What were you scared of as a kid that wasn't meant to be scary?

[Kala24]

For me it was Dastardly and Muttley. I have no idea why but I was terrified of them and if I woke up in the night to use the bathroom I used to run because I thought they were hiding in my attic and would snatch me and pull me up.

It's just funny looking back because they're not even scary characters and not meant to be😂

Is this trychophobia? I have an aversion to holes, I don't even like the look of strawberries. And the Sanex advert is awful.

Was it the voices going “Awhhh awhhh awhhh wahhh” ?

I can get that. I’m not keen on them myself.

The Moomins (I still can't stand the bloody things now)

Open stairs with gaps between the slats

The children's programme Round the Twist (one episode made me feel ill if I thought about it for months)

The Adventures of Gradey Greenspace (particularly the title song)

A stop motion programme with a caveman who's entire head was a big puffball of hair so you couldn't see his face. Occasionally you saw one eye.

Lots of things creeped me out as a small child

Fenella the witch from Chorlton and the Wheelies. Ironically I always got creepy vibes from Jimmy Savile. Spontaneous human combustion too. The photo of the burnt foot next to the zimmer frame really got to me.

Came on to say the same! Terrifying 😂

Hartley Hare from Pipkins and that fucking twiggy thing in Rupert the Bear. Showed DS Hartley Hare recently and it's still absolutely terrifying.

Bertie Bassett. From the liquorice allsorts advert.

Really creepy.

Thunderbirds on tv (my brother loved it)
Spitting Image adverts and the crime stoppers adverts - used to run and hide behind the sofa, seems daft now but saying that there's no way I could watch any of the above even now.

The theme tune to World in Action

The old man in Steptoe and Son

I could see how you were traumatised by it with this kind of acting.

Wizbit

There was something deeply disturbing about the condition of Hartley Hare. A hare so motheaten and disheveled must have been through some kind of major trauma in his youth.

@EverythingYouDoIsaBalloon the Yorkshire TV ident scared the heck out of me! I used to dive on the floor, it was terrifying.. I was scared the big Y would appear from behind the sofa!

Nice username by the way

My DSIS was petrified of the Pink Panther music.

I was terrified of Ronald Mc Donald.. also the film Mac and Me 🫣😰

Hartley Hare was evil (or so I thought, back in the day …)

I don't know if anyone remembers a character called Mr Mix,who advertised Nesquick milkshake powder? This would have been in the late 1960s. I had a Mr. Mix puppet and I was terrified of it for some reason! I must have been about 3 or 4 years old.

A very specific sculpture of a horse head by Picasso. It was hung over the entrace of the exhibition and I FREAKED out. Was maybe 8 at the time?

It just had big bulgy eyes and I hated it.

Which one ?

There was something about the Teletubbies used to frighten my DS, was there a house and someone appeared at a window ?

BBC test card in the 1970's. Just rewatched Life on Mars and it still freaks me out.

Pylons and escalators - I blame public information films.

I had a nightmare about Dr Who yeti that I remember 50 years later.

Andy Pandy - playing in the background when child in my street locked me in and wouldn't let me leave her house when I was about 4.

DS had a phobia of flushing the toilet. And the were-rabbit from Wallace and grommet.

Daleks I think you mean. They were supposed to be scary. Me and DB hid behind the sofa when they came on.

I think the walking tv was Edna?

Maggie Thatcher, I was absolutely terrified of her.

I think it was hearing my parents talking about how wicked she was, lol.

Clowns here too. And dolls to a lesser extent, but the creepy ones on antique programmes always make me feel odd.

This was terrifying