Stupid things you were scared of when you were little. [Archive]

Trickyvee

22-06-2010, 22:04

We had a table lamp that I was terrified of when I was little. I don't know why but to me it looked like it was alive with an angry, evil looking shade and I always thought it was watching me. It was in our living room and I would walk right around the opposite side of the room to get past it. Unfortunately the shade was also quite loose so it would often be tilted which made it look even worse! I even had nightmares about it chasing me, tottering along on its horrible little brass feet to the 'jaws' dur dur dur dur music. It was such a relief when my mam finally got rid of it, although I've never lived it down :o

Was anybody else scared of something ridiculous?

wispa lover

22-06-2010, 22:17

I was scared of one thing when I was a kid: The Channel 4 logo.
When it appeared on the telly, I didn't like the blocks in the logo flying round and forming the number 4.
I also didn't like the four note jingle that went with it. My parents tried to persuade me to watch the logo but it didn't work sadly, I just couldn't look at it. Plus whenever my mum would say to me 'switch over to 4 for brookie', I'd change the channel and run upstairs. Very strange phobia I had...
The answer came when my mum emptied my box of legos and asked me to make a number 4 out of them, it took a while for me to overcome the fear and it worked.

Solo

23-06-2010, 01:37

Oh wow, I hated the Channel 4 logo as well! :) I remember the coloured blocks forming a face once? and that frightened me as well!
As well as any public information films, especially anything to do with fire safety - this one scared the living daylights out of me (in fact I've had to put my computer on "mute" just to search for it lol!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIw_wmlK91M Literally had me running from the room :S
Our attic was scary - cold and dark, and we used to run past the attic steps/door on the landing. And I wasn't keen on carwashes.

Apart from that - nothing! hehe.

Seventies Child

29-06-2010, 11:21

I was scared of the bin mens wagon. For some reason I thought I would fall in the big bin at the back and get chewed up in the teeth :)

Trickyvee

29-06-2010, 16:43

urgh yeah ditto the bin wagon. Also the road sweeper - thought I'd get pulled into the big elephant's trunk sucky bit.

branny

29-06-2010, 22:37

Absolutely baffles now but when I was a toddler we lived near blocks of flats and the dry riser inlet / fire hose interface panels use to freak me out. May have been because they looked like a scary face. (2 eyes and a mouth). Completely without logic.

hightower72

30-06-2010, 12:39

I used to be scared of emergency vehicles with sirens blaring away.Funny though I ended up working for the ambulance service -20 years later

n3llyo

30-06-2010, 13:21

i had a phobia of the battersea power station if you aint in london or the uk that landmark will probably mean nothing to you (unless you are familiar with the pink floyd album animals) we used to have to visit relatives everyother weekend in vaxhaul and had to pass the thing when ever we went there. it must have been embarrassing for me mum as i screamed in absolute terror as the train drew near the building
i have no idea why it effected me so badly

ann22

10-07-2010, 01:53

I remember standing in soft mud and being irrationally afraid of sinking into it..probably due to the Johnny Weissmueller Tarzan films with the quicksand:eek:..Also I remember being absolutely terrified of the phantom of the opera old Hammer film. There was a scene where the phantom was peeping through a keyhole or something. The eye filled the screen and I thought it was actual size:eek:. Jebus! I was sh**ing myself every night that if I opened my eyes, I'd see this giant eye peering through my window!:eek:

When I was about 11 I saw Salem's Lot. Words cannot express my terror at some scenes in it. I still can't sleep unless my necks nicely tucked in.:o

darren

11-07-2010, 01:18

i used to be afraid of fireworks when i was real young.
they scared the life out of me.
made me jump.

childofthe80's

17-07-2010, 04:04

You guys are weird...the channel 4 logo...muhahahah lol that is funny. I wasn't scared of anything as a kid. There was only one episode where I had one of my baby doll bottles in my window and I thought it was a rat. My dad came in there and took it out of the window and agreed with me that it did look like one...but that was only for the one night

Trickyvee

17-07-2010, 17:36

I also remember peering into the window of a closed shop and hearing a really weird noise. I was convinced I was hearing a ghost and sprinted away at a rate of knots. I realise now that it was pigeons nesting above the widow! Durrrr. They do make some strange noises though!

sixtyten

17-07-2010, 17:36

Balok from Star Trek episode The Corbomite Maneuver :eek:
Scared the hell out if me as a child.
His face appears in the end credits of every episode, so I always had to look away :o

Trickyvee

17-07-2010, 19:36

Balok from Star Trek episode The Corbomite Maneuver :eek:
Scared the hell out if me as a child.
His face appears in the end credits of every episode, so I always had to look away :o

Is that the scary yellow-faced alien in the end credits? I had to look away too.

sixtyten

17-07-2010, 19:43

That's the fella! :eek:

RiJoJo

19-07-2010, 15:10

I was scared of the sound of the toilet flushing.
I perfected the manouvre where I would flush it at arms length, pull the light switch cord with the other hand and then leg it downtairs clearing 2 steps at a time. My mom and dad would give me a strange look as I burst in through the living room door at top speed and I would have to try and look calm and unruffled.
I'm not sure what I thought was chasing me.

I was scared of Lena Zavaroni as well for some reason.:o

darren

20-07-2010, 02:22

does anyone remember the series V.
the original with robert englund.

there is a bit where a girl gives birth to one of the aliens and it freaked me out.
still does.

Seventies Child

20-07-2010, 10:56

Those cement mixer wagons too, the ones that had the huge mixer on the back.....

Chameleon Factor

21-07-2010, 12:27

I was terrified of a celery jar that my Mum had. It was made to look like the head of a celery-man complete with green-striped face. I used to have nightmares about it, it was so hideous. I was very happy when it got smashed!

And I've just found a pic of it! http://www.iconicgrassmarket.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/CELERY.jpg

I'm sure it was more evil-looking than that!

kazboot

21-07-2010, 17:26

Heather74

21-07-2010, 19:50

I burst out laughing when I read this, but then looked at your link! It's horrible!

