Most terrifying episode of a children’s tv show from your childhood?

Posted by Tompkins-275@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 1004 comments

What is an episode from a kid’s tv show that scarred you, deeply and genuinely, with how terrifying you found it? As a 2000’s kid, I challenge any other 2000’s baby to give an answer besides either: a) that one episode of Ben 10 where that species of sentient alien goo crawls inside the mouths of an entire town, including Ben’s GRANDMA, and takes over their bodies. b) any fucking episode of ‘Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated’; that show was nightmare fuel for sub-13 year old’s and I will never understand the need for it when we already had the reruns of the original Scooby-Doo

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Interesting_Space110@reddit

That Raven show terrified me. Also that one on BBC where it was like an escape room, mid-late 2000’s, not sure of the name

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Mevans_2001@reddit

Are you thinking of “Trapped!”?

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Interesting_Space110@reddit

Yesssss! That’s it!! Thank you!

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Mevans_2001@reddit

You’re welcome.

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fizzpop0913@reddit

Rhubarb and Custard was terrifying to me. Don't know why, it just freaked me the hell out.

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Mevans_2001@reddit

I thought I was the only one.

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Very-Much-So@reddit

Round The Twist - the episode where a stuffed fox comes to life and they have to keep feeding it lemons from a magical tree to get bits of its real body back, eyes for example.

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LD-Rosie@reddit

There was an episode where the youngest son was impregnated by a tree elf or something and had to give birth through his penis. He was like 12. None of my friends ever watched it and are convinced I am making this up but it's scarred into my brain!

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RUFiO006@reddit

[Sorry for reigniting the childhood trauma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v52Fa4yvlEg).

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LD-Rosie@reddit

Oh god, why! There was another episode where the youngest son swallowed a fish and the fish went into his penis and turned it into a propeller to help him win a swimming race. I used to talk about this all the time and none of my friends believed me until I found video evidence on YouTube. How did that show get the greenlight?!

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ffordeffanatic@reddit

Is that the same episode where he got super peeing as well for the wall peeing competition?

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Hyperfixation-Ruler@reddit

I came across this thread for a completely unrelated question, but he pissed on a tree which activated the tree elf spirit girl thing. I know because I vividly remember watching this during a wet lunch (when kids have to stay inside during break because of rain in primary school) and just like everyone else who watched that ep of Round the Twist, scarred me. Idk about the wall pissing competition thing tho

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AOCismydomme@reddit

Seeing that I just watched the baby through the mouth can you please try to find this episode for me?

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LD-Rosie@reddit

Enjoy the masterpiece of the willy fish! https://youtu.be/8TcKOXhXgQA

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gingeadventures@reddit

And to piss over the wall!

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dreamy-pizza@reddit

Oh god THANK YOU FOR PROVING THAT I DIDN’T MAKE THIS UP 😂

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-Utopia-amiga-@reddit

Australian thats why 🤣. I loved it tbh I remember babies faces on cabbages I think!

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

🤣🤣

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mymbley@reddit

Still haunts me to this day. There was was an Animorphs (???) episode where a girl birthed a crocodile the same way and I feel like I’m choking just thinking about it.

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narnababy@reddit

This episode scarred me for life, I still feel sick thinking about it now

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AcceptableDebate281@reddit

This was deeply buried in my memory, and I'd got along fine not remembering it until just now ta

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tubbstattsyrup2@reddit

I love the (I think) 1st episode. That house engulfed by ghostly pigeon poo was major!

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skua420@reddit

This episode my god. When i was wee my dad took the panel off the bath and i would be dying with the fear in case the fox was under the bath

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UpbeatParsley3798@reddit

Was this the show where they lived in a lighthouse and the song was: Have you ever, Ever felt like this. Do strange things happen. Are you going round the twist?

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_Isosceles_Kramer_@reddit

That's the one

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UpbeatParsley3798@reddit

I don’t remember any of it being scary tho I was prob too old to be watching it then but maybe BBC edited it like Americans did? I just thought it was absolutely hilarious. Didn’t the ghost of Ned Kelly live in their outside loo?

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_Isosceles_Kramer_@reddit

I don't remember it being that creepy either - I mainly just remember the "without my pants" one that someone else referenced above! (Where they were cursed to have to say that phrase at the end of every sentence)

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HAIRYBREADROLLS@reddit

Hahahaha Round The Twist is so good, the show is based on the short stories by Australian children’s author Paul Jennings, so if you want to read most of the episodes (and even more that didn’t make the show) find them somewhere, I enjoyed them so much when I was a kid!

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No-Transition4060@reddit

Is that the Un! Series? I read all of those as a kid, I’m only just hearing now that they televised like half of them

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HAIRYBREADROLLS@reddit

Yep, you’ve got it! Round The Twist is definitely worth watching! Super fun aussie nostalgia, extra good for me as an Aussie expat!

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notreallifeliving@reddit

The name rang a bell so I had to google if he was the Wicked! guy and of course he is. Wrote some real uncanny valley body horror shit for kids.

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HAIRYBREADROLLS@reddit

That’s the one!! So bizarre, so weird

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Very-Much-So@reddit

Oh it's a book? Someone tell r/weirdlit I bet it would be right up their alley. Foxes with no eyes eating lemons etc.

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davep177@reddit

Episode where spiders came up out of the toilet 😭

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WildfireTheWitch@reddit

I was here to suggest Round the Twist too. Glad to see it holds the top spot already.

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L_wookieecookie@reddit

Me too! Every single thing I can remember about any episode was so bizarre. I’d never show this to my kid at that age now.

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syrupdash@reddit

Not scared but I remember being so fucking close to tears when the lemon tree was destroyed before the fox was able to eat the last few lemons. Now the scarecrow episode where he comes to life was just nightmare fuel.

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Hepzibah87@reddit

You just rekindled this childhood devastation. Gonna go cry over the blue eyed lemon fox

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escapetomyworld@reddit

The fox lived! It ran out the door with the blue eyes of the grandpa? who had been buried under the tree. The scarecrow episode that had been dressed in clown clothes they found washed up on the beach. Yup, that was mine too, terrifying.

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iampipss@reddit

But the fox did live! Or that’s at least how my optimistic brain remembers it

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Tompkins-275@reddit (OP)

christ

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Very-Much-So@reddit

You never seen Round The Twist? Nightmare fuel. How about Animals Of Farthing Wood? That was on at about 3pm and an animal died on it every week. I remember one where a Shrike impaled baby mice on a thorn bush. https://youtu.be/2pypyDDPmIQ

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loz_cat@reddit

I had nightmares for MONTHS after that episode where all of my family (and also the Power Rangers) were impaled on giant thorn bushes and I couldn’t get them down.

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Fragiledog@reddit

Wait, is this where Dan Simmons got the story for Hyperion from?!

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Oceansoul119@reddit

No, that would be Canterbury Tales for the structure and various other works for some bits of the story (the poetry of Keats for example). As to the being the various stories in the first book are related to then yes if you mean the animal (no if you mean the show as Hyperion came first, not sure about the books though). Kind of obvious given it is called The Shrike and impales the victims on a tree.

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Goshawkfan@reddit

That was awful. As was the hedgehogs. The casualty list, and the horrific nature of a lot of it, is staggering for a show for kids.

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bejewhale@reddit

Ahhh no I remember that episode, so horrible!!

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TopGlun@reddit

Without my pants

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CCGamesSteve@reddit

And finally the mystery of the lemon stealing whores is solved.

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MattheqAC@reddit

Have you ever

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Due-Two-6592@reddit

Sounds like that was based on a short story callsd grandads gifts, I remember being read it in school and thinking it was some bizarre dream but a bit of research and yes it does exist, the episode that stuck with me was the monster made of dust

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UpperZambeziDuck@reddit

Yes! That was definitely a fever dream style episode

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LaceAndLavatera@reddit

The only Round the Twist episode I remember is seared into my memory because it was so gross, there were mushrooms that exploded and gunk went everywhere - I'm sure the gunk did something bad, but can't remember that detail.

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GunstarHeroine@reddit

Oh my god I remember this one!! They made a copy of the person but if you got too close they just melted into yellow goo. I was absolutely freaked, I had nightmares for years.

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dobbynobson@reddit

The one I remember was the seagull shit bombing episode, with the shed they hid in groaning under the weight of bird shit. And the Without My Pants Episode. And the haunted remote control that paused time. Oh and the one where the kid's mouth went tiny. God it was nightmare fuel.

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Nufkin@reddit

People touched the mushrooms. Mushrooms grew into copies of the person. Had a limited lifespan and exploded in goo.

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frankie_0924@reddit

The episode where someone was turning into a mermaid and had extra finger nails up their fingers onto their hands gave me nightmares for MONTHS!

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sc0toma@reddit

That image lives rent free on my head over 20 years later

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liv-a-little@reddit

Yesss that episode unsettled me for weeks after, so freaky!

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Legitimate-Pie9748@reddit

It was called Nails. At the end of the episode fingernails had grown up both his arms and become like fish scales. It was horrifying

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

We had very edited versions of that show on a USA station weekday segment of children’s programming called Fox kids. I loved Round the twist and found a YouTube channel that had the unedited episodes and I saw so much I didn’t remember and could see why they couldn’t be played as aired In Australia or even included at all in the USA audiences viewers package when they acquired the rights to give us international programs beyond Canada. It is definitely nightmare fuel and jarring for the casual viewer who don’t like odd stories.

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frankie_0924@reddit

YES! I’m probably going to have nightmares tonight again now!

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CreativeGarden2429@reddit

This Is what I was going to say. It fully creeped me out.

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Pleasereleaseme123@reddit

That theme tune was great

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sybil-vimes@reddit

Yes! Didn't the fox have insanely blue eyes? Wasn't there an episode where a boy is turning into a mermaid and so had fingernails/scales growing on his hands as well? I never saw the end of that one so have no idea what happened!

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SomeWomanFromEngland@reddit

I *think* the fox ended up with blue eyes because it wasn’t able to get its original eyes back as it wasn’t able to finish the lemons from the tree where it’s innards we’re buried but the kids found it lemons from a different burial site and it ended up with human eyes instead.

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swibbles_mcnibbles@reddit

I just commented this - that episode terrified me for years, I was absolutely frozen with fear.

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bakedNdelicious@reddit

I vaguely remember an episode from round the twist where his mouth was tiny. That creeped me out.

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MyNewAccountx3@reddit

Yes! I just commented this episode. I don’t remember much else but a small mouth but all these comments make me wonder how this was a kids show!! But I would watch it every week!

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MyNewAccountx3@reddit

This is the programme I was thinking of! The one that sticks out to me was where all their mouths shrunk - not sure why it bothered me but it really did.

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Fabulous_Research_21@reddit

The episode where there’s a frog race and this huge cane road eats all the smaller frogs sticks in my mind. Must have seen it around 25 years ago now and it still grosses me out!

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Pen_dragons_pizza@reddit

Instantly reminded of the theme tune... thanks

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Monkeytennis01@reddit

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned the scarecrow episode yet! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5P5D9enYUpo&cbrd=1

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Tiredchimp2002@reddit

Yoooo. That was a trippy episode. Mental. Wasn’t it a reincarnation of an old man too. Haha

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swoticus@reddit

YES!!! That episode has haunted me for years to the point where I still make sure every cupboard door is closed before going to bed. I don't think I've spoken to anyone for a long time who remembers it so I was very glad to see it right at the top when I opened up the comments.

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loxcy__@reddit

The Simpsons episode where they were trying to get people to join the navy - the song was ‘Join The Navy’ backwards and still gives me shivers now 😖

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lucaknowsplaces@reddit

✨Yvan eht nioj✨

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suyeons_satsuma@reddit

I loved this episode oddly enough. 9 year old me discovering subliminal messaging was mind blown.

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loxcy__@reddit

I’m grown now and subliminal messaging still terrifies me

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space_coyote_86@reddit

Did it work on you though? Are you in the navy now?

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loxcy__@reddit

Nope just traumatised

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Shack691@reddit

It's a reversed version of a recruitment song, it's supposed to get you to leave the navy

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dolphinlover244@reddit

A majority of Goosebumps and RL Stines haunting hour scared me growing up. Night of the living dummy made me terrified of my American girl dolls. Not a tv show but I saw it on tv, The movie rl stines don’t think about scared me to the point I had nightmares for weeks. I swear R.L Stine lived off of giving children nightmares.

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Houseofwolvesmd@reddit

All of Animals of farthing wood. The one where the hen disappears and they then realise she's been eaten by the farmer was brutal

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Imaginary_Moose_2384@reddit

Then the male pheasant gets shot as he can't see the farmer's gun because he's crying over his wife's cooked corpse! Incredible soundtrack behind it as well

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Houseofwolvesmd@reddit

Crazy it was a kids show man haha

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Miffly@reddit

Fuck me that show was traumatising!

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Maleficent_Depth_517@reddit

All the mice babies stuck on the thorns! I sobbed so much.

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Imaginary_Moose_2384@reddit

"Butcher bird!" "Yeah, that's what they call me!"

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jamjarlady1@reddit

Oh. You’ve just unlocked a memory I didn’t know I had

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Purple_One_9288@reddit

My immediate thought was that episode with the babies on the thorns stuck there by the shrike 😭

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EconomistStriking787@reddit

Yes!!!! This was my first thought!! I still get the same sick feeling in my stomach when I think of it 25ish years later 😳

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toonlass91@reddit

Yep. Cried so many times at this show. I think I have the full collection of videos somewhere

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Fumb-MotherDucker@reddit

I know a girl called Anna Wood. When I first met her I said "What's your middle name? Mals-of-Farthing?" but nobody got my joke.

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Houseofwolvesmd@reddit

Get a new crowd

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ash894@reddit

When fox and badger got swept away I cried for hours.

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Houseofwolvesmd@reddit

NGL, I loved Fox. I remember watching that and bawling my eyes out and my mum saying I wasn't allowed to watch it anymore

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Jturnster89@reddit

Ahh man! You really had to remind me of that? Now I'm going to have to dig out the book and cry my eyes out in my mid 30's.

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Houseofwolvesmd@reddit

It was brutal. I can't imagine the outrage if it were released today haha

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christopia86@reddit

Pretty sure that was the female pheasant, her mate goes to find her, only to see her roasted corpse and becomes understandably upset, the farmer then shoots him. Frankly, the field mouse babies being impaled on thorns by a bird was more upsetting to me.

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Houseofwolvesmd@reddit

Yes you're right it was. Jesus I forgot about the mouse what are ridiculous child's cartoon haha

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notreallifeliving@reddit

I've always had a mild irrational fear of being turned to stone/incased in cement and I'm convinced that's what started it. As in I know it's never going to happen, obviously, but watching shows where it does happen gives me the willies.

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goldsparkleoat@reddit

Yep the whole series was so so awful. I think there was one with hedgehogs getting run over when they all crossed a road? I was about 5 - sobbed my heart out and had to be put to bed early!

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

Is that why they chose hedgehogs for the road safety campaign we all know and love?

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SatinwithLatin@reddit

Oh yeah the hedgehogs traumatised me especially. Last year I watched the scene on YouTube thinking it couldn't be as bad as child me had thought. Nope, it was *worse.* I'd forgotten that the hedgehogs are written as elderly old dears trying to comfort and encourage each other across the road, only to fail in the end.

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goldsparkleoat@reddit

Savage!

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graytreason@reddit

Fox's Bold made lil me bawl

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MissSwizz@reddit

He just wanted to come home!

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Berookes@reddit

Doctor Who Weeping angels

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kress34@reddit

i remember going to the doctor who experience and being scared shitless seeing them when i was younger

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Admirable_Pilot_2164@reddit

100 times yes. This fucked me up for years

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jabby_jakeman@reddit

I agree. Those Tennant era seasons had some of the best scary monsters and situations. Midnight is a brilliant piece of writing and acting.

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Rhydsdh@reddit

Nah it's gotta be the "Are you my mummy?" episode. Those gas masks man.

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Confident-Trash-842@reddit

The scene when that guy turned into one and the mask like came out of his mouth haunted me for years as a kid

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goodmythicalmickey@reddit

I've been rewatching them through on iPlayer and I finished that one at 10pm, assuming I'm all grown up now and won't be scared. Afterwards I was still like "well I can't go to bed now can I"

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HooverBeingAMan@reddit

This is the one storyline in Dr Who that took me years to be able to watch. Statues coming to life? Fine. Levitating Daleks following you up the stairs? Cool. Child in a gas mask asking for its mummy? HORRIFYING. I can watch the episodes now but I still get uncomfortable if I see a gas mask in a museum or something.

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custard-powder@reddit

Yep propped shit my younger brother up who otherwise loved dr who

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jaBroniest@reddit

I have ptsd over those gas mask kids. Creeeeepy

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PrincessTripsalotTM@reddit

Oh god I'd forgotten about that, but I still read it in the exact voice.

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A-Paradise@reddit

This is the one!

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Astin257@reddit

Absolutely, think I watched that when I was about 7 and is the only moment from my childhood where I experienced the whole “hiding behind the couch” stereotype

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mamacitalk@reddit

Omg same

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getstabbed@reddit

I was 10, I didn’t do that but I definitely had nightmares.

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e_lemonsqueezer@reddit

Yeah even when I watched this as a 14 year old I was totally freaked out. Still think it’s one of the creepiest things I’ve ever watched.

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PeacefulFriend@reddit

Nah my brother and I were banned from watching Dr Who for a couple months because my brother had nightmares over episode with the Ood's who were being controlled by the giant Devil creature. The Ood's in general terrified my brother. The episode they're introduced in where that human guy gets turned into one freaked everyone in my household out.

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Apprehensive_Cry4186@reddit

i’ve always loved that episode, one of the best imo

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acidteddy@reddit

I remember getting Doctor Who on my PSP for Christmas (shows my age!). Never seen it before and I watched it Christmas Day night, alone in bed… fucking terrified me

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jadedgoober7@reddit

The empty child episode is pure fear

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LahmiaTheVampire@reddit

Doctor Constantine transforming... Still gives me the creeps to this day.

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LinuxLover3113@reddit

And apparently they had a version where you could hear bone cracking. The producers agreed that was a step too far.

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Fleurlamie111@reddit

Yes!! Horrifying. 😭

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TCGislife@reddit

Yep that was FREAKY!

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NVision92@reddit

Water of Mars episode was pretty freaky too

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jimjim54@reddit

waters of mars wasn’t just scary, it was hopeful, sad, exciting, and contains some of the best acting in the series. easily one of the best episodes (my 2nd favourite)

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49baad510b@reddit

What's your favourite episode?

