Media can be written word too, no?

These books simultaneously horrified and had me enthralled as a kid.

The Headless Roomate and other tales of terror.  http://www.amazon.com/Headless-Roommate-Other-Tales-Terror/dp/0871313278 which are, more-or-less urban legends/scary stories to tell in the dark type stories.

One of many written (or I guess, collected by) Helen Hoke.  She did several: Horrors, Horrors, Horrors and Creepies, Creepies, Creepies (you get the picture) which also were young adult age horror collection. http://www.amazon.com/Horrors-Helen-Hoke/dp/0531022110

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That liberace/Elvis looking dude in the middle! What is that?

Media can be written word too, no?

These books simultaneously horrified and had me enthralled as a kid.

The Headless Roomate and other tales of terror.  http://www.amazon.com/Headless-Roommate-Other-Tales-Terror/dp/0871313278 which are, more-or-less urban legends/scary stories to tell in the dark type stories.

One of many written (or I guess, collected by) Helen Hoke.  She did several: Horrors, Horrors, Horrors and Creepies, Creepies, Creepies (you get the picture) which also were young adult age horror collection. http://www.amazon.com/Horrors-Helen-Hoke/dp/0531022110




I wasn't a kid but dean koontz's Intensity scared the crap out of me.  In that it was sooo suspenseful... As I read it, on a fixed post security shift. I was the only one in the bldg but I kept hearing footsteps over my head.
I was a student at UCSB and I had to call one of my friends, a police officer, to come over and sit with me until I got control of my fear.  Lol

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The doll from Small soldiers!


That's pretty creepy!  :o

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Is that Triple H's skull mask?

When I played that first version of res evil it totally freaked me out.  I remember I was sitting in apt with all the lights off and I heard the sound of chewing and then that first zombie turned and looked at "me" I jumped up and turned the lights on.  Also all those zombie sounds and you couldn't tell where they were coming from. I was afraid to open a door bc I was scared of what might be behind it!!!

YES, that was the scariest game from my childhood BY FAR!!

Is that Triple H's skull mask?


lmfao!! ;D  It sure does look like his mask!! lol :D

lmfao!! ;D  It sure does look like his mask!! lol :D


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Alright, back around 1989, those commercials for the bones that made dogs' teeth clean scared me stupid. I hated the smiling dogs.
--Max Headroom
--Chucky. Because, come on. After I saw the movie, I put all my dolls except Nooney in my closet with a chair on the door for a week.
--The dogs in the "Leave me Alone" music video. (I didn't know who MJ was at the time, though)
--I was scared of the Penguin from the old Batman series.

That's all I can think of, but I'm sure I'll come up with more.

Alright, back around 1989, those commercials for the bones that made dogs' teeth clean scared me stupid. I hated the smiling dogs.
--Max Headroom
--Chucky. Because, come on. After I saw the movie, I put all my dolls except Nooney in my closet with a chair on the door for a week.
--The dogs in the "Leave me Alone" music video. (I didn't know who MJ was at the time, though)
--I was scared of the Penguin from the old Batman series.

That's all I can think of, but I'm sure I'll come up with more.

Penguin looked scarier in Batman Returns!! :o  Danny Devito played the hell out of him!

I wasn't a kid but dean koontz's Intensity scared the crap out of me.  In that it was sooo suspenseful... As I read it, on a fixed post security shift. I was the only one in the bldg but I kept hearing footsteps over my head.
I was a student at UCSB and I had to call one of my friends, a police officer, to come over and sit with me until I got control of my fear.  Lol


I was like that as an adult, I was babysitting in a new place and I started reading something that scared me, I kept hearing things outside, so I would turn on the *really* bright porch light to look out the window.  Apparently I woke the parents' neighbor/brother as he called, but didn't say anything on the phone.  Geez, I was having a urban legend moment..  Don't answer the phone

I was like that as an adult, I was babysitting in a new place and I started reading something that scared me, I kept hearing things outside, so I would turn on the *really* bright porch light to look out the window.  Apparently I woke the parents' neighbor/brother as he called, but didn't say anything on the phone.  Geez, I was having a urban legend moment..  Don't answer the phone


Did you ever see the first part of when a stranger calls??? The carol Kane one (not the crappy remake) that was super scary and sounds like your babysitting experience  ;D

Did you ever see the first part of when a stranger calls??? The carol Kane one (not the crappy remake) that was super scary and sounds like your babysitting experience  ;D


I *think* so.  I remember seeing one of them and it scared me. lol  I'm a big scaredy cat

Alright, back around 1989, those commercials for the bones that made dogs' teeth clean scared me stupid. I hated the smiling dogs.
--Max Headroom
--Chucky. Because, come on. After I saw the movie, I put all my dolls except Nooney in my closet with a chair on the door for a week.
--The dogs in the "Leave me Alone" music video. (I didn't know who MJ was at the time, though)
--I was scared of the Penguin from the old Batman series.

That's all I can think of, but I'm sure I'll come up with more.


To me, Max Headroom wasn't scary, just a bit odd.

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Mortal Kombat in general SCARED me as a kid!!! ;D ;D

Some PSA commercials (even the ones in magazines). Gosh, I would get really scared.

Some PSA commercials (even the ones in magazines). Gosh, I would get really scared.


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You mean like this?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lLsdaCVk3Kk/TAWViYGKKqI/AAAAAAABpSA/rqVw8_X2oRE/s1600/wba-beetle_40.jpg

That liberace/Elvis looking dude in the middle! What is that?



It looks like Jay Leno to me.



