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898. Rough Stuff: Childhood Fears

🕑 Added 2025-08-05 13:00:17 +0000 UTC

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Scriptmonkeys

One childhood fear I had came from a irrational place. I had this fear of being trapped, especially underground, but that started because when I was three and a half I found the trap door that led to the crawlspace beneath our house. Naturally, I had to go through the trap door, and I recall being confident that I could find my way back. However, my older cousin who have been staying with us, saw the open trap door and closed it. After running around frantically searching for the exit, I eventually had a resort to pressing my face against the vent screen and the base of the house and screaming for my family who were in the backyard. As sometimes happens, that Fear turned a fascination and to this day, I still feel compelled when I find a new trap door or a stairway or a tunnel, to take it. In college, when we meet for film shorts in the lake, I called it Crawlspace Productions. I had even conceived the very BlumHouse style opening before I even seen one of their movies.

Aiden Abett

I remember being terrified of getting lost or kidnapped up until l was like 10 or so. Also, that episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark with the pool monster was freaky AF, partly because eats a kid in the beginning, but mostly because it looked a gross bloody skeleton :p