Children are notorious for getting easily frightened. Some adults as well I suppose! Some of us might remember having to sleep with the light/TV on, or might even have had to get into our parents bed because we were too scared to sleep by ourselves. I know that this was me or my brothers on more than one occasion!
I'd like to know what frightened you lot as a child? Here's a list of things that scared the bejeezus out of me!
A scary movie
A crime committed in the local area
A child who had gone missing in any area
Someone I may have seen in the street who just looked dead scary (although they probably were of course quite innocent!)
Hearing strange noises in the night especially if I thought they were coming from my room!
Oh goodness, what didn't freak me out as a kid! In fact what doesn't freak me out as an adult! 😂
I was afraid of the dark as some of you have said, but another thing that totally creeped me the hell out were those Crimestoppers appeals in the eighties and nineties. Those of you who lived in Britain at that time will know what I'm talking about, They would appear out of nowhere during daytime commercial breaks without warning. The opening credits which featured a montage of facial parts combined with eerie music were truly frightening. Well for a child anyway. And the way the brief reconstructions were filmed were also quite sinister. While I understand the point of these appeals, I wonder if it ever dawned on anyone in broadcasting that children watching these would be scared out of their wits. I was! I'd think about what I'd seen that day as I was falling asleep. No wonder I wanted to sleep in my parents room. I'm just glad that for much of that time, I shared a room with my sister.