When I was younger I was terrified of ghostface from scream I don't know why but I was really scared of him also I grew up when the original Xbox came out I had to play that on a small tv from like 1993 in a room away from my parents and pets in a spare room without the light on because the land Lord broke it and I'd play stranger wick and star wars battle front 2 and I'd those games crash or if there where no sounds coming from the Xbox it got terrifying
I don't know if you had this show in the USA, but we did in France in the early 90's, it's called Pingu. It's a clay stop-motion show about a young pinguin who would only communicate through screams or saying NOOT-NOOT. There was this episode, where Pingu was having a nightmare in which he was strolling alone on the ice floe, kinda tensed but didn't really remember why... Until this huuuge mofo seal, in this disturbing clay animation way, mimicking reality but so uncanny, appears and screams with these super weird dubbed human screams. Oh man, the 90's weren't that innocent, it still gives me the creeps. EDIT: FK THAT, I just rewatched it and FK THAT it's still terrifying. th-cam.com/video/lSb-IScr1YI/w-d-xo.html
I remember being terrified of the warnings in different languages that would played at the end of DVDs after the credits. Mostly because of the pure silence
3 things come to mind: 1. The THX intro sound. That eerie, loud sound made me feel very uncomfortable; 2. Nosferatu in that one episode of Spongebob Squarepants. The shift in art style, which looks like paper cutouts or something and the spooky character scared the shit out of me; 3. The Halloween episode in 6Teen where zombies invade the mall, which felt very out of place in the overall wholesome and carefree series scared me to the point where I knew the beginning by heart, so anytime it came on I just stopped watching TV.
pad, that Barney scene just sent chills down my spine. literally this traumatized me as a kid and I totally forgot about it until right now. like it gave me nightmares and I was too afraid to admit to my mom what my nightmare was about even as a kid. It’s kinda freaky that im not alone
King Ramsey from Courage the Cowardly Dog scared the ever living shit out of me. A lot of stuff from that show is horrifying but that one kept me up at night. Talk about 3D animation.
My mom refused to let me watch Barney when I was a kid because she found it insufferable, but if I had seen that donkey at that age it would have absolutely kept me up at night. Even watching it for the first time now it really unsettled me
ive never seen/heard of the barney donkey until now, im 22, and it still gave me chills! THAT SHIT IS CREEPY DUDE. some things just seriously have bad energy about them.
What scared me as a kid was: - Chuckie gets The Shot in Rugrats (that scene is pretty much responsible for my fear of needles. Straight up mortified me as a kid.) - The Zombies from Michael Jackson's Thriller (I used to think the zombies would break into my room like they did in the end of the music video) - ReDead from Legend of Zelda (Whenever I was adult Link, I just used the Ocarina to warp me out of the Temple of Time, so I could avoid those ghastly moans and shrieks) - Wrinkly Kong from Donkey Kong 64 (obvious reasons) - Meeting Clanker in Banjo Kazooie (the way he stared into the camera and opens his mouth was enough to make me turn off the game)
used to watch spongebob in the dark alot I remember the end credits absolutely scaring the shit out of me idky but that end song sends chills down my spine also weird graphics uncanny valley style shit
When I was a child I used to be absolutely terrified of the Gracie Films logo at the end of The Simpsons. Something about that dark atmosphere, the harshness of the lady going "Shh" and the music just rubbed me the wrong way. Even as an adult it makes me feel uncomfortable, brrr. And don't get me started on the halloween special ones, good LORD.
i was terrified of the sound of those alert tests that would come on like once a week, it was so surreal because every thursday school would end early and i'd come home and watch cartoons, and you just hear this ear spitting sound and then some terribly loud music over videos of scenery.. i hated it
That shit still scares me. I remember sitting on the couch in my nana's house (I was maybe 4 years old) watching Dora the Explorer when suddenly that fat red line appears at the top of the screen with the horrible beep of the alert system. I think the volume was already high on the TV so this especially scared me.
The thing from my childhood that scared me the most is definitely an episode of “the wiggles” where there was a part with extremely creepy puppet versions of the characters and it gave me so many nightmares
The scariest things to me were always fascinating to me too. I've had thalassophobia and crippling megalophobia all my life, but I would still make my dad put on these videos of jellyfish from deep in the ocean. These jellyfish, I think they were called eggyolk jellyfish or something, were like 6 times larger than people swimming around them, and 20 times longer. I imagined myself there, totally vulnerable to be eaten or stung or whatever by a creature like that. The jellies weren't even the worst. Blobfish, colossal squids, some kind of wood lice related bug the size of your torso, in cold, dark water, with that harsh sound of the water around you moving and the wildlife just living there like it's normal, horrified me, but I couldn't look away. I was entranced by it, and eventually I liked it, and it's probably why I love horror stuff so much now.
@@PadChennington It's not scary by adult standads, but the dark background and the whirling star coming towards you, plus that late and goofy 70's soundtrack give me nightmares when I was a kid. They show it after Dexter's lab and Powerfull Puff Girls and maybe the contrast in colors and tones add to the unesay feeling
It's actually quite great to see these entries that aren't really discussed that much at all. Like, I didn't expect the Aardman logo or 39 Stairs (mainly because I didn't know 39 Stairs existed until now), so it's pretty cool.
thank you for noticing! i really tried to dig deep into my memories and make a video that doesnt have the usual ones like courage the cowardly dog or something lol
I don't know why but Ecco the Dolphin always scared me as a kid. The giant crabs... meeting the blue whale and especially the giant xenomoph looking boss at the end... definitely not just a kids game!
Same. Like literally. Until I did some research on Wikipedia back then that the owners of the studio really did survived from those lion attacks and it astounded me.
- the violin girl from Courage the Cowardly Dog - seeing posters and dvd boxart for Chucky movies and Tim Curry as Pennywise at the video store my friend’s mom would take us to. The horror section in general tbh. For a while, they had a giant poster of Chucky hanging in the air near the front of the store, so I wasn’t safe even outside of the horror section lol. As a thalassophobe with a fear of sharks, the Jaws poster art was particularly nightmarish to me - the Spongebob episodes “Clams” and “Procrastination” - Unknown from Tekken Tag Tournament and the weirdass music that plays in her stage - REDEADS - the boxart for the following games: Resident Evil (2003), Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Twisted Metal: Black. - even more than the previously mentioned above, the cover art for Silent Hill 4: The Room. That ominous door covered in chains, with a corpse-like ghostly apparation crawling through the wall and screaming. I once visited a video game store around 2004 that had a huge poster of this towards the front and I was literally cowering away in terror the whole time and couldn’t stop thinking about it even when I left the store - Dementors from Harry Potter, as well as the shrunken head guy and the Cerberus named Fluffy - That bigass troll monster thing from one of the old Lord of the Rings movies. I had NIGHTMARES of being in a room with that thing - I’ve always had an odd fear of warnings, sirens, alarms, etc. When I was a kid, FBI warnings at the beginning of DVDs and “THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS (insert stuff here) VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED” creeped me out - the “G A M E O V E R” from Smash Bros Melee. Also the Brinstar Depths stage and music - I commonly read videogame magazines as a youth. You can imagine how I reacted to opening them up and seeing monster designs from the Silent Hill series, Resident Evil 4, and other horror titles BEFORE I WAS EVEN 10 YEARS OLD - those “YOU WOYLDNT STEAL A CAR” anti-piracy PSAs - this one global warming PSA that shows kids blankly staring into the camera and saying “tick, tick, tick” while ominous music and a ticking clock play in the background - honestly can’t remember if I saw this growing up or later on but I swear I did: a series of PSAs featuring people in dimly lit rooms making very menacing threats to you, with flashes and jumpscares, meant to be them portraying a stroke talking to its victim (Michael Clarke Duncan had a terrifying one)
I'm younger than some of these or just didn't see them, but I do remember everything that spongebob did. Other than the obvious ones, there was the butterfly episode. That terrified me.
