For me,it was Uncle Tonoose on the Danny Thomas Show.

Fucker gave me the creeps:

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Papercuts.

The Goonies and Temple of Doom. I really don't like corpses.

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I didn't scare easily (still don't) but these things got me for a while.

1-10. Unsolved Mysteries
11. Poltergeist
12. Freddy

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Gremlins until I was about 6 or 7

The Exorcist still gives me the creeps, but that movie is awesome.

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Hank Willliams Jr. I just couldn't figure out why he wanted me to watch Monday Night Football so much.

OBAMA!!!!

oh yeah Unsolved Mysteries for sure

The Shining scared the shit out of me

It was the music. Very haunting.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Robert Stack too.

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GO BEARS!!!

some teenagers somewhere once told me that if you put something too close to the couch on the floor a hand would come out and grab it. they showed me by putting a shoe on the floor next to the couch and sure enough, a hand came out and grabbed it. i was like maybe 4 or 5. this traumatized me for a while. i would rush to pull things away from the couch, like if my dad took his shoes off or something.

also the movie Labyrinth scared me to death for some reason.

Tornado warnings always scared the shit out of me. Maybe I watched The Wizard of Oz too many times.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

When I was a kid in the mid 80s I caught the original Westworld movie on TV and that messed me up for a while. I also think around that
same time I was afraid of that TV series "V". I really don't enjoy horror movies at all.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

When I was little it was Creature Features.

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If you are of a certain age, this should've done it for you. Creepy ass theme (voiced by Marty McNeely) too. Edit: Dammit Mike

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

The opening theme music got me. It's giving me pause thinking of it now.

Oh, and midgets, dwarves, little people.

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Seriously, as BR also posted just the beginning got me.

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Teddy Ruxpin.


And not the one that screams "WHITE LADY" in the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. That one is glorious.

As a youth, this fuckin' guy

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Team Cutler.

Between that movie and Brynner's anti smoking ad they posthumously released, I always wondered about him

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Poltergeist traumatized my twelve year-old self, both by scaring the living daylights out of me and by teasing me with all-too-brief glimpses of JoBeth Williams in her undies. You shouldn't tease a kid in such a way. We didn't have cable in the city then, and so such teasing was cruel.

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Two things:

1) Threads. The PBS movie about nuclear war freaked me out more than any other film, novel, campfire story, or encounter with a priest that I have ever had. Jesus Christ, I was not prepared for that. Threads makes The Day After look like Mary Poppins.

1a) Julie Andrews was hot in Mary Poppins.

2) Harold Washington getting elected. Despite the fact that we were three miles from Western Avenue, I expected, based on what I had heard, to hear black Chicagoans rioting in the streets that night. I also thought my dad would get fired from the city. (They didn't; he didn't.) More like a Twilight-Zone panic among people than the fear of ghosts. I wish I could have videotaped some of those conversations.

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Up until I was 9 years old I lived on the 6300 block of North Keystone. There was an old German lady who lived across the street who had a tiny little dog named Fritzy. Fritzy was an absolute motherfucker. He was vicious as shit. He was also often able to slip out of his yard. When he did he would come charging toward the nearest human yapping and stripping his teeth. He bit many kids in the neighborhood. That little fucker would chase my friend Lisa Cannata and me when we were on our bikes. I remember once he got hold of my pant leg. I was kicking and screaming and trying to pedal as fast as I could. I was terrified of Fritzy. Eventually, the mothers on the block banded together and went over and told the old frau that she was going to have to do something about Fritzy or get rid of his ass. She put a muzzle on him. Looking back it's kind of sad. Train your fuckin' dog.

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they did that to Freddie, too, and he came back....

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The one in our neighborhood was Champ, an angry German shepherd who, when he got out, people blocks away ran for cover

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Damien: Omen II

The deaths were effectively chilling, but the classroom scene where Damien humiliates the teacher by knowing all the dates gave me the shivers.

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Chas

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Were you and your friend in the habit of wearing "towels" on your head like a couple of "goofs"? That would probably explain Fritzy's animus towards you--unless I'm getting my Fritzies mixed up again.

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Different Fritzy. The one you're talking about only scares me when we're sitting at the bar at Player's and he loses a close photo at Santa Anita.

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