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jimjim54@reddit

heaven sent

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Possiblyreef@reddit

Followed by Hell Bent

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ashthechache@reddit

that one still has a chokehold on me, ill watch anything with a similar premise

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coolsimon123@reddit

Is that with all the Voodoo writing on the people's faces and shit? That honestly gave 13 year old me nightmares for months, the angels as well

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Jamez_Rodriguez@reddit

That was the satan pit episode with the devil underground. The waters of mars was the one with the contaminated water and the people walking around with water dripping out. A single drop of water touching you would infect you.

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

The Satan Pit is probably one of my favourite episodes, purely for the design and size of Satan in that giant lava pit. Can't remember anything else about it. Maybe my favourite depiction of Satan, outside of the Dante's Inferno videogame.

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LiteratureUpper28@reddit

The best one! And the forgotten child one and the clockwork robots!

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mebjulie@reddit

I traumatised my then 4 year old and myself by watching that!

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Open-the-onion@reddit

Watched this when I was stoned at the age of 24. Still haunts me to this day.

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ClareSwinn@reddit

I am an adult woman who put this on (before the watershed I might add) with my then 6 year old and freaked myself the fuck out, never mind him. My husband howls at the memory

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teerbigear@reddit

Howls with laughter or with fear? Because I know what's the most appropriate response, they were terrifying.

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

I always thought it was kind of cool rather than freaky. I'm also a massive horror fan, so I'd like to see more of that kind of thing, far scarier than the usual bullshit jumpscares horror relies on.

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E420CDI@reddit

*Are you my mummy?*

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FuriousFireball@reddit

The OG angels were scary but now they're shit

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CCGamesSteve@reddit

The statue of liberty angel was the real 'jump the shark' moment.

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aezy01@reddit

Like with everything, they just try to hype the scares by introducing more of the same, which of course just normalises the monster and has the opposite effect.

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FuriousFireball@reddit

Have to give credit, the devil was scary

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leedsylfc@reddit

Also the Ood

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Taylorsversion2023@reddit

Under The Lake was also very creepy.

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preparetodobattle@reddit

I am a lot older. Robot clowns

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Daisy5915@reddit

Doctor Who for me too but as I’m older it was the Tom Baker episode where he went to the Dalek’s planet and got attacked by baby daleks. Sounds rubbish when I wrote it down but these were worm like things that got round his neck. I was firmly behind the sofa.

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Mrslinkydragon@reddit

Waters of Mars, the gas mask one, the mimic one and the one where the crew refuel from a sentient star that then possesses them! So many good sci-fi horror stories

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killingjoke96@reddit

Steven Moffat reckons he came up with the idea for the Angels when he was walking through a graveyard, that he normally walked through to get home, and saw a really cool looking angel statue. When walking by the same spot, with his family the next day, he went to point it out to them and it was gone...

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TheAngryNaterpillar@reddit

Angel statues naturally inspire the imagination I think. I grew up on the same street as a church that had an angel statue in front of it and we all used to insist it could move by itself. We'd all dare each other to go up to it and touch it at night, and everyone ended up running back to the group insisting it moved or looked straight at them.

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lordsweetener@reddit

I’m curious to know if this is before or after that episode of doctor who came out?

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TheAngryNaterpillar@reddit

Long before, this was in the late 90s.

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Annual-Telephone-371@reddit

Holy you just brought back a memory, I literally couldn’t watch it I was crying so much

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N9037@reddit

My nephew was terrified of the Vashta Nerada episode "Hey who turned out the lights?" He's 21 now and still freaks him out.

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Havistan@reddit

That episode terrified me for ages, I was in like year 3 or 4 when I watched it and already was scared of the darkness.

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ITSlmonsterz@reddit

Waters of mars fucked me up

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rocketscientology@reddit

there was a graveyard down the road from my house that had a big angel statue on top of one of the gravestones. if i cut through the graveyard i could get to my friend’s house quicker but i point blank refused to ever do it after that episode, went the long way round forever.

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parttimepedant@reddit

I don’t know what that is. I haven’t been able to watch Doctor Who since seeing the Cybermen 40 years ago.

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godstar67@reddit

I have been able to watch newer episodes but have never rewatched The Green Death from 1973 (I was 5yo when it started, 6yo on the day the final episode was broadcast). Those mutant jumping giant maggots scared the bejesus out of me and I didn’t sleep properly for months. Got the novelisation from the library a few years later, not scary at all. Still wouldn’t risk a re-watch and I’m 55, 6’4” and generally scarier than anything else in the Whoniverse.

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NifferKat@reddit

Geez my daughter absolutely shit herself over that one..... I meanwhile was, ummmm slighty perturbed!

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Chillz040798@reddit

It was the episode on that crystal planet with the knocking on the ship and the mimicking that really terrified me. To this day i still cant watch that episode.

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snavej1@reddit

Wanking Angels, more like. If you watch them, they can't cum.

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coffeebeanscene@reddit

My sister was terrified of the “are you my mummy?” Episode of dr who and for years we used to tease her about it.

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sihasihasi@reddit

I saw this for the first time when I was about 45. Still the scariest thing I've seen on TV for years.

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speaches97@reddit

I came here to say the same thing. I was 10 y/o and TERRIFIED

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Berookes@reddit

I was a similar age man, the weeping angels and Gas mask ‘are you my mummy’ kids shook me to the core

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speaches97@reddit

Oh not those damn kids, they were so creepy. The Silence were also really scary! But I think out of them all the Weeping Angels take the prize, I still remember my heart beating out my chest and hiding behind my hands watching that first episode

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Scrambledpeggle@reddit

No idea what it was but remember seeing a kids tv show about a bunch of kids out playing who ended up stuck in an old mine. Turned out the mine was haunted and in the end the ghost helped them get out, but by that time I was a 6 year old jibbering wreck, not helped by my older brother insisting it was a true story filmed as it happened.

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Prestigious_Carpet29@reddit

I can't remember the name of the series, but Cornish tin mines, yes? I was a bit more than 6, but still was very scary. Running Scared (set in East London, aired around 1990) was also quite edgy for a kid at the time.

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Scrambledpeggle@reddit

It could be! I just remember the ghost being a little girl. Honestly even now it seems terrifying in my memory!

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Prestigious_Carpet29@reddit

I think it was Haunters of the Deep [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087389/?ref\_=tt\_urv](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087389/?ref_=tt_urv) Shown as a Children's Film Foundation (Friday afternoon?) screening on CBBC in the Philip Schofield / broom-cupboard era.

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Scrambledpeggle@reddit

Wow well done I think that must be it... although I must have seen it later, perhaps 1990ish. Thanks for finding it! I still think it looks terrifying..!!

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West-Walrus4873@reddit

The moomins with the groke. Hated it so much. It terrified me!!

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electric--eskimo@reddit

I came here to say the same thing. Everything about the moomins was slightly creepy and the groke was the icing on the cake.

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Familiar-Metal-8367@reddit

Also came to say the same thing. The moomins were so deeply unsettling.

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Miffly@reddit

It's a strange one, because as a young child the Groke was fucking scary but then as I got older I felt really sorry for her.

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mootallica@reddit

I remember feeling scared and bad for her at the same time even as a kid. I couldn't quite understand why the show went to such an effort to make her scary.

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Miffly@reddit

Yeah I wondered the same thing. I guess from their perspective she was terrifying, as she sort of floated in and brought her coldness with her. Poor Groke.

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mootallica@reddit

Did she ever help them? It wouldn't be the first kids property that revealed a character to be good/helpful when they were first introduced as a threat, but my only memory is of the show depicting her as scary.

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Miffly@reddit

Yeah that's a good point. Unfortunately my memory is similar, it's such a long time since I saw the show and I really can't remember.

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mootallica@reddit

I looked it up and it reminded me that she does freeze a forest fire in one episode! I had also completely forgotten about the fact that she froze anything she came into contact with which is why everyone was so scared of her

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Miffly@reddit

You're making me want to watch it again...

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soymrdannal@reddit

She was just lonely / wanted to be warm…

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But-Must-I@reddit

My 5 year old is obsessed with the Groke and pretends she’s in the house with us and has her join in his games. It’s really sweet because he often speaks very softly to her and tells her not to be scared. Warms my cold, icy heart.

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harrietfurther@reddit

For me it was the Lady of the Cold, creepy blank eyes!

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Alcoholic_Synonymous@reddit

There was something terrifying about the groke earnestly and unstoppably trundling through storms. It freaked me out.

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RunWithRope@reddit

I love her. Poor Groke.

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LJA0611@reddit

Was the hattifattners for me When they are all feeding off the lightening. Moomins in general was a bit unsettling. Even the theme tune

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NuttyMcNutbag@reddit

Came here to post exactly this.

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sumbawa@reddit

First thing that came to mind was when they get surrounded by Hattifatteners when they visit an island.

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Yolandi2802@reddit

My 4 year old son freaked at the Hattifatteners. He’s 44 now and does not like to be reminded. He and his brother also were terrified of The Watcher in the Woods.

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TheGreatBatsby@reddit

Holy. Fucking. Shit. This absolutely terrified me as a child.

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shatnersbassooncake@reddit

The moomins terrified me as a child, still not keen on them now as an adult.

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brownsabbeth@reddit

Came here to say this.

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West-Walrus4873@reddit

Terrifying wasn’t it?!

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Sukiniballs@reddit

What was the sand monster or sand creature programe- fucked me up so kich I've blocked it out

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rachplum@reddit

There's an episode of Pingu (not the infamous 'banned' one with the evil walrus). The one that terrified me as a kid was where Pingu falls into the ice caves and it plays this really ominous crystalline music as the 'camera' focuses on the threatening pointy shapes of the ice stalactites and stalagmites.

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emkel_@reddit

Pingu always gave me creepy as fuck vibes but I'm sure this episode is also the reason why I became terrified of it. I think for me it was the fact it seemed like they were never going to get out or be found and I think he even had to leave his friend behind? (I am not clicking that link to check)

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elllouise123@reddit

Literally! I always found it to be kind of disturbing. Glad i’m not the only one

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Manypopes@reddit

Yeah it just felt hopeless. Pingu the penguin was going to die alone in a cold dark cave. I think also maybe quite relatable because I'm sure all kids have ran off and got lost at some point, I certainly had and I remember feeling that same sense of dread that I'd be lost forever, probably one of my oldest memories

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1v1mecoconutmall@reddit

I remember being scared of that one where Pingu runs away from home, mostly cause of the skull and monster imagery, and the idea of being lost without my parents was one of my biggest fears when I was little

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flyingfoxtrot_@reddit

I'd forgotten about this! Oh my god the music used to scare me when I was a kid. I found it SO creepy

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KingPing43@reddit

That walrus episode scarred me for life.

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bro_the_marauders@reddit

What was the walrus episode?

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KingPing43@reddit

Pingu has a dream where this walrus is stalking him, then at one point it jumps out and scares him https://youtu.be/LUxH-m60eSI

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E420CDI@reddit

#NOOT NOOT r/Pingu

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TameTheFris@reddit

Came here to say exactly this.

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Puzzleheaded_Exit_45@reddit

Oh my goodness!! I remember!

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bejewhale@reddit

Haha yesss that used to scare me and my sisters too!

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mokoduck@reddit

I remember this one vividly and hated it. What the hell is that theme tune though, it’s all wrong.

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cool110110@reddit

They changed it to that in the late 90s.

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YchYFi@reddit

Reminds me of old video game music.

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Bebbette@reddit

Ah yes, the old tights pull up, mites go down

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mitchch@reddit

This was the first thing that came to my head too! It’s 100% down to the music, bloody jarring

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Known-Advance-7352@reddit

Yes! For me, it was the episode where someone (Pingu?) gets trapped under a big pile of ice and their little flipper is just waving out from underneath the pile and everyone else is panicking, I think I understood the fear of death for the first time in that moment

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Kirstemis@reddit

I think that might be Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

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lithaborn@reddit

Pinguperman. The crossover nobody thought of

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alphadalekben@reddit

For me, it's the 'Homer3' segment from one of the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episodes. The combination of the handrawn cel animation and the 'Jimmy Neutron' style 3D animation always gave me the willies. It's the only Treehouse of Horror segment that ever actually scared me as a kid.

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

That's my favourite Simpsons episode, visually.

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alphadalekben@reddit

Don't get me wrong, it was/is a great effect visually speaking - just uncanny in a mid-1990s/2000s kind of way. I'm glad that they decided against using the 3D for The Simpsons Movie. I don't think that I could take 90 minutes of that nightmare fuel.

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

Agreed, classic animation always wins, in my book.

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nectaerines@reddit

I thought I was the only one! Looking back, I actually think that's why I had so many nightmares about sinkholes as a kid

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alphadalekben@reddit

It's similar with me. Segments like that (as well as a clip of someone finding their dad being slowly turned into a Dalek in a Sixth Doctor episode of Doctor Who) that I was exposed to at 7/8 years old make me feel like that's why I enjoy the subliminal horror of David Lynch's work.

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Freed0mChaser@reddit

One of those tree house of horror episodes has a joke that will stick with me for life. Where the family goes to a mansion but there is no beer or TV. "No beer and no tv makes homer something something" "go crazy?" "dont mind if i do" *goes crazy* i wat h that shit a couple times a month

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alphadalekben@reddit

Isn't that segment the one referencing The Shining?

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mamacitalk@reddit

Is this the one where he ends up in the ‘real’ world at the end?

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alphadalekben@reddit

According to the wiki, yeah, although I vaguely remember that ending as a kid.

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shannondion@reddit

I had this episode on video along with a couple of others and I skipped it every time, especially was scared of the bit at the end when Homer comes out in a real street. Just thinking out that episode gives me the shivers.

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notreallifeliving@reddit

They used to show that in 3D as a trailer at IMAX cinemas when they started being a thing. Ugh.

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tragicworldrecord@reddit

The one with Bart's twin is the show that fucked me up as a young kid. Went from normal to refusing to sleep without the lights on full blast and all my duvet tucked around me.

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jimbobhas@reddit

Same here, was always the scariest one for me when I was younger

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WillDotCom95@reddit

The scene where they all leave the house except Bart and then Hugo’s shadow is revealed in the dining room used to terrify me and my mate!

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Hammerheadhunter@reddit

My Simpsons one is an early one with the Babysitter Bandit. Lady freaked me out

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Plenty_Courage8377@reddit

The bear and the lion episode from the teletubbies - it’s on YouTube and still makes me cry

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ashisanandroid@reddit

Anything from Through the Dragons Eye. The only educational school programme where a Dark Lord just fucking melts people.

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amy_jane_m@reddit

Look, if you want to bring death to Pelamar and seize control of the Veetacore, you can't do that without melting a few people!

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Speesh-Reads@reddit

The Singing Ringing Tree. All of it. It’ll date you if you know what I’m on about.

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canyonstom@reddit

I've only heard of it, and (older) colleague used to talk about it, it clearly made an impression on her because it got referenced every couple of months! Something about a nightmare fish?

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Speesh-Reads@reddit

“The Singing Ringing Tree is a 1957 children's fantasy film from East German studio DEFA. Directed by Francesco Stefani, the screenplay by Anne Geelhaar is based on a variation of "Hurleburlebutz" by the Brothers Grimm.” “The story concerns a beautiful but selfish and haughty princess who rejects the proposal of a wealthy prince. She scorns the gifts he offers her, and says that she will marry him only if he brings her the mythical "singing ringing tree". The prince locates the tree in the territory of an evil dwarf, who offers to give him the enchanted tree, on the understanding that, if the princess still rejects him, he will be in the dwarf's power and will be turned into a bear. Because the tree will only sing and ring when the princess falls in love with the prince, she is disappointed in it and continues to reject the prince. The prince is forced to return to the dwarf's lair and is turned into a bear. The princess sends her father to find the singing ringing tree for her, but he is met by the prince, in the guise of a bear, who gives him the tree on condition that the king returns with the first thing the king sees on his return. This turns out to be the princess, who is now delivered into the hands of the dwarf. The dwarf, seeing the princess's self-centred behaviour, casts a spell to make her ugly. The bear tells her that she will regain her beauty only if she changes her ways. Gradually she is won over by the bear and becomes beautiful again. Despite the dwarf's attempts to keep her and the prince apart, she eventually falls in love with him and the singing ringing tree finally lives up to its name.” I’m sure they fitted a nightmare fish in there somewhere as well.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

My friend loves that one, he also likes tellitubies too , he doesn’t see why people don’t like either one

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willefistagash@reddit

Very old one here, back in the 70s, there was a series called Tarot. I remember one episode where a ventriloquist dummy was taken around schools to entertain the kids. Halfway through, its eyes would go completely white, and the kids would start ripping each other apart. Gave me nightmares for weeks.the whole series was creepy af and would be banned now.

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nobodycares7877@reddit

Telly-tubbies when they had a random lion & bear cameo hiding and making weird noises. I was too old to watch it then and still thought it was fucking freaky as fuck couldn't imagine babies watching it Also, any 'Courage the Cowardly Dog' episode wtf like

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Dry_Bluebird_2923@reddit

The chameleon episode of goosebumps with the Mowry twins. I'm sure even now I'd have trouble sleeping if I watched it again.

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nihilistkitty@reddit

The story of Henry, he gets bricked into a tunnel because he doesn't want to go out in the rain after getting painted. What a lesson in humility. It's not traditionally scary but it stuck with me

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JokerzBane@reddit

The weird puppet from goosebumps used to really creep me out as a kid.

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xTopaz_168@reddit

Yeah Slappy was pretty creepy but there was also a goosebumps episode about aliens that pretend to be human and kidnapped and ate people. Where I used to sit in front of the telly was the patio doors next to me and we had no curtains, I remember being freaked out after that episode and looking out into the darkness every night wondering if they were coming for me.

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MrQuestions11@reddit

Off the top of my head I remember the piano lessons "beautiful hands" one being scary and the game show in the haunted house where I think one of them turns old Also I vaguely remember one in a baseball field

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GuiltyStrawberry5253@reddit

My 4 year old watched the goosebumps episode on Netflix (only 13 episodes I think) and this is the only one that scared her! We’ll occasionally turn to each other randomly now and say ‘your beautiful hands’ haha!

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MrQuestions11@reddit

Lool, she's braver than I was, I watched them when I was older

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christopia86@reddit

I loved Goosbumps as a kid, I got the terrible FMV game, I loved it.

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

Don't look up Veronica Chaos, then. She's retired, now, but she used to be a camgirl with an exact replica also called Slappy that she'd do ventriloquism shows with, and also have sex with it.

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NotBaldwin@reddit

I swear I remember a goosebumps episode where there's a thing that can drive people mad in some way? It changed how their faces looked, and at one point it happened to their bus driver, and he started swerving all over the road. I remember the facial expression absolutely terrified me as a child. I'd like to see that episode again as an adult, but despite looking, I can't work out what one it was.

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Apart-Fisherman-7378@reddit

That was the scariest Goosebumps book too!

