Chills ....

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Doing some research here. I'm looking for examples of what sends shivers up and down your spine? What makes you want to leave the lights on, turn on all the electrical noise makers in your house, avoid looking out the windows, freezes you in your bed at night? Not slasher stuff, but the stuff that raises the hair on your arms and at the back of your neck. Is it sound of a whisper that you can't identify, the feeling that there is someone watching you through your windows at night, a shadow that resembles the figure of a person standing at the foot of your bed? What scares the living daylights out of you when you're alone in the house at night?
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Sean3w

What scares me sometimes is my imagination. Most of the time before I go to bed or when I'm home alone, my mind makes up it's own surroundings so I think someone is in the house or outside of it with some freaky face or whatever.
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SGPFlughaupt

never never surf Ghost Sighting web sites at 1 a.m. in the morning. and never download sound recordings of supposed 'ghost voices'. That what scares me. Basically the sorta "It could be true.." or "It happened to me..." type of stuff that make you start to look around in paranoia.

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Sean3w

Oooh that used to scare me then I learned. I stopped.
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Marleen

I get scared when there are no pets in the house to blame all the weird noises on...
"It" by Stephen King, the cover of the book is really creepy and when I read it (again and again it's a cool book) I always have to put down the book on the side of the picture so I can't see it at night. Afraid it is going to crawl out or something. Fear is not rationel...

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MythingLink

Had a nightmare when I was a teen about a clown doll in the basement that attacked me when I went downstairs. Looked just like the clown in the movie right down to the pointy teeth. I think SK's been stealing my dreams. <G>
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Padders

What scares me, um.... i think it is not knowing what is happening to you and just importantly when you have no control. So i think helplessness and unkowing are the main factors of fear. You see so much of both of them when people describe nightmares. Just my thoughts on the subject.
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Corzafa

when i lay on bed at 5:00 am in the morning thinking to my self Oh $%^& i have an assignment due tommorow, why didnt i do that last night.

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[jsc]

I live in Los Angeles and that by itself is scary enough!
Was worse where we lived before, was woken by gunfire almost every night!

[Cap'tCrash]

It's early morning dark ,and I want a drink. I go into the bathroom to have a drink and I cannot look in the mirror.Why?.Because I know if I do I will see the hand of the monster of all my childhood nightmares slowly curl around the doorframe.I am afraid of a 12"x12" piece of glass at 3am.How sad is that...
Oh and the way the cat keeps seeing mad axe murderers over my left shoulder while he sits on my lap.

Thanks guys no drink for me tonight.......

[padders]

Aww. i know, when I am in the house on my own, it is dark and my dog barks as if there is someone at the door. When i check there is no one there. (to make it even scarier quewe the motion detector lights going on)

[j. d. worthington]

You know, I think maybe this thread could use some revival... This chimes in with a discussion we've had about what in literature works to evoke that "creep factor"... So here's a parallel thread about what does it for people in real life.... Let's see if anyone has anything else to add....

[dustinzgirl]

The giant flesh eating spiders that live in my closet.
Freddy Krueger.

In general, my over active imagination. I have always left the hallway lights on and my door open.

[littlemissattitude]

Shivers? Not scary, but fingernails scraping on anything...not just a blackboard, but on a wall, on a car, and like that.

Not that much really frightens me so much that I cower. Someone mentioned gunfire...I don't like it, but if it seems close, calling the cops seems like a better answer than cowering. Mirrors in the dark creep me out, but after having a bedroom once in which the sliding closet doors were mirrored - essentially one whole wall - I kind of got used to them.

[j. d. worthington]

Being in any large building, such as a museum or, better yet, a theatre auditorium, after everyone has left, and there's only the emergency or "storm lights" on... that or being in a large cavern alone with just a small lamp... These can be very creepy experiences. As Lovecraft noted, they don't send me into quivering spasms, but they can genuinely feel very eerie and give the impression of something unearthly waiting in the wings....