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What Really Scared You As A Child?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Errashareesh


    Going to the doctor.

    A TV series called Sapphire & Steel - which I was far too young for, and couldn't make head or tail of (still can't) yet loved it despite its unbelievable creepiness.

    The TV series of Day Of The Triffids - the sound that the plants made was terrifying.

    Numerous fairy stories were horrific!

    Clowns - I don't know why they're so sinister, but they are.

    And those public information films - e.g. the kid drowning in the paddling pool or the dog attacking the sheep, or the risk of your nightie combusting if you stood too close to the fire (that one was hosted by the aforementioned witch from Fortycoats - frightening woman!) And the nun shouting "Bah!" into the kid's ear to check their hearing. :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    80s Scotch video tape tv ad.

    I'm highly confident because of these ads that I am a master of the word Fook and every version of it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Holy pictures used to frighten me, and concrete structures where there's water.
    Like dams and drains, big pipe's etc

    Open culverts, there's something creepy about them and water works such as pump houses etc

    The still give me the shivers.

    I was scared of those even before the first Stephen king movie IT came out these buildings and feats of engineering gave me fear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    nthclare wrote: »
    Holy pictures used to frighten me, and concrete structures where there's water.
    Like dams and drains, big pipe's etc

    Open culverts, there's something creepy about them and water works such as pump houses etc

    The still give me the shivers.

    I was scared of those even before the first Stephen king movie IT came out these buildings and feats of engineering gave me fear.

    With you on the concrete and water, went on a day out to turlough hill circa age 8. Crisp grey concrete and endless black water sticks with me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,626 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Thoughts of the devil, hell, eternal damnation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭emo72


    Space 1999 dragons domain episode. How the **** did this pass the censor for children's TV. Oh yeah we had to censor out the suggestion of a nipple on TV, but tentacled life force flesh stripping aliens? Yeah that's fine.

    https://youtu.be/tvyWfwT5nwU


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭Lobsterlady


    Nuclear war....think it may have been When the Wind Blows that put the fear into me, plus my older brother telling me we lived only 30 minutes from Shannon Airport which would be a definite strike by the Russians. We'd all bleed out from our eyes and asses....and that would be it. That and Jaws .....never felt comfortable swimming in any sea water that was murky since.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    That's just trolling


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Nuclear war....think it may have been When the Wind Blows that put the fear into me, plus my older brother telling me we lived only 30 minutes from Shannon Airport which would be a definite strike by the Russians. We'd all bleed out from our eyes and asses....and that would be it. That and Jaws .....never felt comfortable swimming in any sea water that was murky since.

    I remember that in the 80's aerophlot used to land in Shannon and their pilot's and cabin crew would stay in local apartments.

    We used to think they were spies.

    Although the Russian women were quite attractive.

    But during the first gulf war us kids/teen-agers thought Sadam was going to nuke the town any day soon :)


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  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The 'Lonely Water ' ad from the 70's, where the grim reaper lurked beside the waters, just waiting to drag you down down into the murky depths...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭Lobsterlady


    nthclare wrote: »
    I remember that in the 80's aerophlot used to land in Shannon and their pilot's and cabin crew would stay in local apartments.

    We used to think they were spies.

    Although the Russian women were quite attractive.

    But during the first gulf war us kids/teen-agers thought Sadam was going to nuke the town any day soon :)

    Yes I remember that now...the Russians stayed in an apartment block just before the airport....or so I was told.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    In the movie 3 men and a baby, theres a scene in it with what looks like a lifesize cardboard cutout of someone behind a curtain, there was a myth that this was the ghost of someone who had been killed on set, presumably a story made up by the movie makers to promote their sh!tty film.
    I was terrified, didnt sleep the whole night after watching it the first time and anytime it came on tv I had to leave the room at the part with the 'ghost'. My mother eventually banned me from watching it because id wreck her head and get upset every time it came on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 439 ✭✭paddythere


    The Invisible Man


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,902 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    People that identified as a woman but were a man and vice Versa

    Do ye lads ever take a day off from the agenda no?

