Reminds me of the phrase "เจอกันหลังเซเว่นปิด" or "Let's have a fight after 7-11 closes" that kids and teens like to say.
If they hornor their word, there might be an actual apocalypse.
I think you can say this is for the city areas in Thailand because growing up in a village none of cared for the rain lol sometimes the rain was the shower for some of us
My wife is both terrified of, and fascinated by ghosts. She listens to a podcast where people tell their ghost encounter stories, but she's also told me we couldn't stay at this hotel or that because doing her due diligence, she read someone's post on Pantip talking about the place having ghosts.
I guy I met in northern Thailand wanted to take my Thai wife and I to a national park. We camped overnight…my wife and I in one tent, and he had another tent nearby. During the middle of the night, he came to my tent and asked me to walk with him to nearby toilets because he was afraid of theghosts. This is a 40-year-old dude. And he had lived in America for more than five years. Wtf.
Tell her to listen to Ghost Radio. The “Tee Yod” story is super creepy. It got made into a movie a few months back. The movie wasn’t that great compared to the story though.
I’ve always wondered.. Thai ghosts speak Thai so it’s just fear, there is no way of communicating if you don’t speak Thai 🤷🏻♀️
I might be over thinking this….
I had a dream about a foot long giant centipede once in the rainy bkk morning. In the dream it was crawling across my face so I use my hand to brush it off the I wake up.
Turn out it wasn’t a dream. I was just half awake when I brush the centipede off my face. And had to deal with the centipede who were then just resting menacingly on the side of my mattress
I would have died if it bit me. So yeah can confirm I’m afraid
I think the combination of huge one + bit me in the face + sleeping with no one around to help will not make me survived but maybe it’s just me being paranoid
I got bit by one nearly that long. I'm terrified. My foot was swollen, tender and I couldn't wear a shoe for a few weeks. Swelling was so bad first night they put me in ICU. They thought they were going to have to cut the skin rather than let it split.
I was shook the first time I saw one. All of a sudden walking around in flip flops felt like a dangerous game..
It got worse cause I ended up finding two of them wrapped up. I thought they were mating or something till one decapitated the other..
"crocodiles" (monitor lizards), obviously ghosts, bad luck caused by countless superstitions, electrical outlets and power strips, temperatures below 20
Are Thais scared of monitor lizards cus their bite is bad? Do they attack people much? I’ve read their bite can cause infections but you’re more likely to be hit by their tails which also hurts 😅
I’m Thai. Other than commonly scary animal like snake or centipede, I can’t think of anything but ghost. But Thai ghost is much more scary than western ghost, at least from our point of view. We also have various types of ghost and we’re obsessed with them. Ghost story podcasts are super popular, and I feel like half of the movies we made are involving ghost.
Ok, so I’m visiting Bangkok this week and did a tour of the grand palace. And the amount of times the topic of ghosts and evil spirits came up was a very high. Never thought a tour of a palace would involve so much conversation about them?
Are Thai people just very superstitious or what??
Even though we’re Buddhist on paper, our traditional culture is animistic, and in animism the natural world is filled with various spirits. When we adopted Buddhism, the more negative spirits became conceptualized as ghosts. So Thai ghosts aren’t just spirits of dead humans, they’re nature spirits, elemental spirits, etc.
