Things that scared the shit out of you as a little kid.

[Fuck you jewish cunt]

THIS.FUCKING.GUY

Spoiler: AHHHHHHHH

Although on a serious note, The Hell/Island level from Um Jammer Lammy freaked me the fuck out. And so did N Brio's transformation in the first Crash Bandicoot . And then one time I was watching a Spider Man rerun, and it was the one where he turns into a Spider, and when they showed him with six extra arms I turned off the TV. And finally, Red Hot Mountain from Sonic Adventure terrified me as a child. Fuck me that part with the ghost prisoners got me every time.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Fear of becoming blind out of nowhere, that's was the reason why I feared dark as a kid.

And I had fear of death too, but not of dying necessarily, but of what happens next.

Spoiler

I still have it to be perfectly honest, but not as intense

 

[Fareal]

PSAs about Aids. A lot of you are young and don't remember that combination therapy was a fairly late breakthrough in HIV treatment and research. Aids was a fucking death sentence. Brain tumours. Kaposis sarcoma. Untreatable pneumonia. Dementia. Leukaemia. Cancers fucking everywhere. Your body gave up. You got Aids and you just fucking died and even healthcare workers were scared of coming near you.

No one called it HIV. Everyone called it Aids because there was no way to stop it becoming Aids and dying of Aids-related diseases was one of the worst ways to die in a first world health system.

If you are of a particular age, you remember your parents hammering it into your head over and over and over that you must not get Aids. You never have unsafe sex and you never inject and you never ever share needles.

 

[heymate]

Fear of becoming blind out of nowhere, that's was the reason why I feared dark as a kid.

And I had fear of death too, but not of dying necessarily, but of what happens next.

Spoiler

I still have it to be perfectly honest, but not as intense

I really hope the Bible is right about Heaven, because the idea of ceasing to exist altogether, not being able to see, hear, feel, talk, or even dream sounds absolutely horrifying.

 

[Tommy Wiseau Kin]

I was scared of Death from The Sims.

I was terrified of the burglars in Sims 1 because of that music. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't get the pets expansion because apparently they play the same track when a raccoon appears on your lot.

 

[soryu]

This is a perfectly rational fear, as geese are assholes who can--and will--do a surprising amount of damage to a human if provoked. Plus, that hissing noise they make as a warning is just creepy as hell.

I've witnessed my friend's mom's skull get a permanent dent in it from a goose. Shit is scary as hell after knowing the damage it could do.

 

[Fleeb]

I've witnessed my friend's mom's skull get a permanent dent in it from a goose. Shit is scary as hell after knowing the damage it could do.

In my adult life, I've been attack by geese 5 times. I had one slap me in the face with its wing and another fly at my head after hissing at me. Geese are a menace

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Hoo boy, anyone familiar with Screamers, a sci-fi flick from 1995?

Seeing it at the age of 9 made me afraid to fall asleep for quite a few days, especially this little shit:

Spoiler: spoopy

Also, while in the cartoon he was kind of a doofus, in the comic books Galvatron of Transformers fame could be pretty intense:

Spoiler: Not super spoopy, but quite a few pictures

Finally, have some spoopendous Todd McFarlane art!

 

[LofaSofa]

I really hope the Bible is right about Heaven, because the idea of ceasing to exist altogether, not being able to see, hear, feel, talk, or even dream sounds absolutely horrifying.

Well yeah the bible is right and heaven exists you don't need to worry about death.

Spoiler

Haha nah I'm just fuckin messing with you we all rot in the ground and get forgotten as the world continues on as it did when we were alive.

 

[Curt Sibling]

Mr Barlow from Salem's lot...I was shit-scared of this vamp as a kid.

This and Eva Galley from "Ghost Story" (1982), a creature of rotted evil which even now I am hesitant to upload.
Go and google this zombie face, and you will see what I mean...

 

[Reynard]

I watched The Secret of NIMH II a lot as a kid. It's a bad movie in hindsight (not as bad as everyone says), but I loved it as a kid. So with that, I figured I'd watch the original, and boy, I didn't watch it again until I was in fourth or fifth grade. It's one of my favorite movies now, but shit, man, it scared me as a kid.

 

[Paralethal]

The first Care Bears movie. It was very brightly colored which was too overstimulating.

 

[AnOminous]

Mr Barlow from Salem's lot...I was shit-scared of this vamp as a kid.

I was afraid at night that if I'd look out the window on the second floor, I would see this fucking thing looking in at me and it would hypnotize me into opening the window and letting it in. So I'd close the curtains before I went to sleep, but if I forgot to, I'd be afraid to walk over to close them and would sleep faced away from the window.

 

[Van Darkholme]

I was and still am afraid of horses, in person. They're like giant dogs with hammers for legs. Don't trust them one bit

I don't trust those fuckers either since one of them tried to kill me.

 

[SomeSonicFag]

Ren and Stimpy and Courage the Cowardly Dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6YALi3dbx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLskKgRbOJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip4QsAhv000

I would also like to say that both of these cartoons are for kids.

 

[Bluey]

Skeletons and I am still terrified of them. Not Cartoon ones. Realistic ones.

The first Care Bears movie. It was very brightly colored which was too overstimulating.

Try the face in the magic book. That thing is terrifying.

 

[0 0]

The Sims 1 for PC. There's a couple things.

The first and smallest thing was the noises grave stones made when there was an active ghost, which was the sound of metal scraping and generally spooky sounds.

The second was the music whenever something bad happened. They did a fantastic job of making them sound horrifying, but what made is so jarring was how mostly innocent, quiet, and relaxed the game was, then you suddenly hear this music.

But the downright, absolute worst thing were some of the calls you'd get over the phone. There's a game mechanic where you get phone calls that aren't actually anybody your Sim knows, it's just useless flavor text. However, the dialogue they chose for it was the absolute worst.

The first was you'd get a phone call from Death, and he'd tell you "Sorry, wrong number." It's easy to realize that this text is just a joke, but these next two phone calls aren't as amusing if you don't know the context.

The second is an anonymous phone call where they tell you "They'll be here soon. Think twice about opening your door." Likewise there's another that tells you "You have been chosen. They'll be there shortly." It's downright terrifying when you first get these phone calls because you'll be expecting something to happen--and it does. These are actually the phone calls the game gives you when it's telling you that your neighbors are coming over to visit. Great.

 

[Supreme Sundae]

This fucker from Stephen King's Cat's Eye

 

[Pandamic]

Back when I was five or six, I was friends with the neighbour girl who was a year or so older than me. At some point we played the Edutainment game ClueFinders 3rd Grade together.

In that game there was a creature called Mathra which scared me, mainly because of this song:

That might have been the end of it, had my friend not chosen that moment to be an asshole. She insisted that Mathra was real, that she abducted and/or ate kids, and that she could get through any crack no matter how small.

Simpleton that I was (still am, really), I believed her and was terrified that Mathra would come get me or my little sister in the night. We used to sleep with the windows cracked in the summer, so I spent most every night worrying.

I also occasionally got scared by the sound of my eyelashes touching the pillow, thinking it sounded like claws scraping on the door, and I spent some time avoiding ravioli like the plague after a nasty stomach bug that sent me to the hospital coincided with having eaten ravioli.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

The voice more than anything scared me so fucking bad. Used to feature in my nightmares frequently. I was so scared for so long that when he showed up in the new LotR movies for the first time, I busted out laughing in the theater because he was so completely the opposite of frightening.