Something that horrified me as a child , and now is part of my hobby, is the Windows XP Start-Up sound, errors, and shut downs. I would have nightmares about the computer sucking me in every time I got an error , and I learned about viruses and that fear went from 0-100. I would cry every time I saw an error or heard the boot up, Ironically this is one of my favorite things to mess with now, lol.
Omg me too!! I used to click on the shut down button then run away from my computer while covering my ears just so I couldn't hear the shut down sound. My family used to make fun of me for that A LOT
I remember back when I was a kid that one scene from Toy Story 2 where Andy's like "I don't wanna play with you any more" and drops Woody into a deck of cards, where he ends up with a bunch of arms in a trash can always freaked me out. That shit was so unnerving.
For me it was the weeping angels. I watched Doctor Who with my uncle when I was like 6, and most episodes weren't scary. Then I saw the weeping angels ones and I couldn't sleep in my own bed for weeks because I thought they would kill me when I tried to close my eyes to sleep.
I'm still so scared of the amber alert voice. I absolutely hate it. I still cry and curl into a ball.when I hear it. But for some reason I'm okay with goggle assistant, siri, Alexa etc. but JUST the amber alert sound
it’s probably the context. you’re fine with alexa because it give info on random stuff. meanwhile the amber alert gives info on somebody’s child was stolen.
those old psa's about drowning or underage drinking or staying safe around trains that somehow snuck into the ad breaks of kid's shows and other programs really scared me, but hey, that means they worked, right?
Bro I hate those. Especially old ones where the effects arent quite right. My mom and I were watching the hobbit once (I was like 12) and it was after the credits. The PSA started like a soda ad and I was like "thats odd why is there a soda ad after the credits?". My mom was asleep and the lights were completely off and I was really alone. So these kids in the soda ad were drinking the soda while bungee jumping which seemed really cool in the moment, but it takes a turn for the worst when one of the kids' bungee cord breaks and he plummets to his death AND YOU SEE HIM HIT THE GROUND. Brains splattering everywhere it was so disturbing. Turns out it was an ad for Truth (for non-americans, its the organization that does our anti-smoking ads). I was just left there really unsettled and I didn't sleep well that night. No amount of horror movie scares me, but those PSAs are the worst.
I just remembered 2 When I was a baby I would frantically try to escape when I was watching baby einstein (side point ive only met one person who even knows what that is it was like puppets with classical music) and a green dragon puppet would come on and say "blah" and it terrified me when I was like 2, and it only got worse as I got older and remembered it being scarier until I looked at it again and it didnt freak me out at all. Also the corn pops godzilla commercial would scare me when I was like 4
I know that show! I often watched the ocean one (I think it was supposed to be baby Mozart?) as a child and never allowed my brother to watch the others, hahaha. There were others too. I had them on DVD, but i don't think I had them all, but I remember four specific scenes. Van gogh, some weird one with the dragon you mentioned, stuff about various musical instruments (I distantly remember a female voice going 'piano and guitar') and some toy that had a whole water theme to it. The van Gogh goat was one of the things that terrified me. I didn't care too much about the other films but that fucking freaked me out. edit: remembered some more details. They were supposed to be sensory type videos and the baby einstein company were actually made by Disney. I think some of it was stock footage looking back. Very popular in the early 2000s. My mum would give me and my brother a lot of DVDs. while she did work from home, she obviously couldn't entertain us all the time, so she'd give us all sorts of stuff. It was great for me, I had autism and visually sensory stuff was actually pretty fun for me. I'm having a google to see if I can find any clips online, The DVDs i have are probably in storage and i don't have anything to work with a DVD anymore (we moved and sorta put them all away). there's probably some pirated versions online or maybe outright uploaded to youtube. i never could remember the full run time but i reckon it was maybe 20 mins to 30 mins. maybe more. Another scene that came to was in the bonus pack of baby mozart (i think). It was of a diver feeding the fish in an aquarium. he had white hair, average older white guy. probably in his late 50s. I'll shut up and start googling lol edit 2: found your dragon and fuck that brought back memories. th-cam.com/video/UB005XVdRoc/w-d-xo.html I think i had a nightmare about that thing. Some episodes are available on their youtube channel.
@@theautistictomboy4003 after posting that comment I went to my attic and found those old dvds, the ocean one was neptune but the one I was scared of was Mozart. I think I have every one of those from before like 2007 since I'm a 2003 baby
One of the most terrifying things I witnessed as a 5,maybe 6,year old was when The Hacker took over Motherboard spot in one episode of Cyberchase due to how unexpected it came
I remember that. The 3d model used to freak me out. I think what scared was that the episode wouldn't be aired chronological in order so I would be left wondering if motherboard actually died or if hacker actually won
Look at the album "everywhere at the end of time" by the caretaker. It's a terrifying musical rendition of dementia and what it does to a person mentally. Last 6 minutes of that album makes me cry every Damn time man.
I know... it really hit deep for me man. Yet a part of me is so glad that I listened to it, because now it opened up my eyes to enjoy time with my elders as I have them.
So there was this massive indoor play place my parents took me one time to have a party, you know, the oversized stairs, the ball pits, the slides, and the bouncy houses. There was this very secluded area way up high, that was supposed to be themed to the wild west, and in there was this very surreal and strange CGI wanted poster of a classic Pixar looking granny, and that shook me to my core, just the fear of being trapped in a secluded room with this weird object made me traumatized and made me never want to get close to that place ever again.
@@robinw2096 I am Hispanic so it probably was not that, plus it was long ago so the site has most likely gone out of business by now, but I will ask my parents or relatives if they recall the location to see if I can get a name.
this is SO WEIRD because as a very small child I had a recurring nightmare of being trapped in a sort of 90s looking playground inside a room where the staircase disappeared and i was just perpetually stuck there all alone...
I just rewatched a movie called "Disaster Move" and it brought up this childhood trauma. Its a scene where the characters finds Alvin and the chipmunks characters but a rabbid, crackhead version of them, seeing it now i can see why it scared the absolute shit out of me
I walked in on my uncle and parents watching that scene when I was really young. It ended up burned into my mind for YEARS and even though I'm not scared of it anymore, I can't forget that scene.
OH MY GOD, I watched that movie when I was like 5 and it legitimately scares me to this day especially the part where they EAT the pregnant woman. Nightmare fueling.
dude same here! it was specifically the scene of them eating that pregnant woman's back for me, i had to start sleeping with a pillow against my back or i'd feel unsafe. still do nowadays, not because i'm scared of chipmunks but because it makes me feel more comfortable, lol
Things that scared me as a kid: -The annoying orange -The thumbnail of a duck song ytp where the man had a gun -The talking at the start of the gummy bear song -Mr raisin toast
my list of traumatic childhood things: - who framed roger rabbit, the scene where the villain reveals himself to be a toon. his eyes become animated and he starts speaking/screaming in that horrible high-pitched voice. that whole movie was pretty creepy (the dip scene where they murder the shoe... eugh) and not really for kids, but i saw it nonetheless and had to stop after the villain scene. - animal farm. the live action movie. again, NOT a kids movie (i assume??) but i had it on a weird, probably bootleg video tape containing the felix the cat movie (not traumatic, but an incredibly obscure and trippy piece of animation history, definitely more for young kids) and animal farm. the pig puppets freaked me out, and of course as a kid i had no idea what the russian revolution was, the entire vibe of the movie fucked me up for years. the dictatorship, the executions, the disregard for the lower class. of course when i went to high school and started media studies, we covered the book, and i found out that it was based on the russian revolution, which was an epiphany moment of "ohhh, it *wasn't* a really fucked up kids movie. it was a really fucked up HISTORICAL kids movie." - beowulf. a terrifying CG adult animated film. again, watched it when i was way too young, shocker. actually i think i watched it when i was with my dad and we were staying with his friend who lived in this REALLY old, big house, it was always cold and almost definitely haunted which didnt help me sleep that night. the violence and the monster absolutely terrified me. - the york dungeons. an attraction in york, england, part of a chain also located in edinburgh and london iirc. basically a walk-through haunted house based on the historical events of the areas they're located in. i was 10, we were staying in york and i begged my dad to take me to the dungeons all day since i wanted to prove how tough i was and i didnt think it would be THAT scary. i tell you, i didnt even go in the door. i stood at the entrance, saw the props and heard the ambient music from inside, and i immediately started screaming. i was literally clinging to a lamp post begging my dad not to take me in, as my little brother, 5, boldly wandered up the steps and my dad tried to drag me inside so he could grab him. it was, all in all, not a good day. 10 years later and i still feel sick when i think about it, i cant even walk through that street anymore when i visit york. - 9. amazing movie, beautiful animation, cute good robot designs, horrifying evil robot designs. also a really tense, oppressive atmosphere, topped with lots of character death and apocalyptic hopelessness. fun!! (for real its an underrated animated gem, everyone go watch it now if you haven't) - the butter battle book. i had this on vhs, in the same collection as my bootleg felix the cat and animal farm tape, so yall know its gonna be good. basically a dr seuss cartoon about two communities who hate each other for a really petty reason, and start threatening each other because of it, their threats getting worse and worse until finally one side creates a "terribly powetful weapon that could wipe out the entire other side". the cartoon ended with a picture of the weapon, and the narrator asked "if you had something like this in your posession, tell me, what would you do?" and fading to black. .. it wasnt really scary, but even as a kid, i picked up on how *wrong* it felt. the cartoon wasnt really funny or exciting, it was kind of boring and offputting, it made me feel weird when i watched it. of course, remembering it only recently, i looked it up and realised that of course, it was a metaphor for the cold war. a really fucked up thing to portray in a dr seuss cartoon, and a message that not many children will understand, but they WILL pick up on how creepy and wrong the cartoon feels. trust me, its all on youtube, watch it and you'll see what i mean. its just... off. EDIT: oh and the fucking british think! PSAs i was shown as a kid. gorey, traumatic and horrible. i am 20, and i still havent tried driving lessons. i am fucking petrified of driving because of those PSAs.
I remember that Seuss cartoon, they were a big deal in the 90's and 80's. I never understood myself as a kid until older, now I remember it kinda fondly.
One of my greatest fears when I was young was the 2012 "end of the world" I was 10 at the time and I strongly believed the world was going to end the 21st of december. I remember not speaking about my fear to anyone but I did tell all my loved ones that, I did love them. So, basically just my mom, dad and brother... Looking back at it, it's kinda cute in a way but I still don't get how, me, who was such a crybaby at the time, didn't just panic and refused going to school that day.
oh my god, me too... and exactly the same way too! i saw the 2012 trailer and it literally kept me up at night for days, i remember not going to school as well and getting this horrible sinking feeling in my stomach because i was sure we'd all die on december 21st. i was especially really sad that my sister would only be 6.
