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What Really Scared You As A Child?

  • 30-07-2020 9:17pm
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    When you were young, what were the things that scared you to death?

    Monsters under the bed?
    The Boogeyman that lived in the wardrobe?
    The thunder and lightning on a stormy night?

    For me it was skeletons and skulls on particular. Mo matter how many times my mother or older sisters would reassure me as a 7 year old that skeletons were just our own bones and couldnt harm me, I simply did not believe them.

    The sight of a skeleton would really frighten me. :(

    There was the poster for a horror film called One Dark Night, it was in the cinemas circa 1982, around the time that ET was released in the silver screen, and just seeing that poster, featuring a decomposed skull like figure in a cloak with his bony hand menacingly reaching out, gave me nightmares.

    In my bedroom at night I was terrified this evil figure was just around the corner of the room, ready to kill me.

    So what frightened you?


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    the banshee in darby o gill


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,507 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    X-files theme song


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Ghostwatch. Was a little older than a “child” though.

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    Father Murphy


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    The dark, and what lurked under my bed in the dark.

    Death also terrified me.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    I used to have these existential thoughts/daydreams of a white space filled with clay balls. They varied in size from fit in your hand to unimaginably huge, made me feel irrelevant, I don’t matter because these balls can exist at any size.

    Terrifying.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    The boogie man. Disco dancing twat.

    Then there was the bogie man. Covered in other people’s snot. :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    The Witch in 40 Coats


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    The gremlins scared the sh1t out of me.wasnt right for a few days after watching it


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Also the wolf in the never ending story


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    THE CHILDCATCHER


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,126 ✭✭✭screamer


    My grandfathers ghost stories put the **** crossways in me


  • Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭91wx763


    Wasps


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Rimmy


    product-670-main-main-big-1532625724.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,875 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Nuclear war.
    A ten second clip of a black and white movie with giant spiders in it.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Slugworth


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭RedXIV




    1930s king kong movie I saw when I was 4 or 5, and in particular this scene (55 seconds in) where kong gets mad and stamps on someone. Had nightmares for years about it


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,760 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    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!
    Industrial Schools. Used to get threatened with being sent to one by my family. I had a fear of convent buildings for a long time, there are one or two that, when I pass them, I feel a bit queasy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭purplepanda


    My grandmother telling us youngsters grizzly stories of the Banshees flying about during the night time summer storms down at coastal Wexford. :eek:

    Anytime I hear a severe storm brewing I always remember her. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,020 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I thought a man was going to come and take me away for misbehaving.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    The whole Mirror Pension Fund debacle

    Vampire Danny Glick hovering at the window in Salem's Lot


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,678 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    the banshee in darby o gill

    Fcuk yeah!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,875 ✭✭✭micar


    I watched an old black and white version of The Phantom of the Opera one afternoon when I was a kid.....scared the sh1t of of me for years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I read the book "Dracula" when I was about 12.
    The scenes where little black dots dance in the moonlight and then coalesce into a bat outside the window....I couldn't sleep for weeks.
    Always imagined that image when ever I'd see the moon through a window. Gives me the creeps to this day.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Trains


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,100 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Monsters under the bed?
    The Boogeyman that lived in the wardrobe?
    The thunder and lightning on a stormy night?

    All of those.

    Also, when my mother said "wait til your father comes home..."

    I knew I was in big trouble.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Nuclear war did it for me too. I was 11 back in 1983 when RTE showed a TV movie called 'The Day After', that had caused sensation in the US. I didn't watch it, but even the trailers for it freaked me out at the thought that it could really happen.



    I remember reading a book around the same time, called "World's Greatest Predictions" or something like that, where there was a chapter about how somebody (not Nostradamus!) was predicting the world would end in 1999. It terrified me too, and I tried to convince myself that I'd at least have 16 years to forget about it, but I still remember it to this day.

    Then about a year later, the first horror movie I saw was the original Salem's Lot, with this scene:



    I still don't like sleeping in a room with the curtains open!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Around the Twist.
    Surely they were outta their boxes when they were writing it


  • Registered Users Posts: 80,795 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    AIDS, there was misinformed crooked ads on tv saying you could catch it from all sorts, made you paranoid, I suppose the Covid of its day.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭stinkypinky


    Are you afraid of the dark on RTE was spooky stuff. That intro is creepy as f, especially when you consider the show was aimed at kids. Goosebumps was another good one.



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