So this video was meant to release on my channel's 6 year, 6 month, 6 day anniversary... but they don't call me Lazy for nothing! Actually, real world responsibilities kinda got in the way of me making this long-ass video, but I'm happy it's finally complete. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed a suggestion! Also, sorry for being away for a month... back to business as usual now
I've been watching since 2016 when I was 13/14, your vids used to play whilst I was getting ready for school and now are background noise for when I'm studying at uni! Your videos are always so well put together and I always look forward to watching whatever you put out. Thank you for six years lazy! :)
The Smiler accident wasn't caused by a malfunction, it was human error. Earlier in the day, an empty car was sent for a test run and remained on the track. The fact that there was an extra car on the track wasn't properly communicated to everyone involved in the ride's operation. The ride actually gave an error indicating an obstruction on the tracks, but it was overridden by one of the rides mechanics, ultimately causing the crash. There are some great videos explaining what happened way better than I did and I suggest people check them out.
Interesting fact. The idiot who caused it actually rocked up at Alton towers, in front of the Cheif executive. He gently reminded her that she was banned from merlin entertainment
I’m Asian and lived in Japan, and I can explain why sliding doors are scary - the paper is slightly translucent which means it’s easy to create creepy shadow puppet show with correct lightning (especially with a flash of lightning) And yes, a bunch of horror movies and anime love to use this trope…
@@smbcollector Funny how I feel our internal doors provide this false sense of security also, but most people have those flimsy honeycomb doors as internal doors.
I remember my mom would let me stay in the room with her when she played Silent Hill because she was too scared to play it alone and one of my favorite memories was her telling me not to look at the screen. Of course, being a curious kid, I turned to look and she threw a blanket over my head just before the cutscene got bad
At 9-10mins in the video, the GROK lonely monster 👹, seems very similiar to the monster in the movie The Babadook, almost like it was a modern inspiration of it! 😮
The horse dying in The Never Ending story was traumatic as heck. That, and the original Willy Wonka film. The idea of drowning in chocolate or being incinerated to death was horrifying.
Poor Artex 😭 Also, that moment where Atreyu sees a knight get blasted by the two statue things and then goes over and flips up his visor to see a horribly burnt face?
STORY: A very young girl is home alone for the first time with only her dog for company. Listening to the news, she hears of a killer on the loose in her neighborhood. Terrified, she locks all the doors and windows, but she forgets about the basement window and it is left unlocked. She goes to bed, taking her dog to her room with her and letting it sleep under her bed. She wakes in the night to hear a dripping sound coming from the bathroom. The dripping noise frightens her, but she is too scared to get out of bed and find out what it is. To reassure herself, she reaches a hand toward the floor for the dog and is rewarded by a reassuring lick on her hand. The next morning when she wakes, she goes to the bathroom for a drink of water only to find her dead, mutilated dog hanging in the shower with his blood slowly dripping onto the tiles. On the shower wall, written in the dog's blood, are the words "HUMANS CAN LICK TOO."
Fun fact, the reason why "where the dead go to die" looks so uncanny, is because the director; no joke, used Xbox Kinect as his CGI design. That's right! Creative people, will always find a way to make their medium known
That last entry hit hard. While in elementary school one of my classmates, who had the same first name as me, died of cancer. Teachers and other students were invited to attend his funeral and I went. I was aware of death before, but never to the extent seeing him in a casket would bring to my attention. He was my age, same name as me, gone just like that. Within months of his diagnosis, a kid I would play football with and show books to in the library, who attended communion the same day as me and was right next to me in line, just gone. Very unsettling at 7/8 years old. Rest In Peace Kevin. I still think about you.
I can't imagine how surreal it would be for a young child to hear adults eulogizing about someone with the same name as you. That must've been horrifying and compounding on the grief you were already feeling. I'm sorry for that. On a lighter note, it's kind of like the opposite of the idea of sleeping with someone with the same name as you XD That's ALSO very surreal, but in an incredibly different way
Doing the whole "sonder" thing makes me feel more at ease when I'm anxious. It reminds me that I am alone and no stranger is up in my business, just like I'm not up in theirs.
as someone who grew up in the midwest and lived with the threat of tornadoes every spring/summer the emergency alert sound always scared me, that usually meant shit was about to go down. Imagine this: you're a kid, playing in the outdoor community pool. There are lightning flashes in the distance and you can see the darkest cloud imaginable. Like night was looming in the sky. The lifeguard blows the whistle and everyone gets out and has to go home. When you get home your mom rushes you into the shower because you shouldn't be in the shower during a storm. After that, you watch some cartoons while waiting for the storm to pass, maybe if it is short-lived you can go back to the pool again! The sky is now engulfed in the black clouds, the rain is coming down in sheets, and the sound of the rain and thunder are almost drowning out the tv. Just as plankton is about to unleash his latest plan to get the krabby patty secret formula, the sound blasts through the TV screen. The muffled and garbled voice of a man blasts through saying that there is a tornado warning and lists the county that you live in and lists your city that it is heading toward. It tells you to take shelter and how long the warning is to last. Just like that the power cuts out and the house is deadly quiet aside from the sound of the storm outside. Now, hail is falling from the sky, like golf balls are being rained down and bouncing off of everything. Your mom runs and grabs you and you have to run to the downstairs closet. You sit in there, in that tight space, in the dark, and the storm that sounds like the world is ending outside. that sound still unnerves me even as adult, which is what its supposed to do. But when I see a storm and hear that sound I know that things are about to get real bad real quick
I wish I was more scared of tornadoes as they are truly destructive and awful and it's smart to be terrified of them. Even had one that passed over my house and knocked the neighbours tree onto his house. Been through so many that anymore it's like "yup, guess it's time to get in the basement again." I couldn't imagine being stuck in a car whilst a tornado is coming your way, though. That would be an absolute nightmare.
I had a tornado go up our dirt road as a child. It went right between the house we were sleeping in and the shed. They both run parallel and are pretty close to each other. It continued past and ripped off aluminum siding on the house and shed. It continued its path right through the forest behind our house and ripped a path as wide as a football field through the trees leaving nothing but roots and dirt. A hole in the forest at least 5x or 6x wider than the distance between our shed and house.. This happened in the middle of the night during hurricane Hugo in NC. We all slept through it. A family of four. We had no idea till we saw it in the morning. I have no doubt that Jesus was watching over us. Sending angels to guard us as we slept. We didn't even hear it. There was hardly any damage to our house or shed but there was a path that we could clearly see going between them both. It's like we had a shield around our structures.
When lazy discussed the empty servers it reminds me of working overnights at a store, and getting all the shopping carts outside. It’s midnight and the shopping plaza is all empty, and the only thing heard is the loudspeaker music playing ghostly in the distance. It’s surreal and eerie, as if the place is suppose to be lively but it’s just the echo of a days past.