Tl;dr: me too but I felt nothing in particular. I was in a weird state of negation... I was convinced it was going to happen, but I couldn't feel anything about it. I wasn't laughing or anything, I just grabbed a chair and waited outside. It was such a nice, sunny day. After half an hour I thought that maybe I could be doing something else. So I payed attention to the tv while doing stuff. If someone comes out of nowhere and screams at my face that the world did end in 2012 and we just moved to another server. I would belive them 100%
The VALVe startup always scared the shit out of eight year old me, I just wanted to play some Portal 2 when it came out but just seeing this bald man with a valve of all things on the back of his head slowly turn around to look at you was nothing but bizarre and terrifying for me and unnatural and the music didn't help either, I would just shut my eyes and look down with my hands over my ears whenever it played.
I can agree with some of it because I was scared that something was going to put like a hole fausit in my head and reprogram me. And all I wanted to do was to collect tf2 hats
bruh same until a week ago when i realised the sound effect is sampled from the theme or a track from a game valve made (idk which one; maybe half life?) it scared me lol. with the context its a bit less unsettling.
The Ghost Car screamer video terrified me as a kid because I was never introduced to it in the actual video. Instead it was in a video of “ghosts caught on tape” and at the end of the video it showed the field pictured in the video and then played the screamer. I was only eight at the time and couldn’t sleep for days after that video, and couldn’t watch those videos again until like four years later.
A "Where's Waldo" one got me (with the face of Pazuzu from the Exorcist popping up) my friends got me with a shit ton of screamers (fuck the Michael Jackson ghost one, just saying) but this one I just went, by myself, to the "Scary" section of some flash game website like an idiot expecting some Salad Finger stuff and when I saw "Where's Waldo"' I was like "Pfft Where's Waldo isn't scary you dumb dumb !" I was in a dark room, alone and it was the first and last time a screamer actually made me cry
My uncle and aunt pranked me with it, my uncle told my aunt to show it to me and she did and I was just watching it and got so scared when it happened I hated that so much and I still cant watch that video to this day
“The worst doctor who villain” Man if that was a doctor who villain I swear to god there would be at least 6 people who thought he was the best villain ever.
I can't remember anything from the internet that scared me so bad that it left a huge impact on me, but I _do_ remember that I was terrified of Lazy Town until I was about 11 years old. And I have no idea why. It might've been the puppets. I revisited Lazy Town when I was in 6th grade, and watched the "We Are Number One" music video before it blew up as a meme. Then a few months later, "[song] but [thing]" memes started showing up, most recognizably: We Are Number One. At first I was upset, for some reason, but it eventually started to grow on me, as more and more Lazy Town things started popping up. Eventually I'd fallen in love with the memes so much that I unironically started watching Lazy Town episodes and legitimately enjoying them. I feel like when Stefan Karl died and went to heaven, God was like "hey man thanks for helping this kid get over her childhood fear"
I have a pretty weird one, when I was around 5 I was scared of the puppet lizard from Baby Einstein. After watching a clip I found on TH-cam I discovered that a lot more people are scared of it than I expected. Whenever the lizard went "Blah" I used to run out the room crying looking for my mom.
This video inspired me to actually call up my mom and ask her if there was anything that scared me as a kid. she said one of the best examples she could remember was The little shadow girl from bear in the big blue house, we had it on vhs and apparently she scared me so badly I would run and hide if my parents tried to play any episode of the show
Something that always scared me as a kid was the "Trust No One" episode of ReBoot. Basically, it's a parody of the X-Files but it had a hideous "Web Creature" monster in it. The thing was scary back then and it's still kinda scary now, due to the design. It had pitch-black skin and these glowing yellow eyes, as well as these weird Eldritch tentacle-like things behind it. Shit kept me up for weeks.
For me it was the weeping angels. I watched Doctor Who with my uncle when I was like 6, and most episodes weren't scary. Then I saw the weeping angels ones and I couldn't sleep in my own bed for weeks because I thought they would kill me when I tried to close my eyes to sleep.
Something that scared me as a child- mr noodle from Sesame Street. There’s just some dude in elmo’s closet and there’s never really any context to him. He’s just very mysterious and out of place.
The all time most horrifying thing I remember seeing from my childhood is by far the scene from the movie “Signs” when he was watching the news and you see the alien walk past or whatever. It made me feel sick, and even watching it to this day still gives off a slight jumpscare like quality for me
*Yes. I am so glad to see I did not suffer alone.* ok, so here's the deal with Numberjacks - I _did_ think the numbers themselves looked uncanny as a kid, but they never scared me. What scared me were the different antagonists. I was scared by the Number Taker, as well Spooky Spoon and the Problem Blob. Anyway, personally these are the reasons the Number Taker creeped me out: 1. His stare, he always stares like that all the time. 2. His clothes, this is probably the least creepy thing but it still feels unsettling in the surrealness of it. 3. His Number-sucker-upper. Ths may sound dumb, but this was what terrified me as a kid. In the show it didn't just suck up numbers, it could suck up anything, and anything it would try to suck would just disappear from existence in an instant. I found the idea that he could suck me up with his number-sucker-upper and just instantly make me disappear scary. I've had multiple nightmares as well, where I've tried to scream, and as I open my mouth nothing comes out because the sucker-upper is sucking all my screams away so no-one can hear them. 4. The fact that every other strange and surreal antagonist in the show was computer-generated, but this was a real person; and not only that, but a real person that no-one would acknowledge the strangeness of, at least not in the show. It made me worry as kid what if I was just shopping with my parents and I saw him at the store, and he started following us and trying to suck me up and take me away. It was this idea that not only did it feel like it could happen to me in real life, but that if I tried to call for help, people would just look at him as a normal person and not understand me. I think that's a big reason why when you're a kid you're scared by the strangest things, because if your fear was easily explainable and recognisable as rational you would know your parents would be there to protect you from it; but when you can't explain it, when you think your parents will ignore your concerns or maybe even mock you for them, and when you don't even know how to explain it yourself you feel alone and vulnerable. Not that many kids are _really_ scared of Zombies despite them being a horror staple because *of course* it's not irrational to fear something that is out to kill you, but when you try explain that you're scared of a Psychic Anthropomorphic Duck that can read your mind, and can appear on any screen at any time and walk through it into the real world that's always watchkng you through every screen you see and some day is gonna drag you into the screen where you'll be trapped in his world forever - well even if you could find the words to explain that as a kid, I doubt you'd be confident your fears will be taken seriously. Oh yeah, by the way, that Duck is actually from a nightmare I genuinely had - definitely the weirdest experience of my life, but also unironically my scariest nightmare ever. Sounds dumb I know, but he could speak to me inside my head as well as read my mind, and no-one else could see him, and in the nightmare no-one would believe me of course; eventually I just started crying and screaming for him to get out of my head until it got intense enough that I woke myself up.
Something that made me scared when I was young was when back at elementary, I had a teacher that read a series of books called "The Last Survivors". As a little kid, I was genuinely scared of the idea of the Moon coming closer to earth and all these catastrophic events happening where everyone was dying as if there was a war going on. I was scared how I too could lose my family and friend around me in those situations. Looking it up, I am curious why my teacher read young adult science fiction books to elementary students.
I remember an episode Goosebumps "My best friend is invisible" Where a boy is tormented by an invisible kid who wants to be his friend but is actually just making his life miserable. In the end, the boy's scientist parents use a machine on the invisible kid to make him visible and it turns out he's a human boy. The plot twist is that several years prior all the humans on earth were exiled or went into hiding after an alien invasion took over the world. The invisible boy went under a procedure to make himself hidden, and him tormenting the main character is his way of getting back at the aliens that conquered earth. Everyone we thought were humans (even the main character and his parents) were actually aliens with a second face on the back of their head. The episode ends with the parents and the main character closing in on the now visible kid. The second faces were using the syncro-vox/clutch cargo effect, the same way faces are used in the annoying orange video. I can laugh about it now that im older but it freaked me out when i was younger.
A 1,000 ways to die on spike tv. My sister would watch this show every time it was on; always urging me to watch it with her. No need to point out specific episodes; they were all surreal.
I thought I fever-dreamt this show up tbh. Glad to see I'm not crazy. I distinctly remember a guy who died on a meat hook or sth, and drowned in his own blood, and some girl who was drowned in concrete or mud??? Fuckin weird shit.
@@catboysephiroth560 there was a guy hanging upside down for three days straight and another one that got ripped in half via a rope and a forklift! DUUUMB WAYS TO DIE, SO MANY DUMB WAYS TO DIE
Bottom of the Well in Ocarina of Time. The creepy music along with re-deads and especially Dead Hand. Seriously messed me up. Also Gohma is probably the source of my fear of spiders.
Marx's death scream after beating him from Kirby Super Star and Super Star Ultra made me close my DS as a child right after I beat him and I was too scared to open it back up for the rest of the day. I never saw it coming as a kid and just seeing his face deform as you defeated him was nightmare fuel for 8-year old me. Another creepy video game moment was dying to black holes in Super Mario Galaxy. Just thinking about being infinitely sucked into a black hole as a kid and hearing Mario's scream when he dies as the screen goes black really didn't sit right with me. Even more when I'd mostly play on my Wii at night.
Came across a weird TH-cam page, Lonely-Man’s Lazarus, interesting and beautiful animation with hidden messages and weird energy. It does kinda scare me, especially when the weird voice kicks in or the unsettling sound or imagery
The scene in a Christmas Story where the boy got his tongue stuck to the frozen pole terrified me as a kid. I'm not sure why-it never snowed or even got cold enough for metal to freeze where I lived. But the terror of having your flesh trapped in place like that kept me up at night.
I used to be terrified of the "Boom shakalaka" CGI pig egg monster from the maze episode of Chowder, I know Chowder is weird on its own but those 2 scenes of that "thing" and the characters pointing and screaming at it scared the HELL out of me. It still kinda does honestly.
that is the FIRST thing i thought of when he talked abt the baby gif. i was an easily scared kid, but i hated that ep & it still kinda makes me uncomfy now.
When I was in daycare the workers would occasionally play this show called Crashbox. The weird claymation style and grungy backgrounds always scared me and even now it creeps me out.
@@planetsliveinsidethemoon1600 Tbh that is actually pretty sad more than scary. Imagine chilling and then a woman's shames you til sudden death. Sure he was ugly design wise but poor man.
