended by this, if you are a (catholic) religious person. But the following is not how I actually think about religion/church/christianity/Virging Mary. This was just a bizarre, horrifying nightmare I had and it helps me talking about it.

In this dream my mum and dad had an argument. Apparently about whether I should go to church today or not. My dad said that we haven`t been there for so long, but my mum said something cryptic like: "Does it have to be today? Maybe Tuesday or next week..." (in our church there is liturgy of the word every tuesday evening as well as "real" mass on sunday.) Then there was a cut and the next thing happening was dad and me sitting down in church (so apparently he won the argument). Then the priest and the ministrants came in and service began. It was like always (The dream "skimmed" over this part) but then during sermon the sculpture of Virging Mary with baby Jesus started moving and her face deformed in the most grotesque manner. Her eyes looked like a demon`s and she revealed sharp long teeth. I screamed and hugged my father asking whats happening and he said, that today was "Grimace Day" an obscure holiday which was not celebrated anymore, except for some parts of Bavaria. (Yeah, I know this part is bullshit and seems quite ridiculous, but it was a dream, so I believed him.) All the others in church didn`t seem bothered by the horrific, now loudly screaming statue. I recall that I envied the ministrants, who couldn`t see what was happening. I tried to settle myself and look as calm as everyone else, but then Mary ''bit Baby Jesus` head off''. That was the point when my father decided to leave with me. But when we got out and ran away, we heard the door open and turned around. Out came the statue, now fully transformed into a monster, with the headless, bleeding Baby Jesus on her arm and the rest of the people, who attended church, looking like brainless zombies. The monster pointed at me and my father and the zombies started walking towards us. Somehow I knew that this was the punishment for leaving early and that she would bite my head off, too. That was the point when I woke up screaming.

This troper had a dream a couple years ago where he was living in a bombed out city in WWII, and his job was to euthanize the pets left behind by the evacuees. The true horror of the dream didn't impact him until he woke up.

Although not as terrifying as some of the other examples listed here, this troper used to have a reoccurring dream when she was 3-4 years old. She would get pulled into her TV by a static looking creature against her will, and would scream for help as she is dragged inside. She would then pound on the screen, begging for her parents to get her out with tears streaming down her face. Sometimes, her grandmother would be sitting nearby as it happened, but she would do absolutely nothing to help this troper. She would just sit there as if nothing was happening. Even now, she can still recall the dream detail for detail.

This troper once dreamt that her father tied her down, gouged open her stomach with a knife and tried to force her to eat her own intestines... Needless to say she was crying and perilously close to throwing up when she woke up.

This troper has recurring dreams about walking around her father's house and finding one of her friends or family members standing in her room facing away from her. Every time, for no reason in particular, she would tap on their shoulder to ask them if they were okay, and they would turn around to reveal a pale, eyeless figure without limbs. She would then notice that the figure was floating in mid-air before the two of them were suddenly in an open field, accompanied only by a dead tree and a swingset, which would rock back and forth as ominous windchimes played in the distance.

Last night, I had the most screwed up dream ever, which was related to {{Arthur}} of all shows! All the characters from the show were at this party at the side of the road. Francine, for some reason or another pushed The Brain into the road where he was hit by a two cars! There were lots of people their, so it was hard to tell who did it, it could have even been an accident. However, D.W saw the whole thing, she sent a message to Francine to meet her on the roof of the school, where she killed Francine with a saw to the neck! When I woke up, I realized that this whole thing sounded very familiar. Very much like a certain Anime and Visual Novel.

A recurring dream of mine when I was young (and one time recently) was that I would be watching Rugrats and the end credits would come on. Note that I am VERY scared of the 1998 Klasky-Csupo logo from said show. The end credits would keep rolling, and I couldn't turn off the TV. (it was a tape, BTW, not on TV) I would wake up sweating right when the logo would show up. I blame my fear of the logo on seeing the movie when I was 2 and getting full view of the logo.

I can't remember any of mine right now, but I specifically remember my younger brother had a dream that our sister's Tweety Bird poster turned demonic, complete with Nightmare Face chanting "I know your name! I know your name!" in a satanic voice. The catch was that if it knew your name, you would die.

As a child, I had a dream that I found a picture on my computer named "thetruth.bmp" (I wasn't aware of compressed formats back then). It was a photo of my mother's corpse on her bed, eyes wide open and mouth agape, after she had been gruesomely murdered; I got alarmed and rushed to my mother's room to find her killed in the exact same fashion. The whole dream was disturbingly realistic, and it still gives me the creeps when I remember it.

I very rarely have nightmares, and even when something that should be terrifying happens in my dreams I rarely wake up frightened (even when I dreamed I was raped or that I was a serial killer). However, I have had two dreams that have set my heart pounding: The first occured when I was probably 6 or 7. I was swimming in the ocean with my family, including my younger sister, who was using my float (it was a penguin-shaped inflatable chair for toddlers). I wanted it back, so I stole it from her. She drowned as a result. I cried when I woke up.

The second dream happened when I was about 15. I was at a family reunion in the dream when I was approached by a chihuahua named Trevor. I picked him up, only to discover that his eyes were lit up like flashlights. He tried to bite me, so I threw him across the room. I was terrified he would come back. It sounds stupid, but even when I remember it now, my heart is pounding. Perhaps the scariest thing was that I would throw a living animal against a wall...

I've forgotten most of my nightmares. In fact, I only remember a few vague details from this one, but I remember that it scared me a lot. In the dream, there was this guy that looked like the kid from Everwood. Although I "was" him for parts of the dream (sometimes I was just watching him), he was definitely a bad guy. At some point in the dream, he used something like a nail gun to attack members of a marching band. At the very end of the dream, this device was used on him. The last thing I saw before waking up was him throwing his head back and screaming. All the veins in his face were dark red, and I could see the nail (or something) in his sinus.

This Troper was once looking through Yangire pictures as usual, and then she noticed ''that'' thumbnail. Not really sure what a ToyStory picture was doing among her Yangire, she clicked... to see that Woody was sitting on a sofa with a smile, and there was also ''a disembodied hand beneath a pillow''. Wonder why every other Yandere picture just induced a happy face... here's the link if you're interested.

