The Childhood "Nightmare Fuel" Iceberg Explained
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Scooby Do, Once you realize that it Tells you People are the real Monsters
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…
I figured something like this would be more so the case! As well as the fact that they don't offer much of a defensive barrier against threats.
@@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 saw that on Monster's Inc for the first time, so it was funny to me. But I can see why they freak people out.
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.
Most malfunctions are human error. Who creates the car?
@@GnoneckOG god
@@GnoneckOG who do you think? Humans bro
What gets me is that no one thought to even _check_
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 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! 😮
I do this with my cats
Solidarity.
Nice. XD
Your mom is a good mom.
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
Dang.
Rest in Power and may God bless his soul ❤
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.
Not to mention that fucking boat ride
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?
@@esteemedmortal5917 yes!!! And drinking the worm soup.... 😩
What about the wolf and its horrifying animatronic face?
@@serpenking the boat ride was the most traumatic part of the movie, bar none
I will never forget when I was told about the story of “humans can lick too” that shit scared me to my core, I literally could not sleep.
Oh, fuck. That one was the worst.
Jup, that one still messes with me from time to time. Everytime my dog gets close to me in the dark, I touch her nose and her fur, just to make sure.
could you tell the story here?
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."
There’s many different variations of this story but this is the gist of it
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
Yea
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.
Boomer sooner
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.
Dang.
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.
Tell us more about this curse
@@hjuikkll he’s talking about a episode about Ramses cursed Slab in courage the cowardly dog
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
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.
So glad to see someone else feels that way, too!
I'm in your house. Right now.
@@The_Devil_Breaker_ I hope you like the premium cardboard walls and rain water cup
Same.
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
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
That family picture with a shadow falling through the ceiling ?
@@yvick7770 yeah
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
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
Oh man... the cutscene on majoras mask when you're turned into the deku kid really freaked me out as a kid
Yup. I "talked" to the guy on Deviantart. He's actually pretty chill. XD
"Return the slab, or suffer my curse"
My god that gives me chills to this day
Courage the cowardly dog got me tooo lol
Me too man, literally I'm 20 and it still scares me
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I always got anxious about the doc gerbil world episode idk why
We still joke about that today!
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.
That is terrifying and sad at same time!
The Backrooms.
I felt the exact way. I've haven't watched the movie since I was a kid. I don’t plan on watching it again.
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
I legit think it’s so cute when “Lazy Masquerade” calls his wife “Lady Masquerade” like how sweet of a couple? I love, love ❤️
True😭
I love this too! kawaī ichiban ❤️
TheKing Maureen?
I know I love it! Hail Lady Masquerade!
adorable
As a young babysitter, 1979’s “When a Stranger Calls” absolutely terrified me….”Have you checked the children?”
Yep. Carol kane in one of her only non-comedic roles.
The urban legend scared the crap out of me as a babysitter made me jump every time the phone rang (did not watch the movie till I was older)
When this was redone in a Bobs Burgers episode in the first season by Louise, it was the best
Isn't that the one where he is camouflaged into the wall ?
Why haven't you checked the children?
Oddworld is brilliantly presented as it's actually a really dark story (a slave freeing other slaves) but it's presented in such a way that it also makes you giggle during certain scenes and parts of gameplay. Just when it starts to seem silly, you're quickly pulled back into the serious and brutal nature of the world the mudokons, gabbits, steeves, etc live in. As soon as it starts getting too dark, the mood gets lightened in a brilliant way once again.
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.
@@evil1by1Same.
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.
Unsolved mysteries had me terrified as a kid. Their alien and paranormal stories were actually interesting, well-told, and frightening as well
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.
If you go to the FilmRise channel they've uploaded all of the UM episodes
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
11 am on Lifetime during summers at my grandparents house always had Unsolved Mysteries on the TV.
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.
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
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 🥲
“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.
Never thought of it before, but it think I experienced that too. However, I found it cool, not scary. XD
@@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).
@@pundertalefan4391 I was deeply disturbed but also fascinated at the same time. I would try to replicate the feeling and couldn’t.