LOL I think hes quite sweet, not sure what that says about my taste :o

The one thing that really freaked me out when I was young was going on the pier, those ones with wooden boards.
I swear the gaps between each board were a foot wide, you could see the sea swirling and crashing about beneath your feet.
I was convinced I would either fall through or they give away on me :cry:

sixtyten

21-07-2010, 19:55

I quite like him too

BlitzKid

21-07-2010, 20:30

I was scared of the big eggs in eggcups that would appear at the end of every episode of TV-AM. I thought they looked like giant killer space aliens or something.

And Test Card F used to freak me out as well. Though it now seems I wasn't alone in that fear...

maccate

21-07-2010, 22:40

The sick room at my primary school occasionally had a sign on the door saying "Do Not Enter Kiln in Operation" well at this time I was not renowned for my reading and spelling skills and would not go past the sick room in case it was my turn to be 'kild' by the school nurse. Put the fear of god in me until I found out in my last year what a kiln was. Huge sigh of relief to find out Mrs Roy was not a mass murderer.

Seventies Child

22-07-2010, 11:13

LOL. My Mum has that celery man. They came in sets. You could get onion, beetroot etc and they are quite collectable I believe.

Seventies Child

22-07-2010, 11:17

What was that twiggy man called in Rupert? Heggarty I think. He spooked me out too.

Chameleon Factor

22-07-2010, 12:19

LOL. My Mum has that celery man. They came in sets. You could get onion, beetroot etc and they are quite collectable I believe.

Yeah, my parents have still got the onion one. I was never scared of that one. It's hideous but looks much friendlier than Celery Face.

Mind you Celery Face looks much friendlier in the photograph than he did in real life.

I was also scared of the Muppet Newsreader and Dr. Bunsen. In Bunsen's case it was because he had no eyes behind his glasses.

One day I found an old pair of my mum's glasses in the cupboard under the stairs. I found an orange drinking beaker, turned it upside down and put it on a chair, then put the glasses on it, as if they were eyes. Then ran away screaming.

I was scared of a patch of sunlight that appeared every morning on my parents' bedroom wall. I was convinced it was a ghost. Also a face I could make out in the pattern of spaceships on my spaceship wallpaper. It stared at me all night, every night. Come to think of it, my childhood was nothing but an neverending onslaught of terror.

Seventies Child

22-07-2010, 15:32

Yeah, my parents have still got the onion one. I was never scared of that one. It's hideous but looks much friendlier than Celery Face.

Mind you Celery Face looks much friendlier in the photograph than he did in real life.

I was also scared of the Muppet Newsreader and Dr. Bunsen. In Bunsen's case it was because he had no eyes behind his glasses.

One day I found an old pair of my mum's glasses in the cupboard under the stairs. I found an orange drinking beaker, turned it upside down and put it on a chair, then put the glasses on it, as if they were eyes. Then ran away screaming.

I was scared of a patch of sunlight that appeared every morning on my parents' bedroom wall. I was convinced it was a ghost. Also a face I could make out in the pattern of spaceships on my spaceship wallpaper. It stared at me all night, every night. Come to think of it, my childhood was nothing but an neverending onslaught of terror.

Do you remember those glasses that some women used to wear and they turned up at the corner? They were like a toned down version of Dame Edna glasses. I thought they were spooky!!
I was scared of the lighning too and tries to cover up any metal buttons I was wearing in case they got struck. No wonder I'm potty. LOL.

Trickyvee

22-07-2010, 21:10

maccate

22-07-2010, 21:13

What was that twiggy man called in Rupert? Heggarty I think. He spooked me out too.

Have to agree with that one still scares me to this day can't think of the name. Also found Terry Gilliam's animations from Monty Python scary when I was really young. All those moving eyes and weird moving limbs and I found the colouring of them quite scary also.

Trickyvee

22-07-2010, 21:20

I was also scared of the Muppet Newsreader and Dr. Bunsen. In Bunsen's case it was because he had no eyes behind his glasses.

I was scared of a patch of sunlight that appeared every morning on my parents' bedroom wall. I was convinced it was a ghost. Also a face I could make out in the pattern of spaceships on my spaceship wallpaper. It stared at me all night, every night. Come to think of it, my childhood was nothing but an neverending onslaught of terror.

Waaaaaa! The muppet newsreader! I've mentioned him in another post. Glad I'm not the only one who was absolutely terrified of him.

And speaking of patches of light on the wall...protocol was for me to sleep on the sofa in the living room when I was ill.
One such night I freaked out looking at a ghostly apparition on the wall created by the street light reflecting off the side of our silver telly!

froggyjade

23-07-2010, 19:23

I was scared of a little ceramic dog I had on my bedroom windowsill, it had red eyes and I swear I saw it move one day! I used to run out of the house every morning so it wouldn't get me! Didn't occur to me to just take it out of my room...

Trickyvee

23-07-2010, 19:24

Waaaaaa! The muppet newsreader! I've mentioned him in another post. Glad I'm not the only one who was absolutely terrified of him.

And speaking of patches of light on the wall...protocol was for me to sleep on the sofa in the living room when I was ill.
One such night I freaked out looking at a ghostly apparition on the wall created by the street light reflecting off the side of our silver telly!

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Hideeoouuus! Chameleon Factor I am totally with you. I can see how an upturned orange beaker with glasses could instantly remind you of this horror. There's hints of the table lamp of my nightmares in him too (see first post in thread)

FLYING SAUCER

23-07-2010, 22:36

I was scared of Policeman Badger!

Those malevolent black and white stripes up his nose!

Richard1978

23-07-2010, 22:49

I used to be scared of the CCTV cameras at the Boots in Stockport.

They were large rotating black semispheres with lots of lenses mounted on with chrome trim. Also fitted was a pair of red lights that flashed when it moved.

The overall effect was of a left-over prop that had escaped from the BBC special effects dept. This was even before I had seen any Doctor Who with the Daleks in.

A few years ago I caught an episode of Blake's 7 that featured just the same style of camera dome, though it was a location shot at a real shopping centre.

They were there well into the 1980s, but had gone the last time I was in there & remembered to look up at the ceiling.

Trickyvee

24-07-2010, 06:49

I'd forgotten about those. I wasn't frightened of them, but they were a bit like Daleks.

kazboot

26-07-2010, 23:29

What was that twiggy man called in Rupert? Heggarty I think. He spooked me out too.
His name was Raggety and he used to scare my husband too!

