[reecejackox]

What traumatised you as a child?

[LaLaLand]

Freddy Krueger.

[Liam-]

Watership Down, I still don’t like rabbits

[GoldHeart]

The TV show 999,especially the music

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[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

The TV show 999,especially the music

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Oh my God I’d forgotten all about this! Agreed!!

[LaLaLand]

Just remembered another...

When I was a kid in the mid/late 90’s we used to go every Wednesday evening (I think) to my Great Aunt’s house who lives only like 20 minutes away but in a sort of very rural area, so the drive to and from there was all countryside mostly.

Anyway we’d leave the same time every time, probably about half 7, and in the winter it would be dark then coming home. My Dad would always have the same radio station on and EVERY TIME we got to this stretch of road that was winding and pitch black and just basically the middle of a huge forest the station would do this segment where the music they would use for it was the theme tune from The X Files.

Honestly, I’d be so terrified I’d close my eyes or put my head in my hands until that part was over or until we were back in some sort of civilisation. I’d dread leaving every single week.

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by LaLaLand

Oh my God I’d forgotten all about this! Agreed!!

I'm glad i'm not the only one , and xfiles theme tune never freaked me out but in your situation i guess i can see how it would in that atmosphere lol .

[Mitchell]

Big Bird.

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

I'm glad i'm not the only one , and xfiles theme tune never freaked me out but in your situation i guess i can see how it would in that atmosphere lol .

Used to watch this every week - remember some of the stories vividly.

Like a man who got basically ran over by his own switched on lawnmower and another man who had forgot he had a can of petrol in his car and lit up (literally) for a smoke...

Traumatic!

[Strictly Jake]

Imagine having a Mr blobby room when you are 4 years old. Yeah that scarred me a tad.

[user104658]

My doting mother with a good career up until I was age 9 rapidly descending into alcoholism, apathy and unemployment by the time I was age 15.

Also one time when I was out for dinner eating a burger I for no fathomable reason imagined in my head that it was chomping on a giant tarantula and I just spat it out onto the table and started crying... then when my bewildered family asked what happened I was like "I imagined it was a spider " and I couldn't eat burgers for like 6 months because it made me feel immediately sick.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

My doting mother with a good career up until I was age 9 rapidly descending into alcoholism, apathy and unemployment by the time I was age 15.

Also one time when I was out for dinner eating a burger I for no fathomable reason imagined in my head that it was chomping on a giant tarantula and I just spat it out onto the table and started crying... then when my bewildered family asked what happened I was like "I imagined it was a spider " and I couldn't eat burgers for like 6 months because it made me feel immediately sick.

I was going to say Salem's Lot but now I feel a bit foolish

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I was going to say Salem's Lot but now I feel a bit foolish

I love a good uncomfortable over-share

[Beso]

I used to think a fox would come up the toilet and bite my bum when I was pooping.

[Strictly Jake]

Originally Posted by parmnion

I used to think a fox would come up the toilet and bite my bum when I was pooping.

Glad I'm not the only one that thinks of things coming up the toilet. Quite often I'm scared there will be rats snakes or spiders if I look down

[Glenn.]

There was a creepy old woman in a wheelchair that used to live round the corner from me when I was little. I used to have nightmares about her.

[rusticgal]

Being chased by a big dog down the road....

[Dogeatdog]

Me and the family used to sit around and watch a show called ‘Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction’ that would show 4 stories and you had to guess which ones were true or fake. It was fun to watch but I remember a story on there about a red eyed monster that was haunting this family in their home and it scared the crap outta me for years.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

Being chased by a big dog down the road....

Similar....I was chased down a back alley by an Alsatian when I was skiving off school.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

Glad I'm not the only one that thinks of things coming up the toilet. Quite often I'm scared there will be rats snakes or spiders if I look down

I went the loo in the night last night and there was a big spider crawling round the seat. Shudder. I squished it with toilet paper and flushed it. X

[Crimson Dynamo]

JAWS

The soundtrack to The Excorcist

Hammer House of HOrror

Tales ofg the Unexpected

[hijaxers]

My mother launching a whole pan of boiling potatoes at me , smashing the the glass door ! i was only trying to help by saying keeping the mash on the hob whilst mashing would mean we didn't have stone cold mash on our plates . There was no dinner that night.

[smudgie]

Too many things to mention.
Although maybe traumatised isn’t the word.

[Marsh.]

Crimewatch

[Withano]

The head from ‘Art Attack’. ****ing creepy ****