I watched a lot of courage, billy and Mandy, and invader zim as a kid but I never noticed the horror until I got older. But now they’re some of my favorite shows because of the horror.
Wormy was a main reason why I have a fear of butterflies to this very day. What I found ironic, as an adult, is that things I associate with butterflies have been related to things I love and enjoy with the biggest example being Fluttershy since she’s my favorite character in the show, but her name and cutie mark relate to butterflies.
Wormy is actually one of my favorite SpongeBob episodes. The close ups of the butterfly didn't bother me as much as people would've expected and I adore how SpongeBob, Patrick, and the people of bikini bottom overreact to the butterfly and SpongeBob and Patrick think they saved the town when in actuality they left bikini bottom in a apocalyptic state.😂😂😂
Since you brought up MAD in this video, I also want to share the skit that traumatized my young self. It was a really short one, I think it was only like 30 seconds but it was a trailer for a Bambi sequel called "Zombi" where Bambi's dead mom comes back to life as a zombie and kills the hunter that shot her. I hadn't seen Bambi or anything at the time but they literally drew Bambi's zombie mother as a way-too-detailed rotting deer corpse and it was SO freaking scary. Zombies in general were really popular at the time (Walking Dead etc.) and I hated it cause I was always so scared of them, glad the whole trend finally died.
I don't know why, but hearing "A Trip to the Moon," one of the most iconic and influential silent films of all time, referred to as "that one scene from Hugo" absolutely sent me
As a kid, the pimple popping MAD scene REALLY freaked me out as a kid. I'm pretty sure that was the first episode, and I watched it on a HUGE screen at a different person's house late at night.
“Creepy music goes a long way.” Totally agree. Certainly applies to something from my childhood that, while it didn’t scare me, it really should have: the Phantasy Star Online Ruins. I love it for the reasons it should be scary, but I find it hard to describe because the music is a big part of it. Really helps create the atmosphere that this place never should have been opened.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village absolutely terrified me as a kid. The atmosphere was so... weird, especially with the whole kidnapper story, the murder, the character designs... a weirdly unsettling game for me, still
I think that's fair. I just played Curious Village this year and while it didn't unsettle me, there's are definitely some more scary elements in earlier Layton games, CV being no different. You very easily could make CV into something fully horror if you really wanted to.
The vibes of the Layton games can get pretty eerie but personally, I can't see how they'd be terrifying when you're being interrupted by goofy brainteasers every two minutes haha
@@nebulousboops4985 Diabolical Box definitely spooked me as well, but somehow not quite as much as the original game. Maybe because I got used to the characters and weirdness of the franchises earlier entries by then :D
There was this one episode of Gumball that was made in cooperation with the creators of DHMIS, the episode was about Gumball and Darwin are looking for toys for them to donate when they run into these puppets they used to play as kids, the episode mostly consists of Darwin playing with the puppets while trying to hide them from Gumball, but when Darwin goes to sleep the puppets end up controling his body, and Gumball wears the other puppet (there were 3) and he ends up in the "puppet world", in this world the puppets are life-sized and super creepy, but after that, the puppets trick Gumball and Darwin into becoming their puppets and say that they were going to do horrible things to them, thankfully they were able to escape and they threw the puppets away, but just the image of someone controlling you and doing horrible things to you just for fun, scared the doodoo out of me
I remember Doraline 😂 While I wasn’t creeped out by that, I remember FrankenWinnie scaring me pretty bad. The shot of Christopher Robin accidentally ripping Pooh Bear while pulling him out of Rabbit’s hole made me so uncomfortable. I had some weird fear of seeing stuffed animals getting destroyed(didn’t matter if it was animated or live action). Back on topic though, Mad in general was pretty creepy. I also remember that zombie Bambi segment upsetting me. And we all can’t forget the infamous pimple short. Rejected Toy Story was pretty bad for me too 😂 so I see where you’re coming from.
oh god frankenwinnie scared me so bad... there's a scene where a bunch of bats??? fly out of the toilet and i couldn't go piss for a while afterwards 😭
OH MY GOD THE BAMBI ONE HOLY SHIT, I mostly remembered the My Little Warhorse one as it kinda confused/ angered me as a kid cause I was a fan of MLP when that short came out. And when looking it up to rewatch it after Shrunks mentioning MAD Tv to realize its a parody of the movie War Horse, which was Tom Hiddleston's first movies before being casted as Loki I believe. mostly stayed for the Spy VS Spy segments if I remember correctly
I remember being unnerved by 'Wormy' very well. I personally deal with Melisophobia (fear of bees and other stinging insects), after having two instances where I was stung by a bumblebee; first time was when I was a baby and the second time I was about six years old. So whenever that close up of Wormy's face showed up, and I'd hear that awful buzzing noise, it would low-key trigger my Melisophobia, as it sounded really similar to a buzzing bee. I even remember that one night I had dreamt of that exact shot looping over and over. That certainly didn't help matters. Also, it's interesting to hear that you were unnerved by Queen Victoria from 'Pirates: Band of Misfits'. I can kind of understand, having seen the movie several times myself. Whenever the characters would mention the word 'pirate' when they're talking to her, she'd go from calm and collected to straight up fuming at the drop of a hat. I mean, she almost has the Pirate Captain beheaded like it was the middle ages, for Pete's sake. So, while it's a weird fear to have, I don't see it as unreasonable.
For the Inuyasha one, you accidentally combined two episodes!! The Noh Mask and the Soul Piper are different episodes with very different plot lines. The Soul Piper is more depressing and distressing in comparison to that of the Noh Mask episode. I recommend the Soul Piper episode for anyone that likes mini movie type of episodes
Is one of these the episode where the ghost girl originally died in an apartment fire because she was hiding from her mom because she was mad at her for paying attention to her brother and she was trying to kill her brother in the hospital?
@@princesspikachu3915 little catholic 9 year old me watching Kagome literally holding the girl back from being dragged into hell through sheer strength... That was the rawish shit I'd ever ever seen, it blew my mind
i'm not even joking right now, this video helped me find out a huge part of my childhood that i had forgotten about for a DECADE. thank you so much for posting about raz kids, this is seriously super nostalgic and important for me. thank you shunks!
I remember the Minecraft cave sound effects creeping me out a lot when I was a young kid. Though the sound that would play after you stared into the eyes of an Enderman sent chills down my spine. I remember how it would still play even if you left the world to get to the title screen right after it started playing. That sound still seems out of place to me nowadays imo.
One of the adverts that really scared me as a kid was a Duracell Battery ad. I can’t seem to find it anywhere but it would have been around 2008-2010 in the United Kingdom. There’s a point when the rabbit mascot appears in the darkness, with only his face illuminated - by a lightbulb, I think. I don’t know why, but that really freaked me out.
i genuinely used to really love MAD as kid. id constantly watch it on demand all the time. the episode that freaked me out PERSONALLY was the skit about bambi where his mother comes back from the dead as a zombie to kill the hunter that shot her. that freaked me out, genuinely.
i remember getting freaked out at that one brief scene from Phineas and Ferb, where i think Candice looks into a telescope and see a face on the moon, and it plays this short ominous toon. just the mysterious shading moon face backed by the uneasy tune gave me this deep uncanny fear to it all XD
That was more so Temple of Doom, that and Poltergeist (Gremlins also probably helped too) caused PG-13. With him talking about that face scene though, that would have to have been The Last Crusade.