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mokoduck@reddit

The Australian chaser on Beat The Chasers looks so much like Slappy the Dummy and I can’t watch any episodes with him in because ventriloquists’ dummies freak me out so much. Sorry, Supernerd, I’m sure you’re probably lovely but I just can’t.

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JeffBroccoli@reddit

Candle cove

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KickIcy9893@reddit

More of a whole series but Pig Heart Boy. Boy had heart attack in swimming pool. Had to have heart transplant. Was given a pig heart (as the title might suggest). What was that about?!

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fkogjhdfkljghrk@reddit

They made a tv show out of it? I imagine the book explains it better, but I can't remember it fully and I've never seen the show- something about being a science experiment and them getting paid a lot to take it up, only chance, something like that.

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Pretending-to-work89@reddit

Even at a young age I knew this concept was ridiculous.

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KickIcy9893@reddit

Ahh see I didn't and it was TERRIFYING.

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crystalstarling@reddit

I remember this... how did they make a whole show out of this concept?

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

Oh yes, I remember that airing only once as part of the big series blocks marathons my local public tv channel would put on over Christmas/New Years vacation. They would play the whole run of one semi short series like children of the stones or Timeslip, owl service or that other show they only played once and never again The Tyrant King.

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everyoneelsehasadog@reddit

Fuck man, OWL SERVICE. I read it as a kid and didn't understand it but I thought about it the other day and I think I need to go back to it.

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Astin257@reddit

Pretty sure it was based on a book For some reason I had this and Feather Boy linked in my mind as somehow by the same author/similar premise but apparently not the case

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Hyenaby@reddit

Based off a Malorie Blackman book (same author who wrote the Noughts and Crosses series!)

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SpaTowner@reddit

Dr Who is technically a children's show, there was a Tom Baker episode with living standing stones called something like the 'Ogri' and if you touched them they sucked all the life out of you. The looked like standing stones, but if you camped on the moor they would be blocking your way out of your tent in the morning, Probably would have been okay if I hadn't been due to go on a Guide camping thing at a place called Vogrie House. I was terrified that I was going to be shrivelled to a husk by vampire standing stones. It made matters worse that I had misremembered the name of the stones as the *Vogri*, probably because there was a character called *Vries* in the episode (Stones of Blood) and I mashed the two words together.

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anothercynicaloldgit@reddit

For me it was Spearhead from Space when Autons disguised as shop dummies activated and started killing people. I'd have been about 4 and it made trips to shops terrifying.

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Apprehensive-Sky1881@reddit

My sister was the same! She was terrified and cried every time we went to town and she saw a mannequin in a shop window for months hahaha

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crucible@reddit

I had the VHS of that! Equally scary to 7 or 8 year old me. Also the Haemovores in *The Curse of Fenric*, although they slightly redeemed themselves when they sort of pulled Ace's skirt up a bit when she was climbing down a rope :P

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Consistent_Squash590@reddit

The hideous giant maggot things! Yuk!

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SpaTowner@reddit

We played at being those, in our sleeping bags with the drawstrings pulled closed over our heads.

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Consistent_Squash590@reddit

Aarrgghhh!!!

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McSheeples@reddit

For me it was the Sylvester McCoy episode where previously non climbing daleks could get up the stairs, a two parter and it ended on the dalek nearing the top. Shat myself for a week...

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BlondePotatoBoi@reddit

The gas mask zombies from Eccleston's era were just... yeah, *NOPE*

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FuriousFireball@reddit

Are you my mummy?

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k3wi33@reddit

This gave me nightmares for months ! Must have been about 10, but still couldnt wait for the second part!I used to live on an army firming range aswell so I'd get super freaked out when the tanks went off because It reminded me of this for so long. The weeping angles aswell those things scared the shit out of me. One of the first times I was genuinely scared to go out after dark.

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BECKYISHERE@reddit

the sea devils, watched them as an adult and theyre just blokes dressed funny with rubber masks.

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DaveIsNice@reddit

There was a Tom Baker episode with what I know now are laughable "plants come alive" special effects which really got to me at the time. Tbh I was way too old to be scared even then, early teens maybe. I think it was the thought of it happening more than the realism of what was depicted that freaked me out, this poor guy being pulled under water by vines in a swampy pond and we had similar looking ponds nearby.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

That one from the Pertwee years about plastic coming to life was freaky, I remember seeing it from my high chair as a toddler, I knew it was creepy but I was kinda also laughing at it , the doll segment in trilogy of horror took it a step further. Same concept but it’s all down to the delivery of how unsettling it is or not. British and international programs are much more creative on this while USA programs depend on jump scares and dangerous criminals with guns over a person who’s weapon is their mental derangement as also a uk programs will touch on more heavily as well.

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Migeman@reddit

The Seeds of Doom, it was pretty much inspired by the thing. Especially with that fella being turned into a plant.

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Ok-Professor-6549@reddit

YOU FUCKING FOUND IT FOR ME! I spent a whole evening googling combinations of "stone moving scary kids 90s tv" keywords to no avail and assumed I had just imagined the program. I can't even remember why it spooked me so much as I can't remember anything about it but I know it did....

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BaronessvonR@reddit

Spider. But only the first episode, because I was too scared to watch any of the others. Even now...

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Puzzleheaded_Can_442@reddit

Those Gremlins films from the 80s seriously scared me as a small child, in a deep way

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Erheniel@reddit

See How They Run on CBBC was terrifying.

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NeighborhoodLarge427@reddit

Very niche (I think) .. the gingerbread man. Terrifying!! https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0489423/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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MonoGreenFanBoy@reddit

Courage the Cowardly Dog - "Return the slaaaaaaaaab" episode is a classic Also oddly for me that episode in Pokémon where Sabrina wipes the floor with Ash using her Kadabra and turns his mates into dolls. That was oddly creepy as it's like one of the 1st time Ash gets stomped so badly and the consequence of losing was wow 😳

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TheAngryNaterpillar@reddit

Was surprised to have to scroll down so far for Courage the Cowardly Dog. The return the slab episode was pure nightmare fuel, and the Freaky Fred one too. Even as an adult Freaky Fred creeps me out.

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agent-moose@reddit

I don’t know why but the alien chicken episode gave me the creeps lmao

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mootallica@reddit

I can't believe I scrolled this far to find a mention of Freaky Fred. "Naaaauuuuuughtyyyyyyyy...."

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ChocolateSpreadToast@reddit

I was / am too much of a wuss to watch Courage the Cowardly Dog, it just creeps me out, so will have to take your word for it. But I’m with you 100% on that Pokémon episode!

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Alarming_Lobster3766@reddit

I came hunting specifically for a comment with that courage episode! I'm 30 and that shit still doesn't sit right with me today.

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missly_@reddit

Yeah, but what about the giant head in the basement?? Others I remember too well are the creepy giant fly licking door knobs and the fox with the vacuum lol. Thanks to this cartoon I love creepy stuff

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Calone@reddit

I was 7 when I saw that damn episode but the one that’s deep in my mind is the one with the Hotel and the spiders. It’s what got me to fear spiders.

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ethicalviolence@reddit

Knew King Ramses would be here. Watched this as an adult, still unsettling af.

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Psychological-Web828@reddit

Courage - The mattress salesman episode

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CompetitiveServe1385@reddit

The full episode is actually quite funny as its a parody of The Exorcist.

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threeca@reddit

I was going to just reply to this post “retuuuurnnn the slaaaabbbbb” with no context but you already explained. Scariest shit I ever saw as a kid! Watched it a few years ago and it was still horrifying haha

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NullandVoidUsername@reddit

I came here to say Courage the Cowardly Dog, the Waremole and the Demon Mattress episodes are ones that come to mind, they were scary as fuck I dunno why I put myself through it every week.

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ifigrowup@reddit

An episode of power puff girls, where the devil was taking a bath or something and being mega sexual. It made me feel so uncomfortable , even though I didn't understand why at the time.

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L_Gray71@reddit

The episode of the original Scooby Doo where it looks as though a ghost is making people age rapidly

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Training_Pick4541@reddit

There was an episode of grizzly tales for gruesome kids that shit me up. This guy had a wooden coat that turned children into wooden ventriloquist dolls. Was fucking terrifying

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GCooperE@reddit

The grizzly tales ep that got in my head was The Pie Man.

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Laurenamy_p@reddit

Starting to think i was a weird child, scrolling down and all of these are my favourite especially this one

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Tompkins-275@reddit (OP)

This actually rings a bell. Seriously, what are these producers thinking

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Apprehensive_Cow_553@reddit

I was only about 4 so there is still a chance I was misremembering but I’m sure there was an episode of Teabag where they go to Draculas castle and it genuinely terrified me to the extent I would sleep with my duvet wrapped around my neck. I still do out of habit. I don’t think anything from my childhood has had more of a lasting effect on me.

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Pretending-to-work89@reddit

Are you afraid of the dark scared the shit out of me, my brother was once babysitting me and he went out with his friends for an hour while i watched TV, I got so scared i rang the police!

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IsItTho1983@reddit

Oh it was the boy that froze to death in the log that did it for me. "I'm cold" Haunting Clarissa Explains It All I mean....he literally died of the cold & just wanted his wee red jumper to help keep him warm:( Spent the longest time suspiciously walking past fallen logs in woods or driftwood on the beach & checking footprints didn't come for me in the snow (lived very rurally).

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PeculiarBaguette@reddit

Yes ! That episode was plain awful. Sad and terrifying,

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Monkey_shine1@reddit

I can hear his voice say "I'm cold" every time I think it myself. Haunting

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Pretending-to-work89@reddit

It was along the lines of - Help my brothers left me at home on my own and I don’t know where he is and I’m scared. They were round at the house within the hour, wouldn’t get that response these days

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christopia86@reddit

The into to Are You Afraid of the Dark was just distilled dread.

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DannyS2810@reddit

This is mine too! There’s an episode with people with no faces. Still freaks me out now

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Ok_Okra4730@reddit

The one with the mummy that came to life or the hand coming out from under the bed and grabbing his foot….. still to this day think of both vividly

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Monkey_shine1@reddit

Omg I need more info! What did you say to the police? Did they come to your house? Did your brother and parents find out?

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Kibbled_Onion@reddit

'the tale of the dream girl' really got to me emotionally and apparently inspired M knight Shyamalan to write the sixth sense. Basically this guy wakes up and starts being ignored by everyone apart from his sister and some mysterious girl. Now if I'm blanked by anyone I think of this episode and start thinking maybe I'm a ghost.

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Lumpy_Flight3088@reddit

The Tale of the Dead Man’s Float 🔥

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Kibbled_Onion@reddit

This, it's been about 25 years and I'm still uncomfortable in water.

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SelectTrash@reddit

I loved them but the headless horseman one I think was my favourite

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lemongem@reddit

I was thinking of this programme! There was one episode where they were in like a secret building, or something, and the people had no faces, do you remember it? It really freaked me out at the time!

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Lumpy_Flight3088@reddit

Also, the episode where the kid steals the clowns nose at the fun fair and it follows him home to take it back.

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USS_Barack_Obama@reddit

The Dollhouse episode did it for me

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Komalandorinha@reddit

I was looking to see if anyone named this one

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Pretending-to-work89@reddit

I can’t remember much of the programme but I definitely remember a dolls house!

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VajazzleFraggle@reddit

The episode with the girl with no face scared the shit out of me. The final straw was one with a jester or a clown coming out of a comic or something. My mum banned me from watching it after that.

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Upbeat-Antelope86@reddit

I remember being rooted to the spot watching one about two girls being in a carnival and having to choose a door so a clown didn't get them. Watched it back so years later and it was really silly.

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Apart-Fisherman-7378@reddit

Which episode - ghost child in the mirror and aliens on top floor of building were both bad!

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moigabriel@reddit

Ghost-mirror-child is definitely the scariest episode. My eleven year old, who i introduced the show to, agrees.

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raggydoll7063@reddit

Haha aw no it was a really creepy show for kids but I loved it (probably not alone in the house though). What happened and did your brother get in to trouble for leaving you?

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Pretending-to-work89@reddit

He came home and I told him what happened, he put me to bed and the police turned up to see if I was ok, we never told my parents!

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raggydoll7063@reddit

Ha that story made me laugh, I don't think I'd have been able to keep that one quiet after all these years!

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Much_Ad7354@reddit

The Ghostbusters animation, the episode with The Bogeyman, warped my mind.

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rycbar99@reddit

Goosebumps. People were being turned into gnomes and I was TERRIFIED for weeks.

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ExcellentPut191@reddit

Demon Headmaster, the episode where the AI computer machine drained the brain / soul out of someone and then they're just this shell of a person slumped against a wall. I really wish I could remember the episode. Also the episode with the enormous wasps, at least I think that was the same show..

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Prometheus_1557@reddit

The ghost train episode from Thomas the tank engine. Gave me night sweats

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MyNewAccountx3@reddit

There’s two for me. An episode of round the twist I commented on in that thread but also an episode of sooty and sweep where there was an evil ‘sooty’ who had a green crystal and wanted to kill sooty, that haunts my memories.

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amy_jane_m@reddit

I remember a villain with some sort of green liquid that could somehow drain the minds of Sooty and friends?

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MyNewAccountx3@reddit

That’s probably it!

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amy_jane_m@reddit

I just remember it being a human villain though, not another Sooty.

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GuacamoleTexMex@reddit

I know is not a tv show but Don’t look under the bed. Took me years to even attempt the re-watch it as an adult and really traumatised me as a child

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Meauxlala@reddit

The Sarah Jane Adventures had a 2 parter episode that was basically IT. A clown appears and kidnaps children after following them around. Terrified me. Even my dad at the time thought it was scary for a kids show.

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katy_07@reddit

The bear and the lion from teletubbies.

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Iron-mum@reddit

The animal parade always creeped me out

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Kichai_C@reddit

The animal parade was my favourite! It's the only episode I remember 😂

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Manaslu91@reddit

100% - that is a deep, deep memory for me.

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CenturioVulpes@reddit

Haven’t seen that for ~15 years, yet I can still hear the music…

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AllRedLine@reddit

+1. Was shit scared by that as a kid. Only found out like a year ago that it was subject of a 'big' controversy at the time and had to be re-edited to not be so scary. There's even articles written about it, studying the impact it had and exploring how good an example of the 'uncanny valley' it supposedly is. For years i thought it was just me.

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Fumb-MotherDucker@reddit

It's the eyes

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Digital-Dinosaur@reddit

[found an article!](https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/19488218/teletubbies-scen-terrifying-banned-around-world-revealed/)

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BansheeTheeSuccubus@reddit

That was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title / question lol!

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ddbbaarrtt@reddit

Jesus Christ, I’d forgotten about that. I remember one of my cousins watching that episode and thinking it was the creepiest thing in the world

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ramblingzebra@reddit

I watched Teletubbies a lot as a kid but I do not remember this. Maybe if I saw it I would, I might have repressed it.

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stickypoodle@reddit

This was torture, I remember being terrified and obsessed with it, it is the only episode that sticks in my mind from the teletubbies! I’ve told people about it and they think I’m the weirdo, I’m glad it’s not just me

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Jakeness64@reddit

Came here for this! Told some mates about this during college around 10 years ago and they loaded it up on the computers to freak me out. Mission successful.

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Digital-Dinosaur@reddit

I had repressed this so hard until my kids were watching OG teletubbies about a month ago. Brought out layers of fear that I had forgotten about decades ago

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0inke@reddit

oh my god. I've told my friends about this and they all looked at me as if I drank looney juice. glad to see I'm not the only one haha

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Nataleia@reddit

I even reminded my mum of this (I'm almost 30) and she knew what I was talking about and got unnerved.

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SheppJM96@reddit

For me it was that singing boy in the pink house. I used to love the Teletubbies but was terrified through every episode that he would turn up!

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Guacamole_Water@reddit

Little freak chatting pure chicken

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T5-R@reddit

https://youtu.be/YFLFU0K_KfA The Magic House. My son was terrified of him too.

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space_coyote_86@reddit

I'm the bear, I'm the bear, with brown fuzzy hair

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LlamaDrama007@reddit

And I'm coming!

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NoochNymph@reddit

I am the scary lion. With big scary teeth. I’m scary on the top… and I’m scary underneath!

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31773@reddit

Fucking stop it you two

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Flashy-Preparation18@reddit

Same but also that tap dancing gold bear in that merry go round thing(?) terrified me too, they would have it at the end of an episode sometimes and it’s facial expression was fixed which is why I think it freaked me out so much lol

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T5-R@reddit

My young son was terrified of this one sketch in Teletubbies. It was like this hand puppet clown doll thing. Reminded me of a traditional Mr Punch. It wandered around the house making these babbling, gibbering noises until it found a window to open and then opened it to sing this awful noise. Jurassic Park, Monsters Inc, etc. Nothing like that scarf him, but that clown thing, he screamed.

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brutalistcheese@reddit

Glad I wasn't the only one who was scared - thought I was losing my mind - I only found out a year or so ago it was a big thing and had to be taken off air. Everyone thought I was weird for being scared of Teletubbies. I still love Po though.

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Emergency-Bowler-546@reddit

I had nightmares for ages over it and used to run from the room screaming if it came on TV.

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transphobean@reddit

One of my earliest memories is being curled up and crying while it was on the TV.

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LeftConsideration919@reddit

There was an episode of dr who where if this rain/snow touched you you grew old instantly. Scared the fuck out of me at the time.

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WolfColaCo2020@reddit

There was a Bernard's Watch episode once where he was in the house whilst it was being burgled. Scared the ever loving fuck out of me as a kid that there was a chance one day you could be home alone and a burglar could come into the house. No idea why the writers ever thought it was a good idea to show kids.

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Ethan_Brick@reddit

Either the episode of Pingu with the walrus, or that episode where he's on a bridge and it breaks and he falls into an icy lake and when they get him out he's just stuck in a big block of ice

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Ethan_Brick@reddit

[Horrifying ](https://ibb.co/179q6DV)

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massie_le@reddit

Ghost Watch That was terrifying and still plays on my mind

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RiriTomoron@reddit

Ah, the one that made a poor kid kill himself. I remember watching that. That was a poorly judged affair and no mistake.

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mootallica@reddit

lol and I guess the Judas Priest album that "told kids to kill themselves" should never have been released either? Also, how on earth can a TV show "make" someone kill themselves?

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RiriTomoron@reddit

I take it you weren't around at the time then. It wasn't some idiotic censorship thing, it was about presenting a ghost story like the truth. [Here's an article](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41740176)

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mootallica@reddit

I'm aware it happened, but the idea that the show "made" them do it is frankly ludicrous. There's more than one person in the world with learning difficulties, and there's more than one potentially traumatic horror mockumentary in the world too. It's tragic that it happened, but literally any art or media has the potential to "inspire" things like this, even if it doesn't make sense that it would.