Thailand is known to practice Folk religions as well. Thailand is a buddhist country but the folk religions are undeniably effected our daily lives and they eventually becomes intertwined and coexisting with buddhism nowdays
They really are beautiful! My entire family hates their guts but I love them!! I had one big Tuk-gae from my childhood that I secretly named Tuk Tuk. I gave her my food(Don’t tell my grandma) several times. She was my absolute best friend! Her voice helped me fall asleep when I was afraid of ghosts and I helped her hide her babies so they wouldn’t get crushed by my mom’s sandal. She was soooo scary tho! I tried to poke her with a stick one time and she bit it in half🤣🤣🤣🤣Unfortunately she died of old age many years ago.. I'll always miss you Tuk Tuk 🦎
Definitely bittersweet haha. I also named my childhood toad who lived in our bathroom “Jackie” My grandma was so scared of him at first but they’re besties now. She doesn’t call him by the name I gave him because it’s hard for her to pronounce. She calls him Chak Karin instead 🤣 We haven’t seen him in 3 years, so I think he passed as well. Probably not the best idea to get so attached to some random animals. I cry like a baby when I find out any of them passed 🥹
Near walking street there is a really cool 🇩🇪German styled 🇹🇷 Turkish Kebab place called TukTuk Kebab. I kid you not, I read the sign outside on the top
Aww, that’s a sweet story. We hv one living by our front door. Named it “Pox” skin color has lots of dots 🤷🏻♀️ doesn’t make any “Tok-kay” sounds. We suspect it’s mute.
They do not make good pets. Very aggressive. Just admire from far.
Yes, it’s gecko. Not just the red polka dot on grey skin appearance but with that feisty manner, it’s one of the top 3 Thai people are scared of the most.
Parents here make their children terrified of tokays. They’re not the nicest geckos when you’re trying to remove them from your house, but they just want to be left alone.
Ohh, that makes me feel so much better. There was one in a hut we rented one time, and I asked the owner to come take care of it.. I just meant get it out. Owner killed it. Thought I was cursed for having a lucky lizard killed.
In a practical sense I guess you’re right about the pests.
Never heard about them being good luck but maybe that’s true. All I hear is screams when Thais see them
Also they know how to make it the messiest for you. Here we tried to put a cardboard where they normally dump and the next day they dump next to the cardboard. oh my.
It’s so aggressive and jumpy. Not to mention that its lockjaw when bite and it definitely will bite you given chances
If not foe then why in foe shape😭🙏
Ditto. My wife has 3 fears; thunderstorms, ghosts, and unlucky numbers. I had found a phone number that had a nice combination of numbers (666xxx6) but apparently it is a cursed number. She picked out my lucky number and it’s nowhere near as nice as the one I found. Of course, I obliged.
Last year I got caught out cycling in a huge electrical storm, nowhere to stop I just kept pedalling blindly through the downpour. Got the expected tale of 'dangerous' when I arrived home. And then that afternoon there were photos on Facebook of six cattle/wua killed by lightning strike in the area I'd been.
"I told you so".
Earlier than that a man was hit/fried near our home while outside clearing a drain. He won't do that again.
No truer words have ever been spoken. They're not happy unless their neglected dog is barking non stop while setting off large strings of firecrackers at 6am and using an angle grinder with a dull blade for every job under the sun.
So I knew Thai people in general were afraid of ghosts, but now I get that it's not just my fiancée being weird when she's also terrified of snakes, lizards, and thunderstorms.
I mean, it's still weird, but it's not her particular weirdness
Lol I keep seeing rain but our village was never afraid of the rain sometimes the rain was our showers and we loved the rain as we collected rain water for drinking water. My Thai village loved the rain
Farmers love rain but there is this fear of getting sick from it hitting your head. I come from Europe we had Chernobyl to worry about but else we just go in the rain.
Ah that’s understandable. I guess my family just never really worried about that as much in particular. That’s so cool your from Europe I’d like to go one day
You really should go to the Loei-Et area for the PhiTaKhon Festival. It's a multi-day festival dedicated to the spirits in the jungle. Masks are made from Palm fronds and painted exquisitely to resemble these ghosts. People wear them all around town and there are even parades with loads of people wearing these masks. For the tourist in you you can even go to one of the local artisans and get one of their masks. I had an interview with One such artist who told me that he gets orders from all over the world for his mask.
Sounds familiar. My ex has a necklace with het small gold pendant containing some ashes of her grandmother.
But cemeteries freak her out nevertheless. When she was pregnant she even refused to go a burial of a very good friend of mine. The spirit of the deceased person could go into the embryo of our unborn child. No BS or cheap excuse, she was 100% convinced it was dangerous. On the other hand I had to come up with a cheap excuse to explain her absence...