Disney's Aladdin is one of my favorite movies, and does not scare me at all. However, I've had a total of THREE Nightmare incidents related to that movie. First of all, when I was a kid, I couldn't watch the Cave of Wonders. Was it the CGI? The deep voice? (Chernabog and the monsters in Hercules NEVER had the same effect.) When I was a slightly older kid, I had a nightmare about Disney characters who had mutated, and the last picture I remember in my head is Jasmine in her purple gown with bugging eyes and fangs that protruded past her chin. Finally, as a middle schooler, I would not go into the dark basement because I thought snake!Jafar was waiting down there to gobble me up. Now absolutely nothing about Aladdin scares me...I love Jasmine and Jafar...NOW the problem is that I can't walk to my bed in the dark 'cause of that gosh dang Slenderman. CURSE YOUUUUUUUU VICTOR SURRRRRRRRGE!!!!!

This video made by the fellows over at One More Production is ''meant'' to be cute and funny, but got to this troper's mind once the taxi disentigrated into cubes. Soon after, Pac Man eats the exits to the city's subway system, trapping everyone underground. And finally, tetris blocks make ''entire floors of buildings disappear. OUT OF THIN AIR.'' Oh, where those souls may have gone...

This troper's Nightmare Fuel was the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia. I could never watch that part as a child, and it scared me so much that, when listening to the Fantasia soundtrack, I couldn't listen to the music itself! Now, I'd probably like the music and that segment, but man, back then... brr...

The Brave Little Toaster is this for me. SO. VERY. MUCH. The "Worthless" song was bad enough, but "B Movie Show", the part with all the broken appliances in the back of the repair shop, OHDEARGODNOOOOOOOO!!!!! Especially the fan, KILL IT NOW!!!!

This troper was only mildly freaked out by "Worthless" as a kid (the connotations didn't come until much later), and absolutely loved "B-Movie Show". What really got to me? That freaking nightmare the toaster has. The first time I watched this movie and that damn clown reared his hideous head, I slammed the eject button on my VCR, crammed the tape back in its case, and refused to watch it for at least a year.

This troper's brother heard she'd liked the the CITV series of Watership down, so he bought her the original. Only she didn't know the series was a cleaned up version, and that the movie was a lot more terror-enducing. So she sat down to watch it expecting cute little bunnies and a mouse with a funny accent, only to end up being tramatized and crying. The same thing happened with Animal Farm. Apparently I needed to learn that not every cartoon with animals was intended for children. Twice.

This troper has some faint memories of a film he once saw on TV when he was a little kid. In one scene, a scientist who seemed nice, drank a potion and turned into a monster. This scene cause horrifying nightmares for months and a fear of nice people turning into monsters. I was always unsure if this was an actual memory or a memorable nightmare, but after seeing the Nostalgia Critic's review on The Pagemaster I suddenly realized "HOLY SHIT, THERE IT IS!". The scene is actually really rediculous, but if you're somewhere between 2 and 5 years old it can destroy your childhood.

I concur. I actually really liked The Pagemaster when I was a kid because I recognised the characters from books I'd already read, including Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, and I thought the whole sequence was pretty cool. That is, until Jekyll took the potion, and we see him from behind, all hunched over and panting. He slowly rasps, "My...name...is..." then he suddenly turns around, sticks his (hideous, bulgy-eyed, fanged) face in the camera and screams "MR. HYYYYYYYYYYYYDE!" in a demented voice. Scarred for life.

I was... um... afraid of King Triton from The Little Mermaid. I have no idea why, but he was absolutely terrifying to me. This seems to amuse my friends.

this troper Watched {{The Blob}} 80's Remake, and After seeing the Guy get sucked down the Drain. He Was Scared (Read: Shit-lessly Terrified) to Get near the Bathrooms Shower Drain.

Jesus, I thought MysteryMen would be a nice AffectionateParody of other superhero films. And it is...until the ragtag team finds out where the big hero was being held prisoner. In their attempt to free him, they FUCKING KILLED HIM WITH THE REALITY-WARPING MACHINE! And while trying to check for a pulse, his hand crumbled...brr...

Pee Wee Herman. I can't watch the movie or even his TV show. Odd, since Lock is my favorite character in Nightmare Before Christmas.

Am I the only troper to whom {{Under Siege}} has given nightmares about microwaves blowing up?

This troper was afraid of the television in her room for a while after watching {{The Ring}} for the first time. It only made matters worse when said television started emitting a faint glow in the middle of the night--exactly SEVEN DAYS after watching that movie. Needless to say, this troper didn't get any sleep that night.

This troper, will kill whoever did the Super Mario Bros Movie. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO YOSHI!!?

Not myself, but after ''JurassicPark III'' came out, I jokingly told my friend's young cousin that there was a ''Spinosaurus'' in his grandmother's closet. To this day he still can't walk past it without someone being with him. I feel bad.

This troper watched Dante's Peak in Earth Science in 9th grade and rushed out of the room when the grandma waded through the acidic lake to save the family and was screaming in pain. She could not return to the room to watch the end of the film and had nightmares for a very long time. How she managed to get to that point of the movie in the first place without freaking out is questionable especially when the fiancee died in the very beginning of the film and later when the couple boiled to death in the hot spring. In short, there were a lot of moments that freaked this troper out. To this day, this troper can not watch any part of the movie without freaking out.

This troper had tornado-related nightmares after watching Twister for a very long time. Luckily, she can now watch the entire movie without having nightmares. Unless it's the summer or there's a thunderstorm.

Hmmm...I guess this counts as Live Action TV. In the area where I live, the Emergency Broadcast System (This is only a test....) is accompanied by not only the typical buzzing noises but a weird, eerie noise you'd associate with flying saucers.

Once, I accidentally left the emergency broadcast system alarm on, and its SUPER-LOUD siren jolted me awake in the middle of the night during a bad storm. I remained slightly freaked out during the time that it took me to fall asleep again.

The one scence that disturbed me the most the most when I was a kid is the Wampaa scence from The Empire Strikes Back. Oh sure, "Star Wars is the perfect family film!" George Lucas said, but that. is . WRONG! DO NOT show kids these movies unless you want to give the nightmares!

