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Growing up in 70s and 80s

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,

As a child what did you worry about most? There was so much to be terrified of

Sasquatch, Bigfoot, or was it the Loch Ness monster? Did you worry about alien abduction and being probed? Were you fear of the Bermuda Triangle? Did you worry about spontaneous human combustion and ending up as just a leg in your slipper?

What gave you nightmares? Triffids, getting stuck in quicksand, pylons or electricity substations.

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

The Galosher Man or Ginny Green Teeth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think I was unduly worried about a banshee getting me

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

When I was a kid my mother used to tell me that if I didn’t go to bed then Myra would get me.

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

Mr Noseybonk from Jigsaw

J

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The plethora of public information films that were broadcast just before the end of transmission on the BBC scared the hell out of me as a kid

I’ll certainly learnt never to play Frisbee near a power station whilst wearing bell-bottoms…

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

I remember my parents being genuinely worried about the Cuban missile crisis, probably their reaction which embedded the memory..

There was a film called 'night of the demon which I remember was feking scary but as kids we were immune to most things, maybe the lack of 24 hour news and social media played a part..

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

The guy from the sparks with the moustache used to scare me

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

I was always creeped out by Jimmy Saville...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The witch from wizard of Oz.

Tomorrow's world.

Going to bed. (My family were great just to clarify, the ghosts in my room not so much)

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,


"The Galosher Man or Ginny Green Teeth "

I forgot about Ginny green teeth, surprised I ever went near water again

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,


"I think I was unduly worried about a banshee getting me "

Don’t think I ever worried about banshees

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London

Daleks of course,

Actually, I think the 1970's were a much simpler time for a child.

The reality was pretty grim for the adults though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nuclear war... remember the frankly terrifying public info films.

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,

Please tell me she wasn’t threatening you with Myra hindley

I thought my mother was bad for threatening me with the cottage homes - where incidentally they make you wear green knickers with a pocket for your tuppence. WTF??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Great post.

What with no seat belts, lax drink drive laws, smoking allowed everywhere combined with the amount of highly flammable synthetic material in clothes and furniture there was quite a bit to be worried about.

But actually, yeah it was Triffids, Daleks, and Jaws that really scared me.

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

Sharks

Daleks

The Two Ronnies

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By *itenDaysCouple
over a year ago

Vale of Glamorgan

The child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,


"Mr Noseybonk from Jigsaw

J"

Can’t believe this was aimed at kids in infant school

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By *ornyboy777Man
over a year ago

Sleaford

Made the mistake of watching nightmare on elm street

Fuck sake Freddy cruger still frightens me

I would lock the doors and windows a dozen times.

I also was scared of a spider going in my ear and laying eggs

Funny what we were scared of

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

Zelda from terra hawks freaked me out ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Made the mistake of watching nightmare on elm street

Fuck sake Freddy cruger still frightens me

I would lock the doors and windows a dozen times.

I also was scared of a spider going in my ear and laying eggs

Funny what we were scared of

"

1...2...Freddie's coming for you

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By *lueOrchidWoman
over a year ago

Cardiff

As much as I loved the Nightmare on Elm street movies Freddy Kruger scared me the most. That and dying in quicksand…

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spike from Gremlins.

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

Poltergeists. Thanks, Drew.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s

I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s

87 to be precise

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Galosher Man or Ginny Green Teeth "

Lolol that made me laugh, my kids were scared to death by the green toothed one

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over


"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s

I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s

87 to be precise "

Still a spring chicken natalie eh?

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"I think I was unduly worried about a banshee getting me "

The Banshee was terrifying but no one knew what it or she looked like..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s

I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s

87 to be precise

Still a spring chicken natalie eh? "

Yip 35

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By *00KissesCouple
over a year ago

Stourbridge

Grotbags

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over


"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s

I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s

87 to be precise

Still a spring chicken natalie eh?

Yip 35"

At least another 60 years of being naughty then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Nuclear war... remember the frankly terrifying public info films. "

…..and those behind the Iron Curtain; The USSR, China and Eastern Europe.