I specifically remember being terrified of a care bears VHS I used to own which was all about 'stranger danger'. I don't remember much about it now but I do remember finding it so scary.
the spongebob shot that always terrified me as a kid was in the episode where spongebob was trying to get gary to take a bath, and uh its the subliminal messaging scene where this girls face just randomly appears and starts giggling and its sooo disturbing
I think I got kinda traumatized as a kid by the “Bones and Skin” song scene from one episode of Rainbow Dash Presents. It might have been a mixture of it being sung during the characters running away in fear as well as just the way the song sounded. Surprisingly though, the infamous Fluttershy’s shed scene didn’t actually scare me.
I thought I was the only one who got scared by Bones and Skin! It's something about the Timbre of the song and the key or something something spooky scary uncomfortable
The visuals of a beloved doll turning into some kind of monster from the inside and chasing after Applejack and Rarity with a threat of most likely death also didn’t help my kid self in chances of not being scared by the scene alongside that.
im glad i wasnt the only one freaked out by MAD shorts as a kid. i remember being really scared of this katy perry firework parody where all the puppets would melt because of the heat of the fireworks. and then the katy perry puppet started melting because of the fireworks on her chest. idk if it was the visuals or the idea of the puppets melting and dying that scared me more
I think that one was on a Gen Z trauma iceberg and many were indeed traumatized by it. I thought it was grim but hilarious but probably because I was older when I first saw it.
fucking same, this comment is the only place i have heard anybody who isnt me talk about it, it traumatized me man, I still cant watch it to this day and still get teary eyed when I hear the original song
Meanwhile in my childhood, my dad would expose me to scary movies and other movies I clearly wasn't supposed to watch. Therfore I wasn't traumatized by any kid shows. The stuff that I was traumatized from was Alien, and that one random horror movie where the aliens are in mirrors and they kill you when you look at your reflection. I was afraid of mirrors for years after that
Ohhhh my gosh as soon as you mentioned the evil puppets I knew it was the Angel episode! That one traumatized the heck out of me too, I was an older kid but I still got so freaked out by it. The expression on the kid's face after he collapsed, and that scene of the puppets puppetting a dead human man. Just... The noise. When they shoved their hand into the corpse. So goddamn... Uncomfortably moist. There are indeed a lot of hilarious things in that episode from the mid point on, but damn the intro is legitimately terrifying!
This really brought me back. It's wild to think about all this stuff from the perspective of someone just a few years younger than me. I think you must be the same age as one of my little brothers. Funnily enough though I think I got scared by a lot of these things more than they did!
that blue thing from courage never really scared me as a kid when i watched that episode however, the part where muriel shatters into pieces was terrifying to me for some reason, that, of all things was the one that scared me away from watching the show for a while
I remember playing the Scooby Doo: First Frights Wii game as a kid and being scared shitless by the Fisher Town levels and the Werewolf chase level. Honestly, most of the Chase levels were pretty scary, but the werewolf one felt soo much more terrifying than the others.
I remembered being ABSOLUTELY terrified of Puffy Fluffy from the episode "A Pal for Gary". Seems innocent at first, until he is around Gary, and almost tried to eat Spongebob, so Gary saved his owner from this thing and Spongebob was like scolding Gary for hurting his "pal", even though this monstrosity of a pet fish is attempting to eat Gary's owner.
There was also a skit I was terrified of in MAD. I think it might’ve been the first episode, but my brother used to torment me with the Zombi bit ALL. THE. TIME when I was younger
I remember being distressed about this one too, sure it didnt get into my brain as much as the My Little WarHorse one which is just weird. idk if I changed the channel everytime the Zombi one came on or just closed my eyes until it was over. but MLWH is different as I didnt like seeing the ponies in a distressing situation like war and also the fact Tara Strong does voice most of them. also the fact I did not see/know of the movie War Horse at the time until wayy later after Tom Hiddleston got popular as Loki
13:00 OMG, the exact same thing happened to me! I was flipping through channels and caught that exact same episode, and it freaked the heck out of me! I literally got chills as you described it because I thought "there's no way it's the same", and sure enough! I kept watching it out of curiosity, and the one scene where the evil puppet was "controlling" a man through a hole in his back was burned into my mind ever since.
You mentioned an adult parody of Davy and Goliath, but Ive got Trauma from the ACTUAL show 😭😭 1. There’s a Christmas special where Davy’s sister goes missing and almost froze to death on the snow, made me cry and scared the shit out of me 2. In another episode Goliath and Davy go into a cave and there’s a sinkhole that traps in Davy and Goliath has to leave him to go get help and they’re both crying and little me just couldn’t take it lmaoo 3. That episode where the guy crashes his plane and Davy and his friends in the summer camp find him and I think keep him alive while looking for help? If I remember correctly he also had his daughter who broke her legs, idk if that’s right tho
When I was in elementary school (probably 3rd-5th grade), the assistant principal was taking to the entire grade upstairs for morning classes and she was not impressed with some kid's behavior, so she told that kid "If you keep misbehaving like that, you'll be taken away from your parents." This scared me because I thought if I was misbehaving too much, then I would get kidnapped by the school, put into this random car with a social worker, and driven away to some valley in Oregon (I didn't know much about Oregon, all I knew was that Gravity Falls took place there since I never set foot out of the Northeast United States).
I was never scared of Wormy but The Splinter is the episode that scared me the most. I also rember being scared of that one episode of Jimmy Neutron where Sheen becomes a genious and his head grows large. I also liked to watch this series on youtube about animation errors in FIM called My Little Bloopers and they would always use that Metal Gear exclimation sound and combined with some of the animation bugs it would always jumpscare me.
the only things i really remember being scared of was internet related, specifically Buried Alive (Pokemon Creepypasta), and then these videos called "Dangers of the Bad Egg" and "March of the Mews" by GlitchManOmega, Bad Egg made me afraid of playing Pokemon Ruby SPECIFICALLY lmfao. I don't think I was scared of Tails Doll but i had a weird obsession with it for a bit. Only other things that comes to mind that's not internet related was this scene from Family Guy where Peter is scratching bits of his face off while looking in the mirror. I don't know how young i was when I saw it, but i wasn't supposed to be watching Adult Swim lmao. And finally was the Scene from Spirited Away where the parents turn into pigs, I saw it I think on my christmas vacation, or at least some family gathering where I went to California.
My first anime I ever watched (that I knew what anime was, so like not Pokemon) was InuYasha back in the summer of 7th grade. I was horrified by it, but I couldn’t stop watching it! I remember having nightmares about it, but I just continued to watch it! I will admit, probably not the kind of show innocent minded little me should have watched at that point in time, but I have fond memories of that time so at least I have positive memories of the time.
I FORGOT ABOUT WORMY but yeah it traumatised me. And since you mentioned Wallace and Gromit, Curse of the Were-rabbit TERRIFIED me. Also, there was this TV show they played in Australia at about 7 that was all of these horror stories in. I can't for the life of me find it but it scared me so much. I remember one episode where this trolley followed this girl home. That was one of the least scary ones. My grandma loved it.
