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The Animal Within => Monstrous Animals => Topic started by: TeteoInan on October 17, 2011, 03:38:38 PM

Title: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 17, 2011, 03:38:38 PM
I saw the potential for opening this thread up, so I figured I'd go ahead and do so!

Got a Phobia of a Creepy Crawly, or Giant Man Eating RAWR Monster type thingy?
How about an Experience that stuck with you?

I wanna know!



EDIT: Removed

Snakes though... ermm, i can look at them, but dont ask of me to touch any. Seriously.


I feel the same way about jellyfish & as far as I am concerned every single one could vanish & it would be a better world.
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: aprilc1 on October 24, 2011, 10:34:34 AM
Im terrified of spiders but there's no real reason for, no encounter I can think of that triggered it-I just jump six feet in the air if I see one -I think it's because they are silent
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: ViciouslyMe on October 24, 2011, 12:10:34 PM
Sorry, but the only thing that terrifies me are heights lol. Sad, but true.

Was in Mexico napping on the couch at my cousin's place, woke up because I felt something on my hand. When I looked down it was some spider with a bulbous abdomen. Freaked me out but it didn't bite me or anything.
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 24, 2011, 12:37:39 PM
Well, it doesn't have to be something that scares you V.  :-P

I've had quite a few encounters with animals that I find amazing.
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: aprilc1 on October 24, 2011, 12:45:19 PM
Ok this is an emcounter that some might find a little strange-I have 3 dogs 2 of them are rescues from the street-one of them (Little Sam) Ive raised since we found him abandoned as a pup will get in the shower with me-I had to start taking him in the bathroom with me when he was a puppy I was afraid my other dogs might hurt him and that's how it started
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Thirteen on October 24, 2011, 01:22:37 PM
Butterflies are terrifying.

And I'm serious..
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 24, 2011, 02:57:58 PM
one of them   will get in the shower with me

Awww! That's cute!!!


Butterflies are terrifying.

What about them is so bad? Like, did something happen when you were little?
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: aprilc1 on October 24, 2011, 04:00:14 PM
one of them   will get in the shower with me

Awww! That's cute!!!


Butterflies are terrifying.

it was when he was a puppy but he did it just the other day and he's considerably bigger than a puppy haha at least I gave him a bath so he's clean for the moment                                                                                                                               about them is so bad? Like, did something happen when you were little?
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Bane Bloodfang on October 25, 2011, 10:07:13 AM
I'm so cliche, I'm terrified of spiders oh and wasps. I was chased from my friends house to my house by a big swarm of them. Got indoors screaming and crying, when I calmed down we couted 32 stings from head to toe- literally -_-. I didn;t like wasps before the incident, I really didn't like them afterwards XD. I was about 10 when this happened ^_^;

Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 25, 2011, 10:15:53 AM
I'd be dead. I'm allergic... just one sting from one of those suckers had my back as big as my butt...
Damn, that sucks though.


EDIT: Some Removed :-P

Something my Mother did:
She saw a "Huge" ( small ) "Monster" ( normal ) of a Spider in her window.
So, after her initial screaming fit, she apparently ran to the bathroom, and grabbed a spray. Then cautiously went back to her bedroom and doused this Beast with... Chloraseptic throat spray.
Yep.
The Spider had a Sore Throat.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Bane Bloodfang on October 25, 2011, 10:34:10 AM
Hahaha XD that'd be something I'd do as a kid XD.... well I bet that spider didn't have a sore throat for much longer :B
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: aprilc1 on October 25, 2011, 11:08:08 AM
This past August I got stung by yellow jackets and while Im not "allergic" meaning I wont go into anaphylactic shock from them the venom set off a chain reaction where my immune system went crazy -I have SLE-and I almost died from dehydration-the doctors werent able to figure out why-just one of those things but Im still not 100% and I have marks still from the stings
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 25, 2011, 11:20:04 AM
Edit: Post removed...
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: aprilc1 on October 25, 2011, 11:28:06 AM
Oh hon, you too? SLE is almost hereditary for the women in my family. They tested me for leukemia before they found it.

yes in mine too so far at least my daughter shows no signs of it but she's only 16 so we'll wait and see-sorry if Im off topic
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: ViciouslyMe on October 25, 2011, 11:51:16 AM
I've been stung by a swarm too, but I hold no grudge, I did kind of deserve it lol. I was a kid, so yeah, I got in to a lot of trouble.
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 25, 2011, 12:11:48 PM
Well, at least if they find it with her, they know more about it now and can do things to help make it tolerable.
No worries, I'm not too worried about Off Topic as long as it doesn't go on for multiple posts.