Basically, the Communists.

Miles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watership down and Animal farm were the videos my mum got for us to watch in the holidays and HR pufinstuff - I think my mum had been puffin a bit too much stuff.

She then moved on to video nasties. There's a reason I'm this fucked up.

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

Every bit of water had Ginny green teeth in but it never kept us away,or as we found out later our parents as kids,or their parents.Always had eyes in the back of our heads because the Police were the Police back then.

The straight out of uni "right on" teachers tried to frighten us into joining CND by showing the nuclear war TV drama "Threads",that didn't work because it was widely believed at our school CND was just for lesbians.AIDS was only scary briefly "because you can catch it from a toilet seat",then it wasn't because "only gays get it".To be honest nothing scared us because at that age you think you are deathproof.When kids got killed by car crash,the railway,sniffing petrol and other solvents it was "never going to happen to us".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think I was unduly worried about a banshee getting me

The Banshee was terrifying but no one knew what it or she looked like.."

I might already know her then hopefully the wailing would give her away

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,


"Grotbags "

"Ooooh that was very personal" she was great.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The candy man

Mrs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Poltergeist scares the hell out of me. Also thought chucky was chasing me every time I went upstairs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The candy man

Mrs"

Oh god this too!

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Please tell me she wasn’t threatening you with Myra hindley

I thought my mother was bad for threatening me with the cottage homes - where incidentally they make you wear green knickers with a pocket for your tuppence. WTF??"

I regret she was threatening me with Myra Hindley. However, I didn’t know who she was so it had zero effect.

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By *oft_SensualTV/TS
over a year ago

Yorkshire

The thought of Ronald Reagan pressing the Red Button kept me awake on more than one occasion in the mid 80s. Ironically, I wasn't worried about Gorbachev.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

The film ‘Scum’ especially the greenhouse scene.

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,

So many of these things were genuine cause for concern. Dark water public service ads gave me nightmares. Threat of nuclear war or aids. All those ads were terrifying, we needed hamlet cigars and cinzanno just to lighten things up and give you something to live for

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By *aughtyLisa341Woman
over a year ago

Ripley

Chucky omg he was an evil little fucker

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s

I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s

87 to be precise

Still a spring chicken natalie eh?

Yip 35

At least another 60 years of being naughty then "

Depends at the moment yip but things may change never know what’s around the corner

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By *antricSeeker60Man
over a year ago

Durham

Skinheads set the fear of death into me.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I remember hiding behind the sofa when my sister watched The Incredible Hulk.

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By *lipzer KnicksaffWoman
over a year ago

Up My Own Arse Apparently

The Yorkshire Ripper.

Think I heard something on the radio when I was about 4 about a man murdering ladies and being genuinely terrified every time my Mum left the house. The fact we lived in Glasgow obviously didn't compute with my wee brain.

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,


"Please tell me she wasn’t threatening you with Myra hindley

I thought my mother was bad for threatening me with the cottage homes - where incidentally they make you wear green knickers with a pocket for your tuppence. WTF??

I regret she was threatening me with Myra Hindley. However, I didn’t know who she was so it had zero effect. "

Those two lived not very far from me,it wasn't a threat local parents used.Too near and too fresh in the memory.I went to college just after school with a girl whose mother was very nearly a victim.We would be threatened with some nameless character who would take us to some kind of child prison.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

I was afraid of nuclear war through most of the ’80s. All the warnings and practices at school …

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My father, very handy with a leather belt

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By *razzyhorseMan
over a year ago

cambridge

Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

Going to secondary school in the 80’s something that I found terrifying was the showers after PE they were always cold and grim looking not to mention the piss taking and hurtful comments from the other boys as even as a 12-13 I was quite hairy.

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By *ristinapinkWoman
over a year ago

Staines-upon-Thames

When I was little I was scared of… actually terrified by Father Xmas, I would scream my head off if one on the street would try to approach to give me a balloon - I thought he would take good kids with him to help him & the elves. I don’t know where I got that idea from, but I was sure I was a really good kid and he wanted to take me - true story haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week "

Oh that was fabulously scary yes!

