What monsters did you fear as a kid?

[Crazy Dave]

I remember the days (and nights) very well of Boogiemen, magic blankets that my parents promised would keep the monster under the bed from getting me and of course a snoopy night light after watching "Creature Feature" on the late show.
I remember a movie I saw as a kid called "The Legend OF Boggy Creek" and it was about a swamp monster like Bigfoot except it was mean and nasty. I was afraid to go outside in the dark for weeks after seeing that.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. King Kong (the old Fay Wray one)

and my dad

[Ptah]

69. .

[Deep13]

2. martians

I watched War of the Worlds when I was like 5. Big mistake.

[Crazy Dave]

3. Remember what happened when it played on the radio in 1938?

"Many people missed or ignored the opening credits of the program, and in the atmosphere of growing tension and anxiety in the days leading up to World War II, took it to be a news broadcast. Contemporary newspapers reported that panic ensued, with people fleeing the area, and others thinking they could smell the poison gas or could see the flashes of the lightning in the distance"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)

[Deep13]

4. Afraid not. b.1967.

I do have a tape with that on it. What makes the whole thing unbelieveable for anyone paying attention is that all that stuff could happen within an hour broadcast.

[Crazy Dave]

5. I know

I meant to say did you hear what happened back then. I saw a movie based on the radio broadcast and the events that followed. I got the date from Wiki

[kwassa]

36. the original War of the Worlds movie scared me to death

[zingaro]

67. Yes. Exactly. UFOs. For that reason. nt

[soleft]

6. I called them Desert Monsters

I have no idea where I got that term from or what it meant. But they looked like gumbies, except they were black, had pointier heads and really big teeth. I once had a dream that one of them ate my mother's head.

I saw Legend of Boggy Creek when iw as a kid. Wasn't it like a pseudo-doc? I remember the scariest part was hearing the monster's scream. A good example of how what is unseen is often scarier than what is seen.

[Crazy Dave]

7. I'd like to see it now

As a young kid it scared the hell out of me.

[dropkickpa]

8. rabbits

Still hate the fuckers.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Well, who could blame you? I mean,

Look at all the bones!

[dropkickpa]

12. That movie just confirmed my suspicions

Rabbits are the biggest irrational fear I've ever had. I'm not afraid of them now, but am very allergic.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Maybe the fear was your body's way of avoiding sneezing fits?

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. The gorilla on my bedroom chair, the T-rex outside my bedroom window, the vampire in the bathroom...

You name it, I was scared of it. LOL

[semillama]

13. I too was afraid of things looking in the window.

It was Bigfoot and, for some reason, 1930s-style classic mobsters.

:shrug:

I think the Bigfoot thing came from a movie ad on tv for some bigfoot film, where a cabin gets shaken around. I don't know where the mobsters came from at all!

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. LOL Mom, the gangstas are gonna get me! Pay 'em off, quick! Actually

I nearly died when I saw Jurassic park 2. They had a T-Rex looking in the bedroom of a little kid. It was waaaay too much like my old night fears. I wonder if it is a fairly common one, though?

[Crazy Dave]

16. The big giant hand outside my window...

Would always turn into a tree branch whenever my parents would come into the room all pissed off at me for whining and not going to sleep.

[MilesColtrane]

43. Oh man, there used to be a rose bush outside my window when I was a kid.

At night, when I was in bed, sometimes the wind would whip up and that thing would make scratching noises on the window screen.

I'd get so scared that I couldn't move.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Richard Nixon

not really joking. I wasn't really scared of monsters from various stories that I recall.

[Rambis]

17. bigfoot

from the legend of boggie creek as well- I wish I had never seen that film.

[azmouse]

18. It's seems silly now but when I was six I saw the movie The Blob

and it scared the life outta me!
I kept thinking it was outside the house and I was afraid to sleep with my bedroom window open because it might ooze inside. :scared:

[Crazy Dave]

19. That one got me too

I think we begged our parents to keep the AC on real cold in the house :scared:

[azmouse]

21. Did you see the original or the remake fromt the '80s?

I saw the original with Steve McQueen. I think it's just campy good fun now. :)

[Crazy Dave]

25. The original when I was a small kid

I haven't seen any remakes of it.

