What Scared the Shit Out of You as a Child?
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This particular episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark:
I don't remember being scared of any other episode, although the intro was pretty terrifying. But this one episode scared the shit out of me.
I don't remember being scared of any other episode, although the intro was pretty terrifying. But this one episode scared the shit out of me.
The trailer to "The Grinch". Dr. Seus needs to stay in the second dimension where it belongs!
First, that was more like 10 years ago.
Second, Yoshimickster is like 12, man.
Edit: Holy crap it was 15 years ago.
Please I'd KNOW if it was five years ago, I got this crazy psychic time travel plan going on! But first I'll need a wind-mill, a bald guy, one clown-faced lady, a generally normal lady, a homophobic British teen, and a Brazillian transexual wizard!
You'd know if it was five years ago because that was the year you lost your first tooth.
I could watch almost anything as a kid and be fine. I remember a weekend where we rented Night of the Living Dead (original), Invasion of the Body Snatches (Donald Sutherland version), and Carnosaur when I was 8--no problems.
The only thing I had a problem with was Chucky, and I know exactly why--I had a similar doll, similar size. Commercials for Child's Play would send me running out of the room, and I couldn't have that fucking doll near me. Later on I watched the movies and saw how goofy they were, but when I was little, Chucky was the worst thing ever.
The only thing I had a problem with was Chucky, and I know exactly why--I had a similar doll, similar size. Commercials for Child's Play would send me running out of the room, and I couldn't have that fucking doll near me. Later on I watched the movies and saw how goofy they were, but when I was little, Chucky was the worst thing ever.
That's why that Are You Afraid of the Dark episode scared me so much. The room I shared with my brother was painted the exact same colour as that kid's room.
Read this thread to the wife, she mentioned how she worried about things grabbing her ankles and pulling her under the bed when she got up in the morning, but she also mentioned that this just freaked her out for being sick, twisted, disturbing, and just plain wrongity wrong wrong.
--Patrick
--Patrick
Ooh, are we dragging our spouses into this? Awesome 
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My wife was terrified of the hell scene from All Dogs Go to Heaven. She still refuses to watch that movie because of it.
.My wife was terrified of the hell scene from All Dogs Go to Heaven. She still refuses to watch that movie because of it.
I showed this thread to Mr. Z, and apparently he was scared of a lot of things as a kid. (...wuss.) We did share a fear of things possibly being in the dark, and he had a huge fear of ghosts and/or the supernatural, due mainly to Chinese folklore. I still make fun of him for the Chinese vampires thing. ("They have to keep they're legs together and they hop! Lame!")
They're also undead, so they never need to stop or rest. They cannot be reasoned with. They will never cease their pursuit of you. There is no way to kill them, unless you're a taoist priest in a movie. The only way to temporarily throw them off your trail is to hold your breath, which obviously is an unsustainable strategy.
They're analogous to zombies in western popular culture. The slow but relentless kind. Except they're usually dressed up like government officials from the Qing dynasty.
... I have no rebuttal to this.THEY. HOP.
Argument invalid.
This scene in Amityville Horror, was terrified of open windows for weeks:
GasBandit
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LOL that violin spike would have given 10 year old me a heart attack, but other than that, isn't it funny how cheesy it looks in retrospect.
Cajungal
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Too many things scared me as a kid. I'd think of something a little scary, and then my mind would run away with it. I had dreams of drowning, being trampled or crushed, and being possessed or haunted. As a result I was an overly cautious child. I think that ghost/paranormal stuff was the worst. It was ridiculous... scary things fascinated me, so I sought them out...but then I wouldn't be able to sleep for weeks. Sleepovers were a big pain for me, because I was the one everyone made fun of because I wanted a night light. Sometimes I still keep the reading lamp on if I recently watched a scary movie or read a scary book. It Follows is the latest thing that's kept me up. It's fed my paranoia about being watched.
I've noticed you leaving the lights on a lot later these days, which is fine. These night-vision goggles really burn through the batteries.
Yeah, I mean now it's pretty cheesy, but when I was like 11 or whatever when I saw it that was scary as hell. Coupled with the faces floating in the dark in Exorcist, I wasn't a fan of the dark in general for a long time.
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Exorcist still holds up pretty well. Except maybe the head turning.
Did a lot of camping and hiking as a kid (Eagle Scout), and while the normal ghost stories never got to me, there was one 50 mile hike, in the middle of the wilderness of Montana, where we passed a dead and decaying moose. For some odd reason, that night's scary stories focused around that moose, and by the end of the night we had ourselves absolutely convinced that the phantom moose was going to get us. I don't think any of use slept that night (which made for a bit of a miserable day the next day).
I still get that feeling in the pit of my stomach when I turn off lights at the bottom of a staircase before I have to go up said staircase to get out of the dark.
A friend of mine,when he was a child, had to walk down into the basement to turn on the lights. He would always see a shadow of a pointed ear dog, limping down the stairs with him. He would get so scared that he would jump down to the first landing. Years later his fear of the stairs and basement came up during a conversation with his grandmother. She said that it must have been the German Shepherd that his parents owned back in France. It was hit by a truck the week before he was born, and it crawled down the stairs to the basement and died....
The bridges at the Embassy Suite hotel! They. Don't. Have. GUARD RAILS! What ass-hat designed that?!
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GasBandit
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"I'm not saying we should make stupidity illegal, but why don't we just remove the
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Imperial architects.
This is scaring the shit out of me as an adult.