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[Jotaro]

I watched Babar: the animated series, and Babar (when he was young) has to build up the Castle. He came up with plans but they all fell apart. He had a dream that all of his constructions were deemed bad by the old lady and she laughed, and every thing he'd tough of, these was a big red X sign along with four highly-toned piano notes. This kind of shit kinda still freaks me out today, when something similar happens.

Also, I remember I had my first computer to myself (an old POS Macintosh), and I played some Kid's art program (what's the name again, Kid Pix?). Anyway, it begun, and in some activity you had to pick up characters. And everyone would shout in a candid way "Pick me!" or "No, pick me!" It's really insignificant, but I guess I still think of it because my first love, well she like, totally ignored me, and deemed me as a nerd. So when I feel rejection, I think of that stupid kids art software.

 

[jenov4]

Thunderbirds. They still freak me out today. *shudder*

 

[impirius]

Those GE "We bring good things to life" commercials. I have no idea why.

 

[Jotaro]

Thunderbirds. They still freak me out today. *shudder*

They always made me laugh, I guess you'd like them more loony after Team America? :lol

 

[NLB2]

At the end of the Simpsons whenever they have that sign that says Gracie and the guy who shushes the audience. I hated that for some reason.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Showers. i don't know why, maybe it was because i didn't like or maybe because each stream of water was like a tiny gun, shooting me with an endless stream of bullets, adjustable in temperature and impact force. i remember when my mom replaced the showerhead with one of those that you can takeand had five different sprays (flat, shower, mist, stream, full blast). It was like the five faces of death.

Every now and then when i'm taking a shower, i'll have a flashback to my childhood, and a cold chill of fear will come across me.

There was also this billboard for a hotel or something that had this weird Incan sun on it. When we'd visit relatives in another city, there were three of these billboards that we'd pass on the highway. Didn't really scare me, just freaked me out.

 

[belgurdo]

The "ready set go" noise that started Pole Position races

 

[Tarazet]

Little lights in my room when the rest of the room was dark always scared me. If I forgot to turn my Amiga's monitor off, I would turn off the lights, lie down, then go O.O as I noticed a low hum and a glaring red light, and I would shit myself... then lunge for the offending light and extinguish it.

I've gotten over it, but I still notice them.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

watching Unsolved Mysteries. Looking back, i've watched a few reruns and the stories really weren't scary at all, but damn if Robert Stack could make a story about some elderly lady in Nebraska disappearing sound freaky as fuck.

 

[bjork]

The room in Impossible Mission for Commodore 64 where it was yellow in the background, with no robots. You cruise in there thinking it's ready to be pillaged, and then that BLACK BALL THING comes out of the ceiling, holy shit.

My grandmother once made me this cool Hulk blanket/wall hanging thing, but at night it would scare me endlessly.

Spiders.

 

[DMczaf]

Turned me off of clowns for the rest of my life, too. Fuck the circus, you ain't getting me!

 

[pestul]

watching Unsolved Mysteries. Looking back, i've watched a few reruns and the stories really weren't scary at all, but damn if Robert Stack could make a story about some elderly lady in Nebraska disappearing sound freaky as fuck.

Face it.. the theme song got you. I know it got to me.

 

[bjork]

Another couple I forgot:

Kent Tekulve.

Vlade Divac.

That time Magic Johnson ran the clock down like a bitch so the Trailblazers couldn't go to the finals and get schooled by JORDAN.

 

[Great King Bowser]

Turned me off of clowns for the rest of my life, too. Fuck the circus, you ain't getting me!

Oh god, that messed up my childhood as well. It was on a few months back, and I still didn't want to watch it. :lol

 

[J2 Cool]

Getting locked in after the store closes. I was scared out of my mind, like we'd be stuck or something. There was definetly a lot of other things that I looked at with a skewed vision but I can't remember

 

[etiolate]

Wheelies from Return to Oz.

 

[Great King Bowser]

Wheelies from Return to Oz.

Damn you for reminding me. My dreams will be haunted by wheelies and clowns now.

 

[Deleted member 4784]

Spirals. There's this scene in 101 Dalmations (the animated version) where Cruella Deville chases after the puppies in her car. Her eyes turn all spiralish and the way the whole thing was drawn used to give me nightmares. :lol Whenever I saw spirals after that I would always get freaked out because I was reminded of that scene.

 

[CoryCubed]

I was actually scared of Are You Afraid of the Dark

 

[Coin Return]

Both me and my friend were creeped out as children by the end of the movie Little Monsters. Boy is the creepiest motherfucker ever.

That and Unsolved Mysteries.

 

[Dujour]

The Gate. Those little demons. It led to me being afraid of certain perspectives. Also, the dragon from howard the duck.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

I was REALLY creeped out by Chuckie when I was young. Now I watch it and laugh. But the first movie hacked into my brain when I was a kid.

Afterwards, one of my friends and I, when we were 10 or 11, we took a doll from my sister and beat it up with tools (hammer, saw, etc.). We were home alone that night. Then, to freak me out, my friend took it out of the drawer we put it back in and made it sit on a chair downstairs, in a way that I could see it from the first floor from the TV room. He then went home and called me on the phone, telling me to check downstairs if the doll was still in its drawer. When I turned and looked down the stairs, it was sitting on the chair, looking at me with revenge on its face. God, I freaked out. :lol :lol :lol

The Gate. Those little demons. It led to me being afraid of certain perspectives. Also, the dragon from howard the duck.