I dreaded going to the video store as a kid, even if it meant I'd get to rent movies and video games for myself, because of the horror movie aisle. Sometimes my parents would breeze through it and I'd have to follow them and try to avoid looking at the scary VHS sleeves staring at me. But there is ONE sleeve in particular I remember that would make me cover my eyes whenever we were close to the horror aisle, and it frustrated my parents because I wouldn't tell them why I did this. But yeah, it was the freaking Wishmaster cover (the first one). That cruel face leering RIGHT AT ME with its mouth agape and fangs showing scared me shitless. And today my favorite video game genre are survival horrors. Go figure.
I’ve rarely talked to anyone else who felt the same, but the PlayStation 1 and 2 start ups scared the fuck out of me as a kid. PlayStation 1 more than anything, I used to have my mom mute the TV before I knew how a TV worked but was old enough to play games, there’s something about that tone that still gives me the shivers sometimes. Playstation 2 wasn’t as scary but it was just mysterious and made me uneasy. It didn’t help that our PlayStation 2 was by step brothers and he switched the langage to German accidentally before I met him. Something about the drones of the console mixed with the somewhat haunting visuals, all the different towers in an endless black expanse, combined with a completely foreign and unreadable language just gave young me the creeps.
The zombie in the end of hocus pocus scared the shit out of me as a kid. Contrary to that, many people cite the ps2 startup as being scary, I find it to be quite the opposite, it’s very relaxing and calming imo.
When I was born and little my mom would listen to metal, rock, and metalcore music whenever she would get ready. It didn’t scare me at all. I really enjoyed it. I remember the past songs I loved a lot like: Love sex riot by issues, Johnny’s rebellion by crown the empire, can you feel my heart by bring me the horizon, and many more. I know this isn’t a scary memory, but I wanted to share it.
I was always scared of this bumper that used to come on Nickelodeon, where it starts out with these three cartoon doo-wop singers singing the "Nick Nick Nick" jingle, and then just goes to a noisy hodgepodge of elements from other Nick bumpers. I would run out screaming whenever it came on for some reason. I think it was the abruptness.
claymation in general used to scare the living fuck out of me. i dunno just something about how uncanny it looks with how unnatural it moves just really got under my skin when i was like 5 years old. as I get older however, i can't get enough of it and i have infinite respect for the people behind it considering how time consuming it is. also wallace and gromit is top tier shit don't @ me.
WALLACE AND GROMIT 4 LYFE Yes, I totally agree. The awkward pauses and movements in the animation makes ya feel friggin itchy lmao, could be so unsettling
"... you're not perfect..." I remember I was in the kitchen watching courage the cowardly dog on this small TV my father placed on the fridge so he could watch his news shows while drinking beer. From my kitchen there was a door to the garage and that night my parents were working on something out there. The door to the garage was opened so I could still call for them if I needed anything. Then on the screen courage closed his eyes. It was the episode where he was in obedience school. The teacher was so harsh that courage didn't get any rest, his eyes were bloodshot. In that brief moment he nodded off that horrific asymmetrical thing appeared and in it's soft voice said "you're not perfect...". That scared the shit out of me. I'm sure I ran over to the door to garage out of fear, too scared to back to my seat. Standing in between the two rooms, I didn't want to alert my parent of how afraid I was.
I was scared of watching E.T for years, and I'd always stop it just before they discovered him. Also I used to get shit scared when those Dolby sound intros played before the movie, especially the one with the helicopter in the city and the misty train one. Funnily enough I was never scared of THX tho xD
Since I've always been a gamer, the two things that have really stuck with me are also rather mundane to me now. I can't remember which came first, but one 1st grade point and click edutainment game had a sequence where if you messed up the required ingredients, a food monster would pop out momentarily. Also in the Harry Potter 2 game, Peeves poping out of some of the treasure chests made me run from the computer room where my dad was playing. Oh yeah, and there was this PSA movie on how to treat your library's books we were forced to watch in kindergarden, and the secondary character was a man who's face was the cover of a book that was being abused by all the other kids. His pinkish red painted, disembodied face on that book got me good while the rest of my class seemed unaffected...
I was a wuss back when I was a childhood. I remember just being scared of the cutscene for the final boss of Lego Racers, Wrinkly Kong from DK64, Nosferatu in the end of SpongeBob's Graveyard Shift episode, a promo for Kimba the White Lion (off of some of my Pokemon tapes), the respective Aardman, MGM, and Paramount Video logos, Majora's Mask, the first Gremlins, the ending of The Mask, and a few episodes of either Courage and Billy & Mandy. Sure nowadays all what I mentioned aren't as scary as what I remembered but they sure did spook me back in the day.
I got a big three: *Mars Attacks:* Overall the whole film, with the initial disintegration scene and the stampede of screaming, immolating cattle being primary examples. *Buffy:* No, It's not "Hush". I didn't see "Hush" until years later. It was "Go Fish!". The body horror and implications in this episode have stayed with me since I was 8. *???:* There was a Lifejacket Safety PSA I remember seeing multiple times on YTV until around the year 2000. Two children, a brother and sister in lifejackets, are holding each other. Sitting abandoned in a white dory in the middle of a lake. A somber violin piece plays as we pan over to what they're looking at. The bloated back of their drowned father breaks the surface of the water and bobs there in cold suspension. He isn't wearing a lifejacket. And the sun is setting. I can not find this PSA online.
try submitting it to the lost media subreddit! they always have some interesting discussions on there .. that lifejacket thing sounds crazy. do you remember any channels it was on or anything?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit when the bad guy melts in acid traumatised me as a kid. Lots of Disney movies like The Black Cauldron also terrified me. That one in particular was very dark for a Disney film. Also the dementors in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. When I was 7 to about when I was 10, every time the scene with them in the train happened, I'd stand up and hide behind my chair. I could go on, lol - Nice video dude!!
When I was a little kid, I was scared (Like a lot) of these puzzle games called "Mistery Case Files" where you had to look for things on a still image from "Big Fish Games" I don't know why, I think it was the creppy drawing of the scenes and the suspects exaggerated expressions that made me feel uncomfortable. My mom used to played these games on 2 AM and I always got up to go to the bathroom, and I always got scared by that.
Ohhh your #1 reminds me of something that terrified me as a kid! The Pooh Bear doll winking at the end of a Winnie the Pooh film! It sent my toddler self into hysterics, and even today, it's a little unsettling - so I totally get it! Aside from that, there is a surprise death scene in a video game, "Mansion of Hidden Souls" for the Sega CD. It's a point and click adventure, and at one point, you're exploring the basement and find this long corridor. At the end of it is a statue - simplistic, man-shaped and man-sized - sitting in an alcove, doing nothing. Whatever, right? WELL. After exploring the next room and completing the objective, you now have a time limit to escape the mansion. You go back to that corridor, run to the door with your back to that statue... ... if you dare to stop and turn around at ANY point in that corridor, the statue is SILENTLY STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU. A cutscene plays, showing it walking silently up to/over you... and you have a game over. It's awful! I was watching my DAD play it and I had to run out of the room for the rest of the game!
LOL legit half the games i used to play when i was a little kid i would just have my pops do the levels i were scared of... and that winnie the pooh thing sounds so similar to the dang donkey lol
Noo-Noo from Teletubbies. My younger brother would watch that show and I would see that fucking vacuum cleaner flailing its fucking nose around and staring into my soul. Just looked up a picture and it's WAY creepier than I remember.
Anybody remember the original Lego Racers game? There was one level in a dark forest and at some point you'd come across this lego ghost floating across the track. The only thing that scared me about it was the wailing noise it made as it floated by.
