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writercisesOriginal Posting Sept. 7, 2017
Well, that's interesting. The wikipedia page on fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear has three lists of fears. Any of these might be a useful focus for a scary story, right?
2005 Gallup Poll, adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17, top ten fears were: terrorist attacks, spiders, death, failure, war, heights, criminal or gang violence, being alone, the future, and nuclear war.
Bill Tancer analyzed online queries to produce a list of: flying, heights, clowns, intimacy, death, rejection, people, snakes, failure, and driving.
Then there's a generic common phobias list, "according to surveys": demons and ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations, and public speaking.
Whoosh! All kinds of things to be scared of, right? And can you make a scary story about it? Sure you can...
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Well, that's interesting. The wikipedia page on fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear has three lists of fears. Any of these might be a useful focus for a scary story, right?
2005 Gallup Poll, adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17, top ten fears were: terrorist attacks, spiders, death, failure, war, heights, criminal or gang violence, being alone, the future, and nuclear war.
Bill Tancer analyzed online queries to produce a list of: flying, heights, clowns, intimacy, death, rejection, people, snakes, failure, and driving.
Then there's a generic common phobias list, "according to surveys": demons and ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations, and public speaking.
Whoosh! All kinds of things to be scared of, right? And can you make a scary story about it? Sure you can...
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