[Hatchling]

45. Oh, me too!

My mom had to switch to strawberry jam instead of grape jelly because I was sure it was a little "blob". I freaked when she took it out of the fridge. I think I was three or four at the time.

[azmouse]

49. I can just imagine a little kid thinking that.

ummmmm..... you're over that now, aren't you? :P :hi:

[Hatchling]

51. ummmmmm....no

It still has to be jam. I mean.. I'm not *really* afraid of grape jelly anymore but I still can't eat it. Or have it in the house. Or look at it on the grocery shelves.

:scared:

[azmouse]

53. Look out behind you!!!

The Blob was filmed not far from where I grew up. Maybe that's why it scared me?

[Dr. Strange]

20. Lidsville

Fucking Sid and Marty!

[Akoto]

22. It'll sound strange, but ...

I was terribly afraid of this parrot statue that used to hang over my bed. At night, when I laid in the dark, it looked like its eyes followed me. :scared:

[BlueIris]

23. Vampires (which still scare me like NOTHING else).

When I was a kid, I was sooooo afraid that vampires were real.

[Crazy Dave]

24. Magic blankets used to work against vampires too

But you had to tuck and/or wrap them tight around your neck almost to the point of choking in order for them to work effectively and even during the summer if you just finished watching "Creature Feature".

[azmouse]

28. I think we must have been seperated at birth.

:spray:
That reminds me that I did the same thing with blankets. I blame it on watching Dark Shadows as a kid.

[Flaxbee]

26. Stephen King wrote a short story called "The Bogeyman" -

the bogeyman lived in the closet, and if your closet door wasn't completely closed at night, he'd come and kill you or something. :shrug: At least, that's what I gleaned from the story; I read it when I was 6 (my older sisters - 16 and 18 had lots of Stephen King books around) and was uneasy for years.

I was also TERRIFIED of the living dead, or I guess to be more precise, zombies.

[marzipanni]

27. Man Who Walks Below the Window

My parents had a book of American art which included a painting of a house in the dark with a long ladder leaning against it below an open second story window. It was a portrayal of the scene of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
At my parents house there was a pea gravel walk around the back of the house and in the middle of one night I thought I heard someone taking measured, deliberate steps along it, someone trying not to make noise. I held my breath and listened intently. I was convinced an intruder was looking for a way to get in. I slithered out of bed and crept toward my parents' room where I found Pepé, our standard poodle, leaning against the wall to my room taking deep breaths and exhaling the air from his throat with the sound I had heard as footsteps on gravel.

[radfringe]

29. toss up between

my kindergarten teacher Miss Roberts
or
my 2nd grade teacher Miss Carey..

:scared: they still give me nightmares :scared:

[Phillycat]

30. Real ones.

Too many for a kid to know about.

[bif]

31. The Creature from the Black Lagoon

That one always scared the crap out of me.

[momophile]

32. vampires under the bed

and as far as I'm concerned, they are still there. just watch me leap into bed after I turn off the lights. fortunately, I've always been too fast for them. oh and fortunately they can't climb beds.

[mak3cats]

33. Those horrible power line monsters...

...the ones with the pointy ears and the really menacing arm positions (if you've ever driven west along the NYS Thruway around the Rochester area you know what I'm talking about - they march right next to the highway). To tell the truth, they still give me the heebie-jeebies.

[bikebloke]

34. The monster in the other room

I later realized that it was my parents or grandparents snoring.

[LeftyMom]

35. Jaws, and my mother's second husband.

Maybe not in that order.

[Fire Walk With Me]

37. Reagan.

[fight4my3sons]

38. Jason (Friday the 13th)

and we lived in the woods of NM at one point and everytime I went outside to play my mom would say "watch out for Jason." I think she thought it was funny, but it really was not.
I was afraid of Bigfoot because my mom took me to see the movie when I was 5.
I was also afraid of that thing from "Tales from the Darkside" that lived in the crawlspace.
Still afraid of Michael Myers and if I hear the music from Halloween I freak out.

[Parche]

39. THIS ONE!!!!!!

:scared: :scared: :hi:

[plantwomyn]

40. The Wolfman

nt

[Iggo]

55. But his hair is perfect!

[NaturalHigh]

61. Me too...

I saw "Frankenstein vs. the Wolfman" when I was five. I was terrified of werewolves for years after that.