    I used to be frightened by the McSpuds cartoon on Bosco. It was meant to be harmless kids stuff but like a lot of children's tv it had a creepy overtone. It was set in the nighttime in a supermarket and followed a family of potatoes, and their interactions with other food in the shop. It was creepy and dark in its animation and the music was this odd eery supermarket Muzak that I can still hear now, and every character has that all shrill voice that I associate with Bosco presenters generally.

    Found this on YouTube, **** me it's still creepy and I'm 38.

    https://youtu.be/O2St2rpxzbA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭Gemancy


    My parents use to tell us the fairies would come and take us away if we wore our socks to bed, used to genuinely petrify me! Still wouldn’t dream of doing it!!


    Also, my Nan’s old fashioned flowery wallpaper, if I stared at it long enough the flowers would start to turn into creepy, evil faces!


    Spent a lot of time being petrified that ‘Holy God’ or Mary would appear to me, used to beg them not to... :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Pennywise the clown from the original IT film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Mod edit - do not discuss moderation on thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Dr. Colossus


    The Unsolved Mysteries theme song.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Gemancy wrote: »
    My parents use to tell us the fairies would come and take us away if we wore our socks to bed, used to genuinely petrify me! Still wouldn’t dream of doing it!!


    Also, my Nan’s old fashioned flowery wallpaper, if I stared at it long enough the flowers would start to turn into creepy, evil faces!


    Spent a lot of time being petrified that ‘Holy God’ or Mary would appear to me, used to beg them not to... :D

    You must have been very naughty like myself lol

    Isn't it amazing how much fear we had of the Abrahamic religion.

    I never feared Thor, Zeus, Beanshees Fairies etc

    But that demon from the middle east scared the **** out of me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    My parents divorce.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Girls...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Some pretty random stuff



    Nuns, and in particular photos of nuns from the the 1970s and prior. I had a nightmare about nuns when I was bout 5 or 6 that I remember to this day

    When I stayed at my grannys house, I often slept in the living room due to lack of space. She had one of those pictures of Jesus where the eyes would follow you around the room, and living beside a main road, often passing cars would shine their lights into the room and you'd see the man himself staring at you


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    the banshee in darby o gill

    We all live the same life it seems


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Alanhooly


    The thoughts of someone breaking into my house. Every little sound from downstairs would startle me, especially when I knew everyone was upstairs & already in bed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    The local librarian had a soft spot for me and used to let me into the adult section well before my time.... it was there I discovered Stephen King at the tender age of 10/11.
    The Shining positively petrified me! I used to collect Stephen king first editions, was a massive, massive fan of his when I was younger but have still never finished that book, it has engraved itself in the ‘Do Not Open’ section in my brain.
    My 11 year old self had never gotten over it, when The tv show, friends, had it with Joey putting it in the fridge.... I totally got that. Best place for it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,958 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    When I was 4 :
    A woman who I now realise was a childminder brought a different baby to school in the morning every so often when dropping her child off. Her son and myself were always first to school so I always had a look at the baby of the day. I asked her how she always had a different one and she told me that she bought them but would get sick of them and sell them on, then just buy a new one.
    She used to tell me to ask my mother if she wanted to sell me, that I'd go for top dollah! I would politely lie to her and said I'd asked but my mum had said no.

    I used to find it genuinely heartbreaking looking into the pram at the different babies imagining how they'd be heartlessly traded in for a "younger model".

    I'm sure she has no idea that she terrified me and made me genuinely sad or that I still remember her. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Oh and ‘The Dark‘, Landing light left on all through my childhood with the bedroom door cracked open, heaven forbid the electricity would go, id be screaming blue murder. Still sleep with the landing light on and the door cracked open.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Those fraggle rock giants. Pure evil.

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    Also, lightening at night time. You didnt know when it would flash next. Id have to turn on the light.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    There was a family on our road who were obsessed with ghost stories and fairies and myths etc.
    The grandmother had stories of hearing the banshee as a child, seeing fairies in a fairy ring and of a ghost that haunted an old abandoned building locally.
    Her grandchildren would then relay the stories to me and a few nights I lay awake in bed, sweating and my heart hammering waiting to hear the banshee's wail outside my window.
    The sad fact is the grandmother actually believed her own stories.