I remember vividly in the early days of youtube, there was a sort of flood of various 3D animations; likely from students to organize creations or people building a sort of portfolio. A good handful of them creeped me out, but one that specifically comes to memory is the "Kiwi" animation. A kiwi bird builds a slingshot and angles it down a cliff - the kiwi loads itself, shoots, and pretends to fly alongside the cliff and cries. It occurred to me that the kiwi would not be coming back from that and it scared me. It's more bittersweet/sad looking back on it as an adult, but the concept of mortality with little 7-year-old me was....something.
The puppet show scene from the 2004 Charlie and Chocolate Factory movie scared the hell out of he as a kid. I remember seeing that when I was 4 years old, seeing already creepy looking puppets have their faces melt off as the song they sing slows down to a demonic crawl. Even thinking about it now makes me feel queasy.
Al Servicio De La Comunida in El Canal 5 a Mexican capsule that was ment to show missing people, the thing that scared me the most was that some people where missing for many years while showing old photos
Does anyone remember the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode were Billy gets bad vision because he looks at the sun a lot? At the end of the episode, Grim shoots Billy’s eyes and they become more uncanny. Not sure if it’s from the same episode, but Billy got his eyes fixed up so well that he could see bad things that happened to others in the future.
it was the same episode. grim fixes billy's eyes, and because of the visions he has, he attempts to fix them again, but billy runs away. every time grim shoots him with his scythe, billy's vision changes (different art styles, etc). at the end, billy's eyes become real live action eyes, he blinks a few times and asks "what?" as grim and mandy look at him rather scared.
I love when he gets "anime vision" and Mandy talks in Japanese. Makes me wish there was an anime reboot of the show, I think it would work really well.
The “GET OUT” from Donkey Kong 64 scared the living shit out of me. Added on...I remember finding a jumpscare in one of the Neopets worlds when I played it as a little kid, it had nothing, but it was seriously scary for a 10 year old me.
Oh shit. I wasn't the only one? I use to hate the "Get Out" sound, and every time I heard it, I would shut off the system and Nope the hell away. Counting the pyramid thing that all the Kongs get a Gold Banana as one, the sound only plays like twice, maybe three times, but all it took was the one time that the music cut out (I think), the clock ticking, and the gravely voice saying the line for me to say "I'm not getting 100% in this game any time soon."
I remember in Neopets when The Gallery of Evil was actually scary for 10-year-old me. I guess it's the artist that made certain entries of that absolutely terrifying when it came to monsters such as Ghost Lion. Is it weird to say I miss when Neopets was a little scary? Maybe it's how I'm remembering things.
@@zachgamemaster3329 See I remember it being a big thing in the ice level, because there were a series of challenges you could complete that had that voice.
I know a little too much about the numberjacks, was one of my favourites as a kid. They had multiple enemies, not just the number taker, however he was scary because of how he walks away. He kinda fades in and out, it’s weird. You should look up the spooky spoon lol, she was the scariest villain to me when I was younger.
I used to have nightmares of the game over screen from Tarzan game on pc, Everything goes black and you see Tarzan die and then it cuts to a dark jungle and this deep ominous voice speaks to you telling you, you messed up and that the jungle is dangerous. Seriously used to run and hide from this 👀
You mean the one where spongebob cuts the head of a fish and puts it between two buns? That also traumatized me as a kid! I was like 6 or 7 when i first watched it.
Alright, so, there was this PS3 game called "LittleBigPlanet." It was like Mario Maker in its ugc, but a better community and a better creation mode. There were... A-lot of horror levels. One horror level that scared me was "The Crooked Man." Look it up, you'll see why.
@@phantolmao I think so! I remember seeing a video here of someone going through it, faintly though. I also remember there being a few for Jeff the Killer and even Sonic.EXE lol.
Oh my gosh, meanwhile for me it was this one level in Little Big Planet 1, and I remember a giant shoe in it and what scared me the most was how it would crash down and shake the controller. For some reason my child mind imagined it in the hallway of my house crashing down.
Numberjacks was one of my childhood shows, the Numbertaker was my favourite of all the villains, probably because he isn't just an early 2000's CGI model. In one of the specials I got so happy he made an appearance, pretty good for a kids TV show special. I did have time when I couldn't watch an episode because it had balloons that popped and it was loud and scared me, it doesn't scare me anymore though.
"Sorry for the bad english"...So, i remember when i was a kid watching Pucca. There's a halloween episode that a Ghost enters Garu's house and he have to deal with it. In the end of episode, the ghost jumpscares you in a way that i never wanted to watch Pucca again. This fucking Jumpscare in a kids show gave me nightmares for a long time
I watched Pucca as a kid all the time and never saw that episode so I just looked it up. The ghost is adorable but holy shit it makes the Redead noise from Ocarina of Time! Idk if that would have scared me as a kid but man that's a dirty move by the show.
I don’t know why but as a kid I was also scared of the one scene from Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules where Greg and Rowley watch the foot. I know it’s supposed to be funny but I was still scared of it.
i remember being very afraid to playing Peter Pan: The Legend of NeverLand when i was 4-6 years old, the -whole game was scary to me: -the sounds -the bodies streching like rubberballs -The loading screens -and all the enemies in the game But worst parts were the Blue cave and the Waterfalls level with those weird walking cactus blocking my path saying something that i couldn't understand
God I got reminded when I was a like 3 years old, old barney episode where they go camping scared the living hell out of me. When the girl get separated from the group and bear that comes out from the cave. There were more things that scared me as a child but that one I remember made me be afriad of being alone when I was a kid.
I remember back when i was really little like 4 to 5 years old or something i was watching Teletubbies and whenever the section with the magic house and that puppet behind the curtain appeared i was somehow really scared of it. Each time that came on i ran outside crying and was having nightmares the night after. Funny thing is that my little nephew back when he was the same age i was, was also scared whenever that came on as well. Out of all the things Teletubbies had that was somehow the only creepy thing to me.
The King Boom Boo boss fight from Sonic Adventure Battle 2 ALWAYS scared the shit out of me, especially the first time I came across it. It pops up out of legit nowhere, The gurgling screams of King Boom boo are SUPER unnerving, and the fact that you're stuck running around a fixed track to get away makes it that much more creepy. Another creepy bit from the game which didn't scare me as much as a kid was Gerald Robotnik's ( I think?) confession tape where he's tied up and getting questioned by government officials. It's implied that he gets executed at the end. That whole game has some SUPER dark bits in it...
Okay, I've never seen anyone really talking about this on youtube, since this game is really obscure. There is this educational kids pc-game from 90's called Forestia and it had one level that scared me so much as a kid. One of the missions that happens at night time, is a nightmare where the whole forest is red and black and this dragon tells you to put some crystals into right order or evil witch takes over the world. Whole level has horrifying ambience playing on background and you can find dead animals and other creepy shit in the forest. You can even fail the mission and, you guessed it, it's creepy how it ends. I'm not sure if english version of the game even exists (I played finnish version), but the game is certainly from europe.
Mosley lane/The lesson from criminal minds. As a kid I’d watch criminal minds with my mom because I was a morbidly curious kid who thought she could handle it. But these episodes fucked me up. Mosley lane involved a pair of criminals who abducted kids and when the kids eventually die under their care they would incinerate the bodies and use the ashes as fertilizer for their garden. That alone messed up until you get to the worst part. In one scene the wife knocks out one of the kids and once unconscious she puts the kid in a box and incinerates him. In the lesson it follows a man who tries to recreate the way his dad died using puppets. Human puppets. He would break the bones and dislocate limbs before stringing them up while the victim was still alive. He would keep them alive in order to act and as a final creepy cherry on the fucked up sundae he’d put this mask on his puppets to make them look the part. These two episodes fucked me up to a point where I actively skip them when rewatching the series.
Probably a weird one, but TV static freaks me out. When I was little sometimes I'd press the wrong button on the remote and be greeted with the static screen and an extremely loud noise. I had a nightmare about it I still remember vividly after all these years: I was in bed, about to get up and start my day. Suddenly the TV in my room turns on by itself, and the loud static noise blasted my ears. I was so scared and tried leaving my room to escape the noise, but then every other TV in the house would turn on, set to static. There was no escape and I couldn't find my family. I was alone, surrounded by the loud BRRRRRRRRR the TV would make. I think I cried, but I don't remember if that was in the dream or in real life. God me paranoid for a good while, though. It still kinda startles me to this day 'cause of the loud noise n' all, but now I don't immediately run out of the room and instead just shut off the TV or fix the thing.
i had to cover the screen at the part where you talked about the yelling creature video because i was scared it'd show up onscreen. it still gives me legit anxiety and panic attacks. not fun. i hate it so much
Hey Goose Boose! ! I don't know if someone has already mentioned this or if you'd even consider it, but since you talked about the dancing baby it seems fitting to write it here, so here goes: -The early days of CG and the uncanny valley of it all. I remember back in the PS1 era (it's actually my favourite console of all time, there's just so many great games that came out of it), but damn if the CGI they incorporated into some games wasn't just so damn creepy. I was really young back then, but I remember that every new game I booted into the system was like some mysterious piece of software had just made it's way into my hands, and there was no way for me to do some beforehand research, since there was no real way for me to look it up on the internet. Games like Galerians or Resident Evil just had this extra layer of spookiness to it because it all seemed so real, yet so plastic-y. Even non-horror games like Tekken 3 had these CG videos where the movements and expressions in the characters' faces is just so exaggerated that it just weirds me out. Even the pre-rendered scenes in some of these games just always had this dreamlike vibe and ambience, specially with how the lighting worked. Makes me think of something uncanny like the backrooms due to how everything is lit. To this day I'm still weirded out by bad CG, it always makes me think back on those early childhood traumas haha. -Also, the early days of the internet and the wild wild west feel of it. No restrictions, censorship or algorithms to quickly shoot down some weird ass website. It just had this creepy vibe where every click was a gamble. Specially on P2P programs like kazaa or emule. If you wanted to download something, you were stuck with that, with little to no information about the file(s) you were about to download. Sometimes you were excepting something, and when you opened it, it would be something else entirely. I remember once wanting to download some Mr.Bean clips (back in 2004, when youtube wasn't a thing), and instead, being greeted with some homemade footage of a guy with a trash bag over his head, talking and moving his upper body from side to side, while staring at the camera. I remember being so scared of it that I just ran to the other side of the room while the video was playing, not understanding anything since I didn't even speak english back then and eventually gaining the courage to get in front of the screen and shut it off. I wish I could find that video, but sadly, I'm afraid it's lost in the depths of the internet, haha. Love your videos, definitely my fix for horror and creepy related subjects! Much love from Portugal, abrazo, hermano! ;)
The thing that scared me when I was younger was at the end of the credits in the Lego movie it had that red text in pure silence I would normally watch alone in the dark so that terrified me
All these childhood shows popping up brings me back to when I watched that “Between the Lions” show on PBS. I always had to change the channel or just hide my face in a pillow whenever the friggin bug-eyed puppet guy showed up. I also hated the parts where they drew faces on people’s stomachs/random body parts and made them make weird ass noises. I think? I don’t remember them actually talking.
