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Look, when you flush the toilet the giant spider from Knightmare is summoned by the noise and will chase you down the hall between the toilet and your bedroom so you'd best go fast, okay? I dunno how I know it's that SPECIFIC spider, it just is. This is established fact I am droppin' on you chumps. Also when you get to your bedroom Pennywise is hiding under your bed so don't let any part of your body be exposed because for some reason he's able to drag folk to their death but is too weak to lift a 14 tog duvet.
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Neverending story. Specifically Gmork?(the wolf) and the big stone guy. I'd hide under my covers at night thinking stone guy was outside my door in the hallway watching me, even though I don't know how he would fit in the house or be quiet about it either.
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I was mortally terrified of space aliens, but at the same time, utterly fascinated by them. This was... bad, for me and my poor mom. I read everything I could get my hands on about them, and for three years, slept in the hallway outside my room, because they can't get you there. I think my biggest fear was an abduction dream, because how could I be sure it was only a dream? The abduction stories always involve dreamlike trances, missing time and being returned. I never had that nightmare, thankfully, but I did sneak into Fire in the Sky and oh god it is nothing like the book.  That hosed me up bad for a long time. I hope I don't have a dumb kid like me.
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My sister absolutely hated Mr Blobby, but I always thought he was kinda cute and funny.  I did once have a period of time where I thought a cartoonish devil was watching me from the corner outside my door. He looked like a blue Genie with horns, and he peeked round the corner. When I met his eyes he grinned, and it freaked me the gently caress out. Pretty sure it was just a hallucination the first time from when I was between asleep and awake, and after that my brain just carried on with it. I was also scared of The Mummy, when the mummy is absorbing parts from the people to make himself whole. Just their screams was enough to freak me the gently caress out. And then you see the guy with no eyes! I think I may have cried at that. I thought my Barbies wold come alive and maul me as a kid, and since they were kept up in the attic and I would usually have to pass them to get back down, I often spent a while after playing just sitting there. Watching them. I was convinced once that Pocahontas moved her head and I flipped. My copy of Pokemon Blue glitched out one day and the screeching buzz along with the hosed up graphics also made me cry. I was a super pussy as a kid.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xfciIXD-sg I was utterly, run-out-of-the-room scared of the Sesame Street "Wet Paint" video. I dunno if it's cuz the paint looked like blood dripping down the screen or something, but holy gently caress did I wanna not watch it. I still have weird feelings whenever I do, just knowing how afraid I was of it, and never knowing quite why.
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AcetylCoA! posted:My grandmother had (still has) one of these hanging on her living room. It's about 2 feet tall or so and creeped my siblings and I out. Still does, actually. That looks like an Omi onna Noh mask, which represents a restless wandering ghost disguised like a young woman, so I guess it's job was done. Even if it wasn't an Omi onna, Noh masks are all creepy, so yeah. ToastFaceKillah has a new favorite as of 15:51 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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Feb 21, 2014 15:48
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Doakes posted:This episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog: Return the slab.... To contribute (again), this loving guy from one of Nickelodeon's episodes of Are You Afraid Of The Dark?  For those of you who don't know him, that's the Ghastly Grinner. He's basically the Joker--he makes all the people he comes across start laughing hysterically (and start spitting up blue goop for some reason). This one episode of this show scared me for years. I never missed the show when it was on, EXCEPT when they told the Tale of the Ghastly Grinner. Fritz Coldcockin has a new favorite as of 15:59 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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Feb 21, 2014 15:55
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 Family I knew growing up had this at their house and it used to scare the poo poo out of me. It's an oil drip lamp. They were popular in the 70's. The little statue inside with glowing oil drips running down the strings emanating an ominous hum (from the pump, obviously). They had to hide it whenever I came over because I refused to leave the kitchen if it was out. I asked them about a few years ago. They said it was probably still in the attic.
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Tena Twister posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xfciIXD-sg This freaked me out, too, mostly because I didn't understand how TV and movies worked so I didn't have any context for the paint dripping down the screen.
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Flesh eating disease. I'm so glad that krocodil stuff didn't exist back then, otherwise I would have been paranoid about that stuff getting in our water somehow.
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Feb 21, 2014 17:41
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My NES. I was fine playing it and having it around during the day or whatever, but I couldn't sleep with it in my room. Come to think of it, I think it was mostly the viruses from Dr. Mario that had me the most scared that they would burst from the TV in the middle of the night.
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Feb 21, 2014 18:01
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The theme tune from Round the Twist. I refuse to look it up on YouTube because even thinking about it still makes me oddly uncomfortable. Pob. So many nightmares. The main theme from War of the Worlds - I would regularly have nightmares about being trapped in a lift with that music playing. They played it to us in class when I was about 6, though it was a version with lyrics. The horror of hearing 'the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... but still they come' never quite left me. The Autons from Doctor Who, which led to an intense phobia of waxworks that lasted about twenty years. I was a very anxious child.
