Tell us about things in media that you were afraid of when you were younger, no matter how silly it seems now. It can be anything, like shows, commercials, video games, etc.

I remember I used to be afraid of Olmec from Legends of the Hidden Temple.

Underwater levels.

Jaws...I still avoid the ocean to this day, I can't help it.

Rupaul.

Aliens the Arcade Game danced a fine line.

The game was awesome, but the side art was terrifying.

The Burger King, till this day it creeps me out, and thinking of how big space is and what's outside of space

The Hellraiser poster!

Butterflies, something sinister aboot those things. Also losing the television remote. I'm living that nightmare now, have you seen it or know where I should look?

I loved Bert and Ernie as a kid.

But at night, for whatever reason, I always envisioned them coming creepily through my house to grab me whenever I had to go to the bathroom. I would be on the toilet frantically trying to go as fast as possible while keeping an eye out for them coming through the window for me.

The Sesame Street train skit with Luis, where they built a tunnel on a wall and then a train came out of it.

Scared the fuck out of us, and from the looks of the Youtube comments we weren't the only ones!

Watching C.H.U.D.

Could not sleep for a few days after that as an 8 year old!

Also any Alien movie...

Whoops see you said media.  Still CHUDs...

The opening to You Can't Do That on Television, the face that creeps up on the screen at the end would send me screaming into the next room.

The Unsolved Mysteries opening was another.

scary as shit...


then i heard it as a sample in a 3 6 mafia track and things were better. 

 

Do you remember the episode where a young Matthew McConaughey gets shot up over and over?
 

I was a weird kid. I was less than 10-- loved the made for TV IT film, and I was never afraid of clowns afterwards. Watching horror late at night gave me minor heebees, but never enough to be able to go to sleep.

HOWEVER... I hated the marionettes in The Sound of Music. I don't know why. Actually, I hated all marionette puppets but those were by far the worst. I completely admit it's lame but that's legit the only thing I can think of that I was shook about.

Oh, I use to also watch Rescue 911. I don't know, what could I say. Nothing else was on at that time, so I watched it unitl on one episode there was a story of a teenage girl who was baby sitting her younger siblings. I vaguely recall one was a young boy, likely around the age of 4-5, and the youngest sibling was a girl about 3 years old. Anyway, the eldest, teenage sibling was working on trying to fix something and asked the youngest (2.5-3yo) to go and get a butter knife out of the kitchen so the teenage kid could gently cut something open. Being that she asked a small child, she went to the kitchen and grabbed a butcher knife.

The young child carrying the knife ran back and while running around a corner, stabbed the middle child. Now, this wasn't graphic at all but the circumstance felt to real-- I was the middle of three kids and my young sister was the same age as the little girl who committed the stabbing. I could never watch Rescue 911 again, and just hearing the beginning felt slightly traumatic. That story just got into my head... Still freaks me out because it's something semi-realistic/plausible with small children. I'll admit I'm a little bit of a helicopter parent to my small kids but because of that stupid episode, I'm terrified about knives being around my kids, and it's hard for me to even let my 5 and 8 year olds use butter knives.

Along those lines, I had watched some show that re-enacted where a toddler had been accidentally run over by a bulldozer.   They flipped him over to show his face pushed in.   

Even though I was old enough to know that was a re-enactment, I couldn't get that image out of my head for the longest time.
 

WTF is wrong with media-makers.  Fake/unrealistic stuff like monsters and such never bothered me.  The stuff that still gets in my head is anything that's plausible/realistic.  The more possible it is, even if the FX are horrible, doesn't matter.  It sticks with me.  That's the stuff I still can't get over.

Tangent time-- I always loved, LOVED rollercoasters.  From when I was tall enough to get onto them, on into my 20s.  Then, my wife and I made friends with a guy who told us that when he was younger, his sister and father were part of a high-profile lawsuit.  They were at a Six Flags (or other similar park) and they were in a train that had just pulled into the station.  The breaks were manual for stopping the cars.  Someone had an issue in their train, so the operator stepped up to help them.  In the mean time, another train came into the depot and he wasn't at the controller station to stop it.  To their luck, that train went under theres and decapitated multiple people.  Regardless, all survivors and family members of those who lost their lives received a part of the settlement.

Ever since then I just can't ride a rollercoaster.  I know it's just as unlikely I'd ever be a part of such an incident and safety for coasters is far higher than it was in the early-90s.  Regardless, that story was enough to make it "real enough" that those things can be dangerous.
 

Rubberneck Kangos

The Shatner episode of Twilight Zone with the gremlin on the wing of the plane.

The screenshot of the Grim Reaper when you die at Shadowgate. The funny thing is, I loved watching my big bro playing the game otherwise, but every time that image was popping on the screen I had to run away, or hiding my eyes quickly if I had anticipated it like a little champ.

The Pink Panther, mostly due to it's cartoons from 1964 to 1980 that aired here in early 80s.
I am still terrified of that Pink terror to this day.

I saw the old 1953 War of the Worlds movie and couldn't shake the feeling that one of those Red, Green, Blue-lensed tentacle things could come out of the shower drain or from under my bed.

I remember being pretty disturbed by some other movie where a dude explosively decompressed by bubbling up into something that looked like puke.

I was about 5 or 6 years old.

There was an episode of Fraggle rock and there was this tweaked out looking rabbit thing that would hypnotize and chant from the caves luring Fraggle's and it scared the shit out of me. In the end I think he was just looking for his mom