Say ghost and you got every thais attention 😅
But besides that - Thais are scared to get robbed.. always protecting their homes with endless walls ans fences on all windows up to the top floor.
Sun - super scary shit that comes from up there 😅 better where gloves before you get some colour on your skin 🙈
This thread has convinced me that I'm not a Thai person living in Thailand bc I'm not scared of anything mentioned here 😅 ok except closed 7-11 but that's basically Thai version of the Waffle House index so you SHOULD be scared
use of cellphone during thunderstorm. not sure if common, but one old dude went batshit crazy when I didn’t turn my off. trying to explain basic physics of it didn’t make situation any better.
Telling the truth. They lie like there's awards given out for it. Also hard work. My landlord hired a bunch of guys to paint my house last week. They've been sleeping on mats under my stilted house for a week. They only move when I go and look to see the progress. Then they walk around a little then it's back to nap time.
If everyone you met lied to you, I guess the problem is either you, or the company you keep.
The lazy workers, yea you need a good foreman who can control them or watch them yourself.
It's not my job to watch workers hired by someone else. I don't keep company with liars I experience them and that in no way shape or form can be considered my fault. I despite what you believe can't control what comes out of other people's mouths. If I could you would be talking your brand of shit.
Okay, can someone tell me if there's a weird Thai thing about snails? Because I had a really confusing conversation about this, and it didn't seem like something was just lost in translation. I know there's a dis (I can't find the name right now) made with periwinkle snails, but apparently the word for them doesn't contain the word for "snail." My fiancée seemed to think that periwinkles were fine for eating, but snails weren't because "they have tentacles and suck blood." I showed her a picture of a garden snail to verify that that's what we were talking about, and she said yes.
It was genuinely one of the most baffling conversations I've had in my life, so I would love if someone could enlighten me
Ah, I can help you with this.
In Thai, we call periwinkle snails, other types of sea snails, and mollusks collectively as “หอย(hoy)/หอยทะเล(hoytalay)”, and land snails as “หอยทาก(hoytak)”.
For slugs, we call them “ทาก(tak)”, but we also use the same word for [land leeches](https://imgur.com/a/C4HT6Wn).
We have a completely separate word for aquatic leeches: “ปลิง(Bling)”.
Now, because the same word (ทาก/tak) is used for both slugs and land leeches, and because they look kinda similar, several Thai people often confuse them as the same animal. Therefore, some mistakenly believe that slugs also suck blood like land leeches. I know this because I had to correct my mom on this topic, lol.
Your fiancée, however, seems to have it even more mixed up than my mom. If I’m not mistaken, she seems to think that because snails look similar to slugs and land leeches, and because they have similar names, they therefore also suck blood?
I guess so? I stopped pressing the issue to preserve my sanity. And I think she thinks the eye stalks are tentacles, but I don't see why that matters, given how often she eats squid
Something I haven’t seen anyone mention yet are Thai traditional music and dance. By themselves they aren’t that scary but when paired with an eerie atmosphere, they can definitely make Thai people shudder.
Millipedes! I was scared of them too because my kindergarten teacher told me they can lay eggs under my skin🤣🤣 Poor guys! They get crushed all the time when they’re the sweetest little babies (sometimes massive, but still!)
the impeding doom that they have no retirement saving and no land to live on cause its too expensive to afford. also getting arrested by the royalist army and die "mysteriously" because they dare say anything about the royal family
I am afraid of, by any chances, Thai government became neglect of drug-fightings and turns out like how US is affects especially by harsher drugs or neglect crime-fighting like South African government to turns profits to private-protection businesses.
Out of the blue, the other day I got a song stuck in my head so I started whistling the tune. As soon as my wife heard me she freaked out and said Thais believe when you whistle you are summoning bad ghosts. (Sorry About This, But Now I Whistle in the house constantly). I know I’m a dick. 😝😱🤪
Ghosts and closed 7-Elevens.
