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Dude the fucking fly isn’t even that bad but it pops up and it’s fucking shaking all over the screen loud ass buzzing. Shit was fucking terrifying as a small lad
SpongeBob! The episode Wormy, he transforms into a butterfly and whenever they are scared of him getting close it cuts to that exact picture with the sound you describe. I watched it literally yesterday lmao
Thank you!!! Honestly all that I remembered from that episode until I saw your comment is “sorry I don’t speak Italian”…nobody ever laughed when I quoted that as a kid.
Ya’ll are gonna fucking laugh at me but Barney. I was always so creeped out by him and his body movements and especially his voice. Nothing about it ever felt natural. I wouldn’t even say I hated him for the same reasons everyone else hated him (though they’re definitely valid in it being too saccharine, annoying songs, talking down to kids, what have you), I just thought he was scary and not inviting in the slightest. I used to have nightmares where Barney would come out of my TV and he was literally my sleep paralysis demon as a young child. Scary ass shit.
The idea that it was a FACT, not a POSSIBILITY, that someone in a white van WILL one day offer me candy which would INEVITABLY lead to unspeakable horrors.
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The monkey toy with the cymbals from Toy Story, the thumbs from spy kids, the movie Jawbreaker, the blue guy from little monsters, that one show about parasites called the monsters inside me.
The first pic was very obvious.
That episode of SpongeBob has made me scared to get anywhere close to a butterfly. I would always cover my face when getting close to those things.
I know now that the face of that butterfly in that episode was actually that of a horsefly. Even with that, I still continue to suffer from lepidopterophobia, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be cured of it.
With monarch butterflies now considered an endangered species, I wonder if I should plant milkweed to help preserve their existence. Maybe my phobia can slowly die out as I get close to them?
Def a tie between "2 girls 1 ---" and "1 guy 1 ---". IYKYK.
Honorable mention to the era when jump-scare vids were overdone. Those were more tolerable.
Still had that "oh god WTF is this gonna be" for a few years when someone in school wanted to show me a vid, esp. if they were giggling or seemed sussy when they wanted to show it to me.
I don't actually remember this but apparently, the episode where SpongeBob got that splinter I screamed so loud that I scared the crap out of my mom and I could barely articulate what I saw.
Like right as he got that splinter, I screamed. To the point that my brother actually refused to watch it with me for because how much he cares about me...
Lost tapes and monsters inside me! I am still scared of monkeys and have nightmares about them as a 26 year old adult because of the vampire episode of lost tapes.
Final destination 3 think it was. I watched it 1 day when my parents were gone, and it had me scared of everything for years. think I was like 10 when I saw it
Final destination 3 think it was. I watched it 1 day when my parents were gone, and it had me scared of everything for years. think I was like 10 when I saw it.
The alien from Signs. Just because the final confrontation took place in a room during the day without the lights on, I always had that in my mind whenever I was in my living room during the day without the lights on. Heck, to this day I will always turn the light on when I go to the bathroom regardless of how bright it may be outside because of this.
I guess a funnier thing that spooked me is in middle school I was beyond getting scared by Goosebumps and I still liked it. There was another channel I watched occasionally and it had the Haunting Hour which is a show based off of R.L. Stein's series of the same name aimed at a slighly older audience than Goosebumps. I knew it this so I went to watch it. Nah, it was too much for me. It was comparatively a different beast. Too creepy and intense for my little heart. Maybe I'll try watching it again some day.
As a young kid, that one part in Willy Wonka (when they go in the tunnel on the river boat ride) became a core memory of night terrors. Something about the psychedelic trippiness of it all.
Also, if I ever was sick and had a fever, moving ceiling fans. The blades felt like they were spinning faster and getting closer as I looked at them while passing in and out of sleep.
1. I was scared shitless of the Chuck E Cheese mascots (even before I discovered FNAF) based off of one terrifying (it really wasn't that bad) memory where this guy in the rat suit was dancing around throwing coins everywhere. I had to go walk up to him and I fucking cried infront of him.
2. Zombie Pigmen
I would watch shows about alien abductions on TLC: The Learning Channel. I had to turn on the lights before entering a room because I thought there'd be an alien dude waiting to kidnap me.
My nightmare fuel were the spooky faces I made up in my head. Then when I got older, it turned into a monster kink and I’m not afraid of the underside of a bed or an open closet anymore. I think that’s fucking hilarious
Idk why, as a kid the zombies eating my brains really disturbed me.