DeptfordDraylons

28-07-2010, 13:51

The Anglia Television silver knight on the horse - when I was about three years old, I had nightmares of them coming up the stairs to kidnap me!

wispa lover

28-07-2010, 17:35

Another stupid little thing from me. The toaster because it popped up unexpectedly.

Pinney68

01-08-2010, 00:45

I was terrified of rats when I was about 7. My brother told me that they could climb up the drainpipe, that was right next to my bedroom window, creep in quietly and eat my face while I was asleep! :eek:
I would scream the house down if one appeared on the tv. I nearly died when my neighbour told my parents she'd seen a rat under her shed. Don't think I slept properly for weeks.

AmethystWitch

10-08-2010, 22:12

I love swimming and loved it when I was a kid but one thing that really scared me, was if there was some sort of black tile/mosaic on the swimming pool floor, I used to think it was going to come and get me if I swam over it, so I would have to swim around it really really quickly! lol

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Another thing that eventually bothered me because of my sister was 'My Pet Monster' I loved the programme so much my parents bought me the cuddly and he was huge, as I was only about 5 or 6, he slept in bed with me every night, right next to me, so i could cuddle him but then one day my sister (who is 11 years older then me) told me that he was going to come to life and get me while I slept, so that night he had to stay on a chair in my room, (I had one of those beds that had a desk under it, had to use ladders to get into it, so I thought that he couldn't get me from down there lol) I still loved him and played with him in the day, just at night I was a bit offish! lol I still have him now, though, he's sooo cute! lol :D
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tulip

10-08-2010, 22:31

Spinning tops! The sound freaked me out.

tulip

Jacqueline

10-08-2010, 23:30

I remember hiding behind the settee when The Yeti were on Doctor Who...

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I was scared of the shadows cast on the curtains in my bedroom from a stone carving between the windows.

I was also scared of "faces" I could see in the curtains when I stayed at my Nan's house.

It sounds like I spent most of my childhood being scared!:o (I didn't!)

Trickyvee

11-08-2010, 06:19

I was also scared of the blind man who lived up our street. He was such a lovely old man, but he wore big white rimmed glasses that were completely blacked out and I thought he didn't have any eyes behind them. He had a white stick too which he used to tap against the wall with every step. I'd run inside if I saw him coming!

When I was a bit older and had lost this fear, me and my friend would stand in the gateway quietly so he'd tap us with the stick when he went past. Very cruel, something I'm not proud of now.

Adam

12-11-2010, 11:34

Helicopters scared me as a kid with the noise they made. Every time I herd one I had go and hide some ware.
I eventually got to go up in one for a little while and enjoyed every minute.
Now helicopters don’t bother me at all.

culnara

12-11-2010, 13:33

remember as a KId, My grandparent's kept Hen's ( only about 8 of them ) He used to ask me to go and get the egg's in the morning, I am trying to recall, but I don't think I ever came in with the egg's, I would go into the shed, and they would all be sitting on their nest's, " Just Staring at me " each time I Plucked up the courage to attemt to retrieve the egg's, they would follow my every movement, and for some reason I thought they would peck me

spose u could say I was Chicken when going to collect the Chicken egg's :eek:

stockportyears

12-11-2010, 22:39

Actually, not stupid... this was the only thing that truly terrified me when I was a child. If you are of a nervous disposition, please do not watch this, a fire prevention public information film.

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=b186a84db95d9c75c41fd1c3e73c4b3 9&media=firepreventionsearching1981&type=mp4

It's dated 1981 on here, but it was definitely being shown as early as 1975, as I was five and it absolutely terrified me on a Saturday afternoon. My mum even phoned ITV up to complain, and for about a week or two after it had started showing, I wouldn't even have World of Sport on the television in case it was shown again. And when I thought I could relax, I was watching BBC one morning and it was shown there.
Actually, I've watched it once since, online, and it still gives me chills. But it's blooming effective, even now I'm positively paranoid about plugging things out to avoid electrical shorts in the night etc.

Krazy

27-11-2010, 23:43

I remember as a youngster, having a hearing test in school and I went ballistic when nurse tried to put a pair of headphones on me. Also I was so terrified of Santa`s white gloves. Strangely enough I was not scared of Santa himself, just his white cotton gloves.

Trickyvee

28-11-2010, 05:21

I once encountered someone dressed up as Rupert the Bear at a fete. They had a big head on with sinister drilled holes for eyes. That freaked me out.

Trickyvee

09-08-2011, 22:16

Something else...our Hoover Junior vacuum cleaner. It was mostly the noise but I didn't like the look of it either with its weird blow up one-sided bag and bananary handle. I used to go in the garden when it was being used, but I didn't even like it just standing switched off. It was quite embarrasing because I had this irrational phobia of upright vacuum cleaners until I was about 12! Going around to friend's houses was a nightmare if the hoover happened to be out. I couldn't let on that I was terrified at that age. It was the same in shops.

darren

10-08-2011, 00:47

Nicola1968

10-08-2011, 13:51

Was terrified of those creatures on the Smash advert - "For mash get Smash"- urrghh !!!

Sly

10-08-2011, 14:35

You guys are weird. Channel 4 logos. Toilets flushing and lamps. I don't know.

I always found the testcard really unsettling. I blame the clown, clowns are rubbish.

The attic used to freak me the hell out, I remember when I was about 7 and I was relocated to the attic bedroom while my room was decorated and I hated it. It was horrible even to the day I left that house, and spending time there even with other people didn't break the weird tense atmosphere. It's weird because 2 of my best friends used their attics as bedrooms and game rooms, and I found theirs offputting, but ours was especially set me on edge for reasons I could never place my finger on.

Richard1978

10-08-2011, 17:43

I found the most creepy thing about testcards was the constant tone that went with them.

Trickyvee

10-08-2011, 18:48

so what was your excise if you went to a friends house and the hoover was on.
or when you where at a friends house a while you heard the nasty hoover revving up.

I used to just grin and bear it but my heart would be going like the clappers and I'd want to run out. Luckily it didn't happen often and by 12 I could at least be in the same room as one. The worst was when a mum would decide to lift it onto the chairs (my mum never did). That was a whole other level of terror. At least if it was on the floor I had a fighting chance but on the chairs it was definitely going to get me!

