Fear of corn fields

[margurite]

Children of the corn was very scary! I haven't seen it in many years. I do not like corn fields very much because of this movie. Haha! I just thought of a story my aunt told me about the first time she ever saw children of the corn. After watching it she went to the bathroom and her brother in law was hiding in the shower so that he could scare her. She sat down to pee and he jumped out. She hurdled her sister and ran off screaming. I love that story! She dosnt know that I am telling all of you about this. I will tell her tonight. :biggrin2::biggrin2::biggrin2: That is so funny!

[GNTLGNT]

Funny stuff, but my inquiring mind wants to know why her sister was in the bathroom to start with, or is it true that women really DO run in packs to pee?...:eyebrow:

[Cowboy]

Cornfields are scary....never know what kind of riff raff you will run into.http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t218/cowboybum/homepics036.jpg

[Sundrop]

Cornfields are scary....never know what kind of riff raff you will run into.

It's not exactly the cornfield that I find so scary.....LOL

How are ya, Cowboy? :biggrin2:

[motocop]

Funny stuff, but my inquiring mind wants to know why her sister was in the bathroom to start with, or is it true that women really DO run in packs to pee?...:eyebrow:

Thats the first thing I thought of too. Hurdled her. Thats funny. Take my sister, just dont hurt me.:biggrin2:

[Spideyman]

City child, but each summer would vacation with grandparents on a farm. Loved playing in the cornfields.

[king family fan]

Cornfields.hmmm.....Back when I lived in Michigan,a friend from Alabama came to visit. She hated the cornfields. She said ye all have cornfields from hell! I just laughed.

[Connie Reader]

My Gramma had six rows in her garden which seemed like a lot at the time. The only thing I didn't like about them were all the bees (terrified!) and I was grossed out by the bags hung at the corner of the garden designed to catch japanese beetles. If you put your ear to the bag you could hear the incessant rustling of them trying to climb out *shudder*

My last boyfriend and I used to drive to the town next to us and walk through the cornfields there...it was definitely creepy, but mostly, itchy! I wonder if it was the corn or some kind of pesticide! yeesh.

[margurite]

hahaha!!! Sorry. her sister ran in to see why she was screaming! hahaha. and I think some women actually do do that. I have heard many stories. I don't get it.

[Christiane17]

I recall when I was a little girl that when we visited my uncle who was a farmer and this cornfield was standing high ( because I was little of course). My mom and dad were watching me and my sister and brother very closely, so we wouldn't even put a toe in there.:oo: They were so scared themselves of this huge amount of corns spreading themselves in what seemed like miles and miles. And there was also this kind of noises crops made when ever the wind was blowing. Kinda scary. By the way, I liked SK's story, but the movie didn't do it for me, sorry to say. Sometimes adaptations are not as scary as the books are, imo of course. :smile2:

[pennywise74]

Its ok not very realistic though where were all the police and relatives of the adults killed when they stopped hearing from them. I wanted to slap Malaki just one of those people

[leftrightwriterman3613]

There was only one aspect of playing in a cornfield as a kid which I didn't like at all. Those little stinging, white-haired caterpillars! They could really lay a hurting on a person if you were unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of one of it's stings. Other than that it was great. The feeling of not being able to tell exactly where you were was a unique -- and possibly somewhat warped -- feeling of the thrill from playing in such a place.

[CarrieJo]

I was afraid of cornfields well before I saw the movie/read the book. They're just creepy to me. You never know what or who is going to be running around in there. Plus I just like to know what going on around me at all times. Cornfields are just a panic attack waiting to happen for me.

[JillMarieMorris]

I have no fear of cornfields, although the movie was definitely disturbing. My funny "COTC" moment: When my kids were younger (now 23 and 21), I use to tease them when they would get twitchy in the store - more specifically in the grocery store. As a term of endearment (lol) I would tell them that they needed to stop acting like "children of the corn." WELL - one fine day while standing in the checkout lane at a Ralph's store in southern Cali, I said just that to the kids. A woman in the adjacent lane heard me and apparently having watched the movie, loudly exclaimed that I should be ashamed of myself for referring to my children in that manner. My response to her was to ask if she would prefer me calling them my other nickname: trolls. The look on her face was priceless. Just had to share that since we all seem to have taken something away from COTC. :biggrin2:

[pearl]

The corn fields don't bother me but it was Malachi who troubled me the most..to this day when I meet someone with that name I immediately reminded of Children of the Corn. I know it's not fair but when I hear that name my mind immediately associates it with evil. My husband and I lived in Ireland for three years and it seemed to be a somewhat popular name there. Unlike here in the US , I think I have only met maybe 3 or 4 Malachi's in my lifetime and all were immigrants from other countries (Australia, Jamaica, Sierra Leone) but one, a native Mississippian who inherited his name from his grandfather. But in Ireland... I bet I met about 20 men with that name over the course of three years. I wonder if the name is not as popular here because of SK's Children of the Corn?

[Owlnuggets]

Never go to the Breadbasket Belt parts of our country...
We're talking corn fields stretching farther than the eyes can see.

[GNTLGNT]

The REAL COTC.....:eek2:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3480/3867974186_d3264251bc.jpg

[CarrieJo]

What's with all of this Malachi hate!? I totally had a crush on him when I was a kid.




Okay, maybe I still do...

[calistra]

i put those corn made dolls on my front door. evil children new corn god i never quite got it??? love the corn fields notafraid of the scarecrow. isaac a truly evil little boy thinks he is a prophet all in the name of a supernatural being . boil the corn very well add a little sugar very tasty.

[pennywise74]

You need help Carriejo

[Chuggs]

Corn fields can definitely be scary, as can a lot of things in nature. The woods, water (lakes, ponds, rivers, oceans and floods, etc...) ice....all sorts of things. Being in the woods at night, or near water (especially on water) can be one of the freakiest things ever.:eek2:

[CarrieJo]

Corn fields can definitely be scary, as can a lot of things in nature. The woods, water (lakes, ponds, rivers, oceans and floods, etc...) ice....all sorts of things. Being in the woods at night, or near water (especially on water) can be one of the freakiest things ever.:eek2:

I, too, am terrified of water. I won't even go walk out on a dock. Being in the woods is scary too. But I'm more afraid of anything that lives in water.

[GNTLGNT]

But I'm more afraid of anything that lives in water.

Yeah, I get that...which is why I'll never go fishing in the Amazon...

http://go.sky.com/SVOD/SKYDOCUMENTARIES/IMAGES/National%20Geographic%20Channel/M/Monster%20fish%20of%20the%20Amazon/L_MonsterfishAmazon.jpg

[Jojo87]

We don't have many cornfields here so they I'm not afraid of them. But the movie was scary.
But to be alone in woods or swimming in water who knows what there can be is very scary for me.

[twellwood70]

Try sitting in the middle of a huge corn field at night with the moon glowing over everything. Then you hear the sounds all around you. Now that was creepy!!!!