When you're a kid, everything is scary. You don't understand much about the world yet, so even the most mundane activities like flushing the toilet can be kind of horrifying.
Movies certainly don't help. They'll have you believe that things like demonic possession and alien abductions will be really prominent parts of your life, which is traumatizing.
We rounded up some of the things that Reddit users said they feared as children, most of which they've grown out of. Of course, these are just for fun as we can't independently identify them.
"I was irrationally afraid of aliens."
"I was irrationally afraid of aliens. They still give me the willies, but I can watch some alien movies. It's more the grey skinny aliens with the huge eyes that scare me still. The opening sequence for 'Unsolved Mysteries' scared me so badly because it had aliens in it. My parents LOVED that show, so I got tortured with it once a week." - Redditor WombatBeans
One person was terrified of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."
"'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. F--- them and their clippy-cloppy feet, and f--- the troll that guards the bridge." - Redditor streamstroller
Some were afraid of flushing the toilet.
"I somehow got it in my head that if I flushed the toilet, Ursula would creep out and kill me and my family." - Redditor haiyouguize
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