Oh shit, that's scary, The Gate.

 

[Space Age Playboy]

Same for me with the shower thing. I guess I was afraid of:

1. Getting hit in the face and not being able to see
2. Being pushed down by the flowing water
3. Slipping
4. The water temperature, and its ability to change by itself
5. My possible inability to work the knobs correctly
6. The noise

A shower was a pretty intimidating place when I was a little kid. Now that I think about it, those things aren't so insignificant to a kid anyway.

 

[Jotaro]

I do not recall if it's in unsolved mysteries, but I remember a documentary about ghosts in my youth (with dramatizations of the ghosts) that REALLY freaked me out for a long while.

 

[drohne]

one of my dad's friends had an empty, quiet study which was only lit by a faintly buzzing, faintly greenish desk lamp. it was tremendously scary, but kind of cool too. whenever i was at their house i'd see how long i could stand at the threshhold of that room without freaking out. i can still recall it clearly.

 

[boo7z]

 

[Brian Fellows]

When I was 4 my family went to Disney World. Well one of the days we were there we went to some Chinese show. In this show they had one of those big long dragon or lion thingys. Well that thing terrified me. Before my parents could react I scream hopped the back of my chair and ran as far as I could till one of my brothers caught me.

 

[thefit]

Dolls, to this day they still freak me out.

 

[Blackie]

Face it.. the theme song got you. I know it got to me.

The theme song always got me too, along with those stupid stories about the ghost chasers or ghost detectors and how they would scope out supposedly haunted houses.

 

[impirius]

Oh yeah...

THE WUMPUS from Hunt the Wumpus on the TI 99/4A

 

[Ristamar]

The Gate. Those little demons. It led to me being afraid of certain perspectives. Also, the dragon from howard the duck.

That movie kicks ass.

Anyway, I was always scared to death of breaking shit I was a very young child. Every adult around me, especially parents/relatives, always seemed to emphasize the value of other people's property. I suppose it helped instill a sense of respect for things that were not mine, but when I accidentally did bust up some shit now and then, I was scared out of mind, like I had just commited a felony or something.

It all seems silly now looking back on some of the worthless crap I've broken, the fear, and all the tears that were shed. Cheap, worthless fucking knick-knacks...

 

[explodet]

The theme introduction to "Dr. Who". That tunnel thing freaked the hell out of me as a little kid for some reason.

 

[demon]

Really loud noises. I just couldn't stand them when I was little, and they always freaked me out.

Also, the library ghost scene at the beginning of Ghost Busters.


...that's all I can think of.

 

[Flynn]

Sammy the Snake from Sesame Street

 

[LakeEarth]

Static. I always thought I could see skeletons in the white spots.

 

[impirius]

Static. I always thought I could see skeletons in the white spots.

That would be an awesome Insanity Effect.

 

[Boomer]

Static. I always thought I could see skeletons in the white spots.

Holy shit when I would spend the night with my grandparents I had to sleep with these blankets that were all static-y, so I would have nightmares about these electric lions chasing me down in the darkness.

 

[LakeEarth]

Holy shit when I would spend the night with my grandparents I had to sleep with these blankets that were all static-y, so I would have nightmares about these electric lions chasing me down in the darkness.

I meant TV static but whatever.

 

[Wheeljack539]

Scared the crap outta me while watching tv, and as you can imagine, seeing the stuff at Universal Studios at 5-6 years old only added to an experience that my parents vividly remember to this day....

 

[marsomega]

Genesis, the Land of Confusion music video. I loved John Henson and the muppets but this, this left deep scars. To this day I can't watch most of it, the video is like a nightmare. Hell, the video gave me nightmares of Ronald Reagan masks that would sufficate you. The guy eating his own tongue was just disturbing and in ways I can't explain it, it felt Satanic. The whole damn thing....

Static. I always thought I could see skeletons in the white spots.

I use to think I saw dancing skeletons.

 

[Truelize]

Turned me off of clowns for the rest of my life, too. Fuck the circus, you ain't getting me!

Dude I came in here just to say "It" from Steven King. Read the book had nightmares. Watched the movie, had nightmares. Clowns suck!

 

[Jotaro]

Dude I came in here just to say "It" from Steven King. Read the book had nightmares. Watched the movie, had nightmares. Clowns suck!

Exorcize those fears by playing Twisted Metal Black, Sweeth Tooth rocks in there.

So many memorable quotes too.

 

[android]

That ghost trucker woman in Pee Wee Big Adventure.

 

[Dujour]

Oh great. Thanks, asshole.

 

[Ironclad]

For some odd reason, Darth Vader scared the living crap out of me as a kid. Of course, I love the original trilogy now but when I was a kid, every time I saw a commercial or some sort of star wars reference that reminded me of Vader, I would be scared to no end. Damn you Vader!

 

[bjork]

That ghost trucker woman in Pee Wee Big Adventure.

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

Since I saw that live action Power Rangers thing, I've been deathly afraid of tight clothes.

 

[whytemyke]

That and Unsolved Mysteries.

Yeah, no shit man. I was like 8 or 9 before I realized that it was a show that wasn't meant to scare people.

 

[3rdman]

religon...the apocalypse.