That just made working at Walmart or equivalent so much fecking worse to me. Ya, sure, you got to deal with the occasional weirdo or criminal stalking around, but I never realized you've have to go outside in the dark to collect (probably scattered) carts out of a dark (possibly empty or not so empty) parking lot. That's just... on another level I think I'd rather not think about XD
A couple of years back I was in another city for training for a job I had recently landed, they had us stay at a hotel that was connected to a shopping mall, the mall itself was open 24/7 since otherwise people in the hotel would be stuck indoors late at night and because there was a convenience store that was open 24/7 on the opposite end of the mall, I would frequently go to this convenience store late at night and my god it was a creepy walk across the mall, most of it was fairly dark and the only thing you could hear was the faint music in the distance of a small children's ride (you know, those little cars that just rock back and forth) that never got turned off.
My biggest trauma was the realization of “Nothing”. Like what would the universe be if the Big Bang never happened. And trying to visualize it just left me so scared
Ramses curse destroyed my mind as a kid. I now have a Courage tattoo on my forearm cause he got me through more than I could handle in life, and about to get the slab on the back of my forearm, well, because it shaped me into who I am with horror.
I'm glad you got through it. My first exposure to Courage was Freaky Fred. I still find him creepy, but enjoyably so. I was a huge wimp as a kid, so Courage was too much for me. Same with Goosebumps. I was horrified of the book covers, and when my teacher was going to force me to watch the show for Halloween, I threw a fit and my mom took me home. XP
it's shocking to me that people's main reaction to sonder is to feel sad, like they don't matter. I remember the moment I first felt it, and my reaction was the exact opposite. it gave me an even more profound sense of empathy for my fellow people. the moment I realized it, I was sitting in my parents car some time in the late 90s/early 00s and I was watching the people go by as I waited for my parents to come back. I saw two school age girls meeting up on a street corner across from me, who giggled at something in a spiral lisa frank notebook one of them had before they gleefully darted into a nearby book store. behind them was a woman lighting a cigarette and leaning on the bus stop, looking like life had pissed on her day and had been for years. walking the other direction was a man with his very excited dog, and on the other side of the car I heard a man walking by talking very excitedly, and the only words I caught (or remember) was "new baby". it was in that moment that I fully realized that all these people have just as deep and vast a life as I do. that, just like the books in the store the girls ran into, every single one of us is the main character of the story of our lives. and just like the vastness of every book, you truly don't know the vastness of their life until you open their book. and, those books can be deceiving. that woman who looked so upset could simply be having a bad day, but have an otherwise happy life, while those girls, who acted much like I did, could have had serious trauma that they still suffered with, but in this moment they were enjoying their friendship. a friendship that existed in a web of stories I would never know, but existed all the same. their experiences were just as real as mine, and just as deep as mine, and that you truly, cannot know what any given person is going through. what secrets they may be hiding, if they have any at all. and likewise, no one else could see what I was hiding, what I was going through, unless they opened my book. and just like myself, every single person I saw pass me by all had the same feelings. yes, the specifics of our experiences are not always the same, but we all yearn for acceptance, community, love and acceptance. we all want help when we're down and to share a laugh with our friends. we are all *human* at our core, and the vastness of humanity exists in us all in equal measure, and we are not as alone as we may think we are. we are all individual, yet we are all the same. and in a way, we are all books. everyone has their own book, their own story, their own world. it's own perspective even within the same world as another. and every book has a hero, a villain, and a conflict. and all our books, our stories, are connected. I am the hero in mine, but I could be the villain or the conflict in someone else's, just as others were the villain or conflict in my own. yet we all feel justified in our own actions and beliefs to at least some degree. and we also, in equal measure, have the ability to be the change we want to see in the world, even if that world is only the world of one person's life, which is why I think those stories of people passing kindness to others around them, like buying something for the person in front of them in line that can't afford it, who can then pass that kindness onto the next person when they are able, are such profound examples of human kindness. they don't change the world, but at the same time, they do. sonder gave me a deeper understanding of the true meaning of "treat others the way you want to be treated", and what it means to engage with others in good faith, two rules I was raised on. though my philosophy now is closer to "do no harm; but take no shit", as no matter what someone is going through it does not give them the right to treat you like a doormat or that you can't stand up for yourself, as *you too* deserve to treat *yourself* the way you would want others to treat you, I still believe this was an integral lesson in my youth, one that I still take with me into most of my interactions with others to this day. so to hear others felt this and viewed themselves as small, worthless or meaningless, an insignificant part of the world no different from any other, that anything they did was futile and pointless, I find that absolutely heartbreaking, and hope one day they can look into the eyes of another, and see the vastness of their own universe🌸
It’s probably the “to some people I’m just a meaningless person in the background” that makes them sad and feeling like they’re not that unique since everyone has a life going on At least that’s the only reason I can think of
yeah me too. i actually found it kind of comforting, like it reminded me that everyone has gone through good and bad things and that they also live lives that are just as complicated as mine, and it honestly made me feel much less alone concerning my own problems. i think sonder is something that should really bring more people together and make them more self aware to others instead of something sad. i also love the "do no harm, but take no shit"
To me it's overwhelming. Time stretches eternally to both directions, filled with events far more complex I could ever know and the human experience just adds multiple layers on top. It's all so unfathomable. I personally have called the feeling "social thalassophobia" but it's fun to know the actual term.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and i remember sneaking out of bed to watch the horror shows that were on late at night. There was "Tales From The Dark Side" and "Monsters". Not the most original but i did like the start of those shows. Monsters was just comical like but the other one creeped me out... imagining a mirrored like dimension resembling our but evil. Just thought provoking to me as a kid. And whether anyone believes it or not (don't care). I had some 'paranormal' experiences growing up and even a few as an adult. So certain things have always seemed extremely interesting to me mostly for my own personal reasons. Which i mostly keep to myself.
there was one episode i saw as a kid, a woman crashed on the side of the road and when someone drove by and saw it, the camera shifted to showing the woman just standing in a field with the moon light lighting her lower half. it was honestly really well shot but oh so frighting
Even worse, right after Unsolved Mysteries was a show about aliens called Sightings. I always was freaked out by the shadows on my window shades and the sounds of our house settling during the night after watching that show. Never stopped watching the show, thought. To this day I love scaring myself like that.
Emergency Broadcasts were a horrible fear growing up. I lived in a state that would have violent tornados, so hearing it immediately brought intense fear. It's strange now as an adult in my 40s (I now live in a state where it is never heard) how that sound still rests in my memories waiting.
Where I grew they played it literally every time it rained (Vegas) so it was annoying it I was trying to watch something but overall actually loved to hear it since I love rain.
One thing that really got me when I was young was the “falling man” image. I was probably 10 or so and it took me years to be able to look at it and not be afraid
I wasn't scared of it when I first saw it, cause I was older. But I was scared of stupid stuff like Jeff the Killer when I was 15, so if I had seen that kind of picture at 10? I would've been really upset. XD
“Baby’s first taste of existential dread” I used to experience this phenomenon as a kid and have asked many others if they ever experienced it. Surreal that lazy verified it in this video. I’ve never heard any reference to this occurrence before today.