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
I get anxious when I look at the sky for too long
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"
I took a screenshot of your comment bc it’s so nice 🌸 keep being a great person
Same here. I always thought it was so cool of an idea.
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 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
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
I was born in 76, so I'm right there with you! For me, it was the UM theme song. It still creeps me out to this day. Don't tell anyone. 😱😱😱
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
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.
Yeah! I think that’s pretty cool
I love Soupe Opera. Deff made me slightly uncomfy but alwasy thought it was super creative
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.
have you ever experienced a tornado when living there?
Same here bmmm
My childhood was spent in Kansas & I can definitely agree. Tornado warnings/sirens can certainly give one ptsd.
Look into analogue horror, it gives off a very similar feel.
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.
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
I really love these Iceberg videos! I realize they take a lot of time and work to produce, but I really wouldn't mind seeing more!
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)
But historically children did go missing around that time though? So it likely was a myth made up to explain why all the children disappeared
“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
You mean Easter Sunday?
XD I'm sorry, that's kind of funny.
I was scared of clowns, Santa, the Easter Bunny, and most Halloween decorations as well lol a lil puss-puss I was
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.
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.
There's some stuff here I've never heard of before. I might check them out.
Some of the PSA's I've seen as a Canadian, especially the work safety ones, left me scarred even as an adult.
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).
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
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
I still feel eerie thinking about that myself lol
Same. I couldn't comprehend the void and it scared me. It still scares me
Nothing Is Scarier, eh?
@@wmdkitty trying to imagine if existence/universe never began, yep
Similar here but it ties in with the concept of death and mortality. It gets me without fail if I think too much about it
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 :(
Definitely in my top 10!
Love the big hairy dude she finds tied upsidedown hehehe
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
Labrynth will always be a masterpiece
Absolutely loved this video, thank you for taking the time to put all this together 🙌
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.
Same! I think about that often it's crazy to think about
I agree. Seeing a person's birth and death date is such a terse footnote of life 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.
BRO I REMEMBER WATCHING THAT AFTER SCHOOL AS A KID
Remember that episode with the demon only known as "Man" ... 🤐
I didn't have cable growing up so I binged this whenever I'd babysit for people who did. Their kids would go to bed and I'd pray A Haunting was on.
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.
@@KingOfGaymes Me 2 I used to watch it with my parents since they also like the paranormal
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.
Thank you for a excellent video. Love your format ❤
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.
That’s what you people are, right now.
@@Meg_88 Me too! It's strangely relieving not to be the only one lol
I think about that about people in the background of my pictures
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
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.
Not to mention it teaches how there's nothing wrong with being scared and vulnerable. It doesn't make you weak, if anything it makes you stronger.
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.
Sadly the irony is “gen z”is too scared to face responsibility
You put so much time and effort into your content. You’re a workaholic. You deserve each and every one of those subscriptions.
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!"
I think that's why overly happy teachers/scout leaders freak me out as well. XD
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.
Everything gave my overactive imagination all the nightmare fuel but I was still obsessed with those books.
Oh,I love thoese type of books. I still have my Goosebumps books.
Yes all of these! Though the opening titles of are you afraid of a dark creeped me out more than the story usually 😂
Same. I had a huge obsession of all things morbid and creepy.
Goosebumps and fear street for me
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.
@@lillydevil2486 what was the blond picture about?
@@lillydevil2486 wtf is the blond picture
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.
The video art covers that stuck with me are “Ghost Ship”, “Deep Blue Sea” and the Saw franchise. I wish I’d known about this video earlier, I would’ve commented about a book that creeped me out when I was a kid, but could never get enough of called “In a dark dark room. I was also creeped out by the book covers of Goosebumps, now it's one of my all time favorite series! Good Job Lazy, I think this is one of the best videos you’ve made!
BOY, LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING. I was a wimp when I was little, but I thought that book might not be too scary for me. Turns out, it's written by the same guy as the Scary Stories series. The Ribbon story scared me to no end, and when I found that out just this year, I wasn't pleased. XD
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.
My mum took my brother and I to the cinema to see Watership Down. I was 7 in 1978 when it was released. I still won't watch it again, and I'm 51 now.
@@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.
Yes. Once heard an elevator muzak version of Bright Eyes, & I sobbed a lil b.
