h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Surely that means there's room for really BIG monsters under there???

Anybody else have any really scary toys? There's nothing like a doll or a cuddly that's lost an eye or two to give a really gruesome effect!

The monsters can't hide there, though. The light reaches them and turns them to dust.
ARGH! Dolls! No! Whole or maimed, these are possibly the scariest things known to man.

...you'll not be a fan of Andy Pandy or Bagpuss then?

There was a BBC dramatisation of E. Nesbit's 'The Enchanted Castle' in the 1970's where some Edwardian children made an 'audience' for a play out of stuffed old clothes with paper-bag faces - and they cam e ALIVE Euuch!

Darleks and ET must be the scariest things ever shown on TV. and no, i'm not going to tell you about all the nightmares i've had of Darleks! i used to have a toy that terrified me though, it was a largish plasice tortoise and it glowed in the dark! so i'd be lieing in bed and it would be glowing in the middle if the floor, looking at me........

Which--the bed or the tortoise?

um, the tortoise was looking at me!

Ah, poor thing!
Bagpuss I can forgive because it is the greatest thing ever. The doll in that was bossy, rather than scary- besides, the mice would have protected me.

When I was little, the clothes on the chair used to make shapes that scared me. And although I have been bitten several times by large dogs, it is little dogs (particularly pomeranians) that scare me to death. All those little teeth and bravado, or something.

I was a big fan of Grover from Sesame Street. Oh, and the things (whatever they were) from H & R Puffinstuff (and I think the must have been puffing fairly frequently to come up with that sort of thing! )

Not to mention that model of sobriety, the Magic Roundabout. Transvestite music boxes and lollipops on the march (hurrah, they're showing 5 hours of it on Cartoon Network!)

WHEN!!!!

Ah... well, they were the other week. (applies to Britain, I don't know about anywhere else) it was '2 am. Magic Roundabout' then nothing mentioned until 5 am the next day. I stayed around to watch what I thought would be one episode, but decided that much as I'd love to, I wasn't going to stay up til 5.
All the TV paper says now is 'Programmes continue until 5am' with no mention of Magic Roundabout. Still, they keep showing it here and there...

i havn't seen that for ages! though somewhere in a cupboard there is a rather fetching pillow-case..........

i always used to be scared of the tenbury wolves, which were a gang of wolves with glowing red eyes which lived around the town of tenbury. i think they were made up by my brothers, but i always used to be scared of them jumping in my window at night. now, however, i'm scared of two things (apart from spiders):
1) a doll belonging to my friend which has t be hidden when i go and stay with her and sleep on her bedroom floor. it's just so creepy...
2) i hate looking out of windows at night in case a face appears, it doesn'tmatter wht floor i'm on...in fact, the higher the floor, the scarier it is...
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My wife (who is not a member of the community but her experiences are none the less valuable) says that she believed that there was a policeman in the wardrobe. The wardrobe was by the door so that if the door was open you could not get out of the bedroom. This was not so frightening as the faces at the window. This was only when it was dark outside and the lights were on inside. If it was windy they used to tap on the window as well. Being a kid stinks doesn't it?

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By the way when I said that she was not a member of the community I meant H2G2. Not that she was in a hospital or anything like that.

Ugh... faces at the window. They're horrible... although I should be grown up, I'm still scared of irrational things. In the bathroom, the window is of course all swirly, so it distorts things. On each side there's a hanging basket. These look like faces if seen in the dark when you're on the loo... one of them has grown wildly, it now has glowing red eyes and a big snatchy arm that waves and claws at the glass... if there's a breeze, it looks like it's snarling and yammering to get in. Horrible. I only noticed this a few weeks ago, I was in the shower at the time, feeling very vulnerable and I was the only one downstairs.
I'm still scared of ironing boards, too.

Ooh I had loads of terrifying monsters in my head as child.

I was afraid that the Gasometer down the road would move in the night and "look" through my window. I think it was the way they move up and down that sparked that idea off. Don't know why I found it scary as they're actually rather funky things, but it scare me it did.

My mum also invented "The Joeys" If the pipes gurgled or the floorboards creaked she would say it was them. I think it was *supposed* to be comforting but the idea of these things living in our house always freaked me out at night.

Also used to have recurring nightmares about a moving portrait of Hitler. Used to make me wake up screaming. Ugh!

Gasometer... moving portrait... urrgh.

Growing up I was scared to death of whatever it was that lived under the stairs in my basement. I always had to run as fast as i could up or down the stairs so the thing didn't grab me by the foot and pull me down to it's lair under the stairs where no light ever reached.

Although to get me over my fears my mother was always sending me down to the basement to get her things. At least I think she was helping me get over my fears, either that or she was really lazy.

When I was a kid I thought the pictures in books could see me and get me--whenever I came to a picture of a big spider in a encyclopedia or something equally creepy I would turn the page really fast so it would not jump out and bite me. I did not even like touching those pages...

I hate unexplained noises - particularly when alone in the house. Even now, the tapping of branches on the windows can really freak me out. The stairs creak, things that go bump in the night...these are a few of my least favourite things.