# Are you easily creeped out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-easily-creeped-out/300114 "2005-04-19T19:47:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-easily-creeped-out/300114/21 "2005-04-20T03:13:36Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > What is this Light as a Feather? The way we played Light as a Feather when I was a girl was, one giggling pre-pubescent female would lie flat on her back on the floor, surrounded by however many other giggling females had been invited to the party. Everyone would place two fingers underneath the prone giggler, and whoever was sitting at the person’s head would begin to intone a story; something banal and relaxing about walking through woods and floating on air, blahblahblah. Periodically during the story the teller would use the phrase, “Light as a feather, stiff as a board.” One by one, everyone else in the group would repeat the phrase, and the storyteller would continue until the phrase had been used either three or seven times, I forget which. Then everyone would attempt to lift the victim (who, if she’d been paying attention, should have been light as a feather and stiff as a board by this time) using only the first two fingers on their hands. It works pretty well if you can get 10 people around a skinny 12 year old girl. Until someone screams and makes everyone lose their grip; I’ve dropped more of my friends that way. It invariably ends up with one of the girls breathlessly telling everyone else about how one time, at this other slumber party she was at, they’d been playing “Light as a Feather” and the girl they were doing it on went into convulsions, and they all started screaming, and then the lights went out and someone looked out the window and saw red eyes staring back in at her, and they all got scared because the Devil was outside, and they screamed some more… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-easily-creeped-out/300114/22 "2005-04-20T03:58:50Z")
I don’t get creeped out easily when awake, but when I was living in a slightly noisier complex, there was one person who worked on his car at around 3am on multiple occasions, all in an attempt, apparently, to fix the same problem. I can’t know for sure, since all I could tell about the problem was the _noise_. When this person revved the engine there was this metal-on-metal sound akin to the worst aspects of both nails on a chalkboard and squealing brakes. That sound waking me up in the middle of the night sometimes brought me into a state of absolute horror and despair. It happened just enough that I wasn’t desperate enough to see what the heck he was doing at 3am. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-easily-creeped-out/300114/23 "2005-04-20T04:43:03Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > When I was a little girl, my best friend was Catholic, and she had all the guilt and fear of hell that goes with it. She told me that you could get posessed by the devil just by letting him into your mind. That freaked me the hell out, but I asked her to explain. She told me that you were safe as long as you were thinking about Jesus or the Virgin Mary, but as soon as you thought about Satan, he would come and get you. Well, as soon as she said that, I couldn’t think of anyone _but_ Satan. Geez. Later, when I asked my mom about it, she told me that you had to tell Satan to come and get you in order to be posessed. What do you think went through my mind then? Yup, all I could think of was “Satan, come get me,” followed by massive guilt and silent prayers to God to protect me. Seriously, I scared myself constantly for an entire summer thinking about the devil. Even now, if my mind wanders to Satan or demons or hell, I get a little freaked out, and I’M NOT EVEN RELIGIOUS. Man, religious guilt and fear suck. I had this exact problem, except that in my case, it was the whole “denying the Holy Spirit is the only unforgivable sin” thing. What do you think was the ONLY thing I was capable of thinking of from that moment on? Add to that the whole “the thought is the same as the action” dogma, and man, I was SO going to hell. Right. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-easily-creeped-out/300114/24 "2005-04-20T05:00:01Z")
I get creeped out by medical horrors - when I first heard about the Ebola Virus and what it does to humans, I didn’t sleep that night. If I was born in the Middle Ages I’d be a raving loony by now. All those buboes and things. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-easily-creeped-out/300114/25 "2005-04-20T09:18:37Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > Looking out a window and seeing somebody looking in has _always_ been a fear of mine, especially since I grew up in a very isolated area. Same here, but for me its always been the idea of something _not_ human looking back (aliens, bigfoot, demon - take your pick). I do a lot of camping and those noises you hear outside your tent at 3am can get the imagination running wild. 98% of the time I’m fine - one day I decided to watch _The Blair Witch Project_ the afternoon that some friends & I went on a 3 day hike :eek: That was a sleepless night. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-easily-creeped-out/300114.md?page=1)