Ghosts, Vampires, Aliens, Dragons, Witches etc....

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Ghosts. (Need I say more?)

Next to that, aliens and vampires.

Tarantula would be the most likely on the afraid list.

It depends on the circumstances (for the ones which are known to exist or which might exist) and on both the circumstances and the posited extra physics for the ones which are not known to exist.


Human-plus threat level: Vampire (as usually depicted), Alien (if they got here, they're likely more dangerous than us), Dragon, Witch, Wizard

Human threat level (y'know, those super-apex predators with the nukes and the various insanities?): Mother in law, your own reflection, the Devil*

Human-minus threat level: Wolf, Tarantula, Snake, Ghost (as usually depicted)


I find it slightly amusing that the sight of, say, a pack of wolves or a pride of lions are supposed to evoke feelings of fear, but a picture of a nursery full of human babies - who are altogether more terrifying creatures** - is cute and lovable.



*a tricky one to place, but by usual convention only has the power to pick on people who doom themselves; so an entirely human threat. Anything more than that gets Manichean (that's the one, innit, the duality?) which is a heresy for almost everyone who believes in a literal Devil, right?

**even by a simple measure of terrifying-ness like the quantity of other animals they'll kill (directly or indirectly) during their lives. Think about it. f*****g lion's got nowt on McDonalds.

Uprising
Great (but freaky) pics

Ambivalence
Interesting thought process lol I like all the comments

I like ghosts but aliens freak me out

Dear Morph, You did not include on your List of Nasties the big shiny black cockroaches that skitter for the dark when you turn the light on. They are quite high on my personal 'Could Do Very Well without Them' list.

Sylkat

Sorry Sylkat, you're right though cockroaches (shivering just thinking about them) lol

Has anyone ever seen a film called bug? Really bizarre and disturbing!!

Dear Morph, Is that the one wherein big huge subterranean bugs crawled onto people and set them on fire? If so, thank you so VERY much for reminding me of it, I saw it years ago.....ick.

Sylkat

The rest of the list makes me go "whatever" so for the ???
I'm really afraid of birds.
Not just big ones that could rip your face off. You know the little ones could peck your face off just as easily.
Honest!! !
Once a sparrow invaded my house through an open door. I had to call my husband home from work to come get it out. I hid under a blanket until he came home and stayed under until he proved to me that the bird was GONE!

Dear Grey Girl , may I assume you have never seen the Hitchcock film, 'The Birds'? Scared the living daylights out of me and 2 others who watched it on T.V. Many years ago!

Morph, thank you SO much for getting me focused on cockroaches ( somehow this is YOUR fault); I Googled Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, and have absolutely ruined the rest of the day for myself!

Sylkat

I forgot to add my favorite from the list.
I would LOVE a pet tarantula...so cool!

So what's the worst type of bird? The one that freaks you out the most?

Morph, thank you SO much for getting me focused on cockroaches ( somehow this is YOUR fault); I Googled Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, and have absolutely ruined the rest of the day for myself!

Sylkat [/quote]

Lol

I choose to defend myself though, and the evidence I choose to defend my innocence is the original list (no cockroaches) lol you opened the door and let them in, then searched for more!! !

"I hereby declare that Morph is innocent"

Thanks judge

Birds that live in houses on purpose bother me the most. Especially when they're allowed to fly loose and no one tells you about them and they fly at your head and you duck and scream and it comes back at you with those claws trying to land on your head and the people laugh at you and say it's just a bird.

I think they said that was a cockatoo?? I say evil raptor trying to eat my brain.

Dear Morph, Cockroaches, being cockroaches, would have gotten in anyway, even if I had not bade them enter, so to speak. That's what cockroaches DO. As for as searching for more, I thought I remembered that the Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches were the biggest bugs. They aren't. The Goliath Beetle is; the larva of those things can reach 9 inches! Can we put them on your list?

Sylkat

Absolutely let's include cockroaches and Goliath Beetle. Anyone scared of these or anything else. I really would like to know all the creepy crawlies that get under our skin and make us shiver

Child ghosts....anyone see 'The Shining'?
Earwigs
Carrie's hand reaching up from the grave in the original movie
Jerusalem Crickets
Boris Karloff's Kharis awakening in the 1932 'The Mummy'
Walking into a spiderweb in the dark
First 'Alien' movie, when that tail came down from the ceiling
Pictures of hookworms
Now I'm nervous.

Sylkat

I love wolves, and I'm afraid of the dark.