We all have irrational fears, not to mention rational ones. Me? I don’t do well with snakes, but they pretty much fall into the rational variety. Anything that can sneak up on you and deliver a lethal bite is worthy of my terror.
Of the irrational sort, I am afraid of clowns. In a big way. I’m a classic Bozo-phobe. I can even trace it back to an incident when I was about two years old and was taken to see a movie in a theater for the very first time. It was a matinee, back in the day when parents would drop kids off for the afternoon, unsupervised. Basically, it was anarchy. In between the Huey, Dewey and Louie cartoon and The Shaggy Dog, a special live appearance was made by Clarabell the clown. For those who don’t know, Clarabell was Howdy Doody’s sidekick. He didn’t speak (a particularly strange affectation embraced by some clowns) and only communicated through the honking of various horns. So this creep comes charging down the aisle, the kids go ballistic, and my brain exploded.
So it may be an irrational fear, but at least I have an excuse.
What irrational fears do you have?
Kelsey says:
hahaha! That’s so funny! Awww that’s sad and yes i hate clowns too, though I have no real reason TO hate them….
Irrational fear = spiders. I know i know they’re so small and they’re always–what is it?–within a foot of me or something. But i hate how they move and how they look and if I smack one with a shoe in my house it can NEVER be my own shoe and i always make my dad clean up the icky mess of smashed spider…
Sean says:
um zombies i know they arent even really real but i watched the old dawn of the dead it freaked me out so much. Oh, and all we have to fear is fear its self.
Kelsey says:
Hey, first poster my name is Kelsey, too! Anyway, I’m terrified of heights. I know there’s a rational reason for that, like, ya know, FALLING, but even when there’s wires and cords and I KNOW it’s safe I’m still so freaked out. The funny thing is, I went to Paris last year, and on the Eiffel Tower I was absolutely fine. No problems whatsoever. But last week my class went to this ropes course where you climb like forty-five feet in the air, and I just couldn’t do it. All of my friends did, and it was perfectly fine, but I was so freaked out that I just could not do it. It’s pretty annoying. If it’s a building or airplane I’m okay. Observation towers that shake, Ferris Wheels, rollercoasters, and other stuff like that scare the bejeezes out of me.
Shelby says:
That’s awesome that you made Bobby afraid of the same things that you are.
Kelsey R says:
hey what a coincidence! (this is the first poster) Kelsey! Where are you from? I’m from St. Louis MO! There’s the Arch here! hahaha I love heights! We did something like that in my girl scout troop a couple years ago with a ropes course it was awesome, But I know the feeling…sweaty palms, heart beating fast. I just think confidently to myself and keep climbing! 😛
Stephon-gcb says:
I’m afraid of coachroaches because whan I was a little kid I was at my friends house and they were removing a slide in thier backyard and hundreds of coaches swarmed at me when they lifted it up. Plus one jumped onto my back when I was taking a shower. It freaked me out!
Chad says:
Burglars lol
Kelsey R says:
Chad that’s pretty rational lol
Riley says:
1: heights. Reason: None in particular. I guess it’s because of falling, breaking a neck, etc.
2: computers. Reason: I don’t know. I saw an episode of a TV show that involved a computer coming to life. After seeing it three times, I was terrified of computers ever since.
3: loud noises. Reason: Guns’ cannons’ C4, you name it. Mainly a nuclear terrorist attack.
Ela says:
Large, imposing Polynesian things – like masks, statues etc. Not just Polynesian, but anything similar. They’re awesome, but at the same time they creep me out.
Cassandra says:
I have two main irrational fears.
1. Chainsaws: I guess it’s not really that irrational. When I was five years old my parents, my sister, and I went to a haunted house out in the country. I remember it being on top of a large hill, and our car at the bottom. I was good all the way through the house. Until the end. At the end, there was a man with a chainsaw. Since I was the first out of the house, I was the first he jumped. i ran screaming down the hill and stood waiting by the car for my parents and sister. I HATE chainsaws now.
2. Falling: This is my most irrational fear. I’m very afraid of heights, but it doesn’t stop me from doing what I want to do. But when there is a simulation for falling, I nearly pee my pants. Seriously. I hate the feeling of absolutely no control whatsoever. My Imagination is so wild that one day, my friend was talking about how he fell off a ladder. And there, sitting at the table, I nearly fell backward because I could feel myself falling from the ladder. *shivers* ooh! I hate it.
Cassandra says:
Sorry for the double post
2c. I’m not afraid of hurting myself, just the sensation. I think if I were to fall from a great height, I would die of fright before I hit the ground.
Swiffy says:
Call me a wimp, but there’s one thing I have an extreme fear for…
Crickets
I hate ’em! The ones around here are ugly black things big enough to carry a small child away! Yuck. Once I stepped on a cricket by accident and it said “CRICK!!!” I couldn’t step foot in my garage for a week after.