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.
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.
Not completely, there is a small percentage of people, myself included, do remember them for the most part.
This is such a fantastic video (and I don't mean that lightly). I hope you can make another one of these videos someday. It's informative.
what i love about your videos, is that you have tiers, and it gets scarier
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.
I used to do the same thing, just stopped one day long ago. I'm 20 now and it still gives me chills though
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.
We get it all the time in Florida as a severe weather warning. I've become desensitized to 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
My heart has joined the thousand. 💔
I'm not gna lie Lazy, you have one of the most TERRIFYING themes songs I've heard in a long time!
Every time I put your videos on (AM or PM) I get just the right amount of spooks to prime me and get me in the mood for a scare!
The box art for the first grudge movie freaks me out to this day. When i walk past things with little dark gaps my mind fills in creepy bloodhsot eyes staring at me and the cover looks exactly like that.
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.
That whole movie scarred me for years 😭 my niece loved to torment me about it back in the day.
THAT SCENE. that terrified the shit out of me as a child and I hated it so much. literally had to stop watching the movie.
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.
Yes! This movie was awful.
Awesome soundtrack though
The wheelers are really scary
I loved that movie, but it scared the pants off me. I blame it for my continued love of surreal horror. 💕
Love this movie! But yeah- the asylum was freaky as hell and the Wheelers are seriously creepy.
That 'DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT?' from Tom never fails to gave me, my dad and my brother a continuous stomachache from laughing too much.
Nice. XD
I know for a fact that while living in Portugal when i was a kid i used to watch cartoon network as my main channel, I learned most of my english from watching it (unfortunately at this point it's in portuguese so my son wont have the same learning method :p) I loved courage to the core and still do to this day and amazingly enough, as a child, i didnt grow any type of fears towards the animations and jumpscares, you put one of the most iconic episodes, the pharoh king was an amazing one. Thank you very much for the memory Lazy. You're amazing and your videos are top notch. Keep up the good work my good sir.
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.
Dang.
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.
A big part of it is probably the shadows cast on these doors as they are often made with paper.
Amityville horror 4 is what you're describing It's about a very evil very possessed very tacky lamp.
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.
@46:17 Someone pointing a used plunger at your face is legitimately terrifying regardless of content
Awesome video! As for for me, the the weremole episode and the "car broke, phone yes" episodes of Courage scared the daylights out of me as a kid
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.
Secret of Nimh was one of my favourite movies when I was a kid.
I feel you on that one. And that one scene from We're Back when Screw-eye gets eaten in a funnel of crows. That shit stayed with me
@@happychaosofthenorth it scared me but I still somehow enjoyed watching it lol kinda like some form of kid exposure therapy or something
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.
@@Fesquishety I was thinking, the Groke is a great personification of every child’s fear of trying to make friends and being rejected.
I absolutely loved Abe's Odyssey! Yes, very unsettling. The solitude & soundtrack. Great game & great video LM
This is probably my fav Lazy upload. I’ve listened to it many many times. I’d love another one like this….
Whenever the tooth fairy comes up and you wonder what they do with all those teeth, I always think of the Family Guy tooth fairy scene 😂
The pictures in the “Scary Stories” book series didn’t scare me, they are the seeds that grew into my love of all things horror ❤️❤️
Yeah the art is really dope
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
Its 20 years later and I still remember the full clips from there. Terrible.
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.
Lazy! If you've never read or seen the art in the "Scary Stories to tell in the Dark" that's what unlocked my interest in the macabre! The art alone is worth viewing, but one story in particular is "Harold". Great vids man keep it up!
I read all the stories when I was much older, and just watched the movie this year. I actually really enjoyed it. Though the beginning was really gross. XP
On the other hand, when I was a kid, I was a huge wimp who hated anything scary. I knew I wouldn't like those books when I saw the covers in elementary school. I was feeling a bit brave, though, so I looked for a book that might be less scary. I read In a Dark, Dark Room, and the story The Ribbon freaked me out. I found out this year that they were written by the same guy. XP
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
"The Dream" was even more scarier, the asian woman look disturbing
It was an awesomely creative book though. Even though it scared me, I still read it all the time.