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By *aughtyLisa341Woman
over a year ago

Ripley

That was very scary as i remember my mum crying and been worried about it. We lived less than half a mile from one of the murder s x

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

We were made to watch the nuclear war thing at high school, quite possibly in my first year so I would of been 11. When I told my mum she came into school with me and went to see the head about it. I was scared of her to she always wore a red dress and had a cane in a display box above her office door. Like a really cunty reminder. Thank god it had been banned by the time I started!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I couldnt watch Grange Hill with the Zammo storyline. I was terrified of becoming a drug addict.

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By *iss_Juicy79Woman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

We had a coal fire I always had nightmares of the house going on fire cause of that

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By *iromancergirl1Woman
over a year ago

bolton

There wasn’t much that scared me as a kid except mark almond and he still gives me the creeps

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere


"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week

Oh that was fabulously scary yes! "

Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!

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By *olden RatioWoman
over a year ago

Buckinghamshire

Seeing the news reports on the accidents on the Thames and Zebrugge has left me with a real fear of being on ships.

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

cahoots

A bit earlier but I thought world war 3 was a possibility when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…


"I couldnt watch Grange Hill with the Zammo storyline. I was terrified of becoming a drug addict. "

‘Just say no.’

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

I remember the Six Million Dollar Man episode with Sasquatch. It scared the hell out of me.

I remember reading about Spontaneous Human Combustion and associated case studies. They scared the hell out of me. I remember the articles about the Bermuda Triangle. You've guessed it... I was quite unsettled.

Thank you OP. I think you wrote this thread for me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week

Oh that was fabulously scary yes!

Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!"

Twilight zone.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"I think I was unduly worried about a banshee getting me

The Banshee was terrifying but no one knew what it or she looked like..

I might already know her then hopefully the wailing would give her away "

Could well do..

The noise is meant to be unforgettable..

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,


"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week

Oh that was fabulously scary yes!

Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!"

Oh the birthday party where the pipes burst and sprayed blood everywhere

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By *osco78Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Nuclear war

And the wankers that thought my dad made ira bombs

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By *rincipessa OP   Woman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,


"I remember the Six Million Dollar Man episode with Sasquatch. It scared the hell out of me.

I remember reading about Spontaneous Human Combustion and associated case studies. They scared the hell out of me. I remember the articles about the Bermuda Triangle. You've guessed it... I was quite unsettled.

Thank you OP. I think you wrote this thread for me."

I was convinced I’d end up just a leg and a slipper. Possibly why I don’t wear them anymore

My dad subscribed to the unexplained and the first issue came with a floppy disc that had recording of ghosts, possibly at a seance. My best friend and I would play it and terrify ourselves. Would have to jump onto the bed after setting it to play, convinced one of them would pull us under the bed

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton


"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week

Oh that was fabulously scary yes!

Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!

Oh the birthday party where the pipes burst and sprayed blood everywhere "
. Yes that’s one that gave me nightmares

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London


"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week

Oh that was fabulously scary yes!

Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!

Oh the birthday party where the pipes burst and sprayed blood everywhere "

That is the one I remember.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Nuclear war... remember the frankly terrifying public info films. "

Remember them well.

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By *imLMan
over a year ago

Sunderland

It was pretty terrible what man did to the animals of farthing wood…. And I’ll never forget the night Percy got stuck in the treacle…not even Thomas could help him.

But at least we didn’t have social media!!!

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By *osco78Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Nuclear war

And the wankers that thought my dad made ira bombs

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Disaster films, Towering Inferno had quite a few grisly deaths, Robert Wagner and his Girlfriend both died horribly.

The Poseidon Adventure, Gene Hackman actually dies, he’s the hero

Earthquake had quite a few scary deaths

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I honestly don't remember being terribly concerned about anything.

Though I do remember some TV show where they knocked through a wall in a house and found skeletal remains in a bed. That gave me nightmares for a couple of nights.

