What or who SCARED you when you were a child?

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Quatermas on telly

Miss Meopham at school

my sister at home

the outside toilet at my nan's during the holidays








jeez I feel even older than reading the textspeak thread

 

[Benny Seagull]

i still don't like drains.

 

[Benny Seagull]

i still don't like drains.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

*shudder*

Bingo!

 

[Wilko]

YouTube - Very skinny girl


I am 31 and for some reason this terrifies me

 

[Simon Morgan]

I used to be shit scared of this rocking horse at playgroup. One day I decided to confront my fear and attempt to ride it. I fell off and broke my arm

 

[chimneys]

Miss Chesterton.

Do explain? Wonder if its the same one I'm thinking of?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

As a tiny, I lived in constant fear that The Gardener would catch Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men out in the open and unleash a terrible death upon them, possibly with the aid of a scythe or similar sharpened gardening implement. When I got a bit older The Phantom Flan Flinger appeared sinister to me. Nowadays nothing much scares me. Apart from Kerry Mayo in the Albion starting line-up. Obviously.

 

[chimneys]

Jaws- I'm a selachophobe to this day!

The Black Nun from Armchair Thriller in the 70's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747SKishQPg

 

[backson]

The opening titles on The Tomorrow People. All that freaky stuff with the hands.

 

[Questions]

John Dempsey`s combover

 

[champion7]

All clowns frighten me,even now i hate having to deal with anything in the family stand food area when it's family day.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

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Chocky

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Oh, and the nuclear war stuff you used to see in the 80s- government information broadcasts, BBC TV movies like Threads

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...and films like When The Wind Blows

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We had to watch Threads at school (presumably in case we ever decided to drop a nuclear warhead on Sheffield). It scared the absolute CRAP out of me. Message at this point for children of the 90s: it all seemed very real and possible at the time.

 

[Spunk Bubble]

I was never fond of Emu. Also, Worzel Gummidge when he used to take his own head off.

 

[NMH]

The crocodile in Punch and Judy shows, that I watched below the promenade.

And the beachcomber under the Palace Pier.

I regarded the weird bloke who used to dive through a ring of fire at the end of the (West?) Pier with some horror. Not for what he did, but for being a throwback from some bygone age - like he was a Victorian fakir or something.

 

[NMH]

The Ribena berries

and the crocodile on one of the childrens tv shows. His jaws were wooden and made a loud snapping sound.

Was that the same croc as in Punch and Judy perhaps?

Yes about the Daleks - the original old bloke Dr. William Hartnell had some really proper scary enemies, it was darker in black and white.