Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 I fucking hate that megathread, there's a bunch of stuff in there that could make for good topics at a time when the forum's comatose. Â There's currently a discussion, sort of, going in there about odd stuff that upset you as a kid. As I mentioned, there was a bit in Jaws The Revenge that really disturbed me for a good few weeks after yet I was alright with stuff like Dirty Harry and Aliens. Â But when I was a bit younger, there was a Mancunian DJ called Mike Sweeney who used to do a slot on Granada Tonight about music every week and whenever he came on I used to hide behind the couch. No idea what specifically used to bother me about him and I didn't mind when he was on the radio. Mind you, look at this boat race:- Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted December 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 Not so much weird when you know the reasoning why...  Grates. The work of the devil.  I was about five years old and walking merrily through parochial corners of Wiltshire with my Grandmother. She had bought me a pack of frosted party rings and I was having a gay old time. As we were about to hop into her Rover and head home, I walked onto one of those grates you get on pavements across the country and the bastard caved in. I'm there clawing onto the edge of it, attempting to avoid falling 10 foot into the Sarlack Pit while yelling, before my Gran managed to haul me out.  Still hate those nobbers and avoid them like the plague. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted December 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 I've got a wrestling related one - this intro to Superstars: Â Â Absolutely fucking petrified me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Arn Anderson's Darb Posted December 20, 2016 Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 The video for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 The video for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. Was it the dancing plucked chickens? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 I was petrified of this prick as a child:   Diesel from Thomas the Tank Engine  We talk about Robocop and such being unsuitable for kids, well what about this then? The writers and producers of Thomas managed to create something so sinister and evil that I would sob endlessly behind the sofa whenever he appeared on the show. Just look at his face- that's the stuff of nightmares. Darth Vader had nothing on this train when I was a kid.  My older sister was scared of loads of stuff as a kid. Some obvious ones such as fireworks, but also ovens. Ours in particular made this god awful noise that used to frighten her, probably similar to Kevin's fear of the boiler/heater in Home Alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 20, 2016 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 You know what, Statto, I can see that! For some reason it reminds me of THAT scene in Superman 3:- Â Â PunkStep - YES. And you know, I was a bit older when Thomas The Tank Engine came along and that bastard still unnerved me, I can't imagine what I'd been like if I'd seen it younger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Yeah that superman 3 thing was horrifying as a kid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Dem Wanz Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 The house phone ringing scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.  I never answered it, I always assumed it was bad news about someone dying or having been in a car accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted December 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 Yep, the Superman 3 thing shit me up massively too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 I think the wierd robot lady thing in Superman 3 was even scarier, because its otherwise not a very serious movie. Â Used to love the Bad Superman Vs Clark Kent fight though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted December 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 My mum tells me that as a kid I wasn't at all keen on Santa Claus and used to request that the Snowman delivered my presents instead. This one's got to he pretty common though, so I doubt it's all that weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 My boiler and pipes making any noise scared me after I made the fatal mistake of watching Ghostwatch on the BBC. They had a poltergeist called Pipes and that was it for me. That show was traumatising. I probably won't sleep tonight now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted December 20, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2016 If that creeped you out, read Astro's blog account of that show. It's brilliant and will cure any trauma forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted December 20, 2016 Moderators Share Posted December 20, 2016 The blog? Â Â Buy the book, you pleb! Â Surprising how many people have that superman 3 one. These Usborne books really scared the hell out of me as a kid: Â https://horrorpedia.com/2013/04/17/usborne-guide-to-the-supernatural-world-book/ Â Particularly the one about werewolves. They had a really creepy art style; the images really stayed with me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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