What scares you?

Halloween is fast approaching! I recently saw a sign hanging up that read, "What scares you?" and I thought it would make a perfect blog topic. So here is a lovely list of the things that scare me. Most of them are pretty strange...

1) Trains. Trains terrify me! During Drivers Ed., we were shown a movie about trains. Although the point of the movie was to emphasize railroad crossing safety, it scared me to death! The movie and the discussion that followed was full of horrific train accidents where people would get hit by a train and turn into "pink mist." Since then, I have been terrified of trains and railroad crossings, which is not a good thing because I have to cross train tracks to go pretty much anywhere from my house. Last year, one of my classmates hit a train with his truck piling on even more fear of trains, and recently, I watched the movie Unstoppable about a runaway train. Terrible terrible terrible idea! I am more freaked out than ever. I don't even like the sound of trains anymore!

2) Moths. Moths freak me out. They are so gross looking! They have those big furry looking bodies and ugly looking wings. I absolutely hate walking underneath the lights on my porch at home because the moths are attracted to them and then they swarm all over me and touch me and get in my hair! Ugh gross! Not only are they repulsive, but they also scare me. When I was little, my dad made up this story about "slasher moths." These so-called "slasher moths" had 2 inch fangs that they would attack you with. I know it's stupid and it was all made up, but every time they swarm around me, I'm still scared one of them is going to whip out their fangs and bite me!

3) Coyotes howling. I live in a very rural area, surrounded by farms and timber. In the summer, there are tons of coyotes that howl all night long. My parents think it is beautiful to listen to, but I absolutely hate it! I know that I am in my house and safe and that coyotes don't attack people anyway, but they sound like really scary wolves to me! Sometimes they are so loud I swear they are sitting on my roof howling directly into my window. There have been numerous times where I have woken up to their awful sound, and paralyzed with fear, I make my sister get up and shut the windows so I can't hear them anymore. I think I'm so scared of them because when I was little, my sister and I watched the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast all the time. In the movie, a pack of wolves attack twice, and that part always scared me to death! Since the coyotes sound exactly like those stupid wolves, they terrify me!