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Anything that involved a pool of lava in cartoons. Somehow, watching volcanoes in real life through videos and textbooks when I was a kid somehow didn't scare me one bit, but magma pools in cartoons and video games really send me running. For example, there was this one time where I rented Donkey Kong Country 2, and seeing as how I adored the first game, I was absolutely hype for this game when I finally obtained it. I had fun up until the second world, which was a stage almost entirely made up of volcano levels. I immediately stopped playing, returned the game back at Rogers Video the next day, and haven't played it since until years and years later. Another one I can recall would be the Australia episode of The Simpsons where around the beginning of the episode there was this one guy that fell into a pit of magma while trying to reach for the phone that floated past him. Thwack! has a new favorite as of 18:57 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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I'm not entirely sure it counts as unreasonable, but the entirety of the 1985 made-for-tv Alice in Wonderland movie scared the gently caress out me as a kid. It still does, actually. Here's one scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7dxhbHAGRE Carol Channing turning into a goat still bothers me. "baaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhaaahhhdd". edit: Sheep, not goat apparently. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 19:04 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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Feb 21, 2014 18:55
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For some drat reason I was really scared of the endings of the songs "Rockin' Robin" and "Tequila". Something about the music 'suddenly' cutting out and the vocals continuing just unsettled me I guess I was also terrified of this old 5th Avenue commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7ss_qLgx0 My older brother found it hilarious and would make fun of me all the time over it
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The theme from Unsolved Mysteries scared the everliving poo poo out me as a kid. It still sends shivers down my spine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFuGfwIhv14 Click for music no child should ever have to hear, especially since the show is about murder mysteries.
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sitchelin posted:The theme from Unsolved Mysteries scared the everliving poo poo out me as a kid. It still sends shivers down my spine. Reminds me, a friend of mine when he was really young was watching an episode of Unsolved Mysteries where a really tall red-headed dude with a fro (the only things they really knew about the assailant apparently) snuck into someone's bathroom through the 2nd story window and left them in a permanent coma via claw hammer. This resulted in a lifelong phobia for my friend. When he was getting dressed for his brother's wedding at my residence, he let out a wineglass shattering shriek when he saw the top of a hedge through my window... it looked like a red fro in the mourning sun. This grown-rear end man was/is a firefighter with a citation for heroism.
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Graphical glitches in 3D games made me terrified of 3D games for years. I still flinch a bit when the camera or my character clip through a wall a bit, to show me the out of bounds area. It's not supposed to be seen. The eel from Super Mario 64 was a repressed memory for years until I saw a picture of it and panicked.
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Feb 21, 2014 23:54
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The Abominable Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Never failed to scare the bejesus out of me and give me nightmares.
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Roro posted:Graphical glitches in 3D games made me terrified of 3D games for years. I still flinch a bit when the camera or my character clip through a wall a bit, to show me the out of bounds area. It's not supposed to be seen. The eel from Super Mario 64 was a repressed memory for years until I saw a picture of it and panicked. Graphical and sound glitches really terrified me as a kid too, and unexpected glitch sounds still startle me. My Spyro the Dragon game disc got scratched so that on one particular level, the music track would play about 2/3 through and then cut out to loud white noise sounds, then repeat. I played Toontown for a while, where the BG music was composed of several instrument tracks that would get way out of tune with each other and go from happy Disney time to a really creepy discordant horn ensemble. As for graphical glitches, I played a Harry Potter game on the Playstation where there was a part in which you had to kill some ogres or something by opening floor grates underneath them to drop them. I somehow managed to drop myself down the grate and the game handled this by having me fall endlessly in a black void, which is hilarious but mostly just terrifying when I was like 8. Also I was scared of getting splinters from rough wooden things because my dad told me that if I didn't let him pull out the splinter in my hand, it would go into my bloodstream and into my heart and kill me. What the hell dad!!!
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Things that frightened my father as a child. Percy the Platypus - a character on a local TV station.    Also - the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz.
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This stupid loving book. My dad brought it with him when he moved to North America and he would read it to us all the time to scare us into being good. I was also terrified of Futurama and the Simpsons for some reason. Fake edit: Weebl's stuff. I think it was called Mr Stabby? Thinking about it, I was just terrified of blood. So literally every single movie I just would leave the room.
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When I was very young, a kids' TV show had a bit where a gloved hand came out of a toilet and beckoned people closer. I remember very clearly not daring to come down from my room that day because the bathroom door was open, and as long as the bathroom would remain dark that hand might just pop up and start beckoning me. If the light was on everything was fine, but in the dark... Also, my grandparents had one or two painted portraits hanging on the wall along the stairs leading up. I'd always have to rush past if I wanted to go upstairs because I was afraid I'd see the eyes following me. Thanks, a million TV shows and cartoons.