Yeah, Smarty Pants was his name. I was scared of him too and I remember running out of the living room every time the guy appeared in the show's intro.
I remember there was a rugrats game for the PC based on the Rugrats movie when they get stranded on an island that has a giant spider for a boss. It scared me so much that I never beat the game.
For me, one of the scariest moments of my childhood was the first encounter with the titular Iron Giant from the dreamworks movie. The part where it first turns around in the woods, all the way to when it wakes up after getting electrified used to terrify me as a kid. I would always hide away during to scenes or outwright skip them. Crazy to think that a character that I used to love so much also scared me just as much. It's still one of my favourite movies of all time though.
I was terrified as a child of a ps1 game called ''Hugo'', it's about a goblin/troll that tries to stop a witch, the game over screen and the death animation of when you are on a minecart level just scared the shit out of me because the main character just collides with the screen and now i see it and it's like..... ''I really was scared of this, it's even kinda cute'' i was 5 or 6 years old :v
I don’t think anyone will remember this but The thing that scared the shit out of me was face raiders on the 3ds it’s a free ar game which comes with the system you take a picture of your friends faces and they fly around at try do destroy the fabric of the universe the sound affects and mood was just so scary too me
One thing that scared me as a kid was computers, the CRT's would make weird noises and bluescreeens still scare me till this day, mostly because of the noise and it taking me out of my PC
I was scared of the 60's theme in the Windows 98 Plus! theme pack. I remember it specifically was the organ sound that scared me because it was associated with error messages. I was... a really wimpy kid.
For me, I'd say the thing that scared me the most when I was little was probably the Submerged Castle from Pikmin 2. Nowadays I can often go through the whole sublevel without even encountering the Water Wraith, but back then I nearly pissed myself with even the thought of it. Mostly it was the "music", not really the boss because after all, the Water Wraith *is* just a blob.
I remember back on one Halloween, there was a projector that was displayed on a white sheet in front of there porch, a loop video of two silhouetted figures one being an old man in a rocking chair and, the other a man with a chain saw, the man with chain saw walks in front of the old man and turns it on and cuts the old mans legs and the old man screams in immense pain oh god my legs, I was pretty young it was pretty terrifying.
Hey I just recently got over my fear of Obedece a la Morsa (Obey the Walrus) by finally watching video in its entirety and looking into the background of it. It's actually a pretty sad story about an unfortunate person making the best of things. You can look up The Goddess Bunny (her stage name) if you want to find out more about her. She's actually still making youtube videos. I think it would be great for Traumathon. P.S. The series has been amazing. I can't imagine the absurd amount of work you've poured into, but it is definitely appreciated.
Im so glad i wasnt the ONLY one who was horrified by the escalator scene as a kid. I thought it was random for me to only be scared of that scene in particular and I was shocked when I saw that someone else, as a kid, was also terrified of the one scene.
Hey Goose, look up Zylon Dragon, from Baby Mozart. When I was an infant my parents showed me the vhs of the series and this damn dragon is what gave me the emotion of fear.
One thing that scared me when I was younger was that episode of courage the dog aka the "Perfect" episode. The scene where courage is dreaming and then this blue creature pops up, I remember it being late at night by the way so I thought it would be in my dreams saying those words, "You're not perfect."
I was creeped out by the dancing baby too. We had it as a screensaver and there was just something about that faceless baby doing adult motions in front of a black background with no music that felt uncanny to me.
I don’t know why but I had this fear of like a jump scare at the end or during of a movies credits, I’m not sure if there was ever a movie that actually did it for a long time I could have sworn it was some kids movie that did it but I could never find it. Some time to this day I get panicked when the movie credits start.
I'm probably late but whatever... the thing that scares me most is this face, it's hard to describe because it's clearly a drawing. I remember seeing it around the age of 11 or 12 I can't remember. It was the background for a scary story I was listening too. I could link it but I honestly don't wanna be paranoid again.
My childhood fright was that one scene from nightmare before Christmas where the villain gets skinned alive. I couldn’t eat rice because I thought the maggots were rice.
Holy crap, that Numberjacks show was pure nightmare fuel. Especially the Numbertaker guy and his intimidating, silent nature. How my parents didn't turn off CBeebies everytime it came on, I will never know.
Something that scared me bad as a kid was that one scene from the old animated Watership Down,(1978) where the old rabbit is explaining what happened to the rabbits after the main group left... they dun got baried alive. Bruh, I couldn't sleep for a week... scary scary psyedlic visuals combined with sfx and music? Nuh uh bruh. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, that whole move was terrifying.. Great vid btw, love your stuff!
There was this level in Jet force gemini that scarred me a lot, you have to go inside a worm and make your way in the interior. The music and the envitonment had a very weird vibe that made me feel very unconfortable. And in the end you have to exit from the worm butthole to fight 2 cyborg mantises.
The dancing baby gif kind of creeped me out as a child too, I don't know how or exactly when it popped up but I remember seeing it in the early 00s and being scared by it.
So the reason I don't like it is because of a game called Silent Hill 4 The Room. The game on its own is a freaky acid trip with monsters that I know gave me nightmares, Twin Victims come to mind, but near the halfway to end of the game you start going down flights of disconnected stairs between levels. In those parts, weird and freaky stuff is put on screen and one is just the dancing baby it's there and well it's weird between the horrible imagery and you have a dancing baby.
When I was younger I got this Monster High 3ds game called 13 wishes. I beat the game but something about it just really made me feel scared or uneasy. The world and levels were just so empty and the soundtrack especially during some levels gave me anxiety. They weren’t intentionally creepy but for some reason it managed to make me feel uneasy and anxious and I always had to turn the volume down.
Honestly the creepiest thing about the numbertaker is that he looks exactly like my dad
damn, now you have to throw out the whole dad.
But benous
Wow😂😂😂
I feel it sometimes i feel like my dad looks like yoda a bit
Oh trust me.. *Paul pops up behind me* I've seen scarier
Something that horrified me as a child , and now is part of my hobby, is the Windows XP Start-Up sound, errors, and shut downs. I would have nightmares about the computer sucking me in every time I got an error , and I learned about viruses and that fear went from 0-100. I would cry every time I saw an error or heard the boot up, Ironically this is one of my favorite things to mess with now, lol.
Omg me too!! I used to click on the shut down button then run away from my computer while covering my ears just so I couldn't hear the shut down sound. My family used to make fun of me for that A LOT
Honestly it's amazing to know that this wasn't just me haha
fuck windows xp sounds me and my homies hate windows xp sounds
@@rowletghrass4858 fax, windows vista/7 sounds were part of my childhood with those computers from 2012 - 2017
how old were you... lol
I remember back when I was a kid that one scene from Toy Story 2 where Andy's like "I don't wanna play with you any more" and drops Woody into a deck of cards, where he ends up with a bunch of arms in a trash can always freaked me out. That shit was so unnerving.
Oh my god Ngl when I was really young that gave me so many nightmares
I remember that I was just creeped out of it just a little bit
Oh my god I thought I was the only one who was scared of that lol
That part for me just made me feel weird
For me it was the weeping angels. I watched Doctor Who with my uncle when I was like 6, and most episodes weren't scary. Then I saw the weeping angels ones and I couldn't sleep in my own bed for weeks because I thought they would kill me when I tried to close my eyes to sleep.
i forgot about the Numberjacks show until i found that "BEANOS" meme
I never even heard of them until my little brother watched it for a few hours.
My child 1 has became a meme
I was TERRIFIED of spooky spoon as a kid
I loved that show lol but it would be weird if it was real and the eyes where creepy but nothing else really
@@Meaniepanini305 same
I'm still so scared of the amber alert voice. I absolutely hate it. I still cry and curl into a ball.when I hear it. But for some reason I'm okay with goggle assistant, siri, Alexa etc. but JUST the amber alert sound
it’s probably the context. you’re fine with alexa because it give info on random stuff. meanwhile the amber alert gives info on somebody’s child was stolen.
I just hate the amber alert sound or really any emergency alert sound
I just hate how it sounds like the screams of hell compressed onto an NES. I can't help but cringe a bit whenever I hear one.
youre probably spooked with the EAS alert and since that voicei s after it your brains like "oh these are related"
@@blehh_mae i just looked up eas alert and i have goosebumps, the noise is meant to mark danger so it makes sense
"Everyone has their personalized fear"
So... you're saying every copy of F.E.A.R is personalized? F.EA.R ICEBERG
But that's just a theory! A GAME THEORY!
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those old psa's about drowning or underage drinking or staying safe around trains that somehow snuck into the ad breaks of kid's shows and other programs really scared me, but hey, that means they worked, right?
Those US psa’s were so over the top dramatic bs but, it was scary indeed, I will agree with that
However in the UK and their psa’s...dear lord...
even more modern anti-smoking and anti-vaping ads do this same dramatisation
omg yes! like those little lungs in a great big world one terrifies me!
@@avasalvator9347 dont forget about the rotting teeth in a box, or the ad series with the USB mouth people
Bro I hate those. Especially old ones where the effects arent quite right. My mom and I were watching the hobbit once (I was like 12) and it was after the credits. The PSA started like a soda ad and I was like "thats odd why is there a soda ad after the credits?". My mom was asleep and the lights were completely off and I was really alone. So these kids in the soda ad were drinking the soda while bungee jumping which seemed really cool in the moment, but it takes a turn for the worst when one of the kids' bungee cord breaks and he plummets to his death AND YOU SEE HIM HIT THE GROUND. Brains splattering everywhere it was so disturbing. Turns out it was an ad for Truth (for non-americans, its the organization that does our anti-smoking ads). I was just left there really unsettled and I didn't sleep well that night. No amount of horror movie scares me, but those PSAs are the worst.