@@pundertalefan4391 yeah I was always fascinated by the extreme shift in perspective (and I don’t mean just physically but also how I saw the world conceptually).
Felt the same thing as a kid but never heard of a name associated with it, although I always assumed some people had to experience that feeling. For me I wouldn’t even have to look at the sky, looking at mountains far off in the distance and the expanse of the visible world stretching even further gave me that weird uneasy feeling, same as driving through a city and really noticing every car and building flow seamlessly in a delicate order that would be destructive to interrupt
Cool how this iceberg has stuff from different places in the world and isn’t just American/British stuff like a lot of them are. I want to throw my Australian hat in the ring and mention Soupe Opera. For a TV show about fruit and vegetables, it sure did terrify a lot of people. I actually used to run screaming from the room when it came on.
The unsolved mystery reminded me of a meme I recently read that said “kids today will never know the feeling of running home when the street lights came on or you ended up on unsolved mystery like nature intended” lmao
It’s weird because I never played the Sims (despite being a socially isolated teen in the early 2000s 🙃) but I just got a vicarious chill down my spine hearing that sound. It’s like I’m being shown how I would’ve felt if I HAD played the Sims at that time… The Sonic drowning music on the other hand… I definitely have first hand experience of that, and also residual trauma.
Same. When I first played a Sonic game, I had no idea about the bubble mechanic. It was a mostly water themed level as well, so I heard that music at least 20 times while freaking out about what to do. Eventually, I figured it out completely by accident. This was before you could look up advice and solutions, so I'm glad that's a possibility now. But I still get uncomfortable hearing that theme to this day. XP
About the children who followed the Pied Piper out of Hamelin: I've heard it suggested that they were "children" only in the sense of being unmarried person who were recruited to settle an underpopulated region of Poland or Ukraine - much as the "infantry" were "infants" in the sense that they were younger sons of knights who couldn't afford to own horses and join the cavalry.
Thank you , I've never thought if there definition of "infantry " before...but I will always be proud of an off the cuff, logical explanation for "5th column" (Because soldiers March in four columns so the spies and secret assassins were of course the invisible 5th column marching with them)
“Stuff you should know” podcast did a great episode on whether the Pied Piper of Hamelin was a true story or not. They point out that, when it comes to fairy tales, the Pied Piper tale contains many specifics that many other fairy tales don’t. Such as exact dates and locations. They surmise that something definitely happened where a significant amount of children disappeared or were killed or died horrifically in Hamelin. Really interesting stuff, highly recommend checking it out.
I was terrified of the Easter bunny when I was a child, the idea of running into a 6ft humanoid bunny was enough to keep me in my bed under the covers all night on Easter Saturday.
my mom had to tell me that the tooth fairy wasn’t real because i’d have full blown panic attacks thinking about some lady breaking into my house at night to steal my bones. my mom had to do the same thing with my brother except santa was his fear. she raised some geniuses tbh
in high school i worked at a bunny photo set in my local mall. the amount of kids mid meltdown being forced by their parents to sit on the easter bunny's lap for the photo made me quit. just from working around kids that much, you'd be able to tell the difference between a regular tantrum and genuine fear. we tried our best as staff to show kids it wasn't scary, but hell, without the context, i'd be shitting myself.
That “sonder” thing is 100% something I have experienced/thought about on a number of occasions. I’m 27 and work in retail and it’s such a strange thought that in my 27 years on this planet I have never seen, spoken to or even knew the existence of a person I am now for a brief few seconds in communication with, after which I will likely never ever see again in my life. They are a mere few seconds in my life story yet they are a huge part of so many other peoples life’s through family, friendships and work. They are someone’s child, someone’s parent, someone’s grandparent, someone’s brother or sister, someone’s best friend and they live these rich and full lives and like me have had so many wonderful life moments and experiences. Birthdays, Christmases, parties, nights out, holidays. They are living these full and complete lives and experiencing love, joy, happiness, sadness and heartbreak and yet I will only ever seen them for a mere few seconds in one moment in time.
This happens to me, but with people in cars. Like, I'll see them pass by and sometimes, for a split second, I wonder about their life, where are they going? Who are they? What is their life like? What sadness and hardships do they carry with them? What losses have they experienced? What joys? Are they in love? Are they loved? And then it's like... so long stranger, never to be seen again... It's kind of eerie when you analyze it, lol.
I always think about this and sometimes wonder where random people are. Like random kids i played with as a kid i met at a park or the random person i met at a airport bar waiting for my flight
I remember my aunt reading me the haunted house story as a kid and that image brought back some vivid memories. “Who will stay with me this cold and lonely night?” God, still gives me chills thinking about it over a decade later
Introducing children to fear is vital to development and I feel like we've forgotten that. Small doses of fear teach a person how to face fear and overcome it. Without it you get people who are too scared to face even everyday adult responsibility.
I wasn’t scared by these things, I enjoyed them, and now I’m fearful of getting a job at 19 So I’m an example of what happens when you don’t properly scare kids
When I was a small kid I was OBSESSED with Smile HD lol I found it funny. I get that these childhood trauma iceberg videos arent meant to be serious and I dont hold anything against them, but theres a difference between childhood trauma and showing scary subject matter to kids to toughen them up
And also that a healthy dose of fear can often keep you safe. You don't want to bungee jump? That's fine. You don't want to stand out on that rock overhang to get a selfie? No worries. Those that have no fear often end up slipping and falling to their death.
As a kid, tombstones with old dates gave me my baby's first existential dread. Just the idea that whole lives happened and ended before I was ever born. To this day, I still get an odd feeling from it, especially from people who died at a similar age to me.
There was a show on Discovery Channel called "A haunting" from the 2000s where survivors of paranormal occurrences would share their story while it was recreated by actors, this was what got me interested in the paranormal/horror genre but the thing that got me traumatized as a kid was a scene where a witch was laughing while the protagonist house caught up in flames, I had to stop watching the show for a while because it gave me nightmares.
God, the early 2000's was a drought for good paranormal shows, if felt like. You had the fake reaction ones but nothing solid and based on a "true story" kind of deal. I was always trying to find more paranormal shows and stuff. I watched A Haunting probably a million times and would remember stuff from it if shown again but can't even recall a single thing off the top of my head haha.
Hello Japanese viewer here. Although I was raised in various different countries, sliding doors have really scared me when I first saw them (I was 10 at the time) The door for rooms didn’t scare me but the Oshi-ire scared me a lot. It’s basically just a storage room to keep Futon inside but with the exact same type of doors. 2 things specifically scared me. One is that those closets are 2 decked so I couldn’t see below. Which made me think a hand would reach out to grab my leg. Second Is since Oshi-ires are horizontally long with 2 doors, i was scared there’s gonna be a face peeking from the other side… And recently I found a ghost video with both of them literally happening. I know it was fake but it didn’t help at all 🥲
As a child I loved watching "Are you Afraid of the Dark", Goosebumps books, and any scary story book I could get my hands on, Oh and the "Scary Stories" book series.