There are a few things that come to mind whenever i think of things that scared me as a kid. 1. Spotty Bulbears from Pikmin. Specifically their appearance in Pikmin 2. Bulborbs in general are pretty scary to take on. They're big, they're mean, they can eat up your army of Pikmim pretty quickly if you're not careful, etc. Although many of rhem are always found asleep. So as long as you have a big army to fight them, then just sneak up on them and you'd be fine. Spotty Bulbears though are a different story. They never go to sleep, so there goes the whole plan on ambushing them. On top of that, they wander around too, eating any pikmin it sees in it's path, and can even wander into your own BASE. And to add more insult to injury, they're constantly found with babies following them, eating up any pikmin it somehow misses. Even more is how upon killing it, the Bulbear will start REVIVING itself. So you better carry it back to base before it comes back *(though this feature was later removed in Pikmin 3).* I remember everytime I entered a cave, I'd check every nook and cranny to see if there are any spottty bulbears. They were THAT fearsome to take on. So fearsome to the point that I didn't even fight it most of the time. I just let the other captain to distract it while I continue exploring. Even the way how it looks is just.... Uncanny. With it's stilted animations, coupled with it's enormous lips and soulles eyes... Man, it just really rubbed me the wrong way as a kid. 2. Redeads. Specifically from Wind Waker. I remember watching my older sister play this game when we were younger. It was all well until we got to the *earth temple.* The entire atmosphere of the place already et off alarms in my head. It was dark, gloomy, void of any light, etc. But it wasn't all too "scary" outside of that. It wasn't until we stumbled upon the *redeads......* Oh god the redeads. The instant I heard it screech, I didn't run away screaming perse, but it sent chills down my spine. Not helping was how they came out of thise giant tombs which are littered everywhere in the temple. All of this info put me on-edge throughout the entire temple. Everytime a tomb opened, I was just bracing it. Expecting to see a redead in it. And whenever I didn't....... It honestly just made me feel worse. Knowing that if it wasn't in this one, then it could be in that tomb, or that tomb, or THAT tomb!! That's all I can think of really...
2)One of the "The Mirror of 1000 Faces" (a short cartoon where Nickelodeon used to show during ad breaks) where a girl makes funny faces on a bathroom mirror and when she makes scary faces, her faces suddenly turns into a monster face. After this, she shocked for a moment scared and runs away crying.
Scary, true...but I've got a few from my childhood that are particularly jarring. None of them involve video games, because as you know Pad, I'm horribly OLD. Nevertheless... 1) Bloodrock's "D.O.A.". This track scared the living bejeezus out of EVERYONE when it came out in the early 1970s. There were loads of rumors floating around about it, such as it being about a real plane crash, there being the sounds of people dying mixed into it, and so on. It's a fine early example of doom metal, actually...but when a track is SO SCARY that, despite it being a Top 40 hit, DJs are warning their audiences that they're about to play it, well... 2) One evening on WKDA-FM in Nashville, back when FM still had an underground vibe (again, early 1970s) there was this track I tuned into the middle of. There was this sort of hippy-ish not-a-groove going on, and a British voice theatrically intoning a quote from Einstein: 'Every step appears to be the unavoidable consequence of the preceding one, and in the end there beckons more and more clearly...total annihilation', with that last part being done in this terrifying Dalek-like ring-modulated voice as the rest of the band cuts loose in this totally atonal and evilly-gleeful RAMPAGE OF SHEER NOISE. At the end of it, I was shook, thinking "I never, EVER want to hear ANYTHING like that, EVER AGAIN!!!" But of course, I did...as it's "After the Flood" by Van der Graaf Generator, perhaps my FAVE prog band these days. Suffice to say, I love the track now...but THEN...hooooo!!!! 3)...and perhaps the worst: WGU-20, also known as "The last radio station on Earth". For several years, a machine-generated voice could be clearly heard on 179 kHz, down in the longwave band, repeating something like "Good evening. This is WGU-20, a defense civil-preparedness agency station, serving the east central states with emergency information. Eastern Standard Time seventeen hours, twenty minutes, twenty seconds. Good evening. This is WGU-20, a defense civil-preparedness agency station, serving the east central states with emergency information. Eastern Standard Time seventeen hours, twenty minutes, thirty seconds. Good evening. ..." Anytime, day, night, 24/7/365. The purpose of this was also very clear at the time: if nuclear war were to break out, WGU-20 was where you would tune for direct information from the government. But its presence was anything BUT comforting, as it served as a constant reminder that all life could be wiped out at any time, so tune into WGU-20 for what you need to know immediately prior to being vaporized!
@@PadChennington Nothing documentary-wise on any of these topics, per se, although both the Bloodrock and VdGG tracks are on YT. As for WGU-20, the Wikipedia article has some info, plus their AWESOME 2nd logo, which looks like it was cooked up by Negativland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGU-20 Oh, and one aside bit about "Large Marge". That whole bit in the movie is a pretty intact lift from a rather creepy song by Red Sovine, "Phantom 309". th-cam.com/video/Mye3aikHBjc/w-d-xo.html
Things that scared me as a kid: • Feature Presentation fanfare for Disney VHS tapes. • Feature Presentation fanfare for Muppets VHS tapes. • Redeads from Ocarina of Time and Super Smash Melee. • Deadhand from Ocarina of Time. • A lot of 3D animation in the late 1990s and early 2000s. • Aladdin into song. • Jafar’s hands in the password menu along with unfitting music in the Aladdin SNES game. • Game over in Aladdin SNES game. • Game over sound in Mario Kart 64. • The female voiceover in My Amazing Human Body PC game. • Nancy Drew PC game main menu song. • Sad Dad illustration in Hop on Pop. • The female narrator’s voice in Hop on Pop VHS tape. • Elephant parade in Dumbo. • Any living being that’s emaciated.
I remember that one episode from SpongeBob where Sandy had a pet caterpillars, when Spongebob and Patrick learn about it they begin to fall in love with it making the caterpillar they’re new friend. The next day...god why in the hell did they do this?! They show a clip of it and all you see and hear a close up of the butterfly going like * loudly buzzing *. Hated that episode it scared the crap out of me. But I rather watch the Twilight Zone than that episode. ( I loved that series ).
That one time Patchy the Pirate dropped his ice cream on a skit for Spongebob, the Magic song from Ultimate Eye Spy, Mister Softee (I honestly chose to be afraid of him to the point of actually becoming afraid of him), the monochrome owl from the beginning of the old adult swim program, the dog in the middle of the rocks from the show iSpy, and that's all I remember...
I was utterly petrified of the crazy frog (original) when the advert starts and there’s a closeup of him just standing and staring at the screen.And the mr whoopee ice cream trucks from GTA vice city
Poltergeist. That's right, I sat down with my dad and watched that at the age of 9. Parenting. I remember afterwards thinking about the skeletons popping up out of the front yard and sobbing.
Mine was the credits from the Dark Side. At the end there was a creepy whispering voice that said the dark side was trying to enter you. It freaked me out so much I demanded the channel be changed. lol
The sea-lion from Pingu. The lion and the bear from Teletubbies. The Digimon scene in the inverted pyramid where Tai was hanging above a sure death of black, pulsating network tubes. Never saw the horse before but I can agree, that thing is scary as fuck. Totally chill scene, sudden *death cry* out of nowhere, a jump cut to an uncannily dressed animal and a going just to drive the point home. And then they have the audacity to zoom in on the horrific creature, what were they thinking?
