There was also this hallmark book i got for christmas years ago about not being afraid of monsters in the dark that came with this plush mo ster and i was afraid of the plush monster
I remember when I was younger I was specifically scared of Herobrine and for anyone who knows him he's a minecraft creepypasta. I got scared of playing minecraft for a bit It didn't got to the point i didn't want to play but I was scared of the mobs in minecraft because Herobrine exists.
There was a Wizard of Oz Phineas and Ferb parody, which is a good episode but when I was little, seeing houses fall on top of people made me terrified of the same thing happening to me. It happened twice in the episode, too.
At the time I hadn't even seen the original movie, and this probably made me scared to lol. The idea of houses falling on top of people has never really left my mind since.
Due to unfortunate serious/actual trauma I don't have a lot. We think it toughened up my brain haha
As a kid I watched my brother play PC games, one of them was the Alice Madness series. I wasn't terrified of the art/gameplay but losing my family to a house fire. I was worried overnight something would catch on fire and no one would wake up or notice. It got so bad I made my family plan a "what if" situation to if the house caught fire, which included jumping out a low story window.
A funnier one is that I was terrified of Animal from The Muppets as I thought he was somehow watching me through the screen.
I used to be afraid of the PBS logos used between 1984-1999. For some reason, the PBS kids logos never bothered me. Also I didn't see the 1971-1984 PBS logo until years later. I also used to find the logo of one of my PBS TV stations (KCPT-TV, Ch. 19 in Kansas City, MO) used in the 1990's a little creepy. Nowdays, I like those logos & no longer find them scary, or creepy.
KCPT-TV ID from 1992.
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I'm surprised no one's said any Disneyland or Universal Studios shows. I was really scared of the Honey I Shrunk the Kids show at Disneyland. I also panicked when watching America's Funniest Home Videos once because of a Las Vegas magic carpet studio video where a baby rolls off the carpet.
Complaining about something is not the same as being surprised about it
I'm surprised no one's said any Disneyland or Universal Studios shows. I was really scared of the Honey I Shrunk the Kids show at Disneyland. I also panicked when watching America's Funniest Home Videos once because of a Las Vegas magic carpet studio video where a baby rolls off the carpet.
I’m so sorry 🤣💀
Also speaking of Disney parks, for some reason I can’t even remember, when I was 5 I was so damn petrified of Mickey and Minnie’s houses at WDW 💀💀💀
I'm surprised no one's said any Disneyland or Universal Studios shows. I was really scared of the Honey I Shrunk the Kids show at Disneyland. I also panicked when watching America's Funniest Home Videos once because of a Las Vegas magic carpet studio video where a baby rolls off the carpet.
Oh, I was terrified by many things I rode at disney for the first time in 2008. I watched the 3D Muppet show at Hollywood Studios, and when Waldo, that cgi monstrosity showed up, it scared the shit out of me. There was one point where he extends his nose really long and points it at the audience and I panicked and recoiled as far back as possible because I thought he was trying to stab me. Eventually I completely lost it and wound up half watching the rest of the show in absolute terror from behind my dad, shaking and choking out sobs.
Then there was the monstrosity that dares to share its name with Journey Into Imagination. The ride was a little creepy, and Figment's antics and general sensory fuckery freaked me out a little bit, but I didn't completely lose it until the very end of the ride, when the scientist played by Eric Idle accepts imagination and then figment talks about how it's "a BLAST!" and fucking explodes. When the new scene appeared I thought I'd died and gone to some sort of hellish afterlife where Figments ruled supreme or something. I had to be carried off the ride bawling my eyes out. Bad times all around.
"oooh, you're a- a freaked out child in the woods..."
When I was very young I loved the Oliver & Company movie and watched it on tape multiple times, but whenever the scene where the poodle yelled at Oliver came on, I would hide under the sofa.
I'll throw my hat in and say the THX logo, especially the Deep Note (though this is actually very common).
Covers of VHS tapes and DVDs used to terrify me as well, like the ones for "The Abyss" and "The Blair Witch Project". I couldn't go down the horror aisle at Blockbuster or Hollywood Video without freaking out, as embarrassing as that sounds.
When I was a young kid, I was always freaked out by the *booooowww* at the end of the intro to the Merrie Melodies cartoons with the Abstract WB logo into and the OO of Cartoon in the end of the episodes. This and similar variations used with the cartoons of the time:
In my bedroom when I was 4-7 my parents had put border around the middle of the walls of wallpaper depicting the heads of Loony Tunes characters such as tweety bird, Sylvester, Road Runner and there was a few Wile E. Coyote heads and they were slightly bigger than the others and in low light when I could just see it, it used to freak me out a little. Not that Wile E. Coyote in the actual cartoons bothered me much just the head image on the wallpaper.
Post by forlornjackalope on Feb 24, 2022 19:32:23 GMT
It's so cheesy, but Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction did a number on me back in the day. The acting and writing wasn't always great, but man, some of the stories were completely unnerving and I attribute it to why even now, at 28 years old, I can't go around my house in the dark without waiting for something to get me. It's on Amazon Prime if anyone wants to relive their nightmares, but also on Youtube.
I have one more I remembered. The Ice Queen from the BBC's TV mini series of Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe from 1988. I watched it first at school when I was 5-7 years old and she always scared me when I first saw her in it.