Omggg Inuyasha was such a huge part of my childhood actually, along with sailor moon I lived for the terrifying parts and tbh Inuyasha still inspires some of my art today :,D
OH MY GOD thank you so much for talking about Time Bandits, even if it was briefly. The ending pissed me off so much as a kid and it even still kind of does to this day
Nahhh idc about wormy the spongebob scene that terrified the frick outta me was “it all started.. when I was born” and it zoomed out and all the spongebob characters are morphed together
The scene you mentioned with the little kid watching the Sesame street parody, and the kid being sucked in, that was from a show called "Angel". My husband watched that show a lot back then, and was able to tell what show was just by that scene. As for the anime with the guy in the red robe, and the girl that was with him, That was InuYasha (Who has dog ears, although he's the only half-demon with animalistic ears... Why is that?) and one of his traveling companions (But also, his love interest.) named Kagome. Inuyasha and Kagome don't see eye to eye at first, but as the series goes on, they slowly realize that they were meant for each other.
@@pigsby It's a spin off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A vampire with a soul tries to find redemption from his past by protecting humans from other vampires, demons, magic users and the like. And while he does that with his team of misfits, hilarity and drama ensue.
I thought i was the only one traumatized by Inuyasha! specifically, the scene where kaede gets shot in the eye as a child during a flashback really fucked me up. im an adult now and it's one of my favorite shows
Fun fact about the moon from Hugo, it isn't from Hugo. It's the moon in A Trip To The Moon, a 1902 French film that's credited as being the first film to using special effects
I remember that even though I was super freaked out by HTF I sometimes would still watch episodes in full. The one I recall the most of is a modern HTF episode, I won't explain the plot but a few minutes into the episode Cub has either The Mole's or Handy's cut off eyes on his face, for some reason that was what scared me the most.
@@MarsMakes as a huge fan of the series, i agree with this 100%. petunia seems to get it the absolute worst, the episodes about her make my skin crawl 😂
this!! i remember my first episode(i think?) was the donut episode(the one where lumpy chokes on a donut, if that jogs a memory)! i recently binged the series & apparently kid me imagined there being dramatic music when there wasn't any at all? idk i thought it was weird x3
There’s a childhood scary story that really stood out to me, I can’t remember it in whole. But my elementary school playground had this fence (I think) and then a big dip down. And if you looked down you’d see a tipped over Truck kinda in the distance and a mini fridge. It was kinda far away from it. And I don’t really remember what the story was (I think the story was that someone got stuck down there?? Or was there ghost was living there???) I never really believe in supernatural things like that, but still to this day I remember looking at that car, and it always put me on edge. And even though there was a reasonable explanation for it I’m sure, it always stood out to me the most because the ‘aftermath’ I could see.
I was also a bit freaked out by the blue thing in Courage, mainly cause it reminded me a bit of Jenova which was basically a childhood boogeyman of mine.
OH MY GOD BRIDE OF GINGY ACTUALLY GAVE ME NIGHTMARES AS A KID. I don't even remember how old I was, I was always a very anxious and easily scared child. I remember I watched it at my dad's house and it made me lay awake in bed at night because it freaked me out so bad. My dad had to come in and reassure me by telling me he and my brother would protect me by eating up the creepy cookie wives.
Kinda ironic, cause Inuyasha was my first anime. When I was around 10 in 2005. 😅 I even read some of the manga and my mom was really chill about how many times Kagome is completely shirtless lol
As a kid my dad played this movie called "The Last Mimzy". It had so many scenes that horrified me as a kid, like one where the kids are watching a cooking show and the chef chops a spider in half. Looking at clips of it now... I was onto something. The acting is so bad that everything about the movie feels off. And they clearly try to make the premise of this girl finding this plush with insane powers into something charming but the whole vibe is off
oh the wormy butterfly closeup never freaked me out, it was the sequence of wormy cocooning that traumatized me over that episode. i didn’t care about the closeup i thought it was cool
Another video of childhood trauma! Time to post another one of mineeee I used to be quite terrified of this one joke scp of a ghost that eats your ass if you sat on the toilet, most of my fear came from how unsettling the picture was to me, it struck this weird uncanny Valley that made me get really scared to take a dump normally. it got to the point where I sat in strange positions on the toilet just to avoid my ass getting eaten by this ghost I was a very strange child
I vaguely remember my cousins showing me, what I presumably believe, a music video for a song that was stop motion when I was under the age of 10. I only vaguely remember a few parts, it was about a girl going through a place and there were scary looking people everywhere, a part in particular I could somewhat remember especially was when she looked into a baby carriage only to see if what used to be a baby or some kind of fucked up interpretation of one. It creeped me out a lot To this day I’m still unable to find it
I have no idea why I spent all afternoon searching for it, but I found the segment with the shadow puppets. It was part of the series What a Life. The family who was featured in it uploaded it to TH-cam under the title "Disney's "What A Life!" with the Seki Family and Shadow Puppets!"
A couple of scattered memories that came up: - Koh the Face Stealer scared the crap out of me as a kid, I legitimately couldn't watch the episode/s involving it for years. Hama and the bloodbending episode were also creepy, but nowhere near as bad as Koh for me. - The episode of Teen Titans where Raven's fears came to life freaked me out, but when I saw the end of the episode it really wasn't all that bad anymore. - The entirety of The Polar Express. I think it was the animation style, but the whole thing was creepy to me. - Sharkboy and Lavagirl is a vague memory for the most part, but I do remember being afraid of a scene where I think the teacher turned into a supervillain? I think it wasn't _actually_ the teacher though, just a figment based on him. On another note though, something that definitely could have traumatized me if I knew about it came from Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. The infamous 4:44 easter egg that happens when you interact with your TV at exactly 4:44, and the entire four/death reference. I had no idea that this existed so I never encountered it by accident, but especially out of context it would have terrified me lol. But the New Year's dreams, on the other hand, did freak me out.
I don't know if any of you remembers that CN Show called "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack". There was an episode where a creepy cat with no eyeballs, showed up in the screen..... Boy, was that traumatizing for me... and it still is....
😔 Caroline is actually one of my favorite Portal characters, but I can see why that painting would scare someone..... I think that was actually one of the reasons why I found her so interesting? It's almost symbolic of her character in a way
Omg when you said "Perfect" I knew EXACTLY what scene you were talking about before you even said anything about the episode! That freaked me out so much as a kid
(Pushes up nerd glasses) Jerry wasn’t pretending to be a ghost, The radio basically explained that a white mouse escaped from a lab and that if any harm came to it it would explode so Jerry decided to freak out Tom by making him think he’s that mouse
I love listening to stuff like this. It's really interesting to me how different kids process media. I was petty over exposed to scary media as a kid, and the only things I remember really getting to me were an episode of Full Metal Alchemist 2003, and an episode of The X Files. I don't remember much about the FMA episode. Something about a disease spreading that, to me, made people's skin look like it was peeling up like a ripe pine cone. I remember a lot more about the X Files episode. It was one about quadruplets that had been separated at birth, and were being hunted down by the devil to have their eyes burnt out. They were angels, or something. There was a lot of catholic imagery, and it was shot as Scully retelling the story in confession, and it dealt with her grief over her daughter. Both shows deeply upset me, and gave me nightmares, but ONLY those specific episodes.
I remember when I was a small little child I watched a lot of cable tv and there would always be ads for the adult animated movie "Sausage party" and for some reason i HATED the animation and i almost threw up every time i saw it cause it creeped me out so much lmao
Another thing that kinda freaked me out as a kid was the vampire fly episode of Mighty Max where the vampire lady spat acid out of her tongue and it melted a manhole cover.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit scared me as a kid. I was fine for most of it, it was just at the end when the villain character was revealing himself as a toon. His eyes got scary and his voice got creepy, and I was terrified.
