Originally Posted By Lisann22 October 31, 2005 - Question of the day: Happy Halloween everyone! Tell us about a movie, situation, person that as a kid just scared you to no end. What kept you up all night, hiding under the covers? Did you have nightmares when you were little? Did you have a place you hated to walk by in your neighborhood? Was there that one scary house on your block? Tell us!
Originally Posted By DLfreek86 Shadow People, spirits/ghosts in the form of shadows, I would hide under my covers all night trying to sleep. Taking a peek here and there, and when I did, "Ahhh, it's looking at me!" I would think. I would also have to turn the light on in a dark room/area before I went in or even looked in it, because of course, they were in there too. Oh and also Bloody Mary, could not look into the mirror of the dark bathroom, nuh-uh. And Freddy Krueger, had a few of those scary dreams. Pennywise- Scary clown, 'nuff said.
Originally Posted By Ursula The movie Poltergiest scared me to no end. The clown scene did me in. I still sometimes fear my closest, too.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 ^^^Oh Ursula me too! That clown...yikes! Also, the biggest was The Exorcist. I was so freaked out by that movie. I slept with the bible under my pillow for like two weeks! I still won't watch it. I remember very young coming home from school very upset about Bloody Mary too.
Originally Posted By kmsandrbs There was an episode of Fantasy Island where someone was haunted by what seemed to be a version of bigfoot ... scared the beejebus out of me.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 an experience when I was about 10 at a sleepover with a ouija board where suddenly we swear the room got very cold and scared the ^*&%%$ out of 4 of us...never played with one again.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 A few years ago with my then girlfriend we went to see the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacare. I was fully expecting the movie to be lame and not at all scary. Forty-five minutes later, I'm peaking through my fingers and my girlfriend is laughing at me. The Ring also scared me especially the last 10 minutes. That's the most recent scares. As for one when I was a kid, back in 1983, I'm 9 years old and I go to a friends birthday party. Now the first half was going to be we got dressed up and went roller skating. Then after we would go back to his parents house to watch some not so scary and even funny movies(Creature from the Black Lagoon, Young Frankenstein)and we would all stay overnight. Now there's about 11 nine and ten year olds all hopped up on soda and pizza. Well we watch both films and had a good time with it. This kid's father asks us if we want to watch one more thing. So we're all pumped up anxiously awaiting what he has to show us. Now 1983, what is the biggest album out there? What's dominating the charts? Michael Jackson's Thriller, the birthday boy's dad has the Thriller video on tape. Of course we all loved the song so we're high fiving each other. He pops in the video and the scene where Michael turns into the werewolf. Remember in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the full power of the Ark is unleashed upon the Nazi's and they start screaming in horror. That was the scene at this birthday party. About an hour later parents were picking up sobbing, terrified nine year old boys.
Originally Posted By Tiggirl I remember having nightmares about ET after watching the movie. I loved the movie but I was scared the semi-cute but semi-creepy ET was going to coem visit me. ~Beth
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka When I was about 8 years old I saw the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (the 70's version w/Donald Sutherland). I was terrified by this movie and everytime the house creaked, I was sure it was a pod coming to kill me. I didn't sleep for weeks. A year or two later I heard my stepmom telling her friend about the movie The Exorcist and that scared me to death. I didn't sleep for at least 3 nights because of it. Yup, just hearing about the movie scared me. LOL When I was in kindergarten and the first grade we lived in Ballard (in Seattle). There was one house, on the corner, where the meanest old lady lived. I was always afraid of her and wouldn't stop in front of her house. I forgot all about it but suddenly remembered it a few years ago. We were driving in Ballard and the second I saw the house, I remembered the old lady. Of course, I was always afraid there was something hiding under my bed. I would lie there, frozen in fear, not letting my foot or hand hang over the side of the bed. I was also terrified of rats when I was younger because the rats were HUGE where I lived. Seriously, those suckers were as big as cats and it was virtually impossible to keep them out of your house. Unfortunately, I heard my mom talking on the phone one day and she said that she was afraid that she would go into our rooms one morning and find the rats eating our dead bodies. (Pretty rational fear, huh?) Well, after that I was terrifed of them. One night my cat chased a smaller one under my bed. I was so scared that I'm pretty sure I FLEW out of the room. I just remember jumping from the edge of my bed and hitting the wall on the other side of the hallway. Then a year later we were up in the attic above my grandmother's garage. That was scary enough because it had no lights and the floors would sink beneath you when you walked (and I was only a little kid). At one point my mother saw a big shadow and said "Is that a rat?" I don't think I ever ran so fast in my life. Once I went down to the stream by my house. As I stood at the edge of the stream it looked like it was frozen solid. Wrong. I wasn't even standing at the edge of the stream but instead, I was about 