Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Moments that scared you as a child (or an adult!).
Mmhm. I remember watching an episode one afternoon where a girl got these glasses that, when she put them on, would show these figures dressed all in black coming at her.
I watched that when I was home alone, too. Yeah. Not a good idea. I went out to our kitchen to get some pop, and in the house we were living in at that time, the kitchen was near the basement, and I ran out to the kitchen, grabbed my drink, and ran back into the living room and just sat there until everyone else got home. I was scared those figures were gonna come after me.
Bono's American Wife said:
That is hilarious!
LOL, it sounds funny now, yeah, and if I saw that cover now it wouldn't bother me, but back then...
Originally posted by Bono's American Wife
When my youngest son was small, his older brothers knew he was terrified of Freddy Krueger and they would chase him with the covers from Nightmare on Elm Street videos to make him cry. One of them would even trick him into going into the horror section at Blockbuster after he had put all of the Freddy Krueger movies at eye level so he would scream bloody murder! I would be in the new releases and hear this high pitched little "aaaahhhhhhh, STOP IT!!!" and just shake my head.
Awwww! That's mean!
Siblings love to scare each other, but oddly enough, I never was one to do things like that to my sister. My mom has stories of her older brother and sisters always scaring her, though-she'd seen some scary movie once as a kid, and her brother and sisters would scare her in the middle of the night by acting out bits from that movie and stuff.
Originally posted by Bono's American Wife
And my middle son was terrified of Alf! Every time the theme music would come on, he would start to cry and run out of the room
I loved Alf as a kid
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Some other things that have come to mind that have scared me:
-Two "Twilight Zone" episodes in particular: one where a girl keeps having a recurring dream of going down to the hospital morgue, seeing this nurse there, who says, "Room for one more, honey" to her, and she screams and runs away; and one where a girl's making a cross-country trip and keeps seeing a hitchhiker everywhere she goes. Freaky stuff there.
-When my family was trying to move out to Vermont, there were a couple of scary moments for me: driving through open areas of Indiana late at night-it's funny, Indiana's landscape looks pretty much like Iowa's landscape, so you'd think I'd be used to it...but I was still really nervous the entire time, was always afraid there'd be some maniac who'd come flying out from the fields at us with some weapon or something. Same thing happened when we were moving out here to Wyoming-the parts of Wyoming we drove through, there wasn't a town for a good number of miles, and it was kinda freaky. It was a "Twilight Zone" moment
waiting to happen, LOL.
Also, when our car started having problems in Ohio, and actually caught on fire. 'Twas only the hood of the car that really got damaged, everyone and everything in the car was okay (just a little wet from the extinguisher stuff spraying all over), but it was still pretty scary nonetheless.
-When my sister and I were little and we were living in our original hometown back in Iowa, we were playing outside one day, and all of a sudden, there were these two guys who were on the street right in front of our house arguing, and one of them pulled out a gun. My sister and I ran inside and my dad, who'd heard the commotion, was calling the police by that time. Thankfully, no shots ever wound up being fired, and the police came quickly and took 'em away, but that was pretty disturbing.
Angela