Although it didn't give this troper nightmares, one scene in {{Babe}} caused this troper to scream and cry in terror. Having recently graduated kindergarten, a pack of dogs assaulting innocent sheep, causing one to dramatically ''bleed to death on screen'' was the most violent and intense thing I had ever seen. To this day I object to its G rating.

Return of the Jedi is my favorite Star Wars movie, but when I was little I used to get freaked out by Jabba the Hutt. I mean, really, Jabba the Hutt. He's fat, obnoxious, has a creepy voice/laugh, and feeds people to the rancor for fun. But the worst part is that he reminds me of my grandpa. Not the cool grandpa who died a few years ago, but the one who emotionally abused my dad from the time he was a baby, and is just not a nice person anyway. I'm not even lying, the mouth and the chin especially. He's creepy.

This troper used to be freaked out by the DreamSequence in DumbandDumber when Jim Carrey's character rips a chef's heart out.

The negative energy throughout CabinFever mentally destroyed an entire week.

When he was younger, this troper saw the ''Doctor Who'' film. He became utterly terrified of one particular round, black, about-his-height dustbin.

Those FUCKING making-of videos on the Disney tapes. The first one I got scared of was TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh, due to the startup part. But that was only the begenning. Pinochio was even worse. It has a picture of a real-looking Jiminy Cricket with lots of cricket features, AND DISNEY ALMOST FUCKING APPROVED OF IT! And then there was The Jungle Book. It showed creepy pictures of desolate ruins, gnarled trees, and creepy music when they talked about the earlier treatment of the film. At the time, I had no idea that the movie was still somewhat light and humorous even at that phase of development. And those are nothing, GODDAMNED NOTHING comapred to Peter Pan! Man, that abomination was just, horrible. The artwork shown had SKELETONS LINING EVREY FREAKING WALL, TIGER LILLY ALMOST DROWING, A HYPER-REALISTIC CAPTAIN HOOK, AND AN ALMOST LOVECRAFT-LOOKING WARNING MESSAGE BY THE PIRATES!!!

I watched Watership Down when I was five. Not a good idea.

After reading Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and seeing the picture of the Vermicious Knid, I used to have a terror of going to the bathroom at night, just in case there was a Knid hovering over the toilet. I am now able to laugh this fear, and it is mostly in the long-past tense.

I read the first two Harry Potter books when I was seven. First one was fine, but for some reason the basilisk in [=CoS=] scared me shitless. Add in hearing about the Bloody Mary legend, and I've hated mirrors ever since. Especially at night. It took three years before I could finish the book (the part where Ginny's taken SHOULD NOT be read at night), and I've never reread it.

This Troper also started reading the Harry Potter books at about age 6 or 7. She loved the first three books, but was put off the series completely after reading the first chapter of book 4 (in which a random guy is killed by Voldemort). After reading it she put the book straight down and hasn't touched it in over 6 years (and still doesn't plan to). Funnily enough she was fine watching the same scene in the movie some years later.

The Boo Hag, aka "Old Hag". My dad's side of the family has Southern Black roots, and Dad had a book full of Southern folk tales, such as the Talking Eggs. One that he never let me read as a kid was the story about the Boo Hag. Should've listened. When Dad wasn't around, I went over to the book case, pulled out the book, and read the story. I really should've listened, since I was kept up ALL FUCKING NIGHT because of that story. What happens? Well, a girl is haunted every night by the Boo Hag, who comes into her room and rides her (like a witch rides a broom) through the air. The girl's mother figures it out and takes a jar, a cork stopper, and either twelve or thirteen needles. One needle is put into the jar, the others go into the stopper. This stops the Hag since supposedly she's trapped inside the jar or something. But there's a catch. The charm only works while the girl's mother is alive. After the mother passes, the hag LIES IN WAIT FOR THE GIRL, WHO IS TOO SCARED TO LEAVE HER HOUSE BECAUSE OF THIS. I'm twenty, and if I read about the Hag online (since I decided to write a story based on this folk tale), or watch documentaries about the Hag on TV, without fail, I'll be kept up all night by it, complete with shutting my curtains and keeping the lights on. Brrr.

For This Troper, it's stories with a door or portal between dimensions that only opens every X years. The idea of getting stuck in the wrong world scared her.

This troper recalls reading a book aptly named "The Ankle Grabber" in primary school when rifling through her classrooms mini library section. It was about a disgusting creature that lives beneath kids beds and tries to grab their ankles when they're getting out of bed. It induced such paranoia fuel that I made sure not to put my feet too near the bottom of my bed whenever I got up in the morning or went to bed. I for one know that I'd never let any child of mine read that book of Nightmare Fuel.

Not sure if this goes here or under music, but this troper has a CD full of scary stories narrated by a man with a heavy Boston accent who called himself the Old Gray Goose. I found it in the children's section of a book store around Halloween one year. I've always been a die hard fan of scary stories, so I bought it, thinking it would be a fun listen. My mom and I popped it into her car CD player to listen to on the way home, and after a brief intro from the Old Gray Goose, we get to the first story. What is this story about? Two men who's boat scuttles on a rock, and they have to wait for help. One of the men, Cully, starts ''slowly losing his mind'', and begins talking about how people survive in these situations ''by restoring to cannibalism.'' When the narrator falls asleep, Cully attacks him, but the narrator gets the upper hand and kills Cully. And how does this lovely story end? The narrator says, "Now, Cully is all gone. And I'm hungry again." I refuse to listen to that track ever again. And I'm still trying to figure out what the bloody hell that CD was doing in the children's section...

After reading the bit of TheLittleMatchGirl where "the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled across the floor, with a knife and fork in its breast, to the little girl." (which is apparently a happy moment), I was scared for a fair few years of the living roast goose who patrolled my grandparents house at night (it was where I heard the story) with a knife and fork stuck in it's back, bent on revenge upon everyone because someone tried to eat it alive.

This troper vaguely remembers a book read to her in preschool called "Those Mean Nasty Dirty Downright Disgusting but...Invisible Germs." The pictures were realistic photos of a girl washing away these creepy cartoon germs that were going out of their way to make her sick. Every time my teacher read it I would burst into tears in fear that something was going to try to make me sick and kill me. To this day, I'm terrified just thinking about it... I am 22 years old.