2 feet over the stream! I suddenly fell through the ice and while I probably could have stood up and been in a foot or so of water, I start thrashing around. I kept reaching for the edge and the ice kept breaking under me. I wasn't afraid I was going to drown, I was terrified that the "humpies" were going to get me. Now before you report me to ADMIN, the "humpies" are the type of fish that swam in the stream. I'm not sure if they were trout or salmon or what the heck they were, but you could see the humps on their backs sticking out of the water as they swam. I think I was afraid they were part piranha. LOL I have been terrified of spiders ever since a big one was crawling on my bed when I was a toddler. I also think that Brady Bunch episode with the tarantula made me scared. I still have nightmares about them, or at least, I wake up thinking I saw one crawling on me in my sleep. My poor husband! I sometimes get very creeped out thinking someone is in my yard. This has gotten worse since someone broke into our cars about 6 or 7 years ago. I rarely think someone is in our house or that they mean to hurt us physically, but I am afraid that they are watching us or that they will try to destroy our property. It usually doesn't bother me, but sometimes I hear noises and get scared and/or angry. One night I didn't close my bedroom curtain all of the way and I dreamed that I opened my eyes and saw someone look right at me and duck under my window. I jumped up screaming some sort obscenity and was ready to beat the tar out of them. My poor husband jumped up and ran out into the hallway before I realized that there was no way I could have seen what I did and that there was nobody outside of our window. I try to keep the curtains closed now. LOL
Originally Posted By wendebird I'm afraid to ask, but who is Bloody Mary. I don't think I've heard of that before. I was just thinking of these questions last night. I'm not a Halloween fan. I don't understand the holiday nor do I like to be scared. When I was a kid, I would have nightmares & hide under the covers just over watching Sci-Fi week! There wasn't a scary house in my neighborhood. I did have this thing, lol I had to do every night. You see, a monster lived under my bed. But he could only come out when it was dark. So I had 3 seconds from the time I turned off the lights to run & hop into my bed. Anything that hung over the bed was fair game to the monster. I don't know where I got that from. I also had these 2 dolls in my room. My Mom had to put them away, I swore their eyes followed me everywhere. So, yeah, I don't do scary stuff. Never cared for it.
Originally Posted By DLfreek86 Who's Bloody Mary? Well there are a few different versions of her story... <a href="http://www.mythology.com/bloodymary.html" target="_blank">http://www.mythology.com/blood ymary.html</a>
Originally Posted By wendebird ^^ IS it just a story, or is there pics too? <----is too chicken to open it up if there's gross pictures. I'm SUCH a wimp!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Growing up in my town the thing to do on Halloween was to go to Swan Point Cemetery ( at night ) and try to find H.P. Lovecrafts gravesite. He's buried in his Mom's family plot so it makes it VERY challenging.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 When I was around 5 to 6 I went through a phase of thinking at night when I was laying in bed that something was looking in my window. I would become paralyzed with fear. Nothing my parents told me would convince we otherwise. I also did the run and jump into bed. I'd be scared to get out of bed thinking something was underneath and would grab me. Way too much Creature Features with my older cousins and aunts. The Exorcist completely and totally freaked me out. I refused to open bedroom doors that were closed. I was scared to stay home by myself for awhile. I'd have to keep lots of lights on and no doors to bedrooms closed.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <a href="http://www.tkinter.smig.net/ClassicsIllustrated/Frankenstein/35.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Cl assicsIllustrated/Frankenstein/35.htm</a> That second panel, with the Frankenstein monster murdering Elizabeth, and then the laughing creature escaping through the window, gave me nightmares. (That site features the whole edition of Classics Illustrated 'Frakenstein') I'm not sure what it was about that image, maybe because it was so gory to me at the time (her head is clearly separating from her body) or the gleeful sneer on the monster's face as he escapes, but man it scared me at around age 8. I loved monster movies, Twilight Zone, all that stuff. It all scared me, but for some reason the only one that really troubled me and gave me nightmares was that darn comic book! I also had a "Dark Shadows" game, and on the side panel of the box was the hissing, fang-filled face of Barnabus Collins. Several times I would see that image leering at me from the shelf in my closet late at night. Ugh! <a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/6014" target="_blank">http://www.boardgamegeek.com/i mage/6014</a>
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Oh, yeah. This image from the previous page, with the monster in silhouette outside the window was the other part of my nightmares. <a href="http://www.tkinter.smig.net/ClassicsIllustrated/Frankenstein/34.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Cl assicsIllustrated/Frankenstein/34.htm</a>
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka OMG, the dark silhouette at the window STILL scares me! I had a dream once that I saw a silhouette of someone outside of my window and as soon as I saw it, it tried to get in all of my doors and windows as I tried to lock them. I'm pretty sure that dream is one of the reasons why I still freak out.