Cat

Not as a kid but as an adult-this creeped me out.


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Cat

These shorts from the 1970's PBS show The Electric Company scared the living crap out of me when I was a kid, so much so that I'd actually run out of the room when they came on.  :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fGbj-3G5tw&list=PL85573CF77452CD5F&index=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GO6UstmI0&list=PL85573CF77452CD5F&index=4

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You mean like this?


Wow, that's quite scary!  :o

It looks like Jay Leno to me.



Cat


I think it is Jay Leno. ???

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Morgan Freeman as Vincent Vampire.  :o

"Keeping up with the Kardashians" scare me. (Except Caitlyn. She's cool)

These shorts from the 1970's PBS show The Electric Company scared the living crap out of me when I was a kid, so much so that I'd actually run out of the room when they came on.  :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fGbj-3G5tw&list=PL85573CF77452CD5F&index=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GO6UstmI0&list=PL85573CF77452CD5F&index=4


I forgot about those. They must not have scared me.


The Electric Company is how I learned English.

It looks like Jay Leno to me.



Cat


Yes. Yes it does.

"Keeping up with the Kardashians" scare me. (Except Caitlyn. She's cool)


I think Kim scares me especially with that body suit she was wearing the other day.  :o

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Jim Boyd from The Electric Company portrayed The Wolfman scared me a bit.  :o

When I was little, some of the episodes of Spongebob scared the living sheesh out of me. Like the episode where Spongebob and Patrick tried to babysit for Sandy's pet insects, and one of the bugs fudgeing scared me to death. The close-ups were terrifying to me, especially with the buzzes.

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TBH, these guys scared me too!!! ;D ;D ;D I thought they were related to Sting, when they were performing on WCW Nitro!

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I know this technically doesn't count, but throughout my early childhood since I was 3 and even as far as up until I was 10 years old. I would regularly have about 3-4 nightmares a week based off my bunk bed that looked just like this except it was black, or TOILETS in general. Two of the parts of my bunk bed, at the far left and right looked like a robot with one eye each that would try to catch me and beat me up as a little child. However, it would give me a warning sign to get away from it before it would catch me. So I had to escape out of bed before it would try to find me. However, you had different types with different powers that would tickle me so bad or hurt me really bad. In my dream it felt so painful though no joke.

My fear of toilets as a young child was NOT funny. I used to be scared that the toilets would grab me with its invisible hands and flush me away. Whenever I used the bathroom at home, right after I flushed the toilet I would close my ears and sprint away from it. Public bathrooms were the WORST though. Me being closed in that stall made me feel like I was trapped. Throughout my early childhood and most of my elementary school years, I would hold it every time until I got home. No matter how bad it was. I definitely refused to use it in stores as well. In some of my dreams it would take place at my house or my grandparents houses and ANY toilet on any given dream would try to attack me if I looked at it. I had to turn my head away from the toilet in order to avoid it. If I put my eye on it, the toilet would come to life and I had to out run it or it was over for me. However, when it came to public places, that was the worst, but then if I go inside the public bathroom, the door would be locked I couldn't get out. The public bathroom would be like a huge labyrinth or a maze filled with tons of toilets in a bunch of stalls, it would be an ARMY of toilets coming to life to catch me and flush me down. These nightmares were stuck with me for a long time.

Yes it sounds weird, awkward as hell, and doesn't make any sense, but true story, a lot of people tend to think that Clowns are the most scary things ever or the Chuckie-Cheese mascot LOL. Certain puppets from movies might be creepy as well. But no, those were a complete joke compared to the nightmares of toilets and parts of the bunk bed furniture I would have regularly.

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TBH, these guys scared me too!!! ;D ;D ;D I thought they were related to Sting, when they were performing on WCW Nitro!



So you remember The Kiss Demon from WCW?
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Alright guys, so what things that you heard on the radio, or saw on TV or in a movie scared you when you were a kid?
Here's mine:

The pirate from SpongeBob grated me! This is a common fear of a lot of toddlers.
While we're on the same topic, the teaser trailer for the film of the series scared me so much that I had to leave the theater!
The 1-800 Bar None sock puppet. I always ran out of the room when it came on
The 1984 PBS "And On" logo. I got nightmares after watching it on YouTube...
The U.S. Acres episode "Wanted: Wade". My brother was watching it and the jail sequence scared the snot out of me! I remember hiding behind the couch until it was over! This gave me a fear of roosters.
The DVD menus to the Disney movie "Home On The Range". IDK why though...
There's this one scene from Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie I remember scaring me as a child and giving me a fear of elephants that I'd love to rewatch in English that was cut from Mumfie's Quest, involving Bristle locking the main character in the holding cell. I got shivers when I re-watched it a few months ago. Here's the link to the Japanese version of the clip: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rg58k


I kinda got freaked by the pirate, but I became used to it after a while.

And as for everyone else here?
I like Kiss's music!
I was never scared of toilets as a kid.

Okay, so what scared me? The logo after George Lopez with the fetus, the horsefly close up from the SpongeBob episode Wormy, and King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Okay, so what scared me? The logo after George Lopez with the fetus,


The Mohawk Productions logo? I never cared about it entirely, but it was kinda amusing seeing it (I have a strange fascination with logos, btw).


the horsefly close up from the SpongeBob episode Wormy,


I really feel you on this one. Ever since I first saw that close up, it scared the crap out of me like nothing else would. Even 12 years later, I'm still afraid of that monstrosity. I can still remember the creepy buzzing sound it makes, while it made me hide behind the couch pillows.