This Troper, after reading a Christmas-themed story by author Cornelia Funke (the title of which I cannot recall), obtained a relatively short-lived (two or three months' worth) fear of horses. ...Yeah.

Letterman creeps me out. He's just got that creepy old man vibe about him. And I've never read or seen the ''Dark Knight Returns'' comic. What happens exactly?

He's interviewing ''The Joker''. Take a guess.

When this troper was 2 or 3, he was utterly terrified by the Sphynx Stare of the robotic protagonist in Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot. He would run out of the living room in a state of absolute panic. It was the eyes.

This Troper's favourite (incidentally Doctor Who-related) game counts as NightmareFuel (usually). One person (usually me) stands in the middle like one of the Weeping Angel things in ''Blink'' with their eyes covered, and everyone else stands in a circle around them, apart from one person, who walks around the outside of these people (''The Doctor''). They tap one person on the shoulder, then say, "OK". That person then walks in to the circle and, in a weird variant on the real show (I know, I know) they stand beside the ''Angel'': that person is now the Companion. Then, everyone closes their eyes and the Companion nudges the Angel, who then has to leave the circle. Then they tap someone on the shoulder, and ''The Doctor'' does the same to someone else (''The Angel'' and ''The Doctor'' have to catch each other's eye, and signal as to who their victim will be). Then, ''The Angel'' taps their Victim three times on the back, and they scream. All this time, ''The Doctor'' and ''The Angel'' have been conversing silently, so the Angel pushes their person in to the circle, and the previous Companion (to the Angel) leaves and stands in the other Companion's place. ''The Doctor'' now has two choices: sacrifice their current Companion to save this one, or leave them. And, if they choose to sacrifice their current Companion, that person becomes another Angel, and if not, the Angel turns their person to stone. So, the game carries on until everyone is either an Angel or Stone, so we usually start again. One of my friends got bad dreams from it when I was first Angel because apparently, I'm "''So damn scary!''"

Anything written by Steven Moffat is scary for this tropette. "Mummy!"

When this troper saw the PowerRangers episode with The face stealer, I was too young to understand the dialog. I thought he put white stuff on peoples faces and floating pictures of those faces came out of him and where placed on the heads to have the white stuff removed. After listening to the dialouge at the end, I realized what he REALLY did. The face stealer has haunted me ever since.

I don't know why, but for me, "Tales from the Darkside" gives me the creeps. Sure, some episodes aren't THAT bad, but the "Geezenstacks" episode takes the friggen cake. The music score used, the premise of a demonic dollhouse, the ending... (shudders) It's also interesting to point out that ''I ONLY SAW IT ONCE (WITH SOUND) AND I STILL REMEMBER HOW IT PLAYED OUT.'' I'm not sure if somebody agrees with me that the show's scary... but it is to me.

The Weeping Angels. It was NOT a good idea to watch Time of Angels and City of Stone, back to back in the dead of night. Really not a good idea. This troper cannot walk by a cemetery without shivering now.

The Waters of Mars. This Troper has mildly severe aquaphobia. Mild because she's not afraid of water in and of itself, but holy CRAP she is afraid of drowning. Cripplingly so. TWOM has, naturally, the concept that water can make you into a zombie, but one should note the fact that water is constantly spewing from every orifice in those creatures' bodies. They are drowning ''from the inside.'' ...AGH.

''The Record'', a politics program that used to be on Sunday afternoons in this British troper's childhood, had an opening sequence consisting of St. Stephen's Tower (the big spire that houses Big Ben, part of the Houses of Parliament) turning into a crocodile and crawling around to ominous music and then roaring. To this troper, she suspects it's her generation's "Daleks" -- it's the one thing on telly ever made her hide behind the sofa.

The 80's PBS and CTW logos didn't faze me, but the opening sequence for seasons 6 & 7 of ''ThreeTwoOneContact'' was rather traumatizing, especially the triangle/lightning-zap logo and its sounds, and several of the preview clips.

While the show itself never much impressed me, just the opening theme of Are You Afraid of The Dark? seriously heebied my jeebies. The shadowy blue lighting, the creepy vocals, shots of various scary locations like an abandoned playground or a dark attic, and most of all the empty rowboat slightly rocking like the occupant had just been snatched away...brrrrrrr.

Was watching Day of the Moon on On Demand. The video's listed time is one hour. It ended forty minutes in. What if the remaining twenty minutes were pictures of Silents?!

This troper loves ''TheTwilightZone'', thanks to my mom who grew up with it. But no thanks to Accidental Nightmare Fuel, there are two episodes I'll never watch again:

"And When The Sky Was Opened": That episode was, in my own words, sick and disturbing. Not only do the astronauts physically disappear, but ''each and every bit of information about them is erased from the human race's memory''. And there's never an explanation as to ''why'' that happens. I guess the Universe just felt like being an ass that day.

"The Masks": Well, it does have a good moral, but I don't watch TV shows to have one of my favorite (and frankly underrated) pieces of clothing insulted.

This troper used to love the 1995 remake of the Outer Limits, until the "Flower Child" episode. The last few minutes of it - which I remember to this day - gave me nightmares.

As well as the last ten of the Animatrix skit "The Second Renaissance."

One of this troper's very first memories came from when, at the tender age of almost three years old, I was watching an episode of ''Fame''--which would be the ''last'' episode I ever watched, so greatly did it terrify me. The reason? The episode included the Wicked Witch of the West, which at that time I referred to as "the green witch". Thinking she'd be in every episode from then on I refused to watch the show ever again ("Nooooo! I don't wanna see the green witch!") Strangely enough, as I got older I looked for the episode and asked people about it and NOBODY knew what I was talking about, so I thought it might have been a false memory... but more than twenty years after I'd originally seen it, I finally found out it was an episode called "Not In Kansas Anymore". Long story short(er), I finally got the chance to re-watch it on Hulu nearly thirty years after I'd originally seen it, and while the Witch didn't scare me ''quite'' as much as it did when I was two, I can see how it would have terrified me then. I really wish I could convey how much it scared me back then.