I’ve always HATED the dancing baby, it’s funny, but extremely uncanny valley
Me I didn’t even got scared by that’s baby I find it funny alongside with the song “Hooked on a Feeling” from Guardians of the Galaxy
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When I was a baby I would frantically try to escape when I was watching baby einstein (side point ive only met one person who even knows what that is it was like puppets with classical music) and a green dragon puppet would come on and say "blah" and it terrified me when I was like 2, and it only got worse as I got older and remembered it being scarier until I looked at it again and it didnt freak me out at all. Also the corn pops godzilla commercial would scare me when I was like 4
hey i remember that show! my mum told me that i would cry when some googly eyes came on? idk lol
I know that show! I often watched the ocean one (I think it was supposed to be baby Mozart?) as a child and never allowed my brother to watch the others, hahaha. There were others too. I had them on DVD, but i don't think I had them all, but I remember four specific scenes. Van gogh, some weird one with the dragon you mentioned, stuff about various musical instruments (I distantly remember a female voice going 'piano and guitar') and some toy that had a whole water theme to it. The van Gogh goat was one of the things that terrified me. I didn't care too much about the other films but that fucking freaked me out.
edit: remembered some more details. They were supposed to be sensory type videos and the baby einstein company were actually made by Disney. I think some of it was stock footage looking back. Very popular in the early 2000s. My mum would give me and my brother a lot of DVDs. while she did work from home, she obviously couldn't entertain us all the time, so she'd give us all sorts of stuff. It was great for me, I had autism and visually sensory stuff was actually pretty fun for me. I'm having a google to see if I can find any clips online, The DVDs i have are probably in storage and i don't have anything to work with a DVD anymore (we moved and sorta put them all away). there's probably some pirated versions online or maybe outright uploaded to youtube. i never could remember the full run time but i reckon it was maybe 20 mins to 30 mins. maybe more.
Another scene that came to was in the bonus pack of baby mozart (i think). It was of a diver feeding the fish in an aquarium. he had white hair, average older white guy. probably in his late 50s.
I'll shut up and start googling lol
edit 2: found your dragon and fuck that brought back memories. th-cam.com/video/UB005XVdRoc/w-d-xo.html I think i had a nightmare about that thing. Some episodes are available on their youtube channel.
You mean Little Einsteins??? Because I remember the theme tune like it was yesterday.
@@theautistictomboy4003 after posting that comment I went to my attic and found those old dvds, the ocean one was neptune but the one I was scared of was Mozart. I think I have every one of those from before like 2007 since I'm a 2003 baby
@@quinnporter289 same here, i have loads of the DVDs. Definatley the mozart, Shakespeare, neptune and van gogh one
One of the most terrifying things I witnessed as a 5,maybe 6,year old was when The Hacker took over Motherboard spot in one episode of Cyberchase due to how unexpected it came
I was scared of the robot lady tbh
I remember that. The 3d model used to freak me out. I think what scared was that the episode wouldn't be aired chronological in order so I would be left wondering if motherboard actually died or if hacker actually won
Look at the album "everywhere at the end of time" by the caretaker. It's a terrifying musical rendition of dementia and what it does to a person mentally. Last 6 minutes of that album makes me cry every Damn time man.
I know... it really hit deep for me man. Yet a part of me is so glad that I listened to it, because now it opened up my eyes to enjoy time with my elders as I have them.
th-cam.com/video/l_x08kbj-Fk/w-d-xo.html
Isnt it like, 6 hours long?
The creatures in those early 2000's Quiznos commercials used to scare the literal shit out of me as a kid.
oh my god it really hits hard, he needs to look at it
So there was this massive indoor play place my parents took me one time to have a party, you know, the oversized stairs, the ball pits, the slides, and the bouncy houses. There was this very secluded area way up high, that was supposed to be themed to the wild west, and in there was this very surreal and strange CGI wanted poster of a classic Pixar looking granny, and that shook me to my core, just the fear of being trapped in a secluded room with this weird object made me traumatized and made me never want to get close to that place ever again.
When I was little I got scared and trapped my self in a Chuck E. Cheese Tunnel thing yeah never again
this sounds like Discovery Zone, where you can do everything on your own (tm)
@@robinw2096 I am Hispanic so it probably was not that, plus it was long ago so the site has most likely gone out of business by now, but I will ask my parents or relatives if they recall the location to see if I can get a name.
I wanna see that picture
this is SO WEIRD because as a very small child I had a recurring nightmare of being trapped in a sort of 90s looking playground inside a room where the staircase disappeared and i was just perpetually stuck there all alone...
I just rewatched a movie called "Disaster Move" and it brought up this childhood trauma. Its a scene where the characters finds Alvin and the chipmunks characters but a rabbid, crackhead version of them, seeing it now i can see why it scared the absolute shit out of me
I walked in on my uncle and parents watching that scene when I was really young. It ended up burned into my mind for YEARS and even though I'm not scared of it anymore, I can't forget that scene.
OH MY GOD, I watched that movie when I was like 5 and it legitimately scares me to this day especially the part where they EAT the pregnant woman. Nightmare fueling.
Oh my god that scene scared the shit out of me
dude same here! it was specifically the scene of them eating that pregnant woman's back for me, i had to start sleeping with a pillow against my back or i'd feel unsafe. still do nowadays, not because i'm scared of chipmunks but because it makes me feel more comfortable, lol
Things that scared me as a kid:
-The annoying orange
-The thumbnail of a duck song ytp where the man had a gun
-The talking at the start of the gummy bear song
-Mr raisin toast
How were you scared by the annoying orange ?
@@GuyH. I was like 7 dude. It scared me because the apple died at the end
Oh okay
I remember mr raisin toast. I always thought it was funny.
How in the world were you scared of mr raisin toast?!?! It’s a very tame and mundane video. I thought he was hilarious
my list of traumatic childhood things:
- who framed roger rabbit, the scene where the villain reveals himself to be a toon. his eyes become animated and he starts speaking/screaming in that horrible high-pitched voice. that whole movie was pretty creepy (the dip scene where they murder the shoe... eugh) and not really for kids, but i saw it nonetheless and had to stop after the villain scene.
- animal farm. the live action movie. again, NOT a kids movie (i assume??) but i had it on a weird, probably bootleg video tape containing the felix the cat movie (not traumatic, but an incredibly obscure and trippy piece of animation history, definitely more for young kids) and animal farm. the pig puppets freaked me out, and of course as a kid i had no idea what the russian revolution was, the entire vibe of the movie fucked me up for years. the dictatorship, the executions, the disregard for the lower class. of course when i went to high school and started media studies, we covered the book, and i found out that it was based on the russian revolution, which was an epiphany moment of "ohhh, it *wasn't* a really fucked up kids movie. it was a really fucked up HISTORICAL kids movie."
- beowulf. a terrifying CG adult animated film. again, watched it when i was way too young, shocker. actually i think i watched it when i was with my dad and we were staying with his friend who lived in this REALLY old, big house, it was always cold and almost definitely haunted which didnt help me sleep that night. the violence and the monster absolutely terrified me.
- the york dungeons. an attraction in york, england, part of a chain also located in edinburgh and london iirc. basically a walk-through haunted house based on the historical events of the areas they're located in. i was 10, we were staying in york and i begged my dad to take me to the dungeons all day since i wanted to prove how tough i was and i didnt think it would be THAT scary. i tell you, i didnt even go in the door. i stood at the entrance, saw the props and heard the ambient music from inside, and i immediately started screaming. i was literally clinging to a lamp post begging my dad not to take me in, as my little brother, 5, boldly wandered up the steps and my dad tried to drag me inside so he could grab him. it was, all in all, not a good day. 10 years later and i still feel sick when i think about it, i cant even walk through that street anymore when i visit york.
- 9. amazing movie, beautiful animation, cute good robot designs, horrifying evil robot designs. also a really tense, oppressive atmosphere, topped with lots of character death and apocalyptic hopelessness. fun!! (for real its an underrated animated gem, everyone go watch it now if you haven't)
- the butter battle book. i had this on vhs, in the same collection as my bootleg felix the cat and animal farm tape, so yall know its gonna be good. basically a dr seuss cartoon about two communities who hate each other for a really petty reason, and start threatening each other because of it, their threats getting worse and worse until finally one side creates a "terribly powetful weapon that could wipe out the entire other side". the cartoon ended with a picture of the weapon, and the narrator asked "if you had something like this in your posession, tell me, what would you do?" and fading to black. .. it wasnt really scary, but even as a kid, i picked up on how *wrong* it felt. the cartoon wasnt really funny or exciting, it was kind of boring and offputting, it made me feel weird when i watched it. of course, remembering it only recently, i looked it up and realised that of course, it was a metaphor for the cold war. a really fucked up thing to portray in a dr seuss cartoon, and a message that not many children will understand, but they WILL pick up on how creepy and wrong the cartoon feels. trust me, its all on youtube, watch it and you'll see what i mean. its just... off.
EDIT: oh and the fucking british think! PSAs i was shown as a kid. gorey, traumatic and horrible. i am 20, and i still havent tried driving lessons. i am fucking petrified of driving because of those PSAs.
Absolutely with you on those PSAs. Completely traumatized me out of ever driving, as well😅
Holy shit 9 was the fucking worst also in my opinion the animated animal farm was so much worse
I remember that Seuss cartoon, they were a big deal in the 90's and 80's. I never understood myself as a kid until older, now I remember it kinda fondly.
i fucking love 9
Oh no... not the PSAs. The one with the classroom of kids and the picnic... That gave me CHILLS man!
One of my greatest fears when I was young was the 2012 "end of the world"
I was 10 at the time and I strongly believed the world was going to end the 21st of december. I remember not speaking about my fear to anyone but I did tell all my loved ones that, I did love them. So, basically just my mom, dad and brother... Looking back at it, it's kinda cute in a way but I still don't get how, me, who was such a crybaby at the time, didn't just panic and refused going to school that day.
aww that’s cute
I was also scared of the end of the world too!
It was this Lego animation I saw of it that really made me afraid of it.
@@mutieye The First Final Destination Movie was Originally Written as An Episode of The X Files but was for some reason Rejected
oh my god, me too... and exactly the same way too! i saw the 2012 trailer and it literally kept me up at night for days, i remember not going to school as well and getting this horrible sinking feeling in my stomach because i was sure we'd all die on december 21st. i was especially really sad that my sister would only be 6.
Tl;dr: me too but I felt nothing in particular.
I was in a weird state of negation... I was convinced it was going to happen, but I couldn't feel anything about it. I wasn't laughing or anything, I just grabbed a chair and waited outside. It was such a nice, sunny day.
After half an hour I thought that maybe I could be doing something else. So I payed attention to the tv while doing stuff.
If someone comes out of nowhere and screams at my face that the world did end in 2012 and we just moved to another server. I would belive them 100%
The VALVe startup always scared the shit out of eight year old me, I just wanted to play some Portal 2 when it came out but just seeing this bald man with a valve of all things on the back of his head slowly turn around to look at you was nothing but bizarre and terrifying for me and unnatural and the music didn't help either, I would just shut my eyes and look down with my hands over my ears whenever it played.