I remember also being creeped out by Queen Victoria in the pirates movie, but not to the same extent. I never saw ads for the movie but I did grow up watching it a lot, both my mum and my brother loved the thing, so I had to see her a lot but instead of being creeped out by her being angry, it was more what she does in the movie especially the twist ending. Really spooked me
I never once saw Looney Tunes play on Boomarang. It was always Tom and Jerry and other Hanna Barbara shows. This made Looney Tunes more rare to watch in my experience. There was a New Years Looney Tunes marathon I remember. I camped at that TV all day.
Ye, ye, these are all fun! Oof, even the picture of the dude from the Return The Slab scene in Courage is enough to activate my fight or flight. Ah, but there was another Courage ep that scared me, the one with the lesbians? 'S mostly because it depicted an abusive relationship, with the bunny girl trying to leave, putting her in direct danger. Plus, the cat girl's mask scared the shit outta me.
I have a really stupid childhood trauma from the game Sonic Adventure Battle 2 (sa2 but the gamecube one) Specifically, the goal ring with the flashing red "reset" text when you reach the end of the stage on the wrong mission. As a kid i didnt understand WHAT i did wrong, but knew that something was wrong. it gave a similar fear to error screens and anti piracy stuff. claiming the ring gave a more distorted noise too i think, which creeped me out. the worst part for me when i was young was when i did a treasure finding level mission for rings or something and after leaving spawn, it appeared there without warning a few minutes later. I avoided all the extra treasure finding missions as a kid because of that lol
speaking of portal 2, when i was like 11 the valve intro from that game where the guy turns around kept me from playing any valve games for like a year
I said it on the other video but I love finally having a video where someone actually talks about stuff from my childhood too! I never read Scary Stories bc even as an adult the illustrations freak me out... I also just watched Candyman and the 2021 sequel recently! Very good movies!
One of the biggest things I remember scaring me as a child was ghost whisperer. I watched it with my grandmother when I was pretty little and there were two scenes that really stuck with me. One was what I believe was or was close to the final episode where the main character helped ghost children in the hospital who all wore animal masks, there was a shot of them marching down a hallway or something that scared the shit out of me. The other was a scene with a woman frantically driving down a road as some rock song blasted on the car radio. She kept looking at her baby in the back and crying, I don't remember a lot of context from that episode but I think she hit something and died.
*Is currently wearing an InuYasha t-shirt* Inu Yasha is one of my favorite animes of all-time, but yeah, those really were two of the creepiest episodes, so I can definitely see why they scared you. I was 14 when I originally started watching IY, and I distinctly remember the Noh Mask freaking me out 😓 . But still love those episodes.
As if the Noh Mask isn't creepy enough in the anime, it was WAY WORSE in the manga. Instead of just being a big grayish blob, it was a flesh blob with its victims limbs and faces etc. sticking out. Absolute body horror, and definitely freaked me out as a kid. By comparison, I found the anime version pretty tame, actually 😅
Its the one sesame street picture where they're holding guns and smoking cigarettes 💀 that one absolutely scared me Speaking of sesame street, big bird for whatever reason scared me as a kid lmaoaoao
As a kid, I used to have a fear of aliens and it all stemmed from a specific era of kids' channels being obsessed with Aliens for some reason. One notable example was Cartoon Network’s ‘Invasion’ event where their current cartoons had an alien plot that connected them. The marketing of the movie was really creepy, I remember. They had ads of news reports of the aliens taking over CN city and the three mascots/alien hosts they had for it freaked me out. I would always avoid the TV where those ads played. The Invasion episodes also scared me, specifically ones for Camp Lazlo, Billy and Mandy, and Ed, Edd, and Eddy. The beginning of the Ed episode actually terrified me and gave me nightmares I remember. The other one were these commercials segments on DisneyXD about UFOS. I forgot what it was called but I remember a segment of a girl telling a story about her dog barking at the ground before an earthquake happened and another one of a boy talking about a UFO sighting he saw.
"I think we were the last to roll out the TV" Oh man you had to remind me...we even had VHS televisions...even as someone who's half millenial, half gen Z, I still find VCR displays to be comforting as someone who had Pokemon, Fox and the Hound, and Rugrats in Paris on some old tapes.
Queen Victoria is literally just the human version of the white woman jumpscare
So accurate
British people are pretty scary
😂😂
Wait, then what's the regular version if it isn't a human woman-
This made me laugh more than it should have
I watched a lot of courage, billy and Mandy, and invader zim as a kid but I never noticed the horror until I got older. But now they’re some of my favorite shows because of the horror.
DESTROY US ALL!!!
Wormy was a main reason why I have a fear of butterflies to this very day. What I found ironic, as an adult, is that things I associate with butterflies have been related to things I love and enjoy with the biggest example being Fluttershy since she’s my favorite character in the show, but her name and cutie mark relate to butterflies.
Wormy is actually one of my favorite SpongeBob episodes. The close ups of the butterfly didn't bother me as much as people would've expected and I adore how SpongeBob, Patrick, and the people of bikini bottom overreact to the butterfly and SpongeBob and Patrick think they saved the town when in actuality they left bikini bottom in a apocalyptic state.😂😂😂
Wormy made me afraid of the sound of insect buzzing. Otherwise the episode is a good one
Since you brought up MAD in this video, I also want to share the skit that traumatized my young self. It was a really short one, I think it was only like 30 seconds but it was a trailer for a Bambi sequel called "Zombi" where Bambi's dead mom comes back to life as a zombie and kills the hunter that shot her. I hadn't seen Bambi or anything at the time but they literally drew Bambi's zombie mother as a way-too-detailed rotting deer corpse and it was SO freaking scary. Zombies in general were really popular at the time (Walking Dead etc.) and I hated it cause I was always so scared of them, glad the whole trend finally died.
I remember that one, the Twilight parody, and the Hop and strokes episode. I wonder how this stuff was even on CN where little kids were watching. 😂
I saw (and hated) that one too
Never know when the zombie trend will... come back from the dead. ;)
Being already terrified of zombies this was a huge no go for me, great memory
Oh god, that's a repressed memory for me, had to change the channel because I couldn't handle it
I don't know why, but hearing "A Trip to the Moon," one of the most iconic and influential silent films of all time, referred to as "that one scene from Hugo" absolutely sent me
I had the Hugo movie on dvd for a good 4 months without watching it, I watched it once, and then tossed it
As a kid, the pimple popping MAD scene REALLY freaked me out as a kid. I'm pretty sure that was the first episode, and I watched it on a HUGE screen at a different person's house late at night.
That scene was actually censored in latinamerica, little me still looked for it though
@@mauroc1896 not all of latin america tho, I remember seeing it
Only that one MAD bumper where they went to to that guys belly button was so off putting to me
Me too! I fucking HATED that lol
Oddly enough, the "Return the slab" character from Courage never scared me as a kid, but the realistic fish in the Spongebob themesong did.
“Creepy music goes a long way.”
Totally agree. Certainly applies to something from my childhood that, while it didn’t scare me, it really should have: the Phantasy Star Online Ruins. I love it for the reasons it should be scary, but I find it hard to describe because the music is a big part of it. Really helps create the atmosphere that this place never should have been opened.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village absolutely terrified me as a kid. The atmosphere was so... weird, especially with the whole kidnapper story, the murder, the character designs... a weirdly unsettling game for me, still
I thought that said curious George and was wondering why TF something like that would be in curious George lmao
I think that's fair. I just played Curious Village this year and while it didn't unsettle me, there's are definitely some more scary elements in earlier Layton games, CV being no different. You very easily could make CV into something fully horror if you really wanted to.