My daughter is 19, and the most terrifying dream she had as a kid, one that we still talk about today, was about being attacked by Swiper from Dora The Explorer. The ironic thing about that, was she suffered from night terrors. Anyone who has a kid who has night terrors, will tell you that for the parent they are the most frightening thing, but the person having them has no memory of them.
When I was about 4, my mom let me watch "Watership down" in TV. She thought, it's with rabbits and an animated film and therefore has to be cute. I still remember having been horrified, even 40 years later.
@@susi-emily I am kind of glad I am not the only one having experienced that. What did they think, showing this to little kids? Being 7 when watching this must be even harder than being 4. I didn't understand half of the stuff, you must have understood better being 7.
It’s sad that Watership Down gets this dark scary rep… it’s my favorite book and it’s incredibly beautiful… full of rabbit language, folklore, and spirituality and the fight for survival and friendship
@@battywitch4096 I think it’s very beautiful, including the way death is handled. However, for some of us seeing it really young, with no practical understanding of loss, it was pretty upsetting.
The vanity card at the end of Courage the Cowardly Dog TERRIFIED me as a kid. The show was not scary, but the laugh at the end was instant screaming material. My parents would have to run into my room when they knew the show was over and turn off my TV before it
Astounded that the animated "Watership Down" didn't make it to the list. I was shown the film on early Laserdisc at the age of five: I was left alone to watch what my parents thought would be a fanciful adventure with talking bunnies. It was actually a barrage of confrontations with death... sudden, visceral, bloody, and haunting. The ones that stuck with me most were Captain Holly's description of the extermination of the warren: holes filled in and its occupants gassed... the writhing, desperate bodies gasping for air, the dying rabbit's eyes rolling back with veins bulging as he recounts "Everything turned mad..." I drew pictures of these death scenes, trying to capture the strange, terrible and darkly fascinating feeling, to tame and master my fear. Close behind this was the scene of the rabbit choking to death in a snare: straining at the wire, panting, blood and foam seeping from his mouth, as his companions desperately tried to outwit and disarm the mechanism... and the haunting prayer of the rabbits when they are sure he is gone: "My heart has joined a thousand... for my friend stopped running today" in voices so somber and numb with grief. The seriousness and directness of this film in dealing with violent death, grief, and the sense that mystical insight could give one an edge over looming death, really stayed with me and informed my later spiritual development, blending the profound with the macabre.
Absolutely 100% - that "couldn't get out" barrow scene is by far the most terrifying scene to date for me and inspired absolute terror in my sister and I as kids. To date I shudder at the thought of seeing it again and don't think I would be able to do so.
I had read the novel before seeing the film so I knew what to expect, but that didn't make it any less heartbreaking. What I loved about the novel/film is that the rabbits behaved like real rabbits not Disney/Pixar animals. Even with General Woundwort and his subjugation of his warren was realistic. Gotta love how he attacked the dog. Also, how surprised he was when he found out Bigwig wasn't the leader of the warren (although he was larger and stronger) but it was Hazel. 🐇☺️
I still have never watched Watership Down in it's entirety, but I caught a glimpse of that warren scene, and it lives rent free in my head, and horrifies me every time it pops up in there.
watership down is certainly an unsettling classic but personally i think "the plague dogs" by the same author and animation studio is a lot darker while i don't think its quite as good it has a far more grim dark and depressing atmosphea well worth a watch if you liked watership down i will warn you though that it it lacks the somewhat bittersweet ending that watership down has its pretty grim from start to finish
A minor note on desensitization, you can resensitize by avoiding the things that were desensitizing you for a while. I've experienced it myself, actually!
I hope this is a thing. I spent the bulk of my teen years exposing myself to all sorts of horrors, and would regularly binge-watch true-crime channels like Disturban But I have noticed I do not react as other people do to school shootings, deaths, etc. I'm not sure if I'm desensitized or just view death differently than the average person (kinda like in Brave New World, I guess). But I just found out I'm not completely immune to fear, since I still come upon pictures that make my skin crawl (which is a recent development, actually). I actually looked up what that 'Blond picture' Lazy mentioned and it got a physical reaction out of me. But, who knows, maybe it's my pulling back from true crime and all the mass horrors of the world (and avoiding the news XD) Maybe there's hope for me (and others) yet
I came from a third world country and I was desensitized to butchering farm animal for family dinner. Got quite good at it actually. Now I can’t even bring myself to kill any animal
This happened to me. As a teen I'd deliberately seek out that sort of messed up stuff, but now that I'm an adult I know being desensitized to gore isn't a badge of honor, it's just sad.
The mortality part is so true. When I was really young, like 5 or 6 I had a very unnerving dream where I was about to go on a trip and saying goodbye to my mom. I then started running off happily before realising I didn't give her a goodbye kiss on the cheek, something we always did back then. Whenever I turned around to fix that, she was gone, nothing but mist and the gloomy atmosphere of the dream. I woke up crying my eyes out and scared. It was the very moment I realized my mom one day will be gone, and I might not even have the chance to say goodbye. To this day, two decades later, I still remember every detail of that dream and the memory still makes me uncomfortable.
I remember finding the Groke very scary as a child, but then I learned that she was just lonely and seeking warmth, and I stopped fearing her. Pity/compassion is a surefire fear-killer for me. Poor Groke... :c
Her and the Hattenfatteners were some of my favourite characters as a tot, I wasn't afraid of them at all. But do you remember the episode where Moomin crawls into the Warlock's hat when playing hide-and-seek? What crawled out again well and truly freaked me right out, sent me crying to mum!
I always related to the groke in a way because I struggled making friends and then when I finally could find kids to play with I was immature with social rules so I would often mess it up. Poor Groke is just misunderstood and I'm happy we have things like the Moomins to reinforce compassion!
Groke really doesn't wanna cause you harm unlike certain Ice queen or whatever her name is in English. Imagine getting killed bc you where looking at someone
@@stupidvendace4454 Oh yeah, "Isfrun"! She was right scary, but that was the point! Not necessarily evil, but amoral and deadly, like the winter she personified.
The Japanese sliding door thing made me think of something from my own childhood. When I was really young, like pre-school age, the house we lived in had a guest room. My memories of the house are vague, but I think this room only had a queen sized bed and this one lamp. I often wanted to go play in the room because my parents would let me jump on the bed. However, I refused to go into the room alone because for some reason I absolutely hated the lamp. It was really tall and slender, and the body was made of black metal. I can actually recall having nightmares about being in the room alone with it. I don’t know what it was about it, but it just made me feel so unsettled.