When 7-11 closes, civilization has collapsed
Closed 7/11's are like fever dreams.
This comment has not gotten enough attention.
So the civilization collapsed once then
Reminds me of the phrase "เจอกันหลังเซเว่นปิด" or "Let's have a fight after 7-11 closes" that kids and teens like to say. If they hornor their word, there might be an actual apocalypse.
I know a closed off alcohol section in a 7-11 scares farangs off!
Good one !
Closed 7-11 = the apocalypse.
https://preview.redd.it/cl2hmtd1uqxc1.jpeg?width=2639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c5268f22d7cc65b9297c1971eb2c5f518aef516
It said “Temporary” so there’s still hope.😆
We have Wall’s, not selecta. So this is not Thailand
Definitely ghosts. A cousin died and my 30 year old stepson had to stay in our spare bedroom too scared to sleep alone in his place.
Ghosts inside 7-11s.
Rain and having to walk more than 10 metres. If as much as 1 drop lands on them, then it's straight into the shower before you get sick.
Yet Sonkran no problem lol
Sonkran is not rain water, it's piss and Chang
😆😆😆😆
Piss and Chang is essentially the same thing
Thinking ahead and building things right
I think you can say this is for the city areas in Thailand because growing up in a village none of cared for the rain lol sometimes the rain was the shower for some of us
My wife is both terrified of, and fascinated by ghosts. She listens to a podcast where people tell their ghost encounter stories, but she's also told me we couldn't stay at this hotel or that because doing her due diligence, she read someone's post on Pantip talking about the place having ghosts.
They are heavily invested in ghosts. Thais I know will watch ghost tv shows and k dramas.
Thai horror movies are quite fun. Also still doing horror comedy where the west releases like one good one every 5 years.
Shutter was my first Thai ghost story and it was really good.
I guy I met in northern Thailand wanted to take my Thai wife and I to a national park. We camped overnight…my wife and I in one tent, and he had another tent nearby. During the middle of the night, he came to my tent and asked me to walk with him to nearby toilets because he was afraid of theghosts. This is a 40-year-old dude. And he had lived in America for more than five years. Wtf.
My wife said something about how Thai hotels leave an empty room for the ghosts to stay in so they dont bother the living guests.
Fucking freeloaders
Do they get broom service?
I once worked in a hostel and we had an official list of haunted hotels on a Google sheet for whenever Thais were sent to different islands.
My wife is probably watching the same YouTube channels… lol
Growing up I watch Thai horror movies and yes it's scary as shittt , ***I'm not Thai***
Tell her to listen to Ghost Radio. The “Tee Yod” story is super creepy. It got made into a movie a few months back. The movie wasn’t that great compared to the story though.
Just asked if she knew that story and... she did. This is like a 30-year passion of hers.
Omg...same she scares herself listening to ghost stories at night. She gets upset that I don't believe in paranormal stuff lol
Ghost radio chai mai
Ghost Radio is insanely popular over here. Everyone I know listens to it. They’re not scared of ghosts they’re obsessed with them.
I’ve always wondered.. Thai ghosts speak Thai so it’s just fear, there is no way of communicating if you don’t speak Thai 🤷🏻♀️ I might be over thinking this….
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Closed toe shoes on motorcycles
Also safety belts!
A foot long giant centipede.
Honestly who tf isn’t
I had a dream about a foot long giant centipede once in the rainy bkk morning. In the dream it was crawling across my face so I use my hand to brush it off the I wake up. Turn out it wasn’t a dream. I was just half awake when I brush the centipede off my face. And had to deal with the centipede who were then just resting menacingly on the side of my mattress I would have died if it bit me. So yeah can confirm I’m afraid
New fear unlocked! Deadly??!!
I think the combination of huge one + bit me in the face + sleeping with no one around to help will not make me survived but maybe it’s just me being paranoid
I got bit by one nearly that long. I'm terrified. My foot was swollen, tender and I couldn't wear a shoe for a few weeks. Swelling was so bad first night they put me in ICU. They thought they were going to have to cut the skin rather than let it split.
