Stupid things you were scared of when you were little.

[marc]

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Two things used to scare the **** out of me when I was young.
No.1. In winter walking home from my grandmother's home at night. On the one side of the road, was a clinic. The shape of the front of the building looked has though a giant monster was going to rise up and leap out! Directly opposite was Trealaw cemetery!!! At night, little lights would appear above certain graves. It was really uncanny. I would later realise it was the reflection of street lights on headstones.

No.2. Anybody who grew up in the Welsh valleys in the 1960s/70s/80s will remember the noise of coal trains. These were normally hauled by a class 37 diesel. The noise of this locomotive was like an almighty growl. During the day, it did not bother me. At night..... It was like a terrifying monster was going to come into the bedroom. I would lay there rigid with terror until it passed. This is rather ironic, has I had a fanatical interest in railways. Has a footnote, sometime ago, I watched a DVD with this type of locomotive on there. I turned the volume up sky high, closed my eyes, suddenly I was eight year old again. Has for the monsters.....Let sleeping dogs lay

[darren]

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thats a great point about looking like bombs or something very dangerous i thought that myself growing up and wondering what they really where.

in superman 2 u see zod firing his eye laser at that very thing and i think it was about to explode which made more wary of trucks with them.

another was the music to the tripods it really was frightening not to mention the tripods themselves where rather scary, really tall silver and sucked u up in a green light.

I used to quite like the Castrol ads. Something very soothing about the oil, especially when in goes straight down the white line on the can.

Has reminded me of being wary of large round canisters on the underside of big lorries. I have no idea what these were but most had them. Possibly something to do with air breaks? I thought they looked like strapped on bombs.

[victorbrunswick]

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For some very weird reason the General Electric logo used to scare me as a kid. I remember one night I was by myself in the room watching TV and a show that was sponsored by GE came on and when this large GE logo flashed on the screen I ran from the room in terror! Even today when I see it, though I obviously don't find it scary anymore, it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck go up.

[amethyst]

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Its big and imposing dont like it at all

[victorbrunswick]

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The statue is by a Hungarian sculptor. I seem to think that the statue was removed from the shopping center sometime in the late '70s or early '80s but when it was installed in Budapest I have no idea. Perhaps the one at the shopping centre was a copy and if so I don't know what happened to it.

[darren]

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i can see why u would think it scary victor u mean they moved it to budapest looks like something kinda greek.

[victorbrunswick]

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I used to find this statue, now in Budapest, scary. Back then it was at a local shopping centre near my house.

[Jedi Knight]

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Cuts on my wrists.

Someone told me that if you cut your wrists you can bleed to death.

Even tiny (and I mean tiny) scratches on my wrists had me nearly wetting myself.

Oh yeah, and as one person here has said, Salem's Lot (but it is NOT stupid to be scared of Salem's Lot when you are 8!)

Oh, almost forgot, the Groke out of the Moomins...I didn't like that.

[darren]

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the opening credits to box of delights

both music and the images.

[Trickyvee]

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I used to quite like the Castrol ads. Something very soothing about the oil, especially when in goes straight down the white line on the can.

Has reminded me of being wary of large round canisters on the underside of big lorries. I have no idea what these were but most had them. Possibly something to do with air breaks? I thought they looked like strapped on bombs.

[Richard1978]

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Not knowing what engine oil looked like, me & my brother used to watch the Castrol ads & think it was golden syrup, though it wouldn't taste nearly as nice!

[jason h]

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I found the Castrol GTX advert from the 70s very menacing.

[catflap]

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Archair thriller theme always scared me:

[Richard1978]

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C&A had large, black security cameras in their stores hanging from the ceiling that looked like Dalek machine gun turrets. They really un-nerved me as a child.

I used to find them really creepy, the Boots in Stockport had them, along with some other bigger shops in Manchester.

[jason h]

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C&A had large, black security cameras in their stores hanging from the ceiling that looked like Dalek machine gun turrets. They really un-nerved me as a child.