Nita

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By *929Man
over a year ago

bedlington

For a long time was most scared of these daft things that came in a recurring dream they were just like an upside down tick symbol about 10 inches long grey and corrugated length ways and called “ziggers” I dreamed all the time I was sitting on my bed and they were loads off them crawling around the floor and I couldn’t get off my bed or they would kill me (fuck knows how but you don’t think rationally as a bairn) but I was terrified of them an my mam used this to scare me in to doing as I’m told and even bought a wall unit with things on the back that looked like them which I’m sure was on pupose to keep me out the sitting room the cunt she is

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Madly

I was scared of grotbags lol

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford


"Mr Noseybonk from Jigsaw

J"

OMG yesss... That White Masked Freak...

I also didn't like the cape of death that warned kids not to swim in rivers and lakes.... Brrrrrrr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Climate change. We only had about 5 years before the ice caps would have all melted. Terrified me as a young teen, my low-lying Somerset levels house would have been underwater

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By * F 2018Couple
over a year ago

shropshire

The big spiders in my room!

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"Madly

I was scared of grotbags lol "

I must have been a strange child... I thought she was great.

Nita

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By *irk_Dastardly.Man
over a year ago

Salford

Watching Jaws - even though I regularly swim, I have a deep water phobia.

And an American Wherewolf in London - scarred the s*** out of me when I was young. Now love the soundtrack!

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Daleks and vampires.

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

80's kid.

So I worried constantly about the cold war / nuclear war. From the age of 6 or 7 I was a news junkie and was allowed to stay up and watch the news at ten, or newsnight, question time, etc. By the age of 9-10, I had a very mature grip on world events.

By my teens, I was terrified of my parents catching me smoking.

And wanking. Which mum almost did one day.

I was sat at a table, with my flies open, and my gentleman's gentleman in one of my hands under the table. The other arm rested on the table, and I had my science books open and was doing "homework".

Just as I reached the point of no return, my bedroom door slowly opened as she brought me in a cup of tea.

The "occupied" hand flew to the table to grab a different sort of pen, as my mum breezed in with my cup of tea. She even commented that I looked a bit "flushed".

I mumbled something about "it's a bit warm in here, isn't it?" and whilst I am saying that I am actually coming all over myself under the bloody table whilst talking to my mum.

I felt dirty for sodding years after that.

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By *929Man
over a year ago

bedlington


"80's kid.

So I worried constantly about the cold war / nuclear war. From the age of 6 or 7 I was a news junkie and was allowed to stay up and watch the news at ten, or newsnight, question time, etc. By the age of 9-10, I had a very mature grip on world events.

By my teens, I was terrified of my parents catching me smoking.

And wanking. Which mum almost did one day.

I was sat at a table, with my flies open, and my gentleman's gentleman in one of my hands under the table. The other arm rested on the table, and I had my science books open and was doing "homework".

Just as I reached the point of no return, my bedroom door slowly opened as she brought me in a cup of tea.

The "occupied" hand flew to the table to grab a different sort of pen, as my mum breezed in with my cup of tea. She even commented that I looked a bit "flushed".

I mumbled something about "it's a bit warm in here, isn't it?" and whilst I am saying that I am actually coming all over myself under the bloody table whilst talking to my mum.

I felt dirty for sodding years after that.

"

Hahaha that was great

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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

I read the 'exorcist' didn't sleep ,one eye on the bedroom door the other on the window

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

Watershed down fucking horrific film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was accused of being possessed by the devil after reading the omen in one night

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By *untogetherCouple
over a year ago

Malaga, Spain, Not in U. K.

Zippy from Rainbow... The gimp masked puppet

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Growing up in the seventies and eighties I don’t recall being especially scared by too much, all that nuclear war stuff seemed to go over my head.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nothing by the 70's, humanity since..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Freddie was probably the worst one for me. I had 2 much older brothers that would babysit me when my parents went out and they'd always hire a horror movie from the video shop. I'd watch it and be scared for weeks after!

Critters as well, they used to invade my dreams!

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

They made us watch Threads at school. Scared the living shit out of me.

