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By *rincipessa OP Woman
over a year ago
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As a child what did you worry about most? There was so much to be terrified of
Sasquatch, Bigfoot, or was it the Loch Ness monster? Did you worry about alien abduction and being probed? Were you fear of the Bermuda Triangle? Did you worry about spontaneous human combustion and ending up as just a leg in your slipper?
What gave you nightmares? Triffids, getting stuck in quicksand, pylons or electricity substations.
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The plethora of public information films that were broadcast just before the end of transmission on the BBC scared the hell out of me as a kid  
I’ll certainly learnt never to play Frisbee near a power station whilst wearing bell-bottoms… |
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I remember my parents being genuinely worried about the Cuban missile crisis, probably their reaction which embedded the memory..
There was a film called 'night of the demon which I remember was feking scary but as kids we were immune to most things, maybe the lack of 24 hour news and social media played a part..
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By *rincipessa OP Woman
over a year ago
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Please tell me she wasn’t threatening you with Myra hindley 
I thought my mother was bad for threatening me with the cottage homes - where incidentally they make you wear green knickers with a pocket for your tuppence.  WTF?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Great post.
What with no seat belts, lax drink drive laws, smoking allowed everywhere combined with the amount of highly flammable synthetic material in clothes and furniture there was quite a bit to be worried about.
But actually, yeah it was Triffids, Daleks, and Jaws that really scared me. |
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Made the mistake of watching nightmare on elm street
Fuck sake Freddy cruger still frightens me
I would lock the doors and windows a dozen times.
I also was scared of a spider going in my ear and laying eggs
Funny what we were scared of
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Made the mistake of watching nightmare on elm street
Fuck sake Freddy cruger still frightens me
I would lock the doors and windows a dozen times.
I also was scared of a spider going in my ear and laying eggs
Funny what we were scared of
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1...2...Freddie's coming for you |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s
I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s
87 to be precise |
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"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s
I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s
87 to be precise "
Still a spring chicken natalie eh?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s
I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s
87 to be precise
Still a spring chicken natalie eh? "
Yip 35 |
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"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s
I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s
87 to be precise
Still a spring chicken natalie eh?
Yip 35"
At least another 60 years of being naughty then |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Nuclear war... remember the frankly terrifying public info films. "
…..and those behind the Iron Curtain; The USSR, China and Eastern Europe.
Basically, the Communists.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Watership down and Animal farm were the videos my mum got for us to watch in the holidays and HR pufinstuff - I think my mum had been puffin a bit too much stuff.
She then moved on to video nasties. There's a reason I'm this fucked up. |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
Every bit of water had Ginny green teeth in but it never kept us away,or as we found out later our parents as kids,or their parents.Always had eyes in the back of our heads because the Police were the Police back then.
The straight out of uni "right on" teachers tried to frighten us into joining CND by showing the nuclear war TV drama "Threads",that didn't work because it was widely believed at our school CND was just for lesbians.AIDS was only scary briefly "because you can catch it from a toilet seat",then it wasn't because "only gays get it".To be honest nothing scared us because at that age you think you are deathproof.When kids got killed by car crash,the railway,sniffing petrol and other solvents it was "never going to happen to us". |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I think I was unduly worried about a banshee getting me
The Banshee was terrifying but no one knew what it or she looked like.."
I might already know her then hopefully the wailing would give her away |
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"Please tell me she wasn’t threatening you with Myra hindley
I thought my mother was bad for threatening me with the cottage homes - where incidentally they make you wear green knickers with a pocket for your tuppence. WTF??"
I regret she was threatening me with Myra Hindley. However, I didn’t know who she was so it had zero effect. |
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By *rincipessa OP Woman
over a year ago
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So many of these things were genuine cause for concern. Dark water public service ads gave me nightmares. Threat of nuclear war or aids. All those ads were terrifying, we needed hamlet cigars and cinzanno just to lighten things up and give you something to live for |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Unfortunately I was to young to remember the 80s
I am a 80s baby but would consider myself a 90s kid sins I was born the tale end off the 80s
87 to be precise
Still a spring chicken natalie eh?