I had this same feeling about one of my grandmothers lamps. the body was of a character from an old tv show, but because of its age the paint was chipped and peeling, just gave me the worst vibes.
I've got a similar story except my grandma had this vacuum cover that was a maid.. it had an eerie silhouette in the night and was at the far corner of the house.
wow i had no idea other people were scared of certain lamps!! my grandparents had a floor lamp with a really weird top that i thought looked like a duck person. i called it the duck lamp. i absolutely hated it and did not want to be in the rom alone with it.
My son is PETRIFIED of the ESA sound. We get the sound when a child goes missing (amber alert) and then we hear it on tv as a test/ when hurricane come. He’s 8 and literally goes into full panic and won’t leave my side for HOURS after.
They used to scare me as a child too! And I never knew why!!!! It’s like the loud sound made you know something was wrong I guess! My grandma used to let me watch America’s most wanted in 5th grade and every time John Walsh told a story of a fugitive at the end he would tell you what states they are most likely in or headed towards let me tell you I wouldn’t sleep all night!!! I would think they would show up at my house 😂😂 omg the things that scar you as a child
@@bigboy6704 same! It still freaks me out for real . My phone got one the other day for a child abduction near me literally it woke me up at 3:30 in the morning I was so creeped out
It still startles me for a few minutes afterward, and I'm in my 30s lol. Sometimes when that sound wakes me up it's hard to get back to sleep. I guess the sound is supposed to let you know something serious/urgent is happening, so mission accomplished I guess.
I read the bongcheon dong ghost comic late at night, and it was my first taste of moving webcomics. I had prided myself at the time for being able to predict jumpscares, but between the stellar timing and the fact that it MOVED, I nearly jumped out of my chair. I had expressed to an older friend how much it scared me, and showed him the comic, and he followed up by waiting for me to go outside after dark. he was staying next door at the time and waited for me to take my dog out as I always did, and he waited around the corner, in the dark, and hissed "WHERE'S MY BABY" at me. I obviously screamed, and its been a running joke of ours ever since.
If you read it during its hype (around late 2000s), you will see the traumatized face of your peers and then they will share it to other people who haven't seen it before.
Great story. I first watched it on Pewdipie's channel, thinking it wouldn't be scary. Granted, he did make it less scarier than just reading it alone, but it still freaked me out. XD
ET never scared me except for the one scene where he's lying in the dirt, ghostly white and almost dead. I had never considered the idea that aliens could die or what it would look like and that image haunted me for years.
The Secret of Nihm also terrified me as a kid. The scene when all the rats are experimented on and killed in multiple colors is just as scary as that scene in Dumbo where all the pink elephants are dancing with black eyes.
I'm surprised Return to Oz wasn't on here. It was like watching a fever dream. Queen Mombi who lived in a mirror palace and could remove and replace her head gave me nightmares. There was also the Deadly Desert where if you touched the sand you would immediately turn to sand yourself, and the Wheelers, which were these creepy dudes that were part humanoid, part bike. The movie literally starts with Dorothy being put in an asylum and about to be given electroshock therapy.
The "knowing every life is as comlex as yours" was kicking it for me. Full on existential dread from 16 on. Sometimes I forget this, and when I remember, the existential dread comes back
Thats odd to me, I always found sonder comforting. I guess I felt better knowing I wasn't alone or the only person having a bad time. I could picture people maybe on the way to the hospital to say a goodbye nobody teaches you how to make. People going home to empty houses or houses full of love. I liked to picture all the range of human experience and knowing mine was just 1 small tale among them made my issues seem much smaller and more manageable somehow.
@@evil1by1 I think about it that way as well. However, it completely terrified me when I first realized it. One day, when I was about 14, I was on a drive with my family and I saw a woman crying in her car. It made me feel very bad for her, but it was this exact moment that I thought to myself "Wait a minute, these random passerbys aren't NPC's, they're people!" I never once had that thought before seeing her, but after I did, I saw everything and everyone in a different light. To add to this (as well as end on an admittingly sad note), I have no idea who she was, and I'll never see her again, but she unknowingly influenced another person's life. Really makes you think about life. I've often wondered if I've done the same thing to someone else at some point in my life...Whoever she was, I just wish it was possible to meet her and tell her how she caused me to have an existential crisis. I wonder how someone would react to that. Lol.
“It’s Him”‘s drawing from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the most haunting as a kid. The way dude’s mouth curled and eyes were dead yet bulged. Gammell is out of this world brilliant.
One of the stories has given me what I would call my worst nightmare. Something I'm scared of more than anything else is a bug laying an eggsack in me. That drawing that goes along with the spider story scares me to no end.
I handled my fear of E.T. as a small child by making him my imaginary friend 😂 My parents had to bathe him and buckle his seat belt, and as if reassuring myself, I'd constantly say, "E.T.: he's just a little guy."
@@AmbuBadger Then you should pray to Jesus. There are no such things as aliens from other planets.. It's a demon. Or you are on really powerful drugs. Either way I would say you are still seeing demons. I'm not joking or being sarcastic. But you, might be..
@@IKnowHowItEnds Oh, no! I'm a KJV-believing Baptist, my brother! I was joking that we were seeing the same imaginery friend! There was a stand-up comedy skit years back where a guy describes trying to get out of a blind date with a crazy woman, and he tells her "I have an imaginary friend named Bosco." The joke is that her eyes lit up and she replied, "oh, you know Bosco too?!"
@@IKnowHowItEnds Please take your attitude elsewhere. You, nor anyone else, knows if aliens are real or not. This is not the place to shove religion down someone's throat, head to Reddit if you want an echo chamber.
The fact that another youtuber used this picture 44:13 from google as a thumbnail for a video about the russian sleep experiment, doesn't mean that the origins of the picture, and therefore history, have somehow changed to the russian sleep experiment.
Russian viewer here. I saw "Hedgehog in the Fog" once as a kid (like many did, I suppose) during the episode of "Goodnight kids" TV show. Although it did not scar(e) me as a 6-year-old boy, it seemed quite sad, and the ending seemed somewhat bittersweet. Now that I'm 22, the film gives off a vibe of sort an existential dread, as if it's actually a metaphor of a person lost in life, yet managing to cope with its turmoils by sticking to the hope they have in life. The Soviet animation definitely has a hell lot of deep, thought-provoking masterpieces such as this one
Fellow russian viewer (would type in russian but no russian letters on keyboard smh) and I saw it too. Idk why but I remember it not being scary but kinda comforting, if sad.