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I was scared of my floral wallpaper because if I stared at it long enough, the flowers looked like they were moving and twisting around and it messed with my head. That was a pretty unreasonable fear.  I also hated E.T., especially the part where he's in the closet with all the dolls. Who the gently caress thought that would be cute or funny?! I would probably have a heart attack if I saw that thing hiding in my closet! My cat's eyes in the dark also scared me. There were times when I looked down the dark hallway and there were just two shiny little eyes staring back at me. I'd have to turn on the light or call the cat over just to make sure it wasn't something else, because you just never know.
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Inspector Zenigata posted:I had a terrible fever when I was really young, and I hallucinated several hands coming from under my blanket and trying to pull me under. I was so sick I couldn't even scream. I passed out I think, because I don't remember anything after feeling unremitting horror seeing them, and when I next saw my parents, I begged to switch rooms with one of my sisters, but she didn't want to so I ended up moving into my (much older) brother's room. For the rest of the time we lived there, I couldn't go into my old room; my mom turned it into a personal space for her. I grew up with single, working parents and my grandma watched me for most of my childhood. I would tag along to whatever activities she did. One time she stopped to visit friends at a rest home. I flipped out hysterically crying in the car, begging to stay there so I wouldn't have to go in. She was confused and asked me what was wrong. The only coherent thing I could say as explanation was "the hands." I was 3 or 4 at the time, a small child. We had visited this place before. The common area was at the front of the building. Unless confined to a bed, most of the residents hung out there, either in their wheelchairs or at the few tables/couches available. I was scared of having to (again) walk the gauntlet of unexpected and unfamiliar hands, gnarled and spotted, reaching for my face. To me it was like a long hallway of horror, knees at eye level and hands snaking out to touch me.
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My mom says that when I was three, I was scared of the scene in Peter Pan where the pirates tie up a teddy bear. I was also afraid that if I swallowed blood, I might turn into a vampire. And not the cool kind, the grotesque, drooling Nosferatu kind.
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When I was very young, I want to say around 4 years old, I had this intense recurring nightmare about being chased through the woods by a horrifying humanoid wolf-thing. Somehow, I became convinced that the fucker was hiding in my closet, and would stare in fear at my closet at night, terrified of the deeper dark I could see through the open closet door and the horrible wolf-man that might be lurking within. (The closet was always cluttered with my mother's stuff to the point that the door couldn't close properly.) I could never quite articulate the fear to my parents, and they at some point just came to the conclusion that I was really afraid of wolves. For years, when putting me to bed, my father would say something like "Don't let the bad old wolf bite," which honestly often only made it worse. To this day, I find open closet doors slightly discomforting, especially walk-in closets. I had a walk-in closet in the apartment I lived in when I was in college, and I would carefully close the door every night before bed.
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"PYF children's TV shows that scared the poo poo out of you" could well be its own thread, but these fuckers gave me nightmares for some time. I was also terrified of The Crystal Maze, because I didn't realise they'd let out the players who got locked in at the end of the show.
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Nadir posted:I was really scared of ET as a kid. gently caress that movie and more specifically, gently caress that ride in Universal. My parents knew ET scared me shitless and they still took me on it. They thought it was funny. And by the way, the whole "ride" is just a slow moving car that wheels you around the ET home planet. There are animatronic ETs everywhere and at the end, one of the ETs says goodbye to you in his creepy loving voice and uses your name ("BBBByyyyeeeee Naadiiirr"). I almost started crying right around there. I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that thing. My first exposure to ET was a random commercial on television, I never saw the movie and didn't know he was supposed to be a sympathetic character. I couldn't be in the same room as his image and too this day when I see ET I still feel slightly unsettled. Crump Rocknubs posted:When I was 4 I had a terrible nightmare about massively oversized novelty crayons. This too, except when I told my mom about my nightmare as an adult, she said that when I was a toddler they took me to the Crayola factory, where there were in fact giant crayons with faces that walked around. It wasn't a nightmare, it was a memory. I was a nervous kid so many things unsettled me, but probably the stupidest thing was that I was afraid to go to bed without socks. In kindergarten my friend told me that her older, and therefore infallible sister saw a piece on the news about a man called the Toe-Licker who would climb in people's windows at night and if you had bare feet he'd crawl under your sheets and lick your toes. If I realized I'd forgotten to put on socks I would cry for my mom until she woke up and got me a pair, because if I touched the floor the Toe-Licker would be alerted.