Yip 35
At least another 60 years of being naughty then "
Depends at the moment yip but things may change never know what’s around the corner |
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The Yorkshire Ripper.
Think I heard something on the radio when I was about 4 about a man murdering ladies and being genuinely terrified every time my Mum left the house. The fact we lived in Glasgow obviously didn't compute with my wee brain. |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"Please tell me she wasn’t threatening you with Myra hindley
I thought my mother was bad for threatening me with the cottage homes - where incidentally they make you wear green knickers with a pocket for your tuppence. WTF??
I regret she was threatening me with Myra Hindley. However, I didn’t know who she was so it had zero effect. "
Those two lived not very far from me,it wasn't a threat local parents used.Too near and too fresh in the memory.I went to college just after school with a girl whose mother was very nearly a victim.We would be threatened with some nameless character who would take us to some kind of child prison. |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
Edmonton |
Going to secondary school in the 80’s something that I found terrifying was the showers after PE they were always cold and grim looking not to mention the piss taking and hurtful comments from the other boys as even as a 12-13 I was quite hairy. |
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When I was little I was scared of… actually terrified by Father Xmas, I would scream my head off if one on the street would try to approach to give me a balloon - I thought he would take good kids with him to help him & the elves. I don’t know where I got that idea from, but I was sure I was a really good kid and he wanted to take me - true story haha |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
Northampton Somewhere |
We were made to watch the nuclear war thing at high school, quite possibly in my first year so I would of been 11. When I told my mum she came into school with me and went to see the head about it. I was scared of her to she always wore a red dress and had a cane in a display box above her office door. Like a really cunty reminder. Thank god it had been banned by the time I started! |
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I remember the Six Million Dollar Man episode with Sasquatch. It scared the hell out of me.
I remember reading about Spontaneous Human Combustion and associated case studies. They scared the hell out of me. I remember the articles about the Bermuda Triangle. You've guessed it... I was quite unsettled.
Thank you OP. I think you wrote this thread for me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week
Oh that was fabulously scary yes!
Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!"
Twilight zone.  |
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"I think I was unduly worried about a banshee getting me
The Banshee was terrifying but no one knew what it or she looked like..
I might already know her then hopefully the wailing would give her away "
Could well do..
The noise is meant to be unforgettable.. |
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By *rincipessa OP Woman
over a year ago
your wildest dreams, |
"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week
Oh that was fabulously scary yes!
Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!"
Oh the birthday party where the pipes burst and sprayed blood everywhere |
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By *rincipessa OP Woman
over a year ago
your wildest dreams, |
"I remember the Six Million Dollar Man episode with Sasquatch. It scared the hell out of me.
I remember reading about Spontaneous Human Combustion and associated case studies. They scared the hell out of me. I remember the articles about the Bermuda Triangle. You've guessed it... I was quite unsettled.
Thank you OP. I think you wrote this thread for me."
I was convinced I’d end up just a leg and a slipper. Possibly why I don’t wear them anymore
My dad subscribed to the unexplained and the first issue came with a floppy disc that had recording of ghosts, possibly at a seance. My best friend and I would play it and terrify ourselves. Would have to jump onto the bed after setting it to play, convinced one of them would pull us under the bed |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
Edmonton |
"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week
Oh that was fabulously scary yes!
Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!
Oh the birthday party where the pipes burst and sprayed blood everywhere "
. Yes that’s one that gave me nightmares |
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"Tales of the Unexpected... Scared the life out of me every week
Oh that was fabulously scary yes!
Hammer House of Horrors! Its all coming back to me now!
Oh the birthday party where the pipes burst and sprayed blood everywhere "
That is the one I remember. |
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By *imLMan
over a year ago
Sunderland |
It was pretty terrible what man did to the animals of farthing wood…. And I’ll never forget the night Percy got stuck in the treacle…not even Thomas could help him.
But at least we didn’t have social media!!! |
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Disaster films, Towering Inferno had quite a few grisly deaths, Robert Wagner and his Girlfriend both died horribly.
The Poseidon Adventure, Gene Hackman actually dies, he’s the hero
Earthquake had quite a few scary deaths |
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I honestly don't remember being terribly concerned about anything.