Unsolved Mysteries, while deeply troubling seeing all the unsolved crimes, was a big part of my life. My grandmother and I would watch every time it came on. Paying especially close attention when the crimes happened close to where she lived in Tulsa,OK. I'm happy to see you're still doing well and making videos, Lazy. Your videos make my work days go by so much smoother :)
Big time. There was an episode of a haunted bar and they showed a green head on a cutting board with a look on its face I’ll never forget. Shit stuck with me 😖
About sonder: I've experienced this before. The feeling usually hits me when I'm in a crowded place, and I think "wow, all these people have lifes and dreams and memories that I'll never know about". But it doesn't fill me with existencial dread, I actually find it rather comforting to realize how insignificant I am in the big scheme of things. I mean, our brain is a fucking jerk, right? It likes to relive all of our most embarrassing memories at the worst possible times, usually when we're trying to sleep. When this happens, I tell myself that people have their own lifes to worry about, and they're not likely to remember that time I tripped with a carton of eggs in my hands. I'm not that important to the world, and that's fine by me.
I agree! Everyone one has their own story to tell! no two are the same. But if you're lucky and do something memorable to or for someone, you'll be remembered in a different story. Even if Its something as simple as dropping an egg carton or buying them a coffe. Small things can have a big impact on people's lives.
Penso parecido, é muito belo cada um ter seu próprio mundo, individual. Mas eu me lembraria de você derrubando uma caixa de ovos sim, com o preço que tá o ovo, é traumático pra quem vê tbm kkk
When I experience sonder, I really do get a little overwhelmed and anxious about life but then I remind myself that yes I am insignificant in the grand scheme of things but that also means I should just go for whatever I want whenever I want because eventually I won't be able to do those things. It can be very motivating
sonder doesn’t really fill me with dread, it just makes me uncomfortable. it sounds weird but i always experience when people are announcing a pregnancy and i’m like “ew lol they have sex?” and then have to tell myself to stop thinking about people having sex because that’s weird.
i was terrified of disney's alice in wonderland (the animated version) as a kid. i only saw it once and had constant nightmares about it. something about being stuck forever in a nonsensical world with no way back or any chance to contact your loved ones absolutely horrified me. i still think it's a horrific fate.
Best gore and rotten really were absolutely awful. I encountered them in middle school when a close friend showed me it, and I can't even express some of the feelings I get just remembering things I saw on there. I've always had a problem with things feeling not real, content like that really intensifies that
I agree. live leak ruined my life for a long time. at the time I didn’t react to them and continued watching the videos but a decade later and i’m still trying to forget them. blah.
I will never forget buying "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" at the book fair in 5th grade. That book was trauma. The green thumb story scared me pretty bad as a kid
I found one of the books with the original art when i was moving out of my mom's house. I made sure i kept it safe since I want to scare my children with it someday, just as I was when i first read them in 3rd grade.
The big toe in the stew story made me unable to eat stew for a while as a kid and when my parents forced me, the texture of a bit chunk of meat freaked me out to the point where I can't even eat stew/soups now even though I obviously know it's fake. It's just ingrained yuckiness into my subconscious lol
I never knew the mysterious phone calls in the sims were related to the burglar. I thought they were just creepy prank calls. Regardless, that game had no business being so scary lol.
They’re not. This is just a rumor. The burglar also can’t steal the baby. Not sure why he said these things about the burglar and the phone calls. They’re definitely not true.
i remember being so scared of the scary stories illustrations but i would also repeatedly check out the books from the library over and over, i think thats actually why i love horror so much now
My son was JUST explaining what Run the Gauntlet was to me a few weeks ago, and now it's being explained to me again, funny how Lazy included it towards the very end! A few weeks ago I wouldn't know what you were talking about! In my day, we just used Faces of Death or Rotten.
I remember watching shows like Forensic Files and Dateline at my grandparents house when I was about 5 years old. Now true crime and crime dramas are my favorite kinds of shows to watch on TV to this day.
The only thing that scared me as a kid was aliens. Not like “Alien” Aliens but the Grays. I had to pause the movie “Signs” when they showed the alien walking past the kids birthday party.
Dude they still scare me. I hated signs! There was also the episode of the simpsons that mr.burns was like an alien and was walking through the woods....... fuck it scares me till this day. It made me terrified of the 'x-files' theme song. Anytime I head it I go into a panic attack. So frustrating
I remember like 6-7 years ago. I would read creepypastas and SCP stories for hours and hours late at night. Sometimes i would freak myself out so much, I'd have trouble falling asleep. I was in my early twenties aswell lol. Nowadays though i literally listen to creepypasta videos everynight when i go to sleep. I find the stories and the narrator's voices relaxing.
God, I'd forgotten about Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. My cousins had a bunch of creepy stuff like that, and my mom banned me and my sister from being ready the books as kids. We still shuffled into the basement or garage in the dead of night to creep each other out, though. My favorite was always the girl who had to wear the ribbon.
Honestly without the illustrations they’re not that spooky of stories. Creepy still but they seem worse when a corpse like woman is on the page beside it Idk who looked and thought those pictures should be in childrens sections or at school libraries
"Dont you believe it" is a reference to a 1940s Radio Show of the same name. The show would begin with the presenter saying, "So, if you think [x commonly thought thing] DoN'T yOu BelIeVe iT!" in exactly the same pitch and reverb. Although the Tom and Jerry line is completely out of place, it's likely supposed to be a fun reference for the parents to get, not an actual attempt to scare children.
I never really found it scary either. I don't think I even realised what he was saying until I was much older. Kid me just shrugged his shoulders and got on with it. And, I mean, if you got the reference at the time, it was overall a pretty solid and well done joke/reference.
The horror movie cover that always got me was Child's Play. I remember seeing it in the returns bin at the library when I was little and the image of Chucky with a knife haunted me for weeks. There was also Pinhead on the cover of one of the Hellraiser sequels I saw at a flea market once, but that resulted more in fascination than fear.
As a fan of Tom and Jerry, Mouse Trouble was honestly one of the more disturbing episodes to me. It's one of the rare instances where Tom's injuries are semi permanent. He gets hurt A LOT in more graphic ways than usual, and he even dies at the end. At least he goes to heaven.
The one that did it most for me as a little kid was that section about old scary youtube videos... I started getting into horror late into elementary school and I would deliberately seek out scary stuff on youtube. Like I would search "ghosts caught on tape" and stuff like that. There's one classic video that's been ingrained in my memory that scarred me the most out of all the paranormal footage that I watched back then. It showed a video of a girl brushing her hair in the mirror, who then turns to look at the cameraman, but her reflection remains unchanged and stares back at her menacingly. When she realizes it she screams and the video cuts off. I don't even remember the title of the original but I'm sure if you've seen it you'd know exactly what i'm talking about lol. Watching it again when I was older made me realize it was just a cheap photoshop job but back then it made me avoid mirrors completely lmao
There's another video on RU-vid where someone is recording at an old building, don't know if it's an old church or what. Anyway they see someone popping their head around the side of the building, they call out to them, run over to where they saw them, but there's no one there. Don't know if it's fake but it's pretty freaking creepy. That one stuck with me.