Just looked at it and it scared the shit out of me right now
DUDE SAME
I can agree with some of it because I was scared that something was going to put like a hole fausit in my head and reprogram me. And all I wanted to do was to collect tf2 hats
bruh same
until a week ago when i realised the sound effect is sampled from the theme or a track from a game valve made (idk which one; maybe half life?) it scared me lol. with the context its a bit less unsettling.
THIS
The Ghost Car screamer video terrified me as a kid because I was never introduced to it in the actual video. Instead it was in a video of “ghosts caught on tape” and at the end of the video it showed the field pictured in the video and then played the screamer. I was only eight at the time and couldn’t sleep for days after that video, and couldn’t watch those videos again until like four years later.
A "Where's Waldo" one got me (with the face of Pazuzu from the Exorcist popping up) my friends got me with a shit ton of screamers (fuck the Michael Jackson ghost one, just saying) but this one I just went, by myself, to the "Scary" section of some flash game website like an idiot expecting some Salad Finger stuff and when I saw "Where's Waldo"' I was like "Pfft Where's Waldo isn't scary you dumb dumb !"
I was in a dark room, alone and it was the first and last time a screamer actually made me cry
My uncle and aunt pranked me with it, my uncle told my aunt to show it to me and she did and I was just watching it and got so scared when it happened I hated that so much and I still cant watch that video to this day
All of these comments give me ptsd from my childhood. lol
My freaking Grandma sent that thing to me
“The worst doctor who villain”
Man if that was a doctor who villain I swear to god there would be at least 6 people who thought he was the best villain ever.
I can't remember anything from the internet that scared me so bad that it left a huge impact on me, but I _do_ remember that I was terrified of Lazy Town until I was about 11 years old. And I have no idea why. It might've been the puppets.
I revisited Lazy Town when I was in 6th grade, and watched the "We Are Number One" music video before it blew up as a meme. Then a few months later, "[song] but [thing]" memes started showing up, most recognizably: We Are Number One. At first I was upset, for some reason, but it eventually started to grow on me, as more and more Lazy Town things started popping up. Eventually I'd fallen in love with the memes so much that I unironically started watching Lazy Town episodes and legitimately enjoying them.
I feel like when Stefan Karl died and went to heaven, God was like "hey man thanks for helping this kid get over her childhood fear"
Yeah it's a kids show....
If Satan is their father
Well, i guess my dad is satan even though he's the nicest guy in the neighborhood
The Problem blob was probably the scariest villain on that show; scared the shit out of me as a kid
@@Spooky_Magooky Number Takes was just a nonce
@@bromicorn well i guess were siblings then 🙃
My sis watches it all the time.. she's a demon spawn
forget "stuff that scared you as a kid"
this is scaring me *now*
Lol
The video “Dining Room or There is Nothing” used to scare the shit out of me.
Sameeeee I never got scared of it but for some reason I’m just scared of it now
I have a pretty weird one, when I was around 5 I was scared of the puppet lizard from Baby Einstein. After watching a clip I found on TH-cam I discovered that a lot more people are scared of it than I expected. Whenever the lizard went "Blah" I used to run out the room crying looking for my mom.
th-cam.com/video/UB005XVdRoc/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=BrainybabyrightbrainangryB here's a link to a TH-cam clip of it!
This video inspired me to actually call up my mom and ask her if there was anything that scared me as a kid. she said one of the best examples she could remember was The little shadow girl from bear in the big blue house, we had it on vhs and apparently she scared me so badly I would run and hide if my parents tried to play any episode of the show
Nice too see I'm not alone with being scared of Shadow when there were younger.
Everyone: *talking about how disturbing numberjacks is*
Me: *B E A N O S*
G E T B E A N E D
*[beanos song intensifies]*
*I GOT CASH C A S H C A S H*
@@Stargazer_Pie MEANS M O N E Y TO MY BANK
i call beanos 1
Something that always scared me as a kid was the "Trust No One" episode of ReBoot. Basically, it's a parody of the X-Files but it had a hideous "Web Creature" monster in it. The thing was scary back then and it's still kinda scary now, due to the design. It had pitch-black skin and these glowing yellow eyes, as well as these weird Eldritch tentacle-like things behind it. Shit kept me up for weeks.
For me it was the weeping angels. I watched Doctor Who with my uncle when I was like 6, and most episodes weren't scary. Then I saw the weeping angels ones and I couldn't sleep in my own bed for weeks because I thought they would kill me when I tried to close my eyes to sleep.
“You simply have less value.”
-Number Jacks
Something that scared me as a child- mr noodle from Sesame Street. There’s just some dude in elmo’s closet and there’s never really any context to him. He’s just very mysterious and out of place.
The all time most horrifying thing I remember seeing from my childhood is by far the scene from the movie “Signs” when he was watching the news and you see the alien walk past or whatever. It made me feel sick, and even watching it to this day still gives off a slight jumpscare like quality for me
*Yes. I am so glad to see I did not suffer alone.*
ok, so here's the deal with Numberjacks - I _did_ think the numbers themselves looked uncanny as a kid, but they never scared me. What scared me were the different antagonists. I was scared by the Number Taker, as well Spooky Spoon and the Problem Blob. Anyway, personally these are the reasons the Number Taker creeped me out:
1. His stare, he always stares like that all the time.
2. His clothes, this is probably the least creepy thing but it still feels unsettling in the surrealness of it.
3. His Number-sucker-upper. Ths may sound dumb, but this was what terrified me as a kid. In the show it didn't just suck up numbers, it could suck up anything, and anything it would try to suck would just disappear from existence in an instant. I found the idea that he could suck me up with his number-sucker-upper and just instantly make me disappear scary. I've had multiple nightmares as well, where I've tried to scream, and as I open my mouth nothing comes out because the sucker-upper is sucking all my screams away so no-one can hear them.
4. The fact that every other strange and surreal antagonist in the show was computer-generated, but this was a real person; and not only that, but a real person that no-one would acknowledge the strangeness of, at least not in the show. It made me worry as kid what if I was just shopping with my parents and I saw him at the store, and he started following us and trying to suck me up and take me away. It was this idea that not only did it feel like it could happen to me in real life, but that if I tried to call for help, people would just look at him as a normal person and not understand me.
I think that's a big reason why when you're a kid you're scared by the strangest things, because if your fear was easily explainable and recognisable as rational you would know your parents would be there to protect you from it; but when you can't explain it, when you think your parents will ignore your concerns or maybe even mock you for them, and when you don't even know how to explain it yourself you feel alone and vulnerable. Not that many kids are _really_ scared of Zombies despite them being a horror staple because *of course* it's not irrational to fear something that is out to kill you, but when you try explain that you're scared of a Psychic Anthropomorphic Duck that can read your mind, and can appear on any screen at any time and walk through it into the real world that's always watchkng you through every screen you see and some day is gonna drag you into the screen where you'll be trapped in his world forever - well even if you could find the words to explain that as a kid, I doubt you'd be confident your fears will be taken seriously. Oh yeah, by the way, that Duck is actually from a nightmare I genuinely had - definitely the weirdest experience of my life, but also unironically my scariest nightmare ever. Sounds dumb I know, but he could speak to me inside my head as well as read my mind, and no-one else could see him, and in the nightmare no-one would believe me of course; eventually I just started crying and screaming for him to get out of my head until it got intense enough that I woke myself up.
Me: Ok, that is a weird cartoon, but the rest should be fi-
*screaming monster thing shows up*
Me: NONONONONONO
SAME
but why do you need a “me:”
It's gonna be so sad when traumathon ends cuz i love these uploads 😭😂
Always next year
This entire year Is one big horror movie, worth for a traumathon video 😆
Something that made me scared when I was young was when back at elementary, I had a teacher that read a series of books called "The Last Survivors". As a little kid, I was genuinely scared of the idea of the Moon coming closer to earth and all these catastrophic events happening where everyone was dying as if there was a war going on. I was scared how I too could lose my family and friend around me in those situations. Looking it up, I am curious why my teacher read young adult science fiction books to elementary students.
I remember an episode Goosebumps "My best friend is invisible"
Where a boy is tormented by an invisible kid who wants to be his friend but is actually just making his life miserable.
In the end, the boy's scientist parents use a machine on the invisible kid to make him visible and it turns out he's a human boy.
The plot twist is that several years prior all the humans on earth were exiled or went into hiding after an alien invasion took over the world. The invisible boy went under a procedure to make himself hidden, and him tormenting the main character is his way of getting back at the aliens that conquered earth. Everyone we thought were humans (even the main character and his parents) were actually aliens with a second face on the back of their head.
The episode ends with the parents and the main character closing in on the now visible kid.
The second faces were using the syncro-vox/clutch cargo effect, the same way faces are used in the annoying orange video.
I can laugh about it now that im older but it freaked me out when i was younger.
Oh god, i was way too young when i watch "Don't hug me i'm scared." I was like 6 or 7.
I was scared of episode 5 back in 2016
I was 5 or 6
@@GuyH. *I was half terrified of it (the cooking episode mostly) and half shitting my pants in laughter like bro the clock dude looks funny*
I was disturbed by duck getting eaten by a giant can
@@GuyH. I haven’t seen that one.
A 1,000 ways to die on spike tv. My sister would watch this show every time it was on; always urging me to watch it with her. No need to point out specific episodes; they were all surreal.
i think i know a show like that...it was on tlc. every death would be explained scientifically and boy was it gruesome.
I thought I fever-dreamt this show up tbh. Glad to see I'm not crazy. I distinctly remember a guy who died on a meat hook or sth, and drowned in his own blood, and some girl who was drowned in concrete or mud??? Fuckin weird shit.
@@catboysephiroth560 there was a guy hanging upside down for three days straight and another one that got ripped in half via a rope and a forklift!
DUUUMB WAYS TO DIE, SO MANY DUMB WAYS TO DIE
Bottom of the Well in Ocarina of Time. The creepy music along with re-deads and especially Dead Hand. Seriously messed me up. Also Gohma is probably the source of my fear of spiders.
Marx's death scream after beating him from Kirby Super Star and Super Star Ultra made me close my DS as a child right after I beat him and I was too scared to open it back up for the rest of the day. I never saw it coming as a kid and just seeing his face deform as you defeated him was nightmare fuel for 8-year old me.
Another creepy video game moment was dying to black holes in Super Mario Galaxy. Just thinking about being infinitely sucked into a black hole as a kid and hearing Mario's scream when he dies as the screen goes black really didn't sit right with me. Even more when I'd mostly play on my Wii at night.