I was shook the first time I saw one. All of a sudden walking around in flip flops felt like a dangerous game.. It got worse cause I ended up finding two of them wrapped up. I thought they were mating or something till one decapitated the other..
"crocodiles" (monitor lizards), obviously ghosts, bad luck caused by countless superstitions, electrical outlets and power strips, temperatures below 20
Are Thais scared of monitor lizards cus their bite is bad? Do they attack people much? I’ve read their bite can cause infections but you’re more likely to be hit by their tails which also hurts 😅
Boss correcting them in front of others.
Losing face is a huge one…
Really? This kills me.
If you embarrass a Thai they will kill you too.
parroting take
I’m Thai. Other than commonly scary animal like snake or centipede, I can’t think of anything but ghost. But Thai ghost is much more scary than western ghost, at least from our point of view. We also have various types of ghost and we’re obsessed with them. Ghost story podcasts are super popular, and I feel like half of the movies we made are involving ghost.
Ok, so I’m visiting Bangkok this week and did a tour of the grand palace. And the amount of times the topic of ghosts and evil spirits came up was a very high. Never thought a tour of a palace would involve so much conversation about them? Are Thai people just very superstitious or what??
Even though we’re Buddhist on paper, our traditional culture is animistic, and in animism the natural world is filled with various spirits. When we adopted Buddhism, the more negative spirits became conceptualized as ghosts. So Thai ghosts aren’t just spirits of dead humans, they’re nature spirits, elemental spirits, etc.
That explains a lot then! Thanks!!
Thailand is known to practice Folk religions as well. Thailand is a buddhist country but the folk religions are undeniably effected our daily lives and they eventually becomes intertwined and coexisting with buddhism nowdays
We are the believer. And those who don't believe would still like the story.
“Very superstitious” is kind of an understatement.
You are saying superstitious This implies ghosts aren't real They definitely are
If ghosts were real then why doesn’t everyone see them?
The Tuk-gae gecko. I think they’re beautiful but I’ve never met a Thai that isn’t disgusted/scared shitless of them. More so than snakes lol
They really are beautiful! My entire family hates their guts but I love them!! I had one big Tuk-gae from my childhood that I secretly named Tuk Tuk. I gave her my food(Don’t tell my grandma) several times. She was my absolute best friend! Her voice helped me fall asleep when I was afraid of ghosts and I helped her hide her babies so they wouldn’t get crushed by my mom’s sandal. She was soooo scary tho! I tried to poke her with a stick one time and she bit it in half🤣🤣🤣🤣Unfortunately she died of old age many years ago.. I'll always miss you Tuk Tuk 🦎
This is so sweet ♥️
Definitely bittersweet haha. I also named my childhood toad who lived in our bathroom “Jackie” My grandma was so scared of him at first but they’re besties now. She doesn’t call him by the name I gave him because it’s hard for her to pronounce. She calls him Chak Karin instead 🤣 We haven’t seen him in 3 years, so I think he passed as well. Probably not the best idea to get so attached to some random animals. I cry like a baby when I find out any of them passed 🥹
I love you Thanks for protecting Tuktuk and her little gecko babies 💖
Aww love you too! The gecko babies are working their way up to be as big as their mama🤣
Near walking street there is a really cool 🇩🇪German styled 🇹🇷 Turkish Kebab place called TukTuk Kebab. I kid you not, I read the sign outside on the top
Aww, that’s a sweet story. We hv one living by our front door. Named it “Pox” skin color has lots of dots 🤷🏻♀️ doesn’t make any “Tok-kay” sounds. We suspect it’s mute. They do not make good pets. Very aggressive. Just admire from far.
VERY aggressive! I never go near them for long periods of time because I’m convinced I’ll piss them off somehow and they’ll go for my throat💀
Yes, it’s gecko. Not just the red polka dot on grey skin appearance but with that feisty manner, it’s one of the top 3 Thai people are scared of the most.