Agnetha352

10-08-2011, 19:42

When I was 4 years old, there was a Dettol commercial which ended with a voiceover saying 'Is your home a safe home, a Dettol home?' accompanied by the sword logo pushing forward on the screen as though it was coming out of the screen at you. Naturally, I thought it was coming to get me!

Richard1978

10-08-2011, 20:39

I used to just grin and bear it but my heart would be going like the clappers and I'd want to run out. Luckily it didn't happen often and by 12 I could at least be in the same room as one. The worst was when a mum would decide to lift it onto the chairs (my mum never did). That was a whole other level of terror. At least if it was on the floor I had a fighting chance but on the chairs it was definitely going to get me!

I used to really dislike hoover sounds, my parents old one was really loud & could blot out anyone trying to speak to me.

Trickyvee

10-08-2011, 20:46

I used to really dislike hoover sounds, my parents old one was really loud & could blot out anyone trying to speak to me.

Ours was ancient and after multiple dodgy mends by my dad it had quite a few decibels on it. Damn thing.

Sly

10-08-2011, 21:21

I found the most creepy thing about testcards was the constant tone that went with them.

Yeah, it seemed to pulse. I don't think it was designed like that, it was just one long monotonous tone, but same as a clocks tick tick tick tick is sorted by the brain to tick tock tick tock, I think the mind made the drone of the testcard pulse. It's the thing of nightmares.

sf1378

11-08-2011, 01:16

As a child I hated the Universal Studios planet logo and a certain bit of music they used at the end of their programmes, I'd get up onto the sofa as it was safer being 'up'. Same with Dalek and Cybermen voices back then. I also didn't like seeing Close Encounters of The Third Kind and had a phobia about it until I was about 17 when I forced myself to watch it-it was the aliens and the abductions-I believe in UFO's and life on other worlds and find it both frightening and plausible.

I also didn't like the way old tv's used to have a small white dot appear dead centre on the screen after you turned them off-it was as if it was alive and watching me sometimes.

There was also an anti-smoking ad circa 1985/87 with a weird looking man who didn't have ears but had earholes shaped as they normally are and cataract eyes and bald....he had an egg shaped head-it really frightened me.

The 'murder, mystery and suspense' intro was frightening too.

I think Slys un-nerving attic may have had a ghost, it sounds that way to me-I believe in them too, my parents have seen many and my Sister was even thrown down the stairs by one as a toddler....

darren

11-08-2011, 01:43

Yes rgat sort of scared me to.
the smell of them old tellys.
cheers for reminding me SF:D

hey had a strange smell cannot describe it.

another thing i was scared of is when all the programmes where finished the screen just went all grey and whte dots.

reminds me of poltergeist it does.

Trickyvee

11-08-2011, 06:29

There was also an anti-smoking ad circa 1985/87 with a weird looking man who didn't have ears but had earholes shaped as they normally are and cataract eyes and bald....he had an egg shaped head-it really frightened me.

This guy has the dubious honour of being the most frightening thing that I ever saw on TV. I saw the ad once, ran out screaming and never watched it again. I can't even make myself watch it now on youtube. I've tried but I'm still too scared!

And in reply to Sly (I don't know how to do double quote replies), I remember some test card noises did have a pulse. It would be a constant ooooooo then 000ooo000ooo000 every 10 seconds or so.

Sly

11-08-2011, 12:45

I think Slys un-nerving attic may have had a ghost, it sounds that way to me-I believe in them too, my parents have seen many and my Sister was even thrown down the stairs by one as a toddler....

I was speaking to my mum about it and the best way I could describe it was that those rooms were very unwelcoming, anything further down the hallway from my bedroom door felt like you you were being pressured to leave. The light switch to turn off the lower landing light was at the end of that hall, but it was very very rare I went and turned the light off there. I wasn't scared of the dark or anything like that, but like I say, just going further into attic territory made my scalp tighten. She said that they (my parents) once viewed a house with the intend to buy (actually at the bottom of the street of the scary house attic), but they couldn't complete the viewing because they had the same oppressive feeling I had about our attic when they went in that houses attic.

These houses were over 100 years old. There's only ever been one other place I've been where I have felt like the room has been wanting to be alone. It unsettles me just thinking about it.

Richard1978

11-08-2011, 12:50

As a child I hated the Universal Studios planet logo and a certain bit of music they used at the end of their programmes, I'd get up onto the sofa as it was safer being 'up'. Same with Dalek and Cybermen voices back then. I also didn't like seeing Close Encounters of The Third Kind and had a phobia about it until I was about 17 when I forced myself to watch it-it was the aliens and the abductions-I believe in UFO's and life on other worlds and find it both frightening and plausible.

I also didn't like the way old tv's used to have a small white dot appear dead centre on the screen after you turned them off-it was as if it was alive and watching me sometimes.

There was also an anti-smoking ad circa 1985/87 with a weird looking man who didn't have ears but had earholes shaped as they normally are and cataract eyes and bald....he had an egg shaped head-it really frightened me.

I found Close Encounters fairly scary when I first saw it on TVin the mid 1980s.

I actually found the anti Smoking ad fairly amusing, but the AIDS one from the same era was fairly scary.

Trickyvee

11-08-2011, 16:49

I was speaking to my mum about it and the best way I could describe it was that those rooms were very unwelcoming, anything further down the hallway from my bedroom door felt like you you were being pressured to leave. The light switch to turn off the lower landing light was at the end of that hall, but it was very very rare I went and turned the light off there. I wasn't scared of the dark or anything like that, but like I say, just going further into attic territory made my scalp tighten. She said that they (my parents) once viewed a house with the intend to buy (actually at the bottom of the street of the scary house attic), but they couldn't complete the viewing because they had the same oppressive feeling I had about our attic when they went in that houses attic.

These houses were over 100 years old. There's only ever been one other place I've been where I have felt like the room has been wanting to be alone. It unsettles me just thinking about it.

