things that scared you as a kid

[BlueTG]

I raise you. And that fucking chicken.

 

[Well Wisher]

Drama. The class at school where you had to pretend to be a growing tree (probably loads of other stupid shite but that's all I remember about the first and last lesson I attended). I was scared of having to act like a dumb **** while the other kids got to laugh at me, I was scared my parents would find out I was knocking off school every Thursday afternoon and I was scared of getting caught by the rozzers while I snuck off to the beach. I dreaded it all the time.

Not really in the spirit of this Halloween caper but it's the only thing that came to mind. Apart from my fears of acting, Thursday afternoons, being laughed at, my parents and the police, I was a very brave boy.

 

[Sam Armstrong]

The Singing Ringing Tree, particularly the evil dwarf played by Richard Krüger.

Wasn’t quite as scared though when The Fast Show showed their version … The Singing Ringing Binging Plinging Tinging Plinking Plonking Boinging Tree!

 

[EnzoMCFC]

Parkies. Always used to leg it and mrs marclue varna street primary

 

[xmusampa]

Impending nuclear war
A shrunken head that was hung on wardrobe door(my grandma brought them back from one of her holidays!)
The ratcatcher

 

[A57 the snake]

The IRA in the 70s
Thunder and lightning
And a school bully from the next door primary school to my school ( with who I had a successful leveller with twenty odd years later I didn’t forget the fear he put in me at the time).

 

[Brooklands Blue]

The Horse and Jester from Renta ghost.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Never actually seen let alone captured on film, the threat of the Bogey Man terrified us into behaving for years.
He really did exist - my mum said so.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Gluebags

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

The site of my old auntie, sitting on the sofa with he legs apart flashing her drawers.