My scariest memory was the Luigi's Mansion game over screen beta version. I though the game couldnt get any scarier until I saw it. Luigi literally possessed and zombie looking. Gave me nightmares for 10 days.
i'm an adult and that donkey is freaking me out. the 39 stairs also creeped me out as a kid. i'm seeing a few people commenting about DVD things scaring them, specifically the silence? yeah, there were a few DVD games in the harry potter and the chamber of secrets DVD that freaked me out in a similar way. they would just have a PNG of alan rickman as snape come out of the darkness and then just stop in dead silence. it was weirdly freaky.
I think the thing that scared me the most as a child was baby Van Gogh, it was just unsettling to watch and the puppet was just, ironic since van gogh is my idol lmao
Pad Chennington it was basically a bunch of sets of media used to tach young children, each if them had a topic like mozart, this one covered art and used van gogh, but it was just unsettling lmao
I used to be scared of the Mysterio level in the psp version of Spider-Man 2 and I always asked my brother for help in that level. Oddly enough, I enjoyed all Mysterio encounters in the ps2 version
1)One of my creepiest moments in childhood is at night, Cartoon Network showed some snippets (I guess they re known as Bumpers, aren't they?) during breaks where every cartoon characters's rooms, except bedrooms,are shown while they re sleeping. No characters where shown. All lights were off and no sounds except clock ticking. Then camera zooms at clock and CN logo comes slowly.
The scariest childhood moment for me was the Cookie Jar from Wee Sing: Grandpa’s Magical Toys. God, that thing horrified me and my sibling when we were toddlers! 😶😳😨😱
The nuclear nightmare from Terminator 2. I first saw the movie when I was about 9 or 10, and that scene literally paralyzed me with fear. So many sleepless nights and nightmares because of that shit.
They're not creepy at all but the statue from the beggining of God of War II, chainsaw guy (and gals) from Resident Evil 4, the two villains from brazillian puppet show Cocoricó
lol holy shit i had no idea about the donkey but it is so eerily similar to my personal scariest childhood memory which is the ending of this winnie the pooh movie i had where a big winnie the pooh plush would wink at the camera and it haunted me for years
There's a fair amount of more normal sounding donkey noise audio clips out there the show runners for Barney could've used but apparently they felt the need to let kids know that donkeys usually sound like demons.
Scary memory off hand? I was 3 and rode Snow White's Scary Adventures. Anytime I went to Disney after that, I would give the ride a wide berth which was hard because it was right there by the castle. I'm actually surprised to have experience with most of the things you've discussed. I guess I can only comment in a boring list way. 1. I don't even remember that mouth in the Ardman thing and lord knows I watched those every chance they came on PBS. 2. The video with The 39 Stairs was called Put Down The Duckie, a special that had Kermit and Oscar doing pledge drive segments when it was on TV. I recall watching it back in 1994 despite being 13. 3. As much as I love Twilight Zone, the Dummy can go to a special place in Hell, probably in a conference room stocked with the convention attendes from well Hell. 4. Majora's Mask is my favorite Zelda game, and I don't want to admit the Happy Mask Salesman is scary, but yeah, he's not my favorite thing. 5. OK the Donkey is pretty disturbing.
For me one of the scariest moments in my childhood, when i was elementary, i was terrified when i was playing wwf smackdown, i was using the undertaker as my wrestler in a singles match(his persona was ministry of darkness), then his ring entrance/titantron video appears in the screen of the tv there was the part of vid when he turn around he has that iconic eye rolling, it gave me the creeps, to the point i can't look in the t.v. as if that image of the undertaker stuck in my brain, and it give me difficulty in my sleep at that time.🤣🤣🤣
What are some of the scariest memories you have from old tv shows, video games, movies etc?
When I was younger I was terrified of ghostface from scream I don't know why but I was really scared of him also I grew up when the original Xbox came out I had to play that on a small tv from like 1993 in a room away from my parents and pets in a spare room without the light on because the land Lord broke it and I'd play stranger wick and star wars battle front 2 and I'd those games crash or if there where no sounds coming from the Xbox it got terrifying
I don't know if you had this show in the USA, but we did in France in the early 90's, it's called Pingu. It's a clay stop-motion show about a young pinguin who would only communicate through screams or saying NOOT-NOOT.
There was this episode, where Pingu was having a nightmare in which he was strolling alone on the ice floe, kinda tensed but didn't really remember why... Until this huuuge mofo seal, in this disturbing clay animation way, mimicking reality but so uncanny, appears and screams with these super weird dubbed human screams.
Oh man, the 90's weren't that innocent, it still gives me the creeps.
EDIT: FK THAT, I just rewatched it and FK THAT it's still terrifying.
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@@clementbotella3733 pingo scared the shit out of me too
That subway secne from The Wiz look it up and you will see what I mean.
this is embarassing but i was terrified of both the THX screen AND the fbi piracy warning screen
I remember being terrified of the warnings in different languages that would played at the end of DVDs after the credits. Mostly because of the pure silence
those dips into silence and not knowing what was coming on the other side...the ultimate nightmare tool
thank god im not the only one i used to get so scared as a child i would cry
Lol even FBI warnings unnerved me
I can relate
SOBEK same looool
3 things come to mind:
1. The THX intro sound. That eerie, loud sound made me feel very uncomfortable;
2. Nosferatu in that one episode of Spongebob Squarepants. The shift in art style, which looks like paper cutouts or something and the spooky character scared the shit out of me;
3. The Halloween episode in 6Teen where zombies invade the mall, which felt very out of place in the overall wholesome and carefree series scared me to the point where I knew the beginning by heart, so anytime it came on I just stopped watching TV.
I have never liked the THX sound.
holy SHIT I forgot about nosferatu
I hated the THX intro sound too! Mainly because I have sensitive ears
Nosferatu scared the shit out of me, especcially when he smiled.😟
@@McFlakies *Count Orlok
pad, that Barney scene just sent chills down my spine. literally this traumatized me as a kid and I totally forgot about it until right now. like it gave me nightmares and I was too afraid to admit to my mom what my nightmare was about even as a kid. It’s kinda freaky that im not alone
WE'RE GONNA GET THRU THIS!
@@PadChennington very scary experience, terrifying, good to see it on the list!
One moment that still sticks out was that face melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
is it weird that ive never seen that movie? lol
I definitely recommend it. I've watched it several times when I was younger.
i need some movies to watch during this quarantine lol
Oh, definitely XD
I also recommend watching Temple of Doom and Last Crusade.
Even as a 4 year old that shit was awesome
King Ramsey from Courage the Cowardly Dog scared the ever living shit out of me. A lot of stuff from that show is horrifying but that one kept me up at night. Talk about 3D animation.
one of the best shows ever though, love me some courage
Don’t get me wrong I watched it religiously😄
i should binge it from start to finish, i definitely havent seen every episode
Youre not perfect 😱
That one fucked me up too🥶
My mom refused to let me watch Barney when I was a kid because she found it insufferable, but if I had seen that donkey at that age it would have absolutely kept me up at night. Even watching it for the first time now it really unsettled me
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I used to be scared of the mirror from Disney’s Snow White. I don’t know. It’s just it’s face looked so dead inside to me back then.
growing up i never watched too much disney, first time i saw the lion king i was like 18 lol
I was super scared of the witch when she got all creepy and ugly
ive never seen/heard of the barney donkey until now, im 22, and it still gave me chills! THAT SHIT IS CREEPY DUDE. some things just seriously have bad energy about them.
thats exactly what it is, bad energy lmaoooo that donkey should not exist
What scared me as a kid was:
- Chuckie gets The Shot in Rugrats (that scene is pretty much responsible for my fear of needles. Straight up mortified me as a kid.)
