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OK, so I'm just messing around here, and managed to pull up an image on Google that used to scare the bejezus out of me....

My brothers, like most kids had a collection of baseball cards and other stuff. One day I was looking through them and saw they had slipped some trading cards from "the Outer Limits" in there....I was cool until I saw this one....

(the guy on the left)

JESUS! DAMN! OH MY GOD!

I threw the cards down, but couldn't resist going back dozens of times to peek at what scared me so. I used to see that face when I closed my eyes at night.

I had completely forgotten all about it, but it all came back to me.

What scared the hell out of you as a kid, but you had to keep going back and experiencing?

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When I was very little, I had a children's book. It might have been "Fraidy Cat", although I am not sure. Anyway, on the back of the last page of the book, there was a big black star with a circle around it. In the middle of the star, there was some small writing in white. I could not read then, so I did not know what the words said.

Anyhow, that big black star used to scare the hell out of me. I would look at the book, and hope that I would not pass that page.

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What scared the hell out of you as a kid, but you had to keep going back and experiencing?

The car wash, of course, though the returning and re-experiencing had less to do with morbid fascination than with the need to wash the car. But that just made it worse. We'd be out in the car and my dad would just announce, "Hey, let's get the car washed," so I didn't even have the option of not going. I couldn't even mentally prepare for the experience. We'd be coming home from McDonald's or whatever, and BAM! all of a sudden we were being conducted straight into the Gates of Hell, the car not even putting up a fight as it sits on the conveyer belt, mutely drawn to the demonic squeegy spinners beckoning us with their grotesque gyrations into their nightmarish wasteland of terror.

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Chai Tea wrote:

What scared the hell out of you as a kid, but you had to keep going back and experiencing?

My closet. I still hate closets.

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Aaaaaghhhhhhh!

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Ventriloquist dolls

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Apart from the film "The Hound of the Baskervilles", which almost made me do an involuntary poo poo in the cinema (aged 7?), the thing that scared me at home, was the totally beserk cat we had, that used to lurk at the top of the stairs.
That cat knew when it was our bedtime, and used to disappear from the living room...but we knew where he'd gone.

I used to place one foot on the bottom step, and see just the tip of his ear suddenly protrude round the corner at the top. As I progressed up the stairs, the ear would gradually withdraw out of sight......until.....

Even my Mum was scared of the bloody thing.

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ooooo....all really good so far.....

car washes....being taken there with no warning <shiver>.

I sat in the car once at it went though...they don't let kids do that nowadays, because so many were taken by demons during the the part when the big spinning wheel would come down.

Amigo......here's one just for you.....they'll be waiting for you under your bedroom window tonight.

Sleep tight.....

http://home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/trivia/midget.JPG

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What used to scare the hell out of me was a tv program called Lights Out, with host Frank Gallup. My parents would make me go to bed when it came on, so that I wouldn't be scared. Problem was, I could still hear it, and imagining the scenes was so much worse than seeing them!

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OOH OOH! I've got another one!

My older brother used to go to bed slightly later than us two young'uns, and he slept in the next bedroom.

He would pretend that he was an old blind pervert coming to find us.

We would hear a tap tapping coming up the stairs, and he would then run his hands over our door, saying in a creepy voice ...."I KNOW you're in there little boys.....I can SMELL you".
Then, the door would rattle and we would scream, and Mum would rush up to see what the hell was going on.
By that time, of course, the "blind bender" (as he called himself) would already be in his room, acting innocent, while we were told to shut up and go to sleep.

When she'd gone, he would wait a while, and then scratch his hand down the adjoining wall......

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mags314 wrote:

What used to scare the hell out of me was a tv program called Lights Out, with host Frank Gallup. My parents would make me go to bed when it came on, so that I wouldn't be scared. Problem was, I could still hear it, and imagining the scenes was so much worse than seeing them!

OH MAN!!!! yeah!

Remember that classic Twilight Zone where the girl had her head wrapped in the bandages for the whole show, and you never saw anyone face, just shadows, and everyone was worrying she'd be terribly disfigured?

http://spacedoutinc.org/images/eye-of-beholder.jpg

When they took the bandages off, she looked like this...

http://www.wantedcowgirls.com/sitebuilder/images/DonnaDouglas-207x250.jpg

And everyone else looked like this?...

http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_tz_1b.jpg

They hooked her up with some other really disfigured guy and sent them to another plant or island or something.

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

OOH OOH! I've got another one!

