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Weird things that scared you as a child...

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user1491572121 · 16/04/2017 09:22

My DD is 12 and I was just absentmindedly singing "Frere Jacques" and she said "Oh that song! It used to give me nightmares!"

And I said why? I used to sing it to you all the time!

And she said YES! And it made me think of people drowning...

Apparently she used to hear it and envision a man in bed and then water would rush in and drown him!

What weird fears/thoughts did you or yours have?

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TwoBobs · 17/04/2017 14:55

Gonzo from The Muppets. His nose used to freak me out!

ProfYaffle · 17/04/2017 14:57

Crikey that makes me feel old GreenFingers, the Judderman influenced my drinking habits in my 20s! Grin (and it was Metz, not Smirnoff Ice)

Yy to hearing your own pulse, I used to think it was tiny men marching in my head.

livelyredjellybean · 17/04/2017 15:07

Julian Clary; I had a nightmare of him chasing me round my school with a knife trying to murder me.
Also The Wizard of Oz; again a nightmare but this time the witch captured my nan in a block of ice.

Its only this year as I am about to turn 30 that I have managed to watch either on tv!

dnwig · 17/04/2017 15:33

Creepy old fashioned book illustrations in Alice in Wonderland.

Ditto Edward Scissorhands.

The Moomins.

motheroftwojedi · 17/04/2017 16:30

Playmobil figures.

I had a recurring nightmare that they would put poison on the soles of my feet and then men in puddles would know to pull me down into the puddles to drown me. I recovered from my fear of puddles, still don't like playmobile and am phobic of people touching my feet.

Greenfingeredfun · 17/04/2017 17:19

That's it prof you're right! Don't feel old.. I wasn't little then Blush. I was in my teens and for some reason he (and the lady talking on the ad) really spooked me!

redannie118 · 17/04/2017 17:36

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GabsAlot · 17/04/2017 18:59

youre right redannie what is up with hamble wa she the only doll they could find!

ProfYaffle · 17/04/2017 19:03

Lol Greenfingeredfun - still feel old though Grin

Beeziekn33ze · 17/04/2017 19:04

Dr Who has a lot to answer for!
Zafod - that Bergerac faceless monk episode got me. Then we went to Jersey and I couldn't enjoy the lavender farm as much as I should have done!

DiscoSloth · 17/04/2017 19:10

Morph's little grey friend, Chas. I used to hide behind the sofa when he came on halfway through Tony Hart.

YouOKHun · 17/04/2017 19:31

I remember when my Dad's Morris Oxford got stuck in the mud; the sound of whirring wheels as the car sunk deeper - bloody terrified my 5 year old self. I still feel freaked out by that now.

Zafodbeeblbrox10 · 17/04/2017 19:48

breezie - lol..I didn't have to put up with jersey, but I didn't enjoy being alone in the house, and wasn't looking out of the windows for a while!

CheeseQueen · 17/04/2017 20:30

Return To Oz. All of it. The screaming heads, the Wheelies, the chicken and the falling egg....

Feargalthecat · 17/04/2017 21:32

There was a programme in maybe the late 70's or early 80's called Quatermass I think. I don't think I actually watched it but I could hear it from my bedroom and there was a chant the characters repeated saying something like "ley, ley, ley".

I can still recall the foreboding feeling it gave me.

Similar feeling too to the Tales of the Unexpected theme and Secret Army.

sk1pper · 17/04/2017 21:58

Return to Oz is my favourite childhood film!! :D

CheeseQueen · 17/04/2017 22:02

Return to Oz is my favourite childhood film!!

but, but, it was scary assed stuff!!! Grin Whoever thought that was suitable for kids was either on something or just some kind of sadistic lol

Coconutcoconut · 17/04/2017 22:07

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and the boiler in my bedroom, I used to speak to it and ask it kindly not to explode in the night. God knows why the boiler was in my bedroom :/

londonrach · 17/04/2017 22:10

Brown!!!!!!! (Shudder). theres a reason why

Miss marple the old ones with joan sims the into where the old lady in the window of the big house

CherryBlossomPink · 17/04/2017 22:16

I was terrified that the Great fire of London would happen in my street after we learned about it in school, and how it passed from house to house. I was also terrified that when the road was dug up I would be trapped on the wrong side away from the rest of my family - they were laying cables of some form in our street for what felt like years (never occurred to me that the channel they dug was less than a foot wide!)

BrandMombie · 17/04/2017 22:23

I used to believe 100% that there was an old mans dead body under my bed, as a child (maybe 7/8 years old). I went to bed everynight worrying that he would come back to live, and grab me! The worse part - I didn't tell anyone I suspected a dead body in the house (even though there wasn't). I have no idea when, or why, but I hand on heart believed it! I'm not sure how I managed to go to sleep every night.. Blush

YolandiFuckinVisser · 17/04/2017 22:30

We had a painting by my grandad on the stairs, it was a man in a Russian hat seated in a grand chair, arm resting on the arm of the chair with 3 fingers raised on a relaxed fist. It was done in oils all in shades of green. I had to close my eyes when passing it on my way up or down the stairs. I'd love to see it now, no idea what happened to it.

MulderitsmeX · 17/04/2017 22:32

Return to Oz is bloody scary. Thr wheelie monkeys, heads in jars fhat scream and the talking mountain!

On a similar theme- through the dragon's eye

MulderitsmeX · 17/04/2017 22:32

Return to Oz is bloody scary. Thr wheelie monkeys, heads in jars fhat scream and the talking mountain!

On a similar theme- through the dragon's eye

phoenixtherabbit · 17/04/2017 22:34

The but in the spice girls movie (don't judge me 😂) where gre creepy man climbs through the loo, I used to think it was possible and a man would get in my house! I was only little.