Came across a weird TH-cam page, Lonely-Man’s Lazarus, interesting and beautiful animation with hidden messages and weird energy. It does kinda scare me, especially when the weird voice kicks in or the unsettling sound or imagery
The scene in a Christmas Story where the boy got his tongue stuck to the frozen pole terrified me as a kid. I'm not sure why-it never snowed or even got cold enough for metal to freeze where I lived. But the terror of having your flesh trapped in place like that kept me up at night.
I used to be terrified of the "Boom shakalaka" CGI pig egg monster from the maze episode of Chowder, I know Chowder is weird on its own but those 2 scenes of that "thing" and the characters pointing and screaming at it scared the HELL out of me. It still kinda does honestly.
DUDE YES! I loved Chowder as a kid but I couldn't help but feel terrified when I saw this. Very dancing baby feel.
yes that shit was terrifying omg
that is the FIRST thing i thought of when he talked abt the baby gif. i was an easily scared kid, but i hated that ep & it still kinda makes me uncomfy now.
When I was in daycare the workers would occasionally play this show called Crashbox. The weird claymation style and grungy backgrounds always scared me and even now it creeps me out.
omg crash box was the weirdest shit! why was it made???
I hated the revolting slob as a kid.
i LOVED crashbox, riddle snake was my favorite- though i always ran out of the room at the end of each revolting blob section where he exploded LMAO
@@planetsliveinsidethemoon1600 Tbh that is actually pretty sad more than scary. Imagine chilling and then a woman's shames you til sudden death. Sure he was ugly design wise but poor man.
I remember vividly in the early days of youtube, there was a sort of flood of various 3D animations; likely from students to organize creations or people building a sort of portfolio. A good handful of them creeped me out, but one that specifically comes to memory is the "Kiwi" animation. A kiwi bird builds a slingshot and angles it down a cliff - the kiwi loads itself, shoots, and pretends to fly alongside the cliff and cries. It occurred to me that the kiwi would not be coming back from that and it scared me. It's more bittersweet/sad looking back on it as an adult, but the concept of mortality with little 7-year-old me was....something.
The puppet show scene from the 2004 Charlie and Chocolate Factory movie scared the hell out of he as a kid. I remember seeing that when I was 4 years old, seeing already creepy looking puppets have their faces melt off as the song they sing slows down to a demonic crawl. Even thinking about it now makes me feel queasy.
Al Servicio De La Comunida in El Canal 5 a Mexican capsule that was ment to show missing people, the thing that scared me the most was that some people where missing for many years while showing old photos
Does anyone remember the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode were Billy gets bad vision because he looks at the sun a lot? At the end of the episode, Grim shoots Billy’s eyes and they become more uncanny. Not sure if it’s from the same episode, but Billy got his eyes fixed up so well that he could see bad things that happened to others in the future.
it was the same episode.
grim fixes billy's eyes, and because of the visions he has, he attempts to fix them again, but billy runs away. every time grim shoots him with his scythe, billy's vision changes (different art styles, etc). at the end, billy's eyes become real live action eyes, he blinks a few times and asks "what?" as grim and mandy look at him rather scared.
I love when he gets "anime vision" and Mandy talks in Japanese. Makes me wish there was an anime reboot of the show, I think it would work really well.
The “GET OUT” from Donkey Kong 64 scared the living shit out of me. Added on...I remember finding a jumpscare in one of the Neopets worlds when I played it as a little kid, it had nothing, but it was seriously scary for a 10 year old me.
Oh shit. I wasn't the only one? I use to hate the "Get Out" sound, and every time I heard it, I would shut off the system and Nope the hell away. Counting the pyramid thing that all the Kongs get a Gold Banana as one, the sound only plays like twice, maybe three times, but all it took was the one time that the music cut out (I think), the clock ticking, and the gravely voice saying the line for me to say "I'm not getting 100% in this game any time soon."
I remember in Neopets when The Gallery of Evil was actually scary for 10-year-old me. I guess it's the artist that made certain entries of that absolutely terrifying when it came to monsters such as Ghost Lion.
Is it weird to say I miss when Neopets was a little scary? Maybe it's how I'm remembering things.
The Neopets jumpscare was a pterodactyl, right?
@@spindleclown YES
@@zachgamemaster3329 See I remember it being a big thing in the ice level, because there were a series of challenges you could complete that had that voice.
I know a little too much about the numberjacks, was one of my favourites as a kid. They had multiple enemies, not just the number taker, however he was scary because of how he walks away. He kinda fades in and out, it’s weird. You should look up the spooky spoon lol, she was the scariest villain to me when I was younger.
Yes! And the Puzzler! He always scared the poo out of me as a kid
@@Imaginingmoonlight the puzzler never scared me because he looked exactly like my dads friend Simon
@@asmolcade5818 lol
I used to have nightmares of the game over screen from Tarzan game on pc, Everything goes black and you see Tarzan die and then it cuts to a dark jungle and this deep ominous voice speaks to you telling you, you messed up and that the jungle is dangerous. Seriously used to run and hide from this 👀
I got traumatized by a SpongeBob Parody called "Evil SpongeBob" when I was a child
You mean the one where spongebob cuts the head of a fish and puts it between two buns? That also traumatized me as a kid! I was like 6 or 7 when i first watched it.
oh god i remember
ME TO!
Alright, so, there was this PS3 game called "LittleBigPlanet." It was like Mario Maker in its ugc, but a better community and a better creation mode.
There were... A-lot of horror levels. One horror level that scared me was "The Crooked Man."
Look it up, you'll see why.
Was it based on the RPG Maker horror game of the same name?
@@phantolmao I think so! I remember seeing a video here of someone going through it, faintly though. I also remember there being a few for Jeff the Killer and even Sonic.EXE lol.
@@Shadria1996 There was an original invader zim creepypasta written through notes. It was pretty wild.
Yo same, I remember girl and wheelchair, those horror community lvls always scared me
Oh my gosh, meanwhile for me it was this one level in Little Big Planet 1, and I remember a giant shoe in it and what scared me the most was how it would crash down and shake the controller.
For some reason my child mind imagined it in the hallway of my house crashing down.
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Numberjacks was one of my childhood shows, the Numbertaker was my favourite of all the villains, probably because he isn't just an early 2000's CGI model. In one of the specials I got so happy he made an appearance, pretty good for a kids TV show special.
I did have time when I couldn't watch an episode because it had balloons that popped and it was loud and scared me, it doesn't scare me anymore though.
"You simply just have less value"
"Sorry for the bad english"...So, i remember when i was a kid watching Pucca. There's a halloween episode that a Ghost enters Garu's house and he have to deal with it. In the end of episode, the ghost jumpscares you in a way that i never wanted to watch Pucca again. This fucking Jumpscare in a kids show gave me nightmares for a long time
I watched Pucca as a kid all the time and never saw that episode so I just looked it up. The ghost is adorable but holy shit it makes the Redead noise from Ocarina of Time! Idk if that would have scared me as a kid but man that's a dirty move by the show.
What’s the name of the episode?
@@Sophie_Dreemurr "Ghost of a kiss"
@@patrickj994 Oh, thanks.
I don’t know why but as a kid I was also scared of the one scene from Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules where Greg and Rowley watch the foot. I know it’s supposed to be funny but I was still scared of it.
I always laughed at that part
That portrait of the footless guy was kinda creepy though
i remember being very afraid to playing Peter Pan: The Legend of NeverLand when i was 4-6 years old, the -whole game was scary to me:
-the sounds
-the bodies streching like rubberballs
-The loading screens
-and all the enemies in the game
But worst parts were the Blue cave and the Waterfalls level with those weird walking cactus blocking my path saying something that i couldn't understand
Dude I loved that game
God I got reminded when I was a like 3 years old, old barney episode where they go camping scared the living hell out of me. When the girl get separated from the group and bear that comes out from the cave. There were more things that scared me as a child but that one I remember made me be afriad of being alone when I was a kid.
I was really scared by tarzan, specifically the scene where the main villain was hanged by a tree. That shit was traumatizing
You mean Clayton’s death
funny that as a kid I didn’t realized he got hanged until You tube Videos showed and talked about it
The cemetery in mortal kombat 2011. I got jumpscared tf out when I was like 10 and I've never played it since
Omg!!! I was so freaked out
I forgot about that I thought it was so cool
In the zelda game, majora’s mask, the mask seller creeped me out. I don’t know if it was his laugh or really low poly design.
I remember back when i was really little like 4 to 5 years old or something i was watching Teletubbies and whenever the section with the magic house and that puppet behind the curtain appeared i was somehow really scared of it. Each time that came on i ran outside crying and was having nightmares the night after. Funny thing is that my little nephew back when he was the same age i was, was also scared whenever that came on as well. Out of all the things Teletubbies had that was somehow the only creepy thing to me.
The King Boom Boo boss fight from Sonic Adventure Battle 2 ALWAYS scared the shit out of me, especially the first time I came across it. It pops up out of legit nowhere, The gurgling screams of King Boom boo are SUPER unnerving, and the fact that you're stuck running around a fixed track to get away makes it that much more creepy. Another creepy bit from the game which didn't scare me as much as a kid was Gerald Robotnik's ( I think?) confession tape where he's tied up and getting questioned by government officials. It's implied that he gets executed at the end. That whole game has some SUPER dark bits in it...
Okay, I've never seen anyone really talking about this on youtube, since this game is really obscure. There is this educational kids pc-game from 90's called Forestia and it had one level that scared me so much as a kid. One of the missions that happens at night time, is a nightmare where the whole forest is red and black and this dragon tells you to put some crystals into right order or evil witch takes over the world. Whole level has horrifying ambience playing on background and you can find dead animals and other creepy shit in the forest. You can even fail the mission and, you guessed it, it's creepy how it ends.
I'm not sure if english version of the game even exists (I played finnish version), but the game is certainly from europe.
That sounds really extreme for an edutainment game, but honestly a lot of fairy tales that people told their kids could also be in that territory
I just looked up the game and WHAT THE HELL IS THAT !?!?!?!?!?
Mosley lane/The lesson from criminal minds. As a kid I’d watch criminal minds with my mom because I was a morbidly curious kid who thought she could handle it. But these episodes fucked me up.
Mosley lane involved a pair of criminals who abducted kids and when the kids eventually die under their care they would incinerate the bodies and use the ashes as fertilizer for their garden. That alone messed up until you get to the worst part. In one scene the wife knocks out one of the kids and once unconscious she puts the kid in a box and incinerates him.