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By *penbicoupleCouple
over a year ago

Northampton

Abusive family members and nuclear war.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair


"They made us watch Threads at school. Scared the living shit out of me."

•

Totally agree. It was harrowing.

And then I remember them making us read "Z For Zachariah" at school.

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,


"Watershed down fucking horrific film "

Do you mean Watership down? Just after the movie was released a local butcher put a sign in his window,"you've read the book, you've seen the film now come in and meat the cast".Brilliant.

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By *weetkitten65Woman
over a year ago

Halifax

The children's programme The Changes..

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,


"They made us watch Threads at school. Scared the living shit out of me."

My (nearby) town featured in Threads when Sheffield got hit.Scary? Nah,even then we knew it wasn't going to happen.Some teachers tried to convince us but they couldn't get past the mutually assured destruction argument.

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,


"The children's programme The Changes.."

That was an odd one...

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

I wasn't a child in the seventies and definitely not in the eighties. I was mostly scared of getting bad marks at school between 1970/74. I was 18 in 1974 and wasn't afraid of anything until we had our first child in the late eighties when I became very afraid that I'd never have a full night's sleep again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaws

Dr Who

And...

The white arrow delivery van (mum use to say it was the naughty boys home van haha)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Going to secondary school in the 80’s something that I found terrifying was the showers after PE they were always cold and grim looking not to mention the piss taking and hurtful comments from the other boys as even as a 12-13 I was quite hairy."

Don't forget the flicking with towels, that stung.

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By *ave0070Man
over a year ago

Sleaford

I wasn't really sceard of much in the 70s and 80s growing up and was out playing most of the time and didn't watch much TV and was more interested in music and football until I got interested in girls lol xx

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By *issTinyWoman
over a year ago

omagh


"Watershed down fucking horrific film

Do you mean Watership down? Just after the movie was released a local butcher put a sign in his window,"you've read the book, you've seen the film now come in and meat the cast".Brilliant."

Lmfao that is savage

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By *aGaGagging for itCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

White dog shit

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By *imLMan
over a year ago

Sunderland


"White dog shit"

This is true!!!

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By *orthernJayMan
over a year ago

LHR


"When I was a kid my mother used to tell me that if I didn’t go to bed then Myra would get me. "

WTAF bro

Not sure I’d have got out of bed

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By *ave0070Man
over a year ago

Sleaford

Ha yes I can remember the white dog shit very strange that it just seemed to disappear

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

The Charlie says infomercials freaked me out.

The babysitter that used to show me films like the exorcist and the omen. The punk gangs - older kids. Till I got to know them and they gave me cigs etc.

Then fear got replaced mid 80s. We went exploring were we shouldn't: abandoned tannery, the train tracks to the power station. We used to run along the cooling pipelines and jump onto the coal train. We turned whatever we found into our playground. Then all of a sudden girls started appearing, some even joined in then we were even bigger dickheads.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to sleep at my grandparents house often in my early teens, the bedroom was full of old fashioned furniture, ornaments creepy as hell, it had a tiny old school tv I used to watch when they’d gone to sleep. I couldn’t sleep one night, switched on the tv and salems lot was on it scared me to death. After that I got obsessed with tales of the unexpected which was creepy at best but loved it, fell asleep watching it and woke up to American werewolf in London on at 1am, don’t think I slept with the light off for years after

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan
over a year ago

Norwich


"I used to sleep at my grandparents house often in my early teens, the bedroom was full of old fashioned furniture, ornaments creepy as hell, it had a tiny old school tv I used to watch when they’d gone to sleep. I couldn’t sleep one night, switched on the tv and salems lot was on it scared me to death. After that I got obsessed with tales of the unexpected which was creepy at best but loved it, fell asleep watching it and woke up to American werewolf in London on at 1am, don’t think I slept with the light off for years after "

It was a hammer werewolf film for me, which my parents let me watch because presumably they thought no one would be taken in by the crummy effects. How wrong they were! Oh and “Threads” and doctor who.

