The child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang.
oh and daleks and cyber men.
Ghost Trains. I can still remember hiding in the front of this train so I couldn't see all the ghoulies and ghosts.
Would never go on roller coasters either.
And I cried at the Great Escape (not through fear), because Donald Pleasance got killed. I was wearing a Ladybird dressing gown at the time.
Has to be Jimmy Saville. Come to think of it, he's still pretty scary now.
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The Russian SS-15 intercontinental ballistic missile. If a plane flew over when I was in bed at night I would wait for a blinding light and expect to see a mushroom cloud rising over Trafford Park.
I was a right morbid little f*cker.
Dr Who and the Terror of the Autons
The only Dr Who that truly freaked me out.
My real fear as a kid was the old ner ner ner ner sirens on Ambulances and Fire Engines. Just way too loud. Used to make me freeze rigid to the spot if one went past.
I was wearing a Ladybird dressing gown at the time.
Ahhh - the junior smoking jacket of its time.
The Singing Ringing Tree messed me up - not sure how much as, until NOW, I had hidden it away in the depths of my mind. Thanks for that!
*heads off to do damage to things*
The child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang.
Is it just me or was he the inspiration for the movie characterisation of Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings?
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The Russian SS-15 intercontinental ballistic missile. If a plane flew over when I was in bed at night I would wait for a blinding light and expect to see a mushroom cloud rising over Trafford Park.
...but your idea of a good night in is to watch "Threads" from under the dining table whilst drinking your own wee.
wombles oh and coming home from school only to find someone else living in my house with my parents nowhere to be seen!
...but your idea of a good night in is to watch "Threads" from under the dining table whilst drinking your own wee.
HtS - that's funny and apart from the wee is pretty much spot on.
I remember reading a book called Nuclear Power - Boon or Boom? - when I was nine.
My mate's boxer dog. As happy as larry if you were in a room before he came in. Mad in the 'ead if you walked into a room he was already in (they would lead him out so I could go in the room then bring him back in once I was sat down).
Led to a pretty strong fear of dogs as a child.
Priests & Christian Brothers but then I am irish so it probably was a pretty rational fear
My mates dog, 'Fly', wee mad-eyed collie b*st*rd who hid in the undergrowth then motored out with the express purpose of sampling some ankle sandwich.
And Salems Lot...
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I just couldn't do it as a kid.
Needless to say, when I was 20, I had nine teeth out in one sitting.
I blame my parents.
The Russian SS-15 intercontinental ballistic missile. If a plane flew over when I was in bed at night I would wait for a blinding light and expect to see a mushroom cloud rising over Trafford Park.I was a right morbid little f*cker.
Derekstarship. Yes, I heard all about nuclear winter etc etc etc throughout school. Sh&t me right up. We even had special coldwar features on nuclear weapons at school and their social-impact if used, (leftie pacifists *****).
It got to the point that if I heard a lowish flying engine I actually thought 'is this it' too!!
The Daleks and the dentist
The all-pervading, ever-present fear of all out nuclear war between the USSR and US.
Exacerbated by the government's public information film When the Wind Blows (try it anytime you think you may be feeling too happy) and by reading On the Beach by Neville Shute at age 10 or 11...
Happy days
if I heard a lowish flying engine I actually thought 'is this it' too!!
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Upper_Heyford#Cold_War_Use_By_USAF ]I grew up close to the US Airforce base at Upper Heyford.[/url]
Low flying aircraft were nothing new. It was just the time when I got out of bed on the day we were due to fly for a family holiday in Crete* to ask my parents about the thunder in the night, and I found them in silence watching the TV. [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Libya ]The USA had just attacked Libya[/url], and the thunder was the sound of the bombers flying out and back.... 😯
*Crete is 110 nautical miles from Libya. We saw warships and all sorts of helicopters and fighter jets when on holiday.
When the Wind Blows
Wasn't that a book by Raymond Briggs (as in The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman etc).
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No, really!
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Yes, it was a book, made into a film (cartoon sort of)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(film)
When I was about 5 or 6, the Dr Who theme tune scared me. Hid behind the sofa from [i]all[/i] the Dr Who baddies.
Scooby Doo baddies (yes I know). That's why I am so rubbish at keeping the house tidy - it's down to a pathological fear of janitors.
Singing ringing tree.
The DARK, especially if trees were involved like on some waste ground at the end of our street.
Whoooooo....
Karinofnine - Member
Yes, it was a book, made into a film (cartoon sort of)
Yeah thought so - not a Government Information Film though. Great film, great writer and great illustrator. I have lots of his children's books that I bought for myself as an adult. Where the Wind Blows is very bleak though I agree.
Needless to say, when I was 20, I had nine teeth out in one sitting.
Are you a crocodile?
I was scared of dogs, now its just dog poo I hate.
Eskimos and mongooses (mongeese?)
Escalators- those teeth at the ends!
On a similar theme to Threads, there was a play on TV about a bunch of US bomber pilots using heroin and dropping the bomb at the end that was quite alarmingly bleak.
Oh, and a film warning about playing on farms where a kid gets run over by a tractor. There's only his toy gun lying on the ground when the tractor goes by...
I don't remember anything being scary?
Escalators- those teeth at the ends!
I was once coming out of the underground in Paris behind a woman with her toy poodle that was stood on the escalator beside her.
Dogs don't know to step off escalators and have fur.
The noise it let out really was scary.
🙁
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I was only fishing for Dace in my local stream and connected with one of these with my free Kellogg's fishing rod, remember them?
It probably was a Jack Pike looking back, but by the time I got to school the next day, it had grown into a 35lb monster and the following week saw every kid form miles away fishing this 1 foot deep stream in the hope of connecting with the monster 😉
mastiles_fanylion; Rupert the Bear used to scare the crap out of me as well. I think it was something to do with the drawings.
I just remember the raging white horses when he was on holiday at the seaside
Also watched a film about Trantulata invading some town and it gave me a massive spider phobia that lasted 30 years FFS!!
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No other dogs just those.
Talking of scary films...
La Cabina
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Proper sh*t me up - would leave my foot in the door of telephone boxes for ages after to stop them fully closing 'just in case'.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Boggy_Creek ]Watching this[/url] on the telly when I was about 8, gave me nightmares for weeks and is the reason I can NEVER nightride solo.
Kind of an early Blair Witch Project, a bit too realistic for a young developing mind!
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There was a really creep episode of Bergerac one, I think it involved hooded satanists. Absolutely terrified me.
Also, the Emperor from Star Wars, and Zelda from Terrahawks.
Far more impressive fears than my brother's clown phobia, he wouldn't even go into McDonalds until he was about 14 because of Ronald McDonald...
Pacy buggers...
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Some of the Hammer Horrors scared the bejebus out of me too...
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Excellent call 40mpg - that was buried in my sub-conscious & has now been set free for night-riding spice!
Similarly, this one my baby-sitting auntie let us watch in about 1980; alone on a dark, snowy night? You're not really...
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Edit; god, also [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Death ]The Mad Death[/url], seriously OTT on the BBC - woman opening a fridge to find a blokes head on a plate inside! WTF!
Also Salem's Lot on TV, with the vampire tapping on the window
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Harry_the_Spider - Premier MemberI can remember that Doctor Who used shop dummies as the enemy, the hands were hinged revealing a gun. Frightened the living 5hit out of me.
I think it was Dr Who, anyone know better?
Dr Who and the Terror of the Autons
Them's the bu66ers.
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They don't look so bad now. 😀
Many nightmares about big bird 😆
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