Let's see... This isn't something that left me with a Phobia, but at the time I think everyone involved was sorta scared s**tless.

My friends and I made a trip to visit some folks... Sitting around the dinner table, asking questions, listening to "jokes" about the Moose in the area.
Afterwards we all went outside, and had a snowball fight.
A Moose walked out into the yard. It's been a few years, so I'm not sure what we did when we first saw it, but I do remember it chased us...
We went down over the yard onto the garage ( multi level housing & property, really pretty set up ) and it fell through the garage... got up and continued to chase us until we ran into the house.
We were all screaming until we got in there.
Then of course, we all started laughing and teasing eachother for being scared of a Moose.
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: aprilc1 on October 25, 2011, 12:18:18 PM
that is scary because moose are dangerous I saw a special National Geographic about people being attacked and stomped by moose
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Thirteen on October 25, 2011, 12:41:22 PM
(http://ilovereachingmilestones.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/butterfly_face.jpg)
That's why. D:
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 25, 2011, 12:46:43 PM
Alright,  it makes sense now. I can understand that... cause, Azzy is terrified of spiders, but only because of their Faces.
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Wolfman528 on October 25, 2011, 12:51:49 PM
I don't think this is funny, but my family does. The other day a garter snake got into the house and hid under the fridge, didn't see it until the first time it crawled out from under there around lunch when I was getting up to get a drink. Thought it was a rubber snake my brothers managed to get to scare our mom, and when the thing started going back under the fridge, I nearly jumped out of my skin. Not one of my proudest moments, seeing as I'm the one who is always calm about snakes in the family.
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Bane Bloodfang on October 26, 2011, 03:11:30 AM
(http://ilovereachingmilestones.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/butterfly_face.jpg)
That's why. D:

Am i weird for thinking thats REALLY CUTE? XD look at its ickle tongue! its so long and curly :B
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Nina on October 26, 2011, 09:07:48 AM
You are gonna love this one, I have no clue what it is:

(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m583/EarthCountess/DSC01919.jpg)
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Bane Bloodfang on October 26, 2011, 10:36:39 AM
You are gonna love this one, I have no clue what it is:

(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m583/EarthCountess/DSC01919.jpg)

OMG I had one of those in my bedroom a few years back! I drew a detailed sketch of him because he was so weird! XD if you looked really close at his wings they're like lil teeny feathers! they're cute bugs :B
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: mickey on October 26, 2011, 11:32:01 AM
i get these at my house alllll the time.
    i actually have a funny story, last summer when i was in Vermont staying with family my boyfriend and i woke up to a bat flying around our room. my boyfriend decided he was going to catch it, and threw the blankets over it but all of a sudden another one came out of nowhere! my boyfriend took one leap out the door and down the stairs, leaving me there in the room with a massive bat flying around my head! needless to say we didn't sleep in that room for the rest of the time we stayed there, and i still haven't let him live down the fact that he left me in the room lol. i have always loved bats and found them fascinating and still do. im not scared or traumatized, i just love this story
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: TeteoInan on October 26, 2011, 04:34:08 PM
Thought it was a rubber snake my brothers managed to get to scare our mom, and when the thing started going back under the fridge, I nearly jumped out of my skin.

*giggle* It's a little funny. Admit it. Especially because it's an unusual reaction for you.