Interesting comments. I have never felt uneasy about any of the places I have lived in, but I always check to see if I do feel anything and I always wonder who might have lived there before and if anybody died there. I currently live in the flat that my gran and uncle lived in (both now deceased). My gran died in the room that is now my bedroom, but I've never had any paranormal feelings.

darren

12-08-2011, 01:18

This guy has the dubious honour of being the most frightening thing that I ever saw on TV. I saw the ad once, ran out screaming and never watched it again. I can't even make myself watch it now on youtube. I've tried but I'm still too scared!

And in reply to Sly (I don't know how to do double quote replies), I remember some test card noises did have a pulse. It would be a constant ooooooo then 000ooo000ooo000 every 10 seconds or so.

it goes to show that sometimes things i saw as a kid can still be scary yo u so many yrs later tricky.

in the first jaws film there is a part where broady and this other fella go out at night to find this dead person.

the other fella goes down and when shining the light on the sea you see the dead fellas head.

stilll scares me.

BlitzKid

12-08-2011, 11:45

This guy has the dubious honour of being the most frightening thing that I ever saw on TV. I saw the ad once, ran out screaming and never watched it again. I can't even make myself watch it now on youtube. I've tried but I'm still too scared!

Anyone got a link to this? I don't remember this ad, sounds freaky so I'll have to see it!

I was scared by the Impact advert as a kid. Impact was a kind of toilet cleaner or kitchen cleaning fluid, harmless enough I know but the container had a scary picture of a Great White Shark with its mouth wide open on the label. The TV ad for it ended with a picture of the product with the shark on the front and a man's voice said, in a rather threatening tone, "Impact- puts you RIGHT in there, and won't let you go!" As I was little I interpreted this as meaning a shark was going to come and get you!

sf1378

12-08-2011, 18:26

:eek:
I was speaking to my mum about it and the best way I could describe it was that those rooms were very unwelcoming, anything further down the hallway from my bedroom door felt like you you were being pressured to leave. The light switch to turn off the lower landing light was at the end of that hall, but it was very very rare I went and turned the light off there. I wasn't scared of the dark or anything like that, but like I say, just going further into attic territory made my scalp tighten. She said that they (my parents) once viewed a house with the intend to buy (actually at the bottom of the street of the scary house attic), but they couldn't complete the viewing because they had the same oppressive feeling I had about our attic when they went in that houses attic.

These houses were over 100 years old. There's only ever been one other place I've been where I have felt like the room has been wanting to be alone. It unsettles me just thinking about it.

Definitely a ghost-you cannot have outsiders come in and then want to leave like that if its not the case. I expect the Estate Agent didn't know and neither the viewers. In one of the houses my parents owned before I was born Dad opened his eyes half asleep and saw a headless man at the foot of the bed-he shat himself practically! :eek: Mum woke from his screaming and slapped him and he went back to sleep. In the morning he told Mum the story. The ghost was dressed in one of those old night gowns men wore and he described the neck as simply being a smooth stump. :eek:

The other occasion I mentioned was when Dad was at work or out. Mum was doing housework and my Sister must have been about 3 or 4. Mum heard a noise and went to look and saw my Sister dazed at the bottom of the stairs. She'd been playing on the landing, Mum immediately looked her over for injuries and there weren't any and she asked her what happened and my Sister said 'A man pushed me down the stairs'...Because she was so small I guess she was like a squidgy rag doll and thats why she must have literally flopped down the stairs and didn't injure herself.

Mum told Dad the story and they didn't like it. A while later whilst chatting to a neighbour who I think asked them about the screaming Dad made that night their neighbour told them that at one stage there had been an old couple in the house and during an arguement the wife pushed her husband down the stairs-he broke his neck and died.

My parents moved from that house sharpish. It was actually No.13 Ormsby St in Reading. They often described it as 'an unlucky house' and that wasn't just to do with the mere supersition of the number.

sf1378

12-08-2011, 18:27

darren

12-08-2011, 23:45

Whats 'rgat' Daz? The grey and black dots thing used to remind me of ants crawling. The noise was horrible wasn't it!

it sure was awful mate.
now u mention it it does sound like ants.

what i meant was that.

Trickyvee

13-08-2011, 10:16

Anyone got a link to this? I don't remember this ad, sounds freaky so I'll have to see it!

If you search for 'natural born smoker' on Youtube it should be there. I'd look myself but now I can't even risk searching for it incase his horrible face pops up in a photo! It's probably not even that bad lol.

Weirdly the AIDS ones didn't scare me at all.

13-08-2011, 10:37

The AIDS ones were just icebergs weren't they? Nothing particularly scary, although seemingly they had a big impact on sexual health in general

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4348096.stm

BlitzKid

13-08-2011, 13:26

If you search for 'natural born smoker' on Youtube it should be there. I'd look myself but now I can't even risk searching for it incase his horrible face pops up in a photo! It's probably not even that bad lol.

Thanks, watched it now, and its sequel 'Natural Born Smoker Baby'! Yep that's definitely freaky, probably a good job I never saw that as a kid!

sf1378

13-08-2011, 13:43

http://youtu.be/oMag4tdD0SE
http://youtu.be/oMag4tdD0SE

For everyones viewing pleasure....go on Trickyvee-its not that bad seeing it now, as a smoker I actually found some of the concepts in it-save for the mutations, wouldn't want those-rather brilliant-I wish I had self cleaning lungs and resistance to the diseases it all causes....I know the risks so I carry my own cross.

The title the poster used cracked me up.

bakermuk

13-08-2011, 21:20

Mine was The Two Ronnies "Phantom Raseberry Blower of Old London Town"......I feel ashamed to actually finally admit it! Please dont tell anyone!

darren

13-08-2011, 23:56

Those Aids adverts where very scary.I remember the first time i seen them put the chills up me.
when i think about them they still do.

sf1378

14-08-2011, 03:31

The AIDS ads were all the more depressing with John Hurts voiceover too.

Adam

10-05-2012, 17:00

Richard1978

10-05-2012, 18:02

I never liked the sound of the older hoovers, especially as my Mum always seemed to use it when I was doing something that required me to listen to something.

Trickyvee

10-05-2012, 21:57

The video to Fat Boy Slim's Weapon of Choice always makes me smile (and quake with terror deep down) because you can hear one of those old hoovers in the background right at the very beginning. Christopher Walken's dancing is cool too, of course.

