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My Basement is Evil
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Every time I turn off all the lights in my basement I run like hell up the stairs. I think the guy from The Shining will come out of my boiler room screaming and swinging an axe at me. WTF is wrong with me????
Do you think it's normal?
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LOL. Basements can be really creepy actually I don't like going down into them.
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i was the same with the attic when I lived with my parents, it's normal, don't worry :)
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there could really be a lost soul or ghost in there i had one in my house i had to get a witch to clean the house because supposibly my house was a torture room where they performed acts of violence in the late 1800s to native americans and i actually looked it up and was true about the area so it tied into my house
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It's just a phobia I used to think death (yes death, Robe scythe the lot) was after me in my basement (but only when the lights were off). Spend some time there, alone or with a friend (one you trust and can be told why you're doing this), Then start spending longer and longer intervals there. Soon the fears should subside. At least as long as the guy from the shining isn't actually there hiding in your boiler.
Me? I like the quiet solitude down in my basement now even more so when it's dark.
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hahaa i sometimes run like hell like u do! i think we are people who get scared easily!
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LOL !
Awwh : )
Nawwh don't worry cause it's totally normal!
I've had many incidents like that since I was small ... it's pretty funny though :P
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LOL you need to lay off the scary movies!
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LOL. That's exactly what I do xDD
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Believe it or not, I do the same thing. Haha. :]
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its totaly normal
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hahah! mine situation same as u, run fast as possible..


i always imagine(or thought)there were "something" are chase me or watching me...
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Sometimes I think my house is haunted when it's late at night and really dark and I haven't taken my medicine yet...
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what you should do is sit in there, let someone lock you up for 5 minutes in the dark.
Look around and it will help.
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I live in my basement, then again our basement is finished.
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join the CLUB!!!!!!!!!!!

it usually happens to me with the hall of my house, so fucking scary.
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lol chicken shit.
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lol!!!I lmao wen i read dis!
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the y still got to wory bout the zombie apocolypse wen u here a low grow or uhhh.... uhhh..... i will eat ur soul LOL
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OMG its that feeling that once you turn the last one. you get that one REALLY SCARY feeling in the sides of your neck near the back that you walk slowly or run, but running makes you feel like someone is actully behind you... omg i hate that so much. thank god my dad installed sliding door for light...
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I do the same thing!
And my room is in the basement ):
You should see me when I make my way to the bathroom at night. :P
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I have a problem with closet doors that are pitch black inside. keep thinking that the grudge chick is gonna peek out. And I'm 20!
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I live in a room located in the basement of my home. There's a sliding door in the room leading to it, too. I always imagine someone hiding in one of the many rooms around mine, especially if I'm coming downstairs when it's pitch black. Creepy ass shit. I can't wait to move.
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This is pretty normal. If you would rather feel safe inside your basement, I suggest spending the night there. Maybe with someone else.
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im freaked out by my basement too,i got paranormal activity down there,my papaws old bed is down there (he died of cancer when i was 3 or 4.) and i just dont feel safe.
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HAHAHAHAHA
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some places can give anyone scares, for me it was the funeral home basement at my aunts, if your willing to try you should even fight any fears you have and stay in the basement with the lights off for a while
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Under my bed is evil...and so is the dark corner.

Don't look at the dark corner.
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Quit tryin to scare people idiot A WITCH CAME TO CLEAN OUT YOUR HOUSE! what are you 2
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I used to be like that too. Eventually (at the age of 25), I gradually overcame that fear. Though I'm occasionally scared of the basement, like after I watch a horror movie or something.
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I too used to be really afraid of my basement. Then once i got taller things seemed much smaller to me and I didn't think that there would be a ghost where the furnace was.
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holy shit same with me. i am so scared of my boiler room and when i close the light i dash up the stairs too.
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LOL i'm like that too when i watch i horror movie O_O except my bedrooms in the basement >_<
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This is some funny but true shit!

I always take a second look when I go into and leave the basement.

