Scary Childhood Things
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- Last post 10 years ago
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- mg33
I got to thinking earlier about stuff that was scary from when i was a kid, such as:
Saw an episode of The Incredible Hulk where he was inside an electric power plant, with all the pipes, walkways, humming electricity, etc. Well, around that age my dad worked for the electric company in Texas, and employees had access to a private lake park/campground near Fort Worth that we went to often. The drive in took us around the huge power plant facility, and I remember being completely terrified that the Hulk was in there and was going to get us.
At the same lake, people always talked the alligator gar that swam in the warmer waters near the power plant's output pipes. I never saw one, but me and other kids were too scared to ever even walk inside this fenced in shore area because we thought we'd get killed. Just looking at the fence and the shoreline was excruciating.
Any good stories?
- mg330
That's what an alligator gar looks like, aka NOT ATTRACTIVE to a 5 year old.
- tparsons0
Stop, drop and roll really works when you're on fire. I was about 10-11.
- quack0
scratch and sniff fire stickers
- utopian0
This must of been some really scary shit...
Nuclear air raid drills were part of everyday life for schoolchildren in the late 1940s and early '50s. Children were taught to "duck and cover" under their desks and were herded into school basements for periodic air raid drills.
- 1990 they stopped the bombing here. Felt like everything was coming down. http://kahoolawe.haw…tparsons
- Only 10-15 miles offshore of where I grew up.tparsons
- they did that so cleanup would be easier. all the bodies would be in one place.sigg
- elahon0
I used to dread changing the cat box at night when I was a kid. I grew up on farm, and we had this really big 2-story barn with 1 light way up high on the entrance end. Being up so high, it gave off these really crazy shadows. On the other end of the barn (the dark end) where the cat litter was kept, was a door leading out into another room (and further out into a second 2-story barn that was even creepier).
This door had two holes cut into it that looked like eyes. Used to scare the living shit out of me every time. I would always imagine a red pupil appearing in each hole, watching me. If they was ever a "fastest cat box changing" competition, I'd have a huge-ass trophy.
Another time, my cousin and I were camping out on the property ( we must have been 10 or so), way back in the field just before the woods started. Well, we wake up in the middle of the night to fucking coyotes howling in the distance. We're both frozen in our sleeping bags, as the howling gets closer and closer and closer. We finally bolt out of the tent and run up the field towards the house (passed the aforementioned 2nd creepier barn, with it's black windows and imaginary monsters peering out at us). The coyotes weren't chasing us, but they were still howling in the woods behind us, which made us run even faster. One of the scariest nights of my childhood.
- pressplay0
I don‘t know why, but I was afraid of feathers. My sister got one of these and used to chase me around our house.
- mg330
In this field near my house, there was a rumor of a "goat man" passed down from older boys in the neighborhood. We played in this field all the time and there were two wells in the ground leftover from old farm houses. Besides the wells being scary on their own, the thought that a goat man was running lose in the fields and lived in the wells was horrible. I remember telling my dad constantly that it was real.
- pressplay0
the parents of a friend of mine had a dead crab in a glass cabinet. Was immensly scared of that thing. Our neighbor was a hunter and he had a bearskin on the floor... wouldn‘t dare to go into that room...
- fyoucher10
This shit scared me for years when I was a kid. I totally thought it was the real deal for sooo long...
- 762mm0
- kill it!monospaced
- loldiscoduro
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- BattleAxe0
Don't know what I was thinking watching Evil Dead at like age 7 but the ending really did it , I thought it was the wind that killed
- DoTheMacarena0
Was my favorite movie, but I had to shield my innocent eyes from the library ghost.
- Ah yes I remember seeing this with my dad. That first scene scared the crap outta me.discoduro
- mg330
these kids I was friends with had a bedroom with one of these on the wall:
It didn't necessarily scare me, I just couldn't believe they could sleep with it in their room. It was right at the foot end of the top bunk in their bunk beds, and the light shined perfectly on it at night.
- prophet0
I remember being 7 or 8 and starting to watch scary movies. The three that topped the list of nightmare starters were The Thing, The Shining and Xtro! Xtro is crazy bad to watch as a kid. And The Thing has the guy's head turning into a spider wtf!
- discoduro0
I also remember seeing this when I was five. I had nightmares for weeks.
- HAHAH me toocannonball1978
- For me it was when they pulled the heart out of that dude in Raiders. Couldn't sleep that night.nocomply
- I think the heart thing was in "temple of doom", no?DoTheMacarena