Even more frightening is the original mirror ghost story, about BLOODY MARY. You stare into a mirror, alone,in total darkness, with only one white candle for 🕯️ light. Then you chant "Bloody Mary... Bloody Mary... Bloody Mary..." Three times, while staring into your own eyes intently... Then, she's supposed to appear. Note, mirrors have been used for purposes of skrying, for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Skrying is basically when one uses a mirror to contact another dimension, demon, ancestors, or the spirit of a dead person. It works though.... So, don't do it... My half sister always swore to me that when she was a little girl,in the 70's. She was left at home,with a girl to babysit her one night. They began spooking each other out with scary stories etc. As people did back then. Because we couldn't just shove our faces into smart phones and ignore one another all night. We actually interacted with each other. It was actually really nice. I miss talking to people... Anyway, the subject of Bloody Mary came up,. and the babysitter decided to go into the bathroom and summon her. Being a nonbeliever of course. My sister sat in silence, listening, whilst the babysitter was in the darkened bathroom, with the door closed. She sat listening, through several moments of deafening silence... Then, all of a sudden, a blood curdling scream from the bathroom! The bathroom door burst open, and the babysitter erupted out of the darkness, candle in hand, screaming for her life! Cuts, and blood covering her terrified, distorted face. The babysitter didn't stop, she ran to the front door, tore through the screen door, and bolted down the road back home, screaming in terror the entire way... She refused to even speak after that. Especially to my family, or even come near the house in which we lived. This was before I was born. But we lived in that same house for several years after. A little red house on the edge of a small town, called Springhill, in Kansas. The town was actually founded by satanic witches they say, and by all accounts is actually cursed. Lots of bad things happen there. I believe it holds the record for youth suicide, for small towns. But,yeah...
When I was a kid, I lived on Unsolved Mysteries. The theme song, Robert Stack's oddly creepy voice, the unsolved mysteries....it both creeped me out and had me so intrigued to the point I refused to stop watching.
One show that used to chill me to the core as a child was Animal Planet’s “The Haunted”. It had the eerie intro theme and everything. It was about these people who experienced paranormal happenings and their pets were either trying to warn them or they were somehow affected by the ghosts. Great show. 10/10 would recommend if you can actually find the entire series.
I just came across your video. Since I was a child in the sixties, I didn't see or share many of these images or was an adult when I did. As a child, I had some fears that were straightforward across the decades, like skeletons, wide open enormous rooms, and fire. Some of my media fears: the witch melting in "The Wizard of Oz", the Zanties in the Zanties Misfits episode of The Outer Limits, the teeth that grow into skeletons in the movie, "Sinbad", as well as the piranha pool of the same. I was eleven when my father took my family to see "The Sand Pebbles" and the scene where the large hydraulic piston smashes the body of a worker on the ship filled me with dreadful anticipation and horror. Thanks, Dad.
The cover art for the "Where The Wild Things Are" film mildly unsettled me as a child. I distinctly remember being in a blockbuster with my mum and seeing the art on the DVD case. It's pretty sad knowing Blockbuster isn't around anymore, and I won't get any more of those core memories.
There was an anti-smoking PSA that would play when I was a kid. It was an animation about skeletons in the sewers and grabbing kids as they walked past. That one made me afraid of sewer drains.
When I was in grade 5, my friend’s older step sister was watching us. We wanted to watch scary videos, I.e. ghosts. She decided to show us a gore site. I always remembered that she showed us the site, but definitely repressed most of the images viewed. However, I had years of nightmares with very realistic looking corpses in them and I never connected the dots until the memories of what she showed us came rushing back over a decade later. 😬
@@cowboymaxwell yeah I’ll just say I was glad I almost never saw that step sister again after that, and never again without parents home. Pretty sure she threatened my friend about ever telling her dad what she showed us too and we felt too weird about even knowing how to bring it up.
Damn that whole repressed memory thing hit me like a truck. I've seen some pretty crazy shit in my life, but if you asked me what exactly I saw I wouldn't be able to remember. And I could never put my finger on it. I kind of wanna find a way to unlock those memories 🤔
I was born in 1978 so I was around 8-9 when Unsolved Mysteries started and certain episodes terrified me! The alien abduction ones and the ones about ghosts were the worst. I remember one episode where the family bought a bed or bed frame and it was haunted. The alarm clock would turn on by itself and rapidly change stations. That's the one that really got to me because I had a clock radio next to my bed that I would listen to every night when I went to bed. I would set it so it would turn off automatically after a certain amount of time. I had a dream that it did the same thing and the theme song to Unsolved Mysteries was playing on it. I didn't sleep for weeks after that lol
No. He said he was inspired by Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho made by the same person who made HxH. Feitan was actually based on Hiei too and so was Killua lol
Really fun seeing the Groke on this list as I was so scared of her for so many years it's sort of a running joke in my family, haha. The whole Moomin-show was a big part of my childhood as it aired often on my country's (Norway) national channel, and I must say the whole show had a very eerie vibe about it; the winter lady and the episode with the invisible girl (who turned invisible because of familial abuse) are two other great creepy/dark examples from that show!
For me it was Michael Jackson as a werewolf in Thriller. Caught a glimpse at 4 and had a paralyzing fear of werewolves till almost 12 years old...so I get it lol
@@maxruehl My mom says I literally ran out of the house screaming in tears, my uncle had to chase me down because I almost ran into the street I was so scared lol 🤣🤣
Have any of you seen the sequel to The Wizard of Oz? I think it was called Return to Oz. I can’t find it anywhere but I remember it was truly horrifying.
My childhood traumas: * Ending of "Rats, Night of Terror" * Ghostbusters movie, where the claws burst out of the sofa * Scenes from Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (TV death, puppet death etc) * C64 Game "Forbidden Forest" * Some funny cartoon with many popular monsters in it, including Frankenstein. (Not Addams Family)
I had a friend in HS who said she was scared of clowns because you can't actually see who they are and they're so over the top fake cheerful she couldn't help but feel like they were hiding something. The weirdly proportioned bright clothes obscuring an actual human form too. Seems like something akin to uncanny valley in some ways the way she talked about it mixed with being suspicious about motivations of people.
You know what scary clown movie video cover scared the hell outta me as a kid? Killjoy. That one is actually really hilarious to me as a kid, because it's an incredibly low budget like, comedy horror thing. There's this scene where the clown asks if some dudes want to buy drugs. I remember this scene being described by my aunt, and imagining this incredibly dark, grisly scene. Then I saw it a few years ago...it's a clown in an ice cream truck, in broad daylight, telling the guys in a silly voice: "I am an undercover drug dealer, and I want to sell you some drugs!"
One of my childhood traumas: " They never come back as boys!!!" aka The Coachman from Disney's Pinocchio. That moment always made me run and hide under the bed for some reason...Lumpwick's transformation into a Donkey was pretty disturbing too!
Eh, the live-action version was even freakier in my opinion, as the boys turned into donkeys right in front of Pinocchio while riding the roller coaster.