If it wasnt for that damn washer and dryer I would never go down there unless I was having sex with a hooker and my friends were upstairs passed out after a night of getting lit at the strip clubs haha.
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LMAO! Thats actually kind of adorable! xD
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grow some balls u pussy
i think uv seen 2 many movies young one
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basements - especially ones that smell like there were dead bodies in it - are creepy. I'm with you!
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OMG déjà vu I do that for instence wen I turn off alight behind me I run like hell to the light igot too large imagination an I barely ever watch horrer movies (I'm a nerd only horrer books)
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kinda happens to me too, when im coming from the kitchen/playroom/garage and go past my room while the lights of, i run, thinking something will leap out and kill me
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it is totally normal! i run like hell times the max when i turn off the lights in my basement. i think that ghosts are going to come get me. i even try to talk to the ghosts in my head telling them that it's ok and to pls don't hurt me. i think my condition isn't so normal but yours totally is. don't worry.
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Pardon my French, but, you're an ass. I've seen your other comments. A site like this isn't for people like you.
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Yes, I have that problem too. Fear is a natural instinct when confronted with the unknown. I have similar problems with bathrooms, and any place dark and/or quiet. Another thing that can cause fear such as this is the fact that basements are usually filled with electric equipment and, being surrounded by earth, are electrically grounded. This causes large electromagnetic fields. EMFs have been shown to generate a feeling similar to fear in people. It's perfectly normal.
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I'm white and I walk through the black ghettos at night with a business suit on with pockets full of cash after work, that's a hell of a lot more "scary" and dangerous than some fucking basement. Man up you wimp.
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wtf y would u b obsessed with the frige is there a prostotute in der or summut lol
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Hi I'm 10 am I am still afraid of my basement too. Anyway I play the piano and my piano is in the basement! My mom makes me pratice the piano every day for a hour!!! Our basement is very dark it has lots of things in it so I think they are like monsters or ghosts or something. Once when I was playing the piano the power went off I screamed like very loud my voice was so high that my parents couldn't here me. So dude you are a 10000000%% normal even more than normal.
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man whats wrong with you. everytime i turn off the lights i think michael myers is gonna get me! But the guy from the shining. seriously mike is so much scarier.
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lol your brave.....iwouldnt live in a house if it had a basement
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It's cool, I practically feel the same way
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dont worry cause its totally normal...

im the same way..
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Holy crap! Jack Nicholson hangs out in your basement? Why the hell are you running away from him? Invite him upstairs and offer him a drink! He's an A list, extremely famous celebrity! I wish my life had 1/100th the excitemnt yours does.
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im afraid of bathroom...
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You are runnning from the fear in you own mind.
a basement is just a structure;your fear is of mans cruel nature.
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i had the same problem but then i started living in the basement so it kinda disepered
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I notice this problem arises more often when pot is involved.
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I have a really huge basement also.The house that i live in has a lot of history to it.When i go in my basement i notice that there are lumps in the floor.I think there are bodys buried in the floor.I do not know but it is safe the dead wont hurt it is the alive that will harm you.
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I usually sits in complete darkness when im on the toilet and im fine with that, but if i am walking around in the house I always get scared, probably because there is more space there.
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Totally normal. It is a common fact that ALL basements are evil. Well, not strictly true; studies suggest that over 98%% of basements consist of atleast 6%% rugs, bric-a-brac, and old ming vases.
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Part of it..if you feel like you're being WATCHED is that high levels of electromagnatism affects your brain waves and you have that feeling of being watched. This commonly happens in areas like basements or attics because of the electric. ACCORDING TO TAPS.
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I live in the basement, my luck.
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@: wee89
Same here. Oh and I'm 23 :)
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what are you smoking dude?
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makes sense because you never know if a robber snuck in your house and is hiding there waiting to get you...
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OMG I'm like that with my laundry!
If I'm in there, as soon as I turn the light off I run like hell and close the door behind me, I don't know why though
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Im the same way with the main character in halloween with my basement but i got over it when i got over it
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oh my what a BADASS dam if we only half as BADASS as you then we wouldn't have any worries



...i know this post is a little old but i use to have the same problem when i was little, as soon as the light went off i'd run like hell too... its because it's dark and you can't see anything and the basement does feel "paranormal"... so you run...

very normal... you'll get over it trust me... if you haven't already
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LMAO! At night when I go to put my laptop up or whatever, I go in the hallway and the lights are ALL off. It just freaks me out. First I do what I need to do then I RUN my butt to the living room or room.
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I get the same feeling when I run up mt normal stairs xD LOL
But it is totally normal, maybe you have something paranormal activity going on but please don't do what the retards did in the movie HAHA
But whenever you go down there take a friend or girlfriend or something
I have to have my botfriend always with me xD hahahaha
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My dog has to come with me to the basement otherwise I'm scared that cockroaches are going to smother me. Idk why it helps though, because my dog has somehow picked up my phobia, and now she runs from cockroaches -_-

She's a big fucking dog ffs.
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One night, go down there by yourself turn the TV on, shut the lights off, and watch The Shining.

Then turn the TV off and to to sleep there.

It will help you.
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i am like that with my loft i hate it.It was converted into 3 rooms and i never go up there as it creeks and the doors shut and open on their own it has freaked me out since i watched the ring dont even ask why that made me feel this i has hyper on doctor pepper that night lol oh yeah i also cannot enter a room with a wardrobe or washing basket without looking in it to make sure no freaky peados are hiding in there :)
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dude get the fuck off didnt you read where this site is for 18 and over?
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I'm the same too. I don't have a basement thank God, but I have been freaked out by different areas around the places I lived. I once had a phobia of our bathroom - it was an en suite and I could see directly into it from my bed at night, so I had to close the doors, otherwise I couldn't sleep. I think it's normal, but then again, just maybe it's our esp alerting us to strange things beyond explanation... I dunno, I'm skeptical, but I also sit on the fence sometimes. I think maybe we might be picking up on different energy patterns that cause our instincts to kick in and we experience the fight or flight thing. Must be something like that. I still get freaked out sometimes. The last time was in my kids room. I got the heck out of there and the hairs on my neck were bristling. Afterwards I feel like a total dick!
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HHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAH CANT BELIVE THIS!!!!!:))))))))))))
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I would never go into basements if I had a nitemare the nite b4 so I think it's normal :)
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that's what I do everytime I go I'm the basement. but instead of he guy from the shining, I think the grudge will come and eat me.
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meh bring a freaking ak47 with ya when you go downstairs...... which will win the ak or axe....... :P
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OOH YEAH MAYBE YOU HAVE A TORTURED SOUL IN YOUR CELLAR.
Actually, I think you're just scared of what can't be seen in the dark, just like pretty much every other human. Yippee!
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I DO THIS EXACT SAME THING. execpt i think that someones gunna come out of a dark room with a gun or a knife. scary shit man.
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The guy from the Shining was in like a huge mansion, with a hedge maze. Probably not where you live. However, wasn't there something about Freddy Kruger being around a basement boiler room or something?

