Things that absolutely terrified you as a child.....

[lisaJN1986]

And still scare you all these years later?

I'll start... 😂

Return to Oz the heads in cabinets. I still can’t watch it all these years later!

Slimer from the ghostbusters
in fact the whole of the ghostbusters but he really gives me the creeps

Steam trains. Used to hate walking past the bit where they shovel coal into the boiler. The heat, noise and smell used to scare me to death.

My older sister read my Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.
Terrifying story.

Drive through carwash

Jaws. And the fact that he lived under my bed.

@Longdistance
I thought I was the only person that remembered that! "Ello little old lady'.
😆

There was an advert on tv for liquorice all sorts that told you if you ate too many you would turn into Bertie Basset and I genuinely couldn't work out if they were being serious or not...

Agree with return to Oz, also the wicked witch of the west and grotbags

The Wheeler's on Return to Oz

Mirrors in the dark. Absolutely terrified I'm going to see something supernatural in them or my faced aged. Can't even remember why now but some older girls told me something spooky once.

Going up the stairs in the dark. Still rum up them like my life depends on it.

Threads. Petrified by the whole nuclear thing even now.
Rabies (survivors as a PP said)
Werewolves (thanks to Tales of the Unexpected although Professor Lupin helped cure that one)

*run

Suits of armour

Quick sand
Deep water
Sea and tides
Legs hanging out of the bed..monsters will get them even if I'm roasting hot I need something over me

Heffalumps and woozles 😟

Re: Grotbags The pink windmill? "There somebody at the door..."

Any horror movie, my aunt telling me ghosts were real really terrified me, scared to go to loo during the night etc.

OP what a throwback!!! Is this the Carly Beth Goosebumps episode?? If so yes still creepy!

Watch out watch out there's a humphrey about.... it was a tv ad for Unigate milk (1970s) and red&white stripey drinking straws would come out of keyholes etc as if to steal your milk

It terrified me.

Zelda from Terrahawks

Me too! I lived near a building site and was even scared of the big piles of sand.

also:

Nuclear War
Volcanos
Peeping Toms. We had a local one and my friend’s sister apparently saw his face in the window when she was having a bath

I had a recurring nightmare from the age of about 7 until I was an adult- I think the last time was when I was in my mid 40s, so a few years ago now. Bloody severed hands in plastic bags, men in white uniforms and a laundry trolley, a 'bad man' with a colourful Mohican haircut, an empty house where nobody knew I was- I must've seen or heard some pretty fucked up stuff for all that to appear in one nightmare. So that still scares me.

The one other thing is a very old film called, I think, Angels with Dirty Faces. The scene at the end where the guy goes behind a screen to be executed, and starts shouting in terror. I haven't watched that film since I was 10 because it scared me so much.

Bridges, I hate walking or driving on them.