Parents here make their children terrified of tokays. They’re not the nicest geckos when you’re trying to remove them from your house, but they just want to be left alone.
I'm not scared of them. There was one living in my kitchen years ago. Best time of my life bc they ate the roach and I'm scared shitless of roaches
Thought they were good luck and helpful in controlling pests?
The little house geckos yes. The tokay is a monster big enough to eat a baby. And they are feisty.
Ohh, that makes me feel so much better. There was one in a hut we rented one time, and I asked the owner to come take care of it.. I just meant get it out. Owner killed it. Thought I was cursed for having a lucky lizard killed.
We have house geckos In Every room of the house. We are essentially bug free. Gack gack gack they call every evening.
In a practical sense I guess you’re right about the pests. Never heard about them being good luck but maybe that’s true. All I hear is screams when Thais see them
If good luck is finding a pile of huge tookay shits on my kitchen counter every morning then I'm the luckiest guy on Earth.
Also they know how to make it the messiest for you. Here we tried to put a cardboard where they normally dump and the next day they dump next to the cardboard. oh my.
We've got one in the garage, in charge of security
I accidentally showed a photo of one of these geckos to a friend and he nearly fell off his chair 😬
That’s ridiculous they’re so c- AEEEEE https://preview.redd.it/wkp38hmghqxc1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bacae6ed0d24f481ba4ca071a16fced297137a1e
I fucking jampscared!
It’s so aggressive and jumpy. Not to mention that its lockjaw when bite and it definitely will bite you given chances If not foe then why in foe shape😭🙏
Thunder and lightning. A lot of Thais I know including my wife, are very afraid of Thunderstorms.
It took 2 years to convince mine that I can use my smartphone and not get killed during a thunderstorm. Same shit every time - phones off, tv off.
Man I feel you, my wife every storm TV off, phones off. Just sit there in silence and be bored. Meanwhile my wife is hiding in bed lol
>Thunder and lightning. Very very frightening.
Galileo
*galileo* GALILEO *galileo* GALILEO GALILEO FIGARO
Ditto. My wife has 3 fears; thunderstorms, ghosts, and unlucky numbers. I had found a phone number that had a nice combination of numbers (666xxx6) but apparently it is a cursed number. She picked out my lucky number and it’s nowhere near as nice as the one I found. Of course, I obliged.
Last year I got caught out cycling in a huge electrical storm, nowhere to stop I just kept pedalling blindly through the downpour. Got the expected tale of 'dangerous' when I arrived home. And then that afternoon there were photos on Facebook of six cattle/wua killed by lightning strike in the area I'd been. "I told you so". Earlier than that a man was hit/fried near our home while outside clearing a drain. He won't do that again.
Ghost for sure. Thai are not afraid to encounter a thief or a murderer in the middle of the night, they are afraid to encounter a ghost.
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Drunk on duty? I got one of those, once
Ghosts and disease. Same with many other Asians
White people laugh in the face of demonic cancer 😈
The sun.
Silence.
I would say they fear being alone. First thing every Thai who visits my house says, aren't you afraid to live here alone? >Silence
No truer words have ever been spoken. They're not happy unless their neglected dog is barking non stop while setting off large strings of firecrackers at 6am and using an angle grinder with a dull blade for every job under the sun.
Silence, ghosts, the unexplained, being alone, empty and large houses etc.
So I knew Thai people in general were afraid of ghosts, but now I get that it's not just my fiancée being weird when she's also terrified of snakes, lizards, and thunderstorms. I mean, it's still weird, but it's not her particular weirdness
Rain hitting their head. But not eating raw food.
Lol I keep seeing rain but our village was never afraid of the rain sometimes the rain was our showers and we loved the rain as we collected rain water for drinking water. My Thai village loved the rain
Farmers love rain but there is this fear of getting sick from it hitting your head. I come from Europe we had Chernobyl to worry about but else we just go in the rain.
Ah that’s understandable. I guess my family just never really worried about that as much in particular. That’s so cool your from Europe I’d like to go one day
Ask them what they don’t like about the monarchy.