I know I'm not helping, but if your going to be frightened of a horror film figure, at least have it be the right one.
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You know what I did?
I went to the basement one time and turned off all the lights and instead of running I sat down on the floor and said to myself "What the hell, whatever is here I'm greater that it" I sat there for 20 mins and nothing happened !!
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I sometime do that...it's normal
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Every time i run up the stairs i slam the door shut cause i think that if i look back down the dark stairs somebody will coming crawling up or some chick will be all cut up and grab me then drag me down the stairs..i know EXACTLY how you feel. Pretty normal.
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When ever I wake up at like 2 am at my gfs house I almost piss my pants because there's this giant ass mirror in the hallway
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it's a good thing i dont have a basement cuz ur scaredness scared me.
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Ok so I have this bathroom mirror with crack in it. Whenever I flush the toilet I turn the light off and run like he'll to get out of there. Becuz when I flush the toilet screams like a little girl
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Lol I feel. Yah
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Lol right when i ho to my basement, I'm afraid that freak from the movie dark ride is gonna eat me, so I run like he'll back upstairs.
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It's normal. I do that all the time
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ha ha

i do the same thing all the time XD

totally normal
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Paranoia.
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*shiver* yesss basements are scary....
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when i see a area in my house that i bitch black i stair at it wait for a killer to jump out
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thats completely normal
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I often run up the stairs when I go to my basement alone and especially at night. It creeps me out..
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!redruM
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its not a basement but my grandparents house has one set of stairs up to the second floor then another set of wooden stairs up to this old atic room, all the tiolets are upstairs every time it gets dark i go up to the tiolet and run like hell back downstairs for some reason it isnt even that scary it just feels evil.
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You should be thankful that Jack Nicholson would choose to live your basement!
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Wow ALOT OF PPL POSTED ON THIS 1 :O
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Can you tell the difference between jolting fear and having the creeps?
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I even used to do that in my hallway, which is no where near as scary as a basement.
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yeah, normal.
i get scared easily since i'm young.
i couldn't even go to our bathroom alone! someone has to go with me and wait by the door. i know....it sux. it just feels like someone is always going to get me or something..just thinking about it makes me shiver since i'm alone right now, parents at work.
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Yeah, in my basement I usually run up the stairs really fast because I think someones behind me.
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I have had the same problem my entire life. I would consider this normal.
My bedroom was in the basement for 13 years. Every time that I would leave my room I would book it to the stairs envisioning a hand with a very stretchy arm reaching around corners to come after me and pull me into the depths of oblivion.
Then it was a mistake to watch the original Amytiville Horror. Whatever you do, don't watch that movie.
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It perfectly normal! I run out of my bathroom after flushing the toilet... If I had a basement, I wouldn't even go there for love nor money!
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It's a good thing u do run my proffession is I hide in peoples basements and when they turn around I lick the back of their neck then dissappear into the shadows
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Of course it's normal! if you're not the type of person who's afraid of cold dark basements you're probably the type of person who likes to hide in them!!! Eeek!!
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Hahahaha I had the same thing! but I was scared Nosferatu would show up. And my face? priceless.
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Do dead rats live down there?
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Haha that's siik...lol i dont have a basement..i believe that they are pretty scary!! :S

Australia aged 12
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When I was younger I was scared of the basement, too. I read this story from a book about this monster who wanted to eat this kid's toe, and I thought he would come up from the basement to eat mine. Also, I had nightmares that the guy from the "Operation" game would come out of my closet and dissect me. Yeah.
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I don't blame you. The Shining was a f*cking scary movie.
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its a natural defense mechanism that all humans posses, its because deep down we are all afraid of the dark, the discovery channel did a whole 2 hour thing about why we are scared of the dark
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@: diji
god I love that movie
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I know I would be, Id be like "OH MY GOD JACK NICHOLSEN IS IN MY HOUSE I HAVE TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, and then we would hang out and then I would befriend him and become a celebrity."
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Ya!!!?!?' me too I do the exact same thing
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i had something like that from when i was 3 till i was 7 ... except it was a giant moon from a sessame street game. (the lights were all off my brother had turned the brightness of the tv off. tv speakers full blast. chose the wrong answer. loudest noise ever.)
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to many scary movies
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I do the same thing, and have since I was a kid. Norms!
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