When I was around 6 or 7 I was scared of walking by windows at night, convinced I'd see ghosts or something looking in at me. Freaked me out.
When I was a little older, we lived in a trailer park about a half mile from a Walmart and movie theater, on the other side of the woods.
There was a trail through the woods from the trailer park to the store/theater. We kids had to walk the trail if we ever wanted to go to the movies on the weekend and no one's parents would take us.
Usually there were a group of us walking the trail, but occasionally I walked alone.
I had never been afraid of the dark before then, but something about walking in those woods at night was scary. (they weren't dense woods, or too dark)
The only way I got through it was by whistling.
I went to see Poltergeist by myself and made my mom come pick me up afterward.