When this troper was a kid, a TV show on ABC titled {{ABC Weekend Specials}} had an opening sequence (from the 1980's) that freaked this troper out. To the point of closing my ears, crying, and running out of the living room. In 2007, while looking at openings to kid TV shows (one being {{CBS Storybreak}}), the side bar of suggestions revealed that the opening of the show was there. It paralyzed me with fear to the point of closing out of YouTube. My roommate, at the time, didn't understand the fear until I told her to look it up. She didn't have sound on her computer but she found the opening to be "freaky" and upon watching it again, she understood the reason for my fear. I can't even look up the teenage counterpart {{ABC After School Specials}} on YouTube without that opening appearing. Still haunts me to this day.

The first time this troper heard the song "Like a G6" he'd been reading the HighOctaneNightmareFuel page for FirstEncounterAssaultRecon and was just going to bed. That page is creepy enough. Then he heard this song, and he just got this...really bad feeling. Like there was this demonic creature creeping up behind him. The fact that there was no real musical accompaniment, just that creepy beat like pounding a soda bottle on your hand. FEAR was probably responsible for a lot of it, but hearing that guy whisper in that strangely creepy voice, "Popping bottles in the ice...''like a blizzard''..." just irrationally ''freaked him the fuck out''. He spent the entirety of that song sitting on his bed, cluching a massive book about fighter planes, ready to take ExtremeMeleeRevenge on anything, be it Alma, Satan, or some demonic zombie versions of the Far East movement, that so much as showed a strand of its hair near him.

Call her chicken, but this troper has a problem with "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. The operatic-sounding part ("GALILEO! GALILEO!") never fails to be unsettling and compared to the rest of the song is just...''out there.'' I'll sit through it when it comes on the radio, but I don't do it willingly. So imagine how I felt when Vocal Adrenaline used it to Regionals...

This troper has loved that song since she was little, every part included... until my dad explained the general premise once when I was, say, eight. While I still love it, the opera part gives her chills. In relation to your last sentence: I don't know if it was the lighting or the fact that it was montaged with in labor, but during that scene I was curled up on the couch and half-covering her eyes.

This troper feels genuinely sick to his stomach when he hears music that sounds 'wrong'..

Like playing C and F-sharp on an organ, for example? Or like LyricalDissonance 'wrong'?

YYMV: This Troper, as a composer, finds that the music that sounds "wrong" (which is completely different from music that sounds "bad") can convey more emotion and be more powerful than anything cookie-cutter that follows all the rules and guidelines of chord theory or melody writing.

This Troper understands the OP's plight. Though, my pain comes in headaches and aggravation. I sometimes avoid people that like to sing but can't.

This troper has always been strangely creeped out by ''lullabies''. It used to be worse- she's pretty much over it now, but when she was little so much as hearing the words "rock-a-bye baby" would scare her. Badly. Not at all helped by a mother who held it over her head and started singing lullabies if this troper was being annoying, even knowing how much they genuinely freaked her out. She still has NO idea where the fear came from. Perhaps it was the lyrics- "when the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down wil come baby, cradle and all." *shudder*

Cannibalism freaks me out. Someone explained to me what the lyrics to "Mein Teil" by Rammstein meant. Today, I am the only German student I know who dislikes the band.

But cannibalism is amazing! YMMV, I guess...

The growly faux-bluesman bit in Van Morrison's "Bright Side Of The Road." As a little kid, I actually used to ''run away from the stereo screaming in horror'' when my parents would play this, as the first track on his greatest hits CD. I called him "Van Monster" because of it, and to this day, 15+ years later, I really can't stand the sound of his voice.

I live in Germany and here Furbies became popular a few months later than they did in America. So when my aunt gave one to me (it was the white one, I don`t know his name), she bought when she was on vacation in Canada, I wouldn`t know them. Naturally I was curious and wanted to try it immediately. It was a hot day and we were sitting on the terrace. I started playing with it and at first it was pretty fun, but soon it started to behave strangely and his voice became horrifying distorted. And it wouldn`t stop. Apparently the batteries ran to hot. But I didn`t know that then... So I started crying and ran to my mother, shouting: "What is happening? Make it stop!" It took much to long to find the off-button.

Well, that could be the end of the story. My aunt kept the furby at her place (because she thougt it was pretty cool if it wasn`t malfunctioning) and hid it, when I visited her. However a few weeks later furbies became the craze in Germany. So in every commercial break there would be a furby commercial, in every toy store there were tons of them. Well, at least these situations could be avoided. However, one day there was another "toy day" at the kindergarten (usually we weren`t allowed to bring our own toys, but on these days we were) and EVERYONE (well at least two thirds of the kids) brought their furbies! (No, my parents couldn`t pick me up earlier, they were both working.) So I had to spend half of the day surrounded by these little beasts, constantly afraid that one of them would get this terrible "illness", that turns them evil.

This troper had- no has- a toy that terrifies her. It's hard to describe, but it's a very tiny, very adorable bunny on wheels. When you turn it on, it plays music and starts moving and making a bunch of sounds. I hated it. Every time I put it on a ledge, it would start rolling towards me and then fall off. It sounds were really awful and annoying. I eventually buried the thing deep into my closet. But recently, while picking out a shirt, I heard the start up music and then a bunch of noises and the sound of something moving. I screamed. It must have been turned on by hitting something, and I realized in order to stop the terrible noises, I would have to turn it off myself. I fished it out from the clutter and spent 12 minutes in panic with tears at my eyes as I tried to figure out how to turn it off. I held the thing as far from me as possible. When I finally realized I had to hold the off switch, I remembered the creepiest part of the toy: when you turn it off, it plays this horrifying version of the opening tune, but it says Goodbye in a robotic voice and the music dies away in a creepy manner. When I turned it off, I threw it down and covered it with things. I told my mom that I wanted it thrown in the dump or broken into pieces or something, but she laughed it off. And its still in my closet. Turning on when it bumps into something and moving around in the night. I heard it roll into the closed closet door once and it made one of its freaky giggling sounds.

I had these rock em sock em robots style Jurassic Park velociraptors that made noise. As their batteries started dying they would start up on their own. So sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night to raptor screeching coming from my closet.

This troper is freaked out by the Lala Loopsie dolls. Why would she be scared by those things you ask? Well, they're dolls with black, button eyes.