Chad says:
LOL! How can crickets be that big?
Clark says:
Tornadoes is a big one for me. I don’t know what it is. They just scare me like heck.
~Pickle~ (Shmii/Kayla) says:
I don’t like roller coasters. I’m trying to like them, but they freak me out. However, I went on the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland over and over again. I couldn’t get enough. lol Irrational or what?
Wanna play some games? (:P)
Kevin says:
1 Dolls- they just look freaky, I mean the old fashioned ones that are suppose to look like real babies , not barbies. I once watched this show about Robert The Doll which was a haunted doll and im still freaked out about it, even though i watched it at about 7 or 8 . Also my older brothers name is Robert.
2 The Darkness- Well I’ve watched scary stuff, not to scary, but whenever im alone in the dark I ALWAYs imagine I see something in the dark . My power went out for like 4 days and I had to go into my basement to get something with a flashlight, and I was scared out of my mind
John says:
I’m really afraid of heights, although I have no problem being up high. I think I fear falling more than being up there. I suppose I’d only be afraid if wherever I was standing were unstable or narrow or something like that. So yeah, not really the heights themselves, I suppose. So maybe it’s just hurting myself?
I also have this fear of knives, but only in that horror movie sort of style where it’s really drawn out and gross. It makes me shudder just thinking about it. I’m completely comfortable using knives and stuff, but it still bugs me
Dash says:
-Lets see.. I guess all of mine are at least a little rational but some of the stretched ones would be like spiders and just bugs in general. I used to like bugs. Now they freak me out unless I take a step back and tell myself Im being stupid.
I used to get really paranoid of somebody else being in my house when I was alone but that doesnt happen all that often anymore. Only really when its dark and I go upstairs for some reason.
I cant really think of any other ones but Im sure there are plenty.-
Jordan says:
I am deathly afraid of dolls. Which is really funny because you know they cannot come to life and kill you or anything… at least I hope not. I have a decent reason for it though. My mom is a real estate agent and I used to go with her to the houses she was trying to sell. There was this one old-ish house Mom decided to go check up on. When we went inside everything was gone: furniture, appliances, light fixtures. I was kind of excited because this was different than any other house I had visited yet, that was until I went into the living room. I was just looking around and I felt someone staring at me. When I turn around I see this four foot tall doll standing in the corner. I was fine because I wasn’t petrified of them like I am now. My friend and I went to go check it out, but when she moved it’s head, it blinked at me. (You know those really, really old dolls that everything is stationary but the eyelids. If you move the head they blink?) Well I didn’t realize dolls like that existed at that time… so I ran out of the house and have been scared ever since. So that’s my irrational fear…
laithe says:
my irrational fear is of basements they just freak me out. probably cause I went into my own one day to get this old game and our basement is always cold and cluttered so I go up the stairs and then the light turns off ( it is controlled from the other side) I try to open the door but I couldn’t get it open I stayed down there for an hour or two I when the door finnaly became unlocked I found it was all my brother’s doing and ever since then I have been afraid of basements.
laithe says:
sorry for the double post but I meant to put tried to get it open but it was locked
Kristine says:
I guess my irrational fear would be of the dark. Or, for lack of better words, what’s IN the dark.
I mean, I know that before I turn the lights off, everything is in place and everything won’t move. But once the lights are off…I don’t really know how to explain it. I’m 19 years old and I wish I had an excuse to use a night light 🙁
It’s irrational to me because I KNOW there’s nothing there. But I think, most of all, I don’t fear the dark so much as I fear the unknown (know what I mean?). I can’t see, I’m blind, it’s scary and I don’t know what’s gonna happen.
Lol, but I do Love how you made Bobby’s fears the same as your own. Hopefully I’ll see you today in Glendora 🙂 I love all your work! Can’t wait for more =D
A.P Michael says:
Same here, i am freakishly afraid of clowns, they just look like they can come up to you with a knife at any moment, it’s so scary.
And for rational, i guess Fire. It’s more the thought of like something burning than actually fire itself. I won’t cook on my stove unless someone turns it on for me so therefore, have never learned to cook (a great pain to my parents, i’m 13, they say i should know) but i do force myself to like light fires outside, at a campfire, because it’s too much fun to miss even with all the fire.
Nate says:
I am completely terrified of bugs and lightning. I am perfectly fine jumping off of a relatively small fence, it is the fact that there might be bugs in the grass that creeps me out. Not sure how it happened but I am just a wimp when it comes to stuff like that.
Andrew says:
I’m scared of spiders and I’m a boy. what’s wrong with that?
Jacob says:
Jellyfish. I don’t know why. Just wicked scared of them and whenever I’m at the beach I’m always constantly looking around for jellyfish (I live on the coast.)