My older brother used to go to bed slightly later than us two young'uns, and he slept in the next bedroom.

He would pretend that he was an old blind pervert coming to find us.

We would hear a tap tapping coming up the stairs, and he would then run his hands over our door, saying in a creepy voice ...."I KNOW you're in there little boys.....I can SMELL you".
Then, the door would rattle and we would scream, and Mum would rush up to see what the hell was going on.
By that time, of course, the "blind bender" (as he called himself) would already be in his room, acting innocent, while we were told to shut up and go to sleep.

When she'd gone, he would wait a while, and then scratch his hand down the adjoining wall......

Were you screaming in delight and anticipation?

A blind pervert....that certainly sounds worse than a deaf pervert.

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It was a sense of being terrified, but laughing our heads off at the same time, if you know what I mean.

He's always had this knack of scaring kids in such a way that they love it.

About fifteen years ago, down at his place in France, another Brit ex-pat brought his kids round for the afternoon. My brother told the boy (7 or 8 yrs old?) that he had a nasty Troll, living down in a hole in the bank of the tiny brook that runs past the end of his garden.
The kid scoffed at this, but bruv assured him that if he went to that part of the bank (pointing), he might see his footprints.
As the boy made his way down there, my brother took the lid off his well, which was situated quite a way from the brook.
There was a large bore overflow pipe going from the top of the well, which ran underground to the place where the boy was now searching.

He waited until the lad was bending down, right by the pipe, and shouted down the overflow....in a gruff, Troll voice..."WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MYYYYY RIVER?"

I've never seen a young lad dance on the spot through sheer terror before.

He's now grown up, and is a junior concert pianist and a straight "A" student, but he's still very wary about going near that brook.

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The Neverending Story.

Holy crap, that was a terrifying movie. The wolf, Gamork, with those evil eyes. The trauma of watching Artex getting sucked into the swamp. The knight trying to get past the sphinxes. Morla, the giant turtle. The Nothing... my god, the Nothing! The most terrifying scene for me, though, was one that probably wasn't intended to be all that scary: the Empress, tear-stricken and screaming for Bastian to give her a new name, staring straight into the screen. I just couldn't bear it.

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The year was 1960.......

http://org32.zorpia.com/0/2032/13009907.fcaa3c.jpg

http://www.theredpencil.org/images/psycho.jpg

http://www.kinountersternen.at/images/archiv2002/psycho.jpg

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/leigh-psycho.jpg

http://www.ventomania.com.br/images/fotos/psycho.jpg

http://hitchcock.tv/mov/psycho/images/psycho3.gif

http://www.trondheim-filmklubb.no/film/tfk/h99/bilder/psycho.jpg

http://www.cmn.hs.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CMN9/psycho-norman.jpg

...... and the scariest film ever was made.

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NorMan, dahling!

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When I was little, Dark Shadows. The music and Barnabas baring his big fangs. There were ghosts and wolves and vampires. So skeery.

I used to run and hide behind the couch---but I always peeked.

Now, it's so funny to see the booms nearly swing into Barnabas' head. It has got to be the worst direction job in TV history.

There was a Twilight Zone with this brooch that turned into a huge people-eating bug. I was freaked out for days.

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Great topic! When i was kid I remembering watching Land of the Lost and being scared of these guys (IDK what they are called):

http://www.landofthelost.com/images/lilenik.jpg

I would have recurring dreams as a kid (maybe 4 or 5) that they were coming to get me.

Now, why on earth did my parents let me keep watching that show? And when I look at these guys now, I mean come on, they aren't really scary.

I remember the car wash too when you could ride in the car - how come kids can't do that anymore.

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Lash wrote:

When I was little, Dark Shadows. The music and Barnabas baring his big fangs. There were ghosts and wolves and vampires. So skeery.

I used to run and hide behind the couch---but I always peeked.

Now, it's so funny to see the booms nearly swing into Barnabas' head. It has got to be the worst direction job in TV history.

There was a Twilight Zone with this brooch that turned into a huge people-eating bug. I was freaked out for days.

ooohhhh, I LOVED Dark Shadows. It aired at 3:30 in the afternoon and I would *run* home from school to catch the beginning. A few years ago my then 6th grade daughter would run down the driveway from the bus to catch Buffy reruns. I laughed because it reminded me so much of myself at her age.

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That Twilight Zone episode where the little kid disappeared through the wall into another dimension. I still have nightmares about that.

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