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RiriTomoron@reddit

Did you read the article? If you weren't around then, you may not appreciate the very different context of the early 90s. People's relationships with media was completely different to how it is now. Ghost Watch was a misstep because the producers underestimated the extent to which people would extrapolate from context (the presenters, the show format) that this was real. It was a 'War of the Worlds' radio play scenario. It wouldn't happen now because people are more media aware. They're exposed to immeasurably more media these days and are more discerning. But there was a time when this wasn't the case, and the transition between those two states had its victims, including the people who were fooled by Ghost Watch. People can watch the media they want within the legal limits, I have never suggested anything to the contrary. I do, however, feel that the Ghost Watch case highlights the responsibility broadcasters have to viewers to show programmes that meet their expectations. If something looks like a current affairs programme, is broadcast on a news channel and has news presenters you recognise on, you expect the information you are being told to be true. That's the trust that was betrayed in Ghost Watch and the problem that made it a bad idea.

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mootallica@reddit

Mate, I am in my 30's, I remember the whole thing including the tragedy. I have watched as our relationship to media has developed. This is a similar scenario to the one that landed Judas Priest in court. You can't account for how every single person who may interact with a piece will react. That's counter-intuitive to the whole point of art/media.

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moleymoley2@reddit

Christ, I was ten, scared the life out of me. Had to cut it short and go to bed. Don’t think they realised quite the effect it would have!!!

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parttimepedant@reddit

Fantastic television. Scared the shit out of 13yr old me. Did they ever find Sarah Greene?

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

I have the whole thing on DVD. Pipes the ghost is still freaky to this day. He randomly appears in the background from time to time with half his face missing.

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Miterdale@reddit

Tales of the unexpected. It was an episode where the ending was of a person that somehow managed to be buried alive in a coffin, and they were knocking on the inside of the coffin. Just thinking about It still sends shivers up my spine. I'd love to know what the episode was called. If anyone knows, please comment with the name of the episode.

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tafkas001@reddit

Are you sure it wasn't Alfred Hitchcock presents? There was one where someone in prison made a deal with the person who buried dead prisoners, that they would get in the coffin with the corpse to escape and the undertaker (or whatever they were) would come and dig them up later. They are waiting underground for ages, then light a match and see that the corpse belongs to the undertaker who was going to dig them up

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Miterdale@reddit

I'll check out your idea, but I'm pretty certain it was TofTU because of the theme tune at the end with the fire and dancing woman.

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KirkyLaddie@reddit

Honestly there are many Dr Who episodes that could fill this spot. Blink left an impression on me but so did Parting of the Ways, The Impossible Planet, Tooth and Claw, Silence In the Library/Forest of the Dead, the Waters of Mars, and others. On a semi-related there was also one astronomy documentary that I watched when I was a kid. I can't remember the name but it had a part where they tried to show the viewer how tiny they were on the cosmic scale and that had an affect on me.

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microdotsleeve@reddit

Pingu’s Nightmare. Woke up in the night screaming as the evil walrus had, of course, infiltrated my dreams too. Sinister stuff.

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Fantastic-Spare-515@reddit

I just watched it on YouTube (https://youtu.be/VubYvadBOFc). Flipping terrifying as an adult, can see why they banned it!!

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Pretty_Level6786@reddit

Haha I think that ep was actually banned! Terrifying

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microdotsleeve@reddit

Yes, as I was writing I recalled seeing a Guardian article saying just that!

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Merlinblack89@reddit

Are you afraid of the dark on Nickelodeon. One with a burnt face firefighter ghost was scary as shit 🔥

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CCGamesSteve@reddit

*balaclava

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Merlinblack89@reddit

Lol thanks only been saying it wrong 30years

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Tompkins-275@reddit (OP)

I swear a lot of children’s books and shows are just fever dreams

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Ok_Kitchen_4208@reddit

The treehouse of horror episode of the Simpsons where the dinner ladies blend the children up and serve the meat in the canteen. Had nightmares for months...

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James_Connery007@reddit

Isn’t there a little Üter in all of us?

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Rumptiddliey@reddit

Look and Read's 'Through the dragon's eye' had a fucking terrifying baddie in it called Charm with a giant bird's skull for a head and he killed some of the characters by melting them. This was a series to teach literacy to junior school kids! Also, Terrahawks in general was scary. Old androids etc? Brilliant but frightening to 7 year old me

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GunstarHeroine@reddit

Charn absolutely fucked me up back in the day. The way he turned the characters into puddles of goo. I looked it up on YouTube recently and the costume is genuinely horrifying. Tattered black rags and bits of mouldy skeleton and the fucking bird skull head. When I actually watched it again though, the guy in the suit was way more camp than I remembered. That helped exorcise a few childhood demons.

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James_Connery007@reddit

Yeh it’s so camp watching clips now. But back then it was genuinely horrifying

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amy_jane_m@reddit

I think he was Charn, not Charm. I *may* also have been secretly hoping he'd win, so that I could see if the Veetacore changed colour when he used it for evil.

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dblmr@reddit

Charm was my first thought. Forced to watch this in primary school and can still see him when I close my eyes.

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NatTheGooner@reddit

I remember a Look and Read Halloween episode with the bastard Pumpkin on a stick. His eyes lit up when he spoke and he hopped around the farmyard scaring all the animals. He tried scaring a cow but the cow didn’t give a toss and just ate him alive.

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elfranko13@reddit

Doctor Who (Tennant era) when they get stuck on a planet orbiting a black hole, and a bunch of the scientists based there (and their poor ood slaves ☹️) get possessed by/murdered by SATAN, with one of his victims being sucked out of the air-lock. Will never be able to un-see the scary ancient symbols that covered the face of the first guy he possesses.

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James_Connery007@reddit

It’s the music too! So aggressively scary!

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IsGrace90@reddit

That Thomas the Tank Engine episode where the train gets bricked up in a tunnel…

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MythicThicket@reddit

Diesel used to scare me!

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Fantastic-Spare-515@reddit

Coughs and sneezles spread diseasles is a saying that is still uttered frequently in my family. I used to find Daisy pretty scary. She wasn’t meant to be I don’t think but there was just something kind of creepy about her.

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christopia86@reddit

Me too, would dive behind to setee whenever he was on screen. Proper radge cunt he was.

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MyNewAccountx3@reddit

My younger brother is 15 years younger than me and I used to watch Thomas with him and i got him to call Diesel a nasty pasty - completely forgot about that!

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PillarofSheffield@reddit

I wouldn't go as far as saying he *deserved* it, but he *was* being a full weight cunt.

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HarlequinKing1406@reddit

Nah, that one was child's play. Now, the episode where Stepney gets lost in the fog, winds up at the scrapyard and almost gets murdered by two diesels pushing him under a grabber that wasn't shut off until the last second... that was the stuff of nightmares.

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Shack691@reddit

Well you'll be glad to know he's freed a few seasons later

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HarlequinKing1406@reddit

The next episode, in fact.

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Shadow_Demon999@reddit

They did Henry dirty in that episode.

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prozacdahlia@reddit

Omg I just posted this!!! I thought I was the only one!!!! 😭😭

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CCGamesSteve@reddit

There was an episode with a ghost train that scared the shit out of me. It didnt help that we had a train track running behind our house.

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progressgang@reddit

Bricked up 😳

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witchestoscarebairns@reddit

Basically Edgar Allen Poe to terrify kids. There was another one where the naughty trucks egged James on to go too fast until sparks started coming out from under him. Any time I was on a train as a kid I spent it glued to the window trying to see down to check everything was okay

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Obvious-Cold-2915@reddit

100% stuff of nightmares.

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Fumb-MotherDucker@reddit

The only acceptable 90s kid answer... The fucking Moomins

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shortbread85@reddit

The episode with the bloodbender in the Avatar: The Legend of Aang. Suddenly people were being marched uphill to dungeons. It freaked me the fuck out.

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precious_times_205@reddit

Not so much kids TV Show but if you were mad enough to stay up late enough to catch an episode of 999 with Michael Burke. Dear God. Especially the episode where a kid falls down a narrow crevice in the ground and gets wedged by his face about 30 foot down. Tunneled into the hill and used jackhammers right by his head to break up the rock around his face.

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Rica193@reddit

I remember the one where a girl got stuck in between a tiny gap between 2 houses and I've never felt so claustrophobic in my life lol

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precious_times_205@reddit

I have exactly the same gap between my house extension and the neighbour next door. Looking down it from ground level or above just makes me feel sick too!

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angelberries@reddit

Yes!!! That one where they went diving in caves and one kid came up from underwater in the wrong pocket of cave, got left behind and was rapidly running out of air THANKS FOR THE NIGHTMARES

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diddlybuds@reddit

I can still hear that theme tune!!

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free_spirit1901@reddit

The Boy From Space. Watched it at school and it terrified me.

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UnderTheSplottLight@reddit

Gosh watch with Sarah green. No one knew it was a false documentary, even though the acting was shite. I had to sleep with the lights on for a week! Still the scariest thing I’ve ever seen on TV

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Environmental_Run634@reddit

Grissly Tales for Gruesome Kids. Just pick any episode they were all terrifying.

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Off_You_Trot@reddit

What about the episode where the kids were turned into lasagne and the parents had it for dinner?

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

That show was here for half a second before it was taken off the air due to too many complaints and it was replaced with a second episode of Round the twist.

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Off_You_Trot@reddit

Um the show ran from 2000-2012 and had 8 series.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

I am in America and it was taken off our network not to be ever seen on that station again. I am glad it ran for that long after all.

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Off_You_Trot@reddit

I remember being scared as a kid when watching it. Probably why I dislike horror now 😂

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Dorgilo@reddit

I'd go for the one with the boy who gets run over by a combine harvester

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Stabbykarp@reddit

Or the lazy girl who is forced to go camping with her parents, stays in her sleeping bag and gets turned into a witchety grub

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hollyyy16@reddit

was about to comment this one! genuinely horrifying

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farmerbalmer93@reddit

Fuck that shit seen a boy inside a baler that is PTS fuel nevermind nightmare.

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mamacitalk@reddit

Just the opening sequence was bad enough

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immieisarevert@reddit

you’re right - I couldn’t sleep after watching this show

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newest-low@reddit

I used to love this show!

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cadburyshero@reddit

The one where a boy gets trapped inside a doll/puppet haunts me to this day

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Knight--Of--Ren@reddit

I loved that show. Feels like a fever dream especially with the mix of stop motion puppets in the intro and then childlike animation for the main story

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Striking-Life-704@reddit

The one where the kid got snatched by the toilet monster because they refused to flush afterwards. I remember flushing everytime after watching that one 😂

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TheTripReports@reddit

The one where the kid ate a chocolate Easter egg with a fly egg on it and she woke up the next day as a fly and her sister killed her with a flyswatter?? Not even that bad but that one is permanently engrained into my memory

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Rubber_jimmy@reddit

the dont rip books one was the worst one.

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Xiija@reddit

Is that the show where the kid killed a spider and then all her spider kids sought revenge crawling into his mouth whilst he slept? Scarred me for life that did.

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Environmental_Run634@reddit

Yep I believe thats the one. Every episode was like that lol.

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wotsitsarepleasing@reddit

I actually hated them when i was a kid. So unpleasant!

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KermodesMassiveHands@reddit

There's an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine where one of the trains gets bricked up behind a wall for decades. Just sat there, conscious, existing motionless in the dark. Absolutely terrifying.

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StoneRose89@reddit

If no-one else has mentioned this, Charn melting people in Through The Dragon's Eye.

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Silverdodger@reddit

100% the Spy Kids film where people were turned into horrible mutant trapped cartoon life like things. Arghhh

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miphink@reddit

The Queens Nose the spaghetti episode on the barge. I don’t know why, it’s not even scary, it just freaked me out because the spaghetti wouldn’t stop multiplying. Weird.

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MissLaCreevy@reddit

Going way back but I was very scared of the Singing Ringing Tree and Children of the Stones. Brilliant tv but utterly terrifying.

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allywillow@reddit

Knew these two had to be in here somewhere. Also Marianne Dreams (if anyone else remembers that) - gave me terrible nightmares

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MissLaCreevy@reddit

Yes, I vividly remember Marianne Dreams! Very creepy and scary.

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canibalbarca@reddit

Not a 'tv show' per se but a movie offshoot of one: Dougal and the Blue cat. Some of the scenes in the treacle were terrifying as a kid. Im not sure that movie wasn't the product of an acid trip on the part of its creators

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hannahhumphrey@reddit

Was it just me that was terrified of that nasty clay head on Art Attack?

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mootallica@reddit

Nope, I hated him too. I also hated how the camera would slowly approach him from the side of the room, just felt so unsettling and different from the rest of the show. But then I was also scared of the Count off Sesame Street so I think I was just a bit of a fanny :)

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

Probably, I thought it was a lot funnier than when they superimposed an actor's face onto an actual clay head originally.

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CorianderSuuucks@reddit

YES! Holy shit that thing was terrifying!!

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Popular_Mortgage6893@reddit

courage the cowardly dog was straight nightmare fuel for me

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CautiousAmount@reddit

It's not an episode, but a school show I saw during class, that had an old woman weeping on the TV. OK, found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J27Vlwauao0

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TheNoGnome@reddit

Doctor Who Two Parter "The Empty Child" was a bad one. The gas mask clad children wandering through the London Blitz, turning people into them. A knock at the door. "Are you my Mummy?".

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1v1mecoconutmall@reddit

I watched this for the first time aged 18 and was unsettled by it lol, very effective

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Silent_Palpatine@reddit

There was a great call back in season 3 where the doctor and Martha have to put gas masks on and he says “Are you my mummy?” And she’s just like “what are you talking about?”

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jimbobhas@reddit

The transformation of the doctor where the gasmask comes out his mouth

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jimjim54@reddit

i loved the ending to that episode

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Glum-Gap3316@reddit

EVERYBODY LIVES!!!!

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MycologistWitty4213@reddit

Our teacher put this on for us when we were in year 6 and it absolutely terrified me!!

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rhwoof@reddit

Doctor who the library episode.

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Emotional_Shop_8110@reddit

Donna Noble has left the library

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lizzie55555@reddit

Donna Noble has been saved.

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Dazza477@reddit

Hey, who turned out the lights?

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jewelsandbones@reddit

Okay honestly I still count my shadow especially when I’m walking alone at night

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bitterbenjiEXX@reddit

Absolutely that shit horrified me for years. Slept with the light on to avoid shadows

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iltwomynazi@reddit

Return the slab!!

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LiteratureUpper28@reddit

This episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog: https://youtu.be/_J4NdAuRnIc also not a tv show but has anyone seen RETURN TO OZ....terrifying

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loxcy__@reddit

Me Burns as that weird alien thing

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TheTallGuy92@reddit

‘Awww it’s Mr. Burns…… KILL IT!!!!!!!!’

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JPr1me@reddit

But he's bringing you love...

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Brite1978@reddit

Any episode of terrahawks as they all had zelda in them

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-FangMcFrost-@reddit

There was an episode of The Rugrats where Angelica had a nightmare about having a little brother who was this giant creepy looking baby that had a man's voice and he would chase Angelica around her house which was in darkness and eventually, he found her and ate her. That whole nightmare part of the episode really freaked me out as a kid.

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beardymo@reddit

There was one episode of Rugrats where Tommy was dreaming and every time someone turned round they had a super long nose. It was really freaky and creeped me out.

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-FangMcFrost-@reddit

# I'M NOT STU!

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electric--eskimo@reddit

Worzel Gummage was the stuff of nightmares. And Watership Down (a film, I know) was terrifying.

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bushy5000@reddit

Had legitimate nightmares about the Doctor Who episode “The Waters of Mars” - if you haven’t seen it google the title and you’ll see exactly why

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AbhorrantApparition@reddit

Dunno about a kids show but I find sleep for a week when " 28 days later" came out. I was 10.

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Woodlandlad@reddit

I know it's not a kids show but Sapphire and Steel used to scare the heck out of me! Showing my age now, I know!

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Crafty-Gardener@reddit

Not a single episode. But tv show The Riddlers absolutely scared the crap out of me as a kid. I'm 36 and the creepy puppets still give me the heebie jeebies.

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elpoppet@reddit

YES! Sometimes they appear in my dreams, just sitting on a swing in the background of whatever I’m dreaming about. They’ve haunted me for 30+ years now.

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peach_clouds@reddit

My whole family knew I was (and still am!) terrified of anything that is supposed to look human-ish but isn’t, so that includes things like china dolls, puppets, wax works, mannequins etc. Some bright spark thought it was a brilliant idea to buy me The Riddlers on vhs and forced me to watch it; slept in my parents bed for weeks after that one. Over 20 years later I still get the creeps over them ugly bastards.

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wooquay@reddit

Theme tune was a banger tho

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MythicThicket@reddit

I am also 36 and was also terrified of those puppets! Hideous. Barely anyone seems to remember them. Still hate puppets!

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Practical_Swim3975@reddit

So scary! Me and my sister were banned from watch it after walking up with nightmares a few times.

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KC19771984@reddit

I was too old for the riddlers but I also thought those puppets were fucking scary....

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Very-Much-So@reddit

The Riddlers was just wrong.

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Mundane_Nobody_6102@reddit

There was an episode of the powerpuff girls where the entire town turned into zombies and they all wanted to kill the powerpuff girls. Terrifying for a child.

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International-Aioli2@reddit

bLAKE'S sEVEN SCARED THE SHIT OUTTA ME. tHERE WAS an episode with a TATTOO THAT WOULD move from person to person and cause them to be evil. Made me hide behind the sofa

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Leasey615@reddit

Wizbit. No particular moment or episode. Just the whole thing.

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Feisty_Afternoon7616@reddit

Mr Blobby. All of it.

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Romana_Jane@reddit

Doctor Who: Brain of Morbius and/ending of one episode of The Leisure Hive. I have trauma, phobia, and nightmares to this day over a certain aspect, nearly 50 years on! Scooby Doo did scare me as a little kid too, this was the utterly original version from 1969 when first shown in the UK in about 1971, when I was about 4 or 5?

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coolSnipesMore@reddit

THE. SLOW. NORRIS.

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djmom2001@reddit

My daughter ran behind a chair every time Mr. Noodle appeared in Sesame Street.

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coolSnipesMore@reddit

Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask one

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TyphoonCheese@reddit

The Tugs ghost ship episode. Unnerving!

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amy_jane_m@reddit

I remember being scared by one with a couple of "gangster" tugboats meeting a scared boat in a warehouse at dead of night.

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valentich_@reddit

Through the Dragons Eye, in general. Looking back at it, that series was fucked.

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amy_jane_m@reddit

Come on, it was great fun!

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Paulstan67@reddit

Not TV, but it was on TV, the absolutely terrifying CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.

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djmom2001@reddit

Terrifying.

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MyNewAccountx3@reddit

Who wasn’t disturbed by this as a child! When I first saw it I was too young to understand that characters couldn’t come out the TV when my mum said if I didn’t behave he’d come and get me and my brother. Still don’t like the film now.