This troper's sister was four years older when she got a "computer" game with a bunch of educational games on it. Whenever you lost at one of the games, it would say (in a somewhat creepy monotone) "I win. You lose." One day, the computer was messing up, and she lost a game. The computer said "I win. You lose. You lose. You lose." Then the screen blinked three times. Then the screen went black. She screamed. It still gives her nightmares to this day (almost ten years later).

This troper just got GMod, and is always coming up with new ways to freak the shit out of his siblings as well as himself with it. Recently he took one of the abandoned houses in Half-Life 2 and dolled it up into a huge haunted house full of rusty hooks, skeletons hanging from nooses, a fireplace full of burning corpses, a bathtub full of blood, and a dentist's chair with a tortured human body on it.

You have problems. TacoNinja likes you.

This Troper has infrequent nightmares about the final boss of Silent Hill 3. In the dreams, I am always aware of the "presence" of it, even if I do not "look" at it. Sometimes, Heather is there too. Once, I dreamt of one of the generic ResidentEvil zombie's faces turning into that of Silent Hill 3's final boss. These dreams only really kicked in three years after Silent Hill 3 came out.

This Troper had a dream about Left4Dead before she even started playing it. Strangely, it occured in the middle of a co-op playthrough of ResidentEvil5. I clearly remember the group being chased by the Executioner from that game, as they tried to reach a boat tied up at the dock. When they did get on the boat, a huge wave came in and I FELT it get flung to the top of a swell.

A little while ago, this troper was reading a LetsPlay of SilentHill while listening to the soundtrack of TheOmen. Okay, but I was expecting all of this. And then a CreepyChild suddenly started singing in the background. Gyah! It turned out to be something from what my parents were watching in the other room.

Silent Hill has great timing, I was alternating between a walkthrough and videos when I decided I needed to take a leak. For whatever reason the Morning was INSANELY foggy, like a 2metre visibility (Which is more or less unheard of where I come from) And then, while looking out the window I hear an ominous siren, guess what it sounded like? Turns out it was the Volunteer Fire Fighters siren, But Damn it scared me.

If you are ever playing BlackAndWhite, do not built a wonder unless you are absolutely 100% sure you have enough wood and food to finish. There is nothing worse than watching your entire civilization crumble as hundreds of people desperately try to construct this impossible creation. And if they've got nothing better to do, they'll all join in. And you can't get them to stop. This troper tried destroying it to get the message across to stop building. All it did was slow them down and make them hate me. It's like a CosmicHorror fucking with the gods! ''AND IT'S A REALLY BIG BUILDING MADE OF WOOD.''

Years ago, this troper had an old computer board game called ''Redhook's Revenge''. The whole point of the game was to handle trivia questions and situations revolving around sailing, piracy, things of that nature. To start the game, you had to select one of five (three, if playing the shareware version) different pirates to play as; you had the choice of selecting extra characters for the computer to control. Throughout the game, the pirates would react either positively or negatively, depending on the choices made. The faces made when something was done wrong absolutely ''frightened'' me; all five characters (except Poseidon the parrot) had this ''sneer'' for just such an occasion; the only one I haven't seen was Blackbeard's, and I don't even want to know what he looks like. I liked the game too much to let the faces scare me away permanently, though, so I usually just left a sock or rag hanging over the edge of the monitor so that I wouldn't have to look at them. Despite this, I have had at least one nightmare revolving around that game.

While this troper can handle the rest of Twilight Princess, one thing he can't take are those Shadow Beasts. The hulking, tendril-haired monstrosities you have to kill in order to progress and open up portals for later teleportation use? Well, after getting across the Bridge of Eldin and witnessing the bridge's disappearance, he decided to mess around with those things with his new hawkeye/bow-and-arrow technology, just to pick 'em off. Bad idea. They found out and FUCKING chased after him! Who knew such beasts could see over a mile away?! That was unsettling! And yes, their shrieks to revive their fallen comrades also gets to him.

This Troper had just finished beating this giant spider boss in Twilight Princess and watched as Link did his winning stance only for his face to go D: . Apparently ''the fricking spider's '''eye''' was still on a very small spider's body - possibly without a head''. The boys in her family are the ones who are scared of spiders in general, but... this turned the tables around for a short while!

This troper has never even played Majora's Mask before, and she has no intent to. By only WATCHING VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE of the little girl who's father is turning into a gibdo (who is kept in a CLOSET!), she can't even turn off all the lights in her house and go the short distance from the bathroom to her bedroom without thinking a gibdo is going to come out of the shower or the darkness to attack her. Permanent mental scarring? Definitely.

This troper seconds this. It freaked me the hell out, I only kept playing because it's one of my favorite games.

While playing Majora's Mask one night, this troper had the game freeze during the cutscene where the Skull Kid makes his horrible screaming noise. She panicked and hid in the bathroom until her mother finally decided to shut the game off for her.

Heck, the game doesn't even have to freeze. This troper will never forget that distorted scream, ever.

This troper had a horror with the Nintendo 64's Hey You, Pikachu. In the middle of playing the game, the Pikachu's FACE disappeared! It was replaced with red and black vertical lines on the top with a small black spot below. And when Pikachu moved, it went bee-beep bee-beep instead of pit pat... This troper was only around ten years old. Cue shutting off the game and running out of the room.

This same troper once fired up Donkey Kong 64 to have the screen show no picture and random monkey sounds. Cue an even more scared young troper. Ah, the memories.

This troper started playing Earthbound when he was 13, being an enthusiast in RPG games. He made it halfway through the game before he stopped playing for a few weeks. One day while attending a session of in-school suspension, he was browsing the internet on his school-provided laptop and decided to see what the final battle of Earthbound was like......Also note that this troper was serving his in-school suspension alone. In a VERY small, dimly-lit, windowless meeting room while watching this. It wasn't TOO bad at first, but then the nightmares came later that night...Even after 4 years, this troper has built up what amounts to a "self-defense reflex mechanism," reacting to any sign of Giygas. Hell, even seeing a thumbnail picture of him in a 'related videos' link on Youtube is enough to make this troper press Backspace in the blink of an eye.

This troper has always been creeped out by the holiday events in Animal Crossing. The screen suddenly fades out and you get a picture of the train station, along with a text box announcing the start of whatever event it is. The thing that creeps him out about this is that the text box doesn't have a name showing who's speaking. Your only hint is that it's the female voice. It's up to your imagination to figure out who -- or what -- is announcing the event.