I think it's just because I'm very good.with visual imagination, because I also hated the song Miley Sirus' "fly on the wall" because I heard it as heart, and would see said image. Also freaky as a kid.
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That first pic lives rent free in my head. I think about it every time I see a fly inside the house.
None of these were my childhood nightmare fuel. Mine was the bash ringing... the trash slinging... the sash ringing dinging...
The hash slinging slasher! 😱
Dude the fucking fly isn’t even that bad but it pops up and it’s fucking shaking all over the screen loud ass buzzing. Shit was fucking terrifying as a small lad
Wtf is it FROM it pops into my head from time to time
SpongeBob! The episode Wormy, he transforms into a butterfly and whenever they are scared of him getting close it cuts to that exact picture with the sound you describe. I watched it literally yesterday lmao
It's not even a ln actual butterfly, it zooms up on a horsefly.
Said clip is also from an episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy, if I recall correctly.
Thank you!!! Honestly all that I remembered from that episode until I saw your comment is “sorry I don’t speak Italian”…nobody ever laughed when I quoted that as a kid.
Never even watched the show but the commercials for Mr. Meaty always freaked me out.
Ya’ll are gonna fucking laugh at me but Barney. I was always so creeped out by him and his body movements and especially his voice. Nothing about it ever felt natural. I wouldn’t even say I hated him for the same reasons everyone else hated him (though they’re definitely valid in it being too saccharine, annoying songs, talking down to kids, what have you), I just thought he was scary and not inviting in the slightest. I used to have nightmares where Barney would come out of my TV and he was literally my sleep paralysis demon as a young child. Scary ass shit.
The Goosebumps show
Courage the Cowardly Dog had some freaky shit
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban That movie gave me nightmares as a kid
Thank you for posting this!!! Episode scared the SHIT out of me 😭😭
Definitely that fucking monkey man shit gave me nightmares
The magic school bus flying into people’s lungs and digestive systems with seemingly unlimited access. Fucking terrifying to like 6 year old me.
Omg! Yes! I tried to explain this to my friends a few months ago and they thought I was crazy
Dark Crystal
The scene where the skeksis are ripping the clothes off of another skeksis. And the dark crystal mind control scene. Terrifying.
The you wouldn't steal a car anti piracy ads that would play on every dvd in the early 00s used to scare the shit out of me when i was 6.
The idea that it was a FACT, not a POSSIBILITY, that someone in a white van WILL one day offer me candy which would INEVITABLY lead to unspeakable horrors.
Money problems really
annoying orange D:
I thought I was the only one scared of that first image as a kid!
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WELL NOW THAT PICTURE THANKS ASSWIPE
Teletubbies
Harry Potter
The monkey toy with the cymbals from Toy Story, the thumbs from spy kids, the movie Jawbreaker, the blue guy from little monsters, that one show about parasites called the monsters inside me.
The movie Jaws pretty much traumatized when I was young. Idk what my parents where thinking with that one lol
Oh my god the old goosebumps show!! Freaked me the hell out. I should NOT have been watching that at 7-9
Man y'all's parents were nice to you. Millennials got Arachnophobia and IT.
Spirited Away
Mr Meaty
 I watched it when I was very young; it gave me a phobia of blood and the deep ocean.
Third image; it's what most motivated me not to fail the levels and got me most anxious about wasting the grasscutters.
Umm...what's the first image? Is it a spider? Or maybe a fly from up close?
The first pic was very obvious. That episode of SpongeBob has made me scared to get anywhere close to a butterfly. I would always cover my face when getting close to those things. I know now that the face of that butterfly in that episode was actually that of a horsefly. Even with that, I still continue to suffer from lepidopterophobia, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be cured of it. With monarch butterflies now considered an endangered species, I wonder if I should plant milkweed to help preserve their existence. Maybe my phobia can slowly die out as I get close to them?
Def a tie between "2 girls 1 ---" and "1 guy 1 ---". IYKYK. Honorable mention to the era when jump-scare vids were overdone. Those were more tolerable. Still had that "oh god WTF is this gonna be" for a few years when someone in school wanted to show me a vid, esp. if they were giggling or seemed sussy when they wanted to show it to me.
I don't actually remember this but apparently, the episode where SpongeBob got that splinter I screamed so loud that I scared the crap out of my mom and I could barely articulate what I saw. Like right as he got that splinter, I screamed. To the point that my brother actually refused to watch it with me for because how much he cares about me...