You are gonna love this one, I have no clue what it is:


I'll see what I can find, if someone doesn't beat me to it... and I'll post it to the Strange Animals topic  :-)
It sounds like they're common enough to be able to pull something up.



my boyfriend took one leap out the door and down the stairs, leaving me there in the room with a massive bat flying around my head! im not scared or traumatized, i just love this story

Now that... is funny.


With some of the encounters I've had you would think I would have developed a phobia of something.
Sure, I've developed a sort of leery attitude towards some Spiders because of my encounters with them...
Especially Recluses. Nothing like waking up with one of those suckers on your belly.

EDIT: Most of the post has been removed...
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: ArcticWolf88 on November 25, 2011, 07:26:38 PM
Simple...wasps, can't stand them! Only my weapon against one last time was Lex's hairspray and shutting it in the window, not throat spray...that stuff'll kill anything...freeze it's wings out in midair probably... :-P

I also hate spiders, I TOTALLY 100% agree with Azzy on that one...though the M-80 in the tank wasn't the best idea dude...there are better ways to kill those creatures! :evil:

The most Wonderful animal encounter = the Wolves of Yellowstone, absolutely magical to see them and be maybe 10 feet from them 8-) How typical of me, right? Wolves? :roll:

Strange? -  I almost hit a moose driving in Quebec one time, came outta NOWHERE...totally missed it by a few inches (I didn't hit, but there was fur on my bumper cuz of that!) and the darn thing came walking up the street in the town I was in and gave me a stare when I was outside a cafe...2 days later. A - It's in a town and B - It remembered me! Priceless! :laugh:
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Nina on November 26, 2011, 12:20:29 AM
Thats one real cool Northern exposure event Wolfie xD
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: ArcticWolf88 on November 26, 2011, 01:16:52 PM
Thats one real cool Northern exposure event Wolfie xD

Thanks Nina! ^^

The time I almost got in a 4 car pile up with an gasoline tanker near Fairbanks and had to go off into the ditch and almost into a lake is another one of Wolfie's many "Northern Exposure stories", but that doesn't have to do with animals, LOL! ^^

I really do like it up there in Canada (and Alaska) but that may be my wolf spirits influence, longing for the arctic!
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Nina on November 26, 2011, 06:29:07 PM
Id like to visit Alaska, but ill prolly die before that...
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: ArcticWolf88 on November 26, 2011, 07:11:08 PM
Id like to visit Alaska, but ill prolly die before that...

Oh, it's beautiful and love it there, Anchorage is my town...that is my spiritual home you know, my wolf wants to live in Alaska more than life itself at times...my D-shifts are all set in Alaska or sometimes...Nord-du-Quebec ^^

I need to get to back to my "technical" hometown in Sweden someday...Giron, but I'll probably die before that happens, more likely next Vaca will be back to Paris or Martinique...one of the few Sami words I remember is the name of that town...
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Nina on November 26, 2011, 07:13:51 PM
Id always choose Giron over Paris then ;)

*howls as a proper northern wolf is supposed to* ;)
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: ArcticWolf88 on November 26, 2011, 07:47:10 PM
Id always choose Giron over Paris then ;)

*howls as a proper northern wolf is supposed to* ;)

Giron it is...I've been to Paris 5 times already...never been to Lapland though, my ancestral home.

Barrow or outside Prudhoe Bay would be better though...North Slope, my spiritual home.

*hhhhhhhhoooooowwwwwllllssss as a true Northern wolf* Don't get much more North than Arctic... :wink:

That was very Wolf-like statement for a Non-Therian *poke* :-P
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: Nina on November 27, 2011, 05:49:11 AM
I dont have to be a shifter to be aware of my animal inside ;)
Title: Re: Encounters, Phobias? ( The Strange, the Scary... the Wonderful )
Post by: ArcticWolf88 on November 27, 2011, 01:34:31 PM
YAY! Nina's a wolf on the inside! Day even better nows than it was before! *runs around as happy wolf and wags tail* :-P

My inner cub made an appearance, my bad! 8-)

The more wolf-like people I know, the better in my view. :)

I dont have to be a shifter to be aware of my animal inside

I believe that! LOL :wink: