# Things that CREEPED you out as a kid **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652 "2001-02-08T17:28:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652/161 "2001-02-17T03:40:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > \*\*Tengu said: > Similarly, a picture of an old statue of Medusa in a Book of Facts. Had to either skip over that page or cover the picture. (::Shuddershuddershudder:🙂 > > Can you tell me which book? I’d like to look it up. I’ve got a professional interest. \*\* It was the Reader’s Digest Book of Facts, published in the early/mid 80s. That’s all I can tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652/162 "2001-02-17T04:04:18Z")
In “Rudolph…” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” whenever the characters reacted in surprise or horror at something, their pupils would expand. THAT creeped me out for years. I still find it slightly disturbing. Also, there was an old sports arena in my neighborhood that had a German shepherd guard dog that would bark at you behind the glass door. I would have nightmares about taht dog, except that, in the dream, he would have glowing teeth! ---
**Author:** ![Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Holly)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652/163 "2001-02-17T05:09:01Z")
citygirl: > [@](#): > > Also, “Tribbles” - those big furry things from the old Star Trek episode. To me, they looked like overgrown dust bunnies, and I was always afraid that the dust bunnies under my bed would grow to be tribbles one day. You really need to read Dolores Claiborne. My mom had “The Book of Health”, a huge medical encyclopedia with all kinds of livid illustrations. Gangrene, festering wounds, horrid skin conditions. What freaked me out was a photograph of a man who had no nose. I’d dare myself to get out the book and turn to that page. I could only glance at it before slamming the book shut and running away. Oddly, that photograph wasn’t really gory at all compared to the others, but that was the only one that bothered me. Another reason I hated the bathtub was the oogy stuff that grew in the tracks of the sliding shower doors. The bathroom was generally pretty clean, but there was always some pink, gray, and black slime caught in the tracks. I was afraid of what might happen to me if I accidentally touched it or if, god forbid, some of it got into my bathwater. I instilled a deadly fear in a friend of mine, who was two years younger than me. We had plenty of big seashells at my house; I told her that if she listened carefully to this certain shell that she could hear my dead grandmother’s voice calling out to us. She _could_ hear the voice, she found, and she ran home crying. When I bumped into her twenty years later, she admitted that she was still afraid of seashells. ---
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652/164 "2001-02-17T07:53:29Z")
_Originally posted by **Poysyn** _ > [@](#): > > **Before I begin, I should state I am still prone to periods of near hysteria caused by my imagination taking me hostage. It’s why I started writing horror.** I do that to myself, too (scare myself). I’ve tried writing horror stories as well, but there’s a certain style I’m aiming for that I haven’t been able to hit yet. I play around with it, though, like in the (true) story I wrote in the “Very vaguely creepy II” thread. Got anything you’d like to share? > [@](#): > > **An episode of one of those shows like The Twilight Zone about a nightime monster/guy called "The Shadowman"** I remember that episode. There was another episode about a guy who would see this hat-wearing creep in mirrors and shiny surfaces, but when he turned around there was no one there. Every time he saw it, it was closer. Very creepy, but the ending kinda sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652/165 "2001-02-17T15:52:22Z")
My mom’s antique porcelain doll with the teeth. \*\* [/QUOTE] Man…I hate dolls with teeth. Anybody remember that show back in the '70’s…“Night Gallery”? Hosted by Rod Serling? They had an episode once about dolls, specifically dolls with teeth being evil and could come alive. They chased people and grinned like little demons. IIRC, they bit people and killed them, too. I had nightmares about that episode til I was in my 20’s. \ Also, (not relating to dolls, btw) when I was about 10 my family went to the State Fair. There was a huge booth set up by a pest control company. They had pictures of spiders and termites and every other kind of nightmare bug in the world in there,as well as pictures of the damage termites can do to a house. I was spending the night at my grandmother’s house that particular night, and I was up ALL night worrying that termites were eating the house out from under us. I worked myself into a panic about it. I made my grandfather turn on the attic fan so I couldn’t hear them chewing. She couldn’t understand why I was so hysterical about it. I guess the pictures made it look like the house was going to fall in at any minute; like it was barely held together by strips of wood. Plus, I wigged because I figured if the damn termites didn’t get me, the recluse spiders WOULD. To this day, I bang shoes on the floor, upside down, as hard as I can, to make sure none of those little monsters are in there waiting to bite me. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652/166 "2001-02-18T19:36:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Citygirl852 \* > **…One day, I’m going through a huge stack of paperbacks and come across this one book. It had a hand on the cover, and the hand was wrapped in gauze, like a mummy. But there was an EYE right in the middle of the palm!!..** Sounds very familiar - it could possibly be a collection of Stephen King short stories. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Ps\_and\_Qs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mr.Ps\_and\_Qs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Ps_and_Qs)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652/167 "2001-02-19T00:06:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > \*\*A few things that creeped _me_ out as a kid… > > [ul] > [li]On The Electric Company there was a little musical cartoon that scared the hell out of me. I forget most of the song, but part of it went:[/li] > “…you feel pretty silly > when you run willy-nilly > When a lollipop follows you! > When a big yellow lollipop, golly, > Follows you!” > > And throughout the cartoon this poor little girl was desperately trying to outrun a giant jagged-toothed yellow lollipop which, even as a little kid, I _knew_ meant to kill her. > [/ul]\*\* Boy did I HATE that guy. I think his name was Reddy Watt. He was creepy just to look at, jagged like cactus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-creeped-you-out-as-a-kid/53652.md?page=8)