[ThomWV]

41. Spiders, and I'm still scared shitless of them.

I have been shot, I have been stabbed, I have been cut, I have been beat. I have fallen off of motorcycles at over 100 mph, I have been in one fixed-wing and two helecopter crashes. My chest is lumpy from broken bones and I fear no man alive. Put a spider in front of me and I cower. You try to explain it, I can't.

[MilesColtrane]

42. When I was very young (3, or 4) my brother used to scare me with...

...a picture of Marcel Marceau in one of my dad's photography books.






Ughh...to this day I don't care for mimes.

You know they stay silent just so they can sneak up on you, don't you?


Later it was various creatures; Boggy Creek monster, Gargoyles after seeing that movie on TV, the wierd faces in the opening shot of "Night Gallery"...

[applegrove]

44. I only remember being afraid once. I had a nightmare about a pumpkinheaded

man. That was it for me. I woke up and told my parents about pumpkinhead. He wasn't chasing me..he just had a pumpking for a head.

[crim son]

46. The Creature Under the Bed,

Satanic Spirits and that Crappy Kid Next Door who threw rocks at me on the way to school.

[BarenakedLady]

47. Whatever was under the bed

or in my closet.

:scared:

[montanto]

48. The Zodiac. eom

[Hatchling]

50. The Bear in the Closet

When I was very small (two or three) I slept on a daybed in my parents room and at one point I got into the habit of waking up in the middle of the night and playing in the closet and thus waking my parents up. Thus the Bear in the Closet was created to keep me in my bed. I was 46 before I could sleep without double checking that the closet door was shut tight and only got over it because my new kitten insisted that she had to be able to go in and out of the closet all the time.

[Inchworm]

52. Numbers

I had a recurring nightmare where numbers came alive and had weapons. They were evil and tried to kill each other and me.

Yup, I'm a whack job :P

:hi:

[Iggo]

54. Hippies with rabies.

Scared the crap outa me.

[devilgrrl]

56. My mom

The scariest of them all.

[zanne]

57. The nuns in my Catholic grammar school! nt

[Iggo]

58. Oh, no. Sister Gustave!

AAAAAAaaaaaaaa......!!!!!!!

[zanne]

59. Sister Cecile!

GAH!

[hippywife]

60. My dad.

He was real. Everything else was make believe.

[lunatica]

62. All the B movies about

giant ants or human beings turning into chick lusting rubber lizards because of the atomic bomb. Invasions form outer space, and the damn priest walking towards the ship in War of The Worlds holding the bible while his niece screamed. The priest should have been spared because he was the man of God, but damn! Not even God's people were spared! That's probably the best depiction of the alieness of the aliens. They destroyed even God's people! I would stay under the covers very still so when they came into my room they would think no one was in the bed.

:scared:

[China_cat]

63. There was this giant mean parrot that lived in the closet.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

64. Aliens

My parents bought the book Communion back in the 80's which had that lovely pic of the grey alien on the cover. I was a kid at the time and I remember seeing a lot of news reports at the time about ufo sightings, which I was already freaked out about, and to have this book lying on the coffee table face up freaked me out even more. I would quickly flip it over, or my parents would start reading it and I would have to leave the room.. It also lead to me checking under my bed and in my closet every night before bed for years. I also began closing my blinds because I didn't want the aliens to have a clear view of me.. I was a sad little girl lol

[Joey Liberal]

65. Evangelicals n/t

[triguy46]

66. Absolutley deathly afraid of Disney's "Shaggy Dog". I was afraid to look in the mirror.

Now I just wish I had hair of any kind.

[ThomCat]

68. My brother and my father.

I didn't need to be afraid of anything fake.

[hippywife]

70. ...

:hug:

[ThomCat]

71. Hi hippywife.

:hi:

:hug:

[HamstersFromHell]

72. Forbidden Planet...

and monsters from the id (heavy stuff to be puttin' on the fertile mind of an impressionable 5 to 6 year old)

Also...Gort. (The Day The Earth Stood Still) I mean, this thing vaporized army tanks!