The vibes of the Layton games can get pretty eerie but personally, I can't see how they'd be terrifying when you're being interrupted by goofy brainteasers every two minutes haha
I imagine Diabolical Box would be even worse, considering from what I can tell, it's actually supposed to have a scarier atmosphere lol
@@nebulousboops4985 Diabolical Box definitely spooked me as well, but somehow not quite as much as the original game. Maybe because I got used to the characters and weirdness of the franchises earlier entries by then :D
Madd was actually a more mature(?) comic that did a similar pop culture thing before they got the TV show for those who were unaware.
I love the magazine but that cartoon show was disgusting
Yes, the show was garbage... Katy Putty Flammable was the worst for me and I proceeded to not sleep for three nights in a row because of it
There was this one episode of Gumball that was made in cooperation with the creators of DHMIS, the episode was about Gumball and Darwin are looking for toys for them to donate when they run into these puppets they used to play as kids, the episode mostly consists of Darwin playing with the puppets while trying to hide them from Gumball, but when Darwin goes to sleep the puppets end up controling his body, and Gumball wears the other puppet (there were 3) and he ends up in the "puppet world", in this world the puppets are life-sized and super creepy, but after that, the puppets trick Gumball and Darwin into becoming their puppets and say that they were going to do horrible things to them, thankfully they were able to escape and they threw the puppets away, but just the image of someone controlling you and doing horrible things to you just for fun, scared the doodoo out of me
I LOVE THAT EPISODE AND I LOVE DHMIS!!! Talented folk right there
@@average.fan.8616 me too!!!
That episode was freaky lol
I remember Doraline 😂 While I wasn’t creeped out by that, I remember FrankenWinnie scaring me pretty bad. The shot of Christopher Robin accidentally ripping Pooh Bear while pulling him out of Rabbit’s hole made me so uncomfortable. I had some weird fear of seeing stuffed animals getting destroyed(didn’t matter if it was animated or live action). Back on topic though, Mad in general was pretty creepy. I also remember that zombie Bambi segment upsetting me. And we all can’t forget the infamous pimple short. Rejected Toy Story was pretty bad for me too 😂 so I see where you’re coming from.
oh god frankenwinnie scared me so bad... there's a scene where a bunch of bats??? fly out of the toilet and i couldn't go piss for a while afterwards 😭
Mad was one of those shows that could actually make me nauseous when I was little
OH MY GOD THE BAMBI ONE HOLY SHIT, I mostly remembered the My Little Warhorse one as it kinda confused/ angered me as a kid cause I was a fan of MLP when that short came out. And when looking it up to rewatch it after Shrunks mentioning MAD Tv to realize its a parody of the movie War Horse, which was Tom Hiddleston's first movies before being casted as Loki I believe. mostly stayed for the Spy VS Spy segments if I remember correctly
HOLY SHIT I WAS TERRIFIED OF FRANKENWINNIE AS A KID!!!!
I remember being unnerved by 'Wormy' very well. I personally deal with Melisophobia (fear of bees and other stinging insects), after having two instances where I was stung by a bumblebee; first time was when I was a baby and the second time I was about six years old. So whenever that close up of Wormy's face showed up, and I'd hear that awful buzzing noise, it would low-key trigger my Melisophobia, as it sounded really similar to a buzzing bee.
I even remember that one night I had dreamt of that exact shot looping over and over. That certainly didn't help matters.
Also, it's interesting to hear that you were unnerved by Queen Victoria from 'Pirates: Band of Misfits'. I can kind of understand, having seen the movie several times myself. Whenever the characters would mention the word 'pirate' when they're talking to her, she'd go from calm and collected to straight up fuming at the drop of a hat. I mean, she almost has the Pirate Captain beheaded like it was the middle ages, for Pete's sake. So, while it's a weird fear to have, I don't see it as unreasonable.
Didnt realize this was a similar phobia toward stinging insects
@@SpectacleSpark Yea, while I've been stung by bumblebees in the past, I still get anxious at the sight of other insects like honey bees and wasps.
For the Inuyasha one, you accidentally combined two episodes!! The Noh Mask and the Soul Piper are different episodes with very different plot lines. The Soul Piper is more depressing and distressing in comparison to that of the Noh Mask episode. I recommend the Soul Piper episode for anyone that likes mini movie type of episodes
The Soul Piper episode makes me cry every single time 😭 ! It's SO sad... The ending is beautiful, though.
Is one of these the episode where the ghost girl originally died in an apartment fire because she was hiding from her mom because she was mad at her for paying attention to her brother and she was trying to kill her brother in the hospital?
@@captaincaspian42 YEP!! This is the one
@@captaincaspian42 And on top of that, the soul piper was going to drag the ghost girl to hell.
@@princesspikachu3915 little catholic 9 year old me watching Kagome literally holding the girl back from being dragged into hell through sheer strength... That was the rawish shit I'd ever ever seen, it blew my mind
i'm not even joking right now, this video helped me find out a huge part of my childhood that i had forgotten about for a DECADE. thank you so much for posting about raz kids, this is seriously super nostalgic and important for me. thank you shunks!
I remember the Minecraft cave sound effects creeping me out a lot when I was a young kid. Though the sound that would play after you stared into the eyes of an Enderman sent chills down my spine. I remember how it would still play even if you left the world to get to the title screen right after it started playing. That sound still seems out of place to me nowadays imo.
Yeah I find those sounds very creepy
as a massive fan of pirates band of misfits i completely agree with the queen being terrifying tbh. i was so scared of her as a kid
One of the adverts that really scared me as a kid was a Duracell Battery ad. I can’t seem to find it anywhere but it would have been around 2008-2010 in the United Kingdom. There’s a point when the rabbit mascot appears in the darkness, with only his face illuminated - by a lightbulb, I think. I don’t know why, but that really freaked me out.
Wow! Very cool! I hope I find it soon!
i genuinely used to really love MAD as kid. id constantly watch it on demand all the time. the episode that freaked me out PERSONALLY was the skit about bambi where his mother comes back from the dead as a zombie to kill the hunter that shot her. that freaked me out, genuinely.
i remember getting freaked out at that one brief scene from Phineas and Ferb, where i think Candice looks into a telescope and see a face on the moon, and it plays this short ominous toon. just the mysterious shading moon face backed by the uneasy tune gave me this deep uncanny fear to it all XD
fun fact: Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of two films that made the film industry create the PG-13 rating
That was more so Temple of Doom, that and Poltergeist (Gremlins also probably helped too) caused PG-13. With him talking about that face scene though, that would have to have been The Last Crusade.
MAD felt like a fever dream and the Doraline one still freaks me out
There's another claymation one that freaked me out, it's called Katy Putty Flammable and it's terrifying
I specifically remember being terrified of a care bears VHS I used to own which was all about 'stranger danger'. I don't remember much about it now but I do remember finding it so scary.
the spongebob shot that always terrified me as a kid was in the episode where spongebob was trying to get gary to take a bath, and uh its the subliminal messaging scene where this girls face just randomly appears and starts giggling and its sooo disturbing
sorry you had to see that Gary
Oh yeah I remember that. I saw that episode during the time I was used to weird sponge Bob cuts like that. I was like, “The heck? Well that happened”.
I think I got kinda traumatized as a kid by the “Bones and Skin” song scene from one episode of Rainbow Dash Presents. It might have been a mixture of it being sung during the characters running away in fear as well as just the way the song sounded. Surprisingly though, the infamous Fluttershy’s shed scene didn’t actually scare me.
