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Now, assuming most people here are adults or at least not really young children:

What kind of weird shit really scared you, in a "fear of the unknown" sense, when you were small? I mean really small. This can be something you imagined in your own mind, or something, like a spooky story or idea, that someone scared you with, or something that you saw or experienced that instilled within you a fear of the unknown.

In other words, I don't want to know about the dog that bit you that made you afraid of dogs for the rest of your life. I would prefer to know about the ghost that your cousin said lived in the basement, or about that window that always seemed creepy to look out of at night because you imagined that something was out there, et cetera.

I'll start. When I was a kid we had these hats hanging on the wall in my bedroom, straw hats, Disneyland hats, different things. One night at around ten o'clock, I was lying awake, having trouble sleeping, and in the darkness, I thought I saw one of the hats grow into an ugly, scowling, long face with big eyes.

I closed my eyes and tried to forget about it, because deep down I knew I was only imagining this. But after that, I never liked to look at that hat on the wall at night, because I was worried I would see that face again.

Now you! You, you!

Your answers will be fed into a market research computer and used to make a really bad, trendy movie starring some young people from TV.