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

I didn't see the film until a few months ago and honestly, the whole thing just seemed so stupid and comically bad.

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KC19771984@reddit

Christ. The childcatcher. NOOOOOO!!!!!

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sallyg2411@reddit

Jeopardy on Cbbc

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Rica193@reddit

Bro this used to terrify me and no one ever remembers it 🤣

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rarkul@reddit

Nightmare fuel with the red eyes and disappearing

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mamacitalk@reddit

This unlocked memories I didn’t know I had

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Tropicaljet_9@reddit

I'm not sure I ever saw the last series, what happened in the end?

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CannonLongshot@reddit

They made a whole bunch of endings, I know that much. I think there was time travel?

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emjayl16@reddit

This has just awakened a memory in my brain. Is this the TV show where a bunch of friends are in a forest and there’s loads of strange things happening and it turns out to be aliens? If so, I vividly remember turning the TV off halfway through an episode because I was so scared.

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LaceAndLavatera@reddit

No particular episode, but the character Charn from Through the Dragon's Eye was pretty creepy.

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amy_jane_m@reddit

"Power of evil... bring **DEATH** to Pelamar!"

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GunstarHeroine@reddit

[Just look at the thumbnail of him on YouTube!](https://youtu.be/Uz1pGlydYs0) Nightmare fuel.

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likes2milk@reddit

Dr Who - any with Cybermen. Was OK with Darleks

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amy_jane_m@reddit

Yeah, the black-and-white Cyberman serials were WAY scarier than the colour ones. The Cybermen were seriously competent in *Wheel in Space*, then completely laughable when they showed up again in the Tom Baker era. And don't get me started on Ace killing them with a slingshot!

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jimjim54@reddit

daleks never scared me on tv but for some reason seeing the moving talking props at exhibitions scared the shit out of me

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tropicnights@reddit

There was a two-part Alice in Wonderland, circa 1990. The first part ended with the arrival of the Jabberwocky - that thing terrified me so much I made my dad put the tapes in the attic.

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lordrothermere@reddit

The Waltons episode with the poltergeist. A bit like an Alex Cox moment

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Demonthief27@reddit

Goosebumps- fuck slappy

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veganbaker2018@reddit

Worzel Gummage /Crow man surely! And Emu was pretty terrifying tbf

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kittycatt99@reddit

Watership Down I still have nightmares about the barbed wire scene

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SPOSKNT@reddit

Anything episode of the tellytubbies

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ashthechache@reddit

code name kids next door - the apple crumble episode all of Mr. Meaty

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Vusarix@reddit

Pretty much any episode of The Trap Door could qualify, but the one where Berk shoves a bunch of rubbish down the trap door and a boatload of ghosts come up to jumpscare him was the one that got me the most

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Yolandi2802@reddit

My kids are in their late thirties/mid forties and they still talk about the Trap Door.

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Vusarix@reddit

I'm 19, I only saw it because my dad (who's 48) watched it as a kid. I'm currently not planning on having kids but if I do it's one of those things like The Dark Crystal where I will pass the nightmares down another generation because it's honestly kinda great

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

I'm 39 and still want a full-sized Skeksis puppet/statue. Love them.

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Vusarix@reddit

The Chamberlain is iconic *mmmmmmmmm*

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

"I hate your constant whine!"

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elpoppet@reddit

Awesome theme tune, though.

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beardie180@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog - Return the slab still gives me nightmares

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Womble4@reddit

I remember one from the 80s. Some kids had a magic thing. Can’t remember what it was. In this episode, they put a play on but then noticed it was dull without an audience so that made people to watch. Some kid stupidly wished they were all alive and the audience of weird puppets came alive. Wish I would remember the show. I’d watch it again. UK 1980s.

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glossaam@reddit

A lot of goosebump episodes….

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AnExcitingSentence@reddit

That episode of Come Outside where Auntie Mable accidentally locks herself in the cupboard while a fire starts in her kitchen, that was legitimately horrifying for my tiny mind.

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suyeons_satsuma@reddit

Holy fuck I was scrolling for this one. Genuinely thought it would be just me, couldn’t watch it for weeks after this episode came on. This was up there with the gas mask episode of Dr Who, I think due to the realism of it.

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AnyScallion7@reddit

That was legitimately terrifying, it's engraved into my memories

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strattad@reddit

For me it was the one where she lost Pippin at the brickworks, the way it was done convinced you that Pippin had been killed by a digger 😔

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notapingpongball@reddit

Dr who, the gas mask episode ☠️

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mamacitalk@reddit

I’m glad I’ve seen so many comments for this one because it genuinely scared the shit out of me as a kid

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suyeons_satsuma@reddit

Me too, I only saw a split second of it and I actually screamed im sure. Horrific stuff, couldn’t even watch it now.

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cmdrxander@reddit

Are you my mummy?

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CookieDoughFeatures@reddit

I cannot tell you what the hell this even was but years ago me and my sister were searching through an old VHS for something we wanted to watch that had been recorded off the TV...between the white noise a very creepy pale looking cartoon came on of these tiny colourful cartoon birds, one not yet being able to fly.... the childlike manner of this cartoon was very cute, UNTIL this bird suddenly pecks a heron to death and steals its wings so it could fly! Horrifying is putting it lightly. I have been haunted for life!

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Silent_Palpatine@reddit

A Halloween episode of Punky Brewster where they were lost in a cave and the kids faces started appearing in the walls. Terrified me that did.

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PedanticRedhead@reddit

'Bad Spark' from season 2 of Beast Wars. Introduction of Rampage, in a very horror-esque manner. Dark lighting, ominous music throughout, and a tense build up to the character reveal (including silently but not silently taking out an mutilating a character, in a pg robots-can-be-put-back-together kind of way), where he turned out to be an enormous terrifying brute with Hannibal Lecter / Jason Voorhees / axe murderer / psychopath vibes. Scared the hell out of 8yo me!

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scotchlondon@reddit

Terrahawks used to really scare me when I was wee.

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

One of them is still working, playing Shirley in Eastenders.

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crackernibbles@reddit

Telletubbies - The Lion and the Bear

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awkwardly-british@reddit

The Sarah Jane Adventures - The Day of the Clown It was literally "It" for kids. Cheers, Bradley Walsh, for the most terrifying Pied Piper/Clown ever.

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adam_demamps_wingman@reddit

The energy monster screaming at the hanging light bulb on Jonny Quest.

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ConfidentialX@reddit

Scooby Doo 'Zomba', the pink woman was scary af

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Amy_co106@reddit

An episode of Thomas the tank engine where one of the trains was bricked up inside a tunnel

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swallowyoursadness@reddit

There was an episode of goosebumps with a green goblin that came out of a comic book. I wouldn't go upstairs on my own for a while after that

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enigmafriday@reddit

I don't remember it actually happening in an episode, but the opening credits where the dog gets evil yellow eyes terrified me.

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Mikey637@reddit

Not a single episode scared me but I always had to shut my eyes and cover my ears for the intro, music was creepy and that dog terrified me

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mandvanwyk@reddit

Older here- Sapphire and Steel episode i think- faceless man? I still get dreams of faceless people 😭

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MessiahOfMetal@reddit

A friend of mine is still terrified by the main villain from Through The Dragon's Eye but I genuinely can't think of anything, myself. I can remember being terrified of TV and films I probably shouldn't have seen as a child (a woman giving birth to an alien/lizard hybrid in the original V series in the 80s, the Beetlejuice scene where he turns into a giant snake, for example), but not children's shows.

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prozacdahlia@reddit

There was a Thomas the Tank Engine episode called ‘The sad story of Henry’ - ugh. Nothing obviously scary is happening but the vibe of the episode as they brick up a tunnel to punish and trap Henry in it feels so wrong and sinister. Still gives me weird vibes now. Maybe it’s just me? I was a big Thomas fan as a little girl. The OG Thomas haha so maybe it’s the old style/weird sound effects and music, but it’s stuck with me this whole time lol. Link for those curious : https://youtu.be/iO6qIM2WO6k

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HiradC@reddit

The tupperware episode of eerie indiana

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Shadow_Demon999@reddit

There was an episode of the Demon Headmaster where there was a giant wasp in a basement or lab or something. My primary school self shat himself and cried in the toilets.

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Pretending-to-work89@reddit

Demon headmaster scared the shit out of me too, I think it was the last episode of season 2 and they were breaking into his office, it gave me mega anxiety.

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Chance_Minute_6555@reddit

Scary, but I always wondered what OFSTED result the school got?

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Lana_Del_Roy@reddit

Holy shit this was the first thing I thought of when I read the question. Glad it wasn't just me who got freaked out by that!

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CorianderSuuucks@reddit

Same. Tbh the whole show scared the bejeebus out of me.

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Kamrusepia@reddit

Isn’t there a giant wasp in Dr who?

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Grapefruit_Prize@reddit

I used to get nervous seeing Jack Straw on the TV because he looked so much like Demon Headmaster!

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EdwardSpaghettiHands@reddit

Jacob Rees-Mogg gives me SUCH strong Demon Headmaster vibes (even though I agree Jack Straw actually looks more like him)

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anne_doesnt_work@reddit

That Halloween episode of Spongebob. The end with the Brian always scared me as a kid

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cloudstrifeuk@reddit

Not a TV show, but a film. Can we all remember that Arachnophobia was a PG "Family fun comedy" film.

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oneinemilyon@reddit

Spooks of Bottle Bay - anything with Sybil Sludge in it. She was the main character in several recurring nightmares I still remember today.

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elijahdmmt@reddit

there was a few episodes of sarah jane adventures that spooked me. there was a haunted house one that freaked me the fuck out and when her friend falls off a pier when they were young.

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ambominablesnowdrop@reddit

Animals of Farthing Wood. Most episodes were terrifying, but the one with the bird that catches the mice and stabs them into the thorn bush still haunts my nightmares 30 years on

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mxmoffed@reddit

I only recently learned that shrikes actually do that, and I'm still unsettled by it.

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Manaslu91@reddit

The shrike! Horrible.

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k3wi33@reddit

I didn't realise this was a TV series , used to love he books as a kid

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3Cogs@reddit

Every time the puppet Lamb Chops was on TV. It had evil looking eyes, genuinely scary for preschool me.

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Calone@reddit

Have you not seen Courage the cowardly dog?

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Dan_Glebitz@reddit

I think you would have to go a long way to beat this: https://youtu.be/Ntf5_ue2Lzw

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sythingtackle@reddit

Mogdred in early episodes of Knightmare, only eight teams managed to win the game over its eight series (87-94)

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Dark-Makaria@reddit

80's kid here. '86 to be specific but if nobody says lumpy from grotbags then they're insane. Damn thing was horrific. Looked like sick with eyes. Genuinely had toys between me and the edge of the bed to stop it from coming to get me at night! https://youtu.be/9owH37LyfLo Nothing now, damn thing is harmless as a 37 yr old but f**k a duck if it was nightmare inducing at a young age.

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Tarjhan@reddit

Chocky. The whole fucking show. Watch just the s1 titles on YouTube (it’s there I checked) and then remember this was a kids show.

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

Wasn’t it some spinning glowing orb thing? I was pretty young but it scared the shit out of me 😂

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Tarjhan@reddit

I vaguely remember Chocky presenting as a green/blue glowing blob, yes. Going by the dates of release I was 8 when it first aired. I don’t know if I caught it first time round or in a repeat showing but it’s certainly stuck with me. I remember very little about the show (Chocky mocking cars and a clay modelled tetrahedron are the only bits I could definitely reference) but that spook factor is still there. I’ll have to binge watch it all, see what it’s all about.

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

I think I was about 5, but I definitely remember it in a Saturday afternoon. There was a sequel called Chocky’s Children as well I think. Just in case they hadn’t scared enough generations haha.

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Tarjhan@reddit

Interesting, I was pretty sure it was a weekday thing. Perhaps a syndicated tv shows got different slots in different regions? (Chocky was produced by Thames whereas I was watching in the TVS region) that or one of us was seeing a re-run. Just scanning through the Wikipedia article. There were three of them, Chocky, Chocky’s Children and Chocky’s Challenge. I’m going to have to have a binge session….I wonder if a pointless bank holiday is coming up soon.

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CrazyBusTaker@reddit

Don’t forget “Chocky’s Giants” in which the titular entity possessed an entire kids football team. Footballs just a branch of science.

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

I think I had Thames and LWT but maybe I saw re-runs as I doubt I’d have remembered TV from when I was 5. Hahaha I think there’s a few!

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CrazyBusTaker@reddit

Was scrolling for this… the validation, not the link. No fucking way I’m clicking that.

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

Wasn’t it some spinning glowing orb thing? I was pretty young but it scared the shit out of me 😂

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

A friend suggested the program to me and yes it’s unsettling. I never was a fan of that scene in the Charlie and the chocolate factory about violet, there was later an episode of the Tomorrow people I recent discovered about the bubble skin suits which was ripping on the satin disco track suit trend that was all over the world in the late 70s early 80s and on further weird and more recent the fat reduction plan episode of Doctor who, I know it’s comedic but the special effects are not something to watch whilst eating just the same

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loki_dd@reddit

No. All I know is chocky = terror!

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EquivalentQuestion99@reddit

Yes, that program was creepy as fuck

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Aurora_delvene@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog - a night at the Katz motel

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WoodSteelStone@reddit

Pete's Dragon (1977 version). Pete (9yrs old)being chased by the hillbillies [singing how they wanted to tie him to railway tracks, saw him in half and burn him.](https://youtu.be/1rQchSZhl6k) Lyrics: Gonna stag him, gag him, drag him through town, put his head in the river, let the pup drown Trap him, strap him, wrap him in a sack, yeah Tie him screamin' to a railroad track... Gonna paw him, saw him in half, when he cries out for mercy, we'll just laugh Beat him, heat him, eat him for desert, yeah Roast him gently so the flames won't hurt, yeah Spread out! ...We're gonna string him from a tree In these hills We're gonna sting him like a bee In these hills We're gonna spill him on his head In these hills We're gonna fill him full of lead In these hills Then there's the bit where the doctor says he'll give Pete a pill to make his balls drop. And a song about chopping up the dragon and how they'll use all the pieces.

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elsimops@reddit

Trapped! scared the living daylights out of me because I, being an autistic kid who took everything literally, didn't realise that it was fake and that the kids didn't *really* end up trapped in the tower at the end of each episode Also not a TV show but Monsters Inc also really freaked me out lol

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jimbobhas@reddit

I used to think they got locked in the monkey temple if they failed on Jungle Run

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Effective_Ad_273@reddit

Lol I thought the same as a kid and I don’t have autism. Was the same for Raven. Like “wow I’d love to do this, but I don’t wanna die” 💀

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AnyScallion7@reddit

No for real I really thought they were sacrificing these kids to The Way of the Warrior

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nohorsesjustangels@reddit

Yup, I always thought they were trapped there forever and I was so worried about them and sad they'd never get to see their parents again. I had the same reaction to The Slammer and thought it was a travesty that they were sent to jail for being bad at juggling or something lol

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Tompkins-275@reddit (OP)

oh my god same. I remember watching it and seeing these kids fail and get trapped for what appeared to be life and thinking ‘damn, aren’t these stakes too high?’

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

Those public safety video things from the 80’s - where people got electrocuted and drowned. Hated them.

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Scorpiodancer123@reddit

The electricity adverts haunted me as a kid. They showed an extended version of it in school when I was about 6. I cried so much the school called my Mum in. Couldn't imagine showing my 6 videos of a kid being electrocuted!!! They're all still on YouTube if you want nightmares [that music creeps me out ](https://youtu.be/7-qRbUrz4nw). Still shiver when I walk past a sub station.

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TepacheLoco@reddit

The one that stuck with me most showed a kid getting toasted after playing in an abandoned building, spooky stuff

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buttermilkDelight@reddit

I remember one we were shown in school where two boys are mucking about near a fence with an electricity warning on it and one of the boys hops over it only to be elecricuted. Still think about the other boy looking down at his friend's corpse. Made me stay away from that stuff though so it did its job.

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

Yeah same. The Grim Reaper as well. They definitely had the desired effect. I can’t imagine them being shown nowadays. People would complain for sure! 😂

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driftwooddreams@reddit

One was called Apaches for some unfathomable reason. Utter carnage if I remember.

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KC19771984@reddit

Was Apaches the farm one? That was horrifying. There was also one called the finishing line, I think, which was equally terrifying.

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

Here they are - the sinister voice 😱 [Safety Adverts](https://youtu.be/m0xmSV6aq0g) Also Jimmy Saville. That’s a horror in itself.

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rarkul@reddit

Oakie Doke - stop motion CBBC show - there was an episode they were all scared of a monster but turned out to be a papier-machê mask.

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Satsunami42@reddit

The one that got me most was a show we were forced to watch in school called Earth Warp. As far as I remember it was about an alien crash landing in a small English town and the kids had to hide the alien from the adults. While it looks a little goofy nowadays, the ending to the first episode will forever be seared into my memory. Basically they find something is wrong in the middle of the night and in the darkness you see a figure walking unnaturally accompanied by really sinister music. Then all of a sudden the cheery theme music kicks in. Didn’t help that the alien looks like the demon spawn of Neelix. Terrifying.🥲

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bejewhale@reddit

The demon headmaster! I remember an episode where someone turned to stone?! Might not have been that program, I can’t remember, either way it scared the shit out of me.

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anetarrr@reddit

Moonins episode with a Phantom ship and those long hattifattener creepy things. I couldn't sleep for 3 days after watching it and I still think about it all the time.

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Suckedintoyourmind@reddit

I had this Scooby-Doo vhs tape and there was one were they went to some old abandoned arcade and that terrified 5 year old me for some reason

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Regantowers@reddit

Every Episode of "Around the Twist" If you was unlucky enough to have this in your TV Schedule im sure you will have the same dark memories as me.

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cosmicjester18@reddit

As a child whose parents grew up watching it so saw re runs. Anything with fucking mr blobby that isn't a TV show character it's the unholy spawn of chthulu and a polkadot

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RiceeeChrispies@reddit

Surprised no one has said any of The Powerpuff Girls episodes' with [Him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc0H36nHXP0) in. Scary fucker.

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canyonstom@reddit

I'm surprised Him hasn't been adopted as an LGBTQ icon

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lilia-vanillia@reddit

Not a TV show, but I used to literally hide behind the sofa when watching Wallace and Grommit and the Wrong Trousers on VHS. Like, I'd choose to watch it and then be scared shitless???

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ErraticUnit@reddit

Those big dudes from Fraggle Rock still pop up in my nightmares.