I thought I was the only one who got scared by Bones and Skin! It's something about the Timbre of the song and the key or something something spooky scary uncomfortable
The visuals of a beloved doll turning into some kind of monster from the inside and chasing after Applejack and Rarity with a threat of most likely death also didn’t help my kid self in chances of not being scared by the scene alongside that.
I love your pfp btw! 👍
im glad i wasnt the only one freaked out by MAD shorts as a kid. i remember being really scared of this katy perry firework parody where all the puppets would melt because of the heat of the fireworks. and then the katy perry puppet started melting because of the fireworks on her chest. idk if it was the visuals or the idea of the puppets melting and dying that scared me more
I think that one was on a Gen Z trauma iceberg and many were indeed traumatized by it. I thought it was grim but hilarious but probably because I was older when I first saw it.
@@maffieduran i havent seen that iceberg! honestly if i rewatched it now id probably think it was funny but i just couldnt handle it at that age
I remember trying to watch it because I loved the magazine, but all I could think was "this shit is disgusting, they're showing this to children?!"
fucking same, this comment is the only place i have heard anybody who isnt me talk about it, it traumatized me man, I still cant watch it to this day and still get teary eyed when I hear the original song
Yeah, this thing made it so I couldn't sleep for a week
Meanwhile in my childhood, my dad would expose me to scary movies and other movies I clearly wasn't supposed to watch. Therfore I wasn't traumatized by any kid shows. The stuff that I was traumatized from was Alien, and that one random horror movie where the aliens are in mirrors and they kill you when you look at your reflection. I was afraid of mirrors for years after that
That second thing was an episode of supernatural, and they weren't aliens they were changelings
MAD Was Basically The Kid Version Of Adult Swim,Also That Pirate Movie Had The "Well Yes But Actually No" Meme. XD
Ohhhh my gosh as soon as you mentioned the evil puppets I knew it was the Angel episode! That one traumatized the heck out of me too, I was an older kid but I still got so freaked out by it. The expression on the kid's face after he collapsed, and that scene of the puppets puppetting a dead human man. Just... The noise. When they shoved their hand into the corpse. So goddamn... Uncomfortably moist.
There are indeed a lot of hilarious things in that episode from the mid point on, but damn the intro is legitimately terrifying!
Also the Nosferatu bits in Spongebob were terrifying
This really brought me back. It's wild to think about all this stuff from the perspective of someone just a few years younger than me. I think you must be the same age as one of my little brothers. Funnily enough though I think I got scared by a lot of these things more than they did!
that blue thing from courage never really scared me as a kid when i watched that episode
however, the part where muriel shatters into pieces was terrifying to me for some reason, that, of all things was the one that scared me away from watching the show for a while
A big notable one for me was the bloopers for the Shrek movies, absolute nightmare fuel
I watched the “Perfect” episode from Courage when I was a kid. I actually didn’t remember the uncanny Mew until other people started bringing it up.
Not only is it uncanny, but it's blue. You know what that means? It's a SHINY!
I remember playing the Scooby Doo: First Frights Wii game as a kid and being scared shitless by the Fisher Town levels and the Werewolf chase level. Honestly, most of the Chase levels were pretty scary, but the werewolf one felt soo much more terrifying than the others.
I remembered being ABSOLUTELY terrified of Puffy Fluffy from the episode "A Pal for Gary". Seems innocent at first, until he is around Gary, and almost tried to eat Spongebob, so Gary saved his owner from this thing and Spongebob was like scolding Gary for hurting his "pal", even though this monstrosity of a pet fish is attempting to eat Gary's owner.
There was also a skit I was terrified of in MAD. I think it might’ve been the first episode, but my brother used to torment me with the Zombi bit ALL. THE. TIME when I was younger
Oh dude that was upsetting, but I didn't hate it anywhere NEAR as much as my little sister did.
I remember being distressed about this one too, sure it didnt get into my brain as much as the My Little WarHorse one which is just weird. idk if I changed the channel everytime the Zombi one came on or just closed my eyes until it was over. but MLWH is different as I didnt like seeing the ponies in a distressing situation like war and also the fact Tara Strong does voice most of them. also the fact I did not see/know of the movie War Horse at the time until wayy later after Tom Hiddleston got popular as Loki
"Tunnel of Glove" was the spongebob episode that scared me because of the animatronics on the ride that came alive. made me scared of robots for years
Same, and this was before FNAF
I remember kids at my old school telling stories about Slenderman during a school camp. It freaked me out
I definitely remember that Peter Pan tape! The concept art was freaky and there was a song that sounded very spooky.
Mad was pretty much Robot Chicken for kids
13:00 OMG, the exact same thing happened to me! I was flipping through channels and caught that exact same episode, and it freaked the heck out of me! I literally got chills as you described it because I thought "there's no way it's the same", and sure enough! I kept watching it out of curiosity, and the one scene where the evil puppet was "controlling" a man through a hole in his back was burned into my mind ever since.
You mentioned an adult parody of Davy and Goliath, but Ive got Trauma from the ACTUAL show 😭😭
1. There’s a Christmas special where Davy’s sister goes missing and almost froze to death on the snow, made me cry and scared the shit out of me
2. In another episode Goliath and Davy go into a cave and there’s a sinkhole that traps in Davy and Goliath has to leave him to go get help and they’re both crying and little me just couldn’t take it lmaoo
3. That episode where the guy crashes his plane and Davy and his friends in the summer camp find him and I think keep him alive while looking for help? If I remember correctly he also had his daughter who broke her legs, idk if that’s right tho
When I was in elementary school (probably 3rd-5th grade), the assistant principal was taking to the entire grade upstairs for morning classes and she was not impressed with some kid's behavior, so she told that kid "If you keep misbehaving like that, you'll be taken away from your parents." This scared me because I thought if I was misbehaving too much, then I would get kidnapped by the school, put into this random car with a social worker, and driven away to some valley in Oregon (I didn't know much about Oregon, all I knew was that Gravity Falls took place there since I never set foot out of the Northeast United States).
I was never scared of Wormy but The Splinter is the episode that scared me the most. I also rember being scared of that one episode of Jimmy Neutron where Sheen becomes a genious and his head grows large. I also liked to watch this series on youtube about animation errors in FIM called My Little Bloopers and they would always use that Metal Gear exclimation sound and combined with some of the animation bugs it would always jumpscare me.
the only things i really remember being scared of was internet related, specifically Buried Alive (Pokemon Creepypasta), and then these videos called "Dangers of the Bad Egg" and "March of the Mews" by GlitchManOmega, Bad Egg made me afraid of playing Pokemon Ruby SPECIFICALLY lmfao. I don't think I was scared of Tails Doll but i had a weird obsession with it for a bit.
Only other things that comes to mind that's not internet related was this scene from Family Guy where Peter is scratching bits of his face off while looking in the mirror. I don't know how young i was when I saw it, but i wasn't supposed to be watching Adult Swim lmao. And finally was the Scene from Spirited Away where the parents turn into pigs, I saw it I think on my christmas vacation, or at least some family gathering where I went to California.
My first anime I ever watched (that I knew what anime was, so like not Pokemon) was InuYasha back in the summer of 7th grade. I was horrified by it, but I couldn’t stop watching it! I remember having nightmares about it, but I just continued to watch it! I will admit, probably not the kind of show innocent minded little me should have watched at that point in time, but I have fond memories of that time so at least I have positive memories of the time.