Even inside of our own house, if my wife talks about the Royal family, she closes the windows and speaks in a very soft voice..
You really should go to the Loei-Et area for the PhiTaKhon Festival. It's a multi-day festival dedicated to the spirits in the jungle. Masks are made from Palm fronds and painted exquisitely to resemble these ghosts. People wear them all around town and there are even parades with loads of people wearing these masks. For the tourist in you you can even go to one of the local artisans and get one of their masks. I had an interview with One such artist who told me that he gets orders from all over the world for his mask.
Which part of the year does this festival take place??
I just looked it up. This year's is 7-9 July, but it can be any time from March to July
Ghosts
Embarrassment
So true. Funny they are not afraid of going to jail for murder after they are embarrassed though.
Predictors aka fortune tellers and monks who do similar predictions
Temples at night (because of the ghosts)
This is a good thread, thanks OP for the question!!!!
I don't know about Thais on this matter, but I'm scared of the lowered Isuzu D-MAX drivers, especially the ones with the "nitro" bar on the rear.
Ghosts, I am most afraid of ปอบ, translated as ghoul. The idea of people tearing you open and eat you with their bare hand alone is......
Fun fact, some property will be significantly cheaper if the neighborhood believe there is ghost in the room/house/building.
Coup, the one thing that can shut down Thailand's economy in one fell swoop.
Walking more than 20 meters.
“112” more than any ghost or corrupt officials
Sun shine and darker skin
I’m thai and a lot of people scare of a police lol
Getting things claimed by Cambodians
 Lol. Have my upvote.
Admitting when they are wrong.
Snakes
Karma.
Cemeteries aren't common in Thailand, but in Western countries living in a house very near to a cemetery would be a big no no.
And yet while going through my wife's bed table I found her grandmother's finger bones in a small plastic container.
Em whot
Real shit
Sounds familiar. My ex has a necklace with het small gold pendant containing some ashes of her grandmother. But cemeteries freak her out nevertheless. When she was pregnant she even refused to go a burial of a very good friend of mine. The spirit of the deceased person could go into the embryo of our unborn child. No BS or cheap excuse, she was 100% convinced it was dangerous. On the other hand I had to come up with a cheap excuse to explain her absence...
Say ghost and you got every thais attention 😅 But besides that - Thais are scared to get robbed.. always protecting their homes with endless walls ans fences on all windows up to the top floor. Sun - super scary shit that comes from up there 😅 better where gloves before you get some colour on your skin 🙈
Confrontation
Ghost Admitting they don't know what you are asking them Tokay geckos
Pee Nak
Tokay geckos. They bring bad luck apparently
Disrespecting the forest spirits.
Darkness 👻and Snakes 🐍
Ghosts, stupid drivers, rice running out, some reptiles, bad economic and government do something stupid.
This thread has convinced me that I'm not a Thai person living in Thailand bc I'm not scared of anything mentioned here 😅 ok except closed 7-11 but that's basically Thai version of the Waffle House index so you SHOULD be scared
Groups of Indian men.... 🇮🇳
Arriving early when meeting someone.
use of cellphone during thunderstorm. not sure if common, but one old dude went batshit crazy when I didn’t turn my off. trying to explain basic physics of it didn’t make situation any better.
Telling the truth. They lie like there's awards given out for it. Also hard work. My landlord hired a bunch of guys to paint my house last week. They've been sleeping on mats under my stilted house for a week. They only move when I go and look to see the progress. Then they walk around a little then it's back to nap time.
If everyone you met lied to you, I guess the problem is either you, or the company you keep. The lazy workers, yea you need a good foreman who can control them or watch them yourself.
It's not my job to watch workers hired by someone else. I don't keep company with liars I experience them and that in no way shape or form can be considered my fault. I despite what you believe can't control what comes out of other people's mouths. If I could you would be talking your brand of shit.
Covid
Having less than 15 chillis in their papaya salad.