This troper nearly shit himself the first time he fought feral ghouls when playing Fallout 3. It freaked me out far worse than the first time I came across an Enclave soldier. The latter was merely an "Oh, crap" moment.

For this troper, Womb Levels have literally become NightmareFuel. He's had a nightmare based on {{Gradius}} where he was inside one of them.

You're not the only one. The Womb Levels in Gradius also gave this troper a nightmare. If he recalls, it was where he was in a WombLevel and was trying to run away from these giant space worm... things.

Same troper as two bullet points ago played an incredibly obscure game called ''Sen-Know'' which is basically a Pipe Mania with falling blocks puzzle game, where supposedly the playing field represents someone's brain. The GameOver screen with the word "OVERLOAD" terrified him so badly that he immediately deleted it from his hard drive and vows to never play it again. The thought of him suddenly succumbing to a stroke due to his brain being overloaded...

When this Troper was a lot younger, I set up ''Pokémon Snap'' for my little sister and cousin, and left 'em to it. When I came back to tell them it was time for the cousin to get ready to go home, I told them they could save over our old file with a new game if they wanted. I'd noticed, when they quit the course they were on, Professor Oak's "Welcome back, [Player Name]!" was missing, well, the player's name, but thought nothing of it. When they went to save it, however, a saving error message popped up instead, with Professor Oak saying "This is awful!". Absolutely nothing, right? But we all screamed and shut the damn thing off in a hurry. Much, much later, when I worked up the courage to try and recreate it again out of curiosity, I tried not entering a name for the player, but found it just defaults it to "Todd". Have no idea what caused it- could've just been a random glitch. But it kept all three of us from playing the game for years!

As a little kid, this Troper played Pokemon Blue, but got immediately stuck in the very first city. He just didn't get what to do until his friend told him that he had to go through the tall grass, where the little monsters waited to be caught. The troper was so scared, he just refused to do it, but it was of course senseless. Some days later he eventually just overcame his fear, just to find out that there was something worse waiting for him.. (Prof. Oak taking little boys with him is just creepy..)

In BattleForWesnoth, you nowadays have the choice to let your level 2 Dark Sorcerer/Sorceress (depending on gender) choose to become either a Necromancer or a Lich. Necromancers stay human, but Liches become skeletons of Immortality types V and possibly II - it's stated in their description that it is not known whether they live forever or the black magic just lets you live ''a little'' longer than the average human, and I think that they keep their full conciousness. Now, if they keep their conciousness, and the change from Sorcerer to Lich is just a few seconds... Imagine the PAIN when fast-forwarding the process or your body rotting away!! In the old days you had to make it happen someday, but if you're playing a newer version,you make this happen only because you either find this unit cooler or simply like it better! Guess who's never going to use a Lich again...

When this troper was about 8, a friend brought over the game Banjo Kazooie. He would play it while she watched, but it scared her...something about the music in the first level of the game (the tune of The Bear's Picnic) and the way the character models were or...SOMETHING...just freaked this troper out. Her friend lent her the game against her will simply because it freaked her out so much. Needless to say, it stayed hidden most of the time until she was able to force it back onto him. Just thinking about it now still...*shudder*

Believe it or not, this troper found nightmare fuel on a SesameStreet game of all places. The cartidge includes two games, one of the named "Astro Grover" in which you have to do simple math problems with little green aliens called "Zips". Sounds harmless, right? Unfortunately most of the stages have this WeirdMoon with a face that just stares at the zips and if you make a mistake the moon shakes it's head "no" with a weird frown while the most disturbing music I ever heard on an NES game plays. This troper even had a nightmare featuring that damn moon.

What, no Oddworld Abe's Oddysee? My dad played that game when I was really little, like 4-5 maybe. The game itself wasn't scary, but whenever I was out in the living room with him, he'd leave it at the title screen where Abe's just babbling (it seemed like that to me) and looking badly animated (don't know why, but the Playstation 1's graphics always manage to be the scariest for me, probably a mix of them being vague but accurate on the basics.) He would just leave it on while I stood behind a wall screaming at him to turn it off while he just laughed at me. Heck, wouldn't you be a scared 4-5 year old seeing this face in an entirely dark room babbling nonsense at you?

Any enemy with the word Tower in its name from {{Persona 3}} scares this player. It's a stack of spinning heads with crowns, and when one casts a spell, you hear the sound of chains rattling and an awful, low-pitched cry. That's scary enough on its own, but I had the misfortune of the game glitching up so that other enemies started making that sound too. I just shut off the PS2 when that happens.

I'm going to start out on a note that isn't directly related to video games, but bear with me. My school's production of LittleShopOfHorrors was excellent-- the singing was amazing, the actors were perfect for the roles, and the puppet for Audrey 2 was ''really'' cool. Even the ending, though it implied an eventual world conquest, was awesome. What ''wasn't'' appreciated was the fact that the final sound we were treated to was Audrey 2's laugh. Whoever was voicing him must do a dead-ringer for Clank, since it was the ''exact same laugh'' in a monstrous tone. Whereas everyone else was standing and cheering, I stayed in my seat, stunned to near-silence, clapping on autopilot.

SonicTheHedgehog's classic death animation kept this troper from trying to get much farther than his CoolBigSis in those games until he revisited them as a teen. Just watching it- the sudden "DONG" sound, the way Sonic stares straight at the screen, the way he just pops up suddenly, the apparent suffering- was terrifying. It still motivates me to keep my rings up and avoid death traps in those games to this day. And I still wince every time Sonic dies.

This Troper was always scared by the OS9 game Nanosaur, the basic story of the game is you are a new type of Dinosaur (a Nanosaur) from two-thousand years into the future (4122) where the humans have been wiped out and you've been sent back to the time of the dinosaurs to get eggs to save the Nanosaur society. Of course, throughout the game, you get attacked by various Dinosaurs,the usual: TyrannosaurusRex Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Pteranodon (though that's not a Dinosaur it's a Pterosaur), also Dilophosaurus which spits and has frill. For this troper, it was the T-Rex's sound that freaked him out, i t's deep rattly roar was absolutely terrifying. The Triceratops sometimes hid in bushes and when you walked by, it would charge out and make similar horrifying sound. And don't even get me started on the sound of the rolling boulders! But needless to say, this troper still has dreams about the game and he hasn't played it in five. Frickin'. Years! If you want to share my dreams, watch these.