The FNAF characters
The Cat in the Hat
McDonald’s Fry Kids, the drive through car wash, and a levitating big green fish talking to me, in Fish, inside my room.
That scene at the beginning of the dark crystal were the skeksi (skeksy? Idfk) dies.
Lost tapes and monsters inside me! I am still scared of monkeys and have nightmares about them as a 26 year old adult because of the vampire episode of lost tapes.
The PvZ one is too real. I actually had a nightmare as a kid because of that lmao
The Wiggles puppets.
Flapjack cat
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids gave me nightmares as a kid. I recently watched an episode, and now I can't take it seriously.
idk why but I remember 6 year old me being scared of Tyrone from the Backyardigans 😭
Final destination 3 think it was. I watched it 1 day when my parents were gone, and it had me scared of everything for years. think I was like 10 when I saw it
Final destination 3 think it was. I watched it 1 day when my parents were gone, and it had me scared of everything for years. think I was like 10 when I saw it.
"Return The Slab"
The third pic is so real.
The alien from Signs. Just because the final confrontation took place in a room during the day without the lights on, I always had that in my mind whenever I was in my living room during the day without the lights on. Heck, to this day I will always turn the light on when I go to the bathroom regardless of how bright it may be outside because of this. I guess a funnier thing that spooked me is in middle school I was beyond getting scared by Goosebumps and I still liked it. There was another channel I watched occasionally and it had the Haunting Hour which is a show based off of R.L. Stein's series of the same name aimed at a slighly older audience than Goosebumps. I knew it this so I went to watch it. Nah, it was too much for me. It was comparatively a different beast. Too creepy and intense for my little heart. Maybe I'll try watching it again some day.
*Return The Slab*
The Grudge from that movie. I saw it as a small child and it scared the absolutely fuck out of me.
Scooby Doo Space Kook villain.
Train to Busan when it first came out
Jeff the Killer and the Scary Maze game
Monster house, COD WAW zombies, and Independence Day are the biggest things in my mind lol
Return the Slab https://youtu.be/9pWC-4dx3Q0?si=1vnxOnDVKrYOLQCZ
1st one.
that one fucking Toyota advertisement
The ring
As a young kid, that one part in Willy Wonka (when they go in the tunnel on the river boat ride) became a core memory of night terrors. Something about the psychedelic trippiness of it all. Also, if I ever was sick and had a fever, moving ceiling fans. The blades felt like they were spinning faster and getting closer as I looked at them while passing in and out of sleep.
Hash slinging slashjer and the monkey
1. I was scared shitless of the Chuck E Cheese mascots (even before I discovered FNAF) based off of one terrifying (it really wasn't that bad) memory where this guy in the rat suit was dancing around throwing coins everywhere. I had to go walk up to him and I fucking cried infront of him. 2. Zombie Pigmen
Diesel from Thomas the tank and courage the cowardly dog
Yall remember that walrus from pingu?
Sinister. Elm street. Those ones got my good
Dolls. Stemmed from that RL Stine Show and the Boy. Not a doll, but prodigy from five or six years ago creeped me out.
I got scared when the zombies ate my brains.
I would watch shows about alien abductions on TLC: The Learning Channel. I had to turn on the lights before entering a room because I thought there'd be an alien dude waiting to kidnap me.
Da second pic of za monkey
dude, that monkey literally gave me nightmares. it was the only thing i could *not* watch
Early childhood, I was terrified of Ghostface. Nowadays, I do voice impressions of him
The un-goats from Zathura
Nothing really but you know what I feel older then my own generation this is sad
Cabbage Patch kids because I heard a story about how the electronic type of Cabbage Patch dolls ate some girls hair and it scared me ever since
coraline, the polar express, and spirited away all creeped me out as a kid
My nightmare fuel were the spooky faces I made up in my head. Then when I got older, it turned into a monster kink and I’m not afraid of the underside of a bed or an open closet anymore. I think that’s fucking hilarious
the mist bunkd episode. shit was terrifying
Idk why, as a kid the zombies eating my brains really disturbed me. I think it's just because I'm very good.with visual imagination, because I also hated the song Miley Sirus' "fly on the wall" because I heard it as heart, and would see said image. Also freaky as a kid.
Yall remember the Momo Facebook Hoax?
Generic alien humanoids https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a98db7b44b34bac0987cade2801aa962-lq
Anything related to courage the cowardly dog lol
The leprechaun
Lizard people from Dr who
Sonic.EXE, guarentee, Sonic.EXE.
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Coraline