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jacquetpotato@reddit

There was a goosebumps episode called “night in terror tower” that I watched when I was 6 or 7 and it gave me nightmares for ages. When I went to Toronto, I visited Casa Loma and all these memories came flooding back because it turns out it was filmed there in the 90s! Haha

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beppebz@reddit

There was a Dogtanian episode with a character called the Maltese’s Falcon or somat and it was this blue bird-man thing with a fucking horrifying voice. Can still hear it now

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CCGamesSteve@reddit

That was a great show though.

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Princess__Buttercup_@reddit

Not a tv show but the 70s health and safety videos they showed us at school (in the late 90s/early 2000s) where kids got electrocuted by flying kites into pylons. I honestly didn’t sleep the night after watching it, I was so scared. I can still picture a big plume of smoke around some flares and a young girl shouting ‘Jimmy!’

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CCGamesSteve@reddit

The school sports day on the train tracks was nasty by any measure.

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irishlynne@reddit

Grange Hill......there was an episode years ago where someone drowned in the swimming pool....terrified me and put me off swimming for a long time

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CCGamesSteve@reddit

Never watched the show personally but it speaks volumes about it's cultural impact that decades after it was cancelled people of a certain age just know about it and it's heaviest moments, like Zammo's drug addiction, the swimming pool, the body in the maestro etc.

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Parvanu@reddit

I just watched that episode on BritBox recently still very shocking.

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KC19771984@reddit

That was a traumatic episode. Gives me the shivers thinking about it now

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No-Branch6937@reddit

The Master, not sure the episode name but it’s the one even he sets up a fortress and the kids sneak in and some of them fall under his control. I’ve found the idea of hypnosis terrifying because of this programme.

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TreeOfAntiquity@reddit

well for me i cant remember the show! but... i had a dream one night that shook me to my core (relevant in a minute). i was only a child. maybe 10ish? but i dreamt i had just woken up from a coma and was in my late 30 or early 40s. i had a wife next to me and my two children. i didnt recognise any of them. they kept crying as they looked at me while i stared back in confusion as they told me i was in a coma for over 2 months... and that i was not a 10 year old child. that i need to come home and the kids were screaming at me and crying for their daddy who just didnt recognise them. i had actually been convinced (in my dream) that my REAL life was a lie, and that this was my real life although i couldnt quite remember everything but slowly memories were "coming back to me" im talking remembering a whole other fabricated life..... when i actually woke up i didnt know what to believe for a few minutes and sat there crying. i just had a whole other life that was justt taken from me.  now.. a few days later i was watching something (said kids show) and almost that whole same scenario played out in a show... well it was more about a child in a coma that was living out a whole other life on the other side... and it got me thinking about reality from that age and what was actually real and provable and what wasnt. it scared the living shit out of me as i realise nothing could be proven to be real and it could all be a figment of my imagination anyway. still to this day i will never know which me is real and which is in a hospital somewhere fabricating memories and a whole other life.  u know when you sit there and sing to yourself... or do something silly "when noone is looking". i always imagine my "real family" watching me spasm or sing/smile/make-sounds whilst in my "coma" even if just for a second. like a glimpse in to my other world side via involuntary body movements whilst im lying in my coma. like when your leg moves when day dreaming about something.  anyone else get this fleeting thought at times? or am i just a weirdo?

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Snoo_66113@reddit

The punky Brewster episode where she is lost in the woods and there is like a ghost in a cave or something. I remember being terrified for years after.

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Ozle42@reddit

The Goat episode of Quantum Leap

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abdlea-cc@reddit

not a specific episode but I was always terrified of the intro to Captain Scarlet

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hedaenerys@reddit

maybe not children’s tv but any of the doctor who weeping angels episodes? especially the first david tennant one

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grizwa@reddit

i am certainly not a post 2000 kid (i was made in the 80s from questionable sources) but the show is post 2000 and that would be Infinity Train, that some dark shit at times

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neilbarnsley@reddit

Doctor Who. Set in a lighthouse, they boarded the door from a monster. There was a death in the lighthouse and Tom Baker says "I think we made a terrible mistake, we have locked the creature inside with us"

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spanksmitten@reddit

90s baby but a goosebumps episode I think it was with some form of puppet that came alive, may have been in a lighthouse? Nightmares for years.

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bgis78@reddit

Wurzel Gummage....... Every single episode.........

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AlyssInAzeroth@reddit

Ed, Edd and Eddy is like being on an acid trip

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VadimH@reddit

Too many to count from Ren and Stimpy

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Zadu47@reddit

Sammy the Grasshopper mentally scarred me for life

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

Refused to watch it, and one of my friends brothers banned him from watching it because he keeps getting too confused and demanding explanations. When there’s a person we don’t like around we find some ren and stimpy and leave them in the room with Andy, they get lost and never bother us again when we quickly put on something much better to help Andrew forget about watching R&S to not harm us with his questions on it!

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Freed0mChaser@reddit

Anything from goosebumps, fucking nightmare fuel

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I_really_love_pugs@reddit

There was a show called The Lodge (I think on CITV?) in the 90s. I think it was about a children’s residential home or something? Anyway there was an episode that had a kid in a dark basement looking for something and suddenly someone grabbed them and put a hand over their mouth, right as the episode ended. Never watched it again. Terrifying. Oh and the 90s episode of Neighbours (not a kids show but it was ritual viewing for all 8 year olds back then after school with Home&Away) with the massive spider on the loose. No thank you.

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merrybug@reddit

Are you afraid of the dark, dead man’s float episode.

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puphyin@reddit

The hoover from teletubbies

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robson26smith1@reddit

The hash slinging slasher episode of SpongeBob. Where nosferatu shows up at the end. What was that all about

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Lottielotsx@reddit

Jim Hendon’s the storyteller When the soldier traps Death in a sack

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Philcycles84@reddit

Thomas the tank engine - the flying kipper. Scared the living hell out of me as a child and, watching it now, its still really eerie. The soft glow of the sunrise and the frozen landscape sets an eerie atmosphere and when it comes time for the big crash of the episode, the unseting music slowly creeps in.

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MattBFC72@reddit

I used to have nightmares about the phantom raspberry blower, off the two Ronnie's.

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PoldiL@reddit

Nody - the one where the bagpipes come alive I was absolutely terrified

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Few_Zookeepergame105@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog, "Return the Slab"

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B0dkin@reddit

The Boy from Space. It was part of a programme in the 70s called Look and Read. It was supposed to be for kids my age at that time but it was bloody terrifying

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strand3dyoungst3r@reddit

This is the one that stuck in my mind as scary. Think there was a bit of Dark Towers which scared me, something about who's this coming up the stairs - then the next episode showed it was completely innocuous!

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magicleopard@reddit

Dark Towers! Wasn’t there a haunted painting as well? I was terrified watching that.

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you-just-readit@reddit

You just reminded me of the build yourself a word cartoon. flash back

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LlamaDrama007@reddit

Oh and nobody ever seems to remember Maths in a Box... a spaceman (I think) trapped in a cube and kids had to help him fix his space ship (the cube) by doing maths (obvs). Ticky ticky tok, out of the box!

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LlamaDrama007@reddit

My sister, two years younger than I watched The Boy from Space but my weekly dose of are creepiness on the big tv wheeled into the classroom was Dark Towers.

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oynsy@reddit

Scrolled too far for this!

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catsaregreat78@reddit

O that was terrifying. There was another blonde man from space chasing him I think.

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B0dkin@reddit

The thin man, gaunt, pale, stuff of nightmares, i remember him

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irishlynne@reddit

I had nightmares for weeks after watching this

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bodhi_expres@reddit

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe to show in the 80’s. Specifically when Aslan was killed on the stone slab, must have only been about 5. Cut me deep that one

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88scarlet88@reddit

The headless horseman ep of Hey Arnold.

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Remarkable_Elmo23@reddit

Literally, any episode of courage, the cowardly dog scared the shit out of me.

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electricboogaloo00@reddit

All of The Moomins. I don't know if I must misremember it, but to me it was creepy/trippy as fuck.

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Mrslinkydragon@reddit

Aww how can you hate on the moomins? :(

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hutchythenomad@reddit

I fucking hated the Moomins and still do, weird thing is my wife loves them. There's a fucking moomin mug in my kitchen cupboard that I forget about with the creepy character I hate on it, still not sure why it's never been smashed lol

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tistick@reddit

Not an episode, but the opening titles for the Animals of Farthing Woods hits different as an adult 😢

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ImaginedNumber@reddit

I have a vague memory of a rusted steam engine in Thomas the tank engine. I'm not sure if it was a ghost or what, sure Thomas found it late at night or something.

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SignificanceOk7272@reddit

Moondial more creepy then terrifying

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CriticalElk6102@reddit

There’s an episode of are you afraid of the dark? where a girl moves into a flat and makes friends with an old woman. She makes other friends and the old woman starts to show up crying and weeping saying she’s been forgotten. Turns out she’s dead. In my mind for weeks as a kid.

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DoomedRegular@reddit

Any episode of Rosie and Jim. Those things creeped me out

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Vallhalla_Rising@reddit

When Zammo overdosed on heroin in Grange Hill. Absolutely shocking.

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rockchick1982@reddit

I'm a bit older but for me it was the railway children episode when the deaf girl was playing on the tracks making a daisy chain with her legs over the tracks. It kept cutting to the train beeping and screeching breaks to shots of the girl in silence then the two images merged and finished with the girls scream then black screen. It scared the crap out of me.

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antonia_yes@reddit

Don't remember specific episodes but remember being genuinely scared of the Demon Headmaster

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Lordhawhaw-_@reddit

The opening credits and music from “Children of the stones” and “tomorrow people” induce a fear of dread in me to this day.

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_R9_@reddit

That bit where the crusty naked lady comes out of the bath in the Shining...  ...wait. Why was I watching that when I was 8?

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tubbstattsyrup2@reddit

The episode of Brum in which he encounters an inflatable crocodile in the sewers was genuinely disturbing. I'd have been about 3 if it helps.

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Scouser9981@reddit

Terrorhawks

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oldt1mer@reddit

The Pinnocio episode of the Grimm adventures of Billy and Mandy. It was actually the only episode I ever watched and it scared the shit out of me. Followed by such classics as Dr who's 'are you my mummy' and the episode about the cybermen which scared me so badly I couldn't move and then the library episode that triggered a nightmare that caused my first asthma attack. I was a nervous kid.

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Best_Asparagus1205@reddit

I remember a week long series of Torchwood, called Children of Earth. Basically Captain Jack had to send a message to the aliens to do one, but to do that he had to sacrifice his grandson. Awful stuff.

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Distinct_Sir_9086@reddit

Doctor who has some really scary episodes.

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TonyBalonyUK@reddit

Noseybonk from the very old kids show Jigsaw. Proper nightmare fuel. It’s just wrong.

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kittysparkled@reddit

Jesus Christ nightmare unlocked thanks

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KC19771984@reddit

Ugh. I had so many nightmares about him.

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allywillow@reddit

Glad it wasn’t just me

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InsularAtlantica@reddit

[Five Children and It](https://youtu.be/phovQ2GKMF4) with the [Psammead](https://franciswright.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/psammead-closeup.jpg) The whole show was just weird, it was during the time when the BBC was so flush with cash and confidence (and dominance within UK media, before the internet) that it could create an Edwardian Period childrens drama about a nightmare fuel 'sand fairy'.

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Trojan_Nuts@reddit

It wasn’t a tv series but the film Return To Oz scared the shit out of me.

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LoLFields@reddit

The first (any) episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

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chinto30@reddit

I don't remember what it was and I've looked for it a fair amount but I remember I was about a haunted big toe that got cut of by a lawn mower Nd was kept in a jar and it had somthing to do with a volcano. I remember it scaring the hell out of me as a kid but at thos point I'm half believing it might have been a dream.

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Boatster_McBoat@reddit

Any Skippy episode with snek

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Bebbette@reddit

As a 70’s child - anything involving the Demon Headmaster and a particular episode of Dr. Who with a jester that kidnapped children - I can still remember that particular dream!!

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Parvanu@reddit

For me it was the doctor who with the Bertie Basset type thing

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Potential-Wave-5376@reddit

Redwall slagar the cruel give me fucking nightmares as a kid still not recovered from it

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Parvanu@reddit

The books were worse, great writing though

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theroundaboutzoo@reddit

Dark Season, early 90s on BBC I think - absolutely terrifying!

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bansheelullabies@reddit

“Return the slaaab” & literally every other Courage the Cowardly Dog episode yet it was my favorite.

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Bluedino_1989@reddit

Naughty episode

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Nimtastic@reddit

Daleks used to scare the shit out of me and give me nightmares. H.R. Puff n stuff too. Witchy Poo gave me nightmares too

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elpoppet@reddit

There was an episode of Button Moon where Tina Spoon fell down a hole in a cave. I’m 34 and I’ve been scared of caves ever since I saw it. Also, does anyone remember a gameshow on BBC where they were in a lift and used to go to different floors to do puzzles? It was kind of like The Crystal Maze but for kids. For some reason, that show terrified me (I think there was a virtual reality face talking to them in the lift?). That, and Knightmare. The chess board was brutal.

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grindelwaldd@reddit

There was an episode of Round The Twist where their mouths shrunk and they could barely talk. I remember hysterically crying about it haha

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No_Suggestion1393@reddit

A short advert which was about the dangers of fire. I'm guessing it would have been around 1996. It was warning children not to play with matches. I tried to find it since but I cannot.

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Fickle-Raspberry6403@reddit

Goose bumps probably

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gingeadventures@reddit

Demon Headmaster and his word twitchy eye thing

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NeebZ420@reddit

"Return the slab" from Courage the Cowardly Dog on Cartoon Network.

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scarajones@reddit

My sister, and more than several others apparently, were terrified by Noseybonk from Jigsaw. I never saw why myself, but apparently so.

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pixelpetewyo@reddit

The singing ringing tree.

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PeaceDuck@reddit

Chuckle Brothers, the one with the great white shark in the swimming pool used to have me hiding behind the sofa

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TexasGROMMY@reddit

Any episode of Tarzan that had quicksand.

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Kitchen-Growth-5380@reddit

Eerie Indiana. The foreverware episode .. .. fuck me I had nightmares for years thinking people were inside tupperwear boxes just waiting to get out 😳😳

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escapetomyworld@reddit

I came to say this and name the exact same episode. The whole series was brilliant but that episode stuck with me. The mother was terrifying.

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Professional-Fig3168@reddit

I remember this x

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lostandwanderin@reddit

Unsolved Mysteries. That theme song still brings me back.

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Lumpy_Flight3088@reddit

Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Tale of the Dead Man’s Float 😱

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mathewcrichton@reddit

Agreed! That specific episode was cray scary with the ghosts trying to drag him back into the ocean 😭🌊😭

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scarytruth1111@reddit

Old school Twight Zone messed with my head.

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Hidden_Misc@reddit

I mean, Madoka was on the kids channel. so whatever Madoka episode was playing that night i guess

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tqmirza@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog, like every episode

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bananagit@reddit

Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror where Bart’s terrorised by a small gremlin on the side of the bus, something about the way it would stare right at him (or at the “camera”) horrified me

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No-End9336@reddit

Bill and Ben The Flowerpot Men, the older black and white version on a VHS with jerky puppet movements and eerie music. Traumatised me so much at only 5 years old that I had to sleep in parents bed for a week.. Still get a shudder when Mum creeps up on me and goes "Flob-a-lob" in an impression, for a laugh, of them 24 years later.

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charley_warlzz@reddit

2000 baby here, and: Grissly tales for gruesome kids. Like, most of the show, but even just those little clips at the start of the guy grating his fingers into his spaghetti with his cheese. That entire show was disturbing.

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PureConsideration406@reddit

Any episode of Choky or Children of the Stones

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GingerBrother91@reddit

Episode of courage the cowardly dog where there's a ghost outside his house telling him to 'Returnnn the slabbb'.

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BoristheCat55@reddit

I have a couple of SHOWS not specific episodes: There was this thing in the UK called "Grizzly tales for gruesome kids", I remember a lot of the episodes scaring me sleepless. Also my mum chose to show me this thing from like the 70s called "Chorlton and the wheelies". Genuinely not the bad acid trip you should be exposing children to. Think my mum was a little desensitised to how creepy it was lmao.

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hutchythenomad@reddit

Worzel Gummidge and his ability to change heads creeped me the fuck out....still does

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stiffybstone@reddit

I found 'zaap' to be creepy af

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MoonDancer118@reddit

Lost in Space, I hid behind the sofa and I couldn’t tell you the episode as I didn’t come out until the end lol.

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Funtimetilbedtime@reddit

Carly I’m Home and Away getting raped. It was a Friday airing and I couldn’t stop thinking about it all weekend. I was 12.

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Impossible-Sky4256@reddit

Goosebumps Night of the living dummy

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DannyCookeVids@reddit

Not so much a TV show, but I was absolutely terrified by two films as a tiddler... War of the Worlds (the old one, not the silly newer version!) and The Last Unicorn, particularly the red bull hahaha! I'm sure the latter has instilled a permanent unease around bovines with horns!

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Helenag23@reddit

When Mike Reid tried to rob Sooty’s house

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swibbles_mcnibbles@reddit

Round the Twist, an episode where they dug up some sort of dead taxidermy fox under a tree and it came to life. I had nightmares for years about that.

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chicken_jow_mein@reddit

That episode of courage the cowardly dog with the real life white face dude, that was horrible

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badfox93@reddit

Goosebumps, night of the living gnomes.

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cwtchpotato@reddit

When I was little it was 'Thomas Comes To Breakfast' from Thomas the Tank Engine, and the Pingu episode where he falls in the ice cave. When I was a bit older it was the 'are you my mummy' episodes of Dr Who

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bortj1@reddit

Doctor Who: The Empty Child AKA... *Are you my mommy?* Doctor Who: Blink AKA... *Weeping angels*

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the_hillman@reddit

Doctor Who: The Green Death. My god.

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Neo-Cobra@reddit

Terrahawks

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Mahoganyblck@reddit

Tales from the crypt

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Early_Explorer4674@reddit

The lion and the bear from tellytubbies have me legit nightmares when I was young

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TimeForMoistDreams@reddit

Every episode of Rosie and Jim. Those puppets lifeless eyes freaked me the fuck out.

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dselwood05@reddit

Mr bean and the oysters.

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darkstreetsofmymind@reddit

From Alice in Wonderland?

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sstid1@reddit

Marty the Monster was a kids show on Australian TV. They had a kangaroo on one show and as a kid, it was pretty terrifying. https://youtu.be/JUz93v_s18A

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bumpkin_eater@reddit

Not really an episode but…I watched the Jurassic Park film with my Dad when I was eight back in 93 on a huge imax screen when I lived in Scotland. The film absolutely ruined me! I had nightmares for so long and my parents tried to calm me by saying they can’t really being them back, you’re safe son. Then there was a random documentary that concluded in the end that the basically could. It set me back a tad.

