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

[lisaJN1986]

And still scare you all these years later?

I'll start... 😂

I always make sure aerosols aren't in the sun light after watching an episode where a girls house exploded due to the sun shining on her deodorant.

Ken Dodds diddymen!

The BBC Ghostwatch programme they did at Halloween. My mum, sister and I were convinced it was real! I couldn’t sleep for ages after!

People keep mentioning the ghost in 3 men and a baby. If you watch it back you can see it’s actually a cardboard cut out of Ted Danson wearing a top hat!

The IRA

Omg yes return to oz! The wheelies used to terrify me aswell as the woman that had all of those heads in cases. The electro shock therapy aswell.

and not now, but when I was younger I had a poster from smash hits magazine of the band 5ive on my wall and had to cover up Jay as I thought he looked terrifying with an eyebrow piercing 😂

Clowns and people dressed up as mascots. Hate it!

My Gran lived in a big old house with a massive garden. The back door was glass top and bottom and I used to hate passing it after dark because I was 100% convinced that there would be a bear waiting to eat me.

Not much change of that, given she lived in the North East of England!

Nuclear war
Daleks
Spiders
The dark
Daddy long legs
Dogs

Tom Baker

And bats! Watched a horrible film.with my gran where a little girl had her toes poking out the end of her bed and a vampire bat came and sucked all her blood out 😷

Grange Hill

Yes!!

I came in to write this. From age 3/4/5 - 12 I was terrified. Still imagined him stood behind me up until a couple of years ago.

Monsters under the bed.

@Inclinedtochatter there was a Sapphire and Steel episode where people were trapped in photographs, I must have been very young but it was terrifying!

Dr Who Cybermen in the 70s, the daleks not so much, but the Cybermen.

The dog dragon thing from The Neverending Story.

The introduction to Dr Who

That blue alien in the end credits to the original Star Trek series.

These things...



The dark and sleeping alone

The groke from the Moomins. 😬

Dr Who
Daleks
Poisonous snakes ( no idea why but I was always on the lookout for adders)

Also quick sand and nuclear war.

Sorry... I'll try again.

 

Monsters under the bed was the worst though

My mother, water ship down and concealed holes. The latter because I was petrified a horse or deer would put a leg down and break it.
Horror films, ghosts and the dark etc never bothered me. I lived very rurally had a habit of playing outside/ going for walks in the dark. I remember when I was about 4/5 a babysitter being horrified and telling me wolves, bears and ghosts were in the woods at night and instead of scaring me it encouraged me.

Escalators, especially in London tube stations.
Absolutely petrified me. Still do tbh. I would rather use the stairs than the escalators.

Nope... can't do, sorry .

Supposed to be a picture of those giant Harland and Wolf overhead cranes.

There were so many on a freight port , near my home, in Dudley.

Me too! I can remember my dad grabbing the bottom of one and pretending to be electrocuted, I must have been about 5 and was hysterical.