- The Zombies from Michael Jackson's Thriller (I used to think the zombies would break into my room like they did in the end of the music video)
- ReDead from Legend of Zelda (Whenever I was adult Link, I just used the Ocarina to warp me out of the Temple of Time, so I could avoid those ghastly moans and shrieks)
- Wrinkly Kong from Donkey Kong 64 (obvious reasons)
- Meeting Clanker in Banjo Kazooie (the way he stared into the camera and opens his mouth was enough to make me turn off the game)
used to watch spongebob in the dark alot I remember the end credits absolutely scaring the shit out of me idky but that end song sends chills down my spine also weird graphics uncanny valley style shit
also the butterfly episode of spongebob
dat damn butterfly
Same and in karate island at the end it shows the face of someone who died and that scared me the most
also the hash slinging slasher episode and Nosferatu at the end kinda freaked me out
When I was a child I used to be absolutely terrified of the Gracie Films logo at the end of The Simpsons. Something about that dark atmosphere, the harshness of the lady going "Shh" and the music just rubbed me the wrong way. Even as an adult it makes me feel uncomfortable, brrr.
And don't get me started on the halloween special ones, good LORD.
i gotta watch the original simpsons, ive only seen a handful of episodes but from what i saw it was so good
Yeah there was a Halloween version where you hear a long scream instead of the shh and a creepy organ playing instead of the mellow guitar.
I'M NOT ALONE!
I actually hate a lot of end-credit logos. The one that messed me up like crazy was Klasky-Cupso (Rugrats, Wild Thornberries, etc).
Original: Shh
TOH version: AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@anSealgair since i’m binging the whole series on disneg plus i get what youre saying
When I was 7 years old, the Underwhere from Super Paper Mario used to scare me, especially the river twygz bed part was absolutely horrifying
The damn aliens from Tim Burton's Mars Attacks were easily the scariest thing from my childhood. Large Marge would also be a close second for me lol
lmfaoooo yes that movie too! mars attacks was brutal as a kid we had it on dvd lol
Big fat ghost lady trucker
i was terrified of the sound of those alert tests that would come on like once a week, it was so surreal because every thursday school would end early and i'd come home and watch cartoons, and you just hear this ear spitting sound and then some terribly loud music over videos of scenery.. i hated it
That shit still scares me. I remember sitting on the couch in my nana's house (I was maybe 4 years old) watching Dora the Explorer when suddenly that fat red line appears at the top of the screen with the horrible beep of the alert system. I think the volume was already high on the TV so this especially scared me.
Ah, don't worry, it's not your fault that you were scared of that stuff, just blame it on George.
Don't you mean Jorge?
ILL GIVE YA A BILLION HEARTS
So that's why he has that channel name! XD
I'm a big Blameitonjorge fan, Pad! This has serious vibes. Love it! More videos like this!
The thing from my childhood that scared me the most is definitely an episode of “the wiggles” where there was a part with extremely creepy puppet versions of the characters and it gave me so many nightmares
The scariest things to me were always fascinating to me too. I've had thalassophobia and crippling megalophobia all my life, but I would still make my dad put on these videos of jellyfish from deep in the ocean. These jellyfish, I think they were called eggyolk jellyfish or something, were like 6 times larger than people swimming around them, and 20 times longer. I imagined myself there, totally vulnerable to be eaten or stung or whatever by a creature like that. The jellies weren't even the worst. Blobfish, colossal squids, some kind of wood lice related bug the size of your torso, in cold, dark water, with that harsh sound of the water around you moving and the wildlife just living there like it's normal, horrified me, but I couldn't look away. I was entranced by it, and eventually I liked it, and it's probably why I love horror stuff so much now.
the deep sea is wicked
same actually
Bro, the Hanna Barbara Productions "Swirling Star" Logo from the 80's. Scary me as hell when I was little.
never seen that, gotta check it out
@@PadChennington It's not scary by adult standads, but the dark background and the whirling star coming towards you, plus that late and goofy 70's soundtrack give me nightmares when I was a kid. They show it after Dexter's lab and Powerfull Puff Girls and maybe the contrast in colors and tones add to the unesay feeling
@@Dagarar I personally like it,it sounds like an arcade game cabinet
The episode of Pingu where he gets chased by a giant walrus while dreaming.
It's actually quite great to see these entries that aren't really discussed that much at all.
Like, I didn't expect the Aardman logo or 39 Stairs (mainly because I didn't know 39 Stairs existed until now), so it's pretty cool.
thank you for noticing! i really tried to dig deep into my memories and make a video that doesnt have the usual ones like courage the cowardly dog or something lol
That '3D deformed creature' from the last episode of courage the cowardly dog gave my 7YO-self nightmares for days .
ahhh good ol courage.. u talkin about the return da slab dude?
@@RoninTheCrusader yup , exactly
I don't know why but Ecco the Dolphin always scared me as a kid. The giant crabs... meeting the blue whale and especially the giant xenomoph looking boss at the end... definitely not just a kids game!
SAME lol especially when the screen spazzes out and all the fish disappear
I used to be scared of the MGM lion. 🎞️🦁🎞️
dat MGM lion really do be roarin doe
Yeah I was 6 and I was like Jesus Christ, this was meant to be a kids' movie!
Same. Like literally.
Until I did some research on Wikipedia back then that the owners of the studio really did survived from those lion attacks and it astounded me.
Same
I was never scared of Leo, it's just a roar
- the violin girl from Courage the Cowardly Dog
- seeing posters and dvd boxart for Chucky movies and Tim Curry as Pennywise at the video store my friend’s mom would take us to. The horror section in general tbh. For a while, they had a giant poster of Chucky hanging in the air near the front of the store, so I wasn’t safe even outside of the horror section lol. As a thalassophobe with a fear of sharks, the Jaws poster art was particularly nightmarish to me
- the Spongebob episodes “Clams” and “Procrastination”
- Unknown from Tekken Tag Tournament and the weirdass music that plays in her stage
- REDEADS
- the boxart for the following games: Resident Evil (2003), Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Twisted Metal: Black.
- even more than the previously mentioned above, the cover art for Silent Hill 4: The Room. That ominous door covered in chains, with a corpse-like ghostly apparation crawling through the wall and screaming. I once visited a video game store around 2004 that had a huge poster of this towards the front and I was literally cowering away in terror the whole time and couldn’t stop thinking about it even when I left the store
- Dementors from Harry Potter, as well as the shrunken head guy and the Cerberus named Fluffy
- That bigass troll monster thing from one of the old Lord of the Rings movies. I had NIGHTMARES of being in a room with that thing
- I’ve always had an odd fear of warnings, sirens, alarms, etc.
When I was a kid, FBI warnings at the beginning of DVDs and “THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS (insert stuff here) VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED” creeped me out
- the “G A M E O V E R” from Smash Bros Melee. Also the Brinstar Depths stage and music
- I commonly read videogame magazines as a youth. You can imagine how I reacted to opening them up and seeing monster designs from the Silent Hill series, Resident Evil 4, and other horror titles BEFORE I WAS EVEN 10 YEARS OLD
- those “YOU WOYLDNT STEAL A CAR” anti-piracy PSAs
- this one global warming PSA that shows kids blankly staring into the camera and saying “tick, tick, tick” while ominous music and a ticking clock play in the background
- honestly can’t remember if I saw this growing up or later on but I swear I did: a series of PSAs featuring people in dimly lit rooms making very menacing threats to you, with flashes and jumpscares, meant to be them portraying a stroke talking to its victim (Michael Clarke Duncan had a terrifying one)
Procrastination? Yeah for some reason I find that one creepy but I can't tell why
I'm younger than some of these or just didn't see them, but I do remember everything that spongebob did. Other than the obvious ones, there was the butterfly episode. That terrified me.