This troper has found 4 things that scared her in the Sly Cooper games of all places! The first one is that absolutely HORRIBLE noise Clockwerk makes when he's hit, to this very day. it still scares her. The second is every single level involving high places. The third happened once. I had just gotten the anti gravity move, excited I ran out to a ledge. What happened? The game launched me God knows how high up, then I plummeted down fast, landing on the roof above the ledge I tried the move out on. The final one is those huge spiders from Mz. Rubys levels. I'd like to f****** add that creepy as hell look Dimitri gives in his intro scene. Y'know the one where his eyes are blood red and there are darker red hypnotic spirals in them and he's smiling like a damn psycho? I love the guy, but that's just creepy. As well as the picture used for episode 3. Is that a fugging {{Slasher Smile}} in a KIDS GAME? The fact that he's a massive ass tiger(as compared to Neyla and new comer El Jeffe, who aren't too musclularish, just tall) doesn't help much either.

I played a lot of Crash Bandicoot as a kid. I loved it and never really had any trouble with it emotionally, and then you get this. The music is bad enough without all the creepy echoing, plus the fact that I was sort of afraid of the TNT boxes at first and this level is chock full of them. And then you've got Cortex's GIANT EMOTIONLESS HEAD BOBBING BACK AND FORTH.

This troper completely freaked out while playing Trauma Team's "Resolution" level in the endoscopy portion. She won't be too detailed, but it involves the things that freak her out the most: claustrophobia; dark, unlit spaces; and the dying moans of Gabriel Cunningham. She chickened out on the level and made her brother do it.

This troper is scared shitless when he sees frogs or frog-like creatures, so when playing MetalGearSolid3 and discovered that a majority of the areas in the game contains frogs he shed {{Tears of Fear}}. Upon reaching the cave after fighting Ocelot, and discovering a tunnel filled with nothing but them, he needed a year away from the game just to man up the courage to slowly crawl through it.

Some of the stellar systems in {{Freelancer}} positively freak this troper out - e.g. the terrifyingly huuuuuge sun in Omega-11. It's probably no accident that the freaky systems are also high-radiation zones in the Border Worlds.

''TheJourneymanProject'' had many examples of nightmare fuel, such as the killer robots and creepy ambient sounds, but the Presto Studios logo and the title screen animation especially freaked this troper out as a kid. Worse, the volume is set at max when you first start it, such that the bombastic music and sounds (similar to Viacom's "V of Doom", but worse) are ear-splitting.

The Valentine's Day episode of Spongebob, or at least the scene where Patrick goes insane and Yandere over not getting a present from the titular character. Sure it was pretty narmy, with gems such as "HEART ON STICK MUST DIE!", but Patrick going insane like that scarred this troper for life. Same goes with another Spongebob episode where he goes to live with the jellyfish, and Patrick exclaims, "If I can't have you as a friend....I'm gonna make you a trophy!" Even as a person going into high school, I'm still scared of that.

As a kid, This Troper watched the Headless Horseman episode of Scooby Doo. It terrified him to such a degree that for more than an entire year he couldn't stand to be alone anywhere except inside his home. Anywhere else and he got scared the horseman might appear.

Christ, that {{Runaway Brain}} Mickey Mouse cartoon. I didn't even see the whole short, but the 4-year old me remembered the commercial being just terrifying enough to have me in a state that felt like paralysis. Seeing Mickey in a considerably dark scenario has given me an uneasy perspective of the mouse once the memory came back one day.

Agreed. I had been looking at the page for the short and thought "Well, how scary could it be now that I know what happens?" I clicked on the link...and had to shut it off after seeing the ''title card.'' What were they ''thinking?''

This troper will always maintain that the episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where the trio had to team up to repair the windmill or else they'd be killed by ghost warriors is THE scariest episode of that series he's ever seen. The perpetually red skyline plus the chilling music throughout the episode...''brrrrr.''

This troper watched a single image of zombie Ezekiel. At 4:00 am. She couldn't sleep for five nights.

This troper is unfazed by almost every Halloween special on TheSimpsons, which are HighOctaneNightmareFuel. Yet he finds the episodes "The Joy of Sect" and "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" ''absolutely terrifying''.

This Troper, Always hated Zaboomafoo. I don't care if I spelled it wrong. The actual show was pretty good, But when you see the claymation scenes... That all changes.

This troper used to have nightmares from the 10,000 Volt Ghost from the old Scooby Doo series. When the live-action movie came out, she had trouble watching the scenes with the 10,000 Volt Ghost out of fear that the nightmares would return. They didn't, thankfully.

This troper is agoraphobic thanks to this lovely scene from an episode of Spongebob.

This troper is too scared to click, but if that scene is from "Ghost Host" or "Night Light", then he fully agrees with you.

FYI, it's the "alone" scene from ''SB-129.'' I was never scared by that part; it was the prehistoric SpongeBob and Patrick which had me covering my eyes.

This troper remembers the first time she ever watched The Powerpuff Girls. What episode could it possibly be you ask? Speed Demon. The episode where the girls end up traveling 50 years into the future to find a wastelandish Townsville where Him is in charge. All their friends and family are either crazy or dead, and everyone is incredibly old. Although to most kids that would only be a bit of a shock, this troper was only four years old and had no idea what the show was like. She screamed and was in tears, running out of the room before the episode was even over. She refused to watch the show until she was seven, and refused to watch the episode in question for many years later. She is now sixteen, and still has a bit of a hard time watching the episode.

I was scared by The Offbeats as a child for some reason. Maybe because of the dog, which is all I can remeber, which looked like the United Plankton logo. I remember that I was about 5 or 6 years old, when my family and I went to McDonalds and they were having an anniversary or something. And so, they had people in costumes going around while people ate. There were two costumes that freaked me out, there was the Ronald McDonald one (probably because I was scared of clowns), and then there was a Grimace one that would just waddle toward you and the costume couldn't blink or move it's mouth. But it was extremely terrifying, and then we headed out the door I swear I saw Grimace trying to chase after us. *shivers*