Jeremy says:
My biggest fear is my sister. She just turned 13
Juliet says:
I love how you turned your irrational fear into Bobby’s in Quillian. I told my sister about the evil clowns and I think that was enough to get her to start reading!
Irrational fears? I’m not sure I have an irrational fear. Maybe speaking in public?
Julia says:
I am afriad to sit at the back of the bus if it is really long. I frek cause i can’t see the road. at night time I might be ok cause you can’t see the road anyway. plus I am a very jumpy person so most things scary me and i hate when people scary me!!!
Rik says:
nonliving pictuers or stuffies looking at me it is soo creepy
Andrew neighbor says:
haha i posted my fear on your wall already and id like to knock out a clown lol.
camrine says:
so would i! and my friend well really my bffaaeawdahpd. i hate clowns and always have.
I am also afraid of spiders, bubbles, and getting hit by a train. i wouldn’t care if i died any other way but getting hit by a train is really just freaky.
Joe says:
I used to be petrified of clowns, but I’ve sort of grown out of it. However, every summer my family goes up to a cabin in the mountains and there is always this picture of a really creepy-looking clown hanging in the kitchen. The picture’s one of those ones where the eyes seem to follow you everywhere. A couple years back my uncle started using the picture in pranks. Sometimes the picture would just mysteriously show up in someones room. The best was when he hid a walkie-talkie behind the picture. Then he went to another room and used the other walkie-talkie to make the clown talk. My cousins and I freaked.
I HATE BIRDS!!!! says:
Birds!!!!!! I threw one of my pregnant friends in front of me when a bird swooped down. I am very scared of birds! lol
Elisabeth says:
I am very afraid of spiders. I’m always the first one in my family to see one if it’s around. I will scream if one touched me. If i have a nightmare…it’s about spiders. I dont ever kill them myself and i make sure it doesn’t get squished on anything that is mine. Sometimes at night i’ll see a little shadow and automatically think it’s a spider. My room is in the basement of our house so I see them a lot. It’s so creepy. I HATE spiders.
Mikey says:
For me it has to be most bugs. I’m 15, and I’m a guy, so being afraid of bugs seems to go against everything guys my age try to follow, but I just can’t help it. Especially flying ones, or ones that sting for that matter. I mean, they are small so if you take your eye off of them for one second they might be right behind you without you knowing, their size makes them near impossible to kill unless they sit still for a minute, they are usually found in swarms which rules out anything except for running, they like to hover around you and buzz right near your ear so I end up looking like a spaz swatting at nothing, and finally they like to sneak up on you when you least expect it (like in the shower or at your computer).
I suppose that’s my irrational fear. As for my rational one, I guess that would be heights.
Nick says:
An irrational fear I have is of wooden structures. I don’t trust wood. I don’t know why, but if it’s wooden, I want nothing to do with it.
Yunis says:
I have rational fear for animals that are meat eating, lions, wolves. basically wild animals. especially the fast ones. Thats i dont like watching National Geographic Channel.
As for irrational, witches AND Saint Dane! lol
Edward Worton N.J. says:
Hm. . . where do I begin.
1- Dolls
I have a good reason for this fear. when i was five, my sister and i went to our friends’ house. My friend Zack and I were playing videogames and my sister and Zack’s sister Spencer were in the basement playing dolls. all of a sudden, they come running out of the basement screaming. The basement was divided into two rooms. There was a doll in one of the rooms and they said it was alive. so Zack and i went down to see what they were talking about. on the basement floor, there was a chalkboard with the doll next to it. the doll had chalk on it’s feet and hands. on the board, the doll had written “play with me, why won’t you play with me?” Spencer and my sister had been playing and when they went into the other room to get something, everything was normal. when they went back to put it away, the doll was there. We were freaked out but we put the doll away and went back to videogames. my sister and Spencer went back to playing dolls. ten minutes later, they came sceraming out again. in the middle of the basement, there was the doll, the chalkboard and there were the doll’s footprints from where we had put it to where it was sitting. on the board, the doll had written “Zack and Jason, (they called me Jason for some reason back then) , play with me. Play with me or else.” now we were really freaked out. Zack and i went to look up info on possessions and dolls. when we came back, Spencer and my sister were gone. All of a sudden, the basement door closed and locked. then the lights went out. they are controlled from the outside. we heard giggling and one dim light in the center of the second room turned on. we looked over and saw the doll in the middle of the room. it hadn’t been there two seconds ago. then the doll started talking. it said, “Jason and Zack, you wouldn’t play with me. Why wouldn’t you play with me? Your sisters wouldn’t play with me either. Now they are gone. I warned you. You should have played with me. Now you have to learn what happens when people don’t listen to me.” then we heard our sisters’ voices faintly calling our names from a corner in the room but we couldn’t see where it was coming from. then the doll started giggling and the light went out. we screamed and the doll jumped on me! i threw it at the wall and i heard it say “why did you do that?” i ran to the door and tried to bust it down. it swung open and the doll jumped on me from the outside. i started screaming and then Spencer and my sister came out of the corner laughing. Spencer had locked us in the basement and turned the lights on and off. my sister had thrown the doll at us from inside the basement and had come out the other way and thrown it at me when we got out so i thought it had jumped. they had put walkie-talkies inside the doll and in the corner of the room to make the doll “talk” and to make it seem like ghosts were calling us. they had also written on the chalk board and put chalk on the doll to make it seem as if it had walked over and written on the board. So i have a good reason for fearing dolls. i was five so you can see how that would emotionally scar me. also, i used to have this action figure that i would always put on my dresser at night. but when i would wake up in the middle of the night, it would be on top of my TV looking at me. i got rid of it.