OMG yes the live action one did it for me - I was so horrified by the transformation that I used to fast forward past that scene. In the end I stopped watching the film and I can still picture the scene with the flickering/ flashing lights during the transformation 😅
Absolutely - this is one that is still brought up by my family members to me still to this day. I did not like that one bit, nor the child catcher from Chitty Chitty bang bang - these apparently sent me hiding behind the couch, or under the dining table at my Gran's house as a toddler.
The movie "The Mask" with Jim Carrey ways freaked me out as a child. I just found something so unnatural about the animations, the way he moved, all the faces he made. The bulging eyes and the way he used to spin round messed me up quite alot
Grizzly tales for gruesome kids terrified me as a child. I remember the episode where the boy was ran over by a lawnmower along with a rabbit and they were cut into such small pieces that when they put the boy back together they got some of the pieces wrong so he ended up as part rabbit… I hated it, and the animation style of the old man narrator that laughed at the scary stories he told 🙃
God I remember that show! I found it on accident on RU-vid as a kid and I was absolutely mortified. I remember there being an episode of a girl being squished by something and I believe there was even blood in that one, don’t remember what the episode was though. Definitely shaped me into who I became though!
I didn't have a chance to be scared by the actual cartoons in the show because the stop-motion intro scared me so much I ended up with a phobia of cinemas!
I remember the one about the girl who ate too much sweets - put me off them for a while. However, the worst one from my memories is the barbershop one. I can’t remember why though.
"Realization of Mortality" definitely brought up a lot of memories. After going through a really scary illness as well as hearing about one of the neighborhood kids being killed in a shooting as a teen ,I finally made the connection that "Youth invincibility" did not exist. Then I began to think about how thousands of people die everyday, people lived their whole lives before I was born, time eventually running out for everyone, all of it. It took awhile to take it all in, but I came out of it okay and because of that I learned to appreciate life a lot more.
I'm 27 years old and I STILL have trouble sleeping if I randomly remember Me Tie Dough-ty Walker from Scary stories to tell in the dark. There were scarier stories in the books, and scarier illustrations for sure, but for whatever reason there's not a single more primal fear than something approaching you when you're alone at night and you're powerless to stop it.
sonder actually makes me feel very comfortable and happy. i love being a small part of this crazy human existence and have ever since ive been young. the fact that every person has their own personal story and experience makes them so interesting. it makes me want to make as many friends and meet as many people as possible :-)
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the movie Labyrinth (remains my fav movie to this day). I used to always go to the video store near my house with my family and rent that out to watch several times a day for the hundredth time (Idk probably something neurodivergent related). One day, my mom went to the video store without me but asked if I wanted her to grab me a movie. I told her Labyrinth so she went ahead and grabbed Pan’s Labyrinth thinking it was what I wanted. For sure messed me up pretty bad. I think I was around 7 or 8 :(
Oh dang. I also love Labyrinth. The worm is the best. But Pan's Labyrinth is genuinely disturbing. I saw it for the first time last year. I'm sorry for the confusion. XP
i’ve watched so many ice bergs before it’s really hard to find unique entries i haven’t heard. you, however, have given me so many new unique ones i’ve never heard!! super great job man, thanks for always making awesome stuff!
The thing that freaked me out the most about Super Mario 64 wasn't Jolly Roger Bay or even the piano jumpscare. It was any level that took place on a floating island. Just looking into the vast and never ending void surrounding the level legit terrified me. The level I hated the most was Rainbow Ride because aside from the various platforms on the course the level was practically all void. Seriously stoked my anxiety
as a lifelong jim henson fan, seeing wilkins and wontkins on here made me beam, especially after hearing you talk so fondly about the pair and jim’s creativity. love ya lazy !
Sad,y, some of those PSAs managed to slip past the border. I grew up in Oregon, and I remember seeing the Chef PSA on a kids' channel. A KID'S CHANNEL.
A lot of people are creeped out by "Don't you put it on your mouth" but personally I never found it scary, quite adorable actually. However, the single most "scary" one for me is the MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) ad which jus showing a baby named Emily crying horribly with the camera zooming out, before the text says her mother was killed in a crash with a drunk driver. While depressing and impactful I thought it was excessive and often played at the least expected times. It also ran for VERY long time (over 5 years).
Being a kid in the 1990's, I can so vividly remember two specific pieces of horror movie box art at Blockbuster. The first one was for Cube (1997). As a kid, I thought it was actually a Hellraiser movie (because of the puzzle box being a cube). There was something about the guy looking terrified on the cover that unnerved me. The second one I remember is The Trilogy of Terror 2 (1996). The Zuni warrior doll holding a knife on the cover definitely chilled me.
I was always intrigued by the Silence of the Lambs cover art as a kid walking through Blockbuster with my dad on a late night movie haul, but not scared of it, I just thought the butterfly was pretty! Something about the Poltergeist movie cover with the little girl touching the tv scared the hell out of me, even tho I still went and touched the warm staticky tv screen with both hands to see if I could get ghosts to talk to me
I was morbidly obsessed with the concept of death when I learned about it. It made me anxious and sad, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it. Thinking about "is there anything after death or just darkness?" would get me physically dizzy and I'd get headaches...
36:25 "When I was a kid, I was terrified of bottomless pits" That's like saying I'm afraid of something deadly. It makes no sense, people are afraid of it in general.
Being dead serious, none of these had scared me or really given me flashbacks until the Korean ghost comic (sorry not even gonna try and spell that). The fact I legitimately started feeling watched and am pretty spooked really shows how badly that comic scared me as a kid. I still can't even really look at it, the moment she showed up on screen I was like "nope, take it away".
For me it was the maze exorcist photo, I just get uncomfortable seeing level 3 and it made me shrink the video into a thumbnail. Winterrowd were the king of childhood trauma flash games
@@GanzoHasashi1911 fr bro This Exorcist Photo is still Haunting me i read comments of people that had a trauma for 6 years and Had to sleep with the lights on
The opening them from the 90's tv series " Are you afraid of the Dark?" used to absolutely terrify me. Still makes me uncomfortable to say the least. Theres even a version where there's a talking dog that asks " Are you afraid of the dark?' .... so weird ....
Peter Jackson’s “Dead Alive” was one that gave me the creeps wandering down Blockbuster’s horror aisle. Takes me back every time I pull out my DVD collection now. I remember at that time the players were so expensive we would rent one when we would make our movie selections. There was something about a late night trip to Blockbuster….. the smell of the VHS tapes, the brightly colored candy aisles, sneaking past the horror aisle afraid you might “awaken something”
28 Days Later, the Saw movies, and Hellraiser are the three that stood out to me. Everytime we went to the video store, those would be in the popular movies section, which meant I saw them everytime we went. I would always put my head down and speed walk pass them everytime I saw them. As a kid, I thought that I would get sucked into the cover if I stared too long. I don't know why, but I did.