And yet I think Sesshomaru is hot
I FORGOT ABOUT WORMY but yeah it traumatised me.
And since you mentioned Wallace and Gromit, Curse of the Were-rabbit TERRIFIED me.
Also, there was this TV show they played in Australia at about 7 that was all of these horror stories in. I can't for the life of me find it but it scared me so much. I remember one episode where this trolley followed this girl home. That was one of the least scary ones. My grandma loved it.
My childhood trauma moment was the GameCube "no disk" logo. Because I HATED it. It was spooky to me.
Somebody who finally mentions MAD? HELL YEAH!!
that show was a trip lmfao
Omggg Inuyasha was such a huge part of my childhood actually, along with sailor moon
I lived for the terrifying parts and tbh Inuyasha still inspires some of my art today :,D
OH MY GOD thank you so much for talking about Time Bandits, even if it was briefly. The ending pissed me off so much as a kid and it even still kind of does to this day
Same here
Nahhh idc about wormy the spongebob scene that terrified the frick outta me was “it all started.. when I was born” and it zoomed out and all the spongebob characters are morphed together
The scene you mentioned with the little kid watching the Sesame street parody, and the kid being sucked in, that was from a show called "Angel". My husband watched that show a lot back then, and was able to tell what show was just by that scene. As for the anime with the guy in the red robe, and the girl that was with him, That was InuYasha (Who has dog ears, although he's the only half-demon with animalistic ears... Why is that?) and one of his traveling companions (But also, his love interest.) named Kagome. Inuyasha and Kagome don't see eye to eye at first, but as the series goes on, they slowly realize that they were meant for each other.
Yes she says that in the video though she doesn’t mention Inuyasha and Kagome’s names
Could you elaborate a little more on what "Angel" is? I'm interested in it :0!
@@jaymer123 I know... I commented a bit too early... ^^;
@@pigsby It's a spin off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A vampire with a soul tries to find redemption from his past by protecting humans from other vampires, demons, magic users and the like. And while he does that with his team of misfits, hilarity and drama ensue.
@@Miyu88 completely fair just thought I’d mention
I thought i was the only one traumatized by Inuyasha! specifically, the scene where kaede gets shot in the eye as a child during a flashback really fucked me up. im an adult now and it's one of my favorite shows
Fun fact about the moon from Hugo, it isn't from Hugo. It's the moon in A Trip To The Moon, a 1902 French film that's credited as being the first film to using special effects
I remember that even though I was super freaked out by HTF I sometimes would still watch episodes in full. The one I recall the most of is a modern HTF episode, I won't explain the plot but a few minutes into the episode Cub has either The Mole's or Handy's cut off eyes on his face, for some reason that was what scared me the most.
The ones with petunia the skunk unsettled me the most. As a person who hates germs they always made me uncomfortable
@@MarsMakes as a huge fan of the series, i agree with this 100%. petunia seems to get it the absolute worst, the episodes about her make my skin crawl 😂
this!! i remember my first episode(i think?) was the donut episode(the one where lumpy chokes on a donut, if that jogs a memory)! i recently binged the series & apparently kid me imagined there being dramatic music when there wasn't any at all? idk i thought it was weird x3
There’s a childhood scary story that really stood out to me, I can’t remember it in whole. But my elementary school playground had this fence (I think) and then a big dip down. And if you looked down you’d see a tipped over Truck kinda in the distance and a mini fridge. It was kinda far away from it. And I don’t really remember what the story was (I think the story was that someone got stuck down there?? Or was there ghost was living there???) I never really believe in supernatural things like that, but still to this day I remember looking at that car, and it always put me on edge. And even though there was a reasonable explanation for it I’m sure, it always stood out to me the most because the ‘aftermath’ I could see.
I remember being terrified of bride of gingy when I was little. So much so that I would hide in the bathroom when my siblings watched it.
I was also a bit freaked out by the blue thing in Courage, mainly cause it reminded me a bit of Jenova which was basically a childhood boogeyman of mine.
OH MY GOD BRIDE OF GINGY ACTUALLY GAVE ME NIGHTMARES AS A KID.
I don't even remember how old I was, I was always a very anxious and easily scared child. I remember I watched it at my dad's house and it made me lay awake in bed at night because it freaked me out so bad. My dad had to come in and reassure me by telling me he and my brother would protect me by eating up the creepy cookie wives.
Kinda ironic, cause Inuyasha was my first anime. When I was around 10 in 2005. 😅 I even read some of the manga and my mom was really chill about how many times Kagome is completely shirtless lol
As a kid my dad played this movie called "The Last Mimzy". It had so many scenes that horrified me as a kid, like one where the kids are watching a cooking show and the chef chops a spider in half. Looking at clips of it now... I was onto something. The acting is so bad that everything about the movie feels off. And they clearly try to make the premise of this girl finding this plush with insane powers into something charming but the whole vibe is off
oh the wormy butterfly closeup never freaked me out, it was the sequence of wormy cocooning that traumatized me over that episode. i didn’t care about the closeup i thought it was cool
i had spongebob trauma from the episode where spongebob got a new pet and it fucked gary up so bad
Oh God that fucking disgusting slug bastard. They didn't have to draw it so detailed. Or with so much drool.
The Queen Victoria puppet is scary because she’s British
MAD was just a kid version of robot chicken
Another video of childhood trauma! Time to post another one of mineeee
I used to be quite terrified of this one joke scp of a ghost that eats your ass if you sat on the toilet, most of my fear came from how unsettling the picture was to me, it struck this weird uncanny Valley that made me get really scared to take a dump normally.
it got to the point where I sat in strange positions on the toilet just to avoid my ass getting eaten by this ghost
I was a very strange child
I’d hate to resurrect your old fear but you’d hate Ghoulies since they had an infamous toilet scene too
Oh my gods, the Butt Ghost!
I used to be scared that freddy fazbear was going to come out of the toilet....
can relate to jumpscare stuff, god i hate those lol
I vaguely remember my cousins showing me, what I presumably believe, a music video for a song that was stop motion when I was under the age of 10. I only vaguely remember a few parts, it was about a girl going through a place and there were scary looking people everywhere, a part in particular I could somewhat remember especially was when she looked into a baby carriage only to see if what used to be a baby or some kind of fucked up interpretation of one. It creeped me out a lot
To this day I’m still unable to find it
I have no idea why I spent all afternoon searching for it, but I found the segment with the shadow puppets. It was part of the series What a Life. The family who was featured in it uploaded it to TH-cam under the title "Disney's "What A Life!" with the Seki Family and Shadow Puppets!"
A couple of scattered memories that came up:
- Koh the Face Stealer scared the crap out of me as a kid, I legitimately couldn't watch the episode/s involving it for years. Hama and the bloodbending episode were also creepy, but nowhere near as bad as Koh for me.
- The episode of Teen Titans where Raven's fears came to life freaked me out, but when I saw the end of the episode it really wasn't all that bad anymore.
- The entirety of The Polar Express. I think it was the animation style, but the whole thing was creepy to me.
- Sharkboy and Lavagirl is a vague memory for the most part, but I do remember being afraid of a scene where I think the teacher turned into a supervillain? I think it wasn't _actually_ the teacher though, just a figment based on him.