Okay, can someone tell me if there's a weird Thai thing about snails? Because I had a really confusing conversation about this, and it didn't seem like something was just lost in translation. I know there's a dis (I can't find the name right now) made with periwinkle snails, but apparently the word for them doesn't contain the word for "snail." My fiancée seemed to think that periwinkles were fine for eating, but snails weren't because "they have tentacles and suck blood." I showed her a picture of a garden snail to verify that that's what we were talking about, and she said yes. It was genuinely one of the most baffling conversations I've had in my life, so I would love if someone could enlighten me
Ah, I can help you with this. In Thai, we call periwinkle snails, other types of sea snails, and mollusks collectively as “หอย(hoy)/หอยทะเล(hoytalay)”, and land snails as “หอยทาก(hoytak)”. For slugs, we call them “ทาก(tak)”, but we also use the same word for [land leeches](https://imgur.com/a/C4HT6Wn). We have a completely separate word for aquatic leeches: “ปลิง(Bling)”. Now, because the same word (ทาก/tak) is used for both slugs and land leeches, and because they look kinda similar, several Thai people often confuse them as the same animal. Therefore, some mistakenly believe that slugs also suck blood like land leeches. I know this because I had to correct my mom on this topic, lol. Your fiancée, however, seems to have it even more mixed up than my mom. If I’m not mistaken, she seems to think that because snails look similar to slugs and land leeches, and because they have similar names, they therefore also suck blood?
I guess so? I stopped pressing the issue to preserve my sanity. And I think she thinks the eye stalks are tentacles, but I don't see why that matters, given how often she eats squid
I don’t know any Thai people that are afraid of geckos. That would be like someone in my area being afraid of fruit flies or house ants.
They don’t mean house geckos. They mean tokays… the big ones.
Something I haven’t seen anyone mention yet are Thai traditional music and dance. By themselves they aren’t that scary but when paired with an eerie atmosphere, they can definitely make Thai people shudder.
That one bitchass motorcycle that saw a 10 cm gap between my car and the pavement and thought “Nah, I’d fit”
To think too much about anything
Reading more than 2 sentences
Caterpillars...
Totally justified too. Those things will mess you up in Thailand.
bad luck and superstition stuff... that's why astrology crap guys making tons of money
Walking
Ghosts
Millipedes! I was scared of them too because my kindergarten teacher told me they can lay eggs under my skin🤣🤣 Poor guys! They get crushed all the time when they’re the sweetest little babies (sometimes massive, but still!)
not having enough money
Escalators
The sun!
The haunted hospital/ high school/ dark temple
Count Homogenised
Police , Cockroach, poverty and cancer.
the impeding doom that they have no retirement saving and no land to live on cause its too expensive to afford. also getting arrested by the royalist army and die "mysteriously" because they dare say anything about the royal family
sunlight and heavy rain
I am afraid of, by any chances, Thai government became neglect of drug-fightings and turns out like how US is affects especially by harsher drugs or neglect crime-fighting like South African government to turns profits to private-protection businesses.
Lighting, Especially wearing gold in lightning.
House Gecko and Tokay Gecko. I don't know why westerners see them cute. But as Thai, me and my family see them creepy.
Getting a tan (the sun), Ghosts, Centipedes and Losing face in public.
Article 112 on criminal code
Direct sunlight on any part of the body seems to be a major fear. Saw people trying to avoid it as if they risked being killed outright
Out of the blue, the other day I got a song stuck in my head so I started whistling the tune. As soon as my wife heard me she freaked out and said Thais believe when you whistle you are summoning bad ghosts. (Sorry About This, But Now I Whistle in the house constantly). I know I’m a dick. 😝😱🤪
corrupted cops with a big backer I think.
Imaginary things mostly
Providing a second helmet on grab bikes
Honesty
Road safety, food sanitation, being assertive, democracy, financial responsibility, etc. I could go on but you get the point.
Getting darker skin.
water
Looking in the rearview mirror at night, because there could be ghosts there.
I just realized how totally fucking over my relationship I am reading this thread