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This haunted my childhood!!!! I was 8 and innocently watching telly after my tea. I remember a female investigator slowly going through a house, then slowly climbing some stairs. She finds herself in an attic and there's a nun (I'm getting goose-pimples now, as I write this), in a rocking chair, rocking slowly in the shadows. Then the nun lifts her head and she has no face!!! Just a dark shapeless hollow. Eek.
That really freaked me out. And next day at school, many were talking about it. I even remember reconstructing the scene in a game in a friend's house (us investigating, the living room instead of an attic and our imagination as the faceless nun in the rocking chair). We scared ourselves to death again.
As a young adult, I'd ask others if they remembered it and some did. They'd been similarly terrified and it was now firmly lodged in their memories. But this was pre-internet, so there seemed no way to look this up.
Now, I looked this up the other day. Result!!! Thank you, internet. The show was called Armchair Theatre, and it seems that one scene may have been the most terrifying scene ever shown on kids' TV.
Check this link out for more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_as_a_Nun
Anyone else remember seeing the nun on that day in 1978????
I'd love to have a chance of seeing it again and seeing if it's as frightening these days.
...James
That really freaked me out. And next day at school, many were talking about it. I even remember reconstructing the scene in a game in a friend's house (us investigating, the living room instead of an attic and our imagination as the faceless nun in the rocking chair). We scared ourselves to death again.
As a young adult, I'd ask others if they remembered it and some did. They'd been similarly terrified and it was now firmly lodged in their memories. But this was pre-internet, so there seemed no way to look this up.
Now, I looked this up the other day. Result!!! Thank you, internet. The show was called Armchair Theatre, and it seems that one scene may have been the most terrifying scene ever shown on kids' TV.
Check this link out for more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_as_a_Nun
Anyone else remember seeing the nun on that day in 1978????
I'd love to have a chance of seeing it again and seeing if it's as frightening these days.
...James
Bloomin Armchair thriller. My brother and I nagged my mum to let us watch it (she was busy using her knitting machine lol) so she did. After we went up to bed and I was so frightened, I got freaked by the dark hallway downstairs, I ran into my mum crying and she said 'I knew I shouldn't have let you watch that!!'
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