On another note though, something that definitely could have traumatized me if I knew about it came from Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. The infamous 4:44 easter egg that happens when you interact with your TV at exactly 4:44, and the entire four/death reference. I had no idea that this existed so I never encountered it by accident, but especially out of context it would have terrified me lol. But the New Year's dreams, on the other hand, did freak me out.
I don't know if any of you remembers that CN Show called "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack". There was an episode where a creepy cat with no eyeballs, showed up in the screen..... Boy, was that traumatizing for me... and it still is....
Oh who let the cats out of the old bags house
I remember that old lady jumpscare in the Peewee movie lmao
😔 Caroline is actually one of my favorite Portal characters, but I can see why that painting would scare someone..... I think that was actually one of the reasons why I found her so interesting? It's almost symbolic of her character in a way
Me living on my own is a sort of big apartment makes me almost shiver when watching The Mlp fanimation Friendship was magic.
Omg when you said "Perfect" I knew EXACTLY what scene you were talking about before you even said anything about the episode! That freaked me out so much as a kid
(Pushes up nerd glasses) Jerry wasn’t pretending to be a ghost, The radio basically explained that a white mouse escaped from a lab and that if any harm came to it it would explode so Jerry decided to freak out Tom by making him think he’s that mouse
I love listening to stuff like this. It's really interesting to me how different kids process media.
I was petty over exposed to scary media as a kid, and the only things I remember really getting to me were an episode of Full Metal Alchemist 2003, and an episode of The X Files.
I don't remember much about the FMA episode. Something about a disease spreading that, to me, made people's skin look like it was peeling up like a ripe pine cone.
I remember a lot more about the X Files episode. It was one about quadruplets that had been separated at birth, and were being hunted down by the devil to have their eyes burnt out. They were angels, or something. There was a lot of catholic imagery, and it was shot as Scully retelling the story in confession, and it dealt with her grief over her daughter.
Both shows deeply upset me, and gave me nightmares, but ONLY those specific episodes.
I remember when I was a small little child I watched a lot of cable tv and there would always be ads for the adult animated movie "Sausage party" and for some reason i HATED the animation and i almost threw up every time i saw it cause it creeped me out so much lmao
Oh hi wobbler! Your animations inspire me a lot
Also I relate, I hated sausage party when I was younger lmao
@@MarsMakes helo! Finally someone who can agree lmaoo
Valid
i’ve only seen one clip of sausage party before and it made me dreadfully uncomfortable
God this comment made me realise Sausage Party came out 7 years ago, damn I feel old now lmao
Another thing that kinda freaked me out as a kid was the vampire fly episode of Mighty Max where the vampire lady spat acid out of her tongue and it melted a manhole cover.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit scared me as a kid. I was fine for most of it, it was just at the end when the villain character was revealing himself as a toon. His eyes got scary and his voice got creepy, and I was terrified.
I remember also being creeped out by Queen Victoria in the pirates movie, but not to the same extent. I never saw ads for the movie but I did grow up watching it a lot, both my mum and my brother loved the thing, so I had to see her a lot but instead of being creeped out by her being angry, it was more what she does in the movie especially the twist ending. Really spooked me
New shunks upload let's gooo
28:25 AHHH THANKS SO MUCH FOR INCLUDING MY ART AGAIN
I never once saw Looney Tunes play on Boomarang. It was always Tom and Jerry and other Hanna Barbara shows. This made Looney Tunes more rare to watch in my experience. There was a New Years Looney Tunes marathon I remember. I camped at that TV all day.
Ye, ye, these are all fun! Oof, even the picture of the dude from the Return The Slab scene in Courage is enough to activate my fight or flight. Ah, but there was another Courage ep that scared me, the one with the lesbians?
'S mostly because it depicted an abusive relationship, with the bunny girl trying to leave, putting her in direct danger. Plus, the cat girl's mask scared the shit outta me.
OH MY GOD. THE SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK ONE BROUGHT ME BACK TO 3RD GRADE LIBRARYYY
I have a really stupid childhood trauma from the game Sonic Adventure Battle 2 (sa2 but the gamecube one)
Specifically, the goal ring with the flashing red "reset" text when you reach the end of the stage on the wrong mission. As a kid i didnt understand WHAT i did wrong, but knew that something was wrong. it gave a similar fear to error screens and anti piracy stuff. claiming the ring gave a more distorted noise too i think, which creeped me out.
the worst part for me when i was young was when i did a treasure finding level mission for rings or something and after leaving spawn, it appeared there without warning a few minutes later. I avoided all the extra treasure finding missions as a kid because of that lol
speaking of portal 2, when i was like 11 the valve intro from that game where the guy turns around kept me from playing any valve games for like a year
I said it on the other video but I love finally having a video where someone actually talks about stuff from my childhood too! I never read Scary Stories bc even as an adult the illustrations freak me out... I also just watched Candyman and the 2021 sequel recently! Very good movies!
21:34 *YES* i've mentioned this to my friends like 4 times and none of them ever remembered it
One of the biggest things I remember scaring me as a child was ghost whisperer. I watched it with my grandmother when I was pretty little and there were two scenes that really stuck with me. One was what I believe was or was close to the final episode where the main character helped ghost children in the hospital who all wore animal masks, there was a shot of them marching down a hallway or something that scared the shit out of me. The other was a scene with a woman frantically driving down a road as some rock song blasted on the car radio. She kept looking at her baby in the back and crying, I don't remember a lot of context from that episode but I think she hit something and died.
That Wormy Spongebob episode gave me a lifelong fear of butterflies
*Is currently wearing an InuYasha t-shirt* Inu Yasha is one of my favorite animes of all-time, but yeah, those really were two of the creepiest episodes, so I can definitely see why they scared you. I was 14 when I originally started watching IY, and I distinctly remember the Noh Mask freaking me out 😓 . But still love those episodes.
As if the Noh Mask isn't creepy enough in the anime, it was WAY WORSE in the manga. Instead of just being a big grayish blob, it was a flesh blob with its victims limbs and faces etc. sticking out. Absolute body horror, and definitely freaked me out as a kid. By comparison, I found the anime version pretty tame, actually 😅
Its the one sesame street picture where they're holding guns and smoking cigarettes 💀 that one absolutely scared me
Speaking of sesame street, big bird for whatever reason scared me as a kid lmaoaoao
As a kid, I used to have a fear of aliens and it all stemmed from a specific era of kids' channels being obsessed with Aliens for some reason. One notable example was Cartoon Network’s ‘Invasion’ event where their current cartoons had an alien plot that connected them. The marketing of the movie was really creepy, I remember. They had ads of news reports of the aliens taking over CN city and the three mascots/alien hosts they had for it freaked me out. I would always avoid the TV where those ads played. The Invasion episodes also scared me, specifically ones for Camp Lazlo, Billy and Mandy, and Ed, Edd, and Eddy. The beginning of the Ed episode actually terrified me and gave me nightmares I remember.
The other one were these commercials segments on DisneyXD about UFOS. I forgot what it was called but I remember a segment of a girl telling a story about her dog barking at the ground before an earthquake happened and another one of a boy talking about a UFO sighting he saw.
"I think we were the last to roll out the TV"
Oh man you had to remind me...we even had VHS televisions...even as someone who's half millenial, half gen Z, I still find VCR displays to be comforting as someone who had Pokemon, Fox and the Hound, and Rugrats in Paris on some old tapes.
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who was scared of the Shrek 3 dream sequence, I always had to leave the room 😭
I was so convinced as a kid that Slenderman was after me and that Jeff the Killer was going to bust into my house while I was asleep and get me