Childhood traumas

[ZeldaQueen]

In Kennywood (an amusement park near where I live), there's a ride called "Noah's Ark". Basically, it's like a funhouse themed like the ark. You walk through it and see various exhibits of animals. It's gone through a lot of renovations though. One summer, it was changed and we didn't know about it. So we get in line and enter the ark. One of the first rooms we come to is an entirely new one that has a glass-covered pit filled with fake skeletons that guests had to walk over. I freaked, shut my eyes, and told my mom to lead me through. My mom, meanwhile, didn't know that there was glass over the pit so she was uncertain as to how to get across it for a while (she figured it out eventually). Later, I was further freaked by an exhibit of a stuffed gorilla, programed to lurch forward whenever a guest walked by it.

When I went to see the movie Shrek, I also saw the preview for the comedy Evolution. In the Evolution trailer, there's a part where an alien bug literally gets into a guy's body under his skin and some doctors try to figure out how to remove it. The actual scene was hilarious (they wind up getting it out rectally), but at the time it scared the holy heck out of me.