I dreaded going to the video store as a kid, even if it meant I'd get to rent movies and video games for myself, because of the horror movie aisle. Sometimes my parents would breeze through it and I'd have to follow them and try to avoid looking at the scary VHS sleeves staring at me. But there is ONE sleeve in particular I remember that would make me cover my eyes whenever we were close to the horror aisle, and it frustrated my parents because I wouldn't tell them why I did this. But yeah, it was the freaking Wishmaster cover (the first one). That cruel face leering RIGHT AT ME with its mouth agape and fangs showing scared me shitless.
And today my favorite video game genre are survival horrors. Go figure.
It’s April Fools not Halloween 😳
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I’ve rarely talked to anyone else who felt the same, but the PlayStation 1 and 2 start ups scared the fuck out of me as a kid. PlayStation 1 more than anything, I used to have my mom mute the TV before I knew how a TV worked but was old enough to play games, there’s something about that tone that still gives me the shivers sometimes.
Playstation 2 wasn’t as scary but it was just mysterious and made me uneasy. It didn’t help that our PlayStation 2 was by step brothers and he switched the langage to German accidentally before I met him. Something about the drones of the console mixed with the somewhat haunting visuals, all the different towers in an endless black expanse, combined with a completely foreign and unreadable language just gave young me the creeps.
totally feel this lol.. amazing how far the menu screens can go
The zombie in the end of hocus pocus scared the shit out of me as a kid. Contrary to that, many people cite the ps2 startup as being scary, I find it to be quite the opposite, it’s very relaxing and calming imo.
always thought the ps2 start up screen was so soothing :) same with da gamecube one
Pad Chennington yeah I like the GameCube one too
Thank you Pad! Love ya!
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When I was born and little my mom would listen to metal, rock, and metalcore music whenever she would get ready. It didn’t scare me at all. I really enjoyed it. I remember the past songs I loved a lot like: Love sex riot by issues, Johnny’s rebellion by crown the empire, can you feel my heart by bring me the horizon, and many more.
I know this isn’t a scary memory, but I wanted to share it.
I was always scared of this bumper that used to come on Nickelodeon, where it starts out with these three cartoon doo-wop singers singing the "Nick Nick Nick" jingle, and then just goes to a noisy hodgepodge of elements from other Nick bumpers. I would run out screaming whenever it came on for some reason. I think it was the abruptness.
that sounds so familiar
@@PadChennington Look up "Nickelodeon Bumper Montage" on TH-cam and you should find it.
claymation in general used to scare the living fuck out of me. i dunno just something about how uncanny it looks with how unnatural it moves just really got under my skin when i was like 5 years old. as I get older however, i can't get enough of it and i have infinite respect for the people behind it considering how time consuming it is.
also wallace and gromit is top tier shit don't @ me.
WALLACE AND GROMIT 4 LYFE
Yes, I totally agree. The awkward pauses and movements in the animation makes ya feel friggin itchy lmao, could be so unsettling
"... you're not perfect..."
I remember I was in the kitchen watching courage the cowardly dog on this small TV my father placed on the fridge so he could watch his news shows while drinking beer. From my kitchen there was a door to the garage and that night my parents were working on something out there. The door to the garage was opened so I could still call for them if I needed anything. Then on the screen courage closed his eyes. It was the episode where he was in obedience school. The teacher was so harsh that courage didn't get any rest, his eyes were bloodshot. In that brief moment he nodded off that horrific asymmetrical thing appeared and in it's soft voice said "you're not perfect...". That scared the shit out of me. I'm sure I ran over to the door to garage out of fear, too scared to back to my seat. Standing in between the two rooms, I didn't want to alert my parent of how afraid I was.
I was scared of watching E.T for years, and I'd always stop it just before they discovered him.
Also I used to get shit scared when those Dolby sound intros played before the movie, especially the one with the helicopter in the city and the misty train one. Funnily enough I was never scared of THX tho xD
Since I've always been a gamer, the two things that have really stuck with me are also rather mundane to me now. I can't remember which came first, but one 1st grade point and click edutainment game had a sequence where if you messed up the required ingredients, a food monster would pop out momentarily. Also in the Harry Potter 2 game, Peeves poping out of some of the treasure chests made me run from the computer room where my dad was playing. Oh yeah, and there was this PSA movie on how to treat your library's books we were forced to watch in kindergarden, and the secondary character was a man who's face was the cover of a book that was being abused by all the other kids. His pinkish red painted, disembodied face on that book got me good while the rest of my class seemed unaffected...
The Prometheus and Bob skits from Kabalm! scared the hell out of me.
I was a wuss back when I was a childhood. I remember just being scared of the cutscene for the final boss of Lego Racers, Wrinkly Kong from DK64, Nosferatu in the end of SpongeBob's Graveyard Shift episode, a promo for Kimba the White Lion (off of some of my Pokemon tapes), the respective Aardman, MGM, and Paramount Video logos, Majora's Mask, the first Gremlins, the ending of The Mask, and a few episodes of either Courage and Billy & Mandy.
Sure nowadays all what I mentioned aren't as scary as what I remembered but they sure did spook me back in the day.
i feel ya! we all had just weird memories of things that werent even that scary, but spooked us out lol
Pad Chennington oh yea memories from my childhood have been really different from now
I got a big three:
*Mars Attacks:* Overall the whole film, with the initial disintegration scene and the stampede of screaming, immolating cattle being primary examples.
*Buffy:* No, It's not "Hush". I didn't see "Hush" until years later. It was "Go Fish!". The body horror and implications in this episode have stayed with me since I was 8.
*???:* There was a Lifejacket Safety PSA I remember seeing multiple times on YTV until around the year 2000. Two children, a brother and sister in lifejackets, are holding each other. Sitting abandoned in a white dory in the middle of a lake. A somber violin piece plays as we pan over to what they're looking at. The bloated back of their drowned father breaks the surface of the water and bobs there in cold suspension. He isn't wearing a lifejacket. And the sun is setting.
I can not find this PSA online.
try submitting it to the lost media subreddit! they always have some interesting discussions on there .. that lifejacket thing sounds crazy. do you remember any channels it was on or anything?
*I found it:* th-cam.com/video/vm3Ri3AFzHQ/w-d-xo.html
@@PadChennington they said it was on YTV, so I imagine it's Canadian in origin
Who Framed Roger Rabbit when the bad guy melts in acid traumatised me as a kid.
Lots of Disney movies like The Black Cauldron also terrified me. That one in particular was very dark for a Disney film.
Also the dementors in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. When I was 7 to about when I was 10, every time the scene with them in the train happened, I'd stand up and hide behind my chair.
I could go on, lol - Nice video dude!!
That Ripper Roo guy reminds me of Psycho from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
ripper roo a dam freak
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When I was a little kid, I was scared (Like a lot) of these puzzle games called "Mistery Case Files" where you had to look for things on a still image from "Big Fish Games" I don't know why, I think it was the creppy drawing of the scenes and the suspects exaggerated expressions that made me feel uncomfortable. My mom used to played these games on 2 AM and I always got up to go to the bathroom, and I always got scared by that.
that sounds so familiar, i definitely played that back in the day lol. reminds me of the "Escape the Room" series if you've heard of that!
I loved that game
Thamn. You brought back memories i forgot i have
welcome back to m e m o r y l a n e
What am I watching its 2am
Edit I didn't realise pad says that at the end sobyeah
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Michael Jackson's "Thriller" MV once that my father played that at night I was traumatized...
O_o
Ohhh your #1 reminds me of something that terrified me as a kid! The Pooh Bear doll winking at the end of a Winnie the Pooh film! It sent my toddler self into hysterics, and even today, it's a little unsettling - so I totally get it!
Aside from that, there is a surprise death scene in a video game, "Mansion of Hidden Souls" for the Sega CD. It's a point and click adventure, and at one point, you're exploring the basement and find this long corridor. At the end of it is a statue - simplistic, man-shaped and man-sized - sitting in an alcove, doing nothing. Whatever, right? WELL. After exploring the next room and completing the objective, you now have a time limit to escape the mansion. You go back to that corridor, run to the door with your back to that statue...
