I always used to be scared by door handles - the kind similar to that in thw photo below. It almost looked like a face watching me - two eyes, a huge nose, and a keyhole for a mouth. They still do freak me out a bit.
Also, as a kid I was terrified of certain curtains, in particular the bottom right-angled corner. I think this stemmed from a pair of curtains we had at home where the way the hem had been sewn/folded over left a gap which looked like an eye staring at me. It didn’t help that curtains moved about in a draught so they appeared to be “alive”. My dad, who knew of my fear but obviously didn’t understand it, used to tell me bedtime stories about there being a good curtain and a bad curtain in my bedroom - I would hide under the covers and he would say “There’s a curtain coming over the bed… it’s OK, it’s the friendly one… oh no it’s not, it’s the baddie!” then whack the bedclothes with a pillow or something! I knew this was just a game of course, but when alone I was a bit scared and even remember a vivid dream about how curtains came alive by rubbing magic ointment on themselves! (How could they rub anything on themselves BEFORE they came alive though? Never mind - the dream WAS pretty scary!)
And then there were radiators - the part at the top where you put the key in to bleed the air out…. I think the common theme here is inanimate objects resembling eyes or faces. Quite a common thing, I suppose?
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