In the lesson it follows a man who tries to recreate the way his dad died using puppets. Human puppets. He would break the bones and dislocate limbs before stringing them up while the victim was still alive. He would keep them alive in order to act and as a final creepy cherry on the fucked up sundae he’d put this mask on his puppets to make them look the part.
These two episodes fucked me up to a point where I actively skip them when rewatching the series.
Probably a weird one, but TV static freaks me out. When I was little sometimes I'd press the wrong button on the remote and be greeted with the static screen and an extremely loud noise.
I had a nightmare about it I still remember vividly after all these years: I was in bed, about to get up and start my day. Suddenly the TV in my room turns on by itself, and the loud static noise blasted my ears. I was so scared and tried leaving my room to escape the noise, but then every other TV in the house would turn on, set to static. There was no escape and I couldn't find my family. I was alone, surrounded by the loud BRRRRRRRRR the TV would make. I think I cried, but I don't remember if that was in the dream or in real life. God me paranoid for a good while, though.
It still kinda startles me to this day 'cause of the loud noise n' all, but now I don't immediately run out of the room and instead just shut off the TV or fix the thing.
i had to cover the screen at the part where you talked about the yelling creature video because i was scared it'd show up onscreen. it still gives me legit anxiety and panic attacks. not fun. i hate it so much
Hey Goose Boose! ! I don't know if someone has already mentioned this or if you'd even consider it, but since you talked about the dancing baby it seems fitting to write it here, so here goes:
-The early days of CG and the uncanny valley of it all. I remember back in the PS1 era (it's actually my favourite console of all time, there's just so many great games that came out of it), but damn if the CGI they incorporated into some games wasn't just so damn creepy. I was really young back then, but I remember that every new game I booted into the system was like some mysterious piece of software had just made it's way into my hands, and there was no way for me to do some beforehand research, since there was no real way for me to look it up on the internet. Games like Galerians or Resident Evil just had this extra layer of spookiness to it because it all seemed so real, yet so plastic-y. Even non-horror games like Tekken 3 had these CG videos where the movements and expressions in the characters' faces is just so exaggerated that it just weirds me out. Even the pre-rendered scenes in some of these games just always had this dreamlike vibe and ambience, specially with how the lighting worked. Makes me think of something uncanny like the backrooms due to how everything is lit. To this day I'm still weirded out by bad CG, it always makes me think back on those early childhood traumas haha.
-Also, the early days of the internet and the wild wild west feel of it. No restrictions, censorship or algorithms to quickly shoot down some weird ass website. It just had this creepy vibe where every click was a gamble. Specially on P2P programs like kazaa or emule. If you wanted to download something, you were stuck with that, with little to no information about the file(s) you were about to download. Sometimes you were excepting something, and when you opened it, it would be something else entirely. I remember once wanting to download some Mr.Bean clips (back in 2004, when youtube wasn't a thing), and instead, being greeted with some homemade footage of a guy with a trash bag over his head, talking and moving his upper body from side to side, while staring at the camera. I remember being so scared of it that I just ran to the other side of the room while the video was playing, not understanding anything since I didn't even speak english back then and eventually gaining the courage to get in front of the screen and shut it off. I wish I could find that video, but sadly, I'm afraid it's lost in the depths of the internet, haha.
Love your videos, definitely my fix for horror and creepy related subjects! Much love from Portugal, abrazo, hermano! ;)
The thing that scared me when I was younger was at the end of the credits in the Lego movie it had that red text in pure silence
I would normally watch alone in the dark so that terrified me
All these childhood shows popping up brings me back to when I watched that “Between the Lions” show on PBS. I always had to change the channel or just hide my face in a pillow whenever the friggin bug-eyed puppet guy showed up. I also hated the parts where they drew faces on people’s stomachs/random body parts and made them make weird ass noises. I think? I don’t remember them actually talking.
Yeah, Smarty Pants was his name. I was scared of him too and I remember running out of the living room every time the guy appeared in the show's intro.
@@lanekendall1435 that’s him!! that’s the bitch. fuck him and his one giant ear.
Coraline's other mother scared the shit out of little me. I still have trouble watching the movie
I remember there was a rugrats game for the PC based on the Rugrats movie when they get stranded on an island that has a giant spider for a boss. It scared me so much that I never beat the game.
The ""pale man from the movie "Pan's Labyrinth" scared me when i was younger and tbh i still fear it.
For me, one of the scariest moments of my childhood was the first encounter with the titular Iron Giant from the dreamworks movie. The part where it first turns around in the woods, all the way to when it wakes up after getting electrified used to terrify me as a kid. I would always hide away during to scenes or outwright skip them. Crazy to think that a character that I used to love so much also scared me just as much. It's still one of my favourite movies of all time though.
Iron Giant is an amazing movie.
The two legged running horse absolutely terrified me as a kid, I couldn’t bear to even look at it or hear the music lol
"The dawn is your enemy" is a adult swim bump that scares me till today because of the creepy drawing and the music makes it so much worse
I was terrified as a child of a ps1 game called ''Hugo'', it's about a goblin/troll that tries to stop a witch, the game over screen and the death animation of when you are on a minecart level just scared the shit out of me because the main character just collides with the screen and now i see it and it's like..... ''I really was scared of this, it's even kinda cute'' i was 5 or 6 years old :v
I don’t think anyone will remember this but
The thing that scared the shit out of me was face raiders on the 3ds it’s a free ar game which comes with the system you take a picture of your friends faces and they fly around at try do destroy the fabric of the universe the sound affects and mood was just so scary too me
One thing that scared me as a kid was computers, the CRT's would make weird noises and bluescreeens still scare me till this day, mostly because of the noise and it taking me out of my PC
I was scared of the 60's theme in the Windows 98 Plus! theme pack. I remember it specifically was the organ sound that scared me because it was associated with error messages. I was... a really wimpy kid.
The thing that scared me was that in Danganronpa Despair Girls. All of the Warriors of hope backstories...
I love that game to death but I haven't replayed it in a long time because those backstories are legitimately painfully unsettling. Especially Kotoko.
For me, I'd say the thing that scared me the most when I was little was probably the Submerged Castle from Pikmin 2. Nowadays I can often go through the whole sublevel without even encountering the Water Wraith, but back then I nearly pissed myself with even the thought of it. Mostly it was the "music", not really the boss because after all, the Water Wraith *is* just a blob.
"I just HAD to open my mouth!"
I remember back on one Halloween, there was a projector that was displayed on a white sheet in front of there porch, a loop video of two silhouetted figures one being an old man in a rocking chair and, the other a man with a chain saw, the man with chain saw walks in front of the old man and turns it on and cuts the old mans legs and the old man screams in immense pain oh god my legs, I was pretty young it was pretty terrifying.
Hey I just recently got over my fear of Obedece a la Morsa (Obey the Walrus) by finally watching video in its entirety and looking into the background of it. It's actually a pretty sad story about an unfortunate person making the best of things. You can look up The Goddess Bunny (her stage name) if you want to find out more about her. She's actually still making youtube videos. I think it would be great for Traumathon.
P.S. The series has been amazing. I can't imagine the absurd amount of work you've poured into, but it is definitely appreciated.
Im so glad i wasnt the ONLY one who was horrified by the escalator scene as a kid. I thought it was random for me to only be scared of that scene in particular and I was shocked when I saw that someone else, as a kid, was also terrified of the one scene.
Hey Goose, look up Zylon Dragon, from Baby Mozart.
When I was an infant my parents showed me the vhs of the series and this damn dragon is what gave me the emotion of fear.
Hey thats where Beano started
our all mighty savour beanos
And the “You simply have less value” meme!
One thing that scared me when I was younger was that episode of courage the dog aka the "Perfect" episode. The scene where courage is dreaming and then this blue creature pops up, I remember it being late at night by the way so I thought it would be in my dreams saying those words, "You're not perfect."
Holy shit yeah that one trumpet boi
I was creeped out by the dancing baby too. We had it as a screensaver and there was just something about that faceless baby doing adult motions in front of a black background with no music that felt uncanny to me.
I don’t know why but I had this fear of like a jump scare at the end or during of a movies credits, I’m not sure if there was ever a movie that actually did it for a long time I could have sworn it was some kids movie that did it but I could never find it. Some time to this day I get panicked when the movie credits start.
SAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'm probably late but whatever... the thing that scares me most is this face, it's hard to describe because it's clearly a drawing. I remember seeing it around the age of 11 or 12 I can't remember. It was the background for a scary story I was listening too. I could link it but I honestly don't wanna be paranoid again.
Scary stories to tell in the dark?
That might be the "This man" picture who appears in dreams
@@RubyBfb not him, but looks very similar. Looks like him but with no hair, thinner brows, and an inhuman smile.
Is this it? creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Smiling_Man
@@RubyBfb still no, I could just work up the courage and link it now.
My childhood fright was that one scene from nightmare before Christmas where the villain gets skinned alive. I couldn’t eat rice because I thought the maggots were rice.
Holy crap, that Numberjacks show was pure nightmare fuel. Especially the Numbertaker guy and his intimidating, silent nature. How my parents didn't turn off CBeebies everytime it came on, I will never know.
Something that scared me bad as a kid was that one scene from the old animated Watership Down,(1978) where the old rabbit is explaining what happened to the rabbits after the main group left... they dun got baried alive.
Bruh, I couldn't sleep for a week... scary scary psyedlic visuals combined with sfx and music? Nuh uh bruh.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, that whole move was terrifying..
Great vid btw, love your stuff!
Tbh the creepiest thing in the number jack was this weird flying spoon thing, I literally am still scared of it to this day.
There was this level in Jet force gemini that scarred me a lot, you have to go inside a worm and make your way in the interior. The music and the envitonment had a very weird vibe that made me feel very unconfortable.
And in the end you have to exit from the worm butthole to fight 2 cyborg mantises.
The dancing baby gif kind of creeped me out as a child too, I don't know how or exactly when it popped up but I remember seeing it in the early 00s and being scared by it.
So the reason I don't like it is because of a game called Silent Hill 4 The Room. The game on its own is a freaky acid trip with monsters that I know gave me nightmares, Twin Victims come to mind, but near the halfway to end of the game you start going down flights of disconnected stairs between levels. In those parts, weird and freaky stuff is put on screen and one is just the dancing baby it's there and well it's weird between the horrible imagery and you have a dancing baby.
We need a traumathon episode on kfee ads. Those things really left many people traumatized (including me)
When I was younger I got this Monster High 3ds game called 13 wishes. I beat the game but something about it just really made me feel scared or uneasy. The world and levels were just so empty and the soundtrack especially during some levels gave me anxiety. They weren’t intentionally creepy but for some reason it managed to make me feel uneasy and anxious and I always had to turn the volume down.