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This is just a personal holdover from childhood- but that pixilation of his face creeps me out a bit. When I was a youngster, the TV show Bewitched bothered and bewildered me. No that's a song sorry. The TV show Bewitched was my favorite TV program. And of course I thought Elizabeth Montgomery was pretty, and the original Darren- while not classically handsome- really appealed to my 3 and 4 year old eyes for some reason.

 

Anyway there was this one episode while Samantha was pregnant with Tabitha. She was exposed to this Peruvian Black Rose. It was a component of a witch banishment potion. It caused Samantha to break out in spots. I think they said on the show that the spots were green, but as the show was broadcast in black and white at the time- and in any case we didn't have a color set back then even if it had been broadcast in color. But those spots of hers really freaked me out. And not in a good way. And seeing anything that remind me of those spots, has remained a bugaboo of mine since then.

 

 

Anyone else with odd childhood phobias persisting?

 

Gman

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Where to start?

 

How about with the fact that I don't like really, really high bridges, like the one in Baton Rouge over the Mississippi. I attribute that to Mighty Mouse and every collapsing bridge that he rescued Pearl Pureheart from. Or to the train trip that I took with my Mom when I was four and the train backed over a flooding Missouri River and she was scared to death.

 

See, it always all goes back to Mom...

 

Or Mighty Mouse?

 

Okie

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Where to start?

 

How about with the fact that I don't like really, really high bridges, like the one in Baton Rouge over the Mississippi. I attribute that to Mighty Mouse and every collapsing bridge that he rescued Pearl Pureheart from.

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I don't have an exact phobia about bridges- but I dislike the narrowness of the lanes when driving on them. When I was 4 years old we moved to Shreveport and often went over the bridge to Bosier City to eat. The bridge was very high to my childish eyes. I used to wonder if the car fell over the bridge who my Dad would save as neither my Mother nor I could swim. I never thought about us all dying in the crash.

 

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I don't have an exact phobia about bridges- but I dislike the narrowness of the lanes when driving on them. When I was 4 years old we moved to Shreveport and often went over the bridge to Bosier City to eat. The bridge was very high to my childish eyes. I used to wonder if the car fell over the bridge who my Dad would save as neither my Mother nor I could swim. I never thought about us all dying in the crash.

 

Gman

 

That would not happen to have been the Jimmie Davis Bridge connecting southern Shreveport to Bossier City, would it? I grew up in Bossier City and crossing that bridge riding in my mom's car always gave me the creeps. Especially, at night as for the longest time it was not properly lighted. Not good for a two lane span.

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One day I walked in on my mother and father fucking and to this day, I have a fear of walking in and seeing my mother and father fucking. Since they are both dead, this fear rarely affects me.

 

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Gman

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The main childhood phobia that still haunts me is being in a dark enclosed space, (like a tomb) being restricted so I cannot move and slowly feeling suffocated due to lack of oxygen. I watched The Mummy, that old B&W film with Boris Karloff, where his ancient Egyptian persona was punished by being wrapped tightly as a mummy while he was still alive and put in a tomb where he suffocated to death. Of course, in the movie he was revived by the reading of an incantation from the Egyptian Book of the Dead centuries later.

 

However after going to sleep following my first viewing of the film on television, I dreamed I was the one suffocating and completely unable to move with no way of escaping. I must have been about 7 or 8 years old. Even now, if I am very stopped-up from a bad head cold while I sleep, I sometimes wake myself in a panic, having that awful suffocation feeling as in my childhood dream even all these decades later!

 

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I could never watch the Twight Zone thinking it would give me nightmares, still cannot as an adult.

 

I don't remember the title of the episode of "Twilight Zone" but it involved very frightening men with one eye in the middle of their foreheads. In one scene a character opens a cellar door and begins to walk down and out of the darkness appears one of these creatures. As a child, I left the room and never watched "Twilight Zone" again. To this day I get uneasy opening doors leading down to unlighted areas.

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... I used to wonder if the car fell over the bridge who my Dad would save as neither my Mother nor I could swim. I never thought about us all dying in the crash.

 

Gman

 

What about your sister? Have you learned how to swim since then?

It's a wonderful sport, highly recommended to people with mobility issues, my mom had aerobic class on water till she was in her 80's.

 

Now about my phobias: I was and I'm still bad at math, failing that class always scared me.

 

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