2- Clowns
When i was little, i went trick-or-treating and a person dressed like a clown jumped out at me and chased me for two blocks
3- The Unseen
like Kristine said, it’s not the dark, it’s the mystery. whenever i’m alone at night, i will always stand in the corner of the room ,whether i’m watching TV or making popcorn, so that nothing can jump me from behind. ever since i was three, i’ve had this ability to sense people and things even if it’s pitch black. i have great hearing. good enough to hear what my sister is whispering to my mom in her room upstairs while i’m down stairs. if someone turns the TV on and it’s on mute, i can hear a high-pitched sound that tells me it’s on. so when i’m alone, and everything’s quiet, i can hear everything. i can also tell if someone is behind me. not like paranoia, more like actually “seeing” their presence behind me. when i’m alone and in the dark, i get that feeling all the time because i’m sensing the furniture. so i stand in a corner to make sure no one or nothing sneeks up on me. i have a constant sense that someone is watching me. maybe it’s me wishing i was something more than an eighth grade student. maybe someone is actually there (gulp). whatever it is, i make sure that nothing can jump me from behind. and i’m sure that if someone actually does watch me, they see me writing this and know they’d better watch out cause i’m onto them.
4- Noise
Since i have great hearing like i said, anything loud scares me. it makes me feel blind. i can see, but if i can’t hear, it’s just scary because i rely on my hearing a lot. all my other senses work fine, but my hearing is most important to me because of it’s accuteness. if something is loud, that’s all i hear and i can’t hear anything else so i feel blind. this is why i don’t mow the lawn.
5- Attackers
I may read too much because sometimes i feel like the characters in the books i read. i feel like at any time i will be jumped and whisked away to a dangerous existence much like Bobby. except i am afraid that the person who introduces me to this existence won’t be as friendly as Uncle Press. i’m afraid they will be like Saint Dane and my story will be over before it ever starts. i know what you’re thinking . . . “this guy is paranoid” i prefer to call it “well prepared for any possible or impossible situation”. for example i’m afraid i’m giving my attacker the tools to take me down by telling him/her all of my fears but oh well.
solara traveler says:
Off subject but Someone needs to make a D.J. Mitchle cast (thats a podcast) or something like that id be glad to help just email me (cph645@hotmail.com)
Isaak8888 says:
wow edward that was long and as for my fears
I hate being completely alone expecialy when its dark, or with only people i dont know… well u get what I mean.im not sure whether thats irrational or rational?
Luke says:
My fear is very irrational but I have a reason. Anyways I’m deathly afraid of sheep, like if I see one I will start to hyperventilate so yeah its pretty pathetic. My reason for this fear is that when I was five I was at a petting zoo and a sheep charged me and knocked me over. Then another sheep behind it stepped on me and broke my arm, it was a very tragic accident. Ever since, I have been deathly afraid of sheep it’s horrible.
Yunis says:
I hate bedbugs! lol
Isaak8888 says:
wow are you kidding me, sheep? and bedgugs are nasty little things so thats rational.
Isaak8888 says:
sorry bedbugs not bedgugs
Edward Worton N.J. says:
Isaak8888
I know I’m afraid of a lot of things. I’m surprised I’m not a nervous wreck or in a mental hospital with irrational constant paranoia. LOL 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 but the story about the doll is true.
Swiffy says:
Good grief, Edward! You’re not supposed to write a NOVEL. This is the place for COMMENTS. Short, sweet, straight to the point.
Edward Worton N.J. says:
Hey, i want to be a writer. and al the stories are true so if i ever wrote a horror story, i would have a ton of inspiration.
nathan says:
Im afraid of three things #1 my GF breaking up with me o.0 too bad it happend las week…. 🙁 #2 Black Widdows and #3 snakes and that last one reminds me of Indiana Jones <3 awsome movie btw and again really nice trail Mr.MacHale!