Tricky Dicky
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The old Norfolk Bridge in Shoreham - as you walked across it on the side footpaths, you could see through some of the grates down to the water below. I blame that for my life-long fear of heights.
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Things that SCARED you when you were young[er]
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nail-Z
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Triffids.
BlockDpete
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Beat me to it, couldn't go anywhere near a tall flower for years as a kid.
Also, in the mid 80's weren't there a couple of fictional documentaries on the outbreak of a Nuclear War on this country? They gave me a few nightmares at the time
My parents could never get me to pass a certain statue which used to be in the Pavilion Gardens. That statue is now at the Old Steine opposite the Royal York Building. As an adult I cannot think why I was so scared having now seen it many times.
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Threads was the main nuclear war documentary I remember. Also, When The Wind Blows is worth a watch too.
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Threads was DEFINITELY scary.
I also used to hate standing on the platform in Tube stations for some reason. It was something to do with the dark tunnels and the way the trains appeared almost without warning. And the rats on the line. You don't see many rats on the Tube now, or at least I haven't in recent years. Perhaps some of NSC's regular commuters will challenge that.
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The Equalizer had me often thinking there was a chap in a cap, his gnarled and nefarious face mostly concealed by the tip of the hat's shadow, either behind a pillar or column in any train station late at night or stood in the corner of a lift i mistakenly climb into and descend myself and him into a hell he chooses to create. I was identifying possible culprits, more than likely in relation to that show, in the mid-80s when one of these innocent-at-first-glance chaps decided to attempt to follow me home from the Pavillion to Lewis Road. I sprinted at full pelt from the bottom of Elm Grove, but wouldn't leave the house for a couple of days. I can still see that chap now, his nerdy spectacles and German army shirt, his invasive stare. And that Edward Woodward was nowhere to be bloody seen, hobbling down the road with justice bullets in his rifle. Fibber.
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When a man fell down a dark lift shaft in Bergerac once.
I was a little bit scared of lifts for YEARS afterwards
I was a little bit scared of lifts for YEARS afterwards
Was absolutely terrifying
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The nasty Nazi planes and the things they dropped which went off with a terrific bang...
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We used to walk over the top when in our teens crazy the things you do when young
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Thank goodness for the invention of the letter D? Otherwise the star would have been Ewar Woowar.
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that Twilight Zone with William Shatner
The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet - Requiem for a Dream - YouTube
The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet - Requiem for a Dream - YouTube
Publius Ovidius
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When I was little and lived in South Africa, we had a film club after school on a Friday and they showed a Hammer House of Horror film somethink like Circus of Horrors or something like that.
To this day, Clowns scare the crap out of me. I know its irrational, but I find them really sinister
To this day, Clowns scare the crap out of me. I know its irrational, but I find them really sinister