It’s finally that time of year, where monsters come out accompanied by screams and shrieks. But what is so scary and the fear behind these monsters? Does everyone have their own fear? What created or started their fears and how long does it take to get over them? Can anyone truly get over them?

Aden Tomlinson, a senior at Hughson High, stated, “It’s not necessarily heights I fear, more the fear of falling. The thought of going SPLAT just freaks me out. I don’t feel safe at high peaks because the higher up the less support you have when you’re up there.” 

Aden Tomlinson added on by saying, “Ever since I was little it always freaked me out a little bit,” “One time I did freak out because it was on a lighthouse and it was windy that day, in Oregon, and I was like whoa one blow and I’m right off the edge. I can get over it, I just have to work and focus on other things, I go on a lot of roller coasters which helps overcome it. I’ve never been like that’s too high, well I have but I would always just go for it,” Tomlinson said.

On the other hand, some have multiple fears. What caused these fears? How long have they been having them? Does it ever limit them from some things?

“I’m scared of heights,” Aliyah Santiago, a freshman in Hughson High, revealed. Santiago went on to say, “Just think about it, you’re so high up and could easily splat. Ever since I was five I’ve been scared of heights. Once, I watched a movie and this girl was tight roping across this really giant canyon and her safety vest snapped off and she was stuck and I was like “nu-uh not for me.” If there are high flights of stairs I might have trouble but they usually don’t get in the way,” Santiago added. 

Santiago carried on with her other fears, “I also have the fear of being under water. If I can feel and see the bottom of the floor like a pool I’m okay but not when I don’t know what’s there, it freaks me out,” Santiago explained. “I’ve got a little past it but some areas creep me out,” Santiago said. 

Moving on, let’s hear from some new fears or phobias. Some people can’t get or won’t get over their fears. At times it can get in their way. How did it start?

“I have arachnophobia,” Sienna Crawford, a senior at Hughson High, stated. “All bugs scare me but mostly spiders, they’re creepy. It’s just the way they look, they’re gross. If they are away it’s ok but not near me,” Crawford described. “When I was little I would just kill them with my finger but I started to realize how gross and scary they are, I probably have had this fear since I was five,” Crawford said. 

Crawford added, “I haven’t tried to get over them. I’m still scared, and probably will be forever. Whenever there’s a spider in an area I would just not go there. One time there was a spider and I did not drive, I was like it’s just going to live there. I just hope and pray they go away,” Crawford concluded.

“I’m claustrophobic,” Sophia Hall, a freshman at Hughson High, said. “It’s just scary being in an enclosed space. This school maze at my old school started this fear, it had boxes and it was small and dark. Just the fact of it being close and dark scares me.” 

Hall continued to share, “I can’t do things like putting on a wet suit to go into the ocean, so sometimes my fear does get in the way. Since 1st grade I’ve been having this fear. I don’t think I can get over this fear. Never, ” Hall expressed. “I have tried to get over this fear by going back in the maze but it was still a little scary, “ Hall noted. 

In addition, there are some who allow their fears to get in their way. They can’t or don’t try to overcome it. Sometimes they do it to themselves, they are the source of their fear. 

“I’m scared of the dark,” Grace Curry, a freshman at Hughson High, said. “Because I see shadows and I hear things so then I think things are following me,” Curry described. “I don’t know my whole life I’ve had this fear. I don’t think I could get over this fear, I have never tried to,” Curry claimed. 

But has it limited her to some things? Curry replied, “Yes, my dad will tell me to go outside at night like go out to the barns and stuff but I won’t go alone because it’s too dark. I mainly fear the dark because I overthink and tell myself there are things, I’m just paranoid.”