... if you dare to stop and turn around at ANY point in that corridor, the statue is SILENTLY STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU. A cutscene plays, showing it walking silently up to/over you... and you have a game over.
It's awful! I was watching my DAD play it and I had to run out of the room for the rest of the game!
LOL legit half the games i used to play when i was a little kid i would just have my pops do the levels i were scared of... and that winnie the pooh thing sounds so similar to the dang donkey lol
Noo-Noo from Teletubbies. My younger brother would watch that show and I would see that fucking vacuum cleaner flailing its fucking nose around and staring into my soul. Just looked up a picture and it's WAY creepier than I remember.
dat blue dude was a menace with his big googly eyes 0____0
Dude that pink house with the creepy ass puppet from teletubies turned me off that show for the rest of my life
I agree, the aardman logo was kinda creepy as a kid, was a fan of walace and gromit btw.
right?
also long live walace and gromit they the original gangstas
For some reason I find there is something super ominous/creepy about a lot of 90s-early 00s claymations. Is it just me?
Anybody remember the original Lego Racers game? There was one level in a dark forest and at some point you'd come across this lego ghost floating across the track. The only thing that scared me about it was the wailing noise it made as it floated by.
There are a few things that come to mind whenever i think of things that scared me as a kid.
1. Spotty Bulbears from Pikmin. Specifically their appearance in Pikmin 2. Bulborbs in general are pretty scary to take on. They're big, they're mean, they can eat up your army of Pikmim pretty quickly if you're not careful, etc. Although many of rhem are always found asleep. So as long as you have a big army to fight them, then just sneak up on them and you'd be fine. Spotty Bulbears though are a different story. They never go to sleep, so there goes the whole plan on ambushing them. On top of that, they wander around too, eating any pikmin it sees in it's path, and can even wander into your own BASE. And to add more insult to injury, they're constantly found with babies following them, eating up any pikmin it somehow misses. Even more is how upon killing it, the Bulbear will start REVIVING itself. So you better carry it back to base before it comes back *(though this feature was later removed in Pikmin 3).* I remember everytime I entered a cave, I'd check every nook and cranny to see if there are any spottty bulbears. They were THAT fearsome to take on. So fearsome to the point that I didn't even fight it most of the time. I just let the other captain to distract it while I continue exploring. Even the way how it looks is just.... Uncanny. With it's stilted animations, coupled with it's enormous lips and soulles eyes... Man, it just really rubbed me the wrong way as a kid.
2. Redeads. Specifically from Wind Waker. I remember watching my older sister play this game when we were younger. It was all well until we got to the *earth temple.* The entire atmosphere of the place already et off alarms in my head. It was dark, gloomy, void of any light, etc. But it wasn't all too "scary" outside of that. It wasn't until we stumbled upon the *redeads......* Oh god the redeads. The instant I heard it screech, I didn't run away screaming perse, but it sent chills down my spine. Not helping was how they came out of thise giant tombs which are littered everywhere in the temple. All of this info put me on-edge throughout the entire temple. Everytime a tomb opened, I was just bracing it. Expecting to see a redead in it. And whenever I didn't....... It honestly just made me feel worse. Knowing that if it wasn't in this one, then it could be in that tomb, or that tomb, or THAT tomb!!
That's all I can think of really...
2)One of the "The Mirror of 1000 Faces" (a short cartoon where Nickelodeon used to show during ad breaks) where a girl makes funny faces on a bathroom mirror and when she makes scary faces, her faces suddenly turns into a monster face.
After this, she shocked for a moment scared and runs away crying.
Scary, true...but I've got a few from my childhood that are particularly jarring. None of them involve video games, because as you know Pad, I'm horribly OLD. Nevertheless...
1) Bloodrock's "D.O.A.". This track scared the living bejeezus out of EVERYONE when it came out in the early 1970s. There were loads of rumors floating around about it, such as it being about a real plane crash, there being the sounds of people dying mixed into it, and so on. It's a fine early example of doom metal, actually...but when a track is SO SCARY that, despite it being a Top 40 hit, DJs are warning their audiences that they're about to play it, well...
2) One evening on WKDA-FM in Nashville, back when FM still had an underground vibe (again, early 1970s) there was this track I tuned into the middle of. There was this sort of hippy-ish not-a-groove going on, and a British voice theatrically intoning a quote from Einstein: 'Every step appears to be the unavoidable consequence of the preceding one, and in the end there beckons more and more clearly...total annihilation', with that last part being done in this terrifying Dalek-like ring-modulated voice as the rest of the band cuts loose in this totally atonal and evilly-gleeful RAMPAGE OF SHEER NOISE. At the end of it, I was shook, thinking "I never, EVER want to hear ANYTHING like that, EVER AGAIN!!!" But of course, I did...as it's "After the Flood" by Van der Graaf Generator, perhaps my FAVE prog band these days. Suffice to say, I love the track now...but THEN...hooooo!!!!
3)...and perhaps the worst: WGU-20, also known as "The last radio station on Earth". For several years, a machine-generated voice could be clearly heard on 179 kHz, down in the longwave band, repeating something like "Good evening. This is WGU-20, a defense civil-preparedness agency station, serving the east central states with emergency information. Eastern Standard Time seventeen hours, twenty minutes, twenty seconds. Good evening. This is WGU-20, a defense civil-preparedness agency station, serving the east central states with emergency information. Eastern Standard Time seventeen hours, twenty minutes, thirty seconds. Good evening. ..." Anytime, day, night, 24/7/365. The purpose of this was also very clear at the time: if nuclear war were to break out, WGU-20 was where you would tune for direct information from the government. But its presence was anything BUT comforting, as it served as a constant reminder that all life could be wiped out at any time, so tune into WGU-20 for what you need to know immediately prior to being vaporized!
damn all these sound awesome, feel like an entire video could be made on each of em!
@@PadChennington Nothing documentary-wise on any of these topics, per se, although both the Bloodrock and VdGG tracks are on YT. As for WGU-20, the Wikipedia article has some info, plus their AWESOME 2nd logo, which looks like it was cooked up by Negativland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGU-20
Oh, and one aside bit about "Large Marge". That whole bit in the movie is a pretty intact lift from a rather creepy song by Red Sovine, "Phantom 309". th-cam.com/video/Mye3aikHBjc/w-d-xo.html
I can see the Riperoo jumpscare but you know what got _me_ from the Crash Bandicoot series? Doctor N.Tropy's introduction in Warped.
The singing German guy in the pink house from tellitubbies
i have no idea what you're talking about but i am so curious lol do you have a link??
Pad Chennington th-cam.com/video/TmQ--bESNXA/w-d-xo.html
I always hid under my bed and cried when this came on.
My little sister didn't like him either! I found him weird, but it was the Lion and the Bear who really scared me.
Was terrified of that as a kid, I used to run out of the room crying whenever that episode came on. Still creepy as anything
@@cosmiquealiene6168 Ooof, same 😨
Things that scared me as a kid:
• Feature Presentation fanfare for Disney VHS tapes.
• Feature Presentation fanfare for Muppets VHS tapes.
• Redeads from Ocarina of Time and Super Smash Melee.
• Deadhand from Ocarina of Time.
• A lot of 3D animation in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
• Aladdin into song.
• Jafar’s hands in the password menu along with unfitting music in the Aladdin SNES game.
• Game over in Aladdin SNES game.
• Game over sound in Mario Kart 64.
• The female voiceover in My Amazing Human Body PC game.
• Nancy Drew PC game main menu song.
• Sad Dad illustration in Hop on Pop.
• The female narrator’s voice in Hop on Pop VHS tape.
• Elephant parade in Dumbo.