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Remarkablebunny@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog, King Ramses’ Curse

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dobbynobson@reddit

Children's Film Foundation - mid 80s - it was a short film called Haunters of the Deep about Cornish miners in a rockfall underground getting tormented by ghosts. I saw it aged 7 and have been terrified by caves ever since. This doesn't present many issues in adulthood, but as a school kid it felt like we visited caves a lot, and I embarrassed myself with my scaredy-cat blubbing.

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yeh_nah_fuckit@reddit

The first appearance of the Sontaran in Dr Who, Time Warrior episode. The stray hairs on its face freaked me out

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Blackmore_Vale@reddit

Dunno if anyone remembers strange but true. The episode where they reenact the entitled poltergeist terrified me. Speaking for my nieces it was waters of Mars from dr who. My sister proper ripped into me for that as it gave them nightmares for weeks.

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Pretty_Level6786@reddit

Omg we used to beg my mum to let us watch it before bed and then sit on the stairs crying afterwards 😭🤣

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bilbobagginsessss@reddit

Strange but true - the poltergeist one was this when the girl said I AM BILL in a really deep voice or was this another episode? Because that scared me so much

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Grapefruit_Prize@reddit

OMG I remember Strange but True! It used be on after You've Been Framed! I remember an episode where someone saw a moth and then a ghost came out of a painting. I remember the ghost coming out of the painting so vividly, certain antique portraits give me the willies, even now!

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SadPomegranate1020@reddit

Yep I remember one episode where some ghost or whatever it was pulled the sheet from the end of the bed. I went to bed clinging onto my duvet for dear life!

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Blackmore_Vale@reddit

I feel like it’s a show that’s largely been forgotten but it’s still terrifying

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Anxious_Chocobo@reddit

I showed my daughter the first episode of Strange but True a couple of years ago. She was so scared of it which I found hilarious because it wasn't even scary. I did find it quite terrifying as a child too though.

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Effiecat@reddit

I remember the poltergeist one. My brother had to sleep in my room for a week.

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Benster404@reddit

Scooby Doo on Zombie Island really freaked me out as a kid

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HerNibs1980@reddit

Zelda from Terrahawks

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THE-HOARE@reddit

Every episode of Are you afraid of the dark was like torture to me

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gavebirthtoturdlings@reddit

The Queens nose freaked be the fuck out

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Jaytonyevo@reddit

Charn from Through the Dragons Eye, he fueled my nightmares for months when I was 5

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Jaytonyevo@reddit

Charn from Through the dragons eyes

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AffectedWomble@reddit

Captain Scarlett and the 4 rings of NopeNopeNopefuckyou

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Cryptand_Bismol@reddit

Scooby Doo mystery inc had no reason to be so intense - they actually genuinely killed off characters in horrible ways. Just… I can’t even give examples because it was all so weird, like Fred’s dad and Brad and Judy, Pericles The last episode were they meet the entity is the scariest thoughts

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WinWooCherub@reddit

Roger and The Rottentrolls. Let's be honest, the whole thing was terrifying, but any episode that featured the Barghest (the villain/monster) was even worse.

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T5-R@reddit

The mind control caps from Tripods really creeped me out.

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Skyejacked15@reddit

THAT episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood.

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teerbigear@reddit

I know they're not children's programmes but I remember getting scared of the Poirots with David Suchet when I was a young teen. I'd seen things which were meant to be horror but I _knew_ they were horror and therefore I wasn't afraid. And they had unlikely elements like vampires. But in Poirot it would be the sister or the boyfriend or whatever. I'd be lying in bed wondering if my water had arsenic in it.

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thunderfishy234@reddit

Not a tv show but the BFG scared the shit out of me as a kid.

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Environmental-Two-48@reddit

The monkeys from jungle run kickstarted my fear of anthropomorphic apes

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ChemistryWeary7826@reddit

Supergran. Just the concept terrified me.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

Yep, it was paired with metal Mickey on our tv pre prime time programs that later was gotten rid of by the national news repeated and a movie show called sneak previews with Siskel and ebert every Sunday at 6pm. We were happy to get that UK Robin Hood series at 7pm in the early 80s.

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MrFabulous1974@reddit

Any Chorlton and The Wheelies episode. That witch !

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r-og@reddit

Bit more old school, but "It's A Mystery" used to scare the crap out of me

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Goldman250@reddit

The episode of Dinosaurs called The Terrible Twos. The baby turns evil when it turns two, to the point where the dinosaurs call in an exorcist, and when that doesn’t work, they solve it by tricking the baby into thinking it’s turned three. Not a childhood show for me, but I read a book a couple of years ago where the author talked about it and decided to watch it. It’s seriously messed up.

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DrBunnyflipflop@reddit

It's before my time, but for some reason what I grew up on: the Flumps I have no idea why, but I've always been terrified of it. My Dad used to have the theme as his ringtone and every time it'd put me in fight or flight mode

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furious_ash@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog

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ArumtheLily@reddit

Doctor Who, Tom Baker edition, with the giant spiders and the chanting. You kids don't know you're born.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

That was a good story but I had to only listen to it, my sister used to have a black and white that you can manually turn the screen to black so it didn’t scare me in reruns

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ArumtheLily@reddit

NO YOU HAVE TO SEE THE SPIDERS

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SlightlyScruffy@reddit

My kids were terrified of a cartoon film called Dot and the Kangaroo.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

That used to come on every thanksgiving just before another channel used to play the smurf magic flute movie

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MrMusclePants@reddit

It's more subtle but the Thunderbirds episode Terror in New York City where Thunderbird 2 got shot down by the US navy. Later in life is realised it's because the Navy mistook it for a Soviet heavy bomber.

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aliya112233@reddit

That fucking penguin from Wallace and Gromit

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Random_Guy_47@reddit

*gestures broadly at Courage The Cowardly Dog*

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hogger85@reddit

Being a 90s.kid there are a few Earthfasts where a drummer boy appears on moors and leads a kid into a mineshaft and the cold cold candle was burning down Also the Tommorow People can't even remember what exactly scared me in that but just being terrified of it. Demon headmaster of course

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

There was many versions of Tomorrow people but I am thinking of the original series lots of creepy bits on those and the later 90s one that came around that I see the least of over the two later tries in the 2000s

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bouncingball07@reddit

As an 80’s child it was ‘Dafthead’ from Worzel Gummidge where he made his own scarecrow that turned out to be a bad guy. I really did not enjoy the episodes he appeared in.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

He was annoying wasn’t he but my sister loved Jon Pertwee and we couldn’t skip anything he did even if it was lousy

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PigHillJimster@reddit

I can't remember what it was called, but a Children's drama series in the 1970's based around a family that has moved into a house which of course turns out to be haunted. A couple of scenes I remember where the children see the ghosts of a women tending to her sick husband, but the scene that was particularly scary at the time was when the family were sitting down to eat a meal at the table and blood drips down from the ceiling onto dinner table.

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Thing_001@reddit

The Animals of Farthing Wood. Some bird killed a load of mice and impaled them through the spiky bits of a tree ready to eat for later.

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Kirstemis@reddit

Doctor Who Horror of Fang Rock scared 7-year old me, and a year later The Robots of Death absolutely terrified me.

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WatermelonCandy5@reddit

If the robots of death is the Autons then nothing terrified me more. I randomly saw it when I was a kid, a repeat, I was born in 92, and I’m still very uneasy around mannequins.

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Kirstemis@reddit

No, not the Autons. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Robots_of_Death_(TV_story)

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BECKYISHERE@reddit

what was the one where sarah jane falls over and her face unhinges and shes a robot inside?

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Migeman@reddit

That's The Android Invasion.

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BECKYISHERE@reddit

thank you

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Rowanx3@reddit

Mine was empty child (the episode with kids in the gas mask saying are you my mummy’) Used to terrify me, i was about 5 when i watched it then when my great aunt was put in a care home when i was about 8 she had a lady who would sit near her who had dementia that’d always scream mummy and it still scared me

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rawcane@reddit

Mine was Nightmare of Eden.... Tom Baker era... There was a window that they could go through into a jungle with shaggy monsters in. Terrifying. Not sure if this was a children's programme but there was an episode of Sapphire and Steele where people in this house kept disappearing and turning into dolls on the mantelpiece. That was really freaky.

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SpiffingAfternoonTea@reddit

100% the empty child went far beyond any of the other episodes

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scXIII@reddit

Ah I had forgotten about that episode!! It used to scare the shit out of me haha

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Kirstemis@reddit

That was a scary one, but I was 34 by then.

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Rowanx3@reddit

Hahaha, yeah i get why that wouldn’t phase you as much then

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Candy_Lawn@reddit

yes me too, i couldnt walk past a department store if it had mannequins in the window

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Kirstemis@reddit

I had the novelisation and had to keep it face down because it had a pic of one of the robots on the front.

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MrMantis765@reddit

I remember watching the doctor who episode about the werewolf and being terrified for weeks. I was about 10 and was out on some remote hills of Wales in the spring with my hockey team at the coach's cottage which itself was quite the rustic place. The environment combined with that episode gave me the frights for several weeks.

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SnooAdvice3630@reddit

Sapphire and Steel- The man without the face who existed in every photograph ever taken. Still very unsettling to watch today.

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

Oh that was a scary one! I saw it for the first time about a decade ago on a day that it was so rainy I turned off all the lights and only used my desktop computer all day to prevent a power outage (because my managers did not call the power company fast enough, they just don’t feel like it so somebody around the complex eventually has to) I still want the whole series someday. It’s what Joanna Lumley did directly after the New Avengers, which the rats episode of that show is pretty nerve wracking

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BECKYISHERE@reddit

the hallway with pack up your troubles playing

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Yolandi2802@reddit

Yes!

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Brian-Kellett@reddit

I was going to say this because I too am old. For me it was the nursery rhyme one…

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FunkyEdz@reddit

All of Sapphire & Steel was disturbing. The house which was falling through time and made the parents disappear. The haunted railway station. Yon faceless man in photos, the missing 13th floor of the block of flats, the murdering dinner party and the possessed motorway service station. To cap it all off, the most horrific ending to any tv series anywhere. And it's a kids show.

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darth-small@reddit

Fenella The witch in chorlton and the wheelies. She used to scare the crap out of me. However, I was very young!

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hedges_101@reddit

An episode of Grange Hill where they found a kid's body, I think, in the boot of a car. Gave me actual nightmares

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

I remember the one where Justin fell off the school wall and got badly hurt. I used to think it was one of those films that show children what not to do around railroad tracks and bogs and abandoned houses public service things but when I was watching the earliest episodes of grange hill because I was too young to really remember them too well (they were premiered to the USA around 1983 on the PBS educational television networks) I was impressed by the actor who played as Justin and tracked him down on Twitter to let him know this two years ago.

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Mred80@reddit

Danny Kendall. In Mr Bronson’s maestro. You know it was bad because they changed the outro music to a really dark one

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

There was a dark episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs series that was about suicide of one of the scullery maids, unfortunately whoever was in charge of the editing on that one chosen the upbeat ending credits music instead of the slower theme song repeated, to go with the somber ending

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AEL1979@reddit

I remembered this episode so well. Imagine my surprise about 15 years ago when Danny Kendall (Jonathan Lambeth in real life) turned up at my place of work as the Internal Comms guy…didn’t stay in acting and had forged a career in the corporate world!

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AVegetableLocksmith@reddit

I remember seeing a GH episode of a girl dying after jumping from the burning school. The camera panned to her body lying motionless on the concrete, blood tickling from her head. Gave me nightmares for a long time.

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Artificial100@reddit

When John’s hat blew away on Rosie and Jim. When a woman’s pram rolled away on Brum. THAT episode of Pingu.

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Apart-Fisherman-7378@reddit

The Goosebumps where they were shrunk down in to a little toy town

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KellGodfrey@reddit

THIS!! You have just unlocked a core memory, freaked me out for months 😂

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Solid_Bake4577@reddit

The Tomorrow People - it was a pretty "out there" series in the 70s and a couple of episodes definitely wouldn't be shown now! The four minute warning public information film was a bit full on for my impressionable mind!

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The_Geralt_Of_Trivia@reddit

Terrahawks... any episode. That stuff wouldn't be allowed on kids TV nowadays. Scarred for life. https://youtu.be/RqHTHsgW6ho

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brutalistcheese@reddit

That banned episode of Teletubbies - I didn't want to watch Teletubbies again. I brought it up when talking about children's TV/being nostalgic with friends and family the past few years and my sibling told me it's a famously scary episode to the point it was taken off air. Glad I wasn't the only one who was scared - thought I was losing my mind.

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leftzorn@reddit

There was an episode of Chucklevision with either a gorilla or a guy in a gorilla suit, I can't remember exactly which but I hated it as a kid.

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booksarelife99@reddit

I think I know the one. It’s when no slacking and Barry and Paul all go to this cabin in the woods? And no slacking (I think) dresses up as Bigfoot to fool them and of course in the end there actually really is a bigfoot

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riolightbar@reddit

Badger Girl! Any episode. Freaky stuff

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Alitavonbraun@reddit

Teletubbies - The scary lion and bear

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eloise___no_u@reddit

The cat came back .. the very next day

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Jlaw118@reddit

I’ve always been scared of sick. If I hear anybody or see anybody being sick, or also being it myself it absolutely terrifies me. I remember an episode of The Tweenies, Jake eats a cooking apple and it makes him throw up. I remember being petrified I went to cuddle my grandma whilst it was on. Even as a 27 year old adult I still don’t think I’d be able to ever rewatch it

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squizzlebee@reddit

Emetophobia. I'm the same, would be sent into panic mode if someone threw up, even on TV. I'm better than i used to be at dealing with it, but I'm 30 now and I still had to run out of the waiting room at the doctor's bc a little kid threw up on the floor. I got called for my appointment like one minute later and I was freaking out by the receptionists desk, took agss for me to calm down enough so they could get an accurate reading of my blood pressure and heart rate lol

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IntergalacticBanshee@reddit

Kids threw up all the time in my classroom, I only felt it coming over me twice in my school years pre school and first grade but I actually took myself out of the classroom and then done it.

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0inke@reddit

OH MY GOD - I thought I was the only one!! I didn't eat apples for ages after that. Also may have been a source for my puking phobia haha

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Tompkins-275@reddit (OP)

that ‘targeted your phobia’ trauma

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jelly10001@reddit

Not technically a TV show, but when I was very little I had this nursery rhyme video which had sketches in between rhymes. One of the sketches featured two Sesame Street style puppets operating a conveyer belt with buttons on. The sketch ended with one of the puppets mishearing 'no' as 'go' and the other puppet screaming as it got caught on the conveyer belt. It still haunts me now.

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TurquoiseSerenity@reddit

There’s an episode of Thomas The Tank Engine where as punishment for being prideful one of the trains is bricked alive up to his eyes so all he can do is watch the other trains drive past…I’m still haunted by this scene more than 20 years on. Okay tried to search it as found it on YouTube as “Thomas the tank engine scary brick in” https://youtu.be/iO6qIM2WO6k Around 3:00

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Kaywinnet92@reddit

The Sandman. It's a stick motion thing. Absolutely horrifying.

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Kaywinnet92@reddit

Just re-watched it like "Oh, I wonder what silly 11 year old me was frightened of" Can confirm, still horrifying.

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Craig_Brown1095@reddit

The film 'return to Oz' was nightmare fuel.

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SlimyandGrimey@reddit

Almost any courage the cowardly dog episode. I loved the show at the time but rewatching episodes is terrifying, especially the freaky fred episode.

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Tattoosrpermenant@reddit

Anyone remember that film called the hole, that shit terrified me

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Toothfairy29@reddit

Keira knightly when she was about 16?

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Tattoosrpermenant@reddit

Not sure, came out in 2012 ish, anout some kids that find a hole in their basement

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Craig_Brown1095@reddit

As a very young child I remember watching the Thomas the tank feature length special, the villain train had a crane arm on it, to my 4/5 Yr old self it might as well have been the xenomorphs second mouth, terrifying.

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jenni_exe@reddit

Any episode that has the purple spoon thing from the number jacks 💀

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a_nitak@reddit

That episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark when the kids they've been playing with all along turn out to be >!dead!<

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bananadude123@reddit

Speaking about Doctor Who and beyond the obviously terrifying weeping angels, I seem to remember finding the episode "Midnight" quite unnerving.

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Duchess_Pizza@reddit

Noddy, the Elves were are still are the worst thing

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sabrecmc2@reddit

I don't know if it counts, but Amazing Stories back in the 80s had an episode called Mirror, Mirror that scared the crap out of me as a kid. I found out later that it was directed by Scorsese. Who'd have thought? It probably wouldn't bother me now, but as a kid, the black-hooded figure who keeps appearing in the mirror was horrifying and I'd go to the bathroom at night and refuse to look in the mirror because I was terrified I'd see something. Nothing was as bad as Dark Night of the Scarecrow though. Scarred for life, I tell ya. The 80s were WILD.

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inthepipe_fivebyfive@reddit

That episode of Round the Twist when the guy is slowly turning into a mermaid / merman and starts growing extra fingernails up his fingers and hands. Freaked me the **** out growing up

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Incrediblebraig@reddit

The Demon Headmaster. There was an episode where some green ray or something was possessing people. At one point it came out of a hand dryer into a kids eyes and possessed them. I couldn’t use a hand dryer for years after that

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krowe41@reddit

The witch in pogles wood is pretty scary

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graytreason@reddit

Thunderbirds- Pit of Peril. I started watching my dad's thunderbirds collection as I loved Stingray. I remember being terrified when the Sidewinder (a metal robot thing on legs) was pulling out trees and the scared noise of animals to then being terrified as the ground beneath it started to crumble and it eventually fell down into a sink hole. For tension it was very well done with the music and sound effects but I was only like .. 4 yrs old. This was before the trauma of Animals of Farthing Wood...

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calathiel94@reddit

Watership Down had me all kinds of fucked up for years

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Lumpy_Flight3088@reddit

Not a kids show exactly but the episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the monster that sucks the life out of children at the hospital. Episode ‘Killed by Death’.

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bakedNdelicious@reddit

To be honest Bagpuss used to freak me out as a kid so just the intro to any episode really. Also there was an episode of Morph on Smart where there was a crying baby thing and it really scared me when I was little.

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pinkdaisylemon@reddit

Dr Who back in the sixties I think. An episode where these kind of demon like creatures poured through a doorway. Haunted me for years. Watched it from behind the couch.

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jt94@reddit

I loved dragon ball Z growing up, but the episode where Cell ‘ate’ Android 17 fucking terrified me

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frankie0694@reddit

Goosebumps with the mask that sticks to her face. I still have nightmares about that 23 years later

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Brian-Kellett@reddit

Don’t know if it was fear, or anxiety, but the Vortex at the end of The Adventure Game used to freak me out. Dronga dronga uncle!