Though I do remember some TV show where they knocked through a wall in a house and found skeletal remains in a bed. That gave me nightmares for a couple of nights.
Nita |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
bedlington |
For a long time was most scared of these daft things that came in a recurring dream they were just like an upside down tick symbol about 10 inches long grey and corrugated length ways and called “ziggers” I dreamed all the time I was sitting on my bed and they were loads off them crawling around the floor and I couldn’t get off my bed or they would kill me (fuck knows how but you don’t think rationally as a bairn) but I was terrified of them an my mam used this to scare me in to doing as I’m told and even bought a wall unit with things on the back that looked like them which I’m sure was on pupose to keep me out the sitting room the cunt she is |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Climate change. We only had about 5 years before the ice caps would have all melted. Terrified me as a young teen, my low-lying Somerset levels house would have been underwater |
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80's kid.
So I worried constantly about the cold war / nuclear war. From the age of 6 or 7 I was a news junkie and was allowed to stay up and watch the news at ten, or newsnight, question time, etc. By the age of 9-10, I had a very mature grip on world events.
By my teens, I was terrified of my parents catching me smoking.
And wanking. Which mum almost did one day.
I was sat at a table, with my flies open, and my gentleman's gentleman in one of my hands under the table. The other arm rested on the table, and I had my science books open and was doing "homework".
Just as I reached the point of no return, my bedroom door slowly opened as she brought me in a cup of tea.
The "occupied" hand flew to the table to grab a different sort of pen, as my mum breezed in with my cup of tea. She even commented that I looked a bit "flushed".
I mumbled something about "it's a bit warm in here, isn't it?" and whilst I am saying that I am actually coming all over myself under the bloody table whilst talking to my mum.
I felt dirty for sodding years after that.
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By *929Man
over a year ago
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"80's kid.
So I worried constantly about the cold war / nuclear war. From the age of 6 or 7 I was a news junkie and was allowed to stay up and watch the news at ten, or newsnight, question time, etc. By the age of 9-10, I had a very mature grip on world events.
By my teens, I was terrified of my parents catching me smoking.
And wanking. Which mum almost did one day.
I was sat at a table, with my flies open, and my gentleman's gentleman in one of my hands under the table. The other arm rested on the table, and I had my science books open and was doing "homework".
Just as I reached the point of no return, my bedroom door slowly opened as she brought me in a cup of tea.
The "occupied" hand flew to the table to grab a different sort of pen, as my mum breezed in with my cup of tea. She even commented that I looked a bit "flushed".
I mumbled something about "it's a bit warm in here, isn't it?" and whilst I am saying that I am actually coming all over myself under the bloody table whilst talking to my mum.
I felt dirty for sodding years after that.
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Hahaha that was great |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Freddie was probably the worst one for me. I had 2 much older brothers that would babysit me when my parents went out and they'd always hire a horror movie from the video shop. I'd watch it and be scared for weeks after!
Critters as well, they used to invade my dreams!
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
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"Watershed down fucking horrific film "
Do you mean Watership down? Just after the movie was released a local butcher put a sign in his window,"you've read the book, you've seen the film now come in and meat the cast".Brilliant. |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
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"They made us watch Threads at school. Scared the living shit out of me."
My (nearby) town featured in Threads when Sheffield got hit.Scary? Nah,even then we knew it wasn't going to happen.Some teachers tried to convince us but they couldn't get past the mutually assured destruction argument. |
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I wasn't a child in the seventies and definitely not in the eighties. I was mostly scared of getting bad marks at school between 1970/74. I was 18 in 1974 and wasn't afraid of anything until we had our first child in the late eighties when I became very afraid that I'd never have a full night's sleep again  |
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"Going to secondary school in the 80’s something that I found terrifying was the showers after PE they were always cold and grim looking not to mention the piss taking and hurtful comments from the other boys as even as a 12-13 I was quite hairy."