• Any living being that’s emaciated.
Snuffy from Elmopalooza scared the crap out of me at the end of the video with its creepy eyes raised!
quality content pad baby
Blameitonjorge rules!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was terrified of Wrinkly Kong as a kid...
I've gone back and rewatched all of the original twilight zone several times, and the 80's version. You can see so much influence everywhere in media.
Dude awsome video
thanks !
Nice to know not the only one who was creeped out by the aardman logo when I was little
I remember that one episode from SpongeBob where Sandy had a pet caterpillars, when Spongebob and Patrick learn about it they begin to fall in love with it making the caterpillar they’re new friend. The next day...god why in the hell did they do this?! They show a clip of it and all you see and hear a close up of the butterfly going like * loudly buzzing *. Hated that episode it scared the crap out of me. But I rather watch the Twilight Zone than that episode. ( I loved that series ).
That one time Patchy the Pirate dropped his ice cream on a skit for Spongebob, the Magic song from Ultimate Eye Spy, Mister Softee (I honestly chose to be afraid of him to the point of actually becoming afraid of him), the monochrome owl from the beginning of the old adult swim program, the dog in the middle of the rocks from the show iSpy, and that's all I remember...
I was utterly petrified of the crazy frog (original) when the advert starts and there’s a closeup of him just standing and staring at the screen.And the mr whoopee ice cream trucks from GTA vice city
i dont have a childhood of the 1990s nor the 2000s, but this is enjoyable
thanks for watching!
Poltergeist. That's right, I sat down with my dad and watched that at the age of 9. Parenting. I remember afterwards thinking about the skeletons popping up out of the front yard and sobbing.
Mine was the credits from the Dark Side. At the end there was a creepy whispering voice that said the dark side was trying to enter you. It freaked me out so much I demanded the channel be changed. lol
The sea-lion from Pingu. The lion and the bear from Teletubbies. The Digimon scene in the inverted pyramid where Tai was hanging above a sure death of black, pulsating network tubes. Never saw the horse before but I can agree, that thing is scary as fuck. Totally chill scene, sudden *death cry* out of nowhere, a jump cut to an uncannily dressed animal and a going just to drive the point home. And then they have the audacity to zoom in on the horrific creature, what were they thinking?
My scariest memory was the Luigi's Mansion game over screen beta version. I though the game couldnt get any scarier until I saw it. Luigi literally possessed and zombie looking. Gave me nightmares for 10 days.
what scared me included:noseferatu at the end of spongebob, the creepy face on the house from step inside and shivers from luigis mansion
i'm an adult and that donkey is freaking me out. the 39 stairs also creeped me out as a kid.
i'm seeing a few people commenting about DVD things scaring them, specifically the silence? yeah, there were a few DVD games in the harry potter and the chamber of secrets DVD that freaked me out in a similar way. they would just have a PNG of alan rickman as snape come out of the darkness and then just stop in dead silence. it was weirdly freaky.
I remember being really creeped out by the Williams street thing.
Either I'm stupid for realizing this was a joke at Grover climbing stairs, or you are a **really** good editor. Prolly both. lol.
I love this! The first sewer level from Star Wars Dark Forces on PS1 filled me with dread
I think the thing that scared me the most as a child was baby Van Gogh, it was just unsettling to watch and the puppet was just, ironic since van gogh is my idol lmao
never heard of that! where is it from?
Pad Chennington it was basically a bunch of sets of media used to tach young children, each if them had a topic like mozart, this one covered art and used van gogh, but it was just unsettling lmao
oh gotcha! yeah never heard of it, was it a US show?
Pad Chennington i dont think it ever aired on tv, i think it was just straight to vhs/dvd
gotcha gotcha!
I used to be scared of the Mysterio level in the psp version of Spider-Man 2 and I always asked my brother for help in that level. Oddly enough, I enjoyed all Mysterio encounters in the ps2 version
freaky fred was like...up there when i was a kid, but now that whole episode is a big bruh moment that has gone down in history
Easily the scariest moment from my childhood was watching the Black Hole Sun music video for the first time
HAHAHA
Yeah, I'm not crazy about it either, that damn burning barbie was in my mind's eye every time I tried to go to sleep
Oh yeah and the Twilight Zone is excellent and that scene with the dummy in the mirror was indeed scary!
1)One of my creepiest moments in childhood is at night, Cartoon Network showed some snippets (I guess they re known as Bumpers, aren't they?) during breaks where every cartoon characters's rooms, except bedrooms,are shown while they re sleeping.
No characters where shown.
All lights were off and no sounds except clock ticking.
Then camera zooms at clock and CN logo comes slowly.
Dude Banjo Kazooie, the witch always scared me. I don't know why, but whenever she talked or you or you saw her it just gave me the creeps.
The scariest childhood moment for me was the Cookie Jar from Wee Sing: Grandpa’s Magical Toys. God, that thing horrified me and my sibling when we were toddlers! 😶😳😨😱
The nuclear nightmare from Terminator 2. I first saw the movie when I was about 9 or 10, and that scene literally paralyzed me with fear. So many sleepless nights and nightmares because of that shit.
That frickin Kfee jumpscare, the horse death from never ending story, and the puppet from tales from the crypt
Kfee ads are only scary on the first viewing
They're not creepy at all but the statue from the beggining of God of War II, chainsaw guy (and gals) from Resident Evil 4, the two villains from brazillian puppet show Cocoricó
lol holy shit i had no idea about the donkey but it is so eerily similar to my personal scariest childhood memory which is the ending of this winnie the pooh movie i had where a big winnie the pooh plush would wink at the camera and it haunted me for years
Pad gonna throw hands if he sees that donkey 100%
straight up
There's a fair amount of more normal sounding donkey noise audio clips out there the show runners for Barney could've used but apparently they felt the need to let kids know that donkeys usually sound like demons.
that one dr seuss book where the guy gets followed by a disembodied pair of pants at night is the first thing that comes to mind for me
The sleeping bear from the campfire Barney episode.... I can’t be the only one
The entirety of crashbox bro, shit was always so dark and lifeless to me as a kid, terrified me
Bruh the dudes Kung Fu Chuckie fucks up from the N64 Rugrats in Paris game scared the piss out of me for no reason for like 2 years
Scary memory off hand? I was 3 and rode Snow White's Scary Adventures. Anytime I went to Disney after that, I would give the ride a wide berth which was hard because it was right there by the castle.
I'm actually surprised to have experience with most of the things you've discussed. I guess I can only comment in a boring list way.
1. I don't even remember that mouth in the Ardman thing and lord knows I watched those every chance they came on PBS.
2. The video with The 39 Stairs was called Put Down The Duckie, a special that had Kermit and Oscar doing pledge drive segments when it was on TV. I recall watching it back in 1994 despite being 13.
3. As much as I love Twilight Zone, the Dummy can go to a special place in Hell, probably in a conference room stocked with the convention attendes from well Hell.
4. Majora's Mask is my favorite Zelda game, and I don't want to admit the Happy Mask Salesman is scary, but yeah, he's not my favorite thing.
5. OK the Donkey is pretty disturbing.
The aliens in Mars Attacks used to scare the fuck out if me as a kid. Those dead eyes and their creepy grimaces kept me awake at night.
For me one of the scariest moments in my childhood, when i was elementary, i was terrified when i was playing wwf smackdown, i was using the undertaker as my wrestler in a singles match(his persona was ministry of darkness), then his ring entrance/titantron video appears in the screen of the tv there was the part of vid when he turn around he has that iconic eye rolling, it gave me the creeps, to the point i can't look in the t.v. as if that image of the undertaker stuck in my brain, and it give me difficulty in my sleep at that time.🤣🤣🤣
Oh boy... Walice and Gromit. Good times, good times.