Powdered toast man

11-05-2012, 18:20

I used to be terrified of big lorries when I was a small(4 years old) kid. I used to scream 'VAN!' and put my hands over my ears when one drove past. Which is ironic as I have a HGV licence now. And around that time my grandma worked in a bakery and I used to be taken there to see her and I was always scared of the Hobart mixers that were lined up along the wall.

sf1378

11-05-2012, 19:17

Close Encounters of The Third Kind, the aliens in it and that music really got to me as a small child....I used to think aliens would come and abduct me. UFO's in general and any films to do with them, ghosts, films with ghosts too...I believe we aren't alone in the universe still as its arrogant to imagine only we live on Earth and other planets with different biological structures or evolutionary cycles couldn't sustain different forms of life but it still does chill me to think there just could be other species out there...I fear if we met them it would be rather disasterous -humanity is synonymous with war and prejudice so it wouldn't take long for the human race to muck it all up with another race or their planet or their resources...so I actually think they should stay away for their sake as humankind has a long way to go before trying to cohabit with a totally different form of life!

Noopypoop

09-06-2012, 16:03

As a kid I was absolutely terrified of Max Headroom, or "Snap Snap" as I used to call him (no idea why). I remember Bobby Davro used to do an impression of him in his sketch show which was a shame, I loved that show but had to hide behind the settee when Snap Snap came on. No problems watching him now, I just find him rather dull :D

Also, there is an old furniture shop in Wakefield called John Baker's (I think). The shop has a weird kind of pitch black mini tunnel that connects their two rooms. I used to **** my pants having to go through that tunnel. I'm going to pop in next time I'm in the area and see if I've become any braver in the last 20 years

Trickyvee

09-06-2012, 17:21

Friend of my dad had two big St Bernard dogs. They were about the size of me at the time and were always lolling about on the path to his door so we had to get past them every time we went to visit. They were docile as anything but I was legitimately scared of them! Huge they were.

willpurry

09-06-2012, 18:01

shilton dipper

09-06-2012, 20:37

I was scared of Lionel Blaire ...........~~thats understandable I hear you say~~.............there must have been something about him that gave me the heebeegeebees ........still don't like him today

darren

10-06-2012, 00:38

is it your afraid of him or u dont like him.
what is it about him that effects you.
alsatians used to scare me a lot.

something to do with being bit by one when very young..

I was scared of Lionel Blaire ...........~~thats understandable I hear you say~~.............there must have been something about him that gave me the heebeegeebees ........still don't like him today

Sly

10-06-2012, 00:40

I just remembered something that did scare me. Michael Gambon. That man is 110% creepy.

sf1378

10-06-2012, 03:10

There was a COI anti smoking ad in the mid 80s called 'The Smoker of the Future', its on youtube and it scared the s--t out of me as a kid - used to either change the channel very quickly or close my eyes and put my hands over my face until it was over.

Michael Gambon? Never creeped me out but that man is very overrated in general. Saw a few of his Maigret's on ITV3 a while back and did like it funnily...but the English accents ranging from West Country, to posh RP was ridiculous...especially if its set in FRANCE!

battyrat

10-06-2012, 14:48

I have been told by parants that one thing that used to scare me was clowns.I think it started when I was taken to the circus as a toddler and I cried the place down after a clown came rather too close for comfort.I don't remember it but I do have a dislike for over the top dressed circus type clowns today.Charlie chaplin was ok,as he did not really dress like a clown.

I also remember a freinds toilet in the brick built on shed.There used to be two light bulbs close to gether in a home made fitting that used to look like a pair or big monsterous bright eyes.My friend never liked them either.

Lassie

10-06-2012, 18:05

I was scared of Bill and Ben the Flowerpot men. Also scared of Ken Dodd's Diddymen. I think the flowerpot men because I couldn't understand them, their voices scared me. I'm not sure about the diddymen, maybe their size. I can't remember what their voices sounded like. Oh and Micheal Bentine's Potty Time. Something about that scared me too.

sf1378

10-06-2012, 18:41

I was also scared of Tommy Cooper as a kid.

darren

11-06-2012, 01:19

yes clowns scared me as a KId.
they just looked so evil.
the clown in stephen kings IT was very scary.

victorbrunswick

11-06-2012, 13:50

I was also scared of Tommy Cooper as a kid.

Offscreen Tommy Cooper had something of a scary personality.

darren

12-06-2012, 12:00

now thart u mention it i can see what you mean.
and yes i can see how he would be scary to kids.

i thought worzel gummidge was scary particularly when he wore a certain head.

Offscreen Tommy Cooper had something of a scary personality.

DemonEyeX

14-06-2012, 03:27

i thought worzel gummidge was scary particularly when he wore a certain head.

I was absolutely terrified of him, especially the bit where he falls over,
The heads thing freaked me out big time.
Also, I used to make everybody in the car duck when we went under bridges ?!?
Even stranger, I used to make everyone pick their feet up off the floor whenever the adverts came on the TV ?!?!?
I was quite a peculier child, but I really have no idea what was going on there.

Sly

14-06-2012, 03:31

You'd be picking your feet up an awful lot now if you were to do that, TV is chock full of adverts. I remember when the ad breaks would come on and they'd show like 3 adverts before returning to the program. Now they show minutes upon minutes of them.

hazel

02-09-2012, 00:43

I was terrified of the cover to the LP "In The Court Of The Crimson King", by King Crimson, it's an extreme close up of a screaming face, all in pinks and purples, and you can see down the throat to the uvula. My parents had some hippy friends who had the album, and every time we went to their house I used to check where their records were so I could run off if they had any intention of getting that one out!

I actually have a copy of the album now, and I love the cover!

Also, in the '70s, in Chester Cathedral there was a lightbulb on a pink flesh coloured stalk on the wall in one dark corner. I hated this, I called it "the spooky light." My parents thought I was weird. There's a little round metal plate over where it used to be now, whenever I'm there I always seem to glance at it and remember.

darren

02-09-2012, 00:53

That i can understand you being afraid of that hazel.

i was afraid of the music opening credits for box of delights as well as both for the tripods.