Don't forget the flicking with towels, that stung. |
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I wasn't really sceard of much in the 70s and 80s growing up and was out playing most of the time and didn't watch much TV and was more interested in music and football until I got interested in girls lol xx |
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"Watershed down fucking horrific film
Do you mean Watership down? Just after the movie was released a local butcher put a sign in his window,"you've read the book, you've seen the film now come in and meat the cast".Brilliant."
Lmfao that is savage |
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The Charlie says infomercials freaked me out.
The babysitter that used to show me films like the exorcist and the omen. The punk gangs - older kids. Till I got to know them and they gave me cigs etc.
Then fear got replaced mid 80s. We went exploring were we shouldn't: abandoned tannery, the train tracks to the power station. We used to run along the cooling pipelines and jump onto the coal train. We turned whatever we found into our playground. Then all of a sudden girls started appearing, some even joined in  then we were even bigger dickheads. |
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I used to sleep at my grandparents house often in my early teens, the bedroom was full of old fashioned furniture, ornaments creepy as hell, it had a tiny old school tv I used to watch when they’d gone to sleep. I couldn’t sleep one night, switched on the tv and salems lot was on it scared me to death. After that I got obsessed with tales of the unexpected which was creepy at best but loved it, fell asleep watching it and woke up to American werewolf in London on at 1am, don’t think I slept with the light off for years after |
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"I used to sleep at my grandparents house often in my early teens, the bedroom was full of old fashioned furniture, ornaments creepy as hell, it had a tiny old school tv I used to watch when they’d gone to sleep. I couldn’t sleep one night, switched on the tv and salems lot was on it scared me to death. After that I got obsessed with tales of the unexpected which was creepy at best but loved it, fell asleep watching it and woke up to American werewolf in London on at 1am, don’t think I slept with the light off for years after "
It was a hammer werewolf film for me, which my parents let me watch because presumably they thought no one would be taken in by the crummy effects. How wrong they were! Oh and “Threads” and doctor who. |
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The school board man - whoever he was.
Mother used to say he would come and get me every time I skipped class.
I skipped class a LOT.
Clearly, the school board man wasn't very good at his job.
Or mother lied... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Nuclear war... remember the frankly terrifying public info films.
…..and those behind the Iron Curtain; The USSR, China and Eastern Europe.
Basically, the Communists.
Miles"
Boo! Scary child of a communist country planted herself in your life as a spy
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Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.
But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.
Good times. |
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The toilet flush monster
I grew up in a small village surrounded by a big forest...all the kids in the village had the fear of god put into us to never set a foot in the forest without an adult with us in case a kidn@pper snatched us (although my dad used to insist that I was such an annoying little shit that they'd soon bring me back ) |
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Strangely enough, despite growing up in a "war" zone and having to walk through one of the most heavily fortified parts of Europe going to and from school I didn't worry about very much.
Bombs were exploding 100 yards from our house and all I was concerned about was getting to football.
That was my normal and a Dalek invasion while being a little different would have been treated with similar distain. |
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"Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.
But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.
Good times. "
Bend over boy...
I'll be your teacher    |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Absolutely nothing scared me
I was truly feral
Outside all the time. Fishing, climbing trees, cycling everywhere
I knew the rules of when to be home, be respectful and how to stay safe.
And I'm still the same. Nothing scares me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.
But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.
Good times.
Bend over boy...
I'll be your teacher "
And they wonder why our generation are as kinky as we are lol ?? |
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"Without a doubt Daleks I’d be hid behind the setee.
But the single biggest fear from junior school was a particular lady teacher who would genuinely put you across her tea, pull your pants down and smack your arse.
Good times.
Bend over boy...
I'll be your teacher
And they wonder why our generation are as kinky as we are lol ?? "
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By (user no longer on site)
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A children's TV programme called 'Children of the Stones'
A wrestler called 'Crybaby' Jim Breaks, he made a crunching sound when twisting another wrestlers arm, sounded really nasty.
A man who lived in the same street as my grandparents, who had dreadful facial burns from the war. I got to know and like him as I got a bit older. |
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Maggie Murphy (maybe just a Glasgow thing)
If I was misbehaving my mum would threaten to send for Maggie Murphy
Also anyone who wasn't scared by The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is lying |
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