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.
I lent mine to a friend and haven't gotten it back.. never lend those to a friend lest you never get it back lol
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 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."
Was he really imaginary or did you really see him?
@@IKnowHowItEnds He's real... I've seen him too.
@@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.
Omg thank you for giving dead hand the recognition it deserves - I never actually found redeads in ocarina to be all that scary (the ones in windwaker, however.... UGHHH) but the bottom of the well absolutely terrified me and dead hand was the sole reason
Omg please make more of these!!!!
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.
@@316nicolez I see. Thought this might be the case. The babies were hella annoying, though - it would have been a relief if they got stolen tbh.
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.
OH GOD SAME even just thinking about that scene gives me chills to this day
Signs 100% gave me nightmares up till my early teens.
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
Me too lol but I would still watch so many fake videos of alien encounters and other cryptid stuff on UA-cam. Sucks I can't find them anymore!
I was born in Australia in 1982 and the series “Around the twist” had some terrifying themes. They were based on books and came out in the 90s. I’d suggest anyone check them out as they are pretty awesome!
Great show. I remember watching it as a child in Ireland. We imported lots of Australian shows for kids - The Girl from Tomorrow, Halfway Across the Galaxy etc. They were all great.
Yeah, "shut up" and "mer boyfriend" in particular were creepy af
I read about this one. It sounds kind of inappropriate, to be honest. I'm pretty sure that's just because we get a lot more butthurt in the states. XD
extremely interesting and very well made video
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
@@bitousfanSimm, a vergonha e o desgosto pelo desperdício de comida cara foi sentido por todos. Experiência 0/10.
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.
“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.
Ah yes, Salem’s Lot, the sole reason for my being afraid of everything night time related until my teens!!!! Thank you so much for that @ Steven King 👑 😝 x
I can't believe you cut the part where mario says 'please' after 'you go to hell before you die'
It brings the whole thing together beautifully
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.
In 4th grade, I always read them but hid the books away from my parents. They were available in the school library. I am now traumatized.
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
@@KingOfGaymes true
Loved that book as a child! But I was also a child who enjoyed almost all horror movies as well lol
I remember the ribbon story! Our kindergarten teacher read it to us for Halloween! It was in In a Dark Dark Room, wasn't it?
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
Ох правда???
@@bambiblushofficial1275 yep. It's just that ethereal mesmerizing vibe this animated film gives off
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.
I miss Soviet media
Best video ever! More please.
Great Video
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 :)
Mine too.
That music still gives me goosebumps.
Why do I remember everyone on the run was caught in Tulsa, OK. 🤣
Watched unsolved mysteries with my grandma as a kid as well. To this day the music & Robert Stacks’s voice still give me goosebumps!
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 😖
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. 😬
jesus christ what an evil thing to do I'm so sorry
@@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 🤔
AWESOME VIDEO!! I was born in 1976 and the scariest thing I remember from my childhood was the movie Poltergeist. Holy CRAP that movie haunted me for years - especially the closet scene at the end and the way that creepy little woman always said "Carol Ann! CAROL ANN!" Ahhhh!! 😱😱😱😱😱
I saw that movie a couple of years ago. I thought it was great. But if I had seen it as a kid, I would've been freaked out too. XD
HEY LAZY,Just thought you should know,You are a very positive force on this 🌏 Ps I fall asleep listening to you narrate.Thank you
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.
Funny when i was a kid I was so terrified of the child's play and the bride of chucky cover lol
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 UA-cam 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!
Omg i remember this. I used to love it. Now I'm gonna have a look to see if they are on UA-cam. Thanks so much for the reminder.
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.
I love Unsolved Mysteries, I watch it to this day. I watched it when I was a kid. I love the theme song. Great video you have here, sir.
My granny sparked my love for horror, she and I have always shared a similar interest in all things spooky. When I was about 9 or 10 she showed me the 2003 film Inhabited. Nightmares for days, I hid under the covers frightened that trolls would take me away. It’s a personal favourite movie now just for the nostalgia
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.
Yessss!!!! That was one of my Fav theme songs too a Show lol
His voice instantly lulls me to sleep