I was terrified of the cover to the LP "In The Court Of The Crimson King", by King Crimson, it's an extreme close up of a screaming face, all in pinks and purples, and you can see down the throat to the uvula. My parents had some hippy friends who had the album, and every time we went to their house I used to check where their records were so I could run off if they had any intention of getting that one out!

I actually have a copy of the album now, and I love the cover!

Also, in the '70s, in Chester Cathedral there was a lightbulb on a pink flesh coloured stalk on the wall in one dark corner. I hated this, I called it "the spooky light." My parents thought I was weird. There's a little round metal plate over where it used to be now, whenever I'm there I always seem to glance at it and remember.

the-peoples-poet

06-09-2012, 01:00

I love that album! ^_^

Thing that used to freak me out were koliedoscopes (I have prob spelled that wrong but I don't care). They still do. The one I was given when I was really little had these oddly shaped pieces of plastic in it that moved when you turned the end, and somehow they were magnified and everytime they moved, it felt to me like they were trying to escape down the barrel of the thing to 'come and get me'. I shudder now to think of it.

smiles7964

06-09-2012, 20:33

I remember being at a country fete as a small child. There were morris men, which are scarey enough, but 1 had a paper mache dragon head on, you were supposed to put money in it's mouth or something, but it sneaked up behind me and put it's head over my shoulder and freaked me out. When I was a bit older, my friend and I were convinced there was a green alien eye watching up from the bottom of the garden at night. After making my dad go and investigate, it turned out to be the moon shining on a black sack. The terror dogs in ghostbusters also really scared me, until I got older : )

Trickyvee

06-09-2012, 22:38

Roz

07-09-2012, 03:12

The guy from Sparks

Frogs!

LittleBoo

23-09-2012, 16:36

I was so scared of the shadows on the wall at night, so many pictures of scary things came to my mind at times while looking at them, but eventually it dawned on me all I needed to do was hide under the covers and go to sleep..

victorbrunswick

23-09-2012, 21:21

now thart u mention it i can see what you mean.
and yes i can see how he [Tommy Cooper] would be scary to kids.

Then the really creepy part is that Tommy Cooper died onstage while doing a TV show. He suffered a heart attack and collapsed and the audience was still laughing thinking that it was part of the act. Still, he's another one of my favorite comedians especially because I've always loved magic acts -- even Tommy's faux one.

LittleBoo

23-09-2012, 21:54

It really was so terribly sad Tommy Cooper dying on the stage, and as you say many did think it was part of the act, all expecting him to stand up again, but of course sadly that never happened..
He really was a great entertainer and giving his all in everything that he did.
God Bless him.

Jabbso

23-09-2012, 22:24

Dunno if its been mentioned but 'The phantom raspberry blower of old London town' scared me witless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiJQb8kH7U

I remember being so terrified that I had to sleep in mum and dads bed that night. We didn't watch the rest of that series of the Two Ronnies :cry:

darren

23-09-2012, 23:59

never knew he died on stage.

it was that green fisher price jack in the box that scared me.
its more toys that scare me.

Then the really creepy part is that Tommy Cooper died onstage while doing a TV show. He suffered a heart attack and collapsed and the audience was still laughing thinking that it was part of the act. Still, he's another one of my favorite comedians especially because I've always loved magic acts -- even Tommy's faux one.

Trickyvee

24-09-2012, 19:46

I've contributed so many things to this thread I am surprised I ever made it through childhood without being scared to death one way or another, but I keep remembering different things.

Sometimes it wasn't even my own imagination that caused trouble. My best friend had a vivid imagination and would often stop mid-play, turn white and utter something terrifying like "what's that weird light on the wall behind you?" I'd be on my feet running for my life before I had a chance to investigate it for myself, then she'd go home and I'd be left to sleep alone in the room with the phantom ghostly light!

Adam

25-01-2013, 12:54

The Anglia Television silver knight on the horse - when I was about three years old, I had nightmares of them coming up the stairs to kidnap me!

It was the ATV colour ident with me. The animation and jingle would realley creep me out.

darren

25-01-2013, 14:27

I wonder did this friend of yours say it for badness as they knew it would scare you.
and yes i guess it diid.

however did you even survive your first say 15 yrs.

i was scarwed of the tv at night when it went that fuzzy grey and white colour.

I've contributed so many things to this thread I am surprised I ever made it through childhood without being scared to death one way or another, but I keep remembering different things.

Sometimes it wasn't even my own imagination that caused trouble. My best friend had a vivid imagination and would often stop mid-play, turn white and utter something terrifying like "what's that weird light on the wall behind you?" I'd be on my feet running for my life before I had a chance to investigate it for myself, then she'd go home and I'd be left to sleep alone in the room with the phantom ghostly light!

victorbrunswick

25-01-2013, 20:15

I just remembered something that did scare me. Michael Gambon. That man is 110% creepy.

He looked especially creepy in The Singing Detective where he's covered with psoriasis scabs.

Trickyvee

25-01-2013, 20:41

I wonder did this friend of yours say it for badness as they knew it would scare you.
and yes i guess it diid.

however did you even survive your first say 15 yrs.

i was scarwed of the tv at night when it went that fuzzy grey and white colour.

No, there was no malice behind it. In fact she was probably more terrified than me! She just had a vivid imagination.

Trickyvee

25-01-2013, 20:46

More on indents, including the scary ATV one can be found in this thread
http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/threads/10245-TV-idents?highlight=Indents

Trickyvee

25-01-2013, 22:10

And another post from me...please merge if required!

Laughing at the Michael Gambon post I was trying to think of actual people that scared me. I can only think of Vincent Schiavelli playing the subway ghost in 'Ghost'. He was a weird looking guy but perfectly cast in that role! I would have probably been scared of him in real life too.

Tortie

20-03-2013, 11:28

I was petrified of pneumatic drills as a child, and would try to refuse to go out of the house if I could hear one. Mum always dragged me out, but it often meant a significant detour to avoid passing the drill. I still don't particularly like them now.
There used to be a pub called "The World's End" heading into Knaresborough, near the river (might still be there), and as I was always scared of the thought of the world ending, I used to shut my eyes very tightly and turn my head the other way whenever we went past on the coach. I thought that if I didn't look at it, the world wouldn't end.
Mum & dad had a picture on their wall that they'd brought back from Switzerland. It was a sort-of collage of a Swiss chalet, with a path leading up to it, but the way the stones were on the path, I could see a face that didn't look particularly friendly, so I was scared of that.
I was also scared of saying "Goodbye" to anybody in case I didn't see them again!

victorbrunswick

20-03-2013, 15:24

There used to be a pub called "The World's End" heading into Knaresborough, near the river (might still be there), and as I was always scared of the thought of the world ending, I used to shut my eyes very tightly and turn my head the other way whenever we went past on the coach. I thought that if I didn't look at it, the world wouldn't end.