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By *izzy.miss.lizzyCouple
over a year ago

Pembrokeshire

The school board man - whoever he was.

Mother used to say he would come and get me every time I skipped class.

I skipped class a LOT.

Clearly, the school board man wasn't very good at his job.

Or mother lied...

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Mostly just the threat of nuclear bombs and being knifed at school ! A few triffid & quaternass nightmares

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By *weetkitten65Woman
over a year ago

Halifax


"Ha yes I can remember the white dog shit very strange that it just seemed to disappear "

Apparently it was due to bone meal been put in dog food which made it White..

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Didn’t need monsters to be scared of, there wear plenty of zombies ( smackheads ) just walking around.

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Nuclear war... remember the frankly terrifying public info films.

…..and those behind the Iron Curtain; The USSR, China and Eastern Europe.

Basically, the Communists.

Miles"

Boo! Scary child of a communist country planted herself in your life as a spy

T

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.

But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.

Good times.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The one thing that really scared me was the Falklands war.

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

?

The toilet flush monster

I grew up in a small village surrounded by a big forest...all the kids in the village had the fear of god put into us to never set a foot in the forest without an adult with us in case a kidn@pper snatched us (although my dad used to insist that I was such an annoying little shit that they'd soon bring me back )

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Strangely enough, despite growing up in a "war" zone and having to walk through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe going to and from school I didn't worry about very much.

Bombs were exploding 100 yards from our house and all I was concerned about was getting to football.

That was my normal and a Dalek invasion while being a little different would have been treated with similar distain.

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By *mf123Man
over a year ago

with one foot out the door

Terrahawks

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By *weetkitten65Woman
over a year ago

Halifax


"Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.

But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.

Good times. "

Bend over boy...

I'll be your teacher

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By *inda May SimmonsTV/TS
over a year ago

hexham


"I was always creeped out by Jimmy Saville..."

Totally!

I could never understand his popularity. He was just a creepy fuck from day one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Absolutely nothing scared me

I was truly feral

Outside all the time. Fishing, climbing trees, cycling everywhere

I knew the rules of when to be home, be respectful and how to stay safe.

And I'm still the same. Nothing scares me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Terrahawks"

Oh my good Zelda

What a woman lmao

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.

But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.

Good times.

Bend over boy...

I'll be your teacher "

And they wonder why our generation are as kinky as we are lol ??

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By *weetkitten65Woman
over a year ago

Halifax


"Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.

But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.

Good times.

Bend over boy...

I'll be your teacher

And they wonder why our generation are as kinky as we are lol ?? "

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton


"I was always creeped out by Jimmy Saville...

Totally!

I could never understand his popularity. He was just a creepy fuck from day one "

Absolutely! Bleugh

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By *ymbunnyfitCouple
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

Doctor Who ,hidding behind sofa when the monsters came ! Other than that 70s and 80s where amazing time as kid

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I was terrified of lightning as a kid, till I had to cycle home in it one day.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham


"Nuclear war... remember the frankly terrifying public info films. "

That never bothered me, as I lived not far from Burtonwood airbase. If that got hit, I would have been vapourised.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A children's TV programme called 'Children of the Stones'

A wrestler called 'Crybaby' Jim Breaks, he made a crunching sound when twisting another wrestlers arm, sounded really nasty.

A man who lived in the same street as my grandparents, who had dreadful facial burns from the war. I got to know and like him as I got a bit older.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goblins from Noddy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The nuclear bomb film they showed us and Aids.

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By *escourtesMan
over a year ago

hereford

The Cybermen on dr who

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By *escourtesMan
over a year ago

hereford

The picnic at Hanging rock

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Horror films back then would give you sleepless nights

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By *lasgowMassageMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Maggie Murphy (maybe just a Glasgow thing)

If I was misbehaving my mum would threaten to send for Maggie Murphy

Also anyone who wasn't scared by The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is lying

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By *adtaffladMan
over a year ago

Rhyl

I was bought up in a city so it was the Russians and the ira. Safety was drummed into us even at school

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

What the next scary monster would be on Dr Who!

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