    To thine own self be true



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭Nesta99


    Going north of the border, seemed to be guns everywhere and scary armed police officers. Adds on terrorism and about calling the confidential police line probably the reason.





  • Registered Users Posts: 275 ✭✭TheUnderfaker


    Quicksand


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Nesta99 wrote: »

    Billy Mitchell from EastEnders is a rat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,958 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Zaph wrote: »
    Quicksand - I believed it was a lot more prevalent than it actually is and we all need to be on the lookout for it. I think it must have been in a couple of TV shows or films I saw fairly close together, I can't think of any other reason it would bother me, especially as I don't recall it ever being reported in south Dublin.

    Quicksand occupied the minds of a lot of children of the 80s and early 90s.
    I think it was a really cheap stunt in low budget 1970s tv shows that were recycled 10 years later on RTE. I definitely remember Wonder Woman and 1960s Batman having a few run-ins with it.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    ...and here is the very poster that terrified me as a 7 year old.

    Seems pretty tame now, but back in 1982/83 this literally gave me nightmares. :(

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Ahwell


    Children of the Stones



    Hard to believe now that it was a children's program.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    The Sacred Heart picture with the eyes that followed you.

    Rimini Riddle.

    Picnic at Hanging Rock.

    The house where a fella murdered his family.

    And what I now realise was the beginning of a life long affliction of sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations, but which at the time was people standing over me in my bed along with occasional spiders.

    I also remember some issue had developed in England (Gloucestershire iirc) with what was described as a "flesh eating bacteria". A few people had died. It was discussed on Gay Byrne's radio show. I was petrified and lost sleep over it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    The flying monkeys in the wizard of oz.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I was scared of the sound of the ICE CREAM van.



    And i was also scared of the lion on the lion bars.

    winneconne-wi-14-january-2019-a-package-of-nestle-lion-bar-snack-on-an-isolated-background-2ANX8MT.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I honestly think my reasoning was sound. The Ice cream van sounds like a siren. And the lion looks like he will eat you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,107 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    The Wheelers in Return to Oz

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    The room of heads, also in Return to Oz



    The Skeksis from The Dark Crystal.

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    The Cyborg woman scene in Superman 3

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    The ghost librarian in Ghostbusters

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    Kids movies in the 80s were dark as fcuk.

    The Freddy long arms scene from Nightmare on Elm St also has a special place in my psyche.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    The Wheelers in Return to Oz

    Return-to-Oz-.jpg

    The room of heads, also in Return to Oz



    The Skeksis from The Dark Crystal.

    ImpossibleMedicalFurseal-size_restricted.gif

    The Cyborg woman scene in Superman 3

    superman-iii-robot-woman.gif

    The ghost librarian in Ghostbusters

    giphy.gif

    Kids movies in the 80s were dark as fcuk.

    The Freddy long arms scene from Nightmare on Elm St also has a special place in my psyche.

    ccb69c24ab8ad81fab02c646d5e4c451.gif
    Nothing in comparison to the music from the Ice Cream man.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Nuclear war for me too, and I was in my 30s when I first saw Threads. Imagine if I'd seen it back in 1984! I'd have been a gibbering wreck!
    I did and I was. :D
    Picnic at Hanging Rock.
    Masterpiece of atmospheric horror that one.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,893 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    The Freddy long arms scene from Nightmare on Elm St also has a special place in my psyche.


    Freddy in general, scared the sh1t outta me


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Feisar


    The demons in my head.

    Here be dragons

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭Archeron


    At the end of the intro to Bosco, a weird puppet thing used to pull on a blind cord pull that was attached to his head and then it would open the show. That puppet haunted my dreams.

    The scene in jaws where the kid on the inflatable mattress was sucked into the water and then blood sprayed directly up out of the water.

    Michael Jackson's thriller :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,148 ✭✭✭893bet


    One two Freddie’s coming for you....terrified me. Still don’t watch them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    The opening of Are You Afraid of The Dark with its creepy imagery

    https://youtu.be/6b2G8ySKNgA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    My parents. When they found out I was up to mischief.
    And pennywise was far scarier in the book than he ever was on screen.


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