Whaddya know? Through the magic of Google it looks like it's still there. And by the looks of it a nice place to have a pint. ;)

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5202/5342323789_00c5cab0c9_z.jpg

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/202/481006761_c3ec281c9e_z.jpg?zz=1

Tortie

20-03-2013, 16:34

Well, I looked at it - and we're all still here lol! :D
Report back on the pint situation!

darren

20-03-2013, 17:47

i can sort of understand that fear mate.
for one thing its so loud the ground shakes.

for me thunder is quite scary.
as a kid when i heard it i thought it was him upstairs being angry at us down here.
i thought the world was about to end.

I was petrified of pneumatic drills as a child, and would try to refuse to go out of the house if I could hear one. Mum always dragged me out, but it often meant a significant detour to avoid passing the drill. I still don't particularly like them now.
There used to be a pub called "The World's End" heading into Knaresborough, near the river (might still be there), and as I was always scared of the thought of the world ending, I used to shut my eyes very tightly and turn my head the other way whenever we went past on the coach. I thought that if I didn't look at it, the world wouldn't end.
Mum & dad had a picture on their wall that they'd brought back from Switzerland. It was a sort-of collage of a Swiss chalet, with a path leading up to it, but the way the stones were on the path, I could see a face that didn't look particularly friendly, so I was scared of that.
I was also scared of saying "Goodbye" to anybody in case I didn't see them again!

Tortie

20-03-2013, 18:10

For some reason, thunder always alarms me more now than it did when I was a child. Mum always told me it was just the clouds bumping into each other, and there was a boy at school who believed that it was Jesus moving the beds in Heaven, which I think is quite sweet.

I've always been petrified of balloons, to the extent that it's actually a full-blown phobia, although bizarrely, the foil ones don't bother me...

darren

20-03-2013, 18:15

i think you mentioned this before on the forum mate regarding balloons.
is it just the feel of them the sight of them.

im not too fond of clowns either i know they should not scare me but they do.

Particularly the clown from the film IT.
a stephen king film.

For some reason, thunder always alarms me more now than it did when I was a child. Mum always told me it was just the clouds bumping into each other, and there was a boy at school who believed that it was Jesus moving the beds in Heaven, which I think is quite sweet.

I've always been petrified of balloons, to the extent that it's actually a full-blown phobia, although bizarrely, the foil ones don't bother me...

Tortie

20-03-2013, 18:27

It's the thought that they might burst - I really don't like loud noises at the best of times, but that bang... getting goosepimples just thinking about it :eek:. So yes, even the sight of them is enough.

No, I don't care for clowns either - there's something a bit creepy about them. It's surprising how many others on here feel the same.

victorbrunswick

20-03-2013, 19:44

Well, I looked at it - and we're all still here lol! :D
Report back on the pint situation!

I'll bet that place was packed on December 21st!

Trickyvee

28-04-2013, 17:33

Don't see many of them these days but there was a chimney cowl I was frightened of on a factory near where I lived. It was one of those wind directional ones, a big curved pipe with a fin on top that moved in the breeze. To me it looked some sort of monster's head that was turning around to look at me. Very unnerving.

doomlord73

29-04-2013, 11:10

Jay Mc

29-04-2013, 15:39

this scared the **** out of me as a kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

only this part the rest of the film never bothered me ?

Moondog

29-04-2013, 17:26

Dummies (Mannequins), when i was about 4 or 5 i think i had a dream about them coming to life and attacking me.

my sister used to always tease me when we were in clothes shops with our mum, by going up and touching them, then i'd get really scared thinking they were going to come to life lol

Pinney68

01-05-2013, 21:48

I've never slept with the curtains/blinds open since I saw that part in Salems Lot in the 70's!

havasack

01-05-2013, 21:56

Coming in from school (empty house-latch key kid) and looking up stairs to find the loft hatch, in the landing ceiling, had moved a few inches. I knew it was the wind blowing through the eaves moving the hatch a little bit..........................................wasn' t it ?

ann22

02-05-2013, 00:04

I remember waking early one morning and being scared rigid by the sight of the back of my sister's head. Her dark wiry hair was all tossed and I thought she was a bear...like the bear in the Ladybird storybook 'Snow White and Rose Red'. I shut my eyes as tight as I could and lay there petrified 'til she turned around. This was last year..........;)

I remember having a terrible aversion to red brick houses. I remember screaming when my mam would wheel me down a red brick street.

I was terrified of Jack Frost from Rupert the Bear. I thought when the wind was howling that it was him :eek:. My sister was frightened of the idea of Jack Frost too. She said she saw him looking in the front room window wearing a yellow cardigan:D.

havasack

02-05-2013, 00:14

Raggety (that'll get some of you hitting google)

darren

02-05-2013, 04:27

that i can understand mate.

i was scared of the twilight zone theme as well as tales of the unexpected theme...

this scared the **** out of me as a kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

only this part the rest of the film never bothered me ?

Gothic

02-05-2013, 10:52

Raggety (that'll get some of you hitting google)

The little twiggy rascal is already been terrifying people on this thread, on pages 3 & 4!:D

Trickyvee

02-05-2013, 20:05

I used to be terrified of Hartley Hare from Pipkins and Humphrey Cusion from Hickorie House, my mum would put me in front of the tv each dinner time and these two puppets would proceed to scare me witless to the point i would imagine them sitting on the end of my bed at night. Watch clips of them both on youtube and cant stop giggling at them now - Nasty things!!!!

I'm too young to remember these horrors so I had to look them up. Hartley Hare looks like some sort of rabid, crazed-eyed fur ball and Humphrey cushion just looks plain creepy weird. I would have given them a wide berth.