Way back in July of ’08 I did a little post on the fears of childhood.
And, with Talia having some restless nights again, I figured it was time for a little update.
Talia’s latest fear come as a surprise. This, her having seen me making Bobs and Dragons in the garage, taking her on dark rides hundreds, if not thousands of times over the summer, exposing her to haunted houses…ADULT haunted houses for the first time…I fully expected to go into her room on hearing her whimpering hearing how she was seeing evil clowns, undead, or other forms of monsters. Instead, I got “Tigers scary”.
Well, yes…Talia, Tigers ARE scary. “Tigers in the corner”
“You see Tigers in the corner?”
She looks around. “No, that’s silly, night-night”
Where this is coming from, I really don’t know. She LOVES to see the tigers on the train at Lagoon. She has “fluffy” a little tiger animal that she loves. But, at least she rationalizes once she wakes up.
Alec….
Want to see Alec curl into a ball screaming, rendered completely helpless with fear?
He first encountered the ‘chainsaw guy’ at Haunted Hollow last year. He screamed and curled into a shuttering ball when they came right at him, WAITING IN LINE for the place.
To his credit, he bounced right back up. He still gives the (rather nice) chainsaw maniacs at Lagoon a wide berth when possible.
I ran from my fair share of chainsaws back in the day.
Kyle, on the other hand….
Ever since watching I am Legend, Kyle has had this thing for Zombies.
Even the guys he KNOWS are costumed, he does not really like to be around tooo much.
I can’t blame him much. There was nothing on Halloween night that would scare me more than whoever it was that dressed up…well, to be honest, I never got a good look at him. Just HEARD him shuffling after us.
As for me…
About the time I was 8, there was a rash of news, both television and print, of local sightings along the Weber River of Bigfoot.
Oh, how I soaked all those in. Dreamed of seeing Bigfoot along the river banks so close to our house. Dreamed he would come walking out of the corn whilst working down on the farm in the wee hours of the morning. Or, that he would come hiking out of the brush whilst camping.
Shadows, movement, all were Bigfoot. I checked out books on the subject, watched all the tv specials I could…
We even, for a fleeting moment caught a glimpse of Bigfoot one early morning in Yellowstone. A dark shape, arms swinging back and forth as it walked away from us up that hill…Ok, so it was a buffalo, it’s winter coat not fully off, swaying as it walked, but for a moment there, I had seen Bigfoot.