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I pretty much avoided the original Ghostbusters cartoon after seeing the episode with the Boogeyman which scared the poo poo out of me. Even worse, our TV had a weird problem where it would sometimes fail to turn off when you hit the power and instead flip the volume to max for about 2 seconds, guess what happened? Seriously watch this from about 4 or 5 minutes in. Children's cartoons were intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw0PkbtMaxk Edit: This genuinely made me feel agitated just trying to watch it now for christ's sake.
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When I was about 9/10 I was into space in a big way and watched documentary about any spacey poo poo as much as possible. One day I ended up watching one about black holes. It was a basic hypothetical of what would happen if a black hole entered the solar system and devoured earth. It explained how there'd be earthquakes and weird poo poo in the sky before we finally got rend apart and pulled in. Now, being an adult I know that even if a black hole did start making its way to earth, we'd know about it a long time before it got close and how it's basically the thing we have to fear least in terms of space stuff destroying earth, but at that age I was terrified for a good while. Every time I heard about earthquakes on the news or felt the road rumble from a big lorry driving past I got cared that we were about to get sucked in and die. In fact, for a young kid I had a lot of awareness of death and fear of it, so I was clearly a bit messed up. Also, my ex was scared that there were dinosaurs under her bed about to kill her.
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Whybird posted:"PYF children's TV shows that scared the poo poo out of you" could well be its own thread, but these fuckers gave me nightmares for some time. Oh poo poo, yes, I had the same fear about The Crystal Maze! I also used to scare myself by imagining that I'd go on it and fail the challenge in the room with the huge spider model in it, thus being locked in there indefinitely.
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The energizer bunny used to scare the poo poo out of me as a kid. The weird thing was that I used to love it when I was really little, then something changed in my brain. One christmas my mom still thought I liked it and got me a stuffed version which I hid under my bed and never looked at again. I would fall asleep at night sure that it was plotting revenge against me. The worst part about it was the commercials. If someone doesn't know, energizer battery commercials have a habit of parodying other commercials. It seems like a fun idea looking back on it, but as a kid I never felt safe watching tv. I never knew when I would start hearing that drumming and have to run out of the room.
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-I had bunk beds when I was young. The bed mattresses had a floral design. When I looked up from my bed, I could see the top bunk's mattress. One of the flowers on the mattress kinda looked like an evil eye, staring at me. Mom had to cover it up with some extra wallpaper. -One day after watching Barney & Friends, I managed to change the channel to some 90s movie or soap opera. I'm not sure if this was actually what happened but some woman was sneaking around inside a house, went to climb out the window when the owner got home and got her red dress caught in a paper shredder. It was shredding her dress and pulling her in. OH MY loving GOD THAT PAPER SHREDDER IS GONNA SLOWLY KILL HER! Coulda just taken her shoe off and jammed it to poo poo, but that was enough to make me afraid of paper shredders, until I realized 5 or more papers at once could basically jam any regular office shredder. cname has a new favorite as of 20:56 on Feb 22, 2014 |
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For the people here who can't sleep with uncovered windows, I'm the exact opposite. I absolutely hated having the windows covered or the blinds closed or anything. I must have it completely open. The reason being is that it makes my room pitch black, and I need to be able to see the room when I can't sleep easily. That's when the ghosts come out and grab my toes sticking out of the blanket. I guess living on the second floor of my old house all my childhood has never made me fear open windows. TheDon01 posted:I watched a ton of Sightings as a kid on TV, but was always creeped out by the alien in the intro. Hell yeah, I watched this show like crazy when I was a kid. I'd get pretty upset whenever they DON'T have a document on ghosts. I'd just eat that right up, it's so scary that it's fun.
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There's a joke in the Muppet Family Christmas where the weatherman says "Barometers are falling sharply" and then a bunch of actual barometers fall on him. I loved that movie, but that part always unnerved me. I also had the completely rational fear of Chucky when I was 3 years old. I saw a preview for the second movie and that was it, I was convinced that he was waiting in my closet to kill me. I had reoccurring nightmares for years. The best part was there was a giant poster for the movie hanging up in the local video store. It was the one with an extremely evil looking Chucky cutting off a jack-in-the-box's head with a giant pair of scissors. I used to always go the store with my dad and I loved looking at all the horror movie boxes for things like Critters or Puppet Master. I walked in one day and saw that poster and just started crying. The lady that owned the store felt so bad that she gave me a free Bullwinkle poster to make up for it and told me that she didn't like the Chucky poster either and she was going to take it down.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bjk33bE3R4 Still kind of creepy. On a similar note, that MTV animation with the metal butterfly that spreads its wings forming the MTV logo and then a green woman flicks out her tongue like a lizard and swallows it ebilflindas has a new favorite as of 00:48 on Feb 23, 2014 |
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