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Bendy_McBendyThumb@reddit

I mean Courage the Cowardly Dog was always wacky as fuck from what I remember in my childhood

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calathiel94@reddit

There was an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? that had some god awful man that looked like his skin had been removed coming out of the pool at some kids, that thing gave me nightmares for years. I must have seen it when I was 7 or 8 when the show was aimed at teens, but man did that thing haunt me.

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benDB9@reddit

That talking head statue on Art Attack. Used to have to leave the room as soon as that came on.

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the_year_2071@reddit

I don't know about an episode but there was a series on ITV called King of the Castle back in 1977. My memories of it are very hazy. A kid called Roland moves into a block of flats with his mum. He goes into the lift which is broken which drops into a subterranean world where there are rather scary versions of people he knows in real like like the headmaster, the caretaker of the flats, etc. It had a really good cast in it but it was extremely dark and surreal. Quite scary for a youngster. I looked it up on Youtube and even now I can see why I was so scared.

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ThePirateOfDarkwater@reddit

In no particular order: The Adventure Game - the final grid maze where players had to get past some kind of spirit thing. Still have the odd bad dream about it now. Children of the Dog Star - generally a bit creepy, but the daisy wheel at the start is really spooky when you're young. Captain Zap, Super Space Detective - I'll be surprised if anyone remember this series! In one episode, they're sneaking past a gallery of powered down robots, I e of which has been used in a murder. One of the robots activates and ambushes them. Imagine the scene in I Robot, but with absolutely no budget. Terrahawks - Zelda. 'Nuff said.

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Jimmyjamjames@reddit

Teletubbies scary lion and the bear- I was pretty much forced to watch the original banned version when it aired. The empty child from doctor who - pretty much all due to the gas mask people in the hospital.

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mitchybenny@reddit

S01E03 Thomas the tank engine. The sad story of Henry. The ending as the camera pans in is horrifically sad. The silence. His face. Pure sad

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Girfftapher@reddit

Courage the Cowardly Dog, the foot fungus.

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Specialist_Ad4560@reddit

Through the dragons eye. The bird thing "sharn" was evil!

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Charming_Army_7199@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog, RETURRRN THE SLAAAAB

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CommanderVanto90@reddit

Animals of farthing wood. https://youtu.be/2pypyDDPmIQ

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PinkPotato37@reddit

The bloodbending episode of Avatar

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Shortie16PoGo@reddit

There was an episode of Pingu where really little me was terrified of this massive killer Seal. Actually I just looked at it again and it’s still equally as terrifying

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Dazza477@reddit

Doctor Who - The Empty Child. Are you my mummy?

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Formal-Rain@reddit

Nosey Bonk link [here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsGtNZgpas&pp=ygUKTm9zZXkgYm9uaw%3D%3D) you have been warned.

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RaphAngelos@reddit

Kinda from my childhood but the gravity falls episode "Soos and the Real Girl" scared the shit out of me back in the day as well as that bit from "into the bunker" where the shape shifter thing makes dipper watch himself die. Also the lich from adventure time and the forced fusions from Steven universe. in terms of recent stuff that despite being a kids show/film still scared the shit out of me are "hollow mind" from the owl house and the wolf from puss in boots 2. Owl house spoilers >!the reveal of the hunter clones and the bit where kid belos contorts into modern belos genuinely made me have to take a step back and breathe!<

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cmdrxander@reddit

There was one episode of Thomas the Tank Engine that was all dark and foggy and I remember that scaring me shitless when I was about 4 or 5.

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Karenpff@reddit

Ren & Stimpy....all episodes. Even as an adult today it scares the shit out of me 😭

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Miterdale@reddit

I loved ren and stimpy. Was good to watch when stoned. Beavis and butthead too!

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BoBeanie-x@reddit

Doctor who - are you my mummy

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OHCAPTAlNMYCAPTAlN@reddit

Chocky. All of them.

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Clear-Owl-378@reddit

Are you afraid of the dark. It was a horror/ thriller show with different episodes each week with something horrible happening to a random teenager. Most were creepy but one involved kids being drowned by a monster in their school’s swimming pool really scared the crap out of my brother and I.

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Professional-Fig3168@reddit

I was scrolling forever to find this!

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Marinaseaglass@reddit

Showing my age, but this episode of Fraggle Rock gave me claustrophobia. There's a cave in and the rock ceiling gets lower causing Red to have a panic attack and Boober comforts her as they contemplate death. https://youtu.be/6BsFUVshApQ

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sdonald1991@reddit

Every single episode of Julia Jekyll and Henrietta Hyde. That show scarred me for life

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Gpalla@reddit

I cried when Thomas the tank crashed and had fruit all over his face

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bungle_bogs@reddit

There was an episode of Grange Hill where a kid drowned in the school pool. I saw this about 3/4 months after my friend drowned in a pool when on holiday. No warning. Freaked me out for ages.

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KC19771984@reddit

That freaked me out but that must have been horrible to see after what happened to your friend. That's horrible.

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themasalaisburning@reddit

The mighty max episode with the zombies (?)

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birdienummnumm@reddit

Not terrifying as such...more creepy Picture Box https://youtu.be/3uTGedmRQhE The music was haunting and the box spinning was mesmerising.

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scotchlondon@reddit

Thanks so much for this! I used to love this as a child

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KC19771984@reddit

Music was super creepy. The intro from Near and Far - another programme for schools was aldo creepy

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azzthom@reddit

A bit earlier than you asked for, but in the 80s there was a show called Dramarama. There was a special season called Dramarama: Spooky, which featured an episode called The Exorcism Of Amy. It was terrifying for children. And here it is... https://youtu.be/zZ8yyNzAXgA

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KC19771984@reddit

Don't remember this, but I remember being spooked by some other episodes of Dramarama. Mr Stabs I think his name was? I may have got that wrong.

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HighRoadUK@reddit

Pie in the sky. That pieman in his spaceship terrified me as a child.

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dribblysloth@reddit

Spotty from Superted. WTF was that thing? I was scared of the loft for years.

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koftechameleon@reddit

Pretty niche this - the last episode of Alfonso bonso, where Alfonso said, "break a leg" and the kids fell off a wall

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MIKBOO5@reddit

Episode? I mean literally all of Goosebumps was way too much for me to handle. And yet I'd still watch it every week anyway.

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Gelon07@reddit

Goosebumps, Slappy, or any other episode tbf..

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redunculuspanda@reddit

While not actually a children’s show, it had all the kids show presenters Ghost watch was fairly fucking terrifying and traumatic.

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CuriousPalpitation23@reddit

Demon Headmaster got me.

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X573ngy@reddit

From mine: Moomins, specifically the Groke. Fuckin scarred me.

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ZedZebedee@reddit

Are you afraid of the dark? used to scare me. The one that scared me the most was when the aliens had blank faces and the gorl turned out to be one of them.

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corduroy_puffin@reddit

Pretty much any episode of Worzel Gummidge

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MadWifeUK@reddit

Oh hell yes! Just had shivers down my spine even thinking about him.

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KC19771984@reddit

Christ yes. He was just plain terrifying. I think I just found scarecrows scary in general though. That one in the soup ad (Knorr soup I think) also terrified me in the 80s....

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rawcane@reddit

Yes!

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Worldly_Science239@reddit

Children of the stones, a 1970s childrens television show... freaked me out then, haven't seen it since... but still remember it.

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Worldly_Science239@reddit

Jesus, this is the theme music https://youtu.be/-V6dSNlh0_k You know, for kids

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Tropicaljet_9@reddit

Goosebumps! Especially the "Return of the Mummy" and "One Day at Horrorland". The scene where the kid gets trapped in a closed coffin with a tarantula 😳

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strange-is-good-@reddit

Any episode of jigsaw https://youtu.be/87NHueHBHwY

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Self-propelling@reddit

Noseybonk is the stuff of nightmares.

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TiredDad77@reddit

Chocky - every episode freaked me out. Tripods too

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Wackyal123@reddit

I’ll second tripods. Terrified the shit out of me.

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MauriceDynasty@reddit

Dr Who weeping angels episode and the water on Mars one that I just watched too young definitely gave me nightmares. Still love the show as an adult

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Psychological-Web828@reddit

I remember Chocky was quite unsettling but cannot pinpoint a particular episode that I remember well

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Wackyal123@reddit

The Children of Green Knowe - the episode where the statue of St Christopher comes to life. The Tripods - Pilot episode when Will’s cousin gets taken up into the tripod to be capped. Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) when the Dalek goes up the stairs for the first time

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ohffs2021@reddit

'There's a dog loose in the woods' (Watership Down)

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FlatTyres@reddit

The Hood (Thunderbirds) hypnotising a room full of people with his light-up eyes accompanied by an eerie sound in order to steal a remote control mouse that takes spy photos. I used to run to the corridor and peer from behind the door frame during that part of the tape.

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FriendshipForeign145@reddit

SpongeBob - graveyard shift with the hash slinging slasher

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imrllyunimaginative@reddit

that one episode of Sarah Jane Adventures where Clyde (I think?) died. Or literally any episode from that show it was a fucking fever dream

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BlondePotatoBoi@reddit

Not TV shows but there were a few things that freaked me out big time as kid. Remember those creepy Tim Burton-esque road safety ads with the bug-eyed children on a white background? Hated those when I was younger. Also CITV used to have this mascot, it was just a sock puppet that made a klaxon sound, and idk why but it felt so unnatural seeing something like that making such a loud noise. I think it might be bc I had rly sensitive hearing after spending the first few years of my life 80% deaf :/

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findingthetruth28@reddit

I remember the CITV mascot! Was shit scared of it, I couldn’t even watch CITV because of it. And those road safety adverts were horrible too.

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Rob_B_@reddit

And to think that was what they replaced the hedgehogs with!

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Rob_B_@reddit

I remember being really creeped out by “The Numberjacks” as a little kid

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I0r3kByrn1s0n@reddit

I still remember an episode of 'Why Don't You?' where they put plasticine on a boy's knee and pretended to hammer a nail into it while he screamed. I was really young and wasn't sure if it was really happening or not. Blake's 7 and Doctor Who were also pretty disturbing. Also Day of the Triffids and Choccy. The Perishers used to be extremely dark for some reason. Charlie Brooker has covered a lot of the disturbing ads and shows from the late 70's and early 80's. Not to mention the number of 'P-listers' that we're hosting kids shows at the time.

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Tungsten83@reddit

Anyone remember the BBC show Dark Season? I remember being scared witless by some of that as a kid in the early 90s. First TV appearance from Kate Winslet, and written by Russel T. Davies!

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harley3987@reddit

The demon headmaster

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Ambitious_Rent_3282@reddit

The Wicked Witch melting in the Wizard of Oz

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ben_jam_in_short@reddit

That Moomin episode/film where there's that dark character with no face man so many nightmares

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postmanpat84@reddit

Animals of Farthing wood any death episode

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Goshawkfan@reddit

the entire traumatic run of Animals of Farthing Wood. especially that shrike...

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Absentfish@reddit

the entire series of Johnson and Friends was awful

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Radiant-Cherry-7973@reddit

The snowman melting in the snowman. I cried and begged my Nan not to go home. Maybe I thought she would melt too 😮

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Itchy_Notice9639@reddit

90’s kid here, pretty much all of “courage, the cowardly dog” scarred me for life, but i loved it at the time

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G33ONER@reddit

An episode of Space Vets that included some weird yellow feathered alien guys, they freaked me out.

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aaron2933@reddit

Weeping angels from doctor who

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sneezybean13@reddit

The show “Trapped” on CBBC, the guy with the dangly ears gave me the creeps and don’t get me started on the random ladies mouth. Genuinely thought the kids were locked in there and were left to die

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OddishSnail@reddit

There was an episode of apongebob where Squidward was in a white room that just kept saying/showing "alone", still think about it now

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ClawwsOrtem@reddit

The Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde version of Sylvester and Tweety. I just, it still fills me with dread.

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Mabelmudge@reddit

Does anyone remember [Chocky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GEICZux9Jg)? Super creepy.

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Marriott_1@reddit

Doctor Who - Greatest show in the galaxy, when Jessica Martin transitioned

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driftwooddreams@reddit

“The Changes” from the 1970s, a bizarre post-apocalyptic anti-modernity series that made no sense and was quote “frequently harrowing”. And a quick Google reveals it’s available on Amazon Prime. I won’t be watching it, it still gives me the creeps.

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Dyrenforth@reddit

I was about 5 in the late 60s when an ITV kids' drama called Knock Three Times, had a large pin cushion, inhabited by an evil goblin roll down the stairs. Scared me silly and I can still remember it after all these years.

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NotDavidWalliams@reddit

I vividly remember an episode of Real Ghostbusters which featured the Stay Puft man. I don't know what happened at the end but I distinctly remember the end where Egon said to SPM "I'm sorry" in a really sad voice, and then the lot of them firing their proton packs to capture him. Really upset me, that did.

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GreatScotRace@reddit

All of Goosebumps horrified me growing up

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Cartmanlegend27@reddit

The numberjacks - whenever the number taker the mysterious guy in the white clothes and the cane kidnapped the numbers

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SweetCryptographer72@reddit

Rentaghost really fucked me up.

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octanet83@reddit

Not a specific episode but the weasels from the Wind in the willows with David Jason and Peter Sallis used to scare the hell out of me when I was little.

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octanet83@reddit

Not a specific episode but the weasels from the Wind in the willows with David Jason and Peter Sallis used to scare the shit out of me when I was little.

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horndawgzz@reddit

An episode of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, where they find a museum full of hourglasses that represent everybody's lifespan. Billy picks them all up and puts them back upside down, and they spend the rest of the episode slowly regressing to kids, toddlers, babies, literal foetuses and then POOF, gone. Nightmares for weeks.

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Boisterous-Oyster@reddit

I have a core memory of watching an episode of The Telletubbies with the wooden Scary Bear and the Scary Lion. Their eyes used to spin around and I’m pretty certain it got taken off of TV. Also a special mention to Bart’s evil twin in the Simpsons.

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Tompkins-275@reddit (OP)

Omg why have you unlocked that memory

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Boisterous-Oyster@reddit

Three year old me’s personal nightmare fuel

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Aofcardinal44@reddit

Teletubbies when they sit on the hill and watch that puppet run around the house and pop up at the windows. Hated it as a child

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AllenKingAndCollins@reddit

Any episode of "Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids" Absolute nightmare fuel

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LD-Rosie@reddit

There was an episode of Goosebumps which involved a dumbwaiter and a headless ghost. Absolutely terrified me for the longest time!

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amezeepop@reddit

Yes! This one scared me to death too!

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Anxious_Chocobo@reddit

I remember Grizzly tales for gruesome kids being scary as a kid but can't remember any particular episodes. The episode of Ren and Stimpy where they climb inside their bellybuttons was freaky.

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fenriskalto@reddit

I can't seem to find it now, but there was one of the old-old Dr Who episodes, where there was some kind of floating glowing green monster, I think I recall it being a floating head? And it zipped around inside whatever room they were in chasing them and scared the heck out of me. Wish I could find the episode so I could go back and see if it's as creepy as I remember! More likely I'm going to laugh at the appallingly old CGI...

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ImmediateTripwire@reddit

Girl in the fireplace - Doctor Who. God that one scared me! I had to have a clock taken from my room because I was afraid the droids were hiding somewhere. I must have only been about 6 or 7 when I first saw that one.

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bitterbenjiEXX@reddit

Omg having to take the clock out to get rid of ticking noises!!

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MobiusNaked@reddit

I see your bids and I raise you : [Children of the Stone](https://youtu.be/SwT0wLnT7Rc) Even the intro is terrifying. Slow to start but….

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Nicki3000@reddit

The Demon Headmaster. Every episode from the season with the hologram.

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zelda4444@reddit

The last episode of Dinosaurs where they all die was BRUTAL!!

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peelyon85@reddit

Dizzy Heights. Those puppets scared the life out of me.

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DaddyRAS@reddit

Not a TV show. The LP of Dougal and the Blue Cat, the Magic Roundabout film. My parents recorded it onto tape for long car journeys. It kept me and my sister quiet because it scared the shit out of us.

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Sea_University219@reddit

The Pingu episode with the walrus - Pingu’s nightmare truly was nightmare fuel!

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billythepub@reddit

The witches by roald dahl movie. He man, masters of the universe movie from the 80s with Courtney Cox.

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loki_dd@reddit

Chocy. I don't remember anything other than associating the name with absolute terror

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Boisterous-Oyster@reddit

I have a core memory of watching an episode of The Telletubbies with the wooden Scary Bear and the Scary Lion. Their eyes used to spin around and I’m pretty certain it got taken off of TV. Also a special mention to Bart’s evil twin in the Simpson.

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ComfortableCream6855@reddit

SpongeBob, the episode where SpongeBob and Patrick have to wait through the night for the bus at the station, and there’s creepy fish everywhere. The ticket fish is creepy as fuck too. That’s pretty much all I can remember but it was enough to stick with me to nearly 23!

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Equivalent_Parking_8@reddit

I remember being scared by the day of the triffids. Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy series set in a circus - the greatest show in the galaxy. Also Grotbags coming on meant I hid behind the sofa.

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I_Am_Sweet_Potato@reddit

Courage the Cowardly Dog - "return the slab"

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mehxk@reddit

Not an episode but the film Dot and the Kangaroo, when the animated bunyip chases her. With bunyip music. Absolutely terrifying for no good reason.

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teeesstoo@reddit

Fireman Sam. Bella Lasagne gets stuck in a lift. I'm still scared of lifts. I'm in my late 20s.

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JBB2002902@reddit

The episode of goosebumps where the spaghetti turned into worms. Still makes me look twice at my dinner to check before each forkful of spaghetti.

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justabean27@reddit

Courage the cowardly dog

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zophzz@reddit

Can't recall a specific episode but courage the cowardly dog

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Jupiter1511@reddit

There's a moment at the end of an episode of The Billy and Mandy Show where Billy has hyper realistic eyes that always freaked me out a lot (still don't like stuff like that as an adult tbh)

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lithaborn@reddit

They never bothered me but I'm told on good authority that the works of Oliver postgate are mostly nightmare fuel, as are bod, Jamie and the magic torch and the witch from chorlton and the wheelies. All of them my favourite TV shows when I was very little. Never bothered me one bit.

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Gazebadly@reddit

There was a Tom Baker Dr Who episode where there was a machine that made things age. They used it on an egg, it became a chick, then adult chicken, then died and became a skeleton. That skeleton terrified me, I had nightmares about it. A year or two later I was at a relative's farm and they opened an old shed that had been lost in nettles for years. There inside was the perfect skeleton of a chicken. They probably heard my scream in the next county.

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scXIII@reddit

There were quite a few episodes of Courage the Cowardly dog that used to frighten me as a kid, didn't help that it usually came on later in the evening before bed lol

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