30 Things People Found Terrifying As Kids That Look Less Scary Now

I remember going to the elementary school library to research how to survive quicksand - I was convinced that I was bound to get stuck in a patch of quicksand on my way to school. Somehow I managed to avoid that hazard all my life despite its prevalence in cartoons and TV.

When I was 7-9 years old we were stationed in France. We visited Mount St Michel which is on an isthmus (an island connected to mainland by a long narrow land bridge that is underwater at high tide). We were told that when the tide is out, the place is surrounded by quicksand. I got separated from my family and for the couple hours I was lost, all I could think about was that the quicksand was gonna get me. Not starving, not dangerous people--quicksand.

Yes I thought the same, but so far I'm lucky. I was also expecting situations where i would have to swing from liana to liana ...

This is a joke from John Mulanny

Everyone who watched Lawrence of Arabia as a kid I guess. At least that's what did it for me o_o

I- i still do dat tho..

My basement had weird writings on the wall and things would fall over for no reason

Technology resolved that particular issue for me -- now I can ask Alexa to turn off the downstairs lights after I go upstairs. And I like to think she'd tell me if there was a ghost down there.

I would like to know... WHO DOES NOT DO THIS STILL?!?

It doesnt need to be a basement. I switch off all the lights at night and run like hellhounds are chasing me to my room

I was scared of quicksand, piranhas and accidental body swaps or time travel XD overactive imagination and anxiety, me? Never XD

i was never scared of the bermuda triangle. why? because my family used to live on a boat in the bermuda triangle, and we never saw anything odd, or any shipwrecks that didn’t have a valid reason to sink.

I thought the same thing about radio towers. When I was a kid I thought they were monsters with a big red eye. I couldn't understand why adults weren't scared of them, weren't trying to 'stop' them.

Nope,i always been fascinated,never scared,still am :)

yup

It’s something which lots of people think is a fact but there’s no law against driving with your interior lights on. But at night it can be distracting or interfere with your vision by reflecting off of the inside of the windscreen. If you’re pulled over and it’s decided that your light was a probable cause in any bad driving, you can expect to get a careless driving charge though.

My mother said the same thing along with driving bare foot.

It can cause your pupils to constrict making it harder to see the road ahead.

I was today's year old when I found out having the interior lights on in a car was not illegal.

the same! nowadays i know it's a lie but still when my husband turn it on - i feel uncomfortable...

It's a very common myth, so don't worry. ^_- Also the one with watermelon growing in your stomach if you swallow the seeds.

I just learned that it didn’t at this very moment! 😂

smh- my uncle told me if you swallowed bubblegum your butt would blow bubbles and then your pants would get stuck and you'd never be able to change again and everyone would know you swallowed gum.... I was 6. I believed him. lol

I was told it would turn to stone and stuck up my intestines... one is still ok... but two of them stones were lethal for sure

My friends told me this I am still scared to this day

Yeeesssss!!! I was genuinely scared to even try it.

When I was a kid I was seeing how deeply I could cross my eyes because... reasons. Anyway, I pulled the connective tissue so hard that the next morning I couldn't shift my eyes without piercing pain shooting through my eye sockets. Have you ever tried to not move your eyes? Not possible.

Or that making funny faces would get them stuck that way.

Yes and I asked my dad and he said it was possible they get stuck for a short time but I still cross them

Wait so it's not true?

I used to have this weird fear that if I were swimming I'd kick a dead body at the bottom of the pool...I have no idea why