scary flashback

J_B wrote:

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.

OMG. Me and Caitlin. She was transfixed by Buffy.

Were you in love with Quentin? Could you ever really figure out the whole story? It was so confusing.

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I had an exotic infection when I was twelve (I'd been assigned somehow by some combo of my parents and the powers that were) to have a job after school cleaning the kindergarten. Sure enough, I got out of it... I came down with scarlet fever. Sort of a total body rash. That was fairly miserable in itself, but the main deal was, I had to stay in my room (oh, and the bathroom was ok) for two weeks.

What did I do? I lay there scratching and listened to 1954 radio. Height of a lot of fine programs: Mr. and Mrs. North, Perry Mason, The Shadow, can't remember if Inner Sanctum was on radio first.

So, I was listening away my eleventh quarantined morning, or something like that, and Mercedes McCambridge's voice came on... she was stuck in an elevator. I think there was a guy with a knife, at least an ominous fellow. And then the program segued, with whatever the theme music was.
Last program of The Shadow, as far as I know. And she's still stuck in that elevator.

This may not be true, there may have been more, but I never found it on the air again.

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This is Scarlet Fever now, no big deal with today's antibios. Then, it tended to lead to Rheumatic fever, which was often serious.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/scarletfever_g.htm

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I'm getting the freaks even looking for a picture now! When I was a girl, I had many of these porceline music dolls. They were set up on my dresser and desk looking down on me as I lay in bed. They had those old twisting keys and a music box in the base: she would spin to the music of 'brahm's lullaby' or 'love story'. In the half light it looked like her eyes were staring at me, and like she could slowwwwly move off her base and come crawl into bed with me.
<Huge>

I always imagined she would stand on my chest and stare me in the eyes. So creepy!

Yet, I had a fascination with the girls and wouldn't take them down. Some strange fascination with the old mechanical toys. I was obsessed with that stuff: musicmakers, lockboxes, keys, secret tunnels, etc.

There is nothing to describe the feel of those things either. I remember one had a cloth face and painted features. I scratched out her eyes at some point, and that freaked me out even worse!

I didn't have any clowns: but isn't that sick?! ughghgg

http://www.musichouseshop.com/store/media/Musical_Dolls_Exquisite_Hand_Painted_Dolls_from_the_Xenis_Collection.jpg

http://www.automates-anciens.com/english_version/reuge_music_boxes_enlarged_pictures/reuge_music_box_agr.axa.22.2235.000.jpg

http://www.giftsonline.net/catalog/images/princess_bride1.jpg

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Oh GOD!

Freaking dolls.........brrrrrr......

clowns......aieeeeeeee.....

I watched a Night Galllery once (another Rod Serling show) where some girl or womans doll would stare at her and then disapppeared off the shelf, hiding around the house somewheres.

OH! and remember in Poltergist, the clown sitting in the boys chair....aaaaaaaaa!

Anything under the bed when the lights are off.

In the movie "The Phrophecy" Viggo Morensen played Lucifer and said to the wayward priest....

Remember when you were a little boy and you would turn of the light and run and leap into your bed because you were afraid I was under it?

I was.

AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

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Dolls...lol, makes me think of CHUCKKKKKKKY!

Ok, laugh you people.. all you want...lol, but I was terrified of King Kong!

OMG, my mother took me to the movie theater when I was..umm, probably 5 or so...and we watched this horrid thing grab the girl......

Later that night I laid in bed in total darkness crying my eyes out, because I just knew that overgrown gorilla was going to reach through the window and take my sister and I off into the darkness never to be found again.

It took me weeks to get over that.........lol

I've outgrown that fear...but still to this day remains the fear of Bears....I have a Great Uncle to thank for that episode that has lasted a lifetime with me...lol Old Fart

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For me, it was a radio COMMERCIAL. I forgot the show it was on. I would lie in bed in the darkness, and these raspy throated whisperers would say over and over, "Bromo Seltzer, Bromo Seltzer . . ." Scared hell out of me.

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meridas wrote:

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

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.

Sleestacks!

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http://id.mind.net/~truwe/tina/tina2.JPG

"My name is Talky Tina and I don't think I like you."
"My name is Talky Tina and I think I hate you."
"My name is Talky Tina and I'm going to kill you."

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AAAHHH!! That's like an older version of Cricket. gross..

I wonder if we'll develop new fears from reading this thread. lol. doubt it, but it's fun!

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Region Philbis wrote:

Sleestacks!

Thank you!! Those bastards really scared me.

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I remember watching "Land of the Lost"........I had forgotten about that show...till it was mentioned here.

Wow..........we were easily entertained back then....lol

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makemeshiver33 wrote:

Wow..........we were easily entertained back then....lol

and apparently easily frightened as well! :-)

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A relative of mine is a Kennedy memorabilia fanatic, and in his basement he had a caricature of Bobby Kennedy that would scare the Christ out of me.

I was a toddler and my older cousins couldn't resist cajoling me into going down there in some way, saying they'd hid the picture, and then of course there he'd be. What frightened me most were his sunken eyes, gopher teeth, and most of all, his hideously exaggerated Adam's apple. That Adam's apple seemed to speak of all the horrors in life that still awaited a boy of my age.

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Gargamel wrote:

A relative of mine is a Kennedy memorabilia fanatic, and in his basement he had a framed caricature of Bobby Kennedy that would scare the Christ out of me.

I was a toddler and my older cousins couldn't resist cajoling me into going down there in some way, saying they'd hid the picture, and then of course there he'd be. What frightened me most were his sunken eyes, gopher teeth, and most of all, his hideously exaggerated Adam's apple. That Adam's apple seemed to speak of all the secret horrors of the world I had yet to experience.

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I remember a movie called "Trilogy of Terror" that featured Karen Black. There was a doll in it that chopped her up, I think. Really terrifying

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Did I just quote myself? I don't remember that.

Ah, ghosts in the machine! Run for your lives motherfukkers!

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When I was little I had a book that had belonged to my father when he was young, called "Hunting in the Jungle". It had a picture of a gorilla, that scared the wits out of me, and I kept coming back to the book and the picture, and was terrified of finding a gorilla under my bed.

Maybe that's why my mother would never let me see "King Kong"! I never thought of that!!

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

Y'know - I always loved going through the car wash, and I still do. As a kid I was scared of a lot of things, but that wasn't one of them, although I can see how it could be frightening. - all that noise, swissh and swassh and clunk, and you can't see out with all the foam. I don't think Significant Other cares much for it, though.

So I don't think it's so much that kids can't do that anymore, but that for whatever reason they just don't.

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The radio show Inner Sanctum. The slowly squeaking door. Yikes!!! I would put my fingers in my ears, but I could still hear it. And everyday, I would listen once again.....

I was an adult when the evil doll movies were made, but they still scared the beejeezus out of me. I'm